At least until the 27th...for writing a negative article about her lordship's vote for the Iraq War. 12 years a Kos member...
not even a warning per se.
It's not worth installing a little tin Stalin in your soul. (Ursula LeGuin essay, "The Stalin in the Soul", has much to say about censorship, self-censorship, and "voluntary" selling out.)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Seriously, screw Kos. I can barely stand to go to his "reality-based community" anymore. Only reason I do is to support Liepar & the BNR, and a few other Bernie reporters who have managed to not yet have been banned.
Welcome, Tasini. Kos's (yet another) loss is C99's gain.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
I think I'm going to miss the meaning of a lot of things 'TOP' related. If you just want to say "it's complicated" that's just fine. i'm curious but not so much that I'd want to invest any significant amount of anybody's time learning the history I missed, etc.
The old Soviet Union had two house organs, Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia - and a wry joke that there was "no pravda in Izvestia and no izvestia in Pravda".
if you were able to start a what's happenin morning series. I love joes blues but I'm a morning person usually.
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and see what he thinks. I'm not sure I can commit to a substantial post every day but I might be able to do just a mini What's Happening. I did intend to put it on hiatus, not do away with it entirely, but I'm not sure what I can manage. Thanks for the interest in it. It's also possible we could put together a team.
Please don't sell your Soul to write free for GOS. Not worth it.
As Lillian Hellman said ( believe it was to Joe McCarthy) - wish she could've said it to Clair McCaskill
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
Just try to remember what Kos said about Clinton in 2008. that will make you smile
of just that reason. Cannot believe he went from Progressive to neocon so quickly. Wow, and I was over there for 9 years. I don't even go back to look..screw him...and all the neocons over there.
from reaction AGAINST the Clintons and the nasty, money-ridden machine they use to sell us out. Still, though, Markos started out as a Republican, and I suppose the old training prevailed after all. Rather like Hillary's Goldwater Girl past defines her. What would they know about New Deal Democrats?
1. sidle up to your target demographics, and scratch their back up until the point when they start expecting more. 2. proceed with the hippie punching 3. profit.
when you finally reach the point where you have had it, and I mean really had it, with that place, you don't even look back. There were many times when I thought I was done but it took a number of years before I hit that point, and there was no doubt, I just said no more, not one day more. It took me way too long in life to learn how to write off people, places and things but now I'm really good at it It takes really a lot for me to get to that point but once it does, boom, I don't even think about it after it's over. Well, after a short amount of time maybe. I had a lot of good times there, learned a lot, but then it became a toxic influence on my life and I wasted so much time on stuff that only had a negative effect. And I recently learned that the site crashes my browser too, apparently if it's a post with a lot of comments, which are probably the ones I'd be most interested in anyway. So there's some divine intervention as well, in case I was tempted to spend more than 5 minutes there if somebody sends me a link. haha
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has one upped Greywolfe's achievement of being banned while topping the rec list - One of his diaries is now being promoted on Dkos Front page - (Spotlight on Green News)
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There are some freaking heads exploding over that, I hope.
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that's some serious cognitive dissonance there. Houston? Gotsa big old revolt going on there and from my understanding, half the people who left aren't even bothering to go back and revolt so your problem could be even worse. All I can say is, it's about time
who just quietly left, without any dramatic announcement. I happily lurk there now, with no "public" presence at all, because I confess to an unsavory enjoyment of TOP meta. It's just entertainment for me now; no illusions anymore that TOP might be a force for progressive change. Some people watch soaps on TV; I watch 'em online at TOP.
Greywolfe's as satire. Was surprised the Blogowner chose to make an example of him. So far, recommending does not get you banned, but there is no guarantee.
He had two flags on another comment after the edict but there were enough uprates for it to stay unhidden. His last post was this interview with Hillary Clinton which was not flagged at all..
I guess it is a bannable offense if Hillary Clinton implicates her own guilt?
You have pissed me off as well. You think that a hawk strategy is the worst?
Trade Deals, More interventionist strategies that exacerbate human rights and conflict in the world, the enabling of brutal dictators in their coups against democracies in the world, a complete failure of climate change mitigation efforts that will absolutely doom your children and a turn-on-your-heal spin away from the wan progressive promises that were made during the campaign to court the youth vote is what you will end up with.
