Touche'

First!

shot her down

...I could start it and walk away. I've got two great apps on my Mac that will record/edit it but if I have to sit here and jiggle the fader bar, no way. I lost that patience a long time ago.

Don't Reform the CIA, Abolish It

By JACOB HORNBERGER

The latest CIA scandal will once again teach Americans a valuable lesson: It is the CIA, not the Congress, that is the ultimate governing authority in this nation. No one messes with the CIA, and the CIA knows it. That's why it knew that it could destroy CIA's torture tapes without asking anyone's permission. And, after all, as Richard Nixon's advisers told him, better to take a bit of heat for destroying the tapes than to take the heat for what the tapes contained.

While there undoubtedly will be a big hub-hub over the destruction of the tapes and possibly some minor slapping of wrists, the CIA knows that no one is going to be sent to jail or severely punished for torture, obstruction of justice, murder, kidnapping, or any other crime. The uncomfortable fact is - the fact that all too many Americans just don't want to face, just as many Germans didn't want to face the truth about the Gestapo - is not that the CIA is above the law but rather that the CIA is the law. It can do whatever it wants with impunity.

The CIA is at the rot at the center of the U.S. Empire. It does the dirty work - the torture, the murders, the assassinations, the regime changes, the coups, the secret prison camps. The secrecy of its operations is guaranteed. No one dares to jack with the CIA. Other federal departments and agencies, as well as Congress, essentially operate in a support role.

Don't forget that this isn't the first time that the CIA has destroyed tapes. Recall that the CIA destroyed its tapes regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City prior to the Kennedy assassination.
http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger12132007.html

I wonder how/if she will retaliate?

The Palestinian Authority is under intense pressure to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. This is not a matter of semantics. If Israel's demand is granted, the inequality that we face as Palestinians--roughly 20 percent of Israel's population--will become permanent.

The United States, despite being settled by Christian Europeans fleeing religious persecution, has struggled for decades to make clear that it is not a "Christian nation." It is in a similar vein that Israel's indigenous Palestinian population rejects the efforts of Israel and the United States to seal our fate as a permanent underclass in our own homeland.

We are referred to by leading Israeli politicians as a "demographic problem." In response, many in Israel, including the deputy prime minister, are proposing land swaps: Palestinian land in the occupied territories with Israeli settlers on it would fall under Israel's sovereignty, while land in Israel with Palestinian citizens would fall under Palestinian authority.

This may seem like an even trade. But there is one problem: no one asked us what we think of this solution. Imagine the hue and cry were a prominent American politician to propose redrawing the map of the United States so as to exclude as many Mexican-Americans as possible, for the explicit purpose of preserving white political power. Such a demagogue would rightly be denounced as a bigot. Yet this sort of hyper-segregation and ethnic supremacy is precisely what Israeli and American officials are considering for many Palestinian citizens of Israel -- and hoping to coerce Palestinan leaders into accepting.

Looking across the Green Line, we realize that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has no mandate to negotiate a deal that will affect our future. We did not elect him. Why would we give up the rights we have battled to secure in our homeland to live inside an embryonic Palestine that we fear will be more like a bantustan than a sovereign state? Even if we put aside our attachment to our homeland, Israel has crushed the West Bank economy--to say nothing of Gaza's--and imprisoned its people behind a barrier. There is little allure to life in such grim circumstances, especially since there is the real prospect of further Israeli sanctions, which could make a bad situation worse.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/rouhana

Has one been posted?
I downloaded the vod overnight and
when I returned home from work this
afternoon it was finished.
Just finished recording it to Tape.
Its quite choppy on this pc. A DELL
My IBM PC plays them better.
I may transfer the .flv ,.swf , .css &.htm files to my IBM
and see if it plays better.
Unless a better .mp3 is UP ?

-

I now officially hate the bitch.

Anyone who defends this hag in any manner is a tool.

-M the a-c

http://www.studywarnomore.org.uk/

Military organisations - including arms companies and the Ministry of Defence - annually sponsor hundreds of projects at UK universities.

The Study War No More report examines military involvement at 26 UK universities in order to highlight the impact military funding has on university departments. The report provides information about the funding of UK universities by military organisations, both governmental and industrial. It also intends to support students concerned about the impact their institutions have on international peace and conflict; and to encourage debate regarding the democratic deficit within academic institutions and the ends and ethics of research and research funding.

You can download the Study War No More report http://www.studywarnomore.org.uk/documents/studywarnomore.pdf, which exposes the ways in which the military sector is being pushed into UK universities, view in-depth data http://www.studywarnomore.org.uk/data.html on each of the 26 universities we researched or find out more information on researching and campaigning in this area http://www.studywarnomore.org.uk/getinvolved.html.

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Stuart Hodkinson
School of Geography
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
0113-343-1820

MA in Activism and Social Change
www.activismsocialchange.org.uk

More Joe Strummer!

When they kick at your front door how you gonna come
With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your
gun?

When the law breaks through how you gonna go
Shot down on the pavement or waiting in Death Row?

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&tab=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.m...

Watch Mark Penn starting at 1:50

THIS IS COMING FROM THE TOP.. IT WASN'T JUST A RANDOM COMMENT FROM A VETERAN ADVISOR... IT'S DELIBERATE.

Hope everyone's doing good !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

The Study War No More report examines military involvement at 26 UK universities in order to highlight the impact military funding has on university departments. The report provides information about the funding of UK universities by military organisations, both governmental and industrial. It also intends to support students concerned about the impact their institutions have on international peace and conflict; and to encourage debate regarding the democratic deficit within academic institutions and the ends and ethics of research and research funding.

This is an interesting debate. As we know, modern western economies--especially The US and UK--use military spending to finance their economies. Many argue, reasonably, that, until we can bring about radical changes in government economic policies, universities are stuck with accepting military money, or they can suffer and likely fold. Some military funding is evil, and should be fought against. On the other hand, some of it is more neutral. Chomsky has written and spoken on this. He once got a big subsidy from the Army to do linguistic research. He said that they put no restrictions on him. I remember him saying that it was "pure fascism" to not allow academic researchers to accept military money. All government funding is tainted to some extent. I'll try to find some articles on this subject.

Go Straight To Hell Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=576x7KIKjGw

:)

US lawmakers vote to hold Bolten, Rove in contempt
REUTERS
Reuters North American News Service
Dec 13, 2007 10:36 EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to hold two top aides to President Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors.

On a largely party-line vote of 11-7, the Democratic-led panel sent contempt citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to the full Senate for consideration.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senators_vote_to_hold_Bush_chief_1213.html

Miers was in on the contempt charge. But I only read it once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsT8p8ZxQC8

New Orleans sounds great...
build a SamSederBlogHouse.com &
then donate it.
My partner lived in New Orleans for 10 yrs.
and oh by the way - I don't smell a thing!! :)

Im @ work and a little behind^^^^^^^^^^

on and on FIRE as usaul.

Hey to all my Sederite buddies.

Against the Zapatistas of Bolom Ajaw

Authorities, Working Through an Alleged Paramilitary Group, Plan to “Relocate” the Inhabitants; Civil Groups Called to Boycott Tourism of the Agua Azul Falls

By Hermann Bellinghausen.La Jornada
December 13, 2007

In view of the tension created by the aggressions of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-affiliated armed groups against the Zapatista community Bolom Ajaw in the region of the Agua Azul river, which has been used for decades as a resort and tourist center, civil organizations and members of the Other Campaign in Chiapas have installed an observation camp in the threatened community.

The Center for Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigations (CAPISE) has called on international civil society and organizations to address their ministries or Departments of tourism and the travel agencies in their countries, to “inform them about the incidents at the Agua Azul waterfall and to carry out a campaign with the demand: No visits to the Agua Azul Cascades, until the aggressions and eviction threats against the families of the community Bolom Ajaw have stopped!”

The call proposes that organizations in Mexico and other countries that heed the call send protest letters to President Felipe Calderón, tourism minister Rodolfo Elizondo Torres and the government secretary Francisco Ramírez Acuña.

CAPISE also calls for public demonstrations “against the aggressions to which the inhabitants of Bolom Ajaw and the Zapatista communities are subjected, to visit Mexican travel agencies and inform them about the incidents in Agua Azul,” and to invite them to not send tourists to the waterfall.

“In view of the serious situation to which the Zapatista families are subjected, in the context of total impunity with which the OPDDIC members of the Ejido Agua Azul are operating,” a special “Land and Territory Observation Brigade” (BEOTT in its Spanish initials) departed to Bolom Ajaw on November 28, to “offer assistance to the women, men, children and the elderly of the community Bolom Ajaw.”

On the same day Chiapas governor Juan Sabines Guerrero requested the Office of the General Attorney of the Republic (PGR) to investigate the denunciations against the OPDDIC in Bolom Ajaw and the Ejido Agua Azul. Nevertheless, on November 29 in the afternoon, an armed group of OPDDIC members fired repeatedly on the Zapatista community, from a distance of 200 and 150 meters. The shots were fired mainly with large caliber weapons, as reported by the Good Government Junta of Morelia and later confirmed by the BEOTT.

On the morning of November 30 a blue-and-white helicopter of the state Public Security agency circled for 15 minutes over the community Bolom Ajaw and its cultivated fields.

The community has identified more than 20 persons from Agua Azul who have participated in the recent shootings against the unarmed population of Bolom Ajaw. Among them are Jerónimo Urbina López and Juan Urbina López, Jeremías López Hernández, Salomón Moreno Estrada, Miguel Silvano Hernández, Juan García, Marcos López Moreno, Manuel, Santiago and Adolfo Cruz López.

