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Gary Anderson: Thank You DFA!
All across the state, we saw Mississippians come out to vote their pocketbooks. Mississippians have shown us they are ready for a change and know that they can count on Gary Anderson to be on their side in the Insurance Commissioner's Office.
We feel proud to have fought a tough battle and won. Unseating a 32-year incumbent, who outspent us 4 to 1, was no easy task. Democracy for America played an important role by helping energize voters from the ground up. Work on the grassroots level contributed to our win!
Our win in the Primary is a victory for people across the country who are ready for change. It is an example of what Democrats across the county can expect in November; Democrats can challenge the status quo and win, even in the Deep South!
Visit us www.Anderson07.com
Thank you,
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linda b
Thu, 08/09/07
1:08 pm
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DFA also had a great presence at the TBA conference where over 3000 progressives attended.
DFA was a major sponsor of the event and Jim was on a bloggers panel and Howard spoke.
While everyone was not a "blogger" they all blog for sure.
All the Dem prez candidates where there except for biden.
So now we have two LARGE VENUES for DFA to attend and make a major impact.
Thanks Jim and Sheri for getting this done. Now on to Michigan and Ohio and Florida and YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa!
and Gary, kudos to you again.
And in Virginia we need to turn it deep BLUE!!!!!!!!!
Did you know that Va has off year elections??
Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Gary
congrats on your win and thank you for putting yourself on the line, we're with you all the way
The primary/caucus system is broken. Fortunately there's still time to fix it. The former is obvious on its face. Just look at all the states trying to move "up" in the calendar. The latter may be less obvious, but there's nothing stopping the Democratic Party from creating a new system to select its candidate for President.
We need to find a way of selecting Presidential candidates which both preserves the opportunity of unknown candidates to be heard and grow, but doesn't place overwhelming power in a small number of unrepresentative states.
"One big primary" would preclude the former, maintaining the current system promotes the latter.
The Democratic Party, instead of compressing the process, should spread the process out more.
- have a January primary in a state chosen randomly from blue states in the bottom half by population (to keep costs relatively low to run a campaign),
- then two February primaries separated by at least two weeks from the January primary and from each other in states chosen randomly from those which were blue or within 5% of being blue in the last election.
- The rest of the primary season would be spread out though the beginning of June, with primaries grouped in batches randomly with the two week separation between groups.
In addition, we should eliminate the 15% threshold many states use to force a "winner" on the first ballot. All it does is take away the voices of those who vote for candidates who get fewer than 15%. If someone can't get to 50% + 1 without this kind of "cheating" written into the rules, maybe they're not the best candidate.
Any state that doesn't follow this schedule would lose its delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Would the states yelp? Particularly Iowa and New Hampshire? Sure. Let them. Governor Dean could remind them that he's the one who is making sure state parties get their fair share of party monies, now its time for "payback", a fairer system for selecting a candidate.
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Sitka
Thu, 08/09/07
1:03 pm
I'm holding them all accountable. But admission of doing something wrong is the FIRST step to redemption. But we must hold all of them accountable for what they say will do. And build the political muscle to do that.
That is why YearlyKos was so important -- it demonstrated the muscle of the progressive netroots. Bill O'Reilly understood that and he tried (and failed) to bring it down.
Congratulations, Gary Anderson....now make sure those insurance companies stop exploiting people!
For those who haven't heard:
YearlyKos will have a new name next year to reflect all of us:
NETROOTS NATION CONVENTION
It has grown far beyond Kos and this is a great move to bring everyone in....DFA is a huge part of the Netroots nation.
So, Bush had Lyme disease last year and was treated and this was never reported to the citizens with his other health results.
And this year the physical was at the WH instead of over in Annapolis at the Naval Hospital where it's always been in the past.
Makes you wonder what else they're keeping from us.
admission of doing something wrong is the FIRST step to redemption.
As I replied on the previous thread, it's the speed of their turnaround which makes many suspect the motives of Redemptionist Democrats.
So, Bush had Lyme disease last year and was treated and this was never reported to the citizens with his other health results.
