Like clockwork: Terror Alert! (w/poll)
Bush is hitting ever-lower lows in public approval. One issue after another from immigration to gas prices to the new Iraqi government blows up in the Republicans faces faster than they can spin it....
View ArticleWe've met the enemy and he is Eeyore? (w/poll)
SusanG's front page diary asks that Kossaks with nothing nice to say should be rounded up into a few diaries, so all the shiny happy activist people won't be subjected to such "downerism." Based on...
View ArticleIOKIYAR: Stealing Fed Ed Funds for Facelift (w/poll)
In the all-corruption, all-the-time prime-time lineup that is the Republican Party, some of the featured offerings are dramas, some tragedies, some soap operas, and some are comedies. From the state...
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BREAKING: Chaos in Frisco! Mexico Attacks! (w/poll)
SAN FRANCISCO (05-21) 14:30 Mexico launched the first preemptive strike of its long-rumored Reconquista campaign, to regain its former territories in the United States, with an all-out assault on San...
View ArticleCalifornia Election Dirty Tricks? (w/poll)
I've just run into something I find VERY strange, but strangely familiar. As I was getting ready to head out the door to vote a little while ago, I wanted to check the San Francisco Bay Guardian's...
View ArticleArnold Hides Trip to White House (w/poll)
Fighting his way back from the devastating defeat of the $80 million worth of political grandstanding propositions he forced onto the California ballot last November, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has...
View ArticleDC Crime Emergency: End of Protest? (w/poll)
Here's a new twist on a familiar theme: instead of invoking terrorism and multi-colored alerts to raise the fear level and excuse the draconian abridgment of civil rights, the Republicans are going...
View ArticleHotSoup, anyone? DLC does dKos? (w/poll)
No doubt about it, the Powers-That-Be have noticed the increasing influence of political web communities like Daily Kos. And like the old adage says: "Imitation is the highest form of flattery." It...
View ArticleFREEP THIS: Show Olbermann some love! (w/poll)
The Best News Anchor on Television needs our help. Fox News, in the form of Reagan-era Republican toady, Roger Ailes, has thrown down the gauntlet and publicly declared that Keith Olbermann has gone...
View ArticleDavid Brooks Pithed on Me (w/poll)
David Brooks just pithed on me (and by extension, many Kossacks and other bloggers) and I'm not going to take it any more. Many readers no doubt observed that if today's prostate-aged moochers wanted...
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Strike a pose! (w/poll)
"Vague" with apologies to MadonnaLook around everywhere you turn is terror It's everywhere that you go (look around) You try everything you can to escape But we'll know where you go (where you go) When...
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BREAKING: New Foley video (w/poll)
When You're Good to Foley (with apologies to Queen Latifah and the musical "Chicago"> Ask any of the pages when I gawk They'll tell you I'm the biggest chickenhawk I love 'em all and all of them...
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Bill Maher's Best Rant Ever! (w/poll)
On Friday the October 13's "Real Time" on HBO, Bill Maher put the absurdity of American media and politics into near-perfect perspective with all the acerbic wit and jaded cynicism they have earned....
View ArticleWeb 2.0: Anarchy or Webocracy? (w/poll)
With the Democratic Party tantalizingly close to regaining power, and with the inevitable post-game analysis of what it all means, the role of bloggers and the latest technologies will be hotly...
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Bush Season Finale (w/poll)
Any television show which has had a long and profitable run, but is now losing the audience's interest, will add the most counter-intuitive of plot twists to try to boost their ratings.
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The Last Push? (w/poll)
We're down to the last two weeks. It's time to take the gloves off and Start hitting Them HARD Until our knuckles are bloody and sore. And don't stop Until They can't ever get back up. We may not...
View ArticleNow It All Makes Sense... (w/poll)
File this under the "Tinniest of Tin-foil Hat Conspiricies," but like rock n' roll, I like it. Sorta.Take one part deliberately screwed-up gambit in Iraq that emboldens Iran, a President devoid of any...
View Article"San Francisco Values" and "The New Way Forward"
As an atheist and lapsed Catholic of nearly four decades standing, a progressive gay man from a conservative family, and something of an anti-materialist, the holidays have long been problematic for...
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Meta: PC vs Trolls (w/poll)
"All that the "Two Americas" really need.....is a good conditioner."I'm the first to admit that I haven't been around Daily Kos much since the election, having started a new and very demanding job.But...
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Don't Cry for Me, San Francisco (w/poll)
with apologies to Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Weber and MadonnaPolitics isn't easy, politics is strange So I'll try to explain how I feel I'm still the one you love after all that I've doneYou won't...
View Article"The Speaker will be blogging" (w/poll)
http://www.sfgate.com/...01-29) 12:54 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --The day after her swearing-in as the first female House speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi took time to field questions from a few dozen Internet...
View ArticleHow Bush Mind-Control Works (w/poll)
No wonder the Republican Right wing is so anti-science. If knowledge about the wonders of nature were to become widely understood, their entire game would be up. Just like it took Al Gore and Jerome...
View ArticleA Sweet Labor Day anthem
After last week's freak show of lies and crazy in Tampa, it's appropriate the response of the 99% should begin on Labor Day.This gentle, uplifting video expresses how I feel about those of us who get...
View ArticleAppoint Barney Frank Secretary of the Treasury!
http://blog.sfgate.com/...This is BEST idea I have yet heard for Obama's second administration!The confirmation hearings would be AMAZING on live television.We need to start a petition!
View ArticleRIP: Another Progressive Outpost: Al Jazeera to buy CurrentTV
Chalk up another HUGE disappointment for Progressives who value truth and an intelligent range of public discourse.CurrentTV, the only place in the American mass media that consistently presented a...
