How Huckabee Will Spend His Time Now That He's Dropped Out of the Race

Tweaked MYSQL for database. Nando, send me a sample MY-SAM.cnf file (2GB RAM, Dual CPU) if you wish..

spill---

Last week AT&T DSL locked alot of us off the blog for at least 10 hours.

When I called they said they do not block web sites and could not explain why this happened.

Really wierd!

did you take care of my problem too?? i would like to know what happened even if you send me an email, i will be happy!!

join msnbc on the morning joe show..

What was your problem? I do not know. Please repeat the description and I will explore..

Counterattack: Obama camp calls out Clinton over tax returns

Nick Juliano

Emerging from its bruising at the hands of Hillary Clinton's "kitchen sink" strategy, the Barack Obama campaign came out swinging Wednesday with sharp questions about what could be hiding in Hillary Clinton's unreleased tax returns.

After being stung with losses in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island the night before, Obama held onto his lead in the delegate count, and the Illinois senator stressed that the math was still on his side. Meanwhile, his campaign pushed its newest line of attack: Clinton's claim that she is the more vetted candidate is hogwash because of the unanswered questions in her tax returns.

"Senator Clinton has also claimed that she is too 'busy' to release her tax returns. Given the fact she is able to loan her campaign $5 million, you would think the Clintons would be able to hire an accountant," read an Obama campaign "memo" sent to reporters Wednesday. "The reality is that she wants to keep this information hidden from voters. The people of Wyoming, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and the rest of the country should wonder why."

Obama advisers continued to raise questions on a press conference call Wednesday afternoon. Their strategy seemed to echo the Clinton team's gambit in the days before the most recent elections to chide reporters into going after her opponent.

"What's good for the goose is good for the gander," Obama strategist David Axelrod said kicking off Wednesday's campaign call.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Counterattack_Obama_camp_calls_out_Clinton...

maybe it's the cough syrup.

I think the Huckster should spend the end of his days riding that woman of his and making more big babies so he can "populate the planet". Isn't that what the good lawd wants?

i sent sam an email regarding it on monday..someone stole my nic over the weekend!

saddle up and ride your pony

Jobs needed or Iraq troop pullout at risk: U.S. general

Michael Holden
Reuters US Online Report Top News

Mar 05, 2008 12:51 EST

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The United States may be forced to halt planned troop withdrawals from Iraq unless Iraqi authorities move faster to create jobs and improve basic services, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday.

Major-General Mark Hertling, commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, said both central and regional authorities had to take action if hard-won security gains were not to be reversed.

"I think we have six months to make a difference and this today is the start line," he said in an interview with Reuters and another agency at a conference where governors from seven northern provinces aired grievances with government ministers.

Asked what would happen if no progress was made on improving Iraqis' quality of life, he said: "It's going to be harder.

"I'm going to see more soldiers hurt and killed and we are not going to be able to reduce the number of forces ... because there's going to be more people out there planting bombs and shooting people."

The governors of the northern provinces, some of which remain the most dangerous in Iraq, complained that the central government was failing to deliver on promises, particularly regarding the distribution of oil and power.

Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih promised action but also said the governors had to take some responsibility themselves.

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

Common sense tells you that they need jobs to rebuild Iraq and keep them from fighting.! Duh!

"New questions are being raised, new challenges are being put to my opponent," she said. "Superdelegates are supposed to take all that information on board and they are supposed to be exercising the judgment that people would have exercised if this information and challenges had been available several months ago."
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So looks like Hillary will be trying to convince the superdelegates to swing to her side, because the voters would have voted for her in earlier primaries and caucuses if only she had started to slime and smear Obama much earlier.

Gold soars to record high of $995.20 an ounce
Marketwatch

OPEC won't increase output per MSNBC

Crude rallies to new high of $104.56 as inventories fall
Marketwatch

http://URL{blahblah-65B6-removed-by-incubus..}

heh. Now any geek with access to the Yahoo server farm can track yer azz by 'secret' cookie ID....who was that talking about friends in domestic surveillance?

Why not edit your comment and remove that shite?

McCain Amendment Allowed U.S. Military Equipment Outsourcing
By: Logan Murphy @ 10:40 AM - PST

When Senator John McCain spoke of less jobs and more war, no one could have predicted it would lead to this:

From the Kansas Democratic Party:

Yesterday, John McCain defended the Air Force decision to overlook Wichita-based Boeing Co. for a $35 billion contract to build airborne refueling planes, saying he would not work to overturn the decision and saying that military decisions should not be about creating jobs. [McCain Town Hall Meeting, Waco TX, 3/3/08; AP, 3/3/08] Unfortunately for American workers, McCain has the record to back his statement up.

In 2003, Sen. McCain authored an amendment undermining “Buy American” rules requiring U.S. military equipment, defense systems and components to be manufactured in the United States. By allowing the Department of Defense to purchase American military equipment from foreign companies, the McCain amendment laid the groundwork for the Air Force’s decision to outsource the production of refueling tankers for the American military. The amendment passed along party lines with Kansas Senators Roberts and Brownback voting in its favor. [Vote 191, 5/21/03]

“McCain’s refusal to question the Air Force’s decision gives us a glimpse into the kind of economic policy we can expect from a McCain presidency.” asked Kansas Democratic Party Executive Director Mike Gaughan. “His track record clearly demonstrates a lack of commitment to investing in the American economy. In fact, the only economic plan we’ve heard from John McCain so far is making George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy permanent in 2010.” Read on…

McCain’s amendment bolstered by GOP support cost some 44,000 jobs nationwide and took hundreds of millions of dollars out of the U.S. economy — which has made a LOT of people VERY angry and Congress may be looking into the deal. If you look at the roll call on McCain’s amendment you’ll see that only one Democratic Senator voted for the amendment. Less jobs, more war, indeed…

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/05/mccain-amendment-allowed-us-mil...

Mar
4 How are we all not dead?

Posted at 0:05 by Brad
Jesus H.! This account of the Bush administration’s attempt to engineer a coup in Gaza is more terrifying than anything I’ve ever imagined. Let’s look at the gory highlights:

[Palestinian national-security adviser Muhammad] Dahlan says he warned his friends in the Bush administration that Fatah still wasn’t ready for elections in January. Decades of self-preservationist rule by Arafat had turned the party into a symbol of corruption and inefficiency—a perception Hamas found it easy to exploit. Splits within Fatah weakened its position further: in many places, a single Hamas candidate ran against several from Fatah.

