Dean is first.

However, I can see why nobody wants to be responsible for putting this up on the front page. LOL

Poor James Carville. He just doesn't know when to shut up.

I got you're back. :)

Howard Dean is number 1.

Linda, what is that link to Gore? Thanks! I'll be back later to get it, dial up is costing me $$$.

Yikes, what an eye-opener. Carville is indeed very, very an ugly one.

 Still working to get my replacement computer. This one is dying fast and dial up is for the birds.

Keep the home fires burning.

OK, time to get up and go to lunch.

It's a sunshiney day out. Shame on me.

1. Monica

This is on the front page.  Cool.

Pass me the dark shades, pleasssseeeee!

WAIT, Monica, I loved #42, but I want your own post.

Repost for Monica :)


42.

Monica Smith
Sun, 01/21/07
11:30 am

Reply to this


Your wish is my command--first draft, including spelling mistakes.


Good morning, everybody

I have awoken in high dungeon. You know it takes hearing something a couple of times before it sinks in, but I can tell you now that I'm not liking what I'm hearing from the Democrats.
I only caught a snippet of Hillary sitting in a comfy chair and telling me she wants to have a conversation. Her public relations person, Karen Hicks, used that verbiage too. Well, my response is "lady, I do not have time to have a conversation with you. I'm too busy trying to think of ways to straighten out the mess you all have made in Washington. Because, you know, the Republicans didn't do it all by themselves."
I do not want to hear about conversations and I do not want to hear about having more hope from Obama and making a big effort together from Dodd.
This is not a "ask not what your country can do for you" moment. This is a "we're really sorry we screwed up" moment. It's a moment to get to work and figure out how this mess is going to get straightened out.
Because, things didn't just "happen." Mistakes weren't just made. Jobes did not move overseas by themselves. The ruling elite, both in government and out, got seduced by the notion of being a global presence, of jetting around the orb we call earth and having adventures and taking risks with other people's money and other people's kids. And the worst part of all is that they all pretended to be doing it for us. And now that us has been totally screwed, they want us to buck up, to take a deep breath, to put our heads together and set it all right.
Well, we the people have been doing our job. We the people have been working so hard and running from pillar to post that we don't have time to think. And the people who know so much can't be bothered!!!!!!
It's time for people who think they're so clever and smart to fess up that they have made a mess and that they're going to clean it up. How come the people who got re-elected didn't get the message that the ones that didn't get re-elected were the worst. That the incumbents that were retained were simply given a second chance? How come they think that having been elected to one that they didn't do very well, they should be angling for another one for which they haven't even prepared?

Dodd bragging about HAVA is incredible. I just hope nobody that designed No Child Left Behind desides to set up a national campaign and tout that as an achievement!!!! Talk about adding insult to injury!! Dodd talking about how elementary education has been short-changed was almost as bad. The problem in the 21st Century isn't a lack of education and it isn't competing with the kids of other nations whose education is much better. The problem is being expected to compete for work with people who have almost no education, people like our great grandparents who built this great nation with almost no education and almost no English to boot. We don't need a whole lot of people who understand computers so they can sit at consoles dreaming up cyberwarfare. We don't need people who can design more satellites and the lasers to knock them out of space. We don't need to explore the new frontier of space after having made hell on earth for most of the earth's population. We don't need our local police departments training the cops to track predators on the internet, training that will then prepare them for snooping into what all of us are up to.
Mainly we don't need people telling us what's for our own good and then selling us down the creek. Hypocracy is too good a word for that. What word shall we use?

MORE LOVE KIMMY

This is going to be like that thread where every time we refreshed we got W's mug.

might get old quick being reminded of Carville

Carville = Trojan Horse

This toon depicts the Hit man that he is.


But I don't want Carville standing alone, his partner in crime, Mr. Paul Begala should get his attention too.


Begala "Yes, he's in trouble, in that campaign managers, candidates, are really angry with him. He has raised $74 million and spent $64 million. He says it's a long-term strategy. But what he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose. That's not how you build a party. You win elections. That's how you build a party."


Begala: Jan 4, 2007 ""Anyway," Begala continued... "I don't need some a**hole from Vermont telling me what to do.""



Ouch....some team of support, Hillary.

10. LOL



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Joan, here is Al Gore's video link from the TED Conference.

http://climatechangeaction.blogspot.com/...

14.

Good one, Linda!

I vant to drink yer blood, hehehehehehehehe!

oh, no. Just appearing on the TV, join Governor Richardson and Lee Greenwood for Prayer Breakfast Jan 19, 20 and 21.

