Looks like the rain’s finally let up enough for my office to open back up again, though last I heard the phones weren’t working yet. Since nobody’s likely to call me, that shouldn’t be a problem. So, it’s back to work, or whatever it is I’m doing while I’m forced to endure this purgatory. Beats walking circles around the Pentagon City Mall, I guess.
In other news, the gubberment is irate – appalled, even – that the NY Times would expose their bank records spying (on top of their phone records spying on top of their Internet and e-mail spying, on top of their renditioning…), at the same time the DoD admits they’ve been spying on gay college groups. Is this national security, or are they just trying to find dates? Israel invades Gaza. People still being killed by the bucketload in Iraq (which, since things are imporving so much, is costing us more now than it ever has, and well, basically we’re pretty much staying the course all the way around.
I can’t wait to get this week over with.
:paranoid:606 and i am number 1?
It’s quiet in here Sean. Too quiet.
:paranoid:uh i am in north carolina right now come get me i will come willingly
i hope they dont read the schedule for the tour!
at the same time the DoD admits they’ve been spying on gay college groups.
Spying, is that what the kids are calling it these days? Back in college, my gay friends referred to it as “cruising.”
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Welcome back Melina! Hope Will is feeling better. :love:
Is this national security, or are they just trying to find dates?
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Morning! Glad to see Melina is back among us!
Seanie, I just sent you an email.
Did you all see this bit on Murtha? This is how the lies begin. Had a bit of a snit with a friend over the weekend as he was convinced that gore said he’d invented the internets. We later got it straighted out, but jiminey christmas, I can’t stand the fake made-up stories.
fake made-up
a little redundancy never hurt anyone!
:doh:
Looks like maybe Rush was doing a little “spying” down in the DR.
e-mail!
I don’t know if Limbaugh was engaging in ‘clerical’ activities with minors down in D.R. but it makes perfect sense for the Repugs to start stocking up on viagra now. If you’ll recall, the conservative ladies were all sexually frustrated for decades after we got our asses kicked out of vietnam, because their men’s very little soldiers were too humiliated to perform. It didn’t get, uh, rectified until Reagan’s valiant triumph over the vaunted military machine of Grenada.
Well, what’s Buffy gonna do now that Bush is slated to be the first prez to lose two wars?
Aside from the Murtha story, it also looks like son-of-a-lying-cheating-bastard-of-a-football-coach-Georgie “neosegregationist” Allen in Va. is swift-boating his military opponent. How full of pathetic self loathing do you have to be to run for office as a Republican these days? Why aren’t these guys shunned and disgraced out of public life, as if they had just been caught down in D.R. engaging in clerical activities?
“It was quite predictable that Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano would recommend that I be fired from my tenured professorship at the University of Colorado/Boulder,” said Churchill.
“After all, he was effectively ordered to find some “legally defensible” basis for doing so by Colorado Governor Bill Owens,” he said.
Churchill says the push to get him to leave CU has cost more than $250,000 dollars.
He first came under fire after an essay surfaced where the ethnics studies professor compared victims of the 9/11 attacks to a Nazi leader, calling them “little Eichmanns.”
“Interim Chancellor DiStefano joined Governor Owens and several Colorado legislators in publicly and repeatedly denouncing me on explicitly ideological grounds, thereby making his personal biases abundantly clear,” Churchill said in his statement.
Churchill also said DiStefano acted in direct violation of the laws of the CU regents concerning academic freedom when he created a special committee to investigate allegations of academic misconduct by Churchill.
Both the investigative committee and the standing committee found that Churchill engaged in research misconduct, specifically seven allegations that include plagiarism and misrepresentation of facts.
“My repeated requests that the investigative panel include acknowledged experts in the relevant subject areas were ignored,” Churchill said in his statement.
“The investigative report produced by the panel, while voluminous, misses the mark entirely,” he said.
Churchill says the panelists were supposed to restrict their inquiry to whether he actually committed fraud and plagiarism. “Instead, they indulged in a repetition of the ‘Scopes Monkey Trial.'”
Churchill says he plans to appeal to the Faculty Senates Committee of Privilage and Tenure within the next 10 days.
“Hopefully, the members of P&T who review my case will display the sort of integrity conspicuously lacking in their predecessors on the investigative panel and the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct,” Churchill said. “That would do much to constrain the magnitude of damage sustained by the university — and consequently the taxpayers — when my case goes to court, as it ultimately will.”
CU President Hank Brown and the university’s board of regents will make the final decision on Churchill’s future
http://tinyurl.com/s8clc
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Churchill got better coverage than most democratic candidates.:nixon::peace:
Good morning/evening/whatever :banana:
Hi fred and other seditionists :yinyang:
Finally getting home from work. I just :love: the 14 hour days of summer. (OK, I’m taken care of for it, but sometimes it feels good to complain.)