Is that Greywolfe, and anyone else whom the Great Orange Sellout bans but then has second thoughts about, NEVER goes back. Boo-hoo, Kos, your site traffic and ad revenue are taking a hit? Maybe you should have had some foresight ...
That's exactly what it it has become.
The love fest Hillary diaries are too nauseating to read. My Dog, every one wants to out do every one else by writing adoring shit about her.
Apparently she went after Trump and Cruz for what they said about the attacks in Brussels, but the diarist didn't bother to mention exactly what it was that she said.
I had to scroll through the comments to find what she said.
One comment that stood out was that she should have had a presidential seal on her podium.
Welcome home Tasani. I enjoy your writing.
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I'm pretty sure you were part of the initial email chain weren't you? Either way, nice to have you.
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what's his name, HRC, and HRC advisors were very, very conservative repubs. Kos even more so and later in life than HRC.
People change during a lifetime, but rarely as much or as sincerely as the aforementiond claim, especially not without some deep spiritual change.
My take is that they were never progressive dems, but maybe had one or two issues that bothered them about repugs and sought to addrss those. Or money. In the 80's remember, the repug field was crowded with sycophants and it was tough to suck ones way to the top.Kos, Brock, Rahm, WJC, HRC all saw this and much like payday loan vendors found a way to skim more money from the downtrodden and defeated.
I got banned - twice. The first time was about 2004. The second time was 2015. Probably wasn't back more than a few months. Joined up to support Sanders. Pissed off some HRC supporters and that was it. I keep hoping the site fails but I have been hoping for that since I was banned the first time.
It won't go under. It will just become another irrelevant DNC organ that requires constant financial support from big money. I.e. from whatever they skim from us. Whatsisname will live well. His kids will go to Stanford or Yale with the other repugs.
Markos has apparently decided to kill his blog as anything with any political relevance at all. It has been in decline for a long while, but now he's pushing it off a cliff. Whether he's bored with running it, or whether he's been paid off by the Clintons, the sharp turn into authoritarian political orthodoxy appears to be an irrevocable break with the past there.
The new Left politics you have exemplified, and which has been given such a strong boost by Bernie Sanders' candidacy, will find other places to live and build community. This is a lovely place to hang out, and great writers like you can help us become What's Next.
All those months ago when kos declared with absolute patriarchal authority that HRC was going to be the Dem nominee, that was that, and we'd better get used to it ... and then he pulled back from writing anything himself. I went hmmmmmm.... Something is afoot. I wonder if that pronouncement involves $$$$$$$...? How much does one's conscience and ethics sell for nowadays?
Then the warning about the Ides of March banhammer, that nothing could be written to criticize his favored candidate...? WTF?!? Could censorship get any more blatant? What is this? Nineteen eighty-four with truth disappearing down the black hole? Are we all supposed to turn into Winston Smith at the end of the novel when he wept thinking he loved Big Brother???
What's going to happen if/when she gets indicted over her home email server (vs her declaration that nothing will happen with that)? Will kos just simply ignore it as if it never happened? I notice that Moronic Media rarely mentions the FBI investigation in my "news" feeds, so they're in cahoots with forcing HRC on us, too, especially since they are stone cold silent about Bernie, the LARGE, overflowing crowds Bernie gets who are so enthusiastic they cheer and applaud loud enough to cover what Bernie says sometimes (or maybe that one was just bad video I was listening to).
Those of us who are resistant to brainwashing need a place to play.
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I see my avatar/pix has been auto-placed at this site. I don't know how that happened because when I registered a couple of days ago I couldn't find where I could put my avatar/pix. Someone must have retrieved it from "the other place."
The above was my first comment, and I published a story from a Swedish paper (in English) just now, so my learning curve is going to be steep.
Good to be here!
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It's great to see you here.
I agree that there might have been some money or position offered him to sell out one of the first progressive websites that was created during the Bush years.
He is part of the new think tank that the DLC grew in to. So I think he's been working with the Clintons for quite some time.
The emails are one thing she could get indicted for, but I think Obama would give her cover for it just like he did for the banks.
