Dean is first!

And Jerome Armstrong of my dd is at the bottom.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/16/1146...

So much for Crashing the Gates.

I want to announce that Howard Dean has been selected again to be first!

Supremes to Rule on Second Amendment this Week

Robert Barnes
Washington Post
March 16, 2008

Despite mountains of scholarly research, enough books to fill a library shelf and decades of political battles about gun control, the Supreme Court will have an opportunity this week that is almost unique for a modern court when it examines whether the District’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment.

The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment’s meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years.




“This may be one of the only cases in our lifetime when the Supreme Court is going to be interpreting the meaning of an important provision of the Constitution unencumbered by precedent,” said Randy E. Barnett, a constitutional scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. “And that’s why there’s so much discussion on the original meaning of the Second Amendment.”

The outcome could roil the 2008 political campaigns, send a national message about what kinds of gun control are constitutional and finally settle the question of whether the 27-word amendment, with its odd structure and antiquated punctuation, provides an individual right to gun ownership or simply pertains to militia service.

Robert Parry on Hillary's tactics

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031508F.shtml

  Two seemingly disconnected events have created a suddenly dangerous turn regarding the future of US wars in the Middle East.

    One was the abrupt resignation of the person who has been the biggest obstacle to a U.S. military strike against Iran, Admiral William Fallon, the chief of Central Command which oversees U.S. military operations in the volatile region.

    The second is the ugly direction that the Democratic presidential competition has taken, with Hillary Clinton's campaign intensifying its harsh rhetoric against Barack Obama, reducing the likelihood that he can win the presidency - and thus raising the odds that the next president will be either John McCain or Sen. Clinton, both hawks on Iran.

    Throughout the campaign, Clinton has mocked Obama as inexperienced for his desire to engage in presidential-level diplomacy with Iran and other adversarial states. And she recently judged him as unqualified to serve as Commander in Chief, while declaring that both she and Sen. McCain have crossed that "threshold."

    The cumulative effect of Clinton's attacks on Obama's qualifications - combined with her campaign's efforts to turn many white voters against him as the "black candidate" - has buoyed Republican hopes for November.

    By simultaneously marginalizing and dirtying up Obama, the Clinton campaign also has tamped down the excitement of many Democrats, especially the young, for a candidate that they see as offering a refreshing message of hope and change.

    Replacing Obama's message of reform and reconciliation is a Clinton message of resentment and victimization, as voiced by former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro who claimed that Clinton confronts "sexist media" bias as a woman while Obama gets an easy ride because he's black.

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"If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic party."

-- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by the Associated Press, in a "declaration that gives a boost to Sen. Barack Obama."

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She's absolutely right and she has always had my support.

By simultaneously marginalizing and dirtying up Obama, the Clinton campaign also has tamped down the excitement of many Democrats, especially the young, for a candidate that they see as offering a refreshing message of hope and change.===========

His supporters' hopes are not tamped down. Overstatement by Hujo..again.

Basic Greenhouse Equations “Totally Wrong”

Michael Asher
DailyTech
March 15, 2008

New derivation of equations governing the greenhouse effect reveals "runaway warming" impossible




Miklós Zágoni’s equations answer thorny problems raised by current theory, which doesn’t explain why "runaway" greenhouse warming hasn’t happened in the Earth’s past. The new theory predicts that greenhouse gas increases should result in small, but very rapid temperature spikes, followed by much longer, slower periods of cooling — exactly what the paleoclimatic record demonstrates.

Miklós Zágoni isn’t just a physicist and environmental researcher. He is also a global warming activist and Hungary’s most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol. Or was.

That was until he learned the details of a new theory of the greenhouse effect, one that not only gave far more accurate climate predictions here on Earth, but Mars too. The theory was developed by another Hungarian scientist, Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist with 30 years of experience and a former researcher with NASA’s Langley Research Center.

After studying it, Zágoni stopped calling global warming a crisis, and has instead focused on presenting the new theory to other climatologists. The data fit extremely well. "I fell in love," he stated at the International Climate Change Conference this week.

"Runaway greenhouse theories contradict energy balance equations," Miskolczi states. Just as the theory of relativity sets an upper limit on velocity, his theory sets an upper limit on the greenhouse effect, a limit which prevents it from warming the Earth more than a certain amount.

How did modern researchers make such a mistake? They relied upon equations derived over 80 years ago, equations which left off one term from the final solution.