“Everyone was against the elections,” Dahlan says. Everyone except Bush. “Bush decided, ‘I need an election. I want elections in the Palestinian Authority.’ Everyone is following him in the American administration, and everyone is nagging Abbas, telling him, ‘The president wants elections.’ Fine. For what purpose?”

The elections went forward as scheduled. On January 25, Hamas won 56 percent of the seats in the Legislative Council.

Few inside the U.S. administration had predicted the result, and there was no contingency plan to deal with it. “I’ve asked why nobody saw it coming,” Condoleezza Rice told reporters. “I don’t know anyone who wasn’t caught off guard by Hamas’s strong showing.”

“Everyone blamed everyone else,” says an official with the Department of Defense. “We sat there in the Pentagon and said, ‘Who the fuck recommended this?’”

And since the elections didn’t go as the Boy King planned, guess what he did then? That’s right, he tried to undermine them:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/8934.html

I'm not sure what you are asking. Do you need a computer or a file or a martini?

HELP!

I never knew this. Is it only on Marketwatch or are the other Yahoo links doing that too?

Submitted by Liberal-at-large on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 1:46pm.
Odds: Hil will NEVER be Obama's VP. Obama would be hers if he & his poobahs could triangulate it to their benefit. Personally, I strongly believe he'd turn her down, cut her legs off whenever possible from inside the Senate (if she wins) & look forward to a possible '12 or definite '16 run.
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The ego thingy can play out either way. I need more information to make a call.

On the one hand, a gargantuan ego and second-fiddle are not compatible concepts.

On the other hand, a gargantuan ego would find it difficult to reject the number two position in the White House in favor of tucking its tail between its legs for a loser's slog back to the Senate.

And beyond the Ego thingy is positioning oneself as the V.P. for a future run for the presidency. The risk is that the administration might suck, leaving an indelible stain on the V.P. for a future presidential bid. The reward is that the administration might be successful which would separate the V.P. from all of the Governors and Senators who might want to challenge for the presidency.

I kinda lean toward the short-term influence of ego because it is huge in a nationally recognized politician. There are lots of Senators but there is only one Vice-President...and if fate makes the Vice-Presidency the end of the line, well, it beats never rising above a Senate seat.

"In case anyone wonders why the press has been so gleefully building up and then tearing down Democratic candidates this season, this might just be a hint. McCain media manlove knows no bounds."
-Digby
http://tinyurl.com/2nqcm2

who let the dogs out

Glenn Beck: McCain’s buddy Hagee Reassures Beck That Obama Is NOT The Anti-Christ
By: Nicole Belle @ 6:37 AM - PST *Whew* I bet that was keeping people up at nights.

That’s right…you have a religious leader on your show who has spouted off such crazy, hate-filled rhetoric and is endorsing the other party’s candidate, and the thing foremost on Beck’s mind (such as it can charitably be called) is whether Rev. “End Times” Hagee envisions a Democratic candidate as the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Apocalypse. Nice to see him contributing to the national dialogue in such an uplifting way, isn’t it?

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t BillW)

BECK: Let me ask you, because I got — I get so much e-mail on this, and I think a lot of people do, and I`ve only got a couple of seconds. They say Glenn, you and the media, you`ve got to wake up. Barack Obama`s making people faint and cry and everything else. And he`s drawing people in.

There are people — and they said this about Bill Clinton that actually believe he might be the anti-Christ. Odds that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ?

HAGEE: No chance. He has a lot of charisma. There`s a media love affair with him right now. He is a very formidable political person. I believe the best leader for America in the future is John McCain.

Cenk at The Young Turks:

Reverend Hagee is a Class A kook. Stark raving mad. He believes someone will unite the whole world together and bring peace to everyone - and that person is the Anti-Christ. Yeah, God forbid we should have peace. So, Hagee prefers war instead.

He wants to preemptively strike Iran to start the festivities. So, will this bring peace later at least? No, exactly the opposite, it will bring Armageddon. Then nearly everyone will die - which, of course, is a great thing because Biblical prophecy will be fulfilled and the few people who agree with John Hagee will all be saved and laughing their ass off in heaven. And the rest of us will be dead. Killed by Rev. Hagee’s righteous God.

This is who John McCain has been actively pursuing for an endorsement, Hagee and other “Christocrats”. These same people he derided in 2000 as “agents of intolerance“. As Media Matters points out:

“Some in the media continue to focus on Farrakhan’s praise of Obama, even though Obama has repeatedly criticized Farrakhan, while McCain has actually embraced the endorsement from Hagee — who has a history of inflammatory rhetoric about women, Muslims, the Catholic Church, and members of the gay community,” said Karl Frisch, a Media Matters for America spokesman. “Why have so many in the media shied away from asking these tough questions of the McCain campaign? The double standard is very telling.”

Full Transcripts below the fold

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/05/glenn-beck-mccains-buddy-hagee-...

Imagine.....Obama wielding Cheney's expanded VP powers for good, instead of ebil.

no one elses blog stretched??/

You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1LsQy9vz8Q

h/t Batocchio. Some of us are talking about carrying a pocket full of flag pins so when we hear that stupid talking point, we can hand one over with the line, “Gee, I see you don’t have one. Here. Now you look just like Larry Craig’s mugshot.”

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/04/open-thread-737/

Point made. Now delete that long link and shrink the bloggy back.

Please?

The Clinton campaign flatly denies any hand in the Obama-is-a-Muslim smear campaign that has bubbled beneath the media surface, but it is more than willing to take advantage of it, says the lone Muslim member of congress.

Rep. Keith Ellison, in an interview with The Huffington Post, said the Clinton camp was "opportunistically trying to reap the benefit" of voter concerns about Obama's religious beliefs. Ellison, who is a declared supporter of Senator Barack Obama, faced fierce religious attacks in his election to congress two years ago.

"People are going to throw some stuff on the wall and see what sticks and at this point the Clinton camp is trying to do whatever it can to be successful," said the Minnesota Democrat. "And if that means benefiting from political bigotry, I don't think they will try to put a stop to it."

