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They are not listening to us.
We are rapidly approaching the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. As of today, 3,194 American soldiers are dead and an estimated 23,000 - 100,000 are wounded. Thanks to the Washington Post's recent expose on Walter Reed Medical Center, we now know what kind of disgraceful medical and psychological care our young heroes will receive if they are fortunate enough to make it home.
Yet many of Members of Congress are using George Bush's talking points on de-funding the war while wringing their hands until the next election.
Time to turn up the political heat again! We must intensify the pressure until every soldier is home. Will you continue to do your part by attending a candlelight vigil or a street corner rally in your neighborhood this weekend?
http://www.dfalink.com/fourdaysofaction
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will hit the streets from March 17 to 20 in honor of fallen soldiers to demand our troops come home. Candlelight vigils are an excellent way to communicate the human cost of this terrible war. Vigils are respectful and reach a larger audience than most typical demonstrations. And press photos of your vigil will speak thousands of words that won't fit in a sound bite or on a protest sign.
http://www.dfalink.com/fourdaysofaction
Four days of action to put an end to four years of war.
Let's force them to listen,
Jim Dean
Chair
Well, the Senate couldn't muster the majority necessary to pass the resolution which would have directed an end to the Iraq war.
The House can only muster enough to pass a tame measure which funds the war and the escalation with unenforceable benchmarks. Have we been abandoned? It's a very depressing Ides of March day.
linda b
Thu, 03/15/07
5:57 pm
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EXCLUSIVE: E-Mails Show Rove's Role in U.S. Attorney FiringsUnreleased E-Mails Contradict White House Assertions That the Firings Originated With Harriet MiersBy JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG
March 15, 2007 — New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show that the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than the White House previously acknowledged.
The e-mails also show that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.
The e-mails directly contradict White House assertions that the notion originated with recently departed White House counsel Harriet Miers, and was her idea alone.
Two independent sources in a position to know have described the contents of the e-mail exchange, which could be released as early as Friday. They put Rove at the epicenter of the imbroglio and raise questions about Gonzales' explanations of the matter
http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/03/13/60-democratic-senators/
60 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS?
The most underestimated statistic in American politics is that 21 Republican senators are running for reelection in 2008, creating the possibility of seismic gains for Democrats.
Is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a brilliant tactician leading his caucus to a catastrophic disaster in 2008?
Consider the perspective of Dick Morris. In his analysis, the Iraq war votes are a game of chicken in which Republicans aggressively go to the mat for the president’s policy, and prevail because of their iron will.
Setting aside whether the lives of our troops should be subject to a game of chicken by partisans in Washington, in a war that is going poorly, with tidal opposition from the American people, this strategy at best achieves irrelevant short-term tactical gains in return for strategic disaster for the GOP.
When Sen. McConnell maneuvered with a successful filibuster to defeat the non-binding resolution in the Senate, what did he achieve?
His party was overwhelmingly blamed by the public, yet again, on Iraq. Some of the wisest Republicans in the Senate found their sound advice ignored, and were embarrassed by essentially voting both for and against their own proposal, within days.
It is true that Democrats have differing opinions about how to change Iraq policy. It is true that no matter what Democrats enact, it would be vetoed by the president. Mr. Morris’s bag of tricks, for games of chicken, could well win
the tactical victory.
But: Do 21 Senate Republicans help our country, our troops, or their own reelection efforts by way of these maneuvers that triumph for the status quo of President Bush’s Iraq policy?
Re: 4. linda b
I'm not sure what we're supposed to be respecting either.
Sad to say, nothing gets the media's attention like a broken window or two.
Consider the perspective of Dick Morris. In his analysis, the Iraq war votes are a game of chicken in which Republicans aggressively go to the mat for the president’s policy, and prevail because of their iron will.
Someone needs to show dick morris the election returns from last november.
We've been holding respectful vigils here in Indiana since before the war. I don't think it's going to do the trick. Nonviolent Civil disobedience may be the necessary next step.
Everybody take note: Hagel stuck with the rest of the rethugs on the Senate vote. He's all hat and no cattle.
10. Hagel, like McCain, is 10 pounds of crap in a 5-pound bag
Anyone have any idea whether Clinton fired 93 prosecutors through Janet Reno at the beginning of his term?? That is what is being reported on the news, also that there was little mention of it in the news broadcasts.
If that is true, then what's wrong with these firings?
March 17th-20th, Candlelight vigils, signs at street corners, alone or with others, Marching on the Pentagon with thousands , and Non violent Civil disobedience are in order to show our disrespect for the illegal war, and the administration and other politicians who use power for gain. Power to the people. Impeach.
