KerryPicksEdwards.com
By now you've probably seen KerryPicksEdwards.com. The first thing I did, after checking through the laundry list there, was see who had KerryPicksEdwards.org. To cut to the chase, as of about five...
View ArticleW Stands for Women
W Stands for Women: Riiiiight. (Brought to you by a bunch of really pissed off knitters.)
View ArticleLooking for video/still images of Republican protests in Florida 2000
I'm looking for video showing the Republican protests in Florida 2000--the flown-in squad banging on the windows of the county election centers in particular. Anyone got any? I've been digging myself...
View ArticleWhy some of us may not be seeing a whole lot of BC04 signs:
They're waiting to roll them out: Bryan Platt, chairman of the Jackson County Republican Central Committee, said he had heard of only one report of Bush/Cheney signs taken recently. He pointed out that...
View ArticleOregonian Endorses Kerry!
The Oregonian, the state's biggest newspaper (based here in Portland), has endorsed Kerry. It endorsed Bush in 2000 and tends to be a moderate Republican rag. I'm surprised, and I bet I'm not alone....
View ArticleThe coming hard times
Despite today's stock market optimism (I think mainly that there was a clear victor--ANY victor), I cannot shake the feeling that very hard economic times are coming. I feel a coming Depression or...
View ArticleAnd now a word from Mom
On Wednesdays a group of knitters who also happen to be progressives meet at my house. This last Wednesday on our potluck table there was a bottle of Rescue Remedy and a bottle of vodka. We all came in...
View ArticleElizabeth Edwards Chemo Cap Challenge
Hey all you knitting Kossacks! (dKnitters?) As most of you know, Elizabeth Edwards is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer right now; she started a 16-week course on November 11th. My knitting and...
View ArticleA Specific Call for Tsunami Relief Help
Dear Kossack Friends, About a year ago, I helped set up a website called Social Action Community for a group of activists who've been working with Northwest Medical Teams. NW Medical Teams is a local...
View ArticlePregnant in Washington State? No Divorce for You.
In Spokane, WA, a woman who's trying to leave an abusive marriage can't get a divorce. Why? She's preggers:Judge Paul Bastine says case law favors the rights of the unborn child over the woman's right...
View ArticleOregon: Sale of Enron-Held Utility Just as Bad as Critics Thought
Big surprise. Would-be Portland General Electric purchasers Texas Pacific Group are in it for a quick turnaround profit according to confidential records obtained by our local weekly: Texas Pacific...
View ArticleWho's in Your Wallet? Kossacks, Check Your Credit Card Statements
Look in your credit card records. If you see any small charges you don't recognize, investigate them. Going through our always-precarious financial situation today, my husband and I found a charge for...
View ArticleWhen Pagans Rule the World!
By SallyCat's request, my rant, which was occasioned by an email list discussion of the separation of church and state. At the time I warned the Christians to think about things from a different...
View ArticleAs long as we're talking about ads: Bride kidnapping ad
A little below "the ad" is a Frontline World ad on the custom of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan. Jumankul, 19, is under pressure from his parents to marry and bring home a wife who can help work on the...
View ArticleDeanSpeaksForMe.com
It wasn't registered, so I bought it. It hasn't propagated yet, so don't freak if you go there and it doesn't show up. What's there right now is just a Drupal skeleton, with a link to the petition. I'm...
View ArticleWhat's going on at DeanSpeaksForMe.com
[Crossposted at BooTrib] Based on feedback from here and elsewhere, here's what's currently going on at DeanSpeaksforMe.com:Current Features: Tell your Congress member: Dean speaks for you:...
View ArticleMust Be All That Butt-Shaking Dancing They Do Down There
If so, maybe we'd better get our hips into it. Brazil breaks its dependence on foreign energy sources: Three decades after the first oil shock rocked its economy, Brazil has nearly shaken its...
View ArticleHow I accidentally radicalized my housekeeper
My housekeeper comes every other week and helps me out so that things don't completely come apart while I'm working, homeschooling and taking care of my health. I almost always have AAR on during the...
View ArticleThe rich man and the wolves: A fable
One upon a time there were two neighbors, a rich one and a not-so-rich one. The rich man had a huge house with every luxury. The not-so-rich man had a much smaller house, nothing luxurious but tidy and...
View ArticleThe definitive, exhaustive, annotated Kossack light bulb joke diary
Right. Someone has to do it, and I'm just bored enough to be the one. Based on comments from this diary, we need a Kos light bulb joke. Because we are Kossacks, it should be a list, because, being...
View ArticleAir America making voicemail available to the public for Katrina
1-866-217-6255 Call the toll-free number above, enter your everyday phone number, and then record a message. Other people who know your everyday phone number (even if it doesn't work anymore) can call...
View Article"Welcome to Krakow"
Jus t Returned from FEMA Detainment Camp: A family tries to help out evacuees in an Oklahoma shelter physically owned by their church, only to find out that FEMA not only doesn't want the help, and...