I'm more concerned about the pay to play weapons scandal involving the Clinton foundation. I've asked her supporters if they would still not see anything wrong if it had been a republican SOS that had a charity and the husband first made money by giving speeches before the state department swooped in and sold them weapons and then gave their foundations millions?
And she had promised Obama that she wouldn't do things like that when it came to her foundation.
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I've been frowning about that ever since I first read about it because the international implications could be devastating.
As for DK, I'm extremely disappointed that it's taken such a turn away from reality. It's quite a let-down.
Love your photos! I'm sending a link to a friend of mine who walks cemeteries gathering names for genealogy records of the one entitled "Old Grave Markers in Autumn." Are those markers metal? What were the names on them? Where is the cemetery? ND settlers from Odessa/Russia made metal grave markers, very often in an ornate style, but not like the ones you photographed.
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That part of the world is so enchanting, and is probably one of the only parts of the country I could see myself leaving for if I can ever escape the gravitational pull of NYC.
I especially liked those of the California paths, which immediately matched very closely some of the images I had from reading a biography on Jack London, who settled in Sonoma Valley. I can't imagine how wild, rugged and staggeringly beautiful those hills and valleys must have been then at the turn of last century when he was there. He would ride his horse for miles and miles, making long excursions through the Northern California terrain. Another of my favorite writers settled in N. California also, that being Henry Miller. Before Big Sur became this hippie commune destination in the 60's Miller settled there in the 1940's I believe (Hunter Thompson lived there for a short time also, and interviewed Miller for an essay about the celebrated place it had become by then). He wrote wonderfully about the dense and rugged outpost he found after having had to flee Europe before WWII, so cut off from civilization that they would rely on sporadic supplies being brought in by a mailman. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a loving portrait of his content life there and the hearty and colorful characters he encountered who were also seeking a deeper and simpler spiritual life in the woods. Beautiful part of the world and I envy your interaction with its vastness and diversity.
Russian/Orthodox headstones always make me think of that indelible amazing burial scene in rural winter Russia at the beginning of Dr. Zhivago.
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I did leave you a private message at TOP suggesting you check us out. I don't know if you ever saw it. But that doesn't matter; by one means or another, you're here now! Welcome!
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Real life has been keeping me preoccupied and I've been trying to get to answer you, but haven't yet.
Hope all is going well in your life!
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ads from the Clinton Foundation and direct links to it, then it will be more evident.
I don't think DK will go away though, just achieve a DNC type stasis. One DNC to rule us, one DNC to control us.
Funny thing is that the Democratic Party has had a terrible downturn since 2008, with its only major success (albeit a really big one) being the selection and election of Obama, who thank God defeated HRC 1. But other than that the DK influence has been fleeting at best, perhaps because its model is pretty outdated. It still has value linking to Buzzflash, Truthout, but little in relation to new content.
Enough of that though, my promise to myself is that DK is the past and this will be my last comment on it and whatishisname.
but if the primary voting started on the west and then went east and south, a lot of people would be thinking hilllary wasn't going anywhere.
btw excuse the lower case, no, i'm not imitating an e.e.cummings style or trying to make some avante gard political statement -- just a wireless keyboard with a lost caps key, and i'm too cheap to get a new one right now.
level top-down rules of TOP. Hope you stick around after they deign to allow you to post there again (allow you back, that is, as long as you dutifully self-censor, in accordance with the ever-changing whims of the Clintonista mob.) The numbers of eyeballs over there are indeed very tempting--I completely get that--but once you deduct the eyeballs structurally unable to see a goddamn thing, the number of readers actually worth reaching turns out to be a lot less impressive.
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Tell him where to shove it
It's not worth installing a little tin Stalin in your soul. (Ursula LeGuin essay, "The Stalin in the Soul", has much to say about censorship, self-censorship, and "voluntary" selling out.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Looks like it's a time out
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/19/1503851/-An-Anniversary-100-000...
if this is what is the basis for a time out , why would you want to continue writing there?????
I don't handle rejection well, might have something
to do with being adopted, but that's another story.
I only needed a few hide ratings to understand I wasn't in the club, even though I had been there for 12 years. I don't go back to more.
Exactly.
I got my first hide in 12 years of participation on that site, and that was enough. I'm not giving those jackasses the satisfaction of banning me.
