Oregon Dem's Profile
Retired Environmental Consultant
Groups: Movie Review Group, Climate/Environment Fight, Kamala2020
Diaries published: 68 (819 days since last diary on Fri Sep 10, 2021 at 07:37 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 1852 (392 days since last comment on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 03:21 PM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 561
Total Comment Ratings: 0
Most Recommended Diary: Dave Wasserman Has Seen Almost Enough, 347 comments, 406 recommends
People Following Oregon Dem: 12
Oregon Dem's Most Frequent Tags:
Oregon Dem's Most Recent Diaries:
|
For a break from the plentiful unhappy news in the world, I was wondering if some of you will share your favorite dedication from a book. Mine is undoubtedly from Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (my second favorite book of all time; second only...
by Oregon Dem
 4 comments
on Fri Sep 10, 2021 at 07:37 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
|
|
Ostensibly, no later than one month from yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Senate-passed bi-partisan $1.2T infrastructure bill (what I’ll herein call “the transportation infrastructure bill”). The group of 10 “moderate”...
by Oregon Dem
12 comments
on Sat Aug 28, 2021 at 09:28 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
|
|
While nothing is certain, I suspect the odds are greater than not that Mike Pence will do the right thing on January 6th and, without fanfare or drama, officially accept the election results for Biden-Harris. And in so doing he will undoubtedly bring...
by Oregon Dem
21 comments
on Sun Dec 27, 2020 at 01:14 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
|
|
While there are a lot of people I’m really happy for today (including everybody on planet Earth), I’m particularly thinking of Symone Sanders. After being one of Senator Sander’s top lieutenants in the 2016 campaign, she made what I think was a...
by Oregon Dem
5 comments
on Sat Nov 07, 2020 at 10:32 AM PST
with 11 Recommends
|
|
Larry Sabato just came out with his final electoral college predictions: Biden 321 Trump 217 He has Biden winning Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, while having Trump carrying Florida. You know what? I’d happily...
by Oregon Dem
32 comments
on Mon Nov 02, 2020 at 11:13 AM PST
with 25 Recommends
|
|
I’ve seen several diaries on the early vote statistics in Texas, North Carolina, and Florida, but not seeing re Pennsylvania. My apologies if this has been covered already and I’m just missing it. Having said that, it seems something amazing is...
by Oregon Dem
160 comments
on Sat Oct 31, 2020 at 12:13 PM PDT
with 223 Recommends
|
Recommended by Oregon Dem
- Another day, another story about how anti-abortion conservatives really, really want to start throwing people in jail. The Washington Post goes to Texas for this one, though much of the actual planning and grumbling is due to the same national...184 comments 310 Recs
- On July 6, 1990 St. Louis Cardinals (baseball) manager Whitey Herzog resigned. Big league sports managers almost never resign. They get fired. But they don’t quit. By resigning, Whitey made a statement — he essentially fired his team. They were...243 comments 399 Recs
- Yeah, I said it!! Because women (to be clear, white women) who voted for trump vs Hillary in 2016, we got Trump-appointed Amy Coney Barrett who provided the nail-in-the-coffin for Roe. Nobody has to like it, but those are the facts. If white women had...972 comments 618 Recs
- Omg. THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME BECOME THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR U.S. SENATE IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!!!! 😭😭 I am so deeply honored. With 90% reporting, here are Tuesday night’s election results. We literally won all 67 PA Counties!!!!!!!!...274 comments 875 Recs
- Alarming but unsurprising NOAA report finds that average sea level will rise 10 to 12 inches by 2050While elements of the climate portions of the Build Back Better bill could be passed with his vote, according to Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator who did more than anybody except Republicans to kill the proposal, there’s been no publicly announced...131 comments 179 Recs
- This is AOEU (Rick’s) brother and sister. We regret to tell the Daily Kos community that Rick passed away suddenly early in the new year. Rick will always be remembered as a constantly curious person, wanting to know more about the workings of the...166 comments 728 Recs
- In a profoundly detached�fit of magical thinking, GOP leader Mitch McConnell told journalists�Bob�Woodward and Robert Costa that the Trump era was on the wane. In their recently released book Peril,178 comments 226 Recs
- President Joe Biden came out of the door ready to frame his administration's work. And he expressed them for the average American. Joe Biden gets it right? Watch Politics Done Right TV here. Before I get on the subject of his press conference, I must...6 comments 22 Recs
- How go negotiations on the Build Back Better bills? According to Punchbowl News, Nancy Pelosi has a plan. Nancy Pelosi's endgame FYI—I found this link courtesy of Greg Sargent at Washington Post (who offers his own commentary as well at this link):...115 comments 22 Recs
- Despite the protestations of the Supreme Court's conservative justices, the American public gets it—the court's center of gravity is now too far outside the mainstream to be trusted. On Wednesday, yet another poll found the high court's approval...170 comments 186 Recs
Oregon Dem's Tags
- No current results.
