http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk...

NEAR FALLUJA - A suicide bomber killed at least six policemen and wounded nine others when he detonated a vest packed with explosives outside a mosque near Falluja in western Anbar province, police said.

GARMA - A suicide bomber on foot attacked an Iraqi security checkpoint, killing two people and wounding three in Garma, near Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

ANBAR PROVINCE - One U.S. Marine was killed in a battle with gunmen in Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

NEAR FALLUJA - A roadside bomb killed Brigadier-General Abdul Jabbar al-Juboury, head of the Iraqi army's Falluja Brigade, and his driver on Thursday south of Falluja, police said.

NEAR FALLUJA - A parked car bomb killed one man and wounded two others on Thursday near a market in Falluja, police said.

-------

BAD times return to Anbar, Falluja in particular.

Howard Dean is first!

Did a new thread call on the last thread. But it's parked 7 posts from the end, so whether anyone will see it is prolly moot. (or mute, lol!)

liver spots

Sorry about not going back this time to notify the old thread.  Something was burning on the stove and then I forgot.  What an attention span!

AN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL STORY. AIN'T THE 2ND AMENDMENT GRAND?


SHOOTING IN BUTTE , MONTANA

SHOTGUN PRETEEN VS. ILLEGAL ALIEN HOME INVADERS
BUTTE, MONTANA, NOVEMBER 5, 2006.

TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS, RALPHEL RESINDEZ, 23, AND ENRICO GARZA, 26, PROBABLY
BELIEVED THEY WOULD EASILY OVERPOWER HOME-ALONE 11-YEAR-OLD PATRICIA
HARRINGTON AFTER HER FATHER HAD LEFT THEIR TWO-STORY HOME.

IT SEEMS THE TWO CROOKS NEVER LEARNED TWO THINGS: THEY WERE IN MONTANA AND
PATRICIA HAD BEEN A CLAY SHOOTING CHAMPION SINCE SHE WAS NINE.

PATRICIA WAS IN HER UPSTAIRS ROOM WHEN THE TWO MEN BROKE THROUGH THE FRONT
DOOR OF THE HOUSE. SHE QUICKLY RAN TO HER FATHER'S ROOM AND GRABBED HIS 12
GAUGE MOSSBERG 5 00 SHOTGUN.

RESINDEZ WAS THE FIRST TO GET UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR ONLY TO BE THE FIRST
TO CATCH A NEAR POINT BLANK BLAST OF BUCKSHOT FROM THE 11-YEAR-OLD'S KNEE
CROUCH AIM. HE SUFFERED FATAL WOUNDS TO HIS ABDOMEN AND GENITALS.

WHEN GARZA RAN TO THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS, HE TOOK A BLAST TO THE LEFT
SHOULDER AND STAGGERED OUT INTO THE STREET WHERE HE BLED TO DEATH BEFORE
MEDICAL HELP COULD ARRIVE.

IT WAS FOUND OUT LATER THAT RESINDEZ WAS ARMED WITH A STOLEN 45 CALIBER
HANDGUN HE TOOK FROM ANOTHER HOME INVASION ROBBERY. THAT VICTIM,
50-YEAR-OLD DAVID BURIEN, WAS NOT SO LUCKY. HE DIED FROM STAB WOUNDS TO THE
CHEST.

PATRICIA STAVED OFF A ROBBERY AND POTENTIAL RAPE BECAUSE HER PARENTS
TAUGHT HER HOW TO USE A GUN. HER PARENTS JUST DIDN'T HIDE A GUN IN THE HOUSE
AND NOT EDUCATE HER ON THE POWER THAT A FIREARM PROVIDES.

IGNORANCE CAN BE DEADLY, BUT FORTUNATELY FOR THIS MONTANA FAMILY,
KNOWLEDGE WAS POWER.

TWO ILLEGALS THAT WILL BE SENT BACK....IN A BOX!

BLAMING GUNS FOR VIOLENCE IS LIKE BLAMING SPOONS FOR ROSIE O'DONNELL'S FAT
ASS.

CALLING AN ILLEGAL ALIEN AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT IS LIKE CALLING A DRUG
DEALER AN UNLICENSED PHARMACIST.

EVER WONDER WHY GOOD STUFF LIKE THIS NEVER MAKES NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC,
CNN, OR ABC NEWS....

NOW THAT IS GUN CONTROL!

