OH-18: What's Bob Ney Raising Money For?
Is it for the congressional office, or the legal office? From Tray.com
Bob Ney For Congress reported it raised $142,418 and spent $250,207 in the first quarter of 2006. They have cash-on-hand of $474,277. The committee reported paying Vinson & Elkins (TX) $96,500 for legal services.
It's going to be in an interesting few weeks for those in the 18th after the primary next Tuesday.
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Well all that money I could use a piece of it, the fuel prices put my little business out of business. Go to my blog spot and see what Bush and the boys at the white house and oil companies did to me
PLease go here
http://fredwilkes.blogspot.com
That's funny.Shouldn't there be a law that requires folks running for office to raise money for Campaigns and not for personal stuff ? If it's for Legal Assistance, then he should run his Campagn on that.Let the people know up front.
"I don't wanna go to jail.Gimmie some money"
Ha Ha
Look what I found at CNN:
Leaders visit;
front-line troops say, 'Yeah, so?'
BALAD, Iraq (CNN) -- As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made their surprise visits to Baghdad on Wednesday, many of the troops stationed north of Baghdad, in Balad and Dujail, say either they didn't know about it or didn't care.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/27/damon.baladtroops/index.html
My congressional district is the 32nd. I'm thinking about having a 10' banner made that reads, "Free the 32nd From Special Interest Corruption."
What do you guys think about making that a unified slogan?
Posted by Tom_Terrific on April 28, 2006 at 01:20 AM
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That sounds good.
jen
Could you please post the link to the kid seeking money for college? The donkey picture reminded me of his plight.
i saw that fos, jon stewart said they had to make it a surprise visit b/c otherwise everyone would have left if they knew condi and rummy were coming. lol
The U.S. government is being stalked by an invisible bandit, the Crony Fairy, who visits key agencies by dead of night, snatches away qualified people and replaces them with unqualified political appointees. There's no way to catch or stop the Crony Fairy, so our only hope is to change the agencies' names. That way she might get confused, and leave our government able to function
LOL, Jen.The Crony Fairy is none other than George Walker Bush.:D
Thanks for the Krugman article, jen. The neocons don't believe in gov't other than what they can suck out of it, so therefore putting incompetant people in charge is fine. Especially since the imcompetants really can do the main things well...lie and steal.
If we send this whole batch to jail do we still have to pay their retirement?
jen
Texas - Pete Sessions R
I'm a big rustic type and I don't really know what's wrong with me tonight. For some reason I have a big lump in my throat and I'm having trouble with matching my words with what I feel in my heart. I'll catch you guys tomorrow.
Good night and happy trails.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.
Happy trails to you,
Until we meet again.
Happy trails to you,
Keep smilin' until then.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song, and bring the sunny weather.
Happy trails to you,
Til we meet again.
Posted by jen on April 28, 2006 at 01:29 AM
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That's so embarassing.Rummy tries to escape the American People by going over there to get some comfort from the troops and they're like."So?"
you said it deb, i should think we should not have to pay them a dime.
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Tom it's okay. Take care of yourself. You can express your feelings here. Happy Trails to you.
Still here...but just for a few
Got lost in cyberspace~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted by xdebx on April 28, 2006 at 01:32 AM
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We'll be paying for there three meals a day,cable,newspapers and whatever other privalages white colar maggots get in Federal Prison.LOL
wal whitman a dirge for two veterans
The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.
Night Tom
I wish you didn't have to feel the pain Tom.
Wouldn't it be nice if the pugs could feel the pain of the results of the policies they inflicted on the country and world?
If they could I suppose they'd be dems and not pugs.
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming. ~Dorothy Day
REPUBLICANS SHARING THEIR "CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE" ETHICTS TO AMERICAS YOUTH:
Students Tell Paper About Getting Drunk With GOP Congressman At Frat Party
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/27/students-tell-paper-about_n_19947.html
if only we had understood this after 9/11. some of us did. not the ones in power though.
This war is psychological and it starts right here
So in my defiance, I will not live in fear
Because fear is their weapon so I won't give in to that
They know that fear turns to rage, and thats just their trap
The way they win is to make us strike back
They want us to launch a dreadful counterattack
That's beautiful Jen.
