Now look what you guys did to Vernon last night. He’s going to feel compelled to put a warning on every picture he posts.
:rofl2:
Although that shot of Rush playing tonsil hockey with Chloe WAS kind of disgusting. I wonder how long Chloe had to boil out her mouth afterwards.
:barf:
A recent congressional report estimated that federal spending on contracts awarded without “full and open” competition has tripled, to $207 billion, since 2000, with a $60 billion increase last year alone. The category includes deals in which officials take advantage of provisions allowing them to sidestep competition for speed and convenience and cases in which the government sharply limits the number of bidders or expands work under open-ended contracts.
Pushed by an unlikely partnership of corporate leaders and environmentalists, the White House and Congress are now grappling with decisions on global warming unimaginable only a year ago, including whether to implement tough fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, require utilities to buy power from renewable sources, or mandate cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions.
Several environmentalists credit their new bedfellows — business leaders they once lambasted — for accelerating the agenda toward action this fall, and a showdown between lawmakers and President Bush.
Sue P, I was trying to figure out WTF to do about 7 and trying to figure out why idiot πΏ bush and his πΏ adm are still in office? This confuses me and explains why the bloody heck I AM A MISANTHROPE π :omg: :doh: :fist: A!I!V!
I think that American industry will be one of the forces pushing universal healthcare, because healthcare costs imperil their profits. Of course if we keep rewarding them for leaving the country, thei enthusiasm maybe tempered.
The reason nothing is happening to the B* admin is that the people haven’t figured out how to hold their elected officials accountable between elections..Being IGNORANT MORONS they have been brainwashed into thinking the rigged election they have every two years is the way. Perhaps a visit by a group of citizens ( footnote see Vigilance committee) in the middle of the night might inspire your politician to action .. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
One of the problems with involving industry in anything is that it generally provides a half ass solution. As soon as what is required impacts their bottom line they will pull the plug. or unplug the activist as the case may be. :reaper: :reaper:
Hillary A ( for AIPAC) D( for DLC) Clintdork apparently told the VFW convention in Kansas City the surge was working and that we must pasify Iraq so we can prepare for the “next war” :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid: :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
That coal mine operator in Utah also told the press that they must close the section of the mine that collapsed but get on with mining the coal in the sections of the mine still intact.. I will bet the the Bureau of Mines will let him implement the same safety features he was using in the part of the mine that collapsed too.
NEW YORK – Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won’t be the type common at sites elsewhere. Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semitransparent “overlay” ads at the bottom of selected video clips.
The ad disappears after about 10 seconds if the viewer does nothing; the featured clip automatically pauses if the viewer clicks on the overlay to launch the full pitch.
re 15 :barf: and was going to hold my nose and I still have to :barf: … vote — AS A YELLOW DOG DEM π A!I!V!
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Comment by Kristapea I waited and waited then just as he was to be on My Call took TOOOOOOOOO Bloody long and so I missed :smack: but thx for telling a bit :rofl2: … that’s Cool 8)
I don’t think industry involvement leads to wonderful, people-friendly solutions, but an alliance with them may push things in a better direction. Perhaps we’ll be able to make improvements after that but things are so bad a the moment that we need to at least start to move in a better direction.
I was going to say right direction, but I really man left.
If the voters were more proactive in dealing with their members of congress ( footnote see Vigilance committee) we would get public financed elections and the people we put in office might even know something about what they are hearing in technical briefings and hearing from there staff/lobbyists.. As it is now all they care about is how will their vote impact their reelection campaign coffers. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
When these lefty talkers refer to Bush as having a screw loose they should really refer to him and most rethugs as sociopaths .. They are mentally ill but in a normal for that income group kind of way. :reaper: :reaper:
Sue P, Industry is a whore. “They are forced to “see” REALITY yet they ALWAYS work with whomever is on top … and the GREEN Movement is moving forward, and as in the past, Business is “forced” to comply. Now there are even some business’ wanting to GoGreen and “get-in step”.