The “agrarian dispute” (according to all indications artificially instigated) lodged by the OPDDIC on the Agua Azul river against Bolom Ajaw concerns the lands recovered by Zapatista support bases, which previously to the rebellion of 1994 belonged to a private estate. The belligerence of the OPDDIC comes along with pressure from the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas, the Secretariat of Government of Chiapas, the Palenque Public Prosecutor’s Office and tourism officials – together constituting, if one takes a good look, a contradictory salad of interests.

Are these PRI-affiliated campesinos wishing to extend their fields, federal agencies trying to “conserve” an area until now well-preserved and almost untouched, or entrepreneurial and governmental interests seeking to expand the tourism “supply” in these places of great beauty, where waterfalls and forests are still waiting to be exploited by consumerism and services?

In any case, as repeatedly indicated, the federal, state and municipal authorities which have intervened in certain moments of the presumed conflict have expressed to the inhabitants of Bolom Ajaw directly, and on some occasions to the CAPISE, their interest to “relocate” the Zapatista grassroots communities – that is, to displace them.

Until now, the instrument to achieve this has been the OPDDIC, considered a paramilitary group in several indigenous regions in the Lacandon Jungle and the northern zone, where it is also assaulting and threatening Zapatista communities in the autonomous municipalities San Manuel, Francisco Gómez, Olga Isabel, 17 de Noviembre, La Paz and Ricardo Flores Magón. In addition, under the same name of OPDDIC, at the end of September an alleged paramilitary group released death threats against the autonomous council of San Andrés Sakamch’én de los Pobres, in Los Altos.

Published in La Jornada in Spanish, December 6, 2007

--Besame
Submitted by Fernando on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 9:31pm.--

Very nice..very nice and good... :)

Such as, grischa?

What did Chomsky consider more neutral...?

http://www.avaaz.org/en/please_ignore_bush/4.php

Funny But True: You Have to Sign This Petition.

Published by Richard Graves, December 13th, 2007

Shortest…but truest petition, ever.

Petition from Americans to world leaders at Bali Summit:

Please ignore President Bush. He doesn’t represent us. - Avaaz.org

Well, it doesn’t get simpler than that. Sign it.

Hidden U.S. Deaths Of Gulf Wars
Since Gulf War 1 - 73,846 US Dead, 1,620,906 Disabled
By Peter Marshall E. Boomhower

...George Walker Bush has presided over the worst defeat of the United States Military since Vietnam and has deliberately skewed reporting of the deaths and injuries to conceal the facts.

The Department of Veteran's Affairs, in conjunction with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has released the truth because they need the American People to know our military is literally, destroyed.

They cannot release these horrific numbers via the chain of command because they are under orders to conceal the truth at all costs, so they let slip a report which now cannot be "un-slipped."...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18878.htm

Report in full Data from -
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf

No problem!!!!!
Signed with a BIG FAT Fu%king Smile on my face.:)

Part of the 97 is a minor bootlicking character in Bush's ongoing novel "Iraq 4Evah!". Part of the 97 tutors Candide while they are living in the [fortified] castle of the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, and later joins Candide in some of his misadventures. Like most characters in Candide, Part of the 97 is a "flat character": he has only a few personality traits that do not evolve much throughout the story.

Part of the 97 is a follower of, or as many have argued, a caricature or outright satire of the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who in his Theodicy theorized that the world we live in is the best of all possible worlds. Consequently, Part of the 97 constantly argues that "there is no effect without a cause"-—in other words, everything in existence, from the human nose to natural disasters, is meant to suit a specific purpose.

Or, in his pithy manner: OUTCOMES!!!

[I.e. all of existence is a self-serving a priori tautology for the defense and ratification of the cruelty of asinine establishment thought.]

[T]his worldview causes Part of the 97 not only to remain optimistic in the face of incredible tragedy but to justify it. For instance, while Candide and Part of the 97 [were discussing] Candide's friend Pat Tillman being gunned down by friendly fire and then having the government lie about it, repeatedly, a storm of propaganda hits and Pat Tillman is washed overboard. Part of the 97 stops Candide from leaping into the PR maelstrom in an attempt to save [Tillman], claiming that "the mountain passes of Afghanistan had been formed expressly for [Tillman] to be gunned down by his own men!".

As Part of the 97 himself suffers a series of misfortunes—-including a botched election in 2006, in which Democrats regained control of the House and Senate (tho' they did fuck-all nothing w/their victory, a passive and neutered opposition who wanted only power not change, which of course caused Part of the 97 to embrace them as prodigal sons)-—Part of the 97 does adopt a more opportunistic outlook about politics, saying that "Democrats, which I once disparaged as treasonous snakes, are now part of the -- newly invented in the best of all possible worlds! -- elect 97 percent!".

This goes to show that Part of the 97 does not believe his own philosophy, however he maintains it to retain his self-respect as a philosopher. In fact, a few (Mark Foley) pages later, Part of the 97 is noted to argue for his
Iraq 4Evah! philosophy to Candide, though this does not mean he himself believes in it.

Part of the 97ism:

The term "Part of the 97ism" describes baseless optimism of the sort exemplified by Part of the 97's beliefs, which are the opposite of [reality-based folks' justifiable] pessimism and emphasis on free will. The phrase "Part of the 97 pessimism" has been used to describe the pessimistic position that, since this is the best of all possible worlds, it is impossible for anything to get any better, so just lay back and enjoy the rape -- er, ride!

Background

A number of significant historical events and literary works inspired Part of the 97. [One] source of inspiration may have been derived from the stereotypical German personality of the time which Candide embodies. This, as described by Alfred Owen Aldridge, biographer of Voltaire, includes "extreme credulousness or sentimental simplicity".

Iraq War and War Dog's disillusionment

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which occurred on Mission Accomplished Day, had a strong influence on many [hyperventilating bedwetters] of the day—-and on the reality-based community, who were disillusioned by it. In Candide and Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ("Poem on the Lisbon Disaster"), Volaire attacks the philosophical system called Optimism which is founded on the theodicy, a theological argument attempting to explain away evil, of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716): that humanity must live in the best of all possible worlds because God, a benevolent deity, created it, and logically, He would have made it to be the best that it could be.

This concept is often put into the form, "Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles" (All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds). This locution expresses the fundamental tenet of Part of the 97's Optimism to which Candide adheres for the majority of the Iraq 4Evah! story.

The reality-based community does not hold to this philosophy, believing at least that if this were the best possible world, it should surely be better than it is. The needless invasion of Iraq is described sarcastically as one of the most horrible disasters "in the best of possible worlds".

The name Part of the 97 was created through use of arbitrary self-serving assertion, meaning a superficial or deceptive attractiveness that suits one's agenda. Thus Part of the 97 gave his disciple Candide a tempting, yet false, interpretation of life, since he attempted to justify and demonstrate the true necessity and finality of despicable human acts or tragic natural events. Another interpretation of the name Part of the 97 is that the fictitious overwhelming majority signifies a servile apologist's fealty to a brush-clearing fake-cowboy "all hat and no cattle" epistemology.

Candide

Pangloss

Hope you are well...

MEEEEEEEEEEE caballero!

Any thoughts on the recent debates?

p.s. Tam diu minime visu. Hot Latin!

After touring Scandinavia as The New Yardbirds, the band changed their name to Led Zeppelin, a phrase coined by Who bassist John Entwistle, who claimed that the proposed New Yardbirds supergroup would go down like a lead zeppelin. In late 1968, one month after their live debut under their new moniker, Zeppelin signed a highly lucrative deal with Atlantic Records, who signed the band unseen at the recommendation of Dusty Springfield. Atlantic was noted for their R&B and Soul records at the time, but was looking to broaden into rock. The band made their US debut in late December, 1968.

Why is he so grumpy?

Salve, dr

Submitted by Star Vox on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 12:10am.

Hope you are well...

MEEEEEEEEEEE caballero!

Any thoughts on the recent debates?

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Didn't see 'em, caballera mia.

Only knows Iron ("Cackling Hag - I now officially hate the bitch") Mike's reactionary misogyny is sorta off-putting and Obama's cynical play for the press (Pumpkinhead must love the renewal of the social security "crisis!", to say nothing of "Sistah Soljah"ing Krugman) is purty dispiriting.

What're yer thoughts?

ONLINE PETITION AGAINST HR1955/1959.

http://www.petitiononline.com/S1959/petition.html

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

By signing here, I agree to do my best efforts to dump Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Steny Hoyer, who have failed miserably to challenge the law-breaking activities of the Cheney-Bush Regime and have morphed into "Republican Right-Lite".

Having resigned themselves to enacting bills with Republicans, instead of standing their moral ground, these three have betrayed the party, more interested in keeping their power base, than doing the bidding of those of us who put them there.

If we wanted mushy, spineless leaders, we would have re-elected mental defects like Armey, Boehner, Gingrich, Hastert & Lott. If we wanted mountains of new, irresponsible debt, we would have resurrected Ronnie Reagan.

If we sought a "War without End, Conquest without Victory", we would have resurrected Ghengas Khan..

I will work in my community, my 'personal sphere of influence' (business & neighbors), also to encourage elected Dems for my district, to "Dump the Leadership", start local efforts to encourage others in this effort and commit to forcing the party to return to its base of "Free Speech, Pro-Peace, Civil Liberties" advocacy and defense.

http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/dump_the_democratic_leadership_2008

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Didn't see 'em, caballera mia.

Only knows Iron ("Cackling Hag - I now hate the bitch") Mike's reactionary misogyny is sorta off-putting and Obama's cynical play for the press (Pumpkinhead must love the renewal of the social security "crisis!", to say nothing of "Sistah Soljah"ing Krugman) is purty dispiriting.

What're yer thoughts?

_________________

I agree with your thoughts. I am disappointed by Obama attacking Krugman. (You sorta were reading my mind and that's sumpin'!)

