Fun week

friskey!!

It was great to hear you everyday this week, like the good ole days (let's hope they return permanently soon!). Thanks also for Tuesday's Maron show - despite the technical difficulty.

You're my very favorite radio host, and it's been great to hear you a little more frequently lately. You can take on any topic, no matter how weighty, no matter how dark, and always manage to bring light and levity to it. It's kinda amazing. Thanks for all that you do.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/31929.html

Is Pentagon using Guantanamo trials to influence election?
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 email | print tool nameclose
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The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver has accused senior Pentagon officials of orchestrating war crimes prosecutions of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to influence the outcome of the 2008 presidential campaign.

In a brief filed Thursday, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer describes a Sept. 29, 2006, meeting at the Pentagon in which Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, a veteran White House appointee, asked lawyers to consider Sept. 11, 2001, prosecutions in light of the campaign.

''We need to think about charging some of the high-value detainees because there could be strategic political value to charging some of these detainees before the election,'' England is quoted as saying. Former chief Guantanamo prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, recounted the England remark after he resigned, claiming political interference.

When her "monster" scandal broke and I looked at her picture I was repelled. Fug. Maybe 3 on the ten point scale.

...But then I watched her on TV... and her Irish accent is sexy.. and she is brilliant/Ivy League educated... and she has a nice, thin frame...

Yeah, I'd hit that... I would minimize my eye contact with her, though.

"Doggy style AGAIN? Can we at least use a mirror this time?"
"Ummm... No."

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Reports of phony phone calls to Democratic delegates
March 28, 2008 - 3:28PM
James Osborne
McALLEN - The Texas Democratic Party has received reports of unknown persons calling and e-mailing delegates to incorrectly inform them their county and senate district conventions have been cancelled, said party spokesman Hector Nieto.

Nieto said several delegates had reported incidents to party officials, but he did not know where in Texas they hailed from. He said party officials were investigating who's behind the misinformation campaign.

Party officials have also received reports of delegates receiving "robo-calls," also claiming conventions have been cancelled.

Texas Democratic Chairman Boyd Richie urged delegates to attend their conventions unless contacted by their local Democratic county chair or a postponement is posted on the Texas Democratic Party's website, www.txdemocrats.org.

"The Texas Democratic Party has not been informed that any county or district convention has been cancelled or postponed. If any delegates receive information to that effect, I urge them to plan to attend their convention as scheduled," Richie said.

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/party_10340___article.html/democratic...

leasons im learning!

Karl Rove's next move: A million-dollar home on Florida's Emerald Coast
Lindsay Beyerstein and Larisa Alexandrovna

ROSEMARY BEACH, FL - The abrupt resignation of President Bush's top adviser and long-time mentor, Karl Rove, in August 2007 in August 2007 raised many eyebrows inside the beltway and as many questions. Rove had been a fixture in the political life of George W. Bush for decades and had weathered innumerable political scandals.

Rove was tight-lipped at the time of his resignation about his reasons for leaving the White House, telling reporters simply that it was “to start thinking about the next chapter in our family's life.”

Whatever the next chapter of Rove's life has in store, some of the action will probably take place in Rosemary Beach, Florida, where he bought land in 2002.

A $165,000 lot becomes a $1 million home
According to political journalist Jim Moore, many factors probably influenced the timing of Rove's resignation--including the desire to cash in on lucrative speaker's fees and the prospect of reinventing himself as a political pundit on the national stage.

"Ultimately, though, what probably appeals to Karl the most is being a sort of freelance Dr. Evil," Moore -- a Rove critic -- explained in an email to RAW STORY. "He can do his work now for hire under the guise of any organization that wants to hire him or he can do it for fun and generally avoid the restraint of party or candidate. Have darkness. Will travel."

Rosemary Beach, Florida bills itself as a vacation community, but Rove's home is no beach bungalow. His Dill Lane pad is a 2,578-square-foot cedar and white stucco structure with a stoop, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, and an outdoor shower. Opposite the main house, separated by a small walled courtyard, is a two-story carriage house with a two-car garage on the ground floor.

Photos at link

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rosemary_Beach_Karl_Roves_next_move_0328.h...

I'm a niner!

how the surge is working!

Areas of Baghdad fall to militias
Bush may suspend troop pullout; Iraq holds emergency session.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3631718.ece

over there?

like love or hate? americans get me fucked up sometimes??? like i heart so and so???? i thought its LOVE am i wrong?

talking about Body of War

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"Iraq is returning to normal:"
Round-up of Daily Violence in Iraq, Friday 28 March 2008

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/212/story/31877.html

Not great today, but ...

and sit by the fireplace for awhile. I still have most of

that bottle of 7 star.

Thanks this is great.
"These people would vote down the Bill of Rights."

Couldn't get the video to run...so the following:

From: Captain Paul Watson

Date: Mar 28, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: The Silence of the Lambs
Body: The Silence of the Lambs

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson

This morning the screams of young harp seals writhing in agony echoed across the cold wind swept ice floes of the Gulf of St.

Lawrence off the coast of Eastern Canada

Men with blood smeared on their faces swept out across the ice floes swinging their spiked clubs in a frenzy of barbaric slaughter. With each blow, a seal pup was struck, a skull bashed in, an eye knocked out, or a jaw ripped off. Some seals receive vicious kicks to the face from the sealers and other are picked up by their hind flippers and dashed upon the ice by men whose sadistic ruthlessness has become symbolic of the annual horror show that the Canadian government subsidizes and defends.

This morning the first of 325,000 young seals died and the dying will continue for weeks as the sealers invade and violate the seal nurseries delivering agony, misery and death with their spiked clubs, rifles and steel toed boots.

As the seals scream in unimaginable pain and the hot blood steams upon the cold ice, the world is kept in silence to this atrocity by the draconian measures implemented by the Canadian government to silence dissent against this heinous crime against nature and humanity.

Reporters have been banned from the ice!

In Canada it is a crime to witness a seal being killed. It is a crime to take a photograph of a dying seal. It is a crime to video tape or film a sealer doing his grisly work. Unless you have a permit and the government is not granting permits.

And the regulations that ban anyone approaching the slaughter are called the “Seal Protection Regulations.

”
The harp seal pup once described by the missionaries to the Inuit people as the lambs of God now scream in government dictated silence as they die out of range of cameras and the eyes of the compassionate.

How far is the Canadian government going to go to protect this horror show? How much money, time and resources is the Canadian government intending to spend to defend the actions of these monstrous baby killers who exterminate innocent creatures in their nursery?

We intend to find out.

As the slaughter begins the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat is working it’s way into the ice fields. Above our ship the Canadian Coast Guard is flying their planes. Ahead of us the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Navy wait to defend the seal hunter from the threat of compassionate vegetarians on a ship whose mission it is to document the slaughter of the seals.

The absurdity of it is incredible. Canadian Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn is declaring himself the angel of death to the seals and thumping his chest as the valiant defender of the rights of men to bash and slash seal pups.

The Farley Mowat is moving in closer to the slaughter, threading its way through the treacherous ice floes and around government obstacles and threats on a mission to document the truth.

Our mission this year is clear. To expose the horror and allow the world to listen to the screams of the lambs.

Gore compares global warming deniers to flat earthers
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Former Vice President Al Gore is about to launch a major advertising campaign to raise awareness of global warming and will appear on 60 Minutes this Sunday to promote it.

In a brief teaser for the interview aired by CBS, Leslie Stahl says to Gore, "There's still a lot of skepticism about whether global warming is man-made."

"I don't think there's a lot," Gore replies. "You're talking about Dick Cheney?"

"I think those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view," Gore continues. "They're almost like the ones who still believe that the Moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat."

Following the clip, Stahl explained to CBS that Gore's objective in his ad campaign is to heighten the sense of urgency about global warming by featuring pairs of "people who don't agree anything but this" -- such as Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, or Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi -- sitting side by side to discuss the issue.

Stahl also emphasized that her overall impression of Gore was "how relaxed he is ... and really how happy he is."

CBS News has more details here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml

Wish you could come over
new
Submitted by Peter Dragon on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 7:45pm.
and sit by the fireplace for awhile. I still have most of

that bottle of 7 star.

Thanks for thinking of me. Hard to get away right now because I've been called for Jury Duty again. Trying to get out of it though.

bless him and his wife--the truth will set you free

FREEEE MUMIA!!

Registered just to tell you so.... Fantastic guests (big McKibbin fan here), crackling energy, and the very best Neanderthals, troglodytes, Eschatologists always seem to call you!

I agitated to keep you on five days a week last year, and listening this week I remember why. Please feel free to send this email up the chain in support of your return to such a slot. And feel free to cc: Randi with this, too (another fave of mine, of course).

skoal,
jon

as my socialist friend would say!

I feel so spoiled by a whole week...this is like a family member being away. Sam is so kind to all of us IMers and bloggies. It will come big time for him...just have to be patient in the mean time. Michele

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuqj8XhFafU

Shiites march in Iraq to protest crackdown

he government imposes a curfew as tens of thousands take to the streets of Baghdad. Sadr says he's still committed to his militia's cease-fire.
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 28, 2008
BAGHDAD -- In a sign of growing rage against the Iraqi and U.S. governments, tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims marched Thursday in their Baghdad strongholds to protest a crackdown on Shiite militiamen that has led to more than 125 deaths.

The government announced a curfew in the capital until Sunday in an attempt to quell the violence that has spread to several cities since the offensive began Tuesday in the southern city of Basra.

Loyalists of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr rejected U.S. and Iraqi assertions that the Basra operation was aimed at rogue militiamen, instead insisting that it was targeting Sadr's Mahdi Army militia. A statement released late Thursday by Sadr's political office said the cleric remained committed to the cease-fire he imposed on his militia in August.

"Muqtada Sadr is calling on everyone to follow political solutions and peaceful protest, and not to spill Iraqi blood, to reach a solution to the current crisis," the statement said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq28mar28,0,593763...

Ha! A coincidence. I got a letter calling me to jury duty

today. I start April 21st.

kick r arse in swimming! ms. slopes!

there goes the redneck rivera. i know this place. we've vacationed nearby for years. yech.

Charges dropped in Haditha case

L/Cpl Stephen Tatum is the fifth marine to have all charges dropped
The US military has dropped all charges against one of the marines accused of involvement in the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7319708.stm

Jared Bernstein, on Obama, Krugman and the mortgage meltdown.

--David Kurtz

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/28/jb_on_pk_vs_bho/

meaning what? shit is hot!

later!

Not the new president, Raul, although he has promised to push through "structural and conceptual" changes to this communist island in the Caribbean.

It is Raul's daughter, Mariela Castro.

As head of the government-funded National Centre for Sex Education, she is trying to change people's attitudes towards minority groups in the community.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7314845.stm

I don't know where the hell I have been .. but I have never seen a pic of Myla before! What a Cutie Pie!!!

Crap .. gotta go .. my biological clock is deafening me at this point!

Hope you all are well ..

; ) - Wild West Willow

you pay attn!!

It's warming up. I'm sitting right by the woodstove.

More Bad news...%&^*(_+(!!!@@#
new
Submitted by Lucille on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 2:45pm.
DOJ wins a legal battle with DNC over White House e-mails

A federal judge has handed the White House a legal victory in a battle with the Democratic National Committee over e-mails related to U.S. attorney firings.

District Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the DNC does not have a right under the Freedom of Information Act to 68 pages of e-mails sent between White House and Justice Department officials simply because the White House e-mail traffic was transmitted on a server controlled by the Republican National Committee.

The DNC sued the Justice Department in April 2007 after its FOIA request for the e-mails, which relate to the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, was not granted by DOJ. Attorneys for the DNC argued that since the White House officials used "GWB43.com" e-mail addresses to send the messages, they cannot be deemed to be official in nature and therefore must be turned over under the DNC's FOIA request. Eighty-eight White House officials were given those RNC-controlled addresses to conduct political activities, but the Bush administration later claimed that the accounts were used to handle other official business, such as interactions between the White House and senior DOJ aides on the prosecutor purge.

In dismissing the DNC lawsuit, Huvelle ruled that it was "based on the false factual premise that White House officials only used their RNC e-mail accounts for political communications."

Additionally, Huvelle decided that just because an RNC server was used to send the messages — 68 pages out of more than 5,000 which have been denied to the DNC — it is not enough to automatically disqualify the Justice Department from claiming a FOIA exemption in refusing to release them.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0308/DOJ_wins_a_legal_battle_with...

...YOU 28% Clinton supporters and 19% Obama supporters who say you will either vote for McBush or not at all if your candidate does not become the Democratic nominee, will have to grow up and come to the aid of YOUR COUNTRY.

While I am not certain or comfortable about what we will be getting with either Democratic candidate, I know,and you know too, what McBush is all about and what is going to happen to US if this "scum of the earth" are allowed to continue!!!!!!!!!!

By Paul Rockwell 2008-03-25

Job security is the foremost domestic issue for working people in Pennsylvania, where Sen. Hillary Clinton is expected to win the Democratic Party primary. For many months, as a candidate for president, Senator Clinton has cultivated a pro-labor image. She claims to be an opponent of NAFTA, and she often denounces the outsourcing of American jobs. Before a crowd of students in New Hampshire, she claimed that she hated “seeing U.S. telemarketing jobs done in remote locations, far, far from our shores.”

Newly released White House records demonstrate that Clinton lied about NAFTA. (See “Clinton Lie Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy,” John Nichols, Common Dreams, March 22.) NAFTA, however, is but a single thread in a web of deception regarding globalization and free trade. Clinton is lying not only about NAFTA, but about outsourcing as well. And the evidence comes, not from Obama, but from official records, video tapes, quotations and recordings of Clinton speeches abroad.

CONT'D

It's a secret code, Lucille. If I told you, I'd have to

kill you.

