denver!

if you want to watch a Broadcast News show.

Free Democracy

Run time: 02:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cki_Va7n3Mo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOyvzFP-Ug&feature=related

Run time: 05:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4EN7ibO1ec

Dennis is already on the tubes! He's amazing.

Democrats Criticize McCain's 'Dial-up Campaign'

Leading Democrats on Tuesday attacked the Bush administration's broadband policy and the technology track record of GOP presidential hopeful John McCain, while leading tech companies pushed for a more tech-savvy and innovative federal government.

"The Obama campaign is the broadband campaign and the McCain campaign is the dial-up campaign," said Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecom and the Internet.

Markey and other members of Congress were on hand at the Democratic National Convention in Denver for several technology panels hosted by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado.

"On McCain's watch, the U.S. fell from third to fifteenth in broadband penetration," said Julius Genachowski, technology advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. That is "shocking."

Genachowski attacked McCain's record as chairman of the Commerce Committee, a position McCain held from 1997 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2005. McCain did nothing to spur growth in the technology industry, create jobs, help create an open Internet, or ensure competition, Genachowski said.

"You know in your hearts that in eight years, there was never one conversation in the Oval Office between Dick Cheney and George Bush on broadband policy," Markey said. "That … should frighten you."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2328903,00.asp

It's like you are there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&...

No sense in wandering around the Tubes ... 8-)

3rd charged in '75 American Indian Movement death

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted a third man in connection with the 1975 slaying of an American Indian Movement member on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Vine Richard Marshall, better known as Dick Marshall, of Rapid City, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to aiding and abetting the first-degree murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Marty Jackley.

Prosecution witnesses have testified that Aquash, 30, of Nova Scotia, was killed because AIM leaders thought she was a government spy. AIM leaders have denied any involvement in her death.

Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud was convicted in 2004 and is serving life in federal prison for first-degree murder. John Graham, a Canadian, is also charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled to stand trial Oct. 6.

(Marshall has already served over twenty years.)

Marshall, 57, was an AIM leader who served 24 years in prison for shooting a man to death in 1975. Marshall was paroled in 2000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7754731

Looks like the delegates do too! That man is gold!

FactCheck: Claims omit details on McCain record

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7754758

better have someone start his car for him.

What an ugly tie

Craven? How excellent is this?

AP wire now just GOP mouth--
new
Submitted by ghettodefender on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 8:51pm.

FactCheck: Claims omit details on McCain record

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Murdoch is on the board and that Zell guy is a RW stooge ... plus they put that RW Stooge Furnior(sp?) in charge of I think the Washington DC Office.

Buchanan is G-O-N-E!

It's hard to imagine his reality and how he can believe this "Pat hearts Hillary" stuff works on people!

and trick the morons into shouting "FOUR MORE YEARS!!!"

I bet you we could pull this off. Where is the RNC this year anyway?

isn't that where Larry Craig wanted to suck that blond dudes pecker?

It's in that town.

Warning WarDog, POT97, this guy is a cop.

You could probably get them to yell "Bring Back The Draft!".

Lemmings are like that ya know.

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Starting to see why Sebelius didn't make the cut.

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You could TOTALLY pull that off!

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“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

It sounds like something he would go along with.

Hey I like that. We shold keep that one.
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“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Send the "Four More Years" idea to Code Pink or some performance art group. Hey, I bet the Upright Citizens Would do it!

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“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

He was mayor when I lived in Denver...he sucked at public speaking then too.

Wellington Webb was much better as mayor.

Happe Talk

Its got to be someone who can get floor access. I know one or two bloggies who live in Minneapolis. I will see if they have any ideas about how to get access. This would be so cool to see happen.

Today whilst banging nails (technically I was pulling nails, but who cares?), I listened to a Rogers, Arkansas local AM radio call-in show. National politics was a hot item.

A woman called in (a barely educated hick, based on her speech pattern and vocabulary). She said, "If Obama is elected, this country is riggered. I'm not going to say the real word."

The host didn't understand that she uttered "riggered" (neither did I). He asked her to repeat what she said. So she did.

The rhyming word (is it a word?) that the woman uttered was understood by the host and by me at the same time.

The host, who is a Right Wing, religious, military-retiree and unapologetic two-time Bush voter, admonished her.

Lightly.

This is the same radio show host who repeats endlessly, "What do we know about Barack Obama?"

I scream at the radio, "More than you bothered to learn about George Bush except that his last name is Bush, that he said 'Jesus' as often as possible, and that he is a Republican."

So there you have it. The level of (native) discourse in Rogers, Arkansas hovers somewhere between a KKK rally and a lofty standard of past successes that only applies to the guy for whom they aren't going to vote anyway.

I'd join the Misanthrope Party if there was one.

Motto: Sit down and shut up.

It'll be a resounding success!

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Hagel, 8 other GOP senators to pass on RNC convention.
The Hill reports Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is “skipping the GOP convention.” Along with Hagel, the following conservative senators are also taking a pass: Pat Roberts (R-KS), Ted Stevens (R-AK), Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Gordon Smith (R-OR), Susan Collins (R-ME), Larry Craig (R-ID), Wayne Allard (R-CO), and John Sununu (R-NH). Roger Wicker (R-MS) is undecided about whether he will attend.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/26/hagel-8-other-gop-senators-to-pass-o...

Still better than Sebelius was.

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Is anyone going to be there?
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:31pm
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Don't forget Poland!

An Alabama Ledbetter!

HAW!
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From TPM Reader AR ...

I'm hearing Bob Casey from the convention floor on my radio, and I think this line of his should become the Democrats' new mantra: "John McCain says he's a maverick. But he's voted with Bush over 90% of the time. That's not a maverick. That's a sidekick!"
Now that's a classy insult. And it'll get under McCain's skin.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/210612.php

Happe Talk

I feel like I'm listening to my grandmother. I like this Lily Ledbetter.

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He must have been on different meds yesterday.

VA has been kicking ass locally.

When Warner gets in, we will have replaced two Reps with two
Dems in 6 years.

YES!!!

Okay another cheap shot.

ssssssssssst

Happe Talk

Democrats who backed wiretaps turn away Democratic bloggers from AT&T fundraiser
Diane Sweet

AT&T security suggest bloggers talk to police
Moderate Democrats are turning away Democrats, even those with press passes.

On Monday night, AT&T held a 'Blue Dog' fundraiser for the group of congressional Democrats who endorsed the recent bill that gave immunity to telecoms for President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program.

The affair was held at Mile High Station, which is one of the closest buildings to Invesco field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado where the Democratic National Convention is being held.

While delegates came in and out of the party, it wasn't as easy for approved Democratic bloggers and reporters. Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow, Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com were ushered away by event security. All three had valid press passes to cover the Democratic National Convention.

As they tried to enter the event, security guards curtly refused to permit them to enter, and ordered them away from the entrance, giving few details.

Even the guests who came and went refused to say who invited them to the affair, or give their names. Only a pair of talkative men, who identified themselves as a lobbyists, and a Republican, replied.

"Can I just ask a question?" Goodman asked. "If this is open to the delegates, why isn’t it—"

"Other side of the property, please," an unidentified guard replied. "The other side of the property, where the public can stand."

"But isn’t this open to the delegates?" Goodman said.

"No, it’s not. You could talk to the police right now. Go to the other side of the property, where the rest of the public can stand, please. Here comes an officer to talk to you."

"We’re confused," Goodman said. "We’re press for the DNC to cover the Democratic National Convention, and I’m just wondering—"

"Unfortunately," the guard said. "I’m just telling you what I’ve been told."

Video follows of Goodman, Hamsher and Greenwald as they cover the events of the evening.

