Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Heads to President Obama's Desk
In a 61-36 vote, the Senate voted in favor of equal pay for equal work on the heels of the House vote earlier this month.
The legislation now heads to President Barack Obama's desk for signature.
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Maybe Keith would start listing all of the right wingers who are un-American because they're not supporting their new President, the The Honorable President Obama.....
countdown@msnbc.com in case anyone wants to drop him a note asking him to say something about how Rush is so un-American these days....
It's great to see that the business of the American people is being taken care of by a competent and able Administration.
The last CULT leader the Libs blindly followed,
The move of Peoples Temple headquarters to San Francisco in 1975 invigorated Jones' political career. After the Temple served an important role in the mayoral election victory of George Moscone in 1975, Moscone appointed Jones as the Chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission.[41]
Unlike most other figures deemed as cult leaders, Jones was able to gain public support and contact with prominent local and national United States politicians. For example, Jones and Moscone met privately with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale on his campaign plane days before the 1976 election and Mondale publicly praised the Temple.[42][43] First Lady Rosalynn Carter also personally met with Jones on multiple occasions, corresponded with him about Cuba, and spoke with him at the grand opening of the San Francisco Democratic Party Headquarters where Jones garnered louder applause than Mrs. Carter.
For a Christmas gift, the company I work for gave everyone a gift card from Wal-Mart. Now mind you, I never go there but I wanted to check out a Wii game on my lunch hour. I was standing in line when I over heard one guy talk to another. He said, "It was hard voting for him because he is black but my wife said time were changing and the Republicans had made such a mess out of everything. So I voted for him." The other guy was standing there and replied,"well, you have to say he sure is moving fast - we got so used to having Bush do nothing"....
I just smiled.....
Sams Club is the same thing, old squirrel face, and you buy your depends there.
Sams Club= Wal mart
hahahahahaha
cactus is still drinking kool-aid from the republican cult.
the republicans have really brainwashed their trollys.
hahahahahahhaha
what's really destroying the republican party is that their trollys and loyal cronies aren't even paying attention to the issues.
the only thing the repub trollys can do now is spread lies about the Democratic Party.
And everyone is on to them.
hahahahahahahahahaha
Carryover from last thread, I think that this is an important issue.
The confirmation process is a given, and I'm not saying that we have to start indicting people in the next 24 hours.
What I am saying is that Bush's administration needs to be investigated. Especially now that the whistle blowers are starting to come forward.
The Bush administration has set several extremely dangerous precedents, aside from the everyday corruption and cronyism which they routinely practiced.
The war crimes, torture, and the unilateral "war" in Iraq which was deliberately justified using false information, are the most obvious and the most damaging to our world standing. If we blow if off, we will never be trusted in the world, because we have provided no deterrent to some other president coming along and re-initiating these crimes.
The other thing, and as an American citizen, and someone who has sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States is; in the rampant and unregulated spying on the American People, and the routine and illegal campaign against people in the government who didn't kowtow to their party line, the Bush administration has undercut the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. If that is allowed to stand, there is nothing that a future administration will see to stop them from doing that and worse, and our rights as American citizens is no better than in Communist China with its conscripted slave labor.
If we don't use the rule of law to protect ourselves from future administrations which attack our country's foundations with the same disregard for law, and with more organization, and fervor, we will have let our selves, our children and our grandchildren down, and left ourselves open for even worse in the future.
Allowing the Bushiato to get away with their activities on these issues means that both our Constitution and our moral standing is left badly damaged.
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Butte on January 23, 2009 at 02:07 PM
Benji - yeah - wtf is he talkin gabout anyway Sams Walmart... who gives a rats ass. Typical dumb repuklican - never makes any sense..just a lot of hot air.
I'm really loving Obama over turning so much already of the harmful things that Bush and the republicans did. Of course he could work non-stop for over a year to undo all the harm but at least it's a start... I wonder if he'll do anything about all of these communities who have only talk radio from the right... it would be nice if the playing field were more equal.
Butte on January 23, 2009 at 02:10 PM
As soon as President Obama finds a pretend crimes court to take the case, BuTT.
Butte - you do bring up a good point and I understand where you're going through. Like Olberman said a few nights ago, if Obama doesn't go after Bush and his crowd it could mean worse down the road from another Bush type gaining power. We have to stop it before it might do more harm down the road - for our kids and Grand kids. I understand that.
But geez - there's so much more to fix that is broken.
But deep down - I would love to see Bush and Cheney have to answer for all the lies and bad stuff they did. If we don't put a stop to it now - it could come back and be worse later...
Good afternoon fellow Democrats. Good morning to the left coast.
Butte,
I do believe that an investigation will take place at the highest levels of the White House.
I also believe that the information obtained from these investigations will not be made immediately public unless the evidence is overwhelming and the cirucumstances are extraordinary.
The world knows what bush and the republicans did while in power.
The question is, "How did they do it?" and "Is there any tangible evidence to prove that they did it what they did in an illegal and most importantly a punishably illegal way?"
If not, than it's an issue for historians to deal with.
And even with that, I don't believe historians will have a favorable view of the bush administration and I don't believe historians will profit from the republicans for sugar-coating the last decade of republican stupidity.
Has President Obama replaced any of the secuity measures he is removing?
He may end up owning any terrorist attact that happens now.
what pretend bush lie about he war and wmd people died for a lie that real crime
Obamamma,
the trollys are losing their marbles.
no one takes anything they write seriously and the poor trollys are so mad that they lost they can't even write coherent sentences anymore.
Hi Bob from the left coast. Butte - I think Obama or someone from there will monitor it. what I'm waiting for is Scooter - oh man - I think he's going to spill his guts and I think the real person in big dodo will be Cheney.
I think Obama will have to make a decision about how far he wants it pushed. But I do think if nothing is done, then it sets up for another down the road to do worse.
the republicans own all the terrorist attacks that will happen for years to come.
it was the republicans who couldn't catch osama bin laden
osama bin laden was responsible for 9/11.
bush and the republicans failed to capture osama bin laden
President Barack Hussein Obama is doing everything to make this country safe from fundamenalist/right-wing extremists.
Benji - good one. I agree. They are in utter panic these days hence their train of thought is a little off if you know what I mean (wink-wink)...
Hey Dusty - what's up?
not much just eating went out side is 1 degree out brr in minnesota
afternoon Dems.....
Remember when 9/11 happened 9 months after Bush took office------YET the Wacky twisted Right blamed Clinton??????
Kind of like what we shall do when another one hits, and Bush never did one single thing about the Borders nor Ports!! How Bush made us so many more enemies! How Bush killed innocent Iraqis, who now pledge to make America their enemy. How Bush killed off 4200+ and disabled 30,000 US troops, diminishing our military power! Yeah, we are going to blame bush for any attacks for the next 10 years!!!!
are you robert if not why do you call you and me robert
bush and the republicans have no credibility on any subject.
When Former President William Jefferson Clinton honorably left office America was in great shape.
when bush left office America is now a mess.
President Barack Hussein Obama will do everything to keep America safe.
The republicans will do everything to make America fail because they are unpatriotic.
Hubby and I had to laugh the other day. Someone on MSNBC said that when Bush took off and flew to Andrews, there were so many people waving at him from the mall...
More like they were flipping him off.....
Florida Republicans hold almost 800 million in reserve for CSX while the state's economy crumbles around them.
Outrage. Florida's economy crashes, state holds $795 million in cool cash for CSX.
Poor CSX. They only earned 2.2 billion last year. Such a pity.
Obama is wiping away everything Bush set up to protect us. Everything that was working. This guy is turning into a bigger fool than I expected. If there is another attack, Obama owns it.
Rejoice! Bush's War is Over
Thank goodness we all survived the madness.
Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End
This article totally confirms what we've all been thinking.
The Left (including the media) believe this was Bush's war.
There was no threat.
It was our fault. If we change and be nice they will change and be nice.
It's not a battle against Islamofascism. That's a madeup Bush term.
Barack Obama will lead us to a valley of honeysuckle and rainbows.
Keep this article in mind on how the Obama Administration is stripping our country of the tools to keep us safe:
Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away: The military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas corpus and due process had been denied detainees, will close, and the CIA is now prohibited from maintaining its own overseas prisons. And in a broad swipe at the Bush administration's lawyers, Obama nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11, 2001.
It was a swift and sudden end to an era that was slowly drawing to a close anyway, as public sentiment grew against perceived abuses of government power.
It only took 3 days.
bush fails to capture osama bin laden
bush and the republicans lose the war on terrorism
sally repub trolly,
waaaa waaaa waaa
"i'm going crazy and i don't know what to do because the repubs lost"
waaa waaa waaa
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madfloridian on January 23, 2009 at 02:38 PM
Let me get this straight.
CSX is currently using the tracks in question 24/7 for freight traffic.
When the deal goes through the tracks will be dedicated to commuter traffic during the day.
At night the tracks will return to CSX control for freight traffic.
So they want the state of Florida to pay for any liabilities caused by them using the same tracks that they are using now, at night?
The state will own the tracks, but who is responsible for track maintenance?
How much is CSX going to pay the state of Florida to rent the tracks at night?
If they are making a large intermodal center at the end of the alternate which will handle the bulk of container freight, they shouldn't need to run that many consists down the track in question.
The liability should depends on who's error it was.
If the State is maintaining the track the state would be liable for any problems caused by the roadbed, track or signals.
If CSX is to maintain the track (they're the ones with the equipment to do so), then CSX should be liable.
Any problems caused by employee error or rolling stock should be on the carrier.
Sounds fishy to me.
Good afternoon, all.
Just stopping in to thank all those in Congress who finally got that equal pay bill passed.
Just think, the Reagan Revolution held this up for like 35 years. It took Obama two days to get it onto his desk to be signed. The Republicans owe us women more than back pay; they owe us an explanation.
Why has GOP treated women workers like second-class citizens? Why did a lot of them still vote against it this time?
bbl.
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SandyH on January 23, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Because they have always been for the rich white males, who have run things for centuries, and they don't see any reason to change.
Privileged classes always fight to maintain privilege. Or, in the case of female Republicans and poor white males, what they have been taught to perceive as privilege.
I always figured I could open my own car door, just give me a decent paycheck.
Sandy, I think it's quite obvious that the Republicans don't like women. It's sort of in their nature dating back to biblical times. You know - women must walk three paces behind her husband sort of thing. What I'm amazed at is that any women would be a Republican in the first place. I mean, isn't that like stopping at the Dairy Queen after a Weight Watchers meeting? A republican woman is constantly voting against her better interest.
It makes my head hurt.
Got to run - got a hot date tonight.
Keep on rockn'
the repubs definitely hate women.
look at all sally and his boyfriends neo-con, cactus, evil dr. burd and swirly.
none of them have girlfriends, they stay on this blog all the time and they all date each other because women get sick when they see these losers.
sally and his boyfriends can't get along with women so they have to date each other.
heh heh heh heh heh
Sally-* on January 23, 2009 at 02:52 PM
Obama is wiping away everything Bush set up to protect us. Everything that was working. ... If there is another attack, Obama owns it.
Of course he'll own it as much as former President Bush owns 11SEP01, former President Clinton owns the first attack on the WTC in 1993 and the OK City bombing, and FDR owns Pearl Harbor. The buck stops with the POTUS. You state the obvious.
But if you expect us to sell out every ideal this great nation of ours was founded upon then you really have lost your mind. Paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither". We can still keep the country safe without considering the Constitution a hinderance as the Republican Party does. We will not stoop to that level. We don't have to. The competent people are back in charge after an eight year absecnce in the White House and a twelve year absence (1995-2007)in the Congress.
Benjamin Franklin was not speaking of savage terrorists who seek to destroy the USA. It will probably take another attack to get Obama back on our side.
Global Warming affecting EVERYTHING ! Trees, oceans, species of animals and plants!
Global Warming Increasing Death Rate of US Trees, Scientists Warn
Studies find wide range of tree species are dying with serious long-term effects for biodiversity and carbon dioxide release.
Trees in the western United States are dying twice as quickly as they did three decades ago and scientists think global warming is to blame.
In their surveys, ecologists found that a wide range of tree species were dying including pines, firs and hemlocks and at a variety of altitudes. The changes can have serious long-term effects including reducing biodiversity and turning western forests into a source of carbon dioxide as they die and decompose. That could lead to a runaway effect that speeds up climate change.
Benjamin Franklin was talking about sacrificing liberty for security.
Only a coward would sacrifice liberty for security.
Without any liberty there is no security.
Protecting Our Most Valuable Joint Asset: Earth
Thursday 22 January 2009
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by: Peter A. Seligmann, Conservation International
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Recent efforts to reach a compromise between evangelicals and liberals have managed to avoid the discussion of abortion altogether. The fact remains: according to many clergy representing millions of Americans of all faiths and denominations, the moral reality of women's lives is that sometimes abortion is the best moral choice.
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Benji on January 23, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Without liberty you are not even safe from your own government.
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Benji on January 23, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Without liberty you are not even safe from your own government.
One more thing - Pam . A few years ago, my husband and I went way up into Canada for a week of fishing. I swear, we went where no white person has ever been and would probably still be there if it weren't for his GPS system. Anyway, we had hired a guild. When I noticed that for as far as the eye could see, there were dead trees - everywhere in the wilderness - dead trees - whole areas of dead trees. It was sickening. When I asked our guild he siad that 10 years ago it was all green but that pollution and warming were taking the trees out.
What happens if all of this land turns brown?
And there are dumbasses who stil don't believe that our planet is dying...what idiots.
Now I do have to run..later
Liberty is the reason why all our veterans risk their lives.
Liberty is America.
The Nazi's believe that Liberty is not as important as security.
That is why the Nazi's relied heavily on their military.
But America fights for Liberty and Justice for All.
That is the American Way.
That is the way of President Barack Hussein Obama.