Miskolczi’s story reads like a book. Looking at a series of differential equations for the greenhouse effect, he noticed the solution — originally done in 1922 by Arthur Milne, but still used by climate researchers today — ignored boundary conditions by assuming an "infinitely thick" atmosphere. Similar assumptions are common when solving differential equations; they simplify the calculations and often result in a result that still very closely matches reality. But not always.

So Miskolczi re-derived the solution, this time using the proper boundary conditions for an atmosphere that is not infinite. His result included a new term, which acts as a negative feedback to counter the positive forcing. At low levels, the new term means a small difference … but as greenhouse gases rise, the negative feedback predominates, forcing values back down.

NASA refused to release the results. Miskolczi believes their motivation is simple. "Money", he tells DailyTech. Research that contradicts the view of an impending crisis jeopardizes funding, not only for his own atmosphere-monitoring project, but all climate-change research. Currently, funding for climate research tops $5 billion per year.

Miskolczi resigned in protest, stating in his resignation letter, "Unfortunately my working relationship with my NASA supervisors eroded to a level that I am not able to tolerate. My idea of the freedom of science cannot coexist with the recent NASA practice of handling new climate change related scientific results."

His theory was eventually published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in his home country of Hungary.




The conclusions are supported by research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research last year from Steven Schwartz of Brookhaven National Labs, who gave statistical evidence that the Earth’s response to carbon dioxide was grossly overstated. It also helps to explain why current global climate models continually predict more warming than actually measured.

The equations also answer thorny problems raised by current theory, which doesn’t explain why "runaway" greenhouse warming hasn’t happened in the Earth’s past. The new theory predicts that greenhouse gas increases should result in small, but very rapid temperature spikes, followed by much longer, slower periods of cooling — exactly what the paleoclimatic record demonstrates.


However, not everyone is convinced. Dr. Stephen Garner, with the NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), says such negative feedback effects are "not very plausible". Reto Ruedy of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies says greenhouse theory is "200 year old science" and doubts the possibility of dramatic changes to the basic theory.

Miskowlczi has used his theory to model not only Earth, but the Martian atmosphere as well, showing what he claims is an extremely good fit with observational results. For now, the data for Venus is too limited for similar analysis, but Miskolczi hopes it will one day be possible.

Venus is so much hotter because its co2 is not bound under the ground. We’ve been releasing more co2 than is natural.” -
Though it might be true that Venus is over heated by the greenhouse effect. Humans release less than half of a percent of the total CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere. In other words, the trees we cut down product more CO2 than our entire population. CO2 is natural. You are releasing CO2 as you sit at the computer reading this reply.
I’d like to refer you to the timeline graph, originally presented to you by Al Gore. Al Gore reveals there are complexities about the timeline, but he never states what they are. If you really take a look at the timeline, you would have noticed that CO2 rises and falls 800 years after the rise and fall of temperature. CO2 is lagging behind. CO2 can not be fuelling global warming. In fact, it is a product of global warming.
This is only the beginning of the argument I could start. I suggest you inform youself on the opposing side of the debate first, before attempting to reply.
I recommend this documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle
That is, if you can find it. This video is often deleted for its denial of man-made global warming. I think you can still watch it on google video

"Hillary could do alot of good blasting away at McCain with 36 million dollars for six weeks "=====

Phil, but that she would....the ONLY statement from Hillary about McCain that I'm aware of is her comment that she and McCain are more experienced that Obama (paraphrasing). She has bashed the Bush administration consistently but she's been silent on McCain as far as i know. I have no reason to believe that she'll shift.

She needs to step down:

Superdelegates Breaking Towards Obama

Sen. Barack Obama has pulled "almost even" with Sen. Hillary Clinton "in endorsements from top elected officials and has cut into her lead among the other superdelegates she's relying on to win the Democratic presidential nomination," Bloomberg notes.

"Among the 313 of 796 superdelegates who are members of Congress or governors, Clinton has commitments from 103 and Obama is backed by 96, according to lists supplied by the campaigns. Fifty-three of Obama's endorsements have come since he won the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, compared with 12 who have aligned with Clinton since then."

If Obama maintains his current 150 lead in pledged delegates through the end of the primary season, Clinton "would have to snag more than 70 percent of the remaining 334 or so superdelegates."

http://politicalwire.com/

His supporters' hopes are not tamped down. Overstatement by Hujo..again.

Not my words cC. I'm quoting Robert Parry, whose opinions I hold in high regard.

Bush Family Nazi Ties http://www.infowars.com/?p=816

I have had almost of enough from the    DISEASED MINDS    that inhabit Washington, D.C.

I'm so mad, I don't even know what to say.

