I voted for Obama

good day to you....

sweetie pie

up next...confessions of an economic hit man

Democracy Now

they are tlking about Ecuador...Apology of an economic hitman is his new film

on the democratic party!

ignorant barstids

do NOT pick Hillary as VP!!!!!

mhappenow, wouldn't Amy Goodman make a great Cabinet member of the next administration?

and what are you doing in my place anyway...yourll start trouble with me and when i defend myself, i get accused of being a shit stirer...damn

black and brown people don't count!

I agree....she would taint the campaign because she is not really vetted since Obama is not a shit slinger...

am i missing something here? where? when? who? what did just happen? if he does he is a fucking liar..."CHANGE"? huh?

I agree....she would taint the campaign because she is not really vetted since Obama is not a shit slinger...

from Hillary's campaign wouldn't rule it (VP) out!

Not Mind Reading

On MSNBC, Clinton aide Lisa Caputo is... well... certainly not closing the door on the Clinton as VP idea.

-Atrios 21:21

It was hilarious.

Speaking of McAncient, he has video of pastor as a problem. Why isn't this a big problem for him? The so-called main stream media.

* C L I C K *

Lu' I just don't know how anyone who could ever think that you would ever have any desire to stir any shit ever....

fair is fair...I was first...nanner nanner

She'll do her best to bully her way onto the ticket!

fuck that she is a power hungry desparate wench...she should have worked harder on bill's dick ...make me sick the early a.m.

from edwards campaign is endorsing Obama....

God no. If Barack picked Hillary as his VP I might have to reconsider (my intentions of) voting for him!!

is too sensitive double post

What a big help that is now. (sarcasm)

for true?

damn now to offer myself like a lamb to the slaughter

gotta go to the office, boss is in whole fucking day today..shit

Small Democratic donors shouldn't pay off the debt of the multi-millionaires
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 5/08/2008 08:23:00 AM ET · Link
Discuss this post here: 14 Comments · reddit · FARK ·· Digg It!

Josh Marshall offers his opinion, with which I strongly agree:
Helping to retire an opponent's campaign is not unprecedented and can sometimes be justified in the interests of party unity. (Remember, this isn't just money in the abstract. A lot of it is payment to people who provided services or goods of various sorts to the campaign and need to be paid or paid back.) But using more than $10 million raised in large part by small individual donations to pay back the Clintons who appear to be worth many tens of millions of dollars simply seems wrong.

This isn't meant to sound ungracious. I don't begrudge the Clintons their very substantial wealth. And even for really, really rich people, $11 million isn't nothing. But that is simply too much money raised from small givers to give to people who loaned it with full knowledge of the odds and have more than enough money to really know what to do with.

Frankly, I'm surprised that it's even being suggested. It would be a mistake for the Clintons to ask (and just because people are chattering about it -- don't assume they have or will), a mistake for Obama to offer and one that would risk a severe backlash.

That's not what people gave their money for.
Yep. This debt discussion needs to be shut down. The Clintons decided to use a lot of their own money to keep this campaign going. Not only would it be very hard to convince Democratic donors to give money to pay them -- Mark Penn, it' just wrong. Let Terry McAuliffe worry about the Clinton's millions.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/193872.php

According to Pentagon records, “[m]ore than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway.” Veterans groups say this “reliance on troops found medically ‘non-deployable’ is another sign of stress placed on a military that has sent 1.6 million servicemembers to the war zones.”

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080508/1a_lede08_dom.art.htm

Yesterday, Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) called on Office of Special Counsel chief Scott Bloch to resign, “one day after nearly two dozen FBI agents raided OSC headquarters” in a probe of Bloch’s activities. “[I]t’s hard to believe he can continue to operate effectively,” Davis said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR200805...

That report about people suggesting that Obama retire Hillary's campaign debt as well as reimburse the millions she loaned herself makes me furious!!

I am getting too angry too early in the morning.
Better take a breather.