Hey, Dawn and I chatted on the phone tonight. Haven't met in person yet...she lives a little over an hour away. She great. I'm happy to have a new friend.
thx deb
that's great! congratulations! I've had the pleasure of talking to miss dawn on the horn. looks like you'll beat me meeting her face to face though. you're lucky to be so close!
Congressman Sweeny was drinking with UNDERAGE students and was all drunk at the party.
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Witnesses affirm that Mr. Sweeney appeared to have been under the influence of alcohol at the party. One student saw the representative drinking a Keystone Light beer. "He was clearly not in the normal state of mind. He had definitely been drinking, there is no question about it," commented sophomore Kenneth Falcon, who attended the party. Falcon also managed to capture photographs and video footage of the congressman of his digital camera and cellular telephone.
Junior Rebecca Winnick, who spoke to Sweeney at the fraternity house said, "I told him I had worked for Congressman McNulty (D- Green Island), and [Sweeney] was very rude. He said, 'Oh, that's too bad for you, I'm a Republican'."
REading some old articles, this is a good one
RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war
THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
THIS IS A GOOD ONE.....
HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASSART WAS CAUGHT ON VIDEO DITCHING THE "HYBRID" VEHICLE HE DROVE TO AN ENERGY NEWS CONFERENCE TO GET INTO HIS "SUV"......
(WHAT A PHONY)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060427/480/dcpm10904272019
FOS Do you have a kid in Iraq?
Posted by xdebx on April 28, 2006 at 02:05 AM
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I'm only 31 years old, but I do have a nephew in the Air Force.Plus,two of my Brother In Laws served in the Gulf War.
hypocrisy in the gop is rampant\
What is Fascism? Why is it pertinent today?
from the article Fascism Anyone?
We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted political worldview. Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of these models have been imitated by protofascist regimes at various times in the twentieth century. Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute their visual similarities.
Beyond the visual, even a cursory study of these fascist and protofascist regimes reveals the absolutely striking convergence of their modus operandi. This, of course, is not a revelation to the informed political observer, but it is sometimes useful in the interests of perspective to restate obvious facts and in so doing shed needed light on current circumstances.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism.
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected.
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections.
Does any of this ring alarm bells? Of course not. After all, this is America, officially a democracy with the rule of law, a constitution, a free press, honest elections, and a well-informed public constantly being put on guard against evils. Historical comparisons like these are just exercises in verbal gymnastics. Maybe, maybe not.
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2
Posted by jen on April 28, 2006 at 02:13 AM
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Dang,
Look how much scanal is around the G.O.P. I think we all have posted about 10 different scandals so far.He He.
Even the Right-Wing rumermille concedes Democrast will get the House this year.
Thanks FOS and Jen. You both have my gratitude for being so active. I know that our blogging has helped to spread the info that is so important to stopping this facist machine.
I'm off to bed. Night to both of you.
forgive, reposting some golden oldies that still apply--
The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
If you think the Republican Party of today is the same as your grandfather's Republican party, think again. Visit TheocracyWatch.org to get the low-down on how it has changed.
This site is an excellent resource full of important things to read, as well as audio and video materials. I have watched "The Rise of Dominionism" video and highly recommend it. It's an eye opener. Scarier than any horror movie I've ever seen.
I'm off to bed. Night to both of you.
Posted by xdebx on April 28, 2006 at 02:20 AM
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Okay deb.Have a good night.Get some rest...
IT'S THE WEEKEND!
Whoo Hoo!:D
Posted by jen on April 28, 2006 at 02:23 AM
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NO! Post it.It shows that they have always been this corrupt and that they were faking it when they tried to act all holy during the 2000 and 2004 elections.This reminds us that they have always been this way.Ya know?
ok fos you think like me lol
U.S. relying on regime notorious for torture?
The United States has not only overlooked the atrocities that regularly occur in Uzbekistan; the White House has also tried to use the country to do its dirty work. The New York Times recently reported the government has regularly sent terror suspects to Uzbekistan, even knowing the country's reputation for beating and asphyxiating prisoners, boiling body parts, using electroshock on genitals and "plucking off fingernails and toenails with pliers."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002259115_rend01.html
There is no woman with a tattoo who wouldn't have looked better without it. Thomas Jefferson
In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.
At the interrogators' behest, a guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.
Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. It would be many months before Army investigators learned a final horrific detail: Most of the interrogators had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time.
excerpted from the New York Timeshttp://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/11242
The problem with having a wife as opposed to a girlfriend is that she is still there when you are done with her. Benjamin Franklin
Posted by jen on April 28, 2006 at 02:23 AM
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OMG! That made me cringe.I'm like so disgusted now.EEEEEWWWWWW!
LOL
wish i could stay up but i better hit it. night fos have a nice weekend!
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
— Albert Einstein
Posted by jen on April 28, 2006 at 02:40 AM
Yeah, whine on for terrorist rights. You will also be the first one to whine when another terrorist attack occures here. Watch a couple of hours of video of the planes flying into the WTC and the people jumping because they would rather die hitting the ground than burning to death and then come back and snivle about terrorist rights.
wish i could stay up but i better hit it. night fos have a nice weekend!
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Good Night.Say a prayer for the "mentally ill" before you go to sleep.Looks like I have some work to do tonight.LOL
Specter threatens to block money for NSA domestic wiretapping
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration's secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.
....we'll see.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter is soon to become former Judiciary Committee Chairman if he doesn't watch it. He is a hairball as are all of those Eastern Republicans except the other Senator from Pennsylvania.
There is no woman with a tattoo who wouldn't have looked better without it. Thomas Jefferson
Posted by YumpinJimminy on April 28, 2006 at 02:39 AM I think that was a man with a tatoo! Here are some quotes from Thomas Jefferson, I like the last one that I posted,the best. ' I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty'.Thomas Jefferson
'No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will'.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792 'The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object'. Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone'. 'Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one'.
Thomas Jefferson
- More quotations on: [Religion]This is one that GWB should read!
'Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear'.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802) http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Jefferson
GEORGE ALLEN'S RACE PROBLEM. (2008 GOP Hopeful ?)
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Allen was a quick study. In his first race in 1979--according to Larry Sabato, a UVA professor and college classmate of Allen's--he ran a radio ad decrying a congressional redistricting plan whose main purpose was to elect Virginia's first post-Reconstruction black congressman. Allen lost that race but was back in 1982 and won the seat by 25 votes. He spent the next nine years in Richmond, where his pet issues, judging by the bills he personally sponsored, were crime and welfare. But he also found himself repeatedly voting in the minority on a series of racial issues that he seems embarrassed by today. In 1984, he was one of 27 House members to vote against a state holiday commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, "Allen said the state shouldn't honor a non-Virginian with his own holiday." He was also bothered by the fact that the proposed holiday would fall on the day set aside in Virginia to honor Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. That same year, he did feel the urge to honor one of Virginia's own. He co-sponsored a resolution expressing "regret and sorrow upon the loss" of William Munford Tuck, a politician who opposed every piece of civil rights legislation while in Congress during the 1950s and 1960s and promised "massive resistance" to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning segregation.
......and then there's this.........
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In high school, Allen's "Hee Haw" persona made him a polarizing figure. "He rode a little red Mustang around with a Confederate flag plate on the front," says Patrick Campbell, an old classmate, who now works for the Public Works Department in Manhattan Beach, California. "I mean, it was absurd-looking in our neighborhood." Hurt Germany, who now lives in Paso Robles, California, explodes with anger at the mention of Allen's name. "The guy is horrible," she complains. "He drove around with a Confederate flag on his Mustang. I can't believe he's going to run for president." Another classmate, who asks that I not use her name, also remembers Allen's obsession with Dixie: "My impression is that he was a rebel. He plastered the school with Confederate flags."
WE DON'T NEED A REPUBLICAN VERSION OF (SEN.BYRD)
RUNNING THIS COUNTRY.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=C51alsXmhGkaX79wLnBOpS%3D%3D
Four Democratic presidential campaign workers were sentenced to jail time ranging from four months to six months Wednesday for puncturing the tires of Republican vehicles on Election Day 2004.
The men had pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty.
Those who pleaded no contest were Sowande A. Omokunde, the son of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee; Michael Pratt, the son of former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt; and Lewis Caldwell and Lavelle Mohammad, both from Milwaukee.
They originally were charged with felony property damage but accepted plea deals on the lesser charge.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan rejected prosecutors' recommendation of probation and no jail time.
"This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," Brennan said.