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

Happe Talk

Tweety being an ass again
Submitted by toniD on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:39pm.
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You'll know when the drugs kick in, the drool will start.

Nuke plant employee guilty in cover-up
Engineer hid condition of reactor from regulators to delay safety inspection.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080826/D92Q5AAO1.html

I prefer to watch it on PBS. Slightly less talking head dickwaving. Slightly.

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That was a good line.

If I was incharge of this convention ... the music would be Metallica ..... and the small fill in speakers would be comics making fun of McCain.

After the Convention I would be known as the "Convention God"

I can't focus on what I'm supposed to be doing!

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CREW SUES DOJ FOR FAILING TO PROVIDE RECORDS OF V.P.'S INTERVIEW IN PLAME LEAK INVESTIGATION
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/33836

25 Aug 2008 // On August 25, 2008, CREW sued the Department of Justice for failing to provide records of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's interview with Vice President Richard Cheney stemming from the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert identity as a CIA officer.

For over a year the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been seeking documents from DOJ related to the leak of Ms. Wilson's covert identity. While some records have been provided, DOJ has refused to provide the committee with access to records related to the vice president's interviews, despite the fact that the interviews were not grand jury material and the Office of Special Counsel had made no promises to the vice president regarding their use. When the committee subpoenaed the records, Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked President Bush to assert executive privilege over the records and on July 17, 2008, the committee announced that the president had done so, blocking DOJ from providing them. CREW then sent a Freedom of Information Act request to DOJ for the interview records, requesting that they be processed on an expedited basis due to public interest in the matter. Though it agreed to expedition, the Department has failed to provide CREW with any records or identify a date by which processing would be complete. As a result, CREW filed suit in federal court alleging violations of the Freedom of Information Act. The matter has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan.

Happe Talk

or a homely warren beaty
Submitted by mhappenow on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:46pm.
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You've got it M'hap!

a keynote address?

Submitted by Meg on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:49pm.
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Meg, the span has no commentary.

ABC NEWS

A federal judge denied the White House's last-ditch attempt block a former aide from testifying before Congress as part of the investigation into the U.S. Attorney scandal.

Today's ruling by Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is expected to pave the way for former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, who returned to her old law firm in Texas, to testify before Congress in the coming months. It also urges the White House to turn over documents subpoenaed from former chief of staff Joshua Bolten.

"If the government is trying to run out the clock on the 110th Congress, today's decision suggests that Judge Bates won't let them," said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at American University.

Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, praised the decision and pledged to schedule a hearing for Miers shortly.

"I am heartened that Judge Bates recognized that the public interest in this matter is best served by the furtherance of the Committee's investigation," he said in a statement.

No C-Span
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but the highlights are better there b/c on PBS it comes in HD here and there is a tiny logo in the corner.

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan2_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

You can stream all the C-SPAN channels here

C_SPAN 1 is the convention

being lost at DHL .... and it is being ingored except on C-SPAN

That should be on the TV!

They have stupid David Brooks on. What a dork.

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Submitted by Meg on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:58pm.
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It isn't worth it, Meg.

about her speech

If I can't afford cable I certainly can't afford an HD TV. Ever since my TV was stolen several years ago I watch on a little 12" TV made by Daewoo.

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I wasn't streaming because we were having thunderstorms which wreaks havoc with the wireless. Maybe I can now, storms gone.

But they are talking to Michelle right now on PBS so I want to see that first.

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Happe Talk

is over the airwaves Meg.

Submitted by Kevin © on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 9:49pm.
...If I was in charge of this convention...the small fill in speakers would be comics making fun of McCain.
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I just flew in from The Surge and, boy, are their arms tired.

Senator McCain told me to call him at home. Now I have a $400 phone bill.

A funny thing happened on the way to the Convention. I didn't toe-tap back, though.

When Jack Abramoff heard that I would be here, he asked me to bring him an Obama button...and a hacksaw.

But seriously, folks. How 'bout that Unitary Executive Theory? Hail to the Chief!

That's my time. Don't forget to tip your delegates. Hillary, you know what I'm talkin' about. I kid the Hill. Love ya baby.

And you folks not from Chicago, don't forget to vote early and often!

too bad.

Happe Talk

shit, I tuned it out almost completely....sorry Mark Warner...I'm afraid you're no Kucinich...congrats on your millions though...spend them on some balls

Happe Talk

they were just bored with the sedate nature of the Dems housekeeping session last night.

They are just trying to stir shit up. "Making news".

Except for that little regression around 6 p.m., I've had CSPAN on all night listening to every speaker (if I could keep from falling into a coma). I've been reading all the posts about what you say the pundits are saying and doing and it makes me realize how differently we perceive what's on the TeeVee when we watch it generically on CSPAN versus the mostly polluted version we get when we watch it via MSM.

Why is it so fucking important to talk about what the talking heads on TeeVee?

Why can't we just talk about what's actually on?

It's like that dynamic where you tell someone some fact or joke who sends it on down the line and by the time it gets to the 10th person not even Crank Bait can make sense of it.

Walk away from the MSM TeeVee machine, unless Rachel is ranting of course. The good news is the stuff that's really worthy winds up on YouTube anyway, so you never really miss anything except Joe Scar, Pat Pukannon et. al.

Sermon over.
Amen.
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I heard on the BBC there are going to be a lot of out of work comics when Bush leaves .... they would have been lining up for free to be the fill in for this snooze fest.

8-)

This election has made me realize that underneath it all, I am closer to Hugo Chavez in political philosophy than the Democratic party.

Is it me that changed, or them?

Submitted by maggiesboy on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 10:20pm.
...It's like that dynamic where you tell someone some fact or joke who sends it on down the line and by the time it gets to the 10th person not even Crank Bait can make sense of it...
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A rabbi, a Baptist preacher and a Catholic priest go fishing together.

No, wait. They went bowling. And it wasn't a priest, it was a nun.

Shit. I forgot about the chicken. Let me start over.

Or was it a penguin? No, the nun is the penguin.

Okay, I can do this. I remember how it goes now.

maggiesboy: "Zzzzzz."

.. commandeer the damned boat!

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Argh!

Duh !

www.marcmaronrules.blogspot.com

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

That's why I am not over on DU during this ... every other thread over there is about what some dumbass pundit has said.

I don't see any reason to listen to people that are out of touch with the real world.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/32209/2/DNC-Kucinich-Wakeup.mov...

Happe Talk

just a part of it

maggiesboy: ROFLMFAO!

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Bayer CropScience is facing scrutiny because of the effect one of its best-selling pesticides has had on honeybees.

A German prosecutor is investigating Werner Wenning, Bayer's chairman, and Friedrich Berschauer, the head of Bayer CropScience, after critics alleged that they knowingly polluted the environment.

The investigation was triggered by an Aug. 13 complaint filed by German beekeepers and consumer protection advocates, a Coalition against Bayer Dangers spokesman, Philipp Mimkes, said Monday.

The complaint is part of efforts by groups on both sides of the Atlantic to determine how much Bayer CropScience knows about the part that clothianidin may have played in the death of millions of honeybees.

Bayer CropScience, which has its U.S. headquarters in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, said field studies have shown that bees' exposure to the pesticide is minimal or nonexistent if the chemical is used properly.

Clothianidin and related pesticides generated about $1 billion of Bayer CropScience's $8.6 billion in global sales last year. The coalition is demanding that the company withdraw all of the pesticides.

"We're suspecting that Bayer submitted flawed studies to play down the risks of pesticide residues in treated plants," said Harro Schultze, the coalition's attorney.

"Bayer's ... management has to be called to account, since the risks ... have now been known for more than 10 years."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the pesticide in 2003 under the condition that Bayer submit additional data. A lawsuit, which the environmental group filed Aug. 19 in federal court in Washington, accuses the EPA of hiding the honeybee data.

