Neo-Confederate Democrats: Oxymorons? (With Quiz!)

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Wednesday March 19, 2014 · 7:37 PM PDT

2014/03/19 · 19:37

“Many of you may be thinking that I have lost my mind,” Republican Del. Don Dwyer wrote in a March 2013 email and Facebook post to his GOP colleagues in the Maryland General Assembly. Dwyer's mind-losing idea was to switch parties in order to drag the Democratic Party to the right (indeed, the Neo-Confederate, theocratic right) in the 2014 primaries.

“If the gun community alone follows me in this strategic plan, we will have a devastating effect on the next statewide election,” he surmised. He posted a comment on a Maryland gun owners’ forum, stating, “Friends, I am considering taking ‘Operation DINO’ statewide. DINO stands for Democrat In Name Only.” He then spearheaded a Free State DINOS website, which urges Republicans to reregister as Democrats, and sells mugs and T-shirts of dinosaurs emblazoned with the Maryland flag.

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What do you do with a drunken legislator?

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What do you do with a drunken legislator?

What shall we do with a drunken Dwyer? Early in the mornin'.

2 votes

Put him in the long-boat and make him bail her.

3 votes

Chuck him in the guard-room 'til he gets sober.

0 votes

Put him in the scuppers with a hose-pipe on him.

1 vote

Pull out the plug and wet him all over.

1 vote

Give 'im a dose of salt and water.

2 votes

Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under.

8 votes

Ho! Ho! And up she rises/Early in the mornin'.

3 votes

Jon Stewart, 'The Daily Show' Go to Sudan for Pick-Me-Up

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Thursday January 13, 2011 · 9:30 AM PST

2011/01/13 · 09:30

The Satellite Sentinel Project is on a media roll, helping to focus world attention on Sudan in influential outlets ranging from TIME Magazine, CNN's "Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour," Al Jazeera, and BBC Arabic to pop culture platforms, such as a new collaboration with MTV and mtvU to help deter war in Sudan, and recently, the homepage of YouTube, where this video featuring George Clooney has racked up over 300,000 views.

In its top story on January 12, Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" went to Sudan to report some good news and speculate on the reason why George Clooney initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project.

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Your favorite outlet?

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Your favorite outlet?

CNN's

1 vote

CNN's

0 votes

ABC's

0 votes

TIME Magazine

1 vote

Al Jazeera

5 votes

BBC

4 votes

BBC Arabic

0 votes

MTV

0 votes

mtvU

0 votes

YouTube homepage

0 votes

Enough Project's YouTube channel

0 votes

Comedy Central's

13 votes

Throwing pie.

3 votes

UPDATE: Intel Freaks Out, Shuts Off Protest on Facebook

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Wednesday May 19, 2010 · 11:48 AM PDT

2010/05/19 · 11:48

It turns out that even a high tech company like Intel can fail to understand the power of social media in the hands of activists – and so far, their public relations response has been a gaffe a minute for the past several days.

It was all part of a grassroots campaign using Facebook in a new way to get support for the bipartisan Conflict Minerals Trade Act that is making its way through Congress. The bill would regulate the global trade in conflict minerals that has fueled years of civil wars in which more than 5 million people have died in the Congo. These conflicts feature rape as a war weapon and some of the most horrific mass atrocities the world has ever seen. Intel and other tech companies benefit from the conflict minerals trade.

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When a tech company chokes in full view of social media, it's called...

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When a tech company chokes in full view of social media, it's called...

An amazing p.r. pratfall

9 votes

An embarrassing social media gaffe

8 votes

A Streisand

1 vote

A Facebook face-plant

5 votes

A Twitterspitter

2 votes

An affront to protesters' free speech

3 votes

Pie: Self-administered, to the face

13 votes

All of the above

51 votes

Iman: Supermodel, Activist, Refugee

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Monday March 08, 2010 · 4:34 AM PST

2010/03/08 · 04:34

The world knows Iman as a supermodel, a successful businesswoman with her own cosmetics company and as a fashion icon alongside her husband David Bowie.