In March, consumer borrowing rose “at the fastest pace in four months, more than double the increase of the previous month, in what was seen as a sign of rising economic stress.” The increase in consumer debt also hit $15.3 billion at an annual rate in March, “much bigger than the $6 billion increase that economists had been expecting.”

http://www.startribune.com/business/18734929.html

you better step back coz you are making me want to bitch slap someone

this is politics as usual.....I don't even want to begin to understand the inner workings of Washinton....if I did I would be tainted too!

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 9:17am.
In March, consumer borrowing rose “at the fastest pace in four months

I couldn't believe it when I read it this morning. Why should my money go to excuse her debt after what she did?

It's a bribe to quit the race!

do you think he will ever be pardoned and will get away with murder?

i'll pay for that shoo

You can always tell the "Elitist" by how outraged they act, when they are denied what they assumed was theirs any way.

Hillary doesn't like rejection, and by golly someone WILL PAY, because Hillary is the "Chosen One", and, and.. the Bilderburgs promised.
*sniff*

along with Lance Armstrong about Cancer. She said 1 million of the 45 million people without insurance have Cancer. And that's the ones we know of. Others have yet to be diagnosed.

MSNBC was showing some of it. They will be showing more on and off this AM

It's on span 3.....available thru real audio from their webpage...

he stepped out for coffee

Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.
People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.

Why did you endorse Barack Obama for the presidency? —Chris Francis Lightbourne, Long Island, N.Y.
I thought about voting for Hillary at the beginning. I don't care that she is a woman. I need more than that. Neither his race, his gender, her race or her gender was enough. I needed something else, and the something else was his wisdom.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1738303,00.html

i'm confused...i dont know if i should like or hate her and her hubby

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt “acknowledged gaps in the capability of U.S. hospitals to deal with a mass-casualty terrorist attack or other disaster” yesterday, but supported President Bush’s proposed deep cuts in Medicaid funding. House Democrats called the cuts “irresponsible” because they would further weaken emergency rooms.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR200805...

It might be. David Bonior is one of the few (former) congressmembers I have a lot of respect for. I was underwhelmed with Edwards' performance as a senator. Bonior persuaded me that Edwards was worth supporting. Considering that Edwards hasn't dropped out but has only stopped active campaigning and Bonior was his campaign manager, it's an important endorsement, I reckon. "It ain't over 'til it's over." YMMV. Fat lady vocals optional.

Let Terry McAuliffe worry about the Clinton's millions.

I think that would be an excellent use of Terry McAuliffe. Lock him into a small room with a phone and let him dial for dollars until he retires Clinton's campaign debt. Heh!

New wi-fi devices warn doctors of heart attacks

The Bluetooth wireless technology that allows people to use a hands-free earpiece while making a mobile telephone call could soon alert the emergency services when someone has a heart attack, Ofcom predicts.

The communications regulator said that sensors could be implanted into people at risk of heart attack or diabetic collapse that would allow doctors to monitor them remotely.

If the “in-body network” recorded that the person had suddenly collapsed, it would send an alert, via a nearby base station at their home, to a surgery or hospital.

However, Ofcom also gave warning in its report, Tomorrow’s Wireless World, that the impact of such technology on personal privacy would require more debate.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3883082...

him....

“Lost” emails. Executive privilege. Can’t remember. Don’t know. Lies, lies, and more lies.

Imagine if George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had a say in our government until the days they die. Well they do. One of Bush’s famous executive orders has given them the right to control what we know about this administration not just until they die but FOREVER!

Read Orders and Acts and Lies. Oh my!

4. She relied on old money
For a decade or more, the Clintons set the standard for political fund-raising in the Democratic Party, and nearly all Bill's old donors had re-upped for Hillary's bid. Her 2006 Senate campaign had raised an astonishing $51.6 million against token opposition, in what everyone assumed was merely a dry run for a far bigger contest. But something had happened to fund-raising that Team Clinton didn't fully grasp: the Internet. Though Clinton's totals from working the shrimp-cocktail circuit remained impressive by every historic measure, her donors were typically big-check writers. And once they had ponied up the $2,300 allowed by law, they were forbidden to give more. The once bottomless Clinton well was drying up.