The group thinks the data might show what role chlothianidine played in the loss of millions of U.S. honeybee colonies.

Researchers have been puzzled by what is causing the bees to disappear at what is considered an alarming rate.

The phenomenon, known as colony collapse disorder, threatens a $15 billion portion of the U.S. food supply.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/50734.html

Where the hell did I put that parrot?

..that's pretty much how I pictured her in real life.

How long before she has Sam on her show? Let's start a raffle. I'll hold the $$. ;-)

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I love her...

my dog murphy is growling every time the convention applauds.

Happe Talk

Submitted by Kevin © on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 10:29pm.
...I don't see any reason to listen to people that are out of touch with the real world.
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Uh-oh.

Lol! That was the caption under Bill in the video...nice touch!

Damned sheeple.

A lesson on how consultants can make a difference in an organization.

Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, 'Steve's Place,' and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket.

It seemed a little strange.

When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket.
Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.

When the waiter came back to serve our soup I inquired,

'Why the spoon?''

'Well, 'he explained, 'the restaurant's owner hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all of our processes.

After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil.

It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour.

If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.'

As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare.

'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.'

I was impressed.

I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly.

Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies.

So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter, 'Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?'

'Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice.

'Not everyone is so observant.

That consulting firm I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the restroom.

By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%.

I asked quietly, 'After you get it out, how do you put it back?'

'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'

..could take the south out of the equation for now. Ya think? Are there enough electoral votes out there to make a diff?

I could live with that.
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The Dem version of "Will it Float"

68 is not that old, she'll be in her political prime.

“If you’ve proven that you’re a doormat, you can pretty much expect to get stomped on"
Naomi Klein

WTH!

I was told I would see a PUMA stampede.

"Lets not bicker argue about who killed who..."

She looks like a pumpkin.

that's not very nice.

Hahahah ! :)

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

....Nahhhhhhh.
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Orange is a fall color isn't it? ;)

Atleast I am not calling her an ugly Jenna Elfmann

it seems like she has been practicing on her speech giving..

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

Pumpkins don't talk nearly so looong.

Now that was truly horrible.

...awesum

gotta check that.

they were little and green, kinda like Dennis, when the rabbit's started dining on them

McCain/Bush makes one wonder if they aren't closet cloning supporters.

"After the war, she retired to the family home in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African-Americans she had helped open years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

I might be wrong but,
new
Submitted by MMRules on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 11:01pm.

it seems like she has been practicing on her speech giving..

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I noticed that also.

>>"Bait is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."

I wonder about the polling methodology used on this survey,

from m experience Crank and pokes in the eye w/a sharp stick are roughly equal.

now if that wound gets infected..that gives the poke a slight edge...

8-8-9-9-8-9-8-9-9

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I'm sure the MSM will fuck it up but for now I'm happy with her words tonight.

>>kinda like Dennis, when the rabbit's started dining on them

OMG!!!

Denise Kucinich was eaten by a rabbit?

Where was is the MSN on this!?!

Maybe Jimmy Carter was right about rabbits all along!

Well she did what she was supposed to do.

Critics will still bitch about her speech ... and the media will still ask stupid questions.... Circle of Life .. 8-)

Don't you just feel silly?

...it prolly ain't so.
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And so ends another day of useless words of wisdom by the guy who always says
G'nite
G'bloggin'
G'people.

http://www.firesigntheatre.com/podcasting/

PTSD is not a laughing matter, no matter how many homes you try do fill

now all the clintonistas can relax and vote for Obama...because she told them so.
There is something so wrong with this notion that someone would actually believe in Clinton enough to vote for McCain...
How does that make any sense at all?

I love the videos Sammy...give us more, more, more...especially the monster truck one! But don't get yourself killed out there! Those guys are serious and they have guns!

Finally home for a couple of nights...

Melina
www.RIPCoco.com
www.BrilliantatBreakfast.blogspot.com
www.SweetJesusIHateChrisMatthews.blogspot.com

O.J. to Obama in ten years?

Yes, we can!

JUSTICE -- FBI EXPLAINS IMPROPER REQUEST FOR REPORTERS' RECORDS AS 'MISCOMMUNICATION': Earlier this month, the FBI revealed that in 2004, it improperly obtained the phone records of reporters from the New York Times and the Washington Post. "The records were apparently sought as part of a terrorism investigation, but the FBI did not explain what was being investigated or why the reporters' phone records were considered relevant," the Times reported. While the Justice Department "requires the approval of the deputy attorney general" before accessing reporters' records, no such approval was given. Today, the Washington Times reports that the FBI's general counsel, Valerie E. Caproni, said the records were obtained as a result of "miscommunication - not malevolence." Caproni said "her explanation was based on a preliminary review of e-mails sent among agents at the time." Mike German, who serves as policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said, "It's clear the FBI wants to minimize this as a mistake and not abuse." "The facts are, there was a ridiculous amount of misuse and abuse," he added. A forthcoming Inspector General report is expected to address the circumstances surrounding the incident; the case likely will be brought up on September 17, when FBI Director Robert Mueller who will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/26/fbi-blames-phone-flap-on...

Sorry I called you 'Asshole'

You may have thought you were being funny.

Just scroll down to Patti Smith..

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3337

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

quite the day eh?

quite the day eh?

Laura Ingram just called into C-Span.."The so fake"lady..

I wouldn't put it passed her..What a Wack job !

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

That Sam Put On This Site Is great !

Ladies & Gentleman, I give you Little Mambo !

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

>>There is something so wrong with this notion that someone would actually believe in Clinton enough to vote for McCain...
How does that make any sense at all?

you seem to think this election is about Obama?

You seem to forget the Democratic party is, and always has, been about the Clintons!

I am ashamed the convention has deteriorated into some sort of pro-Obama sideshow.

If democrats can't wrap their heads around the fact the convention is about stroking Bill and Hillary's egos, McCain deserves to be president.

There's a McCain ad on the front page. Scared the shit outta me.

Fox News has announced that Clinton's speech was a "lukewarm, at best" endorsement of Obama. I'd like to hear the opinion of people who walk upright....

HaHa ! So True,Gypsy.. :)

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

Yep,

McCain looks well fed for a man just released from a POW Camp.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/va163saints/803092210/

>>You may have thought you were being funny.

I am talking about elevating the media portrayal/public perception of Black people.

No wonder you have a problem with it..?

>>I'd like to hear the opinion of people who walk upright....

let me check in the back, we may have one in stock. at worst we can order one for you. Should be here by Friday.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/26/open-thread-911/

I am sure 'Black people' thank you (edit)* for the insight.

Must have been a home run then. They still think Bush is a great president.

>>I am sure 'Black people' thank you.

well, I suppose you are one of those nice liberals who claims to have a `black friend'...

Btw: when was the last time you had a conversation with anyone not white?

maron v. seder 3pm

So you are race baiting me based on what?

nothing but your easily offended sensibilities.

and you really went out of your way to try to make this about me being a horrible, out of touch, racist.

Whatever...

>>I am sure 'Black people' thank you.

I think if any non-bigot who understands my intent would agree that replacing the O.J. stereotype with an image of an intelligent, respectable, well spoken blacks like the Obamas would be a good thing.

you seem to disagree disagree?

But maybe, Airball, you are more comfortable with the image of black people being inferior intellectually and morally?

I honestly doubt it...but that seems to be where you are going with this.

I think your intent is simply to brandish me as racist...

So, as far as the accuracy of your interpretation of my intention is concerned, the name `Airball' is well deserved.

So last decade, years ago. Really had nothing to do with his race. Why even bring it up in this context? btw, he was found 'not guilty'.

seems like someone owes me an apology...

