poor mccain.
what a suck up.
he has ruined his career just like colin powell.

Re: Mc Cain

We should place a "Macaca Momment" Aledrt out for him. It seems his recent use of the word "tarbaby" twice after knowing it's controversal implications , was caught on Video.

;p

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Shoot. I forgot.

You have to have CNN Pipeline. Try This.

Mc Cains Macaca

I apologize. I don't know this doesn't work. One last try and that's it. Okay, here goes.

McCain apologizes after using the phrase 'tar baby'

CNN Political Ticker

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa CNN) -- Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, issued an apology for his use of the phrase "tar baby" in response to a question he received at his mid-day town hall meeting in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Friday.

A questioner asked McCain whether as president he "would be bold enough to address the issue of equal access to children for fathers that have gone through divorce."

The Republican presidential candidate responded, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, I am not going to overturn divorce court decisions. That's why we have courts and that's why people go to court and get a divorce. If I as President of the United States said this decision has to be overturned without the proper appeals process then I would be disturbing our entire system of government... But for me to stand here before all these people and say that I'm going declare divorces invalid because someone feels that they weren't treated fairly in court, we are getting into a, uh, uh, tar baby of enormous proportions. For me to stand here before all these people and say that I'm going declare divorces invalid because someone feels that they weren't treated fairly in court, we are getting into a, uh, uh, tar baby of enormous proportions."

Later at a press conference, CNN's Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley asked McCain about his use of the phrase "tar baby," viewed by some as having racist overtones.

"I hope that it's not viewed that way," McCain said. "It was a situation where if I kept going on that I would then be overturning court decisions. I don't think I should have used that word and it was wrong to do so." (Watch Video: McCain uses phrase "tar baby," later apologizes)

I find it amazing that John McCain now wants to be seen as a moderate maverick again, after he has been sluggling up to Bush and the far-rightists!

*****NEW OPEN THREAD FOR MONDAY 3-19-07 MORNING***

so this "change" bullshit is over here as well?

anyhow the bushies continue to be an embarrassment to our country and to embarrass us around the world though they have given up the fight to deny global warming. from salon:

U.S. Decries Key Points at Climate Talks

March 18,2007 | BERLIN -- The United States objected to key parts of a discussion on climate change at a meeting between G-8 environmental officials and representatives from five influential developing nations, Germany's environment minister said.

The conference ended with consensus on several points, including a general acceptance of the scientific explanation for the causes of global warming and that industrialized nations need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions more than mandated by current agreements, said German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who hosted the meeting Saturday.

Officials also agreed that industrialized countries have been responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions in the past and for the need to help developing countries control their emissions today, Gabriel said.

But the U.S. spoke out against a global carbon emissions trading plan and recognizing reforestation programs in developing nations as part of the fight against global warming, he said.

"We find that very regrettable," he said.

The U.S. -- responsible for about one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gases that scientists blame for global warming -- rejected the 1997 Kyoto protocol, a U.N. treaty that requires 35 industrial nations to cut greenhouse gases by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The Bush administration argues the Kyoto protocol would hurt the U.S. economy and objects that high-polluting developing nations like China and India are not required to reduce emissions. Instead, the White House says it is spending almost $3 billion a year on energy-technology research and development to combat climate change.

Stephen Johnson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, stressed the need for input from financial experts in climate change talks.

"We believe that it's important that there be a number of tools to use in the toolbox of addressing global climate change and we also agreed that as environment ministers we're not finance ministers," he said.

Saturday's talks between the Group of Eight industrialized nations -- joined by China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa -- were a precursor for a meeting of G-8 leaders in the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm in June.

...i can't believe our idiot is using that dumb, passe "tools in the toolbox" metaphor...once these morons are out of power i suggest all future republican political appointees be given no job more complicated than what they are good out...barking outside the pigboy's tent at a carni...

from msnbc via crooks and liars. love my senator schumer:

SEN. SCHUMER: [B]ut, in these instances, the evidence is becoming more and more overwhelming that certain U.S. attorneys, and only certain ones, not all of them, but certain U.S. attorneys were fired because either they wouldn't prosecute a case that was politically advantageous to the White House or they were prosecuting a case that was disadvantageous to the White House. Every legal commentator, left, right, center, says you can't do that, that's the one thing you can't do.