Here are some timely quotes by Gerald Jampolsky, one of my favorite authors.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Gerald Jampolsky

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Gerald Jampolsky

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
Gerald Jampolsky

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Gerald Jampolsky

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Gerald Jampolsky

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

You can be right or you can be happy.
Gerald Jampolsky 

TWO ILLEGALS THAT WILL BE SENT BACK....IN A BOX!

Now Daniel, could you explain to me why this is a wonderful story?

Gosh, there I was posting over on the last thread all alone,
having missed puddle's note about a new thread.

Forgive me if a repost a few...

The National Nurse folks contacted the Health Policy Aides for Obama, Clinton and McCain, asking for a meeting.

Within an hour they had a YES from the Obama folks.

They sent out a second message to the Clinton and McCain people.

The Obama people called to confirm the meeting time.

Still no word from Clinton or McCain.

Now THAT tells me how much Clinton REALLY cares about health care,
and how much Obama really means it that he wants to hear from us
and wants to support our actions!

On the local news tonight they showed Hillary Clinton's
new campaign office in South Burlington, VT and...
AND...it's in the same building as DFA.

That just doesn't seem right!

Must be a free country or something! LOL! 

Ally updates may be found at Baby

http://eatapyzch.blogspot.com/ 

Our little sweetie is holding her own, Phil! :-)

Ally's Candle Page =

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=ALLYS 

Today I received my absentee ballot.

I discovered that the town clerk in my town is running for
Lister
Town Clerk
Treasurer

unopposed!

This just didn't seem right so I decided to run as Town Treasurer as a write in.

Seems like I was overcome by the Dean spirit.

I'll let you know how far I'll get with this. It's barely two weeks to election.

Kunin and Symington in Vermont are supporting Clinton.

Former Governor and present Speaker of the Vermont House.

 Today I heard from a Vermont Super Delegate that she supports Clinton because she is a woman.

Man, that bothers me.

Sunlight - good luck on your run for Treasurer. Keep us posted.

 Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
That sounds like: The Nazi's did bad things but let's just forget about it.

 Love asks no questions.
Really? How stupid is that?

 The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Only to be controlled by others?

 You can be right or you can be happy.
That's weird. I'm happy and I'm right. How else could I be happy?

Now, I'm not saying I'm always right~

Jung's shadow

"If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against. He lives in the "House of the Gathering." Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day."

Good for the BO camp, responding so quickly.

Vilsack brings up Barack's drug use.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2...

6.

sunlight
Fri, 02/22/08

Reply to this

TWO ILLEGALS THAT WILL BE SENT BACK....IN A BOX!

Now Daniel, could you explain to me why this is a wonderful story? These two illegals were not able to continue to tear families apart in their crime spree! A knowledgeable young child took action as "fit the crime" in progress.

If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

I can live without that kind of imagination. Thick shadow? Give me a break!

These two illegals were not able to continue to tear families apart in their crime spree!

I see.

Now, what has that to do with illegals? You don't think that legals do the same kind of things?

This just didn't seem right so I decided to run as Town Treasurer as a write in.        ~sunlight

Bat!  wOOT!  We needs a bat for our sunlight!

Way to go, sunlight.

Hey, maybe you can advocate for broadband from the Treasurer's Office.

Paul McCartney & Wings - Let 'Em In        http://hypem.com/track/493472

Someone's Knockin' At The Door.
Somebody's Ringin' The Bell.
Someone's Knockin' At The Door.
Somebody's Ririgin' The Bell.
Do Me A Favor,
Open The Door And Let 'Em In.

Sister Suzie, Brother John,
Martin Luther, Phil And Don,
Brother Michael, Auntie Gin,
Open The Door And Let 'Em In.

Someone's Knockin' At The Door.
Somebody's Ringin' The Bell.
Someone's Knockin' At The Door.
Somebody's Ringin' The Bell.

Do Me A Favor,
Open The Door And Let 'Em In.

10:48 PM EST

WhatAre Progressive Vakues -

Good, thoughtful post Why Inspiration Will Make Obama the Strongest Candidate. 

Huffington Post has some great blog entrys.

Article Archives Listen to Alex Jones Contact TruthNews
Screw the Voters. Let Superdelegates Decide!
Paul Rockwell
Common Dreams
February 18, 2008

Millions of Americans, many of them first-time activists, voted for Barack Obama in the Democratic Party primary. They voted in good faith, expecting their votes to be counted and respected.

