Dear nancy, Good Morning! What a surprise to lose Keith Olbermann's great progressive voice from MSNBC on Friday. I've included some links to various articles about the change. There are some great State of the Union parties happening in North Texas this week - please RSVP and attend! Please consider sponsoring an edition of this great newsletter you can paypal $20 to cunning@flash.net or go HERE
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State of the Union watching parties ! | 
Collin County Come join the Democratic Party of Collin County as we visit with each other at Dodie's Place Sports Grill in Allen and watch President Obama deliver the State of the Union Address We will gather at the restaurant beginning at 7 p.m. to have as many as possible of our dinners and drinks served by the time the President begins his address at 8 p.m. Dodie's Place Sports Grill is located at 190 E Stacy Rd, Ste 1324, Allen, TX 75002 (in the Village at Allen at the southeast quadrant of N. Central Expressway and Stacy Road), and is 75 yards west of the Allen Events Center. An RSVP is not required, but would be helpful. You may RSVP here or by email to social@collindems.us Denton County Democratic Party STATE OF THE UNION WATCH PARTY 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 25th - Home of Neil Durrance /Denton, Tx 76209 Bring a snack and drink of choice, if you like. Directions: From I-35E, take the Loop 288/McKinney exit and go east then north to University Drive (380). Go west on University to Nottingham, go north on Nottingham to Williamsburg. Right on Williamsburg, house is on the left. From I-35N, go east on University to Nottingham. From Locust or Elm Streets, go east on University to Nottingham. |
Good Bye Keith Olbermann -Good Night and Good Luck! | 
Wow ---what a surprise ! Here is a little round-up of articles about KO. The 10 Things Keith Olbermann Should Consider Next From Fox News to ESPN to Commissioner of Major League Baseball, there are options The abrupt departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC on Friday night will no doubt get sorted out in time. Pushed or quit? Yet more squabbling with management (which he tends to win)? Or perhaps a memo from Comcast? Olbermann is under contract - or was - so getting rid of him didn't come cheap. We can only hope whatever deal the two sides made did not include a gag order on Olbermann about said deal. This is a man with things to say. And there are a lot of ears that want to hear those things. Even if (particularly if?) it has to do with this strange cutting of ties that has left - do not kid yourself on this point - MSNBC more irrelevant than ever before in its history. But until that sorting out happens, here are 10 career path decisions that Olbermann should consider read on Olbermann Split Came After Years of Tension- NYTimes read on Omen: Keith Olbermann's Exit Comes Exactly One Year After Air America's Demise read here If You Don't Think Olbermann Was Fired Because of Comcast, I Have an Igloo in the Mojave Desert to Sell You read here |
Democracy Now | 
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate spending on election campaigns. We speak with Bob Edgar, the president of Common Cause, which has filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Justice urging it to investigate whether Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas should have recused themselves from the case last year because of a conflict of interest. Watch/Listen/Read
This week marks the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous farewell speech to the nation in which he warned against the rise of a "military-industrial complex." We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, who traces the rise of the military-industrial complex through the story of the nation's largest weapons contractor, Lockheed Martin. Watch/Listen/Read |
North Texas Progressive Book Suggestion | 
Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual By Michael Wolraich List Price: $25.00 Price: $15.87 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. BUY HERE Product DescriptionHAS AMERICA LOST ITS MARBLES? - Television sensation Glenn Beck warns of White House plots to institute fascism, communism, and other terrifying "isms."
- Radio titan Rush Limbaugh charges that a racist Obama regime encourages black schoolchildren to beat up white kids.
- Evangelical luminary James Dobson frets that Christians will be arrested for thought crimes and people will be allowed to marry donkeys.
- Protesters in knickers and colonial-style hats march on Washington with signs that order Hitler-like caricatures of President Obama to return to Kenya.
As madness reigns, pundits, politicians, and cab drivers debate the source of the hysteria. Some blame ignorance; some blame racism; some blame the economy. After poring over mountains of political screeds and heedlessly subjecting himself to countless hours of Fox News, author Michael Wolraich discovered the secret formula that turns ordinary men and women into fire-breathing, smoke-blowing, right wing maniacs. It's "persecution politics" . . again. |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
Denton County County Strategic Workshop January 29, 10:00 a.m. - 12 N Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2200 N. Bell, Denton We want to hear your good ideas in workshops that will concentrate on a number of topics including: Communications and Messaging, Precinct Development, Writing Letters to the Editor, and Senate District Strategies to name a few. Please RSVP by calling us at 940-566-1165.