What did the DLC do, make them all follow the Republicans with this religion and faith in politics crap?

First Hillary,then Obama, Ford Jr, and Richardson. Oh wait, they started it apparently in Ohio at their meeting last year, because the Ohio Chair Chris Redfern started in with that and brought a preacher to the raise the minimum wage even with John Edwards.

A dollar short and a day late.....and on bad advice-no less.


Separationo of Church and State.

I'm going to have to catch the MTP appearance with Senator Kennedy later. What a coincidence, the channel went out while he was on....but it was fine while the lying weasle McCain was on.

bbsot

I can't figure out if Bill Richardson is really running, or just getting out there for an eventual spot on Hillary's ticket. I've always thought of him as a Clintonista.

I kind of like bats (Howard Dean's bat!) so I think McCain might fit better on a rattlesnake.

oops,one more

Shiite cleric al-Sadr's political bloc ends boycott

Ending a two-month boycott, the powerful political movement of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will return to Iraq's parliament, the parliamentary speaker announced today. The reconciliation came as parliament members said they would consider the group's demands, which include setting a timetable for withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition troops from Iraq.


oops, looks like the Pro War DLC group is losing voice.

I just read it was actually 25 of our bravest who died yesterday - not 24. They aren't just numbers. So sad.

Yes, Linda, take the religion out of politics.

19.No, snakes are nice. I vote for a weasel. Now, there's an ornery lookin' critter. It got one of my snakes.

Hillary for President?
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2007-01-21 09:47. Cindy Sheehan | Elections
By Cindy Sheehan

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.

13 people killed in a helicopter crash today in Iraq. Two other soldiers and one marine also killed.

16 people dead in the last two days in a war that the Senator has supported since she first voted “yea” to give Bloody George carte-blanche to invade Iraq and her continuing support via her “yea” votes on giving the war-addict in the White House the key to the treasury.

Soon after Camp Casey in August, 05, I was meeting with some Hollywood people who pretended that they supported me, but really were big money donors and supporters of Hillary. I was told that the Senator was really against the war, but she was waiting for the politically correct time to come out against it. I was told that she was the best hope for the Democrats in 2008, and I should give her a break.

I don’t know who Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood and Mr. Hollywood Got Rocks thought that they were talking to. My son was used as a "soldier of Christ" in BushCo’s crusade against the world and a political pawn in such pro-war Democrat’s moves to the White House. I was disgusted and noted this in many blogs that I wrote at the time.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/1...

could someone get that cockroach off my srceen!!!!!!

It's quite obvious that Hillary doesn't hold the netroots in high esteem. Hiring Carville is the clearest indication. She is a corporatist.

Holly J......SMASH IT.

http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/

where is Matt? watch this, it is so cute.

very sweet video linda, I will send that to my daughter who loves to travel the world.

♥♥♥ Hey, Mama Kimmy ... I keep putting my hand on my tummy and sending you birthing and healing energies! ♥♥♥ 

Hi again,

Just stopping by.  This from a friend included in the 25 most censored news stories.

Also, maybe it's just as well that none of the candidates has inspired the kind of enthusiasm and support that Howard did.  That way we can hold them accountable and not let our emotions interfere.  They are just our political representatives, and if they don't listen to us, if they don't show integrity, intelligence, and responsibility, we criticize them and vote them out.

Just a thought.

Here's the article:

Source:
OneWorld.net, February 5, 2006
Title: “Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?”
Author: Abid Aslam

Faculty Evaluator: Liz Close
Student Researchers: Heidi Miller and Sean Hurley

Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief—often mistaken—that it is better for us than what flows from our taps. Worldwide, bottled water consumption surged to 41 billion gallons in 2004, up 57 percent since 1999.

“Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing—producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy,” reports Earth Policy Institute researcher Emily Arnold. Although in much of the world, including Europe and the U.S., more regulations govern the quality of tap water than bottled water, bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more. At up to $10 per gallon, bottled water costs more than gasoline in the United States.
“There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community,” Arnold asserts, “But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.” Members of the United Nations have agreed to halve the proportion of people who lack reliable and lasting access to safe drinking water by the year 2015. To meet this goal, they would have to double the $15 billion spent every year on water supply and sanitation. While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.

Tap water comes to us through an energy-efficient infrastructure whereas bottled water is transported long distances—often across national borders—by boat, train, airplane, and truck. This involves burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.