Candy Crowley, the clip you showed in which Obama pastor said nothing more than the US in controled by rich white people.

Isn't that just stating a fact??

Why are you working overtime to spin it into something un-American.

America IS made up of more than rich white people.

It's just a fact.

And then there's Ferraro.  I'm telling you.  It's no wonder Blacks in America think whites are stupid, and it's not wonder that 70% of the world think that American white people are stupid.  

Stupid is true strong a word. It's more like Barack Obama describes it: an Empathy Deficit.

Joe South:

"Walk a mile in my shoes.  Walk a mile in my shoes.  Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes."

p.s. I'm white.

Candy Crowley is spinning so hard, it may show up on the Richter scale.

Candy what do you think you would say about America if your fat ass was a Black fat ass? 

Daniel, copywright infringement.

Pelosi has one thing right, delegates to the National Convention will choose the next nominee, and as I have said before there are two parts to it, the words Democratic Party on one side of the ballot, and the name of the Presidential candidate chosen by the Party on the other, and then "the people" decide.

the Party has a process to recalibrate as we go along and candidates drop out, and in Iowa it was a choice of "where now?" for the early supporters of Edwards

"little" super delegates if you will, a very similar choice as that which "big" super delegates face

and they went overwelmingly to Obama

the nomination got closer for him yesterday, further away for her

but no where in party rules are any delegates pre-bound to any vote, the pledge of a pledged delegate is as strong as their word

I would expect hundreds of them to vote with Obama at the convention that are now pledged to Hillary if he gains a majority of the delegates left up for grabs, but they might demand a woman on the ticket to represent what it was that got her that gender biased enhanced total she has, even if their was no way to enforce their demand other than the promise of party unity

their are legal reasons for suspending rather than terminating a campaign, mostly involving funds, so Hillary will be in it to the end

Well, Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married, and had a little sweet potato, which they called 'Yam.'

Of course, they wanted the best for Yam.

When it was time, they told her about the facts of life.

They warned her about going out
and getting half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad name for herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots.

Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of her!

But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and become a Couch Potato either.

She would get plenty of exercise so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring cousins.

When she went off to Europe, Mr and Mrs. Potato told Yam to watch out for the hard-boiled guys from Ireland .

And the greasy guys from France called the French Fries. And when she went out west, to watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't get scalloped.

Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate with those high class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the other side of the tracks who advertise their trade on all the trucks that say, 'Frito Lay.'

Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U. (that's Potato University ) so that when she graduated she'd really be in the Chips.

But in spite of all they did for her, one-day Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.

Tom Brokaw!

Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset.

They told Yam she couldn't possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he's just.......

Are you ready for this?


Are you sure?

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OK! Here it is!

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A COMMONTATER

their/there sheesh watching basketball with my right eye while thinking with my left?

march madness?

America, don't blow this rebate
I found an interesting article online regarding those tax rebate checks the government is sending out in May. I thought it was just going to be extra money the government was giving to stimulate the economy, I had NO IDEA, it is simply a loan from my 2009 tax refund!! Why don't they ever mention this in the media. I wonder how many other people know that it is just a loan, and that you will have to pay it back in 2009, by having them either take it out of your refund next year, or owe them the money if you don't get a refund. Just a warning, you may want to hold on to it if that is the case. Read the article I found on MSN:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Tax...

America, don't blow this rebate
Congress wraps up the details: $300 for retirees, $600 for most individuals and $1,200 for most couples. But wait, there's more: It's not really free money.
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By Liz Pulliam Weston
Some Americans are getting awfully excited about the prospect of spending their own money.
The $168 billion economic stimulus package just passed by Congress will ship checks of up to $600 for individuals and $1,200 for couples starting in May. Most households will get these checks, although individuals with adjusted gross incomes of more than $75,000 and couples making more than $150,000 will see less or nothing at all.
Additionally, families will get $300 per child.
The biggest change since the original proposal: Those who paid no income taxes will get $300 as long as they earned at least $3,000, including veterans disability or Social Security benefits.
An estimated 130 million taxpayers will share the rebate money.
Here's what you need to keep in mind while you're waiting:
This isn't free money -- for most people
To produce this cash, Congress created a one-time tax credit to reduce taxable income for most taxpayers this year.
Normally, you wouldn't see that cash until the spring of 2009, when you filed your 2008 return. But Congress wants to speed that money to you now, so checks will start going out in May.
· Smart Spending blog: Rebate? Bonus? One is easier to spend
Remember, this is your money you're getting back, and the rebate checks are basically an advance on your 2009 refund. When similar rebates were sent out in 2001, said tax expert Mark Luscombe, "a lot of people were upset to see their (next) refund reduced."
The only people for whom this really is free money are low-income folks (those who earn at least the minimum $3,000 required to trigger the checks or who receive at least $3,000 in Social Security or veterans benefits) who won't end up owing any taxes for 2008. If that's your situation, or you somehow wind up with a check when you technically shouldn't have -- you earned income in 2007 but won't in 2008, for example -- you won't have to pay back the money, said Luscombe, a principal analyst for tax research firm CCH.

