Military Planner Speaks Out On Iraq
While cruising the front page of SFTT.org I came across this incredible commentary by a military planner whose primary focus was Iraq through out the 90s and up until Rumsfeld told them to throw out...
View Article9 Dead and a DOA Diary
I wonder if we are getting numb or just a little brain dead when a diary comes out mention 9 soldiers were killed today and it was posted at the same time the Hagel/ Impeachment diary made the...
View ArticleThe Surge of Death
I glanced at http://icasualties.org/... today and was my head snapped back as I saw that we had already had seen 24 die this month with the Brits suffering 25% of that total basically from a single...
View ArticleIraq- We aren't leaving; ever
Just a short diary The title isn't based on a feeling or a reflection of the D's efforts. It's simply factual based on this:WASHINGTON - Iraq’s oil reserves could be nearly twice as large as...
View ArticleOpt Out-Make em mad
I know some of you are aware of the latest racket by our banks to squeeze more blood out of the rocks they call customers. It's where you use their Check cards like a Visa or MasterCard and the balance...
View ArticleThe Couric Gambit
I saw this link from the Huffington Post and read the entire story.It appears that CBS is finally starting to wake up to the massive mistake they made with Couric. After that interview with John and...
View ArticleThird Deadliest Month Of The Occupation
I don't know if this has been posted already, but it needs to be up at the top. 113 115 Troops were killed in May 2007 with two days left in the month. This is the third deadliest month of the war...
View ArticleCouric : $2.59 a Viewer
I wrote a diary awhile back about K Couric. At the end of Andy Rooney's 60 Minutes commentary just prior to Couric's hiring he made a plea to CBS management. "Please don't hire Katie Couric. We could...
View ArticleFeature Request: Corruption Wiki
It occurs to me as there are so many people working so many angles of all the corruption that there is no single area where we can go ( and congress) to get a listing of all the ranked diaries on...
View ArticleLeave the USA: SICKO
That's the conclusion I got from getting a glimpse of Moore's new film. As a 50 Year old with a high deductible Health insurance policy, my only thought was : I need to get the fuck out of this...
View ArticleSicko Review; A Cold Day Dog Steamer In June
I hope all of you take a minute of your busy day to send this purported reviewer an email regarding his most recent review of Michael Moore's Movie Sicko. Lets see if you agree with me that this guy...
View ArticleDemocratic Blue Dog Leaders to Meet with Bush
That may stop a few of you cold. I hope so. This is a short call out diary to the main diarists who have been spending much of their time and effort trying to get enough Democrats in the House to start...
View ArticleTillman, Three Headshots, 10 Yards est, Source AP
Just a short one. Just saw on countdown that the AP reported that the Army stopped doctors from investigating if Tillman had been murdered. Shots were fired at close range and in his head.Wesley Clark...
View ArticleCorporate Govt Welfare/ Corporate Persona
Yesterday there was a recommended diary written attacking Corporate persona. Thom Hartmann has written a extensively about it with a summary here. I felt that Dairy was off base because it attacked...
View ArticleInvestors Business Daily Bill O's The Daily Kos
I was pointed to this editorial today. Kos And Effect For DemocratsBy INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:30 PM PTPolitics: They won't debate on Fox News. They won't appear at...
View ArticleCongressional Polls; D's Cratering
I was surprised when I didn't see the new Gallop poll up. I guess they aren't a favorite. But regardless of the leanings of the owners of Gallop, the numbers for the Democrats were startling.I wonder...
View ArticleIraq Forever-A few questions
The Decider decided that invading a country just wasn't enough . No, not nearly enough. We now have to stay forever. What does staying in Iraq forever mean especially when people who continue to deny...
View Article"89.6 million lacked health insurance in 2006-7" ?
That was the Headline from an article on MSNBC here This was for 2006 and 2007. Some of the people had health insurance part of the time and of course since 07 isn't up they are projecting the...
View ArticleDebt Ceiling Raised to 9.8 Trillion
That means it will go over ten trillion when the D's take office. In fact at the burn rate we have now, the treasury secretary's first act in office will be to ask for a raise from congress to 10-11...
View ArticleAnn Coulter's New Book - Free
Or how to get to the number one list on Amazon without really trying. It looks like NewsMax and the RNC is running a little desperate here. But the $5.95 in shipping and handling kinda threw off the...
View ArticleCure Vs Containment
As we all know now from the frequent Diaries of Health Care Experts here, and a recent diary on Stem Cell Research, Big Pharma is not interested in a curing chronic disease. Containment is where the...
View ArticleCops who think-A Conservative's thoughts (not) on Iraq
I got this while reading a few articles at Soldiers for The Truth (Sftt) who were behind getting Dragonskin on NBC. This is the non-profit that Colonel Hackworth founded before he passed away in 2006....
View ArticleThe Obama Smear Spreads
I don't read candidate diaries unless I'm in a car wreck watching mood. I have read Bob Johnson's Diary Anatomy of a smear with a great deal of interest. I Picked Edwards along time ago. My personal...
View ArticleNSA: The BackDoor Into Your Computer
This is a short one. A friend sent me an email from a trusted source that obviously makes it hard to authenticate. But, as a basic Geek, when I saw it , I froze. I, too, was concerned about the...
View ArticleSuggestion: Readable Candidate Diaries
We all went into reasons today in a great diary on site traffic trends. There was another one that researched how many times a candidate diaries occupied the rec list by percentage. It dovetailed...
