Dean is the pole sitter.

Great coverage of your event, Jeff!

Hey there,

 We should talk some time.  I'm the leader of Pasadena DFA.  We just did our vigil last night too:

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24358

 I liked that you guys got good coverage - they said your name right.  We got coverage in the newspaper but the called us "the democracy for america".  Ugghhhh

Nice job getting your event done IN THE RAIN!  We Californians never seem to have to plan for that.

Keep up the great work!

 Patrick Briggs

No Edwards endorsement at this time.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
--------
I thought I'd venture over to my dd and see what's up. It's bad for your health to go there. Some crack pots are actually making fun of this entire passport breach fiasco. If this happened to Hillary I would be equally concerned.

If this happened to Hillary I would be equally concerned.

thank you, mary vb, for being rational and even-handed.  I was afraid s/o would start blaming HC for this.

If this happened to Hillary I would be equally concerned.

thank you, mary vb, for being rational and even-handed.  I was afraid s/o would start blaming HC for this.

It did happen to Wild Bill.

Yes, I heard this happend to Bill Clinton which was a horrible breach by Bush I (and obviously for political gain). Why would there be three separate incidences of this? It wreaks.

then and now - not an excuse, but an interesting correlation:

As I alternate between reruns of Jeremiah Wrights "God Damn America" tirade and first-runs of the HBO's John Adams series, I see a surprising connection. Like many of the Revolutionary era, Adams believed that if we weren't careful, God would damn us or at least withdraw his support.

At some points during the war, Adams feared that the cause would fail because he saw too much greed and commercialism in the colonies. "I have seen all my life such selfishness and littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, although we are engaged in the best cause that ever employed the human heart, yet the prospect of success is doubtful not for want of power or wisdom but of virtue." During the revolution, Adams -- evoking the manner of his Puritan ancestors -- told his friend Benjamin Rush that the colonials would only have a chance of winning, "if we fear God and repent our sins." He even speculated that God might intend for America to be defeated so that its "vicious and luxurious and effeminate appetites, passion and habits" would be cleansed, laying the foundation for a more-deserved victory in the future.

Adams wasn't alone in seeing the events on the ground as a reflection -- positive and negative -- of God's assessment. One minister ascribed the Continental Army's difficulties to the presence of slavery. Noting the brutal winter, the poor crops, the loss of cattle, and the seemingly imminent collapse of the army, a Quaker farmer speculated that it was part of a divinely-ordained set of plagues. When on July 20, 1775 the Continental Congress called for a day of prayer, it was accompanied by a call for fasting, self-reflection and a unified effort to "unfeignedly confess and deplore our many sins."

I don't mean this as a defense of Jeremiah Wright (or John Adams). It's just a reminder that there's a long tradition among preachers and politicians of asserting that if God is to bless us when we're good, He may damn us when we're bad.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-waldman/john-adams-god-damn-amer_b_92659.html

h/t to Hotline on call.

This is what bothers me:

And, of paramount importance, was Obama's file disseminated?

I was afraid s/o would start blaming HC for this.

Hubby and I have our suspicions.

Jeff and Patrick - Passaic and Pasadena are lucky to have you guys.  keep up the good work!

Here's a nice story of a life-long Rep. mayor who changes parties to vote for Barack.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3...

Karen - I don't like the way the Clinton's are campaigning but there is no way they're responsible for this. No way.

http://www.ourfuture.org/

Campaign for America's Future

Violating the Privacy Act

is a Pandora's Box

BOPE, Brazilian Elite Police - The Guns

Elite Squad - Unofficial Trailer w/ English Subtitles

ON the conf. call the State Dept admits they failed. Yet Condi Rice (who allegedly found out yesterday) said that the security worked, etc.

Hey Paine...thanks for the thumbs up last thread but no big deal..I despise violence yet I've never been afraid to fight for what I believe is right...I guess I must be a hypocrite...lol

I saw this movie last week (of course this is just a segment where a plastic bag suffocates a "detainee"

Very good movie! 

♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥ ~ jc ~ ♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥

22:10 pm est

Reed, I feel the same.  I am one you can push and I'll meet you, but eventually ( I am a bit slow ) I get it that I might need to push back hard...harder than you, 'til eventually I expand, because I've been too kind to that point.   You don't want me to expand.  I don't want to go there, but I will.  

That's physical stuff.

As for politics, I like the bluff and bluster...  but ,that's what scares people, as much as my potential physical violence scares me. 

wow, just got off the phone with Williams & Sonoma. I was cancelling an order which I never rec'd and the cust. serv. rep told me to have a very blessed Easter. It was very kind of her - and yes, I celebrate Easter but what if I didn't.

