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Welsh Mesopotamia - An Experiment With History
Today, President Bush spoke on the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq. As he did so, C-Span put up the stark statistics of the cost of more than 3200 American lives lost and 24,000 wounded.On...
View ArticleUS Attorneys - Subpoenas, Chats, Bush Speaks,UPDATES 1 & 2
Courtesy of Raw Story, we have just had confirmed that John Conyers and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sanchez have formally issued a notice announcing that a meeting will be held tomorrow to authorise...
View ArticleWill Republicans Sustain This Insult To Our Troops?
In the hot, furnace heat of the hell of this administration, it is easy to lose perspective. It is essential that we hold on to this, because today any belief in our civilisation can no longer be...
View ArticleWill someone please take the liberal out of me
I'm supposed to be sat down writing letters to lawyers. All concerned with an inter-family dispute about property boundaries. This is where real life starts being interfered with by what is happening...
View ArticlePleading the 5th - A Welsh Lad Remembers
Is it true? Monica Goodling is going to plead the 5th? Unbelievable. I never thought I would see those day back. I remember seeing it on black and white TV. It is my personal "Once Upon A Time In...
View ArticleToday, Lurita Doan Shamed Me
As some will know, I frequently refer back to my own experience in order to gain some greater insight into political events.Doing so often gives me a less emotionally critical reaction than many to...
View ArticleThe Important Thing Is My Opinion Doesn’t Matter
I don’t know at what point I changed my feelings towards Daily Kos and I am even less able to define exactly the reasons for this happening. A couple of days ago, Kid Oakland wrote a diary on here and...
View ArticleLet’s Give Up A Moment For Nancy Pelosi
There are some commentaries on here that are slight in themselves but made significant by the weight of their simple message. This is one of those. Don’t concern yourself with the singer or the...
View ArticleThe Familiarity That Removes The Shock
One of the few things that I can bring to the Daily Kos party is the more remote view of someone commenting from three thousand miles away. Sometimes, what is commonplace to many of the readers here...
View ArticleIraq Parliament Bombing Helpful To Progress of Surge
Although of course one is distressed by the deaths, the insurgency has been very helpful to those managing the two month old troop escalation and the drive for increased security in Baghdad. In a rare...
View ArticleFrom the BBC: UPDATED: Hopes for Iraq being Destroyed.
The bad news coming out of Iraq today is more than simply the horrific continuing toll of US and allied deaths and the slaughter of civilians.Just being announced on the BBC radio and confirmed on...
View ArticleA British Mark of Respect and Sorrow
Because I am a Kossack but especially because I am one from another country, I would like to send my love, sorrow and whatever comfort I can to those families that have so tragically lost their young...
View ArticleThe Prize of Iraq - A Sensational Story
I wanted to write a diary giving an analysis of the legal context in which the Gonzales hearing would be taking place today. After all, it is this drama that will be the focus of all our attention and...
View ArticleDead Blogging McCain's Nomination: with Downdates.
You think that Colbert is insightful, you think that Stewart is funny?Forget them. Real life is funnier and more revealing. Go to C-Span now and watch McCain's massed crowds of adoring fans gathered in...
View ArticleThe Arguments For Leaving Iraq That We Dare Not Speak
Reid and Pelosi and commentators like Colbert and Stewart are getting many plaudits for presenting the arguments for withdrawing from Iraq. Meanwhile, McCain and other Republicans argue for just one...
View ArticleBreaking: The Power of UK Nightmares Worsens
This morning, a year-long trial in the Old Bailey came to a conclusion. A jury found five of seven Muslim men guilty of conspiracy to detonate bombs intended to kill hundreds in targets as varied as...
View ArticleWhat the h*ll is this European view on here?
To criticise another diary is never easy. It is almost impossible when you are a lesser known member of the Dkos community and the diarist has a passionate and admiring following. Yet it would be...
View ArticleUpated
Originally entitled "Barack Obama and the DC Escort Agency Madam "Barack Obama and the DC Madam are two personalities much mentioned in the mainstream media at the moment.Oh, I’m sorry. Did you come...
View ArticleSarkozy Rout Of Socialist Royal in French Polls
Although France makes illegal the publication of their highly reliable exit polls until the close of polling, which is due in three minutes time, the same limitations do not apply to other countries –...
View ArticleTime For The Dems to Give The United States Its Victory
Well, perhaps not victory, just some comfort. Let me explain. Earlier today, Booman wrote an excellent diary entitled Dems Unveil Their New Plan for Iraq. In this, he explained and commended the new...
View ArticleHonesty, Integrity, Truth Examined Once More Today
Today, the World Bank meets again in the unnecessarily prolonged examination of the ethics of Paul Wolfowitz.To coincide with this meeting, the White House has launched an unprecedented world-wide...
View ArticleThe Iraq Vote: Comments that may anger some.
"A STINGING DEFEAT"Like it or not, and I like it not, that is how many will see the defeat today of the Reid-Feingold measure calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq to begin within 120 days.We can...
View ArticleIt is not too late, America
All we have been told is that Democratic leadership has persuaded enough of their party that they need to introduce a bill that will enable Bush to continue his death and destruction.No one has yet...
View ArticleThe World Watched You Today, America
I’m not going to make this a long diary, because every Kossack on here knows exactly what the world was watching and knows even more deeply what it will be now thinking.It doesn’t need me to spell it...
