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I've got some exciting news for the Fargo-Moorhead area! Earlier today I received a shipment of "War Is Not The Answer" yard signs from FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation - the Quaker Peace Lobby). The signs are made of corrugated plastic and come with metal wire stakes.
FCNL is showing its opposition to President Bush's "surge" plan for Iraq by having it's own surge - a surge of "War Is Not The Answer" yard signs across the U.S.!
Hundreds of thousands of these signs have been distributed across the country, and now you can become an important part of this movement! FCNL is calling on us to get these signs out to as many people as possible.
If you would like a yard sign, just e-mail me at: keenekarl@hotmail.com (Put "Yard Sign Request" in the subject line of your e-mail). I'll e-mail you back about where you can pick up your sign.
FCNL requests a suggested donation of $5.00 per yard sign, but no one who wants a sign will be turned away.
"War Is Not The Answer" bumper stickers are available for free to anyone by visiting the FCNL website at: www.fcnl.org
A smaller, cardboard "War Is Not The Answer" sign is also available at the FCNL website www.fcnl.org
The cardboard signs work great for placing in apartment and dorm windows, as well as for using during peace vigils and anti-war demonstrations.
I hope to hear from many of you! These yard signs provide a great opprtunity to make our voices heard on a continual basis!
Rangel got his trade bill through, and after all this time we are still not very sure just what is in it.
Never give up hope for good.
Al Gore:
Restore Rule of Law
Jan 16, 2006
At the same time, the Executive Branch has claimed a previously unrecognized authority to mistreat prisoners in its custody in ways that plainly constitute torture in a pattern that has now been documented in U.S. facilities located in several countries around the world.
Over 100 of these captives have reportedly died while being tortured by Executive Branch interrogators and many more have been broken and humiliated. In the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, investigators who documented the pattern of torture estimated that more than 90 percent of the victims were innocent of any charges.
This shameful exercise of power overturns a set of principles that our nation has observed since General Washington first enunciated them during our Revolutionary War and has been observed by every president since then – until now. These practices violate the Geneva Conventions and the International Convention Against Torture, not to mention our own laws against torture.
The President has also claimed that he has the authority to kidnap individuals in foreign countries and deliver them for imprisonment and interrogation on our behalf by autocratic regimes in nations that are infamous for the cruelty of their techniques for torture.
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If the President has the inherent authority to eavesdrop, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can’t he do?
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For example, after appearing to support legislation sponsored by John McCain to stop the continuation of torture, the President declared in the act of signing the bill that he reserved the right not to comply with it.
http://www.libertycoalition.net/govt-sur...
video
http://www.acslaw.org/node/2096
Yes. It CAN get even worse.........
RANGEL BRAGS THAT DEALMAKERS PRIORITIZED GOP AND K STREET CONCERNS OVER DEM CAUCUS: CongressDaily reports that Rangel bragged to reporters that the reason dealmakers kept negotiations secret - and perhaps the reason why the legislative language remains secret - is because they feared rank-and-file Democrats would oppose the concessions that were needed to appease the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley (IA), GOP Rep. Jim McCrery (LA) and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who last year traveled to India to trumpet job outsourcing. "Every time we had them all together, someone jumped off," Rangel told reporters after the meeting, referring to that group. "So we said, we can't wait for the Caucus. When we got everybody holding hands, bam! Seal it and catch hell. We did both." The fact that Rangel now admits the Chamber of Commerce was so intimately involved in the negotiations may explain why the Chamber continues to say it has received "assurances" that the much-touted labor provisions in the deal will be rendered unenforceable.
Israel, US to set up joint committees on Iran: report
Published: Friday November 9, 2007
Israel and the United States have agreed to appoint two working committees in order to hone a joint strategy against Iran's nuclear ambitions, public radio reported on Friday.
Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz headed discussions on the matter in the United States this week, it said.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Israel_US_t...
Porter Wagoner died recently
Porter Wagoner Moments Of Meditation The Rubber Room Omni 0:23:42 (Real | MP3 | Pop‑up)
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25066Israel and the United States have agreed to appoint two working committees in order to hone a joint strategy against Iran's nuclear ambitions
Israel: OK. We'll bomb them first. Then, when they retaliate, you'll have an ironclad excuse test your new 30,000 lb. bomb on them.