I enjoyed reading Krugman's response. After all, we blogging types are devil-worshippers!

Currently, I am listening to the Democratic debate. It's interesting to listen now -- since I have been reading about it and I have seen clips earlier today.

Please Ignore Bush
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 10:36pm.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/please_ignore_bush/4.php

Funny But True: You Have to Sign This Petition.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

W/all due respect, I is all petitioned out. Don't know how many of them fucking things I is put a name to.

'Minds me of Bill Scher's importuning ever'body to be "brief, polite 'n respectful".

(And ignored.)

Thinks Frederick Douglass got it right:

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Just kidding ! ;)

Make's me feel like I'm doing,something.. :)
Get's out some of the frustration too !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

☺♥☺♥☺
One election at a time...

Submitted by SEDER on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 7:44pm.
On a policy level, the one area where Obama is definitelively distinct from Clinton is in foriegn policy.

His advisors in this area are his biggest asset in my opinion.

__________________________

I agree that Obama's foreign policy advisors are an asset.

I don't like some of his domestic policy advisors and anyone else that is encouraging him to attack progressives (while adopting right-wing talking points).

For the record, some of Obama's current domestic advisors were previously advisors to Bill Clinton.

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"Renewing American Leadership"

by Barack Obama

From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007

Summary:

After Iraq, we may be tempted to turn inward. That would be a mistake. The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. We must bring the war to a responsible end and then renew our leadership -- military, diplomatic, moral -- to confront new threats and capitalize on new opportunities. America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

Link:

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing...

The Alan Parsons Project - Breakdown
Utube

☺♥☺♥☺
One election at a time...

Well Screw You dr !

Submitted by MMRules on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 12:57am.
Just kidding ! ;)

Make's me feel like I'm doing,something.. :)
Get's out some of the frustration too !

________________

Fair enough. Not to be condemnatory but more observational, I'ma just sayin' that, me personally, I's hadda bellyful of what amounts to throwin' pennies in the wishin' well as I's whistlin' past the graveyard.

But, 'stead a Paris, I reckon we'll allus have frustration.

:)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

just saw the movie. How fun. Couldn't get the Love Bug out of my head. Kept waiting for a Volkswagen to come save the day.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1670#comment-112513

☺♥☺♥☺
One election at a time...

re: signing petitions

Submitted by dr on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 12:52am.
W/all due respect, I is all petitioned out.

________________

I must admit that I couldn't resist signing Al Gore's petition recently.

I enjoyed reading your post and comments about Fred Clark and his blog.

Did you read his post about Huckabee talking to God on the phone?

p.s. I think that it will be interesting to read Clark's blog esp. when he discusses Huckabee and Romney. By the way, I started reading some of his posts about the Left Behind series. Must be ready for the rapture!

That's what it's there for.. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Submitted by Star Vox on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 1:18am.

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re: signing petitions

Submitted by dr on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 12:52am.
W/all due respect, I is all petitioned out ...

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I must admit that I couldn't resist signing Al Gore's petition recently.

I enjoyed reading your post and comments about Fred Clark and his blog.

Did you read his post about Huckabee talking to God on the phone?

p.s. I think that it will be interesting to read Clark's blog esp. when he discusses Huckabee and Romney. By the way, I started reading some of his posts about the Left Behind series. Must be ready for the rapture!

________________

Not sure if we's talkin' 'bout the same petition, but the last one I signed were re: Draft Gore.

(And now I is spammavalanched w/their emails.)

Glad you enjoyed slacktivist. Call me gay if you must, but I thinks Fred Clark is a lovely man.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

You can add it if you want

☺♥☺♥☺
One election at a time...

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

There Is No Reason To Impeach ?
new
Submitted by MMRules on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 1:37am.

Mebbe Jim knows the answer to this:

Is there a reason how'z'come metal cuts is so tender 'n slow to heal?

I is recent got stitches for a gash in my haid that's done healt quicker'n simple 'luminum slashes on my hands.

(Tho', in all senses, I prolly uses my hands a lot more'n my haid these days.)

Gotta fire blazin' 'n a toddy waitin', so night, owls.

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Mike Huckabee pardons Mitt Romney's magic underwear
Submitted by dr on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 1:31am.

Not sure if we's talkin' 'bout the same petition, but the last one I signed were re: Draft Gore.

(And now I is spammavalanched w/their emails.)

Glad you enjoyed slacktivist. Call me gay if you must, but I thinks Fred Clark is a lovely man.

___________________

The Gore petition was re: Climate Change.

It was a petition from Gore (in support of his call to take action).

I am starting to read slacktivist on a regular basis now. Thanks for the interesting post and recommendation.

p.s. We are all happy 'n' gay! (GBC's underwear is probably more magical than Romney's.)

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Clark, the lovely man, says:

I'm a Baptist, which means that for me religious liberty is not only a human right and a constitutional right, it is also a religious belief. We Baptists believe in "soul freedom," meaning nobody else can decide for you what it is that you believe (that's why we don't baptize until you're old enough to choose baptism for yourself).

So I'm pretty sure, from Romney's point of view, that I'm the wrong kind of believer with the wrong kind of religion. How about you?

Posted by Fred Clark

wanna catch a ride on a monkeys back?

By Jared Bernstein
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just updated their invaluable data series on income inequality and the results are startling. Income inequality among households, both before and after Federal taxes, grew more quickly over the last two years of the series, 2003-05, than over any other two-year period on record, back to 1979.

Over those two years, the growth of inequality transferred $400 billion dollars from the bottom 95% to the top 5%. That is, had the income distribution remained as it was in 2003, the income of each of the 109 million households in the bottom 95% would have been $3,660 higher in 2005.

If this is the ownership society at work, I think we need to have a serious talk with the owners.
Con't-Tpmcafe

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

A monkey's back ? I'm usually up fo anything ! ;)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

dada - dizz knee land.mp3

Ah, great memories

:)

I wanna see me some damn meteorists,tonight ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

dizz knee land is nearly impossible to find these days on the net.
but I finally found it. Makes you wonder why it's been suppressed.
I should be played on every rock station, now more than ever.

Is it my computer but,fileden takes awhile to download?
I have to open a account with them sometime this coming week..Get all these songs
off my computer..Taking up alot of space..Either you or I
can put the song on the Oasis.. :)

Done..
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

It might get a place of honor in the top list.
; )

It's been moved up ! :)

A little nap,then some star watching :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

should be clear tomorrow night.

enjoy the heavens.

: )

I read they are going to stop playing for awhile..
Burned out,I quess..I dig um !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

It's clear so far over here..Hope the fog holds off..
Have a goodnite Britt !
Thanks for the songs again ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

They need to give their ears some R&R.

You're welcome

: )

from cnn:

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday pushed European allies for more troops to re-energize efforts in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgency has increased its attacks in the 18 months since NATO took command of the war.

whats remarkable about this is that afghanistan is where the true war on terror needs to be, not in bloody iraq.

it is going to take several generations to undo the damage that the 97%'s have done to this country in a mere 7 years. not much different than the rebuilding germany and japan had to go thru.

Miami Seven: terrifying "terrorists" but no convictions
by Chris in Paris · 12/14/2007 05:03:00 AM ET
Discuss this post here: Comments (13) · reddit · FARK ·· Link

As CNN says, 0 of 7 convicted in Sears Tower terror plot. Stopping terrorists is obviously important, but was this really a very good use of resources and tax dollars? Obviously it was helpful to the Bush Administration who was desperate to have a big terror announcement and scare the hell out of citizens, though I fail to see where this helped the US as a country. Taxpayer dollars aren't there to be used for political manipulation, though the Bush team is perfectly fine with doing just that.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/13/miami.terror.trial/index.html

High oil prices hit economy hard
by Chris in Paris · 12/14/2007 03:55:00 AM ET
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Not only is the dollar hitting 30 year plus lows, now wholesale prices shot up the highest amount in 34 years. In Europe, where the euro has been strong (too strong, really) we have not noticed the increase in oil-related costs because oil is sold in dollars. The price at the pump for gas is still hovering around €1.35/liter or €5.11 per gallon or $7.50. This is about the same as it was a year ago and even two years ago, on a euro cost basis. The big difference is the collapse of the dollar. When some people in the media and in politics say the weak dollar means nothing to Americans who are staying at home, this is where they are wrong.

European prices are already painfully high, though at least they are not moving upward. The increase gasoline costs impact driving, heating, food shipment costs and more. No matter what Dick Cheney thinks about the US economy being resilient to high oil costs, regular people are feeling the pinch.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071213/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy_rdp

Gore: Bush blocking
climate talks progress

Al Gore said Thursday the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071213/ap_on_re_as/bali_climate_conference;...

Climate talks stalled amid rows - 44 min ago
UN climate talks in Bali continue past their scheduled close as the EU and US keep wrangling over emissions cuts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7143810.stm

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ENDURE in order to CREATE,
TRANSCENDING MIND
seal the OUTPUT of VISION
with the COSMIC tone of PRESENCE.
guided by the power of SELF-GENERATION.

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ABC News: The Blotter
Another KBR Rape Claim Brings Scrutiny
December 13, 2007 4:11 PM

Justin Rood Reports:

Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq.

Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore congressional concern about a second alleged assault, this time of a woman from Florida who reportedly worked for a KBR subsidiary in Ramadi, Iraq in 2005.

"I am deeply troubled by recent reports that at least two women who worked in Iraq under contractors for the Department of Defense were sexually assaulted by male coworkers," Nelson wrote Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday.

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Blotter Congress to Probe Iraq Rape Allegations
Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.
In particular, Nelson expressed concern that in the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, the U.S. Army doctor who examined her turned over the rape examination kit, thought to contain useful evidence, to KBR officials. In the letter, Nelson also asked for an investigation to determine how many rape examinations were performed by U.S. military doctors in Iraq, and what was being done to ensure the cases were prosecuted.