Yes, Clinton fired US Attorneys at the beginning of his term. Standard procedure to change the old guard since Attorneys are put in place by the previous administration. Unusual to consider doing it at beginning of 2nd term, I think.
And this one, selectively in the middle with political overtones, is very unusual. Plus Gonzalez misled everyone by saying the White House was not involved, then that Miers was just involved. Now it looks like Karl Rove was involved. As usual, it is the lies after the fact that gets them.
Much credit and admiration goes to the activists like linda b who can and do show up for these vigils and rallies.
They take time, money and sometimes stamina to attend
Many thanks to them. We seldom have any to attend here closer than 50, sometimes 75 miles away except close to elections when we have rallies for candidates.
Thanks to you all!
joan, at the beginning of a new president's turn, the new prez can 'fire' the attorneys. u don't want a rethug attorney with a dem prez. they are replaced.
the thing that bush did is fire his own attorneys cause they wouldn't prosecute cases against dems. thus the 'firings.
most of what u hear are talking points from the rethugs.
now it comes out that rove did this.
get ready to hear new talking points.
I am going to dc on saturday morning and staying over. anyone want to meet up at the lincoln memorial. let me know.
via dfalink. then you can get my cell no.
see u there.
can u believe that tomorrow nite I am going to see Peter Paul and Mary in concert. how great is that. I will be singing loudly.
A thought for those in the northeast who will be getting snow(alot in the next day and a half). Bundle up, and find an area where there is a hill facing the road. Go walk out in the snow and make a HUGE peace sign in it.
Don't let the Right's bleating of disinformation fool you as it has many others, Joan.
Clinton did fire all 93 fed prosecutors -- appointed by Republicans -- and took a lot of heat for it.
But there's no comparison to what Bush did -- firing the prosecutors whom he had appointed because they wouldn't do Rove's political bidding and prosecute Democrats enough before the election or prosecuted GOP crooks like Duke Cunningham.
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Which is exactly what the media is spinning, spinning, tnow to the point where they claim there is no difference between what Clinton did and Bush is doing now to intimidate prosecutors into doing his bidding.
Enjoy the concert, three of my favorites. It's hard to believe they are all still performing. Sing loudly and we will all hear you.
Wish Washington was closer to us (no, I don't really, it would be too cold). Take care on your expeditions. If you have a sign with names, please add mine to it if you can.
Will Consider White House Subpoenas Next Week
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200703/031507.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Also, clips from: Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy,
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee,
On Authorization For Subpoenas For The U.S. Attorney Investigation
March 15, 2007
...
Every time we learn more details about the ouster of these U.S. Attorneys the story grows more troubling. Had we stopped asking questions after the testimony of the Attorney General and other Department officials, we would not know the truth.
...
The Attorney General has admitted "mistakes were made," but he and the White House continue to stand by their actions, which have done so much to undercut the independence of federal law enforcement and to besmirch the reputations of former Bush appointees. The President of the United States and the Attorney General are not living up to their responsibility for setting the moral standard for this Administration. ... Where is the accountability? For six years accountability has been lacking in this Administration. Loyalty to the President is rewarded over all else. That lack of accountability, and lack of the checks and balances that foster it, must end. We do not need another commendation for the "heckuva job" done by those who have failed in their essential duties to the American people. True accountability means being forthcoming and there being consequences for bad actions.
...
So many critical questions remain. Why were these women and men replaced when several had significant achievements in office and glowing performance reviews? And why have their reputations been stained by those seeking to justify these firings as "performance related"? ? Were they simply too independent for this Administration? What were the real motivations for their firings? Who within the Administration were the moving forces behind the mass firings and who was involved? What involvement did the White House have in the legislative process that allowed this abuse of power to occur?
I hope all Senators share the desire to get answers to these questions and many others as soon as possible. The progress we have made has only come since we put subpoenas on the agenda last week.
Lots more (scroll down as it's the second item) ~ http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200703/031507.html
linda b
I have had the pleasure of seeing PP&M on numerous occasions and it has been special each time. Have a great time.
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Sitka,
No they haven't for one minute. I was phishing for other explanations. MSNBC busy trying to whitewash it all today with the Wash. Times -- a 100% right-wing paper -- claiming all they did wrong was mislead Congress and all it takes to make it right is an apology. Ha!
