and one for blogging) open when marc and sam are on? dont know if anyone will answer this but hey i'll take my chance as usual

that)
time to go home now
thanks for the "show off"
toodles

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 4:36pm.
I gotta go catch a bus downtown. see you all later.
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You should catch a bus closer to home. (I'm just sayin'.)

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 9:45am.
...Do you see more hypocracy here?
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"Do you see more hypocrisy"
Submitted by Cat Chew on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 10:01am.
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It is comforting to know that I am not the only person who repairs spellings without authorization or fanfare.

(So far I've only been publicly busted once by an eagle-eyed rabble-rouser who probably was educated by nuns or reared by copyright attorneys.)

In her own words, her own voice...
new
Submitted by toniD on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 5:27pm.
Flashback: In 2006 Debate, Palin Supported ‘Bridge To Nowhere’-Related Earmark
Last night, C-SPAN re-aired the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial debate, in which Sarah Palin expressed her support for an earmark related to the famed “Bridge to Nowhere.”

Congress had already removed earmarked-funding for the Bridge to Nowhere in Ketchikan, Alaska. Despite the fact that the bridge was not going to be built, then-Gov. Frank Murkowski approved the construction of a $24 million gravel “access” road (the Gravina Island Access Highway) that would lead to a nonexistent bridge.

In the 2006 debate, Palin was asked whether she supported this earmark, or whether she would pledge to cancel it as governor. Rather than responding with “thanks but no thanks” to federal funding for this “access” road, Palin said:

I wouldn’t [cancel the project]. I’m not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation — in the position of strength that they have right now — they’re making those efforts for the state of Alaska to build up our infrastructure. I would not get in the way of progress.

Independent candidate Andrew Halcro responded that he would cancel the project, explaining “this isn’t progress. This is a road to a bridge that will never be built.” Watch it:

at link (must watch)

Flashback: In 2006 Debate, Palin Supported ‘Bridge To Nowhere’-Related Earmark
Last night, C-SPAN re-aired the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial debate, in which Sarah Palin expressed her support for an earmark related to the famed “Bridge to Nowhere.”

Congress had already removed earmarked-funding for the Bridge to Nowhere in Ketchikan, Alaska. Despite the fact that the bridge was not going to be built, then-Gov. Frank Murkowski approved the construction of a $24 million gravel “access” road (the Gravina Island Access Highway) that would lead to a nonexistent bridge.

In the 2006 debate, Palin was asked whether she supported this earmark, or whether she would pledge to cancel it as governor. Rather than responding with “thanks but no thanks” to federal funding for this “access” road, Palin said:

I wouldn’t [cancel the project]. I’m not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation — in the position of strength that they have right now — they’re making those efforts for the state of Alaska to build up our infrastructure. I would not get in the way of progress.

Independent candidate Andrew Halcro responded that he would cancel the project, explaining “this isn’t progress. This is a road to a bridge that will never be built.” Watch it:

In June 2007, Ronald Utt, a fellow at the conservative Heritiage Foundation, offered this recommendation for what Palin should do with the funds:

Gov. Palin could return the money for the gravel “access” road to Washington, perhaps even with a request that the money go to rebuild hurricane-ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi. While Alaska, or any state for that matter, naturally is reluctant to return money to the federal government, doing so is the responsible and ethical thing to do and likely would benefit Alaska in the long run.

Palin did no such thing. To this day, the state of Alaska “is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone — because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.”

Also, CQ notes that there is “a second bridge, more than twice as expensive and just as controversial” as the canceled Bridge to Nowhere in Katchikan. Palin has expressed concern about the project “but hasn’t tried to kill [it] off.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/palin-bridge-access-road/

green polar bears:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_fe_st/odd_japan_green_bears

McCain's slips, and Reagan's

With Democrats on the precipice of raising the age issue against John McCain, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont seemed to cross the line completely, then immediately backtrack, my colleague Ken Vogel reports.

Leahy told Vogel yesterday the media has given McCain a free pass on flubs including mixing up Middle East geography, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and referring to Russia's relationship Czechoslovakia — a country that hasn't existed for 15 years.

"It was the same way with Ronald Reagan in the last few years he was president," Leahy said, referring to the belief that Reagan experienced early signs of Alzheimer's disease late in his presidency.

The press "let Ronald Regan get away with" slips, Leahy said, though he denied he was suggesting that McCain was experiencing mental decline.

"No, I'm just saying he gets a free ride," Leahy said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/McCains_slips_and_Reagans.ht...

"The radio's broken, it don't work anymore."

http://www.highintelligence.com/

Mr Johnny's a SNAP CASE!

RCP Average 09/05 - 09/07 -- 48.3 45.4 McCain +2.9

ABC News/Wash Post 09/05 - 09/07 LV 49 47 McCain +2

CBS News 09/05 - 09/07 655 RV 46 44 McCain +2

USA Today/Gallup 09/05 - 09/07 823 LV 54 44 McCain +10

CNN 09/05 - 09/07 942 RV 48 48 Tie

Rasmussen Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 3000 LV 48 47 McCain +1

Hotline/FD Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 924 RV 44 44 Tie

Gallup Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 2733 RV 49 44 McCain +5

Heh! I dunno MMR, half the time I can't formulate a good question, either, so I share your frustration...a lot of times I don't even IM them questions. I just blurt out my a truncated version of my daily RAARRRR!!!

I just float a topic framed like this:

"Talk about CHUCK TODD and NOONAN/MURPHY-Gate!!! How can we ever trust that guy again?!"

Of course, I include the emphasis :)

I have loads of Raarrrr! So if you do want me to send over single sentence angry left rants, NO problemo, my friend!

PA [douche] Gov sez if he used his office the way Palin did, his head would be on a pike right now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/08/rendell-if-i-was-palin-yo_n_124...

entered into the official record

They don't mean shit,They don't take a lot of importnat information into account and are ridiculously hurried and skewed.

In a nutshell, NEVER trust a poll that relies on the media to convey its results AND ABSOLUTELY never when a network's name is attached to the polls.

I sure hope you're right. That's the first time I have seen McCain ahead in so many polls.

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R809081000

Forum

Mon, Sep 8, 2008 -- 10:00 AM

Grammatically Correct
We delve into popular grammar gaffes with local teacher and writing coach Janis Bell. She's the author of "Clean, Well-lighted Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation." Bell is also a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University.

Host: Michael Krasny

another 'Jesus Camp' freak factory:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_1...

we were just bitching about this...