View ArticleGretna Mayor Responds to Angry Email
A few weeks ago I wrote a pretty pissed-off letter to Ronnie Harris, the mayor of Gretna, LA. You remember Gretna, that charming town which turned back NOLA evacuees at gunpoint? Yeah. Gretna. On the...
View ArticleUNICEF Bombs the Smurfs
No, it's not a typo or a headline in the Onion. In Belgium, home of the Smurfs if you didn't know, UNICEF has released a short anti-war cartoon that basically annihilates the little blue guys (not to...
View ArticleWaitin' for the End of the World
Troutfishing said this was a diary, so here. I should be more scared than I am what with all the stuff I track: The fascists, the fundamentalists, bird flu, peak oil. But I tell you, I was born in...
View ArticleOregon Kossacks and Media Freaks: New Site
If you live in the Portland, OR area and you are in or like observing the local media scene, you may have seen the blog PDX Media Insider. It was a really fun blog--newsy, gossipy, and everyone in the...
View ArticleFormer Dean Webmaster Signs On with McCain
Hotline is reporting that celebrated former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele is now working for Republican John McCain: John Weaver, McCain's chief political strategist, confirmed today that Nicco Mele, the...
View ArticleHow We Found Our Way: Homeschooling (Updated)
(This started out as a response to teacherken's diary and it got way too long so what the hell.) The educational system is never going to be reformed or re-imagined in my lifetime, or my children's...
View ArticleOregonian Newspaper Slants Iraq Coverage?
[Semi-cross-posted from Oregon Media Insiders.] Today's Oregonian ran a New York Times-written front page, but didn't include the entire article. This is the original, headlined "Troops cut death, but...
View ArticleWashington Post Endorses Lieberman (updated)
E&P is reporting tonight that tomorrow's WaPo will endorse Lieberman for Senate: The Post noted that "the critical question facing voters in November, as opposed to party leaders now, is who would...
View ArticleSubdivision Bans Peace Symbol Wreath
Christmas is a peaceful time, so hanging a wreath shaped like a peace sign doesn't sound that out of place, does it? In one Colorado subdivision, it is, enough to get you fined: A homeowners...
View ArticleWhy aren't we taking better care of our soldiers' families?
It seems sacrifice is only for the military--and the soldiers' families. Over at my other site, one of our longtime members is facing her husband's THIRD deployment. Her description of family life on...
View ArticleWhat I think about Sarah Palin: A list for undecided moms
I am on an email list of women who were all pregnant together nearly 12 years ago. That's all we have in common. There are radical left-wingers, radical right-wingers, activists of all stripes and...
View ArticleWhy I Support Obama: A Letter to My Undecided Friends
I'm a member of a mailing list with a broad cross-section of women on it: Very conservative, very liberal, and everyone in between. The undecideds on the list asked both me and the resident Republican...
View ArticleIt's Easier to Be Kind
Cross-posted from my blogJohn and I were out running errands Saturday on our bikes: trip to the studio, tai chi for him, bellydancing for me; trip to the bike store; trip to get groceries. It's been a...
View ArticlePlease talk me down
I have been on a "news diet" for the last couple of weeks--as much of a diet as I can make myself be on, at any rate. I am a bit of a news junkie, especially when it comes to politics. But I've stayed...
View ArticleLook what I just got from the president of Carbonite (Rush sponsor)
I'm a happy Carbonite user. Carbonite sponsors Limbaugh--along with Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz, yes, but I don't remember either of them saying the sorts of things Limbaugh has said this week...
View ArticleCarbonite Pulls Out
Carbonite CEO David Friend has decided that meeting with Rushbo on Monday won't change anything. So he's pulling out now:
View ArticleCooking for Kossacks Part One: Equipment
For the past 13-plus years, I've run the website The New Homemaker, a resource site for stay-at-home parents, caregivers and everyone else. I've taught many people there to cook from scratch--just...
View ArticleCooking for Kossacks Part Two: Stocking Your Pantry
This is part two in a series on beginning cooking, emphasis on beginning. My purpose is to encourage reluctant cooks to rely more on their kitchens and less on prepared foods and take-out. Thus, I am...
View ArticleBain's Clear Channel fires dozens across the country
It's become a holiday tradition at Bain Capital-owned Clear Channel: fire everyone you can possibly fire at the end of the year. Today's big clean-out touched markets across the country and included...
View ArticleCooking for Kossacks Basic Templates for Hurry-up Meals: One-Skillet Suppers
...or: DINNER 911!The three big excuses for not cooking dinner are:1. I don't have the equipment 2. I don't have anything to cook 3. I don't have anything plannedWe've dealt with the first two, so now...
View ArticleBREAKING: Gunman shooting up Clackamas Town Center in Oregon (UPDATE: shooter...
A gunman is on the loose inside the Clackamas Town Center mall near Portland, OR. Local TV says between 10-15 shots have been fired, and one source says up to three people have been hit. KGW-TV says...
View ArticleCooking for Kossacks: Baked Eggs and Refrigerator Soup
This is a series on beginning cooking, emphasis on beginning. My purpose is to encourage reluctant cooks to rely more on their kitchens and less on prepared foods and take-out. Thus, I am talking in...
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