Know all by these presents that Dean is first.

40.mprov

the current leader of iran america is a whack job. the iranian american people are, and deserve, much better than this. a long tradition in this country has been to promote democratic principals around the globe and at home. i'm not talking about warring on them  ourselves to that end, but instead to live by example, to nudge, to promote a positive diplomatic reform effort at home, etc. while some think that this is meddling in other's business, i say that if you truly believe in democracy and democratic principals, how then can you not speak out against those our leaders that stand in its way before meddling in the affairs of other countries? how?

In other words. America's have forfeited the right to lecture any nation about freedom, democracy, and human rights. Hopefully it's only temporary and we can someday lead by example again rather than impose what we ourselves have let be devalued and undermined. 

Good Morning All,

mprov, thank you for that notice that Al Gore had to take an unexpected trip abroad!.


Fingers crossed. Does this mean he received new about the Nobel Prize?


I love this quote from Roy Neel, about the possibility of Al Gore running.

"Longtime political aide Roy Neel, who runs Gore's office in Nashville, Tenn., said the former vice president is focusing on prompting action against global warming. He said he has seen no signs Gore is contemplating a race.

"He's making no plans, and we're doing nothing," said Neel, adding, "He's not ruled it out in the future."

Asked what "the future" meant, Neel said, "Sometime later than today."


Good luck Al.

bbl ... coffee time

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The Draft Al Gore Petition jumped from 137 K late yesterday, to 154 K this morning!!!!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algor...

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Repost from lastnight thread thanks to mprov

Dear Mark,

I just got a call from Vice President Al Gore. He told me that he needs to travel abroad tomorrow for an exciting and urgent mission that could result in a major breakthrough in the fight against global warming.

Unfortunately, this means that we must postpone our Thursday, October 11th event with him until Friday, November 9th. I wanted to be sure to email you tonight in case you were planning on attending.

While I am really disappointed that we won't see Al Gore until next month, I am thrilled that he is continuing to provide critical leadership to address one of the most pressing issues of our time. You should know that only the most urgent global warming mission has called him out of the country.

I look forward to seeing you on November 9th so we can all hear first-hand about Al Gore's latest exciting initiatives. We will be back in touch in the coming days with more details about the rescheduled event.

Thank you so much for your continued friendship and support!

Barbara Boxer

*was going to be:

Tickets for this Thursday night's rally in San Francisco with Senator Barbara Boxer, Vice President Al Gore, and the incredible musicians Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne are going fast. As one of Barbara's strongest grassroots supporters, we want you to be a part of it, too.


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My hopes to you Mr. Gore for a much deserved Nobel Peace Prize

But hey, I'm not Armenian American, so what do I care.

Bush is right.

drive-by

Gore/Boxer

and yes former; sitka got that one right

BREAKING NEWS: Marines propose leaving Iraq and moving to Afghanistan.

Good morning all!!!

I hope Al Gore wins the Nobel. I am even more hopeful that he will indeed run this time around. What better platform to promote saving our planet than as POTUS?

Fingers crossed.

yes, phil and former......and I will repost the video of Jimmy Carter on Iran with Harry Smith.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/...

needs I E

why do you make me sign in everyday dfa ?

Infowars.net | October 10 , 2007
Steve Watson

In a series of interviews to promote his new book, Revolution of Hope , former Mexican leader Vicente Fox has trumpeted rampant globalization and has declared anyone who opposes such "harmonization" and diminishment of sovereignty "racist" and "xenophobic".

Over the course of a week Fox has called for a North American Union, a single North American currency and a complete overhaul of the U.S. immigration policy to allow more Mexicans to legally enter the country.

To the wild cheers of the Daily Show audience Fox called for U.S. immigration reform stating "It's my impression that fear is guiding public opinion here and xenophobia. They are thinning the space because Congress has not decided yet, it is a hundred year old issue, immigration, and I think they can come up with a very wise solution to immigration because it's a win-win situation, everybody will be better off."

(Article Continues Below)

When asked if he supported globalization through NAFTA, Fox responded:

"Yes, absolutely, NAFTA has been good, as a matter of fact we should have a new vision, go further, integrating and working together to build a better future for both.

"That happened with Spain and with the European Union with them joining the union and having access to those huge cohesive bonds, they were able to overcome poverty and today Spain, or Ireland or Greece or Portugal are all very successful nations, what you need is a little bit of solidarity."

Stewart then went on to ask "Would you like to see a North American Union with the U.S. Mexico, and Canada, you want Canada in there?"

To which Fox responded "Yes long term, yes."

DRAFT GORE . COM placed a FULL PAGE ad in the New York Times yesterday as an open letter to Al Gore and why we neeed him to seek the Presidency. It was great.

