Good morning, Democrats.

happy mother's day.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Obama_overtakes_Clinton_in_superdel_05102008.html

Some news on delegates.

And yes, Happy Mother's Day!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/938621,CST-NWS-sweet08.article

Grace?

Churches to put their tax status on the line for the GOP?
Posted May 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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Federal tax law, as it relates to tax-exempt religious ministries, is pretty clear — houses of worship may not legally intervene in political campaigns, either in support of or opposition to a candidate or a party. Those who violate the law run the risk of losing their tax-exempt status. With some regularity, the IRS reminds houses of worship about this, warning them about the dangers of ignoring the law.

A far-right group in Arizona, however, has an idea: conservative churches should ignore the law — and in the process, test the law — on purpose.

A conservative legal-advocacy group is enlisting ministers to use their pulpits to preach about election candidates this September, defying a tax law that bars churches from engaging in politics.

Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale, Ariz., nonprofit, is hoping at least one sermon will prompt the Internal Revenue Service to investigate, sparking a court battle that could get the tax provision declared unconstitutional. Alliance lawyers represent churches in disputes with the IRS over alleged partisan activity.

The action marks the latest attempt by a conservative organization to help clergy harness their congregations to sway elections. The protest is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 28, a little more than a month before the general election, in a year when religious concerns and preachers have been a regular part of the political debate.

...This is just my opinion but churches get way too many tax-breaks. It these churches start paying taxes like partisan organizations are required to pay that's fine with me i shouldn't have to finance their beliefs.

peace

Good morning again

Republicans, feeling down, get an invitation to the White House
By: Steve Benen @ 7:00 PM - PDT

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently delivered a major-league pep-talk to his Republican caucus, which was very well received. GOP lawmakers gave Boehner a standing ovation, and were all smiles as they looked ahead to the rest of the year. They were led to believe that tying Dems in congressional races to Obama and Pelosi would be a recipe for success, and Republicans might even gain seats this year.

This same Republican caucus was feeling far less jovial during their confab yesterday. Boehner’s election strategy has been tested twice now in two months in two reliably Republican districts — first in Illinois’ 14th, then in Louisiana’s 6th. The GOP went 0-for-2. Worse, the NRCC has very little money to make a serious go at actually narrowing the Dems’ majority. None of these guys left the room smiling yesterday.

What might cheer congressional Republicans up? How ’bout a trip to the White House?

House Republicans will hold a rally with President Bush on Wednesday morning, with all 199 members invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to show solidarity with the president, according to GOP sources.

Oddly enough, I’m not sure whose spirits this is supposed to boost — Republicans’ or Dems’.

As Tim F. noted, “Blind, deaf Americans living under rocks for very long periods of time have figured out that everything the President touches is a half-assed failure. Any sane person would treat the guy as radioactive. So what gives? I have to assume that this little pep rally will be about as well attended as Alberto ‘abu’ Gonzales’s farewell party at the DoJ.”

I just keep thinking, if Jesus were alive now, he wouldn't necessarily be voting Republican!

This is the most amazing article on youth, evangelicals and OBAMA that I have seen. Hope the party takes note of the details of this and brings them back into the Democratic Tent.

How do others view this?

Sunday, May 11, 2008 -

JIM BATES / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Ben Adam Climber, 20, a Seattle Pacific University student, talks about his political views. Students at a bipartisan political union meeting at the school say there's a new movement afoot.

Young, evangelical ... for Obama?
By Haley Edwards
Seattle Times staff reporter
Michael Dudley is the son of a preacher man.

He's a born-again Christian with two family members in the military. He grew up in the Bible Belt, where almost everyone he knew was Republican. But this fall, he's breaking a handful of stereotypes: He plans to vote for Democrat Barack Obama.

"I think a lot of Christians are having trouble getting behind everything the Republicans stand for," said Dudley, 20, a sophomore at Seattle Pacific University.

Dudley's disenchantment with the GOP isn't unique among young, devoutly Christian voters. According to a September 2007 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 15 percent of white evangelicals between 18 and 29, a group traditionally a shoo-in for the GOP, say they no longer identify with the Republican Party. Older evangelicals are also questioning their traditional allegiance, but not at the same rate.

But, Howard Dean, don't count your chickens quite yet. College-age and 20-something Christians may be leaving the GOP, but only 5 percent of young evangelicals have joined the Democrats, according to the Pew survey. The other 10 percent are wandering the political wilderness, somewhere between "independent" and "unaffiliated."

Shane Claiborne, a Philadelphia Christian activist and author of "Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals," has a different name for these folks: "political misfits."

Claiborne has traveled around the country the past several years, speaking and preaching mostly to college-age Christians who are "both socially conservative and globally aware." That makes them disenchanted with both major parties, he said.

"It's not about liberal or conservative, or Democrats or Republicans," he said. "I don't think it's a new evangelical left. ... There's a new evangelical stuck-in-the-middle."

UW communications professor David Domke said some young evangelicals are breaking with the GOP for the same reasons many people broke from the party in the 2006 legislative elections — the unpopular war in Iraq; the Bush administration's abysmal approval ratings; or, now, because of the tanking economy.

Others broke from the party when John McCain, who hasn't held much appeal for evangelicals in the past, became the presumptive nominee.

The Arizona senator hasn't been a consistent foe of gay marriage, and he supports federally funded embryonic stem-cell research. James Dobson, head of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, announced in February that if McCain was the GOP nominee, he'd sit out the election.

But students at a recent bipartisan political union meeting at SPU say there's something more going on with young Christians than disenchantment with McCain.

In an informal poll of the political union, the majority supported Obama.

"I think it's a new movement starting," said Amy Archibald, 19, a sophomore at the evangelical school. "Most of us would never blindly follow the old Christian Right anymore. James Dobson has nothing to do with us. A lot of us are taking apart the issues, and thinking, 'OK, well, [none of the candidates] fits what I'm looking for exactly.' But if you're going to vote, you've got to take your pros with your cons."

Eugene Cho, a founder and lead pastor at Seattle's Quest Church, which caters to a predominantly under-35 crowd, urges young Christians to look beyond the two or three issues that have allowed Christians to be "manipulated by those that know the game or use it as their sole agenda."

"While the issue of abortion — the sanctity of life — must always be a hugely important issue, we must juxtapose that with other issues that are also very important," Cho wrote in his blog on faith and politics.

Polls have shown that young Christians aren't any less concerned about the "family values" issues that have traditionally driven Christians to the Republican camp. (In fact, a study by the Barna Group, an evangelical polling organization, shows young Christians are actually more conservative on abortion than their elders.) It's just that they're also concerned about issues such as social justice and immigration, issues traditionally associated with Democrats.

Judy Naegeli, 25, who works at a Christian philanthropy, says easy access to information about the world via social-networking sites, YouTube and blogs is the reason her generation is more concerned with social justice.

"It's changed our perspective. ... Each generation chooses their cause, and ours is AIDs in Africa, or poverty or social justice," she said.

Tyler Braun, 23, a Portland seminary student who opposes abortion and gay rights, said he'll probably vote for Obama because, since he'd would like to see U.S. troops leave Iraq.

Anika Smith, 23, who works for a think tank in Seattle, said she's concerned with the same issues, but she plans to vote for McCain:

"I'm worried about the war and the economy and social-justice issues. But, the abortion issue is still nonnegotiable."

Nathan Johnson, the executive director of the King County Republican Party, says he is skeptical that young, socially conservative Christians will desert the GOP this fall.

He agrees young Christians appear to be looking beyond the two or three issues — abortion, gay rights, stem-cell research — that have made Christian voters loyal in the past. "But that doesn't mean they're no longer Republican.

