Seder In for Maddow at 8pm est

Obama wins Texas.

No, seriously....somebody call her a douchebag.

Crooks and Liars RULES!
(after Sam Seder of course) :)

"There is another option, if sandbagged by Clinton, Obama could instruct his delegates to vote for Edwards at the convention."

Buwahahaha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLC

The DLC has their boot on Howard Dean's neck. HRC is their candidate, and they picked BHO to run interference for her, to knock down any populist, anti-corporate, anti-war, pro-union candidates. Looks like they're going to get their way.

However, it's also clear that they'd rather see McCain in office than Obama. Obama was not supposed to get this far.

»

Cranky Cider - hard cider of course
Touchy Tumblers - your own choice of ingredients
Coffee and Tea Toddys - regular or alcoholic you choice

Make your own, I am in a foul mood and not one to bartend, trust me.

Enjoy!!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

nora, there is an old joke
new
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 7:37pm.
How can you tell if a politician is lying?

wait for it

Their mouth is moving.

===============================

Yeah, I laughed SO hard -- the FIRST time I heard it! (That means I've been around the block at least once, huh!?)

To think of it, I think Dennis Kucunich is free of the group of politicians this joke fits! And I think Ralph Nader,too, is free of the group of politicians this joke applies to. Nader may not even be a politician (professional politician that is) technically.

Maybe we should have a new category of public servants: those who've been voted in because they are not professional politicians who make a career of gaming the election system.

Ah, late in the day, I dream dreams of a dreamworld....

Nah. But I am, gare.

You best get off to dance-fighting class now. Tis a bit of a walk from where you're at now. Fucking cabs are expensive. Or you might go over to 8th Ave for the subway.

You should really try boys, gare. I think you'd fit right in.

And do remember to use protection, gare. It's the safe way.

*smiles*

*

G'nite, gang!

*tapping microphone*

is this thing on?

The New Republic reports that Michigan "plans to get out of its uncounted delegate problem by announcing a new caucus in the next few days."

Said the source: "They want to play. They know how to do caucuses. That was their plan all along, before they got cute with the primary."

"Michigan Democrats had originally planned on caucuses after the legally permissible Feb. 5 date, but then went along with top elected Democrats, including Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who pushed for an early primary."

The Hotline confirms the story.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/6/181841/8676/104/470777

with sam fillin in

The DLC has their boot on Howard Dean's neck. HRC is their candidate, and they picked BHO to run interference for her, to knock down any populist, anti-corporate, anti-war, pro-union candidates. Looks like they're going to get their way.

However, it's also clear that they'd rather see McCain in office than Obama. Obama was not supposed to get this far.

the one thing that can trump those machiavellian bastards is the power of the people. If Barack wins Pennsylvania outright, Hillary can be forced out of the race. Don't get discouraged now; we have an opening.
**Lesbian Chic**

I spent an hour on a "town hall meeting" "conference call" with Roy Blunt.

Yes, he's an embarrassment. He took some heat but deflected it by, well, smoothly answering with unrelated information. That is to say he lied.

A caller was unhappy with the earmark appropriations that he had learned about on CBS (60 Minutes?). Blunt answered the accusation by talking about highway projects. (The highway projects were fuel tax money, not earmarks buried in unrelated legislation.)

Some idiot complained about the rising cost of agricultural products due to corn production being devoted to "methanol." I guess what with words and concepts like methane, ethanol and methamphetamine to keep straight, it's just too much to ask of a rube.

While Roy waxed eloquent about drilling in Anwar, I accessed the information online that indicates (by the U.S.'s own estimates) that the entirety of the most likely total number of barrels of available oil in Anwar would supply the U.S. for 210 days.

doing the right thing

from your lips to gaia's ears.

We have Sammy :)

*peering through the stage lights into the dark*

I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing.

from your lips to gaia's ears.

Was that an insult?

**Lesbian Chic**

They're gonna get a football team?

He has mellowed diplomatically with age, but still holds firm in his common sense ethics and principles.
A truly great man, and that is why the neo-scum and media hate him so. He can't be bought.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

Thank You — your click has been counted!

You've given the value of .6 bowls of food to rescued animals.

BREAKING NEWS: MI Dems to announce a new caucus
new
Submitted by ghettodefender on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 7:56pm.

The New Republic reports that Michigan "plans to get out of its uncounted delegate problem by announcing a new caucus in the next few days."

*******************

I just read a post will paste it here:

Clinton said on the news tonight she would NOT accept a caucus in MI. No link, I can't even remember which network news was playing, but it was the 6:30 news on abc/cbs/nbc. Had to be one of them, since that's all I get.

She was emphatic.

*END OF TRANSMISSION*

Free Democracy

at least, I don't think so...

you're the one who said 'at least we have an opening' ;)

Then why did he switch parties, become a Republican, and help Ralph Perk become mayor of Cleveburgh?

Cheesy Majority Report filler music?

I thought they wore the grooves out on this crap years ago.

the Earth goddess TL. not an insult

It does look like a scotched earth strategy and it is simple to think that there are many interests in such a pursuit.

Do you do any backflips?

Whats going on tonight?

Nora - check it out: (from last thread)
Submitted by rctowns on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 7:50pm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLC

The DLC has their boot on Howard Dean's neck. HRC is their candidate, and they picked BHO to run interference for her, to knock down any populist, anti-corporate, anti-war, pro-union candidates. Looks like they're going to get their way.

However, it's also clear that they'd rather see McCain in office than Obama. Obama was not supposed to get this far.

=========================================

Thanks for bringing this over. I just got back from reading the Wikipedia DLC entry. WOW, my eyes a bugging out from the rightwing-looking source of these New Democrats. However, I saw no mention of of the Obama flack role; which sublink was that in; do you recall?

The King of Spin
How Dennis Kucinich remade himself from race-baiting bomb-thrower to liberal sweetheart.
By Denise Grollmus
Published: December 5, 2007

For 40 years, Kucinich has cleverly molded his image to suit the political climate.
Subject(s): Dennis Kucinich, political clap-trap It was December 1978, the darkest period in Cleveland history.

Just a year earlier, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich had been elected mayor. Now the city was in bankruptcy. Six hundred jobs had been slashed, including 400 policemen and firefighters. The neighborhood development corporations, once the backbone of Cleveland's renewal, had been drained of their funding. And City Hall had been overrun with an army of novitiates, whose qualifications began and ended with their loyalty to the mayor.

The man charged with averting disaster was the city's 24-year-old finance director, whose only work experience was a nine-month stint at Merrill Lynch. The acting police chief was a 21-year-old college coed with wispy bangs. The inevitable implosion of Kucinich's scorched-earth rise to mayor had arrived.

As a city councilman, he had climbed the ranks of Cleveland politics through a strategy of nonstop combat, fighting everyone from colleagues to businessmen, bankers to bureaucrats. He accused them of being corrupt, lazy, and unsympathetic to the city's white working class — his largest sect of voters. If council was for tax abatements, Kucinich accused them of being in the pocket of business. If they wanted housing for the East Side's black poor, he castigated them for ignoring the West Side's ethnic whites. If you weren't with him, you were his enemy, and Kucinich spared no sound bites in illuminating your sins.

"It's not every day in Cleveland or any other city that you have the mayor calling the city council a bunch of lunatics and buffoons," says Brent Larkin, The Plain Dealer's editorial director, who covered Kucinich's reign for the now-defunct Cleveland Press. "You don't call everybody a bunch of fucking crooks, and that's what he did."

Kucinich may have been right about corruption and lethargy, but he was now proving to be a much worse alternative. After all, a mayor's job is a yeoman's task, about paving streets and ensuring safety. But Kucinich had allowed style to manhandle substance; he was against everything, rather than providing solutions of his own.

"If you are mayor, you have to do things," says Mike Roberts, The Plain Dealer's former city editor. "There was nothing that he did of any success, unless it was self-serving."

City dwellers who could afford to flee did so in droves. Everyone else was holding on for dear life. "The town had a nervous breakdown during [Kucinich's] mayoralty," Larkin says. "He wore everybody out."

Yet almost 30 years later, Kucinich has managed to recast this period as his greatest triumph. In the revised telling, this isn't a story of a mayor who hurled the city into chaos with startling swiftness. It's a rewritten David and Goliath tale, with Kucinich playing the role as the only man with the cojones to stand up to corruption and nefarious corporations. His presidential campaign paints a man of sturdy principles, unsinkable optimism, and untainted liberal bona fides — a mythology now being regurgitated by everyone from supporters to the national media.

The "people's mayor," he is called. The "worker's president," he dubs himself.

"It's Kucinich time, now," wrote Cleveland native Scott Raab in his gushing Esquire profile.

"Kucinich has made a life and career of overcoming obstacles, challenging expectations and making unpopular decisions simply by trusting his gut," lavished the Chicago Tribune.

But if history tells us anything, it's that Kucinich will play any role to his advantage — be it race-baiter or liberal purist — only to spin himself a new image the next day. It's a formula that hasn't changed in 40 years.

"He has done a spectacular job of rewriting history," Larkin says. ". . . You can neither understand nor appreciate Dennis unless you were here then. You had to have lived through it — and, God, it was incredible."

Then why cant Sammy get a full time AR radio slot?

What gives

I tell you

I'm watching Kieth, read a statement from Hillary saying that she won't accept a caucus. However, I don't think it's her decision.
God, I hope we have a caucus. I've never done one.