I can't wait for Rove to take the oath, or refuse to come, which ever comes first. They will both be just as damning. They (Rove, Bush, Seedy Gonzales, and possibly Miers) are in a corner with no way out.
Bring 'em on Leahy!
{ { { linda b } } }
If you are adding names to a sign going to DC,
I'd be grateful to be included.
With you in spirit.
Doing what I can to support Leahy.
He's sounding tired.
How about folks send him a note of thanks and support?
Senator_Leahy@leahy.senate.gov
yea the righties are bleating to death right now.
and they are going after sununu from nh, a rethug cause he wants gonzolez to go.
calling him a "troublemaker" don't they have a pix of him with a sheep or something.
these guys are truly dangerous.
20.
linda b
It appears a nor'easter will be heading this way Fri. night to Sat. morn., take care brave soul. I hope there is an abundance of brave souls to join you. Add me name if you want.
listener, go it. kiddo. you will be there with me, my hubby, joan in fl, phil, pat in co., tom bearse,
anyone else??????????
I think it will be over by friday nite and it is going to be in the 40's on sat. that is ok with me.
look at this from dailykos.
WHE FOX FEARS BEING LABELED PARTISAN. SO TRUE.
U MAY HAVE TO SCROLL
♥♥♥ linda b ♥♥♥
Thank♥you!
♥That is so cool!♥
♥Traveling Mercies♥Good Luck♥Go Get 'em♥Have a blast!♥
♥♥♥Take very good care of yourself, please.♥♥♥
Sing some for me too! ~♥~
14. Joan
There's a report that details the 54 US Attorneys who did not finish a 4-year term between the years of 1981 and 2006. My reading of the report seems to refute the claim that Clinton dismissed all of his.
ABC says the White House is unlikely to allow Rove to testify.
Well, Pat Leahy already plans to subpoena Rove if he won't come willingly.
{ { { GO LEAHY! } } }
Did you hear that McCain made a gaff while in Iowa today?
Instead of saying, "When the Republicans lost the election"
he started off saying, "When the Republicans lost the war."
Freudian slip?
He caught it right away, but you know how the media loves a gaff.
31.
listener...thank you for bringing to light that Leahy might be a bit tired lately. It probably is a really tough job if you spend the hours doing it right ( ain't been done for a bit, eh?). I might have added to the pressure too or maybe just ended up in file 13. Joking of course as I have talked with Sen. Leahy a few times, he takes his constituents seriously. I know how I feel after doing battle with my job after 8 hrs. and I'm only 50 years old, I do appreciate what these seasoned pros do.
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When they were dismissed is what is of importance it appears.
Oh, got my bumper stickers today...thanks jc, they're great.
How would Rove have executive priviledge immunity on the Senate Justice Department investigation that led to him unless it involved communication with the President?
I'm cool with letting him off from disclosing what he said to Bush after he swears under oath that it was the President he discussed it with. lol
Blessed are the peacemakers................
Reed is it good news that the flooding rain my ten day forecast had a week ago is going to be snow instead?
take care; looks like a long weekend for you
Reed 40. You're welcome.
I suspect that Pat is getting a lot of energy from taking this on,
but as you elude, he is our senior Senior senator.
He is so totally present when he talks with you, isn't he?
The only thing larger than Pat Leahy's heart
is Pat Leahy's brain.
Rove is toast.
Congressman Ron Paul addresses the U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/neo-conned.htmJuly 10, 2003
"Neo-conned"
The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington. Political party control of the federal government has changed, but the inexorable growth in the size and scope of government has continued unabated. The liberal arguments for limited government in personal affairs and foreign military adventurism were never seriously considered as part of this revolution.
Since the change of the political party in charge has not made a difference, who’s really in charge? If the particular party in power makes little difference, whose policy is it that permits expanded government programs, increased spending, huge deficits, nation building and the pervasive invasion of our privacy, with fewer Fourth Amendment protections than ever before?
Someone is responsible, and it’s important that those of us who love liberty, and resent big-brother government, identify the philosophic supporters who have the most to say about the direction our country is going. If they’re wrong—and I believe they are—we need to show it, alert the American people, and offer a more positive approach to government. However, this depends on whether the American people desire to live in a free society and reject the dangerous notion that we need a strong central government to take care of us from the cradle to the grave. Do the American people really believe it’s the government’s responsibility to make us morally better and economically equal? Do we have a responsibility to police the world, while imposing our vision of good government on everyone else in the world with some form of utopian nation building? If not, and the enemies of liberty are exposed and rejected, then it behooves us to present an alternative philosophy that is morally superior and economically sound and provides a guide to world affairs to enhance peace and commerce.