Ellison's comments came two days after the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes ran a segment last Sunday in which a male voter explained how he was influenced by the fallacious Muslim smear campaign against Obama. Later in the show, Clinton was asked if she believed the rumors.

"Of course not," said the New York Democrat. "I mean, that's -- you know, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on the basis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubt that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/05/rep-ellison-clinton-try_n_90024...

HA -- thank god it was not just me

Fernando, yes, all of the above. However I was asking if you have a sample config file for a MySQL server (typically named 'my.cnf', although many installs come with samples you can hack, with names like 'my-large.cnf', which is a sample for a system with 512MB of ram..I was seeking a suggestion for this server, which has dual cpus and 2GB Ram. No action required if you do not have such an item in your archives, we seem to be ok -- that is, the .cnf file I've hacked seems to be providing relatively good performance now.)

toniD, GUID - check the URLs on various sites - Yahoo does this openly (which is better than doing it less openly,) but many other sites have long arcane-looking strings, which are generally the same. (FYI, you can intimate, by looking at the Yahoo URL, that they are almost certainly running their giant distributed server farms using Linux boxen - (this is so, I know this from many other sources) - which represents an uncommented-on obstacle, culture-wise, to the Microsoft takeover..))

Blog Stretch - Lucille, we just re-enabled CSS caching to speed this blog up. While it is highly unlikely this had an effect on you, you could try to empty the cache on your browser and reload the page.

Note - URL in my comment above has been shrunk, but there were other much longer URLS on the page, so I don't think that was it either.

My blog is not stretched.

What browser are you using?

I haven't administer servers in a long time. Wish I could help you.

firefox...its fine now

Submitted by pbtrue1 on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:32pm.
Imagine.....Obama wielding Cheney's expanded VP powers for good, instead of ebil.
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Even if the Vice-Presidency returns to being the blasé job that it was before Cheney, imagine Obama chatting it up with powerful representatives of Muslim populated countries.

Or Clinton negotiating with Angela Merkel's team.

It's all good. If the ordinary white guys Cheney and Bush and their combined I.Q. of 230 are replaced with the Dream Team and its combined I.Q. of 310, the level of diplomatic discourse and congeniality is certain to rise.

Now I have to get an interpreter for what you just posted for me.

I am assuming that Yahoo is gumming up the works for Microsoft, but it is effecting the Yahoo members.

gotcha

If this deal goes through at all, Yahoo will prove indigestible (for a year or more) to M$FT. Of course that is just IMHO.

If Microsoft does the take-over of Yahoo, I wonder if AT&T will change their browser?

Microsoft has their own browser. I wonder if they will integrate theirs and Yahoo?

Lots of questions.

Submitted by Incubus on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:54pm.
If this deal goes through at all, Yahoo will prove indigestible (for a year or more) to M$FT.
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(Sort of a mega-takeover version of my home cookin'.)

for all you do in here to maintain this cool playground for we ungrateful kids.

(it did shrink a couple inches)

once again...

March 5, 2008
Pelosi: Democrats will have a nominee before the convention
Posted: 02:10 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday now is not the time for superdelegates to wade into the fight over the Democratic presidential nomination. "I think the electoral process has to work its way,” the California Democrat told reporters. “There are still many voters unheard from yet, and I think that our candidates both have the capacity to inspire, to bring out a big vote that will hold us in good stead in November, and I think that now is not the time for anybody to weigh in."

Pelosi said she was confident the nominee would be decided before the Democratic convention in August, and that she was "never among those who believed this would be resolved by now."

She argued that the prolonged campaign is good for the party, and offers Democrats a chance to "make a clear distinction" about their differences with Republicans on a range of issues. Pelosi pointed to Iraq, noting the Democratic candidates are talking about "responsible redeployment versus a 100-year war that Sen. McCain has spoken about."

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel also hammered McCain on Iraq, saying that "under President Bush and with John McCain's support, America's economy has been hijacked by Iraq and our investment there."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/05/pelosi-democrats-will-ha...

de nada. c'est rien. Aint nuthin to a hound dog. We can haz be 1st amendment absolutist.

Thanks, though.

Thank you, Incubus
new
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:57pm.
for all you do in here to maintain this cool playground for we ungrateful kids.

Especially since I sometimes have no idea how to do something technical. Technically disadvantaged!

Technologically disadvantaged and
monetarily challenged.

going into a boring ass meeting
Submitted by Lucille on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:58pm.
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A very boring meeting or a boring meeting of asses?

One version has the combined adjective "boring-ass" which modifies the gerund noun "meeting" and the other version implies that the meeting will be populated by asses.

A lot could be riding on the ass specifications.

Damn. It just occurred to me that "boring" can be alternately defined as uninteresting or penetrating. This puts an entirely different face on the ass ambiguity.

If I were you, Lucille, I'd be packin' heat just in case.

A letter to Obama supporters - the system is designed to make you lose heart

Dear Obama Supporters:

First a confession: I have not participated as a partisan in the recent primaries because neither candidate--Obama or Clinton--convinced me that they would end the war and initiate the kind of thorough reform that our country desperately needs, everywhere you look in government, from bloated military budgets, to warmongering foreign policy, to the cauldron of corruption in Washington DC, to the ripping up of our Constitution, to massive lawlessness and ungodly thievery in the highest echelons of the federal government, to the corrupt and failed "war on drugs"--that police state boondoggle--to the out-of-control global corporate predators and war profiteers who write our laws and control our political life.

Our country is in desperate straits, teetering on the brink of Great Depression II. We need bold, revolutionary leadership. I do not see it in either candidate.

Of the two, Obama has spoken more to the real needs of the country than Clinton has, but still he has skirted and hedged around on vital issues, such as NAFTA and even on ending the war. Yes, he spoke out against the Iraq War, early and publicly. Then--with 70% of the American people against this war and wanting it ended, the strongest antiwar mandate in history--he voted for giving Bush/Cheney MORE billions of our non-existent tax dollars, in obedience to the Democratic Party leadership in Congress, to keep killing Iraqis until they sign over their oil rights.

snip

However, throughout these recent months, I have been immensely impressed with Obama's SUPPORTERS--YOU--the volunteers, the organizers, the tens of thousands of people attending political rallies, the enthusiastic voters, and the many young people who have been politically activated by his campaign. I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime. I take that back. I saw it once before--but the phenomenon was truncated by assassination. I saw it in the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy in 1968--the man who likely would have stopped the Vietnam War, and who was cut down on the night he won the California primary.