I try to stay away from the cyclical stuff. I am, if you insist on religious frames, more of a Messianic Socialist. (Walter Benjamin wrote in this "realm".) Permanently Kill the Capitalist Beast--and all such tyrannies-- while you create a Humane Society. We have a lot to say in the matter. No need to rely on Chaos. No time to write a clear exposition. Art Show to attend.
**Lesbian Chic**

Jewish control of the media?
Submitted by red on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:13pm.
Then why cant Sammy get a full time AR radio slot?
What gives
I tell you
---------------
He's been earlocked out.

IT'S A WONDERFUL TOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!

The buildings go up
And the people go down (the subways)

Hey man...

thats my question !!!!!!!!!!!111

who stealing my stuff?

not Communist ones, like Sam Seder.
**Lesbian Chic**

someone contributed a link yesterday - maybe 'nando or sunny jim...

I thought i was the only one who'd put that together, thow... back in '04 after the elections, the rumors started that Hillary was going to be the anointed candidate, i thought they were kidding, since she couldn't bring out a democratic majority, much less bring over any independents... and when Obama appeared out of nowhere in '06, it seemed like a sick joke when the 'rumors' started about running him for the nomination...

Submitted by ghettodefender on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:15pm.
...God, I hope we have a caucus. I've never done one.

She doesn't get very good reviews.
I don't think I can trust what she writes.
Almost like Jeffy Gannon reporting live... from the Lincoln bedroom. Right, Karl?
lol

#
[Article]DeLayed Gratification
... The recent article by Denise Grollmus was filled with factual errors, half-truths, and blatant cheap shots. Like most critics, Grollmus ...
#
[Article]Playing Chicken
... The critic, Denise Grollmus, then proceeded to trash the book. "He's flogging the dead horse of thick-framed geeks who couldn't ...
#
[Blog]C-Notes - Indie Rockers Rejoice: The Matinee Cleveland to Open ...
... “I can't believe no one else saw this place," Nemr says, "and thought to do the same thing,” – Denise Grollmus. ... Is Dennis Grollmus really that stupid? ...
#
[Blog]C-Notes - Sober? Cleveland? How Dare You, Men's Health!!!
... Shots of Jameson on you. -- Denise Grollmus. ... Proves everyone right that Scene is a one sided rag with a worthless reporter like Grollmus. ...
#
[Blog]C-Notes - Michael Kaminski tries to rob video store with cologne ...
... Denise Grollmus. Category: News. ... I also would like to ask Denise Grollmus if she enjoys trashing people that she doesn't even know. ...
#
[Article]Falwell, but Not Far
... champions. After reading "The King of Spin" by the estimable Denise Grollmus, I realize that my awakening should have happened sooner. ...
#
[Article]Onward, Christian Soldiers
... Perhaps the most poignant point in Denise Grollmus' excellent article was Timothy Coil's comment that he is a "Christian trying to stop young men from coming ...

in the process. Is that what you mean?
**Lesbian Chic**

link for sound for la radio anybody ?

viv48

Is it just me i am not getting the sound?

WE CANT HEAR THE SAMMY CAM

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

The man that can't be bought
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:11pm.
The King of Spin
How Dennis Kucinich remade himself from race-baiting bomb-thrower to liberal sweetheart.
By Denise Grollmus
Published: December 5, 2007

================================================

...Was this the cause of it?
YIKES! Has his lovely new wife seen this?

Where can I stream it?

we're really cut off when this happens - esperiencing a marc maron level of frustration with technology i guess

or will i have to download aol?

Wha?

hey can y'all hear the sammycam?

anyone?

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sam was always getting hooked into the blog?

it's not sam

:(*

Put the caucasian back...
Submitted by Thespian Lipsti... on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:21pm.
in the process. Is that what you mean?
-----
Uh, no. I mean yes. Maybe. If it's funnier, that's what I meant. I'm flexible.

http://www.ktlk.com/pages/streaming.html

Naruto: "Believe it!"

:)

with AOL or AIM only
don't know if yahoo works.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

the past 6 minutes....

What is this?? The Nixon tapes?? ;-)
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somebody plugged us back in...

Now i can hear the sammycam

don't know what john amato is talking about - we missed the beginning of the conversation

Hillary Clinton is a goddess!!!
A caucasian goddess.
**Lesbian Chic**

How the MSM has been salivating over this attack in Jerusalem.

Funny, they never mentioned the 120 Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli operation in Gaza

YAY!!!

of the universe.

say McCain is better than Obama or something ?

viv48

Where is she?

thanks for the tip. I may have to consult on the exact procedure, once i have a compatible IM.

Anybody Notice
new
Submitted by Bob26003 on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:27pm.

-

bob bob bob bob....

it makes us all sick...

Sammy Cam came up before the radio stream....

Is it those thighs?

It started blue-screening about an hour before SammyCam, and now I'm online via my old P2-400. Ugh.

Summertime and the wind is blowing, outside in lower Chelsea.
And I don't know what I'm doing in this city,
The sun is always in my eyes,
It crashes through the windows, and I'm sleeping on the couch,
When I came to visit you,
Thats when I knew that I could never have you,
I knew that before you did,
Still I'm the one who's stupid
And there's this burning, like theres always been,
I've never been so alone, and I've never been so alive.

Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by,
The cigarette ash flies in your eyes, and you dont mind, you smile,
And say the world doesn't fit with you.
I don't believe you, you're so serene.
Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free,
I hope you take a piece of me with you,
And theres things Id like to do that you don't believe in,
I would like to build something, but you'd never see it happen
And theres this burning, like theres always been,
I've never been so alone, and I've, I've never been so alive,

And there's this burning, ah ha, there was this burning. aye yie yie

Wheres the soul. I want to know, New York City's evil.
The surface is everything, but I could never do that,
Someone would see through that.
And this is the last time, well be friends again.
And Ill get over you, you'll wonder, who I am.
And theres this burning, just like theres always been,
Ive never been so alone, alone, and I've, and I've, I've never been so alive, so alive

I go home to the coast. it starts to rain, I paddle out on the water alone,
Taste the salt and taste the pain. I'm not thinking of you again,
Summer dies and swells rise, the sun goes down in my eyes, see this rolling wave, darkly coming to take me, home,
And I never been so alone, and I've never been so alive.

horrid stuffed dog with him again?

... it's way to KTLK's stream, SammyCam audio came back.

No problem glad to help. And if I am not here as I may not be tomrrow - Fernando has all my directions captured on his page which he will gladly link to for you if you ask him OK?
They are written out step by step- easy to follow for anyone no matter how much or little you know about 'puters.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

and it's a great place to be, Nora.

Hillary Clinton is our new Queen.

All will love her... and despair.

I recommend just downloading AIM - its the easiest and fastest way - without having to deal with all of AOL. JMHO of course

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Original Recipe.

I told him it was your question. I'm trying to get him to know red blogs. He can't read the blog and do the show.

Sorry RCtowns. I missed that comment. Here is the link:
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2109

remember when janeane had to carry the show because
sam was always getting hooked into the blog?

Yes I Do

Now that Marc is reading some Im's during the
Tuesday shows,while sam is trying to talk with Marc

Now maybe sam knows how She felt

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004263997_gopfund06.html

GOP money missing, party officials say
By PHILIP SHENON
The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing and presumed stolen from the chief fundraising arm of House Republicans, according to party officials who described the findings of emergency internal audits.

The financial records of the group, the National Republican Congressional Committee, may have been falsified for several years, Republican officials said. The campaign committees of several Republican lawmakers may also have been victims of a scam that is under criminal investigation by the FBI...

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.

**Lesbian Chic**

..with an iMac and Macbook. My first computer had DOS 3.0. XP was the last straw. Without reservation I say make the move.

It's my fault Gates is no longer the richest person in the world and I'm damn proud of it. ;-)

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is my world without food.

Takoyaki !

Takoyaki !

I love that stuff

but
cant get it here

Sound's just like my friends from highschool. That is really sad.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Whatever happened to Lisa's dad? Remember him?

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Obama flack thing -
Submitted by rctowns on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:18pm.
someone contributed a link yesterday - maybe 'nando or sunny jim...

I thought i was the only one who'd put that together, thow... back in '04 after the elections, the rumors started that Hillary was going to be the anointed candidate, i thought they were kidding, since she couldn't bring out a democratic majority, much less bring over any independents... and when Obama appeared out of nowhere in '06, it seemed like a sick joke when the 'rumors' started about running him for the nomination...

=======================

rctowns--

That must be it. It certainly would explain why Hillary is so DARN SPITTIN' MAD ALL THE TIME. Obama wasn't supposed to upstage HER, the great white godDESS!!!!

Hmmmm. How can I incorporate it into that screenplay/book outline which haunts me?!

The wording changing to insure continued presence!

Madam Chair, Ranking Member Wolf, members of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to appear before you. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the Department’s urgent need for resources to address ongoing conflicts and crises that threaten our national security and humanitarian values

http://www.state.gov/s/d/2008/101841.htm

printed on the White House toilet paper, I fear.

haha

The ONLY way that Bush and all his war profiteer friends can get the billion$ and never have to audit it!

Yeah, that's what was in that Wikipedia DLC info! Yikes! The Clintons are SOOOO sneaky.

"We’re finally at a moment when Bush needs the world more than the world needs Bush"
----
One election at a time...

Thanks, Sam!

to hear someone like Sam saying helping people is important.

