Over night

Women’s Support for Clinton Rises in Wake of Perceived Sexism

[Perceived sexism?]

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All over the country, viewers scrutinized coverage for signs of chauvinism in the race, and many said they found dismaying examples.

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Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/us/politics/10women.html?pagewanted=1&...

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p.s. "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

-- Henri L Bergson

wait till your kids are teenagers

(runs from the room screaming)

he thinks poo is a problem.... pffft. He has no idea. and can you imagine what his mom and dad did to keep him from jumping in front of a bus?

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where POT's undies are right now.

I bet he can taste them.

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CNN/OPINION RESEARCH CORPORATION POLL January 9-10
Registered Voters'
Choice for President

Obama 58%
Huckabee 39%

Sampling error: +/-3.5% pts

QUESTION: If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and Mike Huckabee were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

where is our sensitivity?

Pass out the lolly pops someone.

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Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 11:01pm.
...This Bizzaro world bullshit of stating the opposite of the facts as truth is getting old...
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maggiesboy,

I agree, but that's all he's got. Nebulous generalities are much safer than specific citations.

What's he going to do, tout the domestic and foreign accomplishments of Cheney and Bush? Can he brag about Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Ahmad Chalabi and PNAC and the Pax Americana Neocon ideology? Is he able to point to the economic successes that resulted from "tax cuts" and Houston's Enron and post-hurricane leadership? Is he going to applaud the underlying "patriotism" behind outing Valerie Plame? Can he crow about the "family values" represented by hindering stem cell research and torturing prisoners and repeatedly sending the National Guard back for second and third and fourth and fifth tours in a cluster-fucked civil war costing billions, possibly trillions?

Not on your life. The slightest mention of the travesties of the past seven years is to open a Pandora's Box of ridicule.

Even the Republican party candidates avoid any association with Cheney and Bush. The vast majority of the people on this planet are thrilled to see an end to the Cheney/Bush administration and they don't hesitate to let it be known.

He's got nothing. He supported losers. His ideology had its shot and failed. He sees the writing on the wall and he doesn't like it, so he throws online tantrums.

You pays your money and you takes your chances. When you go all-in with a weak hand, you have to be willing to go bust, shut up, and exit gracefully. Only the cheesiest of sore losers stick around to criticize the way the remaining players place their bets.

Even tho many of us here are devout atheists, we're humanists concerned about the here and now and well being of our peers. If our peers, however, choose to act like dicks, then the George Carlin "Fuck 'em all" rule takes precedence. Doesn't it?

but if we really, I mean like really stand for helping people....

Even haploids and stricken old folk... then mis-informed miscreants fall somewhere in there. We need to help poor racists overcome stupidity and educate their children. So what if they call teachers liberals.

We need to find ways to inspire entrepreneurs to start ventures that feed people for access to true people powered politics.
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It occurs to me that I have neglected to work up a Mitt "Mormon" Romney joke using Mission Accomplished as a punchline.

I must be losing my mojo.

Submitted by SEDER on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 11:33pm.
...I have no idea who "part of the 97percent "is...
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He's the Britney Spears of your blog.

The Voter ID Fraud
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 10:20pm.
Garrett Epps

There's a war on across the country over who will be allowed to vote in 2008. One of the key battles in the election was fought on January 9 before the Supreme Court.
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Could be Retiring/Replaced In The Next 4 Years !

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

Gottalaff spits it real.

We have work to do. A lot of it.

We need more than pundits. We need to rebuild the Justice Dept. Good Start.
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Waaaaah !

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

When The Chips Are Down...
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 12:19am

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

dancing happily in the corner between days.

The eerie troll murmurer squelshed

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BAGHDAD, Jan 11

The Ulemas Council of Iraq today described as a horrific crime the bombing of a suburban area of the capital perpetrated yesterday by U.S. planes.

The Council – the leading organization of the Sunni Muslim community – charged the U.S. armed forces with attacking a residential area in Arab Jabour, a suburb south of Baghdad.

The clerics affirmed in a communiqué that the target of the bombing – which resulted in dozens of dead and injured – was a civilian district with no military positions of any insurgent organization.

There has been no official statement from the occupation forces on deaths or material damages in Arab Jabour, which U.S. combat planes flew over yesterday, dropping 18,000 kilograms of explosives.

The religious leaders are holding the United States responsible for any consequences resulting from that action against civilians, and called on the Arab League to make a statement on the issue.

Yesterday’s attack was executed by two B-1 bombers and four F-16 hunters and is linked to Operation Phantom Phoenix, a series of offensives by U.S. and national troops on territories where they claim the resistance is active.

The U.S. command, which did not respond to the accusations of the Ulemas Council, alleged that the objective of current military operations is to dismantle rebel bastions and their logistic support networks.

For clearing the D-post..
Just trying to clean up the thread abit. :)

Oh forgot,if you like Tom Petty he's in concert
on PBS now..

