Twenty-three year old rich kids run dkos???? (SNARK)
And they're lunatics to boot?Well, this is all according to one of MSNBC's finest: Tucker CarlsonTo be honest, I have seen Markos and yes, he looks pretty young but A) I didn't think he was THAT young...
View ArticleSeriously, how is Chris Matthews going to spin his hypocrisy if it is Hillary...
Chris, the hypocrite, Matthews has a problem. So does Chris, the misogynist, Matthews.I am curious as how Matthews is going to lie and spin his way through it all IF it ends up Hillary vs Rudy.Chris,...
View ArticleAs a woman, the TM especially Matthews insults and offends me
How freaking dare Matthews accuse Hillary of playing the gender card? Who the hell has been playing the gender card, the race card and even the religion card for the last two hundred years if not...
View ArticleSpeaking of sexism........
So this morning, MSNBC has yet another "hot babe" newsreader, telling us all about the market. So besides "international super star" what's her name that Matthews and Scarborough drool over, now we...
View ArticleGeorge Will, Man Without a Soul and Brokaw Bias
So this diary really would have fit better on last night's WYFP but effing problems don't alway arrive on cue. I woke up to a miserable allergy attack. No headache or pain, just a constant running...
View ArticleSpin Tweety, Spin, you misogynistic wingnut....
I know "JUST DON'T WATCH". I am sure at least one kossack will remind me to change the channel. But sometimes, on cool dreary days, I cannot avert my eyes from the train wreck that is Hardball. After...
View ArticleChris Matthews you are a misogynistic pig and a total hypocrite.
So yesterday he is drooling over Mitt's wonderful speech. And yet before that, he was whining that religion should not be a part of this. Which the hell is it Chris????Oh I forgot. Mitt is a rethug...
View ArticleBoycott MSNBC and NBC and their tabloid reporters!!!!
Dammit! Dammit! What the hell is wrong with these two men (and I use the word loosely because they are more like to tabloid boys seeing who can get the "dirt", the gossip).The ISSUES, idiots. Voters...
View ArticleDebate in CO ......sort of....well really a forum and no candidates there
Last night in a very red county in CO we had a forum for democratic voters. And we got a full house in attendance. The County dems had hoped we would get 30 or 40 people and, holy cow, we had at...
View ArticleI think everyone needs to read Trey Ellis NOW
There has been much yelling and screaming here for weeks now, and sadly too many here take the word of the television pundit class on everything.This is the same group of people who said over and over...
View ArticleI wrote and thanked Roger Simon
I don't always agree with Mr. Simon. But this morning, I applauded him. On Reliable Sources he was the only person with the integrity to call out violent rhetoric and violent imagery for what it...
View ArticleHere's the deal.....
This is a comment I made on the main page. The diary was My Experience with an Alternative Charter School. To be clear, upfront and honest, I am pro public school, and quite distrustful of the...
View ArticleMy Patent Leather Shoes Scared Me
I started catholic school in 1955, age 10, 5th grade. I moved from the public school by my own request to my parents. Our church had opened three years earlier but my parents, unlike many in our...
View ArticleWhat the f*&^* is wrong with us??? (A rant)
This is a rant, based on something that happened today. Perhaps it is not diary material but this is the only community where I think this rant may resonate. That, sadly, in and of itself is not a...
View ArticleCatharsis or where are Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John clones cuz ........
Catharsis or where are Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John clones cuz the Frank Burns' clones are everywhere!So as I am watching these 47 Senators, too stupid for their own good let alone the country’s...
View ArticleEducation, Testing Time, Amy Goodman, ……opining on why honest reporting and...
Today on Democracy Now, Amy Goodman had an in depth discussion on education with a superintendent of a NY school district, a parent who is the head of her school’s parent teacher group. The discussion...
View ArticleBernie, Hillary and the really really important future for our children,...
Here's the thing. I love Bernie and have been supporting him for some time. But just because I love Bernie, will support/work for and vote for him does not mean I have to trash Hillary. This is...