What I saw in that campaign--and see today in Obama supporters--is people who believe that they can change the world. People who passionately believe in democracy and social justice, and who invest their own high ideals, their youthful energy or their savvy wisdom as citizens and Americans, in a candidate in whom they see their own qualities--a candidate who seems to embody their own convictions and strengths. A political campaign is a two-way street. The supporters of this kind of charismatic leader, who connects with people, who responds to their ideals, to some extent create the leader that they need. But it is you who are vitally important to the future of our country. It is not so much the leader--whoever he or she is. It is YOU. YOU make the difference. You CAN change the world. The leader cannot do it without you. But YOU can do it without the leader.

And if you know this, then you cannot be defeated--by assassination, or by Diebold.

More here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...

Clinton and Obama in Virtual Dead Heat For Popular Vote
So with Hillary's wins last night, where does the popular vote stand? Obama still has an overall lead, but it's very narrow.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/obama_still_has_...

Hillary again endorses McCain over Obama, in 3 more TV appearances
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/05/2008 02:56:00 PM ET · Link
Discuss this post here: Comments (61) · reddit · FARK ·· Digg It!

She said it three more times in the past day. Why the hell is she saying that the Republican candidate is more qualified to be president than our own presumptive nominee? And what the hell does our party plan to do on stopping this train wreck? She can't win, it's over, she doesn't have the delegates and can't get the delegates. She's hoping she can destroy Obama and step in after he's toast. And if she's wrong, she'll simply leave Obama destroyed for the general election campaign against McCain, the guy she has now said four times is more qualified to be president than our presumptive nominee. Here is the first time she endorsed McCain over Obama, and watch her three additional TV appearances below.

Video at link:

http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/hillary-again-says-three-more-times.h...

for donkeys huh? giggle--arsehole!

KO

It's quite interesting watching Keith Olbermann when he's in the mix with the rest of the MSNBC gang. He doesn't share the same set of basic assumptions about the world that most cable talkers, across the ideological spectrum, do. He's also more likely to tweak his colleagues a bit.

-Atrios 15:12

http://mediamatters.org/items/200803050002

The Mike Huckabee Show?

As Mike Huckabee gave his concession speech last night, news analysts were predicting that the former Arkansas governor may become a tv personality. “We’ve got a chair here he could fill,” said MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski. On Fox News, actor Stephen Baldwin said that “he would be reaching out to Mr. Huckabee to serve as a spokesperson for an organization called the Christian Values Network.”

I like frogs.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Beyond Power/Knowledge: an exploration of the relation of power, ignorance and stupidity — the text of Graeber’s Malinowski Lecture

....

Obama Goes On The Offensive

CHICAGO -- Barack Obama raised questions about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy today, arguing that it is time to look at her assertions on experience. “I have not seen any evidence that she is better equipped to handle a crisis,” he said. “If the only criteria is longevity in Washington, then she's certainly not going to beat John McCain on that."

Obama said he is ready to challenge her argument that she has been vetted and tested, hoping to dispel questions about his own experience.

“One of the things that I hope people start asking is what exactly is this foreign experience that she’s claiming? I know she talks about visiting 80 countries,” Obama said. “It’s not clear, was she negotiating treaties or agreements or was she handling crises during this period of time? My sense is the answer is no.”

When asked if the negative ads in Texas had an impact on Tuesday’s outcome, Obama said he believes some undecided voters may have been influenced by them. “There’s no doubt that Senator Clinton went very negative over the last week, the kitchen sink strategy I’m sure had some impact,” he said. “Particularly when many of you in the press corps felt that you had been too hard on her and too soft on me.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/05/politics/fromtheroad/entry391012...

my trees are jealous.

every fucking opinion, on every bit of minutia that these people say..for how long now? FFS...is there a rest of the world anymore?

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yup.

the foofarah is masking the horrors effectively.

war4, darfur. huh? the populace responds.

the plastic continent? say what?

another word I've never seen...now that's what I'm talking about :)

Iraqi cabinet OKs deals with oil giants

Iraqi Cabinet Gives Green Light to Oil Ministry to Sign Deals With Oil Giants

SINAN SALAHEDDIN
AP News

Mar 05, 2008 06:44 EST

Iraq's cabinet has given the green light to the Oil Ministry to sign agreements with international oil companies to help increase the nation's crude output, a ministry official said Wednesday.

The two-year deals, known as technical support agreements, or TSAs, are designed to develop five producing fields to add 500,000 barrels per day to the country's 2.4 million barrels per day output.

Last December, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, BP PLC, ExxonMobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. submitted technical and financial proposals for the five fields and received counterproposals from the Iraqi side.

In January, representatives from the companies and Iraq met again in Amman, Jordan, and they will hold a third round of discussions later this month, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.

In Vienna, Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said Iraq intends to compensate these companies with crude oil rather than in cash, the Dow Jones Newswires reported Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters as he arrived for a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, al-Shahristani said the Oil Ministry was still working on the compensation details with the Development Fund of Iraq, which is controlled by the United States and the United Nations.

Iraq's average production was 2.4 million barrels per day in January while exports stood at an average of 1.92 million barrels per day. December's exports averaged 1.81 million barrels per day.

The oil giants are among more than 70 international firms that met the ministry's deadline of Feb. 18 to compete to help develop Iraq's oil reserves, seen as vital to providing the funds to rebuild the shattered country.

Iraq is in dire need of expertise from international oil companies to achieve the Oil Ministry's target of 3 million barrels per day by the end of 2008. The country has been relying on a Saddam Hussein-era natural resources law until Parliament approves a new oil law to regulate the international oil companies' work and share Iraq's oil resources among the country's Shiites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds.

I am totally paranoid because I need to fly and the kid down the street - last summer, mind you - was blowing off bottle rockets and they kept landing in my yard - I was outside in my little gazebo deal and I was blogging and had my laptop out there.

So .. anyway .. without thinking with a "Post-9/11 mentality" .. I picked up the crap in the yard and threw it away in the garbage can in the garage .. then stupidly picked up my laptop and went inside. About a nanosecond after I did it I was like, "Oh F***!!!" But the damage was done .. so I thought .. S*** - too late now.