For example, in 2004 alone a Helsinki company shipped 1.4 million bottles of Finnish tap water 2,700 miles to Saudi Arabia. And although 94 percent of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is produced domestically, many Americans import water shipped some 9,000 kilometers from Fiji and other faraway places to satisfy demand for what Arnold terms “chic and exotic bottled water.”

More fossil fuels are used in packaging the water. Most water bottles are made with polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic derived from crude oil. “Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand alone requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year,” Arnold notes.

Once it has been emptied, the bottle must be dumped. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter. Incinerating used bottles produces toxic byproducts such as chlorine gas and ash containing heavy metals tied to a host of human and animal health problems. Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year. Of the bottles deposited for recycling in 2004, the U.S. exported roughly 40 percent to destinations as far away as China, requiring yet more fossil fuel.
Meanwhile, communities where the water originates risk their sources running dry. More than fifty Indian villages have complained of water shortages after bottlers began extracting water for sale under the Coca-Cola Corporation’s Dasani label. Similar problems have been reported in Texas and in the Great Lakes region of North America, where farmers, fishers, and others who depend on water for their livelihoods are suffering from concentrated water extraction as water tables drop quickly.

While Americans consume the most bottled water per capita, some of the fastest collective growth in consumption is in the giant populations of Mexico, India, and China. As a whole, India’s consumption of bottled water increased threefold from 1999 to 2004, while China’s more than doubled.

While private companies’ profits rise from selling bottled water of questionable quality at more than $100 billion per year—more efficiently regulated, waste-free municipal systems could be implemented for distribution of safe drinking water for all the peoples of the world—at a small fraction of the price.

Lol, Sheri

Imagine my shock at going to blogforamerica and seeing one big ugly cockroach!

Time to get out the roach motels! 

Hey, Seashell, on the meditation discussion last night...I am all for meditation and think most people do it (engaging in a consuming activity that shuts out the outside world like say creating art is a form of meditation).

My point was the Buddhist monks do it for many, many hours a day so the man the article discusses can reach a level of "happiness" that I don't think is realistic for most people because there are survival things to take care of that take hours a day.

I don't know if 5 minutes or 30 minutes a day can reach the state that was discussed in that article. I need at least an hour to decompress just after reading all the depressing news in the world.

Carville's friend Begala has the same birthday suit.

After what the media did to Dean in Iowa, Begala's comment upon being accused of distorting the facts of the Iowa speech was,

"What do you mean?  There's nobody here but us hired gunslingers."

"Hired gunslingers,"  how apt.  Or maybe they have something else to sling.

Know Hillary by whom she hires.

I wanted to repost this from Monica on last night/early morning thread because it really sums up how sick I am of the fake platitudes with no real meat behind them:

"I only caught a snippet of Hillary sitting in a comfy chair and telling me she wants to have a conversation. Her public relations person, Karen Hicks, used that verbiage too. Well, my response is "lady, I do not have time to have a conversation with you. I'm too busy trying to think of ways to straighten out the mess you all have made in Washington. Because, you know, the Republicans didn't do it all by themselves."

LOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!

 Carville N McCain N critters, Oh, My!!!!!

 BTW that's a praying mantis not a  roach-- a predator, even more appropriate.

Thanks, Sheri, for front-paging this; you made my day! 

btw, GO BEARS!!!

WHO DAT?

3052

31. What really irks me about the move to bottled water is that we had a whole civil rights movement about people being able to drink from a water fountain on the public streets and in the public schools. Well, when everyone got the right to drink from the same fountains, lo and behold, the fountains began to disappear.
The ostensible reason for taking them out of the schools was that the pipes were old and leaking lead. So, did they just replumb the schools? Noooooooooo.....
The water fountains have been replaced by soft-drink machines, full of artificial sweeteners and sugars and now, since some parents have complained, they're graciously stocking them with bottled water. So, the kids have to pay outrageous sums for what they used to get for free!

But, that's how our economy grows--people having to pay good money for the necessities of life. And it's not just water. Whenever the air has to be filtered because it's too polluted for human lungs, we have to pay good money to just breathe.

That's not an act of nature. That's PEOPLE making it harder for other people to live.

http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/

hey guys, got two minutes? watch this cute video and get up and dance.

I'm sure it was just a co-incidence, but when people got the right to sit wherever they wanted on the streetcar, the streetcars started to disappear, too.

Who could argue with the assertion that EVERYBODY just prefers to drive their own car? Never mind that the very young and the very old and people who have better things to do with their time that sit at intersections waiting for the light to change weren't even consulted.

Do you think somebody somewhere sat down and decided what americans should continue to make and what not? Did somebody decide that making weapons of mass distruction is the highest achievement of man?

