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Michael you know better.
Howard Dean is always first!
Mike, brother...I'll lend you the $$$ for that ballgame;)
obomba Obama’s Money Cartel is not what you all think!!!!!! read them and weap
Pam Martens
ZSpace
February 23, 2008
Wall Street, known variously as a barren wasteland for diversity or the last plantation in America, has defied courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for decades in its failure to hire blacks as stockbrokers. Now it’s marshalling its money machine to elect a black man to the highest office in the land. Why isn’t the press curious about this?
Why is the “yes, we can” candidate in bed with Wall Street brokerage firms?
Walk into any of the largest Wall Street brokerage firms today and you’ll see a self-portrait of upper management racism and sexism: women sitting at secretarial desks outside fancy offices occupied by predominantly white males. According to the EEOC as well as the recent racial discrimination class actions filed against UBS and Merrill Lynch, blacks make up between 1 per cent to 3.5 per cent of stockbrokers - and this after 30 years of litigation, settlements and empty promises to do better by the largest Wall Street firms.
The first clue to an entrenched white male bastion seeking a black male occupant in the oval office (having placed only five blacks in the U.S. Senate in the last two centuries) appeared this month on a chart at the Center for Responsive Politics website. It was a list of the 20 top contributors to the Barack Obama campaign, and it looked like one of those comprehension tests where you match up things that go together and eliminate those that don’t. Of the 20 top contributors, I eliminated six that didn’t compute. I was now looking at a sight only slightly less frightening to democracy than a Diebold voting machine. It was a Wall Street cartel of financial firms, their registered lobbyists, ! and go-to law firms that have a death grip on our federal government.
Why is the “yes, we can” candidate in bed with this cartel? How can we, the people, make change if Obama’s money backers block our ability to be heard?
Seven of the Obama campaign’s top 14 donors consist of officers and employees of the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages. These latest frauds have left thousands of children in some of our largest minority communities coming home from school to see eviction notices and foreclosure signs nailed to their front doors. Those scars will last a lifetime.
Seven of the Obama campaign’s top 14 donors consist of officers and employees of the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages.
These seven Wall Street firms are (in order of money given): Goldman Sachs, UBS AG, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. There is also a large hedge fund, Citadel Investment Group, which is a major source of fee income to Wall Street. There are five large corporate law firms that are also registered lobbyists; and one is a corporate law firm that is no longer a registered lobbyist but does legal work for Wall Street. The cumulative total of these 14 contributors through February 1, 2008, was $2,872,128, and we’re still in the primary season.
But hasn’t Senator Obama repeatedly told us in ads and speeches and debates that he wasn’t taking money from registered lobbyists? Hasn’t the press given him a free pass on this statement?
Barack Obama, speaking in Greenville, South Carolina, on January 22, 2008:
“Washington lobbyists haven’t funded my campaign, they won’t run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of working Americans when I am president”.
Barack Obama, in an email to supporters on June 25, 2007, as reported by the Boston Globe:
“Candidates typically spend a week like this – right before the critical June 30th financial reporting deadline – on the phone, day and night, begging Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs to write huge checks. Not me. Our campaign has rejected the money-for-influence game and refused to accept funds from registered federal lobbyists and political action committees”.
The Center for Responsive Politics’ website allows one to pull up the filings made by lobbyists registering under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 with the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and secretary of the U.S. Senate. These top five contributors to the Obama campaign have filed as registered lobbyists: Sidley Austin LLP; Skadden, Arps, et al; Jenner & Block; Kirkland & Ellis; Wilmerhale, aka Wilmer Cutler Pickering.
Is it possible that Senator Obama does not know that corporate law firms are also frequently registered lobbyists? Or is he making a distinction that because these funds are coming from the employees of these firms, he’s not really taking money directly from registered lobbyists? That thesis seems disingenuous when many of these individual donors own these law firms as equity partners or shareholders and share in the profits generated from lobbying.
Far from keeping his distance from lobbyists, Senator Obama and his campaign seems to be brainstorming with them.
