Voted Today in PA! And visited Barnette HQ! :-)

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Tuesday May 17, 2022 · 1:27 PM PDT

2022/05/17 · 13:27

Can anyone explain what this slogan even means??

Voted today in PA! There’s clearly national interest because there were TWO TV vans parked outside our polling place when my mother and I went in (the CBS one had left by the time we came out— Mom and I might be featured on some B-roll tonight, because one cameraman was filming into the school gym as we were filling out our ballots!)

After we left I drove by the campaign office of local wacko Kathy Barnette. I thought I’d share some images of her campaign office, which is just a half mile or so from my house!

(I really hope she wins the Republican Senate primary, not only because John Fetterman will stomp her into snail snot come November, but also because she'd be defeating the Trump-endorsed and much better funded TV quack, Dr. Oz. It would be a hoot watching Trump come up with the excuse to explain away why his endorsement counted for bugger all!)

Some GOOD redistricting news in PA!

Rheinhard

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Wednesday February 02, 2022 · 8:01 PM PST

2022/02/02 · 20:01

In a weird bit of kismet, literally just moments before I came across this tweet, I was chatting with a friend from NJ about the state of the gerrymandering/redistricting situation in PA!

Breaking news from Marc Elias: Pennsylvania Supreme Court GRANTS our petition to take over congressional redistricting process. A big win for voters of Pennsylvania and fair districting.

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court GRANTS our petition to take over congressional redistricting process. A big win for voters of Pennsylvania and fair districting.

Proud of @EliasLawGroup and @RedistrictFdn for leading this fight. https://t.co/L8iDXaDR1l
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 2, 2022

Real Time with Bill Maher Jan. 23. 2015 and the difficulty of not punching the TV

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Friday January 23, 2015 · 9:43 PM PST

2015/01/23 · 21:43

This evening, January 23, 2015, the latest episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" had as a guest panelist Bret Stephens, who remarkably was allowed to totally dominate the entire discussion while spewing every slick climate denialist trope imaginable, and when he wasn't speaking he was smugly rolling his eyes at anything said by Howard Dean or anyone else on the panel. But some of his points were so transparently ridiculous, I wanted to punch the television when no one on the panel stepped up to refute them! A selection of these, and how I'd have responded, below the fleur-de-Kos...

Rheinhard

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Thursday May 22, 2014 · 12:25 PM PDT

2014/05/22 · 12:25

Besides being a godless secular progressive out to destroy all that is good in America, I am also a long-long-time Japanese animation (aka "anime") fan, who has lived in several states while attaining post-graduate technical degrees and working several scientific software algorithm jobs. As such I have made a number of friends in these various communities, who are now scattered all over the country...

I wanted to share this personal story from one of my several anime-fan friends in another state, who related earlier today how the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") has had a demonstrable positive effect on his ability to grow his small anime merchandise business, in exactly the manner that was so roundly mocked by our "free-market" loving corporatist punditocracy.

Below the fleur-de-Kos, I have [redacted] personal info to protect the innocent and to prevent the possibility of any right-wing lurkers on this site from posting his or his business' name on WorldNetDaily or somesuch, insisting "Hey this shop may have that Attack on Titan figure you want but its owner supports Obama so BOYCOTT!"

Also too, this brings to at least 4 the number of similar small-business/freelancer friends of mine with similar stories...

Rheinhard

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Monday March 24, 2014 · 12:56 PM PDT

2014/03/24 · 12:56

Some fine Daily Kos diarists, as well as the estimable Charles P. Pierce at Esquire, have highlighted the new article in Politico today called "Taxpayers fund creationism in the classroom"...

In addition to the now-customary attacks on biological evolution, the article refers to other domains of modern knowledge that are considered suspect by the religious, including areas of modern mathematics, and in particular, "set theory". Now I've seen this article linked on a few other lefty blogs I read in addition to Mr. Pierce, as well as by several friends on Facebook, and the usual response to the sentences about modern math are generally met with a comment like "Creationists are so dumb they probably still think Pi=3!". But the fact that the article specifically singles out set theory immediately jumped out at me, and for reasons which I would like to explore below the fleur-de-Kos, I think signifies something rather more important than many of us are giving it credit for. I would like to share directly with the DKos community something I wrote earlier on the Esquire piece...

Rheinhard

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Thursday April 19, 2012 · 12:42 PM PDT

2012/04/19 · 12:42

Yes you read that right! Bloviating misogynist authoritatian for Christ Bill Donohue will be appearing on The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur tonight (4/19/2012) at 7pm EST on Current TV! Says so right on the Catholic League's home page!