"Now" on PBS is highlighting a cool program in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A professional team identifies energy-related upgrades for a specific home or business that will (theoretically) pay for themselves in a handful of years. The same group has allied with banks to offer low interest loans. The banks know that the money not spent on energy is available to be shifted to paying down the loan. The Cambridge team then follows the progress of their projections over the term of the loan to track the accuracy of the initial predictions.
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http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/413/index.html

The Cambridge Energy Alliance, a nonprofit group, will help clients cut their energy use 15-30 percent, which translates into a lower utility bill. The Alliance will then help clients secure loans to pay for the building retrofits, loans designed to pay themselves off by the savings on those utility bills. Retrofitting thousands of buildings could also create a new green job market in Cambridge. It's a bold new experiment, but the Alliance hopes to become a national model that puts green thinking on display, as well as more green in people's pockets. Will this entrepreneurial effort bring new converts to the environmental movement?

Wednesday, March 19, 2008c.e., 8:09 AM

They BOTH Broke The Rules!

I am a Druid (state calls me, I am my own church -- IOW Wherever I am is the Church)
I WAS HONOURABLE (but no longer). I do not take My TAX-EXEMPT RIGHTS solely because I speak out and protest and taken over things and got arrested tooooooooo many times ... but if most of you are saying that Minister can say even GOD DAMN AMERICA .... so I can now stand, saying to those that walk with me and from “in my pulpit”, GOD[S] DAMN THOSE BY THEIR ACTIONS **in a sacred space*** ... I told some here why I needed to do more than float at 2d Life -- it was to JUST be there just as another faith, since the Pope is proclaiming to all Arch-Bishops and Bishops to go on 2d city and the different BLOGS and PROSELYTIZE, and now, I get to juice it up a bit AND PROSELYTIZE..

I would not have a "church-ite" before BECAUSE I speak out (LOUDLY & PROUDLY) against the WRONGS done by this Gov't, especially in protests in 80's. For YEARS I did not use MY TAX E. Status because I, too, wanted to say things like but not as bad as GOD DAMN AMERICA and, that type of vitriol in a sacred environment..

So as of next Sunday (actually, any day is sacred) I can speak out like Rev Wright. I have had national & international contact with those of my Faith recently and told them to "stand-by" since I can now speak freely – from a pulpit.. So All The Money, well someone has to pay or tell Minister Wright he has to PAY BACK ALL MONIES for the full time of 20 plus years or I get TONS OF MONEY. Because I am not amused – SINCE I COULD HAVE, ALROUND 30 YEARS MYSELF., and hand in his ministry with Obama unable to run, because OBAMA is a LIAR! SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE, because the only reason I didn’t collect my T E.S. was IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW TO BE SO VERBAL A REVERND. They could have TAKEN MY TITLE if I used for it to talk politics, as Obama’s FAMILY Minister DID. I am calling today many places to COMPLAIN about ALL THIS! hmmmmm. DECADES, that minister and this Gov’t stole from me -- BECAUSE I PLAYED FAIR , the Gov’t, Obama. And His Family Minister DID NOT!

BTW OBAMA LIED many days surrounding this!!! LOL.

How loathsome. You took offense to her comment but are attracted to her physically.

Is there any more you can possibly embarrass yourself with? You suck as a person.

You and I share common ground again. I was not originally an Obama supporter but Wright helped solidify my respect.

Online users

Fernando
Crank Bait

The blog is in perfect harmony
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Submitted by WiccanDruid on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 9:05pm.
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Using Wright as the exemplar in your argument against proselytizing politics from the tax-exempt pulpit is not your best choice by a long shot.

There are oodles of far more egregious examples.

But you knew that.

well.... not sure but isn't proselyting politics from the tax-exempt pulpit as old as the money changers at the temple???

then after talking he turned the next day and was unfair, cruel, and biased - I SAW THE REAL HIM. We always disagreed, but with such venom? One of a zillion reasons I left. You are the ones which have destroyed this nation and I Dance as your invention
i.e. Romerica (my America) Burns.

A non-friend told me that I should stop by, although I am lucky to get 2-4 hrs of sleep and usually when I fall asleep on desk at keyboard.
Then I have to go to my site to talk with those dealing with this DAMNED MURDER, then I will be back except I have been trying for at least 3-4 hrs sleep with feet up. I do have a Beta Hybrid Wolf (I had a few ALPHAS in mountains: one full wolf and one a hybrid Alpha) and ex-strays (cats) and family of ex-dead-rats-walking that I must feed ALSO and cages changed.

I also told him that if someone wanted me they could ask to see who can
call me or know someone to call me OR !!! THE BEST...
Keep REDUX since I do come by but usually I no not back-read and if I do ONLY ON WEEKENDS.

But whatever, and to someone making jest of my faith -- well I hadn't made fun of your belief, yet ..... BTW *POOF*

Batman.

Wiccan, I honor your faith. WTH! When.

not sure what
I do have a Beta Hybrid Wolf and ex-strays and family of ex-dead-rats-walking
means

/|\ The Seal Hunt has begun
new
Submitted by WiccanDruid on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 7:45pm.

I posted an article about the same thing last night. I get so enraged about this horrid hunt.
I have been fighting this ever since I was in high school (which was a while ago) & to think
that the Canadian government hasn't gotten a clue is beyond my thought process.
i think the more peole that know about it - the better. I started crying just after reading the 1st
sentace. god I HATE this hunt.

Well I think that says it all Fernando.
You don't mind if I use that? Do you?? I hope not.
I really, really like it.

A federal judge has handed the White House a legal victory in a battle with the Democratic National Committee over e-mails related to U.S. attorney firings.

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 9:35pm.
well.... not sure but isn't proselyting politics from the tax-exempt pulpit as old as the money changers at the temple???
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Yes. However, in the U.S. a religious tax-exemption is supposed to restrict the tax-exempt activities and facilities to religiosity.

There is no fine line (claimed by some) between sermons that speak to societal failings versus those that speak to manipulating politics to solve societal failings. Religion is, after all, supposed to be about learning to get along with one another and eliminating selfishness. An individual does not require political instruction to learn those lessons.

The line that is crossed from the pulpit includes political parties, political candidates and topical political issues.

A tax-exempt sermon, in my opinion, is free to instruct listeners to treat others as they would have themselves treated but it is not free to instruct listeners how to respond to the political issue of immigration.

In theory, listeners who accept the religious instruction from the pulpit will infuse their political opinions with their religious beliefs. That's fine with me and it is inevitable for a non-hypocrytical church member.

The listeners would be forming their own political opinions without having been specifically politically instructed from the pulpit.

If a church wants the right to political instruction...or to open a casino...I say tax the snot out of 'em just like the rest of us.

Amen.

"I do have a Beta Hybrid Wolf and ex-strays and family of ex-dead-rats-walking"

There are ALPHA Wolves and Beta Wolves (1st & 2nd).

I worked on saving Wolves in the Wild. When I and the group I led took over the Canadian Embassy, because they were killing wolves before **Now they started in AERIAL Wolf Hunts Again IN WELL HERE:
Mar 28, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: Open Season on Wyoming Wolves -- Take Action (Please repost)
Body: Starting today, gray wolves can be killed in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
(I will post SOON if I do not fall asleep.)
So I learn upon getting a full wolves thru "overfilled" cages...
I save strays and fix and keep most, with several choosing under my home to live -- by there choice.

ex- dead-rats etc...
they were two rats on the way to the pound...I stopped and a homeless man helped me get the rats.....and about 3 days later Dharma gave birth to 5 GEMS.....Opal, Pearl Diamond, Emerald, & Ruby.
If one was Buddhist, One would understand about The Gems....

Did I Answer You Correctly, Fernando?

.....is next coming, if I do not fall asleep. And people IMing from other site "down-under" (Air-;) )

CRANK BAIT I hope to answer yours this night...if not I will in the wee hours of the AM. ;)

I respected our (Alice, Fernando, & Crank Bait, especially) debates/fights although you are just using your analogy ... not FACTS, but moreso than most others. It is NOW LATE your time. It is only 8pm here. :(

waz that?

sin
smcgee43 Mi Casa es... oh you know...
Crank you know where I stand on religion, are you baiting me?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pKKx1rcDpew

I figured You Would Post "Heart" and so very glad you posted last night. It just is so horrid I can hardly breathe, I wish I was big boned... oh, I keep forgetting, I have a wolf (Beta Hybid) (3/4 Wolf & 1/4 dog) and I could carry a "Big Stick".....

They (Candian Gov't) won't even let cameras anywhere near the hunt This Year.Sniff.

But BY THEIR ACTIONS ...they are being judged...and the ones in-charge are damned./|\

I have a feeling when you dine out ..... you eat a lot of peoples spit. Just have a feeling about it.

Free Democracy

So I was just asking if I answered you "correctly" or if you needed more info? ;)

Submitted by WiccanDruid on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 11:08pm.
CRANK BAIT I hope to answer yours this night...
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I did not pose a question. I made a statement.

If you, or anyone, were to make a Dirty Dozen list of religious personalities who stray (or strayed) far from their area of expertise, Wright would not make the grade.

Off the top of my head: Falwell, Robertson, Bakker, Bakker, Hagee, Dobson, Farrakhan, Cruise, Roberts, Roberts, bin Laden, and (my personal favorite) Chubby Bubba the Once and Future Rajah of Bhong.

I'm sure you are correct. Hey, I'll never say otherwise.

My dad would always tell this story of a Bruja that cursed him and made him constipated. Oh nevermind, it gets worse but suffice to say I already get frog plagues. And if it hails again I'll be real sorry.

ha, that's the lore anyway. I do believe we have it within us to wish one well and wish harm on another with thought alone. Heck all you have to do is use nouns that label people as them or others. Negative energy is never good by definition.

Rajah of Bhong. - shit, time for worship hit.

and never even gave a touch of decency even before the attack to say Cheers or something polite.

I will answer you this time, just because I respected you once?
I am working on your answer now...whilst checking on Sea Shepherds and talking with some from Europe and Australia via IMs...

For a brief update: Zionism is the political ideology which promotes the exclusivity of Jews in Israel over any other racial, religious or ethnic group. Zionism, by definition, is racism. Israel, with the full support and funding of the United States, flagrantly violates international law and engages in the systematic ethnic cleansing and oppression of the Palestinian people as well as in the establishment of an apartheid system, not just in the West Bank and Gaza, but in Israel proper. The illegal colonization of Palestinian lands is an international crime and a model of institutionalized racism which is without equal any where in the world in that it is so widely ignored and even encouraged by the majority of so-called civilized nations. More importantly, what is largely forgotten in the little discussion there is of illegal settlement activities being practiced by Israel, is that the settlements themselves are racially exclusive. Jews only need apply. Palestinians aren't even allowed to drive on the same roads as the Israelis in the Palestinians' own territory. I wonder how Mr. Obama would respond if Canada decided to build huge whites-only cities in U.S. territory. I wonder if he would be willing to refrain from driving on a series of Canadians-only roads connecting those illegal colonies. It would only be a security precaution, after all, and Canada is such a stalwart ally or ours.

So-called liberals should examine their consciences before they bow down at the alter of Obamakinism. He has a lot of wonderful, albeit vapid things to say on the subject of race. Indeed, he has a unique platform and perspective from which to address this and other issues. Unfortunately, he is too busy selling out to the Israel lobby and a vast array of corporate interests to actually rise to the occasion in any substantive fashion.
JOE MOWREY
**Lesbian Chic**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epow4VXhnW0

...just tryin' to make his (her) way home.

Collared Creeps
Submitted by Crank Bait on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 11:47pm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-vkSO6mS9E

...who they are and what they do.

sweet links CeeCee
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PybtBKSAtLM

again by the courts. However, Lindorff has shown that the Philadelphis DA's use of race to strike qualified Black jurors during Mumia's trial, is identical to prosecutorial behavior in cases that Sam Alito has ruled on before he was place on the Supreme Court. He ruled for new trials. Surprise!

**Lesbian Chic**

I mention Rev. Wright and also I have NEVER forgotten about MOST Of The Evangelical MegaChurches...

Well, then IRA (which I talked to) either owes me decades of money or ALL those Ministers/Priests be to be fined in a BIG way and/ or never preach again and have to hand over their tax-exempt status (501c3’s).

So now what? Obama lied about what the Reverend said. As a Reverend
for 20-30yrs I know Obama heard and then lied. And he lied about traveling with solely evangelical Ministers. And Obama lied about Liquid Coal to NOW come out and maybe we can work with it. Obama is still lying about his closeness with the Nuclear Lobbyists.......

more info if needed...just ask

Shirt Sold at Wal-Mart

It sorta reminds me of blog stalkin' ~ yes, it happens here.
Fer men ~ imagine watchin' 'n' bein' careful where and when ya go anywheres ~ every day durin' yer life. Imagine it.

"Feminists Look for Stuff to Get Mad About"

Of all the condescending, dismissive, and factually incorrect accusations used by concern trolls (or hostile trolls) to attempt to silence, shame, or in some other way discourage feminists from addressing sexism in all its manifestations, perhaps none is quite so stupid as the charge that feminists are "looking" for things about which to be offended -- as if feminism is a product that will go out of production if there aren't enough buyers and sales are waning because sexism is, like, so over, dude.

This notion is ridiculous for a couple of reasons. For a start, misogyny is so pervasive that no one has to look for it.

That said reality is even remotely in doubt is laughable, given that any YouTube comments section on any video featuring a woman will be rife with misogynist swill.

I use YouTube as an example very deliberately, because I want to point out, before moving on, how feminist allies can inadvertently bolster the case of silencers who charge that feminists look for things about which to be offended. Each time I mention YouTube threads, commenters inevitably say either "YouTube commenters are the lowest common denominator" and/or "Just don't read those threads."

I'm not sure everyone who says those things has really considered the implications, so let's deal with that first.

