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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Tommy Chong, Bob Dylan, and Patti LaBelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88Rj-Vw83s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpatC8sR-KU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ZDsNy-wtw
So what is on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Mac Wiseman and Jewel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5BSg9x9T9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3WMMwlHgZI
So, what’s on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kip Hawley, Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of Security
Yet traffic deaths are at record lows and miles driven are also lower
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dakine01 commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Kip Hawley, Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of Security
Good afternoon Bruce and Kip and welcome to FDL this afternoon.
Kip, I have not read your book so forgive me if you answer this but why does so much of the effort by TSA seem to be more Security Theater than actual steps that protect people?
Case in point, I spent most of 2002 traveling each between St Louis to Albany, NY and back. For 6 weeks in a row, as I was leaving Albany on Friday afternoon, I would be pulled aside a the gate for extra searches. I know TSA was trying to be ‘random’ but after the 4th week, the TSA folks were just shaking their heads and recognizing that it was more theater seemingly than actual protection.
Is the show supposed to make us feel safer or feel better? If so, it isn’t working…
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dakine01 commented on the blog post Executive Opinions are Nice, and Executive Orders are Nicer
You’ve got to love an adult who is unafraid to learn from children.
I still remember how roundly Jimmy Carter was mocked for daring to quote his daughter Amy on the need for nuclear disarmament.
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Goodnight Levon by Elliott.
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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Lowell George and Jack Casaday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDp3Grz28mE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJhA_ELTu28
What’s on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Warm March and little snow and rain = Early and Intense Fire Season by cmaukonen.
I live in Florida, about 30 miles south of Tampa. Yesterday morning, the odor of the fire was very strong – so strong that I was looking for it in my own neighborhood. The local cable news channel said it was from fires west of Jacksonville – more than 200 miles
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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Hound Dog Taylor and Pat Travers!
Got another two-fer on birthdays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnJM8iUy38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71k9aw1LPg
What’s on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Hannity, Obama Haters Protecting George Zimmerman From Murder Conviction by John Wright.
It’s pretty clear that the special prosectuor is acting on specific instructions from attorney general Holder and president Obama to charge Zimmerman with something with the word “murder” in it to appease their base. She knows she can’t get a conviction, but wants to prevent rioting
Except the special prosecutor is a Republican elected official from [...]
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Hannity, Obama Haters Protecting George Zimmerman From Murder Conviction by John Wright.
Ah Shooter is that you?
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Water Cooler: Today in history, Nat King Cole attacked on stage by dakine01.
Thanks! Route 66 is one of those songs that has been covered by groups/artists all across the music spectrum (I did a Saturday Art diary about the author a couple of years ago). I remember Ramblin’ Rose as a song when it first came out because of a party at a camp grounds in the woods [...]
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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Today in history, Nat King Cole attacked on stage
There are no birthdays today of any musicians that I’m all that familiar with (yeah, I’m an old f*rt so what’s your point?) so switching up a bit for Today in History where Nat King Cole was attacked on stage in Birmingham, AL by segregationists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbQXalTGu-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mae_NJ_12sc
What’s on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Bunny Wailer and Terre Roche!
Got a two-fer tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMYXznZm3hUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBqhigRvplo
So what’s on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 commented on the diary post JOBS Act: Legalizing Fraud in the Stock Market? by Barefoot Accountant.
In case you missed it: FDL News: JOBS Act Gets Signed Today FDL News: More JOBS Act Deregulatory Measures Found FDL News: On JOBS Act, Ask a Con Man FDL News: Deregulatory JOBS Act Gets Final Passage in the House FDL News: Taibbi Savages JOBS Act as Fraud-Creation Policy Dressed Up As “Financial Innovation” MyFDL: The JOBS Act: A Bad Joke [...]
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Robert Samuelson Shows that the Post Has no Fact Checkers on Its Opinion Pages by Dean Baker.
Yes, those “I.O.Us” are called Special U.S. Treasury bonds. And they get redeemed in the same way as all the other US Treasury bonds, including those bonds held by banks and other governments around the world. So, by your logic, paying China and Japan or Bank of America or JP Morgan Chase or the Royal [...]
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dakine01 wrote a new diary post: Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Tom Lehrer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
and an extra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE
So what’s on your mind tonight?
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dakine01 commented on the blog post CREDO Calls Out Securitization Fraud Task Force: Investigators Not Even Deployed
That is an apparent quirk in the system for cross posts within FDL until comments are actually posted…
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Rocky Anderson Article by Michael Cavlan RN.
I am making my responses here because, for some very weird reason I am unable to comment in the article itself.
Not a “weird” reason at all. Comments on diaries close after a period of time – I think 3 days or so. Since you posted your interview diary nearly five full days ago, the time for [...]
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dakine01 commented on the diary post Robert Samuelson Shows that the Post Has no Fact Checkers on Its Opinion Pages by Dean Baker.
Now Dean, surely you remember when the late Deborah Howell was the WaPo0 OmsBud Person – when people would point out errors of fact in various columns, she kept repeating that it wasn’t the Po0 policy to fact check a column that since it was opinion, it was OK to lie like rugs
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