Greetings!
Good
Morning!
Thanks
so much to everyone who entered the mini-fundraiser, the funds
raised helped us during the campaign season waive advertising for
some campaign events. We will have our regular annual fundraiser in
April and WOW do we have prizes!!
There
are many more progressive / Democratic holiday events happening
across the Metroplex and you are invited !
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Holiday
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DCYD
Holiday Party
December 10, 2010 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
The Home of the Fitzgeralds Dallas, TX 75226
Join DCYD as we celebrate 2010. Light bites and libations will be
served.
For our community service project for the holiday season, we are
hosting a canned food drive for Methodism's Breadbasket. Please
bring canned food items or a cash donation to the event and help
brighten another person's holiday.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jordan McCarter
at jordanmccarter@aol.com.
Dallas
County Democratic Party
Party With Us
Monday Dec. 13 At Our EC Meeting
This year the
Dallas County Democratic Party will hold its Executive Committee
Meeting in conjunction with a Holiday Party. The County Chair and
Secretary and all of the Precinct Chairs are members of the
Executive Committee. All good Democrats are welcome at the party.
The joint event will be at the usual place, the Communication
Workers of America Hall, at 1408 N. Washington at Bryan, Dallas,
and is scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday, December 13. See
you there.
Dallas
Stonewall Democrats
Stonewall
Democrats Annual Holiday PartyMonday,
December 67 - 9 PM, Round Up Saloon, Round Up
Saloon, 3912 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas
Democratic
Women of Denton County
Democratic
Women of Denton County Holiday Party Please
bring a personal care item (shampoo, body wash, toothbrush,
toothpaste) to donate for the 2011 Epiphany Party for the
Poor. Sunday,
December 12 4
- 8 PM, 2519 Sir Percival Lane, Lewisville
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| Commentary:
Tom DeLay's political system wasn't above the law |
"This is an abuse
of power," Tom DeLay said Wednesday after an Austin jury found him
guilty of politically inspired money laundering and conspiracy to
commit money laundering. "It's a miscarriage of justice. I still
maintain my innocence. The criminalization of politics undermines
our very system."
It's odd that he
would put it that way, given that criminalization of politics is
exactly what the jury said he did.
read on
Who Nailed
the Hammer?
In 2005, a series
of shocking investigative stories by The Texas Observer brought
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's GOP money-laundering scheme to
national notice.
On the day before
Thanksgiving, DeLay was convicted on the charges first reported by
the Observer. (Read the original series here on the money laundering charges, and
former editor Lou Dubose's coverage of the DeLay trial here .)
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Democracy
Now
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We
host a debate between Steven Aftergood, a transparency advocate who
has become a leading critic of WikiLeaks, and Glenn Greenwald, a
constitutional law attorney and legal blogger for Salon.com. Watch/Listen/Read
Despite
sustained denials by the Pentagon, the leaked cables from WikiLeaks
confirm that U.S. military special operations forces have been
secretly working with the Pakistani military to conduct offensive
operations and coordinate drone strikes in the areas near the
Afghan border. The cables confirm aspects of a story about the
covert U.S. war in Pakistan published in The Nation magazine last
year by investigative journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent
Jeremy Scahill. Watch/Listen/Read..
The
Senate has failed to advance a bill that would have extended the
deadline to file for federal unemployment insurance through next
year. This leaves some two million unemployed Americans without
jobless benefits after this month. The White House, meanwhile, has
signaled it's willing to compromise on Republican demands to
preserve the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. We
speak to the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Watch/Listen/Read
Noam
Chomsky: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Profound Hatred for Democracy on
the Part of Our Political Leadership"
In a national broadcast exclusive
interview, we speak with world-renowned political dissident and
linguist Noam Chomsky about the release of more than 250,000 secret
U.S. State Department cables by WikiLeaks. In 1971, Chomsky helped
government whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon
Papers, a top-secret internal U.S. account of the Vietnam War.
Commenting on the revelations that several Arab leaders are urging
the United States to attack Iran, Chomsky says, "latest polls show]
Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel,
that's 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that's
77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent," Chomsky
says. "This may not be reported in the newspapers, but it's
certainly familiar to the Israeli and U.S. governments and the
ambassadors. What this reveals is the profound hatred for democracy
on the part of our political leadership." Listen/Watch/Read
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Southern
Poverty Law Center Live webcast Hate Groups Tuesday, Dec.
7
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SPLC President Richard Cohen and SPLC's
Intelligence Project Director Mark Potok invite you to join them
for a live webcast-a 30-minute audio chat-December 7 at 2:00pm EST,
to discuss the addition of anti-gay organizations, including the
Family Research Council, to SPLC's hate group list.
Live webcast
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010
/Time: 2 p.m. Eastern
How to participate: Register here and you will receive a
confirmation email with a link to sign into the webcast.Richard and
Mark will accept questions before and during the 30-minute audio
webcast.
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North
Texas Progressive Book Suggestion
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Secrecy: The American Experience
By The Honorable Daniel Patrick
Moynihan
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Product Description Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan here presents a
fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of
regulation in American government since World War I-how it was
born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected
momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded
efforts to curtail or end it.
