Belated

Episode 1 -- proposed new regulation leaks out

http://www.truthout.org/article/a-new-attack-birth-control

...a proposed new regulation would expand the definition of abortion to include any form of contraception that can work by stopping implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus. This can include common birth-control pills, emergency contraception, and the intra-uterine device, or IUD. Doctors who refuse to perform abortions for reasons of personal conscience already are protected by law.

The potential impact of this new rule on the more than 500,000 hospitals, family planning clinics, and medical offices that receive any form of federal funding could be dramatic. The rule could also undercut many state laws - including one in Massachusetts requiring hospitals to provide emergency contraception for rape victims - and laws requiring prescription drug insurance plans to include contraceptives. Massachusetts passed such a law in 2002.

The draft proposed rule highlights the fact that many antiabortion groups also oppose one good method of preventing the unplanned pregnancies that lead to abortions - birth control. At some point in their lives, 98 percent of US women use birth control.

The proposed rule, while claiming to protect the rights of nurses and doctors, would interfere with patients' rights. A woman seeking treatment could be denied birth control and not even be aware that the service was available - only denied to her because of the unexpressed personal beliefs of the practitioner.

Last November, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said gynecologists must provide "accurate and unbiased information" to patients and "have the duty to refer patients in a timely manner to other providers" if the doctors do not want to perform an abortion or prescribe birth control. The US secretary of health and human services, Michael Leavitt, said he thought this statement went too far in forcing doctors to choose between their beliefs and the prospect of professional sanctions.

The administration does not need approval of Congress to put this rule into effect. But about 100 members of the House, including all representatives from this state except Stephen Lynch of South Boston, have signed a letter protesting it. In the Senate, Patty Murray of Washington and Hillary Clinton of New York are leading the opposition. The administration should take heed and drop its ideological attack on contraception.
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Episode 2 -- Leavitt denial

http://current.com/items/89184998_us_official_says_new_rules_are_not_ant...
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Under federal law, institutions may not discriminate against individuals who refuse to perform abortions or provide a referral for one. The Health and Human Services Department is considering requiring health care providers and organizations to certify their compliance with the law, but in doing so, lawmakers and several interest groups worried that the administration was attempting to lump contraceptives into its definition of abortion.

Leavitt said that was not his intent.

"An early draft of the regulation found its way into public circulation before it had reached my review," Leavitt said on a personal blog posted on the department's Web site. "It contained words that lead some to conclude my intent is to deal with the subject of contraceptives, somehow defining them as abortion. Not true."

Leavitt said he wanted the regulation to address the legal right that doctors, nurses and others have to practice according to their conscience.

"The department is still contemplating if it will issue a regulation or not," Leavitt said. "If it does, it will be directly focused on the protection of practitioner conscience."

In a letter sent to Leavitt two weeks ago, Planned Parenthood and 56 other organizations urged him to abandon efforts to issue such a rule. The groups said the draft regulation permits people to refuse to provide women with access to contraceptive services and information. Meanwhile, institutions hiring those workers would be unable to do anything to curb those actions.

"This rule permits health care providers to refuse to perform any service they deem morally objectionable, which raises critical questions about access to all health care services," the groups wrote.

Lawmakers also have been active in urging Leavitt to drop the regulation. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Patty Murray, both Democrats, told Leavitt in a letter the regulation would disrupt state laws securing women's access to birth control and could even undermine laws that ensure rape victims get emergency contraception in hospital emergency rooms.
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Questions -- I have some for Mr. Leavitt et al.

When Leavitt says if the regulation is made "...it will be directly focused on the protection of practitioner conscience", I wonder what does THAT mean?

Will practitioners need to fill out forms related to "conscience" before they are even hired?

Will this process serve as a screening method to limit the hiring of ONLY anti-abortion personnel?

How do anti-abortion (and possibly anti-birth-control) practioners go on record as being the soul expressors "of consciene" on a healthcare/medical staff?