He will fight for Lady Liberty.
the republicans are lame.
former senator bruno of new york was handed a bunch of felony indictments today. he was a corrupt pos who used to like to laugh when he would screw over nyc or poor people and so on. looks like he won't be laughing last....tough shit....another one bites the dust...
Albany Times Union:
Bruno indicted
Grand jurors accuse Bruno of trading power for money
By BRENDAN J. LYONS AND JAMES M. ODATO, Staff writers
Last updated: 2:56 p.m., Friday, January 23, 2009
ALBANY — A federal grand jury today indicted former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno on felony charges alleging he used his position to extract $3.2 million in private consulting fees from clients who sought to purchase his influence.
An 8-count indictment handed up today charges the 79-year-old Republican with corruption charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison...
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Obamamma on January 23, 2009 at 03:50 PM
You don't even need to go into the wilds of Canada.
Through out the West, you can see acres of dead and dying trees. I can look out my window and see Lodgepole pines dying from a combination of drought stress and pine beetle attack, caused by the long droughts and warm winters we've been having in the last decade.
Pine beetles need 2 solid weeks of 20 below weather to kill the larvae. They are proliferating like rabbits.
Good aftrnoon, all!
I see the troll is once again posting BS from some guy from "NewsMax". Maybe he should actually check out those books that he had in his post.
If he could afford the going price of ONE CENT!
Better hurry, there are only 57 left.
Hell, the recycled paper is probably worth more than that.
It's an auction moron, the starting bid is .01 for a used book.
hahahahahaha
the republicans rely on .01 used books for their source of information.
and they get it at auctions.
hahahahahahahaha
Sally-* on January 23, 2009 at 03:35 PM
I believe Mr. Franklin was referring to all enemies of the United States, foreign and domestic which includes the savage terrorists you refer to.
no wonder the republicans are so lame.
the republicans are reading .01 cent books at auctions to educate them in the internet age.
Cold snap causes iguanas to fall from trees in Naples
NAPLES — The chilly weather in southern Florida this week was cold enough to force some iguanas to fall from trees.
Experts say the cold-blooded reptiles go into a deep sleep when the temperature falls into the 40s. Their bodies basically shut off and they lose their grip on the tree.
According to Collier County Domestic Animal Services control supervisor Dana Alger, iguana reports traditionally rise when temperatures drop, as the reptiles seek to warm themselves on asphalt surfaces such as sidewalks, roads and driveways.
Most of the iguanas were once pets that got released when they got too big. The reptiles can grow up to six feet long.
Record cold temperatures hit Concord, NH
January 16, 2009
CONCORD, N.H.—The temperature in Concord, N.H., has hit a record low.
According to the National Weather Service, the city temperature dropped to -24 around 7:30 a.m., on Friday. This crushes the previous record for the day of Jan. 16, which was -19, set in 1984.
Temperatures are expected to reach of high of 13 in Concord later in the day
repub trollys,
waaa waaa waaa
"my .01 cent book i bought from an auction is giving me incompetent information"
waaa waaa waaa
Obamamma on January 23, 2009 at 03:50 PM
Just look around your own neighborhood. There are almost NO acorns this year, and the squirrels are starving. They are becoming urban and suburban scavengers.
And frogs have been dying off for a number of years. (Frogs are considered an early warning species, like canaries in coal mines).
Not to mention THE BEES which pollinate over a third of the world's food supply.
good thing there is a difference between Weather and CLIMATE!!! Now if we can only school the last few remaining simple simons on the difference, maybe they would not make fools of themselves.
Reports: Palin Wants As Much As $11 Million For Book Deal...
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That would be a sad day for the republicans when sarah palin's book turns up at a .01 cent auction.
sally,
maybe sarah palin will divorce her husband and visit Minnesota and see you there and fall in love with you and you will get married to the love of your life sarah palin.
"ooooohhhhh sally, you betch, (wink, wink)"
heh heh heh heh heh
First Missile Strikes On Pakistan Since Obama Presidency: Reports
According to ABC News, Commander-in-chief Obama has launched his first missile attacks...
The CIA's bombing campaign against al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan continued with two more attacks today, an indication, senior officials say, that President Barack Obama has approved the U.S. strategy that has killed at least eight of al Qaeda's top 20 leaders since July 2008.
The two attacks today in Pakistan's were the first since President Obama took office on Tuesday.
Other news outlets are being more cautious about whether the attacks came from the US, citing them as "suspected" missile strikes.
...............
It looks like our Commander-In-Chief is going after osama bin laden!
I wonder where that evidence that carbon dioxide is heating the earth up and killing the bees.
Pam, what these morons don't realize is that when they constantly keep posting "RECORD COLD..." screeds they are only proving that the climate is changing.
But it doesn't matter what these Chimpy deadenders repeat, Exxon/Mobil is no longer running the science departments of the US government.
Obama hired scientists to administer the science areas. What a novel idea, and all the Liberty U fundies and Chimpy Pioneers and Rangers fund raisers and other assorted political hacks are getting the boot.
The trool is just flapping his fingers posting his shit.
while the trolly is still trying to figure out "climate change" with his .01 cent used auction books,
PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS WORKING TO FIGHT AGAINST THE TERRORISTS WHO ATTACKED AMERICA ON 9/11
Pam, what these morons don't realize is that when they constantly keep posting "RECORD COLD..." screeds they are only proving that the climate is changing.
Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on January 23, 2009 at 04:43 PM
But it is called "Global Warming". At least it was until the earth failed to warm so they had to change the name to "Climate Change".
If the climate is changing to "record cold" then that sounds an awful lot like global cooling.
And if excess CO2 is causing climate change and the climate is changing to record cold then what happens to all of the horrors associated with global frickin warmin? Will ocean levels go down? Will we have fewer hurricanes?
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
Benji on January 23, 2009 at 04:42 PM
It looks like our [CIC] is going after [UBL]!
It's about time someone does. Our previous CIC, Bush 43, sure didn't seem to make any real effort at such.
good thing there is a difference between Weather and CLIMATE!!! Now if we can only school the last few remaining simple simons on the difference, maybe they would not make fools of themselves.
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PamB on January 23, 2009 at 04:30 PM
There is no difference between weather and climate. Climate is made out of weather. If it never rains in an area because they never have any rainy weather then that area has a dry climate. Duh
I have never, ever liked this guy. What a liar!
McConnell: Employee Free Choice Act will ‘fundamentally harm America and Europeanize America.’»
Today in a press conference at the National Press Club, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attacked “narrow interest groups” in Washington, such as labor unions. Specifically, he went after the Employee Free Choice Act:
I came here to speak about bi-partisanship, but this is an issue on which there will be no bi-partisanship. … This is an outrageous proposal. It will fundamentally harm America and Europeanize America and we will have a big political fight over this.
McConnell also claimed that “rank and file” union members aren’t “clamoring” for the Employee Free Choice Act to be passed.
The Wonk Room’s Pat Garofalo noted that to back up his “facts,” McConnell trotted out statistics that he learned from former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao…who is also his wife.
Since Monday, PRESIDENT Obama's poll numbers have increased by 9 points!
Favorable...77%, Unfavorable... 20%, Don't Know...2%.
How can anyone not know how they feel? If you add up those other 2 numbers, you get 23%, the Chimpy lover crowd.
He's still got it! Yeah, Baby!
Adios amoeba, you worthless POS. You still have your dead enders and brain dead loyalists. In other words, the certifiably insane and the chronically stupid.
REAL Americans like what they are seeing.
Why do the Pugs hate America?
Bob,
Our CIC 44 is doing what should have been done years ago.
It's sad how the once mighty and proud republican party is so lost and out of touch.
77% of the Patriotic Americans are doing everything they can to make this country great once again.
The rest are either still learning or going backwards with their .01 cent auction used books.
You're just making shit up now. There is a B1 climate zone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Look up what a B1 is. This is shit that was taught in High School before Raygun and the Pugs decided to dumb down the population. Because stupid people are sheep and are gullible.
As Bill Clinton said, "When people think, they vote Democrat".
Bush finished at 30% approval on the gallup poll which was the only one in operation in 1953 when they polled Harry Truman's final rating at 21%.
If Obama's reckless abandonment of Bush's anti terror policies result in another attack then Bush's numbers will go way up while Obama's will rival Truman's.
This is absolutely wonderful:
To Support and Defend: A Message to US Senators and Representatives
Friday 23 January 2009
by: Phillip Butler, Ph.D., t r u t h o u t | Perspective
(Photo: flickr/nj_dodge)
"I, Phillip Neal Butler, having been appointed a Midshipman in the United States Navy, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, so help me God." (Oath of Office, July 1, 1957.)
Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1961, I had the honor of repeating this oath to be commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy. I served 20 years as an active duty commissioned officer. During that time, I became a naval aviator, flew combat in Vietnam, was downed over North Vietnam on April 20, 1965, and became a prisoner of war. I was repatriated on February 12, 1973, having served 2,855 days and nights as a POW - just short of eight years. The Vietnamese were not signatories to any international treaties on treatment of prisoners. They pronounced us "criminals" and freely used torture, harassment, malnutrition, isolation, lack of medical care, and other degradations during our captivity. I was tortured dozens of times during my captivity. But I often thought of our Constitution and the higher purpose we served - a purpose that helped me resist beyond what I thought I'd ever be capable of. Ironically, we POWs often reminded each other "that our country would never stoop to torture and the low level of treatment we were experiencing at the hands of our captors."
Read the whole article here:
hoover's presidential performance was much like bush's.
hoover who lead the U.S. into a recession when WWII began
But FDR is a lot like Obama.
FDR lead us to victory in WWII much like Obama will with the currect war on terrorism.
MaryMac,
Veterans around this great nation are rejoicing that the republicans are out of power.
Unfortunately the last great republican leader was Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln would have changed parties if he saw what the current day republicans have done to his party.
Typical Republican Lying - again! What a bunch of lying, self-serving A$$holes!
Cantor’s Obsession/Lie: Stimulus Will Spend 4x More On ‘Grass’ Than On Small Businesses»
Today, President Obama held a White House meeting with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss his Recovery and Reinvestment plan. Afterward, Republicans made it clear they were not looking to compromise. Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) circled the cable news shows to mock the plan’s infrastructure spending, fixating on — and lying about — one particular and modest proposal to revitalize the crumbling National Mall, which he falsely claimed would receive more stimulus funds than would small businesses:
– When you’re seeing four times as much money spent on grass in Washington — that is actually lawn grass in Washington — than you do to help small businesses, that has your priorities backwards. [MSNBC]
– If you look at the bill that passed the ways and means committee yesterday, for every dollar spent to help small businesses, four dollars is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington. Again, what does that have to do with a stimulus bill? [Fox News]
Cantor’s claims are simply bogus — in fact, he completely inverts the truth. The draft version of the House stimulus bill released last week plans for four times as much spending on “creating small business opportunity” than National Mall renovations. These figures don’t even include the plan’s $20+ billion in business tax cuts, of which small businesses will be able to take advantage.
If Cantor were truly “singularly focused on protecting and preserving and creating jobs,” as he claims to be, he would jump on the infrastructure bandwagon. Infrastructure spending creates twice as many jobs as tax cuts. In fact, as Matthew Yeglesias notes, the sort of tax cuts that Cantor champions are among the “least efficient ways” to stimulate demand in the economy.
And of course, the National Mall funds will be spent on more than “grass.” Projects on the long to-do list — all of which will require new workers and create jobs — include repairing the Tidal Basin’s seawall, adding restrooms to the Mall, and renovating some of the nation’s most treasured buildings and monuments.
Benji: If you get a chance, please read that article. It is an absolute indictment of the Bush Administration for high crimes and treason and it is wonderful!
I have a number of friends who are veterans and they all were and continue to be supporters of Pres. Obama and to a person, they want Sen. Webb of Virginia for national office.
Solving the Coal Conundrum...Here's the problem: Coal is an abundant domestic source of energy; the U.S. is frequently called the Saudi Arabia of coal, in fact, and there's enough to last for centuries. It currently provides a bit more than 50 percent of the nation's electric power, and it plays a huge role in meeting the voracious energy needs of nations whose economies have been growing briskly, such as China and India.
But of all the nation's coal-fired power plants (there were 616 of them as of 2006), none can be labeled "clean," which, these days, is defined as being free (or nearly so) of carbon dioxide emissions. Globally, the CO2 that comes from the burning of coal, mainly to generate electricity, accounts for about 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, coal-fired electric utilities in the U.S. put out close to two billion tons of CO2 each year.Figuring out how to burn this easily available source of energy without causing major CO2 pollution is similar in some ways to the acid rain problem of decades past. Most coal-fired plants in the U.S. now scrub much of the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide from their flue gases, rather than letting the chemicals escape to react with other substances in the atmosphere and lead to severe damage to forests and other living things. Carbon, though, is a tougher problem.
Most methods being studied to "clean" coal fall under the loose heading of "carbon capture and storage," or CCS, which involves stripping the CO2 out of the coal-burning or coal-gasifying process and piping it deep underground. A study published in 2007 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that CCS is "the critical enabling technology that would reduce CO2 emissions significantly while also allowing coal to meet the world's pressing energy needs."
Carbon capture can occur at three different points. One is pre-combustion: When coal is gasified before it's burned, an almost pure stream of carbon dioxide can be created, segregated and pumped away. The best-known of the methods in this category is IGCC, or Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, in which gasified coal is used to run a turbine to produce power. To increase efficiency – because it takes additional energy just to fuel this operation – waste heat from the process is captured as steam and used to create more power.IGCC is used in industrial processes today, but the CO2 isn't captured. That's because there's no penalty in the U.S. for releasing it into the atmosphere. However, some companies have plans on the books to change that. A joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto, called Hydrogen Energy, is working on a CCS plant in California that could burn coal using IGCC technology to separate the CO2 and capture it.
Other research has focused on trying to strip the CO2 from the gas that remains after coal is burned, which is similar to what's done with the precursor chemicals to acid rain. Tenaska, Inc. has plans for a large coal-burning plant in Texas that will capture carbon from its flue gases.