<>>Why even bring it up in this context?

to show progress, you moron.

to show progress....

Clinton makes strong case for Obama
Speakers take more aggressive approach in turning focus to McCain

>>So last decade, years ago.

exactly...ten years, one decade.

not a bad turn around in ten years.

but you seem to be more comfortable with the O.J. stereotype than who Obama actually is.

Clinton makes strong case for Obama
Speakers take more aggressive approach in turning focus to McCain

MSNBC and NBC News
updated 42 minutes ago
DENVER - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton answered skeptics Tuesday night by issuing a ringing call for her supporters to rally behind Sen. Barack Obama, saying Democrats cannot afford to stay home in November and let another Republican administration ruin the economy.

“Barack Obama is my candidate,” Clinton said in the final speech of the second night of the convention that will nominate Obama for president.

“No way, no how, no McCain,” she declared in a speech that both blasted the presumed Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and put forth Obama, her colleague from Illinois, as the man “who must be our president.”

Much of the speculation leading into the Democratic National Convention had centered on how firmly Clinton, the junior senator from New York, would go to bat for Obama, who narrowly edged her for the Democratic nomination in an extraordinarily contentious primary season.

Fire marshals closed the convention floor, which was packed to capacity with Clinton supporters who cheered long and loudly for their candidate. Clinton reserved special gratitude for them and the 18 million other voters who backed her in her primary campaign against Obama.

“To my supporters, my champions — my sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits — from the bottom of my heart: Thank you. Thank you,” she said. “You never gave in. You never gave up. And together we made history.”

But she told those supporters that it was time to take all of their energy and enthusiasm and channel it into electing Obama.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26404528/

Why would anyone connect OJ to Obama at this point? and I won't gratuitously toss around the m word.

US election: British MPs flock to Denver for lessons in strategyEwen MacAskill in Denver

British parliamentarians have descended in droves on Denver to see what campaigning techniques developed by Barack Obama can be applied to their own parties.

The Democratic convention has also attracted British trade unionists, lobbyists and representatives from a host of other groups.

There is a long tradition of British parties adopting campaign techniques pioneered in the US. New Labour had a team attached to Bill Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters in Arkansas in 1992 and then applied lessons learned there to the UK.

Conservative MPs, as well as Labour and the Liberal Democrats, have flown into Denver for the Democratic convention.

Among the parliamentarians attending from Labour are David Lammy, MP for Tottenham; Mike Gapes, MP for Ilford South; and Hugh Bayley, MP for City of York.

Bayley said: "There is much more sophisticated use of new media by the Democrats. That is a lesson."

He was also impressed by the way that Obama has used the internet to raise millions of dollars from small donors, diminishing the role of big donors.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/27/uselections2008.democrats200...

>>“No way, no how, no McCain,”

I'm glad she chose to go this direction. I hope all her supporters follow suit.

>>Why would anyone connect OJ to Obama at this point?

well, golly..maybe the amount of press coverage they've recieved?

and you really think ten years is a long time when it comes to racist attitudes?

see- here's the set up...an ill iliteration utilizing the `O' sound and incorporating 2 divergent views of race.

maybe that's too complicated for you?

A few minutes before 11 p.m. on Aug. 25, Rachel Maddow was sitting behind a desk in a double-decker, alfresco television studio her television network, MSNBC, had erected near the old train tracks that cut through downtown Denver, from which Ms. Maddow was to punditize to the public from the near environs of the Democratic National Convention.

“It should be noted that this is a four-night infomercial,” she said.

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/it-s-maddow-maddow-world

I would have imagined replacing such a negative stereotype with a positive image would be a good thing....

I also imagine that most people who jump to a wrong conclusion would change their minds when presented with more information rather than sticking to their prior misconception.

1995-2008

13 years

Didn't mean to stir your pot. I just thought your comment was way out of line. I agree, Obama is very clean and articulate.

Maybe you can drift back to music criticism.

>>I just thought your comment was way out of line.

out of line, valid observation, what's the difference?

well, thank you for your attempt to smear me as racist.

Iraq vets take to the streets to protest the war
Posted by Harry Esteve, The Oregonian August 26, 2008 12:51PM
Categories: Democratic National Convention
DENVER-- A few dozen Iraq War vets, dressed in full camo gear, staged one of the more eye-catching demonstrations of the day outside the Colorado Convention Center, enacting what they said are everyday street scenes in the Middle East.

The group, representing Iraq Veterans Against the War, staged a series of simulated car stops, detainments, reaction to sniper fire and secure movement through an urban area.

"We're trying to bring a taste of what an occupied city feels like," said Army Spc. Garret Reppenhagen, one of the participants.

Reppenhagen was a sniper with the 1st Infantry Division who served at Baquaba, Iraq from Feb. 2004 to Feb. 2005, as well as a 9 month peace keeping tour in Kosovo.

"We're here mainly to show some of the stuff we experienced in Iraq," he said. Escorted by Aurora, Colo., police, the group performed its street theater for about half an hour, handing out leaflets along the way.

It wasn't a protest against Democrats or the party's presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, organizers said. It was a plea to end the war.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/elections/2008/08/iraq_vets_take_to_the_stree...

BTW: I never said anything about cleaniness. I would not be surprised if O.J. actually takes more showers than Obama (since O.J. has a more athletic lifestyle and would likely shower after workouts and golfing).

No, I believed I said "intelligent". as in `my intellectual equal', or,truth be know, my intellectual superior.

I mean, he's a constitutional scholar and, boy, could we every use one of those as president these days!

One of the very best political documentary films of the year -- and one that is terribly relevant to this election campaign -- is about a man who died in 1991. Here at the Impact Film Festival I just saw Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, a powerful and strangely moving account of how sewer tactics became business as usual in the modern Republican Party. Avoiding the didactic tone of too many political films, director Stefan Forbes has created a fascinating biopic about the charismatic, contradictory, deeply warped figure whose remorseless attitude toward truth and decency lives on (in the persons of Karl Rove and Steve Schmidt) long after his sad demise from brain cancer.

More here:
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/boogie-man-lives-0

and, boy, could we every use one of those as president these days!"

Amen!
G'night.

Ignore him..
The more I see of Airhead
the more he seems like a troll..

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

article was upstream. this sounds just like that george clooney movie michael clayton where the chemical company was falsifying records to cover up that their product was a lot more deadlier than anyone believed.

i love bees. i've got mason orchard bees myself because we lost so many honey bees in our neighborhood. theres some really good info on other pesticides that are deadly to bees lately. some of them are so bad that spray application on fields kills bees miles away from the sprayed site.

all this stuff adds up to an accumalative disaster. bees are absolutely neccesary for 30% of our domestic food production.

this a.m.

morning yourll landed last night and am kinda lost...with the "b" word

Half of the convention is over and it has been a big disappointment to me. I had hoped to see a celebration of everything Obama. A return to a strong hope and change message. But no! Today will be another day spent talking about Bill and Hillary. It's just not what I expected. You would think a quick look at the poll numbers would be enough to get Obama to see he is being lead down the wrong road.

Motorcycle Powered Cars!

http://thekneeslider.com/motorcycle-powered-cars/

yer gonna love these!

lotsa pix. outrageous performance, low bucks.

eya Lucille.

we lose the bees, we die, in rather large numbers.

why would we lose them in large numbers?

taken notice of you before?
60th is a old goat that i know too too well...

good morning Hope

im being ignored again
oh well nothing unusual..am getting fond of it right about now

BBC

Led Zeppelin musicians Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham have been working on new material.

Drummer Bonham told a radio station in Detroit that the songs could be destined for a new Led Zeppelin album.