US: Sounds good.
Israel: When you drop that thing on their nuclear facilites, just make sure the wind is from the west. Our people would get pissed as hell at us if the fallout blew back onto them.
US: No problem. Meeting adjourned.
Who said, he "wants ''to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.'' ?
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/24987
Here is how lifelong professional politician treats his constituents in the time of threats of his professional career,... such a threats reflected in "representative's" mind as been from "politically paranoid base" .
Don't be surprised when similar attitude will be demonstrated not by such a "bad" guy like Lieberman but by some other "professional representative" when threatened with his/her career.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1f8eee44-8e67-11...
By Edward Luce in Washington
Published: November 9 2007 02:00 | Last updated: November 9 2007 02:00
The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a "hyper-partisan, politically paranoid" liberal base that could endanger the final nominee's chances of winning next year's presidential election, Joe Lieberman, the former vice-presidential Democratic candidate, said yesterday.
In his most outspoken attack on fellow Democrats since he was unsuccessfully challenged last year by Ned Lamont, a liberal Democrat, for his Senate seat in Connecticut, Mr Lieberman yesterday said he might not vote for the Democratic presidential nominee next year.
So far, in Iowa, many have been thanked for the big win in the Congress last election, but not one word of thanks to Howard Dean. In fact there has been no mention of his name.
Maybe he wasn't invited? grrrrr
With all the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered so long,
Beneath the angels, so much pain
For thousands of years of wrong
And men at war with man hears not
The lovesong the angels bring,
Oh hush the noise ye men of strife
And hear the angels sing
http://76.12.17.68/bonustrack/
"how did this tradition get started?
I'll tell you: I don't know, but it's a tradition"
jack kerouac american haikus (loop) in their own voices: a century of recorded poetry (various artists) rhino word beat 0:04:11 (Real)
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/14116
The Steve Allen Show
Jack Kerouac Explains On The Road
I'd vote for Biden, Dodd, Edwards, Obama, or Clinton.
Best snippet from JJ Dinner so far, as bill Richardson left the stage..... "No short haired yellowbellied son of tricky-dicky's gonna mother hubbard soft soap me with just a pocket full of hope money for dope money for rope" ... Thanks so much Mr. Lennon. It was a hell of a ride.
Isreal: We want to bomb! We want to bomb somebody!---
U.S. Cheney – How about Syria for practice.---
Isreal – O>K>---
U.S. Bush – Wait – oh – too late..You tipped our hand ---
U.S. Cheney – Nah, the American people are too stupid, we’ll say they had nukes in the works, too.---
Isreal – We want to bomb again!---
U.S. Cheney – Well let’s try Iran, it’s a piece of cake - ---
U.S. Bush – uh..I saw a cartoon showin Iran had hunnerds of missiles---.
U.S. Cheney –TRUST my intelligence! ---
U.S. Bush - uh ..I did that last time and now ma ratins are down…---
Isreal – We want to bomb!---
U.S. Bush – uh…in the cartoon, a hunnerd missiles was aimed at our boats and a hunnerd was aimed at Isreal. And somthin about no oil goin nowhere..---
U.S. Cheney – @#$% TRUST my intelligence!---
Isreal – uhhhh….O.K., we TRUST your intelligence… but we want you in Israel, just before we bomb.----
Cheney --- uh....let me just check my intelligence again…..No more sleepin' in car
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Jack Kerouac-Last Hotel & Some Of The Dharma
Hi puddle. Interesting times, huh. Joe Biden is So On his best game tonight. At his best he is more "Presidential" than most Presidents. What a performance!
I see there is a congresscritter selling his ass now. 1100 now 12...13...1500...16...1800...1900...sold.. Looks like he has maybe done that before.
The Teaching of the Buddha also has six supreme qualities:
- (Svakkhato) The Dharma is not a speculative philosophy, but is the Universal Law found through enlightenment and is preached precisely. Therefore it is Excellent in the beginning (Sīla — Moral principles), Excellent in the middle (Samadhi — Concentration) and Excellent in the end (Pańña — Wisdom),
- (Samditthiko) The Dharma can be tested by practice and therefore he who follows it will see the result by himself through his own experience.