Twain Disciple
Only cuz...
of the lurkers, people who want to be part of the movement. CErtainly not for the fame and fortune LOL...
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Welcome Tasini
I am sure it was a shock to be treated that way. But this is a soft place to land.
Please help the Resilience Resource Library grow by adding your links.
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Wear your banishment proudly. The establishment
site doesn't deserve your writing.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020
Fuck TOP, hang out here at the bottom with us 99ers.
Good to see you here Tasini, love your work.
Screw TOP is right
The best writers left or were banned. All he has is yaaay Hillary writers. That's one way to let a blog die.
Reaping what he has sown.
Seriously, screw Kos. I can barely stand to go to his "reality-based community" anymore. Only reason I do is to support Liepar & the BNR, and a few other Bernie reporters who have managed to not yet have been banned.
Welcome, Tasini. Kos's (yet another) loss is C99's gain.
Ugh, Sorry bout your treatment at DailyWassermanShultz
Every day and in every way, the just keep getting bitter and bitter.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
I love that
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
I call it the DailyKlinton.
I call it the DailyKlinton. Maybe someone else does too.
I've chosen to call it Izvestia
Did so high up in the comments of my last diary there, and got almost 200 recs.
Think I stole that one from the formerly-named Caul.
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new username: LapsedLawyer. He's one of our early members.
Hey doc
How's it going? What does Izvestia mean?
I think I'm going to miss the meaning of a lot of things 'TOP' related. If you just want to say "it's complicated" that's just fine. i'm curious but not so much that I'd want to invest any significant amount of anybody's time learning the history I missed, etc.
Izvestia = Russian for "knowledge" or "information"
The old Soviet Union had two house organs, Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia - and a wry joke that there was "no pravda in Izvestia and no izvestia in Pravda".
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Ah thanks
for filling me in. Seems like I should have known that
Thanks.
It would be nice
if you were able to start a what's happenin morning series. I love joes blues but I'm a morning person usually.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Thanks, I'll talk to joe
and see what he thinks. I'm not sure I can commit to a substantial post every day but I might be able to do just a mini What's Happening. I did intend to put it on hiatus, not do away with it entirely, but I'm not sure what I can manage. Thanks for the interest in it. It's also possible we could put together a team.
HI Joanne!
Nice to see you here. Hope all is well with you.
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I just use a couple more "K"s than you do!
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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Red State West!
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I think you will find this place is far more open minded and welcoming that what has become the orange DNC central.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
welcome
Think your being banned is an indication of the value of your work, and the communication you do for the Sanders campaign.
Imagine what would happen TOP of one of us posted this there
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/23/hear_this_sanders_supporters_you_dont_ne...
Please don't sell your Soul to write free for GOS. Not worth it.
As Lillian Hellman said ( believe it was to Joe McCarthy) - wish she could've said it to Clair McCaskill
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
Just try to remember what Kos said about Clinton in 2008. that will make you smile
If you need a refresher, here's the thing I
posted here (and there), full of juicy acrimony and very un-constructive criticism straight from the horse's
assmouth#WhichDailyKos? #WhichMarkos?
(Link isn't to TOP, so no worries)
Welcome, Tasini! Glad you made it over here, and hope you choose to stick around for a long time!
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I like most here left because
of just that reason. Cannot believe he went from Progressive to neocon so quickly. Wow, and I was over there for 9 years. I don't even go back to look..screw him...and all the neocons over there.
Well done is better than well said-Ben Franklin
I swear that place got its early strength
from reaction AGAINST the Clintons and the nasty, money-ridden machine they use to sell us out. Still, though, Markos started out as a Republican, and I suppose the old training prevailed after all. Rather like Hillary's Goldwater Girl past defines her. What would they know about New Deal Democrats?
Twain Disciple
That's just the game isn't it?
