Sunday Afternoon Action Diary
Here's your weekly action diary! This is a big one, but I've separated things into categories so you can focus your efforts now and then come back later to finish taking action on the rest:) I've...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Action Diary: Bombard your Senators
Clearly the most crucial action you can take this week is to filibuster Alito. There are LOTS of action items below, but you could also click on judibrowni's diary from yesterday and take even MORE...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Action Diary
I'm keeping this intro short. We may have lost on Alito, but other issues need our attention and fast... Wildlife and Environmental protections are seriously under attack these days. PLEASE take action...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Action Diary
Welcome to this week's fabulous installment of my Sunday Afternoon Action Diary!! This isn't the place for meta-bickering, or circular firing squads, this is the place where we can come together and...
View ArticleDefenders of Wildlife to Open Campaign Office in Rep. Pombo's District
Back in January, I wrote a diary about the Defenders of Wildlife and their "Pombo in their Pocket" campaign. The Defenders were meeting with people in Rep. Richard Pombo's district (CA-11) to see how...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon: Take Some Action! (with video)
I'm keeping it short up here so that you can spend your time taking action instead of reading fluff. Please recommend if you think this is important. This week's action diary has several important...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Action Diary
Welcome to this week's action diary! I thought I'd start today with some words from Buddha (I signed up to get the daily words of the Buddha...I'm not Buddhist, but I find them useful. Daily Words of...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Action Diary: Depressed Edition
I have spent the last week (my Spring Break) on hiatus from Dkos, all news (with a few exceptions of listening to NPR where I didn't learn or hear much I didn't already know), and reading fabulously...
View ArticleUrgent ACTION Required: Save Our Coasts from Big Oil!! (Updated)
For years our coasts have been protected from Big Oil by a ban on drilling offshore. A few weeks ago the House. I had an action item related to that in my 6/25/06 Action diary. This was it: -- Click...
View ArticleWho the hell is Jerry McNerney?
I am not being facetious. The question of who is Jerry McNerney is one of the keys to understanding the 11th CD race in CA. The overwhelming flood of negative advertising in this race, both from Pombo...
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CA-11: Who's the scum? (Pombo #41)
Richard Pombo (CA-11) has gotten annoyed enough at the Defenders of Wildlife's efforts to unseat him in his bid for re-election that he's now resorting to petulant name-calling. Yesterday, the...
View ArticleTired of advertising?
Some newspapers love to report on politics like a sporting event. They keep score by looking at polls, counting contributions and give their play by play through fact checking the ads, especially the...
View ArticleCA-11: Clinton and Celebs Working for McNerney
Jerry McNerney (CA-11) is the Democratic hero who is taking on the anti-environmental nightmare known as Rep. Richard Pombo in one of California's tightest and most exciting races this year. And...
View ArticleIdaho Gov.: I'll shoot a wolf myself
================ (This is really bumblebums' diary, tech difficulties prevented her from posting it. Some of you may have seen a stripped-down version here - which is where any mojo should be...
View ArticlePolar Bears or Big Oil? What's the Question?
Okay, it looks like the left-leaning loons at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)and Defenders of Wildlife are at it again. This time the cause du jour is polar bears. A few big oil...
View ArticleSlaughtering Wolves in Alaska
Slaughtering you say? Yes, automatic weapons are being used from small aircraft to gun down wolves in Alaska. What kind of people would slaughter these majestic creatures for sport - in a place where...
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Blog Action: Wolf Awareness Week (w/photos - 1 graphic)
Blog Action Day coincides with Wolf Awareness Week. So I thought I'd startle you into noticing an issue that has been really bothering me since I first heard about it a month ago, and diaried it...
View ArticleCA Kossacks: Help save the CA Sea Otter Fund
Have you filed your California Form 540 FYE 2007 yet? If not, please consider donating to the California Sea Otter Fund. If yes, please spread the word and urge others you know to help. Defenders...
View ArticleChertoff Waives Environmental Laws for Border Fence (Action Item)
As explained yesterday in Voteharder's diary, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff is imposing a blanket waiver of environmental and land management laws along 470 miles of the U.S./Mexico border so the...
View ArticleHelp Stop the Poaching of U.S. Bears
Earth Day is officially marked tomorrow, April 22, but we are constantly reminded that every day should be Earth Day when the environment and particular species are threatened. Here is yet another...
View ArticleIdaho will slaughter 428 wolves this year unless you help
I want to make a plea for people of conscience to support a federal lawsuit by 12 prominent conservation groups to challenge the federal governments delisting of gray wolves from the Endangered Species...
View ArticleStop being distracted by the XX! ~(video heavy diary)
Please everyone, stop being distracted by the two X chromosomes that are now on the republican ticket. John McCain's Vice Presidential pick is the exact opposite of putting "Country First". He...
View ArticlePalin Paid $150 to Murder Wolves
Defenders of Wildlife Asks Judge to Shut Down Palin's Wolf Bounty Program"The Governor is overstepping her legal authority by offering cash payments for each wolf killed by aerial gunners," stated Tom...
View Articlemurder of innocents
I don't need to mention her name again. I do believe that we are spending too much time on the prospective vp. And then I took a peek at docudharma and found a link to this...
View ArticlePalin's Cruel Streak
You might have heard last summer about Mitt Romney’s strapping his dog to his roof on family vacations, which created a bit of a kerfuffle in the primary campaign last summer. But we haven’t heard too...
