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Thank you to all who braved the rain last night to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War in Clifton with Passaic County DFA. We had a great turnout, and very positive feedback from the motorists passing by. And, in addition to last night's visibility, our vigil is featured in today's Herald News, and was covered by Channel 9 News last night.
You can watch the Channel 9 news video at our website: www.dfapassaic.org where you will also see information about our upcoming events:
April 3rd - Monthly meeting in Clifton
April 22nd - Earth Day Forum in Ringwood
I invite you to join us at these events, and future actions, as we grow the progressive community in Passaic County. Thanks again everybody, and hope to see you all again soon!
-JG
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Hey there,
We should talk some time. I'm the leader of Pasadena DFA. We just did our vigil last night too:
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24358
I liked that you guys got good coverage - they said your name right. We got coverage in the newspaper but the called us "the democracy for america". Ugghhhh
Nice job getting your event done IN THE RAIN! We Californians never seem to have to plan for that.
Keep up the great work!
Patrick Briggs
No Edwards endorsement at this time.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
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I thought I'd venture over to my dd and see what's up. It's bad for your health to go there. Some crack pots are actually making fun of this entire passport breach fiasco. If this happened to Hillary I would be equally concerned.
If this happened to Hillary I would be equally concerned.
thank you, mary vb, for being rational and even-handed. I was afraid s/o would start blaming HC for this.
If this happened to Hillary I would be equally concerned.
thank you, mary vb, for being rational and even-handed. I was afraid s/o would start blaming HC for this.
It did happen to Wild Bill.
Yes, I heard this happend to Bill Clinton which was a horrible breach by Bush I (and obviously for political gain). Why would there be three separate incidences of this? It wreaks.
then and now - not an excuse, but an interesting correlation:
As I alternate between reruns of Jeremiah Wrights "God Damn America" tirade and first-runs of the HBO's John Adams series, I see a surprising connection. Like many of the Revolutionary era, Adams believed that if we weren't careful, God would damn us or at least withdraw his support.
At some points during the war, Adams feared that the cause would fail because he saw too much greed and commercialism in the colonies. "I have seen all my life such selfishness and littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, although we are engaged in the best cause that ever employed the human heart, yet the prospect of success is doubtful not for want of power or wisdom but of virtue." During the revolution, Adams -- evoking the manner of his Puritan ancestors -- told his friend Benjamin Rush that the colonials would only have a chance of winning, "if we fear God and repent our sins." He even speculated that God might intend for America to be defeated so that its "vicious and luxurious and effeminate appetites, passion and habits" would be cleansed, laying the foundation for a more-deserved victory in the future.
Adams wasn't alone in seeing the events on the ground as a reflection -- positive and negative -- of God's assessment. One minister ascribed the Continental Army's difficulties to the presence of slavery. Noting the brutal winter, the poor crops, the loss of cattle, and the seemingly imminent collapse of the army, a Quaker farmer speculated that it was part of a divinely-ordained set of plagues. When on July 20, 1775 the Continental Congress called for a day of prayer, it was accompanied by a call for fasting, self-reflection and a unified effort to "unfeignedly confess and deplore our many sins."
I don't mean this as a defense of Jeremiah Wright (or John Adams). It's just a reminder that there's a long tradition among preachers and politicians of asserting that if God is to bless us when we're good, He may damn us when we're bad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-waldman/john-adams-god-damn-amer_b_92659.html
h/t to Hotline on call.
This is what bothers me:
And, of paramount importance, was Obama's file disseminated?
Jeff and Patrick - Passaic and Pasadena are lucky to have you guys. keep up the good work!
Here's a nice story of a life-long Rep. mayor who changes parties to vote for Barack.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3...
Karen - I don't like the way the Clinton's are campaigning but there is no way they're responsible for this. No way.
ON the conf. call the State Dept admits they failed. Yet Condi Rice (who allegedly found out yesterday) said that the security worked, etc.