Yet another technology, called oxyfuel, can be deployed during the actual combustion process. It involves burning coal in a mix of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and pure oxygen, and eliminates cumbersome steps for separating the resulting CO2 from other substances. Last year a plant in Germany became the first full-cycle oxyfuel demonstration project to begin operating; it provides power for about 1,000 homes. Its waste CO2 is being compressed, transported and buried two miles below a depleted gas field.
As it turns out, putting CO2 underground helps force reluctant liquids lurking there, like oil, to the surface. Selling captured CO2 to oil and gas field operators, as Tenaska plans to do with its Texas plant, and Hydrogen Energy hopes to do in California, can help recoup some of the companies' investment in CCS technology. There's been some real-world experience with the sequestration, or storage, part of the equation in other contexts. For example, natural gas produced at the Sleipner Field in the Norwegian North Sea contains unusually high levels of CO2 that must be stripped out. Norway's high tax on carbon emissions justifies the added cost of piping the CO2 2,600 feet under the sea and injecting it into a 200-foot-thick layer of porous sandstone. Similarly, the Weyburn project on this continent has been taking CO2 produced at a synfuels plant in North Dakota and piping it to oil fields in Saskatchewan...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/181143/page/2
This is one of the few places where I deviate from VP Gore. Clean coal technology is a distinct possibility if proper investments are made. And since we're going to authorize the POTUS to spend well over a trillion dollars on economic stimulus, here's a good place to start. If we can pull this off, we will not have to rely on another foreign entity for energy ever again. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of how clean coal technology will be good for the environment.
BobVADemocratHawk on January 23, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Good afternoon/evening Bob! I hope that you and yours are well. I posted an article earlier from a Vietnam Veteran that is one of the best articles that I have ever read. I hope that you will take a moment or two to read it, it isn't very long. I think that you, in particular, will enjoy it as much as I did!
MaryMac,
I believe the best way to defend the Constitution is to fight against those who violate out Liberty.
the republicans tried to take away our Liberty for the sake of defense and they deserve neither.
When Obama finaly cleans up the mess that the republicans created my hope is that bush and cheney will finally be brought to justice.
This is interesting:
REPORT: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It»
The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.
The new report — entitled “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” — raises serious questions about whether the companies licensed to broadcast over the public radio airwaves are serving the listening needs of all Americans.
While progressive talk is making inroads on commercial stations, right-wing talk reigns supreme on America’s airwaves. Some key findings:
– In the spring of 2007, of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top five commercial station owners, 91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming was conservative, and only 9 percent was progressive.
– Each weekday, 2,570 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk are broadcast on these stations compared to 254 hours of progressive talk — 10 times as much conservative talk as progressive talk.
– 76 percent of the news/talk programming in the top 10 radio markets is conservative, while 24 percent is progressive.
Two common myths are frequently offered to explain the imbalance of talk radio: 1) the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine (which required broadcasters to devote airtime to contrasting views), and 2) simple consumer demand. Each of these fails to adequately explain the root cause of the problem. The report explains:
Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules including the requirement of local participation in management. […]
Ultimately, these results suggest that increasing ownership diversity, both in terms of the race/ethnicity and gender of owners, as well as the number of independent local owners, will lead to more diverse programming, more choices for listeners, and more owners who are responsive to their local communities and serve the public interest.
Along with other ideas, the report recommends that national radio ownership not be allowed to exceed 5 percent of the total number of AM and FM broadcast stations, and local ownership should not exceed more than 10 percent of the total commercial radio stations in a given market.
When Obama finaly cleans up the mess that the republicans created my hope is that bush and cheney will finally be brought to justice.
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Benji on January 23, 2009 at 05:58 PM
From your lips to God's ears!
Oh - and I saw a funny (but true!) bumper sticker the other day:
"The last time we mixed Religion and Government, People got burned at the stake!"
marymac_memphis on January 23, 2009 at 05:55 PM
Hello, Mary. Here's hoping all is well with you and yours as well. Thank you for the link. I agree with CDR Butler. The DOJ should investigate and move to prosecute where feasible. But, IMHO, the Hague is out the question. Our DOJ is more than capable of prosecuting alleged war crimes.
WASHINGTON (AP)- Senior citizens receiving Social Security would get a bonus payment of $300 under the Senate version of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan.
The measure includes tax cuts and spending proposals totaling $355 billion under the plan released Friday by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., in anticipation of a panel vote on Tuesday. It will be paired with about $350 billion in further spending proposed by the Appropriations Committee on the Senate floor.The bonus for seniors is but one chapter in the Senate proposal. There’s also a temporary two-year $500 tax cut for most workers and $1,000 for couples, a $2,500 tax credit to help pay for college, tax cuts for businesses and to promote renewable energy, and $87 billion worth of help to states struggling with their 2009-2010 budgets for the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28816272/
This is a great idea if means testing is applied. Do people like Warren Buffet or other rich people really need an extra $300 from the taxpayers? I think not. I hope the POTUS and Congress agrees. I'll make sure my two senators, Sens. Webb (D-VA) and Warner (D-VA), know my opinion. I strongly recommend y'all do the same.
I am glad Kirsten Gillibrand is will be the Senator from New York.
I own a gun myself and Kirsten Gillibrand will be able to reach across the aisle with moderates who are pro-NRA.
This will be great for the Democratic Party and President Obama's Administration.
For a very long time the republicans and the extreme right have tied gun rights and the NRA together.
With Gillibrand, a Democrat, she will bring the NRA to the side of the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration.
The republicans and the conservative extreme right will no longer be able to monopolize the NRA constituency.
Eat shit, Tommy. If Obamamamma say it, it has a THOUSAND TIMES more veracity than any shit you pull out of your ass.
Kirsten Gillibrand will help create a bi-partisan administration.
The republicans will probably go bankrupt.
The extreme right can no longer monopolize the NRA.
And we now have competent leadership in Washington.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
The NRA is siding with the Democratic Party in New York.
Hurray.
Yay Kirsten Gillibrand - Democrat!
Hurray.
Boy the "LIBERALS" are Uniters and not Dividers!
Kirsten Gillibrand, who is a Democrat, and supported by the NRA is going to represent the Democratic Party in Congress.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE "LIBERALS" FOR UNITING AMERICA.
*i sure feel sorry for the neo-con idiotic republican losers
Everyone is going to work to make President Barack Hussein Obama a great President.
(except fat limpballs and anne coldsore and handjob hannity and o'liely and the rest of the obstructionist extreme right neo-con losers)
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE "LIBERALS" FOR MAKING ALL OF THIS POSSIBLE
Now this is funny:
Newspaper claims suspect transformed into a goat
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LAGOS, Nigeria – One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
The paper quoted police spokesman Tunde Mohammed as saying that while one suspect escaped, the other transformed into a goat as he was about to be apprehended.
The newspaper reported that police paraded the goat before journalists, and published a picture of the animal.
Police in the state couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Belief in black magic is widespread in Nigeria, particularly in far-flung rural areas.
Kirsten Gillibrand will help legislate responsible gun laws that will keep guns out of the hands of extreme-right wing domestic terrorists like "timothy mcveigh" and that crazy guy from Virginia Tech.
And she will do it as a Democratic Senator who is supported by the NRA.
And she will not use it as a political "wedge" issue for partisan gain.
And the loser republicans will not be able to do anything about it.
HURRAY!
marymac_memphis on January 23, 2009 at 07:37 PM
Funny, I heard the same thing happened to VP Cheney when he pulled off from the WH on Tuesday afternoon. ;-)
Good night fellow Democrats. Keep the Faith and keep the faith. Yes we can, yes we will, and tes we did!
Kirsten Gillibrand, who is a Democrat, and supported by the NRA is going to represent the Democratic Party in Congress.
Everyone is going to work to make President Barack Hussein Obama a great President.
106Benji on January 23, 2009 at 07:17 PM
hiya, benji. I'm excited and pleased that Gillibrand has been appointed to the US Senate too.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
If any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
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Esmeralda on January 23, 2009 at 08:14 PM
Taking shots at Pammy and DopPeyDoodle eh.
actually i worked for gillibrand. she is my congresswoman. she had to take some positions on gun control and stuff to get elected in this district which had been republican for like 40 years or so. with her we beat that piece of shit sweeney who was part of the bum rush of the recount in 2000 in florida along with that a-hole ted olsen.
not to worry she is pro-choice, pro-union and now that most of her constituents are in nyc where the bulk of nys's population is she will move left. and at 42 she could hold the seat for a long, long time, essentially she was mentored by hillary and schumer, not exactly right wing nuts.
This is a great idea if means testing is applied.
BobVADemocratHawk on January 23, 2009 at 06:53 PM
It's a great idea anyway. I hate to see Social Security be become another means-tested, low-income program. My experience has been that when such divisions occur, those enrolled in such programs face discrimination at every turn. Don't give people an excuse to discriminate against seniors! If the Administration wanted to attach the rehate to those in most need, they could give it to people receiving SSI which is already means-tested.
gg, I thought you had stated you campaigned for her....phone calls. I'm happy for you, the state of NY and America as a whole.
Life is good.
Edwin Black writes about a new generation of nuclear power
Clean Energy Quest
Truck-delivered Micro-Nuclear Reactor for Clean Energy Within Five Years
Edwin Black November 10th 2008
Contributors / Staff - Edwin Black
Micro-nuclear reactors about the size of a hot tub, prefabricated and delivered by trucks, will begin revolutionizing electric energy supply within five years, according to information gleaned from government scientists and corporate energy sources. If successful, the breakthrough will change the face of global energy supplies.
New nuclear battery technology pioneered by government scientists at Los Alamos—the facility that developed the first atomic bomb—has been licensed to private companies for mass production and distribution. In its initial format, each micro-reactor will produce just 25 megawatts, but enough to provide electricity for 20,000 average American-sized homes or a major industrial project. Daisy-chained, these micro-reactors, each one about twice the size of an average man, can supply enough electricity to power an entire small city or suburb. Initially, the reactors will be placed in isolated industrial and residential areas, such as oilsand enterprises and underdeveloped African nations in need of power.
The miniature nuclear marvels will be factory-sealed in concrete, and delivered by truck, train or ship for burial under close international nuclear regulatory supervision. The reactors will produce heat which will boil an adjacent water source to create the steam that typically turns turbines that generate electricity.
Unlike giant nuclear reactors requiring ten years to construct under daunting conditions, these concrete “nuclear batteries” have no moving parts, no potential to go supercritical or meltdown, and reportedly cannot be easily tampered with. The extremely small amount of hot nuclear fuel—too hot to handle--would immediately cool if exposed to air, technical sources assert. Read more ..
Jacquie! Gregg! How nice to see you in this new time of hope and grace. I am so pleased with our choice of president. He's turning out to be all that I had hoped. Sure, I know eventually he's going to make a decision at odds with what I would want, but I know one thing for sure: he's not going to load the court with partisan judges or start wars pre-emptively. He's going to work honestly with us to solve our problems, both at home and abroad. I can't get over it: the nightmare is ended! Bush is history. Oh, happy day. Oh happy, happy day!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/22/AR2009012203800.html
GAO Details a Bloated Budget for Government Contracts
The link to Edwin Black's article - read on...
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=906&pageid=37&pagename=Page+One
Esmeralda & Gregg,
The bi-partisan nature of the Obama Administration will make all of our disagreements with social issues minor compared to the nature of the real issues that face America and the World.
Gillibrand represents the bridging of a gap that has been historically exploited by the republicans for partisan purposes. The gun issue is another "wedge" issue used to polarize Americans.
Gillibrand is a another symbol of what's to come.
New York because of their diverse population needs responsible gun controls and reasonable interpretations of the 3rd amendment need to be respected.
The Democratic Party is setting a course for prosperity and responsible discourse that the republican were unable to bring to Washington when they were in power.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7cf745dc-e8ce-11dd-a4d0-0000779fd2ac.html
Obama urges Israel to open Gaza borders
tylinCA on January 23, 2009 at 08:29 PM
it's great to share it with you. I hope you are well.
We Know God’s Truth through God’s Commandments
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 2 Timothy 3:16 (NLT)
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If I discover truth from the Bible, how do I know the Bible is true? There’s a world of objective evidence, both external and internal, that says the Bible is true.
External evidence proves the Bible is a historical book that you can rely on. There are 5,366 copies of the Bible dating from the time it was written to just 70 years afterwards. That fact dispels the urban legend that the Bible was changed as it passed through generations and languages.
External evidence also includes many archeological discoveries. For example, historians used to say that Solomon couldn’t have had the horses the Bible says he had because no one had horses at that time. But then thousands of horse stables were found in an archeological dig.
There’s also the internal evidence of the Bible itself. In a court of law, a prosecutor with two or three eyewitness accounts has a good chance of making his case. The Bible is filled with eyewitness accounts. Moses was there when the Red Sea split; Joshua was there to watch Jericho fall; the disciples saw the resurrected Jesus.
The internal evidence of the Bible also includes the fact that it tells one story with consistency – though it was written over 1,500 years on three different continents by 40 different authors from every walk of life. No human being could account for that. It’s an amazing example of God’s abilities.
The Bible says, “There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another — showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us” (2 Timothy 3:15-17 MSG).
enjoy the evening, everyone.
i am with ya tylin. and i appreciate the evidence supporting the bible you posted esmeralda. very interesting.
First Embryonic Stem Cell Study Approved By FDA
NEW YORK — A U.S. biotech company says it plans to start this summer the world's first study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells _ a long-awaited project aimed at spinal cord injury.
The company gained federal permission this week to inject eight to 10 patients with cells derived from embryonic cells, said Dr. Thomas Okarma, president and CEO of Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif.
The patients will be paraplegics, who can use their arms but can't walk. They will receive a single injection within two weeks of their injury.