The assertion that YouTube threads aren't a legitimate source because they're ostensibly populated by juvenile delinquents or society's dregs isn't actually a sound argument.

The same stuff—if more accurately spelled and with fewer Random Capitalizations --

We are not beasts. We are human beings. We have human rights.

Thanks to blogospheric demographics surveys, we know the average blog user is older, better educated, and wealthier than the average person in the general populace; this is not an issue of maturity or intelligence or class.

Treating sexism as though it is indigenous to any singular demographic, or unique combination of traits -- or, the flipside of that equation, regarding any demographic as wholly devoid of entrenched misogyny -- is both foolhardy and inaccurate.

And, more to the point, irrelevant:

There are millions of YouTube users and an alarmingly high rate of misogynistic comments. The quality of who is making those comments isn't of much interest to women who must nonetheless suffer their undeniable quantity. Which brings us to...

Telling women that they should merely abstain from reading and/or participating in YouTube threads -- or other places online and offline plagued by unfettered misogyny -- is akin to telling women their choices are to tolerate sexual harassment in order to participate in it, or segregate themselves and necessarily limit their opportunities in the public sphere.

In addition to unfairly punishing women, that's also a tacit endorsement of openly expressed misogyny.

No matter how authentic the genuine feelings of concern that may motivate such a recommendation, when someone advises a woman to disengage herself from a public space in which misogyny is rampant, one also necessarily, if unintentionally, communicates the message that her contributions to that space are not valuable enough to fight to protect.

By slow increments, every unmonitored space thusly becomes uninhabitable by any woman not willing to suffer -- and indulge -- misogynist bullies.

The truth is, if I actually spent my days actively paying attention to every example of misogyny around me, I would be a profoundly unhappy woman. Not bitchy or grumpy or short-tempered, but paralyzingly depressed.

Women have to train themselves to avoid consciously reacting to every bit of misogynistic detritus permeating the culture through which we all move, lest they go quite insane. I write about the things I can't not write about.

If I wrote about all the examples of sexism I see every day, I'd never sleep.

Feminism seeks to address all manner of issues, big and small. That women can (and do) utilize the tenets of feminism in every aspect of their lives does not undermine the history of the feminist movement, but instead does it a great honor.

Feminism was never meant to be restricted to suffrage and equal pay, held in reserve like a finite quantity that could run out if it's used for "the little things." Feminism is a renewable resource.

The idea that feminism should be kept under glass, broken only in case of a "real" and "serious" emergency, is predicated on the erroneous assumption that "the little things" happen in a void, as do, presumably, the "real" and "serious" things, when, in reality, they are interwoven strands of the same rope.

And as soon as one begins to judge the worthiness of feminists' attention on a sliding scale, even generally-regarded "serious issues" like equal pay are dwarfed by global concerns like sex trafficking or government-sanctioned use of rape as a tool of war.

It doesn't have to be one or the other—feminists can multi-task.

And, in a very real way, ignoring "the little things" in favor of "the big stuff" makes the big stuff that much harder to eradicate, because it is the pervasive, ubiquitous, inescapable little things that create the foundation of a sexist culture on which the big stuff is dependent for its survival.

It's the little things, the constant drumbeat of inequality and objectification, that inure us to increasingly horrible acts and attitudes toward women.

Irrespective of intent, the recommendation to "ignore the little stuff," so often intertwined with accusations of looking for things about which to get offended, is not just ill-advised, but counter to the ultimate goal of full equality.

It's like a knife in my gut when I see feminists accusing other feminists of "hurting the cause" by focusing on "the little stuff," because that's It -- that's the stuff, that's the fertile soil in which everything else takes root and from whence everything else springs, that's the way that the fundamental idea that women are not equal to men is conveyed over and over and over again.

Which, quite frankly, means that if even we had to look for it, we'd be right to do so.

(h/t to Melissa postin' at Shakers)

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PEACHES
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)

That is so cool that you have worked with wolves. Wow.... I would ask where you live - but I know
you probably would like to stay private. I am taking classes (just started.. finally) to get my Associates Degree
in Vet. Tech. I have been putting it off way to long. So I just decided to do it. Plus Im not getting any younger.
I would love to e-mail you - if anyone has your e-mail address from the blog just tell them to e-mail it to me.
toniD & maggiesboy have mine. I guess that would be a great start.
I take care of 6 feral cats that live in my garage. I have 3 BIG DOGS & 5 inside cats. I am in the process of looking for a home to buy.
It will be my 1st.... I wouldn't mind getting a little property so I could have a little shelter. But we will see. I was only pre-
qualified for $200 thousand - which won't get me much for where i live. Its so damn expensive to live where Im @.
Anywho I hope that we can talk a little more by e-mail.
Have a good weekend... :)

Clinton Owes Obama An Apology
Posted March 26, 2008 | 03:27 PM (EST)
By Keith Boykin

I've had it with the Clintons.

The past few months I've tried to defend Bill and Hillary Clinton against some of the more unreasonable attacks from their critics. Just last weekend on CNN's Ballot Bowl, I defended Bill Clinton when critics accused of him of questioning Barack Obama's patriotism. The critics may have misinterpreted Clinton's remarks, I said, giving the former president the benefit of the doubt.

I've also defended Barack Obama in recent weeks against unreasonable charges directed at him because of his association with his church and his pastor. It seems obvious to me that Barack Obama loves his country and is not an anti-white bigot.

Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates. That's why I've never understood the rabid Hillary haters or the angry Obama opponents. To me, all three candidates -- including John McCain -- are good and decent Americans who have served their country with distinction.

I wish Hillary Clinton would acknowledge that fact too. In the past few weeks, I've been increasingly disturbed by the gratuitously negative tone of the Clinton campaign.

First, during an interview with 60 Minutes host Steve Croft, Sen. Clinton cleverly stoked the rumors that Obama might be a closet Muslim. "No, there is nothing to base that on," she told Croft. But then she slyly added, "As far as I know."

Next, she all but endorsed McCain over Obama for president. "I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House," she said. "I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."

Then came the Jeremiah Wright story. Based on the previous tactics used by her campaign, I did not expect Clinton to say much of anything about the Wright story. As Napoleon Bonaparte famously said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." And after all, the Clintons have relied on the support of controversial black pastors, include Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to save their own hides several times in the past.

But as time went by, and the Wright story lingered on, it seemed Clinton was perfectly willing to let the uninformed public get the misimpression that Barack Obama is moonlighting as an anti-American black nationalist racist. She knows better, and she ought to be ashamed for not speaking up on his behalf.

Just last month, in one of the many near-death experiences that forced her into a moment of vulnerable humility, Senator Clinton told a debate audience in Austin, Texas that she was proud to sit beside Barack Obama. "No matter what happens in this contest -- and I am honored. I am honored to be here with Barack Obama. I am absolutely honored," she said to applause. For a moment, it seemed the Democratic contest might become civil but competitive. For a moment.

Then on Tuesday of this week, apparently dissatisfied that the Jeremiah Wright story had failed to derail Obama's campaign, Clinton broke her silence on the issue and told a newspaper in Pennsylvania (188 delegates) that Rev. Wright "would not have been my pastor."

She repeated her criticism at a press conference later in the day. "You know, we don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend," she said.

She ought to be ashamed. A month ago she stoked the fears that Obama might be a Muslim and now she plays on the fears of Pennsylvanians that the Illinois senator is a radical black Christian. I would expect that kind of nonsensical fear mongering from a Republican, but I'm disappointed when it comes from a fellow Democrat.

Even John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has acknowledged that Clinton and Obama are both honorable Americans. When a conservative radio host attacked Obama at a Cincinnati McCain rally last month, the Arizona senator stood up for his Democratic opponents and apologized for the attack. "I have repeatedly stated my respect for Senator Obama and Senator Clinton," he said and promised to "treat them with respect." That was much classier than Hillary Clinton's comments on Jeremiah Wright.

As a New Yorker, I have been proud of Hillary Clinton's service in the Senate, and I harbor no ill will toward her. If she somehow manages to wrangle the nomination from Obama, I will actively support her general election campaign. But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hilary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-boykin/clinton-owes-obama-an-apo_b_9...

...stop letting the media dictate our priorities. No one is perfect. It's really a matter of who will be amenable and will listen to US once we gather ourselves into force to be reckoned with. Of course that can't happen if we keep sniping and bickering. Keeping us divided DOESN'T work to OUR benefit.

Nite All.

You Know...
Submitted by CeeCee on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 12:28am.

Great Flick ... I wish I had many of those masks to wear in the LA area . LMAO.

ha, that's the lore anyway. I do believe we have it within us to wish one well and wish harm on another with thought alone. Heck all you have to do is use nouns that label people as them or others. Negative energy is never good by definition....Nando

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2388
One Dollar Talisman--hidden meanings (my open mic)

uh yup

Round 'um up, head 'um out, Rawhide!

it is called TAX-EXEMPTION VIOLATION - Rev Wright and probably all evangelical minister VIOLATED 501c3's.

THEN OBAMA LIED! That is a FACT! I even saw Obama ON TV when this occurred. Why is ALL here telling me that it is ALRIGHT to break Tax-Exemption LAWS, you just have to be a LIAR like OBAMA And Lie?

And for decades I went by The Letter of the Law. I had already been to "vocal" about the wrongs this gov did. And I NEVER SAID "God Damn America" and further negative things ABOUT Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Then Obama lied? Get real.

and my eyes and ears a liar. I am not lying and willing to put my arm up (Sodium Pentothal) -- but so does someone worth me taken S.P. BTW I have taken S.P before, when I was around 14years.

How would you incarcerate Rove anyway?

Are we talking concrete walls and bars on doors. No windows?

Or are we talking a mud corral? Like the kind Dorthy fell in.

LIE. What's new?
**Lesbian Chic**

cash from Wall Street. What's new?
**Lesbian Chic**

I am of the 14% .... I do not tell lies , but 86% of the people here do. So by your analogy you are calling me the LIAR.

One other thing ... If I EVER FIND I am Wrong ... I ALSO COME and probably before you would even know, I would have told you I was wrong,
pedestrian twit. Remember ------ YOU CALLED ME LIAR FIRST!

You are completely right. They BOTH have lied, but here they only chant Obama and MOST EVERYONE HERE say ONLY CLINTON LIES AND HER HUSBAND.

I had not even decided but leaning more Obama (especially after I CALLED his DC office Wednesday) but Obama worshipers has "soured" him to me.

I will call and let his office know. Before I just said a "blog"......

The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet. - MSNBC

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PEACHES
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)

How y'all been? Finally listened to Sam's show again the other day for the first time in months and months. He and Rachel Maddow should have their own weekday hour on MSNBC right after Olbermann instead of the Damn Abrams crap that's there now.

Had a few minutes to sit and record and came up with this weird little thing.

Bloggin With the Dead

Vocals are double-tracked (me singing with me) and it's supposed to sound like a club song, sorta. What's a club song? I dunno.

in the government longer...?

If you're honest you can't even barely if at all make it through local government...so fuck em both I say..(but we know what I say..)

*tee hee*
*Woof n Poof*
:)

Hi Fish!
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Saw ya on da Kos. Day late to catch ya there tho. You been good?

I've missed you.

I've missed a lot. Bit off about as much as I can chew here.

World War One Poster

**
PEACHES
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)

I was banned @Kos...I guess..I made a post the same night I saw your post...I had no intention of responding to anything..but then when I DID want to I couldn't see where to click to do it...so I guessed I couldn't any more...I tried to use your email you have listed there...not sure if they got there or not...

Have I been good?....it's a matter of opinion...

What about you - whatcha been doing?
How are your boys and their sports?

I wish I could hear your song now, but you know..AT&T (thankfully) wants nothing to do with my hillbilly internets...I can hear it Monday tho...

What have you done to fishgrease.net?

fishgrease.net

I store files there but my email got messed up to where I can't even log into it. I'll send you my new one.

I didn't mean to ask if you were good as much as have you been okay? How's life?

Like that.

is on the UWYO soccer team. Jordan is snow skiing and destroying his knees doing skat0r kid stuff when the snow's gone.

Jacob plays onna local basketball team. They're all in better shape than me. I'm not as out of shape as I am just plain old beat down.

I know. Poor me.

love your peaches quote from last night and May 2004

Probably not much different from the last time I saw you...

;)

Bad, bad, Stole my shoe!

Wright, wrong!

p.s. Airball is referring to the post I cut from 04 on Peaches interview evening..I put it here last night... Miss Cathy was telling us (we who weren't here yet) about Peaches night...Maybe Sam Seder brought it up on his show..I'm not sure why Peaches came up again..Janeane was on the show twice the past week..maybe she said it..? I don't know...

**
PEACHES
"Parodies for Peace Movement"
(It's called a protest movement.)

You've lost me.

(easy to do)

Was I good? Was I sexy?

Rich?

Did I smell okay? I remember bathing frequently back then, so probably.

Some, but truthfully, not so much. I'm never around anybody anyway, so it's not an important part of my life.

Smelling good.

Or not smelling bad.

Right now I smell like corrosion inhibitor. Got that on my coveralls.

how is dr? Or is it da? I thought he had come back. His sorrow is so very deep, as well would be mine if I were in his shoes.....

FIshgrease, Then you must have a wonderful musk smell when you take the overalls off. teehee... ;)

Peaches Pseudonymous on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 3:28am.
Wonderful Picture ;)

haha... :)

Submitted by Alice on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 12:36am.

I don't think Peaches is my cup of crotch... I mean tea.

So far, though, what she says makes sense.

Posted by: Fishgrease at May 6, 2004 09:22 PM
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But maybe musky, sure.

I'll send you an email, beautiful. May you be blessed.

Not by my email. That's not a blessing. I mean just in general.

Remember to listen to that song. It's more just an idea. If me and Chuck do anything with it, we'll redo all the parts.