Now many young voters are discovering that there are two kinds of delegates at Democratic Party Conventions: real delegates (duly elected from the states) and fake delegates, delegates artificially created by the Democratic National Committee. These delegates, who lack direct support from primary voters, are called superdelegates.

With over 200,000 signatures, a Move-On petition to Democratic Party superdelegates reads: “The superdelegates should let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama. Then support the people’s choice.”

The seating of delegates at Democratic Party conventions has often been a source of conflict. In 1964, Fanny Lou Hamer led a sit-in on the convention floor. The Mississippi Freedom Democrats wanted nothing more than a few convention seats-seats to which they were entitled by open, fair elections in their home state. Walter Mondale, who was to become the architect of the current superdelgate system, refused to seat the elected delegates of color in 1964. Wait until 1968, Mondale insisted, as the representative of the Credentials Committee.

The non-violent mass movements of the ’60s, the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the rise of the feminist movement, the change in voting age, the anti-nuclear campaigns- all generated a groundswell of new voters in Democratic party politics. However, far from welcoming the newly enfranchised activists, party leaders were filled with fear-class and race fear. They never accepted the democratic reforms enacted in the 1970s, when youth and people of color participated for the first time in establishment politics.

The superdelegate system, as we know it, came from the backlash of the 1980s. In January 1982, supported by Mondale, the Hunt Commission and Democratic National Committee reversed grassroots reforms. They rewrote the rules, not to make elections open and fair, but to make sure that centrist (right-wing) candidates maintained hegemony over nominees and party affairs. It was out of fear of new uncontrollable voters that the Commission created a block of uncommitted delegates drawn from a primarily white, male establishment. Mondale, the same insider who prevented elected Mississipppians from taking their seats in 1964, played the pivotal role in creating hundreds of unelected delegates in 1984. Superdelegates comprised 14 percent of the convention in 1984, and eighty-five percent of the superdelegates picked Mondale. Not long after superdelegates picked “the sure winner,” Mondale was trounced in the presidential election. Nevertheless, the superdelgate number passed the 600 mark by 1988. The Jesse Jackson campaign, especially the massive victory over Dukkakis on Super Tuesday, electrified the party and the country. Jackson won 7 million primary votes in 1988, more than Mondale won as the nominee in 1984. Many party regulars were gripped with panic, and some superdelegates organized a stop-Jackson movement within the party. Jackson protested the role of superdelegates, but his challenge went unheeded. Party leaders continued to look for ways to blunt the growing power of grassroots movements. While they could not stop voters from voting, they could dilute the impact of the reform movements by manufacturing added voters as a countervailing force.

Mondale was quite open about the undemocratic aims of the superdelegate system. In a number of talks, he acknowledged that superdelegates were created with the explicit aim of preventing voter insurgencies. He espoused his anti-democratic sentiments in the New York Times, February 2, 1992, where he called for expansion of superdelgate numbers:

“The election is the business of the people. But the nomination is more properly the business of the parties….The problem lies in the reforms that were supposed to open the nominating process….Party leaders have lost the power to screen candidates and select a nominee. The solution is to reduce the influence of the primaries and boost the influence of the party leaders….The superdelgate category established within the Democratic Party after 1984 allows some opportunity for this, but should be strengthened.”

Today, faced with enthusiastic, grassroots support for Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton now espouses the old Mondale position (in the guarded, euphemistic language of a candidate), pitting the party regulars against the danger of the popular vote. I do not intend here to compare the merits of the candidates. But there is a question of principle involved in the superdelgate controversy. The very integrity of our elections is at stake. No vote is safe when a self-appointed group can nullify the results of a primary election that displeases them.

When Obama recently told a reporter that he thinks superdelegates should respect the wishes of the primary voters, Clinton took exception. “Superdelegates are by design supposed to exercise independent judgment,” she said. She also claimed that Obama’s view is “contrary to what the definition of superdelegate has historically been.” Historically she is right, of course. Superdelegates were never expected to respect the integrity of elections. But are we compelled today to embrace a system that was corrupt in its very design? Should voters be supervised, and finally overruled, when the superdelegates disagree with their wishes?