"outstanding" is an adjective, not an adverb, Bus!

Chris Matthews posed that idea to Chuck Todd who said "yes" (agreeing that it was "naive" of the Obama campaign to think that Obama's experience as a community organizer was a plus), and added that he thinks the Obama campaign wishes they could take it back, i.e. they never should have brought up the issue of community organizing.

Am I way off base here, or did Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd just react *exactly* the way the right wing wanted them to do? WTF? And here I expected them to question Rudy and Palin's sarcastic and mocking bashing of Obama's experience helping people.

I know, I know, they wanted to fire up the base and probably tap into the racist undercurrent (I'm referring to Rudy and Palin), but why would community organizing be viewed negatively by average people who aren't part of the rabid right base?

I agree with Thom Hartmann, the Obama campaign needs to come out with commercials ASAP (we should've seen them last Friday actually) correctly and clearly defining and framing community organizing, and with the right casting to avoid the race trape the right is trying to set.

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

Endorsed by God: Religious Right Defies IRS on Church Endorsements
Published 1, September 8, 2008 Politics , Religion , Society

Dozens of conservative pastors are defying the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ban on ministers using their pulpits to endorse political candidates. Organized by the Alliance Defense Fund, the ministers are effectively daring the IRS to take away their tax-exempt status. The effort is an obvious set-up for litigation, though they may put conservatives like Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito in a tough position. ADF advocates insist that the ADF’s “Pulpit Initiative” is to intended to show that the “proper role” of pastors is to try to direct the voting of the faithful.

ADF attorney Erik Stanley says that “For so long, there has been this cloud of intimidation over the church. . . . It is the job of the pastors of America to debate the proper role of church in society. It’s not for the government to mandate the role of church in society.”

This is clearly the view of other nations like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan where clergy dominate politics and mete out their own sectarian forms of government. Now, the religious right wants to be exempted from taxes while using those tax exempt dollars to expand a church-based political movement.

The ADF was founded in 1994 by Christian conservatives including James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family and William R. Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ. It is viewed as an alternative to the ACLU in pushing a conservative agenda.

It would be an interesting test for Roberts and Alito, who tend to be extremely pro-government except in religion cases and a couple of other areas. Alito particularly assembled a record of virtually blind support for governmental claims in criminal, environmental, and other areas. Now, he would be asked to extend the same extreme deference to the IRS.

For the full story, click here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR200809...

Jeff Farias is interviewing.

More along the same lines, bibs...

CUCKOOOOOOOBWOOOOOOOOOONNNKK!!

tax exemption AND political activism?

*BONER!*

THE MUDFLATS chick?

Sarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave: New Video Documentary

Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel's Army" to take dominion over the United States and the world.

He said her name was Shannon Moore.

Bill Clinton to join McCain, Obama at Ground Zero on 9/11

(CNN) – Bill Clinton will join Barack Obama and John McCain at the September 11 memorial ceremony at Ground Zero this Thursday, and deliver a speech focused on national security threats.

“But just as we reflect on the past, we must look ahead to ensure we are doing all we can to support families, unite our communities, and protect our country from future acts of terrorism," said the former president in a statement released by his office.

The McCain and Obama campaigns released a joint statement over the weekend announcing that both men will appear together in New York to mark the seventh anniversary of the attacks. The campaigns have also pledged to abstain from all negative campaign ads on that day.

Also Thursday, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama will meet at the former president's Harlem offices — their first extended in-person encounter since the tense primary season.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/08/bill-clinton-to-join-mcc...

i have turned her on, she's FUN!

i am fucking trying here oh fucking kay!!! this fucking english language is not easy for me to learn
damn!!!

is a kickback, ain't it...if you sell it to an AK grease merchant at a loss?

not Shannon...for ease of research ;)

This is her blog:

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/

it's inexact

Shannyn Sossamon, who is HOT [4 a girl...]

I'm with Kat here...they need to stay away. It is annoying to me. I know it is supposed to be "Paying Respect", but this just seems crassly exploitative to me.

Why don't they just bring along "The Soggy Bottom Boys" to sing a funeral dirge.

If anyone should be there it should be Bush and Ghouliani, on their knees begging our forgiveness for their ineptitude. (Riiiiight Cent. Like that would EVER happen)

state law or Surf City?

http://wonkette.com/402614/michelle-obama-dances-with-ellen-on-teevees-e...

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Did you see "The Rules of Attraction"?

poor Shannyn!

My God!

Did we have the election already?!

Oh, what a relief. It's only September. I was starting to think I'm drinking too much again.

ciao~

sounds interesting...

last thing I saw her in was 'KissKiss BangBang' [which was GREAT!

She was hardly recognizable, tho'.

Yuriko Koike seeks to become Japan's first female prime minister
Japan's first female defence minister has announced her intention to take on the "old boys" of the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party to become prime minister.

By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Last Updated: 7:28PM BST 08 Sep 2008

Yuriko Koike, a former television news presenter, launched her campaign with a promise to rejuvenate the world's second-largest economy if she is selected to replace Yasuo Fukuda, who resigned last week after just a year in office.

She is the first woman to seek the leadership of the LDP, which has seen its popularity eroded after five decades of near continuous rule.

She faces stiff competition from three other candidates, including front-runner and flamboyant party secretary General Taro Aso, for the party vote on September 22.

A general election will be held by September next year, although the opposition has called for a snap election as soon as possible.

Koike said that the keyword of her campaign would be "reform" and said she intends to introduce an environmental tax to fight global warming.

Announcing her bid at the LDP headquarters, she said: "I have received the enthusiastic support of my colleagues.

"In order to break through the deadlock facing Japanese society, I believe the country might as well have a female candidate."

The 51-year-old is something of an anomaly in Japanese politics.

The foreign policy expert, who is fluent in English and Arabic, has expressed her admiration for both Margaret Thatcher and Hilary Clinton.

She was one of the "assassins" hand-picked by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ahead of the 2005 election to challenge seats held by his party opponents and inherited the immensely-popular premier's zeal to stamp out the back-room deals that have been struck by previous generations of Japanese politicians.

"I met Mrs. Thatcher in Japan when she was still prime minister of England and I have to say that I was inspired by her," she told The Daily Telegraph recently.

"I have also met Hillary twice and the impression I had of both of them was that they were ready and prepared to lead their countries.

