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Monday, November 26, 2007
Voter Registration Deadlines
If you plan to help New Jersey pick a presidential candidate, there are some deadlines you need to know. Dec. 17 is the deadline for filing change of political party affiliation for the Feb. 5 presidential primary. That would apply if, for example, you are registered as a Republican and want to vote in the Democratic primary. Or vice versa. TW3 believes that if you are registered as unaffiliated, you may make that decision on primary day, but we’ll do some more checking to make sure that is so. If you are not a registered voter, you have until Jan. 15 to enroll and participate in the Feb. 5 primary.
Any More Fifth CD Candidates?
Speaking of registration deadlines, some Grassrooters seem impatient to proceed with what appears to be an Abbate/Shulman campaign. The deadline for candidates to register is 57 days prior to the primary, which falls on June 3 this year. That looks like April 1, 2008. Campaigns are far too long, TW3 believes, and waiting until April to get involved in one certainly seems to be a sensible plan. Anyone disagree?
Coniglio Probe Continues
Federal investigators are sorting through new boxes of evidence collected Tuesday morning (Nov. 20) from state Sen. Joseph Coniglio's Paramus home and his legislative office. The federal raids are the latest development in an ongoing corruption probe. The focus of probe is the Democratic senator's ties to more than $1 million in state grant money received by Hackensack University Medical Center over a two-year period during which Coniglio also worked for the hospital as a paid consultant.
Christie Rewards His Old Boss
Joe Moran of the Star-Ledger reports: “US Attorney Chris Christie, the state's crusader against corruption, has always been a big fan of former Attorney General John Ashcroft, his old boss. So it came as no surprise when Christie asked Ashcroft to help clean up a sleazy company that had fallen into his net. While prosecutors continue sniffing around for people to send to jail, Ashcroft is supposed to look over the firm's shoulder. So far, so good. But Ashcroft's price tag is one for the record books. His consulting firm, based in Washington, expects to charge between $29 million and $52 million for 18 months of work -- the kind of sum usually reserved for baseball MVPs. And suppose the sleazy firm thinks that Ashcroft is padding his bills with extra hours. The appeal goes straight back to Christie, who makes the call. This one has an odor to it."
Of course it isn't about Howard.
Howard isn't about Howard.
Few, if any here there or anywhere solely *about* Howard. We all know this, but idolize Howard...and love him very much.
Our hopes and faith are in Howard first, last, and always.
Crikey me.......anyone watch that Republican You Tube debate last nite? The candidates were pretty scary, but what was worse were many of the people that submitted questions......John Edwards was right, there ARE 2 Americas........................the guys with the gun, the guy with the Confederate flag, several bimbos and thats all I could stomach.....................a scary place this is these days.............
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> Wow, that is sad. Rudy Giuliani is a bully; I can see why the Party of hate and bigotry might vote for him.
Off to workies,
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/365-days-280---.html
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Winchester Cathedral (2:23)
morning all.
My observation is that fox mulder usually shows up with posts that attempt to divide Democrats.
Well, I'm off to write a post about putting lip-stick on a pig. Which is not, btw, to say anything bad about pigs. Have you read the "Dissertation on Roast Pig" lately?
The pig is really a wondrous critter. It consumes all kinds of offal and then tastes so good. Do you know that they still hunt wild boar in our state of Georgia? They are remnants of the early settler's habit of letting their pigs run wild in the oak hammocks. Pigs, you know, like to eat acorns, as do squirrels. Acorns are, otherwise a nuissance. A new oak cannot grow to maturity within the circumference of the canopy of the parent because, for some reason, the deterioration of many acorns and perhaps the tanin exuded by the leaves make the ground inhospitable to a seedling. Lots of acorns will sprout where they fall, sort of like beans soaked in water, but they don't amount to anything because the soil is no good for their rootlets. In short, the oak relies on its acorns being distributed for an wide and those that aren't carried away are best et. Which is where the pigs come in.
I wonder if their skins make such nice leather because they eat all that tanin. No, surely not, but it's a thought. I don't know how much taning is required for pig skin.
S. 1959: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
Text from Senate Bill 1959 (which already passed our corporatist House of Reps)
defines terrorism as follows:
(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext...
It never defines 'force or violence' that I can see. If you rally on the National Mall (or on your street corner) or peacefully block someone cutting down a 2 thousand year old tree, could that be construed as 'force or violence'?
EMAIL YOUR SENATORS TODAY - NO ON SENATE BILL 1959 SON OF PATRIOT ACT - WE WANT OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES BACK!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_in...
Senate Bill 1959 provides for a 'committee of excellence' that will BE APPOINTED and will decide who is a terrorist. Hint: liberal bloggers need not apply.
(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or `lone wolf' violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext...
Call/write/visit your Senators. NO ON SENATE BILL 1959.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_in...
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/23121...
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By * rdorgan on Nov 29, 2007 7:04 AM ESTIn the beginning --
-- there was Howard.