- (Akāliko) The Dharma is able to bestow timeless and immediate results here and now, for which there is no need to wait until the future or next existence.
- (Ehipassiko) The Dharma welcomes all beings to put it to the test and come and see for themselves.
- (Opāneyiko) The Dharma is capable of being entered upon and therefore it is worthy to be followed as a part of one's life.
- (Paccattam veditabbo viññūnhi) The Dharma can be perfectly realized only by the noble disciples (Ariyas) who have matured and enlightened enough in supreme wisdom.
Knowing these attributes, Buddhists believe that they will attain the greatest peace and happiness through the practice of the Dharma. Each person is therefore fully responsible for himself to put it in the real practice.
Here the Buddha is compared to an experienced and skilful doctor, and the Dharma to proper medicine. However efficient the doctor or wonderful the medicine may be, the patients cannot be cured unless they take the medicine properly. So the practice of the Dharma is the only way to attain the final deliverance of Nibbāna.
These teachings ranged from understanding karma (cause and effect) and developing good impressions in one's mind, to how to reach full enlightenment by recognizing the nature of mind.
@the 22:30 mark
Charlie Rose: November 29, 1995
On the Beat Generation...
I'd vote for Biden, Dodd, Edwards, Obama, or Clinton.
The only qualification is a "D" after the name.
The only qualification is a "D" after the name.
Well, that is more a question than a statement.
No!
Look at the Rs and Ds and tell me there is only a letter.
There is MORE than a letter, Sitka. And, BTW, I didn't include Kucinich.
I'm just catching up on some recordings and just saw Keithie's piece on Green week on NBC. And how he highlighted that Mr. Gore said "I CERTAINLY have no plans to go in to government service in any other position". Then Keithie saying..."sooo, CERTAINLY no plans to go to another position, but just no plans to be a candidate"....And then he smiled and wiggled his eyebrows. LOL.....no wonder he teased about the Draft Gore movement.
I wasn't sure how many folks caught that. He CERTAINLY can be definitive when he wants to. :)
...and the movement is moving strong!
...another funny thing. I watched the piece where Keith interviewed Mr. Gore and asked the obvious question and then brought up that he could make the changes on everything he's been talking about from the Oval office......and then if he had a specific date for when he will have a definite answer, in which he said no. Well, Keith was wearing the exact same tie on both shows. Pretty funny.
Q: LET'S START WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE AT NBC. DID YOU FIND YOURSELF WELL PROTECTED BY FIREWALLS FROM THE CORPORATE SIDE OF THE NETWORK?
Grossman is the former president of NBC News and PBS as well as the author of "The Electronic Democracy: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age." Grossman: When I was in charge of the news division at NBC which was in the days before G.E. took over and Grant Tinker ran NBC, there's no question that we had - were totally free to do whatever we wanted to do as long as we did it responsibly. And indeed, even when G.E. came in and there were issues such as a major lawsuit involving a libel action, in Las Vegas where we had lost in the initial trial and got a 20 something million dollar verdict against us, G.E. fought very hard and was determined to fight it through to the end and in the end it was overturned. So there was - I can say unequivocally, before G.E. came in there was no interference, no editorial sense of control or limit as long as you acted reasonably and responsibly. In the beginning at G.E. we had some rough patches because they had no real experience with broadcast but they learned very quickly to keep their hands off.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/grossman.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8353601654894581963
Jack Kerouac 'Charlie Parker'
Yes! Dharma. Sleep well...you and me.
JOE BIDEN HAMMERS HILLARY IN POST-DEBATE INTERVIEW (07:31)
YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnO77_7fj...
7.Linda*in*SFNM
Israel, US to set up joint committees on Iran: report
...Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz headed discussions on the matter in the United States this week, it said
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Mofaz was Sharon's defense minister, was jolly about slicing up the West Bank, once remarked happily that "the wall" was being built 15 km inside the green line.