"The system and society in Japan are obviously quite different from Britain and the US, which means that to be a female minister - or even a woman legislator - we need to have additional skills to enable us to work together with our male counterparts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/2706087/Yuriko-Koik...

lightning just ignited a palm tree over off Sahara and Maryland...lotta smoke

:)

you lose yer turn!!

that was good!

crazy church video....2nd time I've seen it this afternoon

McCain advisor backpedaled and spun that Palin doesn't actually believe the Iraq War is "a plan from god", as she said, but, rather "they say she meant she HOPES it's a plan from god" "a humble statement that any religious American would share"

..cuz she always seemed to be able to step in shit and come out smelling OK.

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oh well...

...right before I interviewed her last week. She wanted to know where I found out, I told her here . She was able to prove it in a couple minutes.

Did she mention BlueRootsRadio yet?!?!?!? ;-)

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sadly, uh-uh.

I have a cell phone and know how to use it.

You could be anointed at anytime!

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Tattletale!
(Considering I can't even remember the correct way to spell nyucklehead, I soitainly have a lot of noive.)

..I take 'em in off the street, get 'em some recognition and I'm dropped like red headed stepchild.

[sigh]

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Obama's ad?

Many listerners have contacted me about the snub Olbermann and Matthews have received at MSNBC.
Apparently the network will have David Gregory hosting debate and election coverage.
I informed the network that they have made my choice for election coverage that much easier.

I can watch Karl Rove on Fox News, Rove's backup dancer on MSNBC
or I can watch CNN.
You can call NBC at 212-664-4444

you an also 'submit a tip/story' to MSNBC on the growing liberal audience's anger regarding the MSNBC censorship decision.

http://jefffarias.com/

i did, and then removed it in an edit......

i heard concerning the MSNBC thing, that Olbermann actually initiated this... i forgot where i came across it today.... i'll go look for it...

An Alaskan from Wasilla talks about the Sarah Palin he knows
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/08/2008 05:40:00 PM ET · Link
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From TowleRoad:
My fellow Alaskans have vouched for Palin as a charming, interesting person. I can add to that that she is perfectly friendly. But now she is running for the highest office and so it must be noted that Sarah Palin the Friendly Neighbor is different from Sarah Palin the Executive. The latter is a woman with intense agendas guided by a narrow set of culturally conservative and extreme religious values. She believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught to teenagers; she believes that creationism should be taught alongside science in our schools; she is against a woman’s right to choose even in the cases of incest and rape; and her church believes gay and lesbian Americans can and, one assumes, should be corrected by prayer (“pray away the gay” is their cheery slogan).

When she was mayor of my hometown, these extreme views came off as petty and irrelevant to people like me who did not share them. There seemed little cause for alarm. Most Alaskans are happy to live and let live; we don’t think of ourselves as Republican or Democrat. Besides, as mayor, it’s not like she had the power to wiretap our phones, amend our constitution, or send us to war.

But she did try to use her power to ban books. Wasilla’s popular public librarian rightly objected, and the community rightly backed the librarian. The books were never banned, though Mrs. Palin did fire the librarian for not agreeing with her political views, then rescinded the firing after it was clear she’d made an unpopular decision. Sarah Palin’s behavior is revealing: in a state as isolated as Alaska, in a town as small as Wasilla, books are vital to the culture and to the education of its residents. The small town values I learned growing up included attending story hour at the public library. Those values most certainly did not include trying to ban books that the mayor’s church friends didn’t think other people should read.

It will be interesting to see what effect Gov. Palin’s penchant for reform will have on the McCain campaign. Will she put one of Cindy McCain’s private jets on eBay? Maybe one of the McCain’s seven houses? It certainly hasn’t meant she’ll answer any questions from voters or the press. Her very first media interview won’t come until later this week. The reason is clear: she’s not ready to answer questions about the housing crisis, foreign policy or healthcare. So far she’s been allowed into public view only to deliver a speech similar to the one she gave at her party’s convention, the one in which, with the sass and smile of a punch line, she ridiculed community organizers who step up to help less fortunate communities whose government has allowed them to fall through the cracks. Her speech made for good television, something the McCain camp felt they desperately needed. And it sure fired up the folks at the Republican National Convention. Who can blame them? They finally have a candidate who can shoot a gun, drink a beer AND speak in complete English sentences. This is real change for them....

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/09/to-my-fellow-am.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eneq0jcMlTw

Corrections officers launch drive to recall Gov. Schwarzenegger
By Shane Goldmacher | Sacramento Bee

Four years and eleven months after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was swept into office in a dramatic recall, the powerful and well-heeled correctional officers' union today will target Schwarzenegger for a recall.

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association will begin the process to recall the Republican governor, a spokesman said today, calling the 2003 recall "a mistake."

"In the history of bad governors, this is the worst governor we've ever had," said Lance Corcoran, a spokesman for the union. The union is collecting the 65 necessary valid signatures to serve Schwarzenegger a notice-of-intent-to-recall. "This is a man who is a poser. That's what he did, that's how he made his living, posing."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/52088.html

http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/1219287.html

Concerns abound over voter access in November By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 31 minutes ago

The Justice Department pledged Monday to send election monitors around the country to help ensure access to the polls in November, even while acknowledging its limited power to enforce election laws.

Civil rights groups fear that an unprecedented minority voter turnout due to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama might be countered by efforts to intimidate or otherwise block people who seek to cast their ballots.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey and other Justice officials met about 35 representatives from voter access watchdogs, hoping to assure them that having a smooth Nov. 4 election is a priority.

"The Justice Department has a limited but extremely important role to play in ensuring elections are fair and just," acting Assistant Attorney General Grace Chung Becker told reporters after the closed-door meeting.

Although federal prosecutors have in past elections focused on preventing voter fraud — in other words, making sure voters are eligible to vote — Becker said her goal was to broaden ballot access for as many people as possible.

She said the Justice Department will deploy hundreds of federal monitors around the country to make sure voters aren't unfairly kept from the polls.

In 2004, long lines at minority-dominated voting precincts in Ohio led to widespread complaints and a Democratic Party lawsuit that the election process unfairly helped President Bush win the state. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit nearly a year later.

NAACP political participation director Kristen Clarke said the monitors themselves are part of the problem. Although most of the monitors will be election lawyers and other government employees, prosecutors may also be deployed to watch over the polls.

"Historically, minority voters have experienced intimidation in their encounters with law enforcement at the polls," said Clarke, who attended Monday's meeting. "And deploying criminal prosecutors who lie at the hearts of law enforcement efforts could discourage them from turning out and participating in November.