People are worth loving in a general sense. People who are ok watching others suffer while they are fine are sub human as far as experience is concerned.

Be it 1 hour or the 3 on Sundays.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

caught the last 30 seconds. you're still the best

Dunno how it happened
Sorry

just as i got my aim account up and runnning...

When is the Next Sam show?

3 hours ain't enough. This one hour dealy is akin to torture. ;-)

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that's why it's important to vote in a progressive wing of the dems in the house and senate - they could stop this dlc bullshit policies

that's why it's important to vote in a progressive wing of the dems in the house and senate - they could stop this dlc bullshit policies

is a polar bear I think

tomorrow.

Gare, War Dog, Part of the 97%? All the very same person?

Hahahahahahahahaha. What a pack of tunnel vision dopes!

L@L and Mr. Baiter seem to differ in their obsessions.

But both must use the same drugs!

yeah the preparations alone take a bit of time, getting settled in front of the computer, login, open all the sites, the sammy cam, the aim program, go get a drink, go to the bathroom, check the blog, then some technical glitch kicks in like the sound-off today, frantic lookin around, iming sam, what's going on, then the commercial break, a little banter on the phone and before you know it the time's up

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2584
ToniD put up this great post in her Open Mic.
USE IT!

Help Sam get 5 days a week again

--Funny, they never mentioned the 120 Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli operation in Gaza---

Oh that's right...Obama LOVES Israel...

I have no patience with these people these rightwingers libertarians or whatever who expouse this type of philosophy, that it's good to do nothing to alleviate suffering and helping people - that without government the people themselves will find a way....they did, and that's why they organized themselves in societies you dumm asses!

they just don't see that the government is them, it represents people, them - they're just stupid I guess and maybe selfish - but i really don't understand it - I get mad arguing with these kinds of statements - they have elevated callousness to virtue and compassion is unseemly and not something the government, that is ourselves, should engage in

to listen to 'morning sedition' with marc and mark, (and that sue whatsername)... then got a realplayer recorder, but i still had to get up to start it... I've been seriously blogging and listening for almost four years now.

and podcatching has made it possible to actually sleep at night.

as I play Marsalis' tunes offa altavista.

Thanks for showing me that site, you guys!

It's killing my husband that my son would rather read about a jazz player than to watch wrestling with him. He keeps trying to distract him...but it's not working :-)

http://kentx_4.tripod.com/BigBand/WyntonMarsalis-PeanutsTheme.WAV

.. fascist tactic. Every fascist regime employs it. The words mean nothing to them:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,...

..because they hate our freedom and everything it stands for.
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But still

You are asking me not to vote for a Democrat and thus help enable nazis. I cannot do that!

Even though the Dems are far from perfect: The important thing is stopping the repubs

Far more important

I mean realistically, what other choice do we have?

Not vote?

The only way to get any change will be run off voting and public financing of elections.

Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a "distinguished man with a great history of service to our country," Clinton said, "Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with."

I will tell you what I know about this, though.

It's an attempt to poison the well for Barack Obama in 2008. Her goal is two-fold:

To make Obama appear as unelectable as possible to scare Superdelegates into voting for her at the convention; and
if that doesn't work, to make sure that McCain defeats Obama in November so she can run again in 2012 and scold the party with "I told you so."
"There are certain critical issues that voters always look to in a general election. National security experience (and) the qualifications to be commander-in-chief are front and center. They always have been. They always will be," she said.

She said she and McCain had traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan together as she repeated a line that surfaced from the campaign trail. She and McCain "bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, Clinton said, while "Sen. Obama will bring a speech he gave in 2002," stating his opposition to the Iraq war as an Illinois state senator.

Folks, for 2008, Hillary Clinton has one overriding goal:

Prevent Barack Obama from winning the White House.

If that means she wins, great. But, if that means handing the White House to the Republican and John McCain, that's also acceptable. Because, after all, there's always 2012.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/6/163937/4561/364/452219

+

+

If everyone didn't vote for a candidate based on a single issue, no one would be elected and we'd be living in a dictatorship. No candidate is perfect. I won't say vote for the less evil, I say vote for the candidate you think public pressure has the best chance to change after the election. I also say don't focus purely on the President, we've got to grow the progressive movement from the dog catcher on up the political food chain to the top.

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Very interesting well written highly recommended article about one aspect of the Hillary Haters by progressive hero Jim Wallis:

Denouncing the Hillary Haters (by Jim Wallis)

"Last week I wrote about unfair attacks on Sen. Barack Obama's faith. And though it hasn't been in the headlines as recently, Sen. Hillary Clinton has also faced a steady stream of criticism of her faith. Christianity Today summarizes in sad detail and rightly debunks these "baseless blows to the former first lady" in a recent editorial, which I recommend reading. The editorial points to a higher ground from which Christians should discuss politics - both for the sake of the person in question, and relationships inside and outside of the church."

Full article here:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/03/denouncing-the-hillary-ha...

As Sam says "Play Nice" and Peace be with you

goes back to the days of the robber barons... or the divine right of kings, if you want to go back even farther.

Hobbes' description of the natural state of man as being 'nasty, brutish, and short'... supports their notion that 'the people' are too venal and stupid to govern themselves.

the endumbening of america has made their argument stronger, though... how are we going to take it back if most of us can be so easily distracted with shiny objects, sugar, salt, animal fat, and american idolatry?

i've got 'idiocracy' protected on my dvr... it's not 500 years in the future; it's last week's news.

eugenics |yoōˈjeniks|
plural noun [treated as sing. ]
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
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I noticed that of all the primary votes cast so far that only 4000 votes seperate Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

That is closer than a razors edge and virtually a dead heat.

What an election that we can have such two good candidates to chose from.

Peace

Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

And the Republican say the most important thing is to stop the Dems....!!!

And that's how the 97% stays in control. The 2 party system makes sure the 3% stays on little blogs like this.

It's the American way.... Thanks for your vote!

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King (Dubya, the Decider)of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

just listening to msnbc and abrams. its hard to believe he hasn't been sprung yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kallikak_Family

bush = fart jokes

Submitted by maggiesboy on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 9:34pm
...we've got to grow the progressive movement from the dog catcher on up...
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Give me a minute to imagine the campaign platform...

The former was a king and the latter a king wannabe.

Found another similarity: Insane King George III - (known as the king who lost America),.....

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maggiesboy - check it out:
Submitted by rctowns on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 9:43pm.

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If there is any doubt that Obama's campaign is just as dirty as Hillary's campaign, here is more proof:

Obama Aide Calls Hillary: 'A Monster'
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Inside US poll battle as fight turns dirty for Democrats

By GERRI PEEV

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a "monster" by one of Barack Obama's top advisers, as the gloves come off in the race to win the Democrat nomination.

In recent TV appearances Mrs Clinton had looked desperate and on the back foot.
In an unguarded moment during an interview with The Scotsman, Samantha Power, his key foreign policy aide, let slip the camp's true feelings about the former First Lady.

Her comments came as Mr Obama, whose defeats in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday were largely put down to a series of negative attacks on him, vowed to turn up the heat on Mrs Clinton over her claims to be the more experienced candidate.

The fragile truce was blown apart as the pressure for the nomination intensified, with Mrs Clinton winning in Texas and Ohio.

Continued:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Inside-US-poll-battle-as.3854...

I posted that a long time ago :)

But that's okay.
Great minds think alike...

PS - I got my onion seeds. Thinking about starting a bee farm.

do you have more context?

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/06/738832.aspx

Obama gains more supers
Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:55 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Obama

From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro
Obama gained two more superdelegates today -- NV State Party Vice Chairwoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV).

This brings the delegate total to: Obama 1,581-Clinton 1,481

Superdelegates: Clinton 254-Obama 215

NBC Hard Count: Obama 1,366-Clinton 1,227

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infogiant
On to 2008, where Barack “lost” New Hampshire after Hillary’s crying episode. Delegate count? Clinton - 9 Obama - 9. Yep, quite the comeback for Hillary after being up by 30 points in the polls.

Nevada, Hillary threatens to sue because she didn’t like the caucus process, but then she “won” more votes, so she dropped that rhetoric. Delegate count? Clinton - 12 Obama - 13. Huh? That doesn’t seem like a win to me.

Texas, Hillary scored a “huge” victory by winning the Primary and likely picking up 1-4 (yes, that is correct) delegates. Problem is, the caucus is still being counted and will fall to Obama, with him picking up 5-7 delegates and will be the actual winner in Texas, by several delegates.

Oh, and by the way, Hillary is threatening to sue the Texas caucus process. I know, you’re surprised.

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oops The power of words...Hillary's wishful thinking

Jewish Control of the Media?
Submitted by red on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:13pm.
Then why cant Sammy get a full time AR radio slot?
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Well here's Edna's theory. Rabbi Sammy is a really good man. He actually cares about humanity. That includes Palestinians. I have heard Mark Green use the term "good Jew" during an appearance on MSNBC. Perhaps our rabbi does not not fit that term. Lionel on the other hand does. Why you might say? Well! Though Lionel is a puertorrican, he never discusses the state of Israel. That of course unless he is defended it.

isn't that the bot from forbidden planet? monsters from the id and all that.