Cenk interviewing Bill Donohue?! I think I shall need more popcorn!

In case you've missed it, Donohue has issued a fatwa against Jon Stewartfor the Daily Show's hilarious sendup of the hypocrisy of Fox News' claims that the "War on Women" is nothing but meaningless liberal propaganda while the "War on Christmas" is a vital issue of our times by joking that if women want to get their concerns listened to, they need to enclose their private parts in a "vagina manger".

Rheinhard

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Tuesday July 14, 2009 · 9:10 AM PDT

2009/07/14 · 09:10

A post on Oliver Willis' blog, "Flashback: 1987 Ad From People for the American Way vs. Bork" put me in mind of a quotation from the judge that I remember reading not long after his confirmation hearing debacle. I mention this quote in my comment, the first one in the discussion...

Rheinhard

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 5:45 PM PDT

2008/10/23 · 17:45

I frequently flip the channel between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly in the evening (one should always be aware what the enemy is saying, after all, especially since his first segment this evening once again inveighed against the eeevil DailyKos....) and while I certainly expect silliness, I wasn't prepared for what I just caught on their news crawl on the bottom of the screen:

CONSERVATIVE BLOG POWERLINE REPORTS THAT A READER WAS ABLE TO DONATE TO OBAMA USING THE SAME CREDIT CARD WITH THE NAMES "USAMA BIN LADEN", "SADDAM HUSSEIN", AND "BILL AYERS"

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Saturday July 26, 2008 · 10:37 AM PDT

2008/07/26 · 10:37

After coming home to central NJ earlier this week from a great trip to Austin to see friends and attend Netroots Nation, I am spending this weekend back visiting my parents in the Philly suburbs. My parents are registered Republicans, but aren't frothing wingnuts and don't like the situation in Iraq, etc. They are still suspicious of Obama, though, especially his "plan to tax Social Security" (which, being retired, is the main thing they talk about).

This morning, my mother shoved a copy of "The Bulletin" under my nose, and insisted I read the editorial by Herb Denenberg about "Reasons Not to Vote for Obama".

Rheinhard

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Monday October 15, 2007 · 9:55 PM PDT

2007/10/15 · 21:55

OK, this isn't critical policy-wise and probably isn't something we couldn't have predicted, but I just felt it worth pointing out (feel free not to click on the link if you'd rather not be exposed to some real Freeper derangement...)

I expected that after the Frosts appeared on Keith Olbermann this evening to discuss S-CHIP, and the attacks and hate mail directed against them instigated by the "citizen journalists" at FreeRepublic.com, that they would be further pilloried over there in that bastion of reasoned discourse.

However I am surprised that apparently they've sunk sufficiently low that screaming "Socialist!" or "Loser!" is no longer sufficient. We've now arrived at the final denouement, the "we've got nuthin else so we'll just mock your appearance" photoshop job.

Hometown Paper: PATRICK MURPHY: Hero or Villain?

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Sunday May 13, 2007 · 2:33 PM PDT

2007/05/13 · 14:33

With this recent post by MissLaura mentioning that PA Fighting Dem Patrick Murphy (D PA-08)was one of the Blue Dogs who voted for Jim McGovern's bill for a fully funded withdrawl from Iraq, I thought I'd draw attention to this article by Marion Callahan in his hometown paper, the Montgomery County Intelligencer, about how Murphy's "stance on the war has made him a lightning rod in a political storm".

Since I'm home with the folks for Mother's Day weekend in the Philly burbs, I was able to catch the article on the front page of the dead tree edition which they got delivered. I find it very interesting that the article's title in the print edition is "Murphy: Hero or Villain?", while the online version has the much less inflammatory title "Murphy in the Middle". Why the change, I wonder?

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Monday April 30, 2007 · 11:01 AM PDT

2007/04/30 · 11:01

Via Atrios, we learn of the wonderful and certainly informative conference today on Incivility in American Politics, with the following notable participants:

11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., "Fundamental Questions on Civility and American Politics": Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania; U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Independent Democrat of Connecticut; U.S. Rep. John Boehner, Republican of Ohio

(As a Penn alumnus, I can't tell you how ashamed I am to be even tangentially affilitated with this...)

But, we're in luck! At the bottom of the page there is this helpful information:

live webcast of the Penn Conference on Civility and American Politics will be accessible at http://www.fels.upenn.edu/... . After the conclusion of the Conference, an archived version will be available at http://www.fels.upenn.edu/... .

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