"It could be intimidating to minorities and essentially keep them away from the polls," Clarke said.

Others who attended the 90-minute meeting gave it a mixed review, describing department officials as promising to protect voters' rights but failing to take steps to prevent past problems.

Campaign Legal Center associate counsel Paul S. Ryan said Justice officials would not rule out prosecuting voter fraud cases within a month before the election. Generally, doing so is discouraged for fear it could curb voter turnout and make the case appear politically motivated.

The department also indicated it was grappling with how to handle tactics to keep people away from the polls, such as false flyers and phone calls during past elections warning voters they could be arrested for unpaid parking tickets when they showed up.

But federal voting rights laws don't cover such "deception" violations, said Common Cause vice president Tova Wang — meaning states largely will have to pursue those cases.

"It's clearly something they're concerned about but don't have all the legal tools they need to pursue them," Wang said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_el_pr/voter_access&printer=1;_...

Wonder when that Nic will be showing up....... :)

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

IMO...

The most solid point in the case FOR separation of church and state, is this:

Without IT, whose religion is to be taught. Freedom of Religion is made possible, only by a the separation of church and state.

THE PRIMARY QUESTION I have for VP candidate Sarah Palin is:

If elected, will you swear to uphold the separation between church and state as outlined in the US Constitution? And if so, how do you interpret that separation?

Submitted by cent on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 7:04pm.
Corrections officers launch drive to recall Gov. Schwarzenegger
By Shane Goldmacher | Sacramento Bee

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Oh goody! I'm licking my chops. What can we do to make this a reality?

Mort Zuckerman: “We still don’t know where the bottom is”
By: Cernig @ 2:00 PM - PDT (Video at Link)

Shorter Mort Zuckerman: “Oh boy, we’re all screwed”.

Financial expert Zuckerman appeared on Morning Joe to talk about the Federal bailout of Fannie and Freddie Mac - a move that he estimates will cost the taxpayer upwards of $500 billion added to an already record federal debt. The panicked looks on the faces of the hosts as he laid out just how bad it could be were the most vocal commentary though. Zuckerman says that Fannie and Freddie are “too big to fail” because their paper is held by financial institutions worldwide and if they fell then the world economy would plummet like a stone in a “systemic crisis”.

But he also says that “this is not the end of the real problem”, which is $5 trillion plus in mortgage loans with record foreclosures and falling house prices. In other words, America’s piggy bank is broken. Zuckerman says that no-one should think the bailout is the end of the story: “this problem is still not measurable, we still don’t know where the bottom is,” and that the only way out in the long term is to “force savings upon the American people, and that’s called taxes.”

We’re already seeing the immediate results of the the credit crunch. For instance the Highway Trust fund, which pays for infrastructure repairs and improvements, is almost broke. It’s funded by the gas taxes it’s tapped out. That has a knock-on in the ability of the federal government to provide construction contracts to businesses and construction jobs to those unemployed, in a time of rising unemployment. The massive amount of money that is going into financial bailouts could have been going to such projects instead, which would have provided some buffering against recession.

It’s possible that the Bush administration will ask Congress to give money to the Highway Fund anyway - and it probably should - but yet again someone has to pay the bill eventually for deficit spending and that someone will be you and your grandchildren. Ditto the huge bills for Iraq, massive homeland security and defense spending, the trade deficit and so much else we can thank the profligate Bush administration and Republicans in Congress for. They have, as a solid group, opposed any kind of financial regulation legislation. For Republicans, it’s a free market only until John McCain’s “middle class” with over $5 million in the bank are hurting, then its socialism for the financial markets all around.

Just remember, though, that the economy does better with Democrats in the White House and Congress and that in this election, while John McCain cares most about personas, the Democratic convention revealed that Democrats care most about the economy.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/08/we-still-dont-know-where-the-bo...

I know, ToniD.

I know.

She's furiously working on learning German as fast as she can. (Rosetta Stone)

Did I just call Sarah Palin a Porker?"

I went looking into who will be the moderators for the debates... not having a tv since 1993, I sometimes have a hard time putting tv media names with faces...

so i decided to youtube search for video of the final debate moderator. And this is the first video i saw:

FTN: Bob Schieffer On Lying Politicians

McCain has had wild temper since childhood, so it is evidence of nothing about changes in his health. He was already mentally unhealthy and unfit.

As for memory loss and so forth, could be an illness, but could also be normal aging. Either way, it makes him unfit.

The Justice Department pledged Monday to send election

monitors around the country to help ensure access to the

polls in November, even while acknowledging its limited

power to enforce election laws.

Thanks ToniD.. :)

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

We're finally opening up Camp Anatana in Costa Rica this year.... about eight weeks after election day... i think it's dec.27.....

Submitted by 13ben on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 7:24pm.
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You just can't trust them 13ben

During the ’90s, Schieffer also struck up a friendship with George W. Bush when his brother Tom—now the U.S. ambassador to Australia—became partners with the future president in the Texas Rangers. Bob and W. went to ball games together, played golf, attended spring training. “He’s a great guy—that doesn’t mean I agree with him,” says Schieffer, adding that the situation became “a little awkward” when Bush ran for the White House but that he’s never gotten favorable treatment.

But Bush has gotten favorable treatment from Schieffer, during Campaign 2000 and later. We’ve discussed that obvious fact in the past, and we’ll discuss it again tomorrow. We’ll also go into more detail about how close Bush and Tom Schieffer were when it came to running the Rangers.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101204.shtml

....what THEY call "election monitors" is what we call "election monitors".....

Where Do I Sign ? !

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

i actually can imagine Bush, in his cocky, coke-jawing, shoulder-shrugging way, say "yeah, we did it - so what?"

Bob Woodward is on Larry King tonight - but i'm watching Rachel at 9pm, and LK's rerun at midnight

is tattooed on John McCain's left arm.....

so that's what MFF stands for..... it all makes sense now.....

i heard that 'live' & posted a brief mention of it on the last thread

Tweety & Toady kept the negative spin turning - tweety's last words mentioned [community service] as a 'Sharpton' thing

Not those crooks.

That should be OBAMA's new push-theme....

McCain/Palin'08 - Proven Dishonesty

McCain/Palin'08 - Where Image Trumps Honesty

McCain/Palin'08 - Honesty is for American Hating Leftists

McCain/Palin'08 - Truth, Smuth

BWOOOOONK!

