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David Reiter is an organizer of Democracy for America Miami-Dade (DFAM).We have less than two weeks to go until 'judgment day.' Groups are scurrying to gather as many volunteers as possible to add toward the final GOTV push. Southern DFAers are staffing volunteer phone banks, knocking on neighbor's doors, and communicating the Progressive message to thousands of voters. As all of our hard work and perseverance comes to fruition, come November, the South will pick up half the seats necessary to take back the House...let's keep that momentum going strong!
Rally Time: Southern California DFA groups such as Democracy for Riverside, DFALA, DFA Santa Monica, and DFA Pasadena are rallying around their collectively supported candidates at various rallies this week. There is a GOTV rally at USC on Friday with key California candidates and special guest speaker, Barak Obama. There will be a similar event in Riverside on Sunday, and Howard Dean will be the special guest in Los Angeles on Thursday. At the events, candidates will round up volunteers for the final GOTV push into Election Day. Many DFAers are participating in the 'phone from home' programs offered by candidates such as DFA-List Secretary of State candidate, Debra Bowen and Gubernatorial candidate, Phil Angelides...group organizers urge everyone to pitch in to help California do better.
Questioning Authority: SWMO DFA thought they had a great idea when they joined organizers a the 'Rock the Vote: Save the Music' event to help register young voters. The event was a success in that many young, new voters were registered, but something else happened that is even more notable. There is a local initiative to outlaw people under 21 from entering establishments where 60% or more of the sales is alcohol. At the Rock the Vote event, organizers moved everyone to a local bar as a demonstration that those between 18-20 can be proven trustworthy in a drinking establishment where their favorite bands are playing. The move proved ingenious as the issue has now mobilized hundreds of young people to get active and fight the initiative that prevents them from partying in a safe environment. SWMO organizers received many articles in the press as well as radio interviews about the issue and event. Campaigning after the event, I guess, the Greene County Deputy Sheriff told a group of eighth graders that the SWMO DFA organizer 'was a very bad influence.' The event has brought major attention to the issue and more young people than ever will be getting to the polls in Springfield this year.
Groups continue to stand up for what they believe in, and support the candidates that will stand up for us in our government. With less than two weeks to go before the election, groups are getting creative in getting more people to snowball the movement forward. Keep up the great work, give until it hurts, good luck over the next two weeks, and let's all take back the House!
-David Reiter
The Mothers of Invention You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
left click 0:08:23
www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/188...
left click 0:08:23
www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/188...
"Mr America..."
Mothers of Invention Hungry Freaks, Daddy Freak Out 1:07:23
www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/968...
Mothers of Invention Hungry Freaks, Daddy Freak Out 1:07:23
www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/968...
"(Imn2) was in a debate with (none at all) when the moderator wanted to cut his microphone off.
(Imn2) said "I paid for this microphone(BFA)!"
(Imn2) said "I paid for this microphone(BFA)!"
we have those exact same forces operating in our body politic, and they are made stronger by an adversary they can demonize
by Phil Specht on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 11:18 PM
This is an absurd statement...and is completly disrespectful of religious differences in this country.
while I weep at the actions of the religious right and the no sin left in terms of linking politics to religion, nothing they are doing remotly on any scale compares with what OBL is contemplating.
All this statement by you shows is that you dont grasp the problem.
Robert
by Phil Specht on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 11:18 PM
This is an absurd statement...and is completly disrespectful of religious differences in this country.
while I weep at the actions of the religious right and the no sin left in terms of linking politics to religion, nothing they are doing remotly on any scale compares with what OBL is contemplating.
All this statement by you shows is that you dont grasp the problem.
Robert
Yeah, I bet those Home Owners Association members spent big bucks on opposition research to stop you.
by jc on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 10:58 PM
They were light years ahead of anything you can do or have tried (remember this was your point that you are saving your efforts until my friend runs for office...which is a real possibility in two years!)
From what you have tossed here your efforts havent even scratched the surface of one of our busy bodies back home....(although she kind of reminds me of some of the beloved here...)
Except for the personal harm to the then "younger young set" it was all kind of funny, particularly when my opponent "bought" into everything and got sort of killed in our debate....that was fun
I had a pretty good line that really sort of chopped him and the old lady who was light years ahead of you at the short hairs.
I do get a kick everytime the beloved think that the have found something personal. As I told beloved blogger cC she or you or anyone else hasnt found one cred I have claimed to be in error.
But it has been fun watching the effort. IN the immortal words of our fearless leader "bring it on".
So far you havent even pinged the navigation shields...lol
Robert
by jc on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 10:58 PM
They were light years ahead of anything you can do or have tried (remember this was your point that you are saving your efforts until my friend runs for office...which is a real possibility in two years!)
From what you have tossed here your efforts havent even scratched the surface of one of our busy bodies back home....(although she kind of reminds me of some of the beloved here...)
Except for the personal harm to the then "younger young set" it was all kind of funny, particularly when my opponent "bought" into everything and got sort of killed in our debate....that was fun
I had a pretty good line that really sort of chopped him and the old lady who was light years ahead of you at the short hairs.
I do get a kick everytime the beloved think that the have found something personal. As I told beloved blogger cC she or you or anyone else hasnt found one cred I have claimed to be in error.
But it has been fun watching the effort. IN the immortal words of our fearless leader "bring it on".
So far you havent even pinged the navigation shields...lol
Robert
GOTV
The Mothers Of Invention - Trouble Every Day
(written by: Frank Zappa)
Mothers of Invention Trouble Every Day Freak Out
www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/968...
1:29:24 (left click on 1:29:24)
Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friends
Is anybody's guess
[...]
Well you can cool it,
You can heat it...
'Cause, baby, I don't need it...
Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head began to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
[...]
Hey you know something people
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
[...]
Blow you harmonica son!
The Mothers Of Invention - Trouble Every Day
(written by: Frank Zappa)
Mothers of Invention Trouble Every Day Freak Out
www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/968...
1:29:24 (left click on 1:29:24)
Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friends
Is anybody's guess
[...]
Well you can cool it,
You can heat it...
'Cause, baby, I don't need it...
Take your TV tube and eat it
'N all that phony stuff on sports
'N all the unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head began to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they'll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They'll be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown
Are workin' hard and doin' swell,
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the street,
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
[...]
Hey you know something people
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white
[...]
Blow you harmonica son!
For what is right.
Some cities will vote on Iraq withdrawal By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 25, 9:02 PM ET
Since the March 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, nearly 2,800 members of the U.S. military have been killed in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count.
"We're just hoping people will look into their hearts and say, `What is going on here?'" said Paul Shannon of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker peace group that helped organize the Massachusetts signature drive. "Are we really willing to throw away more lives tomorrow? For what?"
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President Bush is perfectly willing to send more cannon fodder to Iraq if that means he doesn't have to admit his horrific mistake of illegally invading and occupying Iraq.
Some cities will vote on Iraq withdrawal By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 25, 9:02 PM ET
Since the March 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, nearly 2,800 members of the U.S. military have been killed in Iraq, according to an Associated Press count.
"We're just hoping people will look into their hearts and say, `What is going on here?'" said Paul Shannon of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker peace group that helped organize the Massachusetts signature drive. "Are we really willing to throw away more lives tomorrow? For what?"
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President Bush is perfectly willing to send more cannon fodder to Iraq if that means he doesn't have to admit his horrific mistake of illegally invading and occupying Iraq.
by LZ XRAY on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 11:58 PM
allways have to love it when lefties and righties waste their time on something that is completly useless.
The entertainment value alone is high...
Nameste Gong
Robert
allways have to love it when lefties and righties waste their time on something that is completly useless.
The entertainment value alone is high...
Nameste Gong
Robert
The next Governor of the great state of massachusetts
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Deval Patrick !
"Together WE can"
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(photo)
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Deval Patrick !
"Together WE can"
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Rival militias threaten Iraq's south By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writers
Wed Oct 25, 5:30 PM ET
The Badr fighters' ability to avoid negative media attention has prompted charges by al-Sadr's followers that the rival militia is working with the U.S. military to drag the Mahdi Army into a fight it cannot win.
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It will be interesting to see where this Shiite meltdown goes. Either way, America LOSES....we seem to invite LOSING.
Wed Oct 25, 5:30 PM ET
The Badr fighters' ability to avoid negative media attention has prompted charges by al-Sadr's followers that the rival militia is working with the U.S. military to drag the Mahdi Army into a fight it cannot win.
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It will be interesting to see where this Shiite meltdown goes. Either way, America LOSES....we seem to invite LOSING.
Someone ought to trim
this man's cloven hooves and put him out to pasture.
".....Rove said that he was reviewing 68 polls a week, and that "unlike the general public, I'm allowed to see the polls on the individual races," as opposed to public polls reported in the media.
"You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk about attitudes nationally, but that do not impact the outcome," Rove said.
Rove claimed that the polls "add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House."
"You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math," Rove said. "I'm entitled to 'the' math."
Full transcript of interview which can be heard at NPR:"
www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Rove_...
this man's cloven hooves and put him out to pasture.
".....Rove said that he was reviewing 68 polls a week, and that "unlike the general public, I'm allowed to see the polls on the individual races," as opposed to public polls reported in the media.
"You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk about attitudes nationally, but that do not impact the outcome," Rove said.
Rove claimed that the polls "add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House."
"You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math," Rove said. "I'm entitled to 'the' math."
Full transcript of interview which can be heard at NPR:"
www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Rove_...
And of course
Rove's math includes jimmying the machines and disenfranchising democratic voters. Vile vile man.
Rove's math includes jimmying the machines and disenfranchising democratic voters. Vile vile man.
Fiction...
Rove's math includes jimmying the machines and disenfranchising democratic voters.
by seashell on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:13 AM
...
you have no proof of any of this...indeed you have pushed more conspiracy theories then Rove ever thought of....
Robert
Rove's math includes jimmying the machines and disenfranchising democratic voters.
by seashell on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:13 AM
...
you have no proof of any of this...indeed you have pushed more conspiracy theories then Rove ever thought of....
Robert
America LOSES....we seem to invite LOSING.
by LZ XRAY on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:10 AM
"You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow "
~The Beatles ... Revolution
by LZ XRAY on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:10 AM
"You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow "
~The Beatles ... Revolution
Of course
No Republicans are going to come right out and say "yeah we are going to get our asses kicked", although many have said its going to be "a tough election" which is political way of saying just that.
And I'd seen enough Republicans including the house leader say that to know that they know whats coming for them. And its going to be fun to watch. Even if Iraq had never happened its worth it just for their corruption and arrogence alone. Which really was the nail in their coffin.
No Republicans are going to come right out and say "yeah we are going to get our asses kicked", although many have said its going to be "a tough election" which is political way of saying just that.
And I'd seen enough Republicans including the house leader say that to know that they know whats coming for them. And its going to be fun to watch. Even if Iraq had never happened its worth it just for their corruption and arrogence alone. Which really was the nail in their coffin.
I suppose it would be
impolitic to opine that the fix is in and has been for years. Rove, of cloven hooves, is too *up* for my comfort. He knows something. He knows he can steal the close races and I'm beginning to think the close races are actually designed and manipulated by him.
Beware the close races. We always lose them, dammit.
And I hope I'm wrong!
impolitic to opine that the fix is in and has been for years. Rove, of cloven hooves, is too *up* for my comfort. He knows something. He knows he can steal the close races and I'm beginning to think the close races are actually designed and manipulated by him.
Beware the close races. We always lose them, dammit.
And I hope I'm wrong!
The only way
to kick their arrogant asses is to take back the Senate and the House.
I'm not celebrating yet. Rove is diabolical and by his own admission, said he destroys Constitutions. And he was smiling in that clip!
They are cornered and dangerous. If they lose, they will have to flee to Paraguay....:-)
to kick their arrogant asses is to take back the Senate and the House.
I'm not celebrating yet. Rove is diabolical and by his own admission, said he destroys Constitutions. And he was smiling in that clip!
They are cornered and dangerous. If they lose, they will have to flee to Paraguay....:-)
i really don't think that proof of voter/election fraud is required. if a significant percentage of the voting population believes that it is possible, then changes need to be made. this is something that is a no brainer...we all should be able to enter that booth with no preconception of possible fraud. transparency is necessary. if we don't feel right/good in voting, where does that leave us?
btw, the above is why i cast my mail-in ballot for debra bowen for secretary of state of the great state of california!!!
Seashell
Its natural to assume the worst after loss after loss in the last decade or so.
However in every election I can remember the polls where accurate beforehand.
What Rove is doing is painting the prettiest picture possible which is his job. Rove knows his only hope is to hold on to the Senate.
Everyone has access to race by race polls, not just Rove. You just need to go to slate.com among other places. They show a Democratic majority of around 10 to 15, and thats giving all the squeakers to Republicans.
The Senate is down to three races in Virigina, Tennessee and Missouir. We only need one of them for a 50-50 split of the Senate. 2 out of 3 for a majority.
And even if we lose all three being down 2 seats in the Senate is alot better then being down 10.
Its natural to assume the worst after loss after loss in the last decade or so.
However in every election I can remember the polls where accurate beforehand.
What Rove is doing is painting the prettiest picture possible which is his job. Rove knows his only hope is to hold on to the Senate.