Exclusive: Former Republican Governor Says New Mexico State Officials Investigating Rep. Heather Wilson Vote-Buying Charges; Says Republican U.S. Congresswoman 'Shrugged' at Allegations When Confronted With Them

News Director of Albuquerque's KKOB Offers New Reason for Spiking Stories; Anchorwoman Who Resigned in Protest Dismisses New Excuse, Says Powerful Station Buckled Under Pressure from Wilson's Campaign

BRAD BLOG Obtains Scripts of Original Spiked Radio Reports...

[Story Summary: Via extensive BRAD BLOG interviews, New Mexico's former Republican Governor repeats and adds fresh details to his allegations of Republican vote-buying by Congresswoman Heather Willson, tells us that the AG and SoS offices are now investigating the charges, and says he recently confronted Wilson, in person, about the allegations and was "stunned" by her response. KKOB's News Director Pat Allen offers a new reason as to why he spiked reporter Laura MacCallum's stories on the scandal and she dismisses the argument as being without merit. We also post the scripts of radio station KKOB's yanked stories, which led to MacCallum's resignation from the station last week.]

More here:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5768

http://www.galacticvoyager.com/mod/robbie/rrobot.jpg

This one is from Lost in Space.

http://www.lostinspacerobot.com/

Danger...Will Robinson!

Good night
and good bloggin'.

Don't fergit to S.P.I.T.

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pbtrue1 wins tonight's trivia pic contest. You win a date with Billy Mummy!

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1) Christianity is the major religion in American and even when I try to say ALL religions are bull shit I get attacked. Nobody is criticizing Hillary for being Christian.

2) There are 100,000 votes between the candidates which is still razor thin by my standards but it's not 4,000 votes.

spirit uses Rovian tactics again by attacking Obama claiming attacks that the Clinton camp actually uses. Rovian tactics is what has sunk our country to divide one against another.

I reject that. We should be looking for more reasons to come together, not divide.

Submitted by dan on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 9:59pm.
isn't that the bot from forbidden planet? monsters from the id and all that.
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Wash your mouth out! That cheap impostor isn't fit to lube Robby's joints.

-You are asking me not to vote for a Democrat-

http://www.billmumy.com/

Danger, danger!
Submitted by maggiesboy on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:03pm.

pbtrue1 wins tonight's trivia pic contest. You win a date with Billy Mummy!

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OBAMA LEADS CLINTON BY HALF-A-MILLION VOTES

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

by under reporting Obama's lead.

I can think of a million reasons why I won't vote for a Democrat or a Republican.

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-And that's how the 97% stays in control. The 2 party system makes sure the 3% stays on little blogs like this.-

Sounds correct to me...even if it's coming from a dipwad like commander cuckoo bananas...

Republicans?

Not from what I saw and read...

And it's spreading.

Guys? Come on now...

Ya'll still have tons of common ground.

I wrote that based on recollection but, half a million on 13M is a lot. But still not more than 4%. It would be better if we all had the same opinion of our leader but that would be boring.

http://www.action-figure.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21372

I'm not fighting..I'm saying what I think...like everyone else does...

When Dubya got in office, he made sure that his dad's and Bill's records were secured for the next 50 years.
No stinkin' FOIA requests to spill the beans.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2590

Mena Connection: Compromised: Clinton, Bush

You have to understand that Democrats who are willing to vote in a 2 party system because it means something might be gained from your vote. I know I would love it if you would consider voting with those of us who don't want 10,000 years of war.

I understand that puts distance between you and utopia but this aint heaven and it never will be.

Ah here we have marvin - the depressed robot, robbie from forbidden planet, some women I do not recognize and then then "danger danger" will robinson from Lost in Space - whom I have met along with Dr. Smith before he passed away.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

http://www.panric.com/

Self-centered, crooked, incompetent, ect..

no disrespect intended

But in person, he was just the sweetest man. Rarely do I go for or care about autographs etc... but in this case, his on a pic from the show, is one I do treasure and will be one of the first things I will have framed to hang up in my movie room if and when it ever gets done.

"Oh the pain the pain!!!!"

Dr. Smith could have been a great Republican
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:40pm.
Self-centered, crooked, incompetent, ect..

no disrespect intended

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

One of the very best/influential movies along with Blade Runner in its own day.

Submitted by dan on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 9:59pm.
isn't that the bot from forbidden planet? monsters from the id and all that.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

but I can't..I've checked with myself numerous times...It felt proper for me to study the appealing candidates, see what they've done, said, promised, platform etc...and I'm voting for the person who most matches what I would want as a president, (if I'm forced to have one)...I decided to play this game of political elections, knowing that it may matter not one whit who I vote for....I'm pretending it does matter...I think it was pbtrue who said it best in my mind the other day, not sure, but it was something like the Dems lubricate before they fuck you...

And I can see why that seems appealing when considering who ya want to be fucked by....

out of 25 mill is tiny(only 3% if you include FL).
But, I was scanning down before going bed and saw that "4000" (WTF???)
Hillary may be cooked after today anyway. She really jumped the shark. KO just murdered her tonight, and that message will probably actually spread to the networks. You can't say your opponent in the other party is more qualified for anything than your opponent in your own party, unless your're planning on leaving your party.

Submitted by Nefferkitti on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:37pm.
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The little-known "name" of the Lost In Space robot is B9.

Get it? [Bait jabs elbow into Nefferkitti's ribs.]

And you can own your own B9:

http://www.lostinspacerobot.com/

Your house sounds like it will be wonderful when done.
Stay on top of the contractors, and make them do it right, the first time.

Greetings, edna ellen....that's harsh....that Green guy really is an idiot...

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I haven't read everything posted here about the new owners, what are they all about...?

Thank you - I never knew that he had a name and I have even taken courses on this stuff.
Thanks again and yes I do get it. :)
The Cat's Meow
Submitted by Crank Bait on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:51pm.
Submitted by Nefferkitti on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:37pm.
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The little-known "name" of the Lost In Space robot is B9.

Get it? [Bait jabs elbow into Nefferkitti's ribs.]

And you can own your own B9:

http://www.lostinspacerobot.com/

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

I don't know to what degree your mind is still open to this topic..but if you ever do read this, I value your opinion and would like to to hear...again..if you ever read it..no pressure... :)

Anarchism Essay, by Richard

Monday, February 25, 2008

Mark Penn's tangled corporate web: Clinton is a client; McCain is a client.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 2/25/2008

As has been widely reported, Hillary Clinton's top guru, Mark Penn, is leading the charge within the Clinton campaign to go aggressively negative against Obama. Besides the fact that Penn is the architect responsible for Hillary's presidential aspirations going from "inevitable" to being on life support, he is reportedly obsessed with destroying Obama. While it is understandable that Clinton's top adviser wants his client to win at all costs, going massively negative against Obama (or Hillary for that matter) risks damaging our candidate in the fall election against McCain. Unfortunately, this is something another "client" would welcome. That client is named John McCain.

Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a DC public relations (PR) firm. Burson-Marsteller owns a subsidiary, BKSH. BKSH is run by Charlie Black. Black is a longtime Republican politico, and a top adviser for John McCain for President. And, as Think Progress notes, while Black is a volunteer on the McCain campaign, he views Mcain as his client and continues to take a paycheck from BKSH. JedReport dissected these relationships in a diary on DailyKos last night.

Con't

http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/mark-penns-tangled-corporate-web.html

Thanks PB - its not the contractors that are the problem here. I wish that was the problem...would be much easier to deal with. Its quite complicated not counting the 2+ years its taken to just get to this point making me feel like its never going to get done. But thanks for the good thoughts.
And the movie room - that will take a bit longer to get done, but eventually it will, and I have my posters and other chachtkies collected ready for it when it does get done.

N-kitti
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:52pm.
Your house sounds like it will be wonderful when done.
Stay on top of the contractors, and make them do it right, the first time.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Robot bear will carry soldiers to safety
Last updated at 14:46pm on 11th June 2007

Daring battlefield rescues of wounded comrades may one day be a thing of the past as the US army is developing a robot that can recover injured or abducted soldiers.

Daniel Theobald, president of Maryland-based Vecna Technologies, which is developing Bear, told New Scientist: "We saw a need for a robot that can essentially go where a human can."

Women Honoured in Poetry Slam

Some local poets paid tribute to women in the House of Hunger Poetry Slam held at the Book Café over the weekend.

The honour was held to celebrate the International Women's Day held every year on March 8. The poets among them United States-based Mutaurwa "Foretold" Mapondera, Munamato Gabi popularly known as Vatete, George "Ishkold" Makuyana and renowned filmmaker Olley Maruma took to the stage in a battle for supremacy on Saturday afternoon.

The poets displayed their understanding of women's issues through their poems and made interesting comments on the fairer sex. Maruma recited another poem that looked at the African continent which by then he says was called Ethiopia. Mutaurwa also made his presence felt by reciting a touching poem titled Oru-comrade dedicated to his aunt and liberation war heroine. Vatete who preferred Shona poems wowed audiences with rich Shona language that talked about womanhood and the girl child. The judges had a difficult time in selecting the winners but three poets - Vatete, Makuyana and Mutaurwa were picked as the winners. Vatete and Makuyana walked away with a book apiece while Mutaurwa was given a CD.

Slam master Larry Kwirirayi said the House of Hunger Poetry Slam continued to grow as well as attracting the best talents from around the country.

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Kevin - I am getting this thing you had this morning just now...

Warning: MySQL server has gone away query: INSERT INTO watchdog

OMG!
That is just amazingly awe inspiring and beautiful!!!

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Selling a war against Iran out in the open didn't work to fool us. So is Bush nursing one to life in South America under the radar with a media blackout so no public input will influence the bellicose process?