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

BBC

US national intelligence chief Mike McConnell has said the interrogation technique of water-boarding "would be torture" if he was subjected to it.

Mr McConnell said it would also be torture if water-boarding, which involves simulated drowning, resulted in water entering a detainee's lungs.

He told the New Yorker there would be a "huge penalty" for anyone using it if it was ever determined to be torture.

The US attorney-general has declined to rule on whether the method is torture.

However, Michael Mukasey said during his Senate confirmation hearing that water-boarding was "repugnant to me" and that he would institute a review.

In December, the House of Representatives approved a bill that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding.

President George W Bush has threatened to veto the bill, which would require the agency to follow the rules adopted by the US Army and abide by the Geneva Conventions, if the Senate passes it.

'Painful'

In the interview with the New Yorker, the US Director of National Intelligence said he would regard water-boarding as torture if it was used against him.

The controversial technique involves a prisoner being stretched on his back, having a cloth pushed into his mouth and/or plastic film placed over his face and having water poured onto his face. He gags almost immediately.

"If I had water draining into my nose, oh God, I just can't imagine how painful!" he told the magazine.

"Whether it's torture by anybody else's definition, for me it would be torture."

Mr McConnell said the legal test for torture should be "pretty simple".

"Is it excruciatingly painful to the point of forcing someone to say something because of the pain?" he added.

But the retired vice-admiral declined for legal reasons to say whether the technique should be considered torture by the US government.

"If it ever is determined to be torture, there will be a huge penalty to be paid for anyone engaging in it," he said.

CIA officials have been quoted as saying that water-boarding has been used on three prisoners since 2001, including al-Qaeda recruiter Abu Zubaydah, but on nobody since 2003.

In July 2007, President Bush signed a controversial executive order on the treatment of suspects detained by the CIA which did not outlaw the agency's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as water-boarding.

Life on Marijuana Buttsex Island

It would be so nice if I could d/l music from home... how many songs do you have on your computer? I've been enjoying that batch of Psychedelic Alice In Wonderland songs...some I remembered hearing years ago, but never knew they were about Alice back then...

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Hi Kevin.. :)

Voting Machine Failures During the 2008 Presidential Primary Race.

By Dori Smith

Very early research reveals that chronic problems continue with Diebold's AccuVote Optical Scan voting machines in New Hampshire. I made six calls to New Hampshire town officials and in four instances there were reports of voting machine problems. The two other calls turned out to have been to areas where electronic voting is not in use and hand counts were done. A state wide study would likely reveal that the voting machines failed many times during the 2008 presidential Primary.

The vendor, LHS Associates of Methuen MA, is relied on heavily by town officials in New Hampshire. Town officials trust them and their representatives tend to step in to make voting machine problems disappear during elections. They are like copy machine repair staff in a frantic law office. Little would move without them.

If a statewide recount of New Hampshire scheduled January 16th goes ahead as planned any irregularities found could be cross referenced to towns where machines failed. However, first voting machine failures would have to be compiled. Such data combined with a top down investigation into the performance of all electronic voting machines in general could make the 2008 Presidential Election far more secure.

Of interest would be the number of times the voting machines were repaired, replaced, or in any way handled by town officials or LHS Associates of Methuen MA. Last minute repairs made to voting machines in advance of elections or mid election repairs are prime times for vulnerability to fraud.

Officials I spoke with were unclear that LHS was working under strict written security protocols other than those the clerks and other officials would have about set up and handling. That would include the fact that town officials would hold the keys, open machines for LHS staff members when they arrive to make repairs, and break the seals.
Con't-afterdowningstreet.org

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

good point. did anyone see the article the other day about the new york state attorney general taking on intel in an anti trust suit. used to be the feds would do that...

and then maybe i can get some sleep.

my almost 19 yr old is home on semester break and wanted to have some of his friends over for a birthday party. he forgot to mention the part about it being all night.

just hit the white castle for coffee and cheeseburgers. like i said, soon the sun will come up...

I don't use iTunes but I d/l songs from fileden to my mp3 player...

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Dan..how fun! A teen party at your house..I remember staying up all night and bugging parents... :)

I saw a newborn baby tonight...perfectly beautifully perfect...a little boy..my friend, who is very young to be a parent (imo) and his younger wife...I'm going to buy them a diaper gift certifcate...I hear they use a lot of those ..

true. the better part is that you are looking at two people who will not get a whole night sleep for the next five years or more, unless they get an overnight babysitter.