MR. RUSSERT: Well, let's be specific about this because I want to show you what the attorney general said in January testifying before your committee. Let's watch Alberto Gonzales.

(Videotape, January 18, 2007)

MR. ALBERTO GONZALES: I would never, ever make a change in a United States attorney position for political reasons or if it would, in any way, jeopardize an ongoing serious investigation. I just would not do it.

(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: Do you have any evidence that a U.S. attorney was removed and that removal jeopardized an ongoing investigation?

SEN. SCHUMER: We do have evidence. In fact, four of the U.S. attorneys who were fired believe that played a role in their removal. Remember, these folks were called up all of a sudden on December 7th. They thought they were doing, doing a good job. They said, "You're not doing–you're fired." "Why?" "We can't tell you." Then they say–there's a little pressure. They say they weren't doing their job right. We get hold of the evaluations done by their peers, the judges, everyone in their district, they all get outstanding ratings. And then it comes out that in four of these instances, they were asked to pursue cases, individual cases, not a general policy, they were asked to pursue individual cases that they thought they shouldn't or they were perhaps pressured to stop. So, yes, there is evidence there in the–in the U.S. attorney's mind.

But, Tim, we don't have proof yet, conclusive, beyond a reasonable doubt proof. That's why we have to go forward with the investigation...

...boy rush cyst boy really screwed the republicans buy costing them talents senate seat didn't he? hahahahahaha....

from the wapo:

Egypt Shuts Door on Dissent As U.S. Officials Back Away

By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, March 19, 2007; Page A01

CAIRO -- On June 20, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped onto the arabesque campus of the American University in Cairo, built around a former pasha's palace, and delivered a call to action that overturned decades of American policy in the Arab world.

"For 60 years," she said, "my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people." For five paragraphs of her speech, diplomatic niceties made way for a series of declarative "musts" directed at Egypt's government: It must give its citizens the freedom to choose, Egyptian elections must be free, opposition groups must be free to assemble and participate. The Egyptian government, Rice said, "must put its faith in its own people."

A supporter of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, foreground, challenges government supporters during a clash near Cairo in 2005. The country's democracy movement has withered under repression by a government that remains a key U.S. ally.
A supporter of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, foreground, challenges government supporters during a clash near Cairo in 2005. The country's democracy movement has withered under repression by a government that remains a key U.S. ally. (Photos By Amr Nabil -- Associated Press)
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The language was black-and-white, but America's relationship with Egypt -- with President Hosni Mubarak and with the reform movement -- never is.

Nearly two years later, the legacy of Rice's words is intimately tied to the fate of Egypt's democracy movement, divided and withering under unrelenting repression by a government that remains one of America's key allies in the region. What began as a test of American mettle ended in failure to bring about far-reaching change in a country that has received more per capita U.S. aid than Europe did under the post-World War II Marshall Plan. In the eyes of activists and, at times, the government itself, that failure stands as a narrative of misperception about the people Americans sought to court, and of naivete about those the Americans wanted to reform.

In the end, they say, pragmatic priorities triumphed over promises.

"The Americans now prefer stability over democracy," said George Ishaq, a demoralized opposition leader.

He fell silent, then narrowed his eyes. "I will never trust them again."

....hey george, make that never trust the republicans and i'm with you....

sorry for not editing better above.

looks like the san diego firing was the one that is going to get ugly quick...

Dems: Fired attorney was investigating GOP
BY RICHARD A. SERRANO
Los Angeles Times

March 18, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats signaled yesterday that of the eight U.S. attorneys abruptly fired by the Bush administration, the case in San Diego is emerging as the most troubling because of new allegations that U.S. Attorney Carol Lam was fired in a direct attempt to shut down investigations into Republican politicians.

On CBS's "Face the Nation," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed evidence in which Lam notified Washington of search warrants in a Republican corruption case that quickly prompted a top Department of Justice official to describe a "real problem we have right now with Carol Lam."

Another committee member, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), agreed that the San Diego investigation, along with a parallel GOP corruption investigation in Los Angeles, may have been directly linked to Lam's ouster.

"The most notorious is the Southern District of California, San Diego," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "In the middle of the investigation, she was fired." Schumer said he was told that Lam and others were terminated because of "performance-related" problems -- a claim that has not been backed up, he said.