Hey Paine...thanks for the thumbs up last thread but no big deal..I despise violence yet I've never been afraid to fight for what I believe is right...I guess I must be a hypocrite...lol
I saw this movie last week (of course this is just a segment where a plastic bag suffocates a "detainee"
Very good movie!
♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥ ~ jc ~ ♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥
22:10 pm est
Reed, I feel the same. I am one you can push and I'll meet you, but eventually ( I am a bit slow ) I get it that I might need to push back hard...harder than you, 'til eventually I expand, because I've been too kind to that point. You don't want me to expand. I don't want to go there, but I will.
That's physical stuff.
As for politics, I like the bluff and bluster... but ,that's what scares people, as much as my potential physical violence scares me.
wow, just got off the phone with Williams & Sonoma. I was cancelling an order which I never rec'd and the cust. serv. rep told me to have a very blessed Easter. It was very kind of her - and yes, I celebrate Easter but what if I didn't.
Nite all.
yep paine...darn testosterone...luckily some of us have learned to let the brain take priority...others as we have seen have not.
A - 'Cain staffer suspended for posting nasty anti-Obama video to the Internet.
B - But 'Cain intends to hide behind the Republican Machine war
So, if A is true and B is true, then A and B are in it together
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Phil Specht
think "relative" strength, where your opponent has a clear advantage
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all you have to remember is "your strength is your weakness, and your weakness is your strength"
From a diary at Kos - this is what is in our passport records.
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The passport records system includes the following categories of records:
Passport books and passport cards, applications for passport books and passport cards, and applications for additional visa pages, amendments, extensions, replacements, and/or renewals of passport books or cards (including all information and materials submitted as part of or with all such applications);
Applications for registration at American Diplomatic and Consular Posts as U.S. citizens or for issuance of Cards of Identity and Registration as U.S. Citizens;
Consular Reports of Birth Abroad of United States citizens;
Certificates of Witness to Marriage;
Certificates of Loss of United States Nationality;
Oaths of Repatriation;
Consular Certificates of Repatriation;
Reports of Death of an American Citizen Abroad;
Cards of Identity and Registration as U.S. citizens;
Lookout files which identify those persons whose
applications for a consular or related service require other than
routine examination or action; and
Miscellaneous materials, which are documents and/or
records maintained separately, if not in the application, including but
not limited to the following types of documents:
[cir] Investigatory reports compiled in connection with granting or
denying passport and related services or prosecuting violations of
passport criminal statutes;
[cir] Transcripts and opinions on administrative hearings, appeals
and civil actions in federal courts;
[cir] Legal briefs, memoranda, judicial orders and opinions arising
from administrative determinations relating to passports and
citizenship;
[cir] Birth and baptismal certificates;
[cir] Court orders;
[cir] Arrest warrants;
[cir] Medical, personal and financial reports;
[cir] Affidavits;
[cir] Inter-agency and intra-agency memoranda, telegrams, letters,
and other miscellaneous correspondence;
[cir] An electronic index of all passport application records
created since 1978, and some passport application records created
between 1962 and 1978;
[cir] An electronic index of Department of State Reports of Birth
of American Citizens abroad; and/or
[cir] Records of lost and stolen passports.
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Yep, that would make C true.
Passaic County DFA ~ nice job!
22:45 pm est
Interesting mary ~ I've gotta get mine renewed :-)
22:47 pm est
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seashell :-)
Thu, 03/20/08
Thanks Fred and Phil. I may read that later. I want to know why he seems to deviate so radically from Wright when it comes to US aggression in the ME.
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no problemo, amiga
Michelle is the kind of tough smart woman Hillary would like to be, but Hillary was probably raised to think "tough" meant dirty-fighter, and smart meant making-money.
Honesty and political saavy are often at odd. Michelle's "proud" statement is something many people feel but few have guts to say honestly.
You complain about Obama's statements on Israel, then you fault his wife for being honestly critical of this country? If Obama's wife was an Israeli Jew saying she's never been proud of Israel, would people be calling her a Nazi? Or would we be looking forward to a radical change and peace in that region?