...I suppose I should sleep now...good night Dan and MM... xo

Thanks..
Have a good one.. :)

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

I know you're sick of the primaries but I have to add this. Senator Claire McCaskill will endorse Barack Obama today. My congressman, Russ Carnahan (his father, who was deceased, beat Ashcroft) has already endorsed Obama.
http://tinyurl.com/3bxgw5

Also, with all the talk of sexism regarding Hillary's crying and my seeing it a different way. Although, I am a feminist of Hillary's generation, I thought I would check out what Germaine Greer had to say. You can't argue with Greer's feminist credentials. It is hilarious. Link is here http://tinyurl.com/2gwovq

Here's part of one paragraph
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"Hillary's feeble display of emotion, while answering questions from voters in a cafe in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Monday, is supposed to have done her campaign the world of good. If it has, it's because people have wished a tear into her stony reptilian eye, not because there actually was one. What caused her to get all mooshy was her mention of her own love of her country. Patriotism has once more proved a valuable last refuge for a scoundrel. Hillary's clipped diction did not falter; all she had to do was take the steel edge off her voice and our imaginations did the rest. Hillary was human after all. Fear and loathing fled New Hampshire, Hillary scored against the run of play, and all it took was the suspicion of a tear. Or so they say. Can the moral of the story be: when you're up against it, don't fight back, just cry?"...

Well Sam, I know I am still your dear friend!

Not on your life. The slightest mention of the travesties of the past seven years is to open a Pandora's Box of ridicule.

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Hahahahahahahahahahaha... Talk about a one trick pony! As we go into the last year of Presidents Bush's Presidency, we once again find 3%ers who have spent the last 7 years crying in thier beer about President Bush.

Yet George Bush, with one year left is still calling all the shots.

Hello little 3%er!

We are in another election cycle. Wake up, Bush is not on the ballot!

Hahahahahahahahahahaha. But Hillary sure is. And lots of great new Republican candidates. Here is a shock for ya, it has been a great 7 years for million and millions and millions of folks in this great land. And we are looking forward to more of the same!

For years the 3% has told us how Bush Suck and you just wait for the next President. Well guess what, the next President is gonna be just like the last President. That's right, a Conservative!

We know Bill and Hillary. We have seen Hillary vote in Congress. We watched Bill shutdown welfare rolls and put those people back to work. We have heard Hillary tell us about Iran, and watched her vote to back it up.

Nope, it can't happen now. That is the beauty of the 2 party system. If you control both parties, you control the process. And the 97% control that process.

Now the 3% could have a party of their own. But the 3% is too lazy to do that. So Kucinich must try to hang on to the Democrat process. Hahahahahahahahaha.

So you won't get your Communism, or even you Socialism. You can't even have your far left loons. But what you can have is good Capitalism. Just like you have had the last 50 years.

And don't kid yourself, they are very much in play. If Obama slips by Hillary, you will be seeing one of them as President!

That's the beauty of the system. You only get 2 real choices.

So in the end you get Hillary, or another great Republican. What you can not have is George Bush for another 4 years. So those of you who are stuck on stupid need to wake up and figure out:

George Bush isn't running for President!

And your 7 years of Bush Sucks has lead us right back to another 97% President!

what 97 sees

UPDATE: I have idea who "part of the 97percent "is. He/she is my friend. And MHO is part of 97% of anything- 97% posts on this site.
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Jamesbennett

you'll be a wreck by show time

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Jamesbennett

Sam too is a 3%er, or at least he plays on the radio. So it is no surprise that he is sick of the Primaries. All the true 3%ers are gone. Obama is not really a 3%er. He is too far to the left for my taste, but Obama is not a true 3%er.

The DLC controls the Democrat Party. And we know Sam has no love for the DLC. Yet it is a 2 party system.

What's a 3%ers to do?

What led you to write your new book, “Confessions of a Political Hitman,” which chronicles your rather unsavory career as a Republican Party operative who was hired in hundreds of political campaigns to dig for dirt on Democratic candidates?

I wouldn’t use the word unsavory. The voter has the right to know the history of any candidate in order to make the most educated vote.......

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13wwln-Q4-t.html?ref=magazine...

It perpetuates Capitalism and the American Way. It is a chance for the 97% to stand up and be counted in a way that is not possible any other time.

Soon it will be time for the State of the Union Address!

That will be another Celebration of America!

Torpedo Bush!

Capitalism!

Those are good solid 3% thoughts but they just don't translate into reality.

rigging

might be like a woodstock '99 reunion for the hands.

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Bush Says No Decision on Troop Levels

Jan 12 12:07 PM US/Eastern
By ANNE GEARAN
AP Diplomatic Writer 8 Comments

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Facing another decision about U.S. troop numbers in Iraq by spring, President Bush said Saturday it is "fine with me" if generals recommend no more cuts than those planned to drop the force level to about 130,000.
Bush also commended Iraq's parliament for passing legislation reinstating thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein's now- dissolved Baath party to government jobs.

"It's an important step toward reconciliation," Bush said, after more than a year of prodding by the United States for action on the legislation. "It's an important sign that the leaders of that country understand that they must work together to meet the aspirations of the Iraqi people."