That's nothing compared to not telling the public that a president had Alzheimer's.
But it was so darned cute and endearing the way Reagan forgot the simplest things!
Why not simply make the Democratic Party "democratic" by making whomever gets the most votes the nominee? Second place could be the VP choice. Throw in IRV and you've a system that's simple and incorruptable.
All these complicated schemes being put forward don't seem much different from the current one in the end since they allow for all kinds of inside games
(warning - a bit graphic and long)
Here's a YouTube example of teamwork in action (a lesson for us humans) and what can be accomplished by never giving up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6938516.stm
Last Updated: Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:23 GMT 13:23 UK
Animal battle video becomes hit 
The footage has already been watched by nearly 9.5m people
An amateur video of an amazing animal confrontation on the African savannah is fast becoming one of the biggest hits on video-sharing website YouTube.
The footage first shows how several lions attack a group of buffalo, snatching a buffalo calf.
As the lions wrestle with a calf by a watering hole, a crocodile joins in the battle, pouncing on the buffalo.
The lions win the tug-of-war, but then the buffalo herd returns, chasing away the lions and freeing the calf.
'Battle at Kruger'
The eight-minute-long footage - filmed in South Africa's Kruger National Park
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Here's a YouTube example of teamwork in action (a lesson for us humans) and what can be accomplished by never giving up:
The lions used teamwork too, but had to give up in the end.
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The third teamwork of the crocs ruined it for the lions, slowing the latter down, until team water buffalo came back to rescue one of their own.
Thank YOU Gary Anderson! Great work and look forward to you getting in and doing great things for the people.
Sick sick sick that people love watching animals tearing each other apart. JMO
bbl when blog becomes more humane
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Which candidate do you most hope joins the '08 race? * 8425 responses
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16% Michael Bloomgerg
61% Al Gore
14% Chuck Hagel
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ps animals are learning nasty cruel habits from humans and from having their habitat destroyed by humans. It makes them aggressive and turns normally quiet reclusive animals into killers.
Human race - failed species Humpf.
Rich, great post on the broken unfair caucus system. You've posited a simple and fair remedy which might actually give us a good candidate. Right now, we're headed towards the worst one...corporate Clinton.
I'm sending money to Kucinich and Gore today. Humpf!
Put the nomination into the hands of the people and see what happens!~!!
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I warned about it being graphic.
As for loving seeing animals being torn apart, the lesson of the YouTube video apparently is lost on you -- it's an example of a water buffalo calf surviving by it's own gutsy determination and the rescue by it's herd.
Nature can be tough to watch (it's not all Bambi stuff out there) but it has lessons IMO for us humans.
Don't worry, no more animal videos posted here from me (or the close to 10 million viewers on line who have seen this video).
Congrats Gary! and thank you for stopping by :-)
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and bush had lime disease? did he drink to much mexican beer and sucked up the lime.
me thinks we are having stories made up so he can be on tv.
I really don't care and u can wiretap me on that.
Ok how bout we all learn sign language. Can they tap that? or better yet morse code.
yeah that's the ticket.
Thank you to all with birthday wishes.
I had an interesting meeting with a salesman from a local radio station about starting a political talk show. I may be looking for advertisers (or underwriters) soon.
I need to do a bit more thinking about just how I'd want the show to work. My thought is to get beyond the local area (and the fixed time, which would probably be Saturday mornings at 11am) I'd set up a web site with a podcast of the show available each week. The station already streams live. I'd add blog functionality to talk about the issues brought up in the show.
Any suggestions for what you'd like to see in a radio program/web site?
the lesson of the YouTube video apparently is lost on you
The lions, buffulo, and croc were all doing what their genes told them to -- survive.
There was no lesson except that it's foolish to make lessons.
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16% Michael Bloomgerg
61% Al Gore
14% Chuck Hagel
How about ALL of 'em? The more choices the better.
