Carbon-Neutral Kos

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Tuesday April 25, 2006 · 10:50 AM PDT

2006/04/25 · 10:50

Since we're a community who cares about climate change I propose we investigate ways to offset the carbon emmissions of the 13 (I think) servers Daily Kos runs on.

Computer servers can suck down lots of juice, or they can be low wattage servers like ones using AMD's Opteron EE chips. Even the EE (energy efficient) cpus consume ~50 watts each. We'd have to ask but its possible each server could suck down 300 watts each. After determining the wattage Daily Kos uses we could determine how much forest we could purchase to offset that.

For future expansion of the site I would think Kos should make it a point to buy low wattage servers if possible, if he hasn't already.

CarbonNeutral.com sells packages for making homes/flights etc.. carbon neutral.

Biggest replaceable electricity user in suburbia: The Electric dryer

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Monday April 24, 2006 · 1:41 PM PDT

2006/04/24 · 13:41

Electric dryers are by far the biggest draw on electricity in suburbia today, in homes with oil hot water & heat.

Of course the easy answer is the clothes line. Clothes lines are cool, in fact people who use clothes lines are the coolest people around.

There have been clothes dryers made using solar hot air collectors mounted on the roof circulating hot air through a clothes drying rack, but the good old fashioned clothes line is still #1.

Electric Clothes driers should be taxed and a picture of a big lump of dirty brown coal and Manhattan under water should be painted on the front of every one produced.

I confess to being an electric clothes drierer myself, but I vow to change.
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America Will Be Alright - Bush is on his way out

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Sunday April 09, 2006 · 8:35 AM PDT

2006/04/09 · 08:35

Will this terrible right-wing tide of war and environmental destruction ever break and roll back into the sea? Or will we all goose-step into the future, lucky and grateful for the chance to sell out and scrape by?

With all the news of nuclear proliferation, nuclear war, peak oil, global warming and economic collapse the question on my mind lately is are we all fucked? Or will America be OK?

As troubling as the current political climate and leadership is, I have come the conclusion we will be alright. We'll be OK because there's nothing fundamentally wrong with America. There is only a crisis of leadership and organization and in the way we use our vast wealth. We have the workers, the resources, and the education to solve our problems and provide a good life for our people.

All the doom & gloom you read about on Dkos can be reversed! More on the flip Read More

Real Security: Just 10 Years To Stop Global Warming

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Wednesday March 29, 2006 · 9:29 PM PST

2006/03/29 · 21:29

Global Warming and the super charged Hurricane Katrina it spawned is our 9/11. It is the external threat, the emergency that demands radical changes from the status quo. It will unite us, it will embolden us to make the changes needed to save the planet. The world changed after Katrina hit, we all knew we could never go back to the way we were living. We simply cannot afford pre-Katrina thinking. Because there will be more hypercanes (props to Darksyde), probably hypercanes every year.

The Gulf Coast after hypercane Katrina was like a nuclear bomb, without the radiation, and thousands of American's died.

After hearing that for the second year in a row polar ice failed to reform in the winter, and that the Inuit's fishing cabins are falling into the sea and James Hansen, the head of NASA's climate change institute saying we have 10 years to drastically reduce emissions before we reach a tipping point on climate change I have decided that I will dedicate my life to the single most important crisis facing humanity. Read More

Bill O'Reilly: Gunning for judges

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Tuesday March 14, 2006 · 5:44 PM PST

2006/03/14 · 17:44

On Tonight's O'Reilly Factor did Bill use threatening gun innuendo against a judge?

The segment was about a judge named John Connor, and because Bill doesn't agree with some of his rulings, and claims he purposely goes out of his way to keep violent repeat offenders free, Bill is targeting this particular judge, in Bill's words he's "gotta go, not just suspended".

Bill had a couple guests on who were family members of people killed by a drunk driver.

O'Reilly: You're nicer people than I am, because if it was my family I'd be gunning for this judge

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J. Edgar Hoover Was A Career Professional

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Monday February 06, 2006 · 6:01 PM PST

2006/02/06 · 18:01

When Alberto Gonzalez, or any other of his majesty's loyal subjects says:

The program is triggered only when a career professional at the NSA has reasonable grounds to believe....

Tell them:

J. Edgar Hoover was a career professional.

Then tell them how he engaged in domestic surveillance in order to blackmail Americans. Tell them how thick Martin Luther King's FBI file is. Tell them about COINTELPRO, and them how they're spying on the Quakers today. It's a perfect opportunity to explain the massive anti-democracy abuses that occurred before FISA, and before we forbade intelligence agencies to operate domestically.

Liberal media? Are you fucking kidding me?