Awww Wild Fire … She went ridinggggggg Wild Fire π
(I couldn’t listen often, because it ALWAYS (yes, even now sniff) made be cry, no matter where I was at or what I was doing)
I agree, industry is a whore at best. But, if they will help push a solution to global warming or universal healthcare, then they are strange bedfellows, but bedfellows none-the-less.
I’d love more perfect solutions, but at this point I’d at least like a start in the right direction.
Fred, I was hoping that after Justin Frank’sbook “Bush on the couch” everyone would have “got it”, but alas. :smack:
I still think bushes should go broke paying for all WHOMEVER NEVER VOTED for :jerk: bush. :pirate: :yippee: :fist: A!I! V! Immignt Sng
:rofl2: :banana: :rofl2: Sue P … :yippee: I think we are saying the same thing but in different voices — Yes OF COURSE. It’s about Time again, AGAIN β π
This is THE BILL PRESS — AT THE QUAKE — IN MY OL’ CITY — :love: SF ……… :fist: A!I!V! … ??? :billcat: :sheep: :billcat: I do not know symbol …. therefore :rofl2: :sheep: :crap: or :billcat: :crap: :rofl2: – :smack:
Since the SBR has essentially no manufacturing what “industries” are most likely to want universal health care Walmart, Burger King and McDonalds. ??
I think the “industries” involved in global warming will offer a lot of solutions to attract government money , most of which will be incomputable with each other and/or will be sold by snake oil salesmen. We really don’t have thirty years for the “market” to weed out the proper technologies. :jason: :jason:
Someone needs to invent a system that delivers a cruise missile to the address described by the Caller ID We could call it the IMR ( IDIOT MORON removal ) system :reaper: :reaper:
Fred, I am just trying to laugh. It is like I am walking on a “loose” tightrope. I feel like I cannot get my balance, that “… the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet.” :smack: π A!I!V! … Get The Party Started (LIVE) … PINK I have a dragon on leg also 8) :dancers:
I have to wonder about this 45 million people with no health care number it seems to me that it was at that level in 2004.. What is it today 50 million, 60 million 70 million ?? :reaper: :reaper:
Analytically, WE DEMS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH BLOODY VOTES. — jACK cAFERTY … is a Johnny-Come-Lately.
BE A YELLOW DOG DEM, for now. Jack — STFU it is called strategy…. Thom :love: this is when Bill lost me. But i will still listen kinda — he’s in SF :yippee: :pirate: :dancers: CALM 8) :bong: :knit: :alc: :fist: A!I!V!
Dog food sold in the tri-state area is being recalled because of salmonella contamination that can affect both humans and animals, its producer said yesterday.
Bags of Krasdale Gravy dry dog food were ordered off the shelves by Tennessee-based Mars Petcare U.S. after a test by the Food and Drug Administration.
Dog food with the UPC code 7513062596 and a “best by” date of July 16, 2008, or July 17, 2008, was sold in stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
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But look here at the last paragraph..…
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart announced that two Chinese-made brands of dog treats it quietly pulled off shelves in July contain melamine, a chemical agent that triggered a massive pet-food recall in March. The company is offering a refund.
It only took Walmart 5 weeks to admit it. But no announcement, no headlines. After all we don’t want people to stop shoppin g at Walmart and especially we can’t have them focusing on Walmarts China connection.
Maybe its the democrats strategy that expains to the IDIOT MORONS that the solution to nothing happening is obvious elect more democrats. I wonder if our senators and reps have SS protection during this vacation .. they may need it.. :reaper: :reaper:
Local DEMs are prepping for the National Convention.. and to run Mark Udall for the Senate. Udall has been in the house for a while and brings a lot of pork to Boulder county so :yippee: :yippee:
It is very hard to make people understand the connection between low prices and low wages, especially people who are struggling financially.