Lam spearheaded the case against Randy Cunningham, the former Republican congressman from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who pleaded guilty to bribery and income-tax evasion...

something is rotten in california

this is a great piece on the lam firing in that at the end schumer tells who he would support to replace gonzales....hooohaaaaaaa:

could i add fitz?

from salon. your republican hyper capitalists at work, arguing over how to chop up the baby while it bleeds to death....outrageous:

Walter Reed Deal Hindered by Disputes

- - - - - - - - - - - -

By DONNA BORAK AP Business Writer

March 18,2007 | WASHINGTON -- An Army contract to privatize maintenance at Walter Reed Medical Center was delayed more than three years amid bureaucratic bickering and legal squabbles that led to staff shortages and a hospital in disarray just as the number of severely wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan was rising rapidly.

Documents from the investigative and auditing arm of Congress map a trail of bid, rebid, protests and appeals between 2003, when Walter Reed was first selected for outsourcing, and 2006, when a five-year, $120 million contract was finally awarded.

The disputes involved hospital management, the Pentagon, Congress and IAP Worldwide Services Inc., a company with powerful political connections and the only private bidder to handle maintenance, security, public works and management of military personnel.

While medical care was not directly affected, needed repairs went undone as the non-medical staff shrank from almost 300 to less than 50 in the last year and hospital officials were unable to find enough skilled replacements...

charter schools my ass. these are just more ways to undercut unions, make teachers and students subjects of idiotic right wing ideology and so on...case in point:

Not the lesson they intended
Two L.A. charter school teachers lose their jobs over a planned Black History Month presentation.
By Carla Rivera, Times Staff Writer
March 19, 2007
Administrators at a Los Angeles charter school forbade students from reciting a poem about civil rights icon Emmett Till during a Black History Month program recently, saying his story was unsuitable for an assembly of young children.

Teachers and students said the administration suggested that the Till case — in which the teenager was beaten to death in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman — was not fitting for a program intended to be celebratory, and that Till's actions could be viewed as sexual harassment.

The decision by Celerity Nascent Charter School leaders roiled the southwest Los Angeles campus and led to the firing of seventh-grade teacher Marisol Alba and math teacher Sean Strauss, who had signed one of several letters of protest written by the students.

The incident highlights the tenuous job security for mostly nonunion teachers in charter schools, which are publicly financed but independently run. California has more than 600 charter schools, and their ranks continue to swell. According to the California Teachers Assn., staff at fewer than 10% of charter schools are represented by unions.

charter schools, vouchers, home schooling...all ways to undercut universal public education, one of the foundations of our social system

time for more shut eye. see you in a few hours or minutes...

good morning, deputy

nice to see you presenting the truth about the assault on public education, one of the foundational rocks on which this experiment in self-governance rests

exactly correct about the unions and having had some experience in the system, the attempt to break up the liberal teachers unions is expressed very well by the psychotic, sociopath Neal Boortz

we mustn't neglect him when we mention the evil wingnuttery in the misinformation machine...he has a new book out that was placed front and center at our new Barnes and Nobel...

morning fade. i have watched supposed progressives get caught up in the charter school fad and heard them point out how much better things are when you don't have to meet all sorts of requirements for teachers and so on....like certification and such. funny thing is they were arguing in favor of charter schools for other people's kids...other people's poor kids.

strange doins from the new york post:

ARMY CHAPLAIN'S 'SEX SLAVE'
By ANDY SOLTIS
DRUMMED OUT: Married Army Chaplain John Lau has been sentenced to prison for keeping a British

March 17, 2007 -- A brazen upstate Army chaplain made a British woman his sex toy to "spice" up his boring marriage and threatened to kill her when she wanted to break away, officials said yesterday.

for god and country??

all is one

new thread at top!!!!!

"I find it amazing that John McCain now wants to be seen as a moderate maverick again, after he has been sluggling up to Bush and the far-rightists!"

i find it very funny, here is a guy who claimed as a prisoner of war, he could never, under any circumstances, support torure of POWs, then in some back room deal, comes out in support???? now this guy has a group of POWs saying he was a sell out as a prisoner after he said Kerry was a traitor to his country. KARMA??
Article III
If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and to aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy