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Pelosi Confesses Knowing the Truth About Bush's War Based on Lies:

"I don't know what could have been done..." Tell her !

Speaker Pelosi,

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

i like your new website.

hoping to make some forward progress today, was going backwards for a while there.

what are ya doing in Seattle?

Sam don't do it, for God sake's man!

Gasp!
Unpatriotic Blasphemy!
Thou shalt NOT contradict bush/mccain/MSM propaganda!!!

American Girl on Fux News:
"I was running from Georgian troops,
I want to thank the Russian troops"

FUXIT: Censor her!!
Cutoff her off!!
Hurry up the commercial!!
Shut off her mike!!
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/08/14/american-girl-interviewed-on-fox-...

bush/rice Russia foreign policy Doctrine:

Talk loud and carry a little prick

MM I remember very well hearing a speech from Pelosi before the start of the war. She was against it for all the right reasons. I was amazed that she would say all the stuff that I had been thinking. She was not speaker at the time and she voted against it. I do think she did all she could do.

Now on the impeachment thing: she is a total disappointment and a failure.

BTW: I loved that pic of the two simps in motorcycle gear...hilarious.

Happe Talk

The announcement is to the left and above. We the People....he will be sitting with Randi Rhodes who disses him on a regular basis.

Starring Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Sam Seder and moderator Ron Reagan… all live at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall.

Happe Talk

this russian georgia conflict stinks to high heaven. mccain, mccain's lobbyist, rice, rove all have their fingers in this. when will nancy have had enough?

Maybe this panel will give Sam a chance to talk to Randi and settle things. Lets hope so. There still may be a chance for Sam at Nova M.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar!!

Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 9:00am.
...I loved that pic of the two simps in motorcycle gear...
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Tank helmets.

See Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign turning point for reference.

I'm a girl....all the same to me...I think the attempt is to look like the head of a penis....

Happe Talk

to hear it or see it.

Happe Talk

Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 9:29am.
...I think the attempt is to look like the head of a penis...
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Hey, hey, hey! I am the head of a penis.

(Okay, maybe I'm not in charge...but I do all of the maintenance work.)

Bush talks tough, but in reality, offers concessions to Russia

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The United States warned sternly Thursday of a long-term rupture with Russia if Moscow does not quickly abide by its promise to withdraw its fighting forces from Georgia. In contrast to the tough talk, Condoleezza Rice rushed to the former Soviet republic with a new cease-fire plan offering concessions to Moscow.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_russia_georgia;_yl...

Is titular only....

Happe Talk

something on their site!

Date: Saturday August 16th
Time: 6PM-9PM
Location: Seattle Center Exhibition Hall

Seattle’s Progressive Talk, AM1090 presents “We The People” a Town Hall Forum examining the role we as citizens play in shaping our democracy… how we recover, and where we go from here.

Starring Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Sam Seder and moderator Ron Reagan… all live at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall.

Moderator Ron Reagan will be asking the panelists select questions from AM1090 listeners to help drive the discussion. Submit Your Question Here for consideration.

Tickets Have Sold Out.

Be sure to check back on Monday, August 18th for all our coverage of the Town Hall Forum.

Old warrior McCain seems to
prefer revival of the Cold War

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain says Russia's invasion of Georgia requires a complete reexamination of U.S. relations with the Moscow government.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080813/D92HL3V00.html

Russian officials have voiced alarm at a preliminary deal that would allow the US to site missiles in Poland.

Poland will host the missiles as part of a defence shield the US says it needs against "rogue states" like Iran.

A top general in Moscow said the move would worsen ties with the West already strained by the Georgian conflict.

Russia's envoy to Nato has meanwhile been quoted as saying the timing of the deal shows its true purpose is to counter Russia's "strategic potential".

Under the deal signed on Thursday, the US will install 10 interceptor missiles at a base on the Baltic coast in return for help strengthening Polish air defences.

At a press conference in Moscow on Friday, Russia's deputy chief of general staff, Gen Anatoly Nogovitsyn, said the US move "cannot go unpunished".

"It's a cause for regret that at a time when we are already in a difficult situation, the American side further exacerbates the situation in relations between the United States and Russia," Gen Nogovitsyn said.

Russia's envoy to Nato, Dmitry Rogozin, meanwhile reportedly criticised the decision to sign the deal during a "very difficult crisis in the relations between Russia and the United States over the situation in Georgia".

Mr Rogozin told Reuters news agency the timing showed "the missile defence system will be deployed not against Iran but against the strategic potential of Russia".

Moscow has long argued the project will upset the military balance in Europe and has warned it will be forced to redirect its missiles at Poland.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7563182.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azB7B8hrVZY

Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who lost both legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, “will lead a tribute to service members and veterans on the third night of the Democratic National Convention.”

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/14/injured-iraq-war-vet-p...

after the past eight years does bush really thing anybody believes him or cares what he thinks?

and good day!!

backatcha!

How's Everyone?

Congratulations!

You have been nominated for membership in Humorous Wordplay International.

A rubber chicken has been sent to your address via UPS.

Like I said, toniD:

Little Prickie Bush
talks like a loud mouth
but carries a little prick

takes bow.........WATCHIT THERE!

Happe Talk

Now Crank,that one could come back to haunt you ! ;-)

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

currently clawing my way out of the latest hole i've fallen into.

SNAFUBAR!

my progress is good and thank gawd for coffee.

John McCain helped end the career of Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed with a 2006 Senate investigation of Reed's extensive work with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff helping casinos shut down competition. Now McCain is doing a fundraiser with Reed -- and it's reviving scrutiny of the way McCain handled the Abramoff investigation. In a new web ad, the DNC hits McCain's turnaround: "Desperate to raise campaign cash to run more negative attack ads, John McCain is cozying up to Jack Abramoff's cronies." Watch:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/15/mccain-and-abramoff-linke_n_119...

Happe Talk

eya MMR!
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 8:45am.
i like your new website.

*******
thanks for noticing it's existence every couple of years.. ;-)

Glad things are moving forward for you.. :)

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

More dramatic drops in energy prices are an uncertainty
By STEVE EVERLY
The Kansas City Star

Oil and gasoline prices are down from record highs, but don’t expect a return to the days when gas cost less than $3 a gallon.
Falling energy prices have given struggling consumers a welcome break since early July, when a barrel of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, was $145.29 a barrel. Since then, oil prices have tumbled about $30 a barrel. Meanwhile, gasoline prices, which hit a record national average of $4.11 a gallon last month, have fallen to $3.81 a gallon.

Gas prices in the Kansas City area now average $3.63 on the Missouri side and $3.73 a gallon on the Kansas side, according to AAA.

The recent slide in prices puts some extra cash in consumers’ pockets. If current prices were to stick for a year, it would mean an average household would have an extra $500 it wouldn’t be forced to spend on fuel. If prices were to decline to $2.76 a gallon, which is what they were a year ago, that household would save $1,500 over the next year.

But don’t plan on going on a shopping spree just yet.

While some analysts think that oil and gas prices could decline further, the federal Energy Information Administration this week tossed cold water on hopes for additional dramatic declines. The agency said that the recent reduction in gas prices had largely run its course. It expects supply and demand will still be tight enough for oil prices to average $129 a barrel in 2009, up from this year’s average of $124.

“In effect, we don’t see any big changes in prices over the next year or so,” said Tancred Lidderdale, an analyst for the agency.

And if there is any extra cash from lower gas prices, at least some of it will likely be soaked up by higher heating bills this winter. Even though natural-gas prices have eased slightly in recent weeks, heating bills could still climb $200 to $300 this winter compared with last year.

http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/749334.html

Happe Talk

Feds reveal more evidence in Sen. Stevens case
By Richard Mauer | Anchorage Daily News
Federal prosecutors offered a glimpse of previously unseen evidence against U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens in new court filings Thursday, including allegations that Stevens used insider help to turn a secret $5,000 investment in a Florida condo development into more than $100,000 in quick profits.

The government also dismissed assertions by Stevens that his conduct was shielded by the constitution as a member of Congress, citing nine examples of Stevens' "errands" and requests involving Veco that had nothing to do with protected lawmaking.

Among them: an intercepted telephone call in which Stevens discusses how his son Ben, then the state Senate President, planned to push a bill favored by the oil industry as a prelude to gas development.

The new filings go substantially further than the indictment handed up against Stevens last month charging him with seven counts of failing to disclose gifts from 1999 through 2006. Most of the alleged gifts were from the former Alaska-based oil field service company Veco and its politically active chairman, Bill Allen. Allen and Veco vice president Rick Smith have pleaded guilty to bribing elected officials and are working with government prosecutors and are expected to testify at Stevens' trial, tentatively scheduled to start with jury selection Sept. 22.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/48374.html

Happe Talk

inexact language is a bitch,

so are these memory lapses.

More California home loans on edge
By Sanford Nax | Merced Sun-Star
A new threat is emerging that could keep the tidal wave of foreclosures continuing into 2011, experts say.

More interest-only and so-called option adjustable-rate mortgages handed out during the real-estate boom -- loans considered a step up from subprime that were intended for borrowers with higher credit scores -- are starting to go bad as home values continue to fall. These loans also are called alternative-documentation loans, or Alt-A.

Subprime loans, often with adjustable rates, blew the bottom out of home prices beginning last year and sent a flood of bank-owned homes on to the real estate market after many borrowers found they couldn't keep up with escalating payments.

The same thing could happen with Alt-A loans, many of which will "recast" -- or adjust upward -- beginning next year. Defaults are expected on interest-only mortgages because the borrower pays only interest for a period of time, usually five or seven years. Then the remaining balance must be paid over a shorter term, which increases the monthly payment -- especially if the loan features an adjustable rate.

Because the loans were selling like hotcakes in the early part of the decade, many are coming due in the near future, experts say.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/economics/story/48269.html

Happe Talk

"inexact language",SJ.. :)

Man,I just lost my train of thought again..

What was I blogging ?

Oh..Hey SJ..Did you just get back for Escondido ?
Have you seen my blog yet ? ;)

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

Like I said, toniD, Talks
Submitted by SederChest on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 10:23am.
Like I said, toniD,
Talks like a loud mouth
but carries a little prick
*******
ToniD were you ?

Or, is your punctuation crappy
like mine..

My Kingdom for a PunctuationCheck !

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

Hey, hey, hey! I am the head of a penis.
Submitted by MMRules on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 10:29am.
Now Crank,that one could come back to haunt you !
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It already has, or does, every day.

Bait: "C'mon, penis. We need to run some shopping errands."

Penis: "Great! I'll get my list."

Bait: "Don't bother. I have it memorized."

...said bgurl to SJ
that's a fine motorbike
any girl would be lucky
to ride such a like
said SJ to bgurl
my hat's off to you
that's my Honda 50
1962!

;-)

___
bluerootsradio
First gear it's alright
Second gear hang on tight
Third gear lean right, er left
Faster................it's alright!

Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 10:58am.
...said bgurl to SJ
that's a fine motorbike
any girl would be lucky
to ride suck a like

___
bluerootsradio

Amazing isn't it that "The fighters are expected to return to Iraq between now and October".

Sounds like some more Cheney/Bush/Judith Miller BS..

*******
AP Exclusive: Hit squads training in Iran

By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S. and Iraqi troops, according to intelligence gleaned from captured militia fighters and other sources in Iraq.

A senior U.S. military intelligence officer in Baghdad described the information Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

Con't-YahooNews

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

the timings just right for an october surprise. isn't it funny how they can float stories like this anonymously.

Bgurl in Red Molly mode...

http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/CosmicBiker/Barb.jpg

The lady from Senior Services stopped by. She coordinates the help I get right now. And One of the girls from work came over with a goodie bag for me filled with high calorie snacks!

Quite a morning!