Everyone has access to race by race polls, not just Rove. You just need to go to slate.com among other places. They show a Democratic majority of around 10 to 15, and thats giving all the squeakers to Republicans.
The Senate is down to three races in Virigina, Tennessee and Missouir. We only need one of them for a 50-50 split of the Senate. 2 out of 3 for a majority.
And even if we lose all three being down 2 seats in the Senate is alot better then being down 10.
who's up for some good old gotv??? it's got to be necessary everywhere. you might be the one that convinces the 2 or 3 people to vote smart and win!!!
For my like minded Frank Zappa (Mothers of Invention) appreciators...
Go to :
blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/s...
...and two pages down you'll see "Frank Zappa"
...either click or save for an Mp3 file
by The Mothers of Invention doing...
Stairway To Heaven ( 9:20.9 )
"There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
[...]
To be a rock and not to roll.
[...]"
Go to :
blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/s...
...and two pages down you'll see "Frank Zappa"
...either click or save for an Mp3 file
by The Mothers of Invention doing...
Stairway To Heaven ( 9:20.9 )
"There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
[...]
To be a rock and not to roll.
[...]"
Hey there, sea, mprov and other good Dean bloggers!
Nice to *see* you in real time rather than playing catch-up later.
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From today's WaPo front page ... more G&D, but only if one is a thug.
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War Now Works Against GOP
Iraq Often Seen as Hindrance in Campaigns
By Peter Slevin and Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, October 26, 2006; A01
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. -- A visitor to Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick's campaign Web site will immediately hear a 20-second audio clip of a contentious television interview about Iraq with his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy. The clip ends: "Tough times demand honest answers, not Pat Murphy."
Fitzpatrick, a freshman Republican, hoped to throttle Murphy on an issue critical to the 2004 victories of President Bush and the Republican Congress. But Murphy, a 33-year-old West Point graduate and a veteran of the war, has battled his way into contention by directly attacking Fitzpatrick and Bush on their party's handling of Iraq itself.
"When we went there in 2003, we had a mission to get rid of Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction. We're still in Iraq 3 1/2 years later and the mission isn't clear," Murphy told an audience here last week. "Together we can change it. We can change what we're doing in Iraq."
Just three months ago, Republican strategists believed that doubts about Iraq could be contained -- or even turned into an electoral advantage -- if the battle was framed as a vital front in the war against terrorism. Voters would be invited to choose: Stand firm or capitulate.
But the issue is not playing out that way. In both parties, a consensus now exists -- buttressed by polls -- that disaffection with a war grown costly and difficult to manage is the gravest threat to continued Republican rule.
[...]
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...
Nice to *see* you in real time rather than playing catch-up later.
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From today's WaPo front page ... more G&D, but only if one is a thug.
==================
War Now Works Against GOP
Iraq Often Seen as Hindrance in Campaigns
By Peter Slevin and Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, October 26, 2006; A01
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. -- A visitor to Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick's campaign Web site will immediately hear a 20-second audio clip of a contentious television interview about Iraq with his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy. The clip ends: "Tough times demand honest answers, not Pat Murphy."
Fitzpatrick, a freshman Republican, hoped to throttle Murphy on an issue critical to the 2004 victories of President Bush and the Republican Congress. But Murphy, a 33-year-old West Point graduate and a veteran of the war, has battled his way into contention by directly attacking Fitzpatrick and Bush on their party's handling of Iraq itself.
"When we went there in 2003, we had a mission to get rid of Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction. We're still in Iraq 3 1/2 years later and the mission isn't clear," Murphy told an audience here last week. "Together we can change it. We can change what we're doing in Iraq."
Just three months ago, Republican strategists believed that doubts about Iraq could be contained -- or even turned into an electoral advantage -- if the battle was framed as a vital front in the war against terrorism. Voters would be invited to choose: Stand firm or capitulate.
But the issue is not playing out that way. In both parties, a consensus now exists -- buttressed by polls -- that disaffection with a war grown costly and difficult to manage is the gravest threat to continued Republican rule.
[...]
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...
Whoops, Maliki didn't get the memo from the WH and is bridling quite a lot.
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Iraqi leader balks on U.S. timeline
By Sabrina Tavernise The New York Times
Published: October 25, 2006
BAGHDAD Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki put himself at odds with the American government that backs him on Wednesday, distancing himself from the American notion of a timetable for stabilizing Iraq and criticizing an American-backed raid on a Shiite militia enclave.
Speaking in Baghdad just hours before President Bush gave a news conference in Washington, Maliki tailored his remarks for his own domestic audience, reassuring the millions of Shiites who form his power base that he would not bend to pressure by the American government over how to conduct internal Iraqi affairs.
His comments stood in stark contrast to the message given on Tuesday by the two top American officials in Iraq, General George W. Casey Jr. and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who said the timetable for political measures was one the Iraqi government had accepted.
"I want to stress that this is a government of the people's will and no one has the right to set a timetable for it," Maliki said at a news conference broadcast on national television.
"This is an elected government and only the people who elected the government have the right to make time limitations or amendments," he said, stabbing the air with his hand.
The remarks pointed to a widening schism between the Shiite-led Iraqi government and the Americans who support it.
[...]
www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/26/...
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Iraqi leader balks on U.S. timeline
By Sabrina Tavernise The New York Times
Published: October 25, 2006
BAGHDAD Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki put himself at odds with the American government that backs him on Wednesday, distancing himself from the American notion of a timetable for stabilizing Iraq and criticizing an American-backed raid on a Shiite militia enclave.
Speaking in Baghdad just hours before President Bush gave a news conference in Washington, Maliki tailored his remarks for his own domestic audience, reassuring the millions of Shiites who form his power base that he would not bend to pressure by the American government over how to conduct internal Iraqi affairs.
His comments stood in stark contrast to the message given on Tuesday by the two top American officials in Iraq, General George W. Casey Jr. and Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, who said the timetable for political measures was one the Iraqi government had accepted.
"I want to stress that this is a government of the people's will and no one has the right to set a timetable for it," Maliki said at a news conference broadcast on national television.
"This is an elected government and only the people who elected the government have the right to make time limitations or amendments," he said, stabbing the air with his hand.
The remarks pointed to a widening schism between the Shiite-led Iraqi government and the Americans who support it.
[...]
www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/26/...
Even the Best Occasionally Miss the Obvious
I watched Madonna be interviewed by Oprah. I believe they are both sincere. This is no publicity stunt by Madonna--the adoption media-hype.
But, as a multi-million dollar interviewer and one of the most outrageously well-paid human beings in the Universe, I have a problem with the fact the Oprah didn't ask the Million-dollar-question...
Just a reminder, Madonna is a multiple $100 million (dollar) heir or aire herself.
Oprah, failed the A+ question test... DID YOU ASK THE FATHER IF HE WOULD COME WITH YOU TO LONDON TO BE WITH HIS SON!?!
Oprah, you are a consumate professional, who deserves your out-sized success.
In this case, you dropped the ball.
I watched Madonna be interviewed by Oprah. I believe they are both sincere. This is no publicity stunt by Madonna--the adoption media-hype.
But, as a multi-million dollar interviewer and one of the most outrageously well-paid human beings in the Universe, I have a problem with the fact the Oprah didn't ask the Million-dollar-question...
Just a reminder, Madonna is a multiple $100 million (dollar) heir or aire herself.
Oprah, failed the A+ question test... DID YOU ASK THE FATHER IF HE WOULD COME WITH YOU TO LONDON TO BE WITH HIS SON!?!
Oprah, you are a consumate professional, who deserves your out-sized success.
In this case, you dropped the ball.
joe, being down is just that, being down. the rules in the senate are pretty exact: majority rules in every way.
at this time, this close to the election, we need to stay focused with a positive outlook. there'll be pleanty of time on nov 8 to wallow in other things. if you're worried, turn that worry into motivation to go out and do some gotv. pick a candidate, issue, party, just pick something. now's the time. call your friends, your family. do some convincing.
at this time, this close to the election, we need to stay focused with a positive outlook. there'll be pleanty of time on nov 8 to wallow in other things. if you're worried, turn that worry into motivation to go out and do some gotv. pick a candidate, issue, party, just pick something. now's the time. call your friends, your family. do some convincing.
The Dishonor Roll for CT ... and some women of religion who are
speaking out against their actions.
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Published on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 by Hartford Courant (Connecticut)
Torture And The Nation's Soul
by Rev. Kathleen McTigue and Rabbi Donna Berman
In our various communities of faith we most often think about the soul in singular terms, residing within each one of us and beloved of God. But what about the idea that a nation, too, might have a soul, the place from which our basic decency arises?
If we think of the soul only as an individual matter, then questions of moral choice become focused only on the personal level. We tend to forget that we can go astray not only in our small and solitary ways, but in large and collective ones as well. We do not live in isolation but in community. As a whole people, we are capable of immoral decisions and grievous acts. In a democracy, where we as citizens have the privilege of choosing our own leaders, this truth is particularly relevant. The grave errors of which we are capable as a whole nation are the ones that must urgently compel our attention today.
Why? Because none of us personally has ever tortured another human being. None of us has kidnapped a person and sent him to another country to be tormented. Individually we have never locked men and women into nameless and unidentified prisons around the world, nor held foreign prisoners as "unlawful enemy combatants" without charges or legal recourse. Alone, we have never lobbied for the right to ignore or rewrite the Geneva Conventions.
But our government has done all of these things in our names. On Oct. 17, President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act, which was rushed through Congress just in time for the campaign season. By undermining the moral values and legal traditions on which America was founded, this shameful law threatens the soul of our nation.
Three Connecticut Representatives and one of our Senators voted for this law: Chris Shays, Nancy Johnson, Rob Simmons and Joe Lieberman. The new law will allow torture to continue to be carried out in our names. When challenged, these legislators argue that the law explicitly forbids the practice of torture. And indeed, there is language in the law that provides this political cover. But taken in its entirety, the Military Commissions Act allows prisoner abuse to continue. It grants impunity to the civilians who authorized, tolerated and perpetrated torture since 9/11, and makes it much less likely that future torturers will be held accountable for their actions.
[...]
www.commondreams.org/views06/102...
speaking out against their actions.
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Published on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 by Hartford Courant (Connecticut)
Torture And The Nation's Soul
by Rev. Kathleen McTigue and Rabbi Donna Berman
In our various communities of faith we most often think about the soul in singular terms, residing within each one of us and beloved of God. But what about the idea that a nation, too, might have a soul, the place from which our basic decency arises?
If we think of the soul only as an individual matter, then questions of moral choice become focused only on the personal level. We tend to forget that we can go astray not only in our small and solitary ways, but in large and collective ones as well. We do not live in isolation but in community. As a whole people, we are capable of immoral decisions and grievous acts. In a democracy, where we as citizens have the privilege of choosing our own leaders, this truth is particularly relevant. The grave errors of which we are capable as a whole nation are the ones that must urgently compel our attention today.
Why? Because none of us personally has ever tortured another human being. None of us has kidnapped a person and sent him to another country to be tormented. Individually we have never locked men and women into nameless and unidentified prisons around the world, nor held foreign prisoners as "unlawful enemy combatants" without charges or legal recourse. Alone, we have never lobbied for the right to ignore or rewrite the Geneva Conventions.
But our government has done all of these things in our names. On Oct. 17, President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act, which was rushed through Congress just in time for the campaign season. By undermining the moral values and legal traditions on which America was founded, this shameful law threatens the soul of our nation.
Three Connecticut Representatives and one of our Senators voted for this law: Chris Shays, Nancy Johnson, Rob Simmons and Joe Lieberman. The new law will allow torture to continue to be carried out in our names. When challenged, these legislators argue that the law explicitly forbids the practice of torture. And indeed, there is language in the law that provides this political cover. But taken in its entirety, the Military Commissions Act allows prisoner abuse to continue. It grants impunity to the civilians who authorized, tolerated and perpetrated torture since 9/11, and makes it much less likely that future torturers will be held accountable for their actions.
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WFMU
Imn2, thanks for the Mothers stuff. WFMU is played loud many hours a day here in Hollister house. Best station in the world. Dave the Spazz is OK.
Busy here begging, wheedling, cajoling, intimidating, and generally pestering the citizenry to shut off the Teevee and walk, dance, stragger or scoot down to the polls November 7th and vote the sobs out. All three Nebraska Congressional races are tossups now. This red red state maybe gonna turn blue, and if god giggles just right, my buddy, David Hahn might just barely nestle in to the Gov's mansion.
Imn2, thanks for the Mothers stuff. WFMU is played loud many hours a day here in Hollister house. Best station in the world. Dave the Spazz is OK.
Busy here begging, wheedling, cajoling, intimidating, and generally pestering the citizenry to shut off the Teevee and walk, dance, stragger or scoot down to the polls November 7th and vote the sobs out. All three Nebraska Congressional races are tossups now. This red red state maybe gonna turn blue, and if god giggles just right, my buddy, David Hahn might just barely nestle in to the Gov's mansion.
hey, judy. which side of the ocean are you on these days?
Oprah, failed the A+ question test... DID YOU ASK THE FATHER IF HE WOULD COME WITH YOU TO LONDON TO BE WITH HIS SON!?!
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:43 AM
why bother...the kid is very very lucky to be "out of AFrica"...his father is irrelevant....the best thing that can be done for his "son" is that he let his "son" have a normal life in the USA...
dont worry, some cash changed hands, the "Dad" is better off and will soon move on. There doubtless are "other" kids.
