Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Alfonso Nevarez, jlms qkw, Hoosier Deb, ybruti, srkp23 and Got a Grip.

As we bid adieu to DK3 on this, our final rescue in this format, the Rescue Rangers wish each and every one of you bon voyage as you make your way to DK4.  We'll see you at our shiny new venue, Community Spotlight.

Tonight's diaries for your edification are:

Rights Gone Wrong

• terra points out that when it comes to stripping women of their rights, the GOP has company with Shame on the shameful Afghan government. (Got a Grip)
• laserhaas details the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, wrongfully convicted and executed in Texas, in Political murder 101 - the lethal injection of innocents. (srkp23)
• War on Error has compiled a massive reference work appropriately called The 10 Step: Choreography of the Housing Crisis, Collusion by All. (ybruti)
• Apparently tax cuts and deductions only add to the deficit when Republicans don't like the recipients, forcing Christy1947 to point out what should be obvious to everyone: Reproductive rights are not a deficit reduction issue. (Alfonso Nevarez)

Stupid Government Tricks

• commonmass explores what's going on behind the curtain of the Governor of Maine's budget proposal in Paul LePage: The Real Motive. (Got a Grip)
• chefdan wonders if the state of Wisconsin will Negotiate with Unions? NOT, says Governor Walker.  But will he really call out the National Guard against protestors? (Got a Grip)
• williamjustin highlights yet another boneheaded attempt to erode our rights as the Los Angelos City Attorney prepares an LA Crackdown on Protesters—A Year in County Jail for Organizers. (Got a Grip)
• heathlander interviews "Nicholas Shaxson, author of 'Treasure Islands', about America's and Britain's leading roles in the global offshore economy and the prospects for challenging corporate tax avoidance" in The Men Who Stole the World.(srkp23)

The Times, They Are A'Changin'

• Eddie C reports that Daily Kos and Egypt aren't the only things impacted today by these Changing Times: History and Botanical Science in America. (Alfonso Nevarez)
• Muskegon Critic explores the fishy side of his local economy in I've got one word for you. Aquaculture. (jlms qkw)
• A Siegel declares GBCW: Hello Clean Energy Revolution for Arab Revolutionaries. (srkp23)

sardonyx has Top Comments: Ultimate Pre-Launch Edition.

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Welcome to possibly the last Diary Rescue of DK3. Your guides this evening are jlms qkw, claude, dopper0189, vcmvo2, ybruti and Purple Priestess. At the helm are claude and Purple Priestess.

Tonight we offer an excellent selection for your perusal:

• To counter the claim of low inflation, first-time diarist ricky57 calls Cheez Doodle bags: A leading economic indicator. (ybruti)
• james321 with a possible path of escape from insurance Hell: CT's Robust Public Option: The SustiNet Solution. (claude)
• Winter Rabbit poetically evokes avian imagery and shares a tragic story with a remedy in Action: Rescind Wounded Knee Medals of Dis Honor. (jlms qkw)
• notdarkyet makes a sound argument for paying attention to the political process, using Arizona as an example of what can happen in Ignorance is Just Ignorance. (vcmvo2)
• polaris12 points out in Bernie Madoff: Worse than a Serial Killer? that many more egregious financial criminals may escape punishment. (ybruti)
• From the less-densely-populated area of our country, akmk pursues the question of equal information access in Affordable High-speed Internet for All--Is it a Pipedream? (jlms qkw)
• stevej shows the value of color, light, and contrast in photography in Photography and Color. (dopper0189)
• Got snark if you want it. Joieau. DARN! Holey Socks & the Orchestrated Destruction of the Human Race. (claude)
• Gary Norton analyzes the case law regarding the Commerce Clause as it relates to regulating insurance and argues that Constitutional Misdirection Will Not Derail the Health Care Law. (vcmvo2)

We also offer jotter's High Impact Diaries and brillig has the Top Comments.

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Thank you and see you on the new site!