"Once the primary is over, and we get into a head-to-head contest, Obama's voting record will come to light," said Johnson, 24. "Then there will be a lot of young conservative voters who won't be able to tolerate what he's stood for in terms of abortion and other socially conservative values."

Young evangelicals are more of a swing constituency than they've been for decades, said Andy Crouch, an editor at Christianity Today, a national evangelical magazine.

"This could turn out to be the election where both parties realize that the evangelical vote is so hopelessly split down the middle that it's not worth courting them at all because what parties need are blocs that can be appealed to en masse," Crouch said. "Paradoxically, evangelicals would become less relevant than ever before."

Braun, the seminary student, said he's not totally committed to any candidate yet.

"I just keep thinking, if Jesus were alive now, he wouldn't necessarily be voting Republican," he said.

Haley Edwards: 206-464-2745 or hedwards@seattletimes.com

Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company

On GI Bill, McCain really is ‘full of it’
By: Steve Benen @ 6:03 AM - PDT

A couple of weeks ago, John McCain talked about the importance of increasing the size of the U.S. military. To entice more volunteers, he said, the government should focus on incentives: “[O]ne of the things we ought to do is provide [the troops with] significant educational benefits in return for serving.”

A few days later, McCain announced that he opposes a bipartisan measure to renew and expand the GI Bill for a new generation of veterans. Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), the leading proponent of the modernized GI Bill, called McCain out.

McCain’s argument is that if the government makes college more affordable for the troops, they might be inclined to leave the military, rather than re-enlist. Webb, who said McCain is “full of it,” has argued that a) the troops deserve better educational benefits; and b) it might help with military recruiting if people knew they could go to college after their service.

Who’s right? Faiz at TP reports on the latest Congressional Budget Office analysis, which sets the record straight.

While the report explains that troop retention will decline because some troops will take advantage of their new education benefits, the loss in retention will be entirely made up for by increased military recruits:

“Literature on the effects of educational benefits on retention suggest that every $10,000 increase in educational benefits yields a reduction in retention of slightly more than 1 percentage point. CBO estimates that S. 22 (as modified) would more than double the present value of educational benefits for servicemembers at the first reenlistment point — from about $40,000 to over $90,000 — implying a 16 percent decline in the reenlistment rate, from about 42 percent to about 36 percent. […]

“Educational benefits have been shown to raise the number of military recruits. Based on an analysis of the existing literature, CBO estimates that a 10 percent increase in educational benefits would result in an increase of about 1 percent in high-quality recruits. On that basis, CBO calculates that raising the educational benefits as proposed in S. 22 would result in a 16 percent increase in recruits.”

Yep, McCain really is full of it.

Well it sure is close enough to declare the winner of the democratic primary. I do have one comment though.
Senator Obama is being called an African-American.I haven't heard or read anything about his being from Africa. I thought he was born in Hawaii. His dad was a black man, his mom was a white woman, He's a Black American, half breed.[no negative intent.] These people who are calling themselves African-American, should be proud to be an American, from America, And the news media continues to refer to them as such too.
As a Democrate, I say let's help get this 'Black-American Half Breed elected President.

It is not gonna happen. Obama knows that his life expectency would be very short if Hillary was his VP. It would be like what LBJ and the mob did to JFK.

Posted by FrostyMilkweed on May 11, 2008 at 03:54 AM

bwhahahahaha, and this is the idiot that says WE believe conspiracy theories??? Oh yeah, I understand LBJ was the other shooter up on the Green! hahahahaha.
Stevie, you get more psycotic every single day. Nuttier than a fruit cake !!

Another Repug for the Republican wall of Shame! Making money off funding Terrorists Dictators, kind of like Prescott Bush did with Hitler !!

Leader of GOP convention quits after Myanmar ties reported

Sat May 10, 7:04 PM ET

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar.

Goodyear, chief executive of lobbying firm DCI Group, resigned a few hours after Newsweek posted a story posted online that the company was paid $348,000 in 2002 and 2003 to represent Myanmar's junta

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_el_pr/gop_convention_resignation

Joe Lieberman will support McCain’s choice for judges. Ignores his own vote against Alito
By: John Amato @ 3:00 PM - PDT

Joe Lieberman was squiring yesterday on CNN when Wolf Blitzer called him out on his support for the types of judges his good pal and the man that he’s supporting to be president, John McCain would choose. That’s a very big issue with all of us and Lieberman knows it all too well since he voted against Alito in the first place. A judge that McCain loves by the way. Blitzer played the video of his negative opinion on the newest conservative activist judge which caused Joe to weave around the issue. He says he’d have to wait and see who McCain nominates. What a joke. McCain has promised more Alito’s so is he saying that McCain will screw his conservative base? I think not. (transcript via CNN)

LIEBERMAN: I am left with profound concerns that Judge Alito would diminish the Supreme Court’s role as the ultimate guarantor of individual liberty in our country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BLITZER: All right. So looking ahead, as you know, the next president could name two, maybe three Supreme Court justices, could have an impact for 30 years, maybe longer.

Are you confident in the justices that Senator McCain would nominate? Or would you be more confident in the kinds of judges that Senator Obama might nominate?

LIEBERMAN: Well, I guess I’d have to wait and see who they nominated. But…

BLITZER: Because this is a big issue for a lot of voters out there.

LIEBERMAN: Look, it’s a big issue for me. I’m a lawyer. I’m a former attorney general. Let me tell you what I think about Senator McCain.

The two Supreme Court justices that were nominated after that bipartisan agreement were Roberts and Alito. I voted for Roberts. I thought that he was extraordinarily able and would be a man of independent judgmen

Holy Joe just loves Roberts. Wonderful, then he must love Alito too. He’s a total sell out to the Republican party. Lieberman should just start protesting with James Dobson against stem cell research. Unfortunately—Wolf didn’t ask the correct follow up question after Joe tried to get “his bearings” on the question because McCain just gave a big “Wingnut judge” speech to try and attract the angry right wing conservative activist base.

McCain reminded the group that he had supported the nomination even of very conservative judges such as Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown. He lavished praise on Chief Justice John Roberts and Alito who, he said, “were serving with such distinction on our Supreme Court.”

Blitzer only had to ask Lieberman to comment on John’s recent pitch and say that McCain was promising to nominate another Alito so there is no “let’s wait and see.” He promised to put another extremist on the bench, right Joe? What could he have said to that?
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Lieberloser is a traitor. He should be kicked off of all the committees he heads and treated in the way he deserves to be treated - as a Republican and a turn coat to boot.

Good morning, all.

And Happy Mother's Day to everyone who is a mother...or acts in some way as one to children inside their own families or within their communities as volunteers in children's organizations.

And especially to those men who have had to act as both mother and father to their children.

And to those wonderful people who have stepped forward taking on this role for children who's parents have been re-deployed time and time again in the last six years.

I think about these children a lot these days. Do you realize that there are actually some military family children who have not had either one of their soldier parents involved closely in their lives....for a significant amount of time during their most formative years?

The last time this happened was in WW II and it lasted only six years. The prospect of this bogus Bush War on Terror keeping these children separated from their loved ones even longer looms far into the future if a we do not get a Super Majority in both houses of Congress.

It is paramount that we win locally this fall not just the White House.

Let us always remember when speaking with voters that George W. Bush is still running...not for President this time...but in each of our Congressional Districts this November.

He's going to make life hell for military families in a way Hitler never did...and that doddering old fool McCain just make jokes about it singing Bush's praises with "Bomb, Bomb, Iran" like it's some kind of joke that all Republicans share.