In a separate letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Nelson asked why there has been no criminal prosecution in the case of the alleged Florida victim. The woman, reportedly now 41, has alleged she was raped in her living quarters. She has sued KBR and Halliburton in civil court, but the judge ordered the case into private arbitration.

Contacted Thursday, the woman's lawyer said the rules of arbitration prohibit her from discussing the case or making her client available for an interview.

In the woman's complaint, filed earlier this year, she alleges that in December 2005 a drunken KBR co-worker let himself into her living quarters and raped her. The woman worked as a Morale, Welfare and Recreation Coordinator in Ramadi, according to news accounts and Nelson's letter.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/12/more-kbr-sex-as.html

I think we should thank the 97% in Congress who are going to once again (over a year after the Nov 2006 elections) fully fund the War In Iraq. With The Surge producing positive results (thanks to President Bush) and plenty of money to fight the war, 2008 is shaping up to be another tough year for the Terrorists!

Former intel chair: CIA tape affair part of 'an ongoing pattern' of Bush administration cover-up

David Edwards and Jason Rhyne
Published: Thursday December 13, 2007

The former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he was kept in the dark about severe interrogations of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists taped by the CIA, and calls the episode just another example of the Bush administration's "covering up" of unwanted revelations.

Former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee from 2001 to 2003 -- the period during which the CIA has admitted to implementing waterboarding and other severe methods on two high-level detainees -- says he was never told by the agency that such tactics were being employed.

Appearing on CNN's American Morning, Graham was asked about a recent story in the Washington Post which cited officials claiming that four members of Congress, including now-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, had been thoroughly briefed about the techniques being used.

But if that briefing did occur, it didn't include him -- and it certainly should have, said the former intelligence chairman.

"I was briefed on a number of other activities that were going on after 9/11, but not on this issue of the use of torture to gain information from detainees," said Graham. "Not only should I have been briefed, but the entire committee [should have] been briefed."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Sen._Graham_CIA_tapes_an_ongoing_1213.html

Writers guild files labor complaint

Writers Guild Files Unfair Labor Practices Complaint Against Hollywood Studios

LYNN ELBER
AP News

Dec 13, 2007 22:12 EST

Union officials representing striking Hollywood writers said Thursday they filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios violated federal law by breaking off negotiations.

The Writers Guild of America also demanded that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers return to the bargaining so the six-week strike can be ended and thousands of workers idled by the walkout can return to their jobs.

Negotiations broke off Dec. 7 when the alliance refused to bargain further unless the union dropped a half-dozen proposals that included the authority to unionize writers on reality shows and animation projects.

The producers alliance criticized the complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

The "baseless, desperate NLRB complaint is just the latest indication that the WGA's negotiating strategy has achieved nothing for working writers," the producers fired back in a prepared statement.

The labor board did not immediately return a call to its Los Angeles office.

The guild said in its statement that it was "a clear violation of federal law for the AMPTP to issue an ultimatum and break off negotiations if we fail to cave to their illegal demands."

It also said it was irresponsible for the alliance to break off talks in the midst of the holiday season, "with thousands of our members and the membership of other unions out of work."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Writers_guild_files_labor_complaint...

Folks are gearing up to celebrate Christmas and New Years. Here we are eight years into a new century and things are going great! Taxes are low so everyone who is working has lots of cash. The economy and stock market just keep rollin along.

We have a great election coming up with tons of new leaders ready and willing to keep us on the right track to economic success! God has really bless us in putting us in such a wonderful country!

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

This is such a happy time of year. Jesus' birthday brings such joy to everyone while they are out shopping! All the malls are just buzzing with holiday traffic. It's such fun to see all the Christmas lights up and the decorations in all the stores.

Christmas is truly the best holiday for the 97%!

There is hope for you if you seek help.

I think mine was watching President Bush take charge with The Surge. Wow, what a stroke of leadership that was! Do you remember that day? The Surrender Monkeys were ready to give Iraq to the Terrorists. The 3% was sure our Great Military was going to be defeated in Iraq. But NO! President Bush shocked the world with a bold plan!

Build up and ATTACK!

Funny how things always work out for the best isn't it? Even the 3% are now admitting they were all wrong about Iraq. Who says God isn't on our side?

Newish Testament

Thanks, Brett!

is in April.

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*Nothing should be done to impede people from teaching and doing their research even if at that very moment it was being used to massacre and destroy. That was not academic. At the time, the mit political science department was doing just that (in my opinion), and the issue was very much alive as Kennedy-Johnson "action intellectuals" started returning to the universities after Nixon's election. In fact, as a spokesman for the Rosa Luxemburg collective, I went to see the President of MIT in 1969 to inform him that we intended to protest publicly if there turned out to be any truth to the rumours then circulating that Walt Rostow (who we regarded as a war criminal) was being denied a position atMIT on political grounds (claims that were hardly plausible, and turned out to be utterly false). (13 Feb. 1996)
Noam Chomsky

In 1969, the Pentagon and NASA were financing two MIT laboratories; one (now called Draper) was working on inertial guidance systems, while the other (Lincoln) was (to the best of Chomsky's recollection) "engaged in some things that involved ongoing counterinsurgency" (13 Feb. 1996). Chomsky maintains that it was impossible at that time for mit and its researchers to sever ties with the military-industrial complex and continue to function. What he proposed then he stands by even today: universities with departments that work on bacterial warfare should do so openly, by developing departments of death. His intention was to inform the general population of what was going on so that individuals could make informed and unencumbered decisions about their actions. Such thinking was behind his response to the Pounds Committee, which was formed to defuse the tension that was mushrooming between the mit administration and a group of students who were adamantly opposed to the military connection: "The students and I submitted a dissident report disagreeing with the majority. The way it broke down was that the right-wing faculty wanted to keep the labs, the liberal faculty wanted to break the relations (at least formally), and the radical students and I wanted to keep the labs on campus, on the principle that what is going to be going on anyway ought to be open and above board, so that people would know what is happening and act accordingly" (31 Mar. 1995).

I think God wants people to be free, don't you? Have you ever noticed how the dictators and Communism never work out? I bet Cuba will jump at the chance to have it's freedom when Castro dies?

Now some people hate it that Castro has lived so long, but not me. I am glad that he has had a chance to prove that Communism does not work. Communism is just a failed system!

What could be worse for the 3%? God and Capitalism rolled up in one big package with blinking colored lights on it! What a nightmare for the 3%. And it lasts forever. 60 days of hell for the 3%!

But what a great celebration of capitalism Christmas is!

I think it's the way God wants things to be!

let me know if the quality is ok. It sounded good to me, but I've only listened to the mastercopy. I'm trying MediaFire hosting for the first time.

when you fix the blog software you need to provide registered users a filter so we can tune out those users who simply fill the blog with meaningless garbage on a case by case basis

I might as well be living in fucking Minn.

Free Democracy

Then we get the kick off 2008 with the Super Bowl and The State of The Union Address! I just love The State of The Union Address don't you? It's the one chance we get all year to get together a brag about all the great things we have don't as a country!

Everyone claps and cheers! Lieberman and Hillary kiss Bush! And everyone goes home happy and feeling great about America!

♡* OOPS! ♡
Submitted by grischa on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 9:16am.

The National (or Harvard) Lampoon once had made up a bunch of periodicals in an issue (NPI) and there was one called "OOPS" for premature ejaculators.

the UK is engulfed in the next Ice Age. The real fun starts then.

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you're being particularly bizzare this morning. did you forget to take your meds? did your life partner finally tell you to go pound sand?

The National (or Harvard) Lampoon once had made up a bunch of periodicals in an issue (NPI) and there was one called "OOPS" for premature ejaculators.

What did they call a Double-Shot?

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.

A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and money.

Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.

HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.

Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense.

A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery.

You support states' rights, which means Attorney General can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.

What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

Dan Bartlett: on conservative bloggers
http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-01-01/talks-1.php
"They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we've cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on."

They are going to want their colonies back.

That will require the installation of 2.5 billion 'security' cams.

That sure is a handy list.

Free Democracy

been out exploring. Check my new mic to see what I brought back.
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Don't be a scrooge again this year. Even the 3% can still be saved! Find a good church and ask God to forgive you! You too can wake up on Christmas morning and experience redemption!

It's not too late, even for YOU!

Have a question. Why did the Bible stop at a certain point? It was written over centuries from the Old Testement to the New Testement. It's never really been added onto.

Democracy Diary
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article753.html
Hilary Wainwright

what goes around comes around.

It sounds fine so far. There are some dropouts but it seems like that is from the VOD. It seems that you can watch the VOD over and over and get a different b'cast each time.

It would be nice if the Management would set up an always on top go to place where these blog contributed audios can be deposited and found since Management seems unwilling or incapable of providing them on its own.

Thanks again to you and all contributors.

U.S. paid $32M for Iraqi base that wasn't built

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.

The project had to be abandoned because the Iraqi Defense Ministry couldn't obtain rights to the land where the headquarters were to be built, according to a report released this month by the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General. Contracting records show the buildings would have housed one brigade and three battalions of the Iraqi military in Ramadi, a hotbed of the Sunni Muslim insurgency and capital of Anbar province.

Still, the Air Force agency overseeing the project paid contractor Ellis Environmental Group $31.9 million of the $34.2 million obligated for the project, the report said.

An Air Force spokesman, Michael Hawkins, said in an e-mail that Air Force auditors are reviewing the contract. Although the inspector general's report says the Air Force was considering suing the contractor, Hawkins said any talk of a lawsuit was premature until the Air Force audit is complete.