I'll save from posting, but you'll need to click on this link to see the pdf of the ad.

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Dr...

Annilow--expect that Rush's problem with the "fairness doctrine" was that it demanded equal time.  "Equality" I've decided is the big bugaboo.  After all, wasn't that what the communists tried to do, make everybody equal?  That they failed is a source of great consolation to our conservatives.  The last thing they want is equality.  It's getting nearer to equality that they resent in same-sex marriage--yet another effort to erase "natural" distinctions.

For some reason, these people aren't content with the knowledge that each and every human is unique and distinct from every other.  They have to be part of a uniform group that's different from and better than every other. 

The British government decided that it would be a good idea to send copies of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to all schools, with then Environment Secretary (now Foreign Secretary) David Miliband declaring that “the debate over science is over.” Well, it may be, but not in the way Gore portrays it. A truck driver and school governor, Stuart Dimmock, took the government to court, alleging that the film portrays “partisan political views,” the promotion of which is illegal in schools under the Education Act 1996.

The judge has decided that this is indeed the case and that the Government’s guidance notes that accompanied the film exacerbated the problem. For the film to be shown in schools, therefore, several facts would have to be drawn to students’ attention:

In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.

The inaccuracies are:

* The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
* The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
* The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
* The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
* The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
* The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
* The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
* The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
* The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
* The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
* The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

This is a far better result than refusing to allow the film to be shown at all. It requires that students be told by teachers that Al Gore is factually inaccurate, misleading and - in one case - making things up. These inconvenient truths for the former Vice President have been covered up or obscured by the hype surrounding his film. Students will now realize that there are significant shortcomings and inaccuracies in the way the global warming scare has been presented to them. This is a victory for honest debate, a victory for science and a victory for education.

The comprehensive guide to Gore's innacuracies is, of course, Marlo Lewis' "Al Gore's Science Fiction."

11.  The problem is probably with your browser.  If it doesn't accept all cookies, including from the third party tracker, DFA won't recognize you computer when you return.

Check you preferences.  Make sure they are set to "accept all cookies."  Then log into BFA.  When you're done for the day, close your browser, saving the preferences.  The next time you open your browser, check preferences and select discard cookies when browser is closed (if that's what you want).  It should only affect new cookies that come in from sites you visit. 

14.

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"global warming scare"

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Al Gore has done more to advance the work of scientists than George Bush and his global warming deniers have done to tear down the work of scientists.

No film, no book, no speech, no written statement (including blogged ones) are entirely accurate, a perfect encapsulation of the truth.

But Gore has done more to advance the science, the environment and the peace of the world than most other inhabitants, including Bush, you, I or a judge and a school governor in Britian.

I hope Al wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

14.  It is good for students to learn that science is a matter of forming hypotheses which are then tested to disprove them.  The only certainty is in the negative, e.g. "hot" is "not cold"

There are no scientific proofs.  There are mathematical proofs, but these are totally artificial--as is our alphabet, something the human mind has invented. 

17.  There is no truth.  How can there be in a state of constant change?

It seems like deniers (of global warming, of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, etc.) always like to insert themselves into discussions.

I've never seen 14.'s handle on this blog before. 

Some people complain that there's no new blood here.  LOL

Walk the Talk?

Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."

ON DEADLINE: Your thoughts?

Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.

23. 

Might at least a first time greeting be in order from the newbie ? LOL

LOL

S Jackson...is that you?????


Well, see now you went over board to show that you just like to post propaganda....you post upthread is known lies put out by Exxon/Mobil sponsored Political Orgs and untrue.


Mr. Gore's remodeled home a 100 yr old, completely remodeled received TOP LEED Environmental rating for the Green home.

GOP Lawyer Ties Rove to Siegelman Case
By Susan Crabtree, The Hill

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Wednesday released an interview with GOP lawyer Dana Jill Simpson implicating former White House adviser Karl Rove in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) on corruption charges.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=nod...

LOL...is it new or old disguised? :)

Well, it's two weeks to my wife and I's trip to Sierra Leone.  As tourists (visiting her relatives but staying in a hotel, eating at restaurants, having tailors fit and create African gowns for us, etc.), we'll be doing our part, after 15 years away, to contribute to the fledgling but hopefully post-war rebounding tourism industry there:

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-10-10T233049Z_01_L02884684_RTRUKOC_0_UK-LEONE-TOURISM.xml

By Katrina Manson

BOBOH, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - Boboh village used to do a roaring trade in the "Pa Gbana" cocktail, a mix of fermented local grasses, coconut and lime favoured by tourists to wash down freshly-cooked lobster.

Nowadays there is little demand for the drink, named after the village's oldest resident: the only foreigners on Boboh's pristine beaches, south of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, are development workers taking time out.