We owe it to these children (and our own children and grandchildren) to end this unconcerned GOP arrogance and begin addressing the needs of OUR country not the interests of multinational companies headquartered in other countries and Republican war profiteers.

Please volunteer now to help your Democratic Congressional Reps and Senatorial candidates.

Stop Bush from winning a third term in your home town. Make this personal for your friends and neighbors. Don't allowy them to say it doesn't matter how the vote....that elections are something that only involves Washington Insiders.

Make them care. We need to change Washington and take back our communities and our children's fate.

I'm off to church and brunch. later.

Posted by PamB on May 11, 2008 at 09:49 AM
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Isn't this the 3rd or 4th person that McSame had to get rid of? There was also someone down in North Carolina.

McSame is parading hsi chief economic advisor out today - the disgusting corporatist anti-american worker Carly Fiorina. McCain with Fiorina's advice is campaigning on bringing in more H1B visa holders to replace American IT workers, health care workers, etc... with lower wage workers and outsourcing more American jobs.

It's Fiorina who said:

"There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."

Well, Carly that should include CEO crooks like you!

Good morning
Happy Mom's Day to all

"He is a vicious person," LeBoutillier said. "Nearly all the Republican senators endorsed Bush because they knew McCain from serving with him in the Senate. They so disliked him that they wouldn't support him. They have been on the hard end of his behavior."

But only a few news outlets, like the Phoenix New Times in Arizona and the National Journal, that ran an Associated Press story reporting McCain's 1998 joke suggesting that Chelsea Clinton was ugly and Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton were lesbians.

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" McCain said at a GOP fund-raiser in Washington. "Because Janet Reno is her father."

McCain apologized to the Clintons. But more recently, McCain said on Fox News, "You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it."

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/5/00548.shtml

McCain to Bush in 2000: “Don’t Give Me That Sh*t. And Take Your Hands Off Me.”
By: Jon Perr @ 5:00 PM - PDT

Furious McCainFour days after Arianna Huffington first reported it, John McCain’s 2000 VoteGate has become the election issue du jour. The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have all run stories confirming Huffington’s account that in 2000 a still steaming McCain did not vote for George W. Bush, the man who savaged him and his family during the Republican primaries. But as the fevered denials from his campaign show, the story of McCain’s hate-love relationship with Bush is the tale of Mr. Straght Talk’s tightrope walk from personal pride to political opportunism.

Huffington’s she said, he said about McCain’s 2000 vote began on Monday. Huffington claimed that a gathering in Los Angeles after the November election John McCain told her, “I didn’t vote for George Bush.” (Cindy McCain, apparently more forthcoming about her 2000 vote than her 2007 tax returns, chimed in, “I didn’t either.”) After McCain spokesman Mark Salter protested, “it’s not true and I ask you to consider the source,” the Times and the Post verified Huffington’s account with West Wing stars Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff, both of whom were in attendance at Candace Bergen’s Beverly Hills bash that night.

What is beyond dispute, however, is McCain’s past hatred for George W. Bush. As Time reported in March 2000, McCain then showed a visceral disgust towards Bush and his scorched earth campaign:

But many close McCain advisers think the personal rift between the two men is too wide to bridge, at least in the near term. After all, the last time Bush tried to smooth things over-at a South Carolina debate in early February-the result was less than promising. During a commercial break, Bush grasped McCain’s hands and made a sugary plea for less acrimony in their campaign. When McCain pointed out that Bush’s allies were savaging him in direct-mail and phone campaigns, Bush played the innocent. “Don’t give me that shit,” McCain growled, pulling away. “And take your hands off me.”

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/09/mccain-to-bush-in-2000-dont-give-me-that-sht-and-take-your-hands-off-me/
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Click on the link above to see that mean ugly McCain face. These Republicans get older, meaner and more irrelevant all the time.

McCain ... same as Bush just older, meaner and uglier.

CodePink steps on Hillary's cookies Hotlist
by Randgrithr [Subscribe]
Sun May 11, 2008 at 06:56:12 AM PDT

On May 8th, Jes and Leslie Richardson and Medea Benjamin of CodePink crashed a Hillary fundraiser and managed to unfurl a banner protesting her remarks about "obliterating" Iran. Clinton's dismissive reaction as Jes was led from the room was to hope that "he didn't step on any of the cookies or the cakes."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/11/93213/5165/962/513634
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Now, I know we all don't necessarily like Codepink. But, what an amazing comment to make.
Instead of addressing her extreme remark on annihilating an entire nation, Hillary choose to make a stupid joke about cookies ... Hillary, this isn't a game ... we are talking about a moral issue.

Hillary, you have lost the nomination, now please go away.

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" McCain said at a GOP fund-raiser in Washington. "Because Janet Reno is her father."
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McCain actually said that. Then why in heck did Hillary ever side with McCain against Obama? That's just nuts and shows low scruples.

Looking forward to Obama being officially named our nominee. In the meantime, I tuned Hillary out.

Today's Republican of the Week is McCain aide Doug Goodyear. Goodyear resigned his position running the Republican convention this summer when it was revealed that previously he was a high paid lobbyist for the military junta in Myanmar.

The real color-coded, red and blue, division between Americans is that a few of us are "on tv" and the rest of us aren't. For the sake of brevity we shall refer to all of those on tv as "celebrities." People who are not celebrities are not listened to by anybody. Nothing they say matters. If they are celebrities, every word they utter is worth money, and is thus worthwhile. It's really hard to run a democracy on this basis. People really have to understand that clebrities are just people and that the political value of their speech is worthless, even if the monetary value of it is large indeed. Always consider the source, then get active!

...think that strength lies in never admiting to your mistakes.

Posted by newsjunkie on May 10, 2008 at 10:52 PM

This is exactly why Clinton can not be put on that ticket with Obama. To do so would require that he show a sacrifice of his integrity. I realize that this is unpopular, but Clinton did vote for the war in Iraq and did defend that postion until the very end.

Her position has only changed since learning that the American People would hold this against her, and too late at that. Of course she has said now that she would remove our troops from Iraq, but there is still a problem. Clinton still supports military strikes against Iran that have been justified by more Iraq-like manipulations of inteligence. Showing quite clearly that Clinton has not learned a very valuable lesson from the Iraq experience.

I am truly sorry that this did not turn out differently. I'd looked up to and supported the Clintons for years before the decision was made to invade Iraq. Even then I couldn't believe that either of them would knowing do something like that, but her continued support of Bush's position against Iran was the last straw. We've known and she's known since 2003 that Iran is not seeking nuclear weaponry and that most of this animosity has come out of a disagreement concerning the decision to invade Iraq.

That's right. Iran was working with us in reducing the threat of terrorism in 2002. They had been working with us for a year by the time our government began to threaten their neighbors in Iraq. And this obviously made Iran, a nation with which we have a long sometimes dangerously strained relationship with, weary.

Our relationship went downhill from there, leaving us where we are today. And while this is plain to see, there are those among us who refuse to take the appropriate steps to reverse the trend. Perhaps only because a Hawkish stance is believed to persuade the American People. In other words, politics as usual.

Obama is a strong candidate in this country, because he is the only candidate out there who was aware enough to speak out against the start of the Iraq war and who has continued that stance by extending it to the manipulation of inteligence concerning Iran.

Neither Hillary Clinton nor John McCain can make this claim. Both supported the Bush administration in Iraq and both have supported the Bush administration's threats to attack Iran. Actually, both have made similar threats concerning Iran.

