great job. Linda in NM

The Deans and the Gores are FIRST!

Thursday, July 5 - 12:21 PM EDT

'Larry King Live'
Thursday, 9 p.m. ET

Al Gore's trying to save the planet from global warming -- with the biggest concert on earth! Is there a chance he'll run for president? He goes one-on-one with Larry King tonight, 9 ET.

MSN/Live Earth webcast, 1:30pm EST
http://www.liveearth.msn.com/green/gorew...


thank you miss linda b :)

bbl

Sorry Folks:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/05/gore.office/index.html 

Linda is front and center today. She is always posting pertinent articles.
I saw your photos from the rally and I noticed you by your hat. How long u had that thing? I remember the photo of you with Howard and you had the hat on.

Jim S -

You must not have posted the link that well, so is this better ?

4.

Jim S

Don't be sorry, it's nothing he hasn't been saying since he's been putting together this Climate crisis campaign, however his oppenents wish to spin it.

I've been invited by a local MoveOn member's email to attend a Life Earth party this Sat evening.  Sounds inviting but I'll have to see if I can fit it into my schedule, what with working a second job over the weekend.

5.

linda b

LOL I fear it will be needing retirement soon. I bought that hat about a decade ago in Sedona, AZ. I got green paint on it from painting on the Plaza, :(

you're the best linda b.

bbl, Al is still answering questions, live.

AL JUST SAID "It's going to be COOL" LOL!!!

Time for a COOL change,
Al Gore
2008

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Phil Specht
Thu, 07/05/07
12:56 pm

Dean's mistake was being the first to run an attack ad, had he been responding things would have been different.
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Well, after that happened Demos did start "responding things" primarily on everything Reps do..and what? They started to loose uninterruptedly till 2004 election.

If there were mistakes on Dean's part back then only because he did not diversified and did not made those "attack adds" more comprehensible for American people, imo. In general one can't win sitting in defense trenches (one more argument, btw, why Bush&Co were wining for so long).

Run Al Run!

Robert Gibbs is a creepy weasel with a disturbing legacy.  I'd like to see him canned from Obama's campaign, the sooner the better.

Also, I have regarded Edwards anti-poverty crusade in the past as all fluff and no stuff, but I understand he has championed a fairly comprehensive tuition grant program that represents, to me, a real concrete proposal against economic stratification in the U.S.   I think he deserves credit for it.

Welcome back, Nixon! (+)
by: Rob
Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 13:42:24 PM EDT
If you thought the past several years were an awful lot like the Nixon years, you ain't seen nothing yet:
The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight -- asking an aide to President Nixon whether there was a White House taping system -- he telephoned Nixon's lawyer.
Thompson tipped off the White House that the committee knew about the taping system and would be making the information public. In his all-but-forgotten Watergate memoir, "At That Point in Time," Thompson said he acted with "no authority" in divulging the committee's knowledge of the tapes, which provided the evidence that led to Nixon's resignation. It was one of many Thompson leaks to the Nixon team, according to a former investigator for Democrats on the committee, Scott Armstrong , who remains upset at Thompson's actions.

"Thompson was a mole for the White House," Armstrong said in an interview. "Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was."


As Josh Marshall notes, "[n]o wonder the Bushies are so into him."

what a guy. another putz and treasonous person we don't need.

Kudos to Al for everything he's done to transcend borders, barriers to get the message of global warming onto the front burner of every citizen's mind in the world.  Even some of the poorest of the poor are starting to get news of how the environment and human interaction with it, is a leading cause to drought, poverty, etc.

That's no easy feat and it takes a COOL head like AL's to stay focused on that message.

New KOS diary

Edwards' education plan comes closest to

Free public education pre-K through post-12, reflecting that a high school diploma alone is no longer the “ticket” to the middle class

From The American Compact .

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Joan* In*Florida
Thu, 07/05/07
1:13 pm

Reply to this

41.

former

I couldn't disagree more. The Republicans would do themselves a favor by regrouping under some other banner and with new leaders without Fascist dreams for America.
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I couldn't agree more.

Yes, "The Republicans would"...BUT THEY WON'T.
And they WON'T because, as they already proved, "fascist dreams for America" (in form of PNAC) CAN STILL WORK!

Don't blame Republicans for that fact, blame Democrats who essentially HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER to Americans INSTEAD!

"freed... from positions making it difficult for us to win. "...Simon Rosenberg.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1365

So what do you guys think about our Florida State Democratic party chair woman?

http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/159917.html

3500 a month as a lobbyist with a Republican firm while chairing the state party?

