Falwell Cops To the Truth about Old Time Religion
MSNBC is carrying a story about Liberty Baptist's debate team. The article focuses on the fact that schools like Liberty are heavily invested in producing the next generation of evangelical lawyers...
View ArticleNew Republican Meme Coming Soon To An Auto Near You (With Poll!!!)
It appears that the fall rollout of the Brand New Used Republican Talking Points has been pushed forward into mid-June. What in the world am I on about? A shiny new bumper sticker!
View ArticleConversation With A Stranger
This morning I was standing in a check out line at the grocery with a basket full of food. The lines were long; the store was busy. The woman checking out her groceries at the head of the line had...
View ArticleOld Friends and Bloody Hands
My youngest graduated from high school six months ago. She and her siblings were all in the school band in high school. Same teachers; same school; same yearly band drill, between 1994 and 2006....
View ArticleNew IEEE Spectrum article : "The Next Voting Debacle?"
IEEE Spectrum Magazine describes itself this way: "IEEE Spectrum magazine is the flagship publication of the IEEE, the world's largest professional technology association." This month's issue is now...
View ArticleOlbermann piece : Limbaugh's Imitation of Fox :Updated
If you're not watching KO, I advise you to turn Countdown on. If you can't do that now or if you miss it, please do try to catch the repeat later this evening. Keith will be featuring video tape of...
View ArticleThe Evan B. Donaldson Institute gets it partially right
No, not that kind of right; I mean "correct." The Evan B. Donaldson Institute, in observation of what some have called National Adoption BewareNess Month has published a White Paper titled...
View ArticleOrigins USA responds to the Evan B. Donaldson Institute on Mother's Rights
The Evan B. Donaldson Institute released a White Paper dated November, 2006 titled "Safeguarding the Rights and Well-Being of Birthparents in the Adoption Process." Today, Origins USA, an...
View ArticleWaiting For Wii
The pup and I sat together at the kitchen table, sipping the fresh lattes I had just made, and nibbling around the edges of our raspberry scones. Morning sun danced through the stained glass windows....
View ArticleBreaking: KO: Rove and Bartlett subpoenaed Now w/poll!!!
Keith Olbermann just reported breaking news that Karl Rove has been subpoenaed to testify at the Scooter Libby trial. UPDATE 1: Turn on MSNBC, Keith just said he will be talking about this in the next...
View ArticleFree Evelyn Bennett
According to The Akron Beacon Journal, Stephanie Bennett of Canton, Ohio signed adoption surrender documents for her four month old daughter, Evelyn, on the second meeting with a representative of "A...
View ArticleThere's No Bidness Like Soul Bidness
Senator Dan Patrick (R., Houston) has introduced Texas Senate Bill 1567, captioned "Relating to the creation of the adoption incentive program." The text of the bill can be found here, in html,.pdf...
View ArticleFor The Love Of Green
As Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer so acutely observed last week: "The color is GREEN." A Child's Waiting Adoption Agency of Copley Township, Ohio and the people who wish to adopt Evelyn Bennett,...
View ArticleDraft Debate on HairBall
There is currently a draft debate on HairBall. Two Iraq vets are debating if we need a military draft to supprt Bush's War in Iraq
View ArticleDid Melanie Morgan just pull her own plug? UPDATED!
The Hairball Roundtable was spirited tonight, with Melanie Morgan unsurprisingly dominating the conversation by dint of talking over everyone else, being exceptionally shrill, spewing the usual talking...
View ArticleOn Beyond Contraception
Miss Laura's front paged diary of today "Like Using Contraception? Don't Vote Republican" details the ongoing effort by Republican religious extremists to force women into pregnancies they may not want...
View ArticleWhy Juno Matters
This diary appeared on the list several days ago. I knew that Juno had to do with adoption. Those of you who know me know that I lost my oldest to a violently forced adoption in 1968 and have spent a...
View ArticleDon't Talk To Me About Adoption
This started as a comment in Grand Moff Texas's Recommended List Diary Don't Talk To Me About God but rapidly expanded into this diary. America too has witnessed a pogrom upon certain sections of...
