http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 18:22:31 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:22:31 If a U.S. president can order a drone strike against any individual, including American citizens regardless of how evil or repugnant they might be, it sets a dangerous precedent. Particularly if this individual happens not to be a military combatant.

What's to stop some future Republican/teaba... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/26 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:04:08 of the Pastafarians, known collectively as the Holy Mostaccioli,

'Arrrrh! Thou shalt place the Pasta directly into the boiling water,

and thou shalt anoint the water with a dab of Olive Oil to prevent the woeful transgression of Boiling Over,

and thou shalt cook until the Pasta is [i]al ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/25 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:05:28 Doesn't it look like we're being slammed from all quarters? If it's not threats to collective bargaining and pensions, it's threats to womens rights including the right to choose, or Social Security.

There are threats to the LGBT community, Muslims, immigrants. Services to the poor, the mentally ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/24 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:48:10 Now that the Food and Drug Administration approved a commercial version of a progesterone drug intended to prevent high-risk women from going into premature labor, raising the cost per weekly dose from $20 to $1,500, it raises some VERY interesting questions.

It might be heaps o' fun to try thes... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/23 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:30:21 Spitting cobras are poisonous snakes that spew blinding venom from their fangs toward the eyes and face of victims. They spew with amazing accuracy up to a distance of 6.5 feet. There are numerous species of spitting cobras in Asia and Africa.

I believe we have at least one home-grown species of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/22 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:19:59 I met her in 1974 when I was a college student and she was part owner of a jewelry & candle store. I used to go there to buy candles and incense. We got to talking one day. She noticed I was carrying a book on witchcraft for an anthropology course, and I told her about my interest in wicca. She off... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/21 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:37:06 The front page of today's Washington Post makes clear what any observant long-time reader must have realized years ago: the paper is a shill for the GOP.

The lead headline states "Democrats bracing for losses". Sub-head: "GOP likely to win back House and narrowly miss capturing the Senate".

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/20 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:48:25 You have to hand it to the corporate minions at the Washington Post. Once again they managed to downplay a major public rally in the nation's capital.

The lead article in today's Post is, naturally, not about the hugely well-attended "Restore sanity" rally. Instead it's about the elections. The ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/19 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:08:59 and I'm replacing it with a sticker that says "War is Not the Answer".

This administration (read: Rahm Emanuel and the DLC) obviously doesn't give a shit about creating jobs.

Even with a mid-term election coming up, they bitch about the deficit. Yeah, the Deficit brought to us by Dumbya and t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/18 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:32:04 So many of us are out of work, struggling, and wondering whether there is any relief in sight.

I've been out of work for 21 months and am ineligible for unemployment benefits. My husband works, but he is doing the work of 3 or 4 people because he is afraid of losing his job. My younger daughter i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/17 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:57:45 And so do millions of other Americans.
I want you to do something about creating more jobs in this country.
We need a new, New Deal. Another Works Progress Administration.

There are too damn many people out of work.

My daughter just decided to give up her education major after this semeste... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/16 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:23:50 Here's a solution that I've come up with to the recent Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to pour huge money donations into political campaigns. This fall's mid-term elections look likely to be awash in corporate campaign spending like never before, and I hate to think what this bodes ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/15 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:20:57 because she didn't have enough money to make her car insurance payment last month. So they imposed a penalty for not having car insurance, and threatened to cancel her car registration.

The logic escapes me. If she didn't have enough money to pay her monthly car insurance payment, where was she g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/14 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:34:49 We're not going to fix the economy or get single-payer health care for all unless we manage to overcome the power of corporate lobbyists and corporation-owned members of Congress.

As long as the US government continues to favor corporations over people, and corporate profits over the economic wel... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/13 Thu, 28 May 2009 10:02:58 I just got home from UU church, all fired up about the preciousness of our democracy and our right to vote.

Because damn it, our right to cast those ballots is shaky these days. I don't trust these electronic cheating machines, which can be pre-programmed to flip votes from one candidate to anot... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/12 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:04:15 It's a very simple fact.

People tend to vote for names they recognize.

I confess that sometimes I have done it myself when scanning over a long local ballot of choices for court clerks and judges. If I recognize a name and don't remember anything bad about the individual, I'll vote for them. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/11 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:24:11 Chelsea moved to the White House with her parents in 1993, when she was only 12. She was already a target for vicious, uncalled-for remarks by hate-filled Republicans like Limbaugh and McCain.

Just imagine how they would have sliced, diced and eviscerated Chelsea and her parents in the media if... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/10 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:00:43 I'm hardly surprised that the Washington Post chose to virtually ignore Sunday's horrific hate shootings at the Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, TN.

The Post's only mention of the horrific attack on a liberal church was buried at the bottom of Page 2 yesterday. That's one of the lea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/9 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:26:20 If Jesus came back, and had a gun, do you think He would shoot and kill people inside a right-wing, gun-loving, gay-hating fundie church?

Or would He go to a liberal Unitarian Universalist congregation and shoot its members for being gay-loving, anti-gun liberals, some of whom question whether ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/8 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:25:51 The folks in the astrology forum suggested I post this in GD.

Thought I'd share a sermon I gave this past Sunday at our Unitarian Universalist church in Germantown, MD. I'm not a minister, just a lay leader and member of the Sunday services committee. Thanks to DU'er IndyOp for leading me to the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/7 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:53:27 I was out as usual this Saturday morning, checking out the garage sales. Driving through the center of Olney, I spotted a gaggle of wingnuts with flags and a bullhorn making a lot of noise at the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Route 108.

Catty-corner from them were nine elderly Quaker men an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/6 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:22:47 We need an entirely new, updated Geneva Convention.

The current Geneva convention prohibits a variety of inhumane methods used in warfare, as if the entire concept of war was not inhumane in itself.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem likely that we can do away with war, since so many people on t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/5 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:29:57 Not just soliciting a minor for internet sex, but knowingly offering to procure alcohol for a minor. These are potentially serious charges.

I am horrified to read those e-mail exchanges, but not particularly surprised. These people are after power, whether it is power in politics, or power over ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/4 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:20:11 At first I thought the Rovian responses to the Lamont victory (More terra!) were overkill.

But the more I thought, the more I realized they are desperate.

The reason the Misadministration is desperately and pathetically trying to associate Ned Lamont with "terra, terra, terra" is simple.

T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/3 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:12:46 I'm afraid to look at the front page of the Washington Post, or turn on and watch the other corporate media. I go straight to the Post's comics -- it's the only part of the paper worth reading.

If it isn't the nightmare of senseless bloodshed in Iraq, it's the nightmare of senseless bloodshed in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LiberalEsto/2 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:38:25