One thing is certain: conservatives who worked and voted for less government in the Reagan years and welcomed the takeover of the U.S. Congress and the presidency in the 1990s and early 2000s were deceived. Soon they will realize that the goal of limited government has been dashed and that their views no longer matter.
The so-called conservative revolution of the past two decades has given us massive growth in government size, spending and regulations. Deficits are exploding and the national debt is now rising at greater than a half-trillion dollars per year. Taxes do not go down—even if we vote to lower them. They can’t, as long as spending is increased, since all spending must be paid for one way or another. Both Presidents Reagan and the elder George Bush raised taxes directly. With this administration, so far, direct taxes have been reduced—and they certainly should have been—but it means little if spending increases and deficits rise. go to the link to read the rest.
Phil 44.
We've had some rain and lots of melting, so we're down to just 8-10 inches of snow in the yard
and snowbanks along the road about 2 ft. What's really amazing, though, is that in the thin slice of open land etween the fence out back and the snow all over the yard, we have daffodils poking up!
One is up a whole three inches!
AND! Taaa, ta ta ta, ta ta, taaaaa! (a little fanfare here) the REDWING BLACKBIRDS have returned!
I celebrated by cleaning and refilling all the feeders, now that I could get out to them all again!
Having just today gotten the last of the ice off our walkway on the north side of the house, I'm not delighted about another storm coming through. But, yes, if it's frozen water that might at least hold back some flood potential. We'll see. We have plenty of water ready to flow either way.
com'on KKKarl there is always the Fifth Amendment if it was just you and Harriet, just because you have to testify doesn't mean you have to talk (that isn't one of the parts of the constitution your crew has trashed yet is it?)
or if you like you too can confess to 30 crimes after a little trip to Poland
Financial Times | March 14, 2007
Richard Waters
Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics.
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The warning comes a week after a Turkish court ordered the blocking of YouTube to silence offensive comments about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, marking the most visible attack yet on a website that has been widely adopted around the world.
A recent six-month investigation into whether 40 countries use censorship shows the practice is spreading, with new countries learning from experienced practitioners such as China and benefiting from technological improvements.
OpenNet Initiative, a project by Harvard Law School and the universities of Toronto, Cambridge and Oxford, repeatedly tried to call up specific websites from 1,000 international news and other sites in the countries concerned, and a selection of local-language sites.
The research found a trend towards censorship or, as John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said, “a big trend in the reverse direction”, with many countries recently starting to adopt forms of online censorship.
Ronald Deibert, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, said 10 countries had become “pervasive blockers”, regularly preventing their citizens seeing a range of online material. These included China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Burma and Uzbekistan.
New censorship techniques include the periodic barring of complete applications, such as China's block on Wikipedia or Pakistan's ban on Google's blogging service, and the use of more advanced technologies such as “keyword filtering”, which is used to track down material by identifying sensitive words.
Methods such as these are being copied as countries new to censorship learn from those with more experience. “There's a growing awareness of best practice – or rather, worst practice,” Mr Deibert said.
Ken Berman, head of technology for the US state department arm that broadcasts Voice of America, said some countries were learning from China, which has the most experience in internet censorship, with Zimbabwe appearing to use the same technology.
While internet censors are learning to apply new technologies to expand their efforts, activists wanting to circumvent the controls are using the latest internet methods to advantage.
Drunken Bush Hurls Vile Insult At Wife
Our White House Press Corps sources report further disturbing news about President Bush.
Our sources have witnessed a clearly inebriated Bush approaching members of the press corps and making rude comments, including one particularly crude remark about First Lady Laura Bush.
In that case, Bush, nodding toward Laura, called her a "c**t."
While Bush's drinking is no secret to the White House press contingent, that particular comment was reportedly the worst they have heard uttered by Bush.
Our sources also report that Laura Bush's stays at the White House are less frequent and that her overnight trips to the Mayflower Hotel often coincide with the president's drunken binges.
Note: Some of our female readers were shocked to see the "C" word in the above news item.
This editor wants to make it clear that word was used by George W. Bush to denigrate his wife.
It was his word, not mine.
It is important that the public knows what kind of person Mr. Bush is by the offensive words he uses.
The editor also wants to make clear that the President chose a public press gaggle to use this word -- that is not a private moment between him and his wife.
If Mrs. Bush feels her privacy has been violated, she must understand that it is her responsibility to herself, her children, and the nation to end this abusive relationship by legally separating from the President and becoming a role model for other women around the country and the world who find themselves locked into similar abusive marriages.