In the meantime, acting on well known inteligence contradicting the notion of a nuclear ambitious Iran, Barack Obama alone has proposed beginning diplomatic efforts to head off potential conflict. He does so by recognizing that restrictions put in place by the Bush administration and echoed by both Clinton and McCain can be sacrificed to get us to the bargaining table. And in doing so Obama is likely to do what Bush could not; improve our position in the Middle East.

When are we going to grow up?

Mikhail Gorbachev, the ex-president of the USSR, has accused the USA of the imperialistic conspiracy against Russia, which pushes the world to a new Cold War. He said that Washington has been increasing its military potential to prevent Russia’s revival. “The USA can’t put up with the fact that somebody in the world is independent on it,” Gorbachev told The Daily Telegraph. “Every American president must wage war,” he added.

More............

Mikhail Gorbachev: 'Every American president must wage war'

Limbaugh: 'My impact will increase'

Link

Limbaugh has made a difference in his Surge.

Much on Powell, and barack's foreign policys
but here is a start

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xPeYysFh8uI

read the entire article here

The World at 350 A Last Chance for Civilization

By Bill McKibben

A few weeks ago, our foremost climatologist, NASA's Jim Hansen, submitted a paper to Science magazine with several co-authors. The abstract attached to it argued -- and I have never read stronger language in a scientific paper -- "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." Hansen cites six irreversible tipping points -- massive sea level rise and huge changes in rainfall patterns, among them -- that we'll pass if we don't get back down to 350 soon; and the first of them, judging by last summer's insane melt of Arctic ice, may already be behind us.

McAsshole just had a political ad on Hallmark channel. He was with his mother and very soft spoken. His mother who must by 200 years old said "Johnie would make a good president".

What a f**king laugh. He's pandering to the family values religious freaks.

If Hillary had voted against giving Bush the authority to go to war, she would be the democratic nominee, hands down. That single vote cost her the nomination to the presidency as it should have.

Now we have Barack who has made a major mistake also. His pastor was rev. wright for 16 years. That just cost him the priveledge to run without hillary as VP. At it should, each candidate must pay the piper for their mistakes, whether we or they like it or not.

Because of these two large errors we need every single vote they both got in the primaries and that is the only way to get it.

The media is owned by the republicans. Barack said himself, if he doesn't get elected it won't be because of racism, it will be because of something he said. That was a very honest statement and true. He already had one Kerry moment with the "cling, religion, guns, immigrants, nafta" line. The dems can't do another 2004 when Kerry would have a Kerry moment, like the "would you vote for the war if you new what you know now" I went beserk. Obama has that ability and you know it.

I bet wright, 16 years ago was much calmer than he is now. Over the years the man probably got worse and worse but if you see him all the time you don't notice the change. Kind of like seeing your kids grow. But the MSM will never explain that. If anything I wouldn't be surprised if the RNC don't pay wright to come out after barack gets the nomination.

No whether we like it or not, Hillary has to be the VP. Sorry Michelle - you'll have to pay for your mistakes, at least for the first four years.

Harry Reid is planning on holding hearings on the Military Analyst story

I’ve been posting like crazy about the latest media/military propaganda scam that the NY Times broke a few weeks ago. You know, the one about the paid military generals-turned-analysts that the networks used to deceive the American public with so the Iraq war was such an easy sell.

Link

With the White House feeding retired military Generals Bush Intelligence of Mission Accomplished WMD data, and the corporate media gladly paying them handsomely to put the Bush White House Faux spin on things, how can "We the people" find out the "Truth" in America? When we are dished out Bush "Lies." This conflict of interest is counterproductive to a open Free Speech media should demands accountability but instead is intimidated to sleep. The sham of a media run by the White House to prop up its "Lies." A White House building a Country Club in the Green Zone of a war, while the country is devastated by America's infrastructure corruption.

How low has the media where the whole system becomes Faux tilted WMD views in making Bush a saint, and his War of Intelligence, the crown jewel of his legacy. (Not)

So our Hoover Republican President has brought US into recession of civil right, human rights, civil liberties, and of course our economy. Like the Iraq War reincarnated Vietnam, We have a Hoover society of corporate power reincarnated in Bush Corporate Royalty of destroying the Middle Class into poverty. Yes, and of course, we have Cheney's sky rocketing inflation of Chevron bonding bosom buddies. Why it is a Conservative conspiracy of Bohemian proportions, who have been given immunity for telling its "Lies."

Okay, Bush is working in the background of Congress to give Telecoms immunity, and the Bush Republican Party.

If an Iranian Weapon Bust Turns Out Not To Be Iranian…Does Anyone Hear A Sound?

Link

Another example of the media possibly working with the White House in silencing the facts.

Our son in California related to us today that he is moving to Oklahoma. He said that his work as a truck driver is ending. He hauls for Pier One or one of those stores. People aren't buying things they don't need because of the Republican Hoover Depression of 2008.

He is also $250,000 in debt because of medical bills and doesn't see how he is going to get by without declaring bankruptcy.

Oh, I forgot the f**king greedy rebastards don't want us to have medical coverage. They also want us to poor and stupid just like them.

This shit had better end in 2009 or heads are going to roll.

Every apparent solution has consequences and costs, some more so than others. But never mind that ADM is single mindedly concerned with profits, dividends, and favorable legislation. Read the article here.

BRAZIL: Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize EthanolBy Mario Osava

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (IPS) - Recent efforts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to clearly mark the difference between Brazilian ethanol and the agrofuels produced by the United States are an admission that signing an agreement with Washington to promote a global bioethanol market was a serious political mistake, say analysts.

Brazilian fuel alcohol, distilled from sugarcane, has been used as a partial substitute for gasoline in the country for 30 years, and makes an acknowledged contribution to mitigating global warming because it emits less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.

However, in recent months a flood of criticism has engulfed all biofuels, because of their role in helping to drive up food prices. Jean Ziegler, former United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, called the conversion of food crops into biofuels "a crime against humanity."

Johne, another reason why american truckers are loosing their jobs is that wonderful dictator bush, who went against the democrats law to outlaw the illegal mexican truckers to cross our borders into the US. They had a hearing on it and the bush appointed DOT head lied and lied. Can't wait to get a dem in the presidencey to clean up this mess. The dems, Keeping America Safer, beating one republican at a time. hahahahah can't wait till november.

WELL, WE'VE FINALLY GOT US A CANDIDATE!!!

Still, the Clintons are not above assassination, character assassination that is. And HillarY's claim that she's the choice of the WHITE "lesser" Americans who presumably don't want a "nigger" in the White House is most foreboding. Her minions are claiming that this was not her choice of words but a direct quote from an AP story. However, she was able to edit the term "working" Americans in the AP story by throwing in "*hard* working Americans"-- YET could not edit out the word "white."

She chose to run a presidential primaries campaign through polarization. I am not surprised as the day after Kerry's defeat in 2004, the Clinton minions were running around all the Democratic post-elections disussions, many videotaped on C-Span, insisting that only by out-Roving Rove could the Democrats win in 2006 and 2008. In every filthy way possible Hillary did just that: wedge polarizing campaign.

And now, as her defeat is stuffed down her throat, much as fat is stuffed down the throat of a goose to make pate-de-foi-gras, she keeps chimming about herself as the only possible next Democratic President. Omunously, at the same time, Ikles (a Clintonesque) tells us that Obama will go down slandered by an "October Surprise." And Ron Emmanuel (another Cintonesque), when forced by the press to declare or not declare Obama the victorious candidate, said that Obama is the candidate until we discover something about him that no longer makes Obama the candidate.