Wow, look at all those flags behind Shrub today. I think George has "flag-envy" after Barack's speech on Tuesday.
I saw it on Countdown. Sorry, I'm having trouble finding a still photo to link too.
Daniel Ellsberg: Words to the Die-In Participants: We as a People Have the Power The Republican candidate for president has projected an occupation of fifty to a hundred years. That could very well prove to be realistic. Of the two Democratic candidates, neither one has been willing to commit - even to an intention - to have every American soldier out of Iraq by the end of her or his first term: five years from now. That is unacceptable.
I believe they both agreed to 2013 in one of the debates. Unacceptable.
So, if A is true and B is true, then A and B are in it together
then, all the more to repeatedly ask 'Cain about the machine.
Doh, I suppose he'll tell G@d that he had no idea that the Republican's were trying to kill Able.
'Cain might as well tell G@d to prove it, or shut the ef up.
You listening, G@d?!
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seashell :-)
Thu, 03/20/08
I want to know why he seems to deviate so radically from Wright when it comes to US aggression in the ME
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Render unto Caesar what is Caesar, and to God what is God's. Reverend Wright was not his political Guru.
Julius Caesar would be a liberal today. He was dearly loved by the common people. He almost got imprisoned for loving a plebian (commoner) woman but ran away with her before they could catch him. He was so popular, he died for the apprehension of his being "ambitious" but Julius could not care less about power, except as a way to serve the people and the glory of Rome.
Has Michelle been critical of AIPAC and Israel? Haven't heard about that.
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The chances that low level employees at the State Department are Republicans is essentially zero. The department is a haven for pacifists like you all here.
(New Book)The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (May '08): http://jeffsharlet.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html
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seashell :-)
Thu, 03/20/08
Has Michelle been critical of AIPAC and Israel? Haven't heard about that.
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Don't know...I wasn't trying to imply that, sorry, but it would hurt Obama immensely if she were.
Obama has said we don't necessarily need to follow the policies of the Lukid party to be pro-Israel, that is enough for me, since that is the only de facto policy there's been in the last 20 years or so, since Rabin was assassinated.
Has Michelle been critical of AIPAC and Israel? Haven't heard about that.
That's because you're the only one spewing this crap.
This is mind-blowing...the Big Dog robot.
http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky
HQ, fix he blog so karen doesn't confuse me with crap spewing stuff about Michelle taken outta context and twisted to her delight :-)
Hardening of the attitudes, Karen?
I watch Keith but he's getting a bit lop sided. And here on the blog some people are blindly believing him becuz we all like him so much. Fair is fair.
KO and Chuck Todd Misrepresent Hillary's Statement About Michigan: Media Matters Where Are You? Posted by McCamy Taylor in General Discussion: PrimariesWed Mar 19th 2008, 08:32 PM On Countdown moments ago, increasingly partisan Keith Olbermann and always partisan hack Chuck Todd deliberately misrepresented remarks that Hillary Clinton made last fall that were reported in the Washington Post. They read a small excerpt from the article and interpreted that quote as meaning that Hillary stayed on the ballot last fall, because she felt that the Michigan vote was essential if she was going to win the Democratic primary.
Here is what the article and Hillary really said in the article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...
"It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything," Clinton said Thursday during an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio's call-in program, "The Exchange." "But I just personally did not want to set up a situation where the Republicans are going to be campaigning between now and whenever, and then after the nomination, we have to go in and repair the damage to be ready to win Michigan in 2008."
Speaking in the first primary state, Clinton said she understands concerns about her refusal. Rivals Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden took their names off Michigan's Jan. 15 primary ballot this week, and Michigan's hope for nominating clout all but evaporated.
Clinton's comment reflects an optimism she will win her party's nomination to face the Republican nominee in November 2008. She said any snub to Michigan could hurt her _ and all Democrats' _ chances to defeat the Republicans there.
Clinton was prompted by a caller who said, "It strikes me that this is politics as usual, where politicians say one thing and do something else."
Clinton brushed aside the comment.