Ellis Environmental Group spokesman Steve Brownstein said the work was reassigned to Ellis World Alliance Corp., a related company. Bob Smith, of Ellis World Alliance headquarters in Gainesville, Fla., said contracting rules barred any official comment.

The Ramadi construction contract is one of many problems Pentagon investigators cited in this month's report on the military's oversight of $5.2 billion Congress approved in 2005 to help train and equip the Iraqi military and police.

Don't Expect a DOJ Press Conference
The Justice Department's kooky cult terrorism case against the "Liberty 7" in Miami ends in one acquittal and six mistrials.

--David Kurtz

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004904.php

Have a question. Why did the Bible stop at a certain point? It was written over centuries from the Old Testement to the New Testement. It's never really been added onto.

The New Testament submissions ended with Revelations. I will have to look into the Old Testament.

Today's Must Read
Inspector general is quickly becoming the most investigated job in the Bush Administration. The Iraq IG alone is facing four of them--including a just revealed federal grand jury inquiry.

--David Kurtz

Bush Iraq IG: Play Along or We'll Put A Spell On You
The FBI is investigating Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq reconstruction. It's the fourth probe into his office. Employees say top officials spy on them, and that Bowen's deputy even threatened subordinates with witchcraft.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004905.php

see what I brought back.
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Bush mis-spoke his Oath of Office. I've heard the sound bite a few times. I think NovaM has it.

Bush ‘needs’ Hannity and Limbaugh. At the White House Christmas party for the press last night, “conservative talk radio hosts dominated the place, including Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Neal Boortz, Mark Levin and Paul W. Smith.” During a conversation with WMAL General Manager Chris Berry, who’s station features such conservative hosts as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, President Bush “smiled, patted him on the back and said, ‘Keep it up. We need you guys.’”

http://blogs.chron.com/whitehouse/archives/2006/12/i_must_party_yo_1.htm...

Without these idiots, Bush would still be in Texas as an x governor!

By taking over the air waves, they were able to spew their hate widely and influence people with talking points that were to busy or to dumb to reason out what they said.

http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/Bible/outside.stm

Not all ancient Judeo-Christian texts made it into the Christian Bible. These ancient texts are called "outside books," "extrabiblical books," or "noncanonical books."

Christian canons emerged through a complex process in which some books were "chosen" and others were left out. A tradition of use, authority within the communities, antiquity or apostolicity, and orthodoxy were factors in deciding which books were "in" and which were "out."
[...]
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Our Bible was censored

they knew we couldn't handle the truth

Also Yavneh or Javneh. A place near Joppa where, about A.D. 90, a council of rabbis declared the O.T. canon to be completed, ending the process of adding more. It is probable that the measure was partly defensive, precipitated by the increasing number of books being written by Christians. At this council the traditional text of the O.T. was decided upon and became known as the Masoretic (Heb. for “traditional”) text.

This still does not address the question of why the O.T. scriptures were largely
closed in the first century B.C., if not before.

The general public and government prevention programs tend to focus on suicide among teenagers, and many suicide researchers concentrate on the elderly, said Mark Kaplan, a suicide researcher at Portland State University.

The largest increases occurred in the 45 to 54 age group. - Yahoo

.... the Bu$hCo legacy

Killing ourselves here so we don't have to die over there.

I wonder why AAR never took over the air waves? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

why do you ask such simple questions? You know advertisers black listed them? It's not the lack of listeners. It's the corporatists that rule you daily. I'm not sure why you are so pleased with them running your life.

You can't know freedom if you have never really been free.

There was a time in the 90's I couldn't get enough of that stuff. The best book to read on the subject, IMO, is Elaine Pagels' "The Gnostic Gospels". Both fascinating and entertaining, this book tells the story of the discoveries of the extra-biblical books.

By taking over the air waves
new
Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 10:30am.
I wonder why AAR never took over the air waves? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

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Um...maybe because the agenda of the right, from back in the 80s was to do just what they did. Not only did they take over the air waves, but the news media to push their agenda. And they used the cult like evangelicals as well.

Bush is talking now. He's pissed with congress. Too bad!!

cultivated regurgitators

Look up Operation Mockingbird
or Project Mockingbird

The infiltration of the media by the CIA

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The Senate passed a “pared-down” energy bill on Thursday “after the oil industry and utilities succeeded in stripping out” $13 billion in tax increases on oil companies “and a requirement that utilities nationwide produce 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/washington/14energy.html?ref=washingto...

Thanks too all of you that did the research on the bible question.

Funny how things just pop into your mind.

If you ever listened to Air America stations on line, instead of the main feed, you will have discovered an awful lot of really bad radio. Not Air America's fault at all. It was sheer unprofessionalism at the local level - not only in sales but also in presentation. From Key West to Los Angeles, I'd listen to a lot of these stations. Some were excellent. The one in Boston got my attention as a great exception. And, Portland's was really good. But lots of them were just horrible. Ads would run on top of the AAR feed a lot, and they'd run over each other.

Seemed to me local stations were trying to ruin the format on purpose. Maybe they were forced by their parent companies to try it out and they couldn't sell it (or wouldn't), so they'd sabotage it hoping for an easier sell. Like sports.

I just saw your Lord and Master on TV!

He was in a garden of roses.

As he did over Thanksgiving, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is considering “keeping the Senate in session during the Christmas-New Year’s break” in order to prevent President Bush from making recess appointments.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR200712...

Congressional Democrats criticized the “National Labor Relations Board Thursday, saying its recent decisions had favored employers over workers.” Sixty-one board decisions issued in September “made it harder for unions to organize workers and harder for illegally fired employees to collect back pay.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/washington/14labor.html?adxnnl=1&ref=w...

Al-Qaeda tape rejects Annapolis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7144515.stm

Radical Rightard Cleric Pat Robertson: Ice Storms Caused by Annapolis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQB6o1rFwwQ

Submitted by toniD on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 9:48am.

Have a question. Why did the Bible stop at a certain point?
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[not exactly what you meant -- but this is where it took me]
google new bibles

New American Bible
Home of the New English Translation (NET Bible)
The online NIV Bible :: New International Version Official Translation
The official website of the New Living Translation
New American Standard Bible
New Jersulam Bible - Bible - Catholic Online
In 1970, the New American Bible (NAB) was first published.
King James Bibles
Ancient Aramaic Bible translation project
The New Revised Standard Version Bible
institute for Creation Research The New Defender's Study Bible
ESV Bible Editions
Today's New International TNIV Bible Translation
Children's New Revised Standard Version Bible
IVP Bible
New Living Translation Bible
New Interpreter's® Bible
New Life Bible version
and you say you want new
Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price
Joseph Smith founded Mormonism as a restoration of what he considered to be the true Christian church. Among the major differences with traditional Christianity: Mormons do not believe in the concept of the unified Trinity; the Book of Mormon is considered to be sacred text, alongside the Bible; and Mormons believe that God has a physical body and human beings can eventually become like God.
http://tinyurl.com/3ycvn7
[thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
/2007/11/29/mormons-and-the-bible/]

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Why would they do that? What did they fear?

Sam Seder calls in after Arnold call on Mike Malloy

Run time: 04:36

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViogQV5bhho

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Hilarious Sam Seder debate with fundie over the War on Christmas.

Run time: 10:11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJGPdd899o

...the 3% likes all kinds of music,...
but I like American music best,
Baaaaby!

...Demand one more debate in Iowa.

DES MOINES -- Dissatisfied with the debate here Wednesday that drew widespread scorn, Iowa Republicans will discuss on Friday the possibility of holding another forum before the January 3rd caucuses.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1207/Iowa_Republicans_consi...

daily from this admin. Here's another. I wonder if there is a list, somewhere, of all of these...

Here's another

“The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-12-13-Iraqcontract_N.htm

Conservative Christmas hypocrisy. Yesterday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) attacked the nine “liberal Democrat” “naysayers” who voted against his resolution on the “importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.” Today, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) responded, explaining his vote:

While the Republicans are passing a resolution celebrating Christmas, the president was vetoing health care for children. There’s a little bit of irony going on around here.

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/northwest/story/262134.html

King was one of the lawmakers who voted against expanding SCHIP.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll1009.xml

As reported by the Star-Telegram, Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to "...campaign on behalf of Giuliani wherever he is needed." Perry denies any intent to become his vice president, but given his attendance of the 2007 Bilderberg meeting in Istanbul Turkey, this denial rings hollow to those who follow Bilderberg activities. - InfoWars

Mutt, meets Jeff. Rick Perry as VP? HA! If that doesn't make you grin ear to ear, I don't know what will....

I'm really not liking this very cold weather were having here.
Its a whopping 18 degrees outside.
Wow - break out the swim wear!

While the Republicans are passing a resolution celebrating Christmas, the president was vetoing health care for children. There’s a little bit of irony going on around here.

that wraps it up so neatly. how can these rightards not see how effed up they are?

Yes ... It's the Military Budget 8-)

What's he got to bitch about? Didn't his buddies just get all they wanted for Christmas?

stripping out $13 billion in tax increases on oil companies

Is he mad they keep making him look like a elitist villian by vetoing S-CHIP? Uh, that's his own fault.

You're right, toni... too effin' bad.

Morning everyone. :) It's Friday ya bastards!

toniD, weatherman says, take cover this weekend, there's a big one blowin' in.
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O’Reilly creates a ninth day of Hanukkah. Despite declaring “victory” in the “War on Christmas” this week, Bill O’Reilly continued to harp on his favorite subject last night with Focus on the Family’s Carrie Gordon Earll. Discussing the group’s “Attack on Christmas 2007” list, Earll mentioned that Old Navy’s catalogue uses the phrase “holiday morning.” O’Reilly then suggested the store may be trying to “incorporate the nine days of Hanukkah in the holiday morning description” as a “marketing tool.” Watch it:

Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration that traditionally begins at sundown, not in the morning.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/14/oreilly-creates-a-ninth-day-of-hanuk...

