Supplement

Aravois has a great point!

That was our unified message in the last election.

That's what we worked on and pretty much everyone agreed.

How could they screw this up?

I forgot that Center for American Progress was considered unified with Hillary.

It wasn't obvious to me; but I believe I read that in the past.

These are interesting times...

Isn't that the ancient Chinese curse?

"May you live in interesting times."

Argentina's workers took over factories, citizens took over the streets--no one seemed to miss having a boss.

The autonomous social movements in Argentina are part of a global phenomenon. From Latin America to South Africa to Eastern Europe and even in the United States and Canada, people are creating the future in the present. These new movements are built on direct democracy and consensus, and they make space for all to be leaders.

Within Argentina, they are also a “movement of movements.” They are working class people taking over factories and running them collectively. They are the urban middle class, or those who have recently lost that status, working to meet their needs in solidarity with those around them. They are the unemployed, like so many unemployed around the globe, facing the prospect of never finding regular work, yet collectively finding ways to survive and become self-sufficient, using mutual aid and love. They are autonomous indigenous communities...
...

3 threads in one day?????

i think the new one is

"May you live with neocons"

Thanks for the heads up on the new thread.

John Aravosis has a very good point. Podesta must really be pissed. Like the rest of us!

As for me, Im just sad. Nothing but despair. Not that I was really putting all my faith in Dems. It's just that I thought someone somewhere might stand up for what's right. Silly me.

Senator Kathrine Harris
Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 21:18.
still owns me. I like her torso better than Monica. That's about all you can expect from a Republican anyway.

Unlike MMRules. SEDER told me to do it.

ola MMRules
Submitted by Fernando on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 20:50.
Is your judge male or female?
Disability Judge??Didn't need one.Workmans Comp.history,Won my case..And Doctor's/medical history..

John Aravosis makes a good point about this Thinkprogress post.

--Democratic party leadership is handling Iraq goes far deeper than

a few "crazy" bloggers--

***acknowledges***

Here's the email that it generated based on my alerts... hopefully CNN takes notice and makes this a priority in their news:

Dems in tough spot with war funding bill

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/23/democrats.dilemma/index.html

love ya all!

Me too... it's late...

nite sj

Have a good one.

Im too tired. Gnite.

The Simpsons Slam Fox News PART II [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 10:33 AM on May 22, 2007.

The further adventures of Kent Brockman and Lisa Simpson in their effort to expose the idiocy of networks like Fox News.

In the video to your right, Springfield's Republicans (which include villain Mr. Burns and a vampire) watch from their evil tower on high, as anchorman Kent Brockman tells some very real truths to the camera, Edward R. Murrow-style. Of course The Simpsons don't want to be too preachy and self important, so Brockman eventually sells out to the corporate suits he'd been decrying. Nevertheless, it's extraordinary that an animated TV show, once dismissed as kids' stuff, would have such intelligent and bold things to say about the media and its own network.

http://alternet.org/blogs/video/52225/

I never go against John EVER.

BUT

Did you expect anything else? Who here remembers Vietnam?

This has always been what it looked like but the public won't accept it.

Somebody blogged on Rawstory about not being willing to look in a mirror.

Just Kidding!! :)

MMRules
allie
Star Vox
Sir Real
Meg
Fernando
Waiting for Cicero
Catharine
Alice
Sunshine Jim
claypool

I have a life.

Daughter just gradumacated High School.

My wallet was stolen today.

I bolt to Mexico tomorrow.

Then to my Moms on the coast the next week then

....

4 MONTHS OF WORK YOUR ASS OFF and party in the sunshine with friends.

You should meet Fellon Mellon MMRules!

I'm off too. See you in the am.

About the only difference is the Draft.Oh,and oil!

Good night ToniD.

Gandhi.mp3

Vietnam war was about the Military Industrial Complex.

At least the jobs stayed here.

That ain't saying much.

Thanks Alice.

Hey,I was just kidding about us not having lives!
Just trying to be funny. :)

KO repeat is on.You guys were right.
He's on tonight.

on Countdown.

On now.

Map

http://deletetheborder.org/

And not the Pizza either!
I'm just glad I was a few years too young!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307R.shtml

Monica Goodling, the former White House liaison for the Justice Department, testified Wednesday that she used a political litmus test in screening applicants for hire as Justice Department employees, in what appears to be a violation of numerous federal laws.

Listening to it now....

my broken l i n k.

Commander's veto sank Gulf buildup

By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - Admiral William Fallon, then US President George W Bush's nominee to head Central Command (CENTCOM), expressed strong opposition in February to an administration plan to increase the number of aircraft-carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf from two to three and vowed privately that there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM, according to sources with access to his thinking.

Fallon's resistance to the proposed deployment of a third aircraft carrier was followed by a shift in the Bush administration's Iran policy in February and March away from increased military threats and toward diplomatic engagement with Iran. That shift, for which no credible explanation has been offered by administration officials, suggests that Fallon's resistance to a crucial deployment was a major factor in the intra-administration struggle over policy toward Iran.

The plan to add a third carrier strike group in the Gulf had been a key element in a broader strategy discussed at high levels to intimidate Iran by a series of military moves suggesting preparations for a military strike.

Admiral William J. Fallon
Commander, U.S. Central Command
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=109

Stennis, Nimitz and Bonhomme Richard Enter the Persian Gulf

The USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Groups and USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) Expeditionary Strike Group entered the Persian Gulf May 23.

While operating in the Persian Gulf, the carriers and amphibious strike groups and their associated forces will conduct missions in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and will also perform Expeditionary Strike Force (ESF) training.

This marks the first time the Stennis (JCS), Nimitz (NIM) and Bonhomme Richard (BHR) strike groups have operated together in combined training while deployed to the U.S. Navyís 5th Fleet. In March, Stennis and the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group conducted a dual-carrier exercise in the Persian Gulf.

The ESF training demonstrates the importance of the strike groupsí ability to plan and conduct multi-task force operations as part of the U.S.ís long-standing commitment to maintaining maritime security and stability in the region.
..

Alright Keith !!If only the masses would hear,understand,and act.......

GSA Chief Violated Hatch Act, OSC Report Finds
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307E.shtml
An Office of Special Counsel (OSC) report has found that General Services Administration (GSA) Chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job.

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Six Nobel Prize Winners Urging Ban on Cluster Bombs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307F.shtml
Jody Williams and five other female Nobel Prize laureates on Tuesday urged civilians to press for the elimination of cluster bombs, which cripple children and others long after the fighting has stopped.

http://www.workers.org/2007/world/iran-0524/

From Abu Dhabi to Pakistan, Washington in trouble

By Sara Flounders
Published May 17, 2007 9:24 PM

May 15—The deteriorating global position of U.S. imperialism was starkly exposed in two very different recent visits to Abu Dhabi.

On Friday, May 11, Vice President Dick Cheney stood on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf in front of the deadly firepower of five F-18 Super Hornet jets to deliver an ominous threat. Cheney declared: “With two aircraft carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we’re sending a clear message to friends and adversaries alike. ... The United States will stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.”

The next day Cheney quietly visited Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of a hasty trip to U.S.-controlled regimes, including Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to shore up Washington’s deteriorating position. (continued at link)

Summary:
May 12th, 'Cheney quietly visited Abu Dhabi in UAE.

One day later, Iranian President Ahmadinejad got red carpet welcome and
spoke to thousands in a soccer stadium.

CIA-orchestrated coup in 1953 overthrows democratically elected
government and dictatorship of the Shah began.

DID YOU KNOW?

It was Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, as officials in the Ford
administration, in 1976 that arranged the sale to Iran of nuclear power
plants and large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium-THE VERY
TECHNOLOGY THAT BUSH AND CHENEY NOW SAY IRAN MUST BE PREVENTED FROM
ACQUIRING OR DEVELOPING.

In 1976, Cheney was White House chief of staff, Rumsfeld was secretary
of defense and Wolfowitz was responsible for non-proliferation issues at
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Their view then was that Iran
should spend billions of dollars to purchase, from U.S. corporations,
over 20 nuclear reactors (WASHINGTON POST, MARCH 25, 2005).

For Clinton:

http://www.democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls

Phase I: Aug-Sept 1998 (Before Impeachment)

Average support for impeachment and removal (10 polls): 26%

Average support for hearings (6 polls): 36%

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_paul_leh_070522_fox_tv_expose_of...
By Paul Lehto

We Present to you this 10 minute feature expose' on FOX TV in San Diego,to honor your corruption of the recounts in the 2004 presidential election,to give tribute to your secret vote counting software,to indict the entire electoral process in Ohio,to indict the entire electoral process in San Diego,to remember that thousands did not receive their ballots in Ohio,to condemn the loss of voter registrations,and to mamn sure...

Former Diebold Sales Rep Becomes Registrar of Voters in San Diego

By Kim Zetter May 11, 2007 | 4:55:00 PMCategories: E-Voting, Election '08
Deborah Seiler, a former sales representative for Diebold Election Systems, has been made the new registrar of voters for San Diego County in California. Diebold makes the voting machines used in San Diego. I previously wrote about Seiler's prior appointment as registrar of Solano County in 2004 -- a one-time Diebold county. From that story:

Check this out

nuff said.

this morning is from around here....

three missing soldiers..they had to hurry up to get right to the american idol results...you know how it is...

sagmadilla pons

check this out

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ec_1175541392

The real GO GO GONZALES

The fox 40 news poll tonight...

...not, is america a terrorist state...

noooo..

It scares me to think of how many people are absorbing this network news right now...

...

protestors

German authorities use scent tracking to keep tabs on G-8 protesters, May 22 2007, 16:04

BERLIN (AP) - German authorities are using scent tracking to keep tabs on possibly violent protesters against next month's Group of Eight summit - a tactic that is drawing comparisons with the methods of former East Germany's secret police.

Scent samples have been taken from an undisclosed number of people believed to be a possible danger to the upcoming summit so that police dogs can pick out the perpetrators if there is violence, the Hamburger Morgenpost reported Tuesday.

Andreas Christeleit, a spokesman for federal prosecutors, confirmed the report but would give no further details.

"This has happened to several suspects," he said.

The use of scent samples was widely known to be practiced in Germany by the East German secret police, the Stasi, who used the technique to track dissidents.

http://jkn.com/View?j=813104.451414622720

Anti-war groups are furious at the decision of Democratic leaders to remove the timetables. MoveOn.org released a statement saying it would consider recruiting primary challengers to lawmakers who support the bill, as well as advertising against them in their districts or states.

"Voters elected Democrats in November to lead the way out of the mess in Iraq," said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, who decried the bill as "just a blank check for an endless war."

The pressure the funding measure is putting on Democratic senators running for president was clearly evident Wednesday.

At a press conference on an immigration bill, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York deflected a question about how she would vote when the Iraq funding bill comes to the floor Thursday, saying the query was off subject.

As she left the event, she again declined to answer, saying she had not seen the final version of the bill.

Reminded that the bill would not include timetables, she responded with some frustration, "When I have something to say, I'll say it, gentlemen."

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois had a similar response, telling reporters that he hadn't "seen a final product" and didn't want to comment "until I do."