View ArticleNot a conspiracy theory: Coming your way - soon
I know that you will all think that this is straight out of the Onion. Or just the tale of an eccentric Welshman living alongside notoriously eccentric Englishmen.I mean, if I reported a story with...
View ArticleDying in Vain
I was twenty-eight in 1969, the date that is used by some to be the start of the end of the Vietnam War. I don’t know what year to give for the start of the end of the Iraq War. I thought it was 2004....
View ArticleNo, it’s the size of your penis that is making us laugh
I was brought up admiring the United States. Just one of those things that we inherited in the UK immediately after World War 11. Nothing to do with your Constitution or with your damn stupid sports...
View ArticleThe Shame of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize
I share the delight of Kossacks in the recognition given to Al Gore today. I do not want to take anything away from it. Yet I am going to risk an extraordinary bluntness in my own comment.By awarding...
View ArticleGore will not run - breaking news in UK (Updated)
Because of the importance attached to it by so many, I am reporting breaking news on Sky News in the UK at the moment.This is that Al Gore will not be throwing his hat in the ring and has formally...
View ArticleAs bad as it is, it just got worse
The BBC has just announced that Japan has issued an order to its ships to return to base, thus ending support of the U.S. in Afghanistan provided in the form of naval re-fuelling assistance to vessels...
View ArticleIn Defense of Nancy Pelosi
[Promoted by DHinMI]Lying on the hospital bed alongside me was Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth century writer and historian. He made a strange companion for me to choose.Really, I thought my mood would...
View ArticleOutstanding piece of climate change journalism
In the last two years I have found myself becoming more and more critical of the BBC. Not least, I felt that they had succumbed too easily to the immense pressure applied on them by Tony Blair’s...
View ArticleWhy socialist economics on Dkos feels so dismal
Yesterday, I read on here another in the series of recommended diaries under the strangely xenophobic title of "The Anglo Disease". My heart sank as commentator after commentator propounded economic...
View ArticleCry, Our Beloved Countries
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand...
View ArticleInstant Rebuttal To the Front Page
I anticipated elsewhere that the kneejerk reaction of progressives to the story of British withdrawal in Iraq would be to simply comment that this showed the failure of Bush's and British policies The...
View ArticleUS Primaries To Cease - Leaked Downing Street Memo
Following an overnight session of Parliament and an emergency visit to Buckingham Palace by the British Prime Minister to gain Royal Assent from Her Majesty Quuen Elizabeth 11, we have learnt of a...
View ArticleA Note on a Commentary on Hillary Clinton
Because I have no candidate affiliations, do not wish to become involved in arguments of preference, but am intensely interested in your primary elections, I have started to publish observations on...
View ArticleStill Hiding Away In Another Place
For those few in any way at all interested, I have written a piece on how I spent Christmas Day The Lake District in MistIt recounts how I visited Wordsworth's cottage and draws some parallels between...
View ArticleThe Baying Of The Mob
Something happened on Daily Kos a couple of days ago that brought into perspective certain aspects of the current political scene in the United States.First let me deal with the news story around which...
View ArticleMaybe none of your candidates are any good
Perhaps it is reaction to all the candidate diaries, or reaction to the candidates themselves, but a restless feeling inside this grumpy old man has been thinking the unthinkable. Maybe none of your...
View ArticleI sit here and play Eva Cassidy records
I sit here and play Eva Cassidy records and idle my time away by desultory flicking through various American political blogs and finding little there that either suits my mood or feeds my mind.Many...
View ArticleNo Mr Obama it is not: “We can change the World”
I’m a bit testy today. It is your fault.I stayed up late to watch the Superbowl. I saw one of the most technically interesting football games that I have ever seen. In the last quarter, I also saw the...
View ArticleExcuse me if I talk about John McCain
I know it is annoying for me not to be joining in and rubbishing one Democratic candidate in favour of another, but I thought I would talk about politics.You remember? How to beat the Republicans in...
View ArticleRandom Notes From Across The Pond
It is Easter. I am minded to let people know that I am still around.TaxationWell our now not beloved Labour Government in the UK has introduced its latest budget and, like all its predecessors, taken...
View ArticleExorcising demons by going to the John
If Daily Kos was a British blog, a news item today would appear in the diaries here as illustrative of what we love about the quirkiness of your country (whilst fully acknowledging our own).It is a...
View ArticleIraq: The Bigger Lie Than the Palin Lies
The discussion of the Iraq occupation may appear to have gone away as a major discussion point in the election but what is really happening in Iraq has not.As I listen to the preliminary speeches at...
View ArticleCan we get back to the real world?
I'm going to try another diary. The second in six months after a time when I used to be a top recommended diarist on DKos.I tried one a couple of days ago about the anxieties of the generals about...
View ArticleExtraordinary Protest Against Sarah Palin (Updated)
An extraordinary protest against Sarah Palin is being reported by McClatchy.Hundreds gather for anti-Palin rally in downtown AnchorageThe protest came two hours after the governor held a morning rally...
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"The first person of mixed race becomes Formula One Champion "
I am not sure about the title of ths piece, but I have borrowed it from elsewhere. It contains a distinction with which I am not comfortable but one that will be made again tomorrow and I offer this...
View ArticleHappy Christmas and a New Year of Civil Unrest
Christmas Eve is a poor time to deliver a dark message of Christmases to come. Yet delivered it must be. It is prompted by listening to an item on the BBC Today programme early this morning. A month or...
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