LOL
Robert
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:43 AM
why bother...the kid is very very lucky to be "out of AFrica"...his father is irrelevant....the best thing that can be done for his "son" is that he let his "son" have a normal life in the USA...
dont worry, some cash changed hands, the "Dad" is better off and will soon move on. There doubtless are "other" kids.
LOL
Robert
A Summary
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:43 AM | Avg Rating: -
In other words, if Madonna can afford to adopt a child out of, what I firmly belive is the goodness of her heart, then she can afford to adopt his father, provided that the father is willing.
Splitting up families with your wealth is sooooo slaverly.
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:43 AM | Avg Rating: -
In other words, if Madonna can afford to adopt a child out of, what I firmly belive is the goodness of her heart, then she can afford to adopt his father, provided that the father is willing.
Splitting up families with your wealth is sooooo slaverly.
I saw that as well
by JudyforDean on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:43 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
Interesting article. Hard for Bush to convince people he has a new plan when even the Iraq government is not on board.
The Prime Minister is essentially saying Bush is just saying this stuff to try and salvage an election. After that things will return to normal.
Imagine that! Bush lying?
LOL
by JudyforDean on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:43 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
Interesting article. Hard for Bush to convince people he has a new plan when even the Iraq government is not on board.
The Prime Minister is essentially saying Bush is just saying this stuff to try and salvage an election. After that things will return to normal.
Imagine that! Bush lying?
LOL
Textbook (r)epugnicon
Why bother...the kid is very very lucky to be "out of AFrica"...his father is irrelevant
So much for (")(f)amily values.(")
Why bother...the kid is very very lucky to be "out of AFrica"...his father is irrelevant
So much for (")(f)amily values.(")
V. interesting comment by Paul Samuelson about the evolution of capitalism and
how it is changing ... and must ... to meet the challenges of a new age where the internet is the key.
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Capitalism's Next Stage
By Robert J. Samuelson
Thursday, October 26, 2006; A25
When he died in 1848, John Jacob Astor was America's richest man, leaving a fortune of $20 million that had been earned mainly from real estate and fur trading. Despite his riches, Astor's business was mainly a one-man show. He employed only a handful of workers, most of them clerks. This was typical of his time, when the farmer, the craftsman, the small partnership and the independent merchant ruled the economy.
Only 50 years later, almost everything had changed. Giant industrial enterprises -- making steel, producing oil, refining sugar and much more -- had come to dominate.
The rise of big business is one of the seminal events in American history, and if you want to think about it intelligently, you consult historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr., its preeminent chronicler. At 88, Chandler has retired from the Harvard Business School but is still churning out books and articles. It is an apt moment to revisit his ideas, because the present upheavals in business are second only to those of a century ago.
Until Chandler, the emergence of big business was all about titans. The Rockefellers, Carnegies and Fords were either "robber barons" whose greed and ruthlessness allowed them to smother competitors and establish monopolistic empires. Or they were "captains of industry" whose genius and ambition laid the industrial foundations for modern prosperity. But when Chandler meticulously examined business records, he uncovered a more subtle story. New technologies (the railroad, telegraph and steam power) favored the creation of massive businesses that needed -- and in turn gave rise to -- superstructures of professional managers: engineers, accountants and supervisors.
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how it is changing ... and must ... to meet the challenges of a new age where the internet is the key.
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Capitalism's Next Stage
By Robert J. Samuelson
Thursday, October 26, 2006; A25
When he died in 1848, John Jacob Astor was America's richest man, leaving a fortune of $20 million that had been earned mainly from real estate and fur trading. Despite his riches, Astor's business was mainly a one-man show. He employed only a handful of workers, most of them clerks. This was typical of his time, when the farmer, the craftsman, the small partnership and the independent merchant ruled the economy.
Only 50 years later, almost everything had changed. Giant industrial enterprises -- making steel, producing oil, refining sugar and much more -- had come to dominate.
The rise of big business is one of the seminal events in American history, and if you want to think about it intelligently, you consult historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr., its preeminent chronicler. At 88, Chandler has retired from the Harvard Business School but is still churning out books and articles. It is an apt moment to revisit his ideas, because the present upheavals in business are second only to those of a century ago.
Until Chandler, the emergence of big business was all about titans. The Rockefellers, Carnegies and Fords were either "robber barons" whose greed and ruthlessness allowed them to smother competitors and establish monopolistic empires. Or they were "captains of industry" whose genius and ambition laid the industrial foundations for modern prosperity. But when Chandler meticulously examined business records, he uncovered a more subtle story. New technologies (the railroad, telegraph and steam power) favored the creation of massive businesses that needed -- and in turn gave rise to -- superstructures of professional managers: engineers, accountants and supervisors.
[...]
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...
More gloom and doom dead at the end of the thread...
by JudyforDean on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:47 AM....
who cares about religious lefties....
Robert
by JudyforDean on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:47 AM....
who cares about religious lefties....
Robert
Ray Charles
A little Ray Charles, singing Hit The Road Jack for Republicans...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEUpYO0t...
A little Ray Charles, singing Hit The Road Jack for Republicans...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEUpYO0t...
by mprov on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:48 AM
Still on the *east* side, mprov ... and will be for some time, although I'll be vagabonding it a bit over the next few months.
How's it going with you?
Still on the *east* side, mprov ... and will be for some time, although I'll be vagabonding it a bit over the next few months.
How's it going with you?
by Rocky Jones on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:49 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating
Just a couple of corrections. Maddona lives in England now, doesn't like the states much anymore. So the kid won't be living in the usa. And living with Maddona is hardly a normal life.
But your right about one thing. The kid's situation improved a whole heck of alot.
Just a couple of corrections. Maddona lives in England now, doesn't like the states much anymore. So the kid won't be living in the usa. And living with Maddona is hardly a normal life.
But your right about one thing. The kid's situation improved a whole heck of alot.
So much for (")(f)amily values.(")
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:52 AM
The family values were the cash exchanged to "poppa" for the kid and the kid has a chance at something other then disaster in Africa.
Africa is a turd bowl and getting out of it is the best thing that can happen to a young child.
He at least has a chance here....
Robert
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:52 AM
The family values were the cash exchanged to "poppa" for the kid and the kid has a chance at something other then disaster in Africa.
Africa is a turd bowl and getting out of it is the best thing that can happen to a young child.
He at least has a chance here....
Robert
by Joe Davidson on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:52 AM
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Imagine ... !
I know that this *misstatement* has been posted and reposted, but it can't be kept in the consciousness enough, IMHO.
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Published on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 by CBSNews.com
Bush No Longer A 'Stay The Course' Guy
by Dick Meyer
It's official: the Bush administration's "stay the course" was a figment of the American imagination. Never happened. Wasn't our position. Never said it. Wasn't me.
President Bush hinted that he was aware the country was hearing voices on the occasion of his October 11th news conference.
"The characterization of, you know, 'It's 'stay the course' is about a quarter right," he said. "'Stay the course' means keep doing what you're doing. My attitude is: Don't do what you're doing if it's not working -- change. 'Stay the course' also means don't leave before the job is done."
Understand?
The official declaration that "stay the course" never happened came two weeks later. "Listen, we've never been 'stay the course,' George," the president told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. "We have been -- we will complete the mission, we will do our job and help achieve the goal, but we're constantly adjusting the tactics. Constantly."
"Listen, we've never been 'stay the course'..."
The official Minister of Truth, Tony Snow, codified this latest bit of Bush doctrine the next day.
"So what you have is not 'stay the course,' but, in fact, a study in constant motion by the administration and by the Iraqi government, and, frankly, also by the enemy, because there are constant shifts, and you constantly have to adjust to what the other side is doing… That is not a 'stay the course' policy."
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www.commondreams.org/views06/102...
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Imagine ... !
I know that this *misstatement* has been posted and reposted, but it can't be kept in the consciousness enough, IMHO.
===============
Published on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 by CBSNews.com
Bush No Longer A 'Stay The Course' Guy
by Dick Meyer
It's official: the Bush administration's "stay the course" was a figment of the American imagination. Never happened. Wasn't our position. Never said it. Wasn't me.
President Bush hinted that he was aware the country was hearing voices on the occasion of his October 11th news conference.
"The characterization of, you know, 'It's 'stay the course' is about a quarter right," he said. "'Stay the course' means keep doing what you're doing. My attitude is: Don't do what you're doing if it's not working -- change. 'Stay the course' also means don't leave before the job is done."
Understand?
The official declaration that "stay the course" never happened came two weeks later. "Listen, we've never been 'stay the course,' George," the president told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. "We have been -- we will complete the mission, we will do our job and help achieve the goal, but we're constantly adjusting the tactics. Constantly."
"Listen, we've never been 'stay the course'..."
The official Minister of Truth, Tony Snow, codified this latest bit of Bush doctrine the next day.
"So what you have is not 'stay the course,' but, in fact, a study in constant motion by the administration and by the Iraqi government, and, frankly, also by the enemy, because there are constant shifts, and you constantly have to adjust to what the other side is doing… That is not a 'stay the course' policy."
[...]
www.commondreams.org/views06/102...
by Joe Davidson on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:57 AM
I listen to her music but dont follow her goings and comings at all.
But we agree on the salient feature..."out of Africa" is a good thing...what a depressing place. It makes the Mideast look almost "normal".
The locals there are like children.
Robert
I listen to her music but dont follow her goings and comings at all.
But we agree on the salient feature..."out of Africa" is a good thing...what a depressing place. It makes the Mideast look almost "normal".
The locals there are like children.
Robert
fairly cool, judy. trying to balance political work with work for money with playing music. we played a nice festival last sunday in chico, co. this friday i'm in a show called "the bad cover song show." you have to pick bad songs, retain at least 2 elements of the original, and then perform them outrageously. i've put together a trio of me: guitar/voice, my buddy herb: laptop synth/guitar, and my other buddy doug: electric/processed cello. of course they'll do the doo-waps behind me. should be fun
meanwhile, i'm aiming to get everyone involved in gotv. its a goal, a mission, a mantra, an obsession...
meanwhile, i'm aiming to get everyone involved in gotv. its a goal, a mission, a mantra, an obsession...
Paine
That picture was taken just after I left the memorial.
Sorry I missed it, but all the women who signed the bag are there, and I was able to show Jackie who they are. Thanks.
That picture was taken just after I left the memorial.
Sorry I missed it, but all the women who signed the bag are there, and I was able to show Jackie who they are. Thanks.
by JudyforDean on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:59 AM
no one cares outside the very small numbers on this blog about the post!
LOL
Robert
no one cares outside the very small numbers on this blog about the post!
LOL
Robert
more OWELLIAN (CONDESCENCION
So much for (")(f)amily values.(")
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:52 AM | Avg Rating: -
Just like Elian GONZALES--- (i)deology over "(f)"amily "V"alues.
Can a (r)epugnicon spell, in a spelling bee, the word (h)ip"AWW"crusy?
So much for (")(f)amily values.(")
by Progressive Avenger on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:52 AM | Avg Rating: -
Just like Elian GONZALES--- (i)deology over "(f)"amily "V"alues.
Can a (r)epugnicon spell, in a spelling bee, the word (h)ip"AWW"crusy?
Nameste Gong
Well suns up and some of us have to "wage peace" in contrast to the people who are "waging blog" with their self aggrandizement.
The Gloom and doomers are kind of doing the "thriller" thing...
Nameste Gong....
See you this afternoon.
Robert
Well suns up and some of us have to "wage peace" in contrast to the people who are "waging blog" with their self aggrandizement.
The Gloom and doomers are kind of doing the "thriller" thing...
Nameste Gong....
See you this afternoon.
Robert
by Joe Davidson on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:52 AM
Talk to the Iraqis? Consult with them on the fate of their country? That is not the way of the Decider. The Decider speaks, people jump to do his bidding, and more die.
The purpose of George W. Bush is to bring death to this planet. Create divisions among people. Destroy the environment. Start wars. Take quality health care from everyone but the rich. Steal wealth from our government and from the people of this and other countries. I pray he is shown the same mercy he has shown others.
Talk to the Iraqis? Consult with them on the fate of their country? That is not the way of the Decider. The Decider speaks, people jump to do his bidding, and more die.
The purpose of George W. Bush is to bring death to this planet. Create divisions among people. Destroy the environment. Start wars. Take quality health care from everyone but the rich. Steal wealth from our government and from the people of this and other countries. I pray he is shown the same mercy he has shown others.
Woooooo......that was close
Forgot to turn on the hall light and almost got knocked out of action by a Nike tennis shoe laying on the floor.
Forgot to turn on the hall light and almost got knocked out of action by a Nike tennis shoe laying on the floor.
Dave the Spazz
by Steve*in* Nebraska on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:48 AM
Thanks mucho for the tip, as I just found WFMU the othe night (and a different DJ's playlist&archives).
Hope to the opportunity to visit your buddy in the Governor's mansion flowers.
We're a pretty blue state, BUT most of the guys I work with are turned against DFA-endorsed candidate for Gov (Massachusetts) Deval Patrick. He has a COMMANDING 25 point lead in the polls, but they (my co-workers) focus on his (in their knee-jerk understand) ...his notions on immegrants...