It's like a clay model of something other than a clay model.

two fish

red fish

BYE fish..

drive safely...

xoxo

See Fish was here..Cool.

Peaches.. :)

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

Wouldn't it be fun to have a mental cam to see what all the Blog people do on the weekend nights when they aren't here :)

Ya weird that Fish showed up...no lie..I read yesterday that Angels are the ones who assist making 'coincidences' happen... so..maybe since I was hanging out at Isodore of Seville's again yesterday...??

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/angels/

Slackin !

What's up with that ? ;)

Waiting patiently and Unpatiently !

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

and I'm not seeing it...I'm not sure how that is possible...but if you have a link to that song lemme know please...

Sorry,I don't think I've heard of it ..
Who does it ?
Genesis ?

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

http://www.google.com/intl/en/earthhour/

worldwide energy conservation

Saturday, March 29th, beginning at 9 AM (central), on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago, This is Hell broadcasts live for four hours beginning at 9 AM (US central) You can also hear us live online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

This Saturday, our guests include:

*Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, who also writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs on the pages of the New York Review of Books. Michael's article, "The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?," appears in the April 5th issue. Michael's article in the March/April issue of CJR is "Out of Focus: How indie dogma undercuts the documentary."

*writer Doug Henwood will discuss the latest issue of his Left Business Observer (http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/). Articles include, "Obamamania: Want Change With That?" in which he calls Senator Barack Obama "just another Democrat with a sleazy real estate agent in his past." So you're thinking Doug's a big backer of Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, right? Guess again. Doug calls her politics "bellicose and neoliberal." In the most recent issue of LBO, Doug also takes on past This is Hell! guest Naomi Klein's latest book as well as the coming recession.

*Spencer Ackerman wrote the American Prospect cover story "The Obama Doctrine." The subtitle asks, "Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it?"

*Eric Umansky returns after just four weeks because he's written another amazing article. This time, it's for Columbia Journalism Review and it's called, "Lost Over Iran: How the press let the White House craft the narrative about Tehran's nukes."

http://thisishell.com/

... ever participate in a civil rights march?

How about a Vietnam war protest?

... ever sign an edgy political petition?

... ever know a guy named "Joey the Horse?" (Ever help him take out any heavy garbage bags?)

... ever hang out with a third-world dictator, retired or present?

http://www.getmyfbifile.com/

Use it to generate a letter requesting your file. Send it off to the FBI.

While you're at it, send letters to the CIA and other agencies. What the heck, something might turn up. All of this is made possible by the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act.

Sorry,got busy for a few..

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

your fbi file, if I were you. It will just draw attention to you that might not otherwise be there. (Unless you have a good reason to obtain it.)

**Lesbian Chic**

I didn't do it, Thespian..you make a good point there...the link is a Kim Komando site of the day...

Nite'lls

reasoning,Lesbian Chic..

All us knuckleheads(I mean that in a Good way,Ofcourse)here
probably have a file now someplace,just for hanging out here..Pretty pathetic if true..That's why it's probably true :(

What do you like to be called ?
Lesbian Chic or
Thespian Lipsti ?

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

Did you find it ?
Because now that I
know it's Zep I can probably find it..

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

This Is Hell.. (http://www.wnur.org)

Thanks :)

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

This Is Hell .... I think is one of the best shows you can hear. They get a lot of good people to interview and no commercials.

when I remember..Or,Im up at that time..

Your right..It is a very good show.. :)

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

Does Gannon Know The Way There ?

Karl Rove's next move: A million-dollar home on Florida's Emerald CoastLindsay Beyerstein and Larisa Alexandrovna

A $165,000 lot becomes a $1 million home.

Edit*Tonid has the story upthread..

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

Are any of you going to turn off your lights for Earth Hour tonight?

The Chicago area is asking people to turn off all nonesential light between 8-9 PM tonight. The whole city of Chicago is going black to go green.

More than 60 cities world wide will be participating.

morning toniD, first time i hear of it! what does that mean no blogging for an hour?

Peace be with you.
All is merry my way.

Got a letter back from Mollohan reassuring that he voted for the House FISA bill and will try to prevent Pelosi and Reid from caving in to warrantless taps. and immunity.

After all its only in the fucking Constistution!

Ill turn the lights off, I recycle and use very litle electricity , its mainly from the puter on the tuuuuuuuubes.

My roomates are pretty Apolitical,unfortunately..

I'll try..But,it's not my house :(

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

http://www4.earthhourus.org/

On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.

Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco and Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town.

What will you do when the lights are off? We have lots of ideas.

Join people all around the world in showing that you care about our planet and want to play a part in helping to fight climate change. Don’t forget to sign up and let us know you want to join Earth Hour.

MATTHEWS: Who's pushing that?
ANTHONY: The blogophere.
MATTHEWS: No, but who's pushing it?
ANTHONY: Um, well, is it the Republicans pushing it?
MATTHEWS: You tell me. You just told us about it, you just put it on the television.
ANTHONY: People who have serious issues with Jeremiah Wright's comments that he made....
MATTHEWS: It didn't come from the Sandman, it didn't come from Jesus, it didn't' come from anybody good, it came from someone meaning to do him harm - who was it?
ANTHONY (Stammers)
MATTHEWS: I like to know the source of these when you throw them on the air like this, Crystal - you're new to this show, don't put something on the air unless you give me a source for it - where did this come from?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/28/chris-matthews-really-pla_n_939...

i dont know man....grover loves the red light special!

Sydney goes dark for Earth Hour By TANALEE SMITH, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 19 minutes ago

SYDNEY, Australia - Sydney's iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge went dark Saturday night as the world's first major city turned off its lights for this year's Earth Hour, a global campaign to raise awareness of climate change.

The lights on the arch of Harbour Bridge were turned off at 8 p.m., followed shortly by the shells of the Opera House and other city landmarks. Most businesses and homes were already dark as Sydney residents embraced their second annual Earth Hour with candlelight dinners, beach bonfires and even a green-powered outdoor movie.

The city was noticeably darker, though not completely blacked out. The business district was mostly dark; organizers said 250 of the 350 commercial buildings there had pledged to shut off their lights completely.

The number of participants was not immediately available but organizers were hoping to beat last year's debut, when 2.2 million people and more than 2,000 businesses shut off lights and appliances, resulting in a 10.2 percent reduction in carbon emissions during that hour.

The effect of last year's Earth Hour was infectious. This year, 26 major world cities and more than 300 other cities and towns have signed up for the event.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_on_sc/world_lights_out_9

Clean up ! Aisle 2 ! ;)

Good Morning Lucile,Bob and Toni :)

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

Getting Mrs. Clinton
March 28, 2008
I think we've reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don't. There's no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don't. You either understand who she is, or not. And if you don't, after 16 years of watching Clintonian dramas, you probably never will.

That's what the Bosnia story was about. Her fictions about dodging bullets on the tarmac -- and we have to hope they were lies, because if they weren't, if she thought what she was saying was true, we are in worse trouble than we thought -- either confirmed what you already knew (she lies as a matter of strategy, or, as William Safire said in 1996, by nature) or revealed in an unforgettable way (videotape! Smiling girl in pigtails offering flowers!) what you feared (that she lies more than is humanly usual, even politically usual).

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

hey Rules!

Ex-Terror Detainee Says U.S. Tortured Him

(CBS) A German resident held by the U.S. for almost five years tells 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Americans tortured him in many ways - including hanging him from the ceiling for five days early in his captivity when he was in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Even after determining he was not a terrorist, Murat Kurnaz says the torture continued. Kurnaz tells his story for the first time on American television this Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Kurnaz, an ethnic Turk born and raised in Germany, went to Pakistan in late 2001 at age 19 to study Islam and wound up in Pakistani police custody. It was three months after 9/11, and Kurnaz says the U.S. was offering bounties for suspicious foreigners. Kurnaz says he was "sold" to the Americans for $3,000 and brought to Kandahar as terrorist suspect.

He claims American troops tortured him in Afghanistan by holding his head underwater, administering electric shocks to the soles of his feet, and hanging him suspended from the ceiling of an aircraft hangar and kept alive by doctors. "Every five or six hours they came and pulled me back down and the doctor came," he recalls. "He looked into my eyes. He checked my heart and when he said 'okay,' then they pulled me back up," he tells Pelley.

The U.S. Pentagon responding by e-mail says, "We treat all detainees humanely… and all credible claims are investigated thoroughly…. The abuses Mr. Kurnaz alleges are not only unsubstantiated and implausible, they are simply outlandish."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/60minutes/main3976928.shtml?so...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIBIMIMI!!! (i think that is what she said)!

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest
By KEITH BRADSHER
HANOI — Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world’s largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export.

The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world’s population, has almost doubled on international markets in the last three months. That has pinched the budgets of millions of poor Asians and raised fears of civil unrest.

Shortages and high prices for all kinds of food have caused tensions and even violence around the world in recent months. Since January, thousands of troops have been deployed in Pakistan to guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. Protests have erupted in Indonesia over soybean shortages, and China has put price controls on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs.

Food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. But the moves by rice-exporting nations over the last two days — meant to ensure scarce supplies will meet domestic needs — drove prices on the world market even higher this week.

This has fed the insecurity of rice-importing nations, already increasingly desperate to secure supplies. On Tuesday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, afraid of increasing rice scarcity, ordered government investigators to track down hoarders.

The increase in rice prices internationally promised to put more pressure on prices in the United States, which imports more than 30 percent of the rice Americans consume, according to the United States Rice Producers Association. The price that consumers pay for rice has already increased more than 8 percent over the last year.

But the United States is fortunate in also exporting rice; poor countries ranging from Sengal in West Africa to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific are heavily dependent on imports and now face higher bills.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/worldbusiness/29rice.html?_r=...

I just sent off a ecard to her.

Happy Birthday bibi girl!!!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1475273713

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign was quick to send out an e-mail accusing Mr. Obama of making false statements in his ad, saying he has received more than $160,000 from the oil and gas companies.
Phil Singer, deputy communications director for Mrs. Clinton, put out this statement: “It’s unfortunate that Senator Obama is using false advertising to explain why he can be trusted to do something about energy prices. Senator Obama says he doesn’t take campaign contributions from oil companies, but the reality is that Exxon Mobil, Shell and others are among his donors. I wonder if they’ll fix the ad.”
Mr. Singer shouldn’t hold his breath. Bill Burton, press secretary for the Obama campaign, reaffirmed the ad’s message, saying “Senator Obama is the only candidate in the race who doesn’t accept campaign contributions from special interests PACs and Washington lobbyists, and that includes oil companies and oil lobbyists.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/obamas-big-oil-ad-draws-fi...

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

He started this mess in 2002 when he said everyone should own homes. But to give the Fed all these powers? Not a good idea...

Bush seeks financial regulation overhaul By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
1 hour, 12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation's financial services industry from banks and securities firms to mortgage brokers and insurance companies.

The plan would give major new powers to the Federal Reserve, according to a 22-page executive summary obtained by The Associated Press.

The Fed would be given broad authority to oversee financial market stability. That would include new powers to examine the books of any institution deemed to represent a potential threat to the proper functioning of the overall financial system.

The proposal, which will be outlined Monday in a speech by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is certain to set off heated debates within different sectors of the financial services industry and in Congress, where some Democrats are likely to complain that the proposal does not go far enough to crack down on abuses.

The administration divided its recommendations into short-term goals that could be adopted quickly, intermediate recommendations and an "optimal" regulatory framework, which contains a radical restructuring of how the government supervises banks and other financial institutions.

The recommendations are the product of a yearlong review that was begun in an effort to modernize the government's regulatory structure so that the country's financial services industries could better compete in a fast-changing global economy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_on_go_pr_wh/fed_overhaul_19

Treasury Dept. Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.

The proposal is part of a sweeping blueprint to overhaul the nation’s hodgepodge of financial regulatory agencies, which many experts say failed to recognize rampant excesses in mortgage lending until after they set off what is now the worst financial calamity in decades.

Democratic lawmakers are all but certain to say the proposal does not go far enough in restricting the kinds of practices that caused the financial crisis. Many of the proposals, like those that would consolidate regulatory agencies, have nothing to do with the turmoil in financial markets. And some of the proposals could actually reduce regulation.

According to a summary provided by the administration, the plan would consolidate an alphabet soup of banking and securities regulators into a powerful trio of overseers responsible for everything from banks and brokerage firms to hedge funds and private equity firms.

While the plan could expose Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds to greater scrutiny, it carefully avoids a call for tighter regulation.

The plan would not rein in practices that have been linked to the housing and mortgage crisis, like packaging risky subprime mortgages into securities carrying the highest ratings.

The plan would give the Fed some authority over Wall Street firms, but only when an investment bank’s practices threatened the entire financial system.

And the plan does not recommend tighter rules over the vast and largely unregulated markets for risk sharing and hedging, like credit default swaps, which are supposed to insure lenders against loss but became a speculative instrument themselves and gave many institutions a false sense of security.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/29regulate.html?ei=5089&en=32...

blah blah blah (that's dan-ish for happy birthday)

German chancellor Merkel to boycott Olympic ceremony
by Chris in Paris · 3/29/2008 04:06:00 AM ET · Link
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Merkel joins Poland and Czech Republic leaders who will not attend the opening ceremonies. These leaders are all people who grew up under Soviet domination so they all have first hand experience with a bully regime maintaining power over another country. Will this tip the balance for other EU leaders to boycott? The more important question is whether China will stick to its old ways or join the modern world in terms of both business and respect for human rights. They can do as they like but it's their choice. It is also everyone else's choice not condone China's actions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/29/germany.olympicgames2008

Rove's "fingerprints are smeared all over the case" says former Alabama Governor Siegelman
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 3/28/2008 08:52:00 PM ET · Link
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Don Siegelman got out of jail today. He had a conversation with the New York Times and he immediately and appropriately blamed Karl Rove for his legal troubles. Rove is going to have to answer a lot of questions about this case. And, that pompous little bastard better not claim executive privilege. If Rove can spend hours pontificating on Fox News, he can find the time to answer some questions -- under oath:
In a telephone interview shortly after he walked out of a federal prison in Oakdale, La., Mr. Siegelman said there had been “abuse of power” in his case, and repeatedly cited the influence of Karl Rove, the former White House political director.