Perfect

I realize I shouldn't be amazed when pundits just allow politicians to lie openly and not call them on it, but, I just watched Heather Wilson on Hardball and about threw my remote at the teevee again. What a (sorry sorry sorry Alice) lying bitch.

I will noe call myself a DICK, in the vein of fairness.

I realize I shouldn't be amazed when pundits just allow politicians to lie openly and not call them on it, but, I just watched Heather Wilson on Hardball and about threw my remote at the teevee again. What a (sorry sorry sorry Alice) lying bitch.

I will now call myself a DICK, in the vein of fairness.

How'd that happen after I previewed and edited my own post?

Huh. Weird.

Sorry for the double post.

And I'm so ready for some Rachel!

dick to the relative of a POW/MIA

The Year Was 1992

and he's STILL a dick.

Biden takes off the gloves, calls Palin's views "extreme"
by Christian Dem in NC
Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 12:26:59 PM PDT
At a rally in Green Bay earlier today, Joe Biden made his sharpest attacks yet on Sarah Palin.

"Hopefully by the time the debate takes place, we’ll have a better sense of her other than some of what she says and what appear to be some very extreme views," Biden said.

"I’m assuming that she shares John McCain’s views on most of the issues. And she even says, if the press is correct — and I’m not ready, prepared to make a judgment [on this] — her views on everything from global warming to other things, if they are as presented, they’re pretty far out there."

"Far out there" is an understatement, based on what I've read. Shooting wolves from planes? Creationism? Yeah, that's mainstream. This is absolutely the right strategy--paint Palin as an extremist, while jumping on McCain for selling his soul to the James Dobson wing of the party.

The AP's writeup seems to reveal that Biden particularly wants to paint Palin in a corner on environmental issues.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will eventually have to defend "some fairly extreme views" on climate change when she starts granting interviews as Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's running mate, her Democratic rival Joe Biden said Monday.

"Her views on everything from global warming to a host of other things, if they are as presented, they are pretty far out there," said Biden, Democrat Barack Obama's running mate, during a town hall-style meeting. "She's going to have to defend those positions."

Palin has expressed doubt over whether human activity has contributed to global warming and has clashed with environmentalists on a number of issues.

Translation--you can doubt global warming all you want in Anchorage or Fairbanks, but it won't play very well at all in Philadelphia or Des Moines.

Biden also assured us that he knows how to handle Palin ... though the only Repub woman whom I'd consider to be even a match for him in debate is Olympia Snowe. Debating Palin, I suspect, is going to be more like tangling with relative lightweights Kay-Kay and Liddy.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/8/15727/79375/666/591238

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgmJ1miBzek

Honesty - Billy Joel

If you search for tenderness
it isn't hard to find.
You can have the love you need to live.
But if you look for truthfulness
You might just as well be blind.
It always seems to be so hard to give.

Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard.
And mostly what I need from you.

I can always find someone
to say they sympathize.
If I wear my heart out on my sleeve.
But I don't want some pretty face
to tell me pretty lies.
All I want is someone to believe.

Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard.
And mostly what I need from you.

I can find a lover.
I can find a friend.
I can have security until the bitter end.
Anyone can comfort me
with promises again.
I know, I know.

When I'm deep inside of me
don't be too concerned.
I won't as for nothin' while I'm gone.
But when I want sincerity
tell me where else can I turn.
Because you're the one I depend upon.

Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard.
And mostly what I need from you

Walking the `hard streets' of Seattle's Chinatown this afternoon...Ok, Chinatown really isn't a bad part of town..I saw a guy pushing a shopping cart full of garbage bags, presumably all his worldly belongings, wearing a T-shirt with the words "Support Our" and a red, white and blue pattern of some sort. The bags of stuff kept me from reading the whole shirt.

I made an all to frequent assumption: another homeless vet who supports the war.

A couple minutes later he and I were standing at the same intersection. I realized the red white and blue pattern Was a star spangled peace sign and the t-shirt read: "Support our AWOL Troops"!

Republican convention got more cable coverage than Democratic convention

Media Matter reports.

MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News dedicated more on-air time — significantly more in most cases — to speeches and other official Republican convention programming.

Haha!

Our new Fairness Doctrine.. :)

U have 2 split yer penny candy with me and I wid U.

ob now

Anyone watching Countdown?

did you catch the What Keith said about Rachel's show?

he refereed to her last 2 minutes of freedom.

Gee, I wonder what he meant by that?

Couldn't having to do anything with network heads telling him to shut up and go home at the RNC?

naw...

I will call her a bitch, but I won't call myself a Dick.

Just another bitch that recognizes the same.

smiley guy with soul patch!

>>I will noe call myself a DICK, in the vein of fairness.

just so you won't feel so all alone, I feel I should do the same.

You, GBC, are a dick. ;)

where abouts in Costa Rica 13ben?

wheres yer website?

clever chuckle from Wonkette, posted by 'Wee Mousie':

A debt-ridden mayor from Wasilla,

and a septuagenarian of Manilla,

Ask for your approbation,

Of their administration,

But deserve not a single scintilla.

?to make green technology become the economic engine. How slow are these people? Is Trig smarter than McCain/Palin?

When I google Camp Anatana , I get a Camp Anatana in Thailand.

are you sure your camp isn't in Thailand?

I get Thailand an Costa Rica mixed up all the time...

Uh, yeah. I thought this guy was supposed to be from the streets of Chicago's South Side.

Palin is punking him out of his lunch money, and he doesn't have the balls to even call her a liar.

Putz.

We need to get Michelle up in here.

i just might turn the tube on for that.

That's why I luv you toniDeeee...!

And as for you Chubbs... I'm glad you cut the first post with the typo.

People will easily mistake it as yours. ;-p

I couldn't even believe this article, it's so creepy and out there. But in fact, Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1996 to 2002. And according to an Alaskan news article in the local Wasilla paper in the year 2000, the City of Wasilla, under Mayor Palin, charged rape victims for their own forensic tests. You see, the city of Wasilla, the article notes, didn't want to "burden" taxpayers with having to support victims of rape.

>>i just might turn the tube on for that.

no point, Jim. It's on cable. MSNBC.

it starts at the top of the hour.

and if you've had cable and haven't been watching Countdown with Keith Oberman...shame on you!

To be fair, I don't think I've ever heard a politician call an opponent a "liar" and I can't recall them using anything other than euphamisms for liar, in general. That is apparently a no-no between them.

