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In addition to Dean being #1, both of the Clintons are dead last!!
Hi Jo and Tom and BFA,
Wanted you all to know that I am running to be an OBAMA delegate for the DNC convention out in Oregon.
It is refreshing to see that people are actually noticing the kitchen GARBAGE DISPOSAL, not sink is being thrown at Obama. This will NOT be tolerated.
Barack in 2008!
Palestinian citizens in Israel are barred ( "excused" ) from serving in the IDF. Some apologists for Revisionist ("Iron Wall") Zionism will even spin this as some kind of benefit.
Maybe when Obama is elected someone will remind him of when African-Americans were barred from military service, as Palestinian citizen of Israel are now.
hi Teri! I've been thinking that Howard will really move on the adoption of a National Nurse once he becomes head of Health and Human Services! and you be the caytalyst - woot!
good luck, Teri!
Stop fumigation of citizens without their consent in California
Tens of thousands of residents of the State of California are being sprayed under the cover of night with pesticides containing partly unknown chemicals. These sprayings, conducted without adequate health studies, are done not to protect residents from a clear and present public health danger, but rather to protect special interests worried about eradicating the Light Brown Apple Moth.
The spray operations in Central Coast counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, resulted in over 600 reports of health illnesses. State authorities have not only failed to respond, but now plan new aerial spray operations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-fumigation-of-citizens-without
Isn't it great to have a campaign where the aides and sorogates who make mistakes take themselves out of the campaign in support of the candidate? How many years has it been since we have seen something so right as this? I'm sure the campaign will miss Samanatha but she did the right thing for the campaign and the candidate.
CHICAGO, March 7 (Reuters) - A foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned on Friday after calling campaign rival Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview with a British newspaper.
Samantha Power, a foreign policy aide on the Illinois senator's White House campaign, said the comments were inexcusable. They were published on Friday by The Scotsman newspaper.
"With deep regret, I am resigning from my role as an adviser to the Obama campaign effective today," Power said in a statement.
"Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor and purpose of the Obama campaign."
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed7/idUSN0733267220080307
I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs:
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Listening to this back in the late 60s/early 70s, never thought I'd still be singing it in 2007 - seems like we're going around in circles rather than moving forward - but now there's the internet - maybe that will make a difference.
Hi Teri
I'm not sure I want to represent this state of confusion:))
Jo is right, National Nurse will be adopted and you will have made it all happen.
I forward some of the newsletters to a granddaughter who is studying to become a nurse.
Yesterday, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson had said that people in the Clinton campaign were asked to leave after making comments about Obama's drug use, or about rumors that Obama is a Muslim. Today, Samantha Power resigned from the Obama campaign.
Yesterday, Wolfson compared Obama to independent prosecutor Ken Starr in reaction to calls from Obama for the release of Clinton's tax returns. Any notice of Wolfson's resignation? No. What a jerk.
2:39 PM EST
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGB3B9
Mississippi: Stand for Change with Barack in Jackson on Monday Night...Here are the details:
STAND FOR CHANGE RALLY with BARACK OBAMAJackson State University
Lee E. Williams Athletic Center
1400 Lynch St.
Jackson, MS
Monday, March 10
Doors Open: 5:00 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
...
Danny are you *old* enough to remember Phil Ochs, lol1
Fred, do us all a favor and read *another* book. . . .
It's always a good time to listen to Phil Ochs...
Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of her poor
Only as free as the padlocked prison door
Only as strong as our love for this land
Only as tall as we stand
Fred wrote "Listening to this back in the late 60s/early 70s, never thought I'd still be singing it in 2007"
My personal favorite is Crucifixion.
puddle
Fri, 03/07/08
Danny are you *old* enough to remember Phil Ochs, lol1
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puddle,
It all depends on how you define "enough". Thank you for bringing a smile to my face.
Danny
If Teri and Linda B become delegates to Denver, we know Obama will be in good hands.
It's boiled down the the basic question of whether Democrats will remain enthralled to the Clinton Dynasty or set them aside and move ahead as a party of democrats.
The GOP won't get its chance to ditch the Bush Mafia until 2012 or 16, but there's little chance that they will throw off the bonds to their royal family considering how difficult it is for Democrats to do it.