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Avogadro, Amedeo, conte di QuaregnaAvogadro, Amedeo, conte di Quaregna (ämādā'ō kôn'tā dē kwärā'nyä ävōgä'drō) [key], 1776–1856, Italian physicist, b. Turin. He became professor of physics at the Univ. of Turin in 1820. In 1811 he advanced the hypothesis, since known as Avogadro's law, that equal volumes of gases under identical conditions of pressure and temperature contain the same number of molecules. Since then, through the work of other physicists, the number of molecules in the gram molecular volume has been determined and found to be the same for all gases. This number (6.02×1023) has been called Avogadro's number. Avogadro's hypothesis, though not accepted for some fifty years after its introduction, is now one of the fundamental concepts of the atomic theory of matter.
More "on this day" at http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/
Sick sick sick that people love watching animals tearing each other apart.
Who said they loved it? It's just something that happened and making a big deal about watching it is as silly as fabricating a lesson from it.
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Great video clip.........nature at its best.............the hunter becomes the hunted.........a quote from Planet Of The Apes...............
Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
Have you ever thought just how stupid mankind is? I mean really stupid???????????? The nonsensical paranoias, killings, fals promises from phoney politicians, the waste of trillions of dollars on war and corrpution..........
Sick sick sick that people love watching animals tearing each other apart
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Think of it as the Lions reprsenting the Repubs, an the Buffalo evryobdy else for the last 8 years..............kind of a differant perspective eh?
Have you ever thought just how stupid mankind is? I mean really stupid???????????? The nonsensical paranoias, killings, fals promises from phoney politicians, the waste of trillions of dollars on war and corrpution..........
It's a pet belief of mine that only a small percent of the human gene pool is possesed of the genes which cause greed and aggression. The vast majority just want to get along and have some fun. It's the acquisitive, aggressive sub-minority who cause all the problems and screw it up for everyone else.
Just a completely unsupported guess.
Think of it as the Lions reprsenting the Repubs, an the Buffalo evryobdy else for the last 8 years.............
It degrades animals to compare humans to them.
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Michael Ellis
Thu, 08/09/07
2:41 pm
Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed.
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OK - primates -- I was gonna say my cat does it all the time but he's not a primate.
OK, I have to admit I didn't watch the video since it breaks my heart to see animals hurt. The whole food chain thing is barbaric. Again, IMO. We all know that animals try to protect their young. Not having watch it, from your comments it sound like a Sunni, Shia, Kurd, putz, prick, Olmert video with the Iraqi women, children and old men being the baby, except that *this* baby was killed, bombed, torn apart and maimed.
IMPEACH the traitors.
My lesson for the day is to keep my mouth shut...my fingers off the keys sometimes.
Happy Birthday, Rich, and I still like your primary plan.
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Sitka
Thu, 08/09/07
1:03 pm
But I'm also firm enough to demand that they follow through on what they say they are for...
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That's like holding the fox accountable AFTER letting it into the hen house.
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The point!
This political system delay in responding and worse yet, UNIMPLEMENTED respond IS a single significant characteristic of its failure.
In this fast changing world for "system" to be effective
a) Leaders can't be chosen once per 2-4 years;
b) Leaders can't reside so far away (so far up) from daily life of his/her constituents;
c) Constituents must have instant chance to change leader if they think its necessary;
d) To be able to effectively implement that chance constituents must reside "right next" to the leader to know him well;
e) All for points above may lead us to conclude that leader CAN NOT be a single person for 300 millions people - the major characteristic of a "new system", imo.
My lesson for the day is to keep my mouth shut...my fingers off the keys sometimes
Please share all your thoughts. We all come here to talk. And remember that even though I never put smiley faces at the end of my posts, they're almost always there in spirit. ;-)
This political system delay in responding and worse yet, UNIMPLEMENTED respond IS a single significant characteristic of its failure.
Yes. Politicians who blow it must be accountable now, not next time.
The curse of being human is the curse of being impelled to judge everything, IMO.
The curse of being human is the curse of being impelled to judge everything, IMO.
It's the job of every citizen to judge politicians and hold them accountable. Without that we're talking jungle law.
Yeah, Bush, don't you worry about that pesky infrastructure. Spend more money on the disaster than making sure things are built and operated properly. You'll teach us pesky people.