What do you want to bet that when the queen bee starts buzzing about the temperature of the atmosphere, the next thing that's going to come up is "clean nuclear energy"?

Which reminds me. I really need to look up Richardson's contribution to that. Our oh so wonderful Secretary of Energy!!!

Monica, great post~

Fire, it's possible to reach a state of *happiness* with an hour a day. The monks who do it all day long are not only happy, but they become very powerful in that they are able to create consciously with their thoughts.

Anything that keeps you focused entirely in the present is a form of meditation - dancing, writing, painting blogging - even tending a garden. It's the discipline of the mind that counts; to eschew thoughts of past and future and be in the Eternal Present. Easier said than done.

In the book "The Disappearance of the Universe," there's this quote. "When you're thinking, your mind is actually blank."
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There are people who spend their lives sucking up to others whom they hope will become powerful. Carville is such a person.

So Soros is behind Obama and Murdock is behind Clinton. The corporate duo.

We are the base and we want Al Gore and we have the power.

Come on, Al, it's your turn. Run, Al, run!

 Not fair, jc.  You have the graphic genius and I'm lucky if I don't commit a typo.

So I guess I'll just have to sing, 

Bear down Chicago Bears.  Dum da dum lead the way to victory.

Bear down Chicago Bears.  Dem da dum da da dum da dum de dum.

That'll show her.

Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints? Who dat?

Thanks Linda NM. Gore is great! Draft him.

P.S. Go Bears from a Chicago native living in the warm country.

42.

Monica Smith
Sun, 01/21/07
2:51 pm

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But, that's how our economy grows--people having to pay good money for the necessities of life. And it's not just water. Whenever the air has to be filtered because it's too polluted for human lungs, we have to pay good money to just breathe.

That's not an act of nature. That's PEOPLE making it harder for other people to live.
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Ooh..., Monica, Monica..., you are making the point.
Where those analysts (Carville...?, lol) that can explain all these on even wider number of examples of "how our economy grows", works, etc. Where those "framers" with 30 seconds sound bites to make it easy swallowed...

Sometimes, I think may be people don't need all these "political science" but just to have someone to listen not for 30 seconds, probably longer... Can't see anyone today but Chomsky (thanks to Chaves,..lol).

Good post Monica! Keep on.

39 Maryvb said:

"Oh jeez. Richardson has a group called *America for Richardson*. What the heck. Why not Richardson for America? These people just don't get it. I may have to rescind my comment above which was lukewarm and somewhat positive about him."

 Hands down one of the best decisions the Dean campaign made was to use Dean for America. Brilliant from a marketing perspective and honestly, was the first reason I came to his site and read. I had never seen that before...a site that didn't have a url that was about the ego but about what that candidate wanted to do for us.

BTW, deanforamerica.com now redirects to the DNC website.  

WHO DAT?  

Okay, I'll even the score here...

gooooooooooooooo Saints!!!

the cheeseheads are all Bears fans today because of the twisted logic that goes as such

the Packers pasted the Bears at the end of the regular season and it was a great game by Favre

if the Bears go on and win the Superbowl it will still give bragging rights to Green Bay

and might even lead to another season by Brett

I heard that at the gas station and the grocery store; it is indisputable badger logic

and it will never happen again in your lifetime

Who dat?

back after the games

MORE LOVE KIMMY

Since my Seahawks aren't in this - I'm pulling for the Saints. I hope the Patriots whoop the Colts.

Phil - My fave team are the Packers but well, ya know how that goes- LOL. I don't think Brett is coming back. Sniff, sniff.

Brady will outshine Manning today.

six hours of moving snow, I'll probably sleep through the game

Who dat?

"There are some people who actually think that making people choose the lesser of two evils is a winning strategy for them.

erhaps because, like the victims of rape, people who only get sick are glad the cancer didn't kill them"

True that! No such thing as "clean" nuclear energy and I loudly dispute every politician when I hear them say that. I had to set more than one of my local candidates straight on that issue. Frankly, living in Arizona and not talking about 100% sustainable energy is just pathetic. Solar and wind are plentiful but nope...they plan on expanding our nuclear plant (largest in country) even though it has had huge issues, was downgraded recently, and with global warming, already being in a hot state and having no close water source...mark my words those cooling tanks are going to fail and the damn thing will blow. 

50.Hate to disappoint, but I do have a degree in Polical Science and 40+ years of community involvement. And, I studied Chomsky when he was still just a guru of linguistics. LOL

wOOt!  Field Goal!