The study is aimed at testing the safety of the procedure, but doctors will also look for signs of improvement like return of sensation or movement in the legs, Okarma said.
Whatever its outcome, the study will mark a new chapter in the contentious history of embryonic stem cell research in the United States _ a field where debate spilled out of the laboratory long ago and into national politics.
Evening all good Dems,
It's a heat wave here in NM. It's 2030 hours and still 52 degrees. The bad news is that we have had no rain.
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Fromm on January 23, 2009 at 08:32 PM
What an incredible development. It is really good to hear that a company in New Mexico will build some of the micro-nuclear batteries. This along with the plant they are building to produce solar panels not 25 miles from my home will really help our economy go green. We need plants such as these in every state to produce jobs and get our economy going again.
Now if Obama will put the National Ignition facility back on track at Livermore, California we might have safe nuclear fusion one of these days.
These plants could not only produce electricity through steam but also power the distillation of seawater to provide abundant fresh water to America's cities.
chimp sidetracked this facility for the last eight years to the testing of nuclear weapons. That's what we need is more nuclear weapons to kill the rest of the planet.
The IPCC Can’t Count - Author and Reviewer Numbers are Wrong
HOW many times have you heard or read words to the effect that 4000 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) supported the claims about a significant human influence on climate? I think I’ve seen it on television, radio and the Internet and I know that politicians at national levels have quoted such figures. There’s no question whatsoever. It’s utterly wrong.
In fact, once the duplicated names are removed that number falls below 2,900 and if we only want those who explicitly supported the claims it falls to only about 60. So how does 4,000 become 60? Let’s take a closer look at the real numbers.
Consider the statement “The IPCC report concluded that there is a human influence on climate. This was supported by almost 4,000 authors and reviewers.” The popular mythology - and one that IPCC never tries to correct - is that those 4,000 supported the findings but all they really supported, by their work, was the creation of the report. The IPCC is allowing, or perhaps even encouraging, an ambiguity be misinterpreted, and not for the first time either, but I digress.
But how many individuals were involved? Was it 4,000 or some other number?
The IPCC said in its flyer for its Fourth Assessment Report (4AR)
2500+ Scientific Expert Reviewers
800+ Contributing Authors
450+ Lead Authors…[note 1]
so immediately the figure drops from 4,000 to 3,750 - but a closer check shows that’s not correct either.
Each of the three IPCC Working Groups (WGs) assembles its own lists of authors and reviewers, making six lists in all. Based on those lists of reviewers and on a previous list of authors that I had already extracted from the start of each chapter of the report (and each “Summary for Policy makers”and “Technical Summary”) the total number of authors and reviewers for each working group is as follows:
WG I - 595 authors, 624 reviewers
WG II - 400 authors, 1169 reviewers
WG III - 251 authors, 469 reviewers
Based on thee figures the total number of reviewers was 2262 and the number of authors is 1246. The former is well short of the IPCC’s 2500 but the latter is near enough to the claimed 1250.
Looking first at the number of authors we must take into account that an author for one working group can also be an author for another working group.
Anil Markandya of the UK was an author of WG II chapter 8 and WG III chapter 2, and Blair Fitzharris of New Zealand was an author of WG I chapter 4 and WG II chapter 11 and “summary for policymakers”. They, along with 39 other authors who contributed to more than one working group, have been counted twice in the IPCC’s total of 1250 authors.
Other authors who have been counted twice include those whose names are sometimes shown with accents, umlauts and other marks and sometimes shown without, and sometimes even with different spelling (e.g. the umlauted ‘u’ is sometimes shown as ‘ue’). After converting the variable spelling to a single form and removing the duplicates across working groups the number of authors falls to 1189 individuals.
In a similar fashion, reviewers can comment on chapters from more than one working group and their names might have the same variable spelling. After these issues are resolved the total number of reviewers falls to 2073.
With these corrections we’ve now lost almost 500 names from the 3750 that the IPCC claimed and we’re down to 3262.
But that’s the total of the number of authors and the number of reviewers. These roles are not independent and there was nothing to prevent authors also being reviewers, even of the chapters that they had contributed to. IPCC policies say that each author receives the draft copies of any chapter they contributed to and elsewhere we find that virtually anyone with relevant knowledge can be a reviewer, and authors often meet that requirement even for chapters that they did not work on.
Take for example Anthony Broccoli of the USA. He was an author of WG I chapter 8 and a reviewer of WG I chapter 6. All up, 383 individuals acted both as reviewers and authors. After removing the duplicate names from the composite list the number of individuals falls to 2879, which is a long way short of the claimed 4,000 and even of the IPCC’s total of 3750, which of course could be understood as individuals rather than separate lists.
At this point a few issues need to be clarified about the accuracy of the above figures because I wouldn’t like to be like the IPCC and not be precise. The manual adjustment for accents and other marks (e.g. umlauts) might not be 100% accurate. Care has been taken with the resolving of duplicate names but the results can’t be guaranteed to be correct. I’ve taken great care with identifying duplicate names but it is possible that two individuals might share the same name. On the other hand the same individual might at different times be listed under different names (e.g. women who are listed both under their maiden-name and their married name).
I also made corrections where the IPCC seems uncertain whether a Cuban individual was Juan Llanes-Requeiro or Juan Llanes-Requerio, or if a Swedish individual was Markku Rummukainen or Markku Rummu Ainen. Perhaps I have failed to notice other instances of IPCC incompetence.
Another problem that I discovered was that an Australian author whose name was in the composite list in the appendix to the Working Group I contribution could not be found in the lists of authors at the start of each chapter. (This was another reason for using a list of authors extracted from each chapter rather than the composite list provided by each Working Group.) I haven’t bothered to determine whether other instances of this discrepancy occur for this working group or others. I don’t know and frankly don’t care, because it looks like just another of the IPCC’s distortions and outright lies.
The IPCC’s claims of 2500+ reviewers and 1250 authors bears little relationship to the truth and its implied total of more than 3750 individuals is even worse. This is just another example of how the IPCC’s messages are ambiguous - deliberately so, in my opinion - and how the organization publishes a lobbyist’s message rather than a clear presentation of the facts.
But did the 2879 individuals all support the IPCC’s principal findings? There’s really no proof that any more than about 2% explicitly did so.
The key chapter in the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report of 2007 is chapter 9 of the Working Group I
contribution. No authors prior to that chapter were asked for their opinion, although perhaps we could say that some authors of two chapters, 1 and 8, gave it anyway. Authors of chapters 10 and 11 of the WG I contribution assumed the claims made in chapter 9 were correct, and so did the authors of all chapters of the contributions by Working Groups II and III.
Chapter 9 of Working Group I had 53 authors in total but more than 40 were part of a network of people who worked previously together. In direct contradiction to the IPCC’s statements that the team of authors should have a wide range of views and experiences, most were climate modellers and there were many instances where several authors were associated with the same establishment. In the latter case it was not uncommon for a contributing author to be a subordinate (academic or work) to author higher in the authoring hierarchy. [note 2]
It is impossible to say whether the findings were truly supported by all 53 authors of chapter 9 but let’s assume that they did.
The second draft of chapter 9, the last draft available for review by individuals, received comments from 552 people and 7 governments. Of these 62 only 5 reviewers explicitly endorsed the overall chapter [note 3]. None of these supporting reviewers was particularly credible because of vested interests or because this was the only review comment they made for the entire report, but let’s not quibble.
Fifty-three authors and five reviewers are all that can be said to explicitly support the claim of a significant human influence on climate. The figure of 4,000 is a myth. Even the IPCC’s total of 3750 is a myth. Not even the 2879 individuals can be shown to support the claim. The true number is about 60, or maybe if we asked each of those privately, perhaps even fewer.
It can’t be denied that other reviewers may have supported the notion of significant man-made warming but failed to explicitly state this. If that’s the case them they only have themselves to blame for not being counted with the other “true believers”. We can however be sure that support among those other IPCC authors and reviewers was not unanimous. The lists of reviewers contain the names of many people who are known to be sceptical of a significant human influence on temperature, so any implication that they supported the IPCC’s findings are totally without merit. As mentioned earlier, the support to which the IPCC referred in its flyer was towards the creation of the entire report, not the findings of a small network of climate modellers, although the “sceptical reviewers” would probably argue that their support for the report was only in trying to curb the excesses of the IPCC’s authors.
This document has shown that yet another statement by the IPCC is unsupported by any solid evidence. Not only was the IPCC dishonest about the level of support for its primary claim, either deliberately or through allowing an ambiguity to be misinterpreted, but it couldn’t even get its number of authors and reviewers correct.
If the IPCC cannot provide an accurate count of authors, reviewers and the people who acted in both roles for its report then we probably should be asking what, if any, of its statements can be believed.
Esmeralda
You seem to enjoy the bible. Here is the approach from the school I was trained in.
The Word became flesh (not a book)....
Meaning:
1 - Jesus Christ is the Word of God
2 - The Word is that which is proclaimed -
from the pulpit, in conversation, in living
3 - The Word has been made flesh - so we need to
enter the human instruments/people it comes
through:
A. it has a social historical context
B. it has a language to translate from
(Hebrew/Greek)
C. it has a literary context/style/genre
that's why it is called a bible -
from the German/Spanish word for a
library - "bibliothek"
D. After having said this - we finally turn
to the print
There are no Hebrew fonts, nor Greek fonts on this site...no fun...can't do the language step....computer programs will now do this...maybe you already have one...any way...it's fun to see which passages you post....
Perhaps you like bible based music? I have co-written/published with Australian artist, Leigh Newton,from Adelaide. Leigh set psalm 139 to Beethoven's "La Pathetique" - you can listen to the mp3's on his site - go downloads. here is the site:
Enjoy.
אין גופנים בעברית, ולא יוונית הגופנים באתר זה לא כיף ... ... לא יכול לעשות את הצעד .... שפה המחשב תוכניות לעשות את זה עכשיו ... אולי יש לך כבר אחד, בכל צורה שהיא ... ... זה כיף לראות אילו מעברי שתפרסם ...
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If Obama keeps going in the direction he is going the Republicans will win back all of those seats they lost in conservative districts next time.
The party out of power always wins around 20 seats in an off year election but Obama is shooting for the record.
More Global Warming Tomfoolery
Gregory Young
A new study published in Nature yesterday suggests that despite mountains of data in conflict, the Antarctic is really warming, and at unprecedented rates. The Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming disciples are ecstatic! Grab your snorkel and fins! But, on closer examination, the "real data" don't really show that at all. In fact, there's not much real data.
As MSNBC grudgingly admitted:
"The researchers used satellite data and mathematical formulas to fill in missing information. That made outside scientists queasy about making large conclusions with such sparse information." [Emphasis added.]
Kevin Trenberth, skeptic and climate analysis chief at the National Center of Atmospheric Research was quoted by MSNBC as saying, "It's hard to make data where none exist."
Added to that, we learn that there are only "a handful" monitoring stations in the interior of the Antarctic, so the data schedule was at best exceptionally incomplete.
So what's wrong in adding a few data points when you need them? Where "up" is "down" and "down" is, err, "sideways," anything is possible.
Notice the "Alice in AGW Wonderland" nature of this quote from the MSNBC report:
The [Nature] study has major ramifications for sea level rise, said Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria in Canada. Most major sea level rise projections for the future counted on a cooling -- not warming -- Antarctica. This will make sea level rise much worse, Weaver said.
This is Mad Hatter tea party science. First it is warming that will melt the ice to make seas rise, and then it is cooling. Perhaps this revelation only occurred since it was pointed out that ice actually melting in seawater would in fact reduce sea levels. So, we really should be worried because...?
MSNBC also reports from Roger Pielke Sr., a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado, that the study "... overstates what they have obtained from their analysis," demonstrating that the new study was inconsistent with a deluge of past satellite measurements, which revealed no warming has occurred in Antarctica since 1980.
MSNBC also adds that the "study does not point to man-made climate change as the cause of the Antarctic warming -- singling out a cause is a highly intricate scientific process.... but a different and smaller study out late last year did make that connection.
Please show us this definitive study. Please!
This is the same old statistical nonsense shamefully perpetuated by AGW'ers. When you don't have data... just make it up! And then you can make up some outlandish conclusions to go with it.
Like many of the models thoroughly debunked by Lord Monckton's analysis here of IPCC mathematical models, most of which were found to exaggerate the data some 500-2000 times their true values, and not forgetting the infamous Hockey Stick data now completely discredited world-wide, this study shows the same non-credible, non-scientific method of fabricating results in order to protect AGW theory.
Also note, apart from the blatant fact that much of the data is "made up," the study looks at data only from 1957 to the present. A 50-year trend is just that ... only 50 years. Depending on who one wants to fool, the scientists could also look at 5 years using the same data, or 10 or 20 years for that matter, and they would likely determine different statistical results in each case, all derived from the same data.
Analyzing short-term trends exacerbates statistical errors. Most reputable scientists know this. But this type of analysis is what AGW'ers generally do because it's the only way they are able to make the AGW argument and increase their funding. In the process they egregiously disregard the total climate history of planet Earth, unrealistically focusing on the short-term and only concentrating on smaller geographical areas.
"Climate" is measured in the 100,000s to 1,000,000s years, and entails the entire Earth. Small trends mean little if anything, except perhaps that kind of general advice found in the Farmer's Almanac.
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Benji on January 23, 2009 at 07:07 PM
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Eat shit, Tommy. If Obamamamma say it, it has a THOUSAND TIMES more veracity than any shit you pull out of your ass.
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Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on January 23, 2009 at 07:08 PM
Looks like Paully is havung another one of his so-called "social" moments.
Holy Guacamole, According to our pet moonbats, the bees are dying off, the frogs are croaking(No pun intended), Pine beetles are are eating all of our forsts up, plus our resident Moonbat Queen Pamellla says global warming is killing everything. No friggin acorns to be found? My god how stupid are you? In the winter you won´t find acorns because all the friggin squirrels have hid them to eat in the winter.
