(music) - I can't see them.

Where have all my comments gone....they've gone away....

I know I'm going to get a lot of something or other for posting this, as it's obviously time for someone like me to "get over it".

So show me your ways.  Show me how, in your comments, you can heal those things that were broken.

Broken things don't heal overnight, especially when we really believe in the things that got broken.

Telling us "to get over it" is like listening our parents to tell us the same things, while we're thinking "what do YOU know about how we feel".  No-one likes to be told that their feelings and opinions don't matter anymore.  That we MUST get over them.  Just put yourselves back to the people who told you to do so, and tell me if that rung true with you at that time.

Anyway, here is how I feel right now.  And yes, I'm posting a pro or past Hillary diary here, breaking the boycott.

I do so because some subjects, aside from Hillary and Obama, are coming back onto the Recommend List.  Things we all should be paying attention to.

But here is how I feel.  Knock away at me.  I don't care.

I want to get off this blog, so that Kos can no longer count me in as a subscriber/member.

Since there is no option to unsubscribe from here, other than getting troll-rated, please do me a favor and troll-rate me into oblivion so I can stop being counted as a Kos blog subscriber.

I have lived here for almost three years.  When I arrived here, I was a political neophyte.  I learned so much during my time here.  This blog truly was the best, for anyone beginning in their political journey.

So why am I going to be leaving here?

Because Marcos no longer follows his own mission statements.

He's unabashedly a partisan, rooting only for ONE Democrat - Obama.

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Not many, I would say.  Many great past members have left the scene.

It's not that there are fewer Hillary Supporters in the general population.  Polls don't bear that out, although the vicious and biased media onslaughts from the MSM don't help.  But the truth is that nearly half (and perhaps more) Americans still stand behind Hillary.

Amidst all of our hopes and dreams, our valiant efforts for our three candidates Clinton, Obama, and Edwards (who deserves much more than just being excluded from the results).

I cannot for the world of me sign into MYDD (mydd.com).  Every attempt to do so ends up with an instant blank page with the word "done" at the bottom before a single second of loading takes place.  This started yesterday morning. It happens within both of my browsers (Firefox, the one I use all the time, and Iexplorer, the one I have to keep on board because Microsoft says so).

I've deleted temporary files, cookies, and done a registry scan/clean,   re-booted the system, checked my "start-up program" list, disabling both my firewall and spy ware program.  I'm at my wits' end, done all I can.

I've also questioned others about having this problem, but everyone on earth except me seems to be able to access the site just fine.

Any  help is much appreciated.  Should I use "System Restore" from a couple of days age?  It's just so weird..

But a thanks for a last 8 or so hours of a break from "Hate Hillary" diaries.

Today I sent a really benign email to one of my friends with a "hotmail.com" address.  My message got rejected twice in a row, and I have no idea why.

Here's the text of why it got rejected.  I can't make heads or tails of it.

Any feedback/advice?

Over at Common Dreams I found an article by Richard Behan which left my heart pounding so much that I HAD to put it up as a diary.

We all knew that the Iraq war was mostly about oil, money, and weapon sales, but Richard Behan weaves a hundred loose threads together into a whole,in the course answering countless questions that were left in my mind about the seemingly massive stupidity, brazenness and ineptitude of this administration. Well, the veil has fallen. Since the author specifically states that this article is not copyrighted and can be freely distributed in full, I am doing so, and will skip my own analysis (still digesting it), and save it for the comments section.

It's a MUST READ, and deserves a large readership.  Please pass it along.

Another of my late night Pacific Daylight Time Diaries...

I was peacefully going around the blogosphere, minding my own business, when something Arianna Huffington wrote kicked in my adrenaline: the whole post is here.

Well, a lot of it was just a bunch of words, but one particular phrase got my attention (the adrenaline part):

"So now, as the president prepares to preempt Deal or No Deal to lay out his new plan for Iraq in prime time on Wednesday night (and wouldn't it be great if we could all collectively shout "No deal! No deal!!" at him through our TVs?),

I changed the headline and description below, as I didn't mean this to be a presidential poll, but a leadership poll including many areas that effect us in our daily lives.

So, re-think about your favorite progressive/liberal heroes, and tell us all why you think they help us with our cause to restore honesty, integrity, and true Democracy.

Please take some time to watch his ad via:
http://www.firedoglake.com/...
or at:
http://crooksandliars.com/
or at his own site:
http://www.rodriguezforcongress.com/

It is definitely the most creative, innovative, and effective political commercial I have seen during this whole 2006 campaign.

I want to join Kos and other diarists in stating that now is the time to support all current Democrats in order for us to win back one or both houses.

We know who our "sick ones" are.  If we don't stick with them (use them) for the current 2006 voting cycle, we lose much more than we gain. Period.

Regaining the majority in either or both of the houses, will most likely:

1. Help them begin voting along with Democratic bills, as it's safer now.

2. Give us the next two years to find and support alternative, more progressive candidates, and let them know about it.

This came to me via e-mail from some of my environmental friends, and it's just too good not to share.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality sent a letter to Mr. Ryan DeVries in Lycoming County.

It tells Mr. DeVries that he is violation of a law because he did not apply for a permit for the construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across an outlet stream of a pond on his property.

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I`m on your mailing list because I am interested in keeping up with your agenda.

I must say that I find you out of touch, a spoiled wealthy executive-type that has no connection to the majority of the American people.

You have never had to live without (anything), like food, shelter or work.  Your Senate majority leadership agenda reflects this.  You only operate from within your own life experience, which excludes 80% of the American people who work long and hard hours for mere basics of rent, food and (if lucky) childcare and medical expenses.

I just received this email from Verizon Wireless,  my current cell phone carrier.  I am not a lawyer and cannot make sense of this email and its legal ramifications.

Would someone here  be willing to help me interpret this legal word barrage into something I can understand?  I no longer trust Verizon to represent me since the NSA phone spying episode.  I'm afraid I'm becoming a totally paranoid person, and also that I have reason to do so.

Thanks for your help, and if anyone knows of another reliable wireless carrier available here in Santa Barbara, CA, please let me know.

I just posted a comment on this, http://www.dailykos.com/... but feel it's worthy and timely to make it into a diary.

The observations that Bush's approval ratings keep crashing nationally, but apparently local Republican Senator and Congresspeople's ratings are somewhat holding their own.  No-one wants to believe that a local person is as evil as Bushco.

I have read about the strategy of linking local reps to Bush's agenda, especially legislative votes, but I have not yet noticed a diary on how to go about making these connections, so I am offering this diary as a collecting point for our local representatives' positions and votes, both positive and negative.

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