Happe Talk

During his tenure in the White House, President Bush has “raked in close to a billion dollars” as “the political fundraiser in chief.” “In all, Bush has personally raised more than $968 million for the Republican Party, GOP candidates and his own re-election campaign and inauguration during his two terms in office.” So far this year, he has raised roughly $70 million.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_STUMPING_FOR_DOLLARS?SITE=VT...

The Bush administration is “backing down from a threat to penalize states enrolling middle-class children” in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. States were directed to make the changes by Monday in order to avoid potentially facing financial penalties, but “with the deadline fast approaching, the administration made clear that the states were under no immediate threat of losing federal funding.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR200808...

A new study in Science finds that dead zones — “areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life” — are spreading. There “are now 405 identified dead zones worldwide, up from 49 in the 1960s — and the world’s largest dead zone remains the Baltic Sea, whose bottom waters now lack oxygen year-round.”

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=oceanic-dead-zones-spread

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) was the featured speaker at a summit on Wednesday about the “emerging issue of producing electricity from wind.” At the meeting was a “wind potential map that showed most of Kansas in pink — reflecting wind speed of 16.8 to 17.9 mph at a height of 70 meters.” Brownback, however, took exception with the map, stating, “I didn’t think anything about western Kansas was “in a sweet spot for wind.”

http://www.hdnews.net/printstory/wind081408

McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’
Speaking at the Aspen Institute in Colorado yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that recent Russian aggression in Georgia is the “first…serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” McCain seemingly ignored the Gulf War, 9/11, and the Iraq War, to name a few:

My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.

Watch it: at link

In July, McCain said Iraq was the “first major conflict since 9/11,” leaving out Afghanistan. Matt Yglesias has more on McCain’s inflated rhetoric on Russia. (HT: Politico)

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/mccain-russia/

Sorry toniD,
My mistake.
I forgot to stick in a subject line,
it's been corrected now.
I twas of course refering to little prickie bush.
Wish someone would put a condom on him.

Big Trouble
It seems Georgian President Saakashvili's tear of international showboating continues unabated. In a press conference with Secretary Rice currently being televised he is claiming that Europe is to blame for the Russian invasion because of the failure to grant NATO entry to Georgia. This is followed by some odd arguments about why Georgia didn't at the least give Russia a robust pretext by launching into South Ossetia last weekend. It's Czechoslovakia (1938 & 1968), Poland, Kuwait, Afghanistan and several other crises of the past rolled into one and we don't greet this like standing up to Hitler and Stalin our honor is lost today and our freedom tomorrow.

I know there are a lot of people out there whose sense of personal grandiosity wants to puff this guy up into some sort of world historical figure. But he's trouble. And to our great national misfortune the same cabal responsible for scheming the US into Iraq is working hand and glove with him to pull this country into deeper misfortune. And one of them might be president in 6 months.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/208651.php

forgive me gang, somtimes i need to ignore the destruction of what i love best.

it's therapy plain and simple.

heres what i mean:

90% of the big fish — tuna, cod and swordfish — are gone from the oceans. The reality is that there is simply no way to sustainably remove fish from the ocean faster than they can reproduce. the fish are being exterminated and so are we.

i've been going over my notes from the last 10 years...

still i refuse to give up and you all are a bright spot in that cloudy sky of horror.

The Why-Haven’t-You-Impeached-the-President Tour

WASHINGTON -- Setting out to promote her new motivational book, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi probably did not realize she was simultaneously embarking on her why-haven’t-you-impeached-the-president tour.

But as she made the coast-to-coast rounds of lectures, television interviews and radio chats the past two weeks, Ms. Pelosi found herself under siege by people unhappy that she has not been motivated to try to throw President Bush out of office – even if only a few months remain before he leaves voluntarily.

In Manhattan and Los Angeles, at stops in between, on network television and on her home turf of Northern California, Ms. Pelosi has been forced to defend her pronouncement before the 2006 mid-term elections that impeachment over the administration’s push for war in Iraq was off the table.

Pressed on ABC’s “The View” about whether she had unilaterally disarmed, the author of “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” said she believed the proceedings would be too divisive and be a distraction from advancing the policy agenda of the new Democratic majority.

Then she added this qualifier: “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.”

That assertion only threw fuel on the impeachment fire as advocates of removing Mr. Bush cited the 35 articles of impeachment compiled by Representative Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, as well as accusations in a new book by author Ron Suskind of White House orders to falsify intelligence, an accusation that has been denied.

“There’s an opportunity now for us to come forward and to lay all the facts out so that she can reconsider her decision not to permit the Judiciary Committee to proceed with a full impeachment hearing,” Mr. Kucinich said in an interview with the Web site Democracy Now!

Mr. Kucinich, long a proponent of starting hearings to impeach both Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, earlier this week applauded signals that the Judiciary Committee would look into the claims made by Mr. Suskind in his book.

While the Judiciary Committee might do exactly that, the chances that such an inquiry would culminate in an impeachment proceeding are, according to top Democratic officials, virtually nil.

At the moment, the House is officially scheduled to meet for less than three weeks in September before adjourning for the elections and perhaps the year – hardly enough time to mount an impeachment spectacle even if top Democratic lawmakers wanted one.

And they do not.

Despite whatever resonance pursuing the president might have in progressive Democratic circles, it is not the message Democrats want to carry into an election where they need to appeal to swing voters to increase their Congressional majorities and win the White House. They would rather devote their final weeks to pushing economic relief and health care, even if they thought Mr. Bush and the conduct of the war merited impeachment hearings.

And leading Democrats argue anyway that Mr. Bush has already been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion.

“He has been impeached by current history,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “He is going down as the worst president ever. The facts are in.”

More here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/us/politics/15web-hulse.html?_r=1&oref...

Russia: Poland risks attack because of US missiles

Russian general says US missile defense deal exposes Poland to possible nuclear attack

JIM HEINTZ
AP News

Aug 15, 2008 07:35 EST

A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.

The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia has issued against the plans to put missile defense elements in former Soviet satellite nations.

Poland and the United States on Thursday signed a deal for Poland to accept a missile interceptor base as part of a system the United States says is aimed at blocking attacks by rogue nations. Moscow, however, feels it is aimed at Russia's missile force.

"Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike — 100 percent," Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff, was quoted as saying.

He added, in clear reference to the agreement, that Russia's military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons "against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them." Nogovitsyn that would include elements of strategic deterrence systems, he said, according to Interfax.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/08/russia_poland_risks_attack_bec...

gets her due

At a time when United Press International was struggling to survive - sort of foreshadowing the fate of journalism to come in that regard - Helen Thomas was the one thing the wire service could always take pride in.

So what kind of a former Unipresser would I be if I didn't seize on the opportunity to write about the HBO documentary "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House?"

Slight by definition at a mere 40 minutes, it nevertheless offers an intimate glimpse of the subject - not unlike a presidential news conference (remember those?) - when it debuts at 8 p.m. Monday on the premium-cable channel.

Thomas seems a remnant from another era, and in many ways she is. After all, she's in her 80s now and joined UPI in 1943 when it was still just United Press. After covering John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, she followed him into office in 1961 as White House correspondent and has covered all nine presidents since, most recently as a Hearst columnist after leaving UPI eight years ago when it was bought by the Moonies.

As the representative of one of the two top wire services, Thomas by tradition got to open presidential news conferences with a question, and she invented a tradition of her own when, feeling sympathy for a floundering JFK toward the end of another conference, she excused him by saying, "Thank you, Mr. President." She closed each news conference the same way as they became increasingly rare over the next 40 years.

The prevailing mood of the documentary is a sense of loss over how things have changed in presidential politics and the media over the years, but also a sense of honor, almost of noblesse oblige. Thomas is forthright in her civic duty and in the proper way to carry it out.

"You can't have a democracy without an informed people," she says in an interview with producer-director Rory Kennedy (a niece of JFK). "If we don't ask the questions, they don't get asked."

She maintains that "presidents deserve to be questioned - maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down to size." And that's the other main theme running through the documentary: the acknowledgment of human shortcomings, in herself, but also in the presidents.

She talks of how President Nixon lauded her at the beginning of one news conference, so that she had to force herself to then ask a thorny question on Watergate. Likewise, she speaks of getting to know each president as a person, with strengths and weaknesses, but how that sort of contact is also increasingly rare as the news and media access are more managed than ever.

"It was very different," she says of her days with JFK and President Johnson. "You really felt that you got to know the person. And I think that's gone."

The relationship between the president and the media has always been confrontational. "All presidents hate us, so you start from there," she tells "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in an interview snippet included in the program. Yet even at that Thomas projects a sense of duty and honor that likewise seems lost among her colleagues these days in a divided partisan press that seems to take sides every bit as much as politicians do.

As a reporter who believes absolutely in the First Amendment and a free press, that puts her somewhere left of center, but she pooh-poohs the idea of a "liberal media."

"I want to find a liberal," she says. "I'm dying to find a fellow liberal. Where are they?"

Yet what one gets most of all is a sense of Thomas' duty, to herself and to her country. "Thank You, Mr. President" has a sense of decorum much as Thomas does. It doesn't get bogged down in trivia and personal minutiae. It sticks to the professional and how she does her job and, in that, how she serves the higher ambitions of her country. To that, the only reasonable response at the end of her career should be, "Thank you, Ms. Thomas."

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=227162

Print Version: Section 6 (Time Out) Pg.39
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by Thomas D. Williams

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-depleted-uranium-threat

Thomas D. Williams, for Truthout:

"While attempting to act as the planet's nuclear watchdogs, the United States and Great Britain have become two of the world's largest, cancer-causing radiated dust and rusty depleted uranium projectile polluters. Using tanks and planes, the US and British military have fired hundreds of tons of radioactive depleted uranium munitions (DU) while fighting the first Gulf War, the Balkans War, and the more recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For two decades, successive US and British government leadership has done little overall to clean up the hazardous war waste."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

News crew crashes Denver's DNC 'concentration camp'
Stephen C. Webster

During the 2004 Republican Nation Convention in New York City, over 1,700 protesters were taken into police custody in one of the most sweeping mass-arrests in US history. Many were held on Staten Island's Pier 57, inside a warehouse which was contaminated with lead and asbestos. Some were held for days, and without proper access to food, water, outside communication or legal counsel.

In Denver, police are preparing what a local political organizer calls a 'concentration camp,' laying in wait for mass arrests anticipated during the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

On Wednesday, a Denver CBS affiliate sent a news crew to crash the police department's improvised detention facility, found in a warehouse owned by the city on the north-east side of town.

"This is a building filled with metal holding cells," described reporter Rick Sallinger, introducing the segment. "We showed up at the facility unannounced today, the doors were wide open, and we managed to shoot for several minutes until a Denver sheriff's captain asked us to leave."

Footage of the warehouse revels tall, chain-link fence capped by barbed wire, and segmented pens each bearing an identifying letter at about shoulder height.

The news crew was not invited, nor welcome. Cpt. Frank Gale of the Denver Sheriff's Department called the facility "a secured area," and worried that information related to the site would be used "by people who are potentially trying to be disruptive."

"Each of these fenced in areas is about five yards by five yards," said Sallinger. "There's a lock on the door. How long those arrested will be kept here is not known. A sign on the wall reads, 'Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility.'"

Area activists are not amused at the news. CBS carried its footage of the newfound jail to Adam Jung, with Tent State University, and Zoe Williams, a Code Pink organizer.

"Very reminiscent of a political prisoner camp, or a concentration camp," said Williams.

"I mean, that's how you treat cattle," added Jung. "... It's a meat processing plant."

The detention site was supposed to be a secret, said Sallinger.

A call by RAW STORY to the Denver Sheriff's Department seeking information on this facility was not immediately returned.

"This facility will not be used for long-term detention," stated a Denver police department letter to area residents. "Arrestees who are processed at this facility will be there for no more than the few hours it requires for processing. Water, bathrooms, medical staff and phones will be available to them. The facility will be fully staffed to ensure its safe end secure operation."