Like the Miners. Spend a ton more money on rescue efforts, than to pass the safety guidelines and procedures before disasters happen to avoide having these diasters.
I know, like you said, you aint no economist. Proof is in the pudding and we definitely don't doubt those words. Your special interests friends are doing well with your tax cuts [wink,wink] and that's all that matters to you, huh?
oops, looks like those economists no better than YOU!!!
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Gee, I thought Bush was listening to his Generals. Is that why he now says it doesn't matter what Petraeus says - that the US will stay in Iraq. What a dictator.
From Gary Hart's Candor in the Age of Spin in today's Huffington Post:
"Should presidents, or for that matter presidential candidates, be open, honest, and straightforward about how they would conduct foreign and defense policy or should they reserve space for what in the Cold and post-Cold War worlds have come to be known as covert operations?
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"As something of a veteran, seasoned or unseasoned, of the covert world of the 20th century and as one who peeked far enough into the 21st to see terrorists coming, this is a question Americans and their candidates should seriously address. Those who have the advantage of living in the world of black and white find this question, as with many others, easy to answer. The whites say that all our actions should be transparent. The blacks say do whatever is expedient at the moment and presume no one will notice. The rest of us, as usual, see the global village in patters of plaid and shades of gray.
"Though there are a few, very rare occasions where the immediacy of a threat requires both swift and secret action, the Constitutional principles upon which our nation was founded require us to be as honest, as straightforward, and as candid as we can be with ourselves and with the world about what we are up to. By the hollow 'dead or alive' rhetoric now conveniently forgotten, we have already announced our intentions to do what it takes. So, Senator Obama does not seem to have gone any further than the ineffective incumbent on this issue. It would be amazing if there is a Pakistani alive, including President Pervez Musharraf, who doubts that we would land the 82nd Airborne, Delta Force, Rangers, and the entire Marine Corps right on top of the bearded villain...if we could just find him...without asking permission from anyone.
"It seems to me that is all Senator Obama was saying."
Volney! What a delight to *see* you.
I think judging an action as life-enhancing, life-dimishing, life-affirming or life-destroying is very important to our survival; IOW, judging the action, not the person. In that case, it becomes discernment IMO.
That said, I will continue to go on judging putz and his minions even if it means that I can't be exactly like Jesus. LOL
The Garden of Eden...such a metaphor for the human condition. We were in paradise until the blaming began. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and then they tried to lie about it all... thus leading to the Original Sin.....the Blame Game. JMHO
And snakes and women have been reviled ever since.
Is everybody in our gov't drunk, drugged or insane? Shame on all these people who thought of this. Laura Putz should be tarred and feathered along with her boy-consort. *^#@*^
Fighting for the Right to Learn: Report on Results of the Public Education Experiment in New Orleans Two Years After Katrina
New Orleans's Children Fighting for the Right to Learn
By Bill Quigley
t r u t h o u t | Report
Thursday 09 August 2007
(This is the first installment of a two-part analysis of the experiment going on in public education in New Orleans post-Katrina.)
"Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental ... The freedom to learn ... has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn." - W.E. B. DuBois, "The Freedom to Learn." (1949)."Education is the property of no one. It belongs to the people as a whole. And if education is not given to the people, they will have to take it." - Che Guevara
"We wanted charter schools to open and take the majority of the students. That didn't happen, and now we have the responsibility of educating the 'leftover' children." - Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary School Member (2007)
There is a massive experiment being performed on thousands of primarily African American children in New Orleans. No one asked the permission of the children. No one asked permission of their parents. This experiment involves a fight for the education of children.
This is the experiment.
The First Half
Half of the nearly 30,000 children expected to enroll in the fall of 2007 in New Orleans public schools have been enrolled in special public schools, most called charter schools. These schools have been given tens of millions of dollars by the federal government in extra money, over and above their regular state and local money, to set up and operate. These special public schools are not open to every child and do not allow every student who wants to attend to enroll. Some charter schools have special selective academic criteria which allow them to exclude children in need of special academic help. Other charter schools have special admission policies and student and parental requirements which effectively screen out many children. The children in this half of the experiment are taught by accredited teachers in manageable size classes. There are no overcrowded classes because these charter schools have enrollment caps allowing them to turn away students. These schools also educate far fewer students with academic or emotional disabilities. Children in charter schools are in better facilities than the other half of the children. These schools are getting special grants from Laura Bush to rebuild their libraries and grants from other foundations to help them educate. These schools do educate some white children along with African-American children. These are public schools, but they are not available to all public school students.