1. sidle up to your target demographics, and scratch their back up until the point when they start expecting more. 2. proceed with the hippie punching 3. profit.
bern baby bern disco inberno
It's funny how
when you finally reach the point where you have had it, and I mean really had it, with that place, you don't even look back. There were many times when I thought I was done but it took a number of years before I hit that point, and there was no doubt, I just said no more, not one day more. It took me way too long in life to learn how to write off people, places and things but now I'm really good at it
It takes really a lot for me to get to that point but once it does, boom, I don't even think about it after it's over. Well, after a short amount of time maybe. I had a lot of good times there, learned a lot, but then it became a toxic influence on my life and I wasted so much time on stuff that only had a negative effect. And I recently learned that the site crashes my browser too, apparently if it's a post with a lot of comments, which are probably the ones I'd be most interested in anyway. So there's some divine intervention as well, in case I was tempted to spend more than 5 minutes there if somebody sends me a link. haha
you nailed it
Daily neocon is exactly what it has morphed into. Just an irritating blog now. Certainly not progressive.
I'd like to read what you wrote, But I no longer visit
TOP so I wonder if you could post it here. Thanks
Don't believe everything you think.
Nice to see ya here, Tasini!
TOP has gone bat shit crazy for Hillary Clinton. I am appalled!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Par for the course, but is there no place you
can publicly shame that ass for censoring you?
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
And Chinese food...
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Got a link?
I'm curious what constitutes being banned for these days.
Here
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
Also had a metric shit-ton of candy-ass flags.
Anonymous, of course.
Here you go
It got 347 recs too.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/19/1503851/-An-Anniversary-100-000...
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Yes, I recommended that one!
So, yeah, I guess we recommenders are next if we stand with Tasini?
Kaye
There wer calls to ban everyone
who recommended greywolfe's great satire diary. That place has gone off the rails. It is like the Stepford Wives over there.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Ranting Rooster
has one upped Greywolfe's achievement of being banned while topping the rec list - One of his diaries is now being promoted on Dkos Front page - (Spotlight on Green News)
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
That's awesome
There are some freaking heads exploding over that, I hope.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
This is so surreal
and I am loving it.
I love a certain FP'er for doing that. 
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Me too n/t
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Me, three!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Holy fuck, I didn't notice Ranting Rooster on Green News.
I doubt it's a coincidence. MB is sending a message I think.
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
My thought too
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
that was my thought too n/t
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Wow
that's some serious cognitive dissonance there. Houston? Gotsa big old revolt going on there and from my understanding, half the people who left aren't even bothering to go back and revolt so your problem could be even worse. All I can say is, it's about time
Hi Joanne. Good to see you here. I'm one of those
who just quietly left, without any dramatic announcement. I happily lurk there now, with no "public" presence at all, because I confess to an unsavory enjoyment of TOP meta. It's just entertainment for me now; no illusions anymore that TOP might be a force for progressive change. Some people watch soaps on TV; I watch 'em online at TOP.
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
Wow.
Respect has been gained.
bern baby bern disco inberno
I recommended both. Defended
Greywolfe's as satire. Was surprised the Blogowner chose to make an example of him. So far, recommending does not get you banned, but there is no guarantee.
FTR, Greywolfe's status has been changed from banned
to timeout. Presumably, the optics of banning an author 30,000 FB shares later no longer appealed to the blog owner.
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
Thanks for that news, Phil. n/t
New Minas is still banned
He had two flags on another comment after the edict but there were enough uprates for it to stay unhidden. His last post was this interview with Hillary Clinton which was not flagged at all..
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1502947/60409461
I guess it is a bannable offense if Hillary Clinton implicates her own guilt?
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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Finger in the wind blog moderation
-how fitting.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
The Munificent Kos
commutes the execution order and moves the miscreant into solitary confinement. All sing the praises of the merciful Kos!
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
My little fantasy
Is that Greywolfe, and anyone else whom the Great Orange Sellout bans but then has second thoughts about, NEVER goes back. Boo-hoo, Kos, your site traffic and ad revenue are taking a hit? Maybe you should have had some foresight ...
LOL, stepford wives
That's exactly what it it has become.
The love fest Hillary diaries are too nauseating to read. My Dog, every one wants to out do every one else by writing adoring shit about her.
Apparently she went after Trump and Cruz for what they said about the attacks in Brussels, but the diarist didn't bother to mention exactly what it was that she said.
I had to scroll through the comments to find what she said.
One comment that stood out was that she should have had a presidential seal on her podium.
Welcome home Tasani. I enjoy your writing.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I missed it
but I went back to rec it now.