He did start the interview off by saying that McCain and Palin aren't telling the truth.

there's a camp anatana in Thailand.... crazy....

I should have info on the camp's 18 week outline on my site later this week..., but for now it's just pictures.... AnaTanA 9°N,84°W

First by something called PPP, Michigan and then by Rasmussen.
I can't say anymore, I don't know anyone who's been polled.

Better polls tonight put me in better mood. I just ate my. favorite:
Canned "Popeye" Spinach. I buy it just for the label.
I'm ready to fight.

FOX News /
Rasmussen Reports
9/7/08
Mode: IVR
(story, results)

Colorado (500 LV, 4.5%)
Obama 49, McCain 46, Barr 2, Nader 0, McKinney 0

Florida (500 LV, 4.5%)
McCain 48, Obama 48, Nader 2, Barr 0, McKinney 0

Ohio (600 LV, 4%)
McCain 51, Obama 44, Nader 1, Barr 0, McKinney 0

Pennsylvania (500 LV, 4.5%)
Obama 47, McCain 45, Barr 1, Nader 1

Virginia (500 LV, 4.5%)
McCain 49, Obama 47, Barr 1, Nader 1, McKinney 0

>>I'm glad you cut the first post with the typo.

I wasn't sure sure "I will noe call my self a dick," I wasn't sure you didn't mean to use an old english spelling of `no'.

that thailand one is a resort park in golden triangle.... for a second i was worried someone cloned me.....

'No Values Voters' Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

THey said McCrazy McMurder was dead in the water.

Like Michael Moore said; I see a landslide coming, as long as the youth turn out that is, and they sure did in the Primaries eh

Another thing: Bill Maher pointed it out but it seems like McCrazy has Eskimo Pie fever if ya get my drift.

Anyhoo, hope all is well in SederTown.

WIll Chew up and shit out mooseburger in a debate. I am all for Feminism, but she ain;t ready for the big boys. Not by a long shot.

Same for the appointees as well.

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BTW Jimmer, Up for giving me a ring?

WARNING: I dont have the guts to watch this but it's reality.

Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers' claims of carnage caused by US troops

By Tom Coghlan in Kabul

08/09/08 "The Times" -- - As the doctor walks between rows of bodies, people lift funeral shrouds to reveal the faces of children and babies, some with severe head injuries.

Women are heard wailing in the background. “Oh God, this is just a child,” shouts one villager. Another cries: “My mother, my mother.”

The grainy video eight-minute footage, seen exclusively by The Times, is the most compelling evidence to emerge of what may be the biggest loss of civilian life during the Afghanistan war.

These are the images that have forced the Pentagon into a rare U-turn. Until yesterday the US military had insisted that only seven civilians were killed in Nawabad on the night of August 21.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20705.htm

So MSNBC going back to more "traditional" election coverage? Looks like that David Gregory ascendancy everyone predicted back before the Rachel Maddow ascendancy is finally happening! All because Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams are embarrassed by those loud shouty people and Jeff Zucker's in serious trouble with the rest of the Illuminati. Well it's a stupid, stupid idea, for many reasons. Reasons which we'll explain below.

Ratings Are Up "MSNBC nearly doubled its total audience compared with the 2004 conventions," Brian Stelter points out. Though they're still in third place, building an audience does actually take time, and their demographic numbers are great.
This Won't Make Conservatives Shut Up. MSNBC is embarrassed that Republicans are holding up MSNBC as a prime example of liberal bias, and tying poor NBC News to the crazy rantings of its cable arm. Hah, yes, and David Gregory, the guy who became famous for abusing Bush spokespeople, will fix that! Remember how conservatives have spent 100 years decrying the liberal bias of CNN? The CNN that is now represented by the apolitically moronic Wolf Blitzer and the inoffensive cuddly unicorn Anderson Cooper? Both of whom are useless and boring at covering politics? This won't shut up any critics, at all. Show some fucking backbone.
Matthews and Olbermann Are Smart We already called Blitzer a moron, and we meant it. The man's journalistic expertise is limited to an ability to stand up for a long time and babble at length without too much dead air. Matthews and Olbermann are blowhards and egomaniacs, yes, and they're far too pleased with themselves when they do something like reference some 70-year-old Capra movie, but they actually know a lot about history and politics.
The Bitchery Is Great Television Duh! Bickering and barely concealed contempt are the stuff of high drama! No one talked or cared about MSNBC, except as a third-place loser joke of a cable network, until Olbermann and Matthews began making headlines by pissing people off. Matthews, remember, spent most of the primary campaign pissing off liberals, even though he's clearly an old-school conservative Catholic Democrat himself. But it created buzz! Which is the only point of cable news, really—entertainment, not edification.
Now We Have to Watch Fox. Because if we can't crack up at the clashing egos of MSNBC's crazy mascots, we'll have to go back to cringing and cackling at the unrepentant assholish coverage of Brit "Sick of This Shit" Hume and his all-star team of interchangeable white dudes and blondes, plus Bill Kristol looking like a weasel and giving you a preview of the next day's Republican spin on everything.

So, MSNBC President Phil Griffin, be a fucking man for once and hold your ground against Zucker and NBC News President Steve Capus and even Original Blowhard Tom Brokaw (seriously, why did the act of "retiring" bestow respectability upon that hack?). If people wanted Brian Williams and David Gregory to cover everything quietly and politely they'd actually watch your evening news. Scarborough, Olbermann, Matthews, and Maddow are the best of cable this year, because of their unique ability to annoy the shit out of each other and also to generally know what the fuck they're talking about, which is basically unheard of on television, let alone cable news.

http://gawker.com/5046658/why-msnbc-should-stay-crazy

beaut of a spot!

Shit-canned Malloy and Randi. WTF were they thinking.

I don't know about yall but I go straight to NovaM when I hop on the politico internets.

Wonder if Sammer will folllow their lead?

Lord knows He ain't fulfilling his potential at AAR. However he has a Family to worry about and that means security as a provider.

reading fucking reading and more fucking reading
let alone figuering (sp)? shit out..this is my time to relax and get my fucking whine on
damnit

“Modern Debt Peonage”?

Economic Democracy Is Turning Into a Financial Oligarchy

Mike Whitney: An Interview With Michael Hudson

The best that this weekend’s bailout can do is to postpone the losses on bad mortgage debts. But this is a far cry from actually restoring the ability of debtors to pay. Continue

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20709.htm

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Why The Fannie-Freddie Bailout Will Fail

By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.