Alright, here's a buffoon who's running for president. This exchange is excerpted from Bethany Thomas's report at First Read:
Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times asked, “Senator, can I ask you about Senator Kerry[?] I just went back and looked at our story, the Times story, and you told Sheryl Stolberg that you had never had a conversation with Kerry about being about vice president...”
McCain testily replied, “Everybody knows that I had a private conversation. Everybody knows that. That I had a conversation. There’s no living American in Washington -- that knows that, there’s no one.”
Bumiller: “Okay.”
McCain: “And you know it, too. You know it. So, I don’t even know why you ask.”
Bumiller: “Well, I ask because I just read…”
McCain: “You do know it. You do know it.”
Bumiller: “Because I just read in the Times in May of ’04 you said….”
McCain: “I don’t know what you may have read or heard of, I don’t know the circumstances. Maybe in May of '04 I hadn’t had the conversation…”
Bumiller: “But do you recall the conversation?”
McCain: “I don’t know, but it’s well known that I had the conversation. It is absolutely well known by everyone. So do you have a question on another issue?”
Bumiller: “Well can I ask you when the conversation was?”
McCain: “No. nope, because the issue is closed as far as I’m concerned. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it in America.”
Bumiller: “Can you describe the conversation?”
McCain: “No, of course not. I don’t describe private conversations.”
Bumiller: “Okay. Can I ask you…”
McCain: “Why should I? Then there’s no such thing as a private conversation. Is there (inaudible) if you have a private conversation with someone, and then they come and tell you. I don’t know that that’s a private conversation. I think that’s a public conversation.”
Bumiller: “Okay. Can I ask you about your (pause) Why you’re so angry?”
McCain: “Pardon me?”
Bumiller: “Nevermind, nevermind.”
McCain: “I mean, it’s well known. Everybody knows. It’s been well chronicled a thousand times. John Kerry asked if I would consider being his running mate.”
Bumiller: “Okay.”
McCain: “And I said categorically no, under no circumstances. That’s very well known.”
hi puddle - long time no see! ie; we never seem to be here at the same time (prolly missed you this time, too!) hope all is well with you! I've missed Denise and thankful and a couple of others a lot lately too. 'course it's kinda hard to pinpoint when anyone is here lately - LOL!
I've been wondering if Hillary finally 'crossed the line' for LindaNM and seashell? haven't heard from them since before the last primaries. agree with them or not, I do miss their voices - they were really trying to work out who/how to support a candidate for quite some time now. at times, in my arrogance, I simply couldn't understand why they could not see what I see about Hillary. but that is something I hope I've learned to deal with. a lot of really good people across this nation are currently supporting Hillary and just as I wanted to be able to support her and hoped I was wrong about her, if they're paying attention they must be as shocked and sick as I was to learn what she'll actually do to win this. it's very sad to see what a great lust for power can do to such potential for good.
love, not hate
hope, not fear
forward, not back
3:03 pm est
Jo wrote "if [Linda and seashell are] paying attention they must be as shocked and sick as I was to learn what [Clinton will] actually do to win this."
It seems so unlikely.
Hi Pat,
A sad poem and maybe something some of us will face. I'm already forgetting things and are my friends.
Another busy day...so much happening at once.
Mouth is feeling great.
1. Find good new tenant, write ad.
2. Finish cleaning studio
3. Send money to Argentina to reserve studio there
4. Set appointment for crown
5. Buy airline ticket
6. Paint, if there's time
7. Look for dental insurance
etc etc etc. The lists just get longer. LOL
Right now I don't feel a need for a co-op...maybe when I have more paintings done and have more time. I have a wonderful tango family, and some of them are painters, so I don't feel deprived.
Gotta dash.
Judy
This is for Jo because she misses Linda's voice here. It's part of Linda's latest diary from the myDD sludge pit:
"Keith Olbermann has become such a disappointment. As diaries and HIS SHOW display a different agenda than that of his truth telling days we all long for.
"Instead, Keithie has decided to become a surrogate of the TV personalities for the Obama campaigns smear machine. A day I don't think even the Obama followers expected to see.
"His show lastnight, as discussed in this diary, was an onslaught on Hillary."
Sorry blog. That was NOT supposed to be posted here. Obviously I'm over-extended and scattered.
