Tag Archives: 'kos'

• Baer On Iran

  Speaking of Bobby Baer, the CIA operative spoke to CBS News last month on the issue of Iranian influence in terrorism today. It should be noted that Baer now lives nearby, and he walks his dog where I walk mine sometimes (Tilden Park in Berkeley), so we’re bound to meet-up* at some point… * I’d [...]

• Is The End Near For Liberal Blogs?

  Will a democratic victory in 2008 spell doom for liberal blogs? That may be true, unfortunately. The rise of blogs, liberal blogs in particular, came out of the growing public disgust for the contemptible Bush administration. And Bush’s unconscionable reelection victory in 2004 only led to increased liberal blogging. It should be noted that the [...]

• Reason No. 17 To Not Read Any DailyKos Straw Poll

  Dennis Kucinich places third. Although I do agree that John Edwards is an electable boy.

• Resurgent Draft: Arm of the Democratic Warfare

  I started this post on January 31, 2006, and never finished it. I used the theme partially the following day, but not completely. I have tried on many occasions — probably too many — to make the point that DailyKos, like other liberal-leaning large group-blogs, are much more than political opinionists now, that they have [...]

• 13 Million People Read This Blog

  Now that I think about it, maybe 13 million people are reading this blog. Everyday. And since I have installed several scaling mechanisms on the back-end, I am confident this site can handle such traffic. So why not? Why not 13 million? This calls for a new slogan… reyonthehill, read by 13 million people, everyday. [...]

• In the News… Again.

  - Markos (of DailyKos) turned down a meeting with Bill Clinton, because he “had better things to do with [his] time.” That’s dumb. I’ve got better things to do than blog, but I still do it. (What am I saying? No I don’t.) – Bush really wants a speedy confirmation of his newly-appointed attorney general. [...]

• In the News… the Blogger-Induced Version.

  - Michael Bloomberg has been planning his entrance into the race for the White House the past two years. Will he make a splash? A big one, if he does commit. I’m hoping he does; it’ll make things interesting. – The era of zero accountability continues… “Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is [...]

• In the News

  - Uh-oh, Ralph Nader is supposedly pondering a run. Says Nader, “The two parties are still converging — they don’t even debate the military budget anymore. I really think there needs to be more competition from outside the two parties.” I agree, the two-party system hurts the natural breakdown of the American voting public. And, [...]

• In the News… y2k7.

  - Cheney’s first-hand accounts of Iraq aren’t so first-hand: “Cheney said he had spoken with a friend who traveled recently from Baghdad to Basra and ‘found the situation dramatically improved from a year or so ago.’” That isn’t what my friend told me. – The anti-Tauscher movement (started by Kos) has gone mainstream. (I am [...]

• Ripping On Kos (Again)

  I know I tend to rip on DailyKos often, but out of all the mindless bloggers at his website, the only readable writer is Kos. When I do peruse the monster blog, which happens to be daily, I only look for his posts, because he is the only one that actually has a sense of [...]

• In the News

  - “‘President Hillary Rodham Clinton’ is increasingly seen by veteran Republican politicians and strategists as a virtual inevitability.” But what will DailyKos do to stop it? – Environmentalists and Bush agree on at least one thing: a feasibility study to examine the removal of Hetch-Hetchy Dam, which provides water and electricity to the city of [...]

• In the News

  - Kos continues his overzealous attacks on California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who has supposedly “consistently undermined the Democratic Party.” Much like Joe Lieberman, I guess. Alas, Lieberman is still in office. – With the incoming Speaker of the House being from San Francisco, my representative in Congress has more power in Washington. “Rep. George Miller [...]

• Yet Another Democrat Targeted By Kos

  You know, I don’t mean to be contrite and all, and I don’t usually like to get involved with — or start — some silly blog-mudslinging, but I have had a few drinks, and I really want to say this, because it has gone on for too long. Fuck you, Markos. Just because you don’t [...]

• In the News… Wet Ass.

  - Ana Marie Cox has stopped apologizing for not blogging, and then continued blogging. – “On one blog, you might find incisive commentary and brilliant analysis; on another, you might see angry and ugly name-calling,” writes Jake Tapper. Well, I hope I’m the former. (And I do acknowledge that I had nothing to do with [...]

• Not A Phone Call, A Link To Contribute

  One of the most ridiculous statements Markos Moulitsas (of DailyKos) has ever made came in an interview with Jake Tapper: “I can’t call up strangers and beg for money. I think it’s demeaning.“ If you don’t see a plea for contributions when you visit DailyKos, reload the page… it’s coming.

• Tapper Comes To Oakland (For Kos)

  Hey, Jake. I am at work right now in downtown Oakland (it is much nicer than it sounds). Please stop by and say hello. As a liberal blogger, I have stopped in and cross-published a handful of times at the site, but I mainly stay away from the cult-like parade of lunatics that make up [...]

• Investigating Katrina Levee Failures, An Engineer’s Lecture

  I will be at a conference/lecture all day today (no, not a conference for bloggers, silly; that would be pathetic). I will be going to a ground modification seminar hosted by Hayward Baker. The keynote speaker is the esteemed James Duncan, Ph.D., formerly of my alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley, and now at [...]

• Throwing Stones At Kaus, Kos

  I don’t know what is more funny: the war that has erupted between the-ever-so-ugly Mickey Kaus and Kos (maybe it is because their nicknames are so similar, but Kaus spends half of his day writing about Jesus, er, I mean Markos) or the willingness of the DailyKos readership to heed to Markos’ demands to contribute [...]

• In the News… Suicide, Skeletons and Bush.

  - Alright, I am breaking my hockey silence now that Sabres coach Lindy Ruff earned Coach of the Year honors, and I don’t have to kill myself. – It is true what they say, everyone has skeletons in their closet, including bloggers. Including Markos and whomever and whomever that help Kos lead this supposed army [...]

• Honey, About That Transsexual You Met On DailyKos

  Every now and then (and more frequently as of late) I will cross-publish a post of mine on DailyKos, one that I feel is worthy enough (or funny enough) to publicize and be used as means to market my blog and my endless talent. The problem with DailyKos, a point-of-view that I have long blogged [...]

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