Quick Check on This Group
I'm encouraged by initial response to this group, trying to ramp up so others can easily participate.I'm running into issues with two other groups, An Ear for Music, and Courtesy Kos.Also I've been to...
View ArticleMovie Project - Environmental Education with Children's Music - IN SPANISH!!
I've just posted on Youtube a "prototype" video, Cumpleaños de los Animales. Please take a look. The music is the work of my friend and collaborator, Venezuelan educator Adolfo Cardozo. The video...
View ArticleArpas de America Latina I
Did you know that the harp is very big in Latin America? True!!Three major regional harp traditions are paraguaya (Paraguay); jarocha (Veracruz, Eastern Mexico), and llanera (Venezuela-Colombia). There...
View ArticleThe Democrat Party
I am a Democrat. I vote Democrat - or "Democratic" if you prefer. I belong to the Democratic Party - or "Democrat Party" if you prefer.What do you think? Let's take a poll:
View ArticleChildren's Music for Environmental Education - in Spanish
Time for a quick diary, just a link - a project I'm working on:More information here.
View ArticleKora Harp from Mali
Harps are almost universal, the basic idea is that of the hunter's bow. I have thought perhaps the bow was first invented as a musical instrument and only then found useful for another purpose.Maybe...
View ArticleDNC Fundraising and Bernie Sanders
I can't find it now, but there was a comment a while back, asking for update about the September story from NYT about a possible fundraising agreement between Sanders and the DNC.I received today from...
View ArticlePoll to settle a controversy
Do you support Bernie, Hillary, or other in the PRIMARY?IF Bernie is your favorite, and Hillary is nominated, will you vote for Hillary in the GENERAL?If Hillary is your favorite, and Bernie is...
View ArticleLearning to live with DK5
Learning to live with DK5.At suggestion of Johanus I'm starting to use this as my main access to DKOS.His diary has not received much attention.
View ArticleMelvin Wine, West Virginia Old-Time Fiddler
Music is wonderful, so many different traditions!! It keeps me halfway sane in difficult times.Melvin Wine was one of my favorite old-time fiddlers, back in the 1970’s when I was fiddling, a regular at...
View ArticleWV-01 Candidate Mike Manypenny
About a dozen of us met tonight in Morgantown, WV, with Mike Manypenny (D), candidate for Congress in WV-01 to replace David McKinley (R). Mike served a couple of terms in the WV Legislature, but was...
View Article¿Cui Bono? NGP VAN data storm
I think, and I hope, that this is a tempest in a teapot.I support Bernie in the primary, but will support the Democratic nominee, whoever it is. Seems to me that most of us would agree.Now, ask...
View ArticleZapatistas - ¡NO OLVIDAMOS!
This is short but I don’t want to miss the significance of this New Year, the 22nd anniversary of the Zapatista uprising of 1994 and the charismatic leader, Subcomandante Marcos. This important history...
View ArticleVoter Database, TargetSmart ??
With the DNC denying access to primary challengers, as discussed here, progressives need to have an alternative to the Voter Activation Network (VAN). Rachel Maddow had a guy from TargetSmart. I used...
View ArticlePastafarians for Trump
I just wanted to post this graphic. I am a quaker myself, but I have friends who are Pastafarians.
View ArticleWhy was this diary removed? It was getting a lot of good comments.
www.dailykos.com/…I’m disappointed, I count on Daily Kos for substantial debate.The point of the diary was to suggest that by holding Hillary’s primary victory to a narrow margin, progressives/liberals...
View ArticleFraming, Luntz, Egberto, and THE METAPHOR PROJECT
Folks seem to be unaware of The Metaphor Project, which seems to be aimed at exactly the issues of framing and language for progressives.This came up in Egberto’s current diary, here.I’m only...
View ArticleWells Fargo Bank Scam: Elizabeth Warren Hammers CEO John Stumpf on...
Guess how Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf got his start. He was a REPO MAN.From a May 5, 2012 “CEO Spotlight” in Barron’s, by Lawrence C. Strauss (worth reading):1976, fresh out of college, Stumpf went to...
View ArticleShrinking Audiences for Trump
Trump support is shrinking. The Nation’s Joan Walsh: A Shrinking Trump Mocks His Accusers to Shrinking CrowdsAt a recent Trump rally the crowd was far below capacity, around 4000, at a venue where...
View ArticleI Confess, I Elected Donald Trump. No Snark.
I confess, I elected Donald Trump. No snark.I supported Bernie in the primary. After the convention I declared for Clinton. After Bernie endorsed the nominee, and a progressive platform was written, I...
View ArticleWest Virginia Kos - a New Local Group, December, 2016
West Virginia Kossaks, I’m working with a few others to develop a “local” West Virginia group at Daily Kos. This group is starting out as purely “virtual,” but there’s no reason we can’t move toward...
View ArticleWest Virginia Kos Group is Starting to Roll
I want to INVITE folks to post to this group about West Virginia politics, economics, culture, and history. I’ve added several members to the group, invited others, and more are welcome to ask me for...
View ArticleMiner's Day, December 6, 2016
By sheerest coincidence, just as I’m launching a West Virginia group for Kossacks, TODAY happens to be National Miner’s Day. It is also the anniversary of the Monongah Mining Disaster, on this date in...
View ArticleMountaineers for Progress - Meeting in Morgantown, WV, Thursday, 12/15/2016
Mountaineers for Progress is meeting 7:30 PM THURSDAY, 12/15/16, at the Wit’s End Lounge, Ramada Inn, 20 Scott Avenue, Morgantown, WV. I’m the “blogadmin” for this group, West Virginia Kos. I’m putting...
View ArticleWEST VIRGINIA PUT-DOWNS - Let's PUSH BACK!!!
