Be a Fan of Tank Man - Remember Tiananmen Square

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Thursday June 04, 2009 · 6:32 AM PDT

2009/06/04 · 06:32

The twenty year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre is TODAY.

I remember vividly watching the events unfold live on TV. Unfortunately, many young people in China don't know about what happened because their government has suppressed all information about the event.

I just learned that there is a Facebook fan page memorializing the massacre. It is a way of remembering the man who stood up to the government tanks. This image is apparently officially censored in China.

From the Facebook page:

For the students killed in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. For the fearless heroes. For the triumph of humanity over oppression, tyranny, and death. Become a fan, share this page, suggest friends to join, let all the people know.

I ope everyone who reads this will join.

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Sunday May 10, 2009 · 8:51 AM PDT

2009/05/10 · 08:51

I had to laugh as I read this article in Forbes magazine, of all places (OK, it was originally on Yahoo Travel):

"World's Happiest Places: A new report reveals where people feel most positive about their lives"

So America is #1, right? Hmmm.

You know those horrible "socialist" European countries that the wingnuts are always screeching about? They're hell, right? Depressing, soulless gulags of government-controlled misery, lacking all the glorious freedoms that make us the best country on Earth?

Oddly enough, Forbes magazine (whose motto is "The Capitalist Tool") reports that:

...happiness levels are highest in northern European countries.

How can this be? And when will Fox News report it?

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 7:58 AM PDT

2009/04/29 · 07:58

(UPDATED to embed video)

Awesome video from Think Progress!

George Bush in his own words:

"War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, “I was just following orders.”

Anyone who may have missed it needs to see it:

http://thinkprogress.org/...

This video should be played non-stop until we get an investigation of Bush's torture policies.

I would like to see a "torture investigation count down clock" with this video running beside it! :)

It's going to take time to see Bush's words applied to his own acts, but one way to help is Think Progress's petition to the House Judiciary Committee to hold impeachment hearings against Bybee:

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Monday February 23, 2009 · 6:01 AM PST

2009/02/23 · 06:01

We've all seen the notorious "dead chimp" cartoon in the NY Post. The NAACP has called for a boycott of the NY Post and for the firing of cartoonist Sean Delonas and editor-in-chief Col Allan.

But as bad as that cartoon was, Delonas also has a long history of vile homophobic stereotyping.

He regularly publishes cartoons depicting gays as mincing, prancing fairies, cross-dressers and perverts who have sex with sheep. At first, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them. Then I got angry. Now, it's time to take action. These dehumanizing caricatures perpetuate homophobic stereotypes and lead to denying gays and lesbians civil rights and justifying gay bashing.

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GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has announced a call to action to protest this promotion of homophobia by a major metropolitan newspaper. I hope you will join the protest against this blatant and hateful homophobia. Details below:

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 12:35 PM PDT

2008/08/28 · 12:35

So now that the South Carolina GOP has started running an ad for McCain that talks about NOTHING BUT his P.O.W. experience (via TPM), it's becoming obvious that this is McCain's only selling point and that the GOP knows this is the only way he can get elected.

Which means that it's now OK to freely debate whether the fact that someone was a prisoner of war 40 years ago is qualification enough, in and of itself, to be elected President of the United States.

Here's the transcript of the ad:

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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 12:11 PM PDT

2008/07/23 · 12:11

Some of you may have seen the hideous new campaign poster for Ole Grumpy... er, John McCain over at TPM. Just when you think his campaign couldn't get more desperate or clueless, they prove us wrong.

In case you haven't seen the latest triumph, here it is in all it's glory:

Nothing over the top about that, is there?

Well, I've improved it a little:

That's really much better. Should appeal to McCain's base.

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 10:50 AM PDT

2008/07/09 · 10:50

I put together a handy reference guide to who just voted FOR and AGAINST the 3 proposed amendments to the terrible FISA retroactive immunity bill. Info comes from Senate.gov.

I intend to keep it for future reference. Anyone who voted AGAINST these amendments can be expected not to be a friend of the progressive movement. Sadly, there are many Democrats in that group.

I'm happy to say Obama voted for all three. He is on the right side of this issue.