...and the FEAR indusing anti-Dem mantra "the Dems will raise your taxes"
Whatever! I give it to them and they to me. I still advocate BLUE!
by Steve*in* Nebraska on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:48 AM
Thanks mucho for the tip, as I just found WFMU the othe night (and a different DJ's playlist&archives).
Hope to the opportunity to visit your buddy in the Governor's mansion flowers.
We're a pretty blue state, BUT most of the guys I work with are turned against DFA-endorsed candidate for Gov (Massachusetts) Deval Patrick. He has a COMMANDING 25 point lead in the polls, but they (my co-workers) focus on his (in their knee-jerk understand) ...his notions on immegrants...
...and the FEAR indusing anti-Dem mantra "the Dems will raise your taxes"
Whatever! I give it to them and they to me. I still advocate BLUE!
by mprov on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:01 AM
Good for you, mprov!
******
Checking my inbox this morning, I noticed that I've been invited to two GOTV parties at home ... it's so complex to explain that I can't attend. LOL.
But what is heartening is to see how the whole political landscape for Dems has changed for the better ... even four years ago one did not see as much political activism on the part of Dems, who did not realize that they had to keep nurturing the grassroots, not just coming to life every four years when it was time to elect a President.
Good for you, mprov!
******
Checking my inbox this morning, I noticed that I've been invited to two GOTV parties at home ... it's so complex to explain that I can't attend. LOL.
But what is heartening is to see how the whole political landscape for Dems has changed for the better ... even four years ago one did not see as much political activism on the part of Dems, who did not realize that they had to keep nurturing the grassroots, not just coming to life every four years when it was time to elect a President.
no one cares outside the very small numbers on this blog about the post!
LOL
Robert
by Rocky Jones on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:01 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
Finally, you admit that you are a succubus, pimple on a VERY VERY SMALL, CLOSED-SCHICTERED *ss.
Now we know that you are a parasite on a pathetic animal. How proud you must be that you suck that vestiges of survival out of, what you consider to be, the bane of existence.
That means that your survival depends on sucking energy for your survival from the very most stupid, weak and evil.
That makes you dependent on evil.
YOU NEED TO REFRAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
Robert
by Rocky Jones on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:01 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
Finally, you admit that you are a succubus, pimple on a VERY VERY SMALL, CLOSED-SCHICTERED *ss.
Now we know that you are a parasite on a pathetic animal. How proud you must be that you suck that vestiges of survival out of, what you consider to be, the bane of existence.
That means that your survival depends on sucking energy for your survival from the very most stupid, weak and evil.
That makes you dependent on evil.
YOU NEED TO REFRAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for this repost from some time back, but it certainly fits this blog
given a certain announcement upthread.
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
given a certain announcement upthread.
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde
paine, if you could ever convince "brown" to go blue, you'd be a miracle man.
Shadow Government?
A major anti-immigration group is accusing the Bush Administration of creating a "shadow government," by "engaging in collaborative relations with Mexico and Canada outside the U.S. Constitution," RAW STORY has learned.
The Minuteman Project sent out a press release late Tuesday evening hyping their Web site, which is showcasing 1,000 documents allegedly obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) by World Net Daily columnist Jerome Corsi. Most widely known for his longtime attacks on Democratic Senator John Kerry's military record, Corsi also co-authored a book about the Minuteman "battle" to secure America's borders.
SPP was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort by the United States, Canada and Mexico to increase the security and improve the quality of life of North Americans through greater cooperation and information sharing. Many conservative critics view the trilateral initiative as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
"The documents give clear evidence that the Bush administration has created a 'shadow government,'" Corsi said in the press release.
www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Minut...
A major anti-immigration group is accusing the Bush Administration of creating a "shadow government," by "engaging in collaborative relations with Mexico and Canada outside the U.S. Constitution," RAW STORY has learned.
The Minuteman Project sent out a press release late Tuesday evening hyping their Web site, which is showcasing 1,000 documents allegedly obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) by World Net Daily columnist Jerome Corsi. Most widely known for his longtime attacks on Democratic Senator John Kerry's military record, Corsi also co-authored a book about the Minuteman "battle" to secure America's borders.
SPP was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort by the United States, Canada and Mexico to increase the security and improve the quality of life of North Americans through greater cooperation and information sharing. Many conservative critics view the trilateral initiative as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
"The documents give clear evidence that the Bush administration has created a 'shadow government,'" Corsi said in the press release.
www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Minut...
The lying has become such a pattern of conduct that new revelations
hardly make a dent.
What a sick government we now have ... I truly hope that the 2006 elections are the beginning of the cure.
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CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
Germany offered access to prisoner in Morocco if it quelled opposition
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.
According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to let Germany have access to one of its citizens, an al-Qaida suspect being held in a Moroccan cell. But the US secret agents demanded that in return, Berlin should cooperate and "avert pressure from EU" over human rights abuses in the north African country. The report describes Morocco as a "valuable partner in the fight against terrorism".
The classified documents prepared for the German parliament last February make clear that Berlin did eventually get to see the detained suspect, who was arrested in Morocco in 2002 as an alleged organiser of the September 11 strikes.
He was flown from Morocco to Syria on another rendition flight. Syria offered access to the prisoner on the condition that charges were dropped against Syrian intelligence agents in Germany accused of threatening Syrian dissidents. Germany dropped the charges, but denied any link.
After the CIA offered a deal to Germany, EU countries adopted an almost universal policy of downplaying criticism of human rights records in countries where terrorist suspects have been held. They have also sidestepped questions about secret CIA flights partly because of growing evidence of their complicity.
The disclosure is among fresh revelations about how the CIA flew terrorist suspects to locations where they were tortured, and Britain's knowledge of the practice known as "secret rendition". They are contained in Ghost Plane, by Stephen Grey, the journalist who first revealed details of secret CIA flights in the Guardian a year ago. More than 200 CIA flights have passed through Britain, records show.
[...]
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3296...
hardly make a dent.
What a sick government we now have ... I truly hope that the 2006 elections are the beginning of the cure.
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CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
Germany offered access to prisoner in Morocco if it quelled opposition
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.
According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to let Germany have access to one of its citizens, an al-Qaida suspect being held in a Moroccan cell. But the US secret agents demanded that in return, Berlin should cooperate and "avert pressure from EU" over human rights abuses in the north African country. The report describes Morocco as a "valuable partner in the fight against terrorism".
The classified documents prepared for the German parliament last February make clear that Berlin did eventually get to see the detained suspect, who was arrested in Morocco in 2002 as an alleged organiser of the September 11 strikes.
He was flown from Morocco to Syria on another rendition flight. Syria offered access to the prisoner on the condition that charges were dropped against Syrian intelligence agents in Germany accused of threatening Syrian dissidents. Germany dropped the charges, but denied any link.
After the CIA offered a deal to Germany, EU countries adopted an almost universal policy of downplaying criticism of human rights records in countries where terrorist suspects have been held. They have also sidestepped questions about secret CIA flights partly because of growing evidence of their complicity.
The disclosure is among fresh revelations about how the CIA flew terrorist suspects to locations where they were tortured, and Britain's knowledge of the practice known as "secret rendition". They are contained in Ghost Plane, by Stephen Grey, the journalist who first revealed details of secret CIA flights in the Guardian a year ago. More than 200 CIA flights have passed through Britain, records show.
[...]
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3296...
That picture was taken just after I left the memorial.
Sorry I missed it, but all the women who signed the bag are there, and I was able to show Jackie who they are. Thanks.
by David Teller (Subway) on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:01 AM
YA! It stuck me as I saw you turning onto Broadway(?) that my camera...
(Linda in NM and her husband aided me in narrowing my choice with their/his suggestion)
...was in my bag.
Sorry, dude;( I would have had you involved as well.
Sorry I missed it, but all the women who signed the bag are there, and I was able to show Jackie who they are. Thanks.
by David Teller (Subway) on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:01 AM
YA! It stuck me as I saw you turning onto Broadway(?) that my camera...
(Linda in NM and her husband aided me in narrowing my choice with their/his suggestion)
...was in my bag.
Sorry, dude;( I would have had you involved as well.
convince "brown" to go blue, you'd be a miracle man.
by mprov on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:10 AM
I will not be demoralized. ...well, I have moments:(
by mprov on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 01:10 AM
I will not be demoralized. ...well, I have moments:(
more voting problems
We need a last minute genius idea on what to do about voting other than provide paper ballots. It seems like whizkids can hack into Diebolds...why not foreign gov'ts?
ON 10/25/2006 1:56PM
REPORT: DoD's New, Untested, Secretly Developed Overseas Military Voting Scheme for General Election 'Poses Significant Security Risks'
Computer Scientists Warn in New Report That U.S. Military and Overseas Ballots Now Vulnerable to Loss of Privacy, Identify Theft, Hackers, Tampering by Both American and Foreign Governments
System Never Publicly Tested or Used Even in a Primary Election to be Used for First Time in Nov. 7th Midterm Election!
Last month we reported on the Defense Department's newly announced scheme to allow military and overseas ballots to be cast via the Internet. It was pointed out, among other concerns, that in many cases troop and overseas citizen votes would be subject to conversion from unsecured email voting into faxed documents by a private company who, in turn, would then forward the vote to the appropriate county jurisdiction.
The San Jose Mercury News quoted experts at the time who charged the system was "ripe for fraud" as military voters would apparently not be warned that their ballots might be seen by others and transferred into faxes, etc. by "a private contractor whose top executives have made political contributions to Republican Party organizations."
Underscoring those initial reports today, a group of independent computer scientists and E-Voting experts including David Jefferson of Livermore National Laboratories, Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins, David Wagner of UC Berkeley and Barbara Simons, a former researcher for IBM, have released an alarming short paper warning of "significant risks" found in the newly announced plan from the DoD's "Federal Voting Assistance Program" (FVAP).
The group had been members of a scientific peer review panel for a previous DoD Military and Overseas Internet voting scheme in 2004. At the time, they found the plan featured "a large number of security risks and vulnerabilities, including denial of service attacks, insider attacks, viral attacks on voters' PCs." That experimental program was subsequently cancelled after the findings.
But now, in September of this year -- just over one month ago -- the DoD announced and implemented their new scheme for military and overseas citizen voting via the Internet, to be used this November 7th without any public testing or peer review whatsoever.
According to today's report, the new DoD voting scheme -- known as the "Interim Voting Assistance System" (IVAS) -- has been put in place without any "publicly available external security examination" and has "never been used in a public election before (not even in a primary)."
The scientists say that security concerns about the new, untested system include loss of privacy and identify theft for the military and overseas voters and, even more troubling, they found the system to be vulnerable to hackers and tampering by governments both foreign and domestic."
http://www.rawstory.com/
We need a last minute genius idea on what to do about voting other than provide paper ballots. It seems like whizkids can hack into Diebolds...why not foreign gov'ts?
ON 10/25/2006 1:56PM
REPORT: DoD's New, Untested, Secretly Developed Overseas Military Voting Scheme for General Election 'Poses Significant Security Risks'
Computer Scientists Warn in New Report That U.S. Military and Overseas Ballots Now Vulnerable to Loss of Privacy, Identify Theft, Hackers, Tampering by Both American and Foreign Governments
System Never Publicly Tested or Used Even in a Primary Election to be Used for First Time in Nov. 7th Midterm Election!
Last month we reported on the Defense Department's newly announced scheme to allow military and overseas ballots to be cast via the Internet. It was pointed out, among other concerns, that in many cases troop and overseas citizen votes would be subject to conversion from unsecured email voting into faxed documents by a private company who, in turn, would then forward the vote to the appropriate county jurisdiction.
The San Jose Mercury News quoted experts at the time who charged the system was "ripe for fraud" as military voters would apparently not be warned that their ballots might be seen by others and transferred into faxes, etc. by "a private contractor whose top executives have made political contributions to Republican Party organizations."
Underscoring those initial reports today, a group of independent computer scientists and E-Voting experts including David Jefferson of Livermore National Laboratories, Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins, David Wagner of UC Berkeley and Barbara Simons, a former researcher for IBM, have released an alarming short paper warning of "significant risks" found in the newly announced plan from the DoD's "Federal Voting Assistance Program" (FVAP).
The group had been members of a scientific peer review panel for a previous DoD Military and Overseas Internet voting scheme in 2004. At the time, they found the plan featured "a large number of security risks and vulnerabilities, including denial of service attacks, insider attacks, viral attacks on voters' PCs." That experimental program was subsequently cancelled after the findings.
But now, in September of this year -- just over one month ago -- the DoD announced and implemented their new scheme for military and overseas citizen voting via the Internet, to be used this November 7th without any public testing or peer review whatsoever.
According to today's report, the new DoD voting scheme -- known as the "Interim Voting Assistance System" (IVAS) -- has been put in place without any "publicly available external security examination" and has "never been used in a public election before (not even in a primary)."
The scientists say that security concerns about the new, untested system include loss of privacy and identify theft for the military and overseas voters and, even more troubling, they found the system to be vulnerable to hackers and tampering by governments both foreign and domestic."
http://www.rawstory.com/
Since the moral and scientific arguments seem not to be making headway, perhaps
the ecoomic argument will begin to penetrate. At least this advocate is being persistent.