How can anyone take this guy seriously! He's an embarrasment!

i checked cspan 1,2,3 and they didn't have anything.

did you catch maddow last night? she was talking about the whitehouse christmas card and how the selected verbage pandered to the creationists.

It reads like an orgy of idiotocracy. What a crazy cornball! Has this guy changed

even one mind here? Ever? Morning gang! Hi T...hi Charlie! Start bouncin'.

thats what i hear. in cincinnati they put the winter storm watch up last night on tv. expected arrival of snow is sunday morning. can't ever be too cautious.

I commend you for recognizing you aren't always informed.

HERE. Now go look at that and ask yourself why those companies would want to stop AAR from threatening to break up their monopolies. If you still can't figure it out, I'll give you another clue. Have confidence in yourself. You can do it.

In a Chicago hospital, a gentleman had made several attempts to get into the men's restroom, but it had always been occupied.

A nurse noticed his predicament.

Sir, she said ' You may use the ladies room if you promise not to touch any of the buttons on the wall.'

He did what he needed to, and as he sat there he noticed the buttons he had promised not to touch.

Each button was identified by letters: WW, WA , PP, and a red one labelled ATR.

Who would know if he touched them?

He couldn't resist.. He pushed WW. Warm water was sprayed gently upon his bottom. What a nice feeling, he thought. Men's restrooms don't have nice things like this. Anticipating greater pleasure, he pushed the WA button. Warm air replaced the warm water, gently drying his underside. When this stopped, he pushed the PP button. A large powder puff caressed his bottom adding a fragile scent of spring flower to this unbelievable pleasure.. The ladies restroom was more than a restroom, it is tender loving pleasure. When the powder puff completed its pleasure, he couldn't wait to push the ATR button which he knew would be supreme ecstasy.

Next thing he knew he opened his eyes, he was in a hospital bed, and a nurse was staring down at him.

'What happened?' he exclaimed. The last thing I remember was pushing the ATR button.

'The button ATR is an Automatic Tampon Remover. Your penis is under your pillow.'

WAPO

To me this is lower than Shrub's veto of the kids insurance.
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I'm not anti Christmas. It's just that there's a lot of holidays this time of year. I'm covering all bases.

Santa...do you hear me?

A bit of my useless knowledge:
Tightly rolled cotton bluejeans make an excellent fuel for a wood stove in emergencies.

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So I'm in Walmart the other morning. Yeah, I know. Walmart is ba-ad, mm'kay? I know. But I'm there early in the morning. If you've never been to Walmart early in the morning you're missing out on their very own radio station - which runs in the AM hours in all Walmart Superstores all over the country. The deejay does a little patter about how Walmart Store #4212 is celebrating an anniversary or how a store manager's been promoted. They do the stock market report telling people how well Walmart is doing. They'll play a mix of music ranging from Bay City Rollers to Neil Young to Elvis to Willie Nelson.

The other morning I'm there and they've got the music up a little too loud. And they're playing a really horrible version of "Go Tell it on the Mountain". It's Christmastime so I guess they figure they can get away with some Jesus music. It's not a good version like Mahalia Jackson or The Blind Boys of Alabama. No, it's some psuedo Christian-rock. (yes, psuedo on the Christian and psuedo on the rock).... it's all very preachy and deliberate and miserable and blatant and pathetic and loathesome.

And I'm walking around kind of offended. I'm not against Jesus. I just don't care to be preached at when I'm buying Juice Boxes and Crunchy Granola bars. And just when I'm starting to steam a little bit out my ears, pissed off at Walmart for not caring if there are people shopping there that might not be Christians, who might feel a little discriminated against with this kind of tactic - the in store person gets on the microphone and shouts, "I need clean up in the Bicycle Section. Clean up in Bicycle Section."

Bush says he will veto a ban on torture. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR200712...

comment posting so POT 97 can catch up....

I need to slow my
Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 11:32am.
comment posting so POT 97 can catch up....

*May* is the operative word. It's not clear why the article is presenting this as only a possibility. What possible reason would there be for not doing this? Because Bush got upset the last time the Dems did it at Thanksgiving? That's a reason TO do this. Another reason: It is critically important that Bush not be allowed to jam radical appointees, like his Surgeon General nominee, down our throats without confirmation. There is only one year left, and with a slim majority in the Senate there are few things the Democrats can do to impede Bush doing even more damage to the country and to show their constituents, and the public at large, that the Congress is in fact relevant. Blocking Bush's recess appointments - appointments he is making to thwart Congress - is one of them.

Another reason for Dems to keep blocking Bush's recess appointments: The public likes seeing the Dems stand up to Bush.

Blackwater in Baghdad: "It was a horror movie"

New testimony from witnesses and victims provides the most in-depth, harrowing account to date of the U.S. security firm's deadly rampage in Iraq.

By Jennifer Daskal

Dec. 14, 2007 | For Khalaf, a 38-year-old Iraqi, Sept. 16 started like many other sunny summer workdays. He donned his police uniform -- a white shirt, navy trousers and hat -- and headed to Baghdad's busy Nissour Square. By 7 a.m. he was out in the street, directing the flow of traffic coming from the multi-laned Yarmouk access road into the square. When he spotted four large all-terrain vehicles with guns mounted on top, he did what he always did. He stopped traffic and cleared the area for what he knew, from the tell-tale sign of the two accompanying helicopters, to be a security firm's convoy.

At first, this seemed completely normal for the totally abnormal world of Baghdad in September 2007. "Convoys are common," explained Khalaf. But this convoy made an unexpected U-turn, drove the wrong way around the one-way square, stopped in the middle of it and started shooting. Fifteen minutes later, 17 Iraqi civilians were dead, dozens more wounded, and a white sedan that had been engulfed in flames contained two bodies charred beyond recognition.

"It was a horror movie," said Khalaf, describing the aftermath of the now notorious Blackwater shootings.

I interviewed Khalaf on Nov. 30, in a small conference room inside a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. In one of the most in-depth collection of testimonials to date regarding Blackwater, Khalaf was among five witnesses and victims flown from Baghdad to meet with Susan Burke, William O'Neil and their team of lawyers and investigators. The team is suing Blackwater on behalf of the victims of the Sept. 16 shooting.

That lethal incident was a watershed moment that brought intense scrutiny to the problems caused by private contractors, which have effectively operated with impunity as they've brought violence and widespread ill will to U.S. operations in Iraq.

With experience learned from a similar lawsuit filed two years ago against U.S. contractors implicated in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Burke O'Neil is perhaps the only law firm in the nation that could so quickly gather eyewitness and victim accounts, make the right legal arguments and begin the process of holding Blackwater to account.

Sadly, this lawsuit may be the only way that the victims and their families receive remotely adequate compensation for their losses.

Khalaf recounted the events of that day to a hushed room of lawyers with laptops. He watched, he said, as the Blackwater convoy made the U-turn toward the street where he stood directing traffic. As the convoy stopped, Khalaf watched as a large man with a mustache standing atop the third car fired several shots in the air. Khalaf turned back toward the Yarmouk road to see what might have spurred the shooting and heard a woman yell, "My son! My son!" He ran three cars back to a white sedan to find a woman holding a young man slumped over and covered with blood.

The man was Ahmed, a 20-year-old medical student at the top of his class, and the woman his mother, Mohasin, a successful dermatologist and mother of three.

"I tried to help the young man, but his mother was holding him so tight," said Khalaf. "I raised my left arm high in the air to try to signal to the convoy to stop the shooting," he said, thinking that it would respond to such a gesture by a police officer. He described how he crouched by the car, his right arm reaching inside, his head out and left arm up in the air, signaling to the convoy, his gun secure in its holster. Then the mother was shot dead before his eyes.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/14/blackwater/

I just think it's important to realize that POT97 is a human after all. We wouldn't degrade him for being contageous or ugly. His mentality is irritating but if you have ever dealt with severly mentally handicapped people you learn to look past that.

At least we don't have to mop after he craps all over everything.

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Every post he puts up here marginalizes each and every one of us. He is arrogant,

condescending and cruel. He hates the people here yet he's here 24/7 attacking and

humiliating us. Is this the behavior or a human? I wonder.

White House staff exodus continues. The Washington Times reports:

President Bush is losing his chief speech writer, William McGurn, and his director of legislative affairs, Candida Wolff, the White House announced this morning.

Mr. McGurn, a former Wall Street Journal columnist, replaced Michael Gerson in January 2005, and will leave after crafting the president’s final State of the Union speech for late January.

Mrs. Wolff joined the president’s staff three years ago after three years in Vice President Dick Cheney’s legislative affairs shop, and will leave by the end of this month.

McGurn and Wolff’s departures come despite White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten telling “senior aides” in September “that if they stayed past Labor Day he would expect them to stay through the remaining 17 months of Mr. Bush’s term.”

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2007/12/new_white_house_depar...

Four of Bolivia's nine provinces - Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando - have announced they will declare autonomy on Saturday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/629E0B90-7FC0-434A-AC2C-C958E0314...

thats a little bit of a stretch. i liken it more to trying to have an adult conversation and having some kid running around making fart noises with his hand and armpit.

I can not prove that POT97 is a human. That is true. My grandmother got dimentia when she was about 94. It really hurt that she no longer knew me. I tried not to be offended by it.

POT97 may have dimentia. We have more evidence of that than him being a machine or animal. Machines have better spelling and very few animals can use a keyboard.

.... and just look. You ran him/it off. Won't you feel bad if he's in the corner snivling or barking at cars again?