ACLU Colorado is currently pressing the police department for further information.

The following video was aired by Denver's CBS 4 News on August 13, 2008. (at Link)

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

from that Pentagon Death Star and the University that poisoned the world

http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2445

Put a song in their hearts by sending "Johnny Got A Gun" to your local radio station or Indymedia site to play on the air. Depleted uranium is Washington's secret nuclear war. "Johnny Got A Gun" - http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/5801

Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest-ever environmental disaster
By Jeff Randall

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/08/12/noin...

The mass development of genetically modified crops risks causing the world's worst environmental disaster, The Prince of Wales has warned.

In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature which had gone "seriously wrong".

The Prince, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, also expressed the fear that food would run out because of the damage being wreaked on the earth's soil by scientists' research.

He accused firms of conducting a "gigantic experiment I think with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong".

"Why else are we facing all these challenges, climate change and everything?".

Relying on "gigantic corporations" for food, he said, would result in "absolute disaster".

"That would be the absolute destruction of everything... and the classic way of ensuring there is no food in the future," he said.
...

On the Trail, With Gonzo’s Wife
By Katharine Q. Seelye
ASPEN - Among the media covering Senator John McCain Thursday at the Aspen Institute was Anita Thompson, the widow of Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary journalist who brought his gonzo style of personal reporting to politics in the 1970s for Rolling Stone.

“These are Hunter’s people, and I’m happy to be back with them,” said Mrs. Thompson, who is writing for the Huffington Post and was sitting in the press section at the McCain event. “Hunter would be back here drinking and having fun, but I don’t know if he could have tolerated the repression,” she said, noting the regimentation of reporters and their lack of access to Mr. McCain.

One of those who met Ms. Thompson, 35, was Ryan Corsaro, 27, a campaign reporter for CBS News, who said he had been inspired by Mr. Thompson’s classic “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: ’72,” in which the writer enjoyed extensive access to George McGovern, the Democratic nominee.

“He was able to tell a completely different story,” Mr. Corsaro said. He said he had hoped to have the same kind of access when he started covering the presidential campaign almost a year ago.

But, he said, “the campaigns know there are journalists out there who want to tell that kind of story and they’re doing their best to not let it happen.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/on-the-trail-with-gonzos-w...

http://www.slide.com/r/hD6DvyAOxD9ClUhvUpVcUMABW9QzpGnQ

one superb human.

i love her and what she does.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/half-a-million-plastic-coffins.html

The
Submitted by toniD on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 12:32pm.
The Why-Haven’t-You-Impeached-the-President Tour
*
And leading Democrats argue anyway that Mr. Bush has already been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion.

“He has been impeached by current history,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “He is going down as the worst president ever. The facts are in.”
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and makes me almost forgive and understand malloy's screeches against the democrats, also makes it clear how and why these type democrats had no compunction about confirming atty gen mukasey, and probably not even shocked by mukasey's recent comment that losing your job or being frowned upon some media is punishment enough for the department of justice corruptions and crimes

"And leading Democrats argue anyway that Mr. Bush has already been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion.

“He has been impeached by current history,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “He is going down as the worst president ever. The facts are in.”

hmmm. have you seen the posts i've been making warning about pandemic flu coming to southwest ohio?

there is a state level government office that is pushing being prepared for this real hard.

www.ohiopandemicflu.gov

www.pandemicflu.gov

www.cdc.gov/flu/Pandemic

i guess the question is whether it will be a natural event probably originating out of asia (bird flu mutation) or whether its a false flag operation to keep neocons in power.

Honeybee deaths reaching crisis point
• 1 in 3 of UK's honeybees did not survive winter and spring
• Pollination of fruit and vegetables at risk

Britain's honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year, according to a survey of the nation's beekeepers, contributing to a shortage of honey and putting at risk the pollination of fruits and vegetables.

The survey by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) revealed that nearly one in three of the UK's 240,000 honeybee hives did not survive this winter and spring.

The losses are higher than the one in five colonies reported dead earlier this year by the government after 10% of hives had been inspected.

The BBKA president, Tim Lovett, said he was very concerned about the findings: "Average winter bee losses due to poor weather and disease vary from between 5% and 10%, so a 30% loss is deeply worrying. This spells serious trouble for pollination services and honey producers."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/12/conservation.wildlife1

*Send a history-making message to Congress: 1,000,000 signatures for Impeachment.*

*******
On September 10, 2008, we want to deliver ONE MILLION signatures to
Congress urging them to exercise their Constitutional authority and mandate to
hold this President - and all future Presidents - accountable.

Please sign NOW ! And ask everyone you know to sign.

The power to change the world is in your hands !

Go to:

www.kucinich.us/

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John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

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Top dishonors in writing go to Washington man

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_worst_writing.html?sou...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A grotesque comparison of a steamy love affair to a New York City street has won a Washington man this year's grand prize in an annual contest of bad writing.

Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director and writer, took top honors in San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this opening sentence to a nonexistent novel:

"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"

The contest is named after Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" famously begins "It was a dark and stormy night."

Entrants are asked to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Awards are given for many categories, including awards for "purple prose" and "vile puns." The top winner receives a $250 prize.

Other noteworthy submissions:

"'Toads of glory, slugs of joy,' sang Groin the dwarf as he trotted jovially down the path before a great dragon ate him because the author knew that this story was a train wreck after he typed the first few words."

- Alex Hall, Greeley, Colo.

"Like a mechanic who forgets to wipe his hands on a shop rag and then goes home, hugs his wife, and gets a grease stain on her favorite sweater - love touches you, and marks you forever."

- Beth Fand Incollingo, Haddon Heights, N.J.

---\\

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this is probably a repost, but I didn't want to risk Crank's missing it.

NYT columnist: 'Demoralized' Republicans fleeing RNC will make McCain 'lonely guy' in Minnesota

Suspected cause of defections is fears of Bush-McCain baggage
More than one in five Republican senators have said they won't attend the GOP convention next month or are considering missing out on the Minnesota confab to formally nominate John McCain.

Eight Republican Senators are skipping the Twin Cities convention, and two more say they might have better things to do Sept. 1-4. It's a troubling sign for a party that already expects to lose more seats in Congress this year and indicates that John McCain continues to be saddled by the baggage of President Bush's last eight years, says one observer.

"The ones who are running away are definitely assuming that the voters are going to see McCain linked up there with Bush," New York Times columnist Bob Herbert tells MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

Maddow, who was guest hosting Countdown Thursday night, said some of the GOP defections were understandable. For example, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is likely trying to avoid any unpleasant memories of his foot-tapping escapades at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, and Alaska's Ted Stevens is perhaps too busy prepping for his upcoming public corruption trial.

Most of the Republican truants, though, seem more worried that pictures of them applauding Bush or McCain would doom their chances in already tough re-election races. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) has run ads linking himself with Democrats Barack Obama and John Kerry, and he recently rejected the largely honorary position of serving as McCain's Oregon campaign co-chairman.

Also skipping the Republican convention will be North Carolina's Elizabeth Dole, Maine's Susan Collins, Nebraska's Chuck Hagel, Colorado's Wayne Allard and Kansas's Pat Roberts. New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu and Mississippi's Roger Wicker haven't yet decided whether they'll be at the convention to nominate McCain.

Just three Republican senators in competitive races have said for sure they will attend the convention, and the head of the Republicans' House campaigns has encouraged them to skip the convention.

"He's going to be a lonely guy," Herbert joked of the presumptive GOP nominee. "The short answer is, this is weird. ... They have reason to be demoralized."

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast August 14, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bob_Herbert_McCain_will_be_lonely_0815.htm...

DHS deported 90,000 kids without parent
For every 3 adults deported from US one child is abandoned, per report.

http://www.latinalista.net/palabrafinal/2008/08/dept_of_homeland_securit...

yep America is like
Germany in the 30's

or America in the late 60's
because a bunch of war mongering
Republicans have a dream of
world domination.

Here's an idea: How about our millitary
minds it's own business.

How about if America were to be a Peaceful
Nation like Denmark or Sweeden or Iceland.

America is the least qualified to be the World
police because we are a hostile nation thanks
to our millitarys bad behavior. >:(

No more cheap Seahawks shuttle

Federal rule change ends Metro service

By LARRY LANGE
P-I REPORTER

Thousands of Seahawks fans looking for transit shuttle service to Saturday's football game at Qwest Field as well as for the rest of the season's home contests are out of luck.

That's because the team couldn't come to terms with a private operator under a controversial new federal charter-service rule.

Metro Transit provided the service for several years, charging $6 round trip last year for bus service to Qwest Field from five park and ride lots around King County and carrying about 5,200 riders a game to 11 home games.

But this year, the Bush administration began requiring public transit agencies such as Metro to step aside when private operators say they want to provide service. Starline Luxury Coaches of Seattle has done so this year.

The Seahawks rejected Starline's bid, saying it would have dramatically raised fares and wouldn't have picked passengers up at the park and ride lots as Metro did.

But since Starline is still interested and is not disqualified under federal rules, Metro can't step back in, and fans are left without the service.

If they want to ride a bus, they will have to check trip planners at several Web sites to determine the routes to take. Sounder trains will not run for the Seahawks preseason game at 6 p.m. Saturday against the Chicago Bears.

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these shuttle's used to be free...now it's going to be better than 6 bucks.

I know it's not a big story, but it is a good example of how W's administration puts private party's profits before the public good.

that's just wrong. maybe one of those microsoft billionaires will step in and help out.

>>microsoft billionaires will step in and help out.

you would not believe how often this idea is floated here. it's the popular solution to all our regional problems...

To be fair, the Seahawks (owned by Micrisoft co-founder Paul Allen) covered the cost of the shuttles for years.

Debate coaches lose cool, 1 pulls down his pants

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_debate_meltdown.html?s...

By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An argument between two debate coaches that was caught on video was not the sharp-witted dialogue typically associated with college debate teams. Instead, the two traded profanity-laced barbs and one of them pulled down his shorts, exposing his underwear.

An eight-minute segment of the argument, in which each cursed repeatedly and one student near the camera can be heard crying, was posted on YouTube on Aug. 2 and has garnered more than 100,000 hits.

"In 18 years of taking part in debates, I have never seen an incident like this one," said Gordon Stables, first vice president of the Cross Examination Debate Association, which sponsored the March tournament in Wichita, Kan., where the argument took place.

Stables, who is also director of the University of Southern California's debate squad, said the association was investigating.

In the video, Fort Hays State University debate coach William Shanahan is shown arguing with Shanara Reid-Brinkley, debate coach at the University of Pittsburgh, during the competition's quarterfinals.

The argument, which appears to be at least in part about race, is punctuated with frequent cursing and name-calling. Shanahan, who is white, and Reid-Brinkley, who is black, scream criticisms about one another's body language during students' debates.

At one point Shanahan screams as he jumps up, then yanks his shorts down to his knees and points his rear end at Reid-Brinkley.

Phone messages left for Reid-Brinkley and Shanahan were not returned Thursday. Officials at Pitt and Fort Hays State, a university of about 9,000 students in western Kansas, said they were investigating

Fernando Lugo, a former bishop known for his work fighting for peasants' rights, has been sworn in as president of Paraguay, ending 60 years of rule by the nation's Colorado party.

Lugo, who takes over from Nicanor Duarte, the outgoing president, took the oath of office in a ceremony in the capital, Asuncion, on Friday.

The ceremony was attended by several Latin American leaders, including Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, and Evo Morales, the Bolivian leader.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/08/2008815141233837563.h...

Legislators in Nepal have elected the leader of former Maoist fighters as the new republic's first prime minister.

Prachanda was voted in by members of the country's constitutional assembly on Friday, ending months of political deadlock that followed the sacking of the unpopular king Gyanendra.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/08/2008815141937530447.html

Malloy vs Schultz

ASPCA pledge to sign to protect animals....