This is Florida.  Pretty typical stuff.

till 2004 election. = till 2006 election.

how do u get to the blog where gore is posting? can't seem to get it.

72.

Phil Specht
Thu, 07/05/07
12:56 pm

Dean's mistake was being the first to run an attack ad, had he been responding things would have been different.
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Well, after that happened Demos did start "responding things" primarily on everything Reps do..and what? They started to loose uninterruptedly till 2004 election.

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former -

Just curious, did you mean 2006, instead of 2004 ?

Hi,

Just dropping in.  Thanks so much for the info for Live Earth.  We'll be watching and listening. 

typos (drats -- can't live with them, nor without the; the curse of imperfection)

rich -

Well that AC doc has legs after all !  kudos to ya

21.

* rdorgan
Thu, 07/05/07
1:48 pm


former -

Just curious, did you mean 2006, instead of 2004 ?
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Sure!...my bad.

typo - nor without the

s/b - nor without them

bbl  (I think I need my spell-checking, syntax rest, sigh)

16.

rich^kolker
Thu, 07/05/07
1:44 pm

Reply to this

Edwards' education plan comes closest to

Free public education pre-K through post-12, reflecting that a high school diploma alone is no longer the “ticket” to the middle class

From The American Compact .
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One more argument why we don't need Presidents (and Presidential candidates) who can only repeat now what Rich suggested LONG AGO!

State vaccination rule sought
Bills seek to give public health officials, not lawmakers or parents, power to call the shots.

By Dorsey Griffith - Bee Medical Writer
Published 6:42 am PDT Tuesday, July 3, 2007

A proposal to allow state public health officials to mandate new vaccines for children without legislative tinkering is picking up steam among California lawmakers.

Assembly Bill 16, the bill that originally would have required the cervical cancer vaccine for girls, now addresses how vaccines are included on the state's list of required childhood immunizations, authorizing the state public health officer to make the final call. The bill is being touted by supporters as an effort to strip politics from a process that has long been subject to legislative debate.

"The way we determine what immunizations we will require of children is a mess," said Teresa Stark, a lobbyist for the California Medical Association. "We want the decisions to be made based on science and what's best for the public health."

Opponents counter that the bill's new version would rubber-stamp potentially controversial immunizations such as the vaccine against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus.

"We opposed the original bill because of the mandate," said Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute, a conservative parental rights advocacy organization. "This is even worse, because it turns the power over to public health officials with no recourse for the people to be heard."

AB 16, by Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, is one of three immunization bills currently under consideration. SB 676 by Mark Ridley-Thomas, D-Los Angeles, would mandate whooping cough booster shots, and SB 533 by Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, would require pneumococcus vaccine for children entering...

Rick Rollens of Granite Bay believes his 16-year-old son, Russell, is autistic because of routine childhood vaccinations, and has since championed efforts to investigate possible causes of neurodevelopmental disorders, including childhood immunizations.

Although no definitive link has been established between childhood vaccines and the jump in autism rates, Rollens and many others worry that children are exposed to too many vaccines too soon, and that any law to remove public debate from the decision-making process is dangerous.

"It becomes a situation totally controlled by the public health community, which to date has not found a vaccine they can't love," Rollens said. "With 300 new vaccines in development for such non-life-threatening conditions such as diarrhea, stomach ulcers and mononucleosis, it will be a public health disaster."....

http://www.sacbee.com/101/v-print/story/253812.html

ROFLMAO

And you've made me forget what I was going to respond to on the previous thread.

It had something to do with Gebhardt, who was being funded by what I call the Missouri Mafia, headed up by the Blunts.  The Club for Growth was targeting Dean on behalf of Gebhardt. 

linda b,

the live interview with al was here, but they seem to be airing repeats that you can catch.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=9e584a...

Monica wrote "The Club for Growth was targeting Dean on behalf of Gephardt."

What is Gephardt's relationship with Club for Growth?

Funny, the poll on my diary is fifty-fifty.

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Monica Smith
Thu, 07/05/07
2:08 pm

....
It had something to do with Gebhardt, who was being funded by what I call the Missouri Mafia, headed up by the Blunts. The Club for Growth was targeting Dean on behalf of Gebhardt.
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...lol, yeah, now I'm starting to recall it too.

That's why this impression reminded in my memory that Dean even did not attack first..., he did responded on hidden Gephard's move.

41.

former

I couldn't disagree more. The Republicans would do themselves a favor by regrouping under some other banner and with new leaders without Fascist dreams for America.