"I actually want to read the provisions before making a statement on it," he said. "All right?"

Other candidates announced their decisions.

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut said he would vote against the bill, urging his fellow senators in a statement to "stand up to this president's failed policy now."

But Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware said he would reluctantly support the war funding measure, even though he doesn't like it.

"The practical reality now is, for now, those of us who want a change in course in Iraq don't have the votes," he said.

"I wish you could end it today. But I'm not going to vote to leave the troops without money."

Former Sen. John Edwards, who is running third in the polls behind Clinton and Obama, sought to ratchet up the pressure on the front-runners to oppose the bill, denouncing it as a "capitulation" to Bush.

"What I'm asking is for the Congress to stand its ground, to do what it needs to do for America," Edwards told CNN's "The Situation Room." "This is not about politics. It's about life and death."

When he was in the Senate in 2003, Edwards voted for the resolution authorizing President Bush to take military action in Iraq, but he now says that vote was a mistake.

The lone House member running for the Democratic nomination, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, voted against authorizing the Iraq invasion and opposes any more funding for the war.

"It is simply not credible to maintain that one opposes the war and yet continues to fund it," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/23/democrats.dilemma/index.html

Can you Please post your San Diego voter fraud post on your blog.
I'm going to be checking out story for awhile.It's my town And
Diebold is taking over own here.There's another higher up Dieblod clown down here,in the Voters Registrar.I Gotta do something.Thank you,Michael :)

OK... Night again, Alice

THEY represent us, the people..and gosh darn it Biden says..we just don't have the votes...

(queue the debbie downer theme song..) :(

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p.s. That blogger Debbie Downer was a fucking bitch to Toni who ever that was...

but I gotta say..like three places were mentioned in that article & I still don't know where your came from ...

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Sleep sweet, Catharine..(as if you can help it...) ox :)

"STAY"

I pulled into a crowded parking lot and rolled down the car

windows to make sure my golden retriever had fresh air.

She was stretched out on the back seat, and I wanted

to impress on her that she must remain there.

I walked to the curb backward, pointing my finger at the car

and saying emphatically, "Now you stay... Do you hear me?...

Stay!.. Stay!"

The driver of a nearby car, perhaps noting that I am a blonde,

gave me a strange look and said.

"Why don't you just put it in park?"

Lisa Marie Presley

xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(ciao)

"I heard all the roads they lead to Memphis"

all... I see I have 131 comments on prior post I need to read.

I can do that MMRules..
Submitted by Alice on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 22:32.
but I gotta say..like three places were mentioned in that article & I still don't know where your came from ....

I joined their web-site,and sent them my article..
Thank you,Alice. :)

Charles Manson again denied parole

CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Charles Manson was denied parole Wednesday, the 11th time since 1978 that the cult leader was ordered to continue serving life sentences for a murderous rampage in 1969.
Manson, 72, did not attend or send a representative to the proceeding before the Board of Parole Hearings at Corcoran State Prison.

He previously told a prison counselor that he refuses to participate because he considers himself a "prisoner of the political system," said Patrick Sequeira, Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, who attended the hearing.

The board voted to deny Manson parole for at least five years, the maximum allowed by law. He will not be eligible for release again until 2012.

Despite his age, Manson "continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with," the board wrote in its denial.

Manson has had 12 disciplinary violations since his last parole hearing in 2002. He refused to take advantage of rehabilitation programs, and he would not participate in a psychiatric evaluation, Sequeira said.

"He refused to cooperate, so the conclusion they drew from the reports is he still remains a danger to the public," Sequeira said in a telephone interview. "He was convicted of nine horrible murders. He has expressed no remorse or empathy for any of the victims."

Manson initially was sentenced to death for the August 1969 fatal stabbings of five people in the Los Angeles home of actress Sharon Tate and the murders the next day of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Prosecutors said Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles song "Helter Skelter."

He also was convicted of the earlier murder of musician Gary Hinman and the slaying of former stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea at the Spahn movie ranch in Chatsworth, where Manson had his commune.

His death sentence was changed in 1977 to life in prison with the possibility of parole, the result of a 1972 ruling by the California Supreme Court that found the state's death penalty law at the time unconstitutional.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-23-manson_N.htm?csp=34

LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Flamingos are the gayest birds ever ...... 8-)

Free Democracy

Goodling wanted questions on Gonzales meeting. How did Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) know to ask Monica Goodling about her “uncomfortable” — and potentially illegal — conversation with Alberto Gonzales? “Her lawyer told him to ask, that’s how.” After today’s hearing, Davis told reporters that there were “informal conversations” with staff and Goodling attorney John Dowd about the line of questioning.

This is a critical point because, in many respects, the questions about the mid-March conversation between Gonzales and Goodling are the most damning revelations today, certainly the freshest new allegations to emerge. And, in the final minutes of the hearing, Davis read verbatim from the transcript of Gonzales when he appeared before the same panel May 10.

During that hearing, the attorney general cited ongoing investigations internally at Justice and on Capitol Hill as the reason why he uttered so many “I don’t recall/I don’t know” answers, because he was unable to speak with his top aides about their recollections.

“I have not gone back and spoken directly with Mr. Sampson and others who are involved in this process in order to protect the integrity of this investigation and the investigation of the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of Inspector General,” Gonzales testified under oath May 10. “I am a fact witness. They are fact witnesses.”

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/05/goodlings_lawyer...

Gonzales: I was just offering a shoulder to cry on. The Justice Department responds to Monica Goodling’s “damning revelation” that Alberto Gonzales may have tried to “shape” her testimony:

Brian J. Roehrkasse, a Justice Department spokesman, said in a statement that Mr. Gonzales “has never attempted to influence or shape the testimony or public statements of any witness in this matter, including Ms. Goodling. The statements made by the attorney general during this meeting were intended only to comfort her in a very difficult period.“

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/washington/24monica.html?ex=1337659200...

Couldn't sleep. Woke up - wide awake.

But now getting sleepy again.

---Gonzales: I was just offering a shoulder to cry on. The Justice Department responds to Monica Goodling’s “damning revelation” that Alberto Gonzales may have tried to “shape” her testimony:-----

Goodling said she felt uncomfortable when this meeting happened ...

When this happened Goodling was asking for a job transfer ... which I wish they would have asked her more about that ..... sounded like if she would have done something she would have gotten it .... OR Gonazales was hitting on her ... 8-)

I will try an listen to C-SPAN's Washington Journal ..... lately I can't listen to more than a few minutes and I go to the BBC ..... to many WHINEY Republicans calling in.

Free Democracy

I know one of those guys is from Torrance ....and they thought he was dead a few weeks ago ..... people where posting stuff on his My Space page and his family thought he was killed .... looks like it was a preminition.

Free Democracy

Fast-food giant McDonald's has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a McJob changed.

The Oxford English Dictionary currently describes a McJob as "an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects".

McDonald's says this definition is now "out of date and insulting", and claims a survey found that 69% of the UK population agree it needs updating. ......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6683365.stm

Chinese shares have fallen after former US Federal Reserve head Alan Greenspan said its stock market was overvalued and due for a "dramatic contraction".

His remarks had an impact on markets in the US, Europe and Asia, fanning already prevalent fears of a slowdown in China's booming economy.

Signs that Beijing was trying to rein in its startling growth earlier this year led to a temporary fall in shares.

But markets have since risen to levels Mr Greenspan said were "unsustainable".......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6686453.stm

Free Democracy

The Executive Order -- (even a bloody Quake In CA) bush could take over....
I fell better since SOMEONE is FINALLY speaking and responding!

needs to stfu. he's history and should stop injecting his wisdom into the markets. i swear he's in collusion with someone shorting the market because everytime he says something there's a 100 to 500 point drop.

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DEMS BOW TO BUSH ON FUNDS FOR WAR

Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

(05-23) 04:00 PDT Washington -- In the standoff between President Bush and Democrats in Congress led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over funding the Iraq war, it was the Democrats who finally blinked Tuesday.

...as a LIFELONG Dem, I will switch to Independant Party (whatever it is called)
ARREST! IMPEACH! VILIGANCE! -- Anyone is CENK talking about The Executive Order?

I know! I have been arguing for years that they should be called "flaming Os." Can somebody make that happen now please.

Morning' Bloggi!

Cause somebody stole my wallet yesterday.

Should I wear my Bacardi or Crown Royal T-Shirt?

Nope Cenk is talking about Ted Klaudt and his sick sick sick Republican ways.

AP: Business - 2 hours ago

Chinese ministers, Bush to meet on trade

Chinese stock prices wobble

Limited Brands' 1Q profit drops 46 pct.

Oil prices steady in Asian trading

Stocks fall after Greenspan comments

The problem is people around the world thing Greenspan is a sage and when he says something...

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), a nativist anti-imigration group “whose ‘civilian border watch’ operations generated widespread media coverage and a flood of donations, appears to be imploding.”

Chris Simcox, founder and president of what grew into the largest and most powerful Minuteman group in the country, in late May reportedly fired 14 of the MCDC’s 27 state chapter leaders, plus one regional leader and three national officers. The firings came after the leaders pressured Simcox to meet with them in person to discuss concerns about Simcox’s financial accountability and leadership style. […]

Simcox has been under fire from MCDC chapter leaders and rank-and-file members since last summer, when he began refusing to account for the $1.6 million to $1.8 million in private donations he said MCDC had raised by the end of May 2006. That sum included $600,000 for the “Minuteman Border Fence,” which Simcox touted in a slick fundraising materials as a high-tech “Israeli-style” barrier, but which turned out to be little more than a barbed-wire cattle fence.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=259

Outrage: Spineless Democrats give
Bush complete authority on Iraq
Democrats also gave up for now on their plan requiring Bush to certify U.S. troops sent to combat are adequately trained, rested and equipped, as Pentagon rules require. That provision could have put serious constraints on the military. Instead, the new war funding bill will require only that Bush certify the Iraqi government's progress in stabilizing the country.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070523/pl_nm/iraq_usa_funding_dc;_ylt=AqHxx...

"I guess I should warn you,
if I turn out to be particularly clear,
you've probably misunderstood what I said."

G'morning, Toni!

Oracle, self named.

How're you doing?

Feingold calls Iraq spending bill a "cave in"
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 5/24/2007 08:38:00 AM ET

Senator Russ Feingold has been one of the leading anti-Iraq war voices in the Senate. This morning on CNN, he called the new spending bill a "cave in." Feingold said what a lot of people are thinking - the Democrats were elected to end this war:

Video at link

http://www.americablog.com/2007/05/feingold-calls-iraq-spending-bill-cav...

by Chris in Paris · 5/24/2007 02:21:00 AM ET

I'm sure losing another $20B on top of the war costs and housing bubble bursting won't have any serious impact on the booming economy. These are the golden years for Big Oil.

The jump in U.S. gasoline prices this year has so far drained consumers of an extra $20 billion, or about $146 for each passenger car in the country, the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Tuesday.

The national price for regular unleaded gasoline hit a record $3.22 a gallon this week, and is up $1.05 since the beginning of February, according to the Energy Department.

