$1000 Match for NFTT: Remembering Megan
In a comment in joanbrooker’s heartbreaking diary Friday night, Our Women Suffer Too Hearing Their Voices I wrote this:I have been writing for IGTNT for four years. I don't know how many soldiers,...
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Remembering Nesari: Another species, almost gone
One of the last surviving Northern White rhinoceroses died last week in a Czech zoo.Nesari (1972 – 2011)A 39-year-old northern white rhinoceros has died at a Czech zoo, further reducing the world's...
View ArticleIGTNT: June 6, 1944
We shall never forget.President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prayed that day that these men would "liberate a suffering humanity."(repost from 2009)
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Stop Blaming the Jury
If ever there were ever a more heartbreaking victim, Caylee Anthony:Just two years old. Missing from her Florida home in June 2008. Her remains found in a swamp. Maybe in a garbage bag.It was (and...
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White Flowers: I Will Never Hear His Voice Again
On Sundays, I buy fresh flowers. I have done this for so many years. I bought them on the street in NYC when I lived in a shoe-boxed sized apartment right off 5th Avenue and when I lived in the...
View ArticleAmericans Are Asking "Why?"
While the lunatic "dark side," as Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put it so aptly earlier today, are looking for ways to destroy the United States of America as we know it, most Americans are working so...
View ArticleGOP Downgrade: Let Them Own It
On 360 last night, Anderson Cooper interviewed John Chambers, the S&P executive responsible for the downgrade of US Treasury Bonds:Video here.Among other things, Mr. Chambers said:I think that...
View ArticleIGTNT: These Five Died Together
The young dead soldiers do not speak. Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them? They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts. They say: We...
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Compassion
I am grateful for Kos's post tonight about civility, which, heaven knows, is a value I support. In my mind, it's a progressive value to be civil to our fellow community members.Thank you, Markos.Just...
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Remembering Eleanor and Kara
The Mondale and Kennedy families are mourning the loss tonight of two women gone too soon:Eleanor Mondale and Kara Kennedy both died today. They were both just 51 years old.
View ArticlePresident to GOP: "You Want to Be Commander in Chief?"
At the HRC dinner Saturday night, President Obama called out the GOP Presidential hopefuls who stood by silently last week while members of their debate audience booed a uniformed United States soldier...
View ArticleJustice for Amanda
Amanda Knox, a 24-year-old American, is finally free.Wrongly accused, wrongly convicted . . . four years in an Italian prison for a crime she did not commit. Tonight, she is free.(Disclaimer: I have...
View ArticleDear Customer 4512-0957
Dear Customer 4512-0957,We are in receipt of your frankly stunning correspondence ("Correspondence") requesting that we close your account at GoldWorldBank. This response to that request has been...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner v.6.11: Northern Comfort
In the early days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in the autumn of 1962, my Dad’s Naval Reserve unit got called up for a deployment of unknown duration. And as she had so many times before when my Dad...
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1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: Hunger Lives Near You
Good morning! Thank you so much for joining the 1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America, which will continue throughout the weekend. In December 2008, when Daily Kos hosted its first ever Feeding America...
View ArticleIraq: More Costly Than WWII
On December 7, 1941, my Mom was four days shy of her 12th birthday. She and a pal were busy making their first cake in my grandparents’ house in Vermont. The radio was on. There was an announcement:...
View ArticleMemo to GOP: Sexual Harassment is Not a Joke
Rand Paul:"There are people now who hesitate to tell a joke to a woman in the workplace, any kind of joke, because it could be interpreted incorrectly," he told the National Review. "I don’t. I’m very...
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"A Pocketful of Dreams"
On Christmas morning, police in Crown Heights, New York found both Donna Fountain and a small piece of crumpled notebook paper on which she had written her dreams. Both were found near the...
View ArticleAlabama: Amidst the rubble, a miracle (updated)
For Greg Cook of East Limestone, Alabama, it has been a dreadful time. His mother died last week; her funeral was last Friday.And then came the forecasts of terrible weather.Last spring, tornadoes...
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