A new generation of Americans will hopefully hand the old corrupt Democrat skum bucket of politicos around Dirty Bill a final "retirement" slip while exposing McCain for the wheeler-dealer he had been since he started in politics without having to discuss his alleged POW activities. I can assure you that as the campaign progresses, the American people will come to realize that the Straight Talk Express never, ever had any wheels on it but instead, ran on ball barings so that it could rotate every-which-way as tactically needed. But he will always hope that he will once more get away with winning, as he once said when New Hampshire looked hopeless: AS MAO SAID, IT ALWAYS LOOK HOPELESS BEFORE EVERYTHING TURNS BLACK. THE "BLACK" HE IS COUNTING ON IS THE RACISM THE cLINTONS WILL SPEW SO THAT OBAMA WILL, THEY HOPE, LOSE IN 2008 AND SHE CAN RUN IN 2012. Nevertheless, his Merlin the Magician Liberman can't always be at his side to pull off corrective incantations. Every Republican I know conceeds that McCain may have NEVER had bearings (whichever way you define it), other than ballbearings for quick shifts of direction; but they count on the Clintons sabotaging the Obama Campaign right to November with : nigger-WHITE House....nigger-WHITE HOUSE...nigger-WHITE House-- get it?

No, the Clintons are NOT racists. But they are amoral and loyal to no one-- NOT EVEN TO EACH OTHER. And so we can well expect that the NOT-QUITE-READY-FOR-THE-AMERICA-OF-TOMORROW biggots will do their thing and vote for a fellow geriatric-- even if an amorphous Republican that shapes like the bowl you drop him into, instead of for the America of tomorrow-- principled and collaborative with a long view instead of arrogant and bullying with a typical entrepreneurial short-sighted tactical perspective of "me, me, me!"-- because the Clintons will see to it that these scared small-mined red-recks will make Hillary President-- if not now, at least four years from now by voting for McCain now.

But think Hillary, by then most of them will be dead, replaced in the voting booth by the young Americans of tomorrow, educated, modest and with a long view on America's role in the world. You could have been graceful and could have been a part of tomorrow if you had been willing to pay for it with your immediate ambition. But you didn't. Instead you played every dirty trick in the Nixon campaign book-- AND STILL LOST!

I supported Hillary last winter; even called for Obama to step back and wait his turn. But given what I have seen, maybe Hillary's boss on the Rodino House Committee to impeach Nixon had it right when he described her as more ready to violate civil rights (Nixon's) than Nixon himself was to violate those of others.

I CALL ON HILLARY TO REDEEM HERSELF AND STOP THE BLEEDING IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-- NOW, WITHOUT WAITING FOR WEST VIRGINIA. IF SHE DOES SO NOW SHE WILL PROVE THAT SHE IS *NOT* LIKE THE REPUTATION TIED TO HER TAIL THAT WILL CLANGINGLY FOLLOW HER EVERYWHERE SHE GOES. I WOULD THEN BE AMONG THE FIRST TO BOW TO HER, KISS HER FEET AND BEG HER FORGIVENESS.....UNTIL THEN, HILLARY, I REMIND YOU THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE LLOOOOOOOONNGGG MEMORIES.

HILLARY, THE CHOICE IS YOURS: DIGNITY OR PRIDE!

Timelines of the Great Depression

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: A Discussion with James Gustave Speth

The underlying drivers of today's environmental deterioration have been clearly identified. They range from immediate forces like the enormous growth in human population and the dominant technologies deployed in the economy to deeper ones like the values that shape our behavior and determine what we consider important in life. Most basically, we know that environmental deterioration is driven by the economic activity of human beings. About half of today's world population lives in abject poverty or close to it, with per capita incomes of less than two dollars a day. The struggle of the poor to survive creates a range of environmental impacts where the poor themselves are often the primary victims -- for example, the deterioration of arid and semiarid lands due to the press of increasing numbers of people who have no other option.

But the much larger and more threatening impacts stem from the economic activity of those of us participating in the modern, increasingly prosperous world economy. This activity is consuming vast quantities of resources from the environment and returning to the environment vast quantities of waste products. The damages are already huge and are on a path to be ruinous in the future. So, a fundamental question facing societies today -- perhaps the fundamental question -- is how can the operating instructions for the modern world economy be changed so that economic activity both protects and restores the
natural world?

The fascists of the world will never see beyond their own narrow self interests. It's to their misfortune that they feel comfortable and secure being the only passengers on board a sinking ship whilst they offer bricks to those they pushed overboard. Their ultimate destiny will, after all, be of their own making.

"Liberal trivia (# Liberals are heavy masturbators)" ..."HURFUCKINGRAHHH!!!"

looks like the blog has a serious virus? or someone thought they're postin' on rush's repub site? or both?

time to look elsewhere and return later after a virus scan removes the scum.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209627043154&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The jewish vote

decided to practice making my link a word thingy
Hope it worked

After trouble posting poetry at a site, I got this message"

David Young, The Authors*** site is currently being heavily attacked by Chinese sources. We are working around the clock to tighten security and update as needed. During this time we will do our best to keep all works safe and repost when possible. These new issues are not our doing. Thank you for your understanding, while we continue to address this situation.

It seems Free Speech in under attack everywhere and we have a country that will not protect it or respect it, what are we to do? It is a shame we allow the Chinese with Microsoft rights to filter our Internet sites.

First they ban you at work, then ban you in your home, and then ban you on the Internet. It seems this Patriot Act is not working for American patriots with a Declaration of Independence. It seems we have Red Chinese hacking up America.

Does not the Democratic Party respect Civil Liberties of its members.

"The correct answer was: Game over."

besides a virus, appears w's frat house is out for the summer?

It seems that Microsoft instead of helping Red China filter out Freedom and Democracy they could be patriots and stop the Chinese hacking of America. Why, I guess even Russ Limbaugh's site is being attacked. Maybe we need an Internet patriot Army or FBI branch to protect Free Speech.

Good afternoon, all.

Posted by Johne on May 11, 2008 at 01:42 PM

Johne,

So Gorbachev is turning on St. Reagan and his neocon goons, too?

Our new Democratic president is going to have to act fast to stop this deveoping new arms race. We can't afford to join in a protracted spending spree after eight years of gross Republican fiscal irresponsibility.

And our military is so weakened after six years of being bogged deep in a needless occupation in Iraq that the Communists could leave us chocking on their dust as they sweep past us...without McCain being the wiser. "My name's John...where's McCane?"

And if McCain does manage somehow win, things will just get worse. He's already angrily shaking his fist at the world threatening to bomb Heaven itself to save us from radical Islamic terrorists who primarily are funded and reside in Saudi Arabia...where he'll never think to look.

Just imagine how much ground the Chinese and Russian militaries will gain on us...how much al Queada will gain on us. We can't afford to let that old fool drag us down any further than Bush has us already taken us.

Any self-respecting conservative would have him committed not vote for him...but then they voted for Bush twice. They have no pride or guts.

If Barack Obama was sitting in a pew in Rev Wright's Christian church for over 20 years, it makes the possibility of his being a Muslim unlikely, doesn't it? That is the whole point of this controversy and should certainly put it to rest. I think it was a very smart move.

Evening Sandy, highserenity, youngpoet and America1st,

Sixty Minutes has chiquita on the hot seat. They were paying the rebels in columbia to protect their employees picking bananas but the hired paramilitary were killing civilians as well. This was during the raygun administration who probably paid for the paramilitary army. I wonder if they are connected to blackwater. If so, I wonder if king bush the first was heavily involved. oliver north was playing games with columbia and Iran and should be tried and hanged.

Columbia is suing chiquita to help support the victims families.

I love it.

Posted by Danielet on May 11, 2008 at 04:42 PM

At this very moment, thousands of people are furiously canvassing, phone banking, and making face-to-face contacts with voters in West Virginia, an important swing state.