I’m thrilled I’m able to shop at other stores but I am sympathetic to people who have little choice. Sometimes the only place to shop is Walmart, which does a very good job of driving out other stores.
Sunshine Jim, Tea Cheers,
yes, Sue P, (oh, I have to brew tea and run an errand and — :smack: in town now π ) and then there is only seconds to buy things and it is great making a “one-stop” shop. I feel it is ultimatly the rethugs fault for “busting” unions and making the people BEG for the success of the corporation that “the people run”… Family’s barely have time to spend together except maybe shopping. TIME, stand still. :smack:
The slick switcheroo ads from “Freedom’s Watch” (the GOP random patriotic word generator could use a tune-up) noted by The Angry Rakkasan are rife with Iraq/9-11 conflation.
From Veteran:
“They attacked us. And they will again. They won’t stop in Iraq.”
From Jesse:
“If we surrender now, it’s giving the message to terrorists that they can do what they want and get away with it.”
“We’ve already had one 9/11, we don’t need another.”
From Travis:
“I lost two family members to Al Qaeda. My uncle, a fireman on 9/11, and my husband Travis in Iraq.”
“Switching [Congress’s] votes now, for political reasons? It will mean more attacks in America.”
But is that the extent of their intentional manipulation of public opinion and its expression?
Of course not! Ari Fleischer is on the job, so you know you have to check the underside of your shoes.
All the ads encourage viewers to “Call your Congressman and Senator” and provide a phone number: 1-877-222-8001.
Only that number? It ain’t Congress. IraqCampaign.org reports via e-mail that it gets you:
[A]n operator who gives you the White House talking points and asks you to take a survey about the war on terror BEFORE they will connect you with Congress.
Go ahead. Give it a whirl.
Ari Fleischer brings Bush “town hall” screening tactics – come in tell us what you think. First, you need to take a test to see if we agree.
They won’t even risk giving people the truth about Congress’s phone number. Which, by the way, is (202) 224-3121 for the Senate, and (202) 225-3121 for the House.
Around here the WalMarts seem to lurk just a block or two from the malls.. The mall which used to have a Sears and a Kmart now only has a Kmart and many to many womens fashions stores a music store and a food court. The WalMart has usually totally devastated the small business retailers in a radius of maybe five miles. WalMarts are especially fatal for small business in small towns but on the other hand many of the things WalMart sells were probably not available at all in the small towns before WalMart arrived and the Walmart created twenty or more jobs that didn’t exist at all before it arrived ( it also got rid of five to ten marginally viable business people who may have been there for thirty years) :reaper: :reaper:
One former colleague, operations officer-par-excellence Robert Baer, now reports (in this week’s Time) that, according to his sources, the Bush/Cheney administration is winding up for a strike on Iran; that the Administration’s plan to put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list points in the direction of such a strike; and that the delusional “neo-conservative” thinking that still guides White House policy concludes that such an attack would lead to the fall of the clerics and the rise of a more friendly Iran.
Not sure if this was posted ar not so, what the hell.
re 47 π it is such an horrid catch 22 pitting youth workers against workers with seniority, retirement, pittance of raises.
IMMEDIATELY, ALL should be moving towards recycling starting YESTERDAY. Let the corporations deal with that. The corporations would not EVER be :bee: “in existence” if it weren’t for the people! Time to pay corporations. $ :rofl2: A!I!V!
andy aka Aquaman I heard definitely, btw 3-6months — this is happening. Congress should take this INSANE ADM out now, and put in who won, and Kerry as VP for now and dept of defense should be Wes Clark. GET REAL x-FIGHTERS. Even Gore was a Journalist in the services.