The Israelis policies are trying to wipe the West Bank off the map, but are too smart to say so publicly. They call ethnic cleansing "transfer" - You can't beat them when it comes to spin and PR - The Moslems are too religious to understand that honest people lose in this world.
watching c-span Iowa dem gathering. Four years ago only one candidate inspired anyone....Howard Dean. Where is this year's Dean?
I missed the IA dinner. So Gravel and Kucinich weren't invited. Tonight I will keep to myself my thoughts about IA.
Was Howard there? If not, my thoughts might spill out onto the blog.
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U.S./Israel joint committees. Now that we have no more friends at all, these two countries will take down the world if they can. "Wiped off the map" is a very subjective translation and I feel sure it wasn't even very close to what was said. And yet, that is Israel's justification for going after Iran. I read somewhere that the translation was for western public consumption.
And now our AIPAC senator is threatening to not vote for the dem nominee. I may not either, but for entirely different reasons.
"wiped off the map" was thrown at us the way bush suddenly became a war pres. We've been duped again*****************
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"...Did Ahmadinejad really threaten to "wipe Israel off the map" or is this phrase just another jingoistic brand slogan for selling the next war in the Middle East?
The devil is in the detail, wiping Israel off the map suggests a physical genocidal assault, a literal population relocation or elimination akin to what the Nazis did. According to numerous different translations, Ahmadinejad never used the word "map," instead his statement was in the context of time and applied to the Zionist regime occupying Jerusalem. Ahmadinejad was expressing his future hope that the Zionist regime in Israel would fall, not that Iran was going to physically annex the country and its population.
To claim Ahmadinejad has issued a rallying cry to ethnically cleanse Israel is akin to saying that Churchill wanted to murder all Germans when he stated his desire to crush the Nazis. This is about the demise of a corrupt occupying power, not the deaths of millions of innocent people.
The Guardian's Jonathan Steele cites four different translations, from professors to the BBC to the New York Times and even pro-Israel news outlets, in none of those translations is the word "map" used. The closest translation to what the Iranian President actually said is, "The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time," or a narrow relative thereof. In no version is the word "map" used or a context of mass genocide or hostile military action even hinted at.
The acceptance of the word "map" seemingly originated with the New York Times, who later had to back away from this false translation. The BBC also wrongly used the word and, in comments to Steele, later accepted their mistake but refused to issue a retraction.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/260107offthemap.htm
This is everything you might want to know about the "wiped off the map" statement and the egregious translations. Simply said, Achmadinejad never said any such thing. But thanks to the American media, the people here now believe that that horrible prez of Iran said exactly that. Anyone who speaks a language other than English knows how tricky translations can be and how the translator can be very partisan.
Seashell....
No, Howard was not to be seen. Now maybe he chose not to go to Iowa, couldn't blame him. Not a mention of his name. Pelosi said she was having a "fabulous" time being speaker. I wonder what she enjoys most. disgusted.
I don't remember if McCauliff was present at the JJDinner four years ago. Anyone?
seashell - you know what's scarey? Some of OUR candidates have stated the same wrong translation from Achmadinejad. Now THAT makes me nervous. I'm crossing them off my list. Richardson - first. Are they intentionally misconstruing it or do they NOT check into facts and accept what the Republican Corporate owned media is telling them....AGAIN. I will not vote for any of them that are mis-lead this easily or are mis-leading us. Fool me once....fool them over and over again it seems. ONE of them should come straight out and tell the media about this mistranslation. Howard would! What am I saying - Howard did! - about the war - when Ashcroft was threatening to put us all in jail for being 'unpatriotic and questioning it. That's why they spent $70 million, paid off the media, re-worked the 'cheer' and at all cost - had to get rid of Dean. Howard scared the living begeezies out of them. But Howard got the message out. Too late, George. And by the way ...he's baaaaaaaaaack. : )
Sam, which other candidates are misquoting Achmadinejad? There are so many things about most of them that are, IMO, totally unacceptable.
Perhaps
Gore/Kucinich
As for Iowa, I won't get started except to say that its first in the nation status MUST END.
Sam, our critters don't even read the bills which at times are hundreds of pages long....on purpose I suspect.
So Pelosi is having a "fabulous" time....in her private jet? Getting goodies from AIPAC? BH cozy dinners with the most powerful and most dangerous man in the world?
seashell - who's the most dangerous man in the world? with Pelosi?