Pat, I sent an apology for my confusion. Check your mail.
I read occasionally and nothing shocks me..not even the hatred or intolerance that is exhibited here. That's why I'm not reading or blogging hardly at all.
Bloggers eating their own...not my style.
Tom,
So timely with that Olbermann piece by you-know-who:)) I was just coming on here to post a few words about how well Keith and his guests did last night.
Keith is becoming a real force in this election. He brought up many of the Clintons' absurdities, ridiculousness and nutty statements.
By addressing these Clinton issues, he is forcing CNN and other MS hosts to weigh in on them or be left struggling with their non-credibility problems.
seashell wrote "nothing shocks me..not even the hatred or intolerance that is exhibited here."
Did someone call you an asshole?
seashell wrote:
Bloggers eating their own...not my style.
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So you must be offended by what Clinton has been saying about Obama. That would also be considered eating their own.
idiot corpmedia is STILL talking about the Samantha Power story. they don't like to promote the sad side of this election much, huh? why do I even turn it on....? 'cause the enemy you see is better than the one you don't, I suppose.
phil ochs inspires us still.
Words by Billy Bragg; Music by Earl Robinson
I sincerely hope that nobody would wish Howard to disappear into Health and Human Serv. for our self serving purpose of creating a Nat'l Nurse position. Important though it may be, it is way down on the list of things he might do for our country.
Let's expand our thinking and focus on the big picture, maybe just a little peak out of the box.
Can Progressives play Hardball?
Our own liberal newspaper is still trying to "get our votes counted" as if all their viewers support that. This paper is fast becoming irrelevant since its original owner died a year ago.
Howard has the Clintons in a hole though. He has said definitely the DNC will not pay for a "re-do" since Clinton agreed to the rules and the DNC needs the money for the general election. (He didn't mention that besides that the DNC does not fund primaries, that's up to the states.)
Gov. Crist has now said Florida will not pay for a re-do.
The Fla Dem Party long ago said they would not cough up the $4 million for a caucus and the Clintons would not agree to a caucus anyway.
Dean has said the Fla delegation, without a new election, will not be seated unless it is approved by the credentials committee which would have to have the approval of whoever has the most delegates already and that will be Obama.
The only option left is if Clinton and Obama agree on some kind of re-do. Since Clinton will not agree to a caucus, all Obama has to do is not agree to a primary. And neither would want to pay for anything any way.
Case closed!
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puddle
Fri, 03/07/08
Fred, do us all a favor and read *another* book. . .
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Glad you appreciate the sunshine - presently reading Silent Spring but my next book will probably be either one of Obama's books or ...
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Iron-Cage/Rashid-Khalidi/e/9780807003091/?itm=1
Khalidi Rashid received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society, in 1970,[1] and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974[2] and spent many years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago before joining the Columbia faculty. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Lebanese University, and the American University of Beirut.
Princeton University let it become known that it was considering hiring Khalidi in 2005. However, a controversy developed, in which the Daily Princetonian described Khalidi as "an individual who has a political agenda rather than a scholarly approach to history." The job offer was never made..
somebody seems to have a$$holes on his mind a lot. A cure might be to return to a more upright position where you can see things more clearly.
Just for starters, why hasn't Bill Clinton taken himself out of Hillary's campaign for his "fairy tale" remarks and now his involvement with the NAFTA lies?
Tight race in MS - here's another poll.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/arch...
A Plea to the Party Elders.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3...
Includes some choice quotes from Team Clinton today.
Subject: This About Says It AllWhether Democrat or Republican, I think you'll get a kick out of this! A little boy goes to his dad and asks, 'What is Politics?' Dad says, 'Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am the head of the family, so call me The President. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government. We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People. The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we will call him the Future. Now think about that and see if it makes sense.' So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy say's to his father, 'Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.' The father says, 'Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.' The little boy replies, 'The President is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep Shit
Hey kiddies!!ç
I am blogging from Seashell´s hangout Buenos Aires and now I know why she always forgot how to type while here the keys do not match. I did a City Tour today and am going to a tango show tonight but I won´t be dancing I promise. Tomorrow I s-b flying to Iguazu Falls thus the yellow fever shot. They are supposed to have free internet at that hotel too so I should be able to get off a note. BA is about what one would expect. I´ve never been southern hemisphere before so it is really strange going from azaleas and dogwoods to a place where fall and cold weather are in the air. This city is one of amazing contrasts from very Spanish and very well to do to literal shanty towns little shed size buildings on top of one another down by the docks. My heart went out to an old she dog with teats hanging full and long and obviously a stray trying to take care of her babies. I´m sympathetic to dog mothers but not people mothers I guess. Everyone speaks a little English and my years in California taught me more Espanol than I realized so so far so good. Take care all I will glance at KOS to see the news. Hope to see you tomorrow.