:omg: That’s why I am :fustrate: :paranoid: :knit2:
this is occuring UNLESS WE STOP NOW! Deluge Congress with Spay/Neuter Post Cards. Anything else, just trying to “work” on 2 other projects. :smack: — I feel so Helpless π A!I!V! :growl: *poof*
A lot of people seem to be suggesting that the reason the Russians are once again flying their strategic bombers to failsafe and having joint military exercises with the Chinese is to give the neocons the hint that any more aggression will get a undesirable response. A lot of neocons both in and out of politics would be really torn apart if they found themselves to be the fly and that the Russians and the Chinese held a ten pound sledge hammer they intended to use as a fly swatter. :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid:
Remember that one day the Germans were on a high because they held all of Western Europe.. the next day Hamburg disappeared.
The only explanation for the wingnuts bombing Iran, is that they really think it will bring about the Rapture, while the rest of us know it will be a lot more like hell on Earth.
It is true, :fustrate: the inmates are running the asylum.
The 2007 Butter Sculpture has been unveiled. This is big news, up here in the Great White North. Just another one of those things you dirty New York City liberal hippies just don’t get.
By the way those are COWS. An animal indigenous to these parts.
I’m glad you told me about the cows, PJ. This summer, traveling through all those red states, I remembered Hannity’s map showing how vast the red area was. Naturally seeing all those cows I assumed I had found Hannity’s listeners, though they did seem to have very nice eyes for a bunch of Republicans.
Don’t think I’m getting all wierd on you here but I remember being on a train going through Belgium in the seventies and the cows were the most beautiful cows I’d ever seen. Lush pastures of green and if I remember right the cows were kind of choclate and purplish looking……, or maybe that was the :bong: :billcat: :yippee:
i very much agree with what you say about corporate partnerships. corporatiions are by nature amoral. tax policy could very quickly turn things around.
tax credits (not deductioins) for alternative vehicles and homeowner or even renters alternative nergy productiion with mandatory power company buyback, and other measures would very quickly make a huge difference.
if the fed gov’t weren’t spending such vast amounts of $$$ in iraq, we could afford to replace every gov’t fleet with electric vehicles. and public transportation!’
i heard a special program on germany’s alt energy initiative. they figured out how much power they would need in future and estimated cost of new generating facities. they then figured out the cost of this NEW power. they passed legislation to offer individuals the ability to buy their own generating equipment hooked up to the grid. all the power individuals produce gets purchased by the power cos. at the projected cost of new power. individuals are sold power at the averaged rate. the difference is given as a credit which can be used to make payments on the equipment. this buy back rate continues for a fixed amt of time (ten years i think). at the end of that time individuals have paid for and own the generating equipment. win win.
since passage of this initiative, all new construction and most existing structures have sprouted solar panels and small windmills. next step, electric cars.
WARNING- Banjo/Folk/History/Sweater
:knit: :knit2:
Now look what you guys did to Vernon last night. He’s going to feel compelled to put a warning on every picture he posts.
:rofl2:
Although that shot of Rush playing tonsil hockey with Chloe WAS kind of disgusting. I wonder how long Chloe had to boil out her mouth afterwards.
:barf:
Men π
:rofl2: Men :no: :spank: :hubba: :billcat: π … A!I!V!
:fustrate: :fustrate: :fustrate: :crap: :crap: :yuck: :yuck: :paranoid: :paranoid:
β β Whatever :sheep: le
Very good hour-long appearance by Lizz Winstead on David Bender’s show yesterday.
A recent congressional report estimated that federal spending on contracts awarded without “full and open” competition has tripled, to $207 billion, since 2000, with a $60 billion increase last year alone. The category includes deals in which officials take advantage of provisions allowing them to sidestep competition for speed and convenience and cases in which the government sharply limits the number of bidders or expands work under open-ended contracts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200049.html?wpisrc=newsletter
WOW People. :omg: :yippee: Tea :joe: Cheers … :rofl2: A!I!V!
Pushed by an unlikely partnership of corporate leaders and environmentalists, the White House and Congress are now grappling with decisions on global warming unimaginable only a year ago, including whether to implement tough fuel-efficiency standards for motor vehicles, require utilities to buy power from renewable sources, or mandate cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions.