With The Surge turning the tide of the Iraq War, we can now see how wrong all those people were who opposed The Surge. I can remember all the people who would quote retired Democrat Generals and hack politicians as thier source for wanting to surrender.

You don't hear anything from all those fools now do you?

Even though my Pal Sam tires of the Primaries, I just love them!!

This is the one time the 97% gets to run the show. Most of the time the 97% is busy building this Great Country! People forget how much power the 97% really has.

The next primary is in Michigan. A walk-across for Hillary, but an important race for the Republicans. Michigan is going to be a chance for the Republicans to shine!

Ideas are infectious, sad troll.

No thanks.
We'll burn your fucking banks!

always works for the .3 percent.

Where did Wreck of the Old '97 go? Fucking troll-bot!

Days after accepting job with bank, Blair launches EU presidency campaign
by Chris in Paris · 1/13/2008 04:22:00 AM ET · Link
Discuss this post here: Comments (4) · reddit · FARK ·· Digg It!

Obviously conflict of interest has no meaning in Brussels either. Blair has a new friend in Sarkozy, who will have considerable leverage in choosing the new EU president later this year. With his own share of problems at home (lack of direction, circus-like atmosphere, cabinet re-shuffle talk, soap opera/magazine cover personal lifestyle) Sarkozy may not even care if it helps distract people from domestic issues, which remain without direction. Anything that can take the political spotlight away would suit him just fine. As long as the magazine covers remain, it's fine.

Blair ought to be thrilled with the idea, since the position is questionable in terms of actual power, yet it provides him with a microphone and TV cameras to help promote himself even more. Perhaps he can even whip up a new $1m consulting gig while he's at it. Whether he will be as successful in this mission as he was with bringing peace to the Middle East doesn't even matter, because who really cares what the EU president or parliament does? No one even knows who they are, which is precisely the kind of system that the European ruling class prefers, Blair included. No questions asked, no democracy, no matter.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblair/story/0,,2240063,00.html

Obviously conflict of interest has no meaning in Brussels either. Blair has a new friend in Sarkozy, who will have considerable leverage in choosing the new EU president later this year. With his own share of problems at home (lack of direction, circus-like atmosphere, cabinet re-shuffle talk, soap opera/magazine cover personal lifestyle) Sarkozy may not even care if it helps distract people from domestic issues, which remain without direction. Anything that can take the political spotlight away would suit him just fine. As long as the magazine covers remain, it's fine...

Hey. If it helps put a stop to Sarko's attempts at thatcherism, we should be all for the media circus.

Guess who is going to help fund the Countrywide bailout?
by Chris in Paris · 1/12/2008 11:17:00 PM ET · Link
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Of course...taxpayers. The middle class. Hell, let's just round up all of the bad debt from the war, the fools that tried get rich quick schemes with subprime mortgages, Wall Street executive payouts and then just send the bill to regular folks. Oh sorry, it's already happening. Naturally options for writing off losses by individuals is slightly more limited, with limits of only a few thousand dollars per year.

A $270 million annual deduction would save Bank of America something more than $100 million a year in federal and state income taxes. The long-term tax-exempt rate, which is based on Treasury rates and other things so complicated that they make my teeth hurt. The rate changes each year, Willens says, but not by much. When I asked how it's calculated, Willens, a master of tax arcana, threw up his hands. (Metaphorically, of course.) "It's like the formula for Coca-Cola," he said, "no one outside the circle knows it" and it's so complicated that, "no one else wants to find out."

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/11/news/companies/sloan_countrywide.fortune...

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It's time to pay the piper POT 97! (B of A needs your help).

You love these corporations so much and they need your monetary help now to 'pay for some bad business decisions.

Particle 97 ...

By: Nicole Belle @ 5:00 AM - PST

Interesting…the media just doesn’t seem to be taking to heart the political change in the air. How else can you account for the incredible lack of representation of the Democratic party this Sunday? One presidential candidate and one former presidential candidate is apparently all the exposure the Democratic party gets over FIVE shows. And yet, Romney and Huckabee are double-dipping the news shows again (at the rate that Huckabee keeps showing up for TV appearances, I’m fully expecting him to be on a Very Special Episode of “Two and a Half Men” or “How I Met Your Mother” very, very soon). But expect some pointed questioning of Hillary Clinton by Timmeh “I wear my political buttons under my lapel” Russert.

Here’s the schedule. Tell us what catches your eye this morning:

NBC’s “Meet the Press” : Hillary Clinton

“Fox News Sunday” : Rudy Giuliani

CBS’s “Face the Nation” : Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee

CNN’s “Late Edition.” Romney, Huckabee, Fred Thompson

ABC’s “This Week” : Newt Gingrich, John Kerry

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/13/sunday-morning-bobblehead-threa...

the B of A was burned in Isla Vista.
We'd picked up a hitch-hiker and he wanted to go to I.V.