“His fingerprints are smeared all over the case,” Mr. Siegelman said, a day after a federal appeals court ordered him released on bond and said there were legitimate questions about his case.

Mr. Rove has strenuously denied any involvement in the conviction of the former governor, who was sentenced to serve seven years last June after being convicted in 2006. He could not immediately be reached for comment today.

Mr. Siegelman served nine months while his lawyers appealed a federal judge’s refusal to release him on bond, pending the ex-governor’s appeal of his conviction. That refusal was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Thursday.

The former governor, a Democrat, said he would “press” to have Mr. Rove answer questions about his possible involvement in the case before Congress, which has already held a hearing on Mr. Siegelman. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee signaled its intention to have Mr. Siegelman testify about the nature of his prosecution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/washington/28cnd-siegelman.html?hp

a bonchinchi...she loves gossip and who the best person to do that with??? yup!! we were screaming with laughter! my brothers and sisters are something else man!!!

the partner is driving her crazy, i was dying with laughter...he is jealous over my daughter/uncle relationship, i told her about him she did not believe me now she is learning first hand!!! she is moving out to live with my sister and mom she says...my mom will be (where you going to? when you coming back) than she will move again!!!HAHAHAHA!! welcome!

UTICA — When the Rev. William Procanick put his hand on the Bible during his sex-abuse trial in Oneida County Court earlier this year, he swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

But as the former Clinton pastor was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl at his home last March, Judge Michael L. Dwyer said Procanick sacrificed his honesty the day he testified.

“As a minister of God, you got on the stand and you lied,” Dwyer told Procanick, the 54-year-old former pastor of Resurrection Assembly of God church on Kirkland Avenue.

A jury found Procanick guilty Jan. 22 of first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

Dwyer said he believes Procanick was being honest when he told the girl's mother in a recorded phone call that he was wrong to caress the girl's body while she was trying to fall asleep.

However, Procanick instead testified in court that he did nothing wrong other than spend time alone with the girl, who was a friend of the family, Dwyer noted.

http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqt7AN7aQPI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IldaegAB0

brings tears to my eyes!!

refused to hear the case of the woman, a WalMart employee, who is close to brain dead from a car accident. Her suit brought her $400,000 dollars and WalMart is taking it back for the money their insurance company paid for her care.

This poor woman is cared for by her husband who is recovering from cancer and had to divorce her so medicaid would take care of her.

Her son was killed in Iraq.

The husband's car may now be repo'd.

And we think we have it bad?

Five former secretaries of State call for Gitmo closure.
At a University of Georgia roundtable discussion yesterday, five former secretaries of State — Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, and Colin Powell — agreed that the next president should move quickly to close Guantanamo Bay. Highlights from the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Powell, who was in office when the notorious prison opened in Cuba, was the first Thursday to call for it to be shuttered. The most recent holder of the office on the stage, Powell served the current president from 2001 to 2005.

“Our image abroad has dropped significantly,” Powell said. He put some of that blame on his former boss. […]

Guantanamo “gives us a very, very bad name, not just internationally,” [James] Baker said. “I have a great deal of difficulty understanding how we can hold someone, pick someone up, particularly someone who might be an American citizen, even if they were caught somewhere abroad, acting against American interests, and hold them without ever giving them an opportunity to appear before a magistrate.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/28/five-former-secretaries-of-state-cal...

one of the tutor's is away so i am calling in for them today..i feel bad for them sometimes, they always have to wake up and do something---in SA they were kids doing regular kiddy fun things, like waking up and just wandering off into the bushes playing with worms from the earth or grasshopers in the grass...

Brain-damaged woman at center of Wal-Mart suit

JACKSON, Missouri (CNN) -- Debbie Shank breaks down in tears every time she's told that her 18-year-old son, Jeremy, was killed in Iraq.

Debbie Shank, 52, has severe brain damage after a traffic accident in May 2000.

1 of 3 The 52-year-old mother of three attended her son's funeral, but she continues to ask how he's doing. When her family reminds her that he's dead, she weeps as if hearing the news for the first time.

Shank suffered severe brain damage after a traffic accident nearly eight years ago that robbed her of much of her short-term memory and left her in a wheelchair and living in a nursing home.

It was the beginning of a series of battles -- both personal and legal -- that loomed for Shank and her family. One of their biggest was with Wal-Mart's health plan.

Eight years ago, Shank was stocking shelves for the retail giant and signed up for Wal-Mart's health and benefits plan.

Two years after the accident, Shank and her husband, Jim, were awarded about $1 million in a lawsuit against the trucking company involved in the crash. After legal fees were paid, $417,000 was placed in a trust to pay for Debbie Shank's long-term care.

Wal-Mart had paid out about $470,000 for Shank's medical expenses and later sued for the same amount. However, the court ruled it can only recoup what is left in the family's trust.

The Shanks didn't notice in the fine print of Wal-Mart's health plan policy that the company has the right to recoup medical expenses if an employee collects damages in a lawsuit.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html

This being human is a guesthouse
Every morning a new arrival
A joy, a depression, a meanness
Some momentary awareness
Comes as an unexpected visitor

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows
Who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture
Still treat each guest honorably
He may be cleaning you out
For some new delight!

The dark thought, the shame, the malice
Meet them at the door laughing
And invite them in
Be grateful for whoever comes
Because each has been sent
As a guide from the beyond

There Goes Those Crazy Rethugs Wanting To Go Backwards Again !

Yesterday in an foreign policy address in Los Angeles, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for the United States to create and lead a “League of Democracies” in order to “harness the vast influence of the more than one hundred democratic nations around the world to advance our values and defend our shared interests.”

Numerous media outlets interpreted McCain’s speech as a call for “cooperation” and “collaboration” with allies and the rest of the world, “drawing a sharp contrast to the past eight years under President Bush.” But last night on Fox News, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer revealed the true meaning behind McCain’s “League of Democracies”:

KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I like the idea of the league of democracies, and only in part because I and others had proposed it about six years ago. What I like about it, it’s got a hidden agenda. It looks as if it’s all about listening and joining with allies, all the kind of stuff you’d hear a John Kerry say, except that the idea here, which McCain can’t say, but I can, is to essentially kill the U.N.

Con't-Link To video
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

In January, shortly after former President Bill Clinton referred to Obama's campaign as a fairy tale, Wright told his flock: "Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=55670

We already heard two weeks ago that we were going to attack the Mahdi Army, so we were ready,” he said. “I decided to take off my uniform and join my brothers and friends in the Mahdi Army. All these years, we were like a scream in the face of the dictator and the occupation.” He said: “I joined the police because I believed we have to protect Basra and save it with our own hands. You can see we were the first fighters to take on Sadd-am and his regime, the best example being the Shabaniya uprising.”

Abu Iman said that the fighting raging in Basra yesterday was intense because the al-Mahdi Army was operating on its own turf. He was confident that the Shia militia would prevail because its cause was just.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=55658

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ04yyJAQbY

The only one that can Benefit from this is CLINTON

Robotic phone calls lead Democratic delegates astray

AUSTIN — The Texas Democratic Party on Friday urged delegates to today's senatorial district and county conventions to ignore e-mails and robotic phone calls telling them that the conventions have either been canceled or had their times changed.

The conventions are a crucial turning point in Texas as the presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama fight for 67 nominating convention delegates who will be chosen through the Texas caucus process.

While Obama appeared to come out of the caucuses with a 37-30 lead, the number can change based on how many supporters for each candidate show up for today's local conventions.

That prompted Democratic Chairman Boyd Richie to put out an alert after receiving reports that delegates were being given misinformation about the conventions. Richie said all the conventions are going to occur as scheduled.

"We have received reports from delegates who have received e-mails saying that conventions have been canceled," Richie said. "We have also received unconfirmed reports that someone is placing robo-calls claiming to be from the Texas Democratic Party suggesting that county or district conventions have been cancelled."

The e-mails, at least, appear to be a self-inflicted wound by Clinton's campaign. Convention delegates who had signed up for Clinton event notices on her Web site late Thursday received notices that their local convention had been canceled. The error occurred when the campaign deleted entries for conventions that had changed times or locations, said Texas field director Mike Trujillo.......

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5657703.html

Sounds like this guy's MO ....

That poor family. And WalMart didn't have to do it. Many companies don't even take that option.

Whoever made that decision at WalMart, may they suffer for it.

oh lordy what a sight---did you know that he actually had the nerve to act in the killing of jesse james? yuck!

Shame

Joe Galloway:

Shame on them, and shame on us, for such callous indifference to the service, sacrifice and suffering of the families of the dead, wounded and injured troops who've given so much for so little in return.

Vice President Cheney again stuck both feet in his mouth by saying and then repeating that we should remember that our military is composed entirely of volunteers; that our troops all volunteered for this duty, this burden, this sacrifice.

What's your point, Mr. Vice President? That because they volunteered to serve our country in uniform it’s okay to squander their lives in a war of choice, your choice and your president’s, and that it somehow matters less than if they'd been dragooned into service by press gangs or a draft like the one you dodged with five deferments during the Vietnam War because, you said, you had “better things to do”?

-Atrios 07:31

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/31672.html

When a Great Power Goes Mad

By Robert Parry
March 28, 2008

With the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and the grim milestone of 4,000 U.S. dead, the nation has been awash with news retrospectives on the war and speeches by politicians, mostly offering sanitized versions of what's transpired.

With a few exceptions, these media/political reflections have had the feel of self-rationalizations, more than self-criticisms. They’ve conveyed a sense that the U.S. system is doing just fine, thank you, although a few mistakes were made.

So, you have President George W. Bush, the chief author of this catastrophic war, declaring that “normalcy is returning back to Iraq” even as fighting rages across much of the country and rockets rain down on the highly fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.

Bush’s comment invited comparisons to the acronym coined by U.S. Army soldiers during World War II: SNAFU for “situation normal, all fucked up.”

In the news media, there were specials, including a much-touted PBS Frontline two-parter on “Bush’s War” which followed the mainstream line of mostly accepting the Bush administration’s good intentions while blaming the disaster on policy execution – a lack of planning, bureaucratic rivalries, rash decisions and wishful thinking.

The chief interviews for the program were with former Bush administration officials and with journalists – such as Michael Gordon and John Burns of the New York Times whose influential reporting helped set the stage for the war – and with Bob Woodward, whose Bush at War was a generally flattering account of Bush’s decision-making.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=55660

Cowardly Superdelegates
by BooMan
Sat Mar 29th, 2008 at 01:46:43 AM EST

Mike Lux reports on something we already know. The party elders, the superdelegates, and the informed party activists know that Hillary Clinton can't win and they want this race over. However, Lux actually talks to superdelegates, and what he is hearing is that they are collectively a bunch of cowards that desperately want the people of Pennsylvania to tell the Clintons the race is over so they won't have to.

They don't want the Clintons and McAuliffe and those donors who signed the letter to stop raising money for them. They don't want Carville and Wolfson to call them a traitor. They don't want all the behind-the-scenes trashing that they know will come.
There is a logic behind James Carville (who gets his paycheck from CNN) telling Bill Richardson that he is a Judas. It's pure intimidation. And it is working. Reid and Pelosi and Dean and Gore are all trying to be polite about it, but their insistence that the process not continue all the way to the convention is a way of telling the Clintons that they have no path to the nomination.

Dodd and Leahy have been less polite. But pulling out the victim card isn't going to change a thing.

In a conversation with two Democratic allies, she compared the situation to the “big boys” trying to bully a woman, according to interviews with them.
Who is really doing the bullying here?

I'll admit that in a boxing match, no one likes the see it go to the judges. People pay to see a knockout. And that's what we need to deliver to the Clintons, because they seem to think they can buy off or frighten the judges into throwing the bout.

Mrs. Clinton’s aides said they could see no circumstance in which she would withdraw unless she lost Pennsylvania on April 22. Two senior advisers and one close ally said they would urge her to quit the race if she lost Indiana two weeks later, on May 6.
We're doing everything we can think of to make sure Clinton loses Pennsylvania, but it really shouldn't matter.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, issued the most unvarnished statement Friday, saying Clinton "has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to."
Sen. Leahy is absolutely correct. Clinton has no 'good reason' to stay in the race because she is just angering and frightening people. And once she loses the clout to frighten people it won't be very pleasant for the Clintons. At that point, all that is left is the anger. Read between the lines:

Mr. Dean said he wanted the contest settled well before the convention at the end of August. He urged the superdelegates, uncommitted party leaders and elected officials, to unify behind a candidate soon after the last nominating contests on June 3.
“I don’t think superdelegates should be waiting for the convention,” he said. “There’s no reason they can’t make up their mind now or in the last several weeks. Ideally, it would be good to know who the nominee is by July 1.”

The number of people that want this nomination wrapped up in Obama's favor is now overwhelming, so they should make that clear to the Pennsylvania voters. Don't put all the onus on the Obama campaign to cut through all the noise. They can't make an effective inevitability argument anyway. That's normally the job of surrogates. But in this case, it should be the job of cowardly superdelegates. Get off your asses and tell the world how you're gonna vote. Don't be afraid of Terry McAuliffe and James Carville...they'll never have any power in the Democratic Party again. They can go back to asking for leniency for Scooter Libby, or whatever else they like to do.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/3/29/14643/9335

"KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I like the idea of the league of democracies, and only in part because I and others had proposed it about six years ago. What I like about it, it’s got a hidden agenda. It looks as if it’s all about listening and joining with allies, all the kind of stuff you’d hear a John Kerry say, except that the idea here, which McCain can’t say, but I can, is to essentially kill the U.N."