Are there "eyes" in its treds?

from stellar ovens Neffer.

but reality and the perception of it is strictly through the chemical pathways in the brain. Therefore take a picture.

Truely "We are star dust"

We all come
Submitted by Fernando on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 11:31pm.
from stellar ovens Neffer.

but reality and the perception of it is strictly through the chemical pathways in the brain. Therefore take a picture.

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

--Media blackout on Chavez dilemma...
Submitted by nora on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 11:29pm.--

...

"...harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilised being."

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Submitted by nora on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 11:31pm.
Are there "eyes" in its treds?
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No, there is an "a" in its treads.

If you don't vote for a Democrat, you want 10,000 years of war.

And if you don't vote for a Democrat it's because you're chasing fantasies, utopia.

You know, maybe you're right. What I really want is Utopia, and 10,000 years of war. They just go so well together.

Here is where Tutor, in imitation of Jesus, Horace, Pindar, Socrates, and Diogenes, plies his noble trade as Dungeon Master to the Stars. We do the wealthy no service in sparring the rod.

...localisation prioritises local production and small producers.

Economic planning would be participatory and based at the local level, with national and international planning for complex modes of production and scarce or locally unavailable resources. The central organisational idea is that of the federation, built up from a democratic base of associations, workers’ councils and communes, arriving at joint decisions and exercising authority but in a way that does not recreate the authoritarian rule of the state.
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Local except when it's federal. Decentralized except when it's centralized.

Every local place has scarce or unavailable resources which are acquired through sophisticated national and international networks and modes of transportation and agreements.

Sounds familiar.

the World Bank and the WTO are seen as the some of the main proponents of these neo-liberal values. They are executive bodies that administer and push forward modern capitalism on a planned and global basis. To anarchists, such bodies have partly usurped the role of national states, taken on many of their powers and adopted the same ideological armour. For example, they believe in the ‘trickle down’ effect, as most free-market capitalists of the past have done, an ideology completely anathema to anarchists.[4]

The popular anarcho-syndicalist, Noam Chomsky sees such institutions as,

"efforts to centralise power in a world economic system geared towards ensuring that the general populations of the world have no role in decision making, and that the level of policy planning is raised to be so remote from peoples’ knowledge and understanding and input that they have absolutely no idea about the various decisions that will effect their lives, and they certainly couldn’t influence them if they did."[5]

This reflects anarchists’ belief that capitalism operates based on brutal self-interest and exploitation of the poor, the working classes, and the Third World.

http://anarchism.tk/blog/?p=7

Let me see if I can find it...

here we go

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Peter Kropotkin, 1902

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/kropotkin/mutaidintro.html

...wherever I saw animal life in abundance, as, for instance, on the lakes where scores of species and millions of individuals came together to rear their progeny; in the colonies of rodents; in the migrations of birds which took place at that time on a truly American scale along the Usuri; and especially in a migration of fallow-deer which I witnessed on the Amur, and during which scores of thousands of these intelligent animals came together from an immense territory, flying before the coming deep snow, in order to cross the Amur where it is narrowest -- in all these scenes of animal life which passed before my eyes, I saw Mutual Aid and Mutual Support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species, and its further evolution.

And finally, I saw among the semi-wild cattle and horses in Transbaikalia, among the wild ruminants everywhere, the squirrels, and so on, that when animals have to struggle against scarcity of food, in consequence of one of the above-mentioned causes, the whole of that portion of the species which is affected by the calamity, comes out of the ordeal so much impoverished in vigour and health, that no progressive evolution of the species can be based upon such periods of keen competition.

Consequently, when my attention was drawn, later on, to the relations between Darwinism and Sociology, I could agree with none of the works and pamphlets that had been written upon this important subject. They all endeavoured to prove that Man, owing to his higher intelligence and knowledge, may mitigate the harshness of the struggle for life between men; but they all recognized at the same time that the struggle for the means of existence, of every animal against all its congeners, and of every man against all other men, was "a law of Nature." This view, however, I could not accept, because I was persuaded that to admit a pitiless inner war for life within each species, and to see in that war a condition of progress, was to admit something which not only had not yet been proved, but also lacked confirmation from direct observation.

On the contrary, a lecture "On the Law of Mutual Aid," which was delivered at a Russian Congress of Naturalists, in January 1880, by the well-known zoologist, Professor Kessler, the then Dean of the St. Petersburg University, struck me as throwing a new light on the whole subject. Kessler's idea was, that besides the law of Mutual Struggle there is in Nature the law of Mutual Aid, which, for the success of the struggle for life, and especially for the progressive evolution of the species, is far more important than the law of mutual contest. This suggestion -- which was, in reality, nothing but a further development of the ideas expressed by Darwin himself in The Descent of Man -- seemed to me so correct and of so great an importance, that since I became acquainted with it (in 1883) I began to collect materials for further developing the idea...

Bondage room? That room is nothing - I have a friend with a room full of armor - and besides
YOU Must watch The Colbert Report in repeat - John Legend and Stephen do a duet... Its fabulous

Reality. TV. Two more reasons to read.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury

Except that it is "run" from below...and not from above...

Telegraph (UK)

Property investment trusts shares have crashed on panic selling in New York after an affiliate of the private equity giant Carlyle Group fell into default on mortgage losses.

Carlyle Capital Corp (CCC) said it had missed margin calls to seven creditors and lacked collateral to cover its trading exposure to mortgage securities.

The news sent shockwaves through the financial markets. Carlyle Capital has leveraged itself to the hilt, taking out debt at a ratio of 32:1 to invest in the US mortgage assets. It held securities worth a $21.7bn (£10.8bn) last month, raising the spectre of distress sales on a scale large enough to trigger a cascade of liquidations by other funds.

Fears of forced sales ravaged real estate investment trusts, which also own big holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt. Anworth Mortgage shares plunged 24pc and Capstead Mortgage was off 25pc.

Thornburg Mortgage crashed 60pc after revealing an SEC-filing in New York that it had missed a $28m margin call to JP Morgan Chase. It has suffered from the collapse in investor demand for so-called jumbo mortgages.

An analyst report that UBS was engaged in a "fire-sale" of mortgage securities worth $24bn accelerated the flight from risk. Most of the assets are alleged to be Alt A securities, the next notch up from sub-prime. The Dow Jones index fell 164 points in early trading to 12,090.

Traders said Carlyle had been scooping up AAA-rated mortgage securities, believing that they had fallen fall below inherent value. The risky bet - known as "catching a falling knife" - appears similar to the strategy that ensnared the UK hedge fund Peloton Partners, which was forced to close a $2bn fund last week.

The assets were issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally-chartered bodies that have an implicit US government guarantee.

That is one of the few things here that is not pretend.

Did anyone here every wonder what it takes to get to 4%?

I don't think they ever did.

We in the 97% feel very comfortable about the next 100 years!

it sure FEELS good to think that phrase...

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-no progressive evolution of the species can be based upon such periods of keen competition.-

That was interesting, dada...thanks.

How much would the 3% sacrifice to educate 1%?

Kinda like turning lead into gold.

dem suckers 64%

Repub slime like me 36%

is you can vote for anyone on the ballot.

Keith Olbermann eviscerates Hillary: "Look I can be president, I was married to one!"
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/06/2008 11:31:00 PM ET · Link
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Tonight on his show, Keith Olbermann eviscerated Hillary Clinton for a good ten minutes for promoting John McCain's presidency over her fellow Democrats. He compared her to Joe Lieberman. He asked "is she equating her time in the East Wing with McCain's time in the Hanoi Hilton?" You have got to watch these videos. They're devastating in only the way that Keith can be. (Hat tip to Al Rodgers' DKos diary.)

Videos at link
http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/keith-olbermann-eviscerates-hillary.h...

Sunshine. Repukes will flood the democratic lines for Hillary. It's their only chance.

Imagination and the fifth dimension

Ah, I always love a bit of theoretical physics! - particularly for its "mindfuck" qualities, if you'll pardon the French. I discovered this video entitled Imagining the Tenth Dimension (see below) courtesy of my younger brother who is in his second year of a science degree and who is also interested in the philosophy of science. As far as the content of this video is concerned, I think I'm only convinced up until the fifth dimension.

If we take the idea of "virtual" to describe all of those possibilities in a given set-up that remain un-actualised, it is precisely this which, in the video, is given the name of the "fifth dimension". The first four dimensions (height, width, depth, and duration) all exist in the realm of the "actual", but the fifth dimension onwards exist only in the realm of the virtual. I've thought a lot about the virtual in previous theorisations, but until now, I'd never really thought of it as a "dimension", in the sense that height, width, depth, and duration are. However, I think I like the formulation a lot, and feel it will be incredibly helpful for me in my work!

For instance: So many of us remain trapped within four dimensions, but to become cognizant of the fifth dimension is surely to become aware of the fact that what "is" is only one among infinite possibilities that exist in the virtual, and that at any moment, any one of those possibilities can be actualised through a combination of chance and will. It allows us an appreciation that what "is" is not necessarily what must be, and that things might always be otherwise. Reality, then, becomes reconceived as a dynamic process, rather than in terms of static being. As activists, it is precisely the fifth dimension that is called upon in our imaginations as we both re-imagine how the world might be otherwise and struggle to make that imagined better world a reality! The battle-cry of the World Social Forum says it all: "Another World is Possible!"