As we drop him off, it looked like something was happening, I wanted to stay but my friend , who was driving said let's go, so we did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRICFUJlH-U

Thursday, February 26, 1970

At three o’clock this morning approximately 200-300 law enforcement officers moved on Isla Vista following a second night of rioting during which one police car was overturned and burned, realty offices vandalized and the Bank of America building completely destroyed by flames.
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Tax deductions for business loses are there for everyone. This is not new news.

Why does the 3% hate business so? They give you everything you have, yet you fell so put upon by the very folks who create the world in which you live.

There are only 2 Democrats left. And the only one that matters is on. Get it?

banks phrase was a metaphor for the majority putting pressure on corporations and big business
to change.

Ain't no power like the power of the people
b'cause the power of the people don't stop.

"The vehemence with which a person denies the existence of the serial bully is directly proportional to the congruence of the person's behavior with that of the serial bully"

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

Ah...... I the generic change again. The Obama special!

Perhaps you can tell us what kind of a change you would like big business to make?

MMRules, Brett, air-ono, and tonid...

Other than air-ono (sometimes), none of those listed are bullies.

Try something new, POTsticker.

Democracy in the decision making. End the tyranny.

Insurance Companies and healthcare or lack thereof:

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2163

Online users...
jbenet
toniD
Wreck of of the Old 97 ...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/12/poll.matchups/index.html

QUESTION: If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and John McCain were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Obama 49% McCain 48%

Sampling error: +/-3.5% pts

QUESTION: If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and Rudy Giuliani were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Obama 56% Giuliani 40%

Sampling error: +/-3.5% pts

QUESTION: If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and Mitt Romney were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Obama 59% Romney 37%

Sampling error: +/-3.5% pts

QUESTION: If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and Mike Huckabee were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Obama 58% Huckabee 39%

Sampling error: +/-3.5% pts

Free Democracy

QUESTION: If Barack Obama were the Democratic Party's candidate and John McCain were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Obama 49% McCain 48%

Sampling error: +/-3.5% pts

More information on anomalies suggesting the New Hampshire vote totals may have been altered

Election integrity activists parsing the precinct-level results from New Hampshire's Democratic Primary say their early analyses have found anomalies suggesting vote totals may have been altered to deliver a Hillary Clinton victory.

http://www.alternet.org/story/73551/

McConnell claims Green, conservation league says it ain't so

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McConnell may know how to bring home the pork for his constituents, but that hardly qualifies him as an “environmental champion.” McConnell had a zero percent rating from the League of Conservation Voters.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/12/mcconnell-godfather-green/

NEW YORK - At least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have committed a killing or been charged in one in the United States after returning from combat, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The newspaper said it also logged 349 homicides involving all active-duty military personnel and new veterans in the six years since military action began in Afghanistan, and later Iraq. That represents an 89-percent increase over the previous six-year period, the newspaper said.

About three-quarters of those homicides involved Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, the newspaper said. The report did not illuminate the exact relationship between those cases and the 121 killings also mentioned in the report.

The newspaper said its research involved searching local news reports, examining police, court and military records and interviewing defendants, their lawyers and families, victims' families and military and law enforcement officials.

Defense Department representatives did not immediately respond to a telephone message early Sunday. The Times said the military agency declined to comment, saying it could not reproduce the paper's research.........

Free Democracy

the night I graduated
new
Submitted by jbenet on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 8:52am.
from H.S. the B of A was burned in Isla Vista.
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My brother watched it burn with a couple hundred other students..
The Freeway was blockaded by protesters too,for awhile..
I moved up there about 4 years later..Party Town !

Link to Blog of B of A Burning

Link to B of A Fire

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

The primaries are
broadcasters' big payday

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Television broadcasters are holding the electoral process hostage through their control of the public airwaves.

http://www.alternet.org/story/73431/

Maybe we should start fining the MSM for using the public airwaves to make huge profits.

Its all a conspiracy theory from a bunch of loons. You know we are not allowed to question doctrine. It's 2008 for Christ's sake. Show a little respect for the plight of the sheeple. Who will protect them from the truth?

USER NAV

Maybe we should start fining the MSM for using the public airwaves to make huge profits.

Such Blasphemy! Go read Atlas Shrugged!

you wonder how much a campaign would cost if the public broadcasters were required to provide each candidate with an equal number of hours for free. it has always bugged me that money i donate to a candidate goes up in smoke in the form of payments to the msm.

it used to be, but with the current gang of thugs its gotten quite expensive.

it used to be, but with the current gang of thugs its gotten quite expensive.

Good point, although Clinton was no bargain, either. The current cycle began around January, 1980, if not a bit earlier..

Obey laws and likely go out of business. Profits over all.

Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 6:52am.
...Here is a shock for ya, it has been a great 7 years for million and millions and millions of folks in this great land...
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You should get out more. Rush Limbaugh is a shock jock.
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Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 6:58am.
...Well guess what, the next President is gonna be just like the last President...
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Incompetent to the extent that s/he will be in the running with Bush for Worst President Ever? It is statistically unlikely.
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There is not going to be a 3% President..
Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 7:07am.
...But what you can have is good Capitalism. Just like you have had the last 50 years.
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First, your title: A "far left" presidency isn't necessary to forward progressive ideas. Richard M. Nixon instituted the Environmental Protection Agency.

Last, the more you write, the more you display your ignorance of economic history. Fifty years ago was 1958. The post-WWII boom was well underway and the Fifties are known as prosperous years for the citizenry, possibly the most prosperous during the 20th Century.
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We have a great field of Republicans this time.
Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 7:16am.
...And your 7 years of Bush Sucks has lead us right back to another 97% President!
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Seven years of horrible governance has led the electorate to want anything but more of the same. For some voters more of the same means "another Republican," which is simplistic thinking but a widely held viewpoint.

None of the "great field of Republicans" will win the presidency absent a major event that is deadly or an exposure of political corruption or similarly detrimental to the momentum of the Democratic party.
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Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 7:36am.
...Soon it will be time for the State of the Union Address!
That will be another Celebration of America!...
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Again, the more you write, the more you expose your ignorance. The State of the Union Address will be a thinly veiled campaign speech for Republican party candidates in toto. It will be marked by the same willful ignorance that you display.

The rapid decline of the dollar (as evidenced by gold prices and as measured against the Euro) will not be featured. The decrease of Consumer Confidence will not be addressed. Rising unemployment statistics will go unspoken. The profound decline in the valuations of financial sector securities will be ignored. We will not hear a peep about the six-month stand-down of the Mahdi Army ordered by Moqtada al-Sadr prior to the American "surge".
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Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 7:56am.
...I can remember all the people who would quote retired Democrat Generals and hack politicians as thier source for wanting to surrender.
You don't hear anything from all those fools now do you?
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"Surrender" is an absurd mischaracterization and pure Limbaugh-speak. I read plenty of information from critics of Bush's decision to wage a "preemptive" war in Iraq, and I read even more from the critics of the decisions made after it began.

We certainly don't see Rumsfeld's image being bronzed and mounted on a town square. There's a reason for that.
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Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 8:07am.
Even though my Pal Sam...
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Read Sam's lips: "I have no idea who 'part of the 97 percent' is. He/she is not my friend."

needs to slap ole Potato Head. He can't be pushing Hillary around like that. NBC needs Hillary.

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DNI McConnell suggests waterboarding is torture. In an interview with the New Yorker, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said that waterboarding “would be torture” if used against him, but still declined to say whether the technique should be legally classified as torture:

“If I had water draining into my nose, oh God, I just can’t imagine how painful! Whether it’s torture by anybody else’s definition, for me it would be torture,” McConnell told the magazine. […]

McConnell said the legal test for torture should be “pretty simple”: “Is it excruciatingly painful to the point of forcing someone to say something because of the pain?”

McConnell warned that if waterboarding is “ever is determined to be torture, there will be a huge penalty to be paid for anyone engaging in it.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/12/AR200801...

What's behind the "unprecedented," "unexplainable," "extraordinary" discrepancies between polling results and the official tallies in the New Hampshire primary "upset" victory of Clinton over Obama? The Zogby Poll predicted a 42-29 sweep for Obama over Hillary. Other pre-election polls generally showed anywhere from a 7% to double-digit lead for Obama. Zogby's polling was right-on for all the other races, but off only in the Obama-Clinton numbers. What could possibly account for such an extraordinary discrepancy?

Keep in mind that 80% of the paper ballots in NH are counted in secret on Diebold optical scanners, and all those machines are programmed by a single vendor, LHS Associates.

In general, where ballots were hand counted, Clinton lost, but where Diebold counted, she won: http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/machine_vs_paper_count_differenti...

Overall, machine counts favored Clinton by 4.7% and depressed the Obama vote by -2.3%.

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

you were to quick for me. I went and checked the date and so I edited out the "night I graduated" part (I graduated hs in june of '70.) But the other 97% of the post was accurate.
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So, the Hillary commercial is on...Timmeuh...blah, blah, blah....
and then...
Did she really compare Obama or herself to a HORSE?? A showhorse??
And then try to switch it back to herself?
SHE is the showhorse who turned out to be a workhourse? and then he must be the workhorse who turns out to be a showhorse??

Could she really have thrown this imagery out there?...what was she thinking?

Im starting to think that Edwards should just hang tight...sending him some money right now!
Trippi said that when the front runners are circling the drain, you can only stand on the side of the tub and watch.

Race trumps gender...but maybe the two cancel eachother out?
I dunno....