Democrats voting AGAINST the Bingaman amendment (AKA "our last hope"):

Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Inouye (D-HI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

McCain, of course, didn't bother to show up.

Lieberman, of course, voted with the Republicans.

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 8:20 PM PDT

2008/07/07 · 20:20

Just the other day I was thinking: If Obama wins the election in a landslide (we can hope!) it wouldn't surprise me if the truly hardcore wingnuts start spreading the rumor that he's the Anti-Christ. It would be their last-ditch smear against a popular Democrat with widespread support, and a natural evolution of their he's-a-secret-Muslim-terrorist smear campaign.

Well, turns out they've already beat me to it.

Via Sadly No, I just came across a hardcore religious wingnut who is already claiming that yes, Obama is the Anti-Christ.

Without sarcasm or humor, but entirely seriously.

The only reason I bring this up on Daily Kos is because I feel that we as Democrats need to be prepared for absolutely ANYTHING being thrown at Obama by the wingnuts. Even something you think would be so ludicrous, so vile, and so insane as to be unthinkable. They WILL say it. The rumors and the smears WILL go out.

And we need to be ready to confront them.

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 7:36 AM PDT

2008/06/22 · 07:36

Dear Michigan readers:

Do you know that a Republican named Thaddeus McCotter is representing you in the House? Do you know what he's doing there?

I just learned from Wonkette that Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan) represents your 11th District. Any 11th District voters here?

So this asswipe actually got up in the House and made a speech about what Democrats "really mean" when they talk. Yes, you guessed it, we are closet socialists who speak in code that only true tough-guy Republicans can translate.

Some of the highlights from this hilarious comedy act:

"We're going to learn how to speak Democrat today."

Oh yeah, it gets better.

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 8:09 AM PDT

2008/06/04 · 08:09

Mark Penn is again revealed as the worst political consultant in Washington in an interesting article in today's Boston Globe. Among the many, many examples of his incredibly bad judgement, this one is particularly memorable:

At a social event last spring at the home of Mark Penn, then Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and one of the most prominent and well-compensated Democratic consultants in the business, a fellow Democrat wondered aloud if freshman Senator Barack Obama might wrest the nomination from the well-connected New York senator.

Penn, the dinner guest said, waved his hand dismissively. "Flash in the pan," Penn said, adding that the Clinton campaign saw former North Carolina senator John Edwards as her biggest challenge.

There, in a nutshell, is the arrogance, entitlement and bad judgement of the chief strategist to the Clinton campaign.

Why exactly is this guy the "one of the most prominent and well-compensated Democratic consultants in the business"?

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 9:30 AM PDT

2008/05/28 · 09:30

In his review of Rick Perlstein's new book "Nixonland," Wall Street Journal writer Thomas Frank talks about how the 60's shaped Nixon and his political movement. As an aside, he makes this interesting observation:

Well, now the main events of the '60s are 40 years behind us, and still we can't shake them. In the last national election, we redebated the Vietnam War. In the one coming up, we will be forced to debate Barack Obama's not-even-tenuous connection to the Weathermen. (We will probably not be asked to judge the poisonous legacy of the Young Americans for Freedom, although McCain adviser Charlie Black was actually a leader of that group.)

Really? Charlie Black again? Not being of that era, I had to look up "Young Americans for Freedom." What I found is very interesting. Turns out they are very connected to the Goldwater campaign and the neo-conservative movement that Kos wrote about today when he said "the new progressive movement is being specifically built on the Goldwater model."

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Saturday May 24, 2008 · 4:44 PM PDT

2008/05/24 · 16:44

Ouch. This has got to hurt:

The AP currently has an article titled "Analysis: Clinton's latest off-key remark" by a political writer named Delvin Barrett which concludes with this statement:

She insists she can win, but the mathematical explanations for how that can happen grow more fanciful by the week.

And without any clear explanation of how she can win, mentioning the Robert Kennedy assassination to some ears sounds like the last, desperate scenario of someone unwilling to admit defeat.

Double ouch. When even the AP is making such fatalistic statements, Hillary's campaign has got to be getting worried.

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