All Democratic members of the House and Senate become superdelegates automatically. Let us not forget that George Bush led the vast majority of Democrats by the nose into pre-emptive war, implicating most of the current superdelegates in the biggest catastrophe of recent decades. What makes these individuals wiser than nurses, technicians, custodians, lawyers, teachers, athletes, fire fighters, proprietors-all who voted in good faith in the recent primary? Why don’t the superdelegates do the job they were elected to do-end the war-and let the voters do their job in the primaries-select the next nominee?

And finally, what is the difference between superdelegate intervention in the outcome of the primary and the right-wing intervention in Florida in 2000, when Republican judges stopped the counting of votes, and appointed Bush as President? How many times will the loser in an election be imposed on the electorate?

10:57 PM EST

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1716609,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

(WASHINGTON) — The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters - straight to Barack Obama.

In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to a survey by The Associated Press. At the same time, Hillary Rodham Clinton's are beginning to jump ship, abandoning her for Obama or deciding they now are undecided.

The result: He's narrowing her once-commanding lead among these "superdelegates,"

...

Article Archives Listen to Alex Jones Contact TruthNews
Delusional hope: The Obama rapture
Joel S. Hirschhorn
Online Journal
February 22, 2008

Never have so many hoped for so much because of rollicking rhetoric and pulsating platitudes. A tsunami of hope has plunged America into electoral euphoria. In its path is the wreckage of critical thinking about what ails the US and what bold, revolutionary actions are needed.

Barry Obama has accomplished semantic alchemy, turning justified but grim distrust and outrage with government and politics into hallelujah hope. But most hope never materializes and is a terrible predictor of reality.

Think about the prevalence of hope: sports teams heading into a championship game, research scientists envisioning a Nobel Prize, people in the criminal justice system awaiting trial, entrepreneurs starting a new business, people starting off on a long-awaited vacation, American Idol contestants, college seniors dreaming of becoming superrich, and all those supporters of Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and other presidential candidates that will not reach the White House.

Hope produces far more losers than winners. Hope is enjoyable until failure hits. But most people do not give up on hope, just move on to the next hope.

Obama hoped that he could tap into the national desire for change from the awful conditions produced by the Bush administration by selling hope to voters rather than his experience and accomplishments. Like a political snake oil slalesman, he has succeeded as a compelling seller of hope, better than the best infomercial charlatan.

His proof that hope works is his life story and political campaign. This resembles a con man selling a real estate scheme by showing pictures of his yacht, estate and Rolls Royce. Millions of consumers succumb because of their hope that riches can be obtained by following the quack�s advice and formula. Such false hope succeeds because people buy into wrong or deceitful information. False hope can be revealed through objective examination of the facts, assumptions or promises used by the hope purveyor.

Delusional hope is much more insidious. The trick behind delusional hope is that recipients of the hope message supply their own justifications and rationalizations for taking ownership of the hope. As much as delusional hope comes from the hope messenger, it is also self-inflicted to a large degree. In fact, the hope messenger may be honest and authentic, like Obama, truly believing in his hope message. Those who embrace the hope message have many possible reasons and motivations for doing so.

It may be therapeutic by offsetting depression, stress or anger. It makes people happier, feel good and have something positive to look forward to in an otherwise dismal world. It provides comfort and some sense of security. Delusional hope is exactly like a placebo, producing an apparent positive result without any valid reason for doing so, except satisfying the desire for a positive result.

Obama has produced an epidemic of contagious delusional hope for a population rightfully disgusted with ordinary politics and politicians. Like an excellent magician, people are mesmerized by the trick of promising to turn YOUR hope into HIS success.

What happens if President Obama does not actually deliver any real, substantive changes and reforms in government and public policy? Who will be blamed? Hope-happy Obama or a nation of hope-losers for electing him?

This mass delusional hope befits our delusional democracy with its delusional prosperity. Rather than the usual lies, Obama offers hope for change, as if the ruling plutocracy will fade away and stop using their considerable influence over government to funnel an obscene fraction of the nation�s income and wealth to the richest Americans and corporations.

Money is key to seeing Obama for what he really is — an insider politician. He has backed away from his clear promise to use public financing for the general election, as John McCain also promised to do. His broken commitment results from his ability to raise enormous sums from hope addicts. Besides many small contributors, he has received enormous financial support from a number of business sectors. He provided about $700,000 to other politicians in the past year to get their support. When it comes to money, Obama seems much too much like an ordinary politician.

What is the audacity of hope? The confidence that most Americans will eat the political narcotic hook, line and sinker. Welcome to the Obama rapture.