Sammy, how can you be sick of THIS?...its all too good....

Melina
www.RIPCoco.com
www.brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com
www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

I agree. Last time TV was so compelling I was coming in from playing in the street to catch Roots.

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So much for the "They all look alike to me" War Dog theory!

She called herself a work horse not a show horse.

I know work horses. I've stood side by side with work horses in the field. Hillary, you are no work horse.

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good links
thank you
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Has all his outrageous behavior caused this run of promos showing him to be kinder and gentler? I even tuned in this morning and found him to be almost demure. Think he got his hand slapped? Is the M$M saying there are limits?

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..and a belated good morning to all - 1.
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Meanwhile, police in Nashua, N.H., said Sidney Blumenthal, a senior adviser to Clinton, was arrested and charged with aggravated drunken driving a day before the New Hampshire primary.

www.msnbc.com

... but did he run into the bushes like chimpy did when he got caught DUI'ing? Now there's some real drunken driving for ya!

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Hahahahahahahahahaha. He is hanging a lot of faith in Sen. Obama to save his bacon. And no one knows what Obama believes.

Looks to me that nothing has changed and nothing is going to change. Now we might revisit the 90's with Hillary, if you call that change.

I love elections because the 97% get to show the kind of leadership they really want. And they have already rejected the 3% thinking.

just saying
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Compelling is right,Fernando !
Great series..
The Color Purple was great too..
Always reminds me of my late Wife..
She Loved that movie and,She got me to watch it..
I very glad she did ! :)

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

.. we tried tying a pork chop to his leg and still couldn't get the dog to play with him. I'll go post something over in freeperville but I doubt they'd want him either.

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Submitted by Part of the 97 ... on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 9:07am.
...Perhaps you can tell us what kind of a change you would like big business to make?
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Big Business will not make changes. Capitalism is driven exclusively by profits, which explains the need for oversight and regulation. There is no entity available to provide oversight and regulation other than government.

Government has not merely the right but the need to regulate Big Business because Big Business has tunnel vision focused on profits. Big Business will always take risks for greater rewards, even when the risks extend to others (rivers and oceans, air quality, national economic health) beyond the individual business institutions themselves. The "mortgage crisis" has global economic ramifications costing billions or more.

Had government curtailed lending profits in the effort to force sound (i.e. more conservative, with a lower-case "c") lending practices, the end result would have been much better for the lending institutions and the broader economic picture. (Of course, Free Market proponents like yourself would have screamed bloody murder even as you were being saved from yourselves.) The unchecked lending industry earned short term profits which have been wiped out by a longer term economic backlash. The decline of financial securities valuations, alone, subtract all of the cash made during the Housing Bubble even before the red ink from individual mortgage foreclosures is added into the mix.

If asked today, Big Business would happily assent to reliving the Housing Bubble with more stringent government regulation. Big Business is comprised of individuals and most of those individuals have lost and are losing wealth as the tremors of the Mortgage Crisis continue to echo.

Gave me a chance to post some old Isla Vista history..
You should have seen Halloween's there..
The whole town was a party..
It was crazy and,too much fun..
Ah,to be younger again..Hee.. ;)

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

http://www.brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilio is expected to pocket a package worth $110 million, along with paid health insurance for himself AND his wife, if the company's sale to Bank of America goes through (emphasis mine):

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Bush urges Iran regime to heed people's will

ABU DHABI (AFP) - US President George W. Bush reached out to the Iranian people Sunday in the keynote address of a Middle East tour, telling them they had a right to live under a government "that listens to your wishes".........

Original source: http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=DEMOCRATS

2008 New Hampshire State Primary Results

A Closer Look At The Count

UPDATE: WOW!!! Almost 65,000 views from over 33,000 unique visitors in the last 24 hours!!! Keep it up! (01/09/08 11:40PM MST)

With all the activity and stories today, the thousands and thousands of
views to this page in the last 12 hours, I wanted to emphasize a few
key points.

First, all of the numbers here are either untouched from the latest
polling results or pretty simple calculations using those results.

Second, these results by themselves are NOT enough to prove that any
fraud occured. They simply show that some things stand out as being odd
and worthy of further investigation.

Third, my purpose in all of this is to simply bring attention to these
apparent anomalies. The anomalies appear in the votes for both parties.
My only agenda is that the voters on both sides be accurately
represented.
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Who is this guy on ABC's This Week calling Hillary a Lunch Bucket? Didn't he get the message, Hillary's a horse (of course).

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Country Wide Hoam Loans

http://tinyurl.com/2p6wyy
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just saying

at the end of the list on the link they suggest a book

just saying this book could help

can be reasonably certain that the government will bail them out of their economic crises. It is you who have little reason to assume that much of anything will be done on your behalf by the government. That's tough love. That's capitalism.

