Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Fundraising and Membership Drive – Winter 2010 Well…you did suggest we wash the Anthrax off the button, I think that was a helpful suggestion. » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 10:17 am Thanks so much for your generosity, kesmarn! Guess it really was a good idea to remove the electric shock device from the “Donate” button. » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 10:07 am Wow, remarkable comment, I am humbled indeed, thank you TRP! And thank you for your generous donation! We share the same core principles, I think most here do too. With the onslaught of corruption, greed, hatred, etc. swirling on the web and in the world around us, it’s so affirming and fortifying to be part of a community with such thoughtful and principled people. As to not becoming like other sites, being what we are is the only reason for The Planet to exist. To remove that would be like to remove gravity and allow everything and everyone of substance to float away. This year, with such a strong community assembled, we move forward with deeds as well as words. There’s strength in numbers…and starting off with strong people makes our strength…even strengthier! » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 10:04 am BigDogMom, you’re terrific! Thanks so much! » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 9:51 am They absolutely do! It’s a wonderful feeling to receive a donation from the blue and know that someone was just thinking about helping us. Thank you so much for that, javaz and hubby! And thanks to both of you for spreading the word, hope to see your husband’s friend here soon! » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 9:48 am When you can, if you can, my friend! » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 9:42 am No, but He may ask me to sacrifice one of my two chocolate Santas I’ve been saving since Xmas. » Posted By AdLib On January 21, 2010 @ 9:40 am Not to press, just to inform, PayPal works with checking accounts too. Thanks Khirad for spreading the word, that’s a very valuable contribution in itself! » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 10:05 pm Adlib, with the power of sarcasm! Wonder Twins powers, activate! » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 9:33 pm Smarmy snark, hate speech and celebrity nipples are HuffPo’s biggest exports. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 4:31 pm Welcome GirlOutWest! Nice to have you on The Planet! Yes, in a work environment and with all the legal issues at play it is a much tougher situation to handle…if you have to see a person every day. It’s really a betrayal when someone is a leader and is given that kind of trust and acts in such a way. As for reacting, I generally will speak up in situations where someone makes a racist joke, an anti-semetic crack, etc. I find most people are shamed into silence. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 4:11 pm Patsy, I think it would be a very powerful approach but my concern would be such a person turning the tables and accusing Boomer of harassment. Since Boomer may be the most recent or only one she’s said this too, she may be the likeliest suspect. When dealing with situations like this, you have to be careful not to hand the other person ammunition to fire back at you. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 12:38 pm As others have said, take all that’s here under consideration but make the decision that’s right for you. After all, you will be the one who has to live with the situation, not any of us. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 12:34 pm KQ, I think what you went through was messed up. However in this instance, I think getting out the message to all that intolerance is unacceptable to the others like this woman that may be in that company makes it a good teaching experience. It will also give some comfort to those who may have experienced this but said nothing or those who would feel reinforced that they won’t be subjected to it. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 12:31 pm This is a sticky situation, being confronted by a hateful racist who was generous enough to give you rides to work. In most situations, I want justice and people to be held personally responsible. In a conflicting situation like this, I know it’s got to be hard. So, a suggestion. Perhaps you report to whomever you’re supposed to that someone made that comment but you don’t wish to single the person out. Instead, could a memo be sent to all employees that such behavior is a violation of the Code of Ethics and that anyone violating the Code will be subject to consequences. In this way, the point would be made very clear to her and should be an effective warning shot but you would not have the guilt of reporting someone who also helped you out. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 10:30 am Let’s ALL THANK Huffington Post and Its Proprietor *claps* Well done! » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:03 am Heh! You and Groucho nailed it! » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 4:13 pm Uh oh! This just in on the AP (in our news widget): Obama urges Dems not to ‘jam’ health care past GOP By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 12:49 pm Thanks for the update…it is discouraging but instructive. The path of incrementalism and compromise on core issues is a path to failure because it dampens voter enthusiasm for his base, Democratic voters. Everything else aside, no matter how good a case can be made intellectually for the HCR bill, if the net result is to discourage Dems from voting, it will ultimately be disastrous. The path for Obama seems clearer, to be bold and inspirational, in word and deed. He has plenty of time and opportunity to turn things around. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 12:45 pm Because the Repubs would get Diebold to count our phone calls and somehow their side will win by more votes than American citizens. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:36 am Hey Sanity! Nice to see ya! The problem with retaining the filibuster is that it does protect the minority from the majority and it protects the Senate from Democracy and the public from progress. Here’s my proposition. In light of the GOP using the filibuster on every bill, when a Repub is back in the WH, the Dems will do the same. The Senate has been petrifying as the one house of Congress where nothing good can get done. We are at a moment in history where we desperately need a lot done or our nation could be forever handicapped from fully recovering. A deadlocked Senate is a threat to our nation. And from the flip side, even if the Repubs have the majority in the Senate after a filibuster is nuked, why shouldn’t democracy rule? If the Repubs go nuts, more reason to vote them out…and more power for Dems to reverse bad Repub laws. In the end though, I think you are probably right. The Senate probably won’t have the balls to do what needs to be done and get rid of the filibuster. If not, the decline of our government into impotency (except when corporations exercise their will) will be accelerated. Disagree with you and KQ about the legal aspects of the NO. The rules of the Senate are up to them, not the courts. There is nothing in The Constitution allowing a filibuster and the SCOTUS has no constitutional right to interfere and instruct The Senate on what rules it should follow. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:31 am Yep, Cher! Unplug the bipartisanship efforts from HCR and I think at the very least, the bill would have been completed sooner and the Brown election would have been moot when it came to HCR. That’s what I think some are missing, if not for that mistaken approach, even if the same bill was the end result (which may not have been the case), it would’ve been done months earlier and signed by Xmas. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:23 am I heard she did wearing a NY Yankees hat. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:19 am I’m pissed off too and I know where you’re coming from. I know you’re joking but I think your point is important for him to express. He needs to connect the dots for those who have been brainwashed by the Repubs and MSM. Corporate Death Panels and Corporate Debt Panels is what you have today and will have tomorrow if you want government to stay out of the way of corporations. Impress on people all the good that government does and why, historically, it is only government that protects people, not corporations. Remind people that it was corporations that destroyed the economy and took away their jobs, foreclosed on their homes and raised their credit card rates. Remember $5/gallon gas? Lead paint in your children’s toys? Pollution that’s destroying the planet you live on? The thin red line is our government, that’s what needs to be both communicated and proven through action. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:18 am She really was the worst Dem candidate I’ve seen for a while. I mean, Brown didn’t just win, she lost voters left and right. A typical Dem machine candidate with no reason to be elected, none whatsoever. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:10 am IMO, the DNC only evolved from an incestuous and ignorant entity to a sharp one when Howard Dean took over. Rahm stole all the credit for Dean’s wins for Dems in 2006 and 2008 then made sure Dean was cast off disrespectfully. Without Dean at the helm, we have our first big election and the DNC participates in one of the biggest upsets ever for Dems. They have devolved back into ignorance, if you ask me. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:09 am I think people just didn’t like the taste of the New Coakley. They wanted Kennedy Classic. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:02 am The thing is, it is the DNC that is primary in all the support and oversight of races. The White House is very limited by what it can do. I’ll turn it around to ask, what is it that The Obama Admin could have done that it didn’t…and wouldn’t have been a breech of protocol or Constitutionality? » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 11:01 am Great! I think a side-by-side comparison between Bush and Obama would be very effective. We should include this in our ProjectPOV. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 10:56 am I think what happened in MA was a Perfect Storm. 1. Outrage over ineffective government. Add all those together and I find it hard to lay this all at Obama’s feet. As I’ve said, I think his aspirations for a better way of governing combined with the DLC influence of Rahm and others with a stake in not shaking up the status quo too much contributed to setting the scene. The DNC bears a lot of blame and Coakley herself and her campaign bears the most. She stopped campaigning in the middle of a campaign! She said one thing after another that upset voters! She was the main reason she lost. » Posted By AdLib On January 20, 2010 @ 10:45 amComments Posted By AdLib
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2. (Related to that) A seemingly endless recession and joblessness.
3. A very poor candidate.
4. A surprisingly popular extremist in MA.
5. An overconfident and under-informed (on polls) DNC and WH.
6. MA already has universal health care
7. Ted Kennedy died and no other Kennedy ran.
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