The political publication, The Hill, reported on December 20, 2007, that three salaried aides on the Obama campaign were registered lobbyists for dozens of corporations. (The Obama campaign said they had stopped lobbying since joining the campaign.) Bob Bauer, counsel to the Obama campaign, is an attorney with Perkins Coie. That law firm is also a registered lobbyist.
What might account for this persistent (but non-reality based) theme of distancing the Obama campaign from lobbyists? Odds are it traces back to one of the largest corporate lobbyist spending sprees in the history of Washington whose details would cast an unwholesome pall on the Obama campaign, unless our cognitive abilities are regularly bombarded with abstract vacuities of hope and change and sentimental homages to Dr. King and President Kennedy .
On February 10, 2005, Senator Obama voted in favor of the passage of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. Senators Biden, Boxer, Byrd, Clinton, Corzine, Durbin, Feingold, Kerry, Leahy, Reid and 16 other Democrats voted against it. It passed the Senate 72-26 and was signed into law on February 18, 2005.
Here is an excerpt of remarks Senator Obama made on the Senate floor on February 14, 2005, concerning the passage of this legislation:
“Every American deserves their day in court. This bill, while not perfect, gives people that day while still providing the reasonable reforms necessary to safeguard against the most blatant abuses of the system. I also hope that the federal judiciary takes seriously their expanded role in class action litigation, and upholds their responsibility to fairly certify class actions so that they may protect our civil and consumer rights..”.
Three days before Senator Obama expressed that fateful yea vote, 14 state attorneys general, including Lisa Madigan of Senator Obama’s home state of Illinois, filed a letter with the Senate and House, pleading to stop the passage of this corporate giveaway. The AGs wrote: “State attorneys general frequently investigate and bring actions against defendants who have caused harm to our citizens… In some instances, such actions have been brought with the attorney general acting as the class representative for the consumers of the state. We are concerned that certain provisions of S.5 might be misinterpreted to impede the ability of the attorneys general to bring such actions…”
The Senate also received a desperate plea from more than 40 civil rights and labor organizations, including the NAACP, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Human Rights Campaign, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Justice and Democracy, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), and Alliance for Justice. They wrote as follows:
“Under the [Class Action Fairness Act of 2005], citizens are denied the right to use their own state courts to bring class actions against corporations that violate these state wage and hour and state civil rights laws, even where that corporation has hundreds of employees in that state. Moving these state law cases into federal court will delay and likely deny justice for working men and women and victims of discrimination. The federal courts are already overburdened. Additionally, federal courts are less likely to certify classes or provide relief for violations of state law”.
This legislation, which dramatically impaired labor rights, consumer rights and civil rights, involved five years of pressure from 100 corporations, 475 lobbyists, tens of millions of corporate dollars buying influence in our government, and the active participation of the Wall Street firms now funding the Obama campaign. “The Civil Justice Reform Group, a business alliance comprising general counsels from Fortune 100 firms, was instrumental in drafting the class-action bill”, says Public Citizen.
One of the hardest-working registered lobbyists to push this corporate giveaway was the law firm Mayer-Brown, hired by the leading business lobby group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Chamber of Commerce spent $16 million in just 2003, lobbying the government on various business issues, including class action reform.
According to a 2003 report from Public Citizen, Mayer-Brown’s class-action lobbyists included “Mark Gitenstein, former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and a leading architect of the Senate strategy in support of class-action legislation; John Schmitz, who was deputy counsel to President George H.W. Bush; David McIntosh, former Republican congressman from Indiana; and Jeffrey Lewis, who was on the staffs of both Sen. John Breaux (D-La) and Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La).”
While not on the Center for Responsive Politics list of the top 20 contributors to the Obama presidential campaign, Mayer-Brown’s partners and employees are in rarefied company, giving a total of $92,817 through December 31, 2007, to the Obama campaign. (The firm is also defending Merrill Lynch in court against charges of racial discrimination.)
Senator Obama graduated Harvard Law magna cum laude and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Given those credentials, one assumes that he understood the ramifications to the poor and middle class in this country as he helped to gut one of the few weapons left to seek justice against giant corporations and their legions of giant law firms. The class-action vehicle confers upon each citizen one of the most powerful rights in our society: the ability to function as a private attorney general and seek redress for wrongs inflicted on ourselves as well as for those similarly injured that might not otherwise have a voice.