The men faced a maximum nine-month jail term and fines of $10,000.
Posted by diana on April 28, 2006 at 03:33 AM
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Ditto!
Thanks,
The U.S. government took in more than $7 billion from ExxonMobil during the first quarter of 2006, a jump of more than $2 billion from the same time period in 2005. And that doesn’t count the more than $7.6 billion in excise taxes — the gas tax — that ExxonMobil collected for the government during the same quarter. Plus another $11 billion in "other taxes" and ExxonMobil sent the government more than $25 billion in the first quarter of 2006.
Big Government is making more off of high gas prices than Big Oil.
The problem with having a wife as opposed to a girlfriend is that she is still there when you are done with her. Benjamin Franklin
Posted by FreedomOfSpeechIsAllWeHaveLeft on April 28, 2006 "He drove around with a Confederate flag on his Mustang. I can't believe he's going to run for president." Another classmate, who asks that I not use her name, also remembers Allen's obsession with Dixie: "My impression is that he was a rebel. He plastered the school with Confederate flags." FOSIAWHL,LOL, SOMEWHERE there is probably a photo of his Mustang,I for one would love to see it. Maybe there is one in his yearbook...
Records: Official convicted of phone jamming called White House
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 -- as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.
The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business and that it was "preposterous" to suggest the calls involved phone jamming.
The Justice Department has secured three convictions in the case but hasn't accused any White House or national Republican officials of wrongdoing, nor made any allegations suggesting party officials outside of New Hampshire were involved. The phone records of calls to the White House were exhibits in Tobin's trial but prosecutors did not make them part of their case.
Democrats plan to ask a New Hampshire judge Tuesday to order GOP and White House officials to answer questions about the phone jamming in a civil lawsuit alleging voter fraud.
Repeated hang-up calls that jammed telephone lines at a Democratic get-out-the-vote center occurred in a Senate race in which Republican John Sununu defeated Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, 51 percent to 46 percent, on November 5, 2002.
Besides the conviction of Tobin, the Republicans' New England regional director, prosecutors negotiated two plea bargains: one with a New Hampshire Republican Party official and another with the owner of a telemarketing firm involved in the scheme. The owner of the subcontractor firm whose employees made the hang-up calls is under indictment.
The phone records show that most calls to the White House were from Tobin, who became President Bush's presidential campaign chairman for the New England region in 2004. Other calls from New Hampshire senatorial campaign offices to the White House could have been made by a number of people.
A GOP campaign consultant in 2002, Jayne Millerick, made a 17-minute call to the White House on Election Day, but said in an interview she did not recall the subject. Millerick, who later became the New Hampshire GOP chairwoman, said in an interview she did not learn of the jamming until after the election.
A Democratic analysis of phone records introduced at Tobin's criminal trial show he made 115 outgoing calls -- mostly to the same number in the White House political affairs office -- between September 17 and November 22, 2002. Two dozen of the calls were made from 9:28 a.m. the day before the election through 2:17 a.m. the night after the voting.
There also were other calls between Republican officials during the period that the scheme was hatched and canceled.
Prosecutors did not need the White House calls to convict Tobin and negotiate the two guilty pleas.
Whatever the reason for not using the White House records, prosecutors "tried a very narrow case," said Paul Twomey, who represented the Democratic Party in the criminal and civil cases. The Justice Department did not say why the White House records were not used.
The Democrats said in their civil case motion that they were entitled to know the purpose of the calls to government offices "at the time of the planning and implementation of the phone-jamming conspiracy ... and the timing of the phone calls made by Mr. Tobin on Election Day."
While national Republican officials have said they deplore such operations, the Republican National Committee said it paid for Tobin's defense because he is a longtime supporter and told officials he had committed no crime.
By November 4, 2002, the Monday before the election, an Idaho firm was hired to make the hang-up calls. The Republican state chairman at the time, John Dowd, said in an interview he learned of the scheme that day and tried to stop it.
Dowd, who blamed an aide for devising the scheme without his knowledge, contended that the jamming began on Election Day despite his efforts. A police report confirmed the Manchester Professional Fire Fighters Association reported the hang-up calls began about 7:15 a.m. and continued for about two hours. The association was offering rides to the polls.