The Other Half
The other half of public school students, over ten thousand children, have been assigned to a one-year-old experiment in public education run by the State of Louisiana called the "Recovery School District" (RSD) program. The education these children receive will be compared to the education received by the first half in the charter schools. These children are effectively what is called the "control group" of an experiment Ð those against whom the others will be evaluated.
The RSD schools have not been given millions of extra federal dollars to operate. The new RSD has inexperienced leadership. Many critical vacancies exist in their already-insufficient district-wide staff. Many of the teachers are uncertified. In fact, the RSD schools do not yet have enough teachers, even counting the uncertified, to start school in the fall of 2007. Some of the RSD school buildings scheduled to be used for the fall of 2007 have not yet been built.
In the first year of this experiment, the RSD had one security guard for every 37 students. Students at John McDonough High said their RSD school, which employed more guards than teachers, had a "prison atmosphere." In some schools, children spent long stretches of their school days in the gymnasium waiting for teachers to show up to teach them.
There is little academic or emotional counseling in the RSD schools. Children with special needs suffer from lack of qualified staff. College-prep math and science classes and language immersion are rarely offered. Classrooms keep filling up as new children return to New Orleans and are assigned to RSD schools.
Many of the RSD schools do not have working kitchens or water fountains. Bathroom facilities are scandalous. Teachers at one school report there are two bathrooms for the entire school - one for all the male students, faculty and staff and another for all the females in the building.
Danatus King, of the NAACP in New Orleans, said "What happened last year was a tragedy. Many of the city's children were denied an education last year because of a failure to plan on the part of the RSD."
Hardly any white children attend this half of the school experiment.
These are the public schools available to the rest of the public school students.
Who Started This Experiment?
Beth Fouhy is trying to help out in this AP wire report:
"Obama [ ] faced heavy criticism from leaders of both parties, including Clinton, after saying it would be 'a profound mistake' to deploy nuclear weapons in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"'There's been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That's not on the table,' he said.
"Clinton, who has tried to cast her rival as too inexperienced for the job of commander in chief, said of Obama's stance on Pakistan: 'I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.'
"But that's exactly what she did in an interview with Bloomberg Television in April 2006. The New York senator, a member of the Armed Services committee, was asked about reports that the Bush administration was considering military intervention — possibly even a nuclear strike — to prevent Iran from escalating its nuclear program.
"'I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table,' Clinton said. 'This administration has been very willing to talk about using nuclear weapons in a way we haven't seen since the dawn of a nuclear age. I think that's a terrible mistake.'
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"[A]nother Democratic contender, Chris Dodd, issued a statement Thursday saying he was disappointed to learn of Clinton's 'unwise' statements.
"'If nothing else, these kinds of careless statements expose the difference in the candidates' depth of experience and understanding when it comes to the complex world of foreign policy and military affairs,' said the Connecticut senator."
Never Forget.
Applause to Cindy Sheehan..............obviously an amateur, but at least shes honest, sincere and devoted................a rare politician.................
She will be the ONLY politician I will give my money to...............................
My lesson for the day is to keep my mouth shut...my fingers off the keys sometimes.
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Not at all seashell...........you are only human.........my wofe was appalled at the video too.....there is no harm in not wanting to see nature at its worst...............
At my meeting lastnight, someone brought up Mr. Gore's speech on the overreaching powers of that occupier in the WH.
After digging it up, I thought others might appreciate the re-read.
US Constitution in Grave Danger
By Albert Gore Jr.
t r u t h o u t | Speech
Monday 16 January 2006
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/e...
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Sitka
Thu, 08/09/07
2:48 pm
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Yeah, me too.............however that small % basically controls things and us at the same time..........
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