View ArticleDefenders of Wildlife Endorses Obama - Slam Palin for Her Savagery
Gang -- Ben Smith at the Politico notes:An unusual, gruesome new ad, which the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, which just endorsed Obama, says is airing in swing states, attacks Sarah Palin for...
View ArticleDefenders of Wildlife goes after Palin w/ shocking ad
This is an ad by Defenders of Wildlife that is going up in Ohio. This is a very effective ad that I think is what has been missing during this campaign. Perhaps we will see more hard hitting ads from...
View ArticleFUR RAGE! Hit Palin the Wolf Killer Hard with $40
Americans may or may not punish the McCain/Palin ticket for lying to them, pandering to them, dragging our democracy further into the mud.Most people probably aren't moved enough by issues, even the...
View ArticleWolf Ad Is Working Updated With Links
Source: Media CurvesAfter viewing a recent ad on "Palin's Wildlife Record" published by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, a national focus group consisting of 312 self-reported Democrats, Republicans...
View ArticleWolfsbane: The Wider Implications of Aerial Hunting
I am not an adept diarist. Often I am awestruck by the sheer level of hyper-competence exhibited by those who diary here regularly. My own few diaries tend to the lighter side – mere fluff, rather...
View Article2008: No tolerance, no excuses, no swearing.
They year started off with a bang, when the Chicago Sun-Times ran a front page photo of Clinton and Obama and the word “Race.” The photo was unmistakably Photoshopped— Hillary had bright red lipstick...
View ArticlePalin thinks opposing aerial wolf hunting is "fringe"
You want to know how far Sarah Palin is from the mainstream? Apparently she thinks that speaking out against hunting wolves from airplanes is an "extreme fringe" position.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R)...
View ArticleSarah Palin: Poster Girl for Enemy of the Environment?
Governor Sarah Palin has released a public statement attacking the mainsteam environmental organization Defenders of Wildlife as "an extreme fringe group."She has done so in response to an ad featuring...
View ArticleBorder Wall Impact Documented by Conservation Photographers
As some Kossacks know, I normally write diaries about issues that concern the National Wildlife Refuge System, and one issue that has fallen under the radar lately is the impact that the border wall is...
View ArticleKen Salazar Approves Wolf Hunt in Northern Rockies
Well, I knew Ken Salazar was a mistake for Interior Secretary, because as a rancher, he's been more like a republican than a democrat. That mistake is confirmed in yesterday's alert from Defenders of...
View ArticlePalin increases her war on the Wolves with Poisonous Gas!
Last Fall I became involved with Defenders of Wildlife,, when it became news that Palin was promoting the killing of Wolves from airplanes. That was one donation that I made that truly made me feel...
View Article'Hundreds of Wolves will be shot in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho starting...
A good friend of mine who is on the board of 'Defenders of Wild Life' is frantically sending out the following email to everyone she knows, trying to stop this bill (written by Bush administration), a...
View ArticleSarah Palin's Alaska?
This is old news which needs to be rehashed because of the moral corruption involved here. As we all are fully aware of, the folks at The Discovery Channel are planning on producing a series of...
View ArticleBefore it arrives; A Sub-tropical Barrier Island's story
Fifteen miles southwest of Fort Myers, Fl is a sub-tropical barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico named Sanibel Island. A good portion of this small, and very wealthy I might add, island has been...
View ArticleDestroying the Borderlands to Secure the Border: The California Environment...
In the 1990’s politicians trying to explain away all of America’s ills, without blaming American voters or accepting their own fair share of blame, turned their attention towards the southern border....
View ArticleSenators Tester and Baucus Support Palin
Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus have introduced Sen. bill 3864, which would delete protections of wolves in Idaho and Montana, allowing Sarah Palin and her blood hungry wolf hunter pals to...
View ArticleDK Elections Daily Digest: 3/17
•NM-Sen (PDF): What happens if you took a poll and no one answered? That's what this Tulchin Research poll (taken on behalf of the Defenders of Wildlife) feels like to me, what with its sample size of...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Elections board rules against runoff in...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •SC-07: Well, that's one way to deal with advice you don't like: just...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Rep. Dan Lungren defends fraudulent voter...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •CA-07: A little over a month ago, a story broke about a fraudulent voter...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Ohio police union endorses first Democrat...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •OH-Sen: The Ohio Fraternal Order of Police is the state's largest law...
View ArticleWolf Myths Nuked in NYT
Today, finally, I read the piece I've been waiting years to read on the pages of the NYT.Arthur Middleton a field biologist and post doc fellow at Yale, in a generous 1300 word Op Ed destroyed many of...
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Can Renewable Energy Projects and Native Habitats Co-exist on California...
How and where can solar, wind and geothermal energy facilities be developed on 22 million acres of California desert land with the best protection of and least potential harm to native habitats? Desert...
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Colorado Wildlife Commission Rejects Mexican Wolves
Last Wednesday there was a big dustup over wolves down at our Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) state office in Denver. The issue was over which message our Wildlife Commision would send to the US Fish...
View ArticleCourt rules today against USFWS plans to capture and kill red wolves
Red wolves in North Carolina cannot be taken from the wild unless they pose an imminent threat to people or property and not just because someone doesn’t want a wolf nearby. This ruling by federal...
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First 90 Reintroduced Kangaroos Released in Wyoming
Returning to the ancient and long lost marsupial “roo” to it’s natural and historical habitat the Wyoming game and fish released 90 ambassadors of the species to the Big Piney anticline. It’s hoped...
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