People who have never worked a ground campaign have no idea how much work needs to be done for November. Having a serious primary is the best and ONLY way to get ready for November. I wish these people knew what it's like to have a poster of the county, and try to get it all covered for an election, with not that many people willing to do all the grunt work.

BTW, do you think Republicans are updating lists and going door=to-door in WV? No. All they have are some seriously dedicated Anti-abortion church crowds doing the base GOTV for them. But this does not reach the independents. Without a doubt, have a hard=fought primary makes the State/County/City/Precinct organizations stronger. Why? Because they are FURIOUSLY ORGANIZING NOW.

I also disagree with your blanket statement that independents will only support Obama. Given the choice, 8 years of Clinton's peace and surpluses, and the change to 8 years of Bush's war and deficits, most independents will jump for joy at the chance to return to DEMOCRAT'S peace and prosperity.

Besides, many people know understand the Republican's wrong priorities, and Ken Starr's partisan witch hunt. Clinton/Gore won the independents TWICE before. They will come back.

In closing, WV and later primary states are getting crucial work done for November. Clinton/Gore's track record will bring the independents back AGAIN, and in Florida today, Clinton wins big, Mr/Mrs ThinkFlorida.

Do I need to repost the story about the record Democratic voter registration in ALL-IMPORTANT PENNSYLVANIA thanks to a very competitive primary?

Thanks to the all the people who did the GOTV in PA, and all the people who are doing the GOTV work in WV now, Democrats are well on their way to winning both states in November. GO DEMS!

(Gov. Dean, tell this to the pansies who want to stop the contest, and slow the organizing to a stand still... like the Republicans.)

This whole Wright thing is a crock.

mclame has enlisted pseudo-christian freaks hagee and parlor to endorse him.

hagee is on record as saying that New Orleans was destroyed by God because they were planning a gay parade.

parlor is on record as saying that we should kill all muslims on the planet.

The MSM should do a piece and smear mclame from here to hell and back for picking these criminals as his buddies.

sandyh,

i'd suppose the russians and chinese feel the need to self-arm more. w in his misguided big stick beat everyone over the head "democracy around the world" has increased everyone's tension. and it's going to take a new leader (not mcsame) to understand what fosters tension and apprehension. simply put, invade a country (iraq) or threaten another country (iran, syria, cuba,venezuela...etc) or keeping troops in other nations (japan, germany, korea) says something to other world leaders ... besides it's bustin' the honest taxpayin' american's piggybank aka money to put food on the table here... and we're not any safer either. common sense how other's think is lackin' with w, shotgun dick, and mcsame. instead we should be building common bridges thru business, education, and sponsorships. that's common sense.

Africa
The situation faced now in Africa is from a long course of fighting disputes that have gone on for centuries. Tribes in Africa are known to being rebellious over frivolous things such as gain power over the other entity. Gaining power means gaining control over another's resources. What is going on in Africa is called a civil war. It is a war where thousands of people are hideously dying for the cause of property. Africa is a big country that is divided into many small countries. When one country becomes rich in resources the others get jealous and instead of communicating and sharing Africans go to war to control over the resources. It is such a shame this is a third world country. Gaining power says a lot of how money is generated. If Americans wanted to fight for peace in the Congo, they should negotiate reasons behind how unification of power can lead to upward mobility and fornicate reasons for positive change as an outcome to peace. War is a means of demonstrating power over another. War is won like a fight; whomever loses is the weakest where you make up and move onward. War does not really solve conflict it ravishes over the idea of control. War is a power struggle. If America can promise the Congo a good deal in the devision of power; the war will stop. The fight over oil, food, resources, diamonds is worth the controversy of who is in control of the riches. Wars like this have gone on all over the world. This is nothing new in Africa. Africa should want a country where they can unite the devisions of power to eradicate change. Africa can sustain into a first world country if they all knew how to get along. Americans came to American for personal freedoms. These freedoms are a priviledge. Americans gathered in masses to create trade with other countries. The slaves helped build America in comercial labor of minding the fields for free labor to raise money for Americans. Africa too has a history where Europeans moved there to control the resources of Africans. Europeans took control of the Africa, devided the country and left it as many small villages where they could not sustain within themselves.
Environmental Issues
It is the responsiblity of the U.S. to create ways for a higher environmental global climate agreement as an example to the rest of the world.
America is an example to the world when it comes to protecting our environment. The U.S. acts as a doctorment to change.
The role of the U.S. has been to find ways in using energy, find ways in using coal efficiency, finding ways to recycle products, controlling waste and consumption.
The U.S. is an example when it comes to storing energy. Hoover Dam was built to restore energy. Factories sine the 1800's monitored ways to improve the use of coal admisions in the air as we created safer car emisions. Cars are biodegradable when made out of plastic instead of hard iron. Fans alighn California as a source to providing energy. Collections of cans, plastics are waste prevention. Since the 70's, there has been a litter control prevention towards fines for littering neghborhoods. Animals like the eagle species create habitation from distinction where animals have the right to live.
There should be a use of oil and coal control to protect the environment from depleting. There should be a better global climate agreement in the U.S. solely because Americans care about the world. If we do not protect our world, we will cease to have one. If we are role models, others will follow knowing that it is an important issue that others see examples and they respond caringly as well.
Global protection is a rhetoric that needs to be addressed. Global warning is important when we see ice glaciers melt at rapid rates leaving pinguins and polar bears to multiply with a lack of food. The weather can change the habitat we live in. The weather has an effect globaly on crops. If the weather were to change climate, it would be impossible for the soil to graze properly that can lead to famine. Some land could become dry or too wet. If there were a climate change in the world, it could effect the industry sell of animal products. People would have to adjust to their living habits, if there were a climate change. Something needs to be done.
Clean Water
I believe everyone in the world is entitled to clean air and water and a bill of good health in the pursuit of happiness. America is a first world country that has all of the above that matters in sustaining a good bill of health. Other countries like Kenya and Ethiopia do not have access to the same conditions. Third world countries like India, China and Africa have people who are under nourished and poor that live in an unsanitary environments. We need to govern countries by provided aid to the less fortunate. Sure there are homeless that live on the streets of America that are living in better than the people in third world countries. America plays a good role in protecting our environment from erosion. Helping third world countries by supplying food and health care are established to change the system. America throws away enough food that could feed the needy of poor countries everyday. God made this world for us to take care of it. I feel proposals for an irrigation system to lay pipes and wells to provide clean water should be an effort to provide clean water to Kenya and Ethiopia. I do not know why it is taking so long to cure the deceased water. One thing they say about blacks is that they will never learn how to govern themselves because there is always someone against it. Africa needs to curtail a government that would mandate healthier living conditions by laying out a plan to do it. All over Africa there should be a irrigation system to provide clean water. Sanctions should be made where healthier living conditions are important where they all find a way to work together to have this done. Africans in America are an example of what Africa can become. Leaders should be led by example to help not only themselves but to govern each country in Africa proper and growth. Africans need to educate their people on how to create an economic system where they can build Africa. By securing health care we can secure a nation. There is no excuse that there is places where clean water is not available. Africans in America at one time did not have the resources to survive but we overcame. Africa can do the same to create a government that provides health care to each African. I dream that in Africa an immigration system where pollution is out lowed. I have a dream in Africa people are no longer living in shacks or on the street where housing developments are made to house the poor. I dream in Africa where people are being educated on their health in ways to sustain a community of poor so they do not have to live in poor resources. America has communities where the people have to go outside their area to find jobs and go to school and later come back to the community to help development and advancement. Africa can do the same to endorse programs that will help and not hurt them. All Africans should be computer literate. India as a third world country is computer literate. The African economy would improve with the use and knowledge on computers. This is one way Africans can give back to their community. African citizens should protest for a better Africa. They can protest for better health. Education is the key to opening a closed mind.
Drugs
I believe the curtail of submissive drugs anywhere should become illegal. Drug trafficking involves negative criminal activity where ever it is. Drugs involves gangs and gang violence. The thought of allowing drugs filtrate near neighbors fowl represents in a negative manner. For example; drug use in America has filtrated havoc and hatred wherever evil lurks. In America; drug trafficking controls gang territory where it becomes unmissable. The drug lords who control over people keeps threat to the controversy of poising the minds of the youth. Drugs are easy and it works. It becomes easy to get drugs anywhere because it is universal and illegal. Drugs are so subversive I have seen 3rd graders bring it to school to share with their friends. Weed is is not a burden when used as a pain killer by common people instead of going to the doctor. Cocaine illegitimacy is in favor amongst American athletes. The media uses drugs in movies and sports as a distraction and a burden that everyone is aware of. Once used in the media it attracts drug use amongst junior high and high school students. Drugs are so easy that a family can earn a decent income of over $30 grand in a half a year and with this choice real work does not matter. Where there is drugs, it attracts prostitution. Gangs will use girls to help promote the use of sell of drugs. The young girls sell their bodies to get drugs. Young girls will act as prostitutes at even an early age of 8 to attract the sell of drugs. If Americans are aware that drugs are a problem, how will we control the problem anywhere else? Proper representation should be considered. In Las Vegas, the west side originally had no drug problem until the projects brought drugs into the neighborhoods. In the ghetto where you see them drive BMW or Jaguar cars and no one in the family works, you wonder why police become suspicious of how the poor black could drive this car. It is where you have leaders of the church like pastors, ministers who want men out of jails who commit these crimes and they promote the use of drugs in some of the churches. It is where innocent people are killed through drive bys to debate and ask for truth and God's calling. How could we in this country support the use of drugs when the drugs are being poured into this country by whites or people who have the money to support drug trafficking by the police and politicians. Any government who defines drugs illegal we need to find ways to stop the sell of drugs. If drugs became legal nothing would change. People's lives would still be effected negatively neutral. Do we want the same for Bolivia and Afghanistan? How do we control drug popularity and sells? Is there an answer by example? Police profiling should be allowed there with the same tough laws we have in America to clean some of the mess up. We need to be by example to promote ways of peace with its people.