BBC

US President George W Bush has warned of the dangers he says are posed by Iran, in a speech in its Gulf neighbour, the United Arab Emirates.

Mr Bush said Iran threatened the security of all nations and should be confronted "before it's too late".

In a speech in Abu Dhabi on the latest leg of a Middle Eastern tour, he also urged the region to embrace democracy.

Meanwhile the UN's atomic watchdog said Iran had agreed to clear up questions about its past nuclear activities.

The statement by the IAEA said Tehran would provide details in the next four weeks.......

Did you mean "Country Wide Ham Loins"?

Man, what a concept. It's just so crazy it might catch on here!

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Yeah, yeah, yeah free market this, free market that until the shit hits the fan and who do they go running to then?

Government can't be too big when it comes to saving your membership at the yacht club.

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heh - moniker of the jet setting no bid contractors.

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Tax deductions for business loses have been around forever.

This week on RadioNation: Who misted over most in New Hampshire? The Media.

Answer: The Media. After one Obama win, Clinton's long-predicted victory was cast as the great upset. CHRIS HAYES, RICHARD KIM, KATHA POLLITT and I discuss the primary. Plus a report on the deadly political impasse in Kenya and guest blogger JESSICA VALENTI on conservative myths and the women who love them.
That's this week on RN with Laura Flanders.

1P-2P ET "Radio Nation" with Laura Flanders.

is this a stick in the eye or what. you get paid a 110 million dollars and you can't pay for your own health insurance?

meanwhile, all those hard working individuals in the many countrywide offices who just got laid off get squat. their health care probably comes from cobra which is a fancy term for you get to pay for the total cost of group coverage for 18 months and then you got nothing.

tell me again about how unregulated capitalism is so friggin great for the 97% when it seems like only 0.000001% actually benefit.

it doesn't make them right.

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=53683
NH Recount
Sunday, January 13, 2008 - FreeMarketNews.com

It looks like entire columns of numbers were moved to the left, and then to the right in another view, thus attributing different vote totals to different candidates. I am seeing identical numbers in columnar order, under different candidates. Human error is not acceptable in such an important issue.....serious credibility issues have been revealed early on, potentially a good thing. Thus, the NH primary "mistakes" by supposedly reputable reporting organizations serve the purpose of increasing citizenry watchfulness and demand for accountability and punishment for wrongdoing for all forms of vote fraud. Eternal Vigilance is the price of Freedom!

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did anyone watch him walk in? The sloucher reminded me of Lurch answering the door. Aside from that he is reasonably funny saying he soundly beat Ron Paul.

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If you work for a major corporation you are going to be given health insurance. It is not big business who withholds benefits. You want good benefits, then look for one of the top companies for which to work. The choice is always up to you.

did anyone else catch Fred's last sentence on Late Edition? The line about all of the Democrats went to the ??? and Mike Huckabee. What did Fred say Mike has in common with Democrats?

NEA - that's what I thought he said.

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tell me again about how unregulated capitalism is so friggin great for the 97% when it seems like only 0.000001% actually benefit.

.3% actually benefit.

Many people view the national economy as either the status quo or a decline from the status quo. It is also how many people define their bank accounts. If from one month to the next they spend less, the account balance is greater than it was at the same point during the previous month, so they feel happy about the improvement.

Most people don't look at the other side of the equation. If from one month to the next the deposits are more than the previous month, the account balance would be greater than it was at the same point during the previous month even if expenditures remain the same or are slightly greater.

The latter is how I view the economy and the affect on it from the governance of the Presidency and both houses of Congress. I am not as interested in the subtractions from the status quo as I am in the lost opportunities to have attained a status quo greater than it is.

The seven Bush years have been one lost opportunity after another. We measure the current economy, ironically, from the yardstick of the Clinton years, not from the greater heights it could have reached during the Bush years.

So, in my opinion, the economy does not merely suck because it is worse than before, and worsening. It sucks because our current governance did not bring it to a greater level at any time during the Bush administration. Cyclical downturns are to be expected but upturns should constantly be demanded.

Fiscal Conservatives natter endlessly about too many government expenditures but they never review the lost opportunities for growth.

Reducing taxation is cutting costs. It ain't increasing deposits. Anyone who has a household bank account knows that reducing their expenditures does not increase their income. If you want larger deposits, you need a better job. If you want a better job, you need a robust economy. If you want a robust economy, you don't reduce expenditures on civilian education and infrastructure and health care and alternative energy opportunities while increasing government expenditures on wars and corporate bailouts. Wars and corporate bailouts snowball into higher oil prices and a devaluating dollar, both of which are hidden taxes regardless of what Fiscal Conservatives might say.

The end result of incompetent management of the economy and the Conservatives' dependence on reducing taxation is, in fact, more taxation (in proportional terms as well as in terms of unlegislated "taxation") derived from the lost opportunity for growth.

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