The former British colony's 1991-2002 civil war, which killed 50,000 people and horrified the world with images of Kalashnikov-toting child soldiers high on drugs, destroyed what was once a lucrative tourism industry.

In the heyday of the 1980s more than 30,000 people visited every year, many of them arriving by helicopter and checking into exclusive beachside hotels.

Since the war, the numbers have dwindled to almost zero. Resorts were vandalized by rebels, foreign investors fled and unemployment spiralled.

But hopes are rising that tourists could return again after this year's largely peaceful presidential election, the first since United Nations peacekeepers left after the war and won by an opposition candidate promising to fight corruption.

"The biggest challenge that Sierra Leone faces is tackling the negative perceptions that have been caused by years of war," said Bimbola Carrol, a Sierra Leonean keen to leave London and move back home to run his own travel business.

"I love telling everyone how beautiful and misunderstood Sierra Leone is," said Carrol, who created a tourism website, Visit Sierra Leone.

The site had more than 2 million visits in August, a promising sign for a country where 70 percent of people live below the poverty line.

"If managed properly, the benefits of tourism can feed directly into local communities and help alleviate poverty," Carrol said.

POST-ELECTION OPTIMISM

Five years have passed since the end of the war but the West African country still receives fewer than 4,000 tourists a year.

The Western Peninsula's 40 km (25 miles) of unspoiled beaches south of the hot, hilly capital Freetown stand empty.

...

President Ernest Bai Koroma has vowed to shift the small economy's emphasis from mining to agriculture and tourism.

His party manifesto promised a focus on nature and heritage tourism, partly to encourage African-Americans to retrace their roots and visit 18th century slave-trading sites in the country.

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EXOTIC DESTINATION

Home to rare birds and threatened species such as the pygmy hippopotamus, Diana monkey and chimpanzees, Sierra Leone hopes its rainforests and tiny exotic islands will attract ecotourists and sports fishermen.

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Interesting interview in my email this morning

The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys, Part II

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusac...

Klein: You hear people complain about how Hezbollah is a "state-within-a-state" in Lebanon -- what about Blackwater in the USA? And that's just one company of hundreds, and a relatively small player compared to Lockheed and GE and Booz Allen. But once again, we can't keep being surprised by this shadow world -- it is an inevitable consequence of Rumsfeld's vision of an outsourced and contracted-out state. A right-wing journal in the U.S. called Blackwater "al Qaeda for the good guys" and it's a striking analogy. ....creating a market for alternative security forces, whether Hezbollah, Blackwater, the Mahdi Army or the gang down the street in New Orleans.

*rd, have a great trip.

And btw, to point out the blatant lies, in example, "But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences."


Al Gore pays much higher rates for 100 percent Energy from all renewable sources.

30.

thanks, I sure hope to

(and I'm plugging, shamelessly, obviously, for anyone else who wants to tourist to there too: http://www.visitsierraleone.org/ )

Gore to learn whether he'll win Nobel Peace Prize

Norwegian lawmaker said he nominated Al Gore for Nobel Peace Prize
Gore film, TV show garnered Oscar and Emmy awards
Draftgore.com appeals to Gore to run for president in New York Times ad


By Paul Steinhauser
CNN Washington Bureau




WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors?

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In the United States, Gore is very much a wanted man.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/11/g...

LOL....yes he is. :)

Might at least a first time greeting be in order from for the newbie ?

33. LOL, I dunno, so many places are being added to my list, and I haven't gone anywhere of late to cross any off-so that list is REALLY GROWING.

Our friends from Tunisia have really been educating us on the entire region's history and culture, but more specifically on Tunisia that sounds great...beautiful and a liberals and naturalists hedonism.

BREAKING NEWS: Marines propose leaving Iraq and moving to Afghanistan.

BREAKING NEWS: Dean's been right all along.

Wait a minute. That's not news. 

29.  Yes, that's how the world community refers to them--cowboys.  I rather think they're highwaymen.

you know, rd, I've mentioned it before, but current tv, I don't know if you get or go on line to them, but they really have many good pieces on Sierra Leone.

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34.LOL Sitka, good one.

Oy vey Sitka, you make my sides hurt.

*rd

Find out if there are any ships going there from here.  Could be a cruise ship or a freighter. Even though I am prone to sea-sickness, that's the only way I'll travel across the ocean.  I understand that there are Polish freighters going from the Carolinas to Europe.  When all this mess is settled, that's one of the things I want to do.  Africa has always been a desired destination.

35.

Well, if you do decide to go, there's no direct flights.

So as far as I know (which is from the East coast), it's not direct flights.  You travel from America (ie. Boston or New York say) to either London or Paris, and then another airline from there to Freetown.

Expect to pay around $ 2000 per person roundtrip in total.  Hotels are not cheap either (this will change if the tourism industry builds up and there's more competition).