We need to recommend this and promote it to the front.

http://blogforamerica.com/view/19285

59.  :-)

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it: Woodrow Wilson

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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complaceny to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

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The Pats have enough Super Bowls. Plus they were classless at the end of the Charges game.  Its time for some new faces.

This is the year of the Payton. Saints and Colts Super Bowl. Go Indy!

I mostly want to see New Orleans get a badly needed emotional boost.

jc~ Saints definitely are America's *Cinderella team*.

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Yes, praying mantis. That IS more appropriate.

The head of the praying mantis is triangular. The eyes of the mantis bulge large and round from the sides of the head. The eyes are made even more effective by the mantis’s ability to rotate the head 360 degrees. (does he spit green pea soup too?)

The mouth of the praying mantis is made for chewing and biting. (Especially biting on progressive Democrats) There is an upper and lower jaw as well as palps along the sides.

Sitting atop the head of the praying mantis are its two long antennae that are used for navigation. (navigating up the DLC arce no doubt)

The praying mantis is deaf to most sounds (those not ultrasonic) and there are no ears on the head (Yager and May). (hey, maybe that is why he ignores the majority...he can't hear them!)

 The female praying mantis is known for her habit of biting the head off her partner while they are mating (okay, so that explains it. His wife bit off his head long ago and this is just a paper mache' stud atop the body filled with nothing but hot air)

The predators of the praying mantis are generally animals that feed on insects. These primary predators of the praying mantis are bats and larger birds.

Defense Mechanisms

Praying mantids, when threatened, stand tall and spread their forelegs with their wings fanning out wide (Patterson). The fanning of the wings is used to make the mantis seem larger and to scare the opponent.

Hee, hee. Speading his wings trying to look bigger than he is. Sounds like Carville. 

Holly, to be precisley correct, it is a preying mantis.  not a cockroach.

66. LOL Thanks for the education.

I assumed it was a cockroach. I have always liked preying Manits-- very unkind to these awesome bugs, turning Carville into one of them.
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Oh Mzlittle guess what? Mac gave me a new keyboard because I complained that my letters wore off mine. My laptop looks brand new-- maybe I will make less typos ;-)

Well, I am really glad it is not a cockroach. In Florida, the really super specimens are called Palmetto Beetles and they really don't want to be indoors. They are, however, attracted to light and so fly in when people go out at night.
I've always considered it a kindness to catch them with a dust pan and broom and empty them outside.
Unlike ants, these beetles are not following a trail, so they can't find their way back where they came from.

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http://www.dnc.org/a/2007/01/governor_brian.php

Governor Brian Schweitzer Delivers Democratic Radio Address

January 20, 2006 - Helena, MT

Good morning. I'm Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of Montana, the Big Sky Country.

On Tuesday, President Bush will deliver his annual State of the Union Address. He is expected to talk about the war in Iraq and the need for our country to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I wanted to share some of my thoughts about these topics, which are very important to all Americans.

Along with many people across the country, I have serious concerns about the President's plan to increase U.S. troop levels in Iraq. His plan is just more of the same.

I lived and worked in the Middle East for six years, Salam Alaikum to those who speak Arabic. There, I spent time with many Muslim families and like our families in the United States they want opportunities, freedom to work and live as they choose and the ability to make their country a better place for future generations.

Mr. President there are animosities between Sunni and Shiite people in the Middle East that have developed over centuries. Outsiders can not resolve this conflict unless the Iraqi people want security and freedom as least as much as us.

The American people expect, and our troops and military families deserve, a real plan for success in Iraq that includes political solutions as well as military action.

Mr. President I heard you say that you want to embed American troops with the Iraqi army in Baghdad. Please, don't embed our men and women within Baghdad beside untested and potentially corrupt members of the Iraqi military.

We could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform for the role that they play in protecting Americans at home and abroad. No one has sacrificed more than the military families at home who have a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Democratic Governors were helping to reduce our dependence on foreign oil long before President Bush discovered our oil addiction just last year in his last State of the Union Address.

Here in Montana, for example, I have been working hard to promote renewable energy development and conservation, also to promote the development of coal to liquids facility as a bridge to new sustainable energy development and as an important step in reducing Montana's dependence on foreign oil.

Montana is producing renewable forms of energy including wind power and bio-diesel from oil seed crops.

In Kansas, Governor Kathleen Sebelius has been promoting ethanol on the national stage. And she has made alternative energy a priority for her second term. In Pennsylvania, Governor Ed Rendell has set energy efficiency standards for all state government vehicles.

