I've slept on it, and I've come to the conclusion that I'll have to abandon this username. I just can't risk what happened yesterday happening again at the new job that I will be beginning next month. I have worked too hard to get this job for my wife and my infant son to put them at risk by continuing to use this name.

I had a talk with Mrs. Droogie last night, and her first words were not, "You and that stupid Daily Kos!" On the contrary. She understood why I did what I did, and didn't fault me for it. She was very supportive.

The facts of this story are to follow, for those who are catching up.

Obama makes mistake with VP choice. I have been a long-time DK reader pretty much from the beginning, but my time here is done. MY first and only post may have been snarky, BUT I never called anyone a fucktard, a nobody, or having a stench. Go gently on the flames, I was once by your side. The polls out this evening are even more depressing than the one they had this morning. Honestly, if nothing else I realize I am not alone. Use the Google and search the news stories that are coming out in the last few hours. I am the tip of the iceburg I suspect. So I wish you all the best of luck in November. I have not decided exactly what I am going to do yet, but it probably involves a very big salt-rimmed margarita and a nice chilly sunset...

I do not want to leave, but on august 8th I will be moving to a new place. The reason why I am leaving the blogsphere for now is because the new place will not have internet access. I am working on getting it set up, but I have to find a job in order to get that done.

A friend of mine just lost her mother due to brain cancer. I hate because I was visiting with my brother in north carl. that I couldn't be there with her sooner. I care deeply about my friend because we are family. I would do anything I can to help her not because I get anything in return, but because my friend matters to me.

This trip will also lead to changes in my life. As I stated before I will be undergoing treatments to change my body. My mind will still be the same, but in time my sex will be what it should have been from birth.

I have been looking forward to participating in Barack Obama's presidential campaign, because we need a break from the horrible policies of the neo-cons, particularly Bush and Cheney.

However, I am not going to be able to do so anymore.

It's too late for me.  It's too late for my kid.  

I've been putting off this diary for as long as I can...but at some point, you simply cannot outrun time any further. Over the past 4 years that I've been at Daily Kos, I have had the privilege of having a discussion with a great many of you, and even meeting some of you in person. Whether it was in the episode threads of 'The Colbert Report' that I used to host way back in the day when the show started in 2005, blogging my ground experiences with Ned Lamont and Patrick Murphy in 2006, and Barack Obama in 2008, or making my delegate predictions in the more recent part of this year - it has been always been a pleasurable experience. I've seen my fair share of Kossacks come and go over the years, but now it's my time for me to join the ranks of inactive Kossacks.

My voice means nothing.

I do not have, and never will have any effect.

America is no more.

I had retained some hope that the people who I thought represent me actually did.  I had thought that Immunity from prosecution could not be bought.  I had thought that I lived in a free society which would, in the end, serve to liberate.

So, this is it.  I can't vote for Obama.  I won't vote for MccCain.

Obama shows himself to be just another opportunist.  McCain is the same.

They are both just more of the same.  It makes me sick.

I’m leaving Daily Kos.  I am leaving as a response to my being tired, and the fact that I have to be up for work at 7:06.

I am not leaving forever.  And I’d like to be clear that I’m not being dramatic about leaving by writing a lengthy, self-involved diary about this.  I’m not pissed off that I think Markos lives in a different time zone than me, and therefore gets to stay up later, sleep in longer.  Am I jealous?  Yes.  Do I want to live in a similar time zone?  That means that I’d be at work later than I am now, so probably not.  But, at the end of the day, I’m going to go to bed when I have to, and Markos is going to go to bed when he has to.

go ahead kos do it.  ive been here a short amount of time and ive quickly learned what the culture is about:  shut your mouth and tow the line.  not my kind of place.  im a real progressive.  i dont know what you people are.

... You know what. You people can kiss my ass.

I'm done.

See ya.

Good luck to you people. I've had some Comments of the Day, but that's not important to you faith-based wingnuts. You have devolved to meet the standards of neocons, except with the opposite viewpoint. I wash my hands of you.

Normally, I'd stay and continue to fight for a bit of reason. But, you people have perfected the Rovian Nasty Attack.

I will not be further associated with a wild-eyed cult.

A recent exchange about how UIDs may provide information regarding poster's "length of service" but have nothing to do with the validity of his/her opinion devolved into an HR/flame war. That settled it for me. I don't need you, you don't care what I think. It's time we parted ways.

I've been here a little more than a month. I came here against the better advice of my big brother, who I always saw as a drama queen always looking at the glass half empty. When he left to live in Italy, I decided to sign up for an account here and prove to my brother that DailyKos wasn't a bad place.