Writing new material has been "on the cards" since the band's one-off reunion show in London last December, he told 94.7 WCSX.

But lead singer Robert Plant has not been involved in any of the sessions, he added.

'Phenomenal thing'

"At the moment, all I know is I have the great pleasure to go and jam with the two guys and start work on some material," he said.

"When I get there [in the studio] I never ask any questions. If I get a phone call to go and play, I enjoy every moment of it.

"Whatever it ends up as, to ever get a chance to jam with two people like that, it is a phenomenal thing for me. It's my life. It's what I've dreamed about doing."

He added: "Lots of politics [would need to] get ironed out [before an album could be made]."

Led Zeppelin played their first concert in 19 years in front of nearly 20,000 fans at London's 02 arena in December.

Their two-hour set opened with Good Times Bad Times - the first track of their debut album.

Original band members Page, Plant and Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham - the son of their late drummer John.

coffee?

NYT

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska won the Republican primary in his home state on Tuesday, soundly defeating six Republican challengers less than a month after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil services company.

The victory for Mr. Stevens, 84, means he now moves to a tough general election campaign against Mayor Mark Begich of Anchorage, who easily won the Democratic primary on Tuesday and leads the senator in polls. Mr. Stevens enters the general election also having to prepare for his trial, which is scheduled to begin in late September.

i promised to let you know when get black...oops sorry back........well
here i am baby
HA! (sorry am laughing to myself) i cannot believe me sometimes

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Alaska Eating Its Own?
Alaska Rep. Don Young is trailing Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell in the Republican primary with about 70 percent of precincts reporting -- but just barely, and the outstanding precincts are rural areas where Young has traditionally done well. Stay tuned ...

--David Kurtz

http://www.adn.com/elections/story/506897.html

Free Democracy

How's Everybody!

ain't ignoring you,

i'm chasing parts at other websites and checking back in every so often.

we all die so what?

sorta flippant attitude considering grandkids and other innocents that will pay the price along with us eh?

Fernando, maybe this will work with C-Bubba
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Cat eating with fork!

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

I think they should have cleared the Clintons out on Monday. I would much rather see Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama tonight and Biden's address will likely be totally eclipsed.

That being said, I suspect Bill will make a great speech and I hope it is an unambiguous embrace of Obama and not some Clinton-serving oration. The man needs to reclaim some of his majesty.

bout ready for coffee myself.

wish you could all come over for brekkers.

i miss the old fisherman coffee shops by the docks.

had some classic people and great morning rants and dam good coffee (usually)

we have a couple of great coffee shops out here in this old farming community but i don't get to them much anymore.

Yesterday went pretty well. Thanks.

Morning Sunny J.

Media still flogging the Hillary carcass with one hand and the Bill with the other...

"will Bill Clinton endorese Obama?"

MSM do your penance!!...they've even made it easier for you buncha cupcakes...get crackin'

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney attacked Barack Obama for making an issue out of John McCain’s homes, arguing McCain earned his homes and Obama didn’t.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/08/romney...

or seen..its ok with me either way, so dont feel you have to explain yourself to me at all

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted.

yer a cranky bitch with attitude and shit fer reading ability and impatient as hell and as touchy as a hair trigger shotgun in the hands of an idiot teenager and i love you anyway.

Submitted by Lucille on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:12am.

so what do we think of Hillary's speech????

here's something fun 4 u:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLyh32axL0o&feature=related

great job!!! Love that amy

ya, i can see that a few peeps are seeing this whole dem media circus very clearly in the morning light.

tell ya, this is the clearest we (collectively) have been able to see this since i started politicking (nixon years, early 60's) gives me great encouragement.

rocks!!!!!

SJ seriously

Text and video.

http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=8906586

Submitted by nightbird on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:18am.
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I must be honest nightbird, I didn't watch it. I'll watch the repeat on C-span.

night bird..is it sunday yet?

Romney: "McCain earned his homes and Obama didn’t."

Biden: "Cheating on your disabled wife to chase an heiress is not what most Americans would consider earning it."

nightbird regarding the you tube

"damming with faint praise" usually what they call that.

her and bill are revealing more asshole ability monthly. she's sure a suck up for the bush/corporate agenda.

They should have sent the Clintons over to McCain's Convention to torment him. Will they every go away?

"Sammy and Scher made the local news in Denver"

Your parents!!? Sammy?!? WHERE'S THE LOVE!?

elected. Focus on the electoral polls. He is doing just fine. Forget about the popular vote.

Happe Talk

I thought she could have included an apology for her negative campaign and the trouble it continues to cause. Other than that it was very good. I dislike being this angry at the Clintons because I loved them for a long time. Hoping to get back to respecting them soon. I'm glad she never went to dresses, that's something.

ya, i knew you'd ignore the " and i love you anyway." part.

pay attention, and stop letting the clutch out on yer mouth before you put yer brain in gear.

we put up with yer shit BECAUSE we do care about you, but a steady diet of your insecurity is a real pain in the ass.

i like yer good stuff, and i read ALL yer other stuff just like i do with everybody else.

but that don't mean i gotta put up with it without making a fuss.

you been needing a call out for months.

Can we just listen to ourselves? We're debating whether some babies born alive have a right to medical attention.

How have we come to this? Can't we all agree that everyone whose heart beats, brain functions and lungs respire at birth should have a chance to live? If we're a compassionate, rational and just society, we would say, "Of course, every infant has a right to lifesaving medical attention. Even if it's not wanted."

But an unthinkable debate is raging as a part of the presidential campaign, centering on how Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted while he was an Illinois state senator on legislation designed to protect the lives and health of all newborns. The debate over Obama's voting record has grown so arcane that we've lost sight of why this question ever came up: Some infants that survive abortion are denied medical assistance. They are left to die.

Jill Stanek, a former nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, described in 2001 during congressional testimony how it happens: In a "live-birth abortion," doctors "do not attempt to kill the baby in the uterus. The goal is simply to prematurely deliver a baby who dies during the birth process or soon afterward." Medication stimulates the cervix to open, allowing the baby to emerge, sometimes alive. "It is not uncommon for a live aborted baby to linger for an hour or two or even longer. At Christ Hospital, one . . . lived for almost an entire eight-hour shift." Some actually are born healthy because they are aborted to preserve the "health" of the mother, or because the pregnancy was due to rape or incest. At best, they are left in a "comfort room," complete with a camera (for pictures of the aborted baby) "baptismal supplies, gowns, and certificates, footprinting equipment and baby bracelets for mementos and a rocking chair," where they are rocked to death. "Before the comfort room was established," Stanek said, "babies were taken to the soiled utility room to die."

Yes, there ought to be a law against this, and Congress passed one unanimously. It declares that a person is defined as "every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development." Born alive means any human being that after "expulsion or extraction" from the mother "breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, Caesarean section, or induced abortion."

Pretty simple, right?

Well, not really. Some people fear that this fundamental protection, ensuring to all the first of the rights of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," is in reality a sneak attack on a woman's right to choose an abortion. To prevent this "Trojan horse," they insisted, and got, in the federal law a guarantee against construing the law to "affirm, deny or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being 'born alive'. . ." This mumbo jumbo is supposed to mean that abortions can't be restricted.

To mollify pro-choice concerns, including Obama's, this was inserted in several versions of the Illinois legislation. But it didn't matter, because the legislation died anyway, with Obama's help. Whether or not he refused to vote for a version that contained the right-to-an-abortion provision isn't what's important here. What is important is that Obama put the supposed and vague threat to an abortion right ahead of a real and concrete threat to the most innocent of human lives.