Really? A stretch? A guy that's here every day telling you that you're a loser with no

brains that can't make decisions for yourself, has no representation, and is locked in a

percentile with schizo's and madmen....and my comment was a stretch?

Your grandmother like my dad had dementia. POT97 indeed has dimentia.

good one
Submitted by mystic23 on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 11:28am.
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on second thought, you're right. for the most part i dismiss everything he says and its been a long long time since wado actually made a point that caused me to pause and reconsider.

that being said, i still wouldn't want to switch to a moderated blog where you could make that crap go away.

Reid may block Bush recess appointments again at Christmas
Submitted by GBC on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 11:44am.
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and here it is
http://tinyurl.com/25n6ds
[ americablog.com/2007/12/
reid-may-block-bush-recess-appointments.html ]
The unusual maneuver, which Reid first used during the recent Thanksgiving vacation, would block Bush from using his constitutional power -- derived from the days when the Senate could be out of session for months -- to fill vacancies. Such appointments made now would be valid through the end of Bush's presidency.

As a practical matter, if Reid decides to keep the Senate in session, such folks as Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who came in from across the river to wield the gavel during the Thanksgiving break, would once again briefly open and close the Senate twice a week, in what are called pro forma sessions.
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Iowa Republicans consider another debate

DES MOINES -- Dissatisfied with the debate here Wednesday that drew widespread scorn, Iowa Republicans will discuss on Friday the possibility of holding another forum before the January 3rd caucuses.

The debate this week, sponsored by the Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television, was to have been the final gathering of the GOP contenders, but one well-placed Iowa Republican said tonight that they were interested in getting the candidates back together

"We'd prefer if the Register debate did not leave a bad taste," said this source, who requested anonymity. "Iowa deserves a little better than that."

The most likely possibility would be the week after Christmas, when many of the contenders are expected back in the state to make a final push before the voting.

Political observers of every stripe were almost uniformly unhappy with the newsless hour-and-one-half session Wednesday, and even two candidates, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, said publicly after the forum that they were disappointed hot topics like immigration and Iraq were preemptively taken off the table by Register editor Carolyn Washburn.

Also, conservatives here have an abiding disdain for the state's largest newspaper, which they see as favoring Democrats, and are frustrated that it had such say in shaping their party's debate.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1207/Iowa_Republicans_consi...

off to fed ex
and novaM ----
People sure seem pissed off - in general - as evidenced by how they are driving in the local shopping area parking lots. I guess buying stuff isn't giving the same pleasure it used to.
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The SUV's bug me. You can't see around them and down the road on the highway and in

parking lots, they block your vision making it dangerous to back out. My car seems to be

a magnet for huge vans and SUV's. Where ever I go....no matter how far from the store I

try to park....when I come out...I have one of those huge bastards parked next to me.

Hastert endorses Oberweis for his former seat

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) today endorsed self-funding dairy chain owner Jim Oberweis in a competitive Republican primary for his old Congressional seat.

Conservative state Sen. Chris Lauzen and Oberweis have been in a fierce battle to win the support of Republican voters for the Feb. 5 primary. Two internal polls within the last month from both leading campaigns show both candidates neck and neck for the lead.

A third candidate with a more moderate profile, Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns, lagged well behind in both polls.

One Illinois-based GOP operative said Hastert’s decision has the potential to give Oberweis a significant boost.

“His endorsement carries a lot of weight with folks out there,” the operative said. “They’re on a first-name basis with him.”

Just several days ago, Lauzen wrote a sharply worded letter to Hastert, urging him not to take sides in the primary.

"Now that you are stepping away from your official duties," Lauzen wrote. "I believe that citizens and voters would be distressed if you reassert yourself and use your considerable clout to influence the outcome of an impending primary."

UPDATE: After Hastert's endorsement of Oberweis today, Burns announced he was dropping out of the race.

UPDATE 2: Lauzen issued a statement dismissively referring to Hastert's endorsement as "all about big money and big insider establishment clout." His full statement is below:

"It’s not about money, power, or insider clout — it’s about the people.

Former Congressman Hastert’s decision crystallizes what this campaign is all about ... big money and big Insider Establishment clout versus the rest of us in the grassroots.

Pro-life, pro-Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment, pro-family and pro-taxpayer groups have already endorsed me based on my 15-year voting record of independence and traditional, conservative values.

The Hastert endorsement may be good for Oberweis (who has lost all 3 campaigns he’s ever run, including the 2002 U.S. Senate Race, also with Hastert’s endorsement), but it’s bad for the people and bad for unity in the Republican Party. Hastert has resigned; Oberweis is running against me; let the people decide."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1207/Hastert_endorses_Republican_...

Wednesday I placed an order with Amazon for a book and a CD
Yesterday I got the notice the package shipped.
Today the package arrives USPS "Media Mail" which is the same as "Parcel Post"

This is the second time I've gotten " day after tomorrow" service and the kicker is it's Super Saver FREE shipping.

(This has been an unsolicited testimonial by me...)

(...but I will accept payment if Amazon or USPS feels it necessary... ;-)

The more you know about Romney's religion, the more you want to ask him questions about it. Your religion was founded by an alcoholic criminal named Joseph Smith who committed bank fraud and claimed God told him polygamy was cool after his first wife caught him having an affair with the maid and who then went on to have 33 wives, and you really believe every word that he said and wrote? Do you really believe that the American Indian is genetically descended from Israelites? Would it shake your belief if DNA testing showed no such relationship between Indian tribes and Jews? Do you really believe that Jesus Christ came to America? Do you really believe that your possible general election opponent, Barack Obama, is black because his people turned away from God? Are you in favor of big increases in federal funding for Missouri or turning the site of the Garden of Eden into a national park?

I wouldn't ask Romney any of these questions if he hadn't decided to make a political speech in which he pretended to tell me about his religious beliefs.

I could vote for a devout Mormon for president or anyone with any religious affiliation if I agree with the candidate's policy positions. I used to agree with a lot of Romney's policies before he flip-flopped on all the ones I agreed with. Flip flopping for political convenience is a Mormon tradition. In 1890, the Mormon president claimed he had a chat with God that finally convinced him polygamy was no longer cool, thereby allowing Utah to become a state. That was quite a flip from Brigham Young's anti-American position. When Brigham Young--a deadly serious racist and a hero of Romney's who actually got a mention in the speech, unlike the unmentionable Joseph Smith--was told Utah could not be admitted to the United States as long as it allowed polygamy, he said, "Then we shall never be admitted."

In his "faith of my fathers" speech, Romney had the audacity to say "Americans tire of those who would jettison their beliefs, even to gain the world." Weren't any of the Romney speechwriters worried that someone was going to point out that Romney's religion jettisoned its beliefs to gain statehood? Of course not.

LINK

Mormons have always jettisoned their beliefs for either political expediency and/or gain. Back in 1978 (I say that like it was soooo long ago, but whatever) is when their "Prophet" had a revelation that said blacks were now equal in the eyes of God and therefore could be "saved" by holding the priesthoods of the church.

Retired Lt. Col. Officially Enters Race To Challenge McConnell

By Greg Sargent - December 13, 2007, 10:34AM

GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, whose support for the Iraq War has made him vulnerable to a challenge in 2008, officially has a challenger: Andrew Horne, a retired Marines lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and who's also a senior adviser to the antiwar group VoteVets. Here's his announcement video:

Presumably Horne will be making an issue of McConnell's recent comments belittling the deaths of professional soldiers.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/gop_senate_leader_mcconnell_appear...

His official Web site, complete with bio and other stuff, is here.

http://andrewhorne.org/main/

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/retired_lt_col_officially_enters_r...

http://thirdpartywatch.com/2007/12/14/historical-tidbits/

For the many socialist parties throughout the country – including California’s Peace and Freedom Party – discussions are underway to form affiliations that could ultimately lead to a unified socialist party within the U.S.

Newcomb: Predators threaten Western Shoshone sacred mountain Email this page Print this page
Posted: December 14, 2007
by: Steven Newcomb / Indigenous Law Institute

Buried deep in the dominant society's system of ideas is the metaphor ''colonization is eating.'' The metaphor evokes the background image of a large predatory body that is ''consuming'' and ''digesting'' that which is being ''eaten,'' or colonized and destroyed.

For the Western Shoshone Nation, the Cortez Mine is the result of large ''predatory bodies'' (mining corporations) colonizing Western Shoshone lands (in what is now called Nevada). The Cortez Mine project is named after the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and, as a result of a proposed new mine in the area of Mount Tenabo, a place of great cultural and spiritual significance to the Western Shoshone is now under direct threat.

wwwindiancountry.com

I didn't see it on his link or in the TMP blurb

Inject respect into climate debate Email this page Print this page
Posted: December 13, 2007
by: Editors Report / Indian Country Today

Another startling report of accelerated Arctic melting surfaced recently. It probably did not incite any more fear than the last report of Arctic melting did, but this one appeared as world governments debated in Bali over a new climate treaty. ''The Arctic is often cited as the canary in the coal mine for climate warming,'' said a NASA climatologist. ''Now ... the canary has died. It is time to start getting out of the coal mines.'' It is unnecessary to make metaphor with climate change; the indigenous peoples who struggle daily to survive amid rapidly changing ecosystems have been warning us for years.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference was held Dec. 3 - 14 on the Indonesian island of Bali. The purpose for the gathering of representatives from 190 world nations, together with intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and the media, was to create a ''road map'' for a future international agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when its first commitment period expires in 2012. Delegates hope to soon begin drafting a plan to continue cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists believe play a major part in global climate change.

www.indiancountry.com

Indigenous People Lash Out at Bali Climate Change Talks

www.truthout.org

FAT FUCK @ it again.... this article is a little over a month old.
But Limbaugh is OVER to... so what can I say - he is a fucking idiot.