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Joan,

That wouldnt really solve the problem.......take your Democratic party and us Independents if we were left........there would be fragments off from each group.......to me, right now, this Democratic party is not all that differant from the repubs in several key areas.....

I would imagine, IF we kicked out the repubs..within a few years you might easily be calling for us old school isolationists to hit the road as well..........its happened before......

I do underatand what you are saying however.......personally Im more afraid of right wing evangelical nutcases than I am al qaeda........

Dean even did not attack first..., he did responded on hidden Gephard's move.
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Phil, is that how it was?

32.

None that I know of other than that a lot of money flowed into it from Missouri.  The guy who managed the Swift-boaters and sold the Ohio Secretary of State his unique computer operating system, William E. Franke, is also from Missouri.

Do you know that there's a World Trade Center in St. Louis and that there's a close link with traders in VietNam and Laos and other countries in the orient and that John Kerry's brother's interests in trade with VietNam may well have been perceived as competitive with the interests of the St. Louis crowd?

The extent to which our free enterprise system has become dependent on government support and assistance is really deplorable.  I'm quite content to have our markets protected from unscrupulous operators by the agents of government; I'm not keen on having unscrupulous operators backed up by our military forces.  The latter has become the predominant pattern. 

Wait. Monica, are you saying that the Club for Growth targeted Dean on Gephardt's behalf, but that Gephardt has no relationship with Club for Growth except that some of its big contributors are from Missouri?

38.

Yep.  that's what I suspect.  Hey, it's not at all unusual for people to "level the playing field" by getting rid of the weeds.

think of it in terms of playing pool.  You hit one ball to sink another.  It's what I call "triangulation" 

BTW, NBC still is showing the interview they did with Al Gore this morning. You know, the one the news is pulling apart and slapping back together to try to make something out of it.

Here's the link. A good interview, even though he's a bit more somber in it. He definitely livened up a bit in the last one.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00...://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/&fg=

Ooops, too long try this

BTW, NBC still is showing the interview they did with Al Gore this morning. You know, the one the news is pulling apart and slapping back together to try to make something out of it.

Here's the link. A good interview, even though he's a bit more somber in it. He definitely livened up a bit in the last one.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/

Linda*in*SFNM Thu, 07/05/07 3:13 pm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Linda, Al Gore was primarily calling for us, mainly this country to "change"......lets be reasonable, you, me , most here probably could change our habits somewhat, but what will Joe and Jane Six Pack do?  Will they give up their hummers, trucks, driving at excessive and dangerous speed, cut out the long drive vacations? 

Can you imagine some Bushie riding a recumbent bike to work (if they still have a job) that is.....I dont think most here are ready for change and commitment, perhaps Im wrong......the rich wont give up their lifestyles too.......so it crosses all socio economic bariers.............

Gore was very articulate in his interview.........always easy to comprehend....a visionary and a gifted man for our times..........what a waste of 8 years under Bush.

Hey Mike. We can hope they will. The more the merrier. But too, it's a collective effort. Some will always do more, maybe because they want to, know too, have the ability to and can. Hopefully if the others don't or can't make the changes they should be able to, they will speak up that our government needs to act. And then together, just maybe, we can do something about it.

Still, our policies and laws need to exist in the end, to make the real changes that will impact us all and hopefully those others will voice that as well.

Yes, Al Gore is amazing and still, I hope when his commitments are accomplished, he will lead us to the better place forward we should be.

From Paul Kane in the Washington Post:

"Sen. Pete Domenici (N.M.), a 36-year Republican veteran of the Senate, abandoned President Bush's Iraq war policy today by publicly endorsing legislation designed to withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq by March 2008."

Hillary supporters, could you explain how what you did with Marc Rich helps the voters(if we do vote) deal with the Libby pardon? Pardon me but same old, same old corporate pigs.

44.

Tom Bearse

Gee, isn't it amazing, when it comes to their re-election, they change. Too bad Bingaman isn't up for re-election too. Ignore that (d) next to his name, he has not supported any of the Bills to end the war, even though he talks out of both sides of his mouth saying he didn't support the START of the Iraq war.

...yeah, but he's been supporting it ever since.

Thanks for the good news on Pajama Pete.

Linda wrote: "Thanks for the good news on Pajama Pete."

Ha, ha.  I love that name.

Pajama Pet went after Clinton for perjury, and he still has no comment on Libby.

Jon Tester is on CNN lying, saying that if congress closes the purse, putz will just get the money somewhere else.  Or does he not know the law?

How many of our critters don't know the law? 