Obama relied instead on a different model: the 800,000-plus people who had signed up on his website and could continue sending money his way $5, $10 and $50 at a time. (The campaign has raised more than $100 million online, better than half its total.) Meanwhile, the Clintons were forced to tap the $100 million — plus fortune they had acquired since he left the White House — first for $5 million in January to make it to Super Tuesday and then $6.4 million to get her through Indiana and North Carolina. And that reflects one final mistake:

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1738331,00.html

bigger than two football fields

Yep. This debt discussion needs to be shut down. The Clintons decided to use a lot of their own money to keep this campaign going. Not only would it be very hard to convince Democratic donors to give money to pay them -- Mark Penn, it' just wrong. Let Terry McAuliffe worry about the Clinton's millions.

According to the Huffington Post's Tom Edsall and a number of others, one of the possibilities in the offing if Hillary Clinton quickly ends her presidential campaign is that the Obama campaign will not only retire the $10 to $15 million in unpaid campaign related expenses the Clinton campaign owes but will also help the Clinton campaign pay back to the Clintons personally the $11.4 million they have loaned to the campaign during the last three months.

Helping to retire an opponent's campaign is not unprecedented and can sometimes be justified in the interests of party unity. (Remember, this isn't just money in the abstract. A lot of it is payment to people who provided services or goods of various sorts to the campaign and need to be paid or paid back.) But using more than $10 million raised in large part by small individual donations to pay back the Clintons who appear to be worth many tens of millions of dollars simply seems wrong.

This isn't meant to sound ungracious. I don't begrudge the Clintons their very substantial wealth. And even for really, really rich people, $11 million isn't nothing. But that is simply too much money raised from small givers to give to people who loaned it with full knowledge of the odds and have more than enough money to really know what to do with.

Frankly, I'm surprised that it's even being suggested. It would be a mistake for the Clintons to ask (and just because people are chattering about it -- don't assume they have or will), a mistake for Obama to offer and one that would risk a severe backlash.

That's not what people gave their money for.

am i missing something again?

Other Democrats say Clinton has no chance of winning. Representative Louise Slaughter of New York, a supporter, called the election results ``grim'' for the New York senator. ``If you look at all the math and what's out there, it's pretty unlikely'' she can win, said Slaughter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=agAU3m9j8dOY

Clinton: "Women Are Going To Be Heard" In The Remaining Primaries
By Eric Kleefeld - May 8, 2008, 8:56AM

Hillary Clinton might be on the ropes, but her remarks at a fundraiser last night show that she still expects one demographic group to come out strong for her in the remaining contests: Women voters.

"Do you know difficult it is for women to stand up and say we are the best at anything?" Clinton said last night at a "Generations of Women for Hillary" fundraiser in Washington. "The Democratic Party has to know that women are the core, women have to be at the table and women are going to be heard as we continue in these contests until they finally end."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/clinton_women_ar...

« Clinton campaign presses on with visits to 3 states
Clinton campaign presses on with visits to 3 states today

Hillary Clinton presses on with presidential campaign with visits to 3 states today

Hillary Clinton is pushing on in her race for the Democratic White House bid, despite calls to drop out. She has events scheduled today in the upcoming primary states of Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia. Barack Obama will be in Washington today.

With her money drained and her options dwindling, a resolute Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to press on with her presidential bid even as she and top advisers were hard-pressed to describe a realistic path for her to wrest the nomination from Barack Obama.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/05/clinton_campaign_presses_on_wi...

Report: Mark Penn Thought Dem Primaries Were Winner-Take-All
By Eric Kleefeld - May 8, 2008, 9:25AM

With the Clinton campaign widely viewed as being on its last legs, staffers are now more free than ever to dish out some dirt on the many strategic blunders of Mark Penn.

The latest: At a strategy session last year, Penn reportedly said that a Clinton win in California would effectively wrap up the nomination by awarding her all of the state's 370 delegates.