"I did not believe it was fair to just say, 'Goodbye Michigan' and not take into account the fact we're going to have to win Michigan if we're going to be in the White House in January 2009," she said.
Rather than attacking Clinton as an opportunist, maybe KO should applaud her for having the foresight to think about the Party's chances in the fall. In the state of Michigan, one theory is that Obama, Edwards, Biden and Richardson dropped from the Mi ballot in order to court Iowa voters who were anngry at Iowa's early primary. Sen. Dodd did not drop off the Mi. ballot and has given as his reason the same explanation that Hillary gave the WaPo---he did not want to alienate Mi voters from the Democratic Party. Sen. Dodd never expected to win the nomination. He is simply someone who shows good sense.
KO and Todd lied when they omitted the line which I have highlighted in bold from their description of the WaPo article. It completely changes the meaning of that interview, showing that Hillary was concerned about the Democrats' eventual fall victory over the Republicans, not her own nomination
Media Matters never ever reports on KO's distortions, but this time I wish that they would.
Nite and ♥'s to all
Kindness is free!
23:29 pm est
"At some points during the war, Adams feared that the cause would fail because he saw too much greed and commercialism in the colonies. "I have seen all my life such selfishness and littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, although we are engaged in the best cause that ever employed the human heart, yet the prospect of success is doubtful not for want of power or wisdom but of virtue." During the revolution, Adams -- evoking the manner of his Puritan ancestors -- told his friend Benjamin Rush that the colonials would only have a chance of winning, "if we fear God and repent our sins." He even speculated that God might intend for America to be defeated so that its "vicious and luxurious and effeminate appetites, passion and habits" would be cleansed, laying the foundation for a more-deserved victory in the future."
-Steve Waldman
Huffingtonpost
Council says no to zero tolerance
http://www.kerryman.ie/frontpage/council-says-no-to-zero-tolerance-1315662.html
The Council signalled its stance with a strongly-worded motion, put forward by Cllrs Michael O?Shea, Danny Healy-Rae, Bobby O?Connell and Tom Fleming at Monday?s meeting.
They say the reduction in the limit will alienate already-isolated members of rural communities and result in Kerry waving goodbye to its once-famous community spirit, as people are forced to stay at home to drink
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Jeff, very cool..The cruds who stole the executive branch have little grasp on the magnitude or the focus of opposition to their attack on all human life.
Keep on....
Democratic congresswoman from Florida who won't support Democratic candidates here gets huffy with bloggers.
Wasserman-Schultz says please help get the bloggers off my back.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1920
Then to top it off the DCCC defends her, though she is head of the Red to Blue program, and he says bloggers make "much ado about nothing.
DCCC director defends Wasserman Schultz...says bloggers make "much ado about nothing."
Rev. Wright was Clinton White House guest at event from 1998 was where Clinton reportedly told assembled clerics — at the depth of the Monica Lewinsky scandal — that he had "repented." Clinton first lady schedules show she was present.
Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?
Chris Albrecht
NewTeeVee
March 19, 2008
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.
The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes.
Kunkel said the system wouldn’t be based on facial recognition, so there wouldn’t be a picture of you on file (we hope). Instead, it would distinguish between different members of your household by recognizing body forms. He stressed that the system is still in the experimental phase, that there hasn’t been consumer testing, and that any rollout “must add value” to the viewing experience beyond serving ads.
Perhaps I’ve seen Enemy of the State too many times, or perhaps I’m just naive about the depths to which Comcast currently tracks my every move. I can’t trust Comcast with BitTorrent, so why should I trust them with my must-be-kept-secret, DVR-clogging addiction to Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
Kunkel also spoke on camera with me about fixing bad Comcast user experiences, the ongoing BitTorrent battle and VOD. But he mostly towed the corporate line on these issues (the monitoring your living room came up after my camera was put away
http://www.infowars.com/?p=915
26,000 Pastors for Martial Law Continuity of Government
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By Tom Bearse on Mar 20, 2008 1:03 PM EDTDean is the pole sitter.