Today is national ride your bike to work day.. I think our employees got confused about what “bike” means .. That lovely odor of Nitrous oxide and gasoline fumes being sucked into the HVAC .. :shock::tongue:
I haven’t seen any RTD buses with with occupied bikes on their bike racks though. 🙁 :omg::eek::yuck::nixon::peace:
Ava Lowery
Ava Lowery is only 15 years old, but wiser than many politicians and reporters four times her age.
The young Alabaman started a website called “Peace Takes Courage,” and populated it with arresting Internet flash presentations and news. Many Internet activists have seen Ava’s emotionally wrenching presentation of “Jesus Loves Me” that so movingly depicts the horror inflicted upon children by Bush’s Iraq War.
Although many Democratic leaders back down when confronted with hostile questions from the press, Ava has held her own and shown that a backbone comes with character, not age.
As one BuzzFlash reader noted of her appearance on CNN: “Ava was beautiful and gracious and stuck to her talking points. Her poise was remarkable. Folks, this is our future. The right would have us believe that tomorrow holds nothing but darkness for us. But it’s just not true. We can move America forward, no matter how small we may feel in the big scheme of things. Ava is a testament to the human spirit, an example of hope for all of us.”
Ava Lowery has created more than 70 truthful animations about peace and the deceptions of the Bush Administration. She was the toast of the recent YearlyKos convention, and for good reason.
She is a most worthy winner of this week’s BuzzFlash “Wings of Justice Award.”
http://www.wingsofjustice.com/06/06/woj06026.html
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Ava for president … eventually…:nixon::peace:
Someone looking for a backbone?
Wow! Ava Lowery’s got her stuff together. 15?! OUCH
MOSCOW – President Valdimir Putin has ordered Russian special services to hunt down the killers of four Russian hostages in Iraq, news agencies reported Wednesday.
“The president has ordered the special forces to take all necessary measures to find and destroy the criminals who killed Russian diplomats in Iraq,” news agencies said, citing the Kremlin press service.
Earlier Wednesday, the lower house of the Russian parliament passed a statement decrying the murders and saying that “occupying” countries are losing control in Iraq.
Russia has strongly opposed the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13163804/
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:shock::shock::shock::roll::roll:
How long before we have a tonkin gulf incident between their forces and ours :?::?::?:
good morning everyone…just rushing by on my way to the vet to get Angie’s stiches out…and then…ugh…too much to do in the rainy rain.
The basement is flooded and I havent got the sump pump yet…but have to have radon taken care of first.
Its great to be home but I need rest.
And tonight IM going BACK to the city to see an old friend play music.
There’s reliable unsubstantiated double hearsay indicating that this Prof Churchill was a double agent; not on the side of truth of truth and justice.
Good Morning :joe:
I have heard that “rumor” about Churchill.. put there by the government to see how many students he could get in trouble.. Most of the students don’t see it that way..but hey its summer and the CU boulder dorms have no AC .. The CU Boulder administration are still from the occupation of the state government by the Reich…. :shock::eek::yuck::jason:
Did anyone see that Maron hung out on the blog last night? It was fun:banana::love:
KP, missed the Maron posting.\
I’ll go check it out.
Supreme Dorks upholds TexASS Gerrymandering..
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of the Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay but threw out part, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
The fractured decision was a small victory for Democratic and minority groups who accused Republicans of an unconstitutional power grab in drawing boundaries that booted four Democratic incumbents out of office.
more
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13592999/
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These Reich wing justices the Bushevics put into office are screwing up everything and they don’t leave with the Bush admin either.
I will see if I can find a vendor for Wrist Rockets you can furnish your own projectile.
::eek::yuck::barf::gate::omg::jason::fist
RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Israel turned up the pressure on Palestinian militants to release a captive soldier Wednesday, sending its warplanes to bomb a Hamas training camp after knocking out electricity and water supplies for most of the 1.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas-led Palestinian government called for a prisoner swap with Israel, saying the Gaza offensive would not secure the soldier’s release. Militants holding the hostage have made that demand, but this was the first time the government made such a proposal.
In a statement, the Information Ministry said it was “natural logic” to carry out an exchange
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Early Wednesday, Israeli warplanes attacked one of the bridges for a second time, Palestinian security officials said. Before daybreak, Israeli warplanes flew low over Gaza city, causing sonic booms and breaking windows.
Overnight, Israeli planes fired at least nine missiles at Gaza’s only power station, cutting electricity to much of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials said. The station’s three functioning turbines and a gasoline reservoir were engulfed in enormous flames that firefighters were unable to control
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13580436/
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The Israeli’s apparently learn nothing from their previous unsuccessful escapades .. The destroying of infrastructure is what Bill Clintdorks administration did in Iraq prior to the latest fiasco. They managed to kill some 2 million Iraqi children.. This technique is also used in Falluga, and now in Ramadi in Iraq.
I think if you look at it the US army did the same thing to the American Indians in the 1870’s ( please note there are no footnotes to show the source of this information.)
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Lipprick apparently was the Reich wing’s sacrificial lamb this week. His drug story is keeping the left sided talkers from talking about everything except what is important. 🙁 :eek::yuck::doh:
Hey, KP. I saw Marc was on the blog last night. I only wish I could stay up late enough to play over there. I liked the one comment where he said, “Is it me or were you a nicer person when I was on MS?”