Virtually all the calls to the White House went to the same number, which currently rings inside the political affairs office. In 2002, White House political affairs was led by now-RNC chairman Ken Mehlman. The White House declined to say which staffer was assigned that phone number in 2002.
"As policy, we don't discuss ongoing legal proceedings within the courts," White House spokesman Ken Lisaius said.
Robert Kelner, a Washington lawyer representing the Republican National Committee in the civil litigation, said there was no connection between the phone jamming operation and the calls to the White House and party officials.
"On Election Day, as anybody involved in politics knows, there's a tremendous volume of calls between political operatives in the field and political operatives in Washington," Kelner said.
"If all you're pointing out is calls between Republican National Committee regional political officials and the White House political office on Election Day, you're pointing out nothing that hasn't been true on every Election Day," he said.
Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera said Monday: "With every development in this case, there are new questions about the extent to which key national Republicans had knowledge of or were involved in a criminal scheme to keep New Hampshire voters from getting to the polls. The American people have a right to know whether the White House political director, who today sits as chairman of the national Republican Party, had any hand in it."
I don't understand the problem with the Confederate flag. After all the Democrat party opposed the Civil War and the abolition of slavery and was in favor of letting the South go.
He plastered the school with Confederate flags." FOSIAWHL,LOL, SOMEWHERE there is probably a photo of his Mustang,I for one would love to see it. Maybe there is one in his yearbook...
Posted by diana on April 28, 2006 at 04:00 AM
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"Just a good ole boy.....never meaning no harm....UNLESS you're Black of course"
Ha Ha Ha !
In my opinion the Confederate flag is visually superior to the present US flag. Our flag is way too busy. Too many stars. It is entirely legal and appropriate to fly any flag that was ever the flag of the US. I prefer and fly the pre Civil War flag with 32 stars. I have flown the star spangled banner flag of Francis Scott Key - don't recall how many stars it had but looked better thatn the current 50. I also like the Betsy Ross flag with the stars in a circle.
Diana,
Don't you think it's funny how stupid Republicans keep bringing up the Southern Dixicrat Party and trying to compare the Democratic Party to them? Ha Ha.The same idiots fail to mention though that in 1964 the Democratic Party DENOUNCED racism while the Republicans,like George Allen envited all the angry racist Dixicrats like Strom Thurman and to join them.I believe it was called the SOUTHERN STRATEGY? Oh,it's so funny how they Cherry Pick History.They don't want to have a national debate about that.It will really kill them at the polls.Ha Ha Ha 1
The American people have a right to know whether the White House political director, who today sits as chairman of the national Republican Party, had any hand in it."
Posted by FreedomOfSpeechIsAllWeHaveLeft I agree,and so would Thomas Jefferson; No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will'.YumpinJimminy should watch Lou Dobbs.You have everything backwards..That 7 Billion was Royalties.U.S. Has Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies "It's the gift that keeps on giving." By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years.
New projections, buried in the Interior Department's just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory over the next five years without paying any royalties to the government.
Based on the administration figures, the government will give up more than $7 billion in payments between now and 2011. The companies are expected to get the largess, known as royalty relief, even though the administration assumes that oil prices will remain above $50 a barrel throughout that period.
Administration officials say that the benefits are dictated by laws and regulations that date back to 1996, when energy prices were relatively low and Congress wanted to encourage more exploration and drilling in the high-cost, high-risk deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
"We need to remember the primary reason that incentives are given," said Johnnie M. Burton, director of the federal Minerals Management Service. "It's not to make more money, necessarily. It's to make more oil, more gas, because production of fuel for our nation is essential to our economy and essential to our people."
But what seemed like modest incentives 10 years ago have ballooned to levels that have alarmed even ardent supporters of the oil and gas industry, partly because of added sweeteners approved during the Clinton administration but also because of ambiguities in the law that energy companies have successfully exploited in court.
Short of imposing new taxes on the industry, there may be little Congress can do to reverse its earlier giveaways. The new projections come at a moment when President Bush and Republican leaders are on the defensive about record-high energy prices, soaring profits at major oil companies and big cuts in domestic spending.
Indeed, Mr. Bush and House Republicans are trying to kill a one-year, $5 billion windfall profits tax for oil companies that the Senate passed last fall.
Moreover, the projected largess could be just the start. Last week, Kerr-McGee Exploration and Development, a major industry player, began a brash but utterly serious court challenge that could, if it succeeds, cost the government another $28 billion in royalties over the next five years.
