We're here at Netroots Nation with your favorite group of people, Netroots For The Troops.  We are gathered in Room 14 (upstairs on the 4th floor), making care packages and sending them to 101 servicepersons.  All are invited to help pack a box.

We are also selling t-shirts to help cover the cost of mailing these packages.  We are taking donations.  

Final Update, #7.  

I'm just going to post everything instead of picking and choosing.  My apologies in advance if your computer crashes.

For those of you that have nothing to do right now, we are charged with cleaning up the room and our table in the exhibition hall.  The more hands, the lighter the work.

 

Didn't see this in a search, please tell me if this has been diaried.

Your Presidential Campaign photo of the day:

This is not the diary I wanted to write.

I don't want to go on hiatus, but some recent events at work are forcing my hand.  This hiatus will hopefully be about four weeks long.

UPDATE (the second):  Well, we just got back from dinner.  It's Lollapalooza out there.

Please click here for my reply to Amy's apology: http://www.dailykos.com/...

Timroff has spoken in person with Tracy Joan.  And as soon as I am done on the computer, he'll be sending her an email in an effort to set up some kind of either phone interview or in person the next time he is in Cleveland.  He will post later.

More apology/update below the fold.

We're all getting really excited about Y2K, as well we should!  Remembering the new found friendships, the deep discussions, the interesting questions, the refreshing lack of Winger talking points....Those, my friends, were the days.

And those days are just 3 days away!

So, what was your favorite moment of Y1K?  I'll share mine with you after the jump....

I know, I know.  You're thinking, what does Dania have against snark?  

I love British comedy, from Wodehouse to Monty Python. I liked Dennis Miller before he lost his mind.  I appreciate the dry line, the frisson, almost like the smack of tannins on a deep red wine, of The Things We Should Not Laugh At, and terrible puns.  Between you and me and fellow progressive Dems, I'm loving the daily laughs and sense of community that snark, through DailyKos, brings to my desktop.
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UPDATE:  This diary is a joke, sort of.  I'm not going to change the way I write for the less-than-astute.  I guess I was a little too subtle!

Ok, I'm trying to think of a better way to say that, but I couldn't on the fly.  I'm also uncomfortable with using the word "freep"...but I saw it once on Street Prophets, so I think I'm ok.  There has to be a better word for that, too.

ANYWAY...Saw this in my other blog.  It is a chance to tip the scales in a poll of a very homophobic group--the AFA (American Family Association).

You'll find the poll in the link below.  The AFA is expecting an overwhelming majority of respondents to say that they would be 'less likely' to do business with a company if they knew it supported the "homosexual agenda".  

(I knew those pool parties at BiPM's were too good to be true!)

So far, they are getting the results they seek.

If I ever go postal, if I ever get to the point where everybody's wrong and God herself only speaks to me, I will not go postal on a Monday.

It leaves the whole rest of the week for people to stew in the juices of confusion, worry and argument, leading to spouts of telling people their posts don't count, their comment doesn't count, their feelings don't count, and that 32 hours after a major American tragedy occurs is time enough to make sick jokes.

I don't know how it is in your town, but the traffic has sucked buckets since Monday. One almost never hears a horn honked in anger in traffic in Cleveland; yesterday, we could have passed for Boston.

This diary started off as a response to DemiGoddess.  However, I have been thinking about this topic on and off for quite a while.  This idea is a line drawn in the sand, it is polarizing, yet everyone will claim to be on the "good" side of the line.  It is one of my litmus tests for people--whether or not I can trust them, let them into my house.

In my second year of college I discovered, to my horror, that I had been dating a misogynist for 18 months.  I don’t know how exactly I got caught into that trap, maybe I was searching for an authority figure, perhaps I just didn’t pay attention to how snarky and sarcastic his humor was all the time.  (Of course, he didn’t have a sense of humor.  When I thought he was being sarcastic, that was how he really felt.)  I was naïve and, I thought, in love.  

Has this been diaried?  Will delete if it has.

From our friends (who probably get more news than we do) at the BBC...

A tribunal to try UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush for war crimes will be convened on Wednesday.

It is no surprise that neither man will be attending the proceedings - they may not even be aware that it is taking place.

But start it will, at a conference in Kuala Lumpur called as part of the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's campaign to criminalise war.

