The Watercooler for 11/01/09 1:00 AM

And every other day, too!

"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable" -Heinlein..

Putting Obama down after what we've been through the past eight years for not doing his job fast or good enough is like getting CPR, taking in fresh air, and then telling your rescuer that their breath stinks.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jackeens/620

Didn't the Bushes give out electrodes and cardboard boxes?

about this HC debacle?  Here are some of her thoughts on *stuff.*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6894980

I'd have to say that after his stint community organizing in Chicago, he's very aware of how ungrateful and clueless those who are helped can be.

Source: Reuters

By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week's work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.

"Republicans will be forced not to show up" at Tuesday's work session, said Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for Republican senators on the environment panel.

Under committee rules, at least two Republicans are needed for Chairwoman Barbara Boxer to hold the work sessions that would give senators an opportunity to amend the controversial legislation and then vote to approve it in the panel, which is controlled by President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats. snip

Most Republicans and some moderate Democrats in the Senate have criticized the emissions-reduction target of the Kerry-Boxer bill. Kerry already has begun talking to other senators about significant changes to his bill, including expanding U.S. nuclear power generation.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59Q0...

I did go searching for Anni ~~ Not much.  Last internet thingy I could find was August 20.  And that she does seem to have a brother.  But I don't know her name, much less where she lives, so that's about it.

Source: AP

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Israel is making "unprecedented"
concessions on West Bank settlement construction — a position clearly at odds with the prevailing
Palestinian view.

Palestinian leaders have said they will not return to peace talks with Israel unless it halts all settlement
building on lands they claim for a future state, and they believe Israel has blatantly defied a U.S. demand for a settlement freeze.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, Clinton
said Israel is putting significant limits on settlement activity.

"What the prime minister has offered in specifics on restraints on a policy of settlements ... is
unprecedented," she said.

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/ycjjvqo

This is a story that is being buried by the corporate media, which is willing to hype a bill to honor Michael Jackson in order to embarass Democrats, but ignores a bill by a Republican to abolish Medicare in the middle of the Health Care Reform debate. The bill proposes to "
Reform Medicare from being a government administered health care program to a market-based voucher system."

I don't think I will be holding my breath to see if Fox News starts demanding that Republicans dis-avow or support this bill.

From Representative Broun's website:

http://broun.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?Documen...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091029_mcchrystal_doesnt_get_it_does_obama/

If, by any strange twist of morally fibrous luck, the American people were to rise up, demand that Congress set up a national plebiscite election to answer one question: Do you or do you not want James E. Files, Arlen Specter (the only living, albeit lower level member of the infamous Warren (C)Ommmission left, and the man whose name is also that of the CIA’s headquarters, be investigated by a Texas Grand Jury for their involvement in the Kennedy killing, and tried if sufficient evidence is found, and if found guilty duly punished, you would then find a completely changed presidency.

That would lead to a Congress that would llikely pass laws outlawing all political donations to anyone or any party or cause. The taxpayers would foot the bill. That would lead to no more smoke-filled backrooms where decisions are made today.

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Hu Jo posted this article one or two days ago.  Interesting comments.