Anyway .. so I have this tainted - possibly - laptop now I am afraid will be confiscated at the TSA checkpoint [especially after Nik told me that those sniffer things are wicked sensitive..] and so I thought "Hum .. I know it seems weird, but I wonder if TSA would let me take my laptop to MSP and have them scan it before I actually go to fly .. to see if I am just way too paranoid for my own good?? Let's go to the site and see if I can contact them!"

Well.. I can't as the link to email them is broken .. but I did look at some interesting things on my scan through the TSA site .. among them is the fact you cannot bring a SNOW GLOBE into the plane when you travel!! Yep .. no plastic snow in water in the cabin!!

Now I understand my Ewan McGregor's character in "Eye of the Beholder" took the train or drove a car to track down Ashley Judd!! ; )

... I know .. it would be funnier if this was Tom Ridge .. but beggars can't be choosers! John "Let The Eagle Soar" Ashcroft will just have to do!

Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama?

heh....

Bill Maher: Democratic race like 'Thrilla in Manila'

Comedian Bill Maher said Hillary Clinton's apparent comeback in Tuesday night's primaries in Texas and Ohio demonstrated the close contest Democrats have on their hands.

"I kept comparing it to the Thrilla in Manilla," Maher said Wednesday morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe, referring to the famous 1975 boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. "Ali would come back and win the 10th. And then you would be sure Frazier was out, and he'd come back and win the 11th. That's what we've got on our hands here."

Maher said Democrats were trying to choose between two great candidates and he predicted the campaign would continue all the way through this summer's convention.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bill_Maher_Democratic_race_like_thrilla_03...

I like kites, too.

(wheres my frogs?)

Obama regains ground in Texas caucuses

Obama Regains Lost Ground in Democratic Race Based on Texas Caucus Results

Barack Obama regained lost ground in the fierce competition for Democratic convention delegates on Wednesday based on results from the Texas caucuses, partially negating the impact of Hillary Rodham Clinton's string of comeback primary victories.

Late returns showed Clinton emerged from Rhode Island, Vermont, Texas and Ohio with a gain of 12 delegates on her rival for the night, with another dozen yet to be awarded in The Associated Press' count.

That left Obama with an overall lead of 101 delegates, 1,562-1,461 as the rivals look ahead to the final dozen contests on the calendar. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.

The two presidential contenders made the rounds of the morning television news shows, agreeing on little — except that their historic struggle would continue at least until the Pennsylvania primary on April 22.

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

Obama faces 'nightmare' choice
on Florida, Michigan revote
Now Obama is on the spot. He can plausibly claim that Clinton had agreed to party rules, now wants to break them, so tough luck. But the party can shift course itself and say it's okay if the two states want to spend the money to vote again.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1...

I like frog kites.

Allen: Katrina was ‘best thing to happen to New Orleans.’ Writer Charlotte Allen responded to questions today about her Washington Post op-ed from last Sunday, which argued that women “are kind of dim.” In an online chat with readers, Allen restated a claim she’d made in 2005 that “Katrina was the best thing to happen to New Orleans”:

I said Katrina was the best thing to happen to New Orleans because it finally opportunity to a huge number of New Orleans residents living in passive dependency on welfare to get out of New Orleans and change their lives for the better. Thousands of them did exactly that–which is why there hasn’t exactly been a huge flood of those former residents flocking back to live in passive dependency and do just that. New Orleans itself now has a chance to change into a more self-reliant city.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/04/DI200...

Feministing is urging readers to write letters to the editor of the Washington Post.

http://feministing.com/archives/008709.html

Jesus. H. Christ.

sigh...

Sorry, but Randi got her on the "experience" issue. Hands down.

Anthrax Globes!

...

Was that you I heard this afternoon?

actually, I am barely able to speak today. I've picked up a wicked cough and talking sends me into a fit.

I am not very likely to ever pick up a phone and talk to a radio host. I say stupid things mostly.

So glad to see Rick Noriega won a clean race last night without having to go into a run off. I didn't think I would get to vote for him but he was on my ballot. Box Turtle luvin Cornyn makes my skin crawl.

We've been saying this for years now!! Jobs!!
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 2:07pm.
Jobs needed or Iraq troop pullout at risk: U.S. general

Michael Holden
Reuters US Online Report Top News

Mar 05, 2008 12:51 EST

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The United States may be forced to halt planned troop withdrawals from Iraq unless Iraqi authorities move faster to create jobs and improve basic services, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday.

...but Iraqi authorities haven't gotten their Swiss bank accounts adequately filled with their portion of the trickle. It's a slow process just ask republican presidential nominee John McCain.

Looking for another reason to hate your long-hours-for-low-pay job? Gaze with envy at Vanity Fair's just-launched "Windfall Report", which tallies 2007's biggest paydays. Not surprisingly, Bill Gates tops the list, via $2.8 billion in Microsoft (MSFT) stock sales and dividend payouts.

VF lists 49 others, all of whom made more than you did last year. Notables include:

* Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison: $1.1 billion
* CDW founder Michael Krasny: $970 million
* Family of News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch: $960 milion
* MSFT co-founder Paul Allen: $775 million
* Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt: $600 million
* Viacom (VIAB) CEO Sumner Redstone: $362 million
* Right Media CEO Michael Walrath, who sold his company to Yahoo (YHOO): $340 million
* IAC (IACI) CEO Barry Diller: $300 million
* aQuantive founder Nicolas Hanauer, who sold his company to MSFT: $282 million
* Google investor Ram Shriram: $272 million
* VC king John Doerr: $250 million
* Star Wars' George Lucas: $200 million
* Salesforce.com (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff: $190 million

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/bill_gates_made__2_8_billion_more_tha...

Definitely a contrast to the Garbage I had been listening to! Not to say it is garbage .. but rather it is Garbage..

And I had not thought of Anthrax Globes, Alice! I guess it does make sense now ..

Now I just have to wing it with the laptop. I am going with the theory that if my laptop gets confiscated by TSA, Nik will feel horribly guilty and buy me a new one! : D - LOL!!!

is angry!

