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Dec 10 · Thank you to everyone who participated in our public beta test of DU3. The testing site is now closed.
We are currently in the process of importing members' current user data into the DU3 software. After the user data has been transferred over, we will remove the DU3 software from the /du3/ sub-folder, and move it to the top-level democraticunderground.com URL.
The entire process may take a few hours. When the process is finished, our new software will be live.
We will probably leave t
Dec 09 · As the ruling class of this country continue to scratch their heads in public about the Occupy Wall Street movement, most of us regular folks had seen this movement coming for sometime now. Young Americans have joined OWS, not just because there is a high unemployment rate in this country, and not just because they go from one job interview to the next, practically losing the ability to feel the disappointment of yet another rejection. No, they joined the OWS movement because they are losing ho
Dec 10 · It's a good post to use as this format of DU draws to a close. It shows just how ridiculously ridiculous things have become in education.....and how very clueless our party's leaders have become. Yeh, I said it, I mean it. They are clueless to the great harm they are doing daily to public education in America. They have no idea, and I wonder if they even care. Yeh, I mean that also.
Francis W. “Frank” Biden, a younger brother of Vice President Joe Biden, is a real estate developer in
Dec 10 · You may be aware that we are going to be moving into new software very soon -- probably tonight. And on that software, the community is going to be moderated very differently than DU has been moderated over the last decade. Our reasons for making this change are many. But I want to make clear that the change should not in any way be interpreted as some sort of statement about the people who have served as moderators on Democratic Underground over the last 10 years.
Probably hundreds of differ
Dec 09 · One school in this system of charter schools sent over 12% of its 2009-2010 class back to the public school district. Two others dismissed 5% and 7% of their student enrollment.
So there you have it...one set of schools getting taxpayer money gets to pick and choose their students, the traditional public schools don't get that luxury. If schools get public money, they should keep the students and work with them.
And so they get puff articles written about how very good they are, with
Dec 09 · We've got quite a few awards to hand out this week, so we're going to just quickly note two events from the past week, and move right along. Oh, and as for this week's article title, well, it just felt appropriate, somehow. I promise, by the end, we'll have at least one blatant Alice In Wonderland reference to justify it, OK?
The week dawned with the exit of Herman Cain from the Republican nomination battle. Cain, love him or hate him, will be missed on the campaign trail because he had tw
Dec 09 · That comment stunned me as I exited my local supermarket earlier this afternoon. I turned, and there sitting as if everything was great on this sunny day, reading a newspaper like they belonged, was a young couple. First glance, well dressed, not dirty, no 'meth marks' on their faces. Neither smoking. He shaggy blond hair sticking out from under a ski cap, her dark hair under a hoodie. Nice coats, nice boots on both.
"Is it for food or drugs and booze?"
No sir (huh, sir, are you shitt
Dec 09 ·
The flag-draped casket bearing the remains of Lance Cpl. Tyler O. Griffin, of Voluntown, Connecticut, arrives at Dover Air Force Base on April 4, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharret / The New York Times).
The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Friday 09 December 2011
Let's start .
The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had ackno
Dec 08 · The current President and Congress are destroying our Constitutional rights, our planet's climate, and the vestiges of a social safety net, and you are obsessing over a freak show of self-hating homosexuals and anti-intellectual intellectuals jumping through hoops in a corporate media circus with Ringmaster Donald Trump. Is this a good use of your time?
The "Bush tax cuts" are still called that, while Bush has been gone for years. The corporate trade agreements are rolling through at a pace B
Dec 08 · Earlene had a bachelor’s degree. She did white collar office work all her life. At 50, she suffered a stroke which left her paralyzed----on her left side. She was confined to a wheelchair and needed assistance to go to the bathroom or cut her food or bathe herself. She was in and out of the hospital with infections. When sitting up in her wheelchair, her blood pressure would become dangerously low. But, because she could still speak and use her right hand---her typing hand---the Social Security
Dec 08 · Cleansing Wall Street of Blame: "By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It": Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies
By Phil Rockstroh
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Editor's Note: The Right’s giant megaphone is reversing the narrative for today’s crisis: It is Barack Obama’s “food-stamp presidency” and the Occupy demands for fairness that are at fault for the hard economic times, not Wall Street’s unregulated greed increasing the need for food stamps and heightening the imperative for resistance – as Phil Rockstroh explains:
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Dec 08 · Living with Fukushima City's radiation problem
Blogpost by Ike Teuling - December 8, 2011 at 15:27
We spent four days in Fukushima City doing a radiation survey in the neighbourhoods of Watari and Onami. People there have been left to cope alone in a highly contaminated environment by both the local and national governments. Our radiation experts found hot spots of up to 37 microSieverts per hour in a garden only a few meters away from a house and an accumulation of radioactivity in drainag
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