I, JC, BEING THE RETURNING OFFICER...(Part 5)

(I know...but, what the heck -it's near a full moon)

David Bowie - Andy Warhol         http://hypem.com/track/485364   

Sorry Dan old boy, I am like Denise and the BFA1.0ers

I scroll whole articles.

Sure would have been nice if you had *got that* so long ago.

But I can scroll.

This is for Fred in Ashland, OR.

Vaccines and manslaughter

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...

Memo to President Obama

Newsweek
February 21, 2008

According to the decider-commander, the people of Pakistan welcome CIA attacks on their country without permission or notification.

Using bold rhetoric that often makes his followers rapturous, Barack Obama has declared over and over that he will be the president of “change.” But is Obama brave enough to bring about a really radical change? Will he end the permanent “war” George W. Bush has left us with? Will a candidate or a President Obama be willing to go so far as to question whether “the war on terror”—the framework for nearly every discussion of U.S. foreign policy today—is truly the pre-eminent challenge of our time?

Obama has come close. He has repeatedly called the war in Iraq a needless distraction, and he has accused Bush of “lumping” all sorts of enemies together. “It is time to turn the page,” Obama declared last August in a defining speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “When I am president, we will wage the war that has to be won.” But Obama’s rhetoric still suggests that he too will be spending his term as a war president. And his “comprehensive strategy” for that war, while it calls for “getting out of Iraq and onto the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” still implies that the Illinois senator believes the war on terror should be the overarching framework for his foreign policy.

28.

mary vb good post mary good doctor!

What is the audacity of hope? The confidence that most Americans will eat the political narcotic hook, line and sinker. Welcome to the Obama rapture.

I'm one who thinks that hope is a human invented hoax.

Having observed Obama respond to any accusations about him in a very cool manner convinced me he is aware and in charge.

That's what I like about him.

I just spent a great time over at Kos reading some of the comments on Dean's interview. One could imagine they were at BFA, but that's not the way BFA is just now.

Anyway, there were all kudos for Dean....for VP, how soon for Pres., he's a genius, best thing that ever happened to the Party, to DNC. etc......NICE

Daniel, STOP IT; STOP IT; STOP IT, OR YOU'LL GET SENT TO YOUR ROOM WITHOUT DINNER!!!!

oH, yes, they were saying over at Kos that the 50 state plan is what brought out the Dems in Idaho. Barack says he won Idaho because he can attract Independents. ??

Good sh!t, What

that vid on Inspiration.

Thank you.

21.

Imn2Paine
Fri, 02/22/08

Reply to this

Sorry Dan old boy, I am like Denise and the BFA1.0ers

I scroll whole articles.

Sure would have been nice if you had *got that* so long ago.

But I can scroll.
a mind is a tearable thing to waste! to old to learn or just blind,no im sorry for you oboy!

Good listening, Dan.

15.

sunlight
Fri, 02/22/08

Reply to this

These two illegals were not able to continue to tear families apart in their crime spree!

I see.

Now, what has that to do with illegals? You don't think that legals do the same kind of things? its has nothing to do with illegals its about gun control dud!i dont care if they were from mars.

   ♡ ♥ Thanks for the Ally candles ♥ ♡

Anilow, Seashell, Paine, Karen, puddle,

Renee, Jessica, JayDean, and Nurse Teri~!!

Puddle, Danny is or can be incorrigible.

One can one do?

24.

puddle stop what?

Kate Nash - Foundations      http://hypem.com/track/483114

Thursday night, every thing's fine, except you've got that look in your eye
when I'm tellin' a story and you find it boring,
you're thinking of something to say.
You'll go along with it then drop it and humiliate me in front of our friends.

Then I'll use that voice that you find annoyin' and say something like
"yeah, intelligent input, darlin', why don't you just have another beer then?"

Then you'll call me a bitch
and everyone we're with will be embarrassed,
and I wont give a shit.

My finger tips are holding onto the cracks in our foundation,
and I know that I should let go,
but I can't.
And every time we fight I know it's not right,
every time that you're upset and I smile.
I know I should forget, but I can't.

You said I must eat so many lemons
'cause i am so bitter.
I said
"I'd rather be with your friends mate 'cause they are much fitter."

Yes, it was childish and you got aggressive,
and I must admit that I was a bit scared,
but it gives me thrills to wind you up.