Eventually it would turn into a UN. It will be the same as the UN is today. Leaders change and opinions change.

These little weasels should go play in the caves they came from!

Shame Joe Galloway: Shame
Submitted by toniD on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 9:31am.
Shame

Joe Galloway:

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

Jeebus .... probably do them good getting cut off, then they will have to worry about the voters and not lobbyist.

Love youns. Obama FTW (For the WIn)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6hlj-BV0s

Remember the Anthrax
by BooMan
Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 09:00:25 PM EST

I don't know whether the Lindbergh or O.J. Simpson trial was the Trial of the 20th Century, but the biggest mystery of the 21st is who stole anthrax out of the Ft. Detrick, Maryland bioweapons lab and mailed it to Pat Leahy, Tom Daschle, Tom Brokaw and others. Apparently, the FBI is still investigating, and if they ever figure it out, it could be one of the most explosive trials in our nation's history. It all depends on who that person is connected to and whether they were part of a larger conspiracy. This part is interesting.

In December 2001, an Army commander tried to dispel the possibility of a connection to Fort Detrick by taking the media on a rare tour of the base. The commander said the Army used only liquid anthrax, not powder, for its experiments.
"I would say that it does not come from our stocks, because we do not use that dry material," Maj. Gen. John Parker said. The letters that were mailed to the media and Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy all contained powdered anthrax.

But in an e-mail obtained by FOX News, scientists at Fort Detrick openly discussed how the anthrax powder they were asked to analyze after the attacks was nearly identical to that made by one of their colleagues.

"Then he said he had to look at a lot of samples that the FBI had prepared ... to duplicate the letter material," the e-mail reads. "Then the bombshell. He said that the best duplication of the material was the stuff made by [name redacted]. He said that it was almost exactly the same … his knees got shaky and he sputtered, 'But I told the General we didn't make spore powder!'"

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/3/28/21025/4658

by BooMan
Fri Mar 28th, 2008 at 09:00:25 PM EST

Drat ! Toni your first again..But,only by a mere minute this time.. ;)
Edited-me.

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

HAHA bob

its not even 10AM
this early your just wasting money, you could be sleeping

You know Obama may well be for the decriminalization of Pot.

He is definately for stopping the justice dept and feds from busting medical weed patients with scriptos.

Colombia: Uribe Offers to Release Rebels for Hostage’s Freedom

By REUTERS
Published: March 29, 2008
The government offered cash and reduced jail terms to leftist guerrillas in exchange for releasing the politician Ingrid Betancourt after years of captivity in jungle camps. Ms. Betancourt, left, 46, was kidnapped during her 2002 presidential campaign by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and is suffering from malnutrition and hepatitis B, according to Colombia’s human rights ombudsman. President Álvaro Uribe said his government would maintain a $100 million fund to pay rewards to guerrillas who free any of the hundreds of kidnapping victims held by the FARC. On Thursday he signed a decree allowing for a mass release of guerrillas from jail if Ms. Betancourt was freed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/world/americas/29briefs-URIBEOFFERST_B...

ITS SPRING BREAK

Deep Thoughts
by BooMan
Thu Mar 27th, 2008 at 11:51:27 PM EST

It doesn't look like Iraq is going to cooperate with the president and John McCain's excellent plan to have Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker testify that the surge is working. I think that whole narrative will become 'non-operative'. This means that there really is no justification for John McCain's candidacy.
However, the Republicans have gamed this out from the beginning so that increased violence means we can't leave and decreased violence means that we can stay. So...increased violence must mean that things are too dangerous and unstable to justify leaving.

Now, for you history buffs, the Israelis foolishly invaded Lebanon in 1982, and they left in shame in 2000. That's eighteen years of foolish, counterproductive, expensive, pointlessness. And Iraq is Lebanon on steroids. Kind of like Jose Conseco, only worse.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/3/27/235127/277

Somalia’s Government Teeters on Collapse

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: March 29, 2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began to help themselves to sacks of grain last week.

Jehad Nga for The New York Times
A woman and a child waiting for food from the United Nations' World Food Program. More Photos >
Islamist insurgents poured into the streets to defend the merchants. The government troops took heavy casualties and retreated all the way back to the presidential palace, supposedly the most secure place in the city. It, too, came under fire.

Mohamed Abdirizak, a top government official, crouched on a balcony at the palace, with bullets whizzing over his head. He had just given up a comfortable life as a development consultant in Springfield, Va. His wife thought he was crazy. Sweat beaded on his forehead.

“I feel this slipping away,” he said.

By its own admission, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia is on life support. When it took power here in the capital 15 months ago, backed by thousands of Ethiopian troops, it was widely hailed as the best chance in years to end Somalia’s ceaseless cycles of war and suffering.

But now its leaders say that unless they get more help — international peacekeepers, weapons, training and money to pay their soldiers, among other things — this transitional government will fall just like the 13 governments that came before it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/world/africa/29somalia.html?hp

Yo Red
new
Submitted by Bob26003 on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 10:01am.
ITS SPRING BREAK
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isnt it way past spring break? i was in college a while ago, so im too old for that sadly.
now i can only drink at night. i get drug tested at work, dont ya know.

but, i guess 24hr party during spring break is apporopriate...

get to it.

re-living pearl harbor!!

Sorry if this was posted before..

And again,Thanks so much Schumer & Feinstein. Not !
By: bmaz Friday March 28, 2008 1:23 pm

The Bush Administration and their never say die FISA/Immunity push are like cockroaches. You can't kill em, and they never go away. Well, they're back again. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has graduated from DC water carrier to full fledged traveling snake oil salesman for the Cheney/Bush Administration and their sordid attempts to cover their own criminal wrongdoing via retroactive immunity for telcos.

Last night, Mukasey spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and got so emotional in his desperate plea for retroactive immunity and unlimited snooping that he he welled up with tears in the process.

(Pathetic !)-Edit:me.
Con't
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

fuck cleaning up today!!! oh happy day! i needed that little nudge!

I allready got my cleaning done, but you can cook babe.

Ill Pay you back ;)

Women in the West Wing
Sunday

Exclusively on BookTV.org, Dee Dee Myers & Dana Perino, the only two women to hold the office of White House Press Secretary, discuss Myers' new book, "Why Women Should Rule the World" on BookTV's After Words. Ms. Myers argues that the increased number of women in leadership positions creates a stronger society.

ill take that!!

South Africa fight back in India

Rahul Dravid, left, passed 10,000 Test runs before the South African bowlers fought back on day four [AFP]

South Africa fought back well on the penultimate day of the first Test against India, as they took a 44-run lead to stumps with nine wickets in hand after finally bowling out the home side for a mammoth 627 in Chennai.

Neil McKenzie, South Africa opener, was not out on 59 with Hashim Amla, who scored 159 in the first innings, also unbeaten on 35, as the tourists made their way to 131 for 1 at stumps.

The only South African wicket to fall was that of opener and captain Graeme Smith for 35 when he was trapped LBW by Harbhajan Singh.

South Africa's slender lead sets up an interesting final day where the hosts will be looking for quick wickets, while the tourists could go for quick runs in the hope of setting some sort of run chase late on day five.

Virender Sehwag, India's dual-triple centurion, was dismissed early for 319, while former skipper Rahul Dravid's 111 helped make him the sixth player in Test history to surpass the 10,000 run mark.

Apart from VVS Laxman (39) and Saurav Ganguly (24), no other Indian batsman made an impression on day four, as the hosts took an 87-run lead on the first innings after South Africa had made 540 in their first dig.

India, resuming at their lunch score of 547 for 4, lost six wickets in the afternoon session to be bowled out for 627 just before the tea break.

Dale Steyn, Proteas fast bowler, took four of the last five wickets to finish with 4-103, left-arm spinner Paul Harris was the most expensive with 3-203, while Makhaya Ntini finished with 3-128.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6F16AD8D-FE45-4614-B125-5C7BCD883...

Mugabe himself warned his opponents to not even "dare" think about resorting to violence in the event of his victory.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1BC6286-9B28-4DF5-80AE-E58F71685...

in Open Mic has yesterdays appearance of Senator Harriss.

^^^
There is always a link to the Senator from the link above.
wow the Reuters feed is depressing this Saturday.

on generator power

this is save earth day or some silly bullshit isnt it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMYAEHE2GrM

bend over let me plug you!!

is wind powered :)
Every day is sacred.

they are driving me up the wall.."but, but, mummy she started"...phew!!!

I bring you the head of Phil Gramm.

Co-Author of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Bill that rescinded Glass-Stegall

The general co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that Democrat Barack Obama claimed on Thursday contributed significantly to today’s economic turmoil.

McCain campaign official denies soliciting for prostitution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wONqpO2URKE

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_9mKTg_Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDtlB9ZEjdo

and many more...

what does h/t mean?

Just as it's taken decades for the silver screen to get close to the deep corrupt heart of Julius Caesar via the soap opera style "ROME", how long will it take for Bush and Cabal to be portrayed as the bloody scammers they are?

Over at DailyKOS there's a thread on Stone's casting of the Dubya role.

How can someone be smart enough to memorize lines and simultaneously act arrogantly stupid? Seems impossible.

If true, the choice of Brolin (didn't he already do Reagan?) seems to have been a choice for physical height, but everyone I know is always surprised to learn Dubya is tall; they think he's short (like the political cartoonists show him -- they get it). His total body proportion to head size stuff does not translate as height on the screen.

The Bush story is a story of murder, genocide even, chaos and mayhem Neocon-style -- what happens when the network of a Dynasty of scammers (The Bushes) takes charge of the most powerful imperialistic and destructive machine the planet has ever known. I think the story needs an approach that would resemble an amped "Fargo" in order to get across the impetus of insanity that underlies the last eight years. Indeed, even the Bush delusions of God talk is clearly the insanity of schizophrenia on some level!

I wish Stone good luck in getting his interpretation even close to 'on-target'.

h/t means hat tip

an acknowledgement to the person that originally found the story.

IMF backs shift in voting power

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed plans to redistribute voting power in the organisation.

It has recommended changes which would base the power of each of the IMF's 185 member countries on the size of their economy, reserves and trade.

The US has expressed reservations about the move but said that it would support it because it represented progress.

However poorer nations and charities have said the plans, which must still be ratified, do not go far enough.

IMF members have spent more than a year negotiating the changes - which would move some sway away from traditional industrial powers including the US, the UK and Germany - to the faster-growing emerging and developing economies.

China, India, South Korea, Mexico and Brazil are among those that will see their voting power increase.

However, under the proposal the likes of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Russia, Iran and Argentina would lose influence and all five countries either voted against the plans or abstained from voting.

Final decisions will be made after the IMF's spring meeting next month.

Obama: Dem Race Is Like A Good Movie That's Gone On Too Long
By Eric Kleefeld - March 28, 2008, 5:50PM
Barack Obama publicly alluded to the various calls for the Democratic race to be over soon, telling a Pittsburgh crowd today that the Democratic race was like "a good movie that lasted about a half an hour too long."

This has got to be a dicey subject for the Obama camp. On the one hand, they presumably want their surrogates to keep attention focused on the notion that she should drop out. But on the o
ther hand, if they get a little too loud about it then they risk alienating voters in those states that have yet to vote, especially Pennsylvania.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/03/obama-primary-a.html

Late Update: Hillary has responded by declaring simply, "I like long movies."

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

Several years ago I read "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" by Ben Mezrich, which was later adapted for the movie "21".

I have not seen the film but I highly recommend the book. I have not read the sequel "Busting Vegas."

F**ker on MSNBC just said Hillary is the toughest person in the whole wide world.

Then Potato head sed if he beats her then he is the giant killer.

Nice Makeba salvo.

Jerome Bettis and Franco Harris Support Obama
March 29th, 2008 by matt carter
While these former Pittsburgh Steelers may not be superdelegates, they are super stars. Their support actually does matter to football-crazy Pittsburgh. How much? It may not be quantifiable, but it does, like Senator Casey’s support, increase his appeal to working-class male voters.

Jerome Bettis (aka The Bus) and Franco Harris gave Obama a football and blue terrible towels that say
(hey Fernando, can you post the photo with the article?)
http://pennsylvania-primary.com/2008/03/29/jerome-bettis-and-franco-harr...

silly question, but have you heard her before?

(All together now, "Awwwwwwww.")
Poor widdle Replicants are going to be held responsible, wither they like it or not.

BBC:
The Commerce Department said spending rose by 0.1% last month, but when the effect of inflation was stripped out it remained static.

Analysts said the figures were a clear sign that shoppers are cutting back amid fears of a recession.

The Federal Reserve and the White House have taken action to lift the economy.

Stagnating economy

The figures also showed that personal incomes rose by 0.5% in February, which was better than expected.

A key gauge of inflation, the personal consumption expenditure index, rose by 0.1% when food and energy costs were excluded.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7318675.stm

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In his State of the Union address, President George W Bush made reviving the US economy the centrepiece of his last year in office. But can he do enough to avoid blame for the slowdown?

When the economy is in trouble, it rarely bodes well for the party in power.

Republican President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the 1929 Great Depression, leading to a landslide victory for Franklin D Roosevelt and ushering in an era of Democratic reform that lasted for a generation.

The most popular Republican president of recent times, Ronald Reagan, was elected in 1980 over his Democratic incumbent, Jimmy Carter, after inflation soared to a record high during the oil crisis.

Economic woes also played an important role in Bill Clinton's win in 1992 over Mr Bush's father, George H Bush, who lost after one term in office.

"It's the economy, stupid"

As the economy has become the most important election issue, the Republicans are increasingly getting the blame this time as well.