What is Horne's party?
new
Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 12:44pm.
I didn't see it on his link or in the TMP blurb

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You are right, I can't find what party anywhere.

...based on the excellent 3 minute announcement.

Maybe Hackett will drive down from Cincy and stump for him.

I like everything he said.

...back to the grind.

A Dem

BREAKING: Andrew Horne for U.S. Senate
December 13th, 2007 · 13 Comments
It’s official, ladies and gentleman. Mitch McConnell’s worst nightmare has become a reality. And we’re the first to bring the news to you. Andrew Horne is announcing his candidacy for the United States Senate. The months-long and successful draft movement is over. The Democratic Party’s consensus candidate is here.

This is a first for Kentucky and a signal that the blogosphere is increasingly relevant. Welcome to campaign 2008.

From Horne’s announcement:

“I’m running for U.S. Senate because it’s time for a change and because Senator Mitch McConnell is more than part of the problem. He IS the problem. It is time for Kentuckians to take our government and country back. We should not be told to take a backseat to the wealthy and powerful. It’s time to tackle the challenges facing our country instead of passing them off to our kids. It’s time for leaders who’ll take the right stand.”

“Mitch McConnell, the Republican Leader, symbolizes everything wrong with Washington. He bows to big business, practices the worst kind of politics, and doesn’t take a stand when faced with tough issues. Simply put: Mitch McConnell carries George Bush’s water on Iraq; I carried a rifle in Iraq.”

http://pageonekentucky.com/2007/12/13/breaking-andrew-horne-for-us-senat...

according to his web site he's an independent. his contributions are being handled by act blue. i wonder if he's running as a stealth democrat given the general bad taste that political partys have left in the collective mouths of kentucky

I don't feel humiliated by this person or bot or whatever it is. I've been called worse before and I'll be called worse in the future, I'm sure.

Just remember to read him/her/it in the voice of Lawton Smalls from Planet Bush and it's a lot easier to deal with. I look at him/her/it as parody. They can't be serious, really. Most everyone in the country thinks Bush is an idiot. I suspect even Bush thinks Bush is an idiot.

This poster also seems to be here to help foment fears about Hillary being too Republican for us lefties - but it seems that we are perfectly capable of doing that to ourselves (and likely helping the Dem party to lose another election in the process).

I've made my peace with it. If it's Hillary I'll support her and work to get her elected. She's better than Romney, Guiliani, Huckabee and Thompson and Paul. (Ron Paul might be better on the war issue but there's other things going on besides the war.)

Voting Chief Tanner Resigns
John "Minorities Die First" Tanner has taken his last free trip to Hawaii. He just stepped down from his post heading the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004910.php

Edwards Debate Performance Wows CNN And Fox Focus Groups
By Greg Sargent - December 13, 2007, 5:03PM
Though the exchange between Hillary and Obama at the debate was most attention grabbing to the media, it was John Edwards who most impressed the voters who were assembled by CNN and Fox News to gauge reaction.

The Edwards campaign sends over this quote from CNN's Mary Snow, announcing that Edwards won the network's session:

Twenty-three registered Democrats came in here undecided. We asked them who they felt performed the best in this debate and they concluded they felt that John Edwards performed the best, with Senator Clinton right behind him.
Meanwhile, ABC News' Rick Klein kept an eye on the Fox News dial sessions with voters and says that Edwards' answers repeatedly drove voter responses high up and off the charts, live-blogging as follows:

Here's Edwards shooting broad once again – ‘join together to take this democracy and take this country back.’ At least the fourth time he's sounded that theme -- if you're an angry Iowan, you've got to love that message. And the Fox dialers certainly do."
...and, later:

Fox News is doing running dial-testing -- and John Edwards is quite literally off the charts with that answer about the tax system being rigged.”
So these voters, at least, call it for Edwards.

Late Update: In fairness, Obama also earned high marks from Fox's focus groups.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/edwards_debate_performance_wows_cn...

Hauling Out the Big Guns
DC lawyer Bob Bennett is representing the CIA's Jose Rodriguez in the torture tapes case.

--David Kurtz

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004908.php

of the irrelevants? barely worthy of a click of the wheel as i roll and scroll

Not defending them. Just saying to those who are annoyed by them: why care so much what they say? I don't.

either

exactly what his team has been hoping for. That Obama and Clinton would turn on each other, going negative on each other, putting a bad taste in the Iowa voters mouths.

just having fun this AM hustling old motorcycle parts.

Senate votes to help strapped homeowners

Senate Passes Bill Aimed at Helping Homeowners Caught in Mortgage Crisis

JESSE J. HOLLAND
AP News

Dec 14, 2007 12:19 EST

The thousands of Americans facing foreclosure because of the ballooning interest rates on their subprime mortgages would get help from the federal government under legislation overwhelmingly approved by senators Friday.

The legislation, approved 93-1, is the Senate's first attempt to address the looming subprime mortgage crisis through stand-alone legislation. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., was the lone senator to vote no.

The bill would allow the Federal Housing Administration to back refinanced loans for tens of thousands of borrowers who are delinquent on payments because their mortgages are resetting to sharply higher rates from low initial "teaser" levels.

An estimated 2 million to 2.5 million adjustable-rate mortgages are scheduled to "reset" this year and next, jumping from low "teaser" rates for the first two or three years to much steeper rates that could cost borrowers their homes.

The wave of resets could crest during the presidential and congressional election campaigns next year, and the issue has brought politically charged debate in recent weeks over possible responses by the government.

The legislation will help the Federal Housing Administration "be a source of salvation for those families who were tricked into unaffordable loans," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

President Bush last week announced an agreement with mortgage companies to freeze interest rates for certain subprime mortgages for five years. Democrats in Congress, however, criticized the White House plans as being too limited.

The Senate bill raises the maximum mortgage the FHA can insure in high-cost areas from $362,790 to $417,000 — the same level as loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The FHA currently insures 3.7 million mortgages, but critics say the size of mortgages the government agency can back is often too small to attract borrowers in expensive areas such as California and the Northeast. As a result, FHA's share of the single-family mortgage market has dropped to about 4 percent, down from 19 percent more than 10 years ago.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/mochila.php?articleId=11038561&channelId=76...

Sunshine... how are ya this noon???

Trolley Top trailers!

craig fixes these up in Arizona, does a beauty job too!

mostly old vintage stuff. 3 trolley tops there.

http://www.vintagetrailersforsale.com/

600: Percent the cost of government paper-shredding has increased since President Bush took office. USASpending tracked how the government spent $452,807 on contracts for paper-shredding services in 2000, only to see that number rise astronomically to over $2.9 million in 2006.

http://www.usaspending.gov/fpds/fpds.php?reptype=a&database=fpds&mod_age...

New Thread

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1951

also for making me aware of this new media site, cool. I downloaded the clip and sounds good, though I caught just a few minutes of it, already watched the vod twice, i'm ready for a new one! and a whole week of seder coming up wow can hardly wait

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Spurned by major newspapers, Dem Congressman takes 'impeach Cheney' appeal to Web
Nick Juliano
Published: Friday December 14, 2007

As the House Judiciary Committee continues to refuse any action on proposals to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, three of that panel's members tried to take their case to influential op-ed pages of the nation's largest newspapers.

They were turned down by every one -- including the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald -- so now one of the lawmakers has taken his campaign to the Internet.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) on Friday launched a new Web site, WexlerWantsHearings.com to advance his call to impeach Cheney. The site hosts an op-ed article censored by the nation's major newspapers and outlines the case for impeaching Cheney.

"The truth is the mainstream media have no interest in this issue," Wexler said Friday.

"They have bought into the notion that impeachment hearings are outside the bounds of what the congress ought to be doing," the six-term Congressman elaborated during a conference call Friday.

The House Judiciary Committee has before it a resolution introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calling for Cheney's impeachment and accusing the vice president of a raft of high crimes, including manipulating intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, obstructing federal investigations and conspiring to expose the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said impeachment in strictly off the table, and the Judiciary Committee seems unlikely to move forward with any hearings. Wexler encouraged impeachment supporters to sign a petition on his new site to allay the notions of Democratic leaders that impeachment supporters are little more than "a fringe, marginal group of people."

Wexler said the House has the constitutional obligation to begin impeachment hearings to investigate malfeasance within the Bush administration, and he blamed the lack of enthusiasm thus far on the "bad taste" left by the GOP's last impeachment crusade.

"People are just afraid that we would just be putting the shoe on the other foot and just doing ... what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton," Wexler told the conference call, which was organized by Democrats.com.

The "kangaroo court" Republicans used to impeach Clinton, on grounds that he lied about his liaison with an intern, cannot become the precedent by which the constitutional tool is judged, Wexler said.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Spurned_by_major_newspapers_Dem_Congressma...

nearly choked myself out at 3AM.

acid reflux in the old lungs.

scared Bgurl bigtime. Ack!

hate coming out of a

snooze with one.

can't breathe

for 15.

but!

i scored an

ol barnjob 78 750 runner.

they lost the seat 17 years ago.

and never got around to getting another.

On Lionel: Seeking Advice
By SEDER on December 13, 2007 - 7:58pm
Lionel speaks to Gabriel Fischbarg, attorney and the author of THE GUIDE TO PICKING UP GIRLS, the definitive guide to one of the world's most mysterious art forms.

FOR THIS, SAM SEDER WAS DOWNSIZED TO ONE DAY A WEEK? WHAT MORONS THE GREENS ARE!!

Says Jesus was born in August

Seth says "Jesus" is a composite of three men...

http://www.wonkette.com/assets/resources/2006/10/shred-thumb.jpg

http://wonkette.com/politics/dick-cheney/shreddin-with-dick-211028.php

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