Siegelman: Help apply some pressure
The 60 Minutes piece on Don Siegelman just aired and it is sure to make Rove and the Bush criminal enterprise nervous. It focused on the polititization of the Justice Department. It didn't mention...
View ArticleMark Penn NOT REALLY Stepping Down: Smoke & Mirrors
Rumors of Mark Penn's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I am writing this diary to try to set the record straight.Mark Penn did not resign. Mark Penn was not fired. In fact, this is just another...
View ArticleIrony...My Republican boss was fired yesterday
My boss and I have had a number of political discussions over the years. He is a staunch Republican and screamed about government's involvement in any aspect of his life, until yesterday.
View ArticleAnyone but Evan
I find that I would like a chance to donate to the Anyone but Evan Bayh pac which is dedicated to making sure that Evan Bayh never ever wins the Democratic Presidential nomination. The idea is that it...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch fires employee for defending cop killers and racist, and it's...
From Huffington Post:Liberal Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Lamont Hill has been fired, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch revealed at a shareholder's meeting Friday.Murdoch made the announcement after being...
View Article67 workers to lose their jobs - over their own credit card debt and medical...
The Defense Financing and Accounting Service (DFAS) Cleveland branch is firing 67 employees over their own personal debt. DFAS Cleveland processes paychecks and pensions for Pentagon employees. Twenty...
View ArticleIn defense of teachers' unions
I am a unionized teacher.I have served as a building representative (shop steward).Regularly I read people arguing that bad teachers are the fault of teachers' unions.That is so wrong it is...
View ArticleKeith Olbermann vs. MSNBC
MSNBC: You blew it.Keith Olbermann was the cornerstone of everything that made MSNBC great. If executives at MSNBC felt threatened by Keith, they should have. He has more on the ball than they do. I...
View ArticleIN Foundry Worker Dies From Heat Days After IN Ironworkers Were Fired For Not...
On July 21, reports spread throughout the labor community that 12 Ironworkers from Local 22 in Indiana had been fired for refusing to work more than 8 hours with temperatures in the high 90s and a heat...
View ArticleIs it Fair to Quote Mitt Romney on “Firing?”
There is a great deal of nonsense surrounding the fairness of quoting Mitt Romney saying “I like to be able to fire people.” Romney defenders scream that this quote is taken out of context and is...
View ArticleWhat it feels like to fire people
I have had to do it twice, once in the private sector, once in the public sector.My work career before becoming a teacher was in data processing, where at various times I was a programmer, programmer...
View ArticleWAYWO: What are you working on?
Back Again! I am this week's host for WAYWO (What Are You Working On) a community diary for crafters, hobbyist, Jacks and Jills of all trades, Artists and anyone who just wants to share whats...
View ArticleFiring Big Bird
Sometimes, despite the cacophony of horse-race punditry, a debate offers a fleeting glimpse into who a candidate really is in real life. Last night provided such a glimpse with what we shall term the...
View ArticleRevenge Firings
I have to wonder if we’re in for a big ugly and nasty populist fad of Revenge Firings against people who voted for Obama, or even Gary Johnson. I found myself wondering that after accidentally tripping...
View ArticleRepublicans Fire, Democracts Hire
The CEO of Pappa Johns, John Schnatter, and other like minded CEO's have been Revenge Firing, or if they have not yet begun to fire their employees, have stated they would if Obama won the election.We...
View ArticleRepublicans Fire, Democrats Hire Narrative
A narrative plays an important role in politics. For a long time the Republicans have been better at creating, and pushing forward on a narrative than we progressives have been. However, times have...
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Not Enough People Quitting, Cause for Unemployment
The Wall Street Journalreports that not enough people are quitting their jobs, and that a humming economy usually means a high rate of churn in the work force --- where an employee voluntarily leaves...
View ArticleNewspaper that once fired every photojournalist will endorse Republican Bruce...
The Chicago Sun-Times, historically the "Democratic" newspaper in Chicago, will endorse Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner.However, Rauner himself owned a 10% stake in Wrapports...
View ArticleEthelbert Miller: A Sustaining Presence is Forced Out and Everyone Loses
On 3 April, the powers-that-be at Howard University laid off 84 staff members, including E. Ethelbert Miller, director of Howard University's African American Resource Center, who attended Howard and...
View ArticleWhy Firing a Sexual Harasser Works Best for Everyone
Most of my work life I've worked in places that had zero tolerance for sexual harassers. At one place, a multinational corporation, a high-level engineer was immediately fired when it was discovered by...
View ArticleColor me surprised? (Comey firing related)
So the buzz right now is that there’s been a furious uproar in the media or whatever over Comey’s firing, and that it blindsided the Trump Administration. When the news first broke for me thanks to...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To My Congressman Regarding James Comey's Firing
My Open Letter To Congressman Tom Reed. Feel free to copy this, substituting the name of your representative for Congressman Reed's name, Then send it to your representative.Dear Congressman Reed,I am...
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The Only 2 Replies I Want to Hear From Any Democrat Pol.
First, let me emphasize, these are replies. I want to hear a lot of original statements, assertions, endless strong assertions, gorge me in original assertions.But, with respect to replies to anything...