Whats next on your agenda? Cockroaches deepfried in Peanut oil will cure Cancer, slow global friggin warmin´and makes a great afrodisiac for ageing impotent fairies?
I own a gun myself and Kirsten Gillibrand will be able to reach across the aisle with moderates who are pro-NRA.
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Benji on January 23, 2009 at 07:04 PM
I bet you do own a gun. Fairies always have a gun between their legs. Real men have weapons- Pistols ,revolvers, rifles. There is a difference between "gun toting faggots" and real men that carry weapons.
your full of shit sally we might w in 20 2o10 in house and 3 in the senate if obama does what bush didn't bring our economy back the people will be willing to give the democrats more seats
Sorry Duhsty but I never talk to morons or people like Robert pretending to be morons like you and Benji the former Army Ranger who served in the fag brigade.
your are moron look at the mirror silly you dont belong here posting your nonsense thinking your so intelligent when just moron
Ford Invents New "Green" Dashboard [Greg Pollowitz]
Just think of the hours and cost of development for this. It's no wonder the U.S. auto industry is in trouble:
I believe it was Al Gore in his book Earth in the Balance who said that an ordinary car is one of the greatest threats to the environment. Clearly, all automotive companies need to be thinking about Mother Earth the next time they roll their next model off the assembly line.
I suppose this is why Ford has come up with a new dashboard that literally shows you how earth-safe your driving is. Part of it has to do with measuring your fuel efficiency, which is not gauged by a meter or a number, but a picture of a vine.
Apparently, if your driving is fuel-efficient, the vine will start budding and blooming until it is healthy. However, if you are wasting gas, you will be forced to watch that vine shrivel up and die. Yes, it is odd to have a visual cue instead of an exact scientific reading, but I guess we consumers have been trained to react to pictures instead of raw data.
What ever you say Robert, have you ever looked into treatments for schizophrenia?
For the uninformed, Robert posts here as PeeWee, Rjsnj. Benji, JohnyBoswell, Chicago, Barbi or BigYellowStain or Duhsty or his newest - palinclown et al.
im not boyfreind rob and your all ways full shit posting nonsense
on here making fun some one bush and the republican drove our economy in to recession and blame democrats bush is big loser
Shut up Robert, why don't you go back to being a retard under your own name?
im not robert im dusty and from minnesota where iit cold you idiot think your insane you need help your seeing things how come you cna come as body parts that show you have mentlel illness
i wont shut up why do you cal me robert the only retard here is sally i been dusty and all ways be dusty not like you who talk to him self in here
A retard would not post on a political blog nor would he have political views. The concept is lame. As is the concept of annoying everyone as Benji when you repost the same thing over and over again. Best to go back to RJSNJ and just bore everyone to death with endless copy and pasts of inane articles.
i see sally going to go back to drinking rnc koolaid and putting his brain in rubbing alcohol so he can be on here posting his nonsense
Well, no point in staying up to converse with those pretending to be retards.
Although RJS as RjS is pretty retarded as well but I never respond to his inane posts.
im not retard i have political veiw and not robert or benji im different then all the names you give me i post what important to me like im pro life and not for gay rights
sally is the biggest retard he sees things he talk to him self and has mighty big mentell illness it called multiple personalties
he talk to different people but the same person all in his head
and he has the gaul to call me retard when i dont agree with his nonsense
Good Morning Moonbats, Whiners, fairies and Man made Global Warming fanatics!
TODAY IN HISTORY
1975 Brits claim fastest Earth-bound object (7200 kph in a centrifuge). Obviously they’ve never timed Teddy ‘The Swimmer’ Kennedy headed for the bar during happy hour.
Harry Reid: Tax System Is Voluntary
Excellent news — according to Harry Reid, our tax system is voluntary.
Now the bad news — it's only voluntary if you are a powerful Democrat like Charles Rangel, the tax cheat who oversees the committee that writes tax laws, or Tim Geithner, the even bigger tax cheat who will soon be in charge of the IRS.
Global Warming Ranked Dead Last as Policy Priority
Al Gore & Co. had better start yelling even louder. Despite recent assurances that the planet is doomed if totalitarian measures aren't employed to suppress harmless CO2 emissions within the next 4 years, the global warming farce has been ranked dead last in a list of the public's priorities, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.
The Goracle and his environmentalist Kool-Aid brigade can take heart that global warming is considered a more serious concern than the threat of disco coming back. But as our economy inevitably worsens with each extravagant bailout and "stimulus package," the luxury of worrying about imaginary problems will become ever more scarce — not that this will stop the government from making the economic situation radically worse with greedy carbon taxes.
Blago Compares His Arrest to Pearl Harbor
If the Moonbat Messiah can compare himself to Abraham Lincoln, why shouldn't his former Illinois crony Governor Rod Blagojevich compare efforts to scrape him out of office with the attack on Pearl Harbor?
In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Gov. Rod Blagojevich compared his early morning December arrest by FBI agents to Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
He says it was a "complete surprise" but he'll prevail, just like America in World War II.
It's almost as if Blago doesn't grasp that his party desperately needs him as a scapegoat for the festering corruption that has come to a head to produce the new administration. He's like a sin eater, symbolically forced to consume all the misdeeds of the machine that produced him along with the Moonbat Messiah. So what if the next Treasury Secretary is a blatant tax cheat who belongs in prison — the Dems sacrificed Blago, didn't they?
Obamania Already Getting Tired?
Despite the extravagant spending, the media's hyperbolic hype, and the apocalyptic ruin Obamatron hordes made out of DC, the numbers show that people found Reagan's inauguration much more interesting:
Preliminary Nielsen estimates show that 29.2% of U.S. households were watching the presidential inauguration — easily the largest in decades but below the 37.4 household rating for Reagan. Obama's figures include viewership on roughly 15 broadcast and cable networks, while the Reagan ceremony was viewed only on ABC, CBS and NBC … In primetime, Fox's "American Idol" scored the biggest numbers Tuesday, as auds seemed to tire of inaugural coverage.
If the hype was getting too old to compete with tired trash like American Idol even as the Anointed One ascended, wait until the media demands we worship him despite the plunging living standards that will inevitably result from his moonbat policies.
neo con your the whiner and bush and cheney are loser and tax cheats you dont belong here go back to rnc web blog
i really like this guy:
By CHARLES HURT, BUREAU CHIEF
Last updated: 10:37 pm
January 23, 2009
Posted: 8:13 pm
January 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package...
this was said as a snark i am sure but the fact is that the republicans have been listening to the asshole rush and he has been the main writer of their agenda for years and now his way has cost them all three houses of gument....hahahahah
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dusty2006 on January 24, 2009 at 07:05 AM
Don´t change the subject
Newspaper claims suspect transformed into a goat
Fri Jan 23, 6:07 pm ET
LAGOS, Nigeria – One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
The paper quoted police spokesman Tunde Mohammed as saying that while one suspect escaped, the other transformed into a goat as he was about to be apprehended.
The newspaper reported that police paraded the goat before journalists, and published a picture of the animal.
Police in the state couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Belief in black magic is widespread in Nigeria, particularly in far-flung rural areas.
By CHARLES HURT, BUREAU CHIEFLast updated: 10:37 pm
January 23, 2009
Posted: 8:13 pm
January 23, 2009WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.
"There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats," the official said. "We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."
That wasn't Obama's only jab at Republicans today.
In an exchange with Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) about the proposal, the president shot back: "I won," according to aides briefed on the meeting...
I like Rush Limbaugh. I really do. He is one of the reasons why we enjoy such wide majorities in the Congress and we have our people in the West Wing. After two decades of partisan cheap shots, racist and sexist innuendos, and general nastiness, the sheeple have had enough from the likes of Mr. Limbaugh. So just like our trolls here, keep it up Rush. We appreciate the support.
By Ben BlanchardBEIJING (Reuters) - China sought on Friday to portray its Internet crackdown as a campaign to protect youth from filth and nothing to do with stifling political dissent, with an official promising long-lasting action against "vulgarity."
China has already detained 41 people as part of the crackdown, but the government's move was in reality no different from laws in the United States and Europe which also aim to keep children from harmful sites, said Liu Zhengrong, deputy director of the State Council Information Office's Internet Bureau.
"The purpose of this campaign is very clear," he told a small group of invited reporters. "It's aimed at creating a healthy Internet environment for all young people and making the Internet in China safer and more reliable."
The Internet crackdown has been described by analysts as another step in the Communist Party's battle to stifle dissent in a year of sensitive anniversaries, including the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests.
"The Internet remains where the battle for information lies and the fact that the government is devoting so much effort at reining it in, in itself indicates how much of a threat they perceive it to be," said Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch.
China polices the Internet intensely, quickly removing any content deemed subversive or overly critical of the Party.
The government has closed over 1,200 websites, including a popular blog site, but with an estimated 3,000 new sites appearing daily, the battle to maintain control of the online world is never-ending...
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE50F1MY20090123?rpc=64
Every time you shop at Wal-Mart, you support this type of activity in China. Every Made in China label, whether it be in Wal-Mart or any other store, finances the Communist oppression of its citizens. Remember this the next time you go shopping. Stop financing the enemy of intellectual freedom.
MORE BOOS THAN BALLS
January 21, 2009
It will not be easy for President B. Hussein Obama. More than half the country voted for him, and yet our newspapers are brimming with snippy remarks at every little aspect of his inauguration.
Here's a small sampling of the churlishness in just The New York Times:
-- The American public is bemused by the tasteless show-biz extravaganza surrounding Barack Obama's inauguration today.
-- There is something to be said for some showiness in an inauguration. But one felt discomfited all the same.
-- This is an inauguration, not a coronation.
-- Is there a parallel between Mrs. Obama's jewel-toned outfit and somebody else's glass slippers? Why limousines and not shank's mare?
It is still unclear whether we are supposed to shout "Whoopee!" or "Shame!" about the new elegance the Obamas are bringing to Washington.
Boy, talk about raining on somebody's parade! These were not, of course, comments about the inauguration of the angel Obama; they are (slightly edited) comments about the inauguration of another historic president, Ronald Reagan, in January 1981.
Obama's inaugural address tracked much of Reagan's first inaugural address -- minus the substance -- the main difference being that Obama did not invoke God as stoutly or frequently, restricting his heavenly references to a few liberal focus-grouped phrases, such as "God-given" and "God's grace."
Obama was also not as fulsome in his praise of his predecessor as Reagan was. To appreciate how remarkable this is, recall that Reagan's predecessor was Jimmy Carter.
Under Carter, more than 50 Americans were held hostage by a two-bit terrorist Iranian regime for 444 days -- released the day of Reagan's inauguration. Under Bush, there has not been another terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001.
But I gather that if Obama had uttered anything more than the briefest allusion to Bush, that would have provoked yet more booing from the Hope-and-Change crowd, which moments earlier had showered Bush with boos when he walked onto the stage. That must be the new tone we've been hearing so much about.
So maybe liberals can stop acting as if the entire nation could at last come together in a "unity of purpose" if only conservatives would stop fomenting "conflict and discord" -- as Obama suggested in his inaugural address. We're not the ones who booed a departing president.
It is a liberal trope to insult conservatives by asking them meaningless questions, such as the one repeatedly asked of Bush throughout his presidency about whether he had made any mistakes. All humans make mistakes -- what is the point of that question other than to give insult?
When will the first reporter ask President Obama to admit that he has made mistakes? Try: Never.
No, that question will disappear for the next four years. It will be replaced by the new question for conservatives on every liberal's lips these days: Do you want Obama to succeed as president?
Answer: Of course we do. We live here, too.
But merely to ask the question is to imply that the 60 million Americans who did not vote for Obama are being unpatriotic if they do not wholeheartedly endorse his liberal agenda.
I guess it depends on the meaning of "succeed." If Obama "succeeds" in pushing through big-government, terrorist-appeasing policies, he will not have "succeeded" at being a good president. If we didn't think conservative principles of small government and strong national defense weren't better for the country, we wouldn't be conservatives.
And why was that question never asked of liberals producing assassination books and movies about President Bush for the last eight years?
Say, did liberals want Pastor Rick Warren to succeed delivering a meaningful invocation at the inaugural?
The way I remember it, the Hope-and-Change crowd viciously denounced the Christian pastor, stamped their feet and demanded that Obama withdraw the invitation -- all because Rick Warren agrees with Obama's stated position on gay marriage, which also happens to be the position of a vast majority of Americans every time they have been allowed to vote on the matter.
Liberals always have to play the victim, acting as if they merely want to bring the nation together in hope and unity in the face of petulant, stick-in-the-mud conservatives. Meanwhile, they are the ones booing, heckling and publicly fantasizing about the assassination of those who disagree with them on policy matters.
Hope and unity, apparently, can only be achieved if conservatives would just go away -- and perhaps have the decency to kill themselves.
Republicans are not the ones who need to be told that "the time has come to set aside childish things" -- as Obama said of his own assumption of the presidency. Remember? We're the ones who managed to gaze upon Carter at the conclusion of his abomination of a presidency without booing.
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Icelandic government becomes first to be brought down by the credit crunchBy Graham Smith
Last updated at 3:10 PM on 23rd January 2009
The government of Iceland today became the first to be effectively brought down by the credit crunch.
After several nights of rioting over the financial crisis, Prime Minister Geir Haarde, surrendered to increasing pressure and called a general election for May.
A poll would not normally be held until 2011.
Haarde also revealed that he had been diagnosed with a malignant tumour of the oesophagus and would not seek re-election.'I have decided not to seek re-election as leader of the Independence Party at its upcoming national congress,' he told a news conference.
The global financial crisis hit Iceland, which has a population 320,000, in October, triggering a collapse in its currency and financial system under the weight of billions of dollars of foreign debts incurred by its banksThe economy is set to shrink 10 percent this year and unemployment is surging.
Critics wanted Haarde, the central bank governor and other senior officials to resign.