The added expense is taking money away from consumers to spend on other goods and services.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/05/big-oil-price-increases-costs-20b-for...

The national price for regular unleaded gasoline hit a record $3.22 a gallon this week, and is up $1.05 since the beginning of February, according to the Energy Department.

The added expense is taking money away from consumers to spend on other goods and services.

Add to this the rising cost of food and other goods plus the added cost to foods from the production of corn for ethanol and the average person will really be hurting financially.

Corn Fuels Controversy

With the production of non-corn ethanol still prohibitively expensive, and the development of biotechnology to lower its cost years away, increasing U.S. ethanol production in the short-term will depend on corn. Yet for every farmer in Iowa switching acreage from soybeans to corn, there is someone criticizing the new ethanol boom. Chicken, cattle, and dairy producers warn that higher food prices are on the horizon (USAToday). Others note that there isn’t enough farmland in the United States to meet Bush’s alternative energy mandate with corn ethanol alone. Ethanol is less efficient than ordinary gasoline, write Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren of the CATO Institute, and it also increases air pollution. “What this country needs, and soon, is an Ethanolics Anonymous 12-step program,” opines the Colorado Springs Gazette.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/12526/corn_fuels_controversy.html

Thank You regarding Cenk ... RATS but as usual "too hot" of an issue. Even Press acted
like it just was heard of today ie breaking news (NOT!).

On Rahm Emanuel.

I put it out there in a question form. It is very non-threatening just to allow the others to reveal their views.

Here's what I sent out:

"What are your thought on Rahm Emanuel? His words after presenting the >new funding bill seem to have made many people angry."

email response #1

What words? I do not listen to the guy or read about him. Does
that convey my thoughts on Emanuel?

My response, getting a bit more bold now:

Loud and clear. Now the question is...what are we going to do about him?

He's up for re-election in 08. Do you think his district will send him back?

email #2

we should start at least a targeted antiwar information/petition/event cycle in his district.

asap.

if we build a groundswell (and polls in his district show they are antiwar like everyone else) maybe a decent candidate will step up-last

I heard there was none-but I am not in the loop on that kind of stuff either--

There are more coming in now and, so far, all think he needs to be removed.

Cast Your Vote for the Worst Offender in the Corporate Hall of Shame
By , AlterNet
Posted on May 24, 2007, Printed on May 24, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/52238/
Last week, Filmmaker Robert Greenwald, director of Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers, recently testified before Congress about corporate conduct in Iraq that included price-gouging, out-and-out ripoffs, incomplete projects, giving dirty drinking water to U.S. troops in the field, charging the government for gas shipments that were never made, putting troops' lives at risk guarding empty trucks on dangerous convoys in order to make a buck and a dozen other egregious offenses on the backs of U.S. taxpayers.

In response, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Insanity, revealed just how low the bar has been set in corporate America. Kingston, with a straight face, turned to Greenwald and asked him, "Are you saying that profit is evil?"

This is the environment in which America's civil society operates today. Whereas conservatives once defended the basic principles of capitalism, reactionaries like Kingston have come to view any attempt to hold corporations accountable for their actions as a form of socialism unto itself.

This week, Corporate Accountability International launched its "Corporate Hall of Shame" in an attempt to "publicly challenge corporations and expose their abuses, political influence and manipulation of public policy."

The tricky part, of course, is selecting the worst offenders. Kathryn Mulvey, executive director of Corporate Accountability International, said that while "all of the nominees deserve this infamous dishonor," the NGO would allow visitors to its website determine who deserves the honor. Said Mulvey: "We look forward to seeing which ones concerned citizens believe are the worst of the worst." The project follows Corporate Accountability International's previous campaigns -- the grassroots organization organized the successful Nestle boycott in the 1970s, got General Electric to get out of the nuclear weapons business in the 1980s and fought Big Tobacco during the 1990s.

The nominees for this latest project are a who's-who of corporate malfeasance. Here's their "mug-shots," courtesy of the Hall of Shame.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/52238/

been up since early O'clock

Just about 7am here, Bgurl fell asleep with the TV on, i woke up at 3 turned it off and tried to go back to sleep…

(i’m working on a SF story where those 3 AM infomercials are ‘possessed’ and all those sleepy ladies like Bgurl get programed subconciously to wake up and feed thir husbands through food processors and heavy duty bread makers)

i gave up and made coffee...

i notice that people constantly want to believe this is all unintentional,accidental and not being done on purpose despite thousands of bits of documented evidence of the scams behind this all.

Bush to talk about Iraq funding * immigration at 11 EDT today re MSNBC

ExxonMobil: Slick lawyers -- and a lot of hot air

Even though ExxonMobil is the most profitable corporation in the world, the oil giant is still using its legal clout to avoid paying $4.5 billion in punitive damages from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. At the same time, Exxon is spending millions to delay action on global warming. As the only oil corporation that still denies the urgency of climate change, ExxonMobil spent nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 funding "junk science" from front groups that confuse the issue.

(i’m working on a SF story where those 3 AM infomercials are ‘possessed’ and all those sleepy ladies like Bgurl get programed subconciously to wake up and feed thir husbands through food processors and heavy duty bread makers)

Jim, I'm angry that I have to pay cable to listen to paid infomercials. At that time of night there isn't much else and on weekends too.

If the cable companies are making money for these paid programs, then lower my cable bill!!!!

David Sirota has an interesting piece at Working Assets blog on procedures to "hide" votes.

i think all the female announcers are clones of Tammy Fey Baker with cosmetic surgery and plastic hair.

eya T!

love ya kiddoo!

Just read Scher's The Failure of Compromise and was considering how I found myself being a Democrat-by-default (after about three decades of wanting nothing to do with either of the big 2), among other things. I don't expect the Reps to represent their constituents, but I expect the Dems to do that. I didn't realize I was a double standard peep.

Toni, your Rahm Emanuel emails to your group reminds me:

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I don't know what I'm going to do but I do appreciate that the people who frequent this particular place have a tendency to get my juices flowing.

Bush's Convenient Declassifications
By Adam Howard
President Bush releases classified Al Qaeda info in the hopes that it'll boost war support; it won't.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=351413347&url_num=30&...

tell ya what i think, is that as we’ve had nuclear families messed with we’ve gotten weak on what i call “village skills”

the fix is to give a shit and fix things around you whether people like it or not.

personally i have’nt run into that much opposition, mostly people are relieved that they are’nt all by themselves when it comes to dealing with this.

remember this:

It’s way easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission!

I was involved with vote reform groups that have all since gone bust, though some of them made some tangible progress. (Mostly concentrated on IRV because it has the potential to get us out of the "a vote for a third party is only effective as a spoiler" trap.) Anyway, you got me thinking about being an initiator rather than a reactor again. :)

I don't know what I'm going to do but I do appreciate that the people who frequent this particular place have a tendency to get my juices flowing.

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Actually that was kind of fun. Starting something! Now lets see if it really takes off. I'll email some of Catharine's "Madsen" stuff now just to keep the heat on.

will lead a very difficult life regardless of the wealth. Has anyone heard what sex it is or if Marys parter is allowed to see it yet?

however, Carville gets more air time on the MSM. He may do more damage than even Emanuel.

What can we do about Carville?

The first thing is to identify all those that are bound to vote against the people's wishes. Then, a concerted effort by those people in that person's district to let them know how they feel.

Kind of like a devide and conquer effort.

Sam is running a classy site. I'm going to have to clean up my act.

At the DMV for an hr and a half. They just took number 7. I'm 26.

Mary Cheneys baby
new
Submitted by Fernando on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 09:29.
will lead a very difficult life regardless of the wealth. Has anyone heard what sex it is or if Marys parter is allowed to see it yet?

And Mary's partner can't adopt and has no claim legally to the child.

I am sure she has seen the baby, but what will happen now may be determined by the Dick!!

so which shirt did you pick? i was going to weigh in with 1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor...

had a real good parody song on cheney's baby. it was an adaption of the biblical christmas story.

well it and grampa dick have something in common they're both...

never mind.

Emanuel, as the head of the DCCC, was also a major force behind the drive to deny the Sixth district nomination to Christine Cegelis. And he did similar shenanigans in other districts, like Florida 16 in which he knocked out two grassroots progressives to put up a wealthy rancher who was a Republican up until he got recruited to run as a Democrat. Not too different from what Bush did with the US attorneys.

Quoting Siobhan

> we should start at least a targeted antiwar information/ petition/ event cycle
> in his district.
> asap. if we build a groundswell (and polls in his district show they are
> antiwar like everyone else) maybe a decent candidate will step up-last I
> heard there was none-but I am not in the loop on that kind of stuff either--

PDI had a candidate, Johnny Hap, running against him last time. If
he'd gotten the right kind of support, he might have done better.

As is, he didn't even break ten percent, and it seems unlikely that he'll run again. The local DFA groups were telling people to write in Christine Cegelis. I call that a dumb idea; since she wasn't declared as a write-in, those votes never got counted. The other candidate in the primary was more of a libertarian, pro-reform but with some rather goofy ideas on the issues.

While it would be good to see Emanuel out, it won't be an easy task. I expect even a candidate with Cegelis-level organization would have trouble unseating him.

Sam is running a classy site. I'm going to have to clean up my act.

At the DMV for an hr and a half. They just took number 7. I'm 26.

Link for David Sirota has an interesting piece at Working Assets blog on procedures to "hide" votes

My favorite apt turn o' phrase from his post:

All of this is happening at the time top Republican leaders are making ever more sociopathic statements at odds with mainstream public opinion.

See Bill.Scher- The Failure of Compromise and wonder again why folks who have attained public office do not recognize that it may be in their best interests as political careerists to support regular folks.

Its not hard to read this site but I'm a bit slow and missed that on my last refresh.

I hope he grows up without turning into a monster.

bleary eyed with lack of sleep I go to visit my father

for a week or so. Will look in on true slowest of the slow dial-up

(or half-hour visits to the local library.)

Peace is a Piece. (if you think about that image and see something to get I'll try and put a pic up of a neon sculpture I did re the fall of the Berlin wall.)

WH giving Frist ‘close scrutiny’ as Wolfowitz replacement. Last week, ThinkProgress reported that the Bush administration was considering Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) to replace Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Frist is receiving “especially close scrutiny for the job.” He is also a “favorite of Mr. Bush’s national-security adviser, Stephen Hadley, according to one individual familiar with White House deliberations.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/wh-giving-frist-close-scrutiny-as-wo...

Congressional leaders say they dropped Iraq timeline legislation because “White House attacks that they were again on vacation” for Memorial Day while the troops were fighting on the ground “seemed more politically threatening to them” than anger “from the left by bowing to Mr. Bush.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/washington/24cong.html?ei=5088&en=3384...

“Hoping to subdue a rising wave of resistance” within their ranks, House leaders “are set to put their long-stalled lobbying reform package to a vote today.”