"Keith Olbermann has become such a disappointment. As diaries and HIS SHOW display a different agenda than that of his truth telling days we all long for."
Don't tell me -- that bastion of Obama hating, MyDD?
What makes these comments about Olbermann amusing is that a couple of months ago many were complaining that he was pro-clinton. If that was so, and he isn't now, it must be because he hasn't liked what he's been seeing from her and hers since then.
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Tom Bearse
Fri, 03/07/08
Did someone call you an asshole?
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My cousin in NJ [who is a lawyer] once remarked that "asshole" is the most insulting, yet still innocuous, thing you can call somebody.
seashell wrote "nothing shocks me..not even the hatred or intolerance that is exhibited here."
Did someone call you an asshole?
Or a liar?
U.S. Lost 63,000 Jobs in February
Shobhana Chandra
Bloomberg
March 7, 2008
The U.S. unexpectedly lost jobs in February for the second consecutive month, adding to evidence the economy is in a recession.
Payrolls fell by 63,000, the biggest drop since March 2003, after a decline of 22,000 in January that was larger than initially estimated, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The jobless rate declined to 4.8 percent, reflecting a shrinking labor force as some people gave up looking for work.
A weakening job market, combined with lower home values, higher fuel bills and stricter lending rules, raises the odds consumer spending will keep slowing. Falling employment is one reason Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has signaled central bankers are prepared to lower interest rates again.
“All the lights are flashing red,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts, in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “We’re in a recession. I don’t think there is any doubt about it at this point.”
Minutes before the figures were released, the Fed said it will expand two short-term auctions this month to $100 billion, from $60 billion, to address “heightened liquidity pressures” in markets. Treasury notes surged and the dollar weakened after the employment figures.
Goldman Sachs: Oil May Reach $200 a Barrel
Steve Gelsi
MarketWatch
March 7, 2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — With $100-a-barrel here for now, Goldman Sachs says $200 a barrel could be a reality in the not-too-distant future in the case of a “major disruption.”
Goldman on Friday also boosted by $10 the low end of its 2008-2012 projected range for crude to $60 a barrel — significantly lower than current prices, to be sure, but a possible mark for oil if “normalized” trends return to the marketplace.
With the dollar’s fall continuing and financial markets roiled by the credit crunch, commodities like oil have been drawing the fancy of increasing numbers of investors. Accordingly, Wall Street firms have been eager to adjust forecasts to incorporate fresh data on the global economy and energy supplies.
Goldman analysts Arjun Murti, Kevin Koh and Michele della Vigna said prices have advanced more quickly than Goldman had forecast back in 2005, when it predicted a range of $50 to $105 a barrel as part of its “super-spike” oil theory.
“We characterized the upper end of the band as more likely to be driven by geopolitical turmoil and that recession was a key risk to our view,” the analysts said. “In fact, oil prices have reached $100 a barrel without extraordinary turmoil, and the U.S. currently appears to be in recession.” change is coming get out your wallet.
The Clintons will all but guarantee they will lose a hefty amount of it in the fall, as they richly deserve to. Some will gravitate to McCain; others will be so disillusioned they will withdraw from politics for another generation.
If the Clintons grind up and kill the most promising young leader since Kennedy, and if they do it not on the strength of their arguments, but by the kind of politics we have seen them deploy, the backlash will be deep and severe and long. As it should be.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/the-clinton-rul.html
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Take care down there. It is, as you say, a very different human world.
I think we should "shun" hillary. she won't get money from the grassroots that's for sure.
If you are in Wyoming and Mississippi, get out and work for Barack.
Hillary pushing for McCain? That is just deplorable.