The cumulative effect of Clinton's attacks on Obama's qualifications - combined with her campaign's efforts to turn many white voters against him as the "black candidate" - has buoyed Republican hopes for November.

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not a tenth of what they would if she got the nomination

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linda b
Sun, 03/16/08

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Daniel, copywright infringement.
your all guilty of the same so dont preach to me linda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoNMG5-a1...

Interesting YouTube interview with Ron Paul on the current monetary/bank/liquidity crisis.

Rooney, when you post like this (virtually taking over the blog space)I refuse to read your posts, I just scroll them. It pisses me off - use links, please.

Phil.....

In '04, I observed that it was mostly the women who were most concerned when "safety" became the main issue. concern for family etc., and they switched to Kerry.

Adm. Fallon is ousted, more fear is being injected, about Iran, and I don't think women voters will be as interested in a woman for VP. A five star general perhaps. six, if we had one. Good that the Dems might have a black and a woman on the ticket. We can sing and pat ourselves on the back, all the way to McC's inaugural.

What is the Difference Between the Mainstream Media and Goering's Ministry of Propaganda?

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=6582

In America, Truth gets slaughtered daily in the mainstream media, just like it was in Nazi Germany. The American media have always take great umbrage in condemning the perfidy of the German people in supporting the deadly war policies of Hitler, yet they whistle past the graveyard while ignoring another holocaust going on in Iraq, not to mention Afghanistan. Nowhere is this more evident than in their blackout of WINTER SOLDIER.

1:24pm

their are legal reasons for suspending rather than terminating a campaign, mostly involving funds, so Hillary will be in it to the end=====

Well, I'm more of a pragmatist....I am not a details or process minutae (sp?) person. The longer she stays in it the longer Dems are not unified, the more water she carries for the Repubs while bashing Obama.

People leave primary races at various times. I don't believe that she is "legally obliged" to stay in this race, Phil. My opinion is let her run in PA since it's large and delegate-rich. Then her handlers need to sit down with her....she's got to have that Come To Jesus...that understanding that IF she twists the Super Dels' arms to get the nomination on an internecine Party technicality--THAT will be her legacy.

I respectfully urge all Hillary supporters to write to their candidate and request that she withdraw from this race.

{{What happened in Mich/FL tells us that the primary process needs to be changed-can't do anything about it in this cycle-let's change it next time around to Regional, Rotating Primaries...sometimes you'll be among the first states to vote, sometimes you won't}}

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FRED im glad your piss off made my day!!better than being piss on. in your case maybe not.

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Thanks for that link Huron.  Sometimes I think the media is doing more harm to the country than the ShrubCo. 

What is the Difference Between the Mainstream Media and Goering's Ministry of Propaganda?===========

Many, many, many degrees of difference. Another gross overstatement.

It is reasonable to state that media consolidation has been harmful to a free press and that we don't have real newsmen/women any longer. We have corporate-owned media serving the agenda of corporations. We do NOT have Goering's Ministry of Propaganda. Sheesh.

Contests Won So FarObama - 30     Clinton - 14     DelegatesObama - 1,411     Clinton - 1,250

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FRED from Ashland OR
Sun, 03/16/08

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoNMG5-a1...

Interesting YouTube interview with Ron Paul on the current monetary/bank/liquidity crisis.
now what are you doing fred ron paul will take this country back 200 yrs that what i hear form all of you all here on the blog! now you think Aspartame is bad for you i told you all about it yrs ago same as Fluoride now your quoting ron paul, just maybe you will think about your next drink of water too! pure life from nestle is reverse osmosis is good.

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DANIEL ROONEY
Sun, 03/16/08

FRED im glad your piss off made my day!
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I think I express what most blogger here do (scroll) when do many long continguous posts. Does that make you feel good.

I think I do you a favor by telling you.

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*** cChalfonte***
Sun, 03/16/08

Many, many, many degrees of difference. Another gross overstatement.