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?JServSessionIdr011=6dltxgsam1.app23...

Top dishonors in writing go to Washington man
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 1:15pm.
Top dishonors in writing go to Washington man

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_worst_writing.html?sou...
*******
I mailed my story in
but,it came back..
I had screwed up their address ! ;-)

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

Just doing The Lords work ? I think not..

Couldn't you just have passed the plate a few more times,dude ?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- A Baptist minister in central Pennsylvania has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing the identities of his church members.

Raymond Clayton Sr., 44, was also ordered to pay more than $28,000 in restitution at his sentencing Wednesday. Clayton is the former pastor of Grace Fellowship Church near Mount Carmel.

Federal prosecutors said Clayton used parishioners' personal information to obtain credit cards between November 2006 and April 2007. He pleaded guilty in March to access device fraud.

The church has since disbanded.

Link

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

Fox suggests swiftboat author being swiftboated himself
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Jeromi Corsi, the author of Obama Nation, was welcomed to Fox & Friends on Friday to respond to charges made against him and his book in a 40-page rebuttal from the Obama Campaign, "Unfit for Publication."

"Essentially it calls you a liar and a bigot," suggested Fox's Steve Doocy.

"I think some juvenile leftists have taken over the Obama campaign and gotten a hold of Photoshop," Corsi replied. "Now I'm getting death threats and hate mail from Obama supporters."

"You're getting these death threats because you wrote a book," Doocy agreed, "and in fact there's a website, Daily Kos, that's published your home address."

RAW STORY has been unable to find Corsi's home address at Daily Kos -- only his email and the address and phone number of one of his employers -- but it is possible that it was posted and then removed by site moderators.

Corsi is the author of 2004's Unfit for Command, which launched the Swift Boat attacks against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. During the last two weeks, Obama supporters have been moving quickly to discredit Corsi as well as his book before his more outrageous charges can gain general credence.

"A lot of people have suggested," continued Doocy, "well, the Obama campaign is not going to allow their candidate to get swiftboated once again by this guy. Do you feel almost as if you yourself are being swiftboated?"

"In a way, but I also think the Obama campaign is making the identical mistakes of the Kerry campaign," Corsi replied. "They started now calling me names and trying to get the New York Times to introduce me as a gadfly. ... They're quibbling about details."

This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast August 15, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Smear_book_author_complains_about_being_08...

The path to a Democratic supermajority
How Democrats can win big in 2010 and beyond -- by doing the opposite of what they're doing now. Think FDR-style liberalism, not McGovern.

There would have been no Progressive Era without the followers of William Jennings Bryan and no New Deal without the support of ancestors of many of today's Protestant evangelicals and traditionalist Catholics. Social conservatives, having lost the culture war, should be offered not only a truce but also an opportunity to join a broad economic campaign for a middle-class America, as many of them did between 1932 and 1968. When pro-choicers and pro-lifers unite in cheering the public investment and living wage planks at the convention of the neo-Roosevelt party, we will know that the political era that began in 1968 is truly and finally over.

If Barack Obama is elected in November, he will have a choice. It would be easy for a President Obama to be the third president of the McGovern Party, following the examples of Carter and Clinton once in office by rejecting expensive New Deal-style public investment and middle-class entitlement expansion in favor of a neoliberal program of deficit reduction, dinky feel-good tax credits,
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/15/newer_deal/index1.html

yeah when the natives get restless...they do something to stop the impending attack by the people on their government...

Threats on Obama at O'Reilly contrib site
'Pray they're defeated by ballot instead of bullet' at Townhall page.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6274

Huge protests expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters are expected to jam the streets of Denver and St. Paul at the Republican and Democratic conventions in a noisy counterpoint to the parties' carefully scripted speeches.

"These noises do need to be taken seriously," said Norm Stamper, Seattle's police chief at the time.

"If you identify the anarchists early and they engage in criminal behavior, snatch them up right now," he said. "The further you delay the more damage they can do to the process of legitimate protest."

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1250765520080815?pageNumber=...

And, Townhall is probably the tamest site for the freeepers.

Franz Kafka

Guantanamo trial may proceed without defendant

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - An accused al Qaeda videographer abandoned his hearing in the U.S. war crimes court at Guantanamo on Friday, setting up what could be a fast trial with no defendant and no defense.

"I do not have any trust in this legal farce," he said through an Arabic-English interpreter. "Continue this illegal play in any way you wish."

Bahlul's military-appointed lawyer, Air Force Maj. David Frakt, asked for a speedy trial and said he would honor Bahlul's request to put on no defense at all.

"I think he thinks this circus has gone on long enough," Frakt said after the hearing at the U.S. naval base in southeastern Cuba.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSNASU8150120080815

Compassion forum tomorrow on CNN & MSNBC @ 8pm ET. They may ask about divorce and drugs. Should be good.

You have to know how to handle Dick

You don't want to get shot in the face.

Friday, August 15, 2008
Conyers Calls Committee Back from Summer Recess to Investigate Suskind Allegations
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers has called his committee back from summer recess in order to investigate allegations by Ron Suskind that the Bush administration forged a letter to buttress the link the administration made between Saddam and 9/11, and Saddam and WMD. The congressional Authorization for the Use of Force Against Iraq, the ""War Resolution" which, as far short as it fell of a congressional declaration of war, gave the invasion its constitutional legal cover, gave Bush the authorization to invade only after he had certified to congress the existence of these two critical links. If Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, and if he did not possess WMD, the war was off.
http://impeachmentlefttoright.blogspot.com/2008/08/conyers-calls-committ...

McCain On Swift-Boating Book: "Gotta Keep Your Sense Of Humor"
Asked today about the new anti-Obama bio, McCain sidestepped a chance to condemn the book -- even though he bashed the swift-boating of John Kerry in 2004.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_on_swiftb...

McCain: "I created the Do Not Call list"

This week, 16 months into his campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) released his first policy paper on technology. Over at the Wonk Room, former Clinton administration privacy counselor Peter Swire notes that the paper gives McCain credit for "creating” the “Do Not Call” list. But the Federal Trade Commission chairman announced the list two years earlier:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/15/14386/8347/3/568494

Rice Slams Russia, Announces Cease-Fire
At a news conference during which President Saakashvili repeatedly called Russians "barbarians," Condoleezza Rice and Saakashvili announced a cease-fire that includes a provision for international monitors."The free world will now have to wrestle with the profound implications of Russia's attack," Rice said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/15/us.russia/index.html

Indictment against Posada reinstated
An appeals court has reversed the dismissal of charges against Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, who is accused of lying about his entry into the United States.

Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, would not say what federal authorities plan to do. He issued a written statement saying: ``We're pleased with the ruling and will proceed forward as appropriate.''

Posada, 80, surfaced in Miami in March 2005 after leaving his temporary home in Honduras.

Posada has been sought by the Venezuelan and Cuban governments in connection with allegations he played a role in the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that killed 73 people and bombings of Cuban tourist sites in 1997.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/642782.html

Bomb strikes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) - A passenger van packed with explosives blew up Friday at a bus station north of Baghdad where Shiite pilgrims had stopped for the night, killing four people and wounding dozens, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

The blast happened a day after a female suicide bomber struck Shiite pilgrims traveling to Karbala for a major religious festival, killing at least 18 people and wounding 75.

Also Friday, the U.S. military reported the deaths of two more service members - a Marine in combat the day before west of Baghdad and a soldier who died Friday of ``non-battle related causes'' in the capital.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7728336

in 2008, they're getting what they want.

Here's something from the Daily News for what it's worth --and especially this part:

"... already the list of what Hillary wants and what Hillary gets is unprecedented for somebody who lost the nomination. She gets a prime-time address where she will be introduced by daughter Chelsea. She gets her own team to produce a hagiographic video of her.

Hubby Bubba gets a prime-time speech on Wednesday night. And Hillary gets a platform plank that uses "glass ceiling" language right out of her speech to suggest she would be the nominee if not for sexism.

A few more big-ticket items and she'll be the co-nominee. Maybe that's the point.

It reminds me of a Cold War joke about how the Russians view a compromise. They come to the table and announce the rules: What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable...."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/08/14/2008-08-14_barack_obama_b...

Too bad Cheney's hat can't be in a Saturday Night Live skit, but it would probably be called obscene....But in truth, Cheney himself and his 2001 Energy Plan are more obscene than any hat could every be....

McCain Camp's Defense Against Sturgis Beauty Pageant Critics: He Was A POW!
By Eric Kleefeld - August 15, 2008, 2:16PM
The McCain campaign has offered a novel defense against critics who hit him for offering up his wife Cindy as a contestant at a topless biker beauty pageant: He was a POW!

This whole mess started when Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, who is heading up an independent group of pro-Obama pastors -- and, by the way, officiated at Jenna Bush's wedding -- criticized McCain's remarks at the Sturgis rally: "My personal opinion, and based on my opinion of the Christian faith, that's not the type of expression a presidential candidate or anyone following the Christian faith ought to make."

The Wall St. Journal reports that McCain spokesman Brian Rogers fired back by saying that Americans "know that John McCain's faith and character were tested and forged in ways few can fathom."

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/15/christian-pac-to-air-pro-obama-...

Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, the pastor that presided over Jenna Bush's wedding ceremony and is considered a close personal friend of President Bush, absolutely ripped into John McCain today on a conference call with reporters. Rev. Caldwell took issue with Senator McCain's remarks that he made at the Sturgis bike rally last week when he volunteered his wife for the rally's "beauty" pageant, the Ms. Buffalo Chip pageant.
The article also points out that Caldwell is backing Obama for president, and is a member of the Matthew 25 network. For anyone who is not familiar with the Matthew 25 network and the great work they do, you can check out cardboard's diary currently on the Rec list.

During the conference call, Rev. Caldwell also hits John McCain on his adultery during his first marraige:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/15/143035/180/24/568489

McCain admits to pandering on taxes: ‘I have to be against tax increases, as you know.’
Last month, after incurring the wrath of hardline anti-tax conservatives for saying that tax increases weren’t “off the table” for fixing Social Security, he caved to his base and made “an updated version” of George H. W. Bush’s infamous “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge. In Aspen yesterday, McCain admitted that he was in a box on Social Security and taxes, saying, “I have to be against tax increases, as you know“:

McCain has called for a bipartisan effort to fix Social Security and infuriated some conservatives by saying that everything, including increasing payroll taxes, could be on the table. He said today that “you know I’m opposed to tax increases” when Isaacson asked him about it. “I think I can convince people on the other side of the table that we do not need tax increases.”

When Isaacson said the proposal would have to be on the table to be negotiated off the table, McCain drew a smattering of laughter when he said “I have to be against tax increases, as you know.”

McCain is stuck in the “rhetorical trap” of conservative anti-tax fundamentalism, which, as Matthew Yglesias explains, is denial of policy reality based on having “spent the past 30 years trying to convince people that any hint of tax increase for any purpose is the purest evil.”

UPDATE: Watch McCain admit his pandering: at link

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/mccain-pander-taxes-aspen/

Conservatives Claim Obama Is ‘So Bad For The Economy,’ While Wall Street Donates More To Obama
Conservatives have been trying to frighten investors about the prospects of a Barack Obama presidency. Larry Kudlow wrote, “Wall Street, beware,” while The Street’s Richard Moore suggested “that the market seems to do better when Barack Obama is having problems.” Michael Pento of Delta Global Advisers claimed another Depression is “where we’re headed” if Obama’s economic plans are adopted. Watch a compilation: at link

Wall Street however, disagrees, and is donating more to Obama’s campaign than to the campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

Bloomberg reports that Obama “has captured $9.6 million in donations from employees working for securities, mortgage and drug companies, compared with McCain’s $6.6 million.” From “brokers, bankers and traders in the securities industry” Obama has gathered $8.9 million to McCain’s $6.3 million, and “their support comes even as Obama seeks higher taxes for wealthy Americans.” Workers in the mortgage industry, meanwhile, “gave $278,937 to Obama and $133,475 to McCain.”

