The DFA Training Academy is the best in the business!

Yes it is Susan... 

  I taped about 10 hours of the 18 hour East Bay training and created the promo clip piece above.

I talked with Matt Blizek, DFA Training Director... and will place the rest of the 10 hours online in several days!

Stay tuned for some exciting training coming to you a computer screen near.

btw Suan..  I keep reusing that photo you shot of Joan and I..  I used it in  the DFA training promo clip.. sure has come in handy..   thanks. edwin

"The voters in Florida and Michigan have been screwed, but not by the DNC. They were screwed by their shortsighted state party leaders.

With apologies to Aesop:

A donkey with an apple in its mouth once walked across a bridge. In the pond below, it thought it saw another donkey with a bigger, redder apple. The donkey reached down for the reflection of its apple, and dropped the real apple instead.

Moral: that’s what happens when jackasses overreach."

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1890

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puddle
Fri, 03/07/08

Fred, do us all a favor and read *another* book. . .

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Glad you appreciate the sunshine - presently reading Silent Spring but my next book will probably be either one of Obama's books or ...

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Iron-Cage/Rashid-Khalidi/e/9780807003091/?itm=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Khalidi

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Tom Bearse
Fri, 03/07/08

Yesterday, Wolfson compared Obama to independent prosecutor Ken Starr in reaction to calls from Obama for the release of Clinton's tax returns. Any notice of Wolfson's resignation? No. What a jerk

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That's "Slick Wolfie."

Stop fumigation of citizens without their consent in California

Tens of thousands of residents of the State of California are being sprayed under the cover of night with pesticides containing partly unknown chemicals. These sprayings, conducted without adequate health studies, are done not to protect residents from a clear and present public health danger, but rather to protect special interests worried about eradicating the Light Brown Apple Moth.

The spray operations in Central Coast counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, resulted in over 600 reports of health illnesses. State authorities have not only failed to respond, but now plan new aerial spray operations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-fumigation-of-citizens-without

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24137#comment-1177231

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seashell wrote "I don't call people a$$holes.  Your question was phrased as tho I did."

No it wasn't.  It was a direct question in response to your suggestion that you find hatred and intolerance exhibited here.  In fact it was a term Linda used to describe rdorgan in a post.  As audrey noted, there is somebody here who seems to have assholes on her mind a lot.  Linda posted the original insult and reposted it twice afterward.

Did they fix boggie?

Earlier today I got a "no posts found" screen for awhile (I'm home sick.). Hope they were working on it!

I think it's brilliant of Samantha Power to resign. Under ordinary circumstances she might have come back with, "Yeah, I called her a name, she owes me one so fire away," but by bowing to Hillary's DEMANDS for her resignation, HRC looks exactly the petty martinet that she is.

Freedom of speech? Apparently Hill can dish it out but can't take it.

So let's see -- so far we've seen crying, shouting, name-calling and petulance. Yeah, that's just what I'm looking for in a chief executive.

-- volney

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Nope, they didn't fix it yet. Waah!

6:04 EST

volney

that was my thought as well

I appreciate your good intentions, Phil, but your appeal to good conduct is too late to prevent Linda's aspersions toward rdorgan.

floridagal

your fable nailed it

Speaking of "nails"...timely comment, Phil!

Samantha Power has expressed "deep regret" over the comments and said she had tried to retract them.

The Scotsman newspaper quoted Ms Power as saying: "She is a monster, too - that is off the record - she is stooping to anything."

Ms Power is a Harvard professor who has advised Mr Obama on foreign policy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7283965.stm

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What are the ethics of putting in the record a statement quoted as saying "that is off the record"

but why does Wolfson still have a job tonight under that standard?

Good Evening Everyone.

Record job loses in February. Government is still trying to decide if the economy is bad. duhhhhhhhhhh... Peace. "Dogma"

I see DemFest is on DFA's training list for Aug. 16 & 17. Yea! Sould be fun. It's the 5th year and a busy political time. Yea!

You have to say it's off the record before you say it, not after.

This is the oldest rule of journalism and she should have known it but I think she thought the UK press would be less bloodthirsty. Yeah, right.

-- volney

For those wearing tin hats with regard to NAFTAgate, I repost my piece from 1;17 this afternoon:

A canadian perspective on "NAFTAgate"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080306.wnafta07/BNStory/National/home

Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised Thursday that an internal investigation would probe all facets of how information was leaked that may have influenced the U.S. Democratic presidential primaries, including the alleged comments by his own chief of staff, Ian Brodie, and the subsequent leak of a sensitive memorandum.

Opposition politicians yesterday demanded Mr. Brodie's dismissal amid reports that he leaked information that set off a chain of events that some say resulted in Senator Barack Obama's loss in Tuesday's Ohio primaries.

"New reports indicate very clearly that it was Ian Brodie, the chief of staff," New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton said yesterday in the Commons.

"My question to the Prime Minister is very simple. Will he now apologize to this House, the American people and Senator Obama, and will he fire his chief of staff?"