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Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned
· Economic review turns cost argument on head
· Technologies investment 'could stimulate growth'
James Randerson, science correspondent
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
Climate change could tilt the world's economy into the worst global recession in recent history, a report will warn next week.
Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, will warn that governments need to tackle the problem head-on by cutting emissions or face economic ruin. The findings, due to be released on Monday, will turn economic argument about global warming on its head by insisting that fighting global warming will save industrial nations money. The US refused to join the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions, because George Bush said it would harm the economy.
The contents of the Stern review into the economics of climate change - commissioned by the Treasury - have been kept secret since the nature of the work was revealed to the world's environment ministers in Mexico this month. But Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser, yesterday gave the Guardian a preview of its main findings.
Speaking at a climate change conference in Birmingham, he said: "All of [Stern's] detailed modelling out to the year 2100 is going to indicate first of all that if we don't take global action we are going to see a massive downturn in global economies." He added: "If no action is taken we will be faced with the kind of downturn that has not been seen since the great depression and the two world wars." Sir David called the review "the most detailed economic analysis that I think has yet been conducted".
The review will highlight the threat of sea level rise. Sir David said: "If you look at sea level rises alone and the impact that will have on global economies where cities are becoming inundated by flooding ... this will cause the displacement of ... hundreds of millions of people."
[...]
environment.guardian.co.uk/print...
the ecoomic argument will begin to penetrate. At least this advocate is being persistent.
==================
Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned
· Economic review turns cost argument on head
· Technologies investment 'could stimulate growth'
James Randerson, science correspondent
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
Climate change could tilt the world's economy into the worst global recession in recent history, a report will warn next week.
Sir Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist with the World Bank, will warn that governments need to tackle the problem head-on by cutting emissions or face economic ruin. The findings, due to be released on Monday, will turn economic argument about global warming on its head by insisting that fighting global warming will save industrial nations money. The US refused to join the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions, because George Bush said it would harm the economy.
The contents of the Stern review into the economics of climate change - commissioned by the Treasury - have been kept secret since the nature of the work was revealed to the world's environment ministers in Mexico this month. But Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser, yesterday gave the Guardian a preview of its main findings.
Speaking at a climate change conference in Birmingham, he said: "All of [Stern's] detailed modelling out to the year 2100 is going to indicate first of all that if we don't take global action we are going to see a massive downturn in global economies." He added: "If no action is taken we will be faced with the kind of downturn that has not been seen since the great depression and the two world wars." Sir David called the review "the most detailed economic analysis that I think has yet been conducted".
The review will highlight the threat of sea level rise. Sir David said: "If you look at sea level rises alone and the impact that will have on global economies where cities are becoming inundated by flooding ... this will cause the displacement of ... hundreds of millions of people."
[...]
environment.guardian.co.uk/print...
With this cavalier
approach to voting oversees by the military, I smell rats. Perhaps the soldiers are not quite as behind our gov't as putz would like us to think. Ergo, make sure the votes are controlled.
I'm sorry, but I just can't feel optimistic since we're hearing every day about voting problems and irregularities and new rules for registering and lists being scrubbed.
Judy, I've received 2 invites for GOTV also and I'm supposed to bring a cell phone I don't have...LOL I'll have to phone from home instead.
I'm plastering my stickie notes everywhere and I think I've convinced my neighbor who never votes to do so.
Barbara, my magnetic bumper stickers work well on the body of my car. Thanks for reminding me that the car is metal. LOL
approach to voting oversees by the military, I smell rats. Perhaps the soldiers are not quite as behind our gov't as putz would like us to think. Ergo, make sure the votes are controlled.
I'm sorry, but I just can't feel optimistic since we're hearing every day about voting problems and irregularities and new rules for registering and lists being scrubbed.
Judy, I've received 2 invites for GOTV also and I'm supposed to bring a cell phone I don't have...LOL I'll have to phone from home instead.
I'm plastering my stickie notes everywhere and I think I've convinced my neighbor who never votes to do so.
Barbara, my magnetic bumper stickers work well on the body of my car. Thanks for reminding me that the car is metal. LOL
Same old "stay the course"....BORING!!!
Bush's Proposal of 'Benchmarks' for Iraq Sounds Familiar
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 26, 2006; Page A17
The text of President Bush's news conference yesterday ran to nearly 10,000 words, but what may have been more significant were the things he did not say.
The president talked repeatedly about "benchmarks" for progress in Iraq, using that word 13 times. But he did not discuss the consequences of the Iraqi government missing those targets. Such a question, he said, was "hypothetical."
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Bush isn't going to do anything to the Iraqi government if they fail to stand up and fight. Look at Maliki ridiculing the WH today and disavowing those supposed *benchmarks*. Its kinda like Iran being threatened by a divided security council with limited sanctions.....they laugh, they know we're bogged down in their backyard.
Bush's Proposal of 'Benchmarks' for Iraq Sounds Familiar
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 26, 2006; Page A17
The text of President Bush's news conference yesterday ran to nearly 10,000 words, but what may have been more significant were the things he did not say.
The president talked repeatedly about "benchmarks" for progress in Iraq, using that word 13 times. But he did not discuss the consequences of the Iraqi government missing those targets. Such a question, he said, was "hypothetical."
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Bush isn't going to do anything to the Iraqi government if they fail to stand up and fight. Look at Maliki ridiculing the WH today and disavowing those supposed *benchmarks*. Its kinda like Iran being threatened by a divided security council with limited sanctions.....they laugh, they know we're bogged down in their backyard.
Frankly, I do not advocate a *disintegrated confederal state* unless Iraqis
themselves vote FOR such. In my opinion, we would be setting the stage for three separate civil wars, much as occurred in the Balkans after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. When will we ever learn? It's interesting to see that some players who advised so badly there ... are now once again advising here.
Apart from that, however, there is much about this comment that is spot on.
======================
If we miss this last chance, then our soldiers will have died in vain
The intervention in Iraq that was intended to make the world safer for democracy has only made it more dangerous
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
'They died in vain." Four words that are unbearable for the mother of a dead soldier and shaming for the politicians who sent them to their deaths. So our leaders say "they did not die in vain". But who now believes them?
Contemplating the scale of the American-British failure in Iraq, I have been struggling to see if there are any future circumstances, any lines of long-term strategic action, which would one day enable us honestly and credibly to say to the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq: "Your son did not die in vain." At the moment, that seems nearly impossible.
Yes, our troops removed a very nasty tyranny, to widespread initial rejoicing among the people of Iraq. For some Iraqis - especially Kurds and Shia - some things about their lives have got better. People who were in prison or in exile are now at home. Millions of Iraqis turned out to vote for political parties of their choice, despite intimidation. They have incomparably more free media than before and less reason to fear repression from the central state. A few have prospered. In places, the occupying powers have done major reconstruction work. But that's about all one can say on the plus side; the minus list is so much longer.
As Patrick Cockburn, a writer with rare in-depth knowledge of Iraq, chronicles in his new book The Occupation, the dimensions of our failure over more than 40 months of occupation are breathtaking. It starts with the most basic services. Despite the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, US government witnesses told the Senate foreign relations committee earlier this year that the performance of the Iraqi electricity, water, sewage and oil sectors is still below pre-invasion levels. The economy is worse in many respects than it was before. Instead of going in fear of Saddam's secret police and torturers, people go in fear of gangs, militias, criminals and fanatics.
To exchange tyranny for anarchy is merely to move from one circle of hell to another. As one Iraqi recently commented: under Saddam we had a state, a bad state, but to have no state is even worse. Even if the Johns Hopkins University estimate of some 600,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since the invasion is an overestimate, extrapolating from too small a sample, the number of Iraqi civilian deaths is horrendous. The country is already in civil war. As foreign troops leave, that's almost certain to get worse before it perhaps - but only perhaps - gets better, if Shia, Kurd and Sunni leaders, and their foreign patrons, can hammer out a compromise based on a more or less disintegrated confederal state. And that's only the story inside Iraq. In the world at large, the balance-sheet is even worse. An intervention that was intended to make the world safer for democracy has made the world more dangerous for all democracies. The United States' own recently released National Intelligence Estimate confirmed that Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for terrorists. It has infuriated Muslims in our own countries, including the London bombers of July 7. By distracting forces and attention from our original, legitimate mission to extirpate al-Qaida's bases in Afghanistan, it has allowed the Taliban to regroup and come back in force there. It has turned a militant, Islamist Iran into a regional winner, increasing the likelihood that it will try to develop nuclear weapons. It has made the United States more unpopular around the world than at any time since reliable polling began and dramatically decreased the United States' capacity to get its way. North Korea, for example, cocks a nuclear snook at Washington. So much for "the world's only hyperpower".
Oh yes, and there's the cost. The Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has estimated that the total, eventual costs of the Iraq war, "including the budgetary, social and macroeconomic costs, are likely to exceed $2 trillion" - that's $2,000,000,000,000. That would be $2,000 a head for each of the world's poorest billion people, who live (and die) on less than $1 a day.
[...]
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3296...
themselves vote FOR such. In my opinion, we would be setting the stage for three separate civil wars, much as occurred in the Balkans after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. When will we ever learn? It's interesting to see that some players who advised so badly there ... are now once again advising here.
Apart from that, however, there is much about this comment that is spot on.
======================
If we miss this last chance, then our soldiers will have died in vain
The intervention in Iraq that was intended to make the world safer for democracy has only made it more dangerous
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
'They died in vain." Four words that are unbearable for the mother of a dead soldier and shaming for the politicians who sent them to their deaths. So our leaders say "they did not die in vain". But who now believes them?
Contemplating the scale of the American-British failure in Iraq, I have been struggling to see if there are any future circumstances, any lines of long-term strategic action, which would one day enable us honestly and credibly to say to the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq: "Your son did not die in vain." At the moment, that seems nearly impossible.
Yes, our troops removed a very nasty tyranny, to widespread initial rejoicing among the people of Iraq. For some Iraqis - especially Kurds and Shia - some things about their lives have got better. People who were in prison or in exile are now at home. Millions of Iraqis turned out to vote for political parties of their choice, despite intimidation. They have incomparably more free media than before and less reason to fear repression from the central state. A few have prospered. In places, the occupying powers have done major reconstruction work. But that's about all one can say on the plus side; the minus list is so much longer.
As Patrick Cockburn, a writer with rare in-depth knowledge of Iraq, chronicles in his new book The Occupation, the dimensions of our failure over more than 40 months of occupation are breathtaking. It starts with the most basic services. Despite the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, US government witnesses told the Senate foreign relations committee earlier this year that the performance of the Iraqi electricity, water, sewage and oil sectors is still below pre-invasion levels. The economy is worse in many respects than it was before. Instead of going in fear of Saddam's secret police and torturers, people go in fear of gangs, militias, criminals and fanatics.
To exchange tyranny for anarchy is merely to move from one circle of hell to another. As one Iraqi recently commented: under Saddam we had a state, a bad state, but to have no state is even worse. Even if the Johns Hopkins University estimate of some 600,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since the invasion is an overestimate, extrapolating from too small a sample, the number of Iraqi civilian deaths is horrendous. The country is already in civil war. As foreign troops leave, that's almost certain to get worse before it perhaps - but only perhaps - gets better, if Shia, Kurd and Sunni leaders, and their foreign patrons, can hammer out a compromise based on a more or less disintegrated confederal state. And that's only the story inside Iraq. In the world at large, the balance-sheet is even worse. An intervention that was intended to make the world safer for democracy has made the world more dangerous for all democracies. The United States' own recently released National Intelligence Estimate confirmed that Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for terrorists. It has infuriated Muslims in our own countries, including the London bombers of July 7. By distracting forces and attention from our original, legitimate mission to extirpate al-Qaida's bases in Afghanistan, it has allowed the Taliban to regroup and come back in force there. It has turned a militant, Islamist Iran into a regional winner, increasing the likelihood that it will try to develop nuclear weapons. It has made the United States more unpopular around the world than at any time since reliable polling began and dramatically decreased the United States' capacity to get its way. North Korea, for example, cocks a nuclear snook at Washington. So much for "the world's only hyperpower".
Oh yes, and there's the cost. The Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has estimated that the total, eventual costs of the Iraq war, "including the budgetary, social and macroeconomic costs, are likely to exceed $2 trillion" - that's $2,000,000,000,000. That would be $2,000 a head for each of the world's poorest billion people, who live (and die) on less than $1 a day.
[...]
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3296...
Cutting emissions here?
Putz wants to hoard, steal and control more and more oil so we can ruin our planet faster. (**&*$
Putz wants to hoard, steal and control more and more oil so we can ruin our planet faster. (**&*$
Waterboarding
is now. I mean, man, it's happening. It's in!
In his Washington Post column today, Dan Froomkin flagged a Dick Cheney interview in which Cheney appeared to acknowledge and endorse US use of the technique known as waterboarding.
Q Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It's a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President "for torture." We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in. We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we're party to and so forth. But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture, and we need to be able to do that.
And thanks to the leadership of the President now, and the action of the Congress, we have that authority, and we are able to continue to program.
www.dfalink.com/blog_post.php?id...
is now. I mean, man, it's happening. It's in!
In his Washington Post column today, Dan Froomkin flagged a Dick Cheney interview in which Cheney appeared to acknowledge and endorse US use of the technique known as waterboarding.
Q Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It's a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President "for torture." We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in. We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we're party to and so forth. But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture, and we need to be able to do that.