Nite all.

Hey, Thankful

jc was a jewel.

yep paine...darn testosterone...luckily some of us have learned to let the brain take priority...others as we have seen have not.

A - 'Cain staffer suspended for posting nasty anti-Obama video to the Internet.

B - But 'Cain intends to hide behind the Republican Machine war

So, if A is true and B is true, then A and B are in it together

31.

Phil Specht

think "relative" strength, where your opponent has a clear advantage
=========================

all you have to remember is "your strength is your weakness, and your weakness is your strength"

From a diary at Kos - this is what is in our passport records.

------
The passport records system includes the following categories of records:

Passport books and passport cards, applications for passport books and passport cards, and applications for additional visa pages, amendments, extensions, replacements, and/or renewals of passport books or cards (including all information and materials submitted as part of or with all such applications);

Applications for registration at American Diplomatic and Consular Posts as U.S. citizens or for issuance of Cards of Identity and Registration as U.S. Citizens;

Consular Reports of Birth Abroad of United States citizens;

Certificates of Witness to Marriage;

Certificates of Loss of United States Nationality;

Oaths of Repatriation;

Consular Certificates of Repatriation;

Reports of Death of an American Citizen Abroad;

Cards of Identity and Registration as U.S. citizens;

Lookout files which identify those persons whose
applications for a consular or related service require other than
routine examination or action; and

Miscellaneous materials, which are documents and/or
records maintained separately, if not in the application, including but
not limited to the following types of documents:

[cir] Investigatory reports compiled in connection with granting or
denying passport and related services or prosecuting violations of
passport criminal statutes;

[cir] Transcripts and opinions on administrative hearings, appeals
and civil actions in federal courts;

[cir] Legal briefs, memoranda, judicial orders and opinions arising
from administrative determinations relating to passports and
citizenship;

[cir] Birth and baptismal certificates;

[cir] Court orders;

[cir] Arrest warrants;

[cir] Medical, personal and financial reports;

[cir] Affidavits;

[cir] Inter-agency and intra-agency memoranda, telegrams, letters,
and other miscellaneous correspondence;

[cir] An electronic index of all passport application records
created since 1978, and some passport application records created
between 1962 and 1978;

[cir] An electronic index of Department of State Reports of Birth
of American Citizens abroad; and/or

[cir] Records of lost and stolen passports.

------

Yep, that would make C true.

Passaic County DFA ~ nice job!

22:45 pm est

Thanks everybody - you all say the nicest things.

:) 

Interesting mary ~ I've gotta get mine renewed :-)

22:47 pm est

20.

seashell :-)
Thu, 03/20/08

Thanks Fred and Phil. I may read that later. I want to know why he seems to deviate so radically from Wright when it comes to US aggression in the ME.
=========================

no problemo, amiga

Michelle is the kind of tough smart woman Hillary would like to be, but Hillary was probably raised to think "tough" meant dirty-fighter, and smart meant making-money.

Honesty and political saavy are often at odd. Michelle's "proud" statement is something many people feel but few have guts to say honestly.

You complain about Obama's statements on Israel, then you fault his wife for being honestly critical of this country? If Obama's wife was an Israeli Jew saying she's never been proud of Israel, would people be calling her a Nazi? Or would we be looking forward to a radical change and peace in that region?

Wow, look at all those flags behind Shrub today.  I think George has "flag-envy" after Barack's speech on Tuesday.

 I saw it on Countdown.  Sorry, I'm having trouble finding a still photo to link too.  

Jeff Gardner

that is too cool for school that you got on TV

good 'roots !

Daniel Ellsberg: Words to the Die-In Participants: We as a People Have the Power The Republican candidate for president has projected an occupation of fifty to a hundred years. That could very well prove to be realistic. Of the two Democratic candidates, neither one has been willing to commit - even to an intention - to have every American soldier out of Iraq by the end of her or his first term: five years from now. That is unacceptable.

I believe they both agreed to 2013 in one of the debates.   Unacceptable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/20/bill-clinton-and-jeremiah_n_92670.html

So, if A is true and B is true, then A and B are in it together

then, all the more to repeatedly ask 'Cain about the machine.

Doh, I suppose he'll tell G@d that he had no idea that the Republican's were trying to kill Able.

'Cain might as well tell G@d to prove it, or shut the ef up.

You listening, G@d?!

20.

seashell :-)
Thu, 03/20/08

I want to know why he seems to deviate so radically from Wright when it comes to US aggression in the ME

======================

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar, and to God what is God's. Reverend Wright was not his political Guru.