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Thursday February 02, 2006 · 9:44 AM PST

2006/02/02 · 09:44

Are you fucking kidding me? That's what I've been saying alot lately while absorbing the news.

Bush put's down the NSA story they say. Bush wants to end tyranny in the world they say. Are you fucking kidding me?

What makes me say are you fucking kidding me the most though is the ratio of liberal to conservative guests on News shows these days.

The night of the SOTU CNN stacked their coverage with conservatives. Hardball that night had two conservative guests and a conservative host with one token liberal, the political loser Bob Schrum, who could hardly get a word in.

Last night's Lou Dobbs, another conservative host, if not a lockstep Bush conservative, had a panel with three conservatives and one token liberal, Hank Sheinkopf.Here was Lou Dobbs panel:

John Fund, conservative Wall Street Journal writer
Edd Rollins, conservative pollster best known for 1984 Reagan reelection campaign.
David Gergen - Republican presidential adviser

Lonely liberal Hank Sheinkopf.
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Live-Blogging SOTU Media Coverage for Conservative Bias

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 4:24 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 16:24

After reading this post about CNN's horrendously Republican biased SOTU coverage I decided to start this open thread for kossacks to inspect the TV media's SOTU coverage. What Bush says tonight isn't important, what the media says about what he said is.

Last years Pre-State of the Union Hardball featured 6 Republicans, 1 Democrat What will the ratio be this year?

Kossacks:

If you have a tivo/pvr record the coverage. We're going to examine the coverage and come back at the media hard for it's bias. We have to cover the networks and the cable news channels.

The ratio of republican to democrat guests.

Hosts repeating GOP talking points and frames

A poll will be added after the event to determine which station was the most Bush biased.

Breaking News: Cloture vote too close to call - Alito may be blocked - UPDATED

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 9:37 PM PST

2006/01/29 · 21:37

In a matter of two weeks American grassroots patriots have rallied a filibuster from what was suppose to be a shoe-in.

Annatopia says we are only two votes shy of sustaining the filibuster. The story of the day on Sunday Talk should have been just how close we are to extending debate. The story of the day should have been Alito confirmation in trouble. Two votes! We have already flipped more than two to our side, we can get two more.

Instead we heard more of the same, "Alito is a sure thing, nothing to see here." Oh yeah and Kerry was in Switzerland, that was supposed to really matter and be very bad for some reason.

Will the Organizer

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 9:49 AM PST

2006/01/27 · 09:49

Victory is within our grasp! The Senators must use any means necessary to round up 41 "no" votes on cloture by monday. I propose if it comes to it, if we can't get 41 "no" votes we offer a compromise.
We hold the vote until after full & fair hearings on the NSA FISA scandal. Sandra Day isn't going anywhere, what's the rush?

Will the Organizer

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Tuesday January 17, 2006 · 9:57 AM PST

2006/01/17 · 09:57

Although much coverage has been good on Gore's speech, much has been terrible. I do not trust the TV skills of the usual Democrats they pull out to go on TV to explain our side at this critical time. Our blitz to November has to start now, and we have to come out strong.

We need strong follow up on Gore and Murtha's words. We need to get on TV this week and tell our side of the story on Alito, before it's too late.

So I ask the community who will go on TV to tell our side of the story and how will we get them on? Here is my idea: An organized campaign to lobby CNN's, MSNBC's etc... booking agent. Is this a good idea?

Al Gore's Speech: A Turning Point On Alito

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Monday January 16, 2006 · 6:50 PM PST

2006/01/16 · 18:50

Would you lead the party Al? You are after all our legitimate president. You should lead the country and the party and show an alternative to the current Administration. We need national leadership and we need it now.

After listening to Al Gore's tremendous speech today I believe our chances for attempting to do something to stop Alito just went way up. Al Gore's energy, passion and plain-spoken call for oversight and a special counsel will stir up the political debate this week. A new week, a new news cycle and new conventional wisdom.

Diane Feinstein was in the audience, Gore mentioned her by name. I think he was trying to tell her to support a filibuster. To provide oversight, to save our Constitutional Republic. Read More

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Biggest replaceable electricity user in suburbia: The Electric dryer

America Will Be Alright - Bush is on his way out

Real Security: Just 10 Years To Stop Global Warming

Bill O'Reilly: Gunning for judges

J. Edgar Hoover Was A Career Professional

Liberal media? Are you fucking kidding me?

Live-Blogging SOTU Media Coverage for Conservative Bias

Breaking News: Cloture vote too close to call - Alito may be blocked - UPDATED

Offer the "yes" vote Senators a compromise

It's time to get the netroots on TV - Who will represent us? UPDATED w/ poll

Al Gore's Speech: A Turning Point On Alito