Those rights should have been strengthened, not restricted, at this dangerous time in our nation’s history. According to a comprehensive report from the nonprofit group, United for a Fair Economy, over the past eight years the total loss of wealth for people of color is between $164 billion and $213 billion, for subprime loans which is the greatest loss of wealth for people of color in modern history:
“According to federal data, people of color are three times more likely to have subprime loans: high-cost loans account for 55 per cent of loans to blacks, but only 17 per cent of loans to whites”.
If there had been equitable distribution of subprime loans, losses for white people would be 44.5 per cent higher and losses for people of color would be about 24 per cent lower. “This is evidence of systemic prejudice and institutional racism.”
Before the current crisis, based on improvements in median household net worth, it would take 594 more years for blacks to achieve parity with whites. The current crisis is likely to stretch this even further.
So, how should we react when we learn that the top contributors to the Obama campaign are the very Wall Street firms whose shady mortgage lenders buried the elderly and the poor and minority under predatory loans? How should we react when we learn that on the big donor list is Citigroup, whose former employee at CitiFinancial testified to the Federal Trade Commission that it was standard practice to target people based on race and educational level, with the sales force winning bonuses called “Rocopoly Money” (like a sick board game), after “blitz” nights of soliciting loans by phone? How should we react when we learn that these very same firms, arm in arm with their corporate lawyers and registered lobbyists, have weakened our ability to fight back with the class-action vehicle?
Should there be any doubt left as to who owns our government? The very same cast of characters making the Obama hit parade of campaign loot are the clever creators of the industry solutions to the wave of foreclosures gripping this nation’s poor and middle class, effectively putting the solution in the hands of the robbers. The names of these programs (that have failed to make a dent in the problem) have the same vacuous ring: Hope Now; Project Lifeline.
Senator Obama has become the inspiration and role model to millions of children and young people in this country. He has only two paths now: to be a dream maker or a dream killer
Dr. Hans Koechler: 9/11 May Have Been an Inside Job
Syed Akbar Kamalhttp://www.infowars.com/?p=423
Scoop
February 21, 2008
In a significant observation many time UN contributor & international observer Professor Hans Koechler said “9/11 may have been an insider’s job” in response to a question from one of the delegates attending his lecture The ‘Global War on Terror - Contradictions of an Imperial Strategy’ last night at the Trades Hall in Auckland.
“I am not a boy-I am 59. There are many inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the official version of events. Those who could not handle a Cessna pulled off 9/11,” he said.
School Removes Toilet Cameras After Parents Protest
Daily Mail
February 21, 2008
A school has been forced to remove CCTV cameras they installed in the students’ toilets after furious protests from pupils and parents.
Hundreds of outraged students petitioned against the cameras after they spotted them in the toilets and even refused to use the loos all day so they were not caught on CCTV.
Other children were kept at home by their families rather than expose themselves to the “gross invasion of privacy”.
The cameras were installed at Lipson Community College in Plymouth, Devon, which has 1,400 pupils.
Concerns were first raised when pupils returned from the week-long break on Tuesday and spotted the cameras.
Principal Steve Baker said contractors fitted them on the orders of another staff member, who did not have the measure approved by him or school governors.
zipping through to say howdy :-)
Daniel, it's against copyright law to paste full articles, please give only a couple lines along w/ a link ~ not to mention it's impossible to read because of the garbage embedded w/in them.
10:51 pm est
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Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies
David Pugliese
Canwest News Service
February 22, 2008
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other’s borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.
Neither the Canadian government nor the Canadian Forces announced the new agreement, which was signed Feb. 14 in Texas.
The U.S. military’s Northern Command, however, publicized the agreement with a statement outlining how its top officer, Gen. Gene Renuart, and Canadian Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, head of Canada Command, signed the plan, which allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.
The new agreement has been greeted with suspicion by the left wing in Canada and the right wing in the U.S.