Would the young kids say he is "throwin down"? :)

IMHO .. Salesforce.com is one great CRM. I love it .. easy to use .. dream to work with .. effective - Oh! Sorry .. I need a towel .. BRB

; )

Is anyone listening to Randi Rhodes? Brent Budowsky is on fire!

hellz to the ja...sounding like i was this morning

Pope Benedict XVI will host landmark Catholic-Muslim talks in November to improve ties between the two religions.

The announcement was made in a joint statement after a two-day meeting between senior Vatican and Muslim leaders in Rome.

Catholic-Muslim relations soured after a 2006 speech in Germany in which the Pope quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor's criticisms of Islam.

The Regensburg speech provoked Muslim fury and triggered protests worldwide.

But it also prompted 138 Muslim scholars from 43 countries to launch an appeal to the Pope for greater theological dialogue, called the Common Word.

Since then the number of signatories to the appeal has grown to more than 200.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7279412.stm
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"McCain said that "in no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I in turn agree with all of Pastor Hagee's views, which I obviously do not." (unless it's helps my agenda)

Budowsky!

He is saying the way Hillary is behaving is why so many people hate her!

"dem bows"

:) I was just guessing at their odd reasoning.... nice to see ya..

4th time: "Of course, well, you know, I've got a lifetime of experience. Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience. And you know, Senator Obama's whole campaign is about one speech he made in 2002."

Example: Experience at what? Letting your husband bang interns in the Oval Office.

Example: McCain has experience in what? Taking Bribes ...

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) pressed a cable company's case for pricing changes with regulators at the same time a tax-exempt group that he co-founded solicited $200,000 in contributions from the company.

Help from McCain, who argues for ridding politics of big money, included giving the CEO of Cablevision Systems Corp. the opportunity to testify before his Senate committee, writing a letter of support to the Federal Communication Commission and asking other cable companies to support so-called a la carte pricing.......

Clinton must be trying to repay McCain for the praise he gave her...

McCain: Hillary Would Be Good President

Maverick Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday that his New York colleague, Sen. Hillary Clinton, would do well if she becomes president of the United States.

"I am sure that Sen. Clinton would make a good president," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press," as both he and Clinton were being interviewed from Baghdad.

While noting that as a Republican, he'll be supporting the GOP nominee in 2008, McCain reiterated, "I have no doubt that Sen. Clinton would make a good president."

Asked whether she thought McCain would make a good president, Sen. Clinton was somewhat less effusive, responding tersely, "Absolutely" - before erupting in her familiar cackle.

Free Democracy

lovely name!!

Brent aint saying anything we haven't said on this blog. It's good others are hearing it.

I didn't have a bad opinion of Hillary before and saw her and Obama as both "fair" people. I simply backed Obama because Hillary energizes the Republican base. Now Hillary and her Rovian tactics reveal her for the person she is. I'm back to forcing my blood sausage dilema just to consider voting for that scumbag bitch.

Brent just said that Hillary's tactics are reminiscent of Richard NIXON!!

two peas in a pod!

goodnight yourll

i would think acting nervous or edgy would trip you up more than six month old nitrates from bottle rockets. depending on what your laptops made of i would think an alcohol swab like a doctor uses for shots would wipe anything off of it, you just want to be careful you don't mar the surface.

my personal opinion is that the whole security experience is designed to put you on the defensive. thats why they make you take your shoes off.

as my old man taught me, always say yes sir, no sir, may i have another and you'll go far in life when dealing with assholes.

...and glad no runoff is necessary.

NOT KIDDING

Thanks CeeCee. You are much nicer than my bud Matt. He just sent me a message saying he wants to come over tonight and show me the pix he took on vacation yesterday in Vegas with his girlfriend. I told him I didn't feel well, had a sore throat and was going to bed. He responded by telling me I could blow him to scratch my throat and is still planing on coming over. F'n pig.

I'll check out Budowsky's blog for sure. I agree with you 100% on your opinion.

...the next door neighbors of my niece and her mom work for the NSA. While warming up my car, I happened to look up in his office window, where he proudly displays New England Patriot car tags and banner, and noticed a new sign:

1-20-09
Bush's Last Day

If you choose to allow your emotion to trump your rationality, thus eliminating your willingness to compromise, you can join WiccanDruid in her padded room.

That is mean, Crank. OK, so Druid is eccentric. Good. She does not trust Obama. Tell you the truth, I don't either. But, unlike her, I trust Hillary much less. And there are other options, besides not voting or a write-in, especially if one lives in a safe Blue state, or a hopeless Red state. Namely, put pressure on the Democrats by voting for Nader of the Green candidate, especially if Cindy McKinney is the candidate.

Anyway, ease up on the crazy woman stuff, Please:) Those who know her can tell you that she is quite an activist in the environmental scene. She also fights for the civil rights of Druids and other nature religion practitioners. Druid is also aa spoken word artist.
**Lesbian Chic**

There's a nasty flu going around that isn't covered by the flu shot. If you get sicker, don't wait to go to the Doctor.

And Tamiflu doesn't help this flu either! There's another company that makes a flu medication that does help.

Ooops Hillary losing Texas
new
Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:00pm.

...and another WOW

March 4, 2008
Hillary Clinton and the ‘Muslim Issue’ (Brent Budowsky)
@ 8:33 am
Hillary Clinton’s equivocal comment on “60 Minutes” about whether Barack Obama is a Muslim was one of the most shameful moments I have ever heard from any leading Democrat, when asked about any other leading Democrat.

She couldn’t just say no, and tell the truth.

A subject worth returning to, at a later date.

http://pundits.thehill.com/author/brent-budowsky/

move down to read other posts

Fernando
new
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:10pm.
There's a nasty flu going around that isn't covered by the flu shot. If you get sicker, don't wait to go to the Doctor.

And Tamiflu doesn't help this flu either! There's another company that makes a flu medication that does help.

...had to take my niece to the doctor this morning.

I'll go tomorrow if I don't feel better by then. No fever thank goodness. I don't feel all that bad just won't stop coughing. Nothing funner.

Behind the scenes there are some Democrats becoming concerned that Hillary Clinton is pursuing a wrecking ball strategy in which she knows she will not defeat Barack Obama for the nomination, but will escalate personal attacks in the hope Obama loses in November, so Hillary can run in 2012. Brent

I didn't read down too far because I am getting ready to leave for work.

