The Duping of Daily Kos
Yesterday a diary, which I will not link to, graced not only the pages of Daily Kos but the Recommended List as well, decrying the shooting death of Jose Guerena at the hands of the Pima County,...
View ArticleCan Some Women Get A Little Help Here: An Action Diary
There's a group of women, and some men, who desperately need the help of politically activist minded people. Most of you folks probably think of yourselves that way. That's why I'm appealing to...
View ArticleLog Drill
In a way this post has a very targetted audience. But if you'll bear with me a bit, and if I do this even one cheeked right, maybe there's something important in here for every kossack, every...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Waiting Room
The other day I happened to be sitting in a waiting room, at the VA hospital, in the Mental Health Clinic where I go for such help as I can get with nearly half century old PTSD. The waiting room...
View ArticleNobody Who Knows Me Ever Thought I'd Be Speechless
Occupy Boston protesters arrested by Boston Police. Credit: Aaron Spagnolo. In one of the largest mass arrests in recent Boston history, the Boston Police Department cleared a park of over 100...
View ArticleIntroducing MCM's Newest Member: The Next Democratic Congressman from Arkansas
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends of the Military Community Members of Daily Kos (MCM), it is my distinct honor and privilege to introduce to you the newest member of MCM, Ken Aden, the next Democratic...
View ArticleIraq Veterans Against the War Press Release
What follows is the verbatim press release of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and in no way my original work. Good news is hard to find.Iraq Veterans Against the War Celebrates President...
View ArticleA Veteran Walks for Peace
A couple of months ago my friend Sat Bir Kaur Khalsa of the Tucson Culture of Peace Alliance asked me if I would speak at the annual PeaceWalk, a remarkable coming together of Jewish and Islamic voices...
View ArticleTucson PeaceWalk 2012 (photo diary)
While many around the country were celebrating Veterans Day on Sunday, November 11th, an intrepid interfaith band of Tucsonans gathered for the ninth annual Muslim-Jewish PeaceWalk from the Islamic...
View ArticleThanks, Just Thanks!
Today's my day for Thanks giving!I woke up this morning at three ayem, well rested after having gone to bed quite early. "It's Thanksgiving," I thought and the word "Thanks" just formed on my lips....
View ArticleThe Rumble of Distant Gunfire? Updated
A couple of things have recently come to my attention (h/t Sue Frasier) that reverberate against the backdrop of the oncoming fiscal storm.The big show, the distraction, may be the Speaker and his Far...
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VA To Eliminate Annual Eligibility Screening
h/t Dave Hampton AZDVSGood news for veterans receiving VA benefits:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 20, 2012 VA, SSA and IRS Cut Red Tape for...
View ArticleRespectfully Disagreeing With the General
You may have read about the Marine Staff Sergeant who caused a fuss by urinating on the corpses of fallen Taliban fighters.A video showing four United States Marines urinating on three dead Taliban...
View ArticleUnfinished Business
Not quite a month ago I published a "diary,"Redington Pass, which contained not a single word of text. A simple series of barely adequate photographs I took during a day outing in the mountains just a...
View ArticleHere We Go Again
The Arizona Legislature is at it again, trying one more time to see if the federal Supremacy clause really means what it says:REFERENCE TITLE: hospital admissions; restrictions State of ArizonaHouse of...
View ArticleOEF/OIF Veterans Wellness Study
Veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and live within driving distance are encouraged to look into a study being conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Investigating Healthy...
View ArticleNot A Magnetic Yellow Ribbon: An Action Diary
The VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 created a little known but very useful program to retrain veterans for high demand occupations. The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) provides direct...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 1 Jan 25, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
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We Got Your Assault Weapons Ban Right Here
Among the wonderments snaking their way through the Arizona Legislature is a pre-emptive strike on any assault weapons ban that Sen. Feinstein's bill might possibly create.In Arizona, of course, the...
View ArticleI Really Just Don't Know What to Think
A long time ago I decided that a young man was someone five years older than I was or less. Even as it evolved over time, it still worked for me. Now I just don't know.In a few weeks I'll be sixty...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 2 February 1, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
View ArticleVA to Study Long Term Health Effects of Iraq/Afghanistan "Burn Pits"
As it turns out, the eventual killer of Billy McKenna was lurking in the photographs he snapped in Iraq. Billy wrote captions beneath some of his photographs: typical day on patrol reads one. The photo...
View ArticleThe "Crazy Veteran with a Gun" Meme
PUBLIC NOTICENew Tip Jar HOS PolicyTo: The Daily Kos DiaristsFrom: A Service-Connected Veteran with PTSDSubject: The Careless Use of Psychiatric Diagnosis in Service of an Anti-Gun AgendaWhatever the...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 3 February 10, 2013
On the road editionEach week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 4 February 15, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 5 February 22, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
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A Shameless Solicitation for Votes
Maybe you saw drnatrl's Rec listed diary Mindfulness in a Round Pen a couple of months back. It describes a program of the Mindful Veterans Project that helps veterans deal with the aftermath of...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 6, March 1, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
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Charlie Rangel Wants You!
Liberal icon Charlie Rangel (D-NY13) knows a thing or two about military service. When he was twenty he found himself in the still functionally segregated United States Army, in a place called Kunu-ri,...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest, Number 7, March 8, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 8, March 22, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
View ArticleAZDVS Legislative Digest Number 9, March 30, 2013
Each week during the Legislative Session the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (AZDVS) publishes an updated digest of all Bills, Memorials, and Resolutions pertaining to veterans or military...
View ArticleWill the Circle Be Unbroken?
Who woulda thunk it? Today is rather a milestone for me. On this date in 1963 a tall, skinny, barely seventeen year old kid from the Bronx went down to Times Square and raised his hand, took that oath...
View ArticleFor Anissa
Sitting here, late on Friday night, the teevee's on. Cheers! as it turns out. The episode opens with the dark haired one coming in, somehow becoming the center of the episode.Ordinary enough. Except...
View ArticleRerun Teevee is a Dangerous Place
Sometimes that '50's misperception of America, the black and white western cowboy shoot 'em up, might use a little re-examining. There might really be at least some gold in them thar hills!Not like,...
View ArticleRegarding Basketball
Verbatim, an email to a dear friend (a U of A lifer):So, after the game was already over, waiting on the festivities, because the Warriors had won the Championship, I read this article about Andre...
View ArticleScottie's
Sometime back, when the always intrepid Mr. Z, aka Azazello, finally turned an old talking point of ours, the Brotherhood of the Green Felt, into an actual DKos group, and wrote an inaugural diary...
View ArticleAn Encounter with a Lieutenant
Rank has its privileges, I suppose, and one of them seems to be the ability to verbally abuse those of lesser station.That never sat well with me, as perhaps this tale will illustrate.
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