Several environmentalists credit their new bedfellows — business leaders they once lambasted — for accelerating the agenda toward action this fall, and a showdown between lawmakers and President Bush.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/08/22/unlikely_allies_advance_global_warming_policy/
Sue P, I was trying to figure out WTF to do about 7 and trying to figure out why idiot πΏ bush and his πΏ adm are still in office? This confuses me and explains why the bloody heck I AM A MISANTHROPE π :omg: :doh: :fist: A!I!V!
I think that American industry will be one of the forces pushing universal healthcare, because healthcare costs imperil their profits. Of course if we keep rewarding them for leaving the country, thei enthusiasm maybe tempered.
The reason nothing is happening to the B* admin is that the people haven’t figured out how to hold their elected officials accountable between elections..Being IGNORANT MORONS they have been brainwashed into thinking the rigged election they have every two years is the way. Perhaps a visit by a group of citizens ( footnote see Vigilance committee) in the middle of the night might inspire your politician to action .. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Allen Colmes is on Steph, he’s pretty funny π He said, “I work at Fox, so you don’t have to”
One of the problems with involving industry in anything is that it generally provides a half ass solution. As soon as what is required impacts their bottom line they will pull the plug. or unplug the activist as the case may be. :reaper: :reaper:
Hillary A ( for AIPAC) D( for DLC) Clintdork apparently told the VFW convention in Kansas City the surge was working and that we must pasify Iraq so we can prepare for the “next war” :yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid: :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
That coal mine operator in Utah also told the press that they must close the section of the mine that collapsed but get on with mining the coal in the sections of the mine still intact.. I will bet the the Bureau of Mines will let him implement the same safety features he was using in the part of the mine that collapsed too.
Sounds like a byline in a newspaper from 1890
Fred, :nixon: :fist: :peace: The V Committee … :banana: A!I!V!
YouTube Videos to Have ‘Overlay’ Ads
NEW YORK – Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won’t be the type common at sites elsewhere. Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semitransparent “overlay” ads at the bottom of selected video clips.
The ad disappears after about 10 seconds if the viewer does nothing; the featured clip automatically pauses if the viewer clicks on the overlay to launch the full pitch.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Ffeeds%2Fap%2F2007%2F08%2F21%2Fap4041997.html
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For some reason that was expected :reaper: :reaper:
re 15 :barf: and was going to hold my nose and I still have to :barf: … vote — AS A YELLOW DOG DEM π A!I!V!
Kristapea Allen Colmes is on Steph, heΓ’β¬β’s pretty funny He said, Γ’β¬ΕI work at Fox, so you donΓ’β¬β’t have toΓ’β¬Β
Comment by Kristapea I waited and waited then just as he was to be on My Call took TOOOOOOOOO Bloody long and so I missed :smack: but thx for telling a bit :rofl2: … that’s Cool 8)
I don’t think industry involvement leads to wonderful, people-friendly solutions, but an alliance with them may push things in a better direction. Perhaps we’ll be able to make improvements after that but things are so bad a the moment that we need to at least start to move in a better direction.
I was going to say right direction, but I really man left.
But I WILL BE LISTENING TO BILL ON ED’s IN MY CITY :love: :yippee: :fist: A!I!V! :fist:
If the voters were more proactive in dealing with their members of congress ( footnote see Vigilance committee) we would get public financed elections and the people we put in office might even know something about what they are hearing in technical briefings and hearing from there staff/lobbyists.. As it is now all they care about is how will their vote impact their reelection campaign coffers. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
OMG!
“WARNING- Banjo/Folk/History/Sweater”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXhShuof1I
i just figgered it out!!!
“W” is the ‘unknown’ other smother’s brother!!!
When these lefty talkers refer to Bush as having a screw loose they should really refer to him and most rethugs as sociopaths .. They are mentally ill but in a normal for that income group kind of way. :reaper: :reaper:
Sue P, Industry is a whore. “They are forced to “see” REALITY yet they ALWAYS work with whomever is on top … and the GREEN Movement is moving forward, and as in the past, Business is “forced” to comply. Now there are even some business’ wanting to GoGreen and “get-in step”.