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_131/news/18666-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

“The House approved legislation yesterday to upgrade and expand the nation’s network of health care and benefit outreach centers for military veterans,” one of seven veteran-related bills “that the House approved yesterday to provide millions more dollars in benefits.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070523-115135-1348r.htm

Environmental enforcement efforts by EPA and the Justice Department “have plummeted over the last five years, resulting in a 38 percent decline in criminal fines and a 25 percent drop in civil penalties, according to a new report.”

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/5/23/94915/7325

U.S. is using ‘fear to distract from rights abuses.’ The United States is “the leading country using fear to justify the unjustifiable. The U.S. used to be in a position to speak out effectively against torture and military tribunals. We can’t do that now because we are carrying out some of the same practices,” said Larry Cox, the head of Amnesty International, which just issued its annual assessment of rights worldwide.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR200705...

Annual assessment of rights:

http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng

Good morning...
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The Reality, the Agenda & the Proposed Solution

Darfur, in the minds of different people, constitutes and means different things. This is due to the fact that we, the general public around the world are getting exposed to a tirade of conflicting views and information. As that continues, so will our polarization. Therefore, the long and seemingly endless debates will keep stretching and as that happens, innocent lives will continue perishing.

There is hence a need to bring diverging opinions closer together by assessing and analyzing the views on both sides and presenting the results in a non-politicized context as best as possible. This is extremely important if we truly want to appease the situation.

Darfur in the Minds of Westerners

If you ask any person in America or the West who’s heard about the Darfur conflict what they know about it, they’ll most probably tell you, “it’s a genocide being waged by Arabs against Africans” and that “the United States and the UN must intervene to protect innocent lives”. That’s about all they know. Why is that?

When it comes to awareness, the massive majority of Americans are only listening to one main organization. The Save Darfur Coalition. It’s their story and narrative that the American people pay most attention to, a story, which doesn’t focus on important root causes such as water shortage and desertification. It’s a story that has made the conflict seem primarily racial in nature when it’s really not. Furthermore, it’s a story that doesn’t accurately portray the true situation and that some say has become politicized.
...

I keep thinking about these seemingly opposed proverbial points:
The nail that sticks up is hammered down.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Eh. My 2¢:
Middle path might be to gently irritate and provoke people to think and act on their best, most decent, humane instincts.

Toni said:
"Actually that was kind of fun."

Toni, it is also fun reading about you starting something! You hit it when you said
"It is very non-threatening just to allow the others to reveal their views."
I have a problem with that part lately. I'm so appalled sometimes that I automatically spew about the things that are outrageous to me rather putting out feelers and listening to what other folks are noticing.

I'm so far behind in blogtime comments...
So many tasty, chewy bits to consider this ayem.
Thanks blogkins!

Pressure Builds On Democrats To Vote Against Iraq Bill That Excludes Timetables
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | May 24, 2007 10:22 AM

Democratic presidential contenders on Capitol Hill will cast critical votes on the Iraq war this week, when lawmakers decide on a $120 billion bill to keep military operations afloat through September. The House planned to vote Thursday with the Senate to follow suit by week's end.

The legislation does not set the deadline for U.S. troop withdrawals many Democrats wanted. Unable to achieve the two-thirds majority needed to override one presidential veto because of such a deadline -- or the threat of another -- Democratic leaders announced Tuesday they would proceed to provide money for the war anyway because they wanted to support the troops.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070524/us-iraq

mp3

U.S. Among Nations Highlighted in Amnesty Human Rights Report
Amnesty International is accusing the United States of turning the world into a global battlefield in the so-called war on terror. On Wednesday Amnesty issued its annual report on the state of human rights. The criticism of the United States was multifold – Amnesty called for Guantanamo to be shut down, for senior government officials to be held accountable for authorizing torture, and for an end to the practice known as extraordinary rendition. Amnesty’s report also highlighted human rights abuses in many other areas including Iraq, Russia and Zimbabwe and Sudan.

Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan: "Darfur is a bleeding wound on the world's conscience. The U.S. government has been outspoken on the need to protect civilians in Darfur and we welcome that very much. But nothing proves more clearly the loss of U.S. moral authority than its failure to persuade the Sudanese government to accept U.N. peacekeepers."

For Israel and the Occupied Territories, Amnesty says Israel killed more than 650 Palestinians last year, three times the number of Palestinians killed in 2005. Half of the Palestinians killed last year were unarmed civilians. The Palestinian death toll included 120 children. During the same period, Palestinian militants killed 27 Israelis – including 20 civilians and one child.

I sure am glad that there is outrage everywhere and not just from the always prescient SSS blog. Edwards did the right thing, so did Kucinich and Feingold! The candidates are facing their true test right now. This is their defining moment!

Pelosi and "Give Em Hell Help (sheesh!) Harry need to hear from everyone! Allowing Bush to hold the troops hostage like this is criminal, LET 'EM KNOW IT!

Only old-guard, noodle-spined Democrats would take the position that by holding back funding for this catastrophuck, they would be the ones responsible for the troops being "stranded" in Iraq! How can people be so stupidn and selfish!

launches fuel-flexible cars in Brazil

Toyota is launching cars that run on ethanol and gasoline in Brazil amid growing popularity of fuel-flexible vehicles in the nation.
The leading car maker`s unit in Brazil said this week it will unveil two flex-fuel Corollas in Brazil. These models can outperform gas-fueled Corollas on the Brazilian market.

Monthly sales are expected to target about 2,500 Corolla Flex and 750 of the Corolla Fielder Flex model. The models underscore Toyota`s plan to adapt to regional markets. This is the first time the automaker is selling cars that run on 100 percent bio-ethanol.
...

The new models come amid a booming ethanol producing industry that has sprouted in Brazil a couple of years ago. Automakers are scurrying to get into the flex-fuel market.

White House Establishes "Rapid Response" Team To Counter Internet Blogs
USA Today | Kathy Kiely, David Jackson | May 24, 2007 08:33 AM

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday that Republican conservatives working to block an immigration bill risk endorsing a "silent amnesty" by insisting on deportations that are "not going to happen."...

...The Homeland Security secretary said he canceled an overseas trip to help. In addition, the president is expected to stump for the bill next week and a "rapid response" team is countering critics, not only in the conventional media but, for the first time, on Internet blogs, said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan. The president's press secretary, Tony Snow, already has debated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and TV commentator Lou Dobbs, both critics of the bill.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070524/1a_lede24_dom.art.htm

Laywer: Cheney Isn't Not On DC Madame's Phone List
Wonkette | May 23, 2007 05:35 PM

What else could anyone conclude from this bit of weirdness, in today's Roll Call:

Vice President Cheney isn't not on the phone records of the alleged D.C. Madam, who is accused of running a high-price call-girl ring in Washington, the accused madam's lawyer said on Tuesday.

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept%27-of-happy-endings/cheney-totally-on-...

Very excellent catch! Thank you!

{{{{Horizontalidad}}}}

and warm biscuits!

Monica mash!

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/24/just-a-teeny-tiny-question/#commen...

she reminds me of a Ann Coulter without the flames shooting out of her ears...

The Rise of the Dick Cheney Democrats

Today is the day House Democrats are expected to vote on Iraq - except, news out of Washington this morning says the leadership has come up with a nifty little trick to try to prevent the public from seeing who voted for giving Bush a blank check, and who voted against it. If you thought Democrats were behaving like cowards by caving into a President at a three-decade low in presidential polling and giving him the very blank check they explicitly promised not to give him during the 2006 election, you ain't seen nothing yet. We are watching the rise of the Dick Cheney Democrats - that is, the rise of Democrats who endorse governing in secret and hiding the public's business from the public itself.

Here's how it is expected to work today in a process only Dick Cheney could love (though you never know - it could change at the last minute). Every bill comes to the House floor with what is known as a "rule" that sets the terms of the debate over the legislation in question. House members first vote to approve this parliamentary rule, and then vote on the legislation. Today, however, Democrats are planning to essentially include the Iraq blank check bill IN the rule itself, by making sure the underlying bill the rule brings to the floor includes no timelines for withdrawal, and that the rule only allows amendments that fund the war with no restrictions - blank check amendments that House Democratic leaders know Republicans will have the votes to pass.

This means that when the public goes to look for the real vote on the Iraq supplemental bill, the public won't find that. All we will find is a complex parliamentary procedure vote, which was the real vote. Democratic lawmakers, of course, will use the Memorial Day recess to tell their angry constituents they really are using all of their power to end the war, that they voted against the Republican blank check amendment which the rule deliberately propels, and that the vote on the rule - which was the real vote for war - wasn't really the important vote, when, in fact, they know very well it is the biggest vote on the war since original 2002 authorization for the invasion. It is a devious, deliberately confusing cherry on top of the manure sundae being served up to the American public, which voted Democrats into office on the premise that they would use their congressional majority to end the war. To read more on these deliberately complex machinations, see Congressional Quarterly's piece just out on the web.

All of this is happening at the time top Republican leaders are making ever more sociopathic statements at odds with mainstream public opinion. Today, as just one example, House Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (R-FL) cheered on the blank check, telling Roll Call that "You drop Murtha [troop readiness standards], you drop withdrawal, the troops win." He doesn't explain how popular proposals to better equip and train American soldiers for combat and force the Bush administration to come up with a plan for redeploying troops out of harms way means "troops win."

If this secretive behavior seems familiar, it should. You may recall that in the past two weeks, the same Democratic leadership that is now trying to hide its votes on Iraq negotiated a secret free trade deal with the White House, steamrolling its other key Election 2006 pledge to stop lobbyist-written trade policy. The legislative texts of the trade pacts in question remain concealed from the public, though K Street lobbyists have told reporters they have received "assurances" that any of the much-touted provisions that purport to protect labor and the environment will be written to be unenforceable.

More here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-rise-of-the-dick-chen_b_4...

It's time to fret when even this justice is shocked by executive hubris

by Ruth Marcus
09:14 AM CDT on Thursday, May 24, 2007

Patrick Philbin is an unlikely victim of the war on terror. In fact, he's one of its chief legal architects.

jesus, bush looks so livid. i don't think i've ever seen quite this look on his face...

I'll do an update on the Iraq vote over at Working Assets later today when/if it happens. If you are watching C-SPAN, make sure to carefully watch the vote on the rule. All the Republicans will likely vote no - they want an open debate because they somehow think reiterating to America their steadfast support for the Iraq War is good politics. You are going to see a lot of Democrats stand up and berate the war, and say they really are voting against funding the war because they are voting against the predetermined Republican amendment. Yet, most of these Democrats will likely vote for the rule, which is the real vote for war. Democrats voting yes on the rule are the ones who are casting their vote to give President Bush a blank check.

Remember, all we need is 20 Democrats to vote no on the rule to send the bill down and start over. If that doesn't happen, then the question becomes which U.S. Senator is going to answer the "where's the beef?" question by putting their antiwar rhetoric into action by pulling an old-school, read-the-phonebook filibuster? Sens. Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Bernie Sanders and Russ Feingold seem to be girding for a big fight, while the Associated Press reports both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "declined" to take a position. Will we see a real filibuster, or will we see capitulation in the upper chamber? Stay tuned.

you should have seen him after the 'Pretzel Incident'

massive disruption at Heathrow

Thousands of green campaigners are planning to cause massive disruption at Heathrow airport.

"Eco-warriors" say they will set up a Greenham Common-style protest camp near the perimeter fence.

They intend to use it as a base to disrupt flights at the peak of the tourist season in an attempt to focus attention on climate change and global warming.

At a secret meeting in London at the weekend, protesters said they would occupy land around Heathrow between 14 to 21 August.

Delhi

The Indian government has announced an ambitious social security scheme which is likely to benefit about 390 million poor, non-unionised workers.

Once passed by parliament, the scheme will provide the workers with life insurance and disability protection.

More than a third of India's population of one billion-plus people lives on less than $1 a day.

Last year, the government launched one of the country's most ambitious efforts to tackle rural poverty.
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Bush just said...

There's an uptick in violence in Iraq. It's a snapshot. It's a moment.

Wow...FuckTard is correct in a way for once, Toni...

...

BAGHDAD

Mental health specialists say there has been an increase in domestic violence against children largely a result of the violence that has gripped Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. They say the violence has affected people's behavior.

"We have observed that there has been an increase in the number of cases of aggression against children in Iraq and the main perpetrators of this aggression are the children's own parents. Their aggressive behavior is seriously affecting the daily life of thousands of innocent children," said Ala'a al-Sahaddi, vice-president of the Iraq Psychologists Association (IPA).

Some 91 percent of the children interviewed said they faced more aggression at home than before the US-led invasion in 2003.

"Parental punishments are becoming harsher. We investigated cases in which children were left with water but no food for over two days, or who were beaten with belts or sticks that left them with broken bones," al-Sahaddi added.
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It's the plane?
The level field?
Don't know what you mean exactly, but I do like it for my own odd reasons.
Beats the crap outta out of the WD It's da plan! DA PLANe!!!" far right nutty Fantasy Island nonsense.

Congratulations Dems, you caved and Bush just bashed you on TV for it
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/24/2007 11:29:00 AM ET

Well that little surrender of yours on the Iraq supplemental was quite effective. Bush just went on TV, praised how all of your bad un-American ideas were struck from the bill, and then he told the country that you still have too much pork in the bill.

So, basically, he just made fools of you. He attacked, you caved in order to stop the attack, and he attacked again. No one could have predicted that.

Speaking of being made a fool, let's hear from Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA). Congressman Moran thinks that if we just cave enough to the Republicans, they'll stop being mean to us. From Congressional Quarterly:
Democrats were particularly worried about the prospect of Bush declaring at wreath-laying ceremonies that “Democrats have stopped resources for the troops,” said Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.

“The problem is that we have to provide money for the troops, and if we don’t, the Democrats will be blamed,” added Rep. James P. Moran, D-Va., a war opponent. “Bush has the bully pulpit, so he will define who is responsible.”
Is he joking? Bush is going to call us names, so we'd better cave so that he doesn't call us names. First, you're a big boy, you can handle Bush calling you names. I don't think it's a fair trade off, congressman, sending 200,000 American troops to die for a lie because you're afraid of being called names. Second, you honestly think that Bush and the Republicans are going to stop questioning your patriotism so long as you cave to them on every issue? Are you high?

You caved, and now he's bashing you again. The only one surprised is you.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/05/congratulations-dems-you-caved-and-bu...

is all I could take. "What is this caging list all about. So what does the letter say?"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

How so Shell?

No progressive legislation will pass congress. The only option open, to end the madness, is don't pass a funding bill and take the heat.

This drastic approach will inevitably lead to a heartbreaking end as in Vietnam. Mayagüez incident here
With a no war congress and a new President we watched as a country disintegrated . Sound familiar?

I suppose there is no hope for accountability and accepting responsibility for our nations actions. No hope, yet time is running out.

The world is getting pissed off.

The War on Democracy
opens 15 June 2007 in U.K.trailer

more of John Pilger's work

This article is reprinted from John Pilger's Hidden Agendas.

John Pilger dot com

What I need to see is the Dem party relentlessly pushing a message rather than reacting to mean-spirited, creepy, pro-torture, pro-social-darwinist, pro-military-industrial complex shit. My heart will belong to them at that point. At the moment, I'm a default-dem trying to nudge them into being the party of us regular folks. Eh. Is that too much to ask? I don't think so. I do think that the Dems are malleable at this point, but the Repubs are reptilian and have gone all Darth Vederish...
Ew!!!

Wow...FuckTard is correct in a way for once, Toni...

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 08:53.

How so Shell?

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Violence did increase...men are beating their children more in Iraq...

"I CROSSED THE LINE"

I keep a close watch on this job of mine
I keep my eyes wide shut all the time
I keep jobs open for Republicans of our kind
I know the White House mind
So I crossed the line.

---with apologies to Johnny Cash
Posted by: bigscreen88
Date: May 24, 2007 09:25 AM

Yesterday Artur Davis said Bush was going to excoriate the Dems in Congress over Memorial Weekend for "not funding the troops" You gave his sorry ass what he wanted and more, and he STILL crapped on u.

Excellent, Bibi.. :)

I wish Jim was here to read this...I've been laughing my ass off about it all morning.

Yesterday afternoon I took my wife out to local restaurant that sits on a large lake. There is a deck out over the lake where you can sit and have drinks and dinner. We ran into some old friends there that we hadn't seen in a long time so we sat with them and knocked back some booze and appetizers. Turns out one of our friends has a 16 year old son that is very interested in politics and he is a passionate and radical liberal..(If you have a weak stomach, you may want to quit reading here as the story take a vulgar...albeit humorous, turn.)

Seems this kid has been practicing a little known form of anarchic chaos called Booger Bombing. He goes to the local library and he takes out books that right wingers like to read. Books by Coulter and Frum and Lush and Savage, etc.

When he gets the books home he "bombs" them with boogers. What he does is plant big boogers on the chapter pages of the books and presses them shut, to nicely preserve....like a rosebud.

According to my old friend, the kid possesses a remarkable ability to bomb these right wing books. He is a prolific snotbomber!

Wonder where our next bunch of revolutionaries are going to come from?

I'll be thinking of you.

ooo - xxx

She says....

"Thom Hartman on Air America just specifically named Emanuel as one of the "completely out of touch with Americans" part of the Democratic Party, and someone who needs to go. He said it's time for us to begin agressively purging the Dem Party of "whimps and wusses" like Emanuel."

So it seems, so far, everyone responding to my initial email is not in favor of emanuel, which means that the other groups that receive these emails will get involved.

Many more to go!

i'se here bud!

ask him if he needs a pilot to cover his six.

when ya get to yer dads send me a phine number and i'll read the blog to ya!

sofrajones@telus.net

REP. SCOTT'S FINANCES QUESTIONED
Since his first congressional bid in 2002, Rep. Scott's (D-GA) campaign has cut checks totaling more than $643,000 to his family, its company and the company's employees, according to Federal Election Commission data.
(The Politico)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/4163_Page2.html

only a 16 year old could come up with the idea of Boogerbombing right wingers. It is TOO funny!

LOBBYING BILL UP FOR VOTE- AND SCRUTINY
The lobbying bill coming up for a vote in the House today is pledged to "end the tight-knit relationship between lobbyists and lawmakers," but critics say it would do little to change how well-funded special interests seek to influence Congress.
(USA TODAY)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-23-lobbying-bill_N.htm?c...

theres advantages to being young.

What I need to see is the Dem party relentlessly pushing a message rather than reacting to mean-spirited, creepy, pro-torture, pro-social-darwinist, pro-military-industrial complex shit. My heart will belong to them at that point. At the moment, I'm a default-dem trying to nudge them into being the party of us regular folks.

tell em we wanna get a subversive org going.

the Association Of Booger Bombers!

The airplane kid was in yestrday....he said they have one plane built..he said the gas engines start up then konk out quick...any ideas?

Gonna fix a sangwich and some hot mud!

Pls...let me forget I ever heard this...

xo

shell, did i miss you again? let me know if you ever got the package...

sorry i keep getting pulled away from the computer.

hey, sunshine, tonid, cat chew, everyone.

anyone know by any chance what the last question and answer was before bush left the podium? i missed it, but saw his face and walk. just wondering.

Bush: Spike in sectarian killings just a ’snapshot.’ President Bush, 5/10/07:

The level of sectarian violence is an important indicator of whether or not the strategy that we have implemented is working. Since our operation began, the number of sectarian murders has dropped substantially.

Bush today:

Q: Mr. President, are you surprised by reports today from the Iraqis that sectarian killings are actually on the rise to pre- troop surge levels?

BUSH: Yes, I’m — there’s — certainly there’s been an uptick in violence. It’s a snapshot. It’s a moment.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/bush-spike-in-sectarian-killings-jus...

Bush Attacks Critics Of ‘War On Terror’ As ‘Naïve’ »
Former senator John Edwards (D-NC) said yesterday that the “war on terrorism” is a “slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe.”

By framing this as a “war,” we have walked straight into the trap that the terrorists have set — that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war against Islam.

Edwards is not alone. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) has stopped using the phrase “global war on terror” in committee budget documents, and the British government has banned the phrase “because it gives militant groups a shared identity.”

During a press conference today, President Bush attacked these critics of the phrase. “This notion about how this isn’t a war on terror in my view is naïve. It doesn’t reflect the true nature of the world in which we live, you know?”

Watch it:

The “true nature of the world” is that global terrorism has exploded under Bush’s watch, and his statement today is pure hypocrisy. In August 2004, President Bush said, “We actually misnamed the war on terror,” acknowledging it was more accurate to describe it as a struggle against “ideological extremists” who “happen to use terror as a weapon.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/bush-war-terrorism/

What the war is doing to our soldiers. » Read this stunning account by Capt. Jeff Leonard, an Army counselor deployed in Iraq (it continues after the jump):

“No, sir, I don’t really sleep. Well, maybe an hour or two, then I get up. I don’t want to dream,” the soldier said to us. His name was Staff Sgt. Johnson. He was a good soldier, and you could tell when you spoke to him. He was a man of honor. He was ashamed to be speaking with us, but his leaders had insisted. He had served three combat tours as a squad leader in a line unit. His body and his hands shook during pauses in his speaking and he stared at us, and sometimes past us, with a wide-eyed look of hyper alertness. He had just returned from leave and two guys in his squad were killed days before his return.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/what-the-war-is-doing-to-our-soldier...

"he said they have one plane built..he said the gas engines start up then konk out quick...any ideas?"

of course.

should i try to explain it to you?

(much easier to do over the phone because i need to know exactly what they're doing)

PERFECT! YEA! YIPPIE! That is also why I luv listening to Mike Malloy on his TEEN Fridays. (It gives this battle weary chick who has been even beating the streets and working the phones since 14yrs [13 1/2 years I "GOT IT") for "Crankston" and then "Fuckstein" and DEMS -- it truly gives me a NEW TRUE HOPE!) Booger Patrol! YEA!LOL!
ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE!

I didn't hear the last question. Had the sound turned down. I had had enough at that point and couldn't listen to another word.

I did notice, also that he looked pissed and the wrinle in his forhead were deeper than ever. I hope he is so pissed he can't sleep at night. I hope he's stressed to the limit!!

Sorry I couldn't answer your question but I am sure there will be a video soon.

Thanks. I was somewhere else trying to figure out a way to elaborate on the idea. You saved me from embarrassing myself nattering on (and on!) about it.

Plugola:
There is a very nice and human/humane look at life available.
Go view Invitations & Ultimatums! You will not regret it!

What a Happy Doggie Day...

It looks like the Dems are going to rally behind the War Dog Plan once again..

Ya gotta love that..!!

I been sayin this all along...

There are Good Americans in both parties...

That is why I switched to the Democrat Party...

Just to help them move back to the Center where they can do the most good..

about the typos again. Fingers are stiff and painful today.

wrinle s/b wrinkle

and forhead s/b forehead.

call it arthritic shorthand :)

I have alway said the exit from Iraq is though the border into Iran..

Events in Iran look to be moving in that direction..

cat chew, thank you. i'm over here blushing and honored.

tonid, i noticed the wrinkle too. and that twitch in his nose. it was so uncomfortable to watch i had to walk out of the room. (hope the air dries out for you soon.)

He really got grey and wrinkled.

Seems the weather her is changing. Supposed to get t-storms tonight. Of course. I have to work tonight.

"He really got grey and wrinkled."

he looks like an old car washing sponge left out in the sun for a month or so...

Put your video in the open mic section so we can see it again later. I just sent the link to my group.

Atomic work near peak, Iran president says

Thu May 24, 2007 12:20PM EDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear work is almost at its "peak", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday while the head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog said Iran was probably at least three years from making a nuclear bomb if it so chooses.

Ahmadinejad dismissed Western pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear drive.

"With God's help the path to completely enjoying all nuclear capacity is near its end and we are close to the peak," Ahmadinejad said at a rally in the central town of Isfahan.

The Islamic Republic denies seeking nuclear weapons and says its program is aimed purely at generating electricity.

Underlining what he said was the growing risk of a major confrontation between the West and Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei appealed for the two sides to restart negotiations on a compromise as soon as possible.

Dems to Repubs

Former U.S. Attorney: Goodling Smeared My Record
Former Minnesota U.S attorney Thomas Heffelfinger was one of 30 prosecutors the Bush administration considered firing. He eventually resigned last year, apparently voluntarily, to be replaced by the controversial 34-year-old Bush loyalist Rachel Paulose, who is “best buds with Monica Goodling.”

During yesterday’s hearing, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) asked Goodling why Heffelfinger was considered for removal. Goodling said the primary reason was that he spent “an extraordinary amount of time” on prosecuting crime related to Native Americans in his district:

ELLISON: Before [Heffelfinger] resigned, was there any conversation about problems with his performance? […]

GOODLING: There were some concerns that he spent an extraordinary amount of time as the leader of the Native American Subcommittee of the AGAC and put — clearly, people thought that that was important work, but I think there was some concern…The concern that I heard raised was just that he spent an extraordinary amount of time on the subcommittee business.

Today, Heffelfinger spoke up in outrage to Goodling’s accusations and, like several other of the fired attorneys, said “it was the first time he heard anyone from the Justice Department articulate any dissatisfaction with his performance.” In fact, the DOJ ordered Heffelfinger to pursue Native American issues.

“I did spent a lot of time on it,” Heffelfinger said of the American Indian issue. “That’s what I was instructed to do” by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Given the higher rates of violence suffered by American Indians, Heffelfinger said, the time was warranted, but it didn’t take away from other priorities.

“I had to work hard, but I was comfortable with the mix of my local responsibilities and my Native American responsibilities,” said Heffelfinger. … “I was very pointed in my dealings with main Justice to continually bring to their attention the need for focus on Native American public safety issues, because of the level of violence.”

Heffelfinger said that “as late as early fall of ‘05,” months after the firings list was compiled, he met privately with Gonzales and Sampson on his work with Native Americans. “Had they had concerns about my performance, (Gonzales) had the opportunity to raise them and didn’t. So I could reasonably conclude that he didn’t have a problem with my performance,” he said.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/goodling-heffelfinger/

"he looks like an old car washing sponge left out in the sun for a month or so..."

hahaha deep, deep down somewhere in what's left of his soul, it has to be eating away at him. that can't be good for your skin or your hair...

tonid, it's still fairly dry here, but we've been invaded by frogs the last few days so rainy season is just around the corner. can't tell you how much i hate soggy toilet paper. i hadn't thought about putting the link in an open mic. thanks for the idea. and thanks for passing the link around. hopefully the next one will be ready soon, if it doesn't suck the life out of me first.

can we change that to "your plan sucks" for the blog, especially right about now?

Submitted by jenise on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 13:01.
can we change that to "your plan sucks" for the blog, especially right about now?

Arf!
Reagan!!!
Arf!
Hillary!!!
Bandwagonneering (or mutt tailwagging) without end.
You really aren't providing a bounce wall,
but you do provide a semi-valuable service, in being a slow-moving target.
So, what's up with you? In character, you are happy with high gas prices and the lack of public transport? Are you still delighted with our "freedom-spreading" adventures in Iraq?
Inquiring peeps want to know!
(btw WD, you lost me way back with your niece story. There are folks who cannot function within the capitalist program, and I think we should not flush them on that account. I have had a lot of family members who cannot get by well in the current environment. I will not say they deserve to die because the are not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. So it goes.)

Feingold: ‘This Is No Time To Back Off’ »
Congressional leaders say they dropped the Iraq timeline due to concern over “White House attacks” that they were going on vacation for Memorial Day while U.S. troops were fighting on the ground. The leaders said the attacks “seemed more politically threatening to them” than “the anger [they] knew they would draw from the left by bowing” to Bush.

Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) response today: “Tell that to the families who lose their loved ones in the next few months while we’re dillying and dallying on this thing.”

Speaking on MSNBC, Feingold took aim at the “toothless supplemental” currently working its way through Congress. Calling the bill “weak” and “a step backward,” Feingold said, “This is no time to back off. We have ratcheted-up the pressure successfully in the last few months.” He warned lawmakers seeking to delay action on Bush’s Iraq strategy until September that the White House will use the opportunity to prolong the war even further:

You know what’s going to happen in September? They’ll bring General Petraeus back and he’ll say, Just give me until the end of year. I think things are turning around. And then we’ll be out of session, come back in late January, February, and the fact is a thousand more troops will lose their lives in a situation that doesn’t make any sense and it is hurting our military, hurting our country. This should not wait till September.

Watch it:

Feingold’s skepticism is well-placed. Gen. Petraeus recently said he will not have “anything definitive” to say about the war in his September review, leaving open the possibility that the administration will ask for more time. Meanwhile, the White House is making plans to increase the occupation’s presence in Iraq to over 200,000 troops by the end of the year.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/feingold-stand-up-on-iraq/

the Department of Homeland Stupidity!

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/

Didn't mean to ruin your day with my story about the teenage Boogerbomber. I did advise to quit reading at a certain point. Funny about the things that disgust some people, like Alice. By the way, did you know that it is actually HEALTHY for children to eat their own boogers? It helps BOOST their immune systems. Nature is crazy.

Anyway, I thought the story was hilarious and since I don't seem to have the creepy crawly reaction to the booger thing, it didn't bother me. I apologize to Alice.

Pee Dee

NYT poll: Opposition to war at all-time high. “Americans now view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the war began, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Six in 10 Americans surveyed say the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, and more than three in four say that things are going badly there — including nearly half who say things are going very badly, the poll found.”

A large majority of the public — 76 percent, including a majority of Republicans — say that the additional American troops sent to Iraq this year by Mr. Bush have either had no impact or are making things worse there. Twenty percent think the troop increase is improving the situation in Iraq.

A majority of Americans continue to support a timetable for withdrawal. Sixty-three percent say the United States should set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq sometime in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/us/politics/25cnd-poll.html?_r=2&hp=&p...

plastic zip lock bag?

worked when we we're logging...

Copy that NYT Poll, paste it into an email and send it to every Senator and Congressperson!

Can Dems spin Iraq war cave-in as a victory?

No.

Just stop it!

Enough of the triangulation and spinning.

------------------

“Can Dems spin Iraq war cave-in as a victory?”

Link:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/iraq_war/2007/05/23/democrats/index.h...

Excerpts:

“But I'd like Reid to stop pretending he's trying to stop the war right now. And I'd especially like him to stop pretending the bill he's backing is some kind of victory for Democrats.”

“If I had a child fighting in Iraq -- and like the vast majority of the American media and political elite, I don't -- I'd be furious that Democratic leaders were trying to bill their cave-in to the president as a victory.”

Bush to NBC's David Gregory:

Terrorists "are a threat to your children, David."

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/24/bush...

left. Didn't get the response he needed.

the BIGGEST threat to our children. Someone MUST come along that can stop this monster.

CBS: Bush created 'safe haven' for terrorism with Iraq invasion David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Thursday May 24, 2007

Thursday morning CBS News's Early Show criticized President Bush's latest justification for the Iraq War as being the first line of defense against al Qaeda, by citing an upcoming Senate Intelligence Committee report which states that the administration was warned before the invasion that a US presence in Iraq would actually increase terrorist influence.

Analyst Paul Kurtz expanded on this criticism, saying, "Prior to our invasion of Iraq...Iraq was not a fertile ground for terrorist activity," but that now "we have a safe haven in Iraq for terrorists." The administration, says Kurtz, is trying to have it both ways.

When asked directly, "Is the United States winning the war on terror?" Kurtz immediately responded, "without a doubt no" and added that "our continued engagement in Iraq is spawning more terrorist activity."

The following video is from CBS's Early Show, broadcast on May 24.

Video here:

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/CBS_Terror_Expert_Bush_created_safe_0524.h...

just when you have no hope, an artful dodger, a Harlequin, a snotful booggerbomber, emerges to aid the vulgar appreciation of low humor we're all guilty of.

Me and shell love books for sure, but if she has a copy of any of lush bimbo's stuff and i see it it's likely to end up with some stuck pages.

tell the kid he's a bad example and thank's! i LMAO!

Is the relentless comments ignoring the efforts to take back the Dem party, and crash the gates, and bring folks in, whilst simultaneously cheering, cheering, cheering the venal, mean-sprited forces against that idea crushing our opposition, in the interests of "destroying the bad system". I'll never get used to it. I think we're on the Titanic, and you can't turn a big ship on a dime. (See the 2004 "ledge of liberty" arguments.) Also, I'm not seeing our TV generation taking back our country, so this is especially annoying to me. [sigh]
YMMV.
Later.

I told Eddie to tell his son to behave himself and act like an adult and to quit that awful Boogerbombing. Then I practically fell right on the floor laughing my ass off! BOYS WILL BE BOYS!

working in a place with so many books..I think you can understand...not my kids...not my boogers...healthy or not..I don't have any interest in finding their lost snacks in the books...

he can't admit he's wrong and be seen as sincere.

he's doomed and likely to take us all with him.

poor fuc!... little bit different attitude

and this all could go somewhere good.

not sure when I can swing a call with him...

Bush: 'I'm credible because I read the intelligence'
Michael Roston
Published: Thursday May 24, 2007

In a Thursday morning press conference, President George W. bush insisted that his message on the threat to America from Al Qaida in Iraq was credible because he was relying on US intelligence that provided a reasonable warning.

"I'm credible because I read the intelligence," Bush said when a reporter asked if his warning in a Wednesday speech at the US Coast Guard Academy, based on two-year old intelligence, could be trusted.

He went on, "If I was trying to politicize it, I would have dropped it before the 2006 Elections...It's my job as President to tell people the threats we face and what we're doing about it."

While answering the question, the President appeared to have a message for the 2008 candidates for President, as well.

"They are a threat to your children, David, and whoever is in the Oval Office better understand that and take measures to protect the American people," he said.

The President also acknowledged that his troop escalation strategy, and the announcement of the September deadline for a report from General David Petraeus on its progress, would result in a likely increase in violence and bloodshed in Iraq.

"It could make August a tough month, because what they're going to try to do is kill as many people as they can to try and influence the debate here at home. Don't you find that interesting? I do, that they recognize that the death of innocent people could shake our will," the President explained.

But he said whatever violence level results in Iraq, it was up to General Petraeus to assess the progress of the 'troop escalation.'

"You want politicians making those decisions, or do you want commanders on the ground making those decisions?" he asked.

On defining victory, the President said it would not come in the short term.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_Im_credible_because_I_read_0524.html

He reads, but does he comprehend!?!

tonid, thanks for audio. the timing was perfect.

sunshine, i just may try the ziploc idea this year. thanks.

okay. time for bed. but i think i'll call feingold first and tell him thanks. i don't do that as much as i should.

night all. have a great day.

Might pop in b4 I leave.

Later

Hi! :)
No package yet...I only pick it up once a week..should be there next time I go..thanks xox sleep well

Ted Goodnight of Veterans for Peace spoke at the Bush protest in New London yesterday. He served fifteen years in the Reserves, volunteered for active duty after 9/11, and spent nine months in Afghanistan.

He says, “I freely admit it, I drank the Kool-Aid.” But after seeing how supposedly targeted attacks on al Qaida were actually done to terrify the populace (and score propaganda points at home, no doubt) he changed his views. Also he said, they didn’t have enough parts and ammo there because supplies were going to Iraq instead, a country that had not attacked the US, and that this endangered US troops in Afghanistan.

Highly patriotic, Goodnight believes strongly in the Constitution. We have a right to protest and dissent, he says, “The adminstration and Gathering of Eagles hope to use deception, fear-based propaganda, and intimidation to deny our use of civil liberties. Such acts are treasonous.”

Link to YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4v6OeajhhU

Some reading for you...

Senators introduce 'no confidence' motion against Gonzales

REPORT: CHENEY AIDE CLEARING BOMB IRAN PATH

House Dems to probe phone company role in NSA wiretaps

IAEA: Iran few years away from nukes

i'm waiting for people to quit being suckers for this whole labeling scam.

framing it's sometimes called.

we need the quantum leap of being willing to work together with any people concerned the with dangers of unregulated corporate goverment.

that simple eh? go beyond some of labeling and resolve some of this petty Repub/Dem bickering.

they use it to divide us when the truth is we all have more in common than we differ.

forget the talking heads, they like having some "party" turf staked for their own reasons. that keeps it simple for them. that way they don't have to deal with 'complicated',

shell, glad i caught you. good to know. i was thinking maybe i got the address wrong. the vets for peace guys really impress me.

anyone in the kansas city area, please show up for these guys...

Dear IVAW Supporter,

I am writing to let you know about an urgent issue that is affecting several of our IVAW members. Adam Kokesh and Liam Madden are both very active members and former Marines. Because of their outspoken opposition to the war, the Marine Corps is threatening to revoke their honorable discharges and change them to other than honorable. We cannot allow this suppression of free speech to occur! Adam and Liam need our help to pay for legal defense and travel to their hearings. Adam just found out his hearing is in Kansas City on June 4th, less than two weeks away!
Attached below is a letter from Adam, describing his situation and asking for your help. Besides financial contributions, we also need people who are in the Kansas City area to gather support for Adam before his June 4th hearing. Please contact me at Kelly@ivaw.org if you are in the area and would like to find out how you can help. I will keep you updated on both Adam and Liam's cases as they unfold.
Thank you so much for your time and support, it really means everything to our veterans who dare to speak the truth.

In Peace,
Kelly Dougherty

no sweat on the call A.!

probably the needle valve settings and possibly dead glow plugs.

a few slightly less possible thingies could do it.

tell em to take em to a flying club or the hobby shop!

i can always call them too.

Your quote from your friend: "While it would be good to see Emanuel out, it won't be an easy task. I expect even a candidate with Cegelis-level organization would have trouble unseating him."

**

Although we didn't succeed with getting Lieberman out, we sure as hell gave him a run for his money and he would have to focus on his own campaign rather than screwing everyone else up.

Also, he might not still be the leader of the DCCC if we made enough of a stink!

Cat Chew was right... it starts with one small step...

... I have so much blog reading to catch up with ...and I have to go...

WD
new
Submitted by toniD on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 18:20.
left. Didn't get the response he needed.

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

Leaving town tomorrow for the weekend...

But still have to keep the money rolling in..

Just wanted to thank the Dems for the backing...

And to make sure you folks don't loose the focus on Iran..

The Battle of Iran looks to be coming up faster than expected..

I am sure we can count on our Democrat Friends for additional backing when the time comes..

I forgot about where you work and understand your revulsion. Librarians MUST protect books......even books written by evil slimeballs. I apologize to you doubly! On the other hand...I admire the crativity of our young Discordians. LOL

admire the CREATIVITY of them, as well.

We must stay ready for Iran..!!!

It would be easy to try to run from the Terrorists...

But they will only follow us home...!!

We must end the Axis of Evil..!!

In one of Sen. Harry Reid’s first radio addresses after the Democratic victories in November 2006, he said the new majority’s first guiding legislative principle was “bipartisanship”; Democrats “intend to reach out to President Bush and our Republican colleagues in Congress.” The Democrats’ last guiding principle would be “results,” because “it's time Democrats and Republicans worked together to achieve results.”

Four months into the new Congress, how’s that game plan working out?

There’s not a lot of results. And you can blame all that attempted bipartisanship.

Time and time again, Democratic leaders have sought to accommodate the conservative Republican minority and craft compromise legislation. And in almost every case, it has led to bad or no results.

The accommodationist tone was set early on by the Senate. After the House passed in January an extremely overdue raise in the minimum wage, Senate conservatives and the White House immediately whined that the bill needed business tax breaks to “offset” the extra $2.10 an hour.

Instead of standing up to such nonsense, daring the conservative minority to sustain an extended filibuster and face the 80 percent of electorate who supports raising the minimum wage, Democratic leaders immediately flinched. They sought to put together a tax package that would pacify those senators completely out of step with the voters.

Afternoon everyone. :)

Hey, Randi's talking about the Salt Lake Tribune... must be that Dr. Laura appearance and article broohaha...?

AIM's Kincaid on "Clinton's alleged lesbianism": "[A]s explosive as Senator Barack Obama's mysterious upbringing as a Muslim"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705240002

Remember when I told you you could never change the Democrat Party into a Loony Left Party...????

Another lesson learned..!!!

I gotta turn the show on...

Bush is such a fool....!

He can't even answer a question ... doesn't know what to say... it's almost funny... almost.

because the looney left is at 63% now

NYT poll: Opposition to war at all-time high. “Americans now view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the war began, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Six in 10 Americans surveyed say the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, and more than three in four say that things are going badly there — including nearly half who say things are going very badly, the poll found.”

A large majority of the public — 76 percent, including a majority of Republicans — say that the additional American troops sent to Iraq this year by Mr. Bush have either had no impact or are making things worse there. Twenty percent think the troop increase is improving the situation in Iraq.

A majority of Americans continue to support a timetable for withdrawal. Sixty-three percent say the United States should set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq sometime in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/us/politics/25cnd-poll.html?_r=2&hp=&p...

House passes lobbyist disclosure bill

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Under strong urging by Democratic leaders, the House on Thursday approved mandatory disclosure by lobbyists who round up campaign donations from others and "bundle" them together for lawmakers.

well at least they changed the music in between on the stream... I'll give them that.

Or maybe I spoke too soon. I haven't listened in a while.

they're usually not that commited to the idea, they're just trying to sound "reasoned" and "astute". They say, "Well... the problem is ... what would we do if we took them outta there..."

But if you challenge them on it, they back down immediately.

I really find it hard to believe that there are more than 100 people in this country who would actually be upset that we withdrew the troops. The people that answer "it's helping" in the poll are really just apathetic.

I take it back! They suck.

American Idol?!

"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning testicles in British English and in Hiberno-English. The word is often used figuratively, most commonly as a noun to mean "nonsense" or as an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, but also in a number of other ways: as an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless", as a noun to mean "top quality" or "perfection" (e.g., "That bike is the dog's bollocks!"), and in various compound expressions (see below). Owing to its versatility, bollocks has been called the Swiss Army knife of andrological profanities, in that it is the most versatile word in the English language.[citation needed]

May 24, 2007 -- Yesterday, we reported on Bracewell & Giuliani's involvement in the Washington Madam case in representing one of the principals who was a client of Pamela Martin & Associates.

Our sources in Houston have informed us that Bracewell & Giuliani's previous incarnation, Bracewell & Patterson, represented George H. W. Bush's bank, First International/InterFirst of Houston. Our Houston sources also tell us that Carol S. Vance, the Harris County District Attorney who investigated George W. Bush's cocaine bust in Houston in 1972, became a partner at Bracewell & Patterson after he opted no to indict and prosecute Bush for cocaine possession. George H. W. Bush flew from New York, where he was serving as U.S. ambassador to the UN, to Houston to ensure that the charges against his son were dropped and the incident buried.

Vance, now retired from the firm, is heavily involved in the Christian Right's proselytizing efforts in the Texas prison system. In representing First International/InterFirst Bank, Bracewell & Patterson helped shield Bush-Bin Laden business dealings and the flow of significant amounts of Saudi money into Bush family coffers from regulatory agencies and public scrutiny.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/index.php

War Funding Bill Moving Toward House Passage

A $120 billion fiscal 2007 Iraq War supplemental spending bill was expected to pass the House this afternoon after lawmakers made last-minute changes dictated by the White House.

Although Republicans grumbled about not having a chance to review the final text until this morning, House Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis., said they should direct their fire elsewhere.

“We made a number of changes in response to White House requests as late as 10 o’clock last night,” he told the House.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told his colleagues that White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten had insisted that some provisions be dropped if the bill was to escape a presidential veto.

May 24, 2007 -- There is a very interesting gem in Anthony David's article about Scooter Libby in the June 2007 issue of The American Prospect. After Libby's novel, The Apprentice, came out in paperback in 2002 (it first came out in hard cover, sans fanfare, in 1996), Vice President Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney held a lavish book party at the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington. As the Cheneys celebrate the birth of their grandson to daughter Mary Cheney and her significant other, Heather Poe, it is appropriate to revisit the highlights of Libby's novel.