Recent polls show that Democrats have a wide lead over Republicans on which party would do better on the economy, dealing with the recession, helping home owners - and even lowering taxes.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7215351.stm

The Hillary Deathwatch

Hillary Clinton is as good as dead. This became the consensus over the past week, when the media awoke en masse to the dual reality that 1) Clinton can't close the pledged-delegate gap and 2) Obama has her beat in the popular vote. But the Clinton campaign shows no signs of slowing—she said herself she's prepared to compete for at least three more months. So the question now is not just "How dead is she?" but "When will she realize it?"

In the tradition of Slate's Saddameter (gauging the likelihood of invading Iraq), the Clintometer (measuring the chances of a Lewinsky-related ousting), and the Gonzo-meter (charting the attorney general's demise), we bring you the Hillary Deathwatch, a daily update on Hillary Clinton's dwindling chances of winning the Democratic nomination.

http://www.slate.com/id/2187558/

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2757

Apply for the coupons here: (also updated list of retailers)
http://www.DTV2009.gov
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They are only good for 90 days

Economy puts Republicans at risk
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 12:44pm.

...Recent polls show that Democrats have a wide lead over Republicans on which party would do better on the economy, dealing with the recession, helping home owners - and even lowering taxes.
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So?

[...]
The US researchers found those exposed to pesticides had a 1.6 times higher risk after studying 600 people.

Experts said it was now highly likely pesticides played a key role - albeit in combination with other factors.

The disorder, which normally develops later in life and can affect movement and talking, is also influenced by genetic factors.

We still don't know exactly what causes Parkinson's
Kieran Breen, of the Parkinson's Disease Society

Several gene defects have been identified, but these are thought to be rare and only account for a small proportion of the 120,000 people affected by the disease in the UK.

The US team, which involved scientists from Duke University, Miami University and the Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence, quizzed 319 patients about their pesticide use.

The answers were compared to over 200 family members and other controls who did not have the disease.

Related individuals were chosen as they would share many environmental and genetic backgrounds in a bid to isolate the impact of the pesticides.

They found those exposed to pesticides had a 1.6 times greater risk of developing the disease.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7318188.stm

I don't see how they can lower all taxes. I'm confident my taxes will rise.

had a hell of a time getting here this AM.

had our spring snow last night.

fairly light, dogs love it.

Submitted by Fernando on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 12:54pm.
...I'm confident my taxes will rise.
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So?

Text of Letter from Wright to the New York Times

http://thepage.time.com/text-of-letter-from-wright-to-the-new-york-times...

How is a preacher saying "God Damn America" a violation of his church's tax exempt status?

Can he request, of God, "God Damn Sinners" and not be in violation? Is it that he identified America, and didn't use a more generic term, like "sinners"?

She was once married to Stokely Carmichael. She had a record about 5 or 6 years ago I had some work with.

would it be a violation of the church tax exempt rules if a preacher said "God Loves America"?.

missing something here. As usual.

I'm voting for them to rise Crank.

I'm sure yours will too. My taxes were higher under the Clintons and the Bush tax cuts have expired.

Plus that stuff is up to Congress more than the President imo.

McCain is participating in a Bush-assisted SCAM against every taxpayer in this nation!

McCain got on all the ballots across the country FOR FREE because he agreed to limit his campaign monies to public funding -- BUT NOW McCain has broken that agreement and IS TAKING PRIVATE CAMPAIGN DOLLARS IN VIOLATION of that agreement!!!!!!!!

Bush is assisting McCain in perpetuating this RIP-OFF of the taxpayers who now are paying for McCain's ballots; Bush is assiting by preventing the oversight of campaign process activities. It was as simple as not appointing new members of the oversight group. Did McCain proceed to disregard the rules without KNOWING Bush had his back in the scam??? If McCain knew Bush was going to prevent punishment for breaking the rules/law -- ISN'T THAT CONSPIRACY to DEFRAUD the taxpayers???????

SCAM, RIP-OFF, THEFT. CONSPIRACY. That's all these Republicans know how to do. They don't know how to win; they only know how to CHEAT and STEAL.

Don't EVER use the term "win" again to describe how these crooks get into office. Use the words "CHEAT" and "STEAL" and you'll be speaking CLEAR language!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Man Behind The 4,000th Number
By: Nicole Belle @ 9:00 AM - PDT As I watched the talking heads in the last week try to justify and rationalize that horrifying milestone of 4,000 casualties in Iraq and Dana Perino trying to convince us that Bush truly grieves for each loss, the anonymity of it all started to niggle at me. Four thousand is such an antiseptic number that marks how many lost loves, and children who will miss their mommy or daddy’s guidance and love? How many lost hugs and kisses? How many games of basketball with buddies from back in the day? How many future plans, both grandiose and small, have vanished? These men and women sacrificed for some amoral ideological notions of profit and hegemony all had lives that have been cut needlessly short and deprived their loved ones of their companionship forever. My buddy, Bob Geiger tried to put a face and a life behind that milestone number.

The Agonist (cross posted at HuffPo):
We know that 96 percent of the Americans killed in Iraq have died since Bush boasted that our mission was accomplished and we know with sickening assurance that we have hit the hideous milestone of 4,000 of our own dead in the Bush administration’s war of choice.

We arrived at that number on Sunday and we’ve seen it replayed in all its sterility throughout the media this entire week.

And to be sure the numbers of dead and wounded while astounding in generalities have sadly begun over the last five years to lose their specificity, to render us unable to grasp the individual stories of lives lost for no reason and so many families left with interminable grief.

But I want to tell you about number 4,000, because he has a name and he had a wonderful life to come.

His name is Christopher M. Hake. He was a U.S. Army Staff Sargent. More importantly, he was a husband to wife Kelli and a father to 1-year-old son, Gage.
He was from Enid, Oklahoma — and he was 26 years old.

We can’t say for sure that Hake was number 4,000 of our Iraq dead because Pvt. George Delgado, 21, of Palmdale, Calif., Pfc. Andrew J. Habsieger, 22, of Festus, Mo. and Spc. Jose A. Rubio Hernandez, 24, of Mission, Texas all died in a horrible blast earlier this week when, according to the Defense Department, “their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive” in Baghdad.

But as a Veteran myself, I can tell you that these men were brothers until the end and that, because more early news and details are available on Chris Hake than his buddies, we can tell his story and hope all Americans understand the identical preciousness of every life we have needlessly lost in Iraq.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/29/the-man-behind-the-4000th-numbe...

Is it believed that Wright held some kind of pro-Obama Presidency/Anti American pep rally in his church?

Or that Obama was unduly influenced by the mesmerizing, Svengali-like superpowers of Wright?

'cuz, I sat in church and Sunday school, the later church youth groups and CCD, etc allduring my formative years and nothing the ministers/pastors/priests ever said had a bit of influence on me, and those were my formative years. The yrics to Lennon/McCartney and Donovan and Dylan held more sway with me than anything.

Does Obama appear to be so weak-willed that he'd take to heart everything some pastor spatters? Hell, if we all did we'd be blood-thirsty zealots massacring everything in our paths - remember Deuteronomy? Hell, the ranting of Jeremiah and the other prophets are unbelievable, and put Wright to shame as some kind of softie on sin.

Submitted by Cathy in Seattle on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:09pm.
How is a preacher saying "God Damn America" a violation of his church's tax exempt status?
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Uh, you should ask yourself if this is a line of questioning that you really want to pursue.

The trouble with McCain is similar to the trouble with Bush in 2000. It seemed an impossibility that anyone as dumb or bumbling as Dubya could win.

And those of us who did work at exposing Bush's many failures worked hard. If we couldn't make more hay out of Bush's AWOL, drug&alcohol-addled, bad-business-record history in 2000 -- what can we do to discourage rah-rah for McCain?

0 He abandoned his first wife and his children by that marriage refuse to talk to him (The Republican Curse of Truthful Children)

0 McCain was an adulterer

0 Savings & loan scam connections

0 he clearly displays the symptoms of PTSD from his years of being tortured and yet he now crazily supports torture

0 he displays symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia

0 his campaign staff is full of lobbyists despite his claim to be against lobbyist influence

0 he's a hothead (a problem whether or not it is a symptom of PTSD!)

0 illegally influenced the FCC regarding Packwood Communications and a Pittsburg TV station

0 he's now violating his agreement to limit private campaign funding and ignoring warnings about his violation

0 McCain is stealing from the taxpayers via a scam to make them pay for all his ballots at a time he lacked funds in his campaign account

0 poor health question concerning recurring cancer

(PLEASE add to this list; I would like a comprehensive list to be made here....Thanks.)

Is just pointing these things out going to convince voters to pass over McCain? Is going any further against a "war hero" going to be taken well?

people DON'T believe racism is a sin our nation should own up to? That would explain the critics of Wright, I guess. Or maybe it hits even closer to home.

go zeek!!!...she was also married to hugh masekela

over at dailykos.com diaries....

Rachel called for Dems to start talking about McCain's flaws instead of just chewing cud about Clinton still being in the race....

you are preaching to the choir.

I believe some of the claims (like America invented HIV) are far fetched but I also understand that Regan did very little to combat the disease early. Many on the left including myself feel like he knew liberals would suffer most since it mostly affected homosexuals and minorities. I may be wrong but that's how I felt.

as an atheist I just find the whole thing ridiculous. So since I truly don't "get it" I have to ask. You're saying that's not a good idea? Ok, fine.

BBL

I thought you all were serious. This disturbed me.

Just start taxing all churches equally. Why should they get a free ride? I am being shafted not being a member of one and also being vilified by several of them. It would solve all of this religious crap. Maybe the tithe rate will have to go up.

The time has come to separate the churches from the state for real.

I would give them some time to get their financial shit in order since their vast wealth will need some achtung.

Yeah, I know, this is gonna happen.

i dont know about that coz i have spoken to people outside the US that say the same thing!!

That's what I've thought for awhile. This infighting is driving me crazy.

They both need to start asking questions about and talking about McCain's flaws.

Although with Bill and Hillary complimenting McCain all the time, it doesn't look like they will fight to hard against McCain right now. They are using McCain against Obama and by doing that, they are selling McCain, especially to these ditz brains that say if Hillary loses, they will vote for McCain.

with what Wright said. But like you, I'm an atheist, so I hear people of faith saying incredibly outlandish things all of the time that don't even raise a brow within the pews. Often they are hateful framings of people the church feels are out of step.

That's like water during Katrina over there.

Submitted by Fernando on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:19pm.
I'm voting for them to rise Crank
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I would wager that the rise in fuel prices during the Bush years has taxed more Americans to a greater monetary degree than any future administration's tax policies will.

Incompetent policies need not include increased taxes to result in de facto taxation.

Had fuel prices remained relatively static, and had the Bush administration taxed the same Americans in the same amounts that increased fuel prices have (a tax rate which could NEVER pass muster), and had those monies been spent to address the needs that the Bush administration has ignored or underfunded, we would all be better off.

The difference between reality and my "what if" is that no one is better off and the money is disappearing down a rat hole.

and indirectly via Victor Wooten ended up getting me hooked up with two of the dearest friends that I have.

why cant the leaders of this country just say that outright? i thought religion is a personal thing---i remember how shocked we used to be back in SA when the very late President John Vorster used to say this is a "God Fearing Country"...what?

What's seriously far-fetched is that whole Moses thing. Add the Aaron bits for icing on the cake.

music has made you worldly huh? nice zeek always knew you were a (music) geek!

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

and Bonds was dirty.

Submitted by Cathy in Seattle on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:30pm.
as an atheist I just find the whole thing ridiculous. So since I truly don't "get it" I have to ask. You're saying that's not a good idea? Ok, fine.
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I'm saying that you won't receive a satisfying answer.

keiran
Maddow is right about focusing on McCains giant enormous flaws as a candidate, and as a person in general. But that said...jesus effing christ will that Hillary person just go away already!!!!!!!!! She's like a snarling rabid dog with her jaws locked onto Obama's ankle, and he's trying to shake her off while he runs after McCain.
GO AWAY I tell you.

This Old Blouse sez THANKS AND LOVE for the h/t's on my h/b.

got up early for a house inspection. The rest is, as they say, CAKE:

You don't even know how bad starting even before but hugely pushed forward on the Upper West Side.

fight mccain!!!are they now both going to be the nominees running against mccain? they have to slap each other down till one wins and thats the one that will take a second to whip him into submission....hillary has been playing dirty and when obama does not respond he gets called pussy...damned if he does damned if he doesnt...

how much I like playing Devil's Advocate.

It's worth a mention that the American Civil Rights movement was fostered in the church. As far as that goes, remember Bishop Romero and Liberation Theology in South America?

Hillary was d.o.a. when this thing started, and she has degraded Obama's chances to nothing. In white America, his chances were next to nothing when it started.

Yup... you're looking at President McAncient.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

Did you go to PA? I have a friend in NC getting sucked in to their primary. I might get a button out of it.

I remember when they were telling us what a TALENTED AND POWER-PACKED FIELD the Democrats had this year. Bullshit. I knew it even at the time. Most of them were doomed from the start.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

peace and a bottle of hair grease to you too ma brother!!!!i used to before zeek, but i am getting old now, and the kids are coming out with their own sounds that i sometimes do like, i am evolving with the times...grover has vinyl up your ass...we had to put it in storage lord knows why coz we will never get to play that again...

i hear masekela lived in SF when i was in San Diego, but i must have heard wrong

I don't think anyone figured on how mad-cow crazy Hillary turned out to be. It would have never occurred to me that she'd take the party down with her. If she had not behaved the ape-shit crazy way and maintained her dignity, we would have had a chance.

I'm not done hoping Hillary will find a way to regain her decorum and attempt to pull herself together. At least enough to try to unify the party as much as her damaged self can.