View ArticleAm I dreaming or is this real? Thoughts from a female senior citizen...
“The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass...
View ArticleThe Triumph of the Bully
Many a diary these days seem to be about Hillary vs Bernie. I am trying to limit myself in reading them because, honestly, some of the comments/discussions are too upsetting.Full disclosure. I voted...
View ArticlePLEASE, PLEASE do not buy the media spin; do not get into the hate game.
I am a Bernie supporter. I have voted for Bernie, and I have contributed to his campaign. This was not an easy decision for me as I have waited a lifetime to see a woman voted in as the president....
View ArticleHere is comes: HOPE I am wrong!!! (I am a Bernie supporter who will...
*Here is comes: HOPE I am wrong!!! (I am a Bernie supporter who will enthusiastically support HRC when and if she wins! And it is the MSM, the corporate greed that jumped the gun….not the Clinton...
View ArticleWhen revolution is no so romantic...
Here’s the thing: Libertarian thinking does not work for me whether coming from the right or the left and lately some of the extreme left are sounding real libertarian to me.I am a woman. I am...
View ArticleElection reflection from a middle school retiree...
I am a retired teacher. Most of the forty plus years I taught 6th grade. For many years 6th grade was the top tier of elementary. THOSE were my favorite years. But sometime in the 80s, early...
View ArticleTHIS is our fight. The one of the people vs the media. We need to call them...
Of course the media wants the horse race (more money for the pundit class and their oligarch bosses), and the oligarchs fear any regulatory possibility. A close race means less chance of the...
View ArticleWhy are dem leaders not calling out republicans for threatening voters with...
I consider myself well educated. Besides having my degrees, having taught for years, I read: newpapers, papers, blogs, books. I listen to various forms of media. So what am I missing?Why is no one...
View ArticleOpen letter to the pundit class: A RANT: Why have you not stood up to the...
I want to address the pundit class, formerly known as “journalists.” As I listened to them mention how Trump called out Katy Tur, basically using a common form of bullying...blaming someone by name...
View ArticleMy open letter to Michael Moore, the Bernie wing (of which I was a part); dem...
I love you Michael Moore. I really do. I respect your work, your desire to improve things. I love the Bernie Sanders voters. I was one, though I had no problem, when it was time, turning my...
View ArticleNo, I do not give a damn about winning back racists, sexist bigots to OUR...
BIG TIME RANT. Read no further if all you want to tell me is to “get over it”, or it’ s your own fault for having a “flawed” candidate (cause apparently the male candidates are never “FLAWED” they...
View ArticleSo maybe before we can really resist, we need to know how we got here????
During my years of teaching, I tried to impress on my students, young though they were (Grade six), that “nothing happened in a vacuum”. Whether it was science, history, geography or math, I...
View ArticleSomething to break up, interfere with my sense of doom, my fears.....or not.
So just as I try to get through each day saying to my self, “I can resist, I must resist, WE can resist, WE must resist”, I begin to read news notes here and there on my FB feed (as this is how I...
View ArticleThe Twilight Zone, and self improvement, and, SIGH, the Trump Voter......
So has anyone else been watching the Twilight Zone marathon on the Syfy channel? I am not much of a football fan and frankly, the parades and stuff appeal to me less and less as I age. As well, this...
View ArticleI need to rant: STOP giving kudos to R's or media Rs for FINALLY saying one...
I do not know why (some) people are shocked at the republican party’s open betrayal of the constitution, ignorant support of white militias, obnoxious pettiness about all things progressive. I do...
View ArticleNo, Mr Todd et al at the MSM.....both sides do not do it. Stop enabling the...
Network News from Chuck Todd to Brian Williams to Chris Cuomo etc etc etc AKA MSM sound like the parents of the bully trying to justify actions with “they all of do it”……This “both sides” are...