In what administration officials and industry executives alike view as a major test case, Kerr-McGee told the Interior Department last week that it planned to challenge one of the government's biggest limitations on royalty relief if it could not work out an acceptable deal in its favor. If Kerr-McGee is successful, administration projections indicate that about 80 percent of all oil and gas from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico would be royalty-free.
"It's one of the greatest train robberies in the history of the world," said Representative George Miller, a California Democrat who has fought royalty concessions on oil and gas for more than a decade. "It's the gift that keeps on giving." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14oil.html?ex=1297573200&en=87dc413fa6add582&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
I also don't see any point in honoring the 13 original colonies with 13 red and white stripes. Most of the origianal colonies have now turned loopy and socialistic except for Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas. So the new flag should represent the country - mostly red with a little blue around the edges and a few blotches of blue in the middle.
......actually,the Republicans are already politically DEAD.We're just waiting till November.That's when the G.O.P.'s funeral will be.
Ha Ha Ha Ha !
May they Rest In Partisanship (RIP)
Posted by FreedomOfSpeechIsAllWeHaveLeft on April 28, 2006 at 04:12 AM
The Democrats including northern Democrats opposed the abolition of slavery. Lincoln threw several Democrats (northern) in jail for their opposition to the war. He sent one Ohio Democrat to Jefferson Davis. Davis sent him back.
Diana,
We know all too well what George Bush's TEXAS is really about.Look at what happened to this poor teenager by some (CONFEDERATE FLAG) loving trailor trash.
White teens accused of brutal racist attack
Hispanic boy left for dead
SPRING, Texas (AP) -- Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party, authorities said.
Diana,
Like I said, it's so funny how Republicans try to Cherry Pick History...and when that won't work,they twist it around and make up other bull crap.Bottom line is,TODAY....in 2006....The racists of America are the Republicans.I don't know diana which is worst.Racist Democrats in the South and a few in the Midwest or an ENTIRE Party of Racist Republicans ALL over the United States.From California to Florida.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaaaaaaaa!
I hope you are right FOSIAWH, I know of some lifelong Republicans that are really fed up with all the lies and what GWB and his administration have done to this country. Some of the nation's best economists are finally telling it like it is. The U.S. Economy is teetering on disaster. Foreign ownership of critical assets, a devastated manufacturing sector and $804 billion in U.S. dollars at the whim of foreign banks. To make matters worse, personal debt is skyrocketing, and bankruptcy protection has been gutted by the GOP. With all the corruption and the price of gas, It's hard for me to understand why anyone is behind the GOP. Unless of course they are rich,clueless and apathetic..
Posted by diana on April 28, 2006 at 04:53 AM
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I think,the 32% are these dumb backwoods Southerners who don't have cable and only listen to Rush Limpballs on the Radio.That's GOTTA be all that's left.........and the Klan,but that's about it.LOL
Hmmm.I bet YumpinJimminy is from the south. I bet YumpinJimminy loves to listen to Rush Limpballs. Has his picture in his wallet.
Posted by diana on April 28, 2006 at 05:25 AM
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He might. Ha Ha .(the little retard).Some of what he says sounds like he's really mental or on drugs.Like,somethings really wrong upstairs.I mean,not even your average troll can fake it that good.Ya know?
Good Night FOS.,I always enjoy your posts but,I have to go now,I only have 2 hours to sleep. I love this site,but I don't have enough time,unless I go without sleep. Here are My two favorite commercials. Kind of reminds me of the DNC.We even let Freepers in. http://www.rejectionhurts.com/media.php
Posted by diana on April 28, 2006 at 05:48 AM
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Oh No! 2 hours? You better go to bed.:D
.....and hit a Starbucks on your way to work.LOL
Bye,
here's Wonkette on Hookergate, although in the clear light of day it doesn't seem as thrilling as she & Scarsboro hyped it last nite. figures.
Posted by bb on April 28, 2006 at 06:08 AM
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Thanks for reposting that.
Hey, Check this out:
Immigration issue fuels raid rumors
Tactic aims to keep people out of rallies, group says
An immigrants' rights organization said Thursday it will ask the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate allegations that people have impersonated federal agents to intimidate Latino residents.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060428/GPG0101/604280565/1207
Diana,
Thanks for the United Church of Christ site.I have one just down the street from me.I'm so ecited.I think,I'm going to go back to church....
maybe.
maybe.