I wish they’d syndicate the damn show already. On the plus side, I have more than enough shows saved up to make it an “all maron” ride up to Syracuse tomorrow.
:joe::joe::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
AAAAHHHH 57ºF bright with a little haze ,”bliss it was in that dawn to be” awake.
Good morning/afternoon/evening all
This is a cry for help! I sat on my ass too long instead of getting tickets to see Band of Horses at Doug Fir, so now I’m hoping someone can help me. Who’s got the Doug Fir hookup? The show’s July 3rd so if anyone knows of a way I can get tickets or get in, I’m all ears and would love you forever.
Thanks guys
Re: 18. When I was in college in 1990-91, there was a professor, who knew Ward Churchill, who was certain that Churchill was a federal agent. Anecdotal evidence. Churchill was big in the 4th World indigenous movement. A detractor of liberation struggles in many places in Central America.The accuser was no tinfoil hatter, either. In fact, he was a marxist, who specialized in liberation theology. I asked Michael Albert of Z Magazine abouth this–Churchill used to be a regular writer. He had never heard of the claim.
With all of that, I find it disturbing that CU has acted against him in this manner. He is a good scholar.
Does Maron ever come to this goddamn blog?:rabbi:
Senate Democratic leadership yesterday planned to exclude Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) from a news conference promoting legislation she introduced until just hours before the event, according to today’s Roll Call.
Just prior to the event, according to Roll Call, a Clinton aide could be seen yelling at an aide to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), among other things, “you suck.”
http://tinyurl.com/nsnep
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Awwwwwww :banana::banana::banana::shock::eek::yuck:
Well who wants that dyke at any conference, you know? I mean listen to the language her aide uses. (Another Dyke, no doubt). :omg: Ok, ok, so that was wrong. (I’m on a break at work)
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committe F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has broken House rules to adjourn a meeting after losing a vote to Democrats, Democratic sources tell RAW STORY.
The vote was on an item from the Republican’s “American Values Agenda,” which the party says will codify “the American character.” Specifically, it aims to bar any court–including the United States Supreme Court–from hearing any legal challenge to the pledge of allegiance.
http://tinyurl.com/n5pgc
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Even when you win you lose.. Someone needs to have a talk with Senselessbrener in an alley somewhere. :eek::yuck::jason:
Hey, the Israelis buzzed the Syrian President with fighters. I wonder if he thought that was cool, or what?
gee, wonder what the Iranians are thinking ’bout that, too.
Did anyone catch J. Alter last night drawing an equivalence between the teachers union and the right wing wackos who form the republican base? This is the biggest problem facing us today? Is he drunk? Did you hear him snap when Maron referred to the stupidity of Bush’s followers?
These worthless liberal beltway guys are the best thing ever to happen to the American Fascist movement. Why don’t the Dems change their title to the Weimar Republic and get it over with.
An Inquirer reader attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident.
Gaston, our astonished reader reports: “The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes”.
Should you witness such an event, his advice is, “Don’t try anything courageous/stupid, stay away, away, away!”
“For the record, this is a Dell machine,” notes Gaston. “It is only a matter of time until such an incident breaks out on a plane,” he suggests.
http://tinyurl.com/gavwo
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There is a picture at this link looks pretty bad to me..:omg::omg::omg::eek::eek::eek::yuck:
Sometimes people just do the right thing and come through. Yesterday when I was bemoaning Bill Nelson’s wrongheaded vote on the flag-burning amendment, I wondered aloud if the senator I had donated to that day had voted the same way, since that person’s race is much tighter than Nelson v. Harris.
From TIME.com:
Despite such treacly gambits, (Sen. Mitch) McConnell didn’t bend, so amendment supporters were forced to target centrist Democrats in the hope of making up their one-vote deficit. But none of the ones they were eyeing — Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Maria Cantwell of Washington — flipped.
:love::love::love::love::love:
Her lead is down to four points. Nelson’s is seven times that many. Some people have guts, others have space for rent where the guts should be.
Thank you Maria!
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Video: Analysts see far-reaching consequences to Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling
David Edwards
Published: Wednesday June 28, 2006
Earlier today, the Supreme Court ruled that for Republicans who rearranged voting districts in Texas to benefit Republican candidates. Tom DeLay has been described as the mastermind behind the gerrymandering. The ruling allows states to redistrict along party lines to benefit the party in power. The courts ruling also allows states to redistrict at anytime instead of every ten years.
CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Tubin emphasized the importance of the ruling, “The larger issue was, can you gerrymander districts purely on the basis of partisanship? Can Tom DeLay or a Democrat in another state simply say, look, we are going to design all of our congressional districts for one party or the other? And what they appear to have done is upheld that practice which is the big issue… but the idea of partisan gerrymandering which has made most of the congress uncompetitive — that looks like it’s been upheld and that’s really important.”