Why use THAT terminology that presupposes their view/opinion is the only view/opinion based on conscience?

--nora

What's new..Party & Graft first,Country Last !

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 27 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi — home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency — as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Mississippi's lawmakers include the Democratic chairman of the department's oversight committee in the House and the senior Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is expected to approve money to build the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility at one of five sites being considered. The two lawmakers said they were unaware of the Homeland Security evaluation system that scored the Mississippi site so low.

The disclosure is the latest example of what critics assert is the Bush administration's politicizing of government decisions, such as efforts to steer science over global warming at the Environmental Protection Agency and hiring and firing practices at the Justice Department.

"It is very suspicious," said Irwin Goldman of the University of Wisconsin, a leader of the unsuccessful effort to build the lab in Madison. His community's offer was among nine sites rejected even though the government scored it more highly than Mississippi's. "We wondered how everybody else did. It's interesting to know that we came out ahead of one that was short-listed."

The states where locations were eliminated despite earning scores higher than Mississippi include California, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin.

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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/obamas-letters-of-no-apology

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Recently Obama was asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley if “there’s anything that’s happened in the past 7 1/2 years that the U.S. needs to apologize for in terms of foreign policy?” Obama responded by saying, “No, I don’t believe in the U.S. apologizing. As I said I think the war in Iraq was a mistake. We didn’t keep our eye on the ball in Afghanistan. But, you know, hindsight is 20/20, and I’m much more interested in looking forward rather than looking backwards.” The United States, Obama told Crowley, “remains overwhelmingly a force of good in the world.”1

“SHOT AS THEY RAN”

I would like the Afghan “war”2 enthusiast3 Barack Obama to write a Letter of No Apology to Orifa Ahmed. On October 7, 2001, Orifa’s house in the Afghan village of Bibi Mahru was destroyed by a 500-pound bomb dropped by an American F-16 plane. The explosion killed her husband (a carpet weaver), six of her children and two children, who lived (and died) next door. Away visiting relatives when the bombing occurred, Orifa returned to find pieces of her children’s flesh scattered around the killing site. She received $400 from U.S. authorities to compensate her for her losses.4

I would also like Obama to write a “Letter of No Apology” to Gulam Rasul, a school headmaster in the Afghan town of Khair Khana. On the morning of October 21, 2001, the United States dropped a 500-pound bomb on his house, killing his wife, three of his sons, his sister and her husband, his brother, and his sister-in-law.5

Another “Letter of Apology” should go to Sher Kahn, an old man who lost seven relatives when the United States assaulted the Afghan village of Niazi Qala on December 29, 2001. Here is how the British author and filmmaker John Pilger describes the attack:

The roar of the planes had started at three in the morning, long after everybody had retired for the night. Then the bombs began to fall — 500-pounders leading the way, scooping out the earth and felling a row of houses. According to neighbors watching from a distance, the planes flew three sorties over the village and a helicopter hovered close to the ground, firing flares, then rockets. Women and children were seen running from the houses towards a dried pond, perhaps in search of protection from the gunfire, but were shot as they ran.6

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Submitted by Alice on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 2:39am.
http://www.debates.org/pages/news_111909.html

COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES ANNOUNCES INTERNET EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP WITH MYSPACE

Project results from collaboration with BBH New York, August 6, 2008

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http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/08/03/commission-on-presidential-debat...

Commission on Presidential Debates Retains its Monopoly This Year

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http://www.votenader.org/issues/presidential-debates/

In a memo by the CPD, the avowed goal for forming the commission was to "strengthen the two parties."

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Can't remember who said it:

We have a one party system and it's about time a second party got to say something.

I do..Jmach1JP..I was a Letterman nut.. :)

Ah..Before Media Consolidation..

That's one part of the 80's we have to bring back..