The plunging US $ doesn't help either. 

Thanks for the advice about current tv.

40.

The ship would take too long unfortunately, so flying is the option we choose.

(However, we did send via ship a 55-gallon oil barrel drum full of canned food stuffs, shoes, clothing, etc. at the end of last month that should arrive 5 weeks later in Freetown in early Nov when we are there.  The contents of the drum we will give out to relatives.)

BREAKING NEWS: Dean's been right all along.

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Umm, yes and no..........as far as afghanistan goes, if the marined had trouble with the iraqis, the afghans will really give em hell then...................

 The advantage with sending a typical steel drum versus a cardboard one ?

The metal one can be reused as a way to store water for drinking, cooking, etc.

Aids and the Polio Vaccine
Edward Hooper finds new evidence

There is a lot of information that WHO and CDC officials have not shared with the public about what forcing worldwide use of a live oral polio for 40 years has done. The Sabin live polio vaccine - which is the public health community's main claim to fame and fortune in the 20th century - may not only have unleashed the most feared autoimmune disorder to plague man in two centuries...

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n07/hoop01_.htm...

Even if Gore changes his mind and decides to join the fray, the clock's ticking on any run for the White House. "He certainly would shake up the race if he changed his mind and jumped in, but with the Iowa caucuses less than three months away, his window of opportunity to make a serious run for the democratic has probably closed," said CNN political editor Mark Preston.

Without conventional wisdom the corporate media would have none at all. Gore doesn't need to compete for the Iowa or Nevada caucuses. He's already won them once and possibly would again without lifting finger. But even if he didn't get the most turnout there, by not competing, any decent finish would be a win going into the real election in NH.

Umm, yes and no..........as far as afghanistan goes, if the marined had trouble with the iraqis, the afghans will really give em hell then...................

Yes and no is right. 

I say get out Afghanistan and the entire ME too. But the Marines having finally come around to understanding what Dean said years ago.

When it comes to being right, or at least righter than most, Nostradamus has nothing on Dean. 

DiCaprio, Clooney to star in movie about Howard Dean





Staff and Agencies

Thursday October 11, 2007

Guardian Unlimited

Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney are to star in a film loosely based on the rise and fall of presidential hopeful Howard Dean. The Warner Bros production will be based on a stage-play written by Beau Willimon, a former assistant on the Dean campaign.



Entitled Farragut North, after a Washington Metro station in the heart of the lobbyist district, the film sounds like darker version of Joe Roth's Primary Colours. It tells the tale of a youthful communications guru working for a principled but unorthodox politician who finds himself undone by a slick and corrupt Washington establishment. Currently in rehearsal, Willimon's stage-play is set to open on Broadway in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. Mike Nichols is directing.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2188505,00.html 

DiCaprio, Clooney to star in movie about Howard Dean

The legend keeps growing. A few more years and people will be saying, "Maybe we misjudged that Dean fella. Is he still available?"

49.

Sitka
Thu, 10/11/07
11:32 am

...A few more years and people will be saying, "Maybe we misjudged that Dean fella. Is he still available?"
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...lol, hopefully, by that time people will realize that he was/is right...and accordingly they should handle the matter by themselves.

I really don't believe the movie should be about the *rise and fall of Howard Dean*. I guess that just means the fall of the campaign. But Howard is having the last laugh since he was and still is right about so many issues before us today. Clooney and DiCaprio get it IMO.

But the Marines having finally come around to understanding what Dean said years ago.

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Well, if thats true then its a start.........the Marines should also be required to read ALL US foreign policy since 1945................then theyll really be confused about just what the hel they are supposed to be defending............

Good luck to Arizona.........Im pulling for Colorado........anybody but Boston or Cleveland

51.

George Clooney has impressed me for sometime now (an ER graduate that has shown much promise and accomplishment).

Kudos to him for starring in the upcoming movie about Howard, about pushing the issue of comdemning the genocide in Darfur and about him backing Obama for President.

mary, I guess they are talking only the presidential campaign, vs ....2.0  :)

I wrote to Clooney last year thanking him for his voice on Darfur.



...that I had my letter posted, (then) 2 years prior ...even in the Cincinnati Enquirer, about the horrible situation.

(I'm sure he knew what that meant considering he grew up in the area and his father quit his longtime radio show to run for Congress in 04, and after decades, they trashed him like he was the devil)

I really don't believe the movie should be about the *rise and fall of Howard Dean*.

That's what makes it a compelling story going back to the ancient Greeks.

Jimmy Carter is on Thom Hartmann discussing an attack on Iran would be a bigger disaster than even IRAQ!

Turkey criticizes panel's resolution on genocide

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkey swiftly condemned a US House panel