Libby is not in the news. But lets be patriotic. Troops are dying, but a u.s. citizen won the hot dog eating trophy. What a country.

Many of the so called anti war dems, that the grassroots(so called ) supported are not what many expected.We  need to take back the grassroots from the so called grassroots.

Breaking:  Paris Hilton's Garbage Sells Big on eBay. 

Yes, if you haven't yet heard, there's big money to be made in trash.  The AP reports that "An empty can of gourmet dog food taken from Paris Hilton's trash fetched $305 in an eBay auction. The sellers were from the Web site HollywoodStarTrash.com, which also listed several other Hilton items for sale on eBay. A used toothbrush sold for $305; two envelopes sent to her while she was in jail sold for $510; and a Coke can pulled from her trash went for $51."

Chuck wrote "Many of the so called anti war dems, that the grassroots (so called) supported are not what many expected.  We need to take back the grassroots from the so called grassroots."

How do we know you're not the so called grassroots?  

Look who's stepping forward:

Thursday, July 5, 2007

BARRINGTON — A local couple will serve as Strafford County co-chairs for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's presidential campaign.

Gail and Mark Mitchell, who recently announced their support for Dodd and hosted a house party for him at their home, will use grassroots techniques they have used for past campaigns. That will include knocking on neighbors' doors, talking to friends and other political activists and making numerous phone calls.

The Mitchells also were some of U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter's earliest supporters, and they worked tirelessly for her campaign, Bryan Deangelis, Dodd's New Hampshire press secretary said.

"They are two very effective Democrat activists," Deangelis added. "They've done a lot of work for Democrats in Strafford County, and the campaign thought they'd be an asset in that county."

Gail said she and her husband, who are retired but run a business from their home, carefully considered candidates they viewed as major contenders for the presidency, including McCain, Obama and Dodd.

"We took a long time to select him (Dodd), but he's got integrity and boldness and has served twenty-six years in the Senate," she added.

The Mitchells also were drawn to his support of education, veterans and unions and his desire to bring current soldiers home from Iraq. Most of all, Gail said she and Mark support Dodd because he is a politician of action. His supporters, she added, have a hard time getting him to campaign more because he is focused on passing legislation in the U.S. Senate.

"He also breaks from the pack when he feels strongly about an issue," Gail also said.

While Gail noted she nearly burned out working on the Carol Shea-Porter campaign, she is excited about the prospect of supporting Dodd in his campaign.

"It's going to be nuts," she added. "But I wish that everyone will judge the candidates for who they really are and choose who they think is best (for president)."

She added that New Hampshire residents have a greater opportunity of really getting to know presidential candidates because of the state's first primary in the nation tradition.

Mark, a former member of the state police, deferred to his wife when asked about their cochairmanship. They have two daughters and one granddaughter.

OK, this will make your tin foil hats smile.  I just talked with the young man who's resurfacing my bathtub.  He told me about the following link but I can't get the photos so maybe you can.  Anyway, he asked me if I'd ever seen a close up of the planes flying into the towers?  And then he said that there are citizens who managed to not have their films confiscated who took close-up and guess what's in the cameras?  NO WINDOWS ON THE PLANES THAT FLEW INTO THE TOWER.  They were refueling planes that had those long hoses attached.   Here's the site.  Has anyone ever heard of this?  BTW, this young man, hates Putz and likes Gore but is wondering what his ties are right now to big oil.

 Tom, good question. We need to ask questions. We are not sheep or lemmings. We the people do not have to be a member of something like a football game looking for a winner or loser. But many feel the dire need to have a job to survive and will sell out to survive. It is sad. I will survive, and fight for all. Look what Kate O'Conner did after the Dean campaign.  Sad.

Though I like Dodd, the interviews I have seen him on show his tendency to claim all the credit in circumstances and ignore completely any other candidates. It's a bit of a turnoff for me.

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When asked who he would endorse for president, Al Gore said he wasn't ready to endorse.

First, I think the right wing media wants to push him into endorsing and out of running for prez.

What a great day if Al Gore would pull a Cheney and endorse himself for president.

The Anthrax scare was never solved.  Will they plead the 5th on that for national security?

Sorry...here's the 9/11 link

http://www.google.com/search?q=in+plane+site&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a 

We're being prepared for staying beyond Sept as per an interview on CNN, despite what Patreaus says.  Apparently,  now things are going well.  Have you noticed that the CMWs are not longer telling us much, if anything, about Iraq or the deaths of our soldiers?

I'm off to call critters locally.  I seem to be in a perpetual state of pissed off but it's not interferring with eating or sleeping. :-) 

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