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two researchers challenging eachother on their belief system and reality tunnel

AP Exclusive: US disregarded experts over biolab
Submitted by MMRules on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 3:49am.
What's new..Party & Graft first,Country Last !

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 27 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi — home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency — as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Mississippi's lawmakers include the Democratic chairman of the department's oversight committee in the House and the senior Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is expected to approve money to build the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility at one of five sites being considered. The two lawmakers said they were unaware of the Homeland Security evaluation system that scored the Mississippi site so low.

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First thought is:

Mississipi -- Land of swamps and mosquitos? What if something that can be mosquito-born gets out of those labs? Is this a good choice?

Second thought:

I thought by now the government would have copied the sets from the great movie "Andromeda Strain" for an underground containment facility. Guess not. They'd rather build these things near residential areas....

Third thought:

Phew. Does that mean the bid in California is dead? I hope so! There seems to be enough of that stuff already in California. (I remember reading materials from a UC campus expansion case wherein was documented neighborhood alarm regarding a neighborhood death from Q-fever which apparently resulted from the lab experimenters transporting their purposely infected animal experimentation subjects (goats or lambs? I can't recall...) out of labs through the regular elevators!)

Fourth thought:

Look out, local Mississippi landfills. New kinds of waste coming your way.

Fifth thought:

Wait now. Isn't this the area that gets those Class Five Hurricanes?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/08/a-dirty-adventure-part-1/

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But are Georgians solely responsible for this dirty adventure? One wonders, especially in light of this passage from the Associated Press article, a fact conveniently omitted from New York Times coverage:

More than 1,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers were at the base last month to teach combat skills to Georgian troops. Georgia has about 2,000 troops in Iraq, making it the third-largest contributor to coalition forces after the U.S. and Britain.

The White House on Friday urged Russia and Georgia to peacefully resolve their dispute over South Ossetia.

“We urge restraint on all sides — that violence would be curtailed and that direct dialogue could ensue in order to help resolve their differences,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters.

Curiously, the US is not capable of condemning a Georgian invasion and Guernica like air attack upon Tskhinvali, but then, that would be expecting a lot after US Marines just got done training Georgian forces. Instead, the White House just urges restraint, which is what it usually does when an ally has launched an attack and the other side moves to defend itself.
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http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=821

I'm going to buy those energy saving light bulbs and reusable grocery bags.

I don't know why I haven't already.

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg
May 13, 2008

http://www.adn.com/news/environment/climate/story/489170.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7551994.stm

Bolivia's President Evo Morales has claimed victory in a referendum on whether he should continue in power.

Unofficial results gave Mr Morales a convincing win, and he promised to continue his reforms, including the nationalisation of key industries.

Four of six opposition governors, who have led protests against the president and demand more autonomy, also won the right to stay in office.
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Can't keep the eyelids up....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijLrqVKq4a4
Ralph Nader Speaks To Peace And Freedom Party Convention 8/1/08
(the day before he received their nomination)

Jerk Offs !

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There's only a trace in them. Compared to what they contain vs the amount they save from being dumped into the atmosphere by requiring less energy still make them a viable solution in the present time.

..some other information

How do CFLs result in less mercury in the environment compared to traditional light bulbs?
Electricity use is the main source of mercury emissions in the U.S. CFLs use less electricity than incandescent
lights, meaning CFLs reduce the amount of mercury into the environment. As shown in the table below, a 13-watt,
8,000-rated-hour-life CFL (60-watt equivalent; a common light bulb type) will save 376 kWh over its lifetime, thus
avoiding 4.5 mg of mercury. If the bulb goes to a landfill, overall emissions savings would drop a little, to 4.2 mg.
EPA recommends that CFLs are recycled where possible, to maximize mercury savings.

..see the table here

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Just the fact ma'am, just the facts.

World urges Russia
to curb onslaught

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Bush led western calls Saturday for Russia to end its military onslaught against Georgia and Poland demanded an emergency European Union summit to discuss the conflict over South Ossetia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/georgiasossetiarussiaunrestworld;_ylt=ApZour...