I have seen that tape of which you posted regarding Obama Vid:
I saw 5 times at least…there is one perhaps older black men crying …but I might go with a husband 8 years younger (many times I say 10 cuz 8 is a 10 compared to a 5 (rounding up) BUT most around my age looks like those fine men, BUT I also saw SOME MY AGE AND AROUND MY HUSBAND AGE — NOT MY Grandmother’s age was = PLUS 30 YEARS My AGE NOR My Grandfathers age. which always has been 40 years MY AGE NOR My Great Aunt’s age when she died= 104 still “kickin” … she was the one I “watched” & and admired as a youth.– reminded me of Eleanor (my mother’s name) Roosevelt.
The above is why I question …. even whomever is a Barack supporter that made that film … there is already the ABUSE of the Elderly and that makes ME WORRIED OF THE YOUTH, which has not voted consistently — actually WHOMEVER that has not voted consistently! I HAVE IN THE PAST ….. unknown about the future. A!I!V!
Comment by Druid — March 29, 2008 @ 11:23 am

· …and (name) alsopro Obama Video. re 13, I also have problems with them using a “shot” of a Polar Bear……… I do not mind showing the masses what is happening to the Polar Bears (and so many others) but to the person using Polar Bears as a political shot of Obama therefore I ask Obama, since all showing for humans MOSTLY …….. WHAT HAVE THEY (including Obama) DONE TO SAVE THE POLAR BEAR?…… A!I!V!
Comment by Druid — March 29, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

hey, thems are some of my favorite UFO stories.

You might as well tell me wrestling is fake.

*******
Wednesday, March 19, 2008c.e., 8:09 AM
They BOTH Broke The Rules!
I am a Druid (state calls me, I am my own church — IOW Wherever I am is the Church)
I WAS HONOURABLE (but no longer). I do not take My TAX-EXEMPT RIGHTS solely because I speak out and protest and taken over things and got arrested tooooooooo many times … but if most of you are saying that Minister can say even GOD DAMN AMERICA …. so I can now stand, saying to those that walk with me and from “in my pulpit”, GOD[S] DAMN THOSE BY THEIR ACTIONS **in a sacred space*** … I told some here why I needed to do more than float at 2d Life — it was to JUST be there just as another faith, since the Pope is proclaiming to all Arch-Bishops and Bishops to go on 2d city and the different BLOGS and PROSELYTIZE, and now, I get to juice it up a bit AND PROSELYTIZE..
I would not have a “church-ite” before BECAUSE I speak out (LOUDLY & PROUDLY) against the WRONGS done by this Gov’t, especially in protests in 80’s. For YEARS I did not use MY TAX E. Status because I, too, wanted to say GOD DAMN AMERICA and, that type of vitriol in a sacred environment, and according to the law surrounding this: whomever wears the mantle one must adhere to the LAW of the First Amendment..
So as of next Sunday (actually, any day is sacred) I can speak out like Rev Wright. I have had national & international contact with those of my Faith recently and told them to “stand-by” since I can now speak freely – from a pulpit.. So All The Money, well someone has to pay or tell Minister Wright he has to PAY BACK ALL MONIES for the full time of 20 plus years or I get TONS OF MONEY. Because I am not amused – SINCE I COULD HAVE, AROUND 30 YEARS MYSELF., and hand in his ministry with Obama unable to run, because OBAMA is a LIAR! SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE, because the only reason I didn’t collect my T E.S. was IT WAS AGAINST THE LAW TO BE SO VERBAL A REVEREND. They could have TAKEN MY TITLE if I used for it to talk politics, as Obama’s FAMILY Minister DID. I am calling today many places to COMPLAIN about ALL THIS! hmmmmm. DECADES, that minister and this Gov’t stole from me — BECAUSE I PLAYED FAIR , the Gov’t, Obama. And His Family Minister DID NOT!
Comment by Druid_666 — March 21, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

you married?

If they could make liquid vinyl, I could solve the energy crisis.

HA that much huh?

I'm an accredited Universal Life Church minister.
Hear me now, hear me proud, "[All the Gods, Goddesses, Demons, Devil(s), Real and Imagined] -Damn America!"

for all the good it does shouting at the wind.

So now I lose my tax-exempt status? Did I ever care about that?

Edward J. Blum, a historian of race and religion at San Diego State University and author of "W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet" and "Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898," suggests that while some Americans may be understandably offended by Wright's divisive remarks, those remarks are part of a long and storied tradition among African-American church leaders who have forged Christian ideologies and rhetoric to condemn racial discrimination. Blum spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jamie Reno about this history and the entry of race as a front-burner issue in this presidential campaign. Excerpts here:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/124270

I think, although I've read your 501c3 post a few times, I just didn't get it. Your humor was too subtle for me!

Happy B'day love!

Interesting post and a nice explanation regarding Wright and his rhetoric.

I suppose they can always shoot Wright in his own church like Romero, if they don't like him bringing up the ugly truth.

control--

at the History News Network
“God Damn America” in Black and White
http://www.hnn.us/articles/48444.html

I'd like to discuss the superCylon issue.

Submitted by toniD on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:35pm.
That's what I've thought for awhile. This infighting is driving me crazy.

They both need to start asking questions about and talking about McCain's flaws.

Although with Bill and Hillary complimenting McCain all the time, it doesn't look like they will fight to hard against McCain right now. They are using McCain against Obama and by doing that, they are selling McCain, especially to these ditz brains that say if Hillary loses, they will vote for McCain.

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The Clintons "complimenting McCain all the time" -- boy is that the DNA HELIX of the problem right there, ToniD!

good one i read it somewhere in this week---

Happy Birthday. I couldn't find anything appropriate for you, so here's something totally inappropriate.

Mrs. Betty Bowers' Christian Crack Whores Sing

Send them Happy Birthday wishes so special they can only be delivered by a pack of Christian Crack Whores!

(I DO NOT recommend listening to this!)
http://www.bettybowers.com/birthdaylyrics.html

"i think religion on the whole is another form
new
Submitted by Lucille on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 2:18pm.
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Without a doubt! Like the Industrialists whom Marx commented on - shoving religion down the throats of the poor in order to get them used to being treated like slaves...

Same holds true for the poor, the exploited, and slaves. Give them something that tells them their suffering is in direct relationship to:
1) God's justice (you must deserve it somehow/you are born into sin - So don't complain) and
2) how much you'll be rewarded for your suffering in the next world (so don't complain!)

Well over 10 K. I should declare Church of Vinyl and go tax exempt.

proper way to use "whom" in my last post? I am always puzzled by this one.

no BSG geeks here, then.
Sadness reigns.

1967, Dunhill Records cancels its "Win a Date With Mama Cass" promotion when no entries are received

Germ weaponry creation is REAL. There ARE mad scientists and insaner bureaucrats and insanist Men Of Power who are in charge of this insane stuff. Their intended EUGENICS use of these materials cannot be discounted. It's not much of a jump to the next rock across the River of Heinousness to imagine these same madmen deploying such creations.

You gotta do some research because it is not common knowledge. But it's happening on just about every campus -- portions of research done by scientists who don't even know what the final research goal is; they do one component of the puzzle. Somewhere else are the components put together to make the final thing.

A number of good books are out there on this topic, but still the general population looks at this stuff as if it were mere science fiction and has nothing to do with the way our tax dollars are being spent THIS VERY MOMENT.

For instance, the germ weapons labs were dabbling with Mad-Cow-disease-like Cruxfeldt-Jacobs disease back in the 1960-80s (simultaneous with other non-military research into the disease) and then, WHAT A COINCIDENCE, all of the sudden we have an explosion of Alzheimer's Disease in the population. Now why would a germ warfare lab be interested in weaponizing such a disease? To set free a disease in one's enemy's population that would cause an eventual economic/cultural collapse? And who decides who the "enemy" is? (Is the enemy anybody who is collecting Social Security? (And when you're a Bush or Bush-style anti-SSI eugenics freak, well how could you not consider a SSI-parasite to be an enemy?)) And how come they don't care if their research is being done in populated areas where any lab accident would result in escape of infectious agents?

YUKK! Gotta get out of imagining how the Bush creeps think. Gotta shake it off. Shake it off!

Happy Bd, BB. Now go eat some cake, kiddo!

McPain

am watching the span and this republican woman is speaking about the "security mom" is definately going to come into play this election....one thing i know for sure I AM A VERY SECURE MOM!!! islamo's do not scare me at all!!

I should declare Church of Vinyl and go tax exempt.
Free ordinations online
http://www.themonastery.org

irReverend Sneezy

Edit: and Pray for a New Thread!

i will definately donate....HA dang!

Liber-darkie?

By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD - U.S. jets widened the bombing of Basra on Saturday, dropping two precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia stronghold north of the city, British officials said.

Maj. Tom Holloway, a British military spokesman, said U.S. jets dropped the two bombs on a militia position in Qarmat Ali shortly before 12:30 p.m.

In eastern Baghdad, two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in a mostly Shiite area that has seen fierce clashes this week.

Basra is Iraq's commercial and oil hub, and militant followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been battling Iraqi and coalition forces in the southern city since Tuesday.

"My understanding was that this was a building that had people who were shooting back at Iraqi ground forces," Holloway said.

The number of people killed in the latest strikes was not yet known, he said.

Iraqi police said that earlier in the day a U.S. warplane strafed a house and killed eight civilians, including two women and one child. They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the report and it was not possible to independently verify it.

British jets also have been providing air support in the area. The British military had no immediate information but said it also was looking into the reports of civilian casualties.

American forces launched their first airstrikes in Basra Friday as Iraqi troops struggled against strong resistance in the nation's commercial center and headquarters of the vital oil industry. Clashes there have sparked retaliatory fights in Baghdad and other Shiite cities.

The British army has joined in the fighting in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, firing artillery Saturday afternoon to support Iraqi forces, military officials said.

The Defense Ministry said a few artillery rounds had been fired at militants using mortars to attack Iraqi forces in Basra.

The fight there is crucial for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who flew to Basra earlier this week and is staking his credibility on gaining control of Iraq's second largest city, which has essentially been held by armed groups for nearly three years.

Al-Maliki, speaking on government television Saturday, told tribal leaders in the southern city that he "will not leave Basra until security is restored" and those who have taken up arms against the government will be punished.

"We will continue to stand up to these gangs in every inch of Iraq," he said. "This is a decisive and final battle."

Al-Sadr called on his followers to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, saying arms of the Mahdi Army should only be turned over to a national leadership "that can get the occupier" — meaning the Americans and their coalition allies — out of Iraq.

The order was made public by Haidar al-Jabiri, a member of the political commission of the Sadrist movement.

AP Television News footage showed smoke rising from the home in Basra's Hananiyah neighborhood where the police said the civilians were killed. Pools of blood and a destroyed pickup truck were seen outside the home hit by the plane.

Sheik Nasir Abdul Hussein in Basra said the strikes came after midnight and were followed by gunmen shooting in the air.

"The thunder of the aircraft frightened children," he said. "The sound smashed glasses, and the area was lighted by aircraft."

Submitted by Cathy in Seattle on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 2:11pm.
I'm an accredited Universal Life Church minister.
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Damn. I had more faith in you when I thought you were unaccredited.

Just in case.
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2753
Later.

I will put succinctly: I was told by I.R.S. BACK IN when in 20's and then again in my 30's AND SO ON....TO LAST WEDNESDAY -- that I could NOT speak politically from (my form) of the pulpit especially since I had already been arrested numerous times for Political, Environmental, & Animal or STFU if I want my 501c3 status ever again!

So I would not let my VOICE be silent and would therefore not take it....BUT WHITE OR BLACK OR WHATEVER

I have to now write the Examination Room (at a certain address) for a panel to contemplate what to do now.
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SO MOST HERE are proclaiming ... that it is alright to break LAWS if one is Obama and decades with HIS preacher .....

I am missing that one.

New thread? At this point in time I have to think the blogorate masters are elsewhere for a while so this could get ugly.

Perhaps the blog could adjourn to http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2753 if the worst happens.

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - For all their delight in soaring voter registration and strong poll numbers, some Democrats fear the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton might have a nightmarish end, which could wreck a promising election year.
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The chief worry is that Clinton may carry her recent winning streak into Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina and other states, leaving her with unquestioned momentum but fewer pledged delegates than Obama. Party leaders then would face a wrenching choice: Steer the nomination to a fading Obama, even as signs suggested Clinton could be the stronger candidate in November; or go with the surging Clinton and risk infuriating Obama's supporters, especially blacks, the Democratic Party's most loyal base.

Some anxious Democrats want party elders to step in now to generate more "superdelegate" support for Obama, effectively choking off Clinton's hopes before she can bolster them further. But many say that is unlikely, and they pray the final 10 contests will make the ultimate choice fairly obvious, not excruciating.

Barring a complete meltdown by Obama, Clinton has almost no chance of surpassing his number of pledged delegates, even if she scores upset wins in states such as Oregon, which votes May 20. But such victories would encourage her to keep criticizing Obama — her only hope for the nomination — and thus heighten doubts about Obama's ability to defeat Republican Sen. John McCain in the fall.

That scenario troubles many Democrats, especially those who feel Obama's nomination is all but inevitable.

"This is going to give Republicans a chance to try to destroy everything we've been trying to work for for eight years," said Ken Foxworth, a Democratic National Committee member from Minnesota and superdelegate who backs Obama.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_endgame

Submitted by Fernando on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 2:33pm.
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If anyone would like my opinion...okay, shaddup. I'm gonna give it to you anyways.

In my opinion, Fernando, your post pictures top-shelf caricatures.
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And why, pray tell, doesn't "caricature" begin with "ch"?

[French, from Italian caricatura, from caricare, to load, exaggerate, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, a Gallic type of wagon.]

The answer is because wagon doesn't begin with "ch".

2. Insert in toaster

I keep hearing clintonista declaring that Obama started the gutter sniping. Can anyone direct me to when or where or how this happened? Or is just another diversion and/or deceptive talking point?

Go here now!
Submitted by zeek on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 3:01pm.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/2753

No page two.

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