Environment Issues
It is the responsiblity of the U.S. to create ways for a higher environmental global climate agreement as an example to the rest of the world.
America is an example to the world when it comes to protecting our environment. The U.S. acts as a doctorment to change.
The role of the U.S. has been to find ways in using energy, find ways in using coal efficiency, finding ways to recycle products, controlling waste and consumption.
The U.S. is an example when it comes to storing energy. Hoover Dam was built to restore energy. Factories sine the 1800's monitored ways to improve the use of coal admisions in the air as we created safer car emisions. Cars are biodegradable when made out of plastic instead of hard iron. Fans alighn California as a source to providing energy. Collections of cans, plastics are waste prevention. Since the 70's, there has been a litter control prevention towards fines for littering neghborhoods. Animals like the eagle species create habitation from distinction where animals have the right to live.
There should be a use of oil and coal control to protect the environment from depleting. There should be a better global climate agreement in the U.S. solely because Americans care about the world. If we do not protect our world, we will cease to have one. If we are role models, others will follow knowing that it is an important issue that others see examples and they respond caringly as well.
Global protection is a rhetoric that needs to be addressed. Global warning is important when we see ice glaciers melt at rapid rates leaving pinguins and polar bears to multiply with a lack of food. The weather can change the habitat we live in. The weather has an effect globaly on crops. If the weather were to change climate, it would be impossible for the soil to graze properly that can lead to famine. Some land could become dry or too wet. If there were a climate change in the world, it could effect the industry sell of animal products. People would have to adjust to their living habits, if there were a climate change. Something needs to be done.

HIV & Aids
American youth are engaging in sex acts as teenagers. This is dangerous to think about. Over the years Americans were addressed with Aids, while primary decease of having herpes, scabs or virginal itching were more aware than Aids.
Aids was started in Africa where the virus was wide spread and troubling from exposed monkeys. Aids existed prior to when it was first known. The health care crisis made aware that Americans had Aids, only, it was not as detrimental as it is known now.
The epidemic created a natural prevention measures to disturb the spread of Aids.
It is known that Aids kills. Celebrities like Johnson, made it aware that anyone can fall a victim from the disease . Aids is active participants with gay men and lesbian women who do not practice safe sex. It spreads with having multiple sex partners and unsafe sex. It can be a result from using bad needles intervening in drug addicts.
It is important that people practice safe sex. It was noted in high school students that condoms are distributed to prevent sex deceases .
Like Africa, I feel that the Caribbean should protect themselves from a decease that is detrimental to survival legacy. They deserve expertise advise to over a quarter million people it could effect. Like Africa, the Caribbean should be involved in education to make aware of Aids. In the Caribbeans, there should be precautions where vaccines sent out. In the Caribbeans, medical precautions to test for Aids should be available whether antonymous or out in the open.
A young innocent girl, wanted a boy friend. He pressured her into being with him. He wanted sex. One night after a date, the young boy offered to kiss the young girl. She thought she show him how much she cared for him. They engaged in a kiss that led to him having a discussion with her to his next move to take her virginity. Enthusiastically; he told her he whispered in her ear that loved her. He told her he was on medication. He told her he had a disease that he may have given her from swallowing his spit from kissing him. He admitted that now he had trapped her in being with him because she now shared the disease. She will now be medicated from this predatory effecting her for the rest of her life. A desease that may take her life.
Precautions are not enough. It is everyone who suffers of victums of Aids. Kids are born of aids. Aids is a battle ground. Aids causes hostility and addictions. It is clear this is an argument that raises questions of how to be a good resource to handle the pressure of safe sex practices. Is awareness consistent with the spread of the desease in the value of preventing the desease .

evening johne,

well all, even thought i sorta post a little less now than in past yrs, i still do read posts here. keep the faith and the virus scum removed.

as to mcsame, he can depend on rove to smear obama. mcsame will say he had nothing to do w/it. mcsame's weakness is his looking like he should be put out to pasture, clueless about the economy, and his 100 yr + iraqmire aka w's 3rd term.

ok all, keep the blog aglow and the scum scraped off ... happy mother's day to all out there. leaving now to take the wife out for a deserved mother's day dinner.

*obama/richardson* 2008 and beyond.

evening all. Excuse me if this was posted earlier, but it is an important one:

Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?
By Thomas Powers

There is a working assumption among the American people that a new president enters the White House free of responsibility for the errors of the past, free to set a new course in any program or policy, and therefore free - at the very least in constitutional theory, and perhaps even really and truly free - to call off a war begun by a predecessor. No one would expect something so dramatic on the first day of a new administration but it remains a fact that the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, and the power that allowed one president to invade Iraq would allow another to bring the troops home.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the current presidential campaign have promised to do just that - not precipitously, not recklessly, not without care to give the shaky government in Baghdad time and the wherewithal to pick up the slack. But Obama and Clinton have both promised that the course would be changed on the first day; ending the American involvement in the Iraqi fighting would be the new goal, troop numbers would be down significantly by the middle of the first year, and within a reasonable time (not long) the residual American force would be so diminished in size that any fair observer might say the war was over, for the Americans at least, and the troops had been brought home.