Iraq demands clear
withdrawal timetable

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The United States must provide a "very clear timeline" to withdraw its troops from Iraq as part of an agreement allowing them to stay beyond this year, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080810/ts_nm/iraq_dc;_ylt=AvhScahlL0A9wBgeg...

The Era of Catastrophe:
Geologists name new era

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A striking report from the front lines of science suggests we're officially entering a period in which humanity may simply outrun history itself.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/89940/the_era_of_catastrophe_geologi...

Researchers work to
turn car's exhaust into power

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Researchers are competing to meet a challenge from the U.S. Department of Energy: Improve fuel economy 10 percent by converting wasted exhaust heat into energy that can help power the vehicle.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tailpipe_power;_ylt=AnQ_iILrH4gz4.NaFlUF_wQDW...

Iraq to revive oil
deal with China

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Iraq and China are set to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal that was canceled after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraq's oil ministry said Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_china_oil;_ylt=A...

We hardly knew ye!

That was an eye opener tD.
The Era of Catastrophe:
Geologists name new era...
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be very afraid when you read headlines that read "GOP Boys, Positioned for McCain?". Pedophiles will try anything.

2008

Bruce Barclay, former Cumberland County commissioner, videotaped hundreds of sexual encounters — many with male escorts — using cameras hidden throughout his Monroe Township home.

Matthew Joseph Elliott, former aide to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

Vito Fossella, the only Republican member of Congress from New York City, admitted to police to having a child out-of-wedlock when stopped for drunk driving.[3]

Robert McKee, Republican delegate from Western Maryland, announced his resignation after authorities seized two computers, videotapes and printed materials from his Hagerstown home in a child pornography investigation. McKee also resigned his position as executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County.

Daniel Dean Thompson, 31, a Utah retailer of "family-friendly" tapes and DVDs (Hollywood films with the "dirty parts" cut out of them), arrested and booked into the Utah County jail on charges of sexual abuse and unlawful sexual activity with a 14-year-old.

Derek Walker, former Eagle Scout and candidate seeking the GOP nomination in a race for north-central Pennsylvania district, was charged with felony burglary and criminal trespass stemming from an encounter last year with an ex-girlfriend, during which he allegedly broke into her home and used his cell phone to videotape her engaged in an intimate moment with another man.

2007

Robert "Bob" Allen, Florida state Rep. Arrested in the afternoon at a Veteran's Memorial Park for solicitation of prostitution from an undercover male officer inside a restroom. According to the papers Bob "offer[ed] to perform oral sex for $20". Bob Later claimed that his offer had something to do with his being afraid of black people.

John David Roy Atchison, Republican prosecutor, was arrested for soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an "assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's attorney general.

E. Ozwald Balfour, chairman of the Utah Republican Black Assembly and elected to the Republican State Central Committee in 2007, even though he was awaiting trial on four felony counts of forcible sex abuse dating back to his arrest in February, 2005.

John Bryan, Republican city councilman, killed himself after police began investigating allegations that he had molested three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15.

Larry Craig Republican Senator for Idaho, was arrested on July 11, 2007, by plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of lewd behavior in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport airport men's room. On August 8 in Hennepin County Municipal Court in Bloomington, Minnesota, Craig entered a guilty plea and paid a $500 fine.[11]. On September 1st, Craig subsequently announced his retirement from the Senate[12]. Five days later, Craig changed his mind, renounced his retirement and began a battle to have his guilty plea overturned.

John R. Curtin, Monroe County state Republican committeeman, was convicted of molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.

Richard Curtis, Washington State Rep., resigned from the House after reports of his sexual encounter with a male escort became public.

Donald Fleischman, Brown County, WI, Republican Party Chairman, resigned his post after he was charged with two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing himself to a child.

Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have sex with an 8-year old child and was charged with 7 related offenses. Age 62 at time of arrest.