CNN’s Jeff Greenfield paints a disturbing picture of what this means for the future of our democratic system, “There’s a couple of things about this… The partisan gerrymandering has been around for a while. One of the questions here was, are there limits? The other thing that made this case so interesting is that as soon as it turned Republican drew this congressional lines not after a 10 year census which is normally how every state does it… That’s been a long tradition and one of the interesting consequences of the court upholding most of this Texas policy of redistricting, is you wonder how many other states are not going to wait for the 2010 census to try to redraw their congressional lines to benefit whatever party that happens to be in control of the state legislature. The are 4 maybe 5 seats of the Republican majority in the House that are due solely to the redrawing of these lines [in Texas]. And you can imagine both parties looking around at whatever state they happen to control, saying, ‘Why do we have to wait for 2010? Why don’t we redraw our lines?’… You could imagine after 2 years that if the party in power changes, the new guys and gals are going to say, ‘Well, hell, we’ll draw the state lines to benefit our party.’ That’s why the consequence of this decision may actually wind up whirling the political process far more than just one state redrawing its’ lines.”
http://tinyurl.com/j69ey
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Did the ruling legalize stealing elections ??
:gate::omg::barf::yuck::gate::omg::jason::fist:
From BuzzFlash
From the Production Studio of Robert Greenwald: Get “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress (DVD)” because it’s “More feisty and fun than a drunken barbecue in Beaumont,” says the Tallahasee Democrat
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/256
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Anti-war coalition calls for emergency actions:
Stop the attacks! Cut off U.S. aid to Israel!
Click here to demand the U.S. stop
funding Israel’s war against Palestine
http://tinyurl.com/pte67
Using the capture of one of its soldiers as the pretext, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a brutal assault on the entire population of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28. U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the main power station in Gaza and destroyed bridges on the only major roads linking the northern and southern sections of the region. The people of Gaza are now without water and electricity — and many will die. The use of U.S. planes and other military goods against illegally occupied territories is a violation of both international and U.S. law.
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This is from the A.N.S.W.E.R coalition .. nice diverse group..:roll::billcat:
Dissent from soldiers during foreign interventions has been reported throughout U.S. history, such as in Mexico in the 1840s and the Philippines in the 1900s. Even during World War II, African American rebellions against internal racism shook the military, and eventually forced unit desegregation. After the war ended in 1945, soldiers and sailors demanded a postwar demobilization and tickets home. Starting in Manila, they formed a huge and successful movement that may have prevented a U.S. intervention against the Chinese Revolution later in the decade, though did not prevent the Korean War of the 1950s.
During the Vietnam War, the military ranks carried out mass resistance on bases and ships in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, U.S. and Europe. Military resistance was instrumental in ending the war by making the ranks politically unreliable. This history is well documented in Soldiers in Revolt by David Cortright and teh recent film “Sir! No Sir!.” Servicemen and women were heavily influenced by the antiwar and African American liberation movements back home, as well as by personal contact with Vietnamese civilians. But this resistance took years to develop after the initial deployments in 1960, not catching fire until after the 1968 Tet Offensive showed that the war was unwinnable.
Personnel in all service branches carried out explicitly political actions-signing antiwar petitions, wearing buttons and patches, disobeying illegal orders, avoiding battles, passing information to the peace movement, and carrying out strikes, sit-ins, and rebellions, and well as sabotage of equipment. The breakdown in discipline was evidenced by high levels of internal organizing, racial conflict, drug use, desertion, and being absent without leave (AWOL). The sources of the rebellions were as much tied to domestic racism as to overseas militarism…
http://www.counterpunch.org
Net Neutrality loses in Commerce Committee.
These are the enemies of a free and open Internet (all Republicans):
Ted Stevens (AK): (202) 224-3004; (202) 224-2354 FAX
John McCain (AZ): (202) 224-2235; Fax: (202) 228-2862
Conrad Burns (MT): 202-224-2644; Fax: 202-224-8594
Trent Lott (MS): (202) 224-6253; Fax: (202) 224-2262
Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX): 202-224-5922; 202-224-0776 (FAX)
Gordon H. Smith (OR): 202.224.3753; Fax: 202.228.3997
John Ensign (NV): (202) 224-6244; Fax: (202) 228-2193
George Allen (VA): (202) 224-4024; Fax: (202) 224-5432
John E. Sununu (NH): (202) 224-2841; FAX (202) 228-4131
Jim DeMint (SC): 202-224-6121; Fax: 202-228-5143
David Vitter (LA): (202) 224-4623; Fax: (202) 228-5061
These are the good guys (and gals) – all but Snowe are Democrats:
Olympia J. Snowe (ME): (202) 224-5344; FAX (202) 224-1946
Daniel K. Inouye (HI): 202-224-3934; Fax: 202-224-6747
John D. Rockefeller (WV): (202) 224-6472; (202) 224-7665 Fax
John F. Kerry (MA): (202) 224-2742 – Phone; (202) 224-8525 – Fax
Byron L. Dorgan (ND): 202-224-2551; Fax: 202-224-1193
Barbara Boxer (CA): 202-224-3553
Bill Nelson (FL): 202-224-5274; Fax: 202-228-2183
Maria Cantwell (WA): 202-224-3441; 202-228-0514 – FAX
Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ): (202) 224-3224; Fax: (202) 228-4054
E. Benjamin Nelson (NE): Tel: (202) 224-6551; Fax: (202) 228-0012
Mark Pryor (AR): (202) 224-2353; Fax: (202) 228-0908
Maybe this provides some insight into why the Israelis/Americans and Palestinians don’t get along very well…. ok… no at all…
http://tinyurl.com/g8tbh
This is a link to the discussion forum on DU.. some liberals they have over there..:barf::barf::yuck::omg:
Ron Wyden of Oregon has said that he will “do anything I can to block a major telecom rewrite that undermines what makes the Internet special. I will block it. I will do anything I can to derail it,” including a hold.”
Fuckface Ted Stevens says he doesn’t have 60 votes to ram this through, but that could change, of course. If you get a chance, call your Senators and tell them how you feel (especially if you’re “represented” by “maverick” McCain, who has taken $44,250 from telco PACs and associated evil people).
Doing something to the telecoms when you spend a lot of time on the internet is like cutting off your hand.. of course if they do the things that have been suggested you may not be able to get on the Internet.. They may slow Moveon’s server connection down to 10 bits /second.
Has Seder talked any about the invasion of Gaza … ????…. Never mind…:doh::fustrate::billcat:
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip began with a limited objective: to secure the release of a captive Israeli soldier. But it risks turning into a protracted conflict less than year after Israel left Gaza
http://tinyurl.com/jvyzc
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This article looks at some of the reasons/results of the conflict so far.
:rant1::-(
Oh, look at the kitties.
We have seen some sites like that along the Green Way.. They usually have mom along… When the cats and dogs that live outside start disappearing you usually know why. :billcat:
I will be calling and emailing Mucky Muck McCain. He sux. :fu::jason:
Where did you get that info about McCain’s money sources?
WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to “acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people,” and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans.
“Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation. Context matters,” the Illinois Democrat said in remarks to a conference of Call to Renewal, a faith-based movement to overcome poverty.
“It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase `under God,'” he said. “Having voluntary student prayer groups using school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats.”
Obama, the only black in the Senate, drew national notice even before arriving in Congress last year, and has occasionally used his visibility to scold members of his own party. Widely sought as a fundraiser for other Democrats, Obama responded with a noncommittal laugh this spring when asked whether he wants a spot on the national ticket in 2008.
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This as you might expect went over like a lead balloon on DU
http://tinyurl.com/gt22w
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The place to go for everything you never wanted to know about who gives to your senator/rep
http://www.opensecrets.org/
These are the good guys (and gals) – all but Snowe are Democrats:
Olympia J. Snowe (ME): (202) 224-5344; FAX (202) 224-1946
Daniel K. Inouye (HI): 202-224-3934; Fax: 202-224-6747
John D. Rockefeller (WV): (202) 224-6472; (202) 224-7665 Fax
John F. Kerry (MA): (202) 224-2742 – Phone; (202) 224-8525 – Fax
Byron L. Dorgan (ND): 202-224-2551; Fax: 202-224-1193
Barbara Boxer (CA): 202-224-3553
Bill Nelson (FL): 202-224-5274; Fax: 202-228-2183
Maria Cantwell (WA): 202-224-3441; 202-228-0514 – FAX
Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ): (202) 224-3224; Fax: (202) 228-4054
E. Benjamin Nelson (NE): Tel: (202) 224-6551; Fax: (202) 228-0012
Mark Pryor (AR): (202) 224-2353; Fax: (202) 228-0908
Where the hell are my senators in NY? 😡
That was at mydd, KP.
Clinton and Schumer aren’t on the Commerce Committee, Suzie.
Clinton is on record as supporting net neutrality. Schumer, as far as I know, hasn’t stated a position. So he’d be a good one to call.
“It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase `under God,’” he said. “Having voluntary student prayer groups using school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats.”
Dear Mr. Obama:
Having had to have lead the pledge in a classroom where Jehovah’s Witnesses opted out and sat while other children recited, I can tell you for a fact that some children DO feel different and singled out, which leads to questions, which leads to children being labeled as “different.” Also, there are children of athiest and agnostic parents who don’t wish to say this and feel bad about it. Furthermore, in many classrooms the pledge with this addition is mandatory for all children, whatever you may think, and that is quite simply wrong.
Also, Mr. Obama, given the fact that “under God” was NOT in the original pledge but was added in the paranoid 50’s to appease Mc Cartheyites, I feel it’s not even in the spirit of the thing.
Getting back to talking about faith – as someone who is religious I would prefer to keep it private and not hear politicians talk about faith. Frankly, with George Bush at the helm I’ve had enough of this stuff as I can stomach from a leader.
As a student of uses of propaganda, I don’t trust politicians who discuss faith. Even if they themselves are religious, I believe them to use religious speech to emotionally sway voters. It is too powerful a tool used in combination with politics to be trusted. Faith is fine, but politics plus religion is a bad combination and has proven that to me over and over.
And you Mr. Obama, I trust even less now, because I believe you’re using Faith Talk, powered by your considerable speaking skills, to garner support for yourself in your move to the Center (or to the right, since you already were in the center).
So Mr. Obama, would you shut the fuck up about religion. Thank you.
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Clinton and Schumer aren’t on the Commerce Committee, Suzie.
Clinton is on record as supporting net neutrality. Schumer, as far as I know, hasn’t stated a position. So he’d be a good one to call.
Ok, that makes me feel a tiny bit better, I guess. Though Chuckie needs to hear from me.
Thanks PJ. :jesus:
thanks for the good links, pj. and fred, for yours as well on Gaza.
40 orphan children were outside playing today and hit by 2 suicide bombers in Iraq. The children are in the hospital in the Green Zone (the one in Baghdad ER) and mr fk is headed there in the a.m. and will report.
and i worry about the children in Gaza. You should see how they live there compared to Israel. It’s shameful. Israel created what it fears most.
I’m really sad about all this.
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on a personal note, the treadmill test went really well and the doc said I’m doing outstandingly well – the walking is the trick 😉
should start the rehab the end of the next week. That’s good as my muscles are not happy campers. wonder if I could ever again run another marathon….. 😎
did you all see this post on dailykos about lamont and benedict-lieberman, his opponent? The ad is worth watching and reading benedict-lieberman’s response!
That is a great ad. The I approved this message “and so did we!” is a great touch, too.
oh, KP, regarding pools in AZ….don’t you need to put ice in them prior to swimming???? :tongue:
Michael from The Bronx!:omg:
Good ol’ Mike…
Do you know him? He is a real hip cat. Up on a lot. Calls in to Malloy’s show a lot. Speaking of Malloy’s show: Alexander COCKBURN tonight. Call in with your Gaza questions.
[In the case of the Canadian AIPAC] it is worth reviewing some basic features of the movement that resulted in the creation of the Israeli state. This movement emerged in late 19th century Europe, shaped by the twin realities of violent, racist persecution of Jewish communities within Europe, and European conquest of vast territories elsewhere in the world for settlement and profit. Zionism proposed an answer to Europe’s “Jewish question.” The Zionist movement would spearhead the creation of a European Jewish colony on a suitable piece of territory. Its leadership briefly flirted with pursuing its ambitions in Argentina or Uganda. But the first Zionist Congress set the movement’s sights on what it described as “the colonization of Palestine,”[1] and it is around this plan that the movement actually developed.
Zionism was a response to anti-Semitism, but hardly an anti-racist one. It generally accepted the idea that Jews are “alien” to the societies in which they live as a minority religion or ethnicity, a key premise of narrow, anti-Semitic nationalist movements. More clearly still, its answer to Europe’s Jewish question relied upon a racist dismissal of the existing society in Palestine and the surrounding region. Theodor Herzl, the founder and lead organizer of the fledgling movement, stressed that the Zionist state in Palestine “should there form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.”[2]
This approach brought Zionist strategists into direct collaboration with the leading racist statesmen of the time. In European officials, including the most vicious anti-Semites, key Zionist leaders saw potential allies. Herzl, for example, met and dealt with the Czarist Interior Minister responsible for the infamous 1903 pogrom in Kishinev; the Zionist zealot Ze’ev (Vladmir) Jabotinsky repeated the pattern a few years after the First World War by dealing with the reactionary Ukrainian exile government that was responsible for massacring thousands of Jews. Jabotinsky’s maneuvers gained nothing while associating the movement with a hated and collapsing government, and he was soon after removed from the Zionist Executive. But at the 12th Zionist Congress, he defended himself in words that would echo through much Zionist and Israeli policy: “In working for Palestine I would even ally myself with the devil.”[3]
Susan : That letter to OB was great .. Except for the last line . Their email filter may remove the whole email if you cuss at him.
That’s the problem with senators they look so good when they first run but then they turn into lemons that you have to keep for the next five years.:jason::eek::yuck:
cool, I’ll try to listen. I had to go to the KTLK stream, because both AA stream and Majority Report are both not working for me for some reason
That’s right, WLIB does not get Malloy’s show. Check the archives section at White Rose Society.
Susan : That letter to OB was great .. Except for the last line . Their email filter may remove the whole email if you cuss at him.
That’s the problem with senators they look so good when they first run but then they turn into lemons that you have to keep for the next five
Oh Fred, I didn’t actually send that. If I did I’d clean it up a bit and make it more polite so that it would be read. What I wrote here was just a rant. Obama has pissed me off, and religion plus politics is enough for me to rant on about for hours anyway, so the combination just gave me mad typing fingers today, LOL
WLIB does too get Malloy. He’s on at 10 PM
I found an old copy of Rolling Stone, with an article which stated that Andy Kaufman is not funny. Isn’t Anne Coulter really Andy Kaufman?
I love the White Rose Society though…glad to know others know about it 🙂
I thought the Satellite Sisters took over the 10 PM time slot on WLIB?
Well Ann Coulter is not funny…so using that kind of logic…hmmm :jerk:
Oh? I haven’t been listening much at 10 PM. Is this true? :omg: I’ll have to check tonight!
TOO MANY CHANGES TO AAR! I’m UPSET!!!!!!! :!::eek:
This caller is getting to me. The NY Times should be on a “side” No conflict of interest to a journalist who is on a “side,” eh? Why doesn’t the radio host just say that?
Is it really important to us on the left if the Busheviecs take out the NYT ??. Maybe they took out Maddow too. I hardly get any news from either place..The BBC world services and web sites like RawStory and Truthout seem to give me as much news as I can use. I am sure they really don’t care what the Bushies think and if the thugs take them out then we just have a BBQ at the RNC office.
I often wonder if Rove and the other members of the Bushes propaganda ministry travel in armored limos with NSA escorts ..:hubba::hubba::gate::omg::jason::fist:
Andy Kaufman was damned funny! (I recently rented a few of his old videos.)
Anybody catch Jimmy Carter’s son Jack on the Bill Crowley Show this morning. He is running for senator in Nevada. Impressive guy.
I’m honestly not familiar with him as a comedian. I did like him on the show Taxi
Is he? I heard he was running, but I haven’t heard him speak yet.
How is the weather in North Manhattan?
Are you watching the Mets on ESPN? Pedro pitching against the Red Sox.
All these talk hosts sit on their butts in front of a microphone and do a most excellent job of putting out information that to most people after about ten days is absolutely useless unless its that they are being taken off the air by the NSA.. By that time it will be a bit late don’t you think ??
I have it on but I’m only half watching. North Manhattan? LOL, what’s in North Manhattan?
I am not being snarky, but Mets are losing 8-1. Great Martinez was shelled, it seems.:omg:
Full disclosure: I root for Randy Johnson. I worked at the Kingdome during the Summer of 1992.
Do you mean FLUSHING, in beautiful Queens, where Shea Stadium is? 😉
Heartsville.:love:
I’m still giggling at “North Manhattan” 🙂
20 miles north of Manhattan. North Mahnhattan.
Hehe, ok. That’s my stompin grounds. (North Manhattan: Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem)
Jack Carter is running for the senate in Nevada I believe.. All of these dem candidates sound really good until they get to graft and corruption ville then its ONK ONK squeal squeal.. at the trough with all the rest of them.. How can you tell what they will be like in a year or two.. :yuck::rant1:
You learn a lot from The Daily Show. Last night, Helen Thomas mentioned that she got Tony Snow to deny that we were building permanent military bases in Iraq prior to the news conference, and then when on camera, he weaseled “it depends on what you mean by ‘permanent’.” [that’s when he called himself the “teacher”].
God bless this woman, and shame on the other worthless shits who call themselves journalists. Try, as I have for weeks, to get a straight answer from Dana Priest or the other WaPo media whores in the on line chats, as to whether we’re building permanent bases in Iraq or not. They have no guts at all. We’re not leaving folks; the whole stand up/stand down crap is just that. We’re parking our well-armored butts on those oil reserves and we’re not leaving. No wonder Bin Laden supported Bush. He’s really gotten his money’s worth.
ARghhhhh Fred, let’s wait to be cynical until they prove themselves to be evil… :omg:
Make small changes until we have the revolutionary forces ready. I just read Paul Avrich’s Russian Rebels. Good book!
I’m getting quite a book list from you… :nod:
I guess Susan wasn’t volunteering to donate her crystal ball to the cause ?? I know… have at least some faith.. But then I go to work at the soup kitchen .. try that if you want to be cynical.
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Any thing in the post today?
not today, I think I know a couple of things to expect though :love:
Are you listening to Zogby? Democrats are a long way from winning big against Republicans this November.
Too true… he calls it the way he sees it, Zogby does
Democrats must keep their corporate constituents happy, too. Hedge bets on both sides.
What else are you expecting in the mail?
The lack of a plan by the dems is what all the left sided talkers have been saying for the last three weeks or more.. Either they get their act together or they lose.. The thugs could also just cancel the election and declare Bush heir dictator too.:eek::yuck::barf:
Ask Zogby about the election heist of 2004. What were his numbers on election day?
John Zogby was wrong about the election results Kerry vs. Bush…I remember that…but I think that’s because the election was fraudulant.
The dictator card would backfire. Might wake up the masses, too. Create a crisis in democracy.
I don’t recall the numbers. I do remember him on TV, and he was truly shocked. He’s such a sophisticated pollster I would think he’d be hard to shock in that way. Basically he kept saying “this election shouldn’t go to Bush. it just shouldn’t”
He chose Kerry? (Then he was right.) Fucking Walmart voters.