Some senior figures in his party have also said they favour an early election, but Haarde had up to now vowed to defy plunging popularity and stay on...
I fear it won't be the last, either. This is what happens when the greedy ones are allowed to control the lever of powers. Deregulation is the culprit. Capitalism is only successful when there are significant checks and balances to protect the people from greedy corporate overlords and shareholders.
good morning, gg & bob.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_top_chefs
Top chefs push Obama to improve food policy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVsHGqyj3zhI&refer=home
Obama Presses Lawmakers on Stimulus, Accountability
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/23/AR2009012303507.html
Obama Ushers In An Era of Inclusion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/01/23/ST2009012303816.html
Senate Nears Deal To Delay Digital TV
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3_ONePJ0MVuMdKCI4qHDcMeoF2AD95TD20O0
Governors seek concessions from public workers
http://www.startribune.com/world/38262164.html
Chinese FM, Clinton talk about bilateral relations, cooperation on 30th anniversary of ties
did you guys go out for breakfast and you all didn't invite me to go?
;)
Esmeralda on January 24, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Good morning, Esme. Hopefully, the Ag. Dept., FDA, and CSPC under the Obama Administration will see to it that we stop seeing unsafe and worthless prodcuts in our supermarkets. I agree with NY in one regard. Transfat should be made illegal as should foods with no nutritional value. We can do better and we should for the sake of future generations.
Esmeralda on January 24, 2009 at 08:33 AM
I'll have breakfast with you any time, Esme! ;-)
Morning Essie,
I slept in this morning.
I am doing my part helping Obama. He says we all have to give a little to help get us out of this mess.
I accepted a part-time job with my local city as engineering manager. They have been trying to hire a full-time engineer but can't afford the salary. They are paying me a lot less and I am asking a lot less because I want to do my part helping the city weather the storm.
I really feel good about helping my city.
Morning Bob,
We need to monitor at least two U.S. companies.
Last week they traced the salmonella outbreak to a company in Georgia. The disease was in several peanut butter products. Last night on then CBS news they stopped another company that had salmonella in their peanut butter.
The USDA was not being funded by the bushistas because he hated Americans.
hahahahahahaha
EPA objects to coal plant, Sierra Club claims new day
Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:50pm EST
By Bernie Woodall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Environmentalists claimed on Friday that a new era regarding coal-fired power plants had arrived with the Obama administration after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turned back South Dakota's approval of a big coal-fired power plant in that state because of pollution concerns.
"EPA is signaling that it is back to enforcing long-standing legal requirements fairly and consistently nationwide," said Bruce Nilles, head of the Sierra Club's effort to stop coal power plants.
The EPA on Friday said the timing of the objection letter to South Dakota officials -- sent on Thursday in the third day of Barack Obama's administration -- was not related to the new president.
"It would be fair to say" that the letter would have been sent under the Bush administration, said Carl Daly, unit chief for EPA Region 8 air permit unit.
The proposed $1.3 billion Big Stone II plant near Milbank, is in northeastern South Dakota, near the border with Minnesota. About half of the power from Big Stone II would be sent to Minnesota.
Daly, of the EPA's Denver office, said the South Dakota Department of Environment & Natural Resources has 90 days to correct three deficiencies it noted in the January 22 letter.
"We fully expect that the state will be able to address our concerns in the 90 days we have given them," said Daly.
Once those concerns are met to EPA satisfaction, construction may begin, he added. The plant would be 500 megawatts to 580 MW, enough to serve more than 400,000 homes.
Nilles still declared victory and called the EPA letter the end of the project because it would increase costs, making it too expensive to build...
bush probably hired his ignorant cronies to oversee the FDA and the USDA.
Morning gregg,
Did read the piece posted by FROMM last night about the Micro-Nuclear reactor? This could go a long way solving our problems.
Johne on January 24, 2009 at 09:11 AM
Did you see which two companies were involved?
Bob,
No, they may have mentioned it but I missed the names.
Several hundred people nationwide became ill and six died.
You might google it.
Pieces Coming Together for First Test Launch of NASA's New SpacecraftNASA is using powerful computers and software programs to design the rocket that will carry crew and cargo to space after the space shuttle retires. But those computers will have their work checked the old-fashioned way with the first of several uncrewed demonstration launches beginning in 2009.
Ares I-X, the first Ares I test rocket, will lift off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. in the summer of 2009. It will climb about 25 miles (40.2 km) in a two-minute powered test of Ares I first stage performance and its first stage separation and parachute recovery system.
A less obvious -- but no less critical -- test will be of overall vehicle aerodynamics. Is the design safe and stable in flight? This is a question that must be answered before astronauts begin traveling into orbit and beyond.
With that question answered, the flight of Ares I-X will be an important step toward verifying analysis tools and techniques needed to further develop Ares I, NASA's next launch vehicle.
In order to ensure that the rocket's flight characteristics are fully understood, extreme care is being taken to precisely fabricate the rocket's simulated upper stage and the simulated Orion crew module and associated launch abort tower. These full-scale hardware components must accurately reflect the shape and physical properties of the models used in computer analyses and wind tunnel tests in order to confidently compare flight results with preflight predictions.
At NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., where the Orion crew module and tower-like launch abort system simulators are taking shape, researchers and managers are working to overcome multiple challenges.
"We are a highly matrixed team -- a lot of people from various organizations -- that must work together successfully on a tight schedule," explained Kevin Brown, project manager for the Ares I-X Crew Module/Launch Abort System (CM/LAS) project.
"We have a team doing fabrication and assembly work in conjunction with an off-site contractor, and we have another team readying to install about 150 sensors once the crew module and launch abort tower are completed," he added...
This comes directly from the NASA website. I'd like to see this project progress a little faster, though. We need to get back into manned space exploration. Robots and computers can go only so far with research. Currently, there is no better comuter than the human mind.
Follow the Methane! New NASA Strategy for Mars?by Dr. Michio Kaku
The recent discovery of methane on Mars is more than a curiousity. It could be a game changer.
For the last three decades, NASA’s Mars exploration program has been based on a single mantra: Follow the water. Where there is water, there might be life. So far, this strategy has come up empty handed. But now, NASA might have to change course and follow the methane. Methane gas, which heats up our food in our kitchen stoves, can be created by natural processes, but about 90% of the earth’s methane gas comes from living things, such as the decomposition of organic materials. So this is tantalizing evidence that perhaps some form of Martian life created this methane.
Back in 2003, the European Mars Express orbiter detected methane on Mars in the northern hemisphere. Careful analysis over several years with three ground-based telescopes then detected plumes of methane gas spewing from several specific sites on Mars, peaking in the summer time. Up to 20,000 metric tons of methane gas have been detected in these plumes. The burning question now being asked is: what is the origin of this methane gas?
3 billion years or so ago, Mars was tropical, with lakes, rivers, perhaps even an ocean as big as the United States. Back then, you could get a sun tan on prime beach front property. And perhaps microbial life in the form of algae and plankton thrived in this lush environment. But today, Mars is a frozen desert, a bleak, sterilized, and freezing landscape with a thin atmosphere of almost pure carbon dioxide. Perhaps this methane gas was left-over from the decay of organic life billions of years ago. A more interesting hypothesis is that this methane gas comes from present-day microbial life that grows underground, perhaps heated up by volcanic activity and hot springs.(The earth also belches large quantities of methane gas, such as off the coast of Calif., because of methane deposits on the bottom of the ocean. Some have even speculated that these belches of gas might explain the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. Colossal bubbles of gas seeping from the floor of the Caribbean may have suffocated sailors on ships or destabilized airplanes.)
At the very least, it means that NASA may re-think where to land the next series of Mars rovers. The next mission is the Mars Science Laboratory, to be launched in 2011. Before this announcement, NASA had considered (and passed over) the Nili Fossae area for a landing site, where methane plumes have been found. Scientists may reconsider this decision in light of this discovery. By digging into the soil, or by carefully analyzing the hydrogen isotopes within the methane, scientists may settle the question of the origin of methane gas.
If it turns out to be organic in nature, it could be the most profound achievement of the entire space program, rivaling sending a man to the moon.
In the long term, even if the methane gas has been found to be of inorganic origin, there are other possible uses for it. First, it might be used to create rocket fuel. In a manned mission to Mars, the astronauts may melt the ice in the ice caps or permafrost, separate out the oxygen and hydrogen from the water, and use them for rocket fuel. If methane exists in large quantities, it might be mixed with other volatile gases to make rocket fuel, thereby saving a considerable amount of money (since it may cost upwards of several hundred thousand dollars or more to put a pound of anything on the surface of Mars).
Second, in the far future, science fiction writers have speculated that it might be possible to create an artificial Greenhouse Effect on Mars by deliberately injecting methane into the atmosphere, since methane is much more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. In this way, one might be able to heat up the planet to melt some of the ice caps and permafrost so that liquid water may one day freely flow on the surface of Mars. Some have speculated that we might be able to create a new Garden of Eden on Mars. The goal would be for humanity to terraform Mars so that humanity can become a “two-planet species,” i.e. to create an insurance policy in case life is threatened on earth.
Having a spare planet could come in handy one day.
http://mkaku.org/home/?page_id=537
Being a multiple planet species is the only way to guarantee the survival of humanity. This is yet another reason to increase funding to NASA. The time has come to colonize Luna and explore Mars. It will be expensive but, well worth it in the end.
Good morning, all.
Bob Woodard said something revealing the other day in regards to why Bush didn't issue hardly any pardons.
He said the man is cold. While he loves his family and enjoys the company of his closest friends, Bush does not feel empathy for others beyond his own circle. All that talk about compassionate conservatism meant nothing to him. It was a just something they told him to say.
I've never heard anyone in the media candidly say that before. There have been comments made by a few people who had gone to school with him and even remarks by his brothers that hinted as much. But now we have the first-person account of a journalist whom Bush allowed to follow him around at the White House for years.
It so explains why this man does not relate to the common man. Why would a leader condemn so many of his countrymen to the basest form of health care at emergency rooms and cut veterans benefits during a war?
Morover, why did Bush increase funding for AIDS and malaria in Africa buy felt no remorse at endangering millions of innocent Iraqis with a needless invasion? Why does he develop such a fondness for some adversaries like he apparently has for Obama and then completely cuts off loyalists like Scooter? This will probably remain a curious subject of interest for historians and playwrights alike.
I'm personally never going to let anyone forget how cold he was on 911 and in regards to Abu Graibe and Katrina. George W. Bush got to the point he didn't even care if people saw his lack of humanity. He was oblivious to any suffering until it became a political liability.
He certainly wasn't the loveable bungling fool he liked to portray for the cameras. He was cold as ice. Let us never forget what happened in the last eight years nor allow another clever Republican actor portray themselves as compassionate.
then did everything he could to endanger innocent Iraqis? Why does he develop such a fondness for some adversaries like he apparently has for Obama and then completely cut off loyalists like Scooter? This will probably remain a topic of interest for historians and playwrights alike.
I'm personally never going to let anyone forget how cold he was on 911amd in regards to Abu Graibe and Katrina. George W. Bush got to the point he didn't even care if people saw his lack of humanity. He seemed oblivious of the suffering until it became a political liability.
He certainly wasn't the loveable bungling fool he liked to portray for the cameras. He was cold as nails. Let us never forget what happened in the last eight years nor allow another clever conservative actor to portray themselves as a compassionate.
it's fun to see which passages you post....
Perhaps you like bible based music? I have co-written/published with Australian artist, Leigh Newton,from Adelaide. Leigh set psalm 139 to Beethoven's "La Pathetique" - you can listen to the mp3's on his site - go downloads. here is the site:
Enjoy.
132Fromm on January 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
thank you.
Philippians 4:4-9
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
it's fun to see which passages you post....
Perhaps you like bible based music? I have co-written/published with Australian artist, Leigh Newton,from Adelaide. Leigh set psalm 139 to Beethoven's "La Pathetique" - you can listen to the mp3's on his site - go downloads. here is the site:
Enjoy.
132Fromm on January 23, 2009 at 11:13 PM
thank you.
Philippians 4:4-9
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan urged President Barack Obama to halt U.S. missile strikes on al-Qaida strongholds near the Afghan border, saying Saturday that civilians were killed the previous day in the first attacks since Obama's inauguration. Pakistani security officials said eight suspected foreign militants, including an Egyptian al-Qaida operative, were among 22 people killed in Friday's twin strikes in the Waziristan region.
But the Foreign Ministry said that the attacks by unmanned aircraft also killed an unspecified number of civilians and that it had informed U.S. officials of its "great concern."
"With the advent of the new U.S. administration, it is Pakistan's sincere hope that the United States will review its policy and adopt a more holistic and integrated approach toward dealing with the issue of terrorism and extremism," a ministry statement said.
"We maintain that these attacks are counterproductive and should be discontinued," it said...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95TKGK81&show_article=1&catnum=0
What is counterproductive is the fact that the Pakistani officials are doing very little, if anything, to capture UBL and the rest of Al-Qaeda. For what all we know, Pakistan could be implicit in hiding UBL. To the people of Pakistan I say this. Bring us UBL and his cronies and I can almost guarantee a stop to the missile strikes. If not, well, keep your heads down because we're going to keep shooting until we get them. Well done, Mr. President,
So - you are privy to the technology!
I have tried to drop Hebrew in this site from WORD - Microsoft - but it does not go...
Go ahead - parse, translate, exegete!
Boker Tov - Good Morning
DENVER (AP)- Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay-sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having a sexual relationship with Haggard — a revelation that comes as Haggard tries to repair his public image.