Welcome Tasini
I'm pretty sure you were part of the initial email chain weren't you? Either way, nice to have you.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
It was a great and important post.
I'm so glad you did it. Thank you.
Good to see you here!
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Important to remember that
what's his name, HRC, and HRC advisors were very, very conservative repubs. Kos even more so and later in life than HRC.
People change during a lifetime, but rarely as much or as sincerely as the aforementiond claim, especially not without some deep spiritual change.
My take is that they were never progressive dems, but maybe had one or two issues that bothered them about repugs and sought to addrss those. Or money. In the 80's remember, the repug field was crowded with sycophants and it was tough to suck ones way to the top.Kos, Brock, Rahm, WJC, HRC all saw this and much like payday loan vendors found a way to skim more money from the downtrodden and defeated.
Excellent and almost certainly accurate comment.
n/t
Oh and welcome.
I just arrived myself, but unliken you I asked to be banned, on March, 16.They obliged.
That's fantastic! nt
Tasini!
I love your writings and you deserve better. I suppose my time is coming.
We are in good company here.
Kaye
thank you Kaye
very kind!
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I got banned - twice. The
I got banned - twice. The first time was about 2004. The second time was 2015. Probably wasn't back more than a few months. Joined up to support Sanders. Pissed off some HRC supporters and that was it. I keep hoping the site fails but I have been hoping for that since I was banned the first time.
Prediction
It won't go under. It will just become another irrelevant DNC organ that requires constant financial support from big money. I.e. from whatever they skim from us. Whatsisname will live well. His kids will go to Stanford or Yale with the other repugs.
Welcome to the cool blue, Jonathan
Markos has apparently decided to kill his blog as anything with any political relevance at all. It has been in decline for a long while, but now he's pushing it off a cliff. Whether he's bored with running it, or whether he's been paid off by the Clintons, the sharp turn into authoritarian political orthodoxy appears to be an irrevocable break with the past there.
The new Left politics you have exemplified, and which has been given such a strong boost by Bernie Sanders' candidacy, will find other places to live and build community. This is a lovely place to hang out, and great writers like you can help us become What's Next.
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I see someone else had the same thought as me
All those months ago when kos declared with absolute patriarchal authority that HRC was going to be the Dem nominee, that was that, and we'd better get used to it ... and then he pulled back from writing anything himself. I went hmmmmmm.... Something is afoot. I wonder if that pronouncement involves $$$$$$$...? How much does one's conscience and ethics sell for nowadays?
Then the warning about the Ides of March banhammer, that nothing could be written to criticize his favored candidate...? WTF?!? Could censorship get any more blatant? What is this? Nineteen eighty-four with truth disappearing down the black hole? Are we all supposed to turn into Winston Smith at the end of the novel when he wept thinking he loved Big Brother???
What's going to happen if/when she gets indicted over her home email server (vs her declaration that nothing will happen with that)? Will kos just simply ignore it as if it never happened? I notice that Moronic Media rarely mentions the FBI investigation in my "news" feeds, so they're in cahoots with forcing HRC on us, too, especially since they are stone cold silent about Bernie, the LARGE, overflowing crowds Bernie gets who are so enthusiastic they cheer and applaud loud enough to cover what Bernie says sometimes (or maybe that one was just bad video I was listening to).
Those of us who are resistant to brainwashing need a place to play.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
Nonny O
Good to see you.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Thanks! :-)
Nice to "see" some friendly faces/names here.
I see my avatar/pix has been auto-placed at this site. I don't know how that happened because when I registered a couple of days ago I couldn't find where I could put my avatar/pix. Someone must have retrieved it from "the other place."
The above was my first comment, and I published a story from a Swedish paper (in English) just now, so my learning curve is going to be steep.
Good to be here!
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
Hi Nonny O
It's great to see you here.
I agree that there might have been some money or position offered him to sell out one of the first progressive websites that was created during the Bush years.
He is part of the new think tank that the DLC grew in to. So I think he's been working with the Clintons for quite some time.
The emails are one thing she could get indicted for, but I think Obama would give her cover for it just like he did for the banks.