The troops are ticked off this year more than I have ever seen them.. so if the thugs win they will lose any how and those that lose won’t be running again.. No one I know cares a diddly about Iraq.. their jobs yes Iraq maybe gay marriage and flag burning FORGETABOUTIT..
Yeah, he said Kerry was supposed to win. The exit polls were showing that too. Then all of a sudden things just went to shit. I wonder why.
Even if they elect the dems to office I would give them about a year to turn things around or both they and the thugs won’t be running for office ever again.:jason::jason:
Ugh, listening to Springer this morning in the car about flag burning, that whole thing is just pissing me off…
Fred. Was that you on the air from Colorado? Talking about Ed Schultz?
NO I would never talk to one of these fools.. I might say something that sounds like sedition.:rant1: Give away the plans of the revolutionary army.. :bong:
Hehe. I’m afraid a string of good ol’ Bronx-style cussing might make its way out of my mouth if I called, so I can understand.
I send Jay Marvin revolutionary nasty grams quite often telling him to get off his centrist butt and get out on the street and talk to people.. I think he has me in his email filter.. No one from the NSA has dropped by at least.:yuck::eek::rant1:
I think the only reason I continue to listen to these people is because they seem more likely to tell me the truth and I agree with their view point most of the time..I would like to hear more calls from people other than those philosophizing around the pool waiting for their dividend checks. Every one intellectualizes it like it is happening to someone else..:rant1::eek::mad:
I think I know what you mean…people thinking about politics in the abstract, not “feelin’ it” because it’s not touching their life, or they think it’s not…really sad
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces rounded up dozens of Palestinian Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from Hamas, increasing pressure on the Islamic militants to release a captured Israeli soldier, and witnesses said tanks moved into northern Gaza, widening Israel’s largest military operation in the year since Israel pulled out of the seaside territory.
Adding to the tension, a Palestinian militant group said it executed an 18-year-old Jewish settler kidnapped in the West Bank. Palestinian security officials said they believed the body of Eliahu Asheri had been found in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Hamas officials said more than 30 lawmakers have been arrested in the West Bank.
Palestinian security officials said Israeli forces detained the Palestinian deputy prime minister, Nasser Shaer, and three other Cabinet ministers, as well as four lawmakers in Ramallah. Several others were arrested in the town of Jenin, they said.
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I really don’t think arresting their politicians will have any effect..
:jason::eek::yuck:
It would be so cool so see the politician arresting thing happening in DC with the 50 cal gun on a tank aimed at the bunch of them.:razz::hubba::hubba:
Well, that should help things.
Preston is an idiot.. Stupid non violence at any cost fool.. We will vote hm to be in charge of the rock breaking crew. 🙁 :rant1: at the work labor camp.
Israel has overwhelming power over the Occupied Territories that it can round up the Palestinian leadership at will. The US will provide the diplomatic cover for the outrageous actions. Then people wonder why the downtrodden cheer when terrorists strike back.
So, uh, whatever happened to Divine Strake??
Hey, Nicki!! :banana: You’re so fine you blow my mind!! :rofl2::eek:
Re #77 & 85 Andy Kaufman. I read those posts & boy, does it ever make me feel old because the other day at work (in the hospital), I was commenting that one of the patients I was working with reminded me of Latka Gravas and the co-worker I was speaking to never heard of Andy Kaufman (or Latka or Taxi) — He was an RN maybe in his mid 20s. Boy, did that make me feel old because when I was his age I was watching Latka on the teevee every week and on NIck at Night in recent years! What the hell is wrong with young people these days? Every so often the generation gap just smacks me right in the face and it is really, really weird because I just don’t feel old, but in some ways I do. These kids don’t know what they have missed!!
Know what? Betcha my own kids (now all in their early to mid 20s) don’t even know who Latka was. I’ll have to ask them . :knit: 🙁
There is nothing left for the consumer to classify. Producers have done it for him. Art for the masses has destroyed the dream but still conforms to the tenets of that dreaming idealism which critical idealism baulked at. Everything derives from consciousness: for Malebranche and Berkeley, from the consciousness of God; in mass art, from the consciousness of the production team. Not only are the hit songs, stars, and soap operas cyclically recurrent and rigidly invariable types, but the specific content of the entertainment itself is derived from them and only appears to change. The details are interchangeable. The short interval sequence which was effective in a hit song, the hero’s momentary fall from grace (which he accepts as good sport), the rough treatment which the beloved gets from the male star, the latter’s rugged defiance of the spoilt heiress, are, like all the other details, ready-made clichés to be slotted in anywhere; they never do anything more than fulfil the purpose allotted them in the overall plan. Their whole raison d’être is to confirm it by being its constituent parts. As soon as the film begins, it is quite clear how it will end, and who will be rewarded, punished, or forgotten. In light music, once the trained ear has heard the first notes of the hit song, it can guess what is coming and feel flattered when it does come. The average length of the short story has to be rigidly adhered to. Even gags, effects, and jokes are calculated like the setting in which they are placed. They are the responsibility of special experts and their narrow range makes it easy for them to be apportioned in the office.