As we all know, Democrats don't do winner-take-all primaries, but instead use a form of proportional representation that has been in force for about 20 years -- a fact that didn't seem to sink in with the Clinton campaign and their big-state strategy.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/report_mark_penn...

on MSNBC...it is huge...geologists are studying it now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7390116.stm

JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s ruling party, bent on retaining control after 28 years in power, has broadened its campaign of intimidation and violence to include teachers and even aid workers, disrupting education and basic care for tens of thousands of children across the country, according to humanitarian groups, union officials and the teachers themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/world/africa/08zimbabwe.html?_r=1&hp&o...

oh and feel free to ignore my question

oh shit reminds of the big hole in kimberley

stop it now!

Mirella Edwards

gotta go back to the grindstone

i aint mad at you mama...love the one you with

what further proof you need that she's a neocon republic, never admit defeat, never admit mistakes, fling crap at others and hide your hand - never never change your mind and stray from the course no matter how disastrous and dumb

you have such cute kid pics up that I will forgive you your love of Edwards...

cute yay, your iris too!

Former President Jimmy Carter says delegates from Florida and Michigan should not be counted at the Democratic National Convention because they "disqualified themselves."

On "The Tonight Show" Wednesday, Carter also warned of a disaster if party insiders try to wrest the nomination from the candidate with the largest number of votes and state victories.

"It would be a catastrophe for the party," Carter told Jay Leno.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/08/jimmy-carter-florida-mich_n_100...

Hollywood Clinton backer Weinstein unleashes temper on Pelosi
By David Edwards Harvey Weinstein, the prominent movie producer and Democratic fundraiser, unleashed his legendary temper in a tirade aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Weinstein, who’s backing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, threatened to cut off the cash flow to Democratic congressional candidates if Pelosi does not get behind a proposal to fund do-over primaries in Michigan and Florida, CNN reports. Clinton’s diminishing chances to snag the Democratic nomination are essentially dependent on seating delegates from those states at this summer’s convention.

“CNN has learned that this is an explosive conversation,” CNN’s Ed Henry reported Thursday morning. “Three officials say that Havery Weinstein appeared determined to try and buy Hillary Clinton more time in her battle with Barack Obama.”

Weinstein also pressed Pelosi to stop telling Democratic superdelegates that they should support whoever leads in the delegate count once the primaries are over in June.

“Otherwise,” Henry reports, “Weinstein says he would help cut off money to House Democrats, in particular.”

Weinstein’s outburst is just the latest effort from Hollywood heavy hitters backing Clinton to pressure Pelosi on her superdelegate stand. In March, 20 Clinton fundraisers sent Pelosi a scathing letter urging her to repudiate her view on superdelegates. Signers of that letter, who did not include Weinstein, donated $24 million to Democratic causes, according to the Center for Responsive politics.

The Miramax founder who went on to form The Weinstein Co. has donated $400,000 to Democrats and allied causes since 1990, according to a database search.

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1003

My grandkids are all boys. My daughter has 2 boys and my step-daughter has 1 boy.

But they are cuties : )

ACLU Lauds House Judiciary Committee on Torture Investigation

In historic move, Chairman Conyers Subpoenas David Addington

Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union lauds the House Judiciary Committee and especially its chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and subcommittee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) for compelling former members of the Bush administration to appear before the committee as part of an investigation of the authorization of illegal torture of prisoners in US custody by the highest public officials in the executive branch.

"The House Judiciary Committee is setting in motion something that should have started four years ago when the public learned about the torture of prisoners in US custody at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo bay detention facilities." said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. Fredrickson added that the ACLU urges the committee to "focus clearly on who did what at the highest levels of government, and whether crimes were committed. It's time to legally compel Bush's team to tell the truth."

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=58890

and thats them and thats why she cannot be president, she will not be calm answering the phone at 3 am

Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt Result In Indiana?
Conservative Host Urged 'Chaos' Votes

Even as Barack Obama's campaign celebrated Tuesday's primary results, aides charged yesterday that they would have had an even stronger showing were it not for meddling by an unlikely booster of Hillary Rodham Clinton: the popular conservative radio host and longtime Clinton family nemesis Rush Limbaugh.

The impact of Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" emerged as an intriguing point of debate, particularly in Indiana, where registered voters could participate in either party's primary, and where Clinton won by a mere 14,000 votes. As he had before several recent primaries, Limbaugh encouraged listeners to vote for Clinton to "bloody up Obama politically" and prolong the Democratic fight.