In 2004, all of these industries donated more to President Bush than they did to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). Yet by rejecting McCain, Wall Street is showing its dissatisfaction with the past eight years of Bush’s presidency, which saw skyrocketing deficits and financial crises. Perhaps they also want to make sure that benefits are dispersed throughout the economy, rather than given to just the wealthiest Americans.

However, there are some industries with which McCain is more popular. Bloomberg notes that the oil and gas industries gave their “million dollar maverick” McCain “four times the amount” that they’ve given Obama.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/wall-street-obama/

New bill would lift ban on journalists photographing returning military dead.
A new bill would require the Department of Defense to “grant journalists access to ceremonies honoring fallen military personnel.” Introduced by Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) last month, the bill has six co-sponsors and won the endorsement of the National Press Photographers Association this week. The bill states:

The Secretary of Defense shall grant access to accredited members of the media at military commemoration ceremonies and memorial services conducted by the Armed Forces for members of the Armed Forces who have died on active duty and when the remains of members of the Armed Forces arrive at military installations in the United States.

The current Defense policy, which was updated in 2003, states that there shall be no “media coverage of” the returning war dead.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/new-bill-would-lift-ban-on-journalis...

(CNN) -- The Rev. Rick Warren, often called America's most influential pastor, will be hosting Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain for what's being called the civil forum on the presidency.

Rick Warren will be hosting the civil forum on the presidency

Warren, who heads up the country's fourth largest church, is also an author whose books have sold more than 30 million copies.

The candidates will appear together at Warren's 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in southern California where they each will be interviewed for an hour.

Warren spoke with John Roberts on CNN's American Morning about what he hopes to accomplish at the forum.

John Roberts: What do you want to hear from candidates Saturday night?

Rick Warren: You know, John, we're going to look at four different segments. One is a segment on leadership. What is the personal character, competence, and experience of each of these guys.

One section will be on what I call stewardship -- the role and responsibility of presidency, what they believe about the constitution, the role of America.

We're going to look at a section on world view -- all of the minefield questions that no matter how you answer them, somebody's not going to like it. Then we're going to look at America's role internationally. How we've been a blessed nation and how should we bless others.

Roberts: Are you going to ask them about issues like abortion and same-sex marriage? Pro-life advocates are hoping you do. There has been some criticism in some corners you have been soft-pedaling political issues that are central to evangelicals.

Live forum on CNN

John McCain and Barack Obama in a live forum hosted by Rick Warren.
Sat., 8 p.m. ET

Warren: I think everybody will be surprised. I'm going to ask all of the tough questions. I just intend to ask them in a civil way. This is called a civil forum, which means you can disagree without demonizing the opposition. I think everybody wants to hear questions not just about those "moral issues," but also about a lot of other things, too. I'm trying to stake out a common ground for the common good.

Roberts: When you take a look at the evangelical vote in 2004, George Bush captured more than 75 percent of people who identify themselves as either born again or evangelical.

Our recent polling, CNN Opinion Research Corporation polls, found when it comes to John McCain, only 67 percent of evangelicals say they'll support him. Are you surprised at the shift?

Warren: It's interesting to me. Both of these men have been around for some time. Obama's written two books. Still a lot of people say, I'd like to know the real person. What are they really like? I'm hoping that'll happen in this forum.

Evangelicals have never been a monolithic voting base. Never. And the people who try to predict which way they're going to go in this election I think may be surprised after Election Day. You don't really know. I don't know, and I don't think anybody knows.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/15/warren.qanda/

Happe Talk

Texas school district to let teachers carry guns

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.

The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.

School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

Thweatt said it is a matter of safety.

"We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?" he said. "It's just common sense."

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1538661720080815

A new-style evangelical pastor
ascends the political stage on Saturday

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On Saturday, pastor Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose-Driven Life," will do what no one else has yet accomplished: bring the presumptive GOP and Democratic presidential nominees onto the same stage to discuss their views.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080815/ts_csm/awarren;_ylt=Ai_ETD8kMcjR91z...

these people want a McCain Clinton ticket. PUMA stands for party unity my ass....seriously.

David Shuster did a damn good job skewering them yesterday on hardball.

I think it is covert racism

Happe Talk

Bush Flubs Navy Aid Claim, Forgets Turkey
Posted By Cernig

When Dubya announced that US Navy ships would carry humanitarian aid to Georgia, he forgot that he hadn't asked Turkey if it was OK. Turkey, by the 1936 Montreaux Convention, controls all warship access to the the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Jonathan S. Landay at McClatchy calls it a "flub".

"The president was writing checks to the Georgians without knowing what he had in the bank," said a senior administration official.

"The president got out in front of the planning when he talked publicly about using naval forces," said a second senior administration official. "At that point we need to look at treaty obligations, our bilateral relations with the Turks and others, waterway restrictions and what kind of ships might be appropriate and usable — something like the Comfort or something already in the Med (Mediterranean)."

The U.S. officials requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly, because the issue is diplomatically sensitive or because the administration takes a dim view of officials who reveal its internal deliberations.

That would be hillarious if it wasn't so f-ing sad. Don't imagine for a second that bush just upped and announced this - a whole slew of folk at State, the Pentagon and in the White House had to ignore or forget American treaty obligations before the speech was cleared too. This is your foreign policy on Republicanism.

The nutter in charge in Georgia then took it a step further:

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/08/bush-flubs-navy.html

Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 3:54pm.
(CNN) -- The Rev. Rick Warren, often called America's most influential pastor, will be hosting Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain for what's being called the civil forum on the presidency.

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Huckaboob was on C-Klan earlier. It was the old Gays and abortion shtick. Frankly, I wish these evangelical preachers would just go to Hell. And I mean Now!

The success of the neocon propaganda has been so great that the opposition party has not lifted a finger to rein in the Bush Regime’s criminal actions. Even Obama, who promises “change” is too intimidated by the neocon’s success in brainwashing the American population to do what his supporters hoped he would do and lead us out of the shame in which the neoconned Bush Regime has imprisoned us.

This about sums up the pessimistic state in which I existed prior to the go-ahead given by the Bush Regime to its puppet in Georgia to ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of Russians in order to defuse the separatist movement. The American media, aka, the Ministry of Lies and Deceit, again accommodated the criminal Bush Regime and proclaimed “Russian invasion” to cover up the ethnic cleansing of Russians in South Ossetia by the Georgian military assault.

Only this time, the rest of the world didn’t buy it. The many years of lies--9/11, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda connections, yellowcake, anthrax attack, Iranian nukes, “the United States doesn’t torture,” the bombings of weddings, funerals, and children’s soccer games, Abu Ghraib, renditions, Guantanamo, various fabricated “terrorist plots,” the determined assault on civil liberties--have taken their toll on American credibility. No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government.
PCR
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08152008.html

Cafferty to McCain, Say What? “In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.”
By: John Amato @ 9:00 AM - PDT

John McCain actually had the nerve to say that we’re all supposed to respect the sovereignty and independence of nations. Except of course if they’re in the middle east or vital to our national security. (That will always be the out for war hawks.) I think he forgot that part. I know, you’re all waiting for McCain’s Media to bring up Iraq, right? I mean McCain said it’s a terrible thing to not respect other nations independence. Am I missing something? Will the press pool that covers McCain vociferously question McCain on these statements?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/15/cafferty-to-mccain-say-what-in-...

he is all about the sermon on the mount. Taking care of born children and the poor and such. I think he is a good guy and probably wont be going to hell any time soon.

Happe Talk

'Obama -- The Postmodern Coup' by Webster Griffin Tarpley

"...All indications are that Brzezinski recruited Obama at Columbia University a quarter century ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure.

Obama's economics are pure Skull & Bones/Chicago school austerity and sacrifice for American working families, all designed to bail out the bankrupt Wall Street elitist financiers who own Obama. Obama's lemming legions and Kool-Aid cult candidacy hearken back to Italy in 1919-1922, and raise the question of postmodern fascism in the United States today.

About the Author Webster Griffin Tarpley (Massachusetts 1946) is an intelligence expert and historian who has been studying and exposing covert operations for over thirty years. He is the author of George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992) and 9/11 Synthetic Terror (2005). He has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News, and many more...."

http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/obama.html

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Since I'm learning alot from Tarpley's "The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush" (that is, Bush the Elder; the book cn be read online at Tarpley's site), I am curious about this latest Tarpley book.

Chicago Tribune lays off 40
By Phil Rosenthal | Tribune media columnist
1:39 PM CDT, August 15, 2008
The Chicago Tribune shed more than 40 newsroom employees today, which, coupled with last week's voluntary exit of more than 30 journalists, means the paper has cut 80 people from its editorial staff as part of cost-cutting campaign at all of parent Tribune Co.'s newspapers.

"Endings are never easy," Tribune editor Gerould W. Kern said in a note to staff, adding that "with the departure of 80 individuals through today, the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune stands at 480, the largest news organization in Chicago by a wide margin and one of the largest and most accomplished in the United States. ... While painful, these staff reductions are necessary to establish the foundation for a sustainable future."

The latest round of cutbacks is the paper's fourth since late 2005, when the newsroom was said to have had 670 positions. Other departments at the paper have been making cuts, as well.

The reductions are consistent with a trend common not just to Tribune Co. properties but newspapers across the nation, including the New York Times and Washington Post, related to online businesses growth failing to offset accelerated declines in print ad revenue.

Tribune Co., which went private late last year in a heavily leveraged transaction, earlier this week reported a $4.53 billion second-quarter net loss, largely the result of a $3.84 billion accounting-related charge to write down the value of intangible assets known as goodwill. Overall revenue dropped nearly 6 percent to $1.11 billion from $1.18 billion in the year-ago quarter. Its second-quarter publishing revenues were down 11 percent compared to the same stretch in 2007.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chicago-tribune-layoffs-aug15,0,4...

Happe Talk

Rick Warren is a new testament evangelical
new
Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 4:23pm.
he is all about the sermon on the mount. Taking care of born children and the poor and such. I think he is a good guy and probably wont be going to hell any time soon.

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Thanks for this info., mhappenow. I saw his photo on the cover of a weekly newsmag at a check-out counter this week, but i didn't have time to peek inside.

but I don't think he is evil like the old testament closeted weirdo's who make all the money thru lies.

Happe Talk

Very interesting to hear economist Ravi Batra today define the 'demand' in the phrase "supply and demand": Demand is measured by the spendable consumer dollars and without the middle class' ability to spend, demand shrivels up.

Coincidentally, heard a New World Order watcher/reporter indicate that we must go to the next step on this troubled economy picture: When there is a financial collapse such as the one we're experiencing now, great wealth is EXTRACTED from the masses (that means everyone who is not part of the oligarchy of the wealthy few), and that which is extracted is then CONSOLIDATED into the possession of the oligarchy.

However -- of special interest -- the reporter Daniel Estulin points out, is the appearance in the literature of the Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome, European Commission, and Bilderberg Group of the term "DEMAND DESTRUCTION". It gives cause for alarm! The repeated use of the term "Demand Destruction" indicates that the perception of collapse for the purpose of extracting and consolidating wealth into the hands of the wealthiest appears to be done purposely through criminal intent.

I recommend you hear this term "Demand Destruction" mentioned in the following interview of reporter/author Daniel Estulin (audio) on youTube:

Part 9 of 14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWegKFOSw44&feature=related

Part 10 of 14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0FzNQjrMnk&feature=related

might understand economics. He want to raise the minimum wage to like 10.00 and wants to give all govt. workers big raises. This will increase the middle class and help our woes and increase demand.