Ted Klaudt, former South Dakota State Rep., found guilty of four counts of second-degree rape of two teenage foster daughters.

Ronald C. Kline, Republican Judge in Orange County, CA, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer after six years of legal wrangling. In 2002, charged with child molestation and under house arrest on federal charges of possessing child pornography, political analysts still gave him a 50-50 chance of winning the March 5 primary for the Orange County Superior Court seat. He lost the election to a write-in candidate.

Joseph M. McDade, 75, was issued a summons on a charge of exposure of sexual organs, a misdemeanor that carries up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The longtime Pennsylvania Republican congressman who served for 36 years in the House and now works for a Washington lobbying firm, has been accused of exposing his private parts to two women at a beach resort on Sanibel Island.

Patrick Lee McGuire, former former Flagler County Commissioner, surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.[21]

Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.

Joseph Monteleone Jr., Elyria city councilman, was found guilty of fondling underage girls and asking them, to have sex with him.

Glenn Murphy Jr., chairman of the Clark County Republican Party and president of the Young Republican National Federation, resigned both posts, after the Clark County Sheriff’s Department began investigating Murphy for alleged criminal deviate conduct. A 22-year-old man claimed that Murphy performed an unwanted sex act on him while the man slept in a relative’s Jeffersonville home. During the investigation, a similar accusation from 1998 came to light.

Armando Tebano, Schenectady County Republican Chairman, pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.

David Vittner, junior Senator from Louisiana, became one of the few high-profile politicians to be implicated as a client of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

what a lovely photo!!

2006

Steve Aiken, campaign manager for a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, former Quakertown, PA, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend, was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.

Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens. In August 06, Beres confessed.

Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and adviser to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Randall Casseday, Washington Times newspaper executive, pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

Larry Corrigan, Republican operative and Director of Operations and Budget at King County Prosecutor's Office, OR, was arrested for soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.

Carey Lee Cramer Political consultant and anti-Kerry ad producer, tried for molesting two young girls, one of whom lived with him, and was 8 yrs old; the other starred in an anti-Kerry commercial. Diary

Mark Foley, Republican Representative, Florida Sixteenth Congressional District. Resigned after trying to solicit sex from male congressional pages via an instant messenger program. The conversations included his asking a sixteen-year-old "stud" whether his penis was erect and requesting that he take out and measure his penis. The cover-up involved Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Eighth Congressional District and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Illinois Fourteenth District.

Jim Gibbons, then US Rep. and Republican candidate for governor, was accused by a Las Vegas casino cocktail waitress of grabbing her, shoving her against a wall and threatening her after she rebuffed his advances.[34][35] Since elected Governor, Gibbons is under investigation by the FBI on corruption charges and is embroiled in what looks set to become a very messy divorce.

Ted Haggard, was fired as pastor of the New Life Church and resigned from his position as president of the National Association of Evangelicals in November 2006 after a former male prostitute alleged they had a cash-for-sex relationship. The man also said he saw Haggard use methamphetamine. Haggard confessed to undisclosed “sexual immorality” and said he bought meth but didn’t use it.

Don Haidl, Assistant Sheriff of Orange Country, in violation of California's rape shield law, led a smear campaign against the child his son poisoned and then violently gang-raped on videotape, adding up to 24 felony counts. He said that his son "acted accordingly" because the child was a "slut".

Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, Christian conservative activist and lawyer with close ties to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh, head of the Orange County Republican Party, was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.

Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing what experts call "some of the most offensive material in the child pornography world" - a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.[41]

Brent Schepp, Republican County Board Candidate was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.

2005

Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers.

John Collins, of Eatontown, NJ, former music teacher and city councilman, pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

John Gosek Republican Mayor of Oswego, N.Y.was arrested after paying a confidential informant $250 to introduce him to two 15-year-old girls at a hotel.