Limbaugh crowed about the success of his ploy all day Tuesday, featuring on-air testimonials from voters in Indiana and North Carolina who recounted their illicit pleasure in casting a vote for Clinton. "Some of the people show up and they ask for a Democrat ballot, and the poll worker says, 'Why, what are you going to do?' He says, 'Operation Chaos,' and they just laugh," Limbaugh said Tuesday.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=58885

A member of the Senate Democratic leadership, who insisted on not being identified, said: "The bloggers want us to get rid of him. It ain't happening." He added: "We need every vote. He's with us on everything but the war."

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=58881

toniD~we had girl, boy, girl. We always called our boy the calm between the storms.

Toni, I could swear you were talking once about a granddaughter... A long time ago.
________________________________

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

Now that's a TEXAS SIZED sinkhole!

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

is Marc Maron on today AND tomorrow?

maron scheduled today and tomorrow. Would like to know the backstory to Sam not being on with Marc tomorrow. Was really looking forward to that.

Just grandsons.

Here's Justin:

And Here's the little guy, Brandon:

I already knew, and I keep having it kicked into me, that Michigan voters don't matter, it's just the tippy-top party people throwing tantrums and saying "Look at me, dammit!" Not too different than any other place you go or group you become involved with. Michigan is definitely not Hollywood, but you still have the same spoiled, rotting heads at the top. I suspect MI delegates will be seated and their votes will count, just not representing us plain folks, and maybe only 50% strength, but still... A bit happy that although Clinton seemed the heir apparent for years, we seem to have a real race here! This is astonishing to me. This is different. I'm just a "ledge of liberty" "default Democrat" so I'm rather pleased that on the non-extremist, center-to-left-side of the table, there is room for some change.

technical problems i thought i heard him say

yay>> someone answered my question how nice of you kthc

where do you live?

into sports i see

What did sam say yesterday with respect to Gingrich....I missed the last 20 min...emergency client call...could't say call me back in 20 minutes i am busy blogging......

Lucille, I'm sorry you're feeling neglected today! medford, oregon. Spent my first 50 years in California where my vote never counted. Now I'm hearing that every state needs to have a voice. I keep wondering when that started. It's how I ended up voting for Perot, the president had already been elected by the time I got to the voting booth.

Rajah,

I posted the platypus genome story because it is interesting but more so because I thought that I knew you well enough to plant a subject-matter earwig in your head.

After you took the platypus ball[s] (do they have balls? I will check up on that) and ran with it, I began to wonder if you know me well enough to turn the tables by making me THINK that I had successfully planted a subject-matter earwig in your head.

This psychology stuff can become complicated in a hurry.

golly what a copy cat

sam spoke of the congressman that won in mississippi (forgot his name now)on the radio on monday saying that the GOP is falling apart...the very next day geinrich had an ope-ed on the same thing...Sam thinks geinrich was listening to his show...i think so too

Raided counsel's office shut down investigation into Siegelman case
Associated Press
Published: Thursday May 8, 2008

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch -- whose home and office were recently raided by the FBI --last year shut down a previously undisclosed investigation into the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, according to an internal memo made public Wednesday.

The investigation was being conducted by a task force formed at the agency a year ago to pursue high-profile political investigations in Washington, most notably whether the White House played politics in firing U.S. attorneys. It began gathering information on the Siegelman case in September and was planning to request documents from the Justice Department in October before Special Counsel Scott Bloch ordered the case closed, according to the Jan. 18 draft memo, made public by the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group.

RAW STORY's David Edwards has a video of the FBI's raid here.

The investigation was one of many that the task force had taken up, and the memo shows that Bloch frequently differed with investigators about which cases to pursue.

For example, he asked the task force to broaden its investigations into the fired prosecutors and into whether federal agencies received political briefings from the White House to boost GOP electoral fortunes. But he shut down an investigation into whether the Justice Department was hinging its hiring decisions on job applicants' political affiliations.