And thanks to the leadership of the President now, and the action of the Congress, we have that authority, and we are able to continue to program.
www.dfalink.com/blog_post.php?id...
Monica, Darling Sweet Adorable Monica
I too can drag and paste the link w/o having to copy and run back and forth. Is this a MAC thing? :-=)
Now I can post even MORE doom and gloom articles faster and with aplomb! Yipeee!
I too can drag and paste the link w/o having to copy and run back and forth. Is this a MAC thing? :-=)
Now I can post even MORE doom and gloom articles faster and with aplomb! Yipeee!
Speaking of the former Yugoslavia, here's a new film ... with some very wishful thinking.
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Karadzic captured ... at least in the Hollywood version
Reality is no barrier to $20m romp in which Richard Gere traps genocide suspect
Ian Traynor in Zagreb
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
He has eluded US special forces, elite French paratroopers and Britain's finest, the SAS. But Radovan Karadzic, genocide suspect and regarded by Serbs as a Scarlet Pimpernel-style figure, has finally met his match in Richard Gere.
In a film being shot yesterday on the forested hillsides of northern Zagreb, the Hollywood heartthrob succeeds where Nato, the CIA and the SAS have failed. The good guy gets the bad guy.
Pro-Tibet activist, "American Gigolo" and co-star of Pretty Woman, the greying 57-year-old plays a veteran television reporter who returns to postwar Sarajevo to launch a madcap three-man hunt for a fictionalised Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader who has been on the run for 11 years and is wanted for genocide against Bosnia's Muslims.
"Unlike in real life, they get their man in the end," said an assistant director of the new film, Spring Break in Bosnia, before biting his lip and refusing to reveal more of the plot.
The independent $20m (£11m) production, directed by New Yorker Richard Shepard and to be released next year, co-stars Diane Kruger (Helen of Troy) as a Bosnian Serb junkie who sells information on Karadzic to a trio of American TV journalists staging a reunion in Bosnia in 2000, five years after the conflict ended.
"Only the most ridiculous parts of the story are true," said Adam Merims, the executive producer. "It's a thriller with comedic elements, a lot of gallows humour. It's not about war, it's about the people who cover the war."
In researching the background for the part, Gere sought to meet Karadzic, Europe's most wanted man with a $5m bounty on his head.
The actor talked to several journalists who covered the Bosnian war and put out feelers to contact the nationalist leader who sought to destroy Bosnia and remains a hero to many Serbs.
"He asked where Karadzic was and if he could meet him," said Merims.
The harebrained manhunt - the journalists are seeking an alleged mass murderer nicknamed The Fox - goes awry when the predators become the quarry. The entourage of the Karadzic character suspect the US journalists are in reality an undercover CIA hit squad and hunt them down instead, an episode based on the experience of the American war correspondent Scott Anderson.
[...]
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3296...
===============
Karadzic captured ... at least in the Hollywood version
Reality is no barrier to $20m romp in which Richard Gere traps genocide suspect
Ian Traynor in Zagreb
Thursday October 26, 2006
Guardian
He has eluded US special forces, elite French paratroopers and Britain's finest, the SAS. But Radovan Karadzic, genocide suspect and regarded by Serbs as a Scarlet Pimpernel-style figure, has finally met his match in Richard Gere.
In a film being shot yesterday on the forested hillsides of northern Zagreb, the Hollywood heartthrob succeeds where Nato, the CIA and the SAS have failed. The good guy gets the bad guy.
Pro-Tibet activist, "American Gigolo" and co-star of Pretty Woman, the greying 57-year-old plays a veteran television reporter who returns to postwar Sarajevo to launch a madcap three-man hunt for a fictionalised Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime leader who has been on the run for 11 years and is wanted for genocide against Bosnia's Muslims.
"Unlike in real life, they get their man in the end," said an assistant director of the new film, Spring Break in Bosnia, before biting his lip and refusing to reveal more of the plot.
The independent $20m (£11m) production, directed by New Yorker Richard Shepard and to be released next year, co-stars Diane Kruger (Helen of Troy) as a Bosnian Serb junkie who sells information on Karadzic to a trio of American TV journalists staging a reunion in Bosnia in 2000, five years after the conflict ended.
"Only the most ridiculous parts of the story are true," said Adam Merims, the executive producer. "It's a thriller with comedic elements, a lot of gallows humour. It's not about war, it's about the people who cover the war."
In researching the background for the part, Gere sought to meet Karadzic, Europe's most wanted man with a $5m bounty on his head.
The actor talked to several journalists who covered the Bosnian war and put out feelers to contact the nationalist leader who sought to destroy Bosnia and remains a hero to many Serbs.
"He asked where Karadzic was and if he could meet him," said Merims.
The harebrained manhunt - the journalists are seeking an alleged mass murderer nicknamed The Fox - goes awry when the predators become the quarry. The entourage of the Karadzic character suspect the US journalists are in reality an undercover CIA hit squad and hunt them down instead, an episode based on the experience of the American war correspondent Scott Anderson.
[...]
www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,3296...
The Oct surprise that wasn't
www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/1...
My fellow Americans,
As you might have heard, my White House reached an important decision this week. From now on, neither I nor any member of my administration will use the phrase "stay the course" when referring to United States actions in Iraq. Our repeated use of that term had allowed our opponents to charge that this administration is inflexible and stubborn, and not interested in pursuing new options and strategies in Iraq.
At first, administration officials and I were reluctant to renounce our vow to "stay the course." But then I realized that our hesitancy only proved the point. And as I thought about this change in message, it occurred to me that not only was such a change warranted, it ought to pave the way for other necessary changes. After all, the course we're on is obviously not working as I had expected and hoped. We invaded Iraq over three-and-a-half years ago, yet the violence there--now spreading through horrific sectarian conflict--has intensified. Heck, let's be honest and call it a burgeoning civil war. American citizens of this nation are right to feel discouraged, disappointed and frustrated. And the people of Iraq are right to be angry.
So I intend to do more than expunge those three words from the lexicon of this administration; I intend to forge a new course.
Before we move ahead, though, we must come to terms with what has brought us to this difficult point.
We Were Wrong
more
www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/1...
My fellow Americans,
As you might have heard, my White House reached an important decision this week. From now on, neither I nor any member of my administration will use the phrase "stay the course" when referring to United States actions in Iraq. Our repeated use of that term had allowed our opponents to charge that this administration is inflexible and stubborn, and not interested in pursuing new options and strategies in Iraq.
At first, administration officials and I were reluctant to renounce our vow to "stay the course." But then I realized that our hesitancy only proved the point. And as I thought about this change in message, it occurred to me that not only was such a change warranted, it ought to pave the way for other necessary changes. After all, the course we're on is obviously not working as I had expected and hoped. We invaded Iraq over three-and-a-half years ago, yet the violence there--now spreading through horrific sectarian conflict--has intensified. Heck, let's be honest and call it a burgeoning civil war. American citizens of this nation are right to feel discouraged, disappointed and frustrated. And the people of Iraq are right to be angry.
So I intend to do more than expunge those three words from the lexicon of this administration; I intend to forge a new course.
Before we move ahead, though, we must come to terms with what has brought us to this difficult point.
We Were Wrong
more
The Mothers of Invention America Drinks and Goes Home Absolutely Free Ryko reissue 2:29:38
click on (2:29:38)
@ www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/188...
______&______
Evidently Barak Obama inhaled (big deal that Bill Clinton didn't!).
click on (2:29:38)
@ www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/188...
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Evidently Barak Obama inhaled (big deal that Bill Clinton didn't!).
Don't be sorry, Paine,
Had I been there I probably would have taken the picture. I would have wanted all the signatories in the frame. I was telling my wife you could have been cast in the title role of that new Superman Movie...
Had I been there I probably would have taken the picture. I would have wanted all the signatories in the frame. I was telling my wife you could have been cast in the title role of that new Superman Movie...
Foley Checked In To $30,000 Per Month Arizona Rehab Specializing In Alcohol, Sexual Abuse...
blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/200...
Former Rep. Mark Foley checked himself into the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona two days after he resigned from Congress in disgrace, ABC News has learned.
blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/200...
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And so, ? it was from there he issued his revelation that a priest s#xually abused him?
blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/200...
Former Rep. Mark Foley checked himself into the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona two days after he resigned from Congress in disgrace, ABC News has learned.
blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/200...
>
And so, ? it was from there he issued his revelation that a priest s#xually abused him?
Well, it took me so long
to read the bloggie that now it's time for me to turn in.
Paine, thanks for the Edwin montage, could you please let us know who the lovely ladies. the only ones i know are puddle, thankful and you.
Sweet dreams all. Catch you on the flip side.
to read the bloggie that now it's time for me to turn in.
Paine, thanks for the Edwin montage, could you please let us know who the lovely ladies. the only ones i know are puddle, thankful and you.
Sweet dreams all. Catch you on the flip side.
October Suprise
We must all remember that there is a long time between now and election day and Rove has had a long time to tweak not only the machinery of this election, but also the lists of people who will be able to cast ballots.
BushCo has no intention of either surrendering power or even submiting to oversite. How they intend to execute their actual intentions remains to be seen.
But let's be honest. Does anyone here really believe that any of them would ever be placed under oath in front of John Conyers? Or Henry Waxman?
Let's get out the vote, but remember to stock up on the Velvet.
We must all remember that there is a long time between now and election day and Rove has had a long time to tweak not only the machinery of this election, but also the lists of people who will be able to cast ballots.
BushCo has no intention of either surrendering power or even submiting to oversite. How they intend to execute their actual intentions remains to be seen.
But let's be honest. Does anyone here really believe that any of them would ever be placed under oath in front of John Conyers? Or Henry Waxman?
Let's get out the vote, but remember to stock up on the Velvet.
Edwin montage
by Barbara in Seattle on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 02:13 AM
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by Barbara in Seattle on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 02:13 AM
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Can you say...STATE SPONSERED TERRORISM ?
Former Iran leader wanted in Argentina By OSCAR SERRAT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 25, 7:54 PM ET
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores of people.
The decision to attack the center "was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," prosecutor Alberto Nisman said at a news conference.
He said the actual attack was entrusted to the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah.
[...]
Prosecutors urged the judge to seek international and national arrest orders for Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president between 1989 and 1997 and is now the head of the Expediency Council, which mediates between parliament and the clerics who rule the country.
Former Iran leader wanted in Argentina By OSCAR SERRAT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 25, 7:54 PM ET
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores of people.
The decision to attack the center "was undertaken in 1993 by the highest authorities of the then-government of Iran," prosecutor Alberto Nisman said at a news conference.
He said the actual attack was entrusted to the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah.
[...]
Prosecutors urged the judge to seek international and national arrest orders for Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president between 1989 and 1997 and is now the head of the Expediency Council, which mediates between parliament and the clerics who rule the country.
poppingbackinaftercleaninglikemadwoman
This is too funny to pass up. I think the same thing happened here after 9/11. People started getting married...
"South Korean condom sales, motel bookings surged after North's nuclear test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Condom sales and pay-by-the-hour "love motel" bookings surged across South Korea in the aftermath of North Korea's nuclear test, the country's top newspaper reported Thursday.
South Koreans are used to living in the shadow of war, and life has continued as normal in the capital, Seoul, in the wake of the Oct. 9 test. But figures published by the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper Thursday suggest that despite their apparently blase reaction to the North's nuclear bluster, many South Koreans may be seeking solace in sex.
Condom sales at a leading chain of convenience stores rose to an average of 1,930 a day in the week after the North's Oct. 9 nuclear test, compared to the 2006 daily average of 1,508 condoms sold, the paper said.
Daily sales of the prophylactics dropped slightly to 1,772 in the week from Oct. 16-21, but remained well above the daily average.
A popular online reservation site for South Korea's "love motels" - the popular term for lodgings built for clandestine rendezvous - also reported a surge in bookings immediately after the heightened security threat.
The affordable motels are a fixture across South Korea. In one of the world's most densely populated countries, where extended families often live together, such accommodations provide a refuge for those seeking discreet locations for intimate encounters.
But those who haven't already made their reservations will have to wait. The online system says it has no available slots until the end of the month."
www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_K10...
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This is too funny to pass up. I think the same thing happened here after 9/11. People started getting married...
"South Korean condom sales, motel bookings surged after North's nuclear test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Condom sales and pay-by-the-hour "love motel" bookings surged across South Korea in the aftermath of North Korea's nuclear test, the country's top newspaper reported Thursday.
South Koreans are used to living in the shadow of war, and life has continued as normal in the capital, Seoul, in the wake of the Oct. 9 test. But figures published by the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper Thursday suggest that despite their apparently blase reaction to the North's nuclear bluster, many South Koreans may be seeking solace in sex.
Condom sales at a leading chain of convenience stores rose to an average of 1,930 a day in the week after the North's Oct. 9 nuclear test, compared to the 2006 daily average of 1,508 condoms sold, the paper said.
Daily sales of the prophylactics dropped slightly to 1,772 in the week from Oct. 16-21, but remained well above the daily average.
A popular online reservation site for South Korea's "love motels" - the popular term for lodgings built for clandestine rendezvous - also reported a surge in bookings immediately after the heightened security threat.