View ArticleIt is almost 50 years since I “came of age” and I think my head might explode…
In 1967, I graduated college and began my career as a teacher at the age of 21. In 1968, I was 22 and poised to be able to vote for the first time because back then the voting age was 21. In...
View ArticleI need answers, but I KNOW some questions are unanswerable. Still, I know I...
I need answers, but I KNOW some questions are unanswerable. Still, I know I can count on you, here, the folks at Daily Kos to help me feel less frustrated, find some humor in the situation in which we...
View ArticleSO who can we count on when the revolution comes to town.....
As I sit here in disbelief, sound off on the television but still nauseated as I read the closed caption presser of the evil man we now call president and his cabal of evil white men (and one white...
View Article"And the Children Shall Lead" : And I will follow and march with them on...
“And the Children Shall Lead….” I know these words originated from a quote somewhere in the old testament. Looked it up and apparently, according to what I found it is not exact. The exact quote is...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Pundit Class, to Journalists, Talking Heads
and especially to the Females in these Groups:At nearly 73, I have been around for a long time. I watched the Watergate hearings as a twenty something. In college, I protest against Vietnam (and...
View ArticleProcrastination is the Thief of Time. An essay from a senior citizen upon...
As I approach my seventy-third birthday this month, thoughts flood through my mostly still intact mind and memory. I am one of the lucky ones. From a family where longevity is a rarity I...
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Some days are harder than others....WE must stop the rise of hate!
I am a teacher, albeit a retired one. In these times, I think I am glad to be retired though I miss much of what inspired me to become an educator. I do NOT miss “Shelter in place” drills. I do NOT...
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*&% you, Brokaw and the ignorance of continuing the stupid, xenophobic cr*p
So I am retired, from PUBLIC education, and yet I am having difficulty in understanding some things. I was born at the very end of 1945, after the war had ended. I consider myself a baby boomer...
View ArticleDon't understand how the children and grandchildren of immigrants, support...
How do they support a republican party that clearly is doing to immigrants, people of color, what was done to their own families. See: Deep Roots of White Nationalism from The Atlantic....
View ArticleSick of hearing this: economic insecurity in the heartland. Reach...
No I WILL NOT understand, worry about or believe Trump voters about anything!! Why I am so sick of the "worrying about the Trump voter, heartland people" meme? So the decent "midwest, heartland...
View ArticleI was HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO. Now, disappointed, disillusioned and...
Holding Out for a Hero has been a favorite song, ever since it was played for one of my favorite protagonists in a fictional drama. The song is catchy and uplifting because in the end, I...
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DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE from The Twilight Zone is here. Anyone else feeling it?
On the morning of Nov 9th 2016, I was holding the youngest grandchild. She was 15 mos and was sound asleep in arms. She had had a little cold and was napping. I remember so clearly whispering...
View ArticleFB, Cambridge Analytica enabled the corruption of the 2016 election, but it...
Some have suggested I make this into a diary, and so I have:Watched “The Great Hack”about Cambridge Analytica and I agree….they used social media to do bad things. But I contend the table was set long...
View ArticleSEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.....we teach our children to do so; shouldn't we...
SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.....we teach our children to do so; shouldn't we expect at least as much and more from adult citizens, especially those with access to power? As a retired...
View ArticleDemocracy is hard. It requires participation, being informed, more than just...
Been a while since I wrote a diary. But after the last few weeks, as my frustration, anger, disgust with Manchin, Sinema, the media was rising, I feel compelled. This is about democracy; about...
View ArticleI AM A TEACHER AND I AM ANGRY.
I AM A TEACHER I am a teacher, albeit retired. I started my career in 1967-68. It was an amazing, stressful, joyful, eventful year. I was 21 years old when I started, turning 22 that October. I...
View ArticleCassie Hutchinson is NOT a hero; nor is Liz Cheney, nor Mitt Romney: MSM must...
**I am glad Cassie Hutchison is FINALLY speaking the truth; it took a subpoena for sure and I would guess a fear of criminal indictment if she kept lying under oath. **I am glad Mitt Romney is...
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