Awww Wild Fire … She went ridinggggggg Wild Fire π
(I couldn’t listen often, because it ALWAYS (yes, even now sniff) made be cry, no matter where I was at or what I was doing)
Awww a new acronym .. some one from the right is a Sheeeephead ( as apposed to Sh*head) :billcat: :billcat: :hubba:
I agree, industry is a whore at best. But, if they will help push a solution to global warming or universal healthcare, then they are strange bedfellows, but bedfellows none-the-less.
I’d love more perfect solutions, but at this point I’d at least like a start in the right direction.
There are so many people really suffering.
Fred, I was hoping that after Justin Frank’sbook “Bush on the couch” everyone would have “got it”, but alas. :smack:
I still think bushes should go broke paying for all WHOMEVER NEVER VOTED for :jerk: bush. :pirate: :yippee: :fist: A!I! V! Immignt Sng
:rofl2: :banana: :rofl2: Sue P … :yippee: I think we are saying the same thing but in different voices — Yes OF COURSE. It’s about Time again, AGAIN β π
This is THE BILL PRESS — AT THE QUAKE — IN MY OL’ CITY — :love: SF ……… :fist: A!I!V! … ??? :billcat: :sheep: :billcat: I do not know symbol …. therefore :rofl2: :sheep: :crap: or :billcat: :crap: :rofl2: – :smack:
Since the SBR has essentially no manufacturing what “industries” are most likely to want universal health care Walmart, Burger King and McDonalds. ??
I think the “industries” involved in global warming will offer a lot of solutions to attract government money , most of which will be incomputable with each other and/or will be sold by snake oil salesmen. We really don’t have thirty years for the “market” to weed out the proper technologies. :jason: :jason:
Someone needs to invent a system that delivers a cruise missile to the address described by the Caller ID We could call it the IMR ( IDIOT MORON removal ) system :reaper: :reaper:
or “twitch” my nose :rofl2: :rofl2:
Morrigan & Fred :bee: have. :no: :spank: :rofl2: .. :rofl2: A!I!V!
Kevin M, Brilliant at BF on Amy
Additional Winehouse dish
WARNING-Sincerity attack
I hope she gets straightened out soon before it is too late..
Fred, I am just trying to laugh. It is like I am walking on a “loose” tightrope. I feel like I cannot get my balance, that “… the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet.” :smack: π A!I!V! … Get The Party Started (LIVE) … PINK I have a dragon on leg also 8) :dancers:
I have to wonder about this 45 million people with no health care number it seems to me that it was at that level in 2004.. What is it today 50 million, 60 million 70 million ?? :reaper: :reaper:
Analytically, WE DEMS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH BLOODY VOTES. — jACK cAFERTY … is a Johnny-Come-Lately.
BE A YELLOW DOG DEM, for now. Jack — STFU it is called strategy…. Thom :love: this is when Bill lost me. But i will still listen kinda — he’s in SF :yippee: :pirate: :dancers: CALM 8) :bong: :knit: :alc: :fist: A!I!V!
Dog food sold in the tri-state area is being recalled because of salmonella contamination that can affect both humans and animals, its producer said yesterday.
Bags of Krasdale Gravy dry dog food were ordered off the shelves by Tennessee-based Mars Petcare U.S. after a test by the Food and Drug Administration.
Dog food with the UPC code 7513062596 and a “best by” date of July 16, 2008, or July 17, 2008, was sold in stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
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But look here at the last paragraph..…
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart announced that two Chinese-made brands of dog treats it quietly pulled off shelves in July contain melamine, a chemical agent that triggered a massive pet-food recall in March. The company is offering a refund.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08222007/news/regionalnews/dog_food_is_yanked_off_shelves.htm
It only took Walmart 5 weeks to admit it. But no announcement, no headlines. After all we don’t want people to stop shoppin g at Walmart and especially we can’t have them focusing on Walmarts China connection.