This week I was proud of an action championed by Democrats in Congress. A bill was passed that will repeal $14 billion in subsidies given to big oil companies.

The legislation also creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources and alternative fuels, promote new energy technologies, develop greater efficiency and encourage energy conservation.

Last year Montana oil producers increased their oil production and we will increase it again this year. Congress should not be giving subsidies to multinational corporations to develop oil fields for foreign dictators. The market is driving the exploration boom in Montana, not freebies form Congress.

We have enough energy resources and green technology in the United States to enable us to stop relying on foreign dictators to supply us with fuel. Along with a smart strategy in Iraq, our energy independence can make us stronger and safer.

We Americans use 6.5 billion barrels of oil a year. We only produce 2.5 billion ourselves. We import 4 billion from some of the world's worst dictators. I've got a plan.

We can save 1 billion barrels through conservation. Things like more efficient cars, homes and appliances. We can produce another 1 billion barrels of bio-fuels with crops like corn, soybeans, canola and camilina. My hope is Americans can produce 2 billion barrels a year from our enormous coal reserves to a clean-burning fuel for about $1.20 a gallon and for the next fifty years only touch a small fraction of our coal supplies.

We can achieve energy independence in 10 years, create a whole new industry with hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, and you'll never have to send children and grandchildren to war in the Middle East again.

Mr. President lets create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America by producing our own clean fuels, bring our men and women home, and stop spending money in Iraq.

This is Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of Montana. Thank you for listening. God bless your family and God bless America.

Good one, Martha. We're in the apathy heading towards total dependence...or maybe we're back at bondage headed towards Armageddon. (which is a twisted form of faith)

What I wish our fearless leaders would do is talk about the difference between being religious and being spiritual. Our forefathers were spiritual and that's one reason why they believed in separation of church and state. They knew that once religion grabbed hold (thru fear) separation would be history.

Hillary was talking about health care. Didn't any of the reporters ask about Iraq? She's totally ignoring Iraq.

If dems don't do something very soon about Iraq (power of the purse, indictments, impeachment) it will be the dems war next year which is what the republicants want.

I think Al Gore should step in as a 3rd party candidate since the electorate will be angry at both parties. Just a thought.

Candidates are heading to NH and IA. Hardly fair to those of us who never have a say in who the nominee is. Whatever happened to IRV?

Perhaps it's time to ask DFA to endorse a draft Gore movement or would that look like a Howard endorsement?

70. Mz. Little

That is an important distinction. 

"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 - 399 BC

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Crime Against Peace: A basic provision of the Charter is that to plan, prepare, initiate or wage a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, and assurances, or to conspire or participate in a common plan to do so is a crime: Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocJac14.htm

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"I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.": Simon Hoggart

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"Going to church no more makes you a Christian than sleeping in your garage makes you a car.": Garrison Keiler

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You know how bad things have gotton in Iraq when on a day when we have lost 25 of our young men in a single day its barely news.

25 brave soldiers in one day. Its why the Democrats as a party need to unite with the assistance of the few rational Republicans to end our envovlement there as soon as possible.

Its alot more important then the disagreements from various factions of the party on political strategy or who gets credit or blame for what.

76

Lol, that is what I was thinking. 

74.

seashell
Sun, 01/21/07
4:28 pm

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I think Al Gore should step in as a 3rd party candidate since the electorate will be angry at both parties. Just a thought.
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I think Jim Webb (or Murtha? too old?) should step up as one more Demos candidate on the platform of non-funding Iraq war ASAP, impeachments, and prosecution of Bush&Co. criminals who initiated this war, de-taxing billions of dollars for corporate tax breaks for previous years, etc. Just a thought.

78. I so agree with you. Why isn't there more outrage at this astounding loss of life in one single day?

73. Schweitzer for America. Wish he'd consider running.

58.

Monica Smith
Sun, 01/21/07
3:39 pm


Hate to disappoint, but I do have a degree in Polical Science And, I studied Chomsky when he was still just a guru of linguistics. LOL
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...lol, he is an interesting guy but you know... not the original one in his views. Curious who else you've studied except, say Adam Smith? Were you usually studying original (author's) texts or "scientific" commentaries made by others?

am i allowed in here? i thought i posted something.

cool name - deja blue.

jc - that is awesome! Reggie just had a good run. Forget about the other Bush.

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Jeez - Hillary wants to be a new Thatcher. It's all about her.

78.