LOL ;D
Bye Everyone.Have a Great weekend, :D
Morning, Freedom and all you other lurker Dems. Happy Friday!!!
morning fos, diana, bb and sweeney's worst enemy---cyn.
i hate the expression no brainer but from conneticut comes a story about a very small part of the collapse of the worship of unbridled capatilsim and free market bullshit:
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Connecticut's state legislature voted on Thursday to ban sales of sodas and other sugary beverages in state elementary, middle and high schools as part of an effort to stem teen obesity.
well he probably couldn't fit his pizza and slurpy in the hybrid along with his bag of lobbyist money:
Neil Young streaming 'Living With War' http://www.neilyoung.com/
I Think this sites much better; HEAR NEIL YOUNG'S ALBUM FOR FREE,'Living With War' "We don't all have to believe what our president believes
to be a patriot" -- Neil Young http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/living_with_war
Just how top-heavy has the distribution of wealth in the United States become? The most up-to-date answer to that question sits in a research paper the Federal Reserve Board released earlier this month, with next to no publicity whatsoever.
The paper -- Currents and Undercurrents: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth, 1989–2004 -- is from economist Arthur B. Kennickell, who currently serves as the project director of the Federal Reserve Board's triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, the only really serious federal effort to investigate who actually owns America's wealth. The Federal Reserve's official -- and rather bland -- summary of the latest Survey of Consumer Finances datasets appeared late in February.
Early this month, the Fed released a much more useful analysis of the new data by Kennickell himself. Kennickell notes in his paper that the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances explicitly excludes from consideration the 400 deep pockets who appear on the annual Forbes magazine list of America's richest. The bottom line: If we combine the Fed and the Forbes data, we see that the wealthiest 1 percent of U.S. families now hold over $2.5 trillion more in wealth than the bottom 90 percent of U.S. families combined.
A non-technical analysis of Kennickell's paper:
the paper itself can be found in the link
ah, here you are.
Reporter asks to watch CNN on Air Force One
During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post's Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned instead to CNN.
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"I've never known anyone that's raised a complaint about a request from back here to watch a different channel," McClellan added.
VandeHei replied, "I'm officially raising it, and officially complaining about it."
McClellan then asked whether VandeHei had tried to have the change made.
"I was told -- the quote was, 'No,' when I asked for CNN," the reporter said.
McClellan asked him with whom he had spoken, but VandeHei said he did not know.
"Well, the magic people at the other end off the phone ... I was told, 'We don't watch CNN here, you can only watch Fox,' " VandeHei said.
- later, they did change the channel to CNN
Morning Good Dems
Jen if you're lurking, thanks for the lesson, sorry had to go to bed after asking
was watching Cspan2 this a.m. and they were investigating military payroll, (investigating is too strong a word in this case) they were wondering why, when a soldier volunteers to go to war, even tho it is unpopular, gets wounded then gets billed for the gear that was left in the field or lost do to his being wounded in battle. even worse, were those soldiers getting out being billed because they were overpaid, military tells them that they are to keep track of what they are paid, military not accountable because they're just too busy....God Bless the USA!!!!
now they're talking about iraqi police force, say that of the over 150K, only 90K are trained? how's that?
Ok, Bush wants us all to believe he is such a cowboy...what in the world is up with the pleated Docker jeans?!
Kristen,
Have you ever watched the program "What Not To Wear"? They say, never, never, ever, wear pleated pants because it makes your "bulge" look bigger....maybe that's what he wants.
lol..Momo. even if that is the case for Bush these pants STILL aren't impressing me.
on CSpan2 they are currently talking about Hamas and the Palestinian issue. The Palistinian rep is saying, the US pushed for elections, now that they have had elections, America has cut off all funding because the people elected someone other than who the Americans wanted, now they can't pay their teachers, police, govt workers, etc. ...you know, i'm not all there for Hamas, but he's right!
oh, btw...we have a new open thread with zero stomach turning pictures attached. :)
FOS, I saw that you checked out the ucc.org site I gave you and may go to one of the churches near you! I am so excited and I hope you do and I hope you let me know. Take care!
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