Rescue Rangers for tonight's edition of Diary Rescue are jlms qkw, Louisians 1976, claude, sunspark says, ybruti and vcmvo2, with claude also in the Control Room

Tonight's selection of Fine Fare offers:

Current Events

• james321 tells us about Big-Profits Health Insurers to America in New Lobbying Push: Drop Dead! (Louisiana 1976)
• In a penetrating piece LiberalTexan discusses the Republican Attack on Birthright Citizenship. (Louisiana 1976)

Personal History

• Some personal history from CherryTheTart describes The Practical Limitations of Government or Dance Like It Is 1975. (claude)
• RBHSOregon explains why Separate But Equal Is Neither: A Taxing Story. (ybruti)

Penetrating Philosophy

• Having already destroyed the economy, now the right is trying to destroy our souls, as arlenegoldbard tells us in Life Implicates Art. (sunspark says)
• DFJtoo complains about The Commercialization of Everything, especially holidays. (sunspark says)

Garnished with a sprinkling of American History

• Another relevant slice of American history from our resident popular historian KAMuston. COXEY'S ARMY PART FIVE. (claude)

and some Dessert

• fake consultant reminds us that not all is as it seems...Oklahoma Shari'a Law Controversy: The Secret Plot Is Finally Uncovered. (claude)

jotter has today's High Impact Diaries, AND sardonyx has tonight's Top Comments: Post and Run Edition.

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Tonight's Rescue is brought to you by Got a Grip, ItsJessMe, watercarrier4diogenes, srkp23, grog and pico.

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• doctorgonzo looks at a sweeping 1985 law and its implications on health care today in Opting out of the health care market. (grog)
• iTeachQ discusses how "corporate studies" designed to promote education reform are oftentimes skewed in Another study provides evidence against LA Times value added study. (grog)
• nick copeland analyzes reactions to the ongoing protests in Egypt through the lens of a cultural anthropologist, in Egypt: Fear or Understanding? (grog)
• iampunha looks at Wayne Dorough's tears from a personal perspective. (watercarrier4diogenes)
• kcmitch breaks down the ins and outs of the Constitution and its history one piece at a time in Constituesday - Article I (part 1). (Got a Grip)
• Ulysses795 muses on the true meaning of success in this materialistic world, in Nothing succeeds like doing your own thing. (srkp23)
• Avenging Angel reports that Republicans Threaten Judges. Again. (srkp23)
• Ojibwa is back with Indians 101: Northern Plains Indian Spirituality. (pico)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: February 7, 2011.

brillig has Top Comments - One Hour Edition.

Please suggest your own and use as an open thread.

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are claude, Hoosier Deb, ItsJessMe, grog, vcmvo2, and Got a Grip.

For those approaching the frightening end to their unemployment benefits, freelancewoman has re-posted 99 weeks? Get Unemployment Insurance Extension w/JOB TRAINING, an informative guide that may help some of you navigate your way to job training and an extension of benefits.  We offer this in the hope that it helps those who need it.

And now, for your edification, tonight's rescued diaries are:

The Greatest President That Ever Wasn't

• As the media and the right work diligently to canonize our 40th president, pale cold points out that he was much more sinner than saint in Revisionist Reagan. (Got a Grip)
• The quintessential anti-eulogy for Reagan's Toxic Legacy from slangist. (claude)

Perverted Pride and Pernicious Prejudice

• Hard Left asks, is there anyone The Odd Dominion (Virginia) actually likes? (ItsJessMe)
• Nulwee eloquently shares a moment in time when paradise could not hide the ugly stain of racism in The Serpent of Lynch Law: Racism and Murder in the Tropics. (Got a Grip)

Superbowl Themes and Political Memes

• cabaretic describes how last night's ads trended more towards inclusion than exclusion, in contrast to last year: Super Bowl Ads: One Small Step for Man. (ItsJessMe)
• BabetheBlueOx explains What the Left can Learn from the Reagan Centennial. (grog)
• thematt523 explains why The Redistricting Amendments in Florida Might Not Make a Difference. (ItsJessMe)
• Avenging Angel brings an interesting angle to his analysis of Islam and the right wing in Beck Echoes Romney on Threat of Islamic Caliphate. (vcmvo2)

To Cleanse the Palate and Broaden your Horizons

• stevej continues his informative teaching series on Photography - Contrast. (claude)

jotter has yesterday's High Impact Diaries: February 6, 2011.

emeraldmaiden has Top Comments 2/7/11 - Insert Topic Here.

As we wind down the old DK3 Wurlitzer, please use this open thread to promote your own diaries or your favorites of the day.

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are ItsJessMe, rexymeteorite, jlms qkw, BentLiberal, claude, Got a Grip, and vcmvo2 as editor.

The rescued diaries are:

• RoddieH offers a detailed biography in Revisiting (Yet Again) Old Abe Lincoln. (ItsJessMe)
• Ketchup Is a Vegetable & Other Republican Myths - Remember Reagan, admonishes H Scott Presterman in this relentless indictment of the Great Communicator. (claude)
• Ojibwa provides interesting history on a currently trending location in Ancient Egypt: Thutmose III and Megiddo. (BentLiberal)
• dengre bemoans the 112th Congress in The Human Sacrifice Encouragement Act of 2011. (ItsJessMe)
• kcmitch writes a passionate response to an editorial in Des Moines Register Forgets Reagan's Devastation of Iowa. (BentLiberal)
• Andrew C White invites us to Meet my Grandfather Garfield V. Cox. (claude)
• Winter Rabbit documents how religion and state have united to assimilate the American Indian in Dominionism's Threat Against Indian Country. (BentLiberal)
• arlenegoldbard offers philosophical musings on attraction, intimacy and love disguised as a movie review. When Strangers Click: from The Annals of Online Dating. (claude)
• Adept2U shares his experiences and pictures of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in A Trip to One of the Coolest Facilities on EARTH! (BentLiberal)
• In the simple category of "home," xaxnar has a long title and a great idea in In Less Time Than It Takes To Watch the Super Bowl, You Can Start On Saving The World. (jlms qkw)
• Ed Tracey gives us the whimiscal Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "who lost the week" poll) including an interesting writeup on Fats Domino. (BentLiberal)

jotter has the day's High Impact Diaries: February 5, 2011, and the Week's High Impact Diaries: January 30 - February 4, 2011.

sardonyx brings tonight's Top Comments: Got DK4 Questions We Got Answers!

Enjoy and please feel free to promote your favorite diaries from the last twenty-four hours in this Open Thread!

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are jlms qkw, vcmvo2, Purple Priestess, YatPundit, watercarrier4diogenes, ybruti and grog.

• mitcho tells of an unhappy encounter in 1944 with The Real Reagan--A Personal Story. (ybruti)
• Got a Grip draws some very ugly (as in Rethugly) parallels to a recent gut-wrenching news item in Now here's a "Rape Plan" Republicans can REALLY get behind. (watercarrier4diogenes)
• nannyboz writes a haunting memoir of The Silent March. (watercarrier4diogenes)
• Bob Sloan continues to chronicle the abuses in the Prison Industrial Complex, in Slave Labor - DOJ tries to excuse taking 40% of prisoner's pay by Corporations for profits! (jlms qkw)
• Alec82 analyzes the felony conviction of the woman using her father's address to access a better school system in High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Ohio. (vcmvo2)
• Turns out there is a use for racist memorabilia after all! Detroit Mark introduces us to a museum that preserves Racism in a Display Case. (Purple Priestess)
• fireflynw discusses one of the toughest challenges today's teachers face in Cyber-bullying and Responsibility. (YatPundit)
• Richard Lyon presents information on Boiling Pots In The Greater Middle East: Tunisia. (ybruti)
• KristyAnn shares a painful experience and how this community - and Sara in particular - helped begin the healing in To Sara - the invisible quilt. (Purple Priestess)
• mammamedusa presents an interesting academic potpourri in Teacher's Lounge: Snow days, ebooks, and interchangeable parts. (YatPundit)
• Leonard Architect reports that the FCIC Shows That Most Synthetic CDOs Were Designed To Fail. (ybruti)
• A retired nurse who no longer uses a manual typewriter, scribe knows the symptoms of Post Computer Stress Disorder (PCSD). (ybruti)
• notdarkyet, reading of the grotesque decision to make Bristol Palin a spokesperson for abstinence, files the best job application I've ever read: You Can Pay Me $20,000. (watercarrier4diogenes)

jotter gives us the day's High Impact Diaries: February 5, 2011, while carolita has Top Comments – 2-5-11 – Fire and Ice Edition.

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Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Alfonso Nevarez, ybruti, HoosierDeb, BentLiberal, claude, and vcmvo2 as reader and editor.