Joe Davidson
Sun, 01/21/07
4:47 pm

...Its why the Democrats as a party need to unite....
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Agree!
Unfortunately the last word is not in the Demos vocabulary, sadly, even more..., it's not in the "culture", "ideology" or "major principles" of this nation...YET.

87. mary vb

LOL!  I couldn't resist! 

nice rendering of carville. what would mary matalin be? a spider with fangs?

everywhere i go, i see people clamoring for gore. you'd think the draft gore site would raise more funds than this:

 https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/12507

Mary Matalin is the bug body attached to the Carville head.

83. Well, I have this really quirky mind which leads me to seek out what I disagree with. Chomsky's theories of linguistics, for example, left me totally unconvinced (having by that point learned to speak four languages), so I gave that up. I resolved, instead to study for a graduate degree in Russian Studies until I was put off by the expectation that I would dutifully record what the professor read from his yellowed notes. I had been spoiled, you see, by a no-name Catholic college for women where we were actually taught how to do research and think for ourselves. My honor's thesis was on the Constitution of Senegal which I had to contact the embassy of to get a copy.
So, yes, I like to work with original documents. Which is why I've saved a copy of the constitution of Iraq on Hannah.

90. He doesn't need a lot of money, if the voters are already for him. LOL

But it won't make the consultants and pollsters and PR people happy.

BTW, every post doesn't automatically get an answer. This is a very random and chaotic place. We are making a crazy quilt.

Say that was a cute video and so cool to see him at the end in front of the Fremont Troll under the Fremont Bridge. 

I've just read several different articles about who will be working for whom for '08. I loved Susan Rice who worked for Howard - she's with Obama.

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mary vb -

I'm in good company then. Kudos to Susan Rice.

Mary Matalin is the bug body attached to the Carville head. 

In reality, the Praying Matlin long ago devoured the Praying Carville. 

Carville....my hero - lost.

Peace march January 27 New York:  ..expected to be among largest since war began.  I guess THE PEOPLE will just have to take over the country!  We've done it before.

Did a Google - wish our news media could:  WHY did China shoot down one of their satellites?  Maybe we should look into what our 'dear President' has been up to...

February, 2004: TOUGH New U.S. Space Policy...first change in 10 years…President Bush authorised...   “The United States will preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space... and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests”    (Now THAT’s open ended… )  www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/higher_ground_040222.html

May 2005:  President George Bush is expected to issue a directive in the next few weeks giving the US air force a green light for the development of space weapons, ...
www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1487124,00.html

Dear Lord...what ELSE is this man up to behind our backs!?

February, 2004: TOUGH New U.S. Space Policy...first change in 10 years…President Bush authorised...   “The United States will preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space... and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests”    (Now THAT’s open ended… )  www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/higher_ground_040222.html

May 2005:  President George Bush is expected to issue a directive in the next few weeks giving the US air force a green light for the development of space weapons, ...

January, 2007: China successfully destroys one of their satellites, putting every US satellite at risk after Bush refused to negotiate atreaty banning such weapons.. Who has the most to lose in such a situation? It sure isn't China. Nice work again, Cowboy George.

In his heart of Hearts, I'm positive that  Al Gore just hates the idea of running for president again. He doesn't need the grief or the ridicule (Mr. Ozone, "I invented the Internet") that both the Repugs and the MSM would steer his way.

He seems to have found a role (and a vitally important one) in combatting global warming. He gets plenty of grief from the deniers and the apostles of short-term greed even in that role.

So, as much as I'd love to have him as president, I don't want to see him hurt and humiliated by his inferiors one more time.

 Same goes for Howard. He's got a big bullseye on his back, and plenty of potential shooters, even in the Democratic Party..................................(think Rahm, Schumer. the entire DLC)

Sam Ross--please remember that the Queen bee is only a front. These developments have been in the works for a long time.

Rumsfeld did tell us that future wars would be fought in cyber-space, which is why he reduced the military personnel component and put more money into technology. And Iraq plays a central part since it will be the locus for downloading and analyzing sattelite information in real time. That one side of the planet is dark while the other is light does make a difference.

We have enough energy resources and green technology in the United States to enable us to stop relying on foreign dictators to supply us with fuel.

Not true if you do the math.................

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs06/news/story?id=2732257&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines

HARVEY, Ill. -- New Orleans' football season is all but over.

That's the message Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has for Saints fans when their team comes to Chicago for Sunday's NFC Championship Game.

"The Bears are going to the Super Bowl," a gleeful Obama told reporters Monday outside a church in suburban Chicago. "I am happy for New Orleans. I think it's a wonderful story for their city, but this fairy tale ends when they come to Chicago."