I bookmarked his blog to read later.

See you all later. I have a couple of hours of work to put in. Should be back in time for show.

Later!

did you see this toniD?
new
Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 5:22pm.

Behind the scenes there are some Democrats becoming concerned that Hillary Clinton is pursuing a wrecking ball strategy in which she knows she will not defeat Barack Obama for the nomination, but will escalate personal attacks in the hope Obama loses in November, so Hillary can run in 2012. Brent

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She has that Slug Terry McCauliff(sp?) helping to run her campaign ... in 2004 he and Bill Clinton plus all those other DLC surrogates of Clinton did everything they could to downplay Kerry ... he got zero help from that group. She would do Obama in if she can't win .... no doubt in my mind.

Next month ?

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

a man in a suitcase?

haven't had a chance to scroll back.

Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 4:29pm.
...I am not very likely to ever pick up a phone and talk to a radio host. I say stupid things mostly.
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I have never called into a radio or television show either. I don't have any reason to do it though I understand that other people have their own reasons for wanting to be heard. Also, I believe that I would be giving, gratis, product to a capitalistic enterprise that has no intention of sharing the profits with me. If they want me to help them fill air time and draw listenership, they can make me an offer.

However, I have written a few letters to editors and columnists, which seems to contradict the logic stated in the previous paragraph. The first letter was written to correct a columnist who made a reference to "cherry sloe gin." Sloe is a berry. Gin is gin. Sloe gin is sloe flavored gin. It's not cherry sloe gin. Cherry sloe gin is one of those urban (and rural) myths that a columnist should know better than to write as truth. (I realize that you are shocked, SHOCKED, that I would write a letter to illustrate the incorrect use of language.) Anyway, the columnist gave me a heads-up in a subsequent column for setting him straight...to the liquor store to read a label.

Since I was batting 1000, I was hesitant to write another letter, ever. But I did...years later and to a different newspaper fifteen-hundred miles from the previous one. It was a satirical piece responding to a burglary crime wave when VCR's were new and faddish and easy to fence. I calculated the money that the local police force was devoting to the problem and recommended that, for half as much money, VCR's could be purchased in bulk and given away for free, effectively flooding the market and killing the fence price. My letter to the editor was printed and drew many readers' comments on its fiscally responsible logic, never mind the judicial and incarceration costs that would be saved but were not included in my argument, and the risk to life and limb, etc. For a period of a couple of weeks, I was a Fiscal Conservative's hero in Liberal sheep's clothing. (Hard-core Fiscal Conservatives don't mind welfare when it costs them half as much as law enforcement and solves the problem. The Authoritarian Conservatives would rather shoot their noses off of their own faces than bend their principles to save a buck and solve a problem.)

All of this to say that flapping my jaw on a radio show does not interest me as much as carefully making my case on paper. Talk is cheap and it is really easy to say something stupid off-the-cuff that would have been edited out of an essay before it saw the light of day.

That's why politicians speak the same tired words over and over. New words carry risk.

Nader is more likely to take Obama supporters who are upset that their candidate didn't get the nom than Clinton supporters in a similar situation. I think, because of Nader, the repub hype machine has changed strategies and are now handing us a new candidate that they think they can beat... Hillary.

And in the end they will tell us that our neighbors and friends care about some character issue that they have unearthed or some picture that is embarrassing or something that Bill did and then they will tell us that the race is close because of this issue and then they will inform us that John McCain is our next president and then we will invade Iran and then Pakistan.

And then there will be cake.

Great post on Huffpost and 23/6.

Is this her first post on Huffington??

___
bluerootsradio

You should have been a Bean Counter, locked away in the sub-basement of a company that sells tar paper or toilet plungers. I can't for the life of me understand why you have been such a failure with women. LOL.

I can see why you would be popular with the librarians here on this little blog.

Mark Twain:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

its a dangerous world. Who do you want picking up the phone?

Precisely why Garofalo should run for office. I've never heard her say anything stupid. Plus, she is smart funny.

The Dream Team!

I just love to see Rush helping Hillary to chase down Obama from behind.

Funny how things always seem to work together to attain a worthwhile goal!

Republican 97%ers helping Democrat 97%ers, it's the American Way!

Has it occurred to anyone else that the current Democratic party melee is the inevitable consequence of the DLC's behind-the-scenes management of the party?

They selected one of their own (Hillary is currently right at the top of DLC)and she was to be the designated nominee as far back as 2004.

When it began to be rumored that she was to run, after the 2006 mid-terms, I thought they were joking, since no one person could divide the party - from the get-go - like Mrs. Clinton. She is currently on the DNC's rules/credentials committee - that's the committee that seats the delegates at the national convention. How is it that she managed to get her name on the primary ballot in Michigan?

Has anyone considered that the DLC selected Obama and urged him to run interference for Hillary? And that his runaway success was entirely unforeseen by them?

Does anyone remember that Edwards won the second most delegates in Iowa? And that the media shutdown on Edwards kicked into high gear right around that time?

This whole mishegoss is by design: the DLC is anti-labor, pro-corporate, pro-war, anti-populist, and is without question 'the Republican Wing of the Democratic Party.'

They'd like to see Hillary nominated; and they'd rather see her lose to McCain than see McCain lose to Obama.

If you wonder why Howard Dean hasn't stood up on the issue of the Florida and Michigan primary mess, it's because the DLC's standing on his neck.

Am I the only one who thinks like this?

Ecuador to defend itself if no Colombia apology

Tue Mar 4, 2008 10:18pm EST

BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Rafael Correa said on Tuesday that Ecuador would defend itself if Colombia did not apologize for an attack on rebels in its country and if the international community did not condemn it.

"The aggressor has to apologize and the international community condemn him. If not we will have to defend ourselves with our own means," Correa told journalists in the capital Brasilia.

"Ecuador is ready to do what it takes. Our sovereignty is not negotiable," Correa said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0451565720080305

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

You should ask the folks who were trying to sell advertising back in the Good Ol Days!

They couldn't give away advertising airtime.

The 97% wasn't buyin what Janeane was sellin!

Brazil condemns Colombia's Ecuador raid, urges apology

Mon Mar 3, 2008 4:44pm EST

BRASILIA, March 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's foreign minister on Monday condemned a Colombian military strike on rebels inside Ecuador and called on Bogota to offer an explicit apology.