View ArticleA Snippet of Schumer on Clinton
I hit the net version of MTP and I heard this ( From The Transcript) Russert: Senator Schumer, if Barack Obama was ahead at the end of this primary season in elected delegates, states won and popular...
View ArticleThe McCain Gambit-How He Buys Your Vote
I'm not one to piss on parades...well yeah I guess I am. I am one of the delusional Obama supporters. I read his health Care plan. I was Ok with it because I know he has to deal with congress. Then I...
View ArticleNewsweek "Why McCain Might Win"
While browsing for some commentary on the Bear Stearn's collapse, I caught this headline from Newsweek.He can sit back while the Dems tear each other to shreds. No kidding. Not only that the GOP may...
View ArticleEmail Smears on Obama- Let's end it
I got another email slur a few days ago which I'll post. What is the best way of stopping these things as even the campaigns are struggling with it? Then I had an idea. First lets look at the smear on...
View ArticleSarah- What About Venezuela and Bolivia?
Secondary Title: While we weren't looking. As they say in the news business, this Russia story has legs. What could be more evident than the news today that Russia had flown two Tupelev Bombers to...
View ArticlePushing Out a Lone Voice of Reason
Bloomberg is reporting that Timothy Geithner, looks like he is flexing his new found power and "May" be trying to push Sheila Bair out as head of the FDIC.Yes she is a R, but she has been the lone...
View ArticleFast foreward- 1980 - Present: A primer for hard recessions
From 1980 to 1986, I was a lowly traveling salesperson. My territory included parts of Indiana, Michigan, North Ohio, Western Pa and West Virginia. It was there I saw and felt the devastation of what...
View ArticleRhyme and Reason may Prevail: Bailing out Banks
If you are like me, when I hear the acronym TARP I can feel my sphincter tighten. I can feel , yes feel, my blood pressure rise. Angry can't possibly do justice to the way I feel about how our...
View ArticlePa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
Short diary here to call out attention to an article I tripped over. This is privatization in action and I think this should be thrown into any GOP or DEMs face who help facilitate a transfer of govt...
View Article"Out of work and challenged on benefits, too"
I go to sleep to one outrage and wake up to another.. But for a growing proportion of U.S. workers, the troubles really set in when they apply for unemployment benefits.More than a quarter of people...
View ArticleOutrage now and Crickets then
As I sit here in disbelief reading about the OUTRAGE over the 165 Million in bonuses given to people that the taxpayers bailed out , I seem to recall the sound of crickets in the last 8 years over...
View ArticleLatvian Hookers Signal No Recovery
I ran across this at Bloomberg News and I thought it was worth sharing. We have heard about green shoots and a the latest pronouncement by Bonddad today that he now agrees with Krugman even though he...
View ArticleForeclosing on Houses the Banks didn't own.
That's a real simple and totally indefensible soundbite . Lets start off with the article lead in : Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary Banks hired hair stylists, teens to process...
View ArticleACTION ALERT: Congress Attempting to Override Obama's veto:
As many people on this site know HR 3808 was attempted before the elections to make the banks whole again from the biggest Fraud yet in this ongoing scandal by allowing MERs and it's sickening owners...
View ArticleDec 1941 and the GOP
While reading December 1941; 31 days that changed America and saved the World by Craig Shirley, I got to this quote which sounds like it came right out of a diary here on Daily Kos, but was made by...
View ArticleBreaking: Glenn Beck is Back.
Maybe this Headline will work...Out with the old and in with the New As Rush Limbaugh show reloads, Glenn Beck just signed a 100 Million dollar contract with Clear Channel which is an add on to the 40...
View ArticleRate of Fire - Assault Weapons
I'm just checking real facts so we can debate this issue with more clarity. Enclosed are some YouTube examples of not only a 50 round drum firing on semi-auto, but with a still legal slide stock , a...
View Article"It's Not an Assault Rifle"
One of the main arguments made by the people who want no more regulation, especially with assault rifles that are not assault rifles , is that an "dressed up" rifle with military looking cosmetics is...
View ArticleKossack: Small Business Survey
I own a small business. Over the past four years we have seen no recovery. Sales are off 55% from 2007. Sales seemed to have reached a bottom about two years ago . Then in 2012 we slipped another 10%....
View Article"Holder: Big banks' size complicates prosecution efforts"
If anyone thought that Lanny Breuer's resignation would bring about a sea change in attitudes about the ability to bring the Banks and their execs to account for the actions, let Eric Holder tell us...
View ArticleCongressional Insider Trading : Repealed
First it was the Insider trading law that was passed and then quietly repealed.Now, Congress is seeking its way out of having to join the Health Care exchanges because it would cost them too much...
View ArticleFive Dead Troops and No Death Benefits
Normally when a a soldiers is killed the family receives $100,000 wired into their bank account from the DOD. The DOD says it "legally" can't. Yet acquisition people were put back on the job but can't...
View ArticleWalworth Country Sheriff's Office to get New BearCat Assault Vehicle
That's right: A Brand Spanking new one too...Must be a veritable hot bed of pumpkin festivals just ripe for terrorist attacks. (snarc)How about the stats? Population (2012) 102,851 Land Area: 555...
View Article“Netflix - "We don't trickle nuthin' down"
Yeah, we all know how this tax plan would work but lo and behold we had no idea how quickly we would get proof.From Marketwatch“Netflix gives top executives a big raise, citing new tax law “Netflix...
View ArticleTrump's Birthday Gift to Putin
(If this was posted earlier, let me know in the comments and I’ll delete it.)Enclosed is the link to a NYT story that shows October 7 was the date that Trump handed Putin a Birthday gift by abandoning...
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