Democratic Women of Denton County Sunday, January 23, 4-8:00 p.m. Celebrate the accomplishments of President Obama's first two years in office at the second annual Obama Inauguration Party at the Castle Hills Community Room in Lewisville. Click for details at Obama Inauguration Party Stonewall Democrats Thursday, January 27, 7:00 p.m. Ring in the new year with new officers and strategic planning. The next general meeting will be at Hot Box Pizza, 214 E Hickory St, Denton. Check their website at: Stonewall Democrats of Denton County. Tarrant County Democratic Women's Club Talent Show Friday, January 28, 7:30pm - 10:00pm Where Rose Marine Theater, 1440 N. Main Street, Fort Worth TX Description: This is a fundraiser to benefit the TCDWC's Scholarship Program. General Admission tickets are $12 for adults, $5 for kids. Sponsorships are available from $500.00 to $50.00. Call Lynn Johnson 817-269-1681 for tickets and Claudia Wilson 817-551-6766 for sponsorship information. Grassroots Democratic Coalition Monthly Meetup When Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:30 PM Where Black Eyed Pea Restaurant 7979 Belt LIne Rd at Coit Rd - Next to Shell Service Station Dallas TX 75287 How Much Price: $2.00 per person Collin County Democrats A Service Opportunity in Honor of Dr. King Collin County Homeless Coalition in Need of 50 - 100 Volunteers for the 2011 Homeless Count and Census Thursday, January 27, 2011 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Plano City Hall, City Council Chambers 1520 K Avenue, Plano, TX 75074 MCD Meeting This Thursday in Euless When: 7:00PM Thursday, January 27th Where: Dixie House Cafe, 2051 Airport Freeway, Euless 76040 (map) Guest Speaker: Pat Hardy, State Board of Education Representative Please come early to eat; the meeting starts at 7:00PM Elections for MCD President and Vice-President will be held at this meeting. Nominations for these offices will remain open until the meeting. If you wish to nominate someone for either of these offices, please do so by replying to this email or sending an email message to info@midcitiesdemocrats.com. Please be sure to ask permission of the person you wish to nominate before doing so. You must be a current MCD member in order to vote.0 |
| Progressive Profiles: With New TV Show, Radio Talker Thom Hartmann Brings Substance to Style | 
This is the first in a series of profiles of leading progressives in Washington, D.C. It's 9pm in the middle of a busy week and Thom Hartmann, the nation's most popular progressive talk radio host, is just sitting down to dinner with his wife Louise at a crowded Washington restaurant. As host of "The Thom Hartmann Program" (heard on 120 affiliates, according to the show's Web site), Thom did his customary three hours of radio earlier in the day, and just wrapped up an episode of his hour-long daily cable television program, "The Big Picture," which airs on RTTV and was just picked up by Free Speech TV, which runs the show over the Dish and DirecTV networks. (It's also available from iTunes in podcast form.) It's a typical 14-hour day for Hartmann, but he's hardly worse for the wear. At 59, he looks at least 10 years younger, and his energy is still bubbling over. Louise, just back from a day at the hospital with a friend who rushed there in an emergency, begs off the interview, wanting nothing more than a quiet meal after a stressful day. READ MORE |
10 Most (and 10 Least) Tolerant States in America | 
For each state we considered the number of hate crimes according to the FBI, the extent of hate-crime statutes, the number of complaints of discrimination filed through the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, the extent of fair-housing and fair-workplace laws, the percentage of residents that support same-sex marriage, the extent of legal rights for same-sex couples, and the percentage of residents that are accepting of various religions. Each state was given a score out of 100 points. Ties were broken based on hate-crime statistics--if the total points matched, the state with fewer hate crimes in the last year ranked higher.
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| The Competition Myth By PAUL KRUGMAN | Meet the new buzzword, same as the old buzzword. In advance of the State of the Union, President Obama has telegraphed his main theme: competitiveness. The President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board has been renamed the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. And in his Saturday radio address, the president declared that "We can out-compete any other nation on Earth." This may be smart politics. Arguably, Mr. Obama has enlisted an old cliché on behalf of a good cause, as a way to sell a much-needed increase in public investment to a public thoroughly indoctrinated in the view that government spending is a bad thing. read on | |
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day events | 
Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides The 4th Annual Reflections on Holocaust and Genocides is a time to acknowledge and reflect upon the terrible things we have inflicted upon each other, to commit to ourselves to resist prejudice and stereotypes and to pledge to work for the safety and security of others on this little planet. To all those, who have endured holocaust, genocides, massacres, bombs, annihilation, land mines, hunger, rape, torture, occupation and inhuman brutality, we say we share your fears and apprehensions. When: Thursday, January 27, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Where: Unity Church of Dallas, 2625 Forest Lane, Dallas Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance Join the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance on January 27, 2011, as we bring light to the world in remembrance of a dark period of our past. January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Holocaust. Those wishing to participate in a brief candlelight ceremony commemorating IHRD will gather in the Museum starting at 6 p.m. Bring your own Yahrzeit (candle), or we will provide an electric candle for cyou. At 6:30, we will process to the site of our future Museum (at the corner of Houston Street and Pacific Avenue) for a brief memorial. The event is free and open to the public: families welcome! The Museum will offer free tours to attendees starting at 4 p.m. For more information, visit our web site at www.DallasHolocaustMuseum.org or call 214-741-7500. Dallas Holocaust Museum 211 N. Record Street
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North Dallas Texas Democratic Women Meeting | North Dallas Texas Democratic Women Meeting January 27, 6:45 pm A Call to Action How Democrats Can Succeed in the Next Election Cycle Northhaven United Methodist Church 11211 Preston Road (between Forest and Royal) Our 2011 kick-off meeting will feature a panel discussion on how Democrats can not only recover the ground lost in the last election, but can actually use voter reaction to the harsh measures planned by Republicans, to attain sweeping victories in 2012. Panelists will include Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Darlene Ewing, Brooks Love, campaign manager and now Chief of Staff to Elba Garcia, and others. Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet and greet fellow Democrats. Don't forget to invite several of your Democrat friends, and show them what good programs we have. Let's get 2011 off to a good start!
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