Hi all. From myDD, a response to Chris Bowers' Google Bomb McCain campaign:
The problem with John McCain is that he's extremely well-known, in a shallow way, by a lot of voters. The general perception is that he's a maverick clean-ethics Republican, and is therefore more moderate than the rest of his party. There is also a quiet perception that he's very hard to beat, and that "most" voters like him. This meta-opinion about the election is perhaps just as damaging to our activists as the fuzzy notion of McCain as a whole, because it dampens the effect of our enthusiasm gap.
While I think Google-bombing will do some good, I think a really effective solution will have to go further. I think it will have to incorporate a grassroots messaging campaign which a) informs progressive activists that McCain isn't really a maverick, clean-ethics, moderate Republican, and b) informs progressive activists that beating McCain is not going to be difficult. This campaign has to be virally spread, pushed from friend-to-friend via blog posts, Facebook notes, YouTube embeds, and all sorts of other peer-to-peer venues.
My recommendation is that progressive bloggers establish a regular routine of "buzzing against McCain". Similar to Atrios and DailyKos's monthly Kerry fundraising days in 2004, these will be days when we exhort progressive activists to flood the social networks with some small, simple, anti-McCain meme, like "McCain is unelectable", "McCain is a lobbyist lap-dog", "McCain wants another 100 years in Iraq", and the like. Ideally, I'd also like to see some kind of distributed badge infrastructure which allows bloggers to display the meme of the week (or month, or whatever) prominently on there blogs, right alongside a photo of "the hug". OpenLeft has been doing some great spade work on establishing an anti-McCain narrative in recent weeks, and I think some of that work will come in very handy as we try to come up with anti-McCain memes to be spread virally. But we'll have to go beyond the Google-bomb to win this election.
http://www.mydd.com/
(click & scroll for more, if interested)
Howdy, Thankful.
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volney simmons
Sat, 02/23/08
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NAFTA could have been utterly brilliant if it hadn't been subverted by the China lobby.
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Not the way I heard it... that is, these bills were 90% take breaks and corporate give-aways, and 10% deregulation of rules.
It seems the real intent and motivation behind NAFTA, left little framework for it to do any good. It's no wonder environmental concerns, workers rights, and workplace health standards were scoffed of the table.
take breaks = tax breaks
Arizona Illegal-Immigrant Hiring Law Upheld
Thursday, February 7, 2008 9:00 PM
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A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the business licenses of those that do.
U.S. District Judge Neil Wake dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups that argued that federal immigration law severely restricts Arizona's ability to punish people who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
The answer is acyually not that nefarious, Rooney...it is because Wall St. will donate to all candidates. Clinton actually received more money from Wall St. than Obama.
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Alan Zitz
Sat, 02/23/08
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
The answer is acyually not that nefarious, Rooney...it is because Wall St. will donate to all candidates. Clinton actually received more money from Wall St. than Obama.
who care there all crooks wake up!!!
the truth hurt! not to mention it's impossible to read because of the garbage embedded w/in them. so are you saying its a lie?
Seven of the Obama campaign’s top 14 donors consist of officers and employees of the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages.
No, Daniel, she's NOT wrong. But with a bit of luck, your inability to abide by the rules, legal and civil, will get your butt banned. . . .
DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
Whoopeee...new to politics are we? LOL
What are you gonna do about it, run for office on peanuts?
Should there be any doubt left as to who owns our government? The very same cast of characters making the Obama hit parade of campaign loot are the clever creators of the industry solutions to the wave of foreclosures gripping this nation’s poor and middle class, effectively putting the solution in the hands of the robbers. The names of these programs (that have failed to make a dent in the problem) have the same vacuous ring: Hope Now; Project Lifeline.
change is coming its call the perfect storm! for the people:{ what a joke dont be fooled over an over again obomba mccain h/c there all using you dont be so nieeve!
By garbage I meant all the special characters randomly embedded in words.
Hi cC, puddle, sea...
11:22 pm est
I think I'll make copious copies LOL of the Bush/McCain hug and distribute them everywhere I go. A picture is worth 1,000 words, especially if people don't like to read.
Now off. Play nicely. :-)
Good God, Rooney must be getting paid by the column inch now.
Nite, blog friends!