With yesterday's announcement of the most massive federal bailout of all time, it's now official: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage lenders on Earth, are bankrupt. Continue

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20707.htm

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US Waves Goodbye to Prosperity and Democracy

By David Hirst

If you were wondering what all the flag-waving at the Republican convention has been about, it is now clear. Americans are waving goodbye to the prosperity the nation has enjoyed since the Great Depression and a final goodbye to democracy. But while preparation for the most important decision made in the nation's post-depression financial history towered above the conventions, I don't think the fate of Freddie and Fannie and the remaining government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) was mentioned during either convention. Continue

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20708.htm

The media has reported it starts up wednesday, well sort of.... no collisions this week..... they will circulate the first beams around the full 27kms starting around 2AM EST late tuesday, or 11PM PST tuesday night... the energy of the beam will be less than 1 tVolt, which is 1/7 of full capacity... in december is when the first collision at about 4.5 tVolts will start....

so no black holes this week....

Missiles stir Pakistani fury at US 'invaders': Reports that "many" women and children had died in the attack drew outrage in Islamabad, with senior officials describing it "as a grave violation of our sovereignty". A senior Pakistani air force official said he was awaiting orders from the Government to launch operations against "these invaders".

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24314547-25837,00.htm...

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U.S. attack on Taliban Stronghold" in Pakistan kills 20: The strike Monday marked the fifth cross-border incursion by U.S. forces in about a week. On Wednesday, at least 20 people were killed in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan after U.S. helicopters flew nearly 20 miles across the border from Afghanistan and ground troops launched an assault on the small tribal village of Musa Nika.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR200809...

Wormholes maybe? Maybe I'm reading too much Dark Tower, Maybe I yearn for contact. Probly Both :D

this is larger than me
maybe later

((ICE))

Palin, Aide, Have Same Lawyer
By Zachary Roth - September 8, 2008, 5:29PM
We learned on Friday that seven witnesses last week cancelled their scheduled depositions in the Sarah Palin Trooper-Gate investigation. This came after Palin's lawyer asserted in a court filing last week that the governor would not herself testify unless the probe were taken out of the hands of the legislature.

But there's additional evidence of a centralized effort to protect Palin. Another possible witness in the case, Palin aide Ivy Frye, has hired Thomas Van Flein, the lawyer representing Palin herself. Asked by TPMmuckraker this afternoon about her role in the inquiry, Frye, described in news reports as a "special assistant" to Palin, responded: "You can call my attorney if you'd like," and named Van Flein.

Palin's office has claimed executive privilege on a group of emails sent this spring between Palin aides, including Frye. Van Flein did not immediately return a request for comment.

As for the seven witnesses who cancelled their depositions last week, we already knew that one of those seven was Frank Bailey, the Palin aide who was heard in a recorded phone conversation telling a trooper official that Palin was wondering why Trooper Mike Wooten -- the figure at the center of the case -- still had a job.

And on Saturday, the Anchorage Daily News reported the names of the other six:

• Annette Kreitzer, Palin's administration commissioner.

• Kris Perry, a Palin confidant who managed her gubernatorial campaign and now manages her Anchorage office.

• Nicki Neal, state personnel and labor relations director.

• Karen Rehfeld, the governor's budget director.

• Brad Thompson, state risk management director.

• Dianne Kiesel, a state human resources manager.

Update: When asked about the cancellation of his deposition, Thompson told TPMmuckraker, "no comment." The rest did not immediately return calls.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palin_aide_have_same_l...

I miss those tye die grateful dead shirts. I used to have the one with turtles in the sunflower patch.

Here it is

pussy's

RMS!

She hasn't changed.

...with pictures!

Amazing how natural she is in the spotlight.

This is a landmark day for peeps like us who have been following her since Unfiltered. Anyone ever hear her on her first radio show in MA.?

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Bush Administration Chooses McCain National Finance Chairman To Take Over Fannie Mae
The federal government has announced that it will be bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises that “own or guarantee almost half of the country’s $12 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt,” making it potentially the “largest financial bailout” in U.S. history. As part of the deal, both the CEOs of Fannie and Freddie were fired.

The Bush administration has named a close ally of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to take over Fannie Mae. Herbert Allison has worked at Merrill Lynch and TIAA-CREF. However, he also served as McCain’s 2000 national finance chairman.

On Feb. 27, 2000, the Austin-American Statesman noted the close relationship between McCain and Allison, saying that they “regularly” talked:

McCain is a one-man polling operation, each day soliciting the opinions of dozens of people who don’t even know they’re advising him. … McCain soaks up anecdotal advice and ideas from all walks of life. He talks regularly with publisher and analyst William Kristol; journalists Charles Krauthammer and R.W. Apple; high-tech executive Andy Grove; money man Herbert Allison; telecom executive Sol Trujillo; foreign policy luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Brent Scowcroft; and even people such as actor Warren Beatty (who suggested that McCain’s campaign accept no money at all).

On Jan. 24, 2000, Fortune reported that if McCain won the election, the “best bet” to become his Treasury Secretary was Allison. In 1999, Allison told Crain’s New York Business [12/20/99] that he had been “tremendously impressed by McCain,” who “has courage and high integrity, and he believes in campaign finance reform.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/mccain-herbert-allison/

McCain camp wanted Schwarzenegger to tell McCain’s POW story so he wouldn’t mention ‘centrist politics.’
After California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) decided not to attend the Republican National Convention, the RNC replaced him with former senator Fred Thompson, who gave the speech originally intended for Schwarzenegger. The California governor told Der Spiegel that he was ordered to focus on McCain’s biography; that way, the campaign could prevent him from talking about “centrist policies”:

SCHWARZENEGGER: The speech I would have given is the one that Fred Thompson gave. I gave him my speech because I did not go to the convention. It was a great speech because it talked in minute detail about McCain’s torture and his being a POW, and that’s the speech that the party wanted me to give. Why? Because this way I don’t go and talk about centrist politics and maybe rub some people the wrong way. That’s another stage.

Though Schwarzenegger endorsed McCain, he has since criticized him, giving McCain’s climate plans a grade of “F.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/schwarzenegger-pow-mccain/

But They’re So Good With Money!

A bank with ties to the family of John McCain was shut down by federal regulators on Friday, marking the 11th US bank failure this year and threatening to cause ripples across the presidential election campaign.