Dr. W. David Hager Bush appointee, member of Focus on the Family's Physician Resource Council, player in movement to ban the morning-after-pill. Had an adulterous affair, before divorcing his wife he sexually abused her, including sodomizing her in her sleep.

Russell Harding, president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. under then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $400,000 for his personal use and possessing child pornography.

Neal Horsley has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. During an interview with Alan Colmes on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, he admitted to having engaged in sex with a mule at age 11. "When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule," he said. He then credited Jesus with forgiving and cleansing him of his "sin."

Jeff Miller,(R Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee’s Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that “Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee.”

Dennis L. Rader, AKA, The BTK Killer, Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president, pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.[48]

Jeffrey Kyle Randall, Republican Mayor of Clarkfield, Minnesota, was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys--ages ten and 12--during a six-year period.[49]

Jean Schmidt, OH-2, though not herself implicated, employed a campaign manager (Joe Braun) in her 2005 election who once wrote an article condemning gay men for running sex ad profiles, and who was then accused of running his own sex profile on Collarme, an S&M sex site. The profile called for "submissives" to wear only a collar and handcuffs and to have hot wax dripped on them.[50]

Mark Seidensticker, Republican campaign worker, is a convicted child molester.[51]

Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Eventually admitted to an affair with a woman 30 years younger than him, after she accused him of physical abuse and attempting to choke her. [52]

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman, pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.[53]

Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in "family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit against Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times.

Bobby Stumbo, former Floyd County, KY, Republican Party leader, was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.]

Jim West, Spokane Mayor. Supported a bill, which failed, would have barred gays and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. Voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS. Proposed that “any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person” among teens be criminalized. Had a sexual affair with an 18 year old boy.

There are too many to post.

Con't

http://dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals#2008

Sheltered Washington Insider:

Excerpt

Pat has always led a very sheltered upper class life, and has never worked for anyone except the federal government and the media -- while attacking both the whole time. In fact, he lived off the federal payroll even as a kid -- his dad was a government accountant and then managing partner of Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell, one of the largest accounting firms in the Washington D.C. area. He earned enough to raise several kids in an affluent neighborhood, with enough left over to buy a Cadillac. Even George Bush was less sheltered than Buchanan -- he at least lived in Texas and China, and worked in the private sector.

http://www.realchange.org/buchanan.htm

just ran a segment on Edwards infidelity and how it effects the wives. Of course all 3 examples were democrats. Edwards Clinton and Spitzer. Not one Republican. No Vitter, no McCain, no Gingrige!

They did focus on the wives and how they felt after finding out of the infidelity.

How's everybody?

ToniD, so happy you're doing fine.

(1)An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the advertisers insist that "NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming." Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald's, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.

(2)In May, when Disney refused to distribute Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary, CEO Michael Eisner said that Disney "didn't want to be in the middle of a politically-oriented film during an election year." But Disney was one of the 2004 election year's leading broadcasters of political propaganda, almost all of it pro-Bush, as its powerful talk radio stations served up hour after hour of right-wing hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge, etc.

I'm really trying to work it so I can get back to a somewhat normal life. Getting better every day. Thanks for asking edna.

Watching c-span today. They had that woman that is always on for McCain. I can't stand her. And she looks very much like Cindy McCain. Vapid!

Hope your both doing fine..

Ah..The smell of Republican Hypocrisy in the morning..

Every morning really..

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And she looks very much like Cindy McCain. Vapid!
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He must be partial to that Dupont plastic, botoxed, bottled blond look.

Glad to see you're doing well.

Looks like the spammers are signing in to spam. Now Sam has to ban the spammers.

The Russian military has expanded its attacks on Georgia, bombing the capital, Tibilisi, and “moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia.” The maneuvers “suggest that Russia’s aims in the conflict had gone beyond securing the pro-Russian enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to weakening the armed forces of Georgia.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/world/europe/11georgia.html?ref=todays...