The controversy began after Mr. Brodie allegedly told a group of journalists from CTV News that candidate Hillary Clinton was not serious about earlier suggestions that she would reopen NAFTA if she became president. The network later reported that it was Mr. Obama's campaign that had informed Canadian diplomats not to be overly concerned that he would fundamentally change the deal. The network also reported that Ms. Clinton's officials indirectly tried to deliver the same message, a report the campaign denied the next evening.

Later, a memo from a Canadian diplomat in Chicago emerged in which Mr. Obama's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, was quoted as saying that Mr. Obama's NAFTA stand was about "political

The rest of the story:

Later, a memo from a Canadian diplomat in Chicago emerged in which Mr. Obama's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, was quoted as saying that Mr. Obama's NAFTA stand was about "political positioning," rather than an articulation of policy.

We have to accept the fact that both of our Democratic presidential candidates are saying one thing on the stump, and another privately  to calm establishment anxieties.

Don't expect either of them to rock the boat if elected.

Same old, Same old.

Stop fumigation of citizens without their consent in California

Fred,

Yes that is a huge problem that should not be ignored by any government.

About ten years ago, we were being bombarded with mosquito spray every night after dark. I have many allergies, many of them to poisons and the spraying was not helping matters at all. Not only that, we live on the St. John's River and the poisons were landing in the water.

I complained about it many times and threatened to get various government departments on the case. Before long the spraying stopped. It continued in other areas of the county though until those too were shut down.

I hope the people of California know how to stop the spraying.

Kunstler on Hillary and the economy

http://www.kunstler.com/

What a week we are having in the financial and political realms.
Too bad one of Obama's advance persons called Hillary "a monster." It was an altogether apt description, though I would have been more specific -- a monster of ambition, right out of Shakespeare's playbook.
News on the finacial front could not be more dire. This is like watching a sequoia tree topple in the forest. The boyz at Treasury and on Wall Street better load up on methedrine. It's going to be a sleepless weekend

3.

WhatAre Progressive Values


You're welcome.

I love the grassroots.

Dean is first!

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Ellen Garneau
Fri, 03/07/08

Please RSVP for DemocracyFest...

HERE: http://www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=2796...

just a quick drop in: Fareed Zakaria in the March 10th issue of Newsweek gives some idea of the complexity of NAFTA.  He maintains that without spending a penny, the United Stats trhough its expansion of global trade and lowering of barriers has contributed to Mexico's prosperity and staiblity.  He says that this has occurred in Canada as well. 

He cautions that Obama and Clinton talking about renegotiating NAFTA and other trade agreements will destabilize the trade and relationships with other countries. What he doesn't address is the cost to the employees in the manufacturing sectors in this country.  Zakeria talks about retraining, reinvestment, and incensitves for new businesses here, but emphasizes that the trade agreements like NAFTA are powerful stabilizers and throughout the world and ro renegotiate them is to undermine that stability.  

He says that Obama and Clinton are misguided and will do great harm.  

This is an example of the complexity of the global economy and the impossiblity of simplistic solutions.  The more Obama (I don't care about Clinton) gets trapped into absolutist solutions, the more hypocrisy and duplicity will come into play.

 In the same issue of Newsweek, Jonathan Alter  gives a very favorable opinion piece about Obama, says that he might be the transformatonal president we haven't had since FDR and JFK.

good grief the typos. Couldn't get back to the beginning of the comment to correct them. Sorry.  There are too many to even try to correct. 

someone has his genders mixed up. I said somebody here has a$$holes on HIS mind. Like I said get your head out and everything won't look like a$$holes.

Just a pop in to clear up some tales that started floating around.

PMO: Officials only got briefing from Obama campaign

The Canadian Press

March 7, 2008 at 5:04 PM EST

OTTAWA — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by Barack Obama's campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said Friday.

With the NAFTA affair swirling over the U.S. election and Canadian officials skittish about saying anything else that might influence the race, it took the PMO two days to deliver the information.

After being asked whether Canadian officials asked for — or received — any briefings from a Clinton campaign representative outlining her plans on NAFTA, a spokeswoman for the prime minister offered a response Friday.

"The answer is no, they did not," said Harper spokeswoman Sandra Buckler.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s...

the dem. leader in Canada said that the Prime Minister is being asked to apologize to the obama campaign for error in reporting that obama had called them about nafta.

sorry Linda.

let's see , forget about nafta and get obama elected.

I like the fact that obama is staying above the fray mostley and that "monster" girl should not have resigned.

Obama should keep saying "hillary is not a monster", or as much as I know.

I listened to NAFTAgate on Air America today. The PM will be apologizing to the Obama campaign it appears -- now that the damage is done.

A serious question for you Linda in NM -- How do you feel about the Clinton surrogates trashing Dean?

The article you posted clears up nothing.  This is like the hundreth time the Prime Minister has said something different.  Guess the Clintons called him today.

From local SLC news:

Barack Obama Dazzles Crowd In Wyoming On Friday

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=bf4f03c9-e119-4a2f-9c2b-8d1cf898b9ff

There is a link there to the entire speech

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24140

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