I have to do this - my arch-enemy....is back.
Look at this….Mr. Treason Rove has come back into the public.. HOW could anyone let this disgraced ‘man’ go public again!? OH – it’s the Murdoch just bought Wall Street Journal OPINION page.
This man still takes himself seriously! I don't.
“This week is the one-year anniversary of Democrats winning Congress. (and George was so pissed at you for telling him it was a sure Republican win = he pointed his finger at you and said so in his speech). But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid probably aren't in a celebrating mood”. (YES THEY ARE KARL, I see them smirking) The goodwill they enjoyed after their victory is gone. (Don’t think so) Their bright campaign promises are unfulfilled. (Most of them fulfilled, except the ones your friend George and his sheeple voted down or vetoed, but we'll get there) Democratic leadership is in disarray. (You mean “REPUBLICAN leadership is quitting, resigning, not running again or indicted and you can’t find a candidate to run for President) “And Congress's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in history. (IF you check the polls you’ll see that they are ‘leaning towards’ disapproval, counted as disapproval. And the Democrats have MUCH higher ratings in every category than the Republicans. Who would you vote for in 2008 ? Poll says – DEMOCRATS by 15 points the last time I looked! )
.........“Democrats promised "civility and bipartisanship." Instead, they stiff-armed their Republican colleagues, (Huh!….Stiff armed, you mean like stiff lipping threatened VETOS?) “refused to include them in budget negotiations between the two houses,(if true, THANK GOD) “and have launched more than 400 investigations and made more than 675 requests for documents, interviews or testimony (It’s not OUR fault if you’re all crooks… it’s about time someone stopped you guys…. the Republicans have lost or can’t find millions of emails (must keep by law) and documents that prove your guilt. “I can’t recall, it’s too SECRET to tell the Congress, ‘ we can’t find them” ).
........"Even worse, the Democrats have made clear all their talk about "fiscal discipline" is just that—talk. (That’s right Jack..I mean Karl. We want to spend money to keep children WELL…and better protect our country from terrorism, instead of ‘breeding it around the world” like you and George have. LEFT you a dam surplus and now we have the biggest DEFICIT…and Karl, check out the economy.)
...."Democrats had a moment after the 2006 election, but now that moment has passed. They've squandered it. They have demonstrated both the inability and unwillingness to govern. Instead, after more than a decade in the congressional minority, they reflexively look for short-term partisan advantage and attempt to appease the party's most strident fringe. (that’s me, a strident fringe, the BIG SF : ) Now that Democrats have the reins of congressional power, their true colors are coming out and the public doesn't like what it sees." ...(I see your truuuuuue colors....shinin thru...)
(I don’t know where you’re hiding now Karl, but the AMERICAN public thinks we’re just fine!) ABC/Wash. Post Poll: Nov: Which party is more concerned with the needs of people like you: Democrats – 56% Republicans – 33%
Better represents your own personal values: Democrats – 50% Republicans – 40% Nov. Republican Party Approve 39%: Disapprove – 56% ABC/WaPost POLL
(But he finally got one thing right): "A party (or President) that wins control by that narrow margin (or no margin) can quickly see its fortunes reversed when it fails to act responsibly, fails to fulfill its promises, and fails to lead. ( AMEN KARL --- I’d say your fortunes have been ‘reversed’. And you had to leave, in disgrace. And have your whole party voted out of power. But then, I'm a strident fringe....what do I know : ))http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010843
As for Iowa, I won't get started except to say that its first in the nation status MUST END.
If Iowans really want an exclusionary caucus system that drives down particpation and is manipulated by insiders, maybe they should have it. But the rest of the political system shouldn't be under the dominion of it.
Downplaying expectations.....
Clinton fundraiser and adviser Terry McAuliffe downplayed the importance of Iowa during a press conference before the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner here.
"There's not one state that anyone particularly has to win," he said. "Nobody has to win or lose this state. You gotta run a national campaign."
And why downplay???
He also shrugged off a recent drop in poll numbers.
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By Steve*in*Nebraska on Nov 10, 2007 8:22 PM ESTHoward Dean is First in these parts, whereever that is.