An attorney for Bloch, who himself is under a federal investigation, declined comment. But a person familiar with the origins of the POGO draft document said the decision to not pursue Siegelman or other cases stemmed mostly from a shortage of time and resources. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

Siegelman, a Democrat, said the memo suggests further political interference in his case and reiterated his call for the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to take up the matter.

"The question is who told them to shut it down," Siegelman said Wednesday when told of the memo. "Why would you start an investigation and let it proceed and then shut it down? The logical conclusion is that somebody intervened and told them to shut down the investigation."

Siegelman has long claimed that Republicans engineered his prosecution on bribery and other corruption charges to kill his chances for re-election, a claim repeatedly denied by federal prosecutors. His attorneys requested earlier this year that the Justice Department appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House appointees in Washington, including former Bush adviser Karl Rove, influenced the case. Rove also has denied any involvement.

The Special Counsel's office is an independent agency charged with investigating unlawful political activity by government employees and ensuring that government whistle-blowers are not subjected to reprisals.

The January memo is a summary of the task force's activities and recommendations since it was formed in May 2007. It says investigators expressed concerns about closing the Siegelman investigation before completing it. But the task force was "directed to not further investigate this case and to wait for further instructions."

The memo says the task force still considered the case open and was requesting authorization to continue.

"I'm stunned by all this," said Vince Kilborn, one of the former governor's attorneys. "If an ongoing government investigation was shut down, I would say it's potential obstruction of justice."

FBI agents raided the office and Bloch's home this week in an investigation into whether he destroyed evidence potentially showing he retaliated against staffers who opposed his policies.

Siegelman, who served one term as governor after being elected in 1998, was convicted in 2006 on bribery and other charges and sentenced to more than seven years in prison. He was recently released on bond pending appeal.

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

Telecom Companies Write Their Own Amnesty Proposals For Congress
By: Logan Murphy @ 6:32 AM - PDT
Politico:

Telecom companies have presented congressional Democrats with a set of proposals on how to provide immunity to the businesses that participated in a controversial government electronic surveillance program, a House Democratic aide said Wednesday.

Congress has been wrestling for months with an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with the immunity issue the primary sticking point.

Many Democrats want the companies held accountable for participating in the program, which was initiated in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The White House, however, has insisted that the participation of the telecoms is crucial to monitoring conversations between potential terrorists. President Bush has vowed to veto any bill that does not contain immunity. Read on…

Hmm…I think I’ll try this approach should I ever find myself in legal trouble. Any member of Congress who thinks the American people are going to allow the telecom companies to write their own get out of jail free card, they are sadly mistaken. Let Rep Steny Hoyer know how you feel, and/or contact your representatives in the House and Senate and tell them you don’t want want companies who betrayed the country and its Constitution to get a free pass.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/08/telecom-companies-write-their-o...

i'm sorry but that was too funny

im always neglected am used to it already--oh you live in oregon? i used to have a friend that was from there, we met in San Diego...she disappeared into the wood works..what a great hooker though..i would look her up but she had such a common name

hahahaha that headline tickled me pink now

I love Bill Moyers.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. (Puts Shrubco in perspective, don't it)
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. (GOP sheeple, need not apply)
William Hazlitt

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. (Hillary, Ben Franklin called you dumb)
Benjamin Franklin

An interview Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-IL) gave to USA TODAY Wednesday is fanning new flames of racial tension between her and Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) presidential campaign.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview published Thursday. She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

"Clinton's blunt remarks about race came a day after primaries in Indiana and North Carolina dealt symbolic and mathematical blows to her White House ambitions. The Obama campaign, looking toward locking up the nomination, stepped up pressure on superdelegates who have the decisive votes in their race," USA Today remarked.

"In both states, Clinton won six of 10 white voters, according to surveys of people as they left polling places

Obama spokesman Bill Burton replied: "These statements from Sen. Clinton are not true and frankly disappointing."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Clinton_White_people_support_me_0508.html

A hooker from here? Huh, go figure. Haha. We're having a bit of a hard time getting used to the harder edge on people here.

http://airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage

Tune in May 8th on The Thom Hartmann Program - Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman www.donsiegelman.org is here taking your calls (866) 303-2270. Since Gov. Siegelman is not allowed to travel, we'll be checking in with him from time to time so his case continues to get national attention.