View ArticleTrump ain't seen nothing yet. Cue new revelations.
Just a quick aside to start with, the less than transparent Sarah Huckabee Sanders just said that not only did the President loser confidence in Comey, not only did ther DOJ lose confidence in...
View ArticleSean Spicer Placed on Active Duty. Sent to Afghanistan.
Now Mr. Trump might call this fake news. You might call this fake news. Okay, I might call this fake news. Anyway, this is a prediction based watching Sarah Huckabee Sanders performance at the press...
View ArticleExploring Several Reasons Why FBI Director James Comey Was Fired
History is happening all around politics right now. What goes down right now, will no doubt be part of the future textbooks. Even skeptics will agree that with the firing of FBI Director James Comey,...
View ArticleTrump exonerated - explained
People wonder how Trump got the idea he wasn’t under investigation for colluding with the Russians during the campaign. Newly released transcripts of secret White House tapes reveal how it all went...
View ArticleTrump can't keep his story straight
The Trump administration can’t even get their story straight. They start by saying that Rosenstein was the main actor behind the firing of Comey which was a smart move and made some sense. Rosenstein,...
View ArticleThe Comey Affair
It was an astonishing, unprecedented week. Trump fired FBI director Comey, initially stating he did so because of the way Comey had treated Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign. That was...
View ArticleTrump, Sessions, Rosenstein Never Discussed With Comey Their Concerns Written...
Well, well, well. The DOJ and Trump never told James Comey about their concerns.Never, until Comey was blindsided by his firing.If this is true, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and Donald Trump...
View ArticleThe Mooch is out!
I just heard on CNBC that the Mooch is out! It was just confirmed by ABC that he lasted 10 days. I’m guessing Trump didn’t like the fact that someone was competing for the limelight. Bye bye,...
View ArticleThe American Experiment On The Precipice
When Mueller was appointed, nearly every Republican Senator and member of Congress lauded his exemplary record and spotless reputation (he's a Republican). What's happening now is once again out of...
View ArticleTrump Relieves Himself
In a surprise move, the President fires Donald Trump.From the President of the United States of AmericaDonald Trump has nothing to do with me or the Presidency. Donald was a staffer who attended to my...
View ArticleDeputy Director Directed to Go by Dumald
I don’t login to my Facebook account to preach, but since 2016 I have watched Americans cooperate in the destruction and squandering of the land and the political system in by a man whose morals may be...
View ArticleLooking For Some Fun? Drudge Has This Poll & Let's Tell Him What We Think
I found this Drudge Poll asking “Should president Trump fire Mueller?” while watching AM Joy this morning. I don’t normally visit Matt Drudge’s site, but this is a case where I made an exception. This...
View ArticleSpitballing a wild hypothesis or three
I posted a version of this on Hunter’s most recent diary.Let me post a wild hypothesis: that Mueller already has a number of indictments either done and sealed or that can be issued on a moment’s...
View Article"I am prepared to be fired" Rod Rosenstein
This is the latest breaking news. He said he was at peace about it but The Deputy Atty. General may be the only one who does have peace about it. Resist is prepared as well for this firing and there...
View ArticleThe pushback if Rosenstein is fired and it may come this weekend .
With all the chaos and anger from bullying.,..No One is Above the Law Rallies have grown. The map is fully dotted in green rallies. www.marchfortruth.info Daily KosDonald Trump could be preparing...
View ArticleRosenstein story - deflection from Kreepy Kavanaugh hearing
They assume we can be distracted from Kreepy Kavanaugh by the Rosenstein story. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. I am preparing for my local protest demonstration.
View ArticleFormer FBI official Andrew McCabe has a tell-all book coming out that Trump's...
For more than two years, Donald Trump used his megaphone to say whatever he wanted about anything or anyone. His many slanderous remarks were met mostly with silence because Republicans controlled...
View ArticleWait time? How about forever.
Representative Pramila Jayapal was on Firing Line last night talking about Medicare for all. Over and over again, Margaret Hoover kept pressing this question — Won’t Medicare for all lead to increased...
View ArticleBolton Offered to Resign, Resigned, Bolted, Got Fired? Let the jokes begin.
Whether Bolton offered to resign, resigned, bolted and/or got fired, history (or NOAA) will tell. No tears are being shed for his departure. The world is probably a safer place, at least until the next...
View ArticleCleveland police department chose to care about lying over the killing of...
On Nov. 22, 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was killed by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann. Rice was playing with a black airsoft toy gun when Loehmann and Officer Frank Garmback drove up to Rice...
View ArticleWhistleblower who exposed Wells Fargo’s secret account scheme wins $22M in...
Wells Fargo agreed to pay $185 million in penalties for perpetuating a massive fraud on the American people back in 2016. Wells Fargo boasted it had also laid off 5,300 employees who had helped...
View ArticleNyetly News is upset Tucker was fired
For some time now, Tucker Carlson’s nightly broadcast of white nationalism and anti-Biden conspiracy theories has been fodder for Russia’s propaganda machine. Its government has specifically directed...
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