The presumptive Republican candidate, John McCain, has pledged to do exactly the opposite - to "win" the war, whatever that means, and whatever that takes

(SOMEONE HAS GOT TO MAKE THIS SENILE OLD POS EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT HIS IDEA OF WINNING THIS OCCUPATION AND CIVIL WAR IS )

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108Z.shtml

Any President will want and need the support of Congress to have the military option on the table. You negotiate from power, not weakness. If Congress would not give a President, ANY President, the full power to negotiate, they (Congress) are being anti-American.

Let me repeat, IF Obama is elected President, and he goes to Congress to ask for the military option to negotiate, the Congress would be derelict to not give him all options, including military options. Americans support negotiating from power. Anything less in under-cutting the power of negotiating, and the OFFICE of the President. We always give our President the full power needed to negotiate.

And if ANY President ABUSES and DISREGARDS the requirements spelled out in the authorization, he/she should be held accountable for breaking LAW set by Congress.

Hillary has a very good reason for not apologizing for the Iraq vote. She supported the OFFICE of THE PRESIDENT, not Bush. She gave him enough rope, and Bush hung himself and his Party. Look what happened in the 2006 election thanks to Bush's war. But sadly, people are not holding Bush accountable for BREAKING THE REQUIREMENTS IN THE AUTHORIZATION.
As a matter of fact, Bush is not held accountable for anything.

and this one made me smile from ear to ear!!! Let's make the Republian party Extinct! The Republican Wall of shame has tumbled them all down !

GOP Getting Crushed in Polls, Key Races
By Jim VandeHei and David Paul Kuhn
The Politico

In case you've been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice, Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and in the polls

At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that they have held for 13 years.

In the polls, they are setting records (and not the good kind). The most recent Gallup Poll has 67 percent of voters disapproving of President Bush; those numbers are worse than Richard Nixon's on the eve of his resignation. A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP - the lowest since CBS started asking the question more than two decades ago. By comparison, 52 percent of the public has a favorable view of the Democratic Party

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108B.shtml

Now who was it a couple weeks ago, arguing with me that the US occupied countries in the world LIKE being occupied??? WRONG !!!!!!! Get us the hell out !!

Protest Camps Against American Military Bases in Japan and Italy

The presence of the US military, 63 years after World War II, is a huge source of anger for the citizens of Japan, Korea, Germany and Italy. On the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the US military uses an artillery firing range known as Yausubetsu. The range is small in comparison to ranges in the United States and Germany - only 30 kilometers by 10 kilometers - but the source of irritation to Japanese farmers whose land was taken for the range and for those who live near the range is large. The peaceful rolling hills and valleys of the area are the home of the dairy industry of Hokkaido. The Japanese have used a cartoon of an angry dairy cow with boxing gloves as their symbol of protest of the US military's use of the range.

The citizens of Hokkaido join citizens from other parts of the world who are protesting the continuing presence and expansion of the US military. The citizens of Vicenza, Italy, for two years have protested the expansion of the US Army base into the only remaining green area in the city. Protest central in Vicenza is a tent erected at the end of the abandoned airfield which will become the expanded home of the US Army. As in Hokkaido, citizens of Vicenza use the tent as a visible symbol of protest and objection to continued US military presence 60 years after World War II.

The US military argues that "forward deployed bases" are critical for projection of US power, a warning to others that the US can be on their doorstep in minutes or hours. We, as citizens of the United States, must decide if it is the military we wanted projected, or whether it is in the best interest of our national security that some aspects of our country be "projected

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CNN ran a news story this afternoon from the campaign trail where Bill Clinton got into it with a heckler at a rally over healthcare.

Bill's newest excuse for not getting universal healthcare done in his first two years even though he had a majority in Congress...

It's all Bob Dole's fault.

Yes, even though Bill had two full years to get a bill together and voted on by his Democratic majority. Instead he had Hillary consulting with the special interests instead of the Congressional leadership so it just didn't happen because...

Bob Dole, that political genius and strategist exraodinare, somehow arm-wrestled Bill to the mat. Which is pretty odd since he lost an arm in WWII.

Why hasn't anyone ever given Dole credit for such a major political coup? Why is this the first time we've ever heard about this?

I suggest that the GOP give Dole a medal at their convention in September so everyone can finally acknowledge the feat.

Good try, Bill. But you're looking as lame as Bush and McCain these days. Blame Dole? Blame Mitchell? Blame Hillary? Blame anybody but yourself?

The next thing we know he'll be blaming NAFTA on Dennis Kucinich.

Pam,

We should close all 700 of our bases worldwide. Talk about imperialistic jerks. I think Ecuador was the latest country that asked us to leave.

Paraguay should kick out bush's mercenary army and seize his property. That would be my choice.

Sandy, I Watched that confrontation of clinton and the heckler. What Bill told her was that Bob Dole worked with them and supported the health care iniative that Hillary was creating, and then the GOP told him he had to stop backing it because they did not want it to go through before election, so Dole joined a fillibuster the GOP did to kill it.

heading out for the evening, Dems.

blog ya all tomorrow.......

Remember, the trash will be flushed shortly!

I sure don't get the polls

How does that jive with this?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106960/Clintons-vs-Obamas-Strengths-General-Election.aspx

Posted by SandyH on May 11, 2008 at 08:07 PM

Republicans went after Rostinkowski who was leading the charge in Congress. btw, he was charged with floating checks until they could be paid for, and that was going on in Congress for a long time. Once Rostinkowski (Chicago) was out of the picture, health care reform was done. And yes, Dole was largely to blame too.

Happy Mother's Day

May Mother’s Day bless our patriot mothers with our blessings of our love in how they have cradled America birthrights from infancy of a nation to present bearing our children and nation’s future. They have given US our dreams and nurtured our nation, which has been blessed so divinely special. For this act of Poetry, they have created our HeArt Beats painting US with American Artmosphere of the Heritage and History of these Unites States of America. These “Made in America” moms do sing” God Bless America” in family value system of our Declaration of Independence over tyranny.

Go Democrats, let's kick McBush out of office, by cleansing the Royalty out of Washington's Country Clubs and putting McCain back into his wife's corporate jet.

Posted by Big_Yellow_Dog on May 11, 2008 at 08:47 PM

Thanks for the comment and info.

Herpy/Frosti* you are truely disgusting.

The next thing we know he'll be blaming NAFTA on Dennis Kucinich.

Posted by SandyH on May 11, 2008 at 08:07 PM

I like Dennis Kucinich, he had the guts to speak out, when other Democrats were telling him to shut up. Eventually in the background of politics, he was muzzled. I hope Obama can use him for an important mission in saving America, he would serve proudly and patriotically.

I love how real religious Conservatives are starting to break the Corporate Royal Yoke of the Republic Party by addressing the environment, aids, health issues, and poverty with real human compassion. They are keeping their distance from being corrupted into a White House corporate religion, which under Bush, advocated War over Peace, Hate over Love, Corporations over "We the people, and division over unity.

Why, if Bush was a Catholic his Intelligence would have a permanent confessional!

Boy I pity Frosty's mother, I bet she fed him soap for he is foaming at the mouth today on Mother's Day.

I bet if you posted, what Harpo said here onto the Republican Party Blog, they would also have things to say about him claiming to being a Republican.

It seems the Russian and Chinese economies are not facing the same Cheney inflation and Bush recessions as America has, it seems that things here are on a different scale, as to the rest of the world powers. It seems we have a Bush created and managed Creative Enron Accounting scandal going on in how like Enron the market and Wall Street is being exploited for profit. Look at the Russian and Chinese example they are not seeing the same vola