Brady Boyd, who succeeded Haggard as senior pastor of the 10,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, told The Associated Press that the man came forward to church officials in late 2006 shortly after a Denver male prostitute claimed to have had a three-year cash-for-sex relationship with Haggard.Boyd said an "overwhelming pool of evidence" pointed to an "inappropriate, consensual sexual relationship" that "went on for a long period of time ... it wasn't a one-time act." Boyd said the man was in his early 20s at the time. He said he was certain the man was of legal age when it began...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28820199/
Speaking of Republican hypocrisy, here we go again. Maybe him, former Rep. Foley (R-FL), and former Sen. Craig (R-ID) ought to get together to form the new GOP (Gay Old-fart Party). None the less, who Rev. Haggard sleeps with is his business. I'm tired of hearing about it.
More Than Charisma
By BOB HERBERT
Op-Ed Columnist
Published: January 23, 2009
...But I’ve seen charismatic politicians and pretty families come and go like sunrises and sunsets over the years. There was something more that was making people go ga-ga over Obama. Something deeper.
We’ve been watching that something this week, and it’s called leadership. Mr. Obama has been feeding the almost desperate hunger in this country for mature leadership, for someone who is not reckless and clownish, shortsighted and self-absorbed.
However you feel about his policies, and there are people grumbling on the right and on the left, Mr. Obama has signaled loudly and clearly that the era of irresponsible behavior in public office is over.
No more crazy wars. No more torture, and no more throwing people in prison without even the semblance of due process. No more napping while critical problems like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, global warming, and economic inequality in the United States grow steadily worse.
“We remain a young nation,” Mr. Obama said in his Inaugural Address, “but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.”...
Or when he says of the many serious challenges facing the nation, as he did in his Inaugural Address: “They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/opinion/24herbert.html?th&emc=th
The Age of the Clown is over.
BobVADemocratHawk on January 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Bob,
Remember the big fuss during the campaign when Obama indicated that he might engage Pakistan militarily or talk diplomatically to Iran? He's going to be a realist whenever possible.
You can somewhat create your own luck but not a whole new reality of your choosing. Gotta keep those options open.
Analysis: Obama foreign policy favors diplomacy
By ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press Writer Robert Burns, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 20 mins ago
Clinton gets started as Secretary of State Play Video AP – Clinton gets started as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON – Diplomacy now trumps defense as the main instrument of American foreign policy.
President Obama is hopefully carrying a very big stick if he wants to be very diplomatic with hamas. Hamas is a rabid dog.
Israeli official: Obama envoy coming to Mideast
13 mins ago
JERUSALEM – An Israeli foreign office official says President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East is expected in Israel on Wednesday for talks on reviving Mideast peace negotiations.
The official says George J. Mitchell will meet with Israel's prime minister and other officials, as well as the Palestinian president and prime minister in the West Bank.
There has been no immediate confirmation from U.S. officials. The Israeli official spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because there has not yet been an official announcement from Washington.
This is very good news, but like I said earlier, he must be firm with the terrorist organisation called Hamas. The Israeli people have had enough of the terrorist acts.
BobVADemocratHawk on January 24, 2009 at 12:37 PM
No Church has a right to subject their intolerance on others not of that faith. That being said, if Haggart hadn't gotten involved in national political matters, would anybody care outside of his family or congregation?
We all know way too much about each others' personal business in this modern informational age. I wish citizens used the internet to learn more about economic and foreign policy issues than as a new way to gossip.
Am I wrong in believing that that members of Hamas are Palestinians? They aren't foreign terrorists but citizens? They were born there?
Am I wrong in believing that that members of Hamas are Palestinians? They aren't foreign terrorists but citizens? They were born there?
208
SandyH on January 24, 2009 at 01:09 PM
They are citizens of Palestine. They are not citizens of Israel.
Am I wrong in believing that that members of Hamas are Palestinians? They aren't foreign terrorists but citizens? They were born there?
208
SandyH on January 24, 2009 at 01:09 PM
Good Question. I know that we are wrong in our media perception that all Palestinians are Islamic. For there are Christians there - dating back to Christ with the ancestors of Fr. Elias Chacouer:
http://lluker.faculty.ltss.edu/Elias_Chacour.htm
The Lutherans have been in Palestine since the 1840's - my Prussian ancestry:
http://www.bethlehemchristmaslutheran.org/
The Hamas question is like the Zionist question: not all Jews are Zionists; not all Palestinians belong to Hamas. There are vastly different people in both places. As a result of the last 8 years of the GOP - all we got was Islamaphobia think-tank propaganda. This all related to economic interests in the oil corridor. The Middle East is one more mess we must sort out after 8 years of a (dry drunk?) dysfunctional president and the lobbyists who owned him.
Again, good question.
They are domestic terrorists in Palestine and foreign terrorists to Israel.
Hamas are the bad guys. If president Obama does not stand by the Jewish Nation, then the Middle East will erupt into a never ending nightmare of violence. It will destroy any credibilty that President Obama ever had. Both sides will look upon him has an outcast.
As a result of the last 8 years of the GOP - all we got was Islamaphobia think-tank propaganda. 212
Fromm on January 24, 2009 at 01:33 PM
This is not true. A person has to be able to sort out what is right or wrong, what is good or bad, on his or her own. A human is able to think and reason on his own accord, that is the reasons we are humans and not animals of a lower level. All of the past presidents, yes even carter made but a very week effert to do anything to save the Middle East from certain destruction.
They are domestic terrorists in Palestine and foreign terrorists to Israel.
And there were IDF agents who once upon a time set off bombs in Iraq to drive the Jewish people there into Israel.
The everyday people are caught between the ideologies of extremists on both sides. We as Americans are supposed to buy into a black and white good guy bad guy ideology also - thus perpetuating the conflict. Remember the oil beneath it.
Remember the oil beneath it.
218
Fromm on January 24, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Israel or Palestine have discovered oil now?
218
Fromm on January 24, 2009 at 01:57 PM
I hardly believe that the root of the palistinian/israeli problem lies with oil. Don´t keep trying to interject something into the disscussion which deos not belong. Are you only trying to stir trouble?
I hardly believe that the root of the palistinian/israeli problem lies with oil. Don´t keep trying to interject something into the disscussion which deos not belong. Are you only trying to stir trouble?
Now - Yitzhak - this is an Orwellian question if there ever was one!
There has been trouble ever since the war of 1948. Wow - you really grant me that much power - as if I could stir trouble...!!!
This conversation reminds me of Eric Fromm's book, "The Fear of Freedom" the distinction between the authoritarian characters - which seem to come from the GOP losers on this site - and the authoritative - life of freedom - that allows one to think...not fear....but fear was what the past 8 years were built on - starting with 9/11...and the way it was used to rape this country...
No - trouble was stirred long ago...it's time to sort out the trouble...and black and white thinking won't cut it---GW already took us down that dead end street...
Our Neighbor and Why We Have to Kill Him
He humiliates us by his very existence. Destroying him will give our lives meaning.
Our neighbor lives in the house in which our grandfather used to live. He claims he bought the first part of the house from a Turki, and later the second part from a British bank, but that doesn’t make the sale any less illegal: my family lived in that house for hundreds of years and we don’t accept the documents of sale. Now he’s living there. He is the son of monkeys and pigs.
The problem is that he’s not just brazen, he’s also strong, although he is a tiny guy.
The whole neighborhood hates him. He’s a thief and possessed by the devil. But he seems to be able to beat everyone. We tried to force him out of the house together, but it didn’t work. He has bulletproof windows, and the roof is made of inflammable material.
All we think about is him. Our own home is in ruins because all our efforts, all our money and ideas and energy are devoted solely to destroying our neighbor’s house. We’re utterly convinced that we will be perfectly happy just as soon as we’ve killed him and his house is a heap of smoking rubble. We live for one thing only: our neighbor’s demise. It’s a noble ambition for which we’re all willing to die.
Sometimes our neighbor seems to forget we exist, then we throw a couple of pebbles at his windows. If we’re lucky, there’s a window open and we toss a Molotov cocktail inside to start a nasty fire. That makes our neighbor angry, and that’s good. We don’t want him to forget us. Life means nothing to us as long as our neighbor’s living in that house. So we make sure he remembers us, even though we can’t force him out and he sometimes beats the hell out of us.
Every now and then our neighbor gets fed up with our stone-throwing — those are the best moments. Then he storms out of our grandfather’s house and smashes our kitchen or bathroom or refrigerator to pieces. By doing so he proves that it’s right that we hate him. We provoke him until he reveals his true demonic character. That’s what we live for. We can’t beat him, but there’s something satisfying about watching him kick our old, worn-out, empty refrigerator to shreds after we have tried to ransack one of his freezers — he has several, all full of food which he bought with the wealth he found in our grandfather’s house. What he does to us is much worse than our provocations, but we keep provoking him because that’s the main thing we want in life.
Our Neighbor and Why We Have to Kill Him
He humiliates us by his very existence. Destroying him will give our lives meaning.
Our neighbor, the dog, wants us to leave him alone. We can’t. His death is our ultimate ambition in life. We live in our hovel, we grow nothing in our garden, and we leave our schoolbooks on the shelf because we dream of returning to our grandfather’s house and work solely towards our neighbor’s collapse. Nothing is allowed to distract us from that.
Our neighbor claims that when he bought the house, it was just a wooden hut on a piece of barren land that he turned into a palace. He claims he planted a fertile vegetable garden — that’s a lie. It was an estate with fertile soil and the bathrooms had gold taps; our grandfather told us so himself, we even keep the key to his house in a sacred place. If we had still been living in our grandfather’s house then we would have had all those freezers in which our neighbor keeps his food. The family of monkeys and pigs never lived there before; our neighbor’s existence is based on clever lies and forgeries.
We keep challenging him and when we’ve insulted him enough and managed to wreck some part of his house, he marches angrily into our place. We can’t stop him and we have no idea how long he’ll stay in our hovel, until one day he leaves. Then we lick our wounds in satisfaction and survey in intense pleasure all the destruction he left behind, and we show it to the world. Our scars prove to us and to the world that our cause is just. We know he doesn’t harm us when we leave him alone, but we want him to harm us. If he wouldn’t, the world would think he is just an ordinary guy. Which he isn’t. That’s why we provoke him. Without him harming us, we wouldn’t exist.
We want to kill him, but we don’t have the right weapons. He has the means to kill us all, but he doesn’t, the coward. If we had the weaponry he has, we would have killed him long ago. And the fact that he doesn’t kill us, although he could, is a sign of his unbearable arrogance.
Some, who don’t live in our neighborhood and who don’t know how things work around here, occasionally ask us, “Why do you keep provoking him when you know that he’ll hit back so ferociously?”
This question proves they are ignorant about our neighborhood. We do it because that’s what our life is about. Our neighbor, who’s a murderer of prophets, humiliates us just because he is there. That’s why we can’t think about anything else. Our grandfather’s honor is worth risking our own lives and those of our children and grandchildren. We have no future as long as our neighbor lives in peace and plenty. None of us in the neighborhood can build as long as his house remains standing.
Strangers sometimes try to persuade us that we ought to build a viable house on our own lot. But nothing is viable beside our neighbor’s stolen property. He is the burning focus of our existence. He is rich, so we are poor. He is powerful, so we are weak. He has to disappear.
A little further along in our neighborhood we have a friend who supplies us secretly with stones and Molotov cocktails. He’s working on a big bomb that will reduce our neighbor to a miserable pile of atoms in a fraction of a second. That bomb will kill us too — that hellish thought is almost erotic. Our neighbor will burn, and we will as well, but one thing is certain: we won’t feel inferior anymore; at last we’ll have beaten him, in death — which we don’t fear, but he does.
The neighborhood will be completely gone. And that’s how it should be. Death will free us of the son of monkeys and pigs, and of our infuriating obsession with him.
How Hamas thinks
Yitzhak*Beschitzki,
A lot of people believe that bush and the republicans incompetent interference in Palestine inadvertantly legitimized Hamas.
227Yitzhak*Beschitzki on January 24, 2009 at 02:10 PM
Do you have a link for that article or did you write it yourself?
228Yitzhak*Beschitzki on January 24, 2009 at 02:12 PM
No offense but as much as I have been listening and reading about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, I'm having a hard time reading your thoughts about the conflict.
You seem to be posting a lot of unconfirmed hearsey.
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Fromm on January 24, 2009 at 02:10 PM
The trouble certainly started many years ago, but there is no reason for you to keep inserting hatred of the last 8 years of president Bush´s politics into our discussion. It has no place here. Prussian Ancestry? I have no I´ll feeling toward the prussians or their children. Even though they were involved with the holocaust which cost so many lives. Leave your hate and dirty tricks on another blog.
Yitzhak - you need to regain your Jewish sense of humor and read more of the Torah. All my favorite comedians here in the American Diaspora are Jewish. Some kind of trouble - here sing along with Tanya Tucker...
Tanya Tucker, Some Kind Of Trouble Lyrics
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Artist: Tucker Tanya
Song: Some Kind Of Trouble
Album: What Do I Do With Me
Late one night, I heard a knock on my door,
No surprise, it was my landlord.
Notified me I was late with the rent.
What can you do when your last dollar's spent,
You got trouble.
Some kind of trouble.
I called up my baby for a little advice,
'Cos my sugar baby always treats me so nice.
I had a funny feelin' that he wasn't alone,
I heard another voice whisper: "Hang up the 'phone."
I got trouble.
Some kind of trouble.
Trouble in my heart, trouble on my mind,
There's never any trouble for me to find,
Some kind of trouble.(Some kind of trouble.)
I went to my boss, said: "I need a little time.
"To work on this poor broken heart of mine."
He said: "I'd like to help you, I been there before.
"The problem is, girl, you don't work here no more.
"You got trouble."
"Some kind of trouble."
Trouble in my heart, trouble on my mind,
There's never any trouble for me to find,
Some kind of trouble. (Oooh, some kind of trouble.)
I got trouble.
I was down around as low as a body can be,
So I talked to my preacher about prayin' for me.
He smiled and he said: "Child, you're not alone.
"'Cos all God's children got to deal with their own,
"Kinda Trouble.
"Some kind of trouble."