Obama's response to all this is to sidestep any discussion about when human personhood begins, the key question in the abortion debate. Some say it begins at the moment of conception; others say it begins at birth. (Still others look for a middle ground, suggesting it begins when brain activity starts.) But by arguing against the born-alive legislation because it might in some distant and ambiguous way obstruct abortion, Obama implies that the right to an abortion trumps an infant's right to life, even after he is born.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/voters_should_be_troub...

Though “President Bush has invested heavily in trying to forge a strong bond with key foreign leaders,” the Washington Post writes today that “new crises in Georgia and Pakistan are underscoring the limits of Bush’s personal diplomacy.” Bush “misjudged Putin” and when it was shown “his initial assessment of Putin was wrong, [Bush] tended to dismiss it,” said Stanford University professor Michael A. McFaul.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR200808...

Bush Admin Told Iraq Government It Wanted Troops To Stay Until 2015

The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but U.S. and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authorization to 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.

"It was a U.S. proposal for the date which is 2015, and an Iraqi one which is 2010, then we agreed to make it 2011. Iraq has the right, if necessary, to extend the presence of these troops," Talabani said in an interview with al-Hurra television, a transcript of which was posted on his party's website on Wednesday

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/27/bush-admin-told-iraq-gove_n_121...

Happe Talk

Those two will make some pretty pair on the campaign trail...Rich and Richer....

New McCain Ad: Obama "Dangerously Unprepared" To Deal With Iran
The McCain campaign has a new ad out, which the campaign says will run in "key states," attacking Obama as "dangerously unprepared to be president" and confront the threat of Iran. The ad -- and it's a good question whether this will seriously run anywhere -- seems tailor-made to counter today's Dem convention theme of national security: (video at link)

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

Running for War President at Any Cost

By Robert Scheer

Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran’s nuclear program is unchecked and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid news except for Sen. John McCain, who thrills to a repeat of the danger lines of the Cold War, and now stands a good chance of being our next president.

A very good chance, if the Russian recognition of the independence of two breakaway Georgia provinces can be elevated to the status of a major challenge to the security of the United States. It is an absurd claim: How can one justify uncritical support for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia earlier this year while denouncing a similar claim by a Georgian ethnic minority? It is also difficult to ignore that it was Georgia’s president and close McCain friend, Mikheil Saakashvili, who upset the status quo by invading first.

Saakashvili’s attempt to compare the Russian response with that of the “Stalinist Soviet Union” is a nutty reference to a Georgian-born tyrant who ruled Russia and who is still revered in much of his native Georgia. But when you need a new Stalin to get a Cold War going, President Dmitry Medvedev and the elected members of a unanimous Russian parliament will have to do. And McCain is very happy to have this card to play.

McCain can win only as a war president. He neither knows nor cares much about the economic meltdown, which is the consequence of the deregulation mania that he has supported at every turn during his career in the Senate. If McCain had to run on his economic policy record in the Senate, he might be a loser even in his home state of Arizona, whose residents are suffering mightily from economic disarray presided over by the Republicans. Better to dwell on the dubious success of the surge in Iraq than on the surge in home mortgage foreclosures and the price of gasoline that has crippled Arizona’s and the nation’s economy. Still better to change the subject to the Russians and Georgia rather than dwell overly long on the disaster of Iraq, which has cost our nation trillions of dollars and where the prime minister now is far more zealous than Barack Obama in calling for an early withdrawal of U.S. troops. But whatever McCain’s problems from cheerleading for Bush’s war, they pale in comparison to his vulnerability on the most pressing domestic issues.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080826_running_for_war_president_a...

Happe Talk

Submitted by mambo on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:41am.
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I'm troubled by you Mambo. Judging by your posts, you have Hangers Syndrome. It's brain damage resulting from being poked with a coat hanger.

It's a fact jack. Look it up.

""I hope everybody's reading my Blog, particularly my parents," Sam Seder with Air America jokes. "Because that would indicate they love me."

A roar of laughter erupts from his fellow Bloggers.

Love, Hate - it's all a matter of opinion that these few yet mighty are thriving on.

U.S. Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080826_us_military_keeping_secrets...

By Col. Ann Wright

Since I posted on April 28 the article “Is There an Army Cover Up of the Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers,” the deaths of two more U.S. Army women in Iraq and Afghanistan have been listed as suicides—the Sept. 28, 2007, death of 30-year-old Spc. Ciara Durkin and the Feb. 22, 2008, death of 25-year-old Spc. Keisha Morgan. Both “suicides” are disputed by the families of the women.

Since April 2008, five more U.S. military women have died in Iraq—three in noncombat-related incidents. Ninety-nine U.S., six British and one Ukrainian military women and 13 U.S. female civilians have been killed in Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as probably hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and girls. Of the 99 U.S. military women, 64 were in the Army active component, nine in the Army National Guard, seven in the Army Reserve, seven in the Marine Corps, nine in the Navy and three in the Air Force. According to the Department of Defense, 41 of the 99 U.S. military women who have been killed in Iraq died in “noncombat-related incidents.” Of the 99 U.S. military women killed in the Iraq theater, 41 were women of color (21 African-Americans, 16 Latinas, three of Asian-Pacific descent and one Native American—data compiled from the Web site www.nooniefortin.com).

Fourteen U.S. military women, including five in the Army, one in the Army National Guard, two in the Army Reserves, three in the Air Force, two in the Navy (on ships supporting U.S. forces in Afghanistan) and one in the Marine Corps, one British military woman and six U.S. civilian women have been killed in Afghanistan. According to the Department of Defense, four U.S. military women in Afghanistan died in noncombat-related incidents, including one now classified as a suicide. Four military women of color (three African-Americans and one Latina) have been killed in Afghanistan. (Data compiled from www.nooniefortin.com.)
Happe Talk

SJ?

...and just where did Obama get his stake in life again? Parents? No. Gold digging? No. SWEAT OF HIS FUCKING BROW????

Well, you get the idea.

realclearpolotics again? Please! We aren't as gullible as you. We do look things up.

Maybe because McCain's 2nd wife has all the money! Does McCain get an allowance?

i try to learn from my mistakes.

SJ one day when i grow up i will follow your lead........

He also spotted on McCains short list

Scarborough putting down bloggers. Blogging from mom's basement, cheetos eating, Star Wars loving. Willie went to the big tent and interviewed the bloggers. Bill Scer was asked if he ate cheetos and did he see daylight.

follow yer own lead.

you got some good stuff.

all along i thought i had bad stuff....thats a first thank you SJ!

they're trying to build another 'myth' about the net.

we're making them nervous cuz we're calling their BS every time they lie to us.

i been backing you since you dropped in.

Naomi Klein on Holding Obama Accountable

The “Shock Doctrine” author tells the Real News that while she understands why progressives are going soft on Obama, they should toughen up: “If you’ve proven that you’re a doormat, you can pretty much expect to get stomped on.”

The Real News Network: watch:

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080826_naomi_klein_on_holding_oba...

Happe Talk

What did McDog do with the money he saved from child support and alimony? Because while he was living a lavish lifestyle with his new woman, he sure as in hell paid pittance to his first family.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - John McCain gave up his interest in two homes and agreed to pay $1,625 a month in alimony and child support when he divorced his first wife 20 years ago, court records show.

With the convention half done, the Obama campaign is still desperately seeking a narrative. Have you noticed how every speaker has mentioned how much they love America? That’s new for the Democratic party. However touching these displays of patriotism have been, this is playing on McCain’s home turf. As the Republicans will probably remind America next week, John McCain has shown his love of country by actually serving it, Obama by talking about when it became politically convenient to do so.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/08/about_last_night.asp

SJ?

What gives you the moral right to hate someone due to the color of their skin?

Are you a neo-nazi too?

Did your parents teach you to hate?