“The White House stepped up its criticism of Russia for escalating the conflict in Georgia, with President Bush warning Monday that Russia’s ‘disproportionate response‘ is unacceptable and Vice President Cheney adding that the crisis threatens long-term relations between Moscow and Washington.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR200808...

Iraq’s private sector, particularly its small non-oil economy, “has so far failed to flourish as its American patrons had hoped.” As a result, the Iraqi government “has been sustaining the economy the way it always has: by putting citizens on its payroll.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/world/middleeast/11baghdad.html?hp

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) plans to hold a fundraiser next week in Atlanta with Ralph Reed, the founder of the Christian Coalition and onetime associate of Jack Abramoff.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entri...

Porn spamm too..Some sick moron !

I emailed Sam this morning because it has been going on and off for a while now..

And,I guessed no one had emailed him about it..

Sammy has enough to worry about..

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Just don't over do it on your rehab.. :)

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Submitted by Bob26003 on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 4:31am.
I'm going to buy those energy saving light bulbs...
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Here are a few observations based on my experiences with the energy-saver "bulbs."

When you replace a 60 watt incandescent with a 60 watt "equivalent" fluorescent, it does the job so long as you only need light for moving around without stubbing your toe. If you are replacing a 60 watt incandescent in, say, a desk lamp, you will be happier with a 100 watt "equivalent" fluorescent. The 60 watt "equivalent" fluorescent just doesn't cut it for close work like a 60 watt incandescent can. You will still be saving energy and you will not be overloading a "60 watt maximum" lamp fixture because the 100 watt "equivalent" fluorescents only draw 28 watts.

I have noticed some variance in the lumens (brightness) from one energy-saving bulb to the next. If an energy-saver isn't giving you enough light in a specific application, try a different energy-saver of the same wattage in the same fixture. If it is an improvement you can use the original energy-saver in a location where strong lighting isn't as important.

Another variance I have noticed is the time required for an energy-saver to reach full brightness after it is energized. After you install an energy-saver in a given location, give it several minutes to ramp-up to full glow before you decide to swap it for a higher wattage energy-saver (or before you revert to an incandescent out of frustration).

I purchased two packages of energy-savers. One package had three 60 watt equivalent "bulbs" in it and the other had three 100 watt equivalent "bulbs" in it. After a lot of futzing around (and one "bulb" returned to the store when it burned out in less than a week---save your receipts), I have three energy-saving bulbs in permanent service in the three most-often-energized fixtures in my house; one 60 watt "equivalent" and two 100 watt "equivalent."

Hope this anecdotal nonsense helps.

This was probably noted yesterday. However, it warrants another post.
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 at 03:48:39 PM PDT

Chris Wallace Exposes McCain Lies and Third Bush Term (Warning: Graphic Acts of Journalism Inside)

In his first stunning act of journalism, this morning Chris Wallace called out the McCain campaign on their latest but most egregious (and potentially effective) lies. He began his interview of Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, by playing McCain's scandalously false commercial, which accuses Obama of seeking to raise taxes on the middle class. Of course, Obama's proposed tax cuts for the middle class are almost nine times greater than McCain's, but facts be damned.

Here's Chris Wallace's shocking deviation from the RNC script:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/10/104952/579/799/565688

I put one outside on my patio. Talk about warmup time. In the winter it can be minutes before it even gets close to it's potential. It bothered me at first but I got used to it..

4 or 5 years ago I got two of those full spectrum lamps they used to advertise all the time in The Nation. I opted for the ones with variable control and love 'em. Neither bulb has burned out yet and I use them every day.

Still neither will keep me awake any longer than old style bulbs when it comes to reading. ;-)
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AFL-CIO Takes Up Obama Camp's Charge Against McCain On Ohio DHL Deal
The AFL-CIO has a new mailer in Ohio blasting John McCain and campaign manager Rick Davis for their role in the DHL deal, which the mailer says has now led to "8,000 Ohio Jobs Lost," an issue that the Obama campaign has vowed to hammer in this big swing state. The mailer then adds forcefully: "Don't Let McCain Get Away With It."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/AFLCIO_hits_McCain_on_DHL_de...

not so good here,

that broken case is going take forever to fix,

that writes off our camping trip.

not my best year so far...