I would contend that the imagination emerges as central here, seeing that it is precisely the faculty of the imagination which we employ in order to behold that which does not yet exist in actuality. I would add that the imagination becomes central in another sense too: Let's say we liberate the concept of the imagination from the human psyche and use it to denote the very realm of the virtual; that is, the fifth dimension from which everything emerges or actualises. That which we know and which we take for reality is but one manifestation of an infinite number of possible worlds, and the realm of the actual (i.e. the so-called "real world") is continually transmutating through relay loops back and forth between the fifth dimension. If we apply the term "imagination" to this realm of the virtual, then we might say that reality itself is imaginative!

Anyway, here's the video. Enjoy!

Posted by J A G U A R I T O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo&e

The Shortest Comeback in History
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/06/2008 09:50:00 PM ET · Link
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From AP:
Hillary Rodham Clinton won't catch Barack Obama in the race for Democratic delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, even if she wins every remaining contest.

So much for Hillary's comeback. Of course, the media knew this Tuesday night, but it was more fun to pretend like Hillary's momentum (yes, winning a state that she was already expected to win for the past 14 months is now momentum and a comeback) was going to make this an all new race. Now, to be fair, Obama can't reach the magic number of 2,025 total delegates either - not without the help of the Superdelegates. But note that the AP article is now definitively saying that not only can't Hillary reach 2,025 delegates, she also can't even catch up to Obama in terms of pledged (elected) delegates even if she wins every race. That's what we've been saying for the past few weeks. It's over, in terms of elections. Hillary can't catch up to Obama, period. Now all she can do is try to convince the Superdelegates to overturn the will of the people (this is probably the motivation behind her having gone postal the past week, embracing John McCain, telling everyone how qualified he is to be president, etc.) And if the Superdelegates listen to Hillary, and overrule the will of the people by denying the nomination to the first African-American nominee in American history, God help our party, cuz it ain't gonna be pretty.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_delegates_8

hee!

lot's of em finding they're stuck as dems!!!

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets suffered heavy losses Friday, reacting to a slide on Wall Street, with the declines led by financials such as Mizuho Financial Group in Tokyo, National Australia Bank in Sydney and HSBC Holdings in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped 3% 22,648.14, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index shed 3.3% to 12,632.31.

"Things seem to be getting worse because there is no buying. The (trend of declines) will go on until the end of this quarter and we don't expect any rebound until April," said Francis Lun, general manager at Fulbright Securities in Hong Kong........

Dean To Sen. Nelson:
Pay For It Yourself
TPM Election Central has learned that DNC Chair Howard Dean gave a clear message today to Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), who had asked that the DNC pay $18 million for a new primary: Fund it yourself.

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

Wouldn't it be wierd if a husband and wife were both impeached?

Think about it.

--Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 12:23am.
is you can vote for anyone on the ballot.--

Because of that thing with my vote not showing for the State results, I was sent by the local auditor the offical results that are going to be presented to the Board of Sups... and my vote does show there..but anyway you can see on these results something WAY funky...two things really..

one is that it appears that this is a Democratic County..it isn't

and two is this weird thing with the Decline to State vote....

I got my party change in 10 days before the primary and even though the day I called the clerk said that she was mailing out ballots that day, she said I needed to come and pick up my ballot, and to hand deliver it....

I'm not sure what it is exactly that is disturbing...

********** (DEMOCRATIC) **********

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Vote for 1
(WITH 69 OF 69 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
MIKE GRAVEL. . . . . . . . . . 20 .23
JOHN EDWARDS . . . . . . . . . 781 9.02
CHRIS DODD . . . . . . . . . . 11 .13
HILLARY CLINTON . . . . . . . . 4,168 48.12
JOE BIDEN . . . . . . . . . . 40 .46
BARACK OBAMA . . . . . . . . . 3,384 39.07
BILL RICHARDSON . . . . . . . . 72 .83
DENNIS KUCINICH . . . . . . . . 68 .79
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 117 1.35
Total . . . . . . . . . 8,661
Over Votes . . . . . . . . . 2
Under Votes . . . . . . . . . 189

********** (REPUBLICAN) **********

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Vote for 1
(WITH 69 OF 69 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
FRED THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . 289 3.13
TOM TANCREDO . . . . . . . . . 7 .08
RUDY GIULIANI . . . . . . . . . 366 3.96
JOHN H. COX. . . . . . . . . . 6 .06
SAM BROWNBACK . . . . . . . . . 8 .09
RON PAUL. . . . . . . . . . . 295 3.19
JOHN MCCAIN. . . . . . . . . . 3,521 38.07
MITT ROMNEY. . . . . . . . . . 3,160 34.17
ALAN KEYES . . . . . . . . . . 42 .45
MIKE HUCKABEE . . . . . . . . . 1,424 15.40
DUNCAN HUNTER . . . . . . . . . 25 .27
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 105 1.14
Total . . . . . . . . . 9,248
Over Votes . . . . . . . . . 10
Under Votes . . . . . . . . . 143

********** (AMERICAN INDEPENDENT) **********

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Vote for 1
(WITH 69 OF 69 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
DIANE BEALL TEMPLIN . . . . . . . 57 14.47
DON J. GRUNDMANN . . . . . . . . 51 12.94
MAD MAX RIEKSE. . . . . . . . . 45 11.42
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 241 61.17
Total . . . . . . . . . 394
Over Votes . . . . . . . . . 0
Under Votes . . . . . . . . . 207

...

What is an under vote and an over vote?

I saw the state reps on the PBS Newshour tonight and they are going to ask the candidates to pay for it ..... Florida might do a mail in vote that they think would cosy about 5 million ..... they are going to come up with something .... gonna be a cheap whatever it is.

They have realized the DNC isn't going to do anything for them.

?

THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE...

The world is a beautiful place

to be born into

if you don't mind happiness

not always being so very much fun

if you don't mind a touch of hell

now and then

just when everything is fine

because even in heaven

they don't sing

all the time

The world is a beautiful place

to be born into

if you don't mind some people dying

all the time

or maybe only starving

some of the time

which isn't half so bad

if it isn't you

Oh the world is a beautiful place

to be born into

if you don't much mind

a few dead minds

in the higher places

or a bomb or two

now and then

in your upturned faces

or such other improprieties

as our Name Brand society

is prey to

with its men of distinction

and its men of extinction

and its priests

and other patrolmen

and its various segregations
and congressional investigations

and other constipations

that our fool flesh

is heir to

Yes the world is the best place of all

for a lot of such things as

making the fun scene

and making the love scene

and making the sad scene

and singing low songs and having inspirations

and walking around

looking at everything

and smelling flowers

and goosing statues

and even thinking

and kissing people and

making babies and wearing pants

and waving hats and

dancing

and going swimming in rivers

on picnics

in the middle of the summer

and just generally

'living it up'

Yes

but then right in the middle of it

comes the smiling

mortician

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~

http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/keith-olbermann-eviscerates-hillary.h...

I think I'm only convinced up until the fifth dimension.
silly, Cern is switching the LHC on as we blog. You bout to get sum dimensions.

Annette.. :)

- This is the Mystery of that Noble Trade; which yet no Master can teach to his Apprentice: He may give the Rules, but the Scholar is never the nearer in his practice. Neither is it true, that this fineness of Raillery is offensive. A witty Man is tickl'd while he is hurt in this manner and a Fool feels it not. The occasion of an Offence may possibly be given, but he cannot take it. If it be granted that in effect this way does more Mischief; that a Man is secretly wounded, and though he be not sensible himself, yet the malicious World will find it for him: Yet there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly Butchering of a Man, and the fineness of a stroak that separates the Head from the Body, and leaves it standing in its place-

What happened Toni?
new
Submitted by Alice on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 12:44am.
?

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

A ballot that has been cast but shows no legally valid selection in a given race or referendum or
the number of such ballots cast in an election

I try..

A ballot showing the selection of more candidates or choices than are allowed in a given race or referendum.
The number of such ballots cast in an election.

Oh oops! Totally my fault.. I would have sworn that said a horrid NIGHT...I guess reinforced because you weren't around this evening... :) My bad! I get it now..

Senate OKs sweeping consumer safety reform
Bill seeks tougher product testing, overhaul of agency
By Jim Tankersley and Patricia Callahan

Tribune reporters

11:09 PM CST, March 6, 2008

WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday passed the most sweeping reform of the nation's consumer safety system in a generation, including stricter tests for toys, greater public access to complaints about products and an overhaul of the federal safety agency charged with regulating most items in American homes.

The bill, which passed 79-13, is tougher in key areas than a House version approved last year. House and Senate negotiators will meet to reconcile the differences before the bill heads to President Bush.

Both versions of the legislation would significantly reduce the amount of lead allowed in children's products.

A Tribune investigation last year exposed how the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission was so slow to act on complaints about dangerous children's products that children died while regulators failed to spot hazards or promptly recall products. The reports also revealed the scope of products tainted by lead.

The legislation, which grew out of hearings prompted by the "Hidden Hazards" series, seeks to give the agency more power, more staff and more money.

The biggest change for consumers would occur if the Senate provision for a public database of product safety complaints survives. The House version called for simply studying whether to include consumer complaints in such a database.

Currently, consumers who want to know if a product – whether it's a crib, a toy or a chainsaw – has been linked to injuries or deaths, they can only check government recall lists or file public records requests that take months, sometimes years, to arrive. Consumers are left in the dark about emerging hazards while the government investigates and then negotiates recall alerts with companies.