How does it feel?
How does it feel?
To be all alone?
A complete unknown?
With no direction home?
Like a rolling rascist?

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bluerootsradio

Just a reminder of all the crap Mc Cain and Mitt slung at each other during the primaries....

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977430450&grpId=36...

Use them well, people.

Submitted by toniD on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:58am.
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Have you notice in that famous video- with Bush and McCain all hugged up- who's standing to the left happily applauding?

Joe Scarborough.

Really excellent prisoner-of-war
Near-failing college student
Distinguished prisoner-of-war
Lousy pilot (OK, more than a third of his five crashes weren't his fault)
Competent prisoner-of-war
Faithless husband and skirt-chaser
Model prisoner-of-war
Mediocre to poor senator
Superb prisoner-of-war
Circulates in a cloud of shady lobbyists
Wowza prisoner of war
Clueless on too many issues to list
Prisoner of war for a really long time
Admitted ignoramus (but has mastered the difference between Shia and Sunni)
Best prisoner-of-war ever; world champion gold medal!
McCain is hands-down the ex-POW president America has been waiting for.
McCain qualifications in brief
by Michael O'Hare

"John McCain has shown his love of country by actually serving it"

how many planes did he crash? 4 or was it 5?

and that sorta disregards his performance at the acadamy, 6th from the bottom was'nt he,

and the strings pulled by dad and grampa admiral then and when he was a superstar prisoner after they found out who he was related to in Hanoi.

of course we're ignoring what a loose cannon he is in the anger management zone.

face it, McSame is a hack loser that has'nt had an original thought in decades and could'nt think his way out of a wet paper bag.

didn't mention Obama enough. They are tearing apart her speech and everyone is saying it's all about the Clintons.

I tend to agree. Too much Clintons.

And I don't trust what Bill will say tonight.

Clinton was okay and we had a fiscal plan with his presidency. But he also allowed Nafta to pass and a few other things that started the job drain from the US.

Bush, being an oil man, and with the guidance of Cheney put the nails in the coffin of our nation.

We cannot afford 4 more years of this! McCain cannot help the economy. And he is scary about Security issues.

I'm watching Hillary's speech again on the span. Listening with the clear light of day to listen for the nuances. She mentions Obama very little. We need a Democrat in the White House, she said.

figger it out for yourself.

same reason i care for everybody else here the same way.

What gives you the moral right to hate someone due to the color of their skin?

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Maggiesboy, it's the same old troll Gravitas that was banned from the blog. Or! It's one us who remains angry about Hillary.

LoL! high five!

me'z gonna bee'z jez like you'z

Ohio GOP illegally funneled $495,000 from federal account, top campaign finance official writes
John Byrne

Money went to support Blackwell gubernatorial bid, GOP spokesman says
The Ohio Republican Party funneled $495,000 into an account used to support the candidacy of former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell that should have only been used to support candidates for national office, according to a letter from Ohio's current Secretary of State and a GOP spokesman.

The letter says Ohio's Republican party collected nearly half a million dollars from a federal GOP account in October 2006. They also took in $20,000 from a state GOP account the same month and another $25,000 in November 2007.

The letter doesn't indicate which candidates received the party's largesse. But according a state GOP spokesman, the money supported just one candidate -- former Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Blackwell ran for governor in 2006, and lost.

Read the letter in pdf format here.

Blackwell achieved notoriety after allegations he abused his office as the state's top elections official. While serving as Secretary of State, which handles statewide elections, he also doubled as state chairman for George W. Bush's 2004 reelection campaign. Blackwell has been named in more than ten voter disenfranchisement lawsuits.

He was also named in a 2006 lawsuit after his office publicly disclosed the Social Security numbers of Ohio residents.

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office wrote Republican officials Monday. Brunner is a Democrat.

"Pursuant to R.C. 3517.13(T)(1), a state or county political party shall not disburse moneys from any account other than a state candidate fund to make contributions to a state candidate fund," the Secretary's campaign finance administrator J. Curtis Mayhew wrote to the Republican Party's state candidate fund's treasurer Monday."If that is the case, it will be necessary at this time to refund these contributions back to the party committee that made the expenditure."

The letter indicated that the state has been attempting to get the Ohio GOP to issue refund checks for the amounts since at least July.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ohio_Republicans_misdirected_nearly_500000...

you'll have a nice grey beard, a big butt and smell like an old grumpy fisherman?

let me hear you say it: "4 More Years!"

Excellent List gbasin! I suppose Mumbo will be mum trying to live that down.

You could have added - Dumped disfigured wife and family for a new model with fewer miles and less body damage.

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definltely...or, here's the transcript:

http://election411.org/article/id/352680/dennis-kucinich-speaks

i like to keep 'em guessing...

the Clintons should just to torment them in Minneapolis...
"damning with faint praise" is the phrase!!

the comments at that site are a hoot!

Gustav drenches Haiti, kills 11, threatens Gulf of Mexico oil rigs
By JONATHAN M. KATZ | Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people before weakening to a tropical storm, but forecasters said Wednesday it's still a major threat to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Forecasts suggested it could head toward the U.S. Gulf Coast as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane next week. The tentative forecast track pointed toward Louisiana, but forecasters said it might hit anywhere from south Texas to the Florida panhandle if it continues to develop.

That could mean higher gasoline prices for drivers in many countries. Global oil prices rose by US$1.40 early Wednesday to above US$117 a barrel on concerns the storm could disrupt output in the Gulf of Mexico, home to a quarter of U.S. crude production.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it could begin evacuating workers as soon as Wednesday

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-tropical-weather,0...

If McCain Wins, Obama loses, and Hillary wins. I don't trust her at all. Everyone knows how close the last two elections have been. Hillary and Bill know they can sink Obama and put Hillary back on top, they control enough votes. The trick is doin it and not gettin caught. Funny how the Hillary fans just keep filling the streets in Denver and won't go away. Who is pulling thier strings?

mornin!

at least we have SamCam action!

(sorta)

hope the site geeks can get the audio version going for those still running win 98.

...and more luxuriously appointed.....

In my minds eye, I see Mc Cain as Tim Curry in Annie the movie singing "Easy Street".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSSiMa29AE

"Obama's richer than McCain...It's a fact jack. Look it up."

you're a cute little gremlin...

now, I know you love papa POW, but just saying "banana cream pie" doesn't put one on the table; you have to earn your riches in Amurca!

You have to be born the son of a Navy admiral who was also the son of a Navy admiral and be such a shitty pilot that you crash three multi-million dollar planes learning to fly before your daddy pulls the strings to get you a fourth, which you also crash, this time, in enemy territory.

You then have to spend five years living it up because, as we know, "enhanced interrogation techniques", are perfectly humane and legitimate, especially in a time of war, when "National Security" is at stake! Shit, they build character, even!

When you come back and find that your wife has been horribly disfigured and disabled in a tragic car accident, you then have to feign a few years of "happy marriage" before you meet the barbie doll heiress of your dreams on a "private beach" in the "exotic" and "elitist" paradise of Hawaii.

After, that you divorce the unsightly first wife, marry the barbie, and voila, all your financial problems are solved and you soar to an illustrious career in public service and live happily ever after, knowing that you've earned your riches.

easiest way to figger out the scams is to follow the money trail.

A successful presidency is the result of the President assembling learned people around him and having the intellectual horsepower to rapidly comprehend their advice (and their motives, personalities and shortcomings).

After comprehending the assessments of his advisers, the successful president will sift through the information, seek additional advice for any uncerntainty s/he may have, then move forward, always willing to adjust the route along the way.