My finger tips are holding on to the cracks in our foundation,
and I know that I should let go,
but I can't.
And every time we fight I know it's not right,
every time that you're upset and I smile.
I know I should forget, but I can't.

Your face is pasty 'cause you've gone and got so wasted, what a surprise.
Don't want to look at your face 'cause it's makin' me sick.
You've gone and got sick on my trainers,
I only got these yesterday.
Oh, my gosh, I cannot be bothered with this.

Well, I'll leave you there 'till the mornin',
and I purposely wont turn the heating on
and dear God, I hope I'm not stuck with this one.

My finger tips are holding onto the cracks in our foundation,
and I know that I should let go,
but I can't.
And every time we fight I know it's not right,
every time that you're upset and I smile.
I know I should forget, but I can't.

And every time we fight I know it's not right,
every time that you're upset and I smile.
I know I should forget, but I can't.

24.

puddle whats for dinner i might think about it? i bet its crow!

2008: Expect Food “Sticker Shock”

Rene Pastor
Reuters
February 21, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans who dug deeper into their pockets for groceries last year will face sticker shock again this year when shopping for food, experts said on Thursday.

“There’s going to be real food inflation in this country,” C. Larry Pope, president and chief executive of U.S. beef processor Smithfield Foods Inc., said at the U.S. Agriculture Department’s annual outlook conference.

Prices of grain futures have surged lately. For example, wheat futures have more than doubled on the Chicago Board of Trade over the last 12 months. Pope said meat shoppers eventually will pay for the rally because farmers who raise livestock cannot absorb the sharp escalation in feed costs.

Pope said the rip-roaring rallies in corn, soybeans and wheat would be good for farmers, but are “scary” for companies like Smithfield and the rest of the livestock industry.

“I think we need to tell the American consumer that things are going up,” he said in a speech. “We’re seeing cost increases that we’ve never seen in our business.”

USDA Chief Economist Joseph Glauber forecast that consumer food prices would rise 3.0 to 4.0 percent this year after a similar 4.0 percent hike in 2007.

He added that “overall retail food prices for 2008 to 2010 are expected to rise faster than the general inflation rate.”

Link, Dan?!

36.

Imn2Paine
Fri, 02/22/08

Reply to this
Link, Dan?!
to what post?

Kate Nash - Dickhead         http://hypem.com/track/448369

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just f**king up situations

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just f**king up situations

Shiny floor, slippery feet
Lights are dim, my eyes can't meet
The reflection that turns my images
Upside down so I can't see

Think you know everything
You really don't know nothing
I wish that you were more intelligent
So you could see that what you are doing
Is so shitty, to me

Thirty five
People couldn't count
On two hands the amount of times you made me stop
Stop and think why are you being such a dickhead for

Stop being a dickhead,
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just f**king up situations
[Dickhead lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead,
Why you being a dickhead for
You're just f**king up situations

Stop, now don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you, stop, now don't show
Just have a think before you

Will you stop, no don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you stop, don't show
Will you just have a think before you

My brain and my bones don't want to take, this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take, this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take with this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take, this anymore, so

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why are you being a dickhead for
You're just f**king up situations

Why are you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why you being a dickhead for
You're just f**king up situations

"Basically"

Yes, that is what unrequited is...we all share that.

Kate Nash - Nicest Thing       http://hypem.com/track/480277

Sunlight 8.

Kunin and Symington in Vermont are supporting Clinton.

Yknow what's interesting, Sunlight?

At a local meeting with my Reps, Gaye Symington said she was sure Obama was going to win Vermont easily.  So I wondered if she was asked to stand as a woman in leadership for Hillary Clinton, and thought why not. It's not going to change Obama's win.  

♡ ♡ ♡   G'nite all.  ♡ ♡ ♡

This place has become toxic, poisonous, deadly and a place Howard Dean would find sad and ashamed of.....I remember a time when people were reasonable, intelligent and generally got along. But that was long ago...and far, far away.

if obama is for real, he will be killed! i hope like you all that he is for real, but all the true patriot are killed, never able to change things, he would have to turn on his cfr members, if that happens he a dead man walking, he knows the cost, the blog is drunk with hope, i was too with dean, but we all know what happen there,i still respect him for that. just saying dont get your hope up so high that you dont see clearly, that being said he the best of the worst.

Night listener.

hear you

as you sleep

sound