Seven People Can Make a Difference
On Blog for America, Noreen Nielsen posted Seven People Can Make a Difference at 8:39 a.m.
Two weeks ago, seven members of Johnson County Democracy for America met with Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) asking him to support House Resolution 375 as part of a DFA National Day of Action.
The resolution demands disclosure of the Downing Street Memos and all communications between the Bush administration and the United Kingdom between January 1, 2002, and October 16, 2002, in connection with Iraq.
Just days after the meeting, Representative Jim Leach became the first Republican member of Congress to sign on to the House resolution, thanks to the dedicated of the DFA members of Johnson County in Iowa.
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Dean is always first here.
ReplyDeleteNeed to have new threads regardless, so I will continue to link and excerpt BFA posts, but if anyone can help me figure out how to get the automated feed like some of the state blogs do, I'd be most appreciative.
ReplyDeleteCap Casey bus tour map:
ReplyDeletehttp://bringthemhomenowtour.org/
Renee,
ReplyDeleteI would try finding one that does and emailing them to ask how. I have no idear how they do that.
Renee ~~ kimmy might know, she was doing it for her blog I think. Also, TeaTime and Oscar are pretty dang good. . . .
ReplyDeleteGood morning, bloggers!
ReplyDeleteFeels like the old days when we could actually have conversations without trolling.
Renee, I have a suggestion for you. Can you post on the main page as a visable, permanent box a list of html code for people so they can just copy and paste the code, then change the url when they want to post links? Most of us either forget or find it cumbersome to type all the code each time we want to post a link.
Thanks,
Cheryl
PS: I am going to try to put a link with my web page and see if it links the url like BFA does.
Okay, I guess if we include the link as our name it works. However, I am not registered. Will someone who is registerd add a link and see if it works, or does the 'your web page' box only show up for those who select 'other' for their name?
ReplyDeleteRenee, email Michael Bryan at blogforarizona.com. You can contact him on his blog. I am sure if you ask him how to set it up and say you are a Democracy for America grassroots blog he will help out on how to set that up the way he has on his blog. He is pretty good with the web stuff. Click my name.
ReplyDeleteWelcome, everyone. I really appreciated all of the positive comments in the overnight thread. I see from Rich's post on BFA that he continues to not "get it". It's not about being unable to handle diverse viewpoints--it's about not wanting to have to brace for the contempt and sarcasm every time one posts *anything*. But I don't want to dwell on that. Some people *aren't* going to understand no matter how many times I explain.
ReplyDeleteObviously, the first post here yesterday explained part of the rationale. In addition--and by way of explanation of why I might not be able to hang around for extended conversations in the next couple days, here is what I wrote in my diary on My Left Wing yesterday:
"It's gloomy and gray here, and the kids are starting school the day after tomorrow. We still need to get--oh, a bunch of stuff, before then. Tons of different stuff like school clothes and supplies and...dang it, I just want to go back to bed it's so gray!"
It's raining *again* today...and the dog peed on the rug in the middle of the night. Argh.
Here's the link to the rest of that diary, by the way:
Austrian town: Stop stealing our F---ing signs!
Top of the mornin' to ya!
ReplyDeleteTeaTime: me, too.
ReplyDeleteBut I think it'll fade as time goes on. Right now, lotsa people are pretty raw.
I always notice they use 'diversity of opinion' as an excuse for abuse. I have disagreed with everyone in this community at least once...however, it didn't get abusive. When there were sexist, racist, oppressive, homophobic comments...then I strike back.
ReplyDeleteBesides, if we really want so much 'diversity' of opinion, as they put it, we would all be reading the republican blogs directly each day, not to mention the MSM reports which are filled with 'their' viewpoints.
I come to a progressive blog to get progressive viewpoints, not regressive ones. I welcome diversity, as long as it is about moving forward and progressing, not about oppression and destruction.
I mean what is next? Will BFA bloggers start having people defend incest as simply 'diverse' lifestyles?
Even in animal behaviors and nature there are rules. Nothing in life is a freeforall. There are always consequences...cause and effect. To deny that is ignorance.
Tim, a strike against you for mentioning the name. ;)
ReplyDeleteMorning, Oscar! Did you get some sleep? I haven't yet. Have a vet run to make this morning, and then, oh then.
ReplyDeleteMade me a blog last night, 'cause of this one, LOL!
It's sad when dreams die...
ReplyDeletecheryl said...
ReplyDeleteI always notice they use 'diversity of opinion' as an excuse for abuse.
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As I said over there, they were using that on the space boards, too.
Too bad.
vermonter ~~ hasn't happened yet. Sumbuddy just opened a new pasture. You've been in one over at IdeaForge, didn't it feel good to you?
ReplyDeleteJellyfish cause Nuclear plant shutdown. Click my name
ReplyDeleteI got a bit of sleep - Katrina (or what's left of her) woke me up...