Update: Governor Don Siegelman has been out of prison on bond for over a month and has given interviews to 60 Minutes on CBS, The Verdict on MSNBC, the New York Times, the House Judiciary Committee, the Tuscaloosa News, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Ring of Fire and The Thom Hartmann Program. Now Travel restrictions have been imposed on him. Travel restrictions on a non-violent offender who has been deemed "not a flight risk" seems unusual.

Gov. Siegelman says, "If I'm not a flight risk, why would they be constricting my travel and making it very difficult if not impossible to leave the state?" he said. "There isn't but one conclusion, and that is that they don't want me speaking out on issues. They don't want me speaking to Congress or speaking to the media."

--Thom Hartmann

meets May 31st.
They will take up the issue of what to do with Michigan and Florida.
13 members have endorsed Hillary
8 have endorsed Obama
1 of the chairs is Alexis Herman, Clinton's Labor Sec
http://tinyurl.com/3gdqjr

I have a concern about the rules for the primaries and caucuses in 2012. I don't know when that will be decided. But, if Hillary uses her clout she could have the rules changed to a winner take all system. If that system had been in place this time, Hillary would probably be the nominee. I don't want that to happen. If anyone hears anything about that, please post.

http://www.peakprop.com/

You and Maron seem too busy for Maron v Seder this week. Don't keep us in suspense, please let us know if it's not likely.

Um, will you continue (I don't know what tools you use to do your Tuesday gig online with Maron) if your AAR thing crashes?

Very exciting radio this week! I'm a long time radio fan, talk radio especially, and locally we used to have hosts who talked to "news-makers" and then the local news guys pumped the "exclusives" on the hours and half-hours. The Philippe Sands interview was ace! The fact that you played him McCain audio, wow! This is great stuff. Then he testified... It's a horror that it isn't being spread around major league. You're the bomb, but media consolidation is still fucking us all over. Good stuff and great interview. Thanks, astonishingly good work, now how to give it legs?

wow kthc...try Nevada...I am from LA and when we came here in 92 everyone was so nice in their greetings but just try to make real friends....it took years...now most all of my friends are 12 steppers...comman bond.....Not many Buddhists here either...found my hubby though..Buddhist and lefty...really amazing

why DID you move there?

Don Cazayoux
http://tinyurl.com/3u22dm

seriously, you would think Californians would be the tough ones, boy am I learning different. There's a big old truck around the corner with 'Earth first, we'll log the other planets later' painted on the back. Someone said, you better watch out for that logger with all your liberal stuff. I said, 'logger?' 'yeah, the guy with the logging truck'. 'That's a logging truck?' I had thought he was a trekkie. I thought it was a Star Trek reference.

http://tinyurl.com/496buc

they really are ToniD, congrats!

at 3:51am early this morning. I had set my recorder and have the video now on a disk.

Is anyone interested in a video podcast of that? I can upload it tonight for anyone who wants to see it as C-Span has a liberal free-use copywrite policy.

I have not read of any other blog that is keeping any of that in the news and one would think it would matter to all Americans and especially Democrats.

in the late '90's and how it looks today.....many thanks to our gas dollars of course

Submitted by Cat Chew on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 10:45am.
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I am not a club joiner because I have a problem with being instructed to follow rules without questioning or ignoring them.

That said, anyone who joins a club knows that club rules exist and that new rules will be instituted while old rules will be eliminated or modified.

The national Democratic party issued rules to the Michigan Democratic party and the Florida Democratic party which were ignored. Punitive action against both states by the national party was a certain possibility.

The little-guy voter has been caught in the squeeze but the responsibility for the squeeze is with the Democratic party of each of the two states that decided to violate the rules dictated by the national Democratic party.

I don't have an emotional dog in this hunt. I don't care what is done for or against Michigan and Florida Democratic primary voters at this point. I am merely stating that club members are supposed to toe the line...or abandon their membership in the club...or charter their own new and unaffiliated club.