As seen in a recent diary and comment thread, there is a lot of pointing and snicker-sneering about Trump voters and about my state of West Virginia. This state has been turning red, after a long...
View ArticleWV Mountaineers for Progress TONIGHT 1/4/17 - and the WEST VIRGINIA KOS group
Fellow West Virginia Progressives:Mountaineers for ProgressWednesday, January 4 at 7:30pm Hill and Hollow Restaurant, Seneca Center 709 Beechurst Ave, Morgantown.Friends, I am of two minds about...
View ArticlePlease Don't Jump Off this Bridge in West Virginia without a Parachute!!
Bridge Day is October 21, 2017.A comment by JugOPunch planted this idea in my mind. Why not plan a MEETUP in October at Bridge Day.West Virginia is a tourism destination. Sources say we are within 500...
View ArticleMeetup Saturday, October 21 at West Virginia Bridge Day??
Howzabout a meetup at Bridge day in West Virginia, October 21? This idea originated with my response to JugOPunch, in a diary a few weeks ago.Since then with my local progressive group (Mountaineers...
View ArticleEvery Man should Shut Up about Everything... (clickbait!!)
Thanks, Hunter, for catching the greatest tweet of the day EVER, by Trayvon Free.Serena Williams won a grand slam while she was pregnant so every man should probably shut up about everything forever.I...
View ArticleWV vs. VW (West Virginia vs. Volkswagen); WVU Students Found the Evidence.
Inside VW’s Campaign of TrickeryAs a West Virginian I’m proud that research by two graduate students the WVU Center for Alternative Emissions Technology that led to Volkwagen’s acknowledgement of...
View ArticleRecovering from Addiction to White Supremacy
America is hooked on the drug of white supremacy. We're paying for that today — by Carol AndersonProfessor Carol Anderson was interview by Rachel Maddow a couple of nights ago. The headline was “How...
View Article"Framing" Sexual Behavior; What are the Right Words?
Today’s flap about “zero tolerance” came just as I got a note from Kossak Susan Strong, creator of the Metaphor Project. I had noticed a few of her posts and comments. I checked her profile and she has...
View Article"Big Brother is making an unprotected, illegal left turn in front of us"
The headline is the last line of this comment by Jesus Ghandi. Based on a personal experience of a car crash that left them disabled, the theme rests on the distortion of the flow of time. Sobering,...
View ArticleAddiction, anonymity, serenity
[preamble: this diary has evolved quickly since I started writing it and almost abandoned it. Bottom line here: resistance requires frequent, local, face-to-face meeting, collaboration, and action....
View ArticleEaster/April Fools Review - Good Pranks??
Since Easter and April Fool coincide this year, some great opportunities for sacrilege.So Jesus’s followers go to the tomb, the rock is rolled away, the angel says “He is not here, he has risen. APRIL...
View ArticleDebt-shaming, Stacy Abrams, Michelle Goldberg
The bottom line from this column by Michelle Goldberg:… people with thousands of dollars in debt are shamed, while those with millions of dollars in debt rule the world.Stacy Abrams appears in the...
View ArticleTell Manchin what you think of the Kavanaugh nomination!!
As a West Virginian, I’ve been lobbying Joe Manchin by telephone, but this week I went to his website and found this invitation to submit constituent views:The link code is very specific, it says...
View ArticlePresident Pelosi and the Venezuelan Constitution
Based on recent developments in Venezuela, I think it can be said that Nancy Pelosi is now the legitimate President of the United States. Here’s how I see it:..It is alleged that Nicolas Maduro was...
View ArticleKleptocracy in America
The story is in The Atlantic, by Franklin Foer, title is “How Kleptocracy Came to America.” It tells of a 1999 hearing in congress testimony of Richard Palmer, who was CIA station chief in Moscow for a...
View ArticlePut Impeachment Back on the Table
The predominant spin is that impeachment now would help the Trump re-election. I question that. I think impeachment would not help him win. If convicted in the Senate (who knows how that would turn...
View ArticleMSM Loves the Louisville Situation
According to MSNBC, a 12 million dollar settlement included some important reforms such as body cameras, supervisors, etc. They are repeating it as I write. However, the main story is the expectation...
View ArticleGeorgia Vote-Forward update?
I’m writing Vote-Forward letters that are to be mailed on Monday 12/7. What happens after that date? Will we keep writing and mailing through till 1/5/21?I wrote postcards to voters ahead of 11/3, but...
View ArticleBuffalo Creek Flood, 50th Anniversary 2/26
On February 26, at about this time in the morning, a dam broke at the head of Buffalo Creek hollow in West Virginia. The Buffalo Creek Flood. Sixteen small towns were wiped away and 125 people died.In...
View ArticleTwo-Spirit Indigenous Traditions and Transgender Visibility
In recognition of Transgender Day of Visibility today, March 31, readers might be interested in this article from The Guardian, “The 'two-spirit' people of indigenous North America”.Some...
View ArticleAgrivoltaic Farming?
What is better for environment, windmills or solar panels? Here in Nebraska we have a bit of each and quite a bit of controversy.Here’s a link to discussion. Windmills generate noise and provoke NIMBY...
View ArticleCould Daily Kos be a Coop??
I read recently about the idea that “corporations” have become a new species of life, in competition with “homo sapiens.”In the last few days, I’ve received increasingly panicked emails from Amanda...
View ArticleI'm a regular donor, but ...
My budget is very limited, but I make regular donations to a few worthy efforts, including Daily Kos. $20/month.I’ve tried to unsubscribe the fund-raising emails and texts, but keep getting them...
View ArticleCats and Laser Toys - Pro/Con??
I wonder if laser toy is good for cat, or just for the lazy owner?? Trying to google the question gets nowhere. Banjo chases the red dot, runs in circles, gets lots of exercise. I also play with actual...
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