"The territorial violation is very serious and needs to be condemned," Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said in Brasilia. "Brazil condemns any territorial violation."

http://www.reuters.com/article/americasCrisis/idUSN03382402

Venezuela moving tanks to Colombian border: official

Wed Mar 5, 2008 9:57am EST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has started moving ten tank battalions to the Colombian border, Venezuela's defense minister said on Wednesday, amid an escalating Andes region crisis sparked by a Colombian attack on leftist rebels in Ecuador.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0537288620080305

I wonder if Rush will do Pennsylvania for Hillary!

I bet he does!

It's good for Hillary and it's good for Rush!

Nicaragua says Colombia is a threat to region

Tue Mar 4, 2008 12:45am EST

MANAGUA, March 3 (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former leftist guerrilla fighter, accused Colombia on Monday of becoming a threat to Latin America by killing a top rebel commander in Ecuador and disputing territory.

Colombian troops killed Raul Reyes, the No. 2 of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, on Saturday, in a severe blow to Latin America's oldest guerrilla insurgency.

"Colombia is becoming a factor of ... uncertainty for Latin America," said Ortega, a former Marxist revolutionary and U.S. Cold War foe who was voted back to power in late 2006.

Nicaragua is also at odds with Colombia over rich fishing waters in the Caribbean Sea.

The small Central American nation has recently stepped up navy patrols in waters also claimed by Colombia to protect local fishermen and ward off drug traffickers.

"We have to protect our sovereignty. You know the situation we have with Colombia," Ortega added. "Colombia is becoming a more serious problem for Latin America."

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN04420712

Maybe if he got to know Rush better Rush would take it easy on him.

Deep down they are both nice guys, it's just that Obama has not learned it's not nice to tax folks and then spend their money for them!

If Obama listened to Rush more he would know that!

"Lauren Kirchner is a writer and PERFORMER living in New York City. She also produces Seder on Sundays, a weekly talk show on Air America Radio."
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Are you an actor, Lauren?

Remember when Sam tried to help those Democrat Vets get elected?

I don't think any of them got elected!

That didn't work out at all!

Rush did a lot to get Bush Elected

Maybe he can do the same for Hillary!

Did you know Rush has 20,000,000 listeners a week?

Sam had 41 on his last Podcast thingie..

42 counting me!

Microsoft will now tell you if the news you read is Bias... Yippie

While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse. BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres.

It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level of emotional charge in the discussion of the news story or topic at hand in both political camps.

BLEWS also offers a “see the view from the other side” functionality, enabling a reader to compare different views on the same story from different sides of the political spectrum. BLEWS achieves this goal by digesting and analyzing a real-time feed of political-blog posts provided by the Live Labs Social Media platform, adding both link analysis and text analysis of the blog posts.

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/blews/blews.aspx

My terrible nightmare come true
(Thanks Tamra)
New Yorkers Get Priced Out of Grocery Stores
By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. Posted March 5, 2008.

In New York City, as TV's widely viewed Without a Trace series regularly reminds us, people disappear all the time. But something new, a headline revealed last week, is now disappearing in New York. Grocery stores.

Over the last six years, researchers report, the number of supermarkets in New York has shrunk by a third. Three of the city's top food chains -- D'Agostino, Gristedes, and Key Food -- "have each closed about a dozen stores since 2000."

Why are New York's supermarkets shutting down? No one needs to call in the FBI to investigate. Analysts already know the answer. New York is simply becoming too unequal -- too economically top-heavy -- to sustain the basics of modern American middle class life.

The enormous wealth now concentrated in New York has sent property prices so high that supermarkets can no longer afford to rent their urban spaces. The city's "soaring real estate values," the Washington Post notes, "are prompting property owners throughout the city to shutter grocery stores and sell to developers."

Those developers are bringing to market condos and businesses that cater to the ever-richer ranks of New York's awesomely affluent. No mystery why. These affluents have congregated in New York at levels seen nowhere else in the United States.

One telling statistic: The average weekly salary in New York County -- Manhattan -- hit $2,821 in 2007's first quarter, the equivalent of $147,000 a year. That figure over tripled, for that time period, the national average weekly take-home.

How could the average take-home be so high in New York? Credit Wall Street. In last year's first quarter, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show, the folks gainfully employed in New York's financial sector averaged an incredible $16,918 a week, a $879,736 per-year rate -- and more than enough to drive Manhattan's overall average take-home up near $150,000.

Not surprisingly, New York County now ranks as the nation's most unequal county jurisdiction. The top fifth of Manhattan's income-earners take home over 50 times the income of Manhattan's bottom fifth. Nationally, according to U.S. Census figures for 2006, top-fifth incomes outpace bottom-fifth incomes by 15 times.

Amid all this inequality, only those at the tippy top of the income ladder can afford to live stress-free and comfortably in Manhattan. The market has priced out most everyone else. If you can't afford to shell out $1 million, you haven't been able, since 2004, to afford the average Manhattan apartment. On the city's Upper East Side, apartments with three or more bedrooms average $6.6 million.

The inevitable result?

"The super rich," observes Queens College sociologist Andrew Beveridge, "are driving out the upper middle class, let alone the middle class."

Those merely "relatively well-off," notes New York-based newspaper columnist Richard Bernstein, experience their city's intense inequality every day, most aggravatingly when they "spend hours of their time trying to park their cars on the street, because a spot in a parking garage costs $6,000 or $7,000 a year."

Meanwhile, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire who made his fortune selling information services to Wall Street, is working hard on solutions to the city's widening supermarket crisis. The Bloomberg administration, according to news reports, is planning "to license 1,500 street vendors to sell fruits and vegetables."

**Lesbian Chic**

Hillary should do well there.

Rush is very big in Wyoming!

Funny how this worked out...

The Republicans are done and lookin for something to do with their vote anyway!

Timing is everything!

you are not the only one who thinks like that.

links to watch:
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_county188.htm
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_county232.htm
Currently:

President/Vice-President
Hillary Clinton 0 0.00% 349 55.66%
Barack Obama 0 0.00% 256 40.82%
5,088 Registered Voters

Hillary Clinton 1,180 61.17% 1,180 61.17%
Barack Obama 690 35.76% 690 35.76%
27,665 Registered Voters