Iraq is the fruit of the poisonous tree
There is a legal principle called "fruit of the poisonous tree" by which evidence is inadmissable if it was generated from an unconstitutional or illegal act. In discussions about the Iraq War, I...
View ArticleBlame the Republicans for this war, not the Democrats
Amid all the criticism of the Democrats for their role in voting to permit Bush to go to war in Iraq, it seems to me that the Republicans in congress are getting off the hook. If ANYONE had even a...
View ArticleTorture- don't ya just LOVE it?
Yesterday's Hardball showed an odd Chris Matthews performance -- it was about torture, and Matthews came across as lovin' it. The whole interview gave me a creepy-crawly sensation while he was talking...
View ArticleMakin' a list, Checkin' it twice, Gonna find out who's naughty or nice
I posted this on my own blog last night, but a comment in TPM just inspired me to post it here. Josh Marshall asks this morning: Here's one thing I'm a bit unclear on in this NSA domestic spying story....
View ArticleIf a soldier dies in the forest . . .
Hmmm.. . . If a soldier dies in the forest, does his death make any sound if nobody knows about it? Adding up the deaths reported in Today in Iraq it appears that at least 18 US soldiers have been...
View ArticleTruthiness -- the Word of the Year
truthiness: the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. Did you know that the American Dialect Society has selected...
View ArticleI am liberal, hear me roar
After the disappointment of seeing the Alito cloture vote approved, I was thinking how downhearted the progressive blogosphere would be tonight. But its not, not at all. People are reciting...
View ArticleWhat are the true patriots in NSA doing?
The Washington Post reports on the domestic spying program and toward the end of the article I found some interesting stuff. First, the National Security Agency machines are not selective:. . . the...
View ArticleDeja vu all over again
I didn't watch the show but when I read Adrianna Huffington's account of today's Meet the Presswith Democrats Tom Daschle and Jane Harman, and Republicans Pat Roberts and Peter Hoekstra I had a strange...
View ArticleHearts and Minds
Bush and company keep trying to compare Iraq to World War II. And indeed they may have a point -- if you think of the Americans army as playing the German role this time. A few months ago, when we...
View Article"Anti-gay adoption" will get the wingnut vote out
Well, here it is -- USA Today is reporting that banning gay adoption will be voted on in 16 states in November, 2006. I've been watching for this -- I knew there would be SOMETHING that would be used...
View ArticleThe first three weeks of the war with Iran
So what would happen during the first weeks of a war between the US and Iran?Paul William Roberts provides a scenario in today's Globe & Mail. The essay is behind their subscription wall, so here's...
View Article75, 30, 28, 23, 23, 22, 6, 5, 5, 3, 3
This made me feel sick. It is Lambert's listing of the ages of the family members executed last week by American soldiers, according to the Iraqi police report. The report reads At 230 of 15/3/2006,...
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We'll always have Cancun
Its the bestest photo ever. Havril at [insert something clever] titles this post of Bush with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper We'll always have Cancun I found it referenced at Canadian Cynic....
View ArticleFear and loathing
The blogosphere is unleashing its best fear and loathing on the prospect of the US starting an unprovoked, aggressive nuclear war against Iran. First, for some perspective on Iran's actual political...
View ArticleThey think they have a say
"Yes, you have the right to an opinion."But you don't have a say in how I run my life." My sister describes a phenomenon she calls "Jerry Springer Syndrome" -- when we start acting like we're a "studio...
View ArticleWe only get to choose our side
We don't get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side. I have been thinking lately about how to reply to the apparently-reasonable-sounding argument that a person can support gay rights...
View ArticleAve, Kos, morituri te salutamus
I, for one, welcome our new Internet overlord, The Keyboard Kingpin, aka Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. I was absolutely thrilled to read about David Brooks's column in tomorrow's New York Times. It about...
View ArticleThe story behind the story
My dad used to use the phrase "the story behind the story" -- often, when we were talking about the news of the day, he would ask "So what's the story behind the story?" -- meaning we had to look not...
View ArticlePut their money where their mouth is
OK, admittedly not everyone who supports the Iraq War is in a position to sign up and go fight it -- they may have other priorities, or babies, or maybe they can't afford the loss in pay, or something...
View ArticleEverybody always knew
dateline: Wednesday -- Everybody always knew that the Democrats were going to win and win big in this election. Everybody always knew that Dean's 50-state strategy was a great one. In fact, it was...
View ArticleLittle shop of horrors
Some fun now. Oh, we're in for some fun now. The hearings about the nomination of Robert Gates to be Secretary of Defense have every potential of turning into a little shop of horrors for the Bush...
View Article"Go fuck yourself" is their creed
"Go fuck yourself" was said by Dick Cheneythree years ago as he passed a Democratic Senator in the hallway of Congress. It's an ugly phrase for an ugly sentiment. And its now clear that its much more...
View ArticleNo ponies are coming -- we need our own plan
I'm starting this diary with the assumption that magical ponies are not going to gallop out of Denver to rescue the Obama campaign. Agreed, the Democratic party itself will be energized by the...
View ArticleThe Canadians are coming!
Some of our people went to the United States to help after the disaster of Katrina, so I think it's great that Canadians are going to help now with something as positive and hopeful as the Obama...