Nevertheless, we have "asterisked" the word in question.
However, Mr. Bush cannot asterisk his own vile words.
Bush gets real ugly with Laura.
dang
Yikes! Duke goes down.............congrats VCU..........Duke re-tools for next year.......everyone comes back...................
lindab - please add me to the list!
as for the difference between these firings and Clinton's, I believe the biggest is the itty bitty change in the law Bush put thru last year - I believe it was tacked on to the Patriot Act or some other act related to security. it says the atty general and Bush can bypass Congressional approval of the nominees and just put them in place. until now the replacements have had to go before Congress to be approved. if all of this had not been challenged by the dems it would have been a done deal, but since the uproar Gonzales has said publicly that all nominees will be subject to that approval. oh, that and Gonzales et al lied to Congress - let 'er rip, Pat! I wanna see a bunch of these bozos do the perp walk!
thanks for the suggestion to write to Pat, listener. he has been a busy man and will appreciate the show of support.
while I do not like bush, where are these reports coming from about him and laura? don't put this on our blog if not true. this source I have never heard of
jo, u are on the list
the fact that the rethugs put this in the patriot act may signal that all that they do is to take away our rights.
why put that in there unless they knew what they were doing.
ya think?
rove wrote in an email that most u.s. attorney's are loyal "bushies".
omg. we have been taken over by the pod bushies.
how bout calling your u.s. attorney and ask if he has been compromised.
write it down and see what happens.
this is war.
...lol,
Tracked (thanks DANIEL ROONEY) interesting article, imo.
Sounds quite truthful...especially regarding "Jewish question", sorry for the length:
http://www.rense.com/general75/visdion.h...
Russia Is Unbelievably Free!
3-14-7
Russia offers Volya, unlimited and untranslatable Russian freedom, as its antidote to the war on liberties otherwise known as the "war on terror." Russia is unbelievably free, or rather full of volya : one may smoke in a restaurant or in a pub, one does not have to brace a seatbelt, even parking is free if available. More importantly, one may say and write and publish practically anything at all. Beside all the freedoms available in the West, Russians may be gays or sneer at gays, bewail the holocaust or regret it was over too soon, be feminists or bait them, love Israel or call for its speedy dissolution. Yes, every liberal and Jewish-owned newspaper in the West bemoans the lack of freedom in Russia under the 'bloody KGB dictator Putin' (or in Venezuela under the bloody dictator Chavez, or in Cuba under the bloody dictator Castro whoever they do not like is always a bloody dictator, isn't he?), but Russians are free from political correctness and Jew-worship, that annoying features of the post-war West.
Recently, a group of Russian writers visited Israel and met there with their readers: there are more than a million Russian-speaking Israelis. The readers did not beat around the bush and demanded from the authors that they swear allegiance to the ruling ideology: condemn Iran, glorify Israel, this fortress of democracy in the Middle East, denounce the Russian supply of weapons to Arabs, and slam Russian antisemitism. Jews usually feel like creditors, and easily come up with demands.
A Western visitor would deliver the goods, though he would probably complain to his spouse afterwards. Denial of omnipresent and eternal antisemitism is not better than denial of the holocaust. But Russia is free, and when readers asked the Russian writer Maria Arbatova to tell them how she suffers from antisemitism and how dreadful life in Russia is under Putin's dictatorship, she demurred.
Forget it, she said, Moscow today is like the Paris of the 1960s: we have more events in a day than you have in a month. Today, glorious Moscow is a world center. As for you, we are tired of you, and the Arabs are tired of you and of your demands. This failed Western project has outlived its usefulness. If my children were to even think of moving to Israel, I'd tell them: over my dead body! Russia never had antisemitism. I never experienced it in the whole of my fifty years of life. You say Jews could not find a job? It happened once to my Jewish mother that she was rejected, but she immediately found another, better job by using her family connections.
This was the answer a prominent Russian liberal writer gave to the Israeli readers. Far from being a Russian nationalist, the leading feminist writer Maria Arbatova's grandfather was an important Jewish leader, and her great-grandfather was a founder of the Zionist movement in Tsarist Russia. But her reply was universal and paradigmatic. In the West, Tony Jutt and Harold Pinter could say that -- maybe Philip Weiss. Others are still scared. But the words that the German bishops mouthed and then repented can be easily said in free Russia, by descendents of Jews, or by anybody. The mystic charm of Jews has worn off in Russia, where Political Correctness is unheard of, and where the churches are full and people bless each other with "Christ is Risen". Instead of scaring and offending Jews, as American multicultural theory would have it, so many of my Moscow friends consider themselves 'just Russians' despite having a Jewish parent or two, and with an intermarriage rate of about 80% Russian Jewry is a thing of the past. Many of them had been misled by Zionist propaganda, but they had enough time to recognise it and regret their haste.
