The cool people are in Austin, including my future wife.  It's a boring and rainy night in Iowa City.  You might as well suffer with me.

Join me below for some of my favorite things.

The situation in eastern Iowa is reaching crisis stage.  Flood levels are in the 500 year flood zone and the rivers have not yet crested.  Officials in Cedar Rapids, Coralville, and Iowa City have issued mandatory evacuation orders in portions of their cities and more are probably around the corner. The Iowa River will crest early next week at stages much higher than the historic floods of 1993.   Things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better.  

Links and other info on the flip.

I just got back and wanted to spread my news.  

Final delegate count for West Liberty Precinct:

Obama: 4
Clinton: 3
Richardson: 2
Edwards: 2

Obama had 40 more caucusers than the nearest competitor.  

Let the Townhouse bloggers have their fun with their bullshit stories based on bullshit talking points fed to them from jeebus knows where.  Those of us on the ground have no time for pundits who would rather fight the war of ideas at home instead of putting their energy into electing Democrats.

Two weeks ago kid oakland posted a diary called Racism and Bigotry have no place on DailyKos. The premise was clear:

outright racism and bigotry have no place in our community.

On the day he wrote that I couldn't have agreed more enthusiastically.  Since then I have changed my mind.  Outright racism and bigotry have found a place in our community.  Outright racism and bigotry are tolerated by the admins of this community. Outright racism and bigotry have found a home on DailyKos.  HarveyMilk led the charge with his now deleted blackface diary and an extremely conditional apology (don't believe the "unconditional apology" hype). Tonight memekiller followed the lead.  Who will post the next one?  How many good people will leave as a result?

At a bare minimum, they need to be willing to vote to sustain the filibuster. Anything less says "I am not willing to stand strong against George W. Bush's assault on the Constitution." Leadership would entail participating. - MissLaura

Right now is the time for them to respond...do they stand with Dodd or with George Bush? - BarbinMD

I'm tired of words. At this point, the only thing that speaks is action. - kos

I'm tired of words too. I'm also tired of bullshit Bush style you're-with-us-or-you're-against-us framing.  That seems to be Standard Operating Procedure on the front page now, so I guess I'll play along.

Senator Brownback sat with the Topeka Capital-Journal's editorial board on Thursday and proved over and over again that he's one big bowl of crazy.  Join me below for some funtastic quotes.

Why did Al Gore have to invent global warming?  The heat index is 187 degrees today.  I have a turkey roasting in my car.  I'll be serving Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings from the passenger's seat right after work.  Stop by if you're in the neighborhood.

Welcome to the YearlyKos Edition of the Findings series.  Below you will see charts and graphs I've produced based upon data gathered through careful observation of convention behavior and meticulous gathering of metrics.

Welcome to the first diary in my new Findings series.  Below you will see charts and graphs I've produced based upon data gathered through careful observation of site behavior and metrics.  

Resumés, Résumés, Resumes...we all have them.  We spend hours crafting, refining, and, let's call it embellishing that wonderful document.  We mail them and fax them, email and post to employment sites, and wait desperately for that special phone call to schedule an interview.  Millions of people sending out millions of resumes and someone has to read them.

That someone is me.

Based on what I'm reading today it looks like everyone is bolting from the party. Nader is a god again.  Reid and Pelosi are worse than Hitler. They sold us out!  They are traitors!  I want my money back! 2008 is just around the corner and we're going to send them a message.  4 more years of Republican rule will show the Democrats that we mean business.  We'll give  back the House and Senate, too.  After all, there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans.

I'm here to tell you one thing: Supreme Court Justice John Yoo thanks you for your support.  

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left." - The Prophecies of Einstein, III Century, 7th Quatrain

The New Mexico Legislature has declared that all the real problems have been solved.  It will now move to resolve truly important matters.

For New Mexico, the fight for Pluto is not over.

You  heard right.  The fight is not over.

According to the AP, Gingrich has admitted to having an affair during the Clinton impeachment.

Markos, come into my office and have a seat.  We need to have a little chat.
 
I know this is your site. I know you started it from the ground up.  I understand that you assume all the risk, pay all the bills, offer use of the site for free and do everything in your power to ensure that the site is a raging success.  You get an A+ for effort.

Now to the problem at hand.  It seems that you have confused ownership with the right to make decisions on how you run your site.

Ray Hoffmann had been re-elected as the Chair of the Iowa Republican Party despite leading the disastrous 2006 campaign.  

Welcome fellow bibliophiles.  Today we are going to discuss Sarah Vowell's The Partly Cloudy Patriot.  Winter has hit hard here on the plains, so I'm going to bundle up, brew some coffee, throw another Republican fundraiser letter on the fire and settle in.  Join me below the flip for some of my favorite passages.