-- volney
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Alan Zitz
Sat, 02/23/08
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
Whoopeee...new to politics are we? LOL
What are you gonna do about it, run for office on peanuts?
yes i im can you explain it all to me?lol who should i vote for? ron paul raise millons did you just get off the bus? im not going to sale out the america people and lie about it!
Just a drive-by. My husband's take on Hillary's histrionics. *She just lost the rest of the male voters*. Scolding just doesn't cut it.
Nite all.
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seashell :-) i sea im venting a little bit to night sorry it might get bloody
On the site seashell provided regarding interesting info on BO, very interesting, indeed! . . .
"The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families."
Alan Zitz
Sat, 02/23/08
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
Okay genious, what's your solution?
Revolution!
hi/bye mary :-)
I have an early morning coming up so need to call it an early night.
♥'s to all
Kindness is free!
11:39 pm est
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
ron paul raise millons did you just get off the bus? im not going to sale out the america people and lie about it!
Ron Paul LOL LOL LOL He is the only candidate literally looking to sell off America...parks and all
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Karen
Sun, 02/24/08 this not true thats the way they hide it to get around the law! oboma said he got it from small donation,
Goldman Sachs $421,763
Ubs Ag $296,670
Lehman Brothers $250,630
National Amusements Inc $245,843
JP Morgan Chase & Co $243,848
Sidley Austin LLP $226,491
Citigroup Inc $221,578
Exelon Corp $221,517
Skadden, Arps Et Al $196,420
Jones Day $181,996
Harvard University $172,324
Citadel Investment Group $171,798
Time Warner $155,383
Morgan Stanley $155,196
Google Inc $152,802
University of California $143,029
Jenner & Block $136,565
Kirkland & Ellis $134,738
Wilmerhale Llp $119,245
Credit Suisse Group $118,250
Percent of Contributions
dont look like mom pop general store!
OBAMA:
Individual contributions
$137,431,938
99%
PAC contributions
$25
0%
Candidate self-financing
$0
0%
Federal Funds
$0
0%
Other
$799,632
1%
Business
$3,250
26%
Labor
$0
0%
Ideological/Single Issue
$9,237
74%
CLINTON:
Source of Funds
Individual contributions
$117,313,786
87%
PAC contributions
$1,045,419
1%
Candidate self-financing
$5,000,000
4%
Federal Funds
$0
0%
Other
$11,177,284
8%
Business
$304,408
56%
Labor
$58,600
11%
Ideological/Single Issue
$181,484
33%
MCCAIN:
Individual contributions
$48,118,272
90%
PAC contributions
$579,424
1%
Candidate self-financing
$0
0%
Federal Funds
$0
0%
Other
$5,019,390
9%
Business
$276,900
72%
Labor
$2,500
1%
Ideological/Single Issue
$102,845
27%
http://www.opensecrets.org/?gclid=CMP07-P-25ECFQmlQAods2gVWg
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Alan Zitz where have you been? are park were sold a long time ago dude you better get in the game your way behing
DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
"Revolution!"
Good luck with that...hope you get a knock on your door soon
What I wanna know is.....how many times does this whole PAC thing need to be explained to so called political junkies and activists who should already know better by now? This has to have been explained here at least a dozen times by now, and that's just in the past year!
We went through all of this when Howard ran. Think gingko bilboa might help them?
DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
I see you never travel in our beautiful country, Rooney...learn to spell
I will say, this blog format makes things MUCH longer than they need to be. Great web design.
ingrown toenails
But at a rally Saturday evening in Akron, Ohio, Obama ripped into Clinton for switching positions on NAFTA, which he said she had lauded as a success of her husband President Bill Clinton's administration.
"You can't be for something or take credit for an administration and 35 years of experience and then when you run for president suggest somehow that you didn't really mean what you said back then. It doesn't work that way," he said.
At the earlier rally Clinton had trained her fire on Bush to try to undermine Obama's message of change. She said Bush, who campaigned on a platform of "compassionate conservatism," also had promised Americans change.
"He promised change, didn't he?" she said. "The American people got shafted and we're going to have to make up for it."