Tom asked, "Did someone call you an asshole?"
Tom, I don't call people a$$holes. Your question was phrased as tho I did.
Just wanted to clarify that.
Saw Bill on the stump in PA. today. More votes for Barack.
In '65, I built a monster FM antenna for my folks Admiral home entertainment center so I could get signal from "Radio Free Omaha" 100 miles away from the farm. Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, The Dead,Incredible String Band, etc. The farm was never the same again.
re: I sincerely hope that nobody would wish Howard to disappear into Health and Human Serv. for our self serving purpose of creating a Nat'l Nurse position. Important though it may be, it is way down on the list of things he might do for our country.
Let's expand our thinking and focus on the big picture, maybe just a little peak out of the box.
audrey - you've got it a$$ backwards - lol! I SUPPORT Howard for that position, although I'm sure Howard would be successful in many other positions once his tenure at the DNC expires. the National Nurse position would just be a bonus! remember, he was a Doctor here long before he was a Governor and I saw first hand what he did for healthcare in both positions. I think your insult to me was unwarranted - I'm a lot of things but I don't think I'm small minded and no one in my entire life has accused me of NOT thinking outside the box. ususally they tell me that I think TOO broadly.
Neocon Bloggers Blame Antiwar Movement for New York Bombing
Kurt Nimmo
Infowarshttp://www.infowars.com/?p=657
March 6, 2008
It was inevitable. Neocon bloggers, hardly satisfied at the ineffectiveness and lethargy of the antiwar movement, are insinuating a reemergence of the Weather Underground and the SLA after a hooded somebody on a bicycle placed a flash-boom device at a recruitment center located in Times Square.
“Now the movement has decided to morph into domestic terrorism,” writes Hot Air, a blog appropriately entitled. “Of course, the people responsible will claim that they bombed the office during the night to keep anyone from being hurt. That’s exactly the same kind of rationalization that people like the Weather Underground and the SLA used at first, anyway — that terrorism was justified by their politics. In fact, a few like William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn still claim that.”
thanks, danny. keep posting those anti-war songs.
i suggest a standard, 'danny boy,' an anti-war tune from WWI to be posted on st. paddy's day.
I sincerely hope that nobody would wish Howard to disappear into Health and Human Serv. for our self serving purpose of creating a Nat'l Nurse position.
He could do much more good than just that. Cabinet positions must be plum jobs since even high ranking congress critters give up their seats for them.
Joan - I just hope someone steps in - an adult if you will. I was just listening to a reporter on MSNBC talking about Obama and Clinton attacking each other and how voters will be turned off. Who exactly is doing the attacking? Sheesh. This is so ugly now.
From Ben Smith at Politico:
March 07, 2008
Read More: Hillary Clinton
Clark and Rubin attack "amateur hour"
Retired NATO commander Wes Clark and former State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin attacked Samantha Power on a Clinton conference call just now, a fairly poignant moment because Power, in the past, has been their vocal ally.
Clark is a hero of Power's first book, A Problem from Hell, and she and Rubin both backed Clark for president in 2004.
Clark today called her words "disturbing" and suggested that Obama's stance boils down to "simply show[ing] up and say[ing], 'What's this all about?'" That approach would, he said, "leave us still at war."
Rubin blamed Obama for the mess, in particular for giving a senior foreign policy advisor -- he described her variously as a "guru" and a "svengali" with "unlimited access to the candidate -- free rein to tour the world talking about his policies in a field where words matter.
"He can't seem to run a foreign policy team the way it's supposed to run," he said, calling it "amateur hour on making foreign policy."
"I feel very sorry for her," Rubin said. "This is his fault, not her fault."
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I've always liked Jamie Rubin (love his wife too) but talk about immature. Sheesh.
Jo....
When I have something to say to a person, I will address them, as I have here.
My post was general, I asked a question, and made some comments. I spoke to Progressives and used the word "oUr". I made no reference to you or suggestion about you. I don't even know you. Just because you made a comment about the subject doesn't mean that all other comments about that subject are about you.
I've always liked Jamie Rubin
Every clintanoid carries a dagger and will use it -- preferably in the back.
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By Tom Bearse on Mar 7, 2008 10:42 AM ESTWord is that Dean is first.