http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/05/the-gender-issu.html

Above linked article is from Andrew Sullivan in response to Hilary Rosen's piece on why she still supports Hillary Clinton.

It's a good read. 

and I can't find threads without a link. I doubt I am alone. although it could just have to do with my machine trying to be "helpful", since upgrades were installed

what are we going to talk about next week after Hillary concedes? her victimhood? her aggrieved sisterhood? the gender card was played in her favor and she came up short, she needs to just look a little closer at some of the men in her own circle and not project on others(Bill and Mark Penn in particular)

that doesn't mean that we don't still need an Equal Rights Amendment

http://democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25413-failed-conservative-values-jim-dean-on-corruption#comments

Hat Tip to Rich K. for bringing this to the last thread.

Clickable link to Rich's find.

Evidently it is alive and well in the state of Va.

The "you do the work and we get the spoils" is going on in the national delegate process.

This has got to stop.

I see it in the little crony groups of "elected" who think it is their right to go to Denver.

No it is not. What is the problem with you being on the ballot alongside me?
Afraid to run against the "little" people??

of a special person running for Congress in Va. A Dean person who ran his campaign in NOVA in 2004.

Keep tuned to this channel.

Here?

My dad was a bombadier in WWII. He never talked about it.

He became quite violent. Very authorative. Now that he has passed away, and there is distance, I wonder if that was why he never showed us much emotion.

I wonder.

War is hell.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-sutherland/hillarys-popular-vote-not_b_104152.html

A cerebral, albeit naughty, Canadian

It is incomprehensible to me that Mrs. Clinton can seriously be touting the notion, with the support of the punditocracy of CNN and Fox, that she is leading in the popular vote and should therefore be seriously considered as the most electable candidate in the November election. She's including those who voted for her in Florida and Michigan's name recognition ballot saying that to exclude them would be to disenfranchise them. What about the Democrats in Alaska, American Samoa, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nebraska, Washington, Hawaii and Wyoming who did not cast ballots because they were playing by the pledged delegates playbook and voted by caucus. What about them? Certainly if the rules are going to be changed and judgment is based on the 'popular' vote those voters in the eleven caucus states and Samoa will be disenfranchised. What about them? And what about us? What about the American people? Haven't we had enough of Mrs. Clinton's mad antics in her pursuit of the realization of venal personal ambition; her 'say anything, do anything, no matter what' effort to manipulate our all too willing media to gull this country's populace into believing that her wretched illegitimacy is indeed legitimate. How much mendacity do we have to suffer, how much brazenness do we have to swallow before someone, anyone, has the decency, the common sense, to relieve us of this terrible trifle, this pathetic madness?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/23/AR2008052302456.html

The public, and especially the mainstream media, misunderstands the "peak oil" story. It's not about running out of oil. It's about the instabilities that will shake the complex systems of daily life as soon as the global demand for oil exceeds the global supply. These systems can be listed concisely:

The way we produce food

The way we conduct commerce and trade

The way we travel

The way we occupy the land

The way we acquire and spend capital

And there are others: governance, health care, education and more.

Years ago, U.S. negotiators at a U.N. environmental conference told their interlocutors that the American lifestyle is "not up for negotiation." This stance is, unfortunately, related to two pernicious beliefs that have become common in the United States in recent decades. The first is the idea that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. (Oprah Winfrey advanced this notion last year with her promotion of a pop book called "The Secret," which said, in effect, that if you wish hard enough for something, it will come to you.) One of the basic differences between a child and an adult is the ability to know the difference between wishing for things and actually making them happen through earnest effort.

The companion belief to "wishing upon a star" is the idea that one can get something for nothing. This derives from America's new favorite religion: not evangelical Christianity but the worship of unearned riches.

These beliefs also explain why the presidential campaign is devoid of meaningful discussion about our energy predicament and its implications. The idea that we can become "energy independent" and maintain our current lifestyle is absurd. So is the gas-tax holiday.

Fixing the U.S. passenger railroad system is probably the one project we could undertake right away that would have the greatest impact on the country's oil consumption. The fact that we're not talking about it -- especially in the presidential campaign -- shows how confused we are. The airline industry is disintegrating under the enormous pressure of fuel costs. Airlines cannot fire any more employees and have already offloaded their pension obligations and outsourced their repairs. At least five small airlines have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past two months. If we don't get the passenger trains running again, Americans will be going nowhere five years from now.

We don't have time to be crybabies about this. The talk on the presidential campaign trail about "hope" has its purpose. We cannot afford to remain befuddled and demoralized. But we must understand that hope is not something applied externally. Real hope resides within us. We generate it -- by proving that we are competent, earnest individuals who can discern between wishing and doing, who don't figure on getting something for nothing and who can be honest about the way the universe really works.

This judge got tired of all the lawsuits filed against the DNC and had a little to say.

Judge when dismissing FL lawsuit said "I don't live in a cave."

"Lazzara said in announcing his decision that there was "not one scintilla of evidence" that the party was engaging in racial discrimination by allowing Nevada and South Carolina to have early primaries."

"I don't live in a cave, and I know that there are many people out there who are disgruntled" by the sanctions, Lazzara said, but, "The Democratic National Committee put everyone on notice that these were the rules everyone had to live by. The Florida Legislature in its infinite wisdom, for whatever reason, decided to ignore those rules"

 if necessary to make sure the presidential nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama does not reach the Democratic National Convention - though she believes it could be resolved as early as next week.

Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said "I will step in" if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.

"Because we cannot take this fight to the convention," she said. "It must be over before then."

Jessica when it happens to me nothing I try works on some threads, others I don't see at all.

but if I am logged in already and someone leaves a link on the last thread it always works

now if I can only figure out why a toobar appears or not besides hitting reply

rdorgan, my wife just came running from the other room to see why I was LMAO.  Thanks.