I'm more concerned about the pay to play weapons scandal involving the Clinton foundation. I've asked her supporters if they would still not see anything wrong if it had been a republican SOS that had a charity and the husband first made money by giving speeches before the state department swooped in and sold them weapons and then gave their foundations millions?
And she had promised Obama that she wouldn't do things like that when it came to her foundation.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I agree with you regarding the pay to play Clinton Foundation
I've been frowning about that ever since I first read about it because the international implications could be devastating.
As for DK, I'm extremely disappointed that it's taken such a turn away from reality. It's quite a let-down.
Love your photos! I'm sending a link to a friend of mine who walks cemeteries gathering names for genealogy records of the one entitled "Old Grave Markers in Autumn." Are those markers metal? What were the names on them? Where is the cemetery? ND settlers from Odessa/Russia made metal grave markers, very often in an ornate style, but not like the ones you photographed.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
Was piqued to view your photos after NonnyO's comment.
Really nice stuff.
That part of the world is so enchanting, and is probably one of the only parts of the country I could see myself leaving for if I can ever escape the gravitational pull of NYC.
I especially liked those of the California paths, which immediately matched very closely some of the images I had from reading a biography on Jack London, who settled in Sonoma Valley. I can't imagine how wild, rugged and staggeringly beautiful those hills and valleys must have been then at the turn of last century when he was there. He would ride his horse for miles and miles, making long excursions through the Northern California terrain. Another of my favorite writers settled in N. California also, that being Henry Miller. Before Big Sur became this hippie commune destination in the 60's Miller settled there in the 1940's I believe (Hunter Thompson lived there for a short time also, and interviewed Miller for an essay about the celebrated place it had become by then). He wrote wonderfully about the dense and rugged outpost he found after having had to flee Europe before WWII, so cut off from civilization that they would rely on sporadic supplies being brought in by a mailman. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a loving portrait of his content life there and the hearty and colorful characters he encountered who were also seeking a deeper and simpler spiritual life in the woods. Beautiful part of the world and I envy your interaction with its vastness and diversity.
Russian/Orthodox headstones always make me think of that indelible amazing burial scene in rural winter Russia at the beginning of Dr. Zhivago.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome, NonnyO!
I did leave you a private message at TOP suggesting you check us out. I don't know if you ever saw it. But that doesn't matter; by one means or another, you're here now! Welcome!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
:-) Thank you! Yes, I did get your message.
Real life has been keeping me preoccupied and I've been trying to get to answer you, but haven't yet.
Hope all is going well in your life!
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
When we see
ads from the Clinton Foundation and direct links to it, then it will be more evident.
I don't think DK will go away though, just achieve a DNC type stasis. One DNC to rule us, one DNC to control us.
Funny thing is that the Democratic Party has had a terrible downturn since 2008, with its only major success (albeit a really big one) being the selection and election of Obama, who thank God defeated HRC 1. But other than that the DK influence has been fleeting at best, perhaps because its model is pretty outdated. It still has value linking to Buzzflash, Truthout, but little in relation to new content.
Enough of that though, my promise to myself is that DK is the past and this will be my last comment on it and whatishisname.
It is really a cathartic
It is really a cathartic event that opens up a new life. Embrace the new life and never go back.
i'm not convinced it's unwinnable
but if the primary voting started on the west and then went east and south, a lot of people would be thinking hilllary wasn't going anywhere.
btw excuse the lower case, no, i'm not imitating an e.e.cummings style or trying to make some avante gard political statement -- just a wireless keyboard with a lost caps key, and i'm too cheap to get a new one right now.
Welcome Jonathan. You'll like it here, without the kindergarten-
level top-down rules of TOP. Hope you stick around after they deign to allow you to post there again (allow you back, that is, as long as you dutifully self-censor, in accordance with the ever-changing whims of the Clintonista mob.) The numbers of eyeballs over there are indeed very tempting--I completely get that--but once you deduct the eyeballs structurally unable to see a goddamn thing, the number of readers actually worth reaching turns out to be a lot less impressive.
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Those Who Have Been Banned
I wonder if the HRCs are keeping a list and checking it twice, or more often.
Kaye
In any case, the banned list is nowhere near long enough yet
to suit a lot of them. Nothing says I'm a liberal quite like a good purge!
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