I will definitely download that one Nora, thanks.

Happe Talk

On August 29, 2008, John McCain will turned 72 years old. If elected, he will take the oath of office as the oldest president in the history of America. His celebrations are always lavish. I've posted info about his infamous 68th birthday. The so-called Liberal Media was in attendance. It's worth posting again. Please note where he spent his 70th birthday. Very interesting, don't you think?

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John McCain's 68th Birthday

On August 30, John McCain hosted a lavish birthday party for himself at New York’s ritzy eatery La Goulue, a name that appropriately translates to “The Glutton”. Among the senator’s guests were General Electric employees Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, and Gloria Borger; Disney’s Peter Jennings, Barbara Walters, Ted Koppel and George Stephanopoulos; and Viacom’s Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, and Charlie Rose. Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons attended, accompanied by his underlings Judy Woodruff and Jeff Greenfield. Also present were CBS News President Andrew Heyward, ABC News President David Westin, U.S. News & World Report publisher Mort Zuckerman, Washington Post Chairman Donald Graham, New York Times columnists William Safire and David Brooks, and USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro. The partygoers dined on lobster salad, loin of lamb, assorted wines, crème brûlée, lemon soufflé, and French tarts.

According to the Children’s Hunger Fund, eleven million American boys and girls go hungry each day, a tragic yet correctable situation that is entirely irrelevant to the well-fed aristocrats who decide what constitutes news.

http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/040906_LetThemEatTartshtm.ht...

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John McCain's 69th birthday

It was Aug. 29, McCain’s 69th birthday, and on the tarmac, Bush presented his old political rival with a cake. The two posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.

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John McCain's 70th birthday

Th birthday bash held on board the yacht of a Russian aluminum tycoon in the Adriatic Sea. The party was held on August 29, 2006, McCain's birthday and followed a congressional junket by McCain and five other GOP senators to the Republic of Georgia.

The host for McCain's yacht party off the coast of the Republic of Montenegro was, according to WMR sources with close links to the Republican Party, Oleg Deripaska, one of Russia's most powerful tycoons who made his billions in cornering Russia's aluminum market in the 1990s.

The 40-year old Deripaska is also politically-connected, having married the daughter of Russia's late President Boris Yeltsin. Unlike most other Russian tycoons, who now live in exile abroad and are protected by Israeli passports, Deripaska maintains close relations to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and another Russian tycoon, Roman Abramovich, who was also invested in Russia's aluminum industry. In 2000, Deripaska merged his firm, Basic Element, with Abramovich's firm, RusAl. Both tycoons maintain expensive homes in London

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3364.shtml

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John McCain's 71th birthday

The Arizona senator partied like a rock star by hitting up celeb fave Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills. The former prisoner of war left the A-list eatery in a limo, while wife Cindy was ushered onto a private bus. Oh, the humanity!

No reports of this Republican politician engaged in any "lewd" bathroom behavior. Don't ask, don't tell!

http://www.tmz.com/2007/08/29/john-mccain-chow-hound/

i can't imagine any good coming from obama being publicly grilled for an evening by an evangelical minister.

Will Obama Wave Bayh-Bye to the White House?

By David Sirota

If you believe the chatter, Barack Obama is desperately seeking a white guy—any white guy—to be his running mate. Democratic sources have floated vice-presidential trial balloons for every pale-faced stiff in the D.C. region—from Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. But with Obama needing his “change” brand to overshadow his recent flip-flops, no pick would be more self-defeating than Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh—the career politician who best personifies “more of the same.”

The son of Sen. Birch Bayh, Evan has no discernible political skills (unless “skills” include being the cure for insomnia and having a famous last name). In the decade since this prince claimed his daddy’s Senate seat, he has amassed not a single significant accomplishment—a miraculous achievement, even by Washington’s do-nothing standards. If he is known at all, it is for heading a business front group called the Democratic Leadership Council, using that position to rake in corporate campaign contributions and then paying back the money with votes.

For instance, in his 2004 campaign, Bayh raised almost $1 million from the banking and financial industries, then voted in 2005 for a bankruptcy bill helping those industries intensify their usurious practices. Similarly, despite representing a manufacturing state crushed by trade-related job losses, Bayh has voted for a bevy of lobbyist-written trade pacts, including the monumentally destructive China deal in 2000.

On foreign policy, it’s even worse. Bayh has been a shameless Bush parrot, infamously commending himself for being “tough and smart” after aggressively supporting the Iraq war—the same war that U.S. intelligence agencies have said is severely weakening America’s national security.

Obama selecting this corporate Frankenstein would implicitly signal that the Illinois senator’s populist campaign promises are a farce. In terms of demoralizing Democratic voters, a Bayh pick would make Al Gore’s 2000 choice of Joe Lieberman—i.e., the worst vice-presidential nomination in contemporary history—look positively brilliant.

But let’s say Obama doesn’t mind destroying Democratic enthusiasm for his candidacy. Let’s say he is specifically looking to win a Republican state like Indiana. Even in that context, a Bayh nomination is absurd.

Democrats have lost Indiana in every presidential election since 1964, including the three that Bayh appeared on the statewide ballot. In the June Democratic presidential primary, Bayh backed Hillary Clinton—and yet, Obama nearly tied her in Indiana. That’s correct—the Bayh machine that is supposedly powerful enough to deliver Indiana in the general election couldn’t even muster a decisive intra-party victory.

The most ridiculous arguments for Bayh are those insisting that his nomination would (A) appease embittered Clinton supporters because Bayh was a Clinton supporter and (B) help win Indiana border states such as Ohio.

Like most D.C. analysis, this assertion assumes that most Americans are as obsessed with politics as professional pundits, and therefore that most Clinton voters (A) know who Bayh is and (B) know Bayh supported Clinton. Furthermore, the theory presumes that unemployed factory workers in places like Akron will decide to vote for Obama because of Bayh—even though most of them have never heard of the Indiana senator and those that have know him for voting to ship their jobs overseas. (Note to Obama: If you want to win Ohio, why not pick the Buckeye State’s anti-war and anti-NAFTA Sen. Sherrod Brown?)

If Obama has, indeed, confined his vice-presidential search only to white men (a big “if"), that’s unfortunate, though unsurprising. With Obama facing a continued barrage of race-tinged attacks, such calculation would be predictable. But that doesn’t mean he has to pick a running mate who completely undermines his “change” message. If he does that, Democrats could be saying Bayh-bye to the presidency.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080815_will_obama_wave_bayh_bye_to...
Happe Talk

He was down right snooty to questions pertaining to this investigat[ion]. It was very strange... weird vibe like he was hiding something.

Just wondering if anyone else caught that.

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Happe Talk

very defensive but he does say he is the most frustrated person on the hill. Suskind is very smooth with him.
I can see why he gets so much information.

Back from therapy. She really pushed me today and I'm a bit sore now.

This Rick Warren was on CNN and was being questioned about who he reccommends to his church to be president. He said that he doesn't reccommend anyone. He has republicans, dems and independents in his church and he doesn't think the church should tell you who to vote for. He was very careful answering questions.

mhappenow@5:54...

I try to keep open several ways of looking at something to test different possibilities.

So this scenario of Obama trying to find a white male running mate is an odd one for me. It assumes the presidential nominee actually does the choosing on his own. However, I see possibilities --

o Besides choosing his own VP
o Like bargaining with the Dem Party on the best VP running mate for reasons such as market research, regional voting patterns, donor preferences
o Or even being TOLD by the oligarchy (who allowed Obama to get to be a primary frontrunner) just who his VP running mate is going to be....

Sirota sounds like a sincere person and always has alot interesting to say, but when he gets alarmed, it seems to me that he gets alarmed about the palest and possibly least terrible of all the terrible possibilities.

Like, what's a terrible possibility? Hmmm. That the Bill Gwatley assassination has political meaning for the convention. Gwatley was a superdelegate, a former Clinton loyalist who switched to Obama. Gwatley's murder just seems too awful not to have meaning. But as there are no facts I'm aware of to build a "meaning" out of it, I set it aside as a disturbing reality that just FEELS weird.

Landed In Seattle??

if so head North and go to "Fremont" near the U. District. Fremont is the neighborhood.
Pretty Happening area.

best place to head to is ...
Rudy's Barber Shop: Fremont | 475 N 36th St, Seattle - (206) 547-0818
- www.rudysbarbershop.com

afterwards ...
Go to the McMenamins - "Dad Watson's" across the street for a Ruby/Terminator "Rubinator" post clip.

That will change-up that New York state of mind.
Welcome to the West/Best coast.

-Klug

olympic widgets

I got this one
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/knbc-local-olympic-coverage
[can't believe only 19 people total have downloaded this?]

or
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/beijing-olympics-widget-live-results
==
I have no TV but have found this
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html
explore - it is great - Olympic coverage often without the annoying commentary

you need to download [free] ms silverlight to view video, it prompts you.
worth it.

when you get the video page click on the "enlarge video"
then on the left click the top icon "live video control room"
4 videos at once - switch back and forth - good place to find live brodcasts. Also, My connection is slow, the smaller LVCR screen doesn't stop to buffer.

AND the net is the only place to see badminton.
: )
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

Of Rick Warren being interviewed by ABC. At least you get an idea of what he's about.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=5586670&page=1

(CNN) — John McCain's campaign is denying Democratic charges the presumptive Republican nominee flippantly dismissed a new book attacking Barack Obama that includes several documented falsehoods.

Asked by the Associated Press earlier Friday what he though of author Jerome Corsi's new book, "The Obama Nation," McCain said, "gotta keep your sense of humor."

Those comments were immediately slammed by the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee, which e-mailed its 3.4 million supporters declaring, "John McCain thinks smears and lies are funny."

"Despite pledging to run a respectful campaign, McCain is just standing by while Corsi and his publisher, former Dick Cheney aide Mary Matalin, poison this presidential race," read the e-mail from DNC Rapid Response Team.

But McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said later Thursday the Arizona senator actually did not hear the question, and would not be commenting on the book.

The book, which is expected to debut No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, repeats many long-discredited falsehoods about the Illinois senator, including the claim that he is Muslim.

Corsi, who has said he's on a “mission” to take down Obama, also co-wrote "Unfit for Command" — the 2004 book that spawned the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks against then-Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/15/campaign-says-mccain-did...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Class Action Suit Against DOJ Grows, Names Gonzales and Goodling as Defendants

By Kate Klonick - August 15, 2008, 12:18PM

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and embattled former White House liaison Monica Goodling are among those newly named as defendants in a private class-action lawsuit against the DOJ.

The suit, Gerlich et al. v. Department of Justice, was orginally filed in response to the Inspector General's report on politicized hiring in the Attorney General's Honors Program. The report found that a number of DOJ officials, namely Esther Slater McDonald and Michael Elston, had broken the law in basing hiring decisions based on political affiliations.

The amended lawsuit expands the defendant list from only the Justice Department to specific individuals. Besides Gonzales and Goodling, Elston and McDonald are also named as new defendants in the case.

The suit also added five new plaintiffs.

[end]

..I see no Rod Parsley, or Falwell or Roberts or that crazy phucc in Texas in Rick Warren. I like that format, McCain will be at a disadvantage no matter when his turn comes. I bet Warren asks him about his "runnin' around" days and cheatin' on his first wife. I bet he also asks Obama about his druggy daze. Fair questions for someone who is running for President.

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Harry and Louise are back
Posted: 12:22 PM ET

From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Harry and Louise, the couple who agonized over changes to their health insurance in a 1993 political ad, are back in a new 30-second commercial urging lawmakers to make healthcare the number one issue on the domestic agenda.

It is scheduled to air during the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions and will be financed by several different organizations, including Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Business. The commercial will be unveiled Tuesday at a news conference in Washington.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/15/harry-and-louise-are-bac...

