I don't work for it. I don't have any reason to pimp for the paper, but like other good newspapers you can find a lot of the truth about the Bush administration that you can't find elsewhere in the Times. Unlike so many smaller ones the Trib does carry it's own world news staff that will call up Russians and find out why, for example Putin seems to be campaigning for Bush)
I have spent 4 years gleaning the truth from news sources and you can find out things from the LA Times that are not coming from other sources even the other big papers like the Tribune, NY Times, and Washington Post.
The problem is that we think that sitting in our liberal groups and whining is all the work we have to do for most of each 4 year campaign period. Right now what we really need to do is get the news and truths we know out to mixed message boards.
As some of the better political analysts point out, that all of the 4 years of campaigning is being used by Republicans while the Democratic rank and file only get engaged in the official campaign year in a way that reaches the rest of the nation.
No matter, right now we need to do what we need to do for the next few days to try to win this one.
Get out on the mixed boards and tell the rest of America what we know.
This is the time of the highest interest!
There are still people who are deciding.
Then later, what we really need to do is to make sure that we glean every bit of truth about Republicans and what is going on in the world and then pass it on (to each other of course here on DU) but also to the rest of the nation a large part of whom are online and in message boards.
You don't have to stay with political message boards unless the rules state, and the Republicans do not stick to them.
So it's good to get around to boards covering all your interests, because the Rs are passing lies there that support Bush. And a lot of their message boarding is supported by unreported campaign donations from businesses and non-profits that are set up to look like they support business.
We don't seem to have any support for message boarders. So we are going to have to do it ourselves.
What we need to do:
1. Get the truth that is hidden deep within articles and bring it forth for our own people here.
2. Then get it out to the rest of the US anyway possible. Message boards, chats, freeway blogging, notes in books, posters etc.
You can do regular blogs, but remember that no matter how much we try to rehash the same thing that other bloggers are covering it won't do any good. Either cover new stuff for our people or do something that will help get the truth out to the "Independents".
And we need to be brutally smart with the bloggers we support. We regularly have some of our most popular bloggers putting down our own candidates and leaders, constantly. The Republicans couldn't think up a better tactic to destroy us if they tried. I don't like to think that those misguided bloggers are trolls, but, rather assume it is just easier to complain about what you have than to actually join in the hard effort to change things. But I no longer support bloggers that put down our own people. I won't even read their blogs.
We and our bloggers should be fighting for ideas if we want to change our own party. And in fact if you want a an example, Gray Davis of California was told to play to his base to win the recall. He did and he lost. Because we have not paved the way for our ideas to gain acceptance out there in the real world.
Our elected leaders can't do it. They have to get elected and each and every word they say is recorded to be used against them later by the Republicans.
We are the foot soldiers. We are the ones that can fight the political wars for them and for our families.
No matter what the soldiers at Valley Forge suffered, it would have done no good if all they ever did was sit around that town and bitch. It's what they did after that winter that won the war for us. It seems like we have been sitting around the VF camp for 3.7 years at least. (I think our real decline actually started before we lost the Congress.)
It's time to get out there. And anyway, it's never winter on the Internet, not to mention on of the most effective attacks of the Revolution came in the dead of winter on Xmas day.
3) Be smart about your news. Get what you need . Save the important points and/or contribute to the usenet saving of information. Some people are saving entire articles to usenet (easiest is to enter through google groups-set up an account--mailinator.com adresses work fine). It is unconscionable that not only are our candidates s are forced to spend money just to get more than one sound bite a day out, but that our news which is supposed to be the 4th branch of government gets to bury their info under subscriptions and after 1-2 weeks paid archives. Saving an article with important information in usenet has been taken up by many as a way to break this suppression of information. Most save entire articles, especially include the title for search purposes. If you want to find the text of an article searching on its full title (in the Google groups search bar) will bring it near the top if it's there because all the word matches. But it won't be there if someone hasn't done the work of saving good articles, so join the effort there too. Try alt.politics.gw-bush for a basic start. It's infected big time from alt.fan.rush-limbaugh etc. due to the crossover posting allowed, but you can ignore them.
My family and a few friends did have news blogs aimed at the independent minded people, but an internet attack destroyed our ability to create them and no we have no intention of creating a blogspot place basic design as it is not conducive to any organization of info that I can see (unless the bloggers out there are ignoring those capabilities). We did create a news forum, and yes it is open to others. This forum is aimed at other than liberals and is trying to get the real facts to them. We are looking people who are interested in helping. I think the instructions at the bottom say it all.
We may try going back to blog style when we re-achieve the ability to create our own (requires saving all our info and f-disking so may take months) possibly with a blogspot front so others that may have joined our group can participate, but with some kind of organized, searchable archives.
Our forum is at:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/341201 It is also a N54 premium forum so the parent site won't try to install Gator (aka GAIN) stuff on your computer (unless we see more than 100k page views something we are far from now). (If a request for GAIN installation does popup just say no, it's nasty spyware, and we will adjust the payment plan if we find we have gone over the magic 100k mark).
I hope the instructions are decent at the bottom of the front page. We should add that posts to the forum will disappear after you have posted them for your first few until a moderator has seen and approved them. After 5 approved posts you should be able to post as a regular in which case your future posts will show up and keep showing up when you post.
Also we all link to the forum from our posts on mixed boards to give the people who read our posts out there in the mixed board world a way to learn a lot of news they aren't going to get from their local headline news program.
For some of our young people all their info on the world of politics comes from mixed chats and message boards and links from the same. The Republicans are there, we should be too.
Especially for the next few days. give us all you have. If the Rs put you down remember that tactic comes from Mein Kampf. So it's a Karl Rove specialty.
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