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Public Citizen on Colbert Report Tonight
From Public Citizen, perhaps our most energetic user, comes word that Energy Director Tyson Slocum will hold forth on the Colbert Report tonight. (link goes to a promo page with relevant uses of most of our action tools)
Denizens of the Imperial's pokey capital are as likely to get Tyson's proposal for a windfall tax on oil profits as they are Colbert's humor. Certainly few springtime sports made better viewing hereabouts than the righteous huffpuffery over Colbert's appropriation of the fool's right to speak freely or the pecksniffing critiques of his wanting humor and courage by the most sanctimonious chickenshits you'll ever want to meet. "Colbert" and "Stephen Colbert" were 1-2 in Technorati searches for a solid week after he flayed the White House correspondents, and there's an elite more-or-less consensus that he bombed, bored and disappeared. Just what you'd expect, really. As Billmon put it:
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02:30 PM May 16, 2006 -
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Personal Democracy Forum Podcasts Available
Our fearless leader April represented DIA at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York yesterday. Luckily for us -- since April hasn't been too historically keen on blogging her hallucinogenic raves in the discoteque of cyberactivism -- PDF has posted podcasts representing nearly the entire conference.
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09:30 AM May 16, 2006 -
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"The Great and General Interests of Peace"
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
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07:30 PM May 14, 2006 -
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New Media Strategies for Newspapers
We know newspapers are bemoaning the bite free online content has taken from their circulation, and that the two worlds are wont to hector one another. Now a peace envoy, and a seemingly successful one.
Tom Edsall of the Washington Post posted a DailyKos diary seeking commentary on the Democratic "50-state strategy" of contesting even safe GOP seats everywhere in the country (strongly endorsed in Kossakhstan), vis-a-vis the utility of focusing resources on the few most closely contested seats where the marginal short-term value of a buck looks greater.
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01:30 AM May 14, 2006 -
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Thus Initiating the Great Liberal Baby Boom of February 2007
Patrick Fitzgerald will indict Karl Rove.
Update: Justus interruptus.
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01:00 AM May 13, 2006 -
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