The Apprentice, set in 1903 Japan, contains descriptions of pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, biastophilia (the pleasure from sexually assaulting a complete stranger), and -- prostitution. There is also a potpourri of references to urine, pus, pubic hair, mucus, and menstrual blood. That must have been one heckuva book party at the Veep mansion in 2002 -- I imagine the hors d'oeuvre tables were packed. Too bad John Wayne Gacy wasn't around to entertain everyone with his clown tricks.

The following is one passage from The Apprentice: "At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest. Groups of men paid to watch."

Hopefully, when Samuel David Cheney is old enough, the Cheneys will be reading him passages from Goldilocks and the Three Bears and not from The Apprentice.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/index.php

May 24, 2007 -- When Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad on a "surprise" visit on May 9, he was booed by U.S. troops during an appearance before them in the Green Zone, according to our congressional sources. These incidents may explain why the Army has ordered its personnel to submit web postings, including videos, to Army censors before uploading to web sites.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/index.php

i must say i haven't listened to AAR in months..... I missed sam's show last sunday, and i'll still tune in to his show, but the AAR cast of the original year and a half has yet to be topped.... i miss Malloy... i miss Maron... i miss Maddow.... Janeane, and a daily dose of Sam..... i styll respect a handful of the current hosts, but I no longer feel the need to tune it like i did a year or so ago..... it's like it might as well be 12 hours of the Young Turks and 12 hours of Springer...... maybe this will change.... i hope so.....

"because the looney left is at 63% now"

Yep. Our "representation" just spat in our collective face.

On a similar note, just finished reading Lou Dobb's War on the Middle Class... he addresses the travesty of our misguided "bought and paid for government" quite well in his book.

bbl~

...dunno if it's Opera browser or this blog, but I was logged out, did not log-in again, but when I refreshed (after being away for awhile), I became automagically "logged-in" again. It really isn't that big of a deal, but sometimes I'm not all that chatty and would prefer to lurk/read/enjoy/link-mine without making my presence known. Odd stuff. (What is in those cookies you're feeding us?)

Not as bad as logging into Blogger and finding out exactly how pervasive/invasive the Google monster is, but somewhat disconcerting, none the less.

Think I'll be more diligent about flushing my cookies and cache than I was.

Wash. Post's Solomon and Birnbaum showed no attempt to contact SF officials about Pelosi funding request

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705240004

A May 24 Washington Post article by staff writers John Solomon and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, headlined "In the Democratic Congress, Pork Still Gets Served," reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "requested $25 million for a project to improve the waterfront in her home district of San Francisco," but her "request did not note that her family owns interests in four buildings near the proposed Pier 35 project," suggesting that Pelosi violated the requirements of a "key Democratic reform" noted in the report. The article quoted a Pelosi spokesman saying that "any suggestion of a conflict of interest is 'ridiculous' " and that "Pelosi was passing along a spending request from the Port of San Francisco and that she would not benefit from it." But Solomon and Birnbaum gave no indication that they attempted to contact officials from the Port of San Francisco to confirm the spokesman's claim. As Media Matters for America noted, blogger Greg Sargent reported May 8 that Port of San Francisco officials told him in a phone interview that they requested the waterfront improvement spending.

but I no longer feel the need to tune it like i did a year or so ago..... it's like it might as well be 12 hours of the Young Turks and 12 hours of Springer...... maybe this will change.... i hope so.....

Weird...
Submitted by Cat Chew on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 15:44.

...dunno if it's Opera browser or this blog, but I was logged out, did not log-in again, but when I refreshed (after being away for awhile), I became automagically "logged-in" again. It really isn't that big of a deal, but sometimes I'm not all that chatty and would prefer to lurk/read/enjoy/link-mine without making my presence known. Odd stuff. (What is in those cookies you're feeding us?)

The people that answer "it's helping" in the poll are really just apathetic.

They are also the people who believe Jesus Christ wrote the United States Constitution.

ok, gotta go~

~-~-

I Know. I Know. I'm Fucking Fabulous.

I do like the new blog though....

Thanks Sammy, Co.

Randi's gonna talk about the Dems caving! Finally!

She says they know we're pissed but they're betting that there's no alternative for us to vote for so it won't matter.

Well, THAT's why we have to get rid of certain Dem leadership! Starting with Rahm! We brought in a lot of good new progressives last year. Now we are going to do a little more cleaning!

They are also the people who believe Jesus Christ wrote the United States Constitution.

!!!!

CAIR Welcomes Ruling Allowing Quran Oaths in NC Courts

WASHINGTON, May 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-
Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed a ruling by a North Carolina judge
that any religious text, not just a Bible, may be used to swear in
witnesses or jurors in that state's courtrooms.

"that what the DEMS CAVED on was a NONBINDING BENCHMARK bill. It had NO teeth anyway. GWB had the money since the 109th congress gave him $100 BILLION before handing over the keys to the DEMS so he can carry on regardless."

Candidate Ron Paul assigns reading to Giuliani

By Andy Sullivan 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East.

"I'm giving Mr. Giuliani a reading assignment," the nine-term Texas congressman said as he stood behind a stack of books that included the report by the commission that examined the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.

I came to the conclusion there is no privacy. Been thinking like that since the Nixon years (Get into that WayBack machine!). Might as well do what you do and say what you want all of the time, I reckon.
However, I'm still annoyed by these quirks...

But I'll see you later.

Catharine, the guy that wrote that, writes like that all the time. Others in the group will do something. And our group email does go to other groups as well.

Anyway, gotta go. Later

Randi's pissing me off.

What a cop out.

She is sounding as if there's nothing you can do about the Dems caving so just get used to it.

While I doubt that she believes that, it's an infuriating comment.

. Others in the group will do something. And our group email does go to other groups as well.

***

Oh, I know you guys will get things done. I don't doubt it at all.

remember though...
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 15:55.

"that what the DEMS CAVED on was a NONBINDING BENCHMARK bill. It had NO teeth anyway. GWB had the money since the 109th congress gave him $100 BILLION before handing over the keys to the DEMS so he can carry on regardless."

**
But, it's still a political "cave". It still matters. And they should be doing more. They haven't even tried.

Afternoon!

she goes into these 'sleeper' modes like she's programmed 'ultra'. i've listened to her for so long they always jar me when they happen. her crew useta get really weird at the same time too.

know what i mean?

Public opinion polls aren't the same as political leverage. The Vietnam War went on for years after polling showed that most Americans opposed the war and even saw it as immoral.

Slick phrases about the need to bring our troops home can easily become little more than platitudes on wallpaper in media echo chambers.

No matter how many Democrats are in Congress, they won't end this war unless an antiwar movement develops enough grassroots strength to compel them to do so.

Unfortunately -- and unnecessarily -- for years now the Internet powerhouse MoveOn.org has often functioned as a virtual appendage of the national Democratic Party. That close relationship has largely squandered MoveOn's opportunities to help build strong deep independent activism for the long haul. And, on crucial issues of the Iraq war, MoveOn has failed to back the positions of such gutsy progressive visionaries as Reps. Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey and Maxine Waters.

A statement issued Thursday by the national Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) pointed out that "the approach of the Democratic leadership has utterly failed -- as they now prepare to give President Bush $95 billion more war funding through a bill that no longer has any timelines for troop withdrawal."

NORMAN SOLOMON

Prewritten emails?
Vigils with signs?
Prayers?
What?

The proles get it!
But where are they going to go after we do our national duty?
Muhahaha!

Yes, it is clear. Corporations have an immense voice in our political system. We don't stand a chance.

Vote!

"But, it's still a political "cave"."

oh absolutely. Rudie 'the weasel' G. fairly responsible as well.

i've read 50 'frames' of the whole bazoo in the last few days.

enough to be sure we ain't seiing anything but the top of the berg.

did see someone figger the only thing good about this is seeing who to replace in 08'.

personally i'm inclined towards thinking they want to black ops their way into a dictatorship before then and congress is scared shitless about it personally.

Ha! if they were gutsy enough they'd nuke congress when they were all together and use that as the excuse.

Organize independent social justice organizations.

Asking a key question -- "How can you oppose a troop escalation while funding it in full?" -- PDA reiterated its longstanding position that Democrats in Congress should be "using the power of the purse to cut off funds to Iraq, except those needed to safely withdraw our troops (and for humanitarian/reconstruction aid to the Iraqi people)." And legislators should be "using their investigative power to probe White House deceptions and distortions that propelled the Iraq invasion and occupation, and to impeach if necessary."(NS)

No matter how many Democrats are in Congress, they won't end this war unless an antiwar movement develops enough grassroots strength to compel them to do so.
(NS)

we need to take em on as a corporate entity ourselves.

pretty obvious to me. just waiting for the idea to take root myself.

Everyone is soooo disappointed in the dems but not holding the GOP accountable or responsible for anything!?
They are fine? We expect them to crap on us!???
Yikes!!!!!
Attack the MoFos in the GOP too!!!!

It's interesting to note that all the problems Bunnypants said would happen if we left Iraq...

have all occurred due to his invasion in the first place....

exerpt:

"One of the areas where I really believe we need more of a national discussion, however, is, what would be the consequences of failure in Iraq? See, people have got to understand that if that government were to fall, the people would tend to divide into kind of sectarian enclaves, much more so than today, that would invite Iranian influence and would invite al Qaeda influence, much more so than in Iraq today. That would then create enormous turmoil, or could end up creating enormous turmoil in the Middle East, which would have a direct effect on the security of the United States."

--- hasn't all that happened because he choose to topple the government of Iraq in the first place????

transcript

Sure we're angry about the failure of the Democrats to stand up for ending the Iraq occupation. But what is the root cause of that anger, and where do we productively DIRECT our anger so that the REAL problem is impacted? It's not just this latest Iraq supplemental. This is just the latest example of the failure of Congress to actually confront the MANY Constitutional outrages of the Cheney administration.

That's right, we said the Cheney administration.

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

Bush is nothing more than a stooge . . . a hapless, snickering, stubborn stooge perhaps, but a stooge nonetheless, who couldn't complete a logical sentence in the English language without the talking points they give him to rehearse and read from.

It is Cheney who dragged the country into invading Iraq, who was the master chef in cooking the intelligence, who pushed for torture as accepted U.S. foreign policy, who was the driving force behind the illegal wiretaps, the unprecedented expansion of executive power, the outing of Valerie Plame, who ordered the stand down of our air defenses on 9/11, and is even now working overtime to plunge us into an even more monumental debacle in Iran. It's been all Cheney, all the time, since day one of this disastrous administration.

So why won't Congress (with the exception of Kucinich and the other 3 sponsors of H.R. 333) even talk about impeaching someone who has committed every Constitutional high crime in the book?

you folks on the blog this afternoon. War Dog came in here and started his usual horse shit and NOT ONE OF YOU took his bait. Great job of ignoring that pig. Notice that he came in....spread some spam...got no results...and split. Way to go!

He'll be back!
Muhaahahahahahaha!

and it would give the likes of Hannity, et al, fodder for months to come.

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