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Hi donna!
ReplyDeletePuddle,
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely... It helped break my addiction to BFA... But, I felt sadness about the decision to open a new pasture then, too... Similarly, the formation of the Idea Forge was motivated in part by the constant Robert show pollution on BFA... But largely for the opposite reason that this shadow blog was formed...
BFA was/is not monolithic and we all had/have our own individual thresholds of pain and annoyance... And it's sad that HQ let this conflict dominate for the last year without a creative solution, but I believe that all of us who helped make it a conflict have to take some responsibility for it...
But, I'm not here to get into an argument or to rehash everything that has been said a thousand times...
I wish you all well...
Take care...
Is it just me or does refresh take everyone to the bottom of the thread, and then you have to scroll up to the last comment.
ReplyDeleteYep - it does take you to the bottom. I think Blogger designed this believing that people would post once and then close the window - they didn't see us coming...
ReplyDeleteLuckily, my brain is programed to note the time of the last post when I click refresh anyway...if I don't, that's when the blog nanny times me out and I've lost my place.
ReplyDeletevermonter ~~
ReplyDeleteI'd rather, too, that it had worked out other than this. And changes of seasons are always a little sad. But autumn is seed, and seeds after sleep are spring's renewal.
I'd liked to have seen every last one of the January 04 bloggers still marching.
Your poetry and politics have both been missed.
Namaste'
Oscar, speaking of not seeing us coming, somewhere as I was messing last night/this morning, about keeping how many posts visible (dang, don't remember the page) was a note that if you chose "days" you'd be limited to 999 posts a day?
ReplyDeleteTeaTime, that's a dream I'd sure bust A** for!
ReplyDeleteAh! If you hit the Other button, even if you're register, you make make your name clicky, the way the old blog did.
ReplyDeleteMight be easier to type in your name, than play with the HTML tags, LOL!
Well, until we hit election time I think we'll be OK on 999 per day - close, but OK. When it comes election time we may have to daisy-chain blogs - go blog hopping.
ReplyDeleteI wish that Tara would have been more responsive to complaints. I will never abandon BFA, but to some degree, I feel that it has abandoned us. It's one thing to give people a chance. It's another to allow them to alienate nearly everyone who is on blog when they are.
ReplyDeleteI wish we didn't need this shadow space. But we do.
If you haven't read today's Rude Pundit then you should - and there's not one word of profanity in it.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that people are having trouble because their names are taken, but jessica wasn't taken??? LOL. I've had this account for about a year though, so maybe that was before Blogger got popular.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I registered under my fun cheryl name. Let's see if it works.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if your name is taken, you can register with any name, then under the question where it asks how you want your name to appear, you can put the actual name. For example, I had to register with a name other than cheryl but can use it as my 'appearance' name.
Well, even though the display name show as cHeRyL! it changes everything to lower case when it posts. Oh, well.
ReplyDeleteHowever you appear, we're glad to see you cHeRyL!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Oscar ♥♥
ReplyDeleteHere's a post on My Left Wing I thought some of you might be interested in:
ReplyDeleteMississippi Flooding: Donate now
Hi, Janet! ♥
ReplyDeleteYou wrote:
JanetInSanJoseCA said...
> > > cHeRyL! < < <
12:22 PM
Were you just saying 'hi' or is that a secret code???
Wasn't sure if you were giving me suggestions on my name but they change to lowercase on the display name no matter how I type it (even though it shows up as cHeRyL! on my identity list).
Are you all able to collapse comments? I sure like that feature.
ReplyDeleteJanet: in this order: & hearts ;
ReplyDeleteOnly take out the spaces
And you'll get: ♥
cheryl! Yep, I can collapse the comments. Howcum you like it? I can't see any use for it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Janet. I had only seen hugs as (((( ))))) so I was confused, lol.
ReplyDeleteThe heart is this
&
hearts
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put those three on one line all together no spaces and if you want more hearts just copy and paste then repeat
Tim, I was thinking the same thing. However, on this blog we likely won't need to collapse anyone to ignore them. :)
ReplyDeleteJanet,
ReplyDeleteThe first symbol in the heart is the 'and' symbol above the number 7 on your keyboard. It didn't quite turn out as I thought when I put it in my instructions.
Puddle, there isn't really any use for it here. I just like being able to do things, lol. What I was hoping was that I could collapse the comments after reading, then when I refreshed they would all be collapsed except for the unread ones. However, blogger doesn't let you do that...so...it isn't as fun as I thought.