And another from the rogues gallery at TPMMuckraker -- go there to see the mentioned ad --

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Club For Growth Misses The Point In New Anti-Young Ad

By Eric Kleefeld and Kate Klonick - August 14, 2008, 5:05PM

Someone is finally going directly after GOP Congressman Don Young over his suspicious earmark for the Coconut Road interchange in Florida -- but they're just skimming the surface.

The Club For Growth, which is backing Young's GOP primary challenger Sean Parnell, is airing this new ad attacking Young for putting a $10 million earmark for Florida in the budget in order to benefit a contributor:

Unfortunately, the ad doesn't mention the really juicy part -- that Young's staff inserted the earmark in after the whole budget had passed in Congress, making the whole thing almost certainly unconstitutional as well as ethically questionable...

McCain: ‘I Have Not Missed Any Crucial Vote’ On Energy Legislation
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) currently holds the title of most absent U.S. senator, missing over 60 percent of votes this session. In an interview with Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute yesterday, McCain claimed he has not “missed any crucial vote” on energy legislation:

McCAIN: I have a long record of that support of alternate energy. … I’ve always been for all of those and I have not missed any crucial vote. But my citizens in Arizona know that when I’m running for the President of the United States I have to be out campaigning.

Watch it (via Progressive Accountability): At Link

McCain’s has actually missed several “crucial” energy votes. In July alone, he missed every single energy vote brought to the floor. This session, McCain has skipped votes supporting renewable energy tax credits four times, all of which were filibustered. In June, for example, McCain missed a vote on the landmark Lieberman-Warner climate change legislation.

McCain has also been the “crucial” absent vote on key legislation. In December, legislation stripping tax break giveaways to Big Oil and investing in cleaner sources failed by one vote, 59-40 (Vote #425); McCain missed that vote to campaign. In February, McCain skipped a vote on extending tax credits to renewables, which also failed by one vote (Vote #8). Both times, McCain was the only senator absent.

“It’s interesting to hear Sen. McCain talk about bringing Congress back” for a vote on offshore drilling, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this week. “He wasn’t even in Congress when we had two very important bills on energy.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/mccain-energy-aspen/

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 11:30am.
Bgurl in Red Molly mode...
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Sunny J--Is your favorite lady astride a Honda 450 in the photo? A Honda 350? (Those are my guesses and I'm stickin' with 'em.)
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Top dishonors in writing go to Washington man
Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 1:15pm.
...this is probably a repost, but I didn't want to risk Crank's missing it.
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It's a repost because the Baitster posted some winning examples and the website link a couple of days ago.

Thanks for your belated consideration. I'm touched. Really. The white coat guys should be here any minute.
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I am subscribing to the theory that Joe Biden is the current odds-on favorite for Obama's veep choice.

I reserve the right to change my mind if Obama stalls for a while and international news cools in the meantime.

For now, the hostilities between Georgia and Russia serve to swing Biden's expertise to the fore. It ain't about who's the best choice for the Vice-Presidency, it's about what's hot and in the news when he or she is chosen.
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BEIJING (AP)

...Christian Cantwell, the two-time world indoor champion, moved into second place at 69 feet, 2 1/2 inches — the only American to get a medal in what his team had hoped would be a 1-2-3 U.S. finish.

Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus collected bronze at 69 feet, 3/4 inches.

Reese Hoffa, the reigning world champion, finished seventh at 67 feet, 4 1/4 inches and his U.S. teammate Adam Nelson, the two-time Olympic silver medalist, did not register a mark in the final after three fouls...
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I heard an interview with Cantwell (he's kind of a 300 lb. curmudgeon from Missouri who didn't attend the Olympic opening ceremonies because they would be hot and humid and long and boring).

When asked how Adam Nelson managed to foul out of competition, Cantwell said, "I don't have a fucking clue."

At long last, an honest man.

Fifteen illegal immigrants who lost a spouse or child in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were granted temporary legal status Friday, a potential move toward legal residency for people who have lived in limbo since losing their loved ones.

The Department of Homeland Security's decision could clear the way for the survivors to share their personal stories with Congress without fear of deportation - information some legislators had said was necessary before the relatives could be granted a path to staying in the country legally.

The 15 have received money from the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, and Steinberg said she believed other survivors who got money from it had already found other paths to legal residency.

A proposal to grant permanent residency to the relatives stalled in Congress last year. Some House members said they didn't have enough information and raised concerns about the possibility of giving legal status to criminals or terrorists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7728762

Put Sam on AA. Why can't Sam be on Rachel's show when she is gone? I don't like Bender, won't listen to him.
What did Sam ever do to Rhandi to incur her wrath? Seems to me she is way off base with whatever remarks she is making about Sam.
Can't imagine all those talking heads in Seattle and it is advertised as one hour. Some of them can't make a statement in less then one hour.

McCain Adviser/Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Silent On Campaign’s Opposition To Net Neutrality
It’s been widely reported that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is a self-admitted “illiterate” when it comes to computers. But some have suggested that he could still put forward sound technology policy because he surrounds himself with tech-savvy advisers, such as former Hewlett-Packard chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and former eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman.

But it’s unclear how much he is listening to them. Yesterday, McCain finally released his technology platform. (Until this time, “technology” was not even listed in the Issues section of his campaign website.) His plan supposedly focuses on innovation, but in reality, it often repeats McCain’s previous non-innovative positions, such as his opposition to net neutrality:

When Regulation Is Warranted, John McCain Acts. John McCain does not believe in prescriptive regulation like “net-neutrality,” but rather he believes that an open marketplace with a variety of consumer choices is the best deterrent against unfair practices.

This position is misguided and opposed by major Internet innovators. As Free Press explains, net neutrality preserves a “free and open Internet” by preventing “from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.”

On April 5, 2006, technology industry leaders wrote to Congress and asked it to preserve net neutrality. Although these companies would be more than able to pay any fees the telecoms might charge, they recognized that it would hamper future entrepreneurship on the Internet. One of the signers to the letter? Meg Whitman, who was then heading eBay. From the letter:

Until FCC decisions made last summer, consumers’ ability to choose the content and services they want via their broadband connections was assured by regulatory safeguards. … This “innovation without permission” has fueled phenomenal economic growth, productivity gains, and global leadership for our nation’s high tech companies.

To preserve this environment, we urge the Committee to include language that directly addresses broadband network operators’ ability to manipulate what consumers will see and do online.

Whitman has stayed silent about McCain’s opposition to net neutrality, and apparently, McCain is refusing to listen to Whitman as well. In 2006, McCain sided with the telecom industry and voted against legislation sponsored by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) that would have prevented broadband providers from creating a pay-for-play system. McCain sided with the telecom industry and voted against this bill.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/mccain-net-neutrality/

Update: It turns out that it is Whitman vs. the McCain camp on another technology issue – whether consumers should have legal protections for their privacy when surfing online. The new McCain privacy statement says that the market and “self-regulation” should protect our privacy. But Whitman testified in Congress in 2006 supporting a federal statute to protect privacy.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/reparchives/108/Hearings/06202006hearing...

ExxonMobil owns the media’s convention coverage.
As ThinkProgress noted yesterday, ExxonMobil is sponsoring CNN’s coverage of both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. We also noted that CBS’s political coverage is sponsored by ExxonMobil. Now, it appears that National Journal has also opened its doors to Big Oil sponsorship, announcing on its website that its coverage of the 2008 conventions will be “presented by ExxonMobil”:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/exxon-owns-media/

Ravi Batra speaks in a way that I finally think I
new
Submitted by mhappenow on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 5:22pm.
might understand economics. He want to raise the minimum wage to like 10.00 and wants to give all govt. workers big raises. This will increase the middle class and help our woes and increase demand.

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Good (and simple). You don't need conspiracy theories to explain economics. If an administration has the will to do what Batra proposes, they can ignore the activities of the internationalists. A key is to get the people mobilized to support the programs, and they should because it is in their interests. Elementary.
*TLL*

he sounds like an arrogant imbecil, is he drunk? Is the pelosi-caused stress getting to him? Conyers has a style of speaking that grates on me anyway in the best of times, but this is ridiculous

i am watching it now because maggiesboy mentioned it

My dad worked in radio/TV management and I did for a while too, so I am somewhat familiar with the factors that go into deciding who should be on the air. While you could consider demographics as the best measure of determining who would be best in any giving time-slot, the management at AAR has their own method. They make their decisions by pulling them out of their butts which explains all the crappy decisions they make.

The problem we all have is assuming AAR really wants to be the progressive radio voice of the nation. They do not. They want to be a voice to further their own personal interests.

Don't rat on Bender too much, he's very qualified and knowledgeable. He let's you know what he's thinking and sticks to it. You have to remember, Rachel looks up to him and that an endorsement to take seriously.

Still I'm with you...bring on Sam Seder!

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did anyone refer to it as an abomination yet? If not i should copyright it. Obama Nation is an abomination.

I think Ron Kuby was selected is because he is popular in NYC, where he has been on the radio for years. Sam will have a show on AAR before too long.
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i have seen him on other interviews but this one with dn is very good

Bacevich on Moyers
Many of you are familiar with Andrew J. Bacevich, the retired Army Colonel and International Relations expert, who's become one of the most insightful critics of contemporary American militarism. By most historical standards Bacevich is a conservative. But his criticism of America's post-Cold War military posture, particularly the Iraq War, have made him an ally of many on the left. And in a tragic turn of events his son, First Lieutentant Andrew J. Bacevich, was killed last year in Iraq -- a war his father had been making the case against for half a decade.

Bill Moyers is interviewing Bacevich tonight at 9 PM on PBS in about the Imperial Presidency, American militarism and their challenge to American democracy. We got some advanced excerpts of the show, which we're going to be posting shortly.

Late Update: Here's the video: At link

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/208697.php

I can't believe Suskind had to take over the interview and start kissing Conyers ass. I was thinking they were afraid Conyers was gonna hang up or something. Something stinks.

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Don't rat on Bender too much, he's very qualified and knowledgeable.

Agreed, and he's great host, that tries to work with callers. Never had a bad call to him.
Still, Sam should be back on am daily. That was best period ever. Now, I never care whether I hear AAR or not.

Feeling your pain Helga...
new
Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 08/15/2008 -

Maggiesboy, my husband worked for commercial radio also and they would have never done the things AA has done. It was all money and ratings. I do agree with you on how they made their decisions, it didn't come from their heads. They had good people and let them go. But broadcasting is a very convoluted business.
I agree Bender is very knowledgeable, but he ticked me off a few months ago and continues to be annoying. I want Sam. He talks about what is happening right now, Sam is on top of every thing. He has great guests and he lets them speak.

You really get the feel for his book and the impact it can have if Congress grows a set...and fast.

Between DN! and GRITtv I'm really feeling empowered to speak up and influence others. Particularly GRITtv brings on guests who are on the front lines of whatever the topic is. Last night there was a roundtable discussion "Is America’s Surveillance State Squishing Protest?". She had someone from ACLU, Code Pink, Student for a Free Tibet and Laurie Arbeiter author of The Critical Voice.

It's so refreshing to hear peeps who are really there in the thick of it versus the same talking-heads on Hardball, The Verdict and even Countdown (sometimes) who are only trying to buy face-time.

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the presidential debates start in a mega-church.

Purpose Driven Candidates: Obama, McCain Seek Rick Warren's Blessing

Barack Obama and John McCain make a pilgrimmage to the influential Saddleback Church to woo its best-selling pastor, Rick Warren.
The candidates are taking part in a forum hosted by Pastor Rick Warren.

The two candidates will make a joint appearance at the southern California mega-church to be grilled by Warren, the author of "The Purpose Driven Life."

Sen. Obama, D-Ill., will go first, while Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., waits in another room. Each will be questioned for one hour by Warren and asked the exact same questions.