Julius Caesar would be a liberal today. He was dearly loved by the common people. He almost got imprisoned for loving a plebian (commoner) woman but ran away with her before they could catch him. He was so popular, he died for the apprehension of his being "ambitious" but Julius could not care less about power, except as a way to serve the people and the glory of Rome.

Has Michelle been critical of AIPAC and Israel?   Haven't heard about that.

DONT FORGET TO WATCH

ELI STONE TONITE 10:00

EAST COAST - TOO LATE (SORRY)

The chances that low level employees at the State Department are Republicans is essentially zero.  The department is a haven for pacifists like you all here.

(New Book)The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (May '08): http://jeffsharlet.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html

The department is a haven for pacifists like you all here.

>

;-), thanks Bob.

32.

seashell :-)
Thu, 03/20/08

Has Michelle been critical of AIPAC and Israel? Haven't heard about that.

================

Don't know...I wasn't trying to imply that, sorry, but it would hurt Obama immensely if she were.

Obama has said we don't necessarily need to follow the policies of the Lukid party to be pro-Israel, that is enough for me, since that is the only de facto policy there's been in the last 20 years or so, since Rabin was assassinated.

23:06

Has Michelle been critical of AIPAC and Israel?   Haven't heard about that.  

That's because you're the only one spewing this crap. 

Welcome ...to the machine

http://www.organelle.org/organelle/cainandabel/cainandabel.htm

This is mind-blowing...the Big Dog robot.

http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky 

That's because you're the only one spewing this crap. 

< Boo-ah hahaha!

HQ, fix he blog so karen doesn't confuse me with crap spewing stuff about Michelle taken outta context and twisted to her delight :-)

Hardening of the attitudes, Karen? 

Big Dog is cool sh!t, sea

I watch Keith but he's getting a bit lop sided.  And here on the blog some people are blindly believing him becuz we all like him so much.  Fair is fair.

Nite and ♥'s to all

Kindness is free!

23:29 pm est

 "At some points during the war, Adams feared that the cause would fail because he saw too much greed and commercialism in the colonies. "I have seen all my life such selfishness and littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, although we are engaged in the best cause that ever employed the human heart, yet the prospect of success is doubtful not for want of power or wisdom but of virtue." During the revolution, Adams -- evoking the manner of his Puritan ancestors -- told his friend Benjamin Rush that the colonials would only have a chance of winning, "if we fear God and repent our sins." He even speculated that God might intend for America to be defeated so that its "vicious and luxurious and effeminate appetites, passion and habits" would be cleansed, laying the foundation for a more-deserved victory in the future."

-Steve Waldman

Huffingtonpost 

http://www.kerryman.ie/frontpage/council-says-no-to-zero-tolerance-1315662.html

The Council signalled its stance with a strongly-worded motion, put forward by Cllrs Michael O?Shea, Danny Healy-Rae, Bobby O?Connell and Tom Fleming at Monday?s meeting.

They say the reduction in the limit will alienate already-isolated members of rural communities and result in Kerry waving goodbye to its once-famous community spirit, as people are forced to stay at home to drink

[...] 

Jeff, very cool..The cruds who stole the executive branch have little grasp on the magnitude or the focus of opposition to their attack on all human life.
Keep on....

::Yawn::  good night.

Democratic congresswoman from Florida who won't support Democratic candidates here gets huffy with bloggers.

Wasserman-Schultz says please help get the bloggers off my back.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1920

Then to top it off the DCCC defends her, though she is head of the Red to Blue program, and he says bloggers make "much ado about nothing.

DCCC director defends Wasserman Schultz...says bloggers make "much ado about nothing."

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1923

Rev. Wright was Clinton White House guest at event from 1998 was where Clinton reportedly told assembled clerics — at the depth of the Monica Lewinsky scandal — that he had "repented." Clinton first lady schedules show she was present.

Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?

Chris Albrecht
NewTeeVee
March 19, 2008

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.




The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes.

Kunkel said the system wouldn’t be based on facial recognition, so there wouldn’t be a picture of you on file (we hope). Instead, it would distinguish between different members of your household by recognizing body forms. He stressed that the system is still in the experimental phase, that there hasn’t been consumer testing, and that any rollout “must add value” to the viewing experience beyond serving ads.