Campaigns don't discuss this truism. I suppose that it is difficult to sell the ability to assemble a competent presidential team before the fact? The intellectual horsepower of a candidate CAN be sold during a campaign although his/her ability and willingness as President to winnow the good advice from the bad, and to act on it, still remains unknown until long after the campaign has ended.

In other words, a successful (skilled) President must first surround him/herself with a human library of expertise, then s/he must use the library to make him/herself seem a genius. The President stands on their shoulders.

During his/her candidacy, the eventual successful President will have notions in his/her head which s/he will later disavow due to expert advice from the presidential team. It is not possible for a candidate to be as well-versed in everything as a President can be when s/he has access to a human library of expertise.

So, regardless of the "plans" and "ideas" touted by a candidate, his/her success in the White House is entirely dependent upon the quality of the team that s/he will assemble and his/her ability to comprehend and act upon the collective advice of the team.

This, incidentally, explains why George W. Bush has a failed presidency. He has famously acted on "gut instinct" and moved forward without looking back. Gut instinct is a substitute for the intellectual horsepower he does not possess.

George W. Bush did not assemble an astute team of advisers. Dick Cheney assembled the presidential team, so it was skewed to Cheney's Neocon aspirations. George's successes or failures were handcuffed to Cheney's successes or failures. George was just along for the ride.

I don't blame Cheney entirely for the failed Bush presidency. I don't believe that George W. Bush had the required intellect nor the skills to assemble a learned team, and I don't believe that Bush had the intellect and the personality required to assimilate the information from a learned team, even if he had one.

Even without Cheney pulling the strings, George was screwed from the git-go. He was never competent to be the President of the United States.

If Obama's remarkably successful ability to assemble a campaign team can be extrapolated to his ability to assemble a presidential team, then we have a favorable preview of the future.

I'm not convinced that the former can be extrapolated to the latter. However, I AM convinced that Obama has more than enough intellectual firepower to be a competent President.

keep them the best way you know how nightbird

smooches

sunnyj!!

great citizen journalism

Happe Talk

Obama's remarkably successful ability to assemble a campaign team? I sure haven't seen that ability displayed at this convention. I give the Clintons high scores for controlling the message. But Obama not so much. I don't know who has Obama's ear, but the Biden call added nothing in the polls, now they have all but wasted two days kissing Hillary's arse. Tonight they turn the show over to Bill. Maybe it's time for Obama to start leading and quit following.

oh yea - see you in the streets!!!

Happe Talk
and extremely efficient, Hope. He has some beliefs that you and I may disagree with, like fisa but he knows how to run a well oiled machine.

Happe Talk
and extremely efficient, Hope. He has some beliefs that you and I may disagree with, like fisa but he knows how to run a well oiled machine.

Submitted by mhappenow on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:11am.
great citizen journalism
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I wish we could agree on a gender non-specific substitute for him and her, and she and he.

I prefer to be gender non-specific when writing or speaking in a general sense, but the current options are unwieldy.

"Mankind" is becoming "humankind." "Our" and "us" and "they" and "them" includes both genders unless specified otherwise. "It" is too cold to use as a human pronoun.

The him/her and s/he thingy sucks and, as you might have noted, I find it difficult to consistently stick to the program.

I couldn't agree more, Hope. What this campaign needs is to put together a good strong tea that touts Obama's ability to assemble a winning team. None of that effete-McCain-crowd-country club "passionfruit" tea, either.

We need something like:

"Campaignin' Ceylon"

or maybe something stronger:

"South Chicago Breakfast in your Motherfuckin' Fizzace"

or how about something more direct, but with less stereotype like:

"Black Enough For Ya!?!"

I often alternate...that is awkward too

Happe Talk

Submitted by Hope on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 11:14am.
Obama's remarkably successful ability to assemble a campaign team? I sure haven't seen that ability displayed at this convention...
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Maybe not. That's your call.

Obama, somehow, beat a long-established Clinton team and machine for the nomination.

Should we assume that Obama quickly assembled a successful campaign team or was it a fluke?

If Obama's half-blackness added to his success on historic grounds, one would think that Clinton's all-femaleness would negate the advantage for the same reason.

I know this much: Political junkies are astounded at how fast and strong Obama's candidacy moved upwards. Whether it was primarily due to a skillfully assembled campaign team or due to a combination of other factors, I don't know.

For now, the "experts" attribute Obama's success to his campaign team and to his charisma...with a touch of "not just another White Guy" thrown into the mix.

Hillary and her team also went a long long way to dismantling a huge point lead through poor campaign decisions.

She also just couldn't seem to get past her own personality issues to connect with the voters on the same level Obama could.

People are skeptical about the luke warmness of her speech last night as being devisive, and although I would not put that past her, personally I think it was all she is capable of mustering.

obvious set up for 2012.

major bush status quo suck up.

bill's been an embarssment.

Obama captured by the

old boy corp types.

still like him

the best.

bill's been an embarssment.

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but he'll never admit it. He will continue to project on Obama.

2012...maybe

suck up...she is a flat out neocon

embarrassing...bill's always been that way.

Obama is definitely corporatist, but I haven't decided if he is a "good witch or a bad witch" yet.

Time will tell.

Considering the horrible way he treated his first wife,
who can blame her? If his wife doesn't trust him with her fortune,
why should the country?

Re: Submitted by mambo on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:48am.

projection, thy name is "Billary".

but right now everywhere and everyone around me is abuzz with preparations and plans and just get your ass out of gustv's path best you know how gather your loved ones, keep track of them, call your friends in ny, call your friends in Miami (do you have a spare room for me next week), where are my passports (just be ready, you never know) and insurance policies and what should i pack, for three days, for a month, forever? what should i do with my car? leave it here and catch a plane or leave it at the airport, or just get in the car and drive and keep driving....there's work to do at the office but nobody is doing any work, everyone is floating from office to office asking these questions, comparing notes, it looks serious folks

but of course we will not know anything more precise till tomorrow afternoon, that's when jindal is supposed to go on tv to let us know that we gotta get the hell out and yes, we are on our own, of course, if that's how it was under a democratic governor, imagine under a ratbastard republican freak governor

anyway, busy as hell here, we'll have a staff meeting in a bit

i am flirting with the idea of just going on vacation from friday thru the end of next week; pack and catch a plane immediately but there's so much weighing on my mind of course it wouldn't be a "real" vacation............there's a couple of friends here who don't have cars so i may have to assume that type of duty.....glad i don't have any pets, small blessings at times like this

2008 Virginia Republican Convention Featured Stage With Greek Columns
Reuters reports that Barack Obama will deliver his Thursday night acceptance speech before an “elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple”:

Conservatives are mocking the stage as a “temple of Obama.” Ed Morrissey writes, “That this scales heights of presumptuousness can hardly be refuted.” One anonymous McCain adviser quipped, “Is this from the Onion?” No, but it may be inspired by the stage at the 2008 Virginia Republican Convention:

Watch some video highlights of Virginia conservatives presumptuously speaking before Greek columns: at link

Former Sen. George Allen delivered the keynote before the Greek columns. Watch here and here.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/27/greek-columns-hypocrisy/

i think of it as stealth poetry, with a dash of word sculpture thrown in.

the first couple of years i was drawing tits with the sentence ending positive spaces.

fine! (art)

..with your permission.

I'd prefer it in your voice but I'll take it any way I can get it. If you want to Skype it or landline/cell phone it ---> Lemme know

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http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3646

Multi dimensional blogging.

gotta love it.

got a place for you if you wander up this a way!

three days of rain up for this week

Submitted by mire on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 12:12pm.
...glad i don't have any pets, small blessings at times like this
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Uh-oh. Somebody is scratchin' you off of her Winter Solstice gift list.

I love you Guys!

It's cool. Pretend you're living your last day of life here and this isn't so big...
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