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Rayne commented on the diary post our good friend by OmAli.
What a loss. There are not enough sweet and gentle souls on the earth as it is, and we are now one less.
Travel well, SD. Thank you for setting a fine example of graciousness for the rest of us.
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Rayne and Derrick Crowe are now friends
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Rayne commented on the diary post Subsidized Child Care Breaks the Cycle of Poverty by Tracy Emblem.
Thanks, Tracy, I’m glad you’re covering this issue.
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Rayne commented on the diary post Let’s Begin Understanding Arabic – العربية – al-ʿarabiyyah by Kelly Canfield.
Wikipedia explains the history of Vietnam’s written language adeptly:
Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed from Chinese, most notably Cantonese, especially words that denote abstract ideas (in the same way European languages borrow from Latin and Greek), and it was formerly written using the Chinese writing system, albeit in a modified format and was given [...]
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Rayne commented on the diary post Water Cooler – On The Futility Of Using Morality As A Litmus Test by Bill Egnor.
I’ve only had a limited amount of time to go through my bookmarks on this topic; I’m afraid since I migrated from one bookmark app to another recently I can’t find the content I’ve accumulated on this issue. Anyhow, here are a few preliminary resources for consideration that I could get my hands on — [...]
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Rayne commented on the diary post Water Cooler – On The Futility Of Using Morality As A Litmus Test by Bill Egnor.
Sure, knock yourself out. But isn’t that what we’ve been doing ad nauseum for the last 8+ years and still gotten little constructive emotional response from conservatives?
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Rayne commented on the diary post Food Sunday: The Dessertification of Breakfast or, How to Make Oatmeal That Won’t Kill You by TobyWollin.
Every once in a while I have a hankering for Cream of Wheat or Cream of Rice. And once in a while, CoCoWheats. Yum.
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Rayne commented on the diary post Breaking: ‘Capitol is Closed’ Announced in Madison WI by Rayne.
Rusty, you need to stay on topic, particularly when we are covering events of national interest and historic nature.
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Rayne commented on the diary post Breaking: ‘Capitol is Closed’ Announced in Madison WI by Rayne.
As always, what digby said:
@digby56 Something unusual is happening … http://bit.ly/gVkgIR
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Rayne commented on the diary post Breaking: ‘Capitol is Closed’ Announced in Madison WI by Rayne.
Unh-huh, not good:
@michaelwhitney Latest: people streaming live from Capitol say their internet was cut, unclear how. http://j.mp/fW8RAv via @andrewkroll #wiunion
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Rayne commented on the diary post Breaking: ‘Capitol is Closed’ Announced in Madison WI by Rayne.
Huh-oh — wonder if UStream crashed or if their camera was moved?
Latest four tweets from dday:
Press crowded around four yahoos; hundreds above shouting abt media bias #wiunion
Gotta bolt, keep following #wiunion
Huge protest outside building, too #wiunion
Can’t get a pic of outside, headed other direction
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Rayne commented on the diary post Food Sunday: Paella by Ruth Calvo.
OMG. That sounds phenomenal.
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Rayne commented on the diary post Breaking: ‘Capitol is Closed’ Announced in Madison WI by Rayne.
Nice, this tweet from David:
CNN getting yelled at by protesters “you didn’t show our rally!” #wiunion
CNN and all other national coverage deserves to get slapped and hard.
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Rayne wrote a new diary post: Breaking: ‘Capitol is Closed’ Announced in Madison WI
FDL News’ David Dayen is on site at Wisconsin’s capitol building in Madison this afternoon. Reporting via Twitter, Dayen said that an announcement was made that “the Capitol is now closed” at 4:00 p.m. local time. We’ve got live video from the building: Bear with us if this goes out as the stream has been [...]
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Rayne commented on the diary post Water Cooler – On The Futility Of Using Morality As A Litmus Test by Bill Egnor.
Thanks for demonstrating your own personal morality through unilateral self-appointment as arbiter of what is a “good” post or a “bad” post.
That could have been handled far more constructively.
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Rayne commented on the diary post Water Cooler – On The Futility Of Using Morality As A Litmus Test by Bill Egnor.
In re: “pressing buttons” — it’s not that we can’t, it’s that the left generally views this as deceptive and manipulative. George Lakoff and Jeffrey Feldman have both been doing great work for years now on framing; somehow we need to learn to integrate this work with our efforts and stop seeing it negatively. I’ll [...]
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Rayne commented on the diary post Food Sunday: The Dessertification of Breakfast or, How to Make Oatmeal That Won’t Kill You by TobyWollin.
I cook my steel-cut oats in my rice maker. Use the same rule of thumb as for most whole grains — one cup of grain to every two cups of water. A pinch of salt, a dash of real vanilla extract, press COOK and away you go. Add a little dried fruit as desired with [...]
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Rayne commented on the diary post Food Sunday: Paella by Ruth Calvo.
Mmm. More saffron and rice. That recipe is doggone interesting, too, wonder if I could slip in snails and get my kids to try them that way?
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Rayne commented on the diary post 2 Shot at Gun Show. NRA Supporter’s Response. by spocko.
I don’t want your effing guns. But I do want pro-gun people to start taking some responsibility for their kind. This is no different than asking people with SUVs to bear some responsibility for their role in carbon dioxide and monoxide emissions; hell, does anybody with one SUV need more? Does anybody with one gun [...]
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Rayne commented on the diary post Move the 2012 Democratic National Convention to Madison, Wisconsin by TPAZ.
From TalkingPointsMemo.com’s Eric Kleefeld — In Heavy Snow, Massive Crowd Rallies in Madison
As I’ve written before, as a former Madison resident, it is important for out-of-staters to realize that Wisconsin’s Democratic Party is fundamentally a labor party. Thus, any actions viewed as union-busting are by extension Democrat-busting, kicking up a political storm throughout the state.
The [...]
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