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2362250120080224?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
OUR NATIONAL PARKS NOW BELONG TO UNITED NATIONS
Across this great land, our national parks, wildlands, forests, and lakes are being turned over to UN control. Joseph Urso, Jr., a friend of the ministry who hails from Knoxville, Tennessee, recently sent me a photograph of the entrance sign of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Notice the telling phrase on the sign: "AN INTERNATIONAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE."
This means that, under the United Nations Biodiversity Treaty, a precious resource_owned by American citizens for over 200 years_has been turned over to the UN's bureaucrats for control. Yes, you and I will continue to pay taxes for the maintenance and upkeep of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But we no longer own it. Now, the UN has ultimate jurisdiction. This alone is startling evidence that the once independent nation-state known as the United States of America is going out with a whimper and not a bang. Our sovereignty is coming to an end.
As a consequence, across the U.S.A., our parks and wilderness areas are slowly being closed to the public. Roads inside the parks are being grazed over. Mountain passes and hiking paths are being blockaded. "No fishing," "No hunting," "No trespassing" signs are being erected everywhere on public lands. Entrance fees are being jacked up 100%, even 500% higher, to keep American families out of their own lands.
Alan Zitz
Sat, 02/23/08
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
I see you never travel in our beautiful country, Rooney...learn to spell
when one attack personaly his argument is weak! sorry your so dumb!
charley horses at midnight
Good luck with that...hope you get a knock on your door soon
i hope its you!
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
"when one attack personaly his argument is weak! sorry your so dumb! "
Great example, Rooney LOL
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puddle
Sat, 02/23/08
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No, Daniel, she's NOT wrong. But with a bit of luck, your inability to abide by the rules, legal and civil, will get your butt banned. . . .dont
tase me bro!!
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Alan Zitz
Sat, 02/23/08
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sat, 02/23/08
"when one attack personaly his argument is weak! sorry your so dumb! "
, zitz will not address your post any longer
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DANIEL ROONEY
Sun, 02/24/08
, zitz will not address your post any longer
Yeeeaaahhh!!! Just go to a blog that cares about your radical right-wing opinions ;-)
if obomba wasnt a made man the media would not give him a free ride! they would attack him like they did dean! jim jones kool aid stand is alive an well, drink up!
Texans Protest Against NAFTA Superhighway
Nick Langewis and David Edwards
Raw Story
February 21, 2008
As Senators Clinton and Obama prepared to debate in their state, Texans were marching in protest over the NAFTA superhighway known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, or I-69, the primary purpose of which is to speed the delivery of goods coming in from Mexico to proposed inland ports.
The TTC is planned to span the state of Texas from Laredo, on the Mexican border, to Texarkana, on the border with Arkansas, to continue north to Canada. The projected cost is $183 billion over fifty years, with no American companies expressing interest in financing it.
With no public approval required to begin construction, repeated calls against the TTC at public meetings, with seldom a word of support, may easily go unheeded.
"This is about international–global companies that are coming in and having their way with our politicians," says Terri Hall of TexasTURF. "It doesn’t matter what does to the people in the path," she continues, "it doesn’t matter what it does to our way of life…"
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Denise
Sat, 02/23/08
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What I wanna know is.....how many times does this whole PAC thing need to be explained to so called political junkies and activists who should already know better by now? This has to have been explained here at least a dozen times by now, and that's just in the past year!
“Candidates typically spend a week like this – right before the critical June 30th financial reporting deadline – on the phone, day and night, begging Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs to write huge checks. Not me. Our campaign has rejected the money-for-influence game and refused to accept funds from registered federal lobbyists and political action committees”.b /o lier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!denise explain this you cant!
Daniel, you might be happier over at Coast to Coast AM, don't you think? There, you can have your pick of conspiritcies: you won't have to stick with the boring old UN, flouride stuff. You'll be able to expand into Area 51, alien viruses on Hale-Bopp, and kill shots. And get this: everyone will AGREE with you! w00T!!!
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Daniel, you might be happier over at Coast to Coast AM, don't you think? There, you can have your pick of conspiracies: you won't have to stick with the boring old UN, fluoride stuff. You'll be able to expand into Area 51, alien viruses on Hale-Bopp, and kill shots. And get this: everyone will AGREE with you! w00T!!!
basal cell carcinoma
The new thread we saw last thread is up now.
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