That’s only half the story. Iman also is a refugee whose family fled war in Somalia. In this exclusive interview in honor of International Women’s Day, Iman shares her incredible story of leaving Somalia for Kenya, being discovered by a fashion photographer, and finding global fame.

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To celebrate International Women's Day, I will

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To celebrate International Women's Day, I will

March for peace in Washington, DC

1 vote

Learn more and take action at RAISE Hope for Congo

2 votes

Send a personal email about conflict minerals to the top electronics companies

1 vote

Share this video with others

2 votes

Recommend this diary

5 votes

Bake a pie

6 votes

Stop Screaming at the Op-Ed Page and Start Writing It

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 2:38 PM PDT

2009/09/24 · 14:38

As a blogger, you know the power of passionate expression and insightful analysis. Don't you wish you saw more of that on the op-ed pages (print and online) of major magazines and newspapers? Would you like to place your own op-eds in widely read publications that expand your outreach?

Like blog posts, well-written and timely opinion pieces help you create visibility for a cause and steer public discourse by offering a clear viewpoint on important and controversial issues.

But few know how to plan, pitch and publish op-eds. So getting that well-written op-ed into a chosen news outlet can be a mind-numbing, nail-biting, wall-hitting process.

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 10:41 AM PDT

2009/08/26 · 10:41

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) CEO Frank Donaghue issued the following statement upon learning of the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy:

"In our lifetime, no one has done more to champion health as a universal right than Senator Ted Kennedy. He was a passionate advocate for quality, affordable, accessible healthcare for the many, not just for the few, and a tireless champion of the human rights of all people everywhere. During his career spanning five decades, he passed landmark legislation to secure the right to health for all.

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Friday July 24, 2009 · 8:49 PM PDT

2009/07/24 · 20:49

NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross has broadcast an unsettling interview with three representatives of Physicians for Human Rights who describe in disturbing detail a seven-year investigation of a mass grave in the desert of Dasht-e-Leili, near Sheberghan, Afghanistan.

On July 11, The New York Times published a front-page piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen, who reported that Bush administration officials had repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the mass killing of as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners by the forces of a US-backed warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, in November 2001. General Dostum, the Times revealed, was on the CIA payroll.

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Monday July 20, 2009 · 10:54 AM PDT

2009/07/20 · 10:54

The Dasht-e-Leili mass grave case is garnering increased media attention, after more than seven years of investigation and advocacy by Physicians for Human Rights. A large part of the credit for the media coverage goes to early and significant coverage and analysis by blogs, many of whom are named below as part of this media round-up.

The significant new information in the case is that, according to The New York Times, the Bush Administration impeded at least three federal probes into alleged war crimes and that recent analysis of satellite images by the American Association for the Advancement of Science indicates evidence-tampering at the site where bodies are suspected to be buried in a mass grave.

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Friday July 17, 2009 · 11:15 AM PDT

2009/07/17 · 11:15

The notorious Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum takes offense at front-page coverage by The New York Times of the Dasht-e-Leili mass grave case. Apparently, he doesn't care for belly-aching about mass atrocities, cover-ups of alleged war crimes, and other violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Today, General Dostum let fly with a screed (one imagines with a huff and a puff) denying that such a massacre ever occurred. At the same time, he made a significant admission that the prisoners had surrendered jointly to US forces and to his US-allied Northern Alliance forces outside Konduz, Afghanistan in November 2001.

Dostum's denial overlooks a mountain of documentation gathered over the past seven years. This includes recent analysis of satellite imagery which indicates evidence-tampering at the Dasht-e-Leili site.

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 1:45 PM PDT

2009/07/16 · 13:45

Alleged war criminals, beware: eyes in the sky may be watching you. Satellite images may indicate apparent evidence tampering at a mass grave in Afghanistan.

In the summer of 2006, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Bush Administration, seeking documents relating to an alleged massacre of Taliban prisoners in November 2001. The prisoners' bodies had reportedly been dumped into a mass grave in the desert of Dasht-e-Leili, near Sheberghan, Afghanistan.