http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:45:07 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:45:07 The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
- Frank Kent

Recommended

If "Yes we can" is to remain believable, then I'm not shutting up. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/50 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:46:38 Surveillance Bill: The Worst of All Worlds
by Aziz Huq

Months of troubled negotiations over new surveillance legislation ended in the House of Representatives today, with the approval of the so-called FISA Amendments Act of 2008. Hailed in some quarters as a “compromise” after the capitulation o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/48 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:34:29 Stimbox just posted this in the video forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2HLbcUafA

God bless Kucinich.

Now listen Barack, he may be short but that's leadership. Now do the right thing. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/49 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:11:55 That was a superb, beautifully delivered speech! I hope Hillary supporters won't take this as an insult because it's MOST certainly not meant that way. I would really like to see Obama create a special, TRAIL-BLAZING position for Hillary where she's in charge of Women's and Children's Affairs.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/47 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:17:17 I am reposting this because in our justified disgust with Koryne Horbal, many people may miss that the very important response of the President of the DFL Feminist Caucus

Here is the initial screwball nastiness from Koryne Horbal

[div class="excerpt"]
Feminist leader says no to Obama

htt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/46 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:00:04 http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a168/ichingcarpenter/2238698621_a75cb69047_b.jpg

Ichingcarpenter posted this photo. It's perfect for today. Just believe.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/45 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:10:06 Primaries are not an election. Get that out of your head.

[b]The Democratic and Republican parties have the right to run whatever candidate it wants [u]without any input from voters[/u].[/b] There's NO provision for Primaries or political parties in the Constitution. It used to be Congressmen ju... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/44 Tue, 27 May 2008 21:53:06 Why I’m Kinda Fonda Obama (And More So Each Week)
by David Michael Green

Some of us who like Barack Obama get accused of having drunk the Kool-Aid - or perhaps love-potion would be more accurate - and thus being too smitten by his rhetorical enticements to see him clearly for what he is.

Mayb... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/43 Mon, 26 May 2008 16:18:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfxoIGLpoQY... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/42 Mon, 26 May 2008 13:21:41 http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/u/4/2/guam-primary.jpg

Change Guam to Puerto Rico... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/41 Sun, 25 May 2008 21:40:35 http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/2/6/2/hillary-fails-math.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/40 Sun, 25 May 2008 21:33:13 but consider it done. Rec'd... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/39 Sun, 25 May 2008 15:35:44 http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/Image/071212beelertoon.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/38 Sun, 25 May 2008 14:13:50 Obama’s Success Reflects America’s Growth

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080326/capt.ad4494dd346443d29cd3a8c488e3b432.obama_2008_ncab114.jpg


On Aug. 28, 45 years from the day of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s historic speech at the March on Washington, Barack Obama will receive the pres... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/37 Sun, 25 May 2008 07:34:00 :applause:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/33 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:49 I'm too tired to get into this tonight but it's just more dirty politics by skilled politicians.

The video is very sad to listen to and Randall Robinson does an excellent job explaining things.

Did you post it in the Video forum?

I'm reposting it here to add to my journal: http://www.yo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/31 Wed, 14 May 2008 02:04:17 Congratulations for your tenacity and hard work. Enjoy your victory and may the best person who can steer us out of this madness win :toast:

Whatever our political disagreements, congratulations to this young girl for sticking to her dream

http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/images2/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/32 Tue, 13 May 2008 22:14:54 [center] http://relations.kimcm.dk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/slavery.jpg
[font size=20]![/font]
http://schooloffish.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/a_slavery_maryland_0327.jpg

[font size=20]![/font]

http://www.valley-entertainment.com/images/Links/353-Slavery.JPG

[center][font size=20]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/35 Tue, 13 May 2008 14:14:12
[div class="excerpt"]
According to [link:www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/elections/natl.exit.poll/index1.html|CNN's 1996 exit poll], Bill Clinton lost the white vote (Dole 46%, Clinton 43%, Perot 9%). He lost the white male vote by an even larger margin (Dole 49%, Clinton 38%, Perot 11%). And he los... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/30 Sat, 10 May 2008 14:28:15 If it hadn't been for people like you standing in solidarity against the demeaning injustice of "Whites Only" America, we wouldn't be where we are now.

Thank you LiberalArkie. I believe most people in America have gotten past the old time racism that suddenly became acceptable to express these ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/29 Thu, 08 May 2008 23:52:16 I would rather stand with Obama in defeat, than stand with Clinton in victory. Every once in a while in life and in politics, we get a clear choice to do either the morally right thing, or to continue to cut corners and believe that the end justifies the means. We should have no illusion about this ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/28 Mon, 05 May 2008 01:51:55 that guarantees we'll have 4 years where he has to keep us happy if he wants to be re-elected.

There's one other thing about Obama that I think is very important. Just as Bush ushered in 8 years of evil by appealing to people's baser senses, Obama will, oh yes he will, usher in 8 years of good... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/27 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:41:14 [div class="excerpt"]Pay Up or Risk Long Battle, Obama Told
Ewen MacAskill in Philadelphia
The Guardian, Tuesday April 22 2008


Barack Obama has been warned that his refusal to pay the traditional [b]“street money” [/b]to local operatives to help get the vote out in Philadelphia today could ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/26 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:31:54 I rename this excerpt
[center]

[b][u]OBLITERATION[/u]

[b]A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/25 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:01:21 [div class="excerpt"]April 11, 2008
Hillary to Bill: Knock it off
Posted: 02:49 PM ET


(CNN) — Hillary Clinton wants her husband to quit talking about her trip to Bosnia in 1996, the former president said Friday.

[b]"Hillary called me and said, 'You don't remember this. You weren't there, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Catherina/24 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:49:18