In an attempt to make those recalls more transparent, an amendment inserted Thursday on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) requires recall notices to include the names and locations of factories where the flawed products were produced. The failure of recall notices to include such information has allowed overseas factories to continue selling tainted products to unwitting U.S. importers that don't know of the factories' troubled track record.

As the lawmakers negotiate a compromise, the areas where lobbying will be most intense include proposals to protect whistle-blowers who expose dangerous products at their companies and a provision to give state attorneys general greater power to enforce safety laws.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-cpsc-reform-mar07,1,1...

undervote
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 12:54am.

A ballot that has been cast but shows no legally valid selection in a given race or referendum or
the number of such ballots cast in an election

Free Democracy

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 12:55am.

A ballot showing the selection of more candidates or choices than are allowed in a given race or referendum.
The number of such ballots cast in an election.

Just heard on WiseTV International news that Nicaragua has joined Venezuela and Equador against Columbia.

for balama man!

General Discussion: Primaries

mo fo

toniD on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 1:05am.
Don't watch. That story won't be a good one. Spare yourself.

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

That sounds like an interesting station...what is it?

It's a local station on cable here in Chicago.

http://www.wycc.tv/

It is produced by Community Colleges.

Can The GOP Hold Onto Denny Hastert's Seat?
By Eric Kleefeld - March 6, 2008, 5:35PM
In a possible sign of trouble for the GOP, the National Republican Congressional Committee has poured more than $1 million into this Saturday's special election for the vacant seat of former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), who resigned last year.

Democratic candidate Bill Foster, a businessman and physicist, has received the active backing of Barack Obama, who in the midst of the presidential campaign cut an ad just for him. Meanwhile, Hastert led the GOP establishment in giving their early backing to dairy businessman and big-time GOP donor Jim Oberweis, who previously ran three unsuccessful self-financed campaigns, losing the Republican primaries for Senate in 2002 and 2004, and for governor in 2006.

Despite being a historically Republican district that voted 55% for President Bush in 2004, a new SurveyUSA poll shows Foster ahead of Oberweis 52%-47%.

The cash-strapped National Republican Congressional Committee has been forced to invest over $1.2 million, dumping $800,000 into the race last Friday alone. The Democratic Congressional Committee has also thrown over $1 million into this election, according to the latest FEC filings.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/il14_post.php

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Ron Paul signals to supporters that he's quitting his race for the presidency
8 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is hinting to supporters that he is ending his long-shot campaign for the presidency.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/paul;_ylt=Am_fQL9FJBLARC...

"...And if the Superdelegates listen to Hillary, and overrule the will of the people by denying the nomination to the first African-American nominee in American history, God help our party, cuz it ain't gonna be pretty."

Why, what's going to happen. You'll all complain, and then vote for Hillary. Case closed.

Overrulling the "will of the people" is what our system of government was designed for. I know that's not a popular point of view, but it bears some consideration. Read "A People's History of the U.S."

cycles...

Nicaragua breaks relations with Colombia
AP - Thu Mar 6, 2:35 PM ET

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced Thursday that he is breaking off relations with Colombia because of his country's opposition to the Colombian raid on a guerrilla base in Ecuador.

Huff Post: Larry David on Hillary!

Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voiceover at the end saying, "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?"

How is it that she became the one who's perceived as more equipped to answer that 3 a.m. call than the unflappable Obama? He, with the ice in his veins, who doesn't panic when he's losing or get too giddy when he's winning, who's as comfortable in his own skin as she's uncomfortable in hers. There have been times in this campaign when she seemed so unhinged that I worried she'd actually kill herself if she lost. Every day, she reminds me more and more of Adele H., who also had an obsession that drove her insane.........

Patti Smith - Gloria

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

Getting sleepy!

Night all.

pleasant dreams!

much in the same way he was the Vietcong's whipping boy for years.

Ekh! People, people! Why are you people? If only you were not people, you might perhaps be clever.

whipping boy.

People who need people are the luckiest people in Bush's America.

Well, I dunno about "you'll all," but yeah, that's what I was going to do. I have heard I am in her prime demographic: "aging women." Tweety said so. That didn't bother me as much as the idea that there is a "non-aging women" demographic. That's a bit too sci-fi for me.

an aging woman as well.

Whoops.

I'm a black man

and last time I checked I was going backwards as far as aging was concerned kind of like Merlin in that respect.

Maybe you're just in denial.
G'night.

I am in denial about a lot of things but a year ago I had only a few years left to live and this year I seem to be in a lot better position so you do the math.

Later

;)

Link to Vid

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

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

"Philosophy is antipoetic. Phisosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views."

- Robert Graves, from 'The Case for Xanthippe', in The Crane Bag, 1969

Feed us ! :)

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

Hey the DLC wants to privatize Social Security
new
Submitted by nora on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 8:55pm.
Yeah, that's what was in that Wikipedia DLC info! Yikes! The Clintons are SOOOO sneaky.

5:33 PM, Thursday, March 06, 2008c.e.

Will somebody call her a douchebag?
Submitted by Regnad Kcin on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 7:40pm.
No, seriously....somebody call her a douchebag.
OOo Nando, I like this one.
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 7:50pm.
"There is another option, if sandbagged by Clinton, Obama could instruct his delegates to vote for Edwards at the convention."
Buwahahaha

10:32 PM

Obama Aide Calls Hillary: 'A Monster'
------------------------------
Inside US poll battle as fight turns dirty for Democrats
By GERRI PEEV
HILLARY Clinton has been branded a "monster" by one of Barack Obama's top advisers, as the gloves come off in the race to win the Democrat nomination.

Killary, Mark Penn ,and Mccain sitting in the tree
new
Submitted by edna ellen poe on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 11:02pm.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Mark Penn's tangled corporate web: Clinton is a client; McCain is a client.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 2/25/2008

*******

Hmmmmm Obama and his followers have been taking Super Del's ... and Hill had to endure. Will Obama be as "nice" as he starts losing some of his. LOL.

1. Killery
2. Monster
3. Douche-Bag
4. Stephie-- played a tape with and making/joining Hillary/Bush/Cheny -- saying to Fear The Reaper
5. Thom Hartmann even said just Hillary Clinton is the Dirty One, although he does admit Obama just as dirty ... but focusing on Hillary ..... *Real Funny -- NOT!*

Just a wee bit of Time tody,
I'm just say'n' ... the other 'SC Lib
--just a few of your obvious bias

I have had the privilege of participating in most of the great humanizing movements of the second half of the last century: peace, labor, civil rights, black power, women’s rights, Asian-American rights and environmental justice.

Each was a tremendously transformative experience, expanding my understanding of what it means to be an American and a human being, challenging me to become more visionary and creative in developing strategies to bring about radical social change.

In all of those movements, Americans found the courage to question what kind of people we were and the wisdom to change ourselves into a people offering new hope in the world.

If I were choosing, I'd choose Hillary over Obama.

But I'll be voting for Cthulhu this year, you can be sure of that.

Not sure if this was posted here yet.
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-chance-for-air-...

i know its kinda early for me but cannot sleep...

good morning

this shit is getting to me seriously...my brain just will not stop banging, too much information coming in daily at the same time, same thing that has made me sane seems to be driving me insane and this shit scares the crap out of me...

Go back to sleep Young lady..

Just West coast zoombies alowed at this hour.. :)

Plus,you'll feel like crap at work today..

The Hooters-All You Zombies

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

So, here is my advice to the new guys: Get Maron back under contract. Do whatever you need to to smooth out the crap that he has been through. Get Seder back on 5 days per week for a few hours; how about the empty morning slot? How about the 9-midnight slot? He has been on early and late and his fans seem to follow. Don't dump the mornings;that's a mistake. Get someone like Maron in place and give him a few years to work though the curve. Look at the very real possibility that Rachel Maddow might have better things to do sooner than you think, and that those things may entice her more than a 3rd hour. Be sure to at least have some hosts on board to fill in, so that you're not scraping around for someone after Seder has worked 7 days in a row.

to school so maybe i will get an extra 30 mins..but i am seriously thinking 2x (as much as i love it) of blogging...if you want my email addy (its my jobs, so all my info is there) you can get if from toniD

oh heaven no please---i will be asleep that...please no!

Melina and Brilliant both show up here now and then. Both strong and true believers in AAR 1.0 and Maron as well as Seder.

yeah...can we post that piece in the "liberal" NYT?

but i did email same 2x this week, first time i have to say i did not get an auto response, but the second i did---if you want me to forward you the emails thru toniD i will do so, i back tracked and came to a conclusion myself without Sam's help and that has gotten me very pissed off...

before everyone else wakes up!

40 winks and 40 lashes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuPmwnJK5o4

I think there's a lawn sign...

"Tweety is a 'aging woman.'"
I absolutely, uncategorically refuse to accept him as one of us! Phhht!!! However, MMRules, if you want to join my tribe, I'll take it under consideration... ;)

Me, not up to the challenge at the moment but many thanks for the reminder, Star Vox. :)

Usually I hate waking up because something goes bump in the night, but occasionally it's fun. Now I'm cold and I need to find an extra blanket. G'night.

Did you or Sam ever figure out who stole your nic ?

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

i believe that would be the crawford wives...