The winner of the Saints-Bears matchup will head to Miami to play either the Indianapolis Colts or New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 4.

The prediction from the state's junior senator, considered an early favorite for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, struck little fear into Louisiana's congressional delegation.

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Sam Ross
Sun, 01/21/07
5:49 pm

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Peace march January 27 New York: ..expected to be among largest since war began. I guess THE PEOPLE will just have to take over the country! We've done it before.
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Yeah..., month earlier, month later...., the earlier the better.
No, it wasn't done yet..., last time was just an imagination..., imo, the next one is to be the first.

99.

I agree with that and I would add that like Al Gore, Howard Dean has found a useful role beyond pursuing the White House.

And thats fine. Most of the positive change in this country is going to come seperate from what goes on in the White House.

Obama is about as good as you can resonably hope for in 2008. McCain I think is the worst case senario of who could possibly win in 08.

With all due respect to the Governor of Montana:

(From Jim Kunstler):

   Last week, however, the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, in an extraordinary session, heard testimony that the nation is in grave danger of a permanent oil crisis. Some of these senators affected to be shocked and surprised. What planet have they been living on? What is the nation getting for the hundreds of million of dollars paid to their staffers? Outgoing Republican chair, Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), said to the witnesses that “what you told us today is absolutely startling with reference to the future.” Is it too early for a dumbfuck of the year award?
     Perhaps the most valuable message the committee got came from Dr. Flynt Leverett from the New America Foundation, who said: “…there is no economically plausible scenario for a strategically meaningful reduction in the dependence of the United States and its allies on imported hydrocarbons during the next quarter century.” That's the straight dope and we'd better stop pretending otherwise.
      We'd also better stop pretending that alt.fuels such as ethanol, bio-diesel, coal liquids, or hydrogen will allow us to keep up the happy motoring. We have to make other arrangements for daily life. We don't have a moment to lose. Our "to do" list is very long. If we waste our time in recrimination or hand wringing we are going to lose the things we value most, including an orderly society. So, don't be fooled by the temporary fall in oil prices. We're in the zone of the long emergency.

99.

I agree with that and I would add that like Al Gore, Howard Dean has found a useful role beyond pursuing the White House.

And thats fine.

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Obama is about as good as you can resonably hope for in 2008.

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Joe -

Amen to that. 

101.

Huron John
Sun, 01/21/07
5:59 pm


We have enough energy resources and green technology in the United States to enable us to stop relying on foreign dictators to supply us with fuel.

Not true if you do the math.....
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That depends on the kind of "lifectyle" taken into account...
With 3-4 cars per average family all driving around suburbia..., then yes, you are, probably correct.
Otherwise, don't think so?

Ask "simple" Manhattan's people how much "energy resources" they spent..., WALKING for gallon of milk across the street and riding subway to and from work while READING book or paper....
The lifestyle World were developing for centuries and corporate America has destroyed for decades.

jc, to be honest, I'm a fair weather Bears fan.  I loosely follow ther progress, but today was the first time I watched a game from stem to stern.

New Orleans can be proud of the Saints.  They came a long way facing obstacles that no team has ever faced before.

But...I'm glad the Bears are going to the Super Bowl!!!  And I will be watching that game fer sher!

105

damn

hang in there Frankie

MORE LOVE KIMMY  

109. Donna  ;-) (I don't even like football, but was rooting for the emotional boost this time) 

110. Phil

I did say a few days ago that a LOT of teams have answered that question over the years?  LOL

I would have liked to see them do it, but they did get further than they ever have. 

108. Yes, New York is the most energy efficient place to live, even with elevators. LOL

Okay, now I'm rooting for the Colts.  If Archie Manning's old team can't do it, maybe one of his sons can!  ;-)

Reggie Bush didn't get 10 touches

the Saint's were outcoached

no turnovers no penalties and the QB's best game besides

sorry donna but I don't think they can do it twice in a row

but Packer fans got their wish

Phil, I know a large part of your heart is in Louisiana now, but I am going to enjoy the moment.  If it doesn't last, well, we're Chicago.  We're used to it. ;-)

92.

Monica Smith
Sun, 01/21/07
5:27 pm
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Thanks.

Enjoy the moment, Donna!  :-)

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the Patriots have already won their share

go Colts

I'm glad the Bears won and Obama's prediction a week ago about them was correct.

Next up, Colts vs Pats.

Go Pats !

121.  Yes, Obama walks on water.

Obama is about as good as you can resonably hope for in 2008.

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If that were true, that would be a pretty dim picture for America.