The affordable motels are a fixture across South Korea. In one of the world's most densely populated countries, where extended families often live together, such accommodations provide a refuge for those seeking discreet locations for intimate encounters.
But those who haven't already made their reservations will have to wait. The online system says it has no available slots until the end of the month."
www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_K10...
"
Borat, the newest raging comic
The stars come out for the Borat premiere
Also...
• 'Borat the movie will offend everyone'
He arrived on a wooden cart drawn by a mule, surrounded by a gaggle of cheap-looking Kazakh ladies of the night.
And he brought laughter - although much more bafflement - to London's Leicester Square.
Unsuspecting office workers paused on their way home last night to watch as Borat attended the premier of his film, Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Borat, for the uninitiated, is the latest character of Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
His persona as a Kazakh TV reporter - depicting his homeland as a nation of misogynists, racists and anti-Semites - has infuriated the country's President.
Last night, it was easy to see why. Baron Cohen hopped off his mule cart and declared: "Good evening gentlemen and prostitutes."
...Lampooning Kazakhstan, Borat spoke warmly of the progress his home nation had made towards the modern world.
Such strides, he declared, as "women now permitted to travel on inside of bus" and "homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats."
Flanked by two fearsome-looking guards with bayonets, Borat said he would love to meet the Queen, though he stressed: "Not for sexy time."
"I have brought here with me my 11-year-old son, his wife and their new-born baby, who I am hoping to sell to singing transvestite Madonna," he said.
And his verdict on English women? "Very nice, but I cannot say for sure because I have not had time to buy any," he remarked, adding: "Here the women have more hair on their heads than our women do on their backs but English women not look strong enough to pull a plough."
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a...
The stars come out for the Borat premiere
Also...
• 'Borat the movie will offend everyone'
He arrived on a wooden cart drawn by a mule, surrounded by a gaggle of cheap-looking Kazakh ladies of the night.
And he brought laughter - although much more bafflement - to London's Leicester Square.
Unsuspecting office workers paused on their way home last night to watch as Borat attended the premier of his film, Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Borat, for the uninitiated, is the latest character of Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
His persona as a Kazakh TV reporter - depicting his homeland as a nation of misogynists, racists and anti-Semites - has infuriated the country's President.
Last night, it was easy to see why. Baron Cohen hopped off his mule cart and declared: "Good evening gentlemen and prostitutes."
...Lampooning Kazakhstan, Borat spoke warmly of the progress his home nation had made towards the modern world.
Such strides, he declared, as "women now permitted to travel on inside of bus" and "homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hats."
Flanked by two fearsome-looking guards with bayonets, Borat said he would love to meet the Queen, though he stressed: "Not for sexy time."
"I have brought here with me my 11-year-old son, his wife and their new-born baby, who I am hoping to sell to singing transvestite Madonna," he said.
And his verdict on English women? "Very nice, but I cannot say for sure because I have not had time to buy any," he remarked, adding: "Here the women have more hair on their heads than our women do on their backs but English women not look strong enough to pull a plough."
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a...
Santorum
What a nasty man!
"....He says advertising on channels such as CNN, A&E and the Discovery Channel is a strategic move to reach undecided voters.
The news comes after the Santorum has released a controversial television ad that shows a photo of Democratic challenger Bob Casey's face next to a mushroom cloud. It accuses him of supporting policies that hurt national security.
The ad said North Korea and Iran are close to having nuclear missiles that could reach the United States. It said Casey opposes bunker-busting bombs and deploying a missile defense system."
www.nbc10.com/news/10149861/deta...
What a nasty man!
"....He says advertising on channels such as CNN, A&E and the Discovery Channel is a strategic move to reach undecided voters.
The news comes after the Santorum has released a controversial television ad that shows a photo of Democratic challenger Bob Casey's face next to a mushroom cloud. It accuses him of supporting policies that hurt national security.
The ad said North Korea and Iran are close to having nuclear missiles that could reach the United States. It said Casey opposes bunker-busting bombs and deploying a missile defense system."
www.nbc10.com/news/10149861/deta...
Fine.......its his war.......let him go fight it then.
WASHINGTON - Acknowledging painful losses in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday he is not satisfied with the progress of the long and unpopular war, but he still insisted the United States was winning and should not think about withdrawing
WASHINGTON - Acknowledging painful losses in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday he is not satisfied with the progress of the long and unpopular war, but he still insisted the United States was winning and should not think about withdrawing
Be right back.....got to *hobble* to the kitchen to get a drink of water.
by LZ XRAY on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:12 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
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Yeah........all this stuff abiout injuries and war wounds.......Christ, I biked 112 miles and ran a frickin marathon with a fractured toe that blew up like a tomato in the Ironman.........boo hoo
Us stay at homes actually are a tough bunch of sobs.......
cheers
by LZ XRAY on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 12:12 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
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Yeah........all this stuff abiout injuries and war wounds.......Christ, I biked 112 miles and ran a frickin marathon with a fractured toe that blew up like a tomato in the Ironman.........boo hoo
Us stay at homes actually are a tough bunch of sobs.......
cheers
Good morning, everybody
Went to a union rally last night. The AFL-CIO has sent everyone out around the country to mobilize the vote. "The people who brought you the weekend" want everyone who's "had enough" to take back the country and return Democracy to the House.
Have to go my LTE before I forget what I was going to say.
Went to a union rally last night. The AFL-CIO has sent everyone out around the country to mobilize the vote. "The people who brought you the weekend" want everyone who's "had enough" to take back the country and return Democracy to the House.
Have to go my LTE before I forget what I was going to say.
My LTE
Jeb Bradley's got a nerve. Trying out his Archie Bunker shtick at a political debate was in really bad taste.
You'd think the party that's wasted our national treasure and sunk the country ever deeper in debt would have the grace to avoid bringing up the cost of what people really need.
But, since he did, let's ask him, "What's it going to cost, Jeb Bradley, to clean up this mess?" Looks to me like Bradley's been doing rather badly.
Jeb Bradley's got a nerve. Trying out his Archie Bunker shtick at a political debate was in really bad taste.
You'd think the party that's wasted our national treasure and sunk the country ever deeper in debt would have the grace to avoid bringing up the cost of what people really need.
But, since he did, let's ask him, "What's it going to cost, Jeb Bradley, to clean up this mess?" Looks to me like Bradley's been doing rather badly.
www.dghonline.org/nl15/reporter1...
Was trying to find my earliest use of the phrase "rubber stamp" in relation to our political leaders and found this address to the Doctors for Global Health 10th Anniversary meeting. I'd never heard of them before. Though given in August of 2005, the speech is still topical.
If you forget the URL, you can find the address on Hannah later.
Earliest use of "rubber stamp," btw, seems to have been in June of 2005 on my blog at DFNH.
Was trying to find my earliest use of the phrase "rubber stamp" in relation to our political leaders and found this address to the Doctors for Global Health 10th Anniversary meeting. I'd never heard of them before. Though given in August of 2005, the speech is still topical.
If you forget the URL, you can find the address on Hannah later.
Earliest use of "rubber stamp," btw, seems to have been in June of 2005 on my blog at DFNH.
by seashell on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 03:36 AM
Thanks for finding that--prompted another letter
To the editor:
Since I don't have cable TV, I haven't seen Senator Santorum's ads. But, I wonder if they mention that the Iranian missiles can certainly hit United States bases in Iraq. And the missile defense system being set up in Iraq is certainly a sitting duck--one that a bunch of bunker buster nukes aren't likely to protect.
Iran doesn't even need nuclear warheads to make a big bang. Targeting the munitions the US has introduced into Iraq will more than do the job.
If there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the US arrived, they're there now. Just the depleted uranium dust alone will continue to kill the Iraqi people for decades. Not to mention our own troops.
And that's the WHOLE truth the Senator is unlikely to admit. After all, the deployment of our missile defense to Iraq is classified, don't you know?
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BTW, the zip for Philly is 19101
www.democrats.org/page/speakout/...
makes it easy
Thanks for finding that--prompted another letter
To the editor:
Since I don't have cable TV, I haven't seen Senator Santorum's ads. But, I wonder if they mention that the Iranian missiles can certainly hit United States bases in Iraq. And the missile defense system being set up in Iraq is certainly a sitting duck--one that a bunch of bunker buster nukes aren't likely to protect.
Iran doesn't even need nuclear warheads to make a big bang. Targeting the munitions the US has introduced into Iraq will more than do the job.
If there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the US arrived, they're there now. Just the depleted uranium dust alone will continue to kill the Iraqi people for decades. Not to mention our own troops.
And that's the WHOLE truth the Senator is unlikely to admit. After all, the deployment of our missile defense to Iraq is classified, don't you know?
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BTW, the zip for Philly is 19101
www.democrats.org/page/speakout/...
makes it easy
Howard to be on GMA?
Obama
Barack Obama has a high favorability level amongst Illinois voters, even has a 55 % favorability amongst repubs (amongst dems in the 10th district of IL he has a 92 % favarability, amongst indys a 84 % favorable rating) -- see table on page 4 of the pdf link below, a Sept 05 poll conducted in the 10th district of Illinois:
www.capitolfax.com/kirkpollresul...'barack%20obama%20favorability%20illinois%20constituents'
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Well, I remember a 1966 movie titled "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". So IMO the "Funny" is those who are ABB (anybody but Barack), or for that matter ABH (" " Hillary), or ABT (" " Tammy) who roll out the WARNING ! WARNING ! DANGER ! like the robot on the 1960s TV show Lost In Space would warn those around them -- yep, how could I miss it (as I hit my head), yes, talk of Barack now is a conspiracy to get the Americaan public's attention off of the war in Iraq, off of the Foley scandal, ---oops, no it's the Foley scandel that was meant to get the public's attention off the war in Iraq, no it's -- oh well, WARNING !
It's all a conspiracy I tell you ! The British are coming ! The British are coming ! Man your battlestations ! Spock, raise the shields !
Barack Obama has a high favorability level amongst Illinois voters, even has a 55 % favorability amongst repubs (amongst dems in the 10th district of IL he has a 92 % favarability, amongst indys a 84 % favorable rating) -- see table on page 4 of the pdf link below, a Sept 05 poll conducted in the 10th district of Illinois:
www.capitolfax.com/kirkpollresul...'barack%20obama%20favorability%20illinois%20constituents'
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Well, I remember a 1966 movie titled "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". So IMO the "Funny" is those who are ABB (anybody but Barack), or for that matter ABH (" " Hillary), or ABT (" " Tammy) who roll out the WARNING ! WARNING ! DANGER ! like the robot on the 1960s TV show Lost In Space would warn those around them -- yep, how could I miss it (as I hit my head), yes, talk of Barack now is a conspiracy to get the Americaan public's attention off of the war in Iraq, off of the Foley scandal, ---oops, no it's the Foley scandel that was meant to get the public's attention off the war in Iraq, no it's -- oh well, WARNING !
It's all a conspiracy I tell you ! The British are coming ! The British are coming ! Man your battlestations ! Spock, raise the shields !
Steve in Nebraska
I'm cautiously optomistic myself. This election has a very good feel to it.
Republicans here have totally shut up about the war and it is taxes taxes taxes.
I'm cautiously optomistic myself. This election has a very good feel to it.
Republicans here have totally shut up about the war and it is taxes taxes taxes.
Harold Ford
Here is a diary on Harold Ford's comments re: equal protection in New Jersey. Suffice it to say -- I am glad I don't live in TN and have to vote for him - a DINO. I want him to win and think it is disgraceful what the R's are doing to him but I think he is a panderer.
www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/2...
Here is a diary on Harold Ford's comments re: equal protection in New Jersey. Suffice it to say -- I am glad I don't live in TN and have to vote for him - a DINO. I want him to win and think it is disgraceful what the R's are doing to him but I think he is a panderer.
www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/2...
by * rdorgan on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 08:01 AM
Well, if you want a conspiracy, how about the rumor that the Republicans are planning a lame duck congressional session to pass all the laws they couldn't get through in the main one?
Getting people to speculate about the future instead of paying attention to what's going on in front of their noses has worked quite well.
Did anybody notice that the chairman of the NRC was on the air the other day talking about the 29 new nuclear power plants that have applied for permits and will benefit from the stream-lined permitting procedure? The fellow was keen to reassure the audience that he and his cohorts would make sure they are safe.
Well, if you want a conspiracy, how about the rumor that the Republicans are planning a lame duck congressional session to pass all the laws they couldn't get through in the main one?
Getting people to speculate about the future instead of paying attention to what's going on in front of their noses has worked quite well.
Did anybody notice that the chairman of the NRC was on the air the other day talking about the 29 new nuclear power plants that have applied for permits and will benefit from the stream-lined permitting procedure? The fellow was keen to reassure the audience that he and his cohorts would make sure they are safe.
Forgot to wish everyone a very good morning. We have a ton of snow in the Rockies.
mary
Harold Ford is a step in the right direction for Tennessee. and if he votes to give Hillary the title Majority Leader it will be a fun two years ahead.
He is about as far as we can get in one election there maybe.
I don't see him as a panderer, unfortunately he is what he is. But voters who elect him will get the representation they want.
I'm always up for a good primary fight down the road.
Colorado had a similar choice two years ago and got exactly what they voted for, and I think that is important.
Harold Ford is a step in the right direction for Tennessee. and if he votes to give Hillary the title Majority Leader it will be a fun two years ahead.