Israel did much to disabuse them: Even very wealthy Russian Jews found themselves less than welcome in their "historical homeland": The oligarch Gusinsky is under police investigation, and whenever he comes from his Spanish home he is taken straight to police HQ; one of the richest Russian Jews, Gaidamak, had his bank account sequestered. Less prominent Russians were mistreated and exploited by established Israeli old-timers and their progeny, just as exiles from Morocco were mistreated and exploited some forty years ago. Hardly any of them carved out a career worth mentioning. The eternal war proposed and advanced by Israeli leaders has little appeal for them; Hizbullah missiles taught them that Israel is not immune and invulnerable anymore, and a forthcoming Israeli offensive against Syria or Iran may cause many casualties among Israeli civilians. Corrupt even by Middle Eastern standards, prejudiced to the point of jaundice, Israel is probably the least attractive place for the upward-mobile and dynamic.
As the result, tens of thousands of Russian Israelis trek back to Russia and find their real country and their real home there in their native land. The Zionist idea had romantic appeal, but such things do not last. In the 1970s, I met in Tanzania with some American Blacks who moved to Africa on a wave of romantic search for their roots. The experience rarely lasted more than five years tops. During that time, they came to recognise that they are Americans for better or for worse, while Africans are organized into many nations and tribes, none of which they could fit into. You can't "come back" after two hundred, let alone two thousand, years.
Russian scientist Dan Axelrod from St Petersburg told me of his Israeli relatives who would dearly love to return to that city and buy back the apartments they sold some ten years ago, in Yeltsin's days. The only thing that stops them is the sad fact that these apartments' value has increased tenfold since then. Axelrod has no worries of this sort: this son of Jewish parents is a regular church-goer, observes strict Orthodox Lent, is married to a Russian woman, baptised their children and loves his country Russia. It seems Russia has found an answer to the Jewish Question: neither by German fury nor American submission, but through assimilation in Christian love. This Russian model is the only one that can work, and it will eventually work in Palestine, too.
This is an additional reason why Putin's Russia is much hated and much denigrated in the official zionist-controlled Western mainstream, and this is why she is loved by friends of Palestine. A Swedish friend of mine and of Palestine, Stefan L., wrote to me: "You're absolutely right about Putin. That he is a hostage of the oligarchs is one thing, but when he for one reason or another speaks the truth - we love him, the little rat-faced spy with a Kalashnikov accent. And every time we are reminded of Yeltsin's existence we swear him eternal loyalty."
THIS should be the headline in every paper in America tomorrow morning:
Republicans Vote to Keep Troops in Iraq Indefinitely
In a move that once again showed their utter contempt for U.S. troops, military families and the will of the American people, Senate Republicans today voted down S. J. Res. 9, the United States Policy in Iraq Resolution of 2007, proposed by Democrats to force George W. Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq within 120 days, with a target of a total withdrawal by March of 2008.
thanks lindab! {{{{hugs}}}} stay warm and safe!
There has been an excess of conspiracy posts and unsubstantiated rumors lately. I'm not convinced by some of the sources in a few upthread.
jc, thank you, and ditto. . . .
Just talked to Thankful, who is on her way to a slumber party (she assures me she has *GREAT* jammies for the occasion!) and wants me to say Howdy! and she'll try to find a way to get back on line tomorrow night.
(Check local listings at
http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
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Hi, puddle. I wonder if Thankful's jammies have feet... :-)
71. Progressive Avenger -- ROFLOL
reminded me unfortunately of this I saw on Huffpost this eve:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-s...
North Pole could be ice free by 2100, researchers say
By Alan Zarembo, Times Staff Writer
2:44 PM PDT, March 15, 2007
A review of existing computer climate models suggests that global warming could transform the North Pole into an ice-free expanse of open ocean at the end of each summer by 2100, scientists reported today.
The researchers said that of the 15 models they looked at, about half forecast that the sea-ice cover--a continent-sized expanse that shrinks and regrows with the seasons--would seasonally vanish by the turn of the century.
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By Indy Steve on Mar 15, 2007 6:07 PM EDTDeans, DFA and progressive Dems are first!