View ArticleTable justifying audit/recount in key states
The little table above demonstrates how few votes across four key states changed the outcome of the election. Sign the petition to demand an audit of the election now that mainstream media is...
View ArticleBe thankful for the First Amendment
Today, I am thankful for the First Amendment Freedom of the Press, and thankful that some journalists refuse to "normalize" the deceit and self-aggrandizement Trump used to get elected.In a little over...
View ArticleThanksgiving with Trump voters? (with poll!)
xYouTube VideoNope, not really, though not so hard to imagine, given the events of the last two weeks.This is the chilling ending from the 1972 movie “Cabaret,” showing how fascism easy masquerades as...
View ArticleBoom went the dynamite! (hat tip to Keith Olbermann)/with poll!
www.washingtonpost.com/...And here it is. One of the top two newspapers in the country is now calling for the Electoral College to elect Hillary to the presidency when they meet December 19.She is...
View Article“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya...
“I’m a Leninist,” Bannon proudly proclaimed.Shocked, I asked him what he meant.“Lenin,” he answered, “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and...
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History is repeating itself! (with poll!)
We’ve gotten to know The Donald very well over the past couple of years.To know him is to loathe him.And the more you know, the more difficult it is, even for Republicans, to avoid using words like...
View ArticleTrump's Daily Delusional Affirmation (with poll!)
Yesterday I wrote a piece comparing Trump’s delusional lying with Charlie Sheen’s insanity during his notorious career-destroying adventure in publicly displaying his drug-induced personal meltdown.In...
View ArticleTrump's famous "persuasion" and deal-making skills... (with poll!)
So many Trump voters pinned their desperate hopes on him because they bought into his delusional belief and self-promotion of his “superior” persuasive and deal-making skills. Alas, their lack of...
View ArticleReaction to Trump's canceling Obama's Climate Change regulations (with poll!)
Reaction was swift today as news of Trump’s roll back of Obama’s signature environmental regulations, designed to create a clean energy future and combat global warming, traveled to all corners of our...
View ArticletRump and Republicans announce new economic and political strategy (with poll!)
The White House and Congressional Republicans today announced a bold, new, communications strategy to ease public acceptance of future policy proposals, and boost plunging approval ratings. The...
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"That's a lie! They still want me!" (with poll!)
“ Shut up, I'm rich! I'm richer than all this new Hollywood trash! I've got a million dollars. ”“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good...
View ArticleBuilding effective economic messaging for 2018 Democratic platform
In today’s New York Times’ Opinion section is fact-based, real-world reporting by, of all people, Mr. “Flat Earth” Thomas Friedman, the much-disparaged “there’s got to be a pony in here somewhere”...
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IMMEDIATE RESPONSE MESSAGING (with poll!)
The pace of Republican healthcare destruction requires a massive and immediate response by the American people to oppose their actions. Please feel free to use these graphics I created with to...
View ArticleOMG!!! Sanity prevails at MSNBC? (with poll!)
Let’s hope that this is the beginning of a purge of Fox News refugees and milktoast CNN-style moderates at MSNBC?Van Susteren out immediately at MSNBCYes, Greta Van Susteren, whose appeal has always...
View ArticleWhere is our #25Amendment solution? (with poll!)
As we celebrate Independence Day, let’s harken back to the history of one of the reasons we fought for our independence. King George III had a medical condition which resulted in frequent bouts of...
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A Very Kos Independence Day.... (with poll!)
Another major national holiday behind us, perhaps one of the most unusual in the nation’s history with evidence rapidly mounting that the new, less-than-six months old, administration is under criminal...
View ArticleThrough the Looking Glass (with poll!)
Each day’s news makes yesterday’s, which itself pushed beyond anything ever thought possible, pale into nothingness by comparison. Unthinkable things are now a daily occurrence. We could make grocery...
View ArticleREST IN PEACE, LAFAYETTE!
Today we learned of the loss of Nelsan Ellis, who was most famous for playing Lafayette on the long-running HBO hit vampire show “True Blood.” Nelson Ellis, beloved as Lafayette, has passedThe show...
View ArticleTearjerkers! (with poll!)
There are some films that become favorites because they touch us so deep emotionally. Often we will watch them over and over again to re-experience that depth of emotion.Some films may give you a...
View ArticleBodega Bay ain't so far away (with poll!)
Everything is moving so fast with #RussiaGate that it feels like oxygen masks should drop down from the ceiling any second now so we can catch our breath. Remember to put your own mask on first before...
View ArticleTrump: Here's your 4% growth rate and revenge on Establishment Republicans...
Today’s New York Times has an editorial calling out Trump to make some more “deals” with Congressional Democrats that would actually benefit most Americans:Want to Make a Deal, Mr. Trump?If President...
View ArticleChuck Schumer: Invite Corker, Flake and McCain to caucus with the Democrats...
Three Republican senators of conscience, unburdened by never needing to prostrate themselves before the right-wing oligarchical donor class ever again, have thrown down the gauntlet challenging others...
View ArticleNorth Korea "talks": Another Putin gambit? (with poll!)
As a longtime Kossack (do people even use that term any more?), I am well-aware of the prohibition on conspiracy theories on this site, which has served it well from long before anyone ever heard the...
View ArticleHow to Kill Democracy in Four Easy Steps (with poll!)
Please read the entire article here: www.thedailybeast.com/…Below I extract the key points. (The author has given me permission to use as much of the article as needed to summarize his...
View ArticleThe Russians are laughing their asses off...(with poll!)
When one of the principles in an international conspiracy feels sufficiently protected by his money and political connections to mock the trap in which you’ve been ensnared...xxYouTube VideoRussian...
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