I couldn't watch yesterday. I'm so behind on my news and now I have a DN interview I missed too. I'm going to have to start programming my computer to feed it into my head while I sleep.

Hopefully the next few days will be uneventful and I can catch up.

Religious Right 'threat to world peace'

Controversial one, this. Is the Christian Right a threat to world peace because of its influence on American foreign policy? East Anglian academic Lee Marsden - a former evangelical preacher - sought to find out. Steven Russell reports

WITH Iran, Israel and America involved in a high-stakes “game” of who-blinks-first, Dr Lee Marsden's book could not be better timed - even if its findings are enough to keep us awake at night.

He claims that since 9/11 the Christian Right has enjoyed a better chance than ever before to influence US foreign policy on issues from the war in Iraq to global warming - and not for the better.

The book, For God's Sake, argues that the religious core values of Middle America have potentially disastrous consequences for both the United States and the planet. For example: the Christian Right “seeks to prevent any resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict on anything other than Israeli terms”. Utterances by presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama fit “exactly with the Christian Right agenda and effectively destroys prospects of a peaceful resolution of the conflict”.

Both candidates have been equally aggressive towards Iran, Dr Marsden says, and conservative evangelicals are disproportionately represented in the US military and private security contractors. “This presents a problem in terms of cultural sensitivity and Muslim perceptions of the US military being a Christian army engaged in a crusade against Islam.”

The Christian Right movement has also been behind the Bush administration's anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-nuclear family stance, he adds.

What makes the book particularly intriguing is that its author became a born-again Christian in 1981 and spent 16 years as a conservative evangelical with Pentecostal and renewalist churches in Suffolk. He was ordained in a Word of Faith church in Lowestoft - part of an American fellowship of churches - and served as pastor.

“During this time I taught, preached and believed in the Bible literally, including creationism.”

It was only after becoming a mature student in the mid-1990s at the University of East Anglia, that he started to question his beliefs and eventually lost his faith.

More here:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/features/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&c...

at one point i thought he went to sleep or had hung up, because he didn't respond when he was addressed; he started out being condescending and a little confrontational with amy, and cagey, didn't really say much...i think he's getting weary of the code pink crowd and he might associate amy and dn with that, the people that he's forced to throw out of his chambers...maybe not, he was just tired, he did mention he was there mainly because it was a daytime interview, he can't make it to the evening ones, they're too late for him...whatever

anyway i am behind and still catching up, now i've gotta watcha the parenti/naomi klein interview, and moyers will have to wait until tomorrow...this is what happens when you take a break from the news for a day or two, just to regenerate yourself.You return and find yourself having to work extra hard trying to catch up, kinda like when you return to the office from vacation

just too much going on, a lot of chatter too, all in all hard to keep up

On Raw. I have said it a million times. America is not going to elect a non-white President. Many including Sam told me I was wrong. When Obama talked like a real progressive and defended the fourth amendment, I figured principle would win out over race and he had a chance. Not anymore.

Obama's vote on FISA kicked the knees out of his base and he's going to coast until he regains his principles. Just running to be President doesn't cut it. You have to stand for something. McCain standing for lobbyists is real. But now that Obama voted for telecom immunity and faith based initiatives, even I wonder what the hell he stands for other than trying to be the prezint.

Oh, and Conyers has already proved he's nutless against this Republican administration. That's not new. He will have to be forced to do anything by a scarier bunch. We need about a million people to surround Congress when they go back in session to get his testosterone flowing.

He has to be white because the racist vote is increasing every day. White older peeps are moving toward McCain just because he is not black. I love Richardson,,,,but like I always say...way too much brown.

I hope and would be exceedingly happy with Biden.

Happe Talk

Lawmakers: Move '14 Olympics from Russia
Pa. representatives say Moscow should be punished for Georgia conflict

WASHINGTON - The International Olympic Committee should punish Russia by moving the 2014 Winter Olympics out of Sochi, Russia, the co-chairs of the congressional House Georgia Caucus said.

Reps. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa., and Bill Shuster, R-Pa., said in a joint statement they plan to file a resolution declaring that Russia’s movement of troops into Georgia on the eve of the Beijing Olympics makes it an unacceptable country to host the games.

“It is practically and financially untenable to hold the 2014 Winter Olympic Games less than 20 miles from a zone of conflict, particularly when the prospective host country has played a significant role in the escalation of that conflict,” according to a draft of the resolution.

IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said Friday the IOC believes the Olympics games are “not a tool to be used by politicians.”

“It is premature to make judgments about how events happening today might sit with an event taking place six years from now,” Davies said in a statement, adding that 35 representatives from the Sochi 2014 are in Beijing observing the games.

The head of the Sochi organizing committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, said in a statement that the members of the panel are aware of the intended resolution and only the IOC can respond to such matters.

“All our efforts here in China are spent on learning from these wonderful Beijing Games so that we can enhance our offer for the Olympic movement,” Chernyshenko said. “At Sochi 2014, our focus is to deliver an excellent and innovative Games that will inspire the world. We are on track to achive this.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26223848/

I picked up a whole bunch of new responsibilities at work and don't have the luxury of distractions for the time being. Also, between semesters my house is a zoo of younger people who will soon be elsewhere. Summer is always a very difficult time for me.

re noise canceling head phones

mire were you and mmr talking before about the bose headphones.

To share my experience. I've got a set of the second version of the bose headphones. They seemed to work well. Then I heard an observation that made me stop, think and observe myself.

The noise is canceled by an equal and opposite wave form. You can't hear it but the sound pressure is still there. Whenever I would take them off my hearing would feel kind of dead and tired.

I haven't worn them since. I haven't read anything regarding this, maybe I was to quick to judge.

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Jamesbennett

in Bush's illegal war on Iraq?

http://www.counterpunch.org/remington08132008.html

This statute explicitly requires that the President submit information regarding covert intelligence activities to Congress for oversight and review. If the President did an “end run” around Congress, then he violated those provisions of the statute, not only subsection “f” relating to covert actions intended to influence the U.S. media or public opinion.

If the basic story went down as Suskind details, I suspect many people assumed automatically as I did, that the President choose to totally ignore the statute. But what if…what if the President did follow the guidelines of the statute and consulted with Congress as required, and Congress did nothing?
http://www.counterpunch.org/remington08152008.html
Remington
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...don't let it happen to you.

Realize that most news stories are minutiae repeated ad nauseum. The really good news, the news you really need to know is not reported in many places.

So narrow your choices to a few reliable sources and don't stress yourself out trying to keep up on everything.

Sometimes less really is more.

Noted author Barbara Kingsolver watches no TV, reads the Sunday paper and one or 2 mags and realizes she's up to date all the time.

Think about it.

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Pelosi won't limit vote to offshore drilling

How does one manage news addiction?

where someone chooses a beat and breaks it down to share with others, but we don't need that here because tD does it for us. ;-)

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Annie's covered Psiwheel
http://www.psipog.net/media-annie.html

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Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 8:01pm.
...It's so refreshing to hear peeps who are really there in the thick of it versus the same talking-heads on Hardball, The Verdict and even Countdown (sometimes) who are only trying to buy face-time.
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I agree. And on the same note (though it won't seem so until I explain), that's why I found shot-putter Christian Cantwell's comments so refreshing.

Most of the U.S.A Olympic teams members natter on about how proud they are to represent the U.S. and how they have worked their entire lives to reach the pinnacle of their respective sports and yadda yadda yadda while the cameras whir and the interviewers fawn and their fifteen minutes of fame tick down.

Cantwell, on the other hand, has never kissed media ass so far as I have been able to learn. When he responded to yet another insipid question (about the reason behind a teammate's failure) with "I don't have a fucking clue," I resisted the urge to fist-pump. Obviously Cantwell wasn't trying to be featured on NBC's next Olympics Highlights newsreel or seeking face time on the next morning's network television show.

I add this caveat: Cantwell is from a small Missouri town and, despite the fact that he is a volunteer track-and-field coach at the University of Missouri, I suspect that he and I would not see eye-to-eye. I think, at his core, he is a basic Redneck.

Even if he is a basic Redneck, it doesn't detract from his unwillingness to be exploited by perfectly coiffed network wags. They bleeped the "fucking" in his comment but there was little need for imagination to fill in the blank.

The following link might give you an idea of what a jerk he is or what an unassuming guy he is. Take your pick.

http://newstribune.com/articles/2008/08/02/sports/151sports11cantwell.tx...

What is Psyleron
http://www.psyleron.com/

Psyleron is a company and research organization, exploring the connection between consciousness and the physical world. Discoveries made at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies laboratory have shown that human intention and group dynamics can influence the behavior of quantum electronic devices known as random event generators. Psyleron was founded by associates of the PEAR lab, to develop REG products, continue its research, and encourage public

the REG lamp
The REG Lamp Overview

The Psyleron REG Lamp is an REG-driven color changing desk object. The lamp colors gradually change from red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, depending on the behavior of the REG.
How It Works

Because consciousness can influence REGs, it can also influence the behavior of the lamp.

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DEMO:THE PASSAGE and WISDOM QUEST
http://www.wilddivine.com/Demo/
The Passage is the first "inner-active" biofeedback program that teach breathing, meditation and relaxation techniques to improve mind and body wellness.

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Jamesbennett

It's a 2 step program.

1. Grab the remote
2. Turn off the TV

This quote is driving me mad:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair.

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MB. And the Kennedy's was great.

nt

I'm trying to expand the playlist based on what I see here and when pillaging unguarded ftp sites. ?!?!?!

I need to get busy, thanks for reminding me.

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Janet Napolitano
out of consideration for vp?
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yes it seems that they would have to do something unnatural to "cancel noise" i'll have to make to do with some simple earplugs for now, that or to move, the guy is pounding over my head right now, major nuisance, he's one of those wii addicted young guys, gets drunk and plays all night full volume

I don't have a problem with a $10 minimum wage so long as it is sold to the public with the understanding that a rising underclass tide raises all prices.

Eventually it would be as if the minimum wage were not raised at all because the price of basic necessities will rise to absorb the extra available money.

Again, understand that I am not poo-pooing the proposal but I am a firm believer that Capitalism rears its ugly and greedy head whenever stray cash leaves a scent.

The meteoric rise of the incomes of the very wealthy has nudged exotic sports car prices into the quarter million to half million dollar range. The same is true of boats and mansions and anything else on the wish list of the wealthiest among us.

And so it is on the bottom end of the earnings scale. If there is more income, then Big Mac's will edge up in price. Rents will increase. Groceries will rise. Dime bags of pot will be a thing of the past (just kidding to cement my argument).

It is not possible to narrow the gap, and the resultant prices, from the bottom end only. The solution (which will never happen in America) is to also reduce the top end of earnings by one means or another.

The "bootstraps" idiots will never allow exorbitant taxation or the passage of laws intended to reduce the maximum possible earnings of the top-end people...or the number of people earning the maximum.

So long as the income gap exists (and continues to widen), the bottom-end income earnings are fucked. The U.S.A. is a class-designed society and it needs the folks on the bottom to define the folks on the top.

but there'd be no way to be online at all since one cannot hide from news on this blog...so it's not like we could take a day off TOGETHER because not everyone will feel like it at the same time...and inevitably someone will pop in and tell us how awful we are for ignoring the plight of whatever the news tells us is news that day - even if for a day

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/andr.martinsdebarros/home_fichiers/Erotic-ex...

Submitted by mire on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 9:38pm.
yes it seems that they would have to do something unnatural to "cancel noise"...
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My intuitive reaction to jbenet's comment that his ears felt "dead and tired" after using noise-cancelling headphones is that it makes sense that noise used to cancel noise produces more noise.

On the other hand, I worked with wave tanks in physics lab classes where I watched a cancelling wave negate both waves.

The question is: Does the wave tank experience translate to a consumer earphone product? I don't know.

Olympic Hugs
Olympic Hugs - slide show

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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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