Perhaps I’ve seen Enemy of the State too many times, or perhaps I’m just naive about the depths to which Comcast currently tracks my every move. I can’t trust Comcast with BitTorrent, so why should I trust them with my must-be-kept-secret, DVR-clogging addiction to Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Kunkel also spoke on camera with me about fixing bad Comcast user experiences, the ongoing BitTorrent battle and VOD. But he mostly towed the corporate line on these issues (the monitoring your living room came up after my camera was put away

http://www.infowars.com/?p=915






26,000 Pastors for Martial Law Continuity of Government

Court Rules Against Libby

Cheney Aide Loses Attorney Privileges

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008

Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was barred yesterday from practicing law in the District of Columbia because of his convictions last year for perjury and obstructing justice in a White House leak investigation.

Under the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Libby will lose his license to practice or appear in court in Washington until at least 2012. As is standard, he will probably lose any bar membership he holds in other states.

"This was expected," said Libby attorney William H. Jeffress Jr. "The rules require that he be disbarred for a period of time."

Libby was convicted of lying to the FBI and other federal investigators about whether he discussed the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame with reporters in the spring and summer of 2003.

At the time, the Bush administration was keen to undermine allegations made by Plame's husband that it had twisted intelligence to justify going to war with Iraq. Libby and others in the administration linked Plame in conversations with reporters to a fact-finding trip her husband took to the Middle East for the CIA.

A three-member panel of the Court of Appeals decided that the D.C. Code gave it no choice on the decision. Libby did not dispute the Bar Counsel's recommendation that he be disbarred.

"When a member of the Bar is convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, disbarment is mandatory," the judges wrote. " This court has held that obstruction of justice and perjury are crimes of moral turpitude per se." .... full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

---

Crimes involving moral turpitude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_turpi...


Crimes Against Property

Fraud:
Making false representation
Knowledge of such false representation by the perpetrator
Reliance on the false representation by the person defrauded
An intent to defraud
The actual act of committing fraud

Evil intent:
Arson
Blackmail
Burglary
Embezzlement
Extortion
False pretenses
Forgery
Fraud
Larceny (grand or petty)
Malicious destruction of property
Receiving stolen goods (with guilty knowledge)
Robbery
Theft (when it involves the intention of permanent taking)
Transporting stolen property (with guilty knowledge)

Crimes Committed Against Governmental Authority

Bribery
Counterfeiting
Fraud against revenue or other government functions
Mail fraud
Perjury
Harboring a fugitive from justice (with guilty knowledge)
Tax evasion (willful)

Crimes Committed Against Person, Family Relationship, and Sexual Morality

Abandonment of a minor child (if willful and resulting in the destitution of the child)
Adultery (see INA 101** repealed by Public Law 97-116)
Assault (this crime is broken down into several categories, which involve moral turpitude):
Assault with intent to kill, commit rape, commit robbery or commit serious bodily harm
Assault with a dangerous or deadly weapon
Bigamy
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
Gross indecency
Incest (if the result of an improper sexual relationship)
Kidnapping
Lewdness

Manslaughter:
Voluntary
Involuntary (where the statute requires proof of recklessness, which is defined as the awareness and conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustified risk which constitutes a gross deviation from the standard that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. A conviction for the statutory offense of vehicular homicide or other involuntary manslaughter only requires a showing of negligence will not involve moral turpitude even if it appears the defendant in fact acted recklessly)

Mayhem
Murder
Pandering
Prostitution
Rape (including "Statutory rape" by virtue of the victim's age)
Sodomy

Attempts, Aiding and Abetting, Accessories and Conspiracy

An attempt to commit a crime deemed to involve moral turpitude
Aiding and abetting in the commission of a crime deemed to involve moral turpitude
Being an accessory (before or after the fact) in the commission of a crime deemed to involve moral turpitude
Taking part in a conspiracy (or attempting to take part in a conspiracy) to commit a crime involving moral turpitude where the attempted crime would not itself constitute moral turpitude.

I thought I'd venture over to my dd and see what's up. It's bad for your health to go there.

Never go to that site without a vial of antivenin. That place used to make me sick because it's front bloggers advocated blind-eyed loyalty to the party. Now some of them seem bent taking it down with Hillary. Hypocrisy is alive and well there.

new thread

Wasserman-Schultz says please help get the bloggers off my back.

Wasserman-Suckz

A HOWARDLY to all who joined protests yesterday. thanks.

seashell - this isn't the first time you have slandered Michelle and Barack with your 'imaginings'..  remember the time you went on a rant and insisted they had a dysfunctional relationship because you didn't think he looked at her right and treated her very well at a rally they kicked off together.  then on further consideration from the folks WHO SAW THE WHOLE THING, you admitted you 'might' be wrong.  your hate was showing then and it's showing now.  fixing the blog will not 'fix' your comments - they speak for themselves.