We do NOT have Goering's Ministry of Propaganda. Sheesh
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The Europeans have a totally different view of the I/P situation and consider Israel the aggressor and instigator by a large margin. It is pretty obvious why, according to those who experience the media in Europe. They say our media is white-washed and filter-biased on the side of the right-wing government now dominating Israel.

Such bias is difficult to challenge here, with the memory of the holocaust still present.

That can be a very dangerous game in the bigger picture and can lead to major wars, mass torture, and death, as we have already seen in Iraq.

Daniel before you get all huffy. it is a violation of blog rules to post an entire article.

put about 2-3 paragraphs and then provide a link.

This is a violation of copyright rules.

{{What happened in Mich/FL tells us that the primary process needs to be changed-can't do anything about it in this cycle-let's change it next time around to Regional, Rotating Primaries...sometimes you'll be among the first states to vote, sometimes you won't}}

What happened in Fl and Mi is they violated the rules. You remember rules, the ones the DNC if FL and Mi decided to crap on, while all the other 50 states said ok.

The MSM doesn't know what the h they are talking about.

2:452PM EST

it takes a  (global) village :

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/16/opinion/edcohen.php

Globe-spanning Obama siblings

BRUSSELS: So there I was, a couple of weeks back, sitting under a mango tree in western Kenya, when Senator Barack Obama's half-sister Auma says to me:

"My daughter's father is British. My Mom's brother is married to a Russian. I have a brother in China engaged to a Chinese woman."

...

If nominated, Obama's family baggage will get pored over. Four years ago, Bush's people cast Kerry as un-American for speaking French. A Republican camp campaigning at the sorry nadir of Bush's handiwork will try to portray the war hero John McCain as more American and patriotic than his opponent.

But things are different. Less fearful, Americans are less willing to be manipulated. They've backed Obama this far in part because they're sick of the narrow American exceptionalism of Bush's divisive rule.

Never before have U.S. fortunes been so tied to the world's. Americans see that. When your mortgage is packaged into some ingenious security that's sold to a German bank before the scheme unravels and you lose your house, the globe looks smaller.

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If elected, Obama would be the first genuinely 21st-century leader. The China-Indonesia-Kenya-Britain-Hawaii web mirrors a world in flux. In Kenya, his uncle Sayid, a Muslim, told me: "My Islam is a hybrid, a mix of elements, including my Christian schooling and even some African ways. Many values have dissolved in me."

Go Clemson

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DANIEL ROONEY
Sun, 03/16/08

now what are you doing fred ron paul will take this country back
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I think Ron Paul has a good mind for nuts and bolts of markets and currency, but that doesn't qualify someone to be president any more than it qualifies them to be a good cook.

What happened in Fl and Mi is they violated the rules. You remember rules, the ones the DNC if FL and Mi decided to crap on, while all the other 50 states said ok.===========

Yes, they broke the rules and I support Gov. Dean's decision to stick by the rules. Nevertheless, many states are unhappy with the primary process as it is currently. If we leave it the way it is, we're going to have states trying to bump up their primary schedules to make their state's votes more relevant.

We need to change the rules so that all citizens feel like they have a fair shake, a stake in the process. i'd like to see us move to rotating, regional primaries. Everyone gets to be first sometimes.

36. I think they tried to do this the last go round. The primary and caucuses were set.

But Michigan thought they would try to be "out there" and have theirs earlier. They were warned by the DNC and Howard and they went forward anyway.

They were warned. Only a big thing now cause the media has nothing else to report.

from Huron's article about our CM

"This is nowhere more evident than with the media blackout of the Winter Soldier Investigations in Silver Spring, Maryland from March 13 through March 16. You would think that the spectacle of several hundred servicemen and women and ex-servicemen and women who have served in Iraq gathering to expose major war crimes as well as maltreatment of veterans, not to mention Iraqis, would warrant at least a few seconds of coverage. But no, this is nowhere to be found. When I search the NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX NEWS, or even NPR websites, I get, at best, some links to the Vietnam Era Winter Soldier Investigation, if that. Oh, and there is some mention of a Winter Soldier character in a Captain America Marvel comicbook. That sums it all up, doesn't it? The Holocaust taking place in Iraq, trumped by a comic book in our cartoon culture."

NEW THREAD

A BO/Sibelius ticket is a sure loser.  I'd be really hard-pressed to vote for that one.  Sibelius a heart beat away?  I think not.  We shall see about who has good judgment.  Sibelius is KS, Boxer is CA.  It's a no brainer even for me.  :-)

from the above article by Huron: 

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24245...
new one