Its failure is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures bank deposits up to $100,000, about $450m-$550m.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/if_i_were_president?page=1

http://www.myspace.com/thedeclineofthewest

http://samsedershow.com/node/3730

http://www.farsidic.com/

Happe Talk

Pat just called out DailyKos... on the teenage statutory rapist.

Yep. WE did it.

Oops. NOT!

http://www.friendsofgaviotas.org/

Gaviotas is a village of about 200 people in Colombia, South America. For three decades, Gaviotans - peasants, scientists, artists, and former street kids - have struggled to build an oasis of imagination and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas of eastern Colombia, an area ravaged by political terror. They have planted millions of trees, thus regenerating an indigenous rainforest. They farm organically and use wind and solar power. Every family enjoys free housing, community meals, and schooling. There are no weapons, no police, no jail. There is no mayor.

from Friends of Gaviotas

"For years, Gaviotas has been a non-profit foundation, a model for the United Nations development program; but to finance themselves, the Gaviotans must also market their technology. That isn't so easy, Gonsalo says, since Gaviotas refuses to patent their inventions, preferring to share them." - Alan Weisman

"They always put social experiments in the easiest, most fertile places. We wanted the hardest place. We figured if we could do it here, we could do it anywhere." -- Paolo Lugari, founder of Gaviotas

Fuck you AAR!

What's next?? Lizz Winstead?!!?!?!?

Chuck D!!!

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Fell flat
Imagine that

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http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87804
A Do-It-Ourselves Guide

I thought having Uncle Cracker on showed guts. Then, when he started acting the ass right out of the box, I thought, "Hmmm, on second thought...". Then when I saw how skillfully and tactfully Rachel handled him I flip-flopped back to my original position.

Life is a series of flip-flops, it's where you land that counts.

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About a totally unknown candidate for Vice President...?

HOW DARE THEY?!

My God. Just when I think Uncle Pat's getting his bearings, he totally loses it again.

He really is my Uncle. George. From Utah. You can figger out the rest.

Good job Rachel! Fine tune it a bit, and you got a weiner. I mean dildo. Winner. I meant WINNER!

she did end up cutting him off, but skillfully.

I think she knew what he would say and yet was surprised.

He's a tool and has been a tool as long as I can remember him being in the "limelight"

Remember he knew Sarah from his own campaign.

With Uncle Pat they've already met their dick quota.

For a first show, it was very good. She's a natural and it showed from start to finish.

I was surprised it was as edgy as it was. Watch out though. It'll shoot to #1 and then MSNBC will do what they are famous for. They'll cancell it.

R.I.P. Phil Donahue

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I forget a lot of shit, but I will never forget (or forgive) canceling Donahue at a time when the country needed somone speaking truth to power more than ever.

She took charge. Maybe the Obama campaign will pick up on that and see how you can fight back without being perceived as angry. I give 5 *'s for the way she handled that situation.

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Hey Uncle Pat, this is my show. You can just STFU! ;-)

Happe Talk

The word “muse,” used in this context, may for some people have the ring of an over blown figure of speech with a slightly antique ring to it. Muse comes from Greek mythology, and the concise Oxford dictionary defines the word: “One of the nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who inspire poetry, music, drama, etc” An alternate term is “daimon.” A daimon is a spirit, not necessarily evil, and I am particularly referring to the sense in which Socrates used the word, which was to refer to his divine inner voice. The American Heritage Dictionary gives a secondary definition of daimon: “An attendant spirit; a genius” Some people refer to the demanding creative spirit in a gifted person as their “genius.” This spirit or voice is sometimes seen as an actual autonomous entity that sends a transmission to the recipient, who then channels the voice, message or vision received. Others may perceive the muse, daimon, genius as “the higher self,” the personal or collective unconscious, or as some other internal psychic function separate from the ego. The deeper one goes into psyche, the more the more inner and outer become a blurred distinction the distinction between inner and outer becomes blurred. So it is to be expected that some will experience inspiration as an external transmission, one they humbly receive, and others will experience it as a welling up from their own unconscious or as a gift from their higher self.

What everyone seems to explicitly or implicitly agree on is that this level of inspiration is not mere ego contrivance. It emerges from a source that has a degree of otherness or autonomy from ordinary waking consciousness. It comes out of left field, sometimes when we least expect it, and the method of transmission may be a dream, a synchronicity triggers a realization, a serendipitous discovery, a voice, or a well-timed suggestion from an intuitive person.

Inspiration has come to me at various times in all those forms, but the muse (for the rest of this essay I’ll stick with that term) seems to be asking me right now to consider the example of the present piece of writing. Where did this come from? I’ve thought and talked about the muse for some time, but its recent emergence as a subject of discourse seemed to begin five days ago when I was at a friend’s house and . . . I can’t be sure now exactly what its point of entry into the conversation was, but it definitely came from me. I believe we were talking about the reelection of W and someone may have said something about power being in the hands of “the elite.” I made the point---I do whenever I hear that statement, in its various permutations---that it is only half the truth. I always point out that the inspired “mutant” has the power to shift culture on the alchemical level, while political and economic forces may dominate the chemical or causal plane of reality. I used Jimi Hendrix as an example. His unique energetic signature, expressed in his music, had affected everyone in the room; all of us would have been a bit different if he had never existed. His power arose from his connection to the muse. Another example I used was The Daily Show on Comedy Central. The best humor seemed to be running against the elite, and humor is also a function of the muse. The conversation then veered to the sad reality that many artists are abandoned by their muse, or they abandon the muse by going forward without inspiration and churning out inferior work. I mentioned Woody Allen as an example.

I found that I was rather passionate in my discourse on the muse, there was a heat or energy about it, and the conversation lingered in my mind in the days afterward. Then yesterday, I got a one sentence email from John Jenkins asking me where in my writings on my web site he could find a discussion of narcissism and self-magnification. I responded, but realized once I looked into it, that I had written a lot less about narcissism as a stand alone topic than I realized, given how much I think and talk about it. That provoked the thought: What else have I thought and talked about a lot, but not written about? The muse came up, and I made a mental note to write about that someday. That was last night. This morning, when I went to work on Casting Precious into the Cracks of Doom, a major 20,000 word treatise that I am very committed to, I discovered that I wasn’t really there, I wasn’t engaged with it, and a strong inner prompting told me: Write about the muse now! That subject had heat behind it. The Casting Precious boat was temporarily stilled in the harbor, but the muse topic had strong wind behind its sails pushing it forward.

http://www.zaporacle.com/

http://www.anatana.org/anatana984.html

*breathless*