Has this been Diaried?  Will delete if it has.

So, our favorite pResident walks into a diner.

On Tuesday, President Bush popped in for a surprise visit to the Sterling Family Restaurant, a homey diner in Peoria, Ill. It’s a scene that has been played out many times before by this White House and others: a president mingling among regular Americans, who, no matter what they might think of his policies, are usually humbled and shocked to see the leader of the free world standing 10 feet in front of them.

UPDATE #2

I can't believe anyone would nay-say the protesters.

UPDATE #1  Yay! he posted and called me!  he found a hot spot!  Timroff's Liveblogging Diary That you've all been waiting for!

I hardly ever quote.  This is because I like for the truth, the perspective, the circumstances of the situations to match as closely as possible between what was done/said in times past, and what is being done/said now.

So, I found this rather long quote from Muriel Rukeyser, a True-Blue person if ever there was one.  I feel this quote is perfect, almost, for DKos.  Just replace "poem" with "post" and "imaginative" with "well-researched."

"There is another kind of poverty.  It has nothing to do with any kind of 'impoverishment.'  The other kind of poverty depends on a moment when everything is given.  It is the human moment of equilibrium, and can hardly be separated from the renewal that is beginning.  It comes in every profoundly human relationship;  under this aspect, writing is only another way of giving--a courtesy, if you will, and a form of love.

But does one write in order to give?

One writes in order to feel:  That is the fundamental mover.

"Both sides do it, although in fairness, the big-money right-wing media machine is probably most responsible."

I've heard too much of this.  The sheeple have been brainwashed to think that Democrats are just as evil as the Republicans.  Why don't we call them on it?  Have there been Democrat scandles that the Daily Kos community hasn't reported?  No.  And you know why?  

Because we are the party of accountability.  We argue and discuss, and because we are known to hold politico's feet the fire, I believe we now have the street cred.  Even though there was Clear Voter Suppression on the East side of Cleveland, Ohio still went true-blue.  People are tired of being lied to--they are tired of being told everything's alright when it isn't, that the economy is fine when it isn't, that our president can get us out of a mess when the cocaine-addled fratboy got us into the deepest pile of offal that America has ever been in.

My heartfelt congratulations to all Kossacks on the thrilling victories of last night. This diary does not intend to diminish your high spirits, but instead to ask for your aid in the coming trials that will start now. There was serious voter suppression and breakdown of the polls in the Eastern half of Cleveland.  I know Ohio Dems won big races (much to my relief)--but we can't stop now, we have to bring as much attention to this problem as possible.

Go read, comment on and Recommend Timroff's Diary.  
We can't give up now.  We MUST highlight the fact that voters were disenfranchised.  It's true in Ohio that the power-hungry lost, but I don't think they are going to take that loss sitting down.  I'll repeat a phrase I heard someone say in Freeperland--"This isn't over yet."

My husband (Timroff) is working Election Protection. He reports that a co-worker talked to a lone lady standing outside a voting place in Euclid Ohio, which is a democratic stronghold on the east side of Cuyahoga county--65 to 70% Democratic.  

The lady stated when asked that she's a Republican, and that the Republican party gave her a sign to hold that says "Democrats for Blackwell."  

There are no Democrats for Blackwell.  Ken Blackwell is the Republican candidate, and he has frought the Secretary of State's Office with scandel and backdoor dealings, the likes of which do Rove proud.

Daily Kos is about hope.  Every day I come here and read the stories and hope at my computer screen that it's going to get better.  I go home and make my calls, get out the vote, contribute and the like, but what I really do well is pray for a new administration.

I'd like a president whom I can respect.  I'd like him or her to speak the English language clearly.  I'd like a president who will get the best deal for the American people--not the special interest fat cats.  In other words, I'd like a president who isn't corrupt.

I heard an interesting thing on NPR...The two people interviewed said that the democratic party is getting stronger because of the scandals, and the media (corporate though it may be) is finally earning that "liberal" moniker...but why haven't more rats fled the sinking ship yet?  There's an air of doom and gloom over the Republican volunteers, but the RNC is still going ahead with the firewall plan (although they had to amend it and dropped Mike "it's all his fault" DeWine in my homestate of Ohio, much to my delight), still backing up Hastert, and we still don't know where the Vice Dick(head) is after that Yankees player crashed his plane...