View ArticleWe don't get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side
We don't get to choose the battle. We only get to choose our side. I have been thinking lately about how to reply to the apparently-reasonable-sounding argument that I hear from conservatives and...
View ArticleThe Globe and Mail should be ashamed of itself
Oooh, that Barak -- sooo scary!!! The Globe and Mail should be ashamed of itself, putting John Ibbitson's ridiculous, ideological smear job against Obama on its front page -- illustrated with hammers...
View ArticleAmericans who can't go home
Here's a fascinating YouTube about some Americans who live in Canada and who can't go home because they need health care and would not be able to buy health insurance anymore in the States. They also...
View ArticleWhy are people saying that Obama sold out to Big Pharma?
I haven't read every story or blog post, but the progressive conventional wisdom seems to be that Obama has "sold out" to Big Pharma. Not. What he did is get Big Pharma on side with health insurance...
View ArticleI watched my kids get on a plane today
I don't agree with Madison Progressive that Obama should rush back to Washington. But as a mother who watched her children board a plane today, I want some reassurance that the guy in the next seat...
View ArticleFreaking out about the Obama Freakout!
Isn't everyone getting awfully tired of the Obama Freakout? By this I mean what we started to see on the progressive blogs last spring and what continues unabated to this very day. You know what I mean --
View ArticleAs soon as Obama gets some positive media coverage...
Has anybody noticed? The very minute President Obama starts getting some positive media coverage -- like his breakthrough with Russia or his Townhall meetings are packed with cheering supporters or his...
View ArticleIf Hillary Clinton was President
If Hillary Clinton was President today.... ...the media would be talking about her failure to connect with ordinary voters, particularly men, because she's such a bitchy ball buster. ... there would be...
View ArticleThe shutdown which won't happen now
With all the criticism of that terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Obama debt limit deal, there is one aspect that the critics seem to be missing. The deal that Obama signed included a "deem and...
View ArticleHouses as Art
Thanks to Hooked on Houses I just learned that this year is the 25th anniversary of The Heidelberg Project in Detroit. See the photos posted by AgilityNut (and look around the rest of her great...
View ArticleOccupy the wind
Here at Occupy Saskatoon, we have had about 30 people camping out in a downtown park since Oct. 15. They're going to have to move inside soon, because its getting too cold now, and they have been...
View ArticleI won, we lost - an interview with Michael E. Mann
Paul Dechene from Planet S Magazine in Saskatoon Sask made a bet two years ago with a local talk show host that climate change would be proven within the next decade. So following the extreme weather...
View ArticleTherefore, slut
What Todd Akin said about pregnancy by rape has nothing to do with the women who are raped and everything to do with anti-abortion comfort zones. Its easier to be "pro-life" when you can think of...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail tribute to Christopher Stevens
I thought Daily Kos would be interested in knowing that tomorrow's editorial in the Toronto Globe and Mail is a tribute to the courage of Christopher Stevens and all of the diplomats who serve in...
View ArticleTaxes "owed" vs taxes "paid"
What's the difference between taxes owed and taxes paid? Everyone is talking about how Romney's info dump yesterday showed that he did pay taxes between 1990 and 2009. But PricewaterhouseCoopers said...
View ArticleMomo the Alberta cat swims out of the flood
Momo the swimming cat becomes "a symbol of hope" for the Alberta flood:Yeats's mother, Lori Yeats, said her son was caught off-guard when the truck suddenly went underwater. The windows wouldn't open,...
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I thought Daily Kos wasn't going to lie about Hillary any more
Following Kos’s statements in March, I thought that Daily Kos diaries were not going to lie about Hillary anymore. Yet I keep seeing lies almost every day. And they keep ending up on the Recommended...
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Stories of courage from Fort McMurray
xYouTube Video I'm sure every one of the thousands of Fort McMurray families has their own story of what happened to them during the evacuation, but here's one of the most thrilling stories of courage...
View ArticleI met a girl from Latvia
Do we still have the courage she had?Recently when I was in hospital I had a 90+ year old woman as a roommate for a few days. She had some kind of Alzheimers — couldn’t remember where she was or why...
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In from the cold - Canada welcomes refugees from the United States
Canada now is accepting the tired, the poor, the wretched refuse, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. And isn’t it great that we can do this.I know there are inevitably some Canadians who will...
View ArticleThe baby who died for medicare
Billy Kimmel is the baby who lived — and he may well turn out to be the baby who helped to save Obamacare in America. But I am also thinking today of a baby who died 55 years ago. His name was Sandy...
View ArticleThere is no "dirt", its just a smear
Its a small point, I know, but I am offended by phrasings like "digging up dirt on Biden" and similar constructions that I see in media stories about the Ukraine scandal. What Trump actually wants is...
View ArticleA comment about Daily Kos
Just a diary to add my support for Markos and Daily Kos, joining teacherken, Denise Oliver Velez, Just Some Socialist and likely some other diaries I didn’t see.I stumbled across Daily Kos almost 20...
View ArticleDark Brandon Comes To Ottawa
Adding to Shower’s excellent diary from this weekend, I wanted to share a little more information about Biden’s trip to Ottawa, Canada, last week and his excellent put-down of our Conservative...
View ArticleThanks, America!
Here’s the overall picture in Canada right now — yes, we’re to blame for why it is so smoky all over North America right now! xMore than 200 wildfires are currently burning in Canada 🔥...
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