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Gulf Watchers Block Party: Déjà Vu edition -- again
Welcome to April 2011 -- how come it feels so much like déjà vu?It's Friday evening -- must be time for the Gulf Watchers' Block Party.We'll hit party time before you know it, but first, let's roll...
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RKBA: ALL Our Rights Matter
Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Burning Edition
Welcome to the Gulf Watchers Block Partyfor Earth Day 2011! Got plans for the weekend? If not, think about a weekend getaway of your own! Free admission to the National Parks is nothing to sneeze at,...
View ArticleBlock Party: Look -- up in the Sky!!!
Hey there everybody, it's Friday night! Welcome to the Gulf Watchers Block Party!Golden Anniversaries -- let's celebrate some tonight, okay?First, manned spaceflight in the USA ... how many of y'all...
View ArticleFriday Night Block Party: Not Quite Gentian Violet Edition
Bluebells, bluebonnets, columbines, gentian and violets, breathtaking as these rivers of flowers can be, are all just a little wrong for the color of gentian violet. Those of you with...
View ArticleHow Low Will The GOP Go in Treatment of Women?
We haven't seen the bottom yet, even in Texas. Fresh from his triumphal "sonogram" bill signing, aka the emergency legislation restricting abortion in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry today announced he will...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Godspeed Edition
Hey, everybody. It's Friday evening, so it must be time for a Block Party.Fishgrease is gone and the last shuttle launch has gone well -- capping thirty years of low-orbit recoverable vehicle flights,...
View ArticleGood News @ the Big Spring VA Hospital
Hi. I was asked to turn a comment I wrote last night into a diary. So ... here goes.I'm a US Air Force veteran. I enlisted straight out of high school. Jimmy Carter was the President. My DD214 reads...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Friday Night Block Party
Hey there everybody -- it's Friday night, and it's gotta be five o clock somewhere.Can we get together on behalf of the Gulf Watchers and have some music, a visit, some reminiscences?Over the orange...
View ArticleTexas Jury Convicts FLDS Polygamist/Pederast Warren Jeffs
This will be a very short diary, and I can only offer a very few links including a local TV news channel's website: www.kcbd.com for verification. Today, in West Texas, child rapist Warren Jeffs was...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Burning State Edition
I confess, I've been away from DKos a lot lately. The pie fights were pretty stinkin' depressing BEFORE the craptacular governor of my state OFFICIALLY launched his bid to follow his predecessor to DC...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Road Trip Edition
Hey y'all. It's Friday night and it's time for a block party. In light of Bob Cavnar returning to Countdown Wednesday to talk about the Department of Interior's final report on the BP Macondo blowout,...
View ArticleCAF Airsho 2011: A Preview
I'm the daughter of a pair of defense workers of World War II -- more specifically, two Texans who spent the war years in California, as welders in the Kaiser Permanente Shipyards. Dad, who had three...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Trek to NASA Edition
Hey, y'all. It's Friday night and time for a party ... and boy do I have reasons for one.First, Star Trek Day at Space Center Houston -- I had a chance to enjoy, with my crewmates from the USS Lone...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Block Party: Hallowe'een?
So, since I've clearly not been able to prepare anything worthwhile for this diary, what can we find (over the jump)
View ArticleConspiracy against OWS?
From the NYT's account of today's happenings in and around Zuccotti Park, Canal Street, and Oakland:The operation in and around the park was a blow to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which saw the...
View ArticleDallas PD raids Occupy Dallas
Live coverage from wfaa channel 8:http://www.wfaa.com/...The Dallas camp had an agreement with the city, but the city rescinded that this evening.Here's what I saw first:11:44p Police are making final...
View ArticleRick Perry: Zero Foreign Aid to Israel
So, the NJDCsent me an email today. Now, I live in Texas. I've lived here most (thank you ceiling cat, fsm and all the gods) of my life. I busted my tail last year trying to get Bill White elected...
View ArticleGood Work Rewarded
I am an unabashed fan of Dan Rather. This year, he's won an award -- not just any award, but a lifetime achievement award.Rather is this year's recipient of the Committee to Protect Journalists' Burton...
View Article"We Have No Choice" -- Texas' Sonogram Law Exacerbates Mothers' Suffering
This is not my story. I'm past my childbearing years. But I do live in Texas, and I did find this horrifying. The mother and father of this child wanted this baby; they were prepared to give this child...
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