ReplyDeleteI see you beat me to the heart instructions, Puddle. That is what I get from reading from the bottom up. ;)
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone read the Huffington Post? They tend to have some good articles on there.
click my name
Cheryl,
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed true that we shouldn't have to collapse any posts, but if that eventuality should come to pass then there are a couple of us who can clean up the mess fairly quickly. :)
♥
ReplyDelete& hearts ;
Remove the spaces
Here are a few useful sites for HTML codes:
ReplyDeleteHTML ASCII Codes
HTML Symbols
HTML Code Tutorial
Hey PA! Welcome aboard!
ReplyDeleteHey Janet!
ReplyDeleteJanet! ♥
ReplyDeleteTest
ReplyDeleteThis leads to Google
<*a href=*"http://www.google.com" >This leads to Google<*/a*>
Testing to see if this shows the code. Replace the URL (http://www.google.com) with the one you want and replace the text (This leads to Google) with your text. Remove all asterisks. They are there to hopefully keep the code from working in my example.
Okay, the example seems to work. Remove the four asterisks from my example, and it will become a working link.
ReplyDelete<*a href=*"http://www.google.com" >This leads to Google<*/a*>
This leads to Google
nordy!! ♥s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWas it only a week? Feels like MONTHS, lol!!
Hey, what happened? Did Oler wage a successful coup over at BFA?
ReplyDeleteIs this some kind of refugee camp?
...will there be campfire songs?
nordy, think you're going to have to learn how to make a little chicken emoticon. . . .
ReplyDeletepoemless ~~ you said on the other blog that you don't post there anymore, mostly at Booman and Eurotribune. Howcum?
ReplyDeleteResults 1 - 30 of about 18,900 for cindy-sheehan w00t!!
ReplyDeletepuddle said...
ReplyDeletepoemless ~~ you said on the other blog that you don't post there anymore, mostly at Booman and Eurotribune. Howcum?
1) Oler
2) I did not have a whole lotta luck going over to BFA to discuss DFA actions or events. And then I would just get frustrated. Like, was I talking to the wall or what? Everyone would say, "Hey, don't go. If you don't like BFA now, make it something you like." So I would try. But it felt like a huge waste of time. Felt like there were 3 camps: the Oler/responder crowd who would not stop bickering; the Friends crowd, who were perfectly polite and fun, but had a lot of inside stuff going on that kind of made me feel like I'd shown up uninvited to someone's family reunion; and the infrequent but quality posters who would come by to say hi and to talk about events, news, but would quickly get frustrated and leave. The basic disfunctional way of life there.
3) HQ's unwillingness to address the problem.
4) General frustration with the lack of direction of DFA.
5) I started going to Eurotribune and saw how a blog could be functional, and where people really wanted to talk about the world's problems, without the meanness of Kos, the single-topic myopia of MyDD, or the slow-mo nervous breakdown of BFA. I do feel like my values are more in line with many of the posters there than at BFA. Like Howard made a pragmatist out of this lefty, but now that he's gone, I've returned to my lefty roots.
All that said, I really genuinely like and feel connected to many of you and hardly want to lose that.
puddle,
ReplyDeleteI even managed to capture a 19,000 results for Cindy earlier ;-)
jc wrote on August 30, 2005 01:22 PM:
Google News
Results 1 - 30 of about 19,000 for cindy-sheehan
Results 1 - 30 of about 17,900 for george-w-bush
One of these people is sometimes called the most powerful person in the world
Denise,
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you saw my note on the previous shadow thread - The Hyatt had a lot of windows blown out, so you may want to confirm your reservations
jc, howcum the same google would give different numbers to different computers, lol?!!
ReplyDeleteBut hey, I like yours better. . . .
puddle,
ReplyDeleteI can refresh three times and get three different numbers. I think it's just a limitation of their search engine.
New Thread!
ReplyDeleteToscha ~~ Thank you. But I'll I have to say this liblab miss you. So come when you can, post at either blog I read one, and scroll most of the other, but I'll see you.
ReplyDeleteWhat might it be that's to the left of the commies, LOL?! Thinking of me, not necessarily (!) of you, grin.
Hi COMMIES!!!
ReplyDelete♥
Janet Janet Janet!! hi *waving*
Everything Toscha said up there I agree with - my reason for not posting daily or often anymore too. Of course having a new job plays a part too
ANYWAY, GOOD MORNING!! Or is it afternoon?! I haven't slept yet, wouldn't know!! hahaha
Guess what everyone? JC's alright down there in good ol' Louisiana!!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
Au revoir peewee!!
poemless said...
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Ditto to everything you said above poemless.
Can you post a link to Eurotribune? I want to check it out.
I would also like to see Judy and Monica post their great articles here. This blog has only been up less than 24 hours (I think) so I believe we will shape it into the community we want.
I personally want 1) Information/article sharing 2) Strategy planning/technique sharing 3)networking and hanging out with my blog friends. We have all those things on our our crushie email list so it certainly is possible to have it here if that is what we want.