I do know that P put them in every light in the house...I don't like them...everything's dull and yellow...But the ones that were put in at work, the did half the building first and that half is WHITE WHITE BRIGHT - and now the other side looks dull and yellow...

Ya got the EPA and a Republican...I wouldn't even know where to begin to find truth in that bunch....

I watched An Inconvenient Truth for the first time last night...

Rep. Don Young racks up $1.2 million in legal fees this year.
A review of campaign filings through July 2008 conducted by Roll Call finds that “a quarter of House lawmakers reported spending on legal fees in the first half of 2008.” The review found that Rep. Don Young (R-AK), “spent the most on legal costs in the current cycle, shelling out more than $1.2 million.” “Prosecutors have reportedly been looking at whether Young took bribes, illegal gratuities or unreported gifts from Veco,” an Alaskan oil services company with close ties to indicted Sen. Ted Stevens.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/11/rep-don-young-racks-up-12-million-in...

Neocons Call For U.S. To Launch War With Russia
Today the New York Times reports that Russia is escalating its war with Georgia, “moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advancing toward the city of Gori in central Georgia” and even bombing parts of Tibilisi, the Georgian captial.

Russia’s increasing aggression is putting a spark into American neoconservatives. Today on the Times op-ed page, one of their leaders, William Kristol, claims the U.S. must “defend” Georgia’s sovereignty as a reward for its participation in Iraq, while the conservative Washington Times is calling for “maximum pressure” on Russia:

Bill Kristol: [Georgia] has had the third-largest military presence — about 2,000 troops — fighting along with U.S. soldiers and marines in Iraq. For this reason alone, we owe Georgia a serious effort to defend its sovereignty. Surely we cannot simply stand by as an autocratic aggressor gobbles up part of — and perhaps destabilizes all of — a friendly democratic nation.

Washington Times: It is in America’s interest to exert maximum pressure on Russia to withdraw its troops and halt the interference in Georgian territory. This latest act shows the need for greater resolve in establishing a European security system that can be an effective check on Russian power

Writing in the Washington Post today, Robert Kagan goes even further, suggesting that the Georgia-Russia conflict may be the start of World War III:

Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute is rightly remembered as a minor part of a much bigger drama. […]

The mood is reminiscent of Germany after World War I, when Germans complained about the “shameful Versailles diktat” imposed on a prostrate Germany by the victorious powers and about the corrupt politicians who stabbed the nation in the back.

Like a good neoconservative, Kagan also links the Western response to the conflict and its wider policy towards Russia as “appeasement.”

Matthew Yglesias asks of Kagan’s World War II analogy: “If we launch a war with Russia — which would seem to be the point of busting out the analogy — then how are we going to find the time to launch wars with Iran and China?”

Update: Joe Klein over at Time's Swampland notes that its "raining Nazis." Matt Duss at the Wonk Room cautions against "throwing 'the Vladimir Putins and Hu Jintaos and Mahmoud Ahmadinejads of the world' all together into one category."

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/11/neocon-russia-war/

Later

just remember they're twenty in a blink of an eye
it goes sooo fast
ps
she needs a little brother or sister :)

troublemaker

But the hubster took care of that....snip snip..

L@@K! Nacy-girl is changing her mind again. Please, somebody kill her: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pelosi_indicates_openness_to_offshore_dril...

Change U.S. priorities from war/destruction to collaboration and focus on renewable energy technology. From an economic standpoint, green jobs can't be outsourced by their very nature. Focus on quality education that includes environmental education starting in preschool (hopefully, it will begin in the home); the economically poor (mostly women and children) suffer the most from climate
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