The rescued diaries are:

• DWG calls out West Virginia's senator for his startling display of cynicism and hypocrisy in Manchin denies the existence of coal subsidies. (vcmvo2)
• HamdenRice refutes some reporting on bailouts in Another TARP/Bailout Myth: Banks got money for zero %. (BentLiberal)
• Ojibwa brings us a fascinating diary on a biblical language in Ancient Languages: Aramaic. (vcmvo2)
• Renee brings a scientific report on the physical effects of bullying on LGBT folks in Words Hurt. GLBT Taunting has Pysiological Impacts. (vcmvo2)
• JamieG from Md reflects on health care in Empathy – Our weakness and their strength. (BentLiberal)
• KristyAnn describes how hate-filled anti-Obama propaganda has caused Fear-of-everything-all-the-time in a formerly rational Canadian friend. (ybruti)
• dreaminonempty produces some nice graphs and analysis using the site's PPP polling data in DKos Poll: Obama Gained Among Left and Center. (BentLiberal)
• FishOutofWater presents the compelling evidence in eSci: Climate, Food and Political Destabilization Linked. (ybruti)
• Angie in WA State has experimented with DK4 and concludes DK4 - not so scary as you may be thinking. (ybruti)
• No Border Wall describes American border towns that are being trashed by efforts to beef up security, and the losers of this battle of Border Walls vs. Environmental Justice are the residents who must suffer the consequences. (Alfonso Nevarez)
• Liberal Of Limeyland shows how We hate immigration, but not immigration-A nation's confusion is all too familiar to those of us on the west side of the pond. (Alfonso Nevarez)
• 2dimeshift expands on the dangers posed by military operations that are virtually out of sight in When they say "Alaska Range" they don't mean the mountains. Pt. 2. (HoosierDeb)
• Magnifico points out how a domino effect brings Drought aggravated Amazon closer to tipping point of collapse. (HoosierDeb)
• kbeans writes a personal account of how economic downturns hit home in Sinking slowly: mortgages and families underwater. (BentLiberal)

jotter has today's High Impact Diaries: February 3, 2011.

sardonyx brings tonight's Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum, Countdown Reset Edition.

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Good evening and welcome to what, with the impending switch to DK4, may well be the last ever Thirst Day Edition of Diary Rescue. Tonight's Rescue Rangers are grog, claude, Purple Priestess, vcmvo2, YatPundit, and ybruti, with sunspark says feeling a little buzz from the boat drinks as she tipples her way through her editing duties.

It's February 3, 2011. We're digging out from a massive blizzard here in Illinois, a state that was created as a territory on this date in 1809. Also on this date, in 1918, the Twin Peaks streetcar tunnel began service in San Francisco. At nearly two miles the longest tunnel in the world, rumor has it there is a diner at the end where you can find a slice of cherry pie and a damn good cup a joe. And now please enjoy tonight's underappreciated treasures found for you by the rescue rangers:

In the Fruit Flavored Schnapps category:

• From plan9pub, This just in from a very angry Marmota Monax named Punxsutawney Phil. (claude)

In the Boat Drinks category:

• sworddance invites us to try using dollar coins in Party like it is 1611 (and save the government money!) (ybruti)
• In his last report from the Santa Barbara Film Festival, geomoo reports on two more recommended documentaries: Barbara Conrad Beats Racism; Skateboarding in Afghanistan. (Purple Priestess)

In the Whiskey, Straight Up category:

• Big Chuck thinks that Democrats Should Center Jobs Strategy on Ending Federal Rewards for Off-Shoring. (grog)
• brasch describes how and why 100 sled dogs were killed in 'Following Orders' Never a Defense for Immoral Acts. (ybruti)

In the Fine Wine Category:

• Mortifyd is lost at sea and sends a distress call out to his fellow Kossacks: A View From the Shore - SOS.(Purple Priestess)
• As we know, "all politics is local" and, reporting on his local politics Free Chicken and Beer thinks we should pay attention as Mississippi State Senator Jumps on Secession Bandwagon. (claude)

And finally, in the Dom Perignon Category:

• Translator contributes a thoughtful post on the turmoil in Egypt: Tonight We are ALL Egyptians 20110202 (Ich bin ein Berliner). (vcmvo2)
• In this deeply personal remembrance, mayim offers Lessons from a year ago to remind us why we fight for healthcare justice. (claude)

jotter brings us High Impact Diaries: February 2, 2011.

Ed Tracey has Top Comments: Ernest Shackleton & Mrs. Chippy the Cat edition.

One more note about February 3:

It was on this day in 1874 that Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, PA, where a baby is a baby is a baby.

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Tonight's Rescue Rangers are shayera, ItsJessMe, Got a Grip, Purple Priestess, ybruti, and vcmvo2 as editor.