And I believe that the entirety of the U.S. primary and general election system is archaic and screwed up. For starters (and probably least among the problems in our system), parties should not be authorized to design and dictate the primary process. The primary election process should be identical for any party that chooses to participate.

http://airamerica.com/American+Afternoon

Make sure you post a comment for Marc Maron and Sam Seder over on the AAR blogs.

Be polite.

Wes was 10 and there were starting to be lots of drive by shootings in Pasadena where I lived...We had just had the Rodney King riots and I did not want to raise Wes in that environment especially since he has always been really attracted to black culture(he got it from me)...I did not wanted him involved in the whole gangsta thing...so I gave up my job at a local community college and my private practice and moved here

Wes was really pissed off at me for years...he set lots of fashion trends in rural Northern Nevada and has managed to find probably every minority person here to hang with as he is deeply into hip hop and art....I felt bad, but I was just afraid I would lose my little boy to some kind of violence. He moved to Berekely when he was 17 with his 25 year old girlfriend and then after his dad killed himself..he moved back home...now he really loves it here, especially since he is raising little Iris.

It was amazingly easy to build my private practice here and I am now thinking about teaching again...I know the dean of the community college and could probably get a class or two...

I have always loved it here...fresh air, mountain views, quiet, snow in the winter...just kind of hard to be a lefty in a VERY right wing place...

hope I didn't give too much detail...

http://tinyurl.com/3u22dm

http://tinyurl.com/496buc

I did not want to raise Wes in that environment especially since he has always been really attracted to black culture

for the link to Gingrich

You must make a backup archive of your entire Open Mic.
You have incredible information in that wonderful space, and all would be at great loss to lose it.

I know nothing, I'm
just covering the bases.
I have started my archive, also

I love pussyfoot's stuff!

I was thinking at first that pussyfoot was a weird dump-and-rum spammer, but I know better now. Pussyfoot's style is dump-and-run, but it's always full of wonderful goodness. Thanks, gal or guy! Sorry, I do hate the endless YouTube embeds. They are a drag, but yours were kinda beter and different. :)

oh thats how you do me after all my hard work?

I don't know what it is with us...we love black culture music, art, clothes...might be reincarnational...Steve feels he is from africa in a past life too although he is a dead head(I don't get it)

At that time in LA there was a ton of violence and racial strife. We were in the middle of it and we of course were on the side of the underdog.....I got tired of keeping my curtains closed and walking with my keys between my fingers..it was a safety thing....

CNN's Cal Perry and Crew pinned behind building as gunfire rages.

Hezbollah says Lebanon crackdown 'declaration of war' by Jocelyne Zablit
1 hour, 35 minutes ago

BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned on Thursday that a Lebanese government crackdown on his group was tantamount to a "declaration of war" as clashes escalated between supporters of rival political factions in the deeply divided country.

Nasrallah issued his ominous statement on the second day of anti-government protests, with gunfights in several parts of the country, roads blocked and Lebanon's only international airport effectively shut down.

"The decisions (of the government) are tantamount to a declaration of war and the start of a war... on behalf of the United States and Israel," a defiant Nasrallah said at a rare press conference via video link.

The Lebanese government on Tuesday launched a probe into a Hezbollah communication network and reassigned the head of airport security over his alleged links to Nasrallah's powerful Shiite militant group.

"Our answer to this decision is this," Nasrallah said. "We have the right to confront he who starts a war with us by defending our rights and our weapons." As the long-running political crisis threatened to spiral out of control, at least eight people were reported wounded in clashes pitting mainly Sunni Muslim supporters of the Western-backed government against Shiite followers of the Hezbollah-led opposition

The army command warned that "if this situation continues, everyone will lose and this will affect the unity of the military."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080508/wl_afp/lebanonpoliticsunrest_080508...

thank you thank you thank you...

interesting. i think yesterday catherine posted a wayne madsen article that said a crackdown on hezbollah would start with an israeli car bomb attack on the hezbollah group.

how do you do a backup?

if you wanna keep a copy for yourself that's fine I suppose but to save you some work (maybe)

it's at the top of this page

http://www.c-span.org/VideoArchive