Maybe its the democrats strategy that expains to the IDIOT MORONS that the solution to nothing happening is obvious elect more democrats. I wonder if our senators and reps have SS protection during this vacation .. they may need it.. :reaper: :reaper:
Its unclear to me if most of WalMart’s shoppers can read.. They really need to advertise these problems on American idol :reaper: :reaper:
Sue P, thank you.
Fred, so what are your local DEMS doing? Eek, I am listening to Thom π
Harry Reid on Bill Press Show on Ed ‘s, on The Quake,
S.F. :rofl2: A.. A. … :fist: A!I!V!
Local DEMs are prepping for the National Convention.. and to run Mark Udall for the Senate. Udall has been in the house for a while and brings a lot of pork to Boulder county so :yippee: :yippee:
It is very hard to make people understand the connection between low prices and low wages, especially people who are struggling financially.
I’m thrilled I’m able to shop at other stores but I am sympathetic to people who have little choice. Sometimes the only place to shop is Walmart, which does a very good job of driving out other stores.
eya Sue P!
MAT has some interesting Utube on that subject here:
http://akamat.wordpress.com/
“Debt in America Flat Broke and Borrowing”
and the next 3 or 4 down the page…
Sunshine Jim, Tea Cheers,
yes, Sue P, (oh, I have to brew tea and run an errand and — :smack: in town now π ) and then there is only seconds to buy things and it is great making a “one-stop” shop. I feel it is ultimatly the rethugs fault for “busting” unions and making the people BEG for the success of the corporation that “the people run”… Family’s barely have time to spend together except maybe shopping. TIME, stand still. :smack:
The slick switcheroo ads from “Freedom’s Watch” (the GOP random patriotic word generator could use a tune-up) noted by The Angry Rakkasan are rife with Iraq/9-11 conflation.
From Veteran:
“They attacked us. And they will again. They won’t stop in Iraq.”
From Jesse:
“If we surrender now, it’s giving the message to terrorists that they can do what they want and get away with it.”
“We’ve already had one 9/11, we don’t need another.”
From Travis:
“I lost two family members to Al Qaeda. My uncle, a fireman on 9/11, and my husband Travis in Iraq.”
“Switching [Congress’s] votes now, for political reasons? It will mean more attacks in America.”
But is that the extent of their intentional manipulation of public opinion and its expression?
Of course not! Ari Fleischer is on the job, so you know you have to check the underside of your shoes.
All the ads encourage viewers to “Call your Congressman and Senator” and provide a phone number: 1-877-222-8001.
Only that number? It ain’t Congress. IraqCampaign.org reports via e-mail that it gets you:
[A]n operator who gives you the White House talking points and asks you to take a survey about the war on terror BEFORE they will connect you with Congress.
Go ahead. Give it a whirl.
Ari Fleischer brings Bush “town hall” screening tactics – come in tell us what you think. First, you need to take a test to see if we agree.
They won’t even risk giving people the truth about Congress’s phone number. Which, by the way, is (202) 224-3121 for the Senate, and (202) 225-3121 for the House.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/22/151822/460
Around here the WalMarts seem to lurk just a block or two from the malls.. The mall which used to have a Sears and a Kmart now only has a Kmart and many to many womens fashions stores a music store and a food court. The WalMart has usually totally devastated the small business retailers in a radius of maybe five miles. WalMarts are especially fatal for small business in small towns but on the other hand many of the things WalMart sells were probably not available at all in the small towns before WalMart arrived and the Walmart created twenty or more jobs that didn’t exist at all before it arrived ( it also got rid of five to ten marginally viable business people who may have been there for thirty years) :reaper: :reaper:
Ray McGovern: Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
One former colleague, operations officer-par-excellence Robert Baer, now reports (in this week’s Time) that, according to his sources, the Bush/Cheney administration is winding up for a strike on Iran; that the Administration’s plan to put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list points in the direction of such a strike; and that the delusional “neo-conservative” thinking that still guides White House policy concludes that such an attack would lead to the fall of the clerics and the rise of a more friendly Iran.