March 7, 2008 The Boston Globe:

FOR YEARS, companies more interested in profits than patriotism have registered overseas or used foreign subsidiaries to avoid US taxes. Now a major Pentagon contractor once managed by Vice President Dick Cheney is using Cayman Islands shell companies to help it and its workers escape US payroll taxes.

more stories like this
nullKBR, the largest private contractor for the Pentagon in Iraq, has two shell companies in the Caymans, that, for bookkeeping purposes, employ about 10,500 Americans in Iraq. Because the companies are offshore, neither KBR nor the workers must pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, allowing the company and its workers to avoid paying about $100 million a year, according to Globe reporter Farah Stockman.

The revelation should give impetus to bills, including one sponsored by Senator John F. Kerry, that would close loopholes for companies registering overseas. "Failing to contribute to Social Security and Medicare thousands of times over isn't shielding the taxpayers they claim to protect," Kerry said. "It's costing our citizens in the name of short-term corporate greed."
Con't

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

that competitive edge can also be viewed as "more profit" or "less pressure to be competent and efficient". you wonder if the actual workers understand how screwed they are.

are just cannon fodder for Corporate Profits !

The American tax payers too, for that matter !

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

I'm afraid still don't understand what you are saying. Do you feel like someone took your nic?

on the surface this sounds like a plausible explanation for not complaining about kbr cheating the governement out of taxes but maybe its disingenous.

as i've heard it, the pentagon pays about 10x what it would cost to do something when they use a private contractor. so wouldn't they get real cost savings by having soldiers who do the cooking, soldiers who do the laundry, soldiers who drive the fuel trucks?

Another Chance for Air America Radio?

Submitted by zeek on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 5:40am.

Ill bet it works out for ya this time!!!

NO---

is this the equivalent of a short squeeze on futures?

overnight the winds were blowing in the direction that we were staring into the abyss and that poor job numbers would put pressure on the market to break thru the current level of support. if that happened, the next bottom was pretty far down, suggesting that today could be quite a shock to the system. of course other partys chimed in and said the fed would jump in and cut rates before the day was out if that happened (sorry but i belong to the camp that says the lower rates are actually making things worse rather than better).

i had the impression that lucille felt someone was logging in under her name and posting things contrary to what she would post.

is it possible that you used your account on a publicly accessible system and the cookies didn't get cleaned out or someone had enabled autocomplete to remember forms and passwords?

I was getting so confused and got worried that your question wasn't clearly taken care of. Thank you.

TravelCenters of America announces workforce reductions.

Co announces that it has reduced the workforce at its headquarters and other locations by approximately 190.

________________________________

Excellence is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle

Have you guys seen THIS ad from Virgin Mobile?

It probably means of something different to each of us.

SEOUL, South Korea - Asian and European markets fell Friday after another overnight drop on Wall Street that was spurred by news about rising foreclosures on U.S. mortgages, intensifying concerns about the world's largest economy.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 3.3 percent to close at 12,782.80 as investors sold exporters' shares amid the dollar's drop to a three-year low against the yen during Asian trading.

Hong Hong's Hang Seng index closed down 3.6 percent, bringing its decline since the start of the year to 19 percent.

Australia's benchmark index sank 3.2 percent while in Seoul the Korea Stock Price Index declined 2 percent. India's benchmark Sensex was down 4 percent in afternoon trading, paring earlier losses of over 5 percent.

In early European trading, the U.K.'s benchmark FTSE 100 sank 1.3 percent, while Germany's DAX fell 1.5 percent. France's CAC 40 declined 1.3 percent.

By PHILIP SHENON
Published: March 6, 2008

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing and presumed stolen from the chief fund-raising arm of House Republicans, according to party officials who described the findings of emergency internal audits.

The financial records of the group, the National Republican Congressional Committee, may also have been falsified for several years, Republican officials said. The campaign committees of several Republican lawmakers may also have been victims of a scam that is now under criminal investigation by the F.B.I.

The audits were ordered after the abrupt departure several weeks ago of Christopher J. Ward, who had been treasurer of the committee. Lawmakers said that Mr. Ward, who served a similar role for dozens of individual members of Congress and their political committees, is the focus of the F.B.I.’s criminal investigation.
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There's a chill spreading across the hedge fund industry. With more portfolios falling victim to the credit crunch, managers by the dozen are freezing investor redemptions, preventing a mad rush to the exits that would force funds to sell beaten-down assets to raise cash. But is this unprece­dented move just postponing the day of reckoning for funds and the market?

Since November at least 24 hedge funds have barred or limited investors from taking their money out, tying up tens of billions of dollars for an indefinite period. Among them: GPS Partners, a $1 billion fund that bets mainly on natural gas pipelines; Pursuit Capital Partners, a $650 million portfolio with troubled debt; and Alcentra European Credit, a $500 million fund that owns slumping loans used to finance private equity buyouts. The new rules affect not only the pension funds, endowments, and well-to-do families that buy the funds directly but also smaller individual investors exposed through diversified portfolios of hedge funds, known as funds of funds. Some hedge funds have broad powers under their contracts with investors to make such changes at their discretion. "It's the largest period of redemption suspensions in the industry's history," says Jonathan Kanterman, a managing director with Stillwater Capital Partners, a money manager...........

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_11/b4075000870869.htm?ch...

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!

March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group's mortgage-bond fund was suspended in Amsterdam trading after creditors forced the sale of some holdings, jeopardizing shareholders' capital.

Lenders who issued default notices have liquidated some residential mortgage-backed securities held by the fund and may sell more as talks continue, Carlyle Capital Corp. said in a statement today. The fund had ``substantial'' margin calls and additional default notices from lenders yesterday, it said.

Carlyle Capital said yesterday it had failed to meet margin calls, prompting creditors to seek immediate repayment. Started by David Rubenstein in 1987, Carlyle increased its mortgage holdings last year, selling $300 million of shares in Carlyle Capital. The fund used leverage to buy about $22 billion of AAA rated mortgage debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

``This marks a further savage step in the ongoing credit implosion of recent months,'' Keith Baird, an analyst at Bear Stears Cos. in London, wrote in a note to clients today. ``The liquidation of the fund cannot be excluded nor the potential loss of capital, rendering the shares worthless.''

During WWII, there were paets of the Army and Navy that had units that did less fighting and more building, cooking, etc. It was all run under the military.

The problem with Bush's war is they don't have enough men and women in the military because 1. less people want to join and we don't have a draft and 2. the conservs think we should have less govn't and govt agencies so they contract it out.

Costs more that way.

Anybody remember the name Fighting Seabees?

At least, not physically.

I about died (inwardly) laughing when she was complaining emphatically as we walked through her lavishly decorated home, about how none of her 6 televisions (including 1 flatscreen, 2 bigscreens, and the rest quite large) would work after February because she couldn't afford the box or cable.

She can afford to have 30 different kinds of liquor, including Don Perignon and champagne, but she can't afford cable.

She had a Prada purse, but she can't afford cable.

She doesn't work, because she doesn't have to, because she's bleeding my client dry, but she can't afford cable.

People are AMAZING.

Good Morning and TGIF 8-)

by Jonathan Chait
Hillary Clinton, fratricidal maniac.

writing about Hillary's scotched earth campaign
And here I was thinking she was maniacally pursuing her slim thread of a chance, not caring--or possibly even hoping, with an eye toward 2012-that she would destroy Obama's chances of defeating McCain in the process. I feel ashamed for having suspected her motives.

Then Jonathan proceeds to methodically examine exactly why destroying the Democratic party for a run in 2012 is exactly what Hillary's plan is. Its an excellent analysis I wish more Hillary supporters would read. A vote for Hillary is and always has been a vote for 10,000 years of war McInsane. Figure it out.

Anyone watching who thinks Hillary is any different than McCain needs to re-examine events from this week.

yeah living in those conditions can take a toll on you.

I'd better start getting dressed. (yawn)

Looking at my hair in the mirror, it's getting long and my roots are growing in, a mixture of gray and ash blonde. Been staving off a visit to the salon lately until the bills are caught up, but ergh. Lookin' kinda lanky.

Sitting here in my longjohns, not wanting to get out of bed... I wish I could go back to sleep! But the kiddies await...and after that, work.

Catchya later. ;-)

63k jobs lost in Feb. The economy is strong.....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's so-called "vulture" debt investors aren't exactly racing to buy billions of dollars of complex U.S. mortgage-related bonds that have sunk in value amid the troubles in global financial markets.

That's a bad omen for banks and other holders of dicey mortgage investments since it shows even the market's riskier players see no bottom to the downward spiral of mortgage defaults, bond rating downgrades, bank losses and stingier lending that is sapping the strength of the U.S. economy.

While mainstream investors might be expected to take flight whenever prices stop making sense and newspaper headlines scream of losses, distressed or "vulture" investors tend to eventually pick over assets more carefully, helping balance markets by providing a floor for thinly-traded bonds.

But despite plummeting prices and a regular drumbeat of fire sales by mortgage vehicles called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, many vultures aren't touching subprime mortgage securities with a ten-foot pole.

"The CDO space is in a state of distress beyond repair," says Stuart Goldberg, a managing director at $10.7 billion hedge fund Marathon Asset Management in New York.

"It's a melting ice cube," Goldberg says. "The CDO of (asset-backed securities) is a very different animal than the typical generic distressed marketplace. There are literally deals and many assets within the ABS CDO space that have no value."

I'll be on IM if ya wanna see how I'm doing. Boss is still swimmin' with the other sharks. :)