Published in 1999 but a very timely read!!!
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| North
Texas Democrats : Notes and News |
Denton County Democratic
Party
Executive Committee
Meeting
Thursday, December 9 /7:30 - 9:00
p.m.
Lewisville Visual Art League /701
South Stemmons Freeway, #115
In the Lewisville West Shopping
Center (NW corner of Fox Ave. & I-35)
Lewisville, Texas
75067-4518
At this meeting we will discuss the
importance of precinct chairs in the coming election cycle, and
would like to vote on requirements for fulfilling and keeping
precinct chair positions. We would also like to introduce you to
the new Precinct Development Chair, John Burke, who has some great
plans for precinct chair support.
As we plan for 2011, and the 2012
election cycle, we welcome your ideas on a variety of topics from
future EC meeting speaker suggestions, to fundraising and
implementing election strategies.All Democrats are welcome to
attend. If you have any questions, please contact us by reply
email, or call headquarters at 940-566-1165.
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| Atheist
ads turn up on buses in Fort Worth, Texas |
Starting today, the
sides of four Fort Worth city buses will bear this message:
"Millions of Americans are Good Without God." Their sponsor, the
Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, says it's only coincidence
that the atheist-themed ads will debut during Christmas season.
They are not exactly apologizing.
read more
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Fox
News Joke on 'The Simpsons' Pulled from Web Replays On Hulu,
Fox.com
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For
the second week in a row, "The Simpsons" mocked its corporate
cousins at Fox News Channel. This time there is an added wrinkle,
however, as the joke in question was apparently cut from the online
version of the show on Hulu and Fox.com.
read on
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Majority
Report returns ! Listen daily to Sam Seder via computer and smart
phone
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Sam Seder says "
You wanted it. You got it. (you still want it, right?) THE MAJORITY
REPORT Streams live everyday at 11:30AM-1PM PODCAST
available at MAJORITY.FM and via RSS and ITUNES
or listen via
stitcher on your iPhone- it's super easy! http://majority.fm/
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All the President's
Captors
By FRANK RICH NYT
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THOSE desperate to
decipher the baffling Obama presidency could do worse than consult
an article titled "Understanding Stockholm Syndrome" in the online
archive of The F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin. It explains that
hostage takers are most successful at winning a victim's loyalty if
they temper their brutality with a bogus show of kindness. Soon
enough, the hostage will start concentrating on his captors' "good
side" and develop psychological characteristics to please them -
"dependency; lack of initiative; and an inability to act, decide or
think."
This dynamic was
acted out - yet again - in President Obama's latest and perhaps
most humiliating attempt to placate his Republican captors in
Washington. No sooner did he invite the G.O.P.'s Congressional
leaders to a post-election White House summit meeting than they
countered his hospitality with a slap - postponing the date for two
weeks because of "scheduling conflicts." But they were kind enough
to reschedule, and that was enough to get Obama to concentrate once
more on his captors' "good side."
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Dallas
Drilling public Hearing December 15th
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As
noted by DallasDrilling.com, a public hearing will be
held on
Wednesday, December 15th at 6:30 p.m. before the Town of Flower
Mound
Oil and Gas Board of Appeals. Keystone has requested
numerous
variances from current regulations, including its proximity to
Lake
Grapevine and its location in a FEMA floodplain.
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Thom Hartmann | Stop Them From Eating My
Town
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In
Chapter 3 of Thom Hartmann's "Rebooting the American Dream"
(serialized exclusively on Truthout), the author looks at how chain
stores run by "corporate Godzillas" are crowding out local
businesses and endangering communities. He offers proven
recommendations - from elsewhere in the world and from this
country's past - to encourage entrepreneurship, keep small
businesses healthy and stop giant corporations from "eating your
town next"!
Read the Article
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Rep.
Henry Cuellar and his iPad
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 We've
reported on a number of iPad toting politicians in Washington and
now there's another one to add to the list, Rep. Henry Cuellar, a
Democratic congressman from Texas. According to a
report from POLITICO, Cuellar loves gadgets and is an admitted
techie. He even had his iPad accompanying him at the
speaker's podium in the House of Representatives for all to see on
C-SPAN Tuesday.
"I've always
considered myself a techie," Cuellar told POLITICO. "I'm always
looking for the newest technology out there and I've done that for
many, many years. The iPad is just one of those fabulous pieces of
equipment that's available out there. First thing I do in the
morning is get my cup of coffee and start reading the papers. ...
And at night, before I go to bed, I check my last e-mails and check
to see if there's any new stories online."
Cuellar checks
several different publications daily using his iPad, to include
POLITICO, Politics Daily, The Hill, Washington Post, USA Today, New
York Times and the Associated Press. He also uses the
"Congress in Your Pocket" app to keep tabs on his colleagues and a
teleprompter app for delivering speeches. You won't
find any Angry Birds on his iPad though, it appears Cuellar is all
business when it come to this device.
The iPad has
definitely gained popularity among politicians. From
Presidential Staffer David Axelrod to Former President George Bush,
they're certainly enjoying the iPad's capabilities.
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