He is about as far as we can get in one election there maybe.
I don't see him as a panderer, unfortunately he is what he is. But voters who elect him will get the representation they want.
I'm always up for a good primary fight down the road.
Colorado had a similar choice two years ago and got exactly what they voted for, and I think that is important.
mary
we often get your winter storms. hope it slides south. the boys of summer need to cut the regular season back a couple of games like old times and be done by now
I need to get the stalks baled for bedding and don't need snow.
we often get your winter storms. hope it slides south. the boys of summer need to cut the regular season back a couple of games like old times and be done by now
I need to get the stalks baled for bedding and don't need snow.
A Snow Day!
Hi Mary vb, about a foot here on the Front Range.
The only real vacation days are snow days when you just have to be.
Marilyn Musgrave, House District 4, is ahead. She and Sen. Allard have proposed a "new" Wilderness Bill for Rocky Mountain National Park. There's includes mining.
And so it goes.
Hi Mary vb, about a foot here on the Front Range.
The only real vacation days are snow days when you just have to be.
Marilyn Musgrave, House District 4, is ahead. She and Sen. Allard have proposed a "new" Wilderness Bill for Rocky Mountain National Park. There's includes mining.
And so it goes.
A Snow Day!
Hi Mary vb
about a foot of snow on the Front Range.
The only real vacation days are snow days when you just have to be there. All worldly activities are put on hold.
I posted this same message, and it didn't post. Must be snow even affects blogging!
I mentioned that Marilyn Musgrave, House Dist. 4 and Senator Wayne Allard have proposed a "new wilderness bill" one that includes mining. Big surprise.
Hi Mary vb
about a foot of snow on the Front Range.
The only real vacation days are snow days when you just have to be there. All worldly activities are put on hold.
I posted this same message, and it didn't post. Must be snow even affects blogging!
I mentioned that Marilyn Musgrave, House Dist. 4 and Senator Wayne Allard have proposed a "new wilderness bill" one that includes mining. Big surprise.
Corrupt people in power have a habit of using their power in corrupt ways against their critics. Just the nature of the charges brought against Charlie shows that they had to comb through laws to find something to try to use against him. When prosecutors are so inclined, it's amazing how many obscure laws are being "broken" by ordinary people.
by jc on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 03:47 PM
This is exactly why we need for people to run for city council, school boards, and all those local races that matter.
We also need people to be active in the party.
Election boards and political jobs are all controlled by these groups. Getting control of those jobs is key to winning and having strong grassroots parties that can win politically.
When a board of election is corrupt it is so with both Republican and Democrats. Control one team of the election board and its a watch dog for the other side.
Charlie took on a corruption from the outside. That is a tough way to do it. these people control judges, they hold political power because of the political jobs that people are in they don't want to lose.
Cutting the corruption off at it roots is key to change. And those roots are local, very local.
Additionally, creating a farm team of people who gain experience in office is key to success down the road. Most of us know that.
We will make our greatest changes toward real progressive ideals at this level. The sexy senate, house and presidential races our a lot of fun to work on. those local races usually have few volunteers and almost no money. Its a tough deal.
After this State Rep races is over I plan on writing a short essay on some of the most effective organizing things we did. Sharing those with others, letting them innovate on the ideas, and coming up with better idea's will make us stronger.
by jc on Wednesday, 10/25/06 @ 03:47 PM
This is exactly why we need for people to run for city council, school boards, and all those local races that matter.
We also need people to be active in the party.
Election boards and political jobs are all controlled by these groups. Getting control of those jobs is key to winning and having strong grassroots parties that can win politically.
When a board of election is corrupt it is so with both Republican and Democrats. Control one team of the election board and its a watch dog for the other side.
Charlie took on a corruption from the outside. That is a tough way to do it. these people control judges, they hold political power because of the political jobs that people are in they don't want to lose.
Cutting the corruption off at it roots is key to change. And those roots are local, very local.
Additionally, creating a farm team of people who gain experience in office is key to success down the road. Most of us know that.
We will make our greatest changes toward real progressive ideals at this level. The sexy senate, house and presidential races our a lot of fun to work on. those local races usually have few volunteers and almost no money. Its a tough deal.
After this State Rep races is over I plan on writing a short essay on some of the most effective organizing things we did. Sharing those with others, letting them innovate on the ideas, and coming up with better idea's will make us stronger.
Colorado had a similar choice two years ago and got exactly what they voted for, and I think that is important.
by Phil Specht on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 08:17 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
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Yes, we have Salazar. I just think Harold should have stayed out of the NJ issue. He's trying to appeal to his constituents I suppose. But look at Tester and Schweitzer in Montana - they are great examples of progressives in red places.
I'd love to hear Deaniac in GA's thoughts on Harold.
Hope you don't get the snow. The kids are thrilled since they have a snow day! We're going snowshoeing later.
by Phil Specht on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 08:17 AM | Rate this | Avg Rating: -
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Yes, we have Salazar. I just think Harold should have stayed out of the NJ issue. He's trying to appeal to his constituents I suppose. But look at Tester and Schweitzer in Montana - they are great examples of progressives in red places.
I'd love to hear Deaniac in GA's thoughts on Harold.
Hope you don't get the snow. The kids are thrilled since they have a snow day! We're going snowshoeing later.
Steve in Nebraska
I'm cautiously optomistic myself. This election has a very good feel to it.
Republicans here have totally shut up about the war and it is taxes taxes taxes.
by Phil Specht on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 08:05 AM
It is very interesting. In Thompson a 55% republican performing district with some of the most organized republicans, they have 3 sign locations on main roads. We have 27..
Sounds not like much but its hudge. This area typically has 60 to 70 main road sign locations for Republicans. We typically get out 4 standard places.
I'm cautiously optomistic myself. This election has a very good feel to it.
Republicans here have totally shut up about the war and it is taxes taxes taxes.
by Phil Specht on Thursday, 10/26/06 @ 08:05 AM
It is very interesting. In Thompson a 55% republican performing district with some of the most organized republicans, they have 3 sign locations on main roads. We have 27..
Sounds not like much but its hudge. This area typically has 60 to 70 main road sign locations for Republicans. We typically get out 4 standard places.
Did you know that nuclear umbrella agreements have been substituted for treaties?
I didn't. The new Chair of the NRC is keen on them.
biz.yahoo.com/ap/060830/nrc_chai...
NRC Chair Preps for Increase in Business
Wednesday August 30, 4:41 pm ET
By Dan Caterinicchia, AP Business Writer
NRC Chairman Dale Klein Readies Agency for Increase in Plant License Applications
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that processing the more than two dozen applications for new nuclear plant licenses expected in the coming years will require the agency to hire more workers and streamline its review process.
A license review currently takes 42 months to complete -- 30 months for the technical review and another 12 for the hearing process -- but that can be expedited "with no compromise on safety," said NRC Chairman Dale Klein.
[...]
Klein previously assisted with nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs as an aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He also has been a vice chancellor of the University of Texas. He began his five-year term as NRC chief in July, replacing retiring commissioner Nils Diaz.
[...]
Samples of this concerns BEFORE he joined the NRC.
www.csdr.org/2004book/Klein.htm...
www.csdr.org/2005book/klein.htm...
I didn't. The new Chair of the NRC is keen on them.
biz.yahoo.com/ap/060830/nrc_chai...
NRC Chair Preps for Increase in Business
Wednesday August 30, 4:41 pm ET
By Dan Caterinicchia, AP Business Writer
NRC Chairman Dale Klein Readies Agency for Increase in Plant License Applications
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that processing the more than two dozen applications for new nuclear plant licenses expected in the coming years will require the agency to hire more workers and streamline its review process.
A license review currently takes 42 months to complete -- 30 months for the technical review and another 12 for the hearing process -- but that can be expedited "with no compromise on safety," said NRC Chairman Dale Klein.
[...]
Klein previously assisted with nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs as an aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He also has been a vice chancellor of the University of Texas. He began his five-year term as NRC chief in July, replacing retiring commissioner Nils Diaz.
[...]
Samples of this concerns BEFORE he joined the NRC.
www.csdr.org/2004book/Klein.htm...
www.csdr.org/2005book/klein.htm...
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Smaller government is meddling in the minutiae of our daily lives and leaving the catastrophes to us.
Smaller government is meddling in the minutiae of our daily lives and leaving the catastrophes to us.
The NATO nuclear umbrella
facilitates the location of US nuclear weapons in other lands.
Guess the message is "We will protect you with our nuclear weapons, if you agree not to develop your own."
The question is: Can we be trusted?
facilitates the location of US nuclear weapons in other lands.
Guess the message is "We will protect you with our nuclear weapons, if you agree not to develop your own."
The question is: Can we be trusted?
The Iraq quagmire
Five more killed in Iraq yesterday, 99 for the month. What a waste...
25-Oct-2006 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
Five more killed in Iraq yesterday, 99 for the month. What a waste...
25-Oct-2006 5 | US: 5 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
Signs of the Times
Teatime wrote "It is very interesting. In Thompson a 55% republican performing district with some of the most organized republicans, they have 3 sign locations on main roads. We have 27.."
These ground level preelection reports are very revealing. I appreciate them a lot. One of the most lasting images I have of the 2004 election is driving through the middle of Michigan around Frankenmuth in the fall on a Sunday and seeing huge, billboard sized campaign signs for Bush-Cheney along the road on one farm after another, acres of them. No doubt, I thought to myself, none of the prognosticators are straying from the urban centers to see this evidence of future defeat for Democrats themselves.
Teatime wrote "It is very interesting. In Thompson a 55% republican performing district with some of the most organized republicans, they have 3 sign locations on main roads. We have 27.."
These ground level preelection reports are very revealing. I appreciate them a lot. One of the most lasting images I have of the 2004 election is driving through the middle of Michigan around Frankenmuth in the fall on a Sunday and seeing huge, billboard sized campaign signs for Bush-Cheney along the road on one farm after another, acres of them. No doubt, I thought to myself, none of the prognosticators are straying from the urban centers to see this evidence of future defeat for Democrats themselves.
Salazar
I know there's a new thread and Mary vb has signed off, but I wanted to say that Mike Miles was the progressive candidate. Ken Salazar is the Joe Lieberman candidate: voted not to filibuster, refused to filibuster Alito, and voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (the torture bill and vacating habeas corpus). While, he's a likeable person, he doesn't get it. Mike Miles would never have voted this way. Mike Miles had been an ambassador and had international experience. His slogan was "Be the Change." The DNC undermined Mike Miles by supporting and contributing to Ken Salazar in the primary, which is unethical and violates the rules. The old girls in charge of Larimer Country supported this kind of thing too, and I am disgusted.
But we go on.
I know there's a new thread and Mary vb has signed off, but I wanted to say that Mike Miles was the progressive candidate. Ken Salazar is the Joe Lieberman candidate: voted not to filibuster, refused to filibuster Alito, and voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (the torture bill and vacating habeas corpus). While, he's a likeable person, he doesn't get it. Mike Miles would never have voted this way. Mike Miles had been an ambassador and had international experience. His slogan was "Be the Change." The DNC undermined Mike Miles by supporting and contributing to Ken Salazar in the primary, which is unethical and violates the rules. The old girls in charge of Larimer Country supported this kind of thing too, and I am disgusted.
But we go on.
Smaller government is meddling in the minutiae of our daily lives and leaving the catastrophes to us.
Thanks Monica. One worth reposting at least once a day. Or thread, even.
Thanks Monica. One worth reposting at least once a day. Or thread, even.
Foodie for Dean is finalist in progressive talk radio contest...please vote
So proud of DFA, the hard work of taking it to all 50 states is paying off...such good candidates.
Remember "Foodies for Dean?" Well Meredith is a finalist in the contest to find the next progressive talk show host. And she needs more votes. Please go to ABQtalk.com , click on "vote here" and listen to the audition tapes. Meredith is contestant #3. She is one of the only female finalists nationwide. She mixes food news, views, humor and politics.
It will only take a few minutes but you must check your email to verify your vote. Contest ends tonight...so please vote and pass it on to your friends.
So proud of DFA, the hard work of taking it to all 50 states is paying off...such good candidates.
Remember "Foodies for Dean?" Well Meredith is a finalist in the contest to find the next progressive talk show host. And she needs more votes. Please go to ABQtalk.com , click on "vote here" and listen to the audition tapes. Meredith is contestant #3. She is one of the only female finalists nationwide. She mixes food news, views, humor and politics.
It will only take a few minutes but you must check your email to verify your vote. Contest ends tonight...so please vote and pass it on to your friends.
Voting Early in Oklahoma
Voting Early in Oklahoma
You can vote early at your county election board in Oklahoma on the following days and times:
Friday, November 3
8 am to 6 pm
Saturday, November 4
8 am to 1 pm
Monday, November 6
8 am to 6 pm
For a listing of all 77 county election boards in Oklahoma, see
http://www.state.ok.us/~elections/cebinfo.html
Voting Early in Oklahoma
You can vote early at your county election board in Oklahoma on the following days and times:
Friday, November 3
8 am to 6 pm
Saturday, November 4
8 am to 1 pm
Monday, November 6
8 am to 6 pm
For a listing of all 77 county election boards in Oklahoma, see
http://www.state.ok.us/~elections/cebinfo.html
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