I came here with the belief that there was almost no one further to the left than me. My away message most nights is Paul Wellstone's line "I'm from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." In the wake of the flap over FISA and faith-based initiatives, I began to realize, actually, I may be a little further right than like everyone here.

Compared to most people at DailyKos...I'm a Republican.

Apparently not.

Well I am peon here who doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the world of orange so I won't be missed, and where I travel on the internet won't make a bit of difference in the scheme of things.

So be it. I would rather be where folks care about electing democrats.

Win some. Lose some.

President Obama will be president to all of the people and he won't be perfect and he won't be a leftie and he won't always do what i want. But he will throw those dirty lousy republicans and their filthy self-centered policies out of office.

It will be a new day, a new beginning with a whole lot of f'ing hope.

I thought that this site was about electing democrats. Apparently. Not.

I am outa here.

Obama not only lied to me to my face--saying he would filibuster telecom amnesty--but in only the last week he has COMPLETELY trashed his credibility and his self-applied label as a "new politician".

Our Congress has done what deliberative bodies do..they compromised.  This time on FISA.  Another day it will be something else dear to our hearts and yet another day something dear to the hearts of conservatives.  It is the way government gets done.

But the realization that the current Congress is not a Progressive Majority has come to many here as a profound shock.   The rage here is off the charts: the declarations to oppose Obama, the betrayal, the raising of FISA to a level beyond the many more profound atrocities of this administration.

I think it is time for us to see other people.  Visit other sites.  Go out into the world.  Mostly to stop filling my time with negativity, worry and complaining that our Democratic friends are just as bad as our Republican adversaries.

With the FISA "compromise" hitting the news, there has been a predictable blizzard of GBCW, GBCW-lite and other hand-wringing diaries.  Some of them have been thoughtful.  Some of them have been hysterical.  Others were less so.

But even with all this spleen venting and ranting, there's still at one thing I like about DKos.

I have been kicked off of this site more than anyone in history.  I've blogged here under the name of the ratprick, the Ghost of Frank Zappa, Johnny Double Adams, and other names too numerous to mention.  I've been here since before the 2004 election virtually every day.  Until today.

It ain't the community.  I do think Elise is a total douche for her comments of 7/25/07 in which she licks Nancy Pelosi's buttcrack.  But, she's a fucking lightweight.

Eternal Hope has been my nemesis, though I admire him or her.  

kos is cool.  Hunter is the voice I wish I had.  By far the best writer here.  Maybe even the voice of a generation.

There are many others that I adore.  As I said it's not the community.  

We're fucked people.  This country ain't coming back.  Both houses of congress, the executive and the Supreme Court are absolutely fucking rotten to the core.  Rotten to the core.  Corrupt beyond redemption.  All of them.  Obama included.

So, I have completely lost my stomach for politics.  This ends it for me.

ta ta...... I'm gonna let the door hit me where the Good Lord split me.

Fuck All Y'all.

Well, this is my last diary at DKos, at least for a good while, and judging by the comments to my recent diaries that will be cause for rejoicing by many.  I can't promise I'll never be back, because this site has become, at least for me, the very center of the new liberal movement.

I posted two diaries over the weekend relating to Tim Russert, diaries I subsequently deleted at the request of various commenters and after the diaries elicited an avalanche of epithets, invective and personal abuse the likes of which I'd never seen at this site.  But here are the google cached versions:

http://72.14.205.104/...

http://72.14.205.104/...

I've avoided all of the Russert diaries, pro, con, and in between, this weekend -- until this morning, when I read the two diaries currently on the Rec List asking Kossacks to cool it on criticizing Russert for a while.

I can see the diarists' point.  I can also see the point of those who would like to engage in a clear-eyed discussion of the man before the hagiography (or the vitriol) becomes the accepted biography.  Unfortunately, those people mainly seem to be talking past each other, rather than to each other -- probably because to truly engage each other would risk having to admit not being 100% in the right (oh noes!).

There are a few people who are thinking that all this foofaraw will hurt, perhaps even destroy, Daily Kos.  I doubt this:  DKos has had eruptions like this all the time.  Follow me past the jump for more.

I guess the time has come to come clean, I am Jean Lafitte. While this may come as shock to you today, in the near future it will not be that surprising. There are others out there, which calls into question where is here.

Here is the metasphere, as we sailors of the virtual seas call it. It is a space created by the imagination of humanity made real by a shared hallucination called the Internet. One of the most exciting side effects, if one is dead, is how our psychic waves can be tuned into creations of mankind and we are made real again, even if for a limited amount of time.

I am not a ghost, but something entirely different. Let me try and explain.