The rescued diaries are:

• kevinpowell highlights the plight of one of the founders of hip hop in Kool Herc, Hiphop, and Healthcare. (shayera)
• sunspark says speaks eloquently in praise of medicaid. (shayera)
• As Iowa's legislature embraces their bigotry towards the gay community, Chrislove shares the moving testimony of one young man who stood up to say "I was raised by gay parents, and I'm doing pretty well." (Got a Grip)
• From the "I didn't hear about this" Department, justiceputnam pens a lovely tribute to humorist Art Buchwald, whom we lost on January 17th: In Remembrance: "What's It All About, Alfie? Bye Bye Buchwald". (Purple Priestess)
• 2dimeshift alerts us to military plans that will harm Alaska's wildlife and possibly pollute its waters in When they say "Alaska Range" they don't mean the mountains. Pt.1. (Purple Priestess)
• If your snark-o-meter needs a refill, weatherdude has the fuel in his weekly "news" report The Weatherdude Weekly -- 2nd Ed.(Purple Priestess)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: February 1, 2011.

emeraldmaiden brings tonight's Top Comments 2/2/11 - Groundhog Day!

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Tonight's Rescue is brought to you by HoosierDeb, ItsJessMe, sunspark says, srkp23, vcmvo2, claude, and pico.

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• matching mole writes more about our forests in Hanging On to The Ancient World: Proposed FL State Park Closings. (vcmvo2)
• Alec82 shines a light on the confusion that takes place at Section 29: At the Intersection of Free Speech and Anti-Gay Ideology. (sunspark says)
• idahospud44 decries the The Insanity of Mental Health Cutbacks. (srkp23)
• In Two Presidents Born on Back-to-Back Days, Mets102 offers his perspective on two very different men. (vcmvo2)
• In what he twice notes is a "rant, not...some grand manifesto," Nulwee rages against the abdication of its duty by modern US media in We're All With Al Jazeera Now. (sunspark says)
• Living on a boat lets Mortifyd offer some up-close perspectives on A View From the Shore - Wildlife Stories. (ItsJessMe)
• Inoljt analyzes The Future of the Asian-American Vote. (ItsJessMe)
• Clay Claiborne remembers the difficult life and tragic death of Mohamed Bouazizi, which inspired a stunning political transformation, in They Should Have Helped That Street Vendor. (srkp23)
• In the first installment of a promising new series, kcmitch opens a close reading of the US Constitution to help us see "what's actually IN there": Constituesday - Preamble. (sunspark says)
• War on Error is ALL hair-on-fire that IF These Two Videos Don't Concern Us, We Deserve What is Planned. Is Bible study the answer? You decide...(claude)
• myles spicer recounts the impact of The day an old man cried. (srkp23)
• Forgiven looks at the "blame the victim" mentality of politicians trying to cut entitlements for the elderly and can't believe What A Difference A Few Decades Make. (sunspark says)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: January 31, 2011.

brillig has Top Comments - Spam Edition.

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Tonight's Rescue Rangers are dopper0189, Got a Grip, grog, Louisiana1976, vcmvo2, YatPundit and ybruti. They have found some gems, so be sure to read, tip, and rec!

• Casual Wednesday examines the sorry state of affairs we are currently subjected to when looking for quality reporting on current events in the Middle East in The revolution will be streamed. (Got a Grip)
• mole333 focuses on events in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and beyond in this week's Progressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 287. (ybruti)
• davidseth offers Four Haiku For Egypt. (YatPundit)
• geomoo reviews some excellent documentaries in Uncovering The Past, From The Big Bang to Pinochet. (ybruti)
• Though we've been told to pay no attention, The Cunctator tries to peek at the men behind the curtain of Koch Industries: The 100-Million Ton Carbon Gorilla. (Got a Grip)
• BruceMcF offers an illustrated and enlightening Sunday Train: Quiet Progress Edition Two ~ Sustainable Power and Feed-in Tariffs. (ybruti)
• iampunha shows that Jackie Robinson had The strength it takes to take it (not work safe). (ybruti)
• ISHKABBIBLE writes about the personal tribulations of growing up with Aspergers Syndrome in My life growing up with Aspergers Syndrome. (dopper0189)
• michelewln shares memories of a father who taught her to Reach for the Moon. (ybruti)
• blueyedace2, reporting from Wisconsin, shows us a sunny Winter day at Heckrodt Wetland Reserve - photo diary. (ybruti)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: January 30, 2011.

sardonyx has tonight's Top Comments: DK4 FAQ Forum: Four More Days.

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