View ArticleTHANK YOU, Keith Olbermann
On Countdown tonight, Keith O. quoted Sharron Angle's words regarding abortion of pregnancy brought about by rape/incest. Angle: I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the...
View ArticleThis Is How Bad It Is
This morning I applied for a job, as I do most mornings. Not a super high paying job. But something to help me sock away a little money to buy my cat food when I retire who knows how many years from...
View ArticleToday, I absolutely had to buy a new pair of shoes
I live in a middle class suburb. We are surviving here, although I am not sure how, or how well. Today, I absolutely had to buy a new pair of shoes.
View ArticleSupport The Troops - Toss A Shoe
Regarding the pastor and his 50 followers in Florida. Don't give the guy the feedback he craves. Don't publicize his event. And don't burn a Bible.
View ArticleThe Premise of Adoption: In Order To Save The Child, You Must First Destroy...
The title is a quote from Dian Wellfare, a NSW adoption truth teller. Dain died at a young age, from cancer, about a year ago. RIP, Dian. This diary is an expansion of my comment on KosAbility's...
View ArticleHere's How I'm Going To Start
I am fed to the teeth with homophobia, gay bashing, bigotry, and the hate directed towards gays and lesbians. I am sick to death of the bullying. It's coming from the right, it's coming from the...
View ArticleWhat You Missed While You Were Screaming
So much screaming, so little time. Times are hard, tempers short, everyone is confused, many are afraid. There are trolls and crazies about. The Dems have has some success, but not as much as lots of...
View ArticleIt Wasn't An Abortion Mill
The right wing has predictably picked up on the story of an poorly or unregulated business in Philadelphia in which a doctor allegedly murdered newborns. We all know the story.
View ArticleHelp Needed: Federal Student Loans and the DOJ
A number of lawsuits have been filed against EDMC by the states, the DOJ and the shareholders. This diary is about the latest ( as of last Monday.) It's for 11 Billion plus treble damages...33...
View Articledish your walls - Kos Katalogue Member
This is my diary about the Kos Katalogue. Kos Katalogue is a compilation of small businesses owned and operted by Kossacks.
View ArticleA Prediction
in the coming weeks and months, you can expect to hear people pushing the idea of 'adoption" as some sort of solution to this birth control monstrosity. don't be fooled. the people selling adoption...
View ArticleAnother Aspirin, M'Dear?
To be very honest with you, I've been a little surprised by the fact that the talking heads on MSNBC who are younger than I have never heard that smarmy old aspirin "joke" before. When I was in my...
View ArticleIs It 1968 Again?
Slut. Prostitute. So much sex she can't afford the birth control. Boyfriends around the block. Aspirin between the knees. Now, add this in... single motherhood as child abuse in Wisconsin. Is it...
View Articleayn rand gets it exactly backwards
atlas shrugged is 55 years old. perhaps it made sense to celebrate the captains of industry back in the 50s, as the country rebuilt after the war. great steel plants, auto manufacturing, railroads....
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A Tale Of Two Tags
Credits: Obama Biden Cap, Darryl Brashier; Romney Ryan Cap, Too Informed To Vote Republican; Edit, Suzie Kidnap
View ArticleDon't tell me about Benghazi
Don't tell me about Benghazi until you deal with the fact that there were no wmd in Iraq. Don't tell me about it until you deal with all the dead Iraquis, all the dead Americans , and all the maimed...
View ArticleTax The Guns
Tax the bullets Tax the registrations Tax the licenses Tax the classes Tax the targets used for practiceTax them at 3000% of priceTax them until the madness stops
View ArticleAction Diary: Stand With Texas Women
If you can't be in Austin for tonight's Stand With Texas Women rally, but you'd like to be heard, there is now a way for that to happenFollow me below the orange lover's knot to see how.
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Texas Senators Davis and Van de Putte, and Representative...
Dear Senators Davis and Van de Putte, and Representative Farrar,It was with consternation that I read of Senator Edward Lucio's proposed bill that would mandate pregnant women to undergo adoption...
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