Not sure if this was posted ar not so, what the hell.
re 47 π it is such an horrid catch 22 pitting youth workers against workers with seniority, retirement, pittance of raises.
IMMEDIATELY, ALL should be moving towards recycling starting YESTERDAY. Let the corporations deal with that. The corporations would not EVER be :bee: “in existence” if it weren’t for the people! Time to pay corporations. $ :rofl2: A!I!V!
andy aka Aquaman I heard definitely, btw 3-6months — this is happening. Congress should take this INSANE ADM out now, and put in who won, and Kerry as VP for now and dept of defense should be Wes Clark. GET REAL x-FIGHTERS. Even Gore was a Journalist in the services.
:omg: That’s why I am :fustrate: :paranoid: :knit2:
this is occuring UNLESS WE STOP NOW! Deluge Congress with Spay/Neuter Post Cards. Anything else, just trying to “work” on 2 other projects. :smack: — I feel so Helpless π A!I!V! :growl: *poof*
A lot of people seem to be suggesting that the reason the Russians are once again flying their strategic bombers to failsafe and having joint military exercises with the Chinese is to give the neocons the hint that any more aggression will get a undesirable response. A lot of neocons both in and out of politics would be really torn apart if they found themselves to be the fly and that the Russians and the Chinese held a ten pound sledge hammer they intended to use as a fly swatter. :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid:
Remember that one day the Germans were on a high because they held all of Western Europe.. the next day Hamburg disappeared.
( insert emo of large boom here)
Fred, π where’s my fiddle?.. wanna dance ? :dancers: :doh:
:rofl2: gotta run an errand … C-Ya π *poof* … :fist: A!I!V!
The only explanation for the wingnuts bombing Iran, is that they really think it will bring about the Rapture, while the rest of us know it will be a lot more like hell on Earth.
It is true, :fustrate: the inmates are running the asylum.
The 2007 Butter Sculpture has been unveiled. This is big news, up here in the Great White North. Just another one of those things you dirty New York City liberal hippies just don’t get.
By the way those are COWS. An animal indigenous to these parts.
I’m glad you told me about the cows, PJ. This summer, traveling through all those red states, I remembered Hannity’s map showing how vast the red area was. Naturally seeing all those cows I assumed I had found Hannity’s listeners, though they did seem to have very nice eyes for a bunch of Republicans.
Don’t think I’m getting all wierd on you here but I remember being on a train going through Belgium in the seventies and the cows were the most beautiful cows I’d ever seen. Lush pastures of green and if I remember right the cows were kind of choclate and purplish looking……, or maybe that was the :bong: :billcat: :yippee:
sue p :
i very much agree with what you say about corporate partnerships. corporatiions are by nature amoral. tax policy could very quickly turn things around.
tax credits (not deductioins) for alternative vehicles and homeowner or even renters alternative nergy productiion with mandatory power company buyback, and other measures would very quickly make a huge difference.
if the fed gov’t weren’t spending such vast amounts of $$$ in iraq, we could afford to replace every gov’t fleet with electric vehicles. and public transportation!’
i heard a special program on germany’s alt energy initiative. they figured out how much power they would need in future and estimated cost of new generating facities. they then figured out the cost of this NEW power. they passed legislation to offer individuals the ability to buy their own generating equipment hooked up to the grid. all the power individuals produce gets purchased by the power cos. at the projected cost of new power. individuals are sold power at the averaged rate. the difference is given as a credit which can be used to make payments on the equipment. this buy back rate continues for a fixed amt of time (ten years i think). at the end of that time individuals have paid for and own the generating equipment. win win.
since passage of this initiative, all new construction and most existing structures have sprouted solar panels and small windmills. next step, electric cars.