Trouble in my heart, trouble on my mind,
There's never any trouble for me to find,
Some kind of trouble. (Oooh, some kind of trouble.)
Some kind of trouble. (Oooh, some kind of trouble.)
Trouble in my heart.
Trouble on my mind. (Oooh, some kind of trouble.)
Trouble, any trouble,
For me to find. (Oooh, some kind of trouble.)
Do you have a link for that article or did you write it yourself?
230
Benji on January 24, 2009 at 02:14 PM
I will not communicate with you unless it is necessary. I have seen the the words you have left here and you are nothing but a trouble maker intent of distracting others.
236Yitzhak*Beschitzki on January 24, 2009 at 02:22 PM
That's extremely defensive for someone who is obviously biased in you writings.
Fromm,
It's obvious the annonymous blogger who posts under the name yitzhak is a "self-professed" expert on the Israeli conflict who can't back up anything he/she writes.
Don't be surprised if he/she is a total fraud.
Yitzak - sorry I cannot get the Hebrew fonts into this site. Tell me - your first name in Hebrew - is it rooted in the qal verb - "to laugh?" -
Is it tsaadey; Cheyth; Qowph ???
If so - you definitely need to regain your sense of humor! If so - you should have taken the path of a Jerry Seinfeld! An Adam Sandler! A Billy Crystal!
The Israeli and Palestinian conflict is complex to say the least.
But when it comes to republicans, they are as simple minded as the trollys.
The republicans only measure of work is their attempt to find ways to mislead and lie.
And yitzak/sally is a perfect example.
saly think he so intelligent but he dumb ass trollies with a std from having his head up cactus but
Included in the recall list for salmonella contamination risk:PetSmart recalled seven kinds of its Grreat Choice dog biscuits.
The weight loss company NutriSystem issued a recall for peanut butter granola bars.
Some Asian foods made with peanut sauces are turning up on recall lists.Last week, Kellogg recalled some of its Austin and Keebler brand peanut butter crackers. Salmonella was later confirmed in a package of Austin crackers.
Best Brands Corp. recalled its peanut butter frozen cookie dough. The Minnetonka, Minn., company said it had not received any reports of illnesses. The company said the product might have been purchased as baked cookies of various sizes, and the cookies may have been sold from trays in the bakery counter or in individual packages with grocery store labels. Also, the company’s name would not appear on the consumer package. The product was sold to retail and grocery store bakeries and other foodservice outlets. The recalled products carry a lot code of 2208-1 or higher. For more information, consumers can call 952-250-8831.
Lovin Oven LLC recalled certain Health Valley Organic Peanut Crunch Chewy Granola Bars because the product’s peanut butter could be contaminated with salmonella. No illnesses have been reported, according to the Irwindale, Calif., manufacturer. The recalled granola bars have the lot codes 13JUN09, 14JUN09 and 28JUL09. They were distributed nationwide. For more information, consumers can call 800-434-4246.
Country Maid Inc. recalled two-pound packages of Classic Breaks peanut butter cookie dough. The dough was distributed to dealers for various fundraising groups around the country between Oct. 6, 2008, and Jan. 9, 2009. Details: by phone at 888-460-6904; on the Web at http://www.classic-breaks.com.NutriSystem Inc. of Horsham, Pa., is recalling select lots of its branded 1.41-ounce peanut butter granola bars. No incidents have been reported. The bars were distributed to customers nationwide through sales from the NutriSystem call center or Web site. Details: by phone at 866-491-6425; on the Web at http://www.nutrisystem.com.
Landies Candies of Buffalo, N.Y., is recalling a number of its products sold under the Landies or Wegmans labels that contain chocolate and peanut butter. No incidents have been reported. Details about the Landies brand candies are available at 800-955-2634. Details about the Wegmans brand candies are available at 800-934-6267, extension 4760.
The South Bend Chocolate Co. of South Bend, Ind., is expanding its earlier recall of candy that contains peanut butter, because it could be contaminated with salmonella. This organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems. No illness has been reported. The recalled candy was all sold under the South Bend Chocolate Co. brand and was made on or after July 2008. It was sold in boxes and in bulk bins. Boxes or baskets with a round, gold sticker on the bottom are not included in the recall. Details: by phone at 574-233-2577.
Jimmy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies Inc. of Fair Lawn, N.J., is recalling peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies and cookie dough sold under the Jimmy’s Cookies and One Smart Cookie brands, because they could be contaminated with salmonella. No illness has been reported.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749159/
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm
.בבילון הינה תוכנת מילון ותרגום מהמובילות בעולם
There is your Hebrew.
bush and the republicans idiotic incompetence is the reason why the Israeli and Palestinian conflict is as bad as it is today.
bush and the republicans legitimized Hamas with their incompetent interference in that region.
now the trolls like yitzak/sally are trying to blame Former President Carter and Former President Clinton on the current conflict.
How pathetic.
בבילון הינה תוכנת מילון ותרגום מהמובילות בעולם
Sall*y - Yitzak - translate, "Konnen Sie Mir sagen, was beduetet das auf English?" - as our ancestors once would say back in Germany!
So - how do feel about the Diaspora Jews?
Fromm left, and came to the USA. I think it was a better move than to Palestine.
I agree yitzak is sally.
241Benji on January 24, 2009 at 02:41 PM
I'm glad that's settled. he's in more than just that personality this afternoon.
hitting the sauce as soon as he got out of bed too- bitter, bitter attitude.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_us
Israeli official: Obama envoy coming to Mideast
It has to be legit cause it came from the director of the FBI and he even left his email address fbigov@hotmail.com.
Oh boy, I just got an email from Mr. Robert Mueller 111, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation. He says that some Nigerians want to send me 2 debit cards worth $6 million. All I have to do for now is get an anti-terrorist certificate. He will give me further instructions later and then I can get my money.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/24/ap5960400.html
Obama pitches his plan to reverse economic slide
dusty,
look "sally" is no longer "yitzak" or "evil dr. burd"
boy that "sally" sure is a trickster.
they are doing a great job of making the republicans look bad.
gotta go.
Lamentations 3:21-23 —
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Read up on your Fromm
Good Democrats - read up on Eric Fromm - he will help you cut away at the authoritarian bullshit that appears here from time to time - and steer you toward the freedom to think and preserve democracy.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/FROMM.html
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Benji on January 24, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Come to Venezuela to be my official press Secretary. I even give you mother 500 gallons of heating oil for free.
258Fromm on January 24, 2009 at 03:34 PM
Those are some very interesting links.
Very fascinating.
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Benji on January 24, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Come to Venezuela to be my official press Secretary. I even give you mother 500 gallons of heating oil for free.
evil repub trollys,
waaa waaa waaa
"the republicans have no credibility so repub trollys will post stupid messages on the DNC blog because the rnc blog sucks"
waaaa waaa waaaa
It's really easy to manipulate trollys.
The repub trollys are soooooooo gullible.
The White House released a four-page report that for the first time spells out spending priorities and accountability measures for the recovery package, which comes as Obama tries to overcome some Republican opposition and pass the plan by mid-February.
Some of Obama's proposals appear designed to attract Republicans -- such as a program to double renewable energy capacity in three years that includes a measure to leverage $100 billion in private financing, and an expansion of the Child Tax Credit, to cut taxes for more than 16 million children.
Other proposals are aimed at appealing to average taxpayers, many of whom have not felt the benefit of an earlier stimulus package or the financial bailouts. Among the items: an expansion of access to the temporary health care program, Cobra, that people access when they lose their jobs.
For BENJI
This possibly might explain who we are conversing with at times?
Have a nice weekend fellow Democrats. Keep the Faith and keep the faith. Yes we can, yes we will, and yes we did!
i am amazed that the trolls spend more time at the dnc blog than anyone else. what sort of lame lives do they lead???
here are some lyrics and a song for the trolls, make no mistake about it, we b comin to you neighborhood:
Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolour screen
Everybody tryin' to get their hands on the same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by the needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the CD
All the shit you've given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can never brutalize them
Tell the corporation they can never globalize it
Like Peter Tosh said Legalize it
Norm Coleman Denied Request For Minnesota Ballot Inspection
Uh oh, the inevitable is coming.
benji, al franken is gonna be like a mouthful of sand for the right wing piglets....rock on.
silly sally can control the blog all he wants
because silly sally makes the republicans look like fools
and that helps the Democratic Party.
hahahahahahahahaha
gregg,
Al Franken is the gonna be great as a Senator!
the repub trollys can take that to the bank.
For SANDYH
Defending the Holy Land
A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy
Zeev Maoz
A landmark analysis of the entire history of Israel's defense and foreign policies and a fundamental reassessment of its security doctrine
About the Book
Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Author Zeev Maoz's unique double perspective, as both an expert on the Israeli security establishment and esteemed scholar of Mideast politics, enables him to describe in harrowing detail the tragic recklessness and self-made traps that pervade the history of Israeli security operations and foreign policy.
Most of the wars in which Israel was involved, Maoz shows, were entirely avoidable, the result of deliberate Israeli aggression, flawed decision-making, and misguided conflict management strategies. None, with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence, were what Israelis call "wars of necessity." They were all wars of choice—or, worse, folly.
Demonstrating that Israel's national security policy rested on the shaky pairing of a trigger-happy approach to the use of force with a hesitant and reactive peace diplomacy, Defending the Holy Land recounts in minute-by-minute detail how the ascendancy of Israel's security establishment over its foreign policy apparatus led to unnecessary wars and missed opportunites for peace.
A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land calls for sweeping reform of Israel's foreign policy and national security establishments. This book will fundamentally transform the way readers think about Israel's troubled history.
Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College.
Visit the author's website at: http://psfaculty.ucdavis.edu/zmaoz/.
This is a Michigan Great Book for the Classroom. Find out more at: www.michigangreatbooks.com.
because silly sally makes the republicans look like fools
and that helps the Democratic Party.
Wrong Benji, it makes the Dems look like fools.
Benji your making your self look like a fool with endless drivel.
Barrack Obama will be one of the best Presidents in history, if not the best.
And Sally no matter how much you hate the black people, even you have got to admit, that he is going to make them Man UP.
If this is not a great accomplishment then i don't know what is.
Benji are you a moderate Dem, like Obama or are you a far Left Is?
Al Franken will make a great Senator for Minnesota.
I am looking forward to the day that Al Franken is officially seated.
I am looking forward to the day that Al Franken is officially seated.
Your and millions of other Dems.
Isnt it time republins stand down & shut up after destroying (ripping off) our Economy
Isnt it time republins stand down & shut up after destroying (ripping off) our Economy
282hoodoobrown on January 24, 2009 at 05:46 PM
Exactly right, they should be ashamed of what they have done to America, but not these idiots, they are not getting the message yet, but they will they are a fast dying breed of idiot's. Especialy the idiots pugs on this blog.
I wonder what the topic would be if Bush had nominated a tax cheat to be Secretary of the Treasury.
Or a totally corrupt and dishonest woman to be Secretary of State.
Obama is turning into a real goof.
Why give Wallstreet or Other Rich Smelly Turds Any more of our tax dollars? Let the people from bottom up have a Bail Out? # What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it'll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth
Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves
As the old Pugs die off, common sense would tell any body with a brain cell in their head, that the Dems will be in power as long as the eye can see, and all of the hold outs, are fucked plain and simple. I don't care who the next Pug nominee is they are screwed. Anybody that can't see that is a complete idiot, and not using there common sense, yes i'm talking to you asshat trolls that post on this site, your days of rule is over forever.
i wonder what the topic would be if bush and the republicans and the repub trollys weren't complete losers.
Al FRANKEN WILL BE A GREAT SENATOR.
Don't pay any attention to Sally or Stevie, he is a fraud and has been prosecuted for fraud.
And has got the nerve to post on this site with his stupidity.
Don't take anything that he has got to say as the truth, he is jerk and a fraud, kinda like MADOFF!!! Only on a much smaller scale, all thought he would of liked to be on that scale.
i hope the democrats our in power four 40 years
288dusty2006 on January 24, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Dusty you don't need to hope, just enjoy your new born freedom, The Pugs are done forever, as the old Pugs die off the new Dems is coming to the rescure of these USOA. And they ain't a damn thing that the OLD pugs can do about it, except bitch. ( GLORD DAYS IS COMING )
283chassie on January 24, 2009 at 05:53 PM = they should be ashamed --- republicans know no shame or really care Chassie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVE72Ae82Tw&feature=PlayList&p=5D126526DCCEABDF&playnext=1&index=67
Let me get something started here when Obama goes out of power, and that will be in 2016, Then MICHELLE OBAMA will rule for the next 8 YEARS.
I don't think that is far fecthed at all.
What do you all think?
Why if Bush had nominated a tax cheat to be Secretary of the Treasury you all would be outraged. Pammy would write a letter to the editor!
And a corrupt woman like Hillary? Pammy and DoPeyDoodle would be positively apoplectic.
What do you all think?
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chassie on January 24, 2009 at 06:24 PM
I think you caught retardation from Duhsty.
It's bantastic!
A preliminary list of things that have been - or people think should be - banned because of global warming follows.
Bottled water
Plasma televisions
Christmas lights
Christmas trees
Fireplaces
Patio heaters at Chelsea Flower Show
Documentaries that question global warming
Beach bonfires
NASCAR
Plastic bags
Documentaries by David Bellamy
Drive throughs
McDonalds
Cremation
Outdoor wood boilers
Fireworks
Tennis balls and jogging shoes
Fossil fuels
Cars
Liverpool football supporters flying to home games
Anti-science conservatives
Nuclear power
Incandescent lightbulbs
Hydro-electric dams
Asthma inhalers
Air travel
Sheep and cow flatulence
a Spanish ski station
Immigration
People
Fat people
preminary list of things that should be banned from political power:
republicans
I think you caught retardation from Duhsty.
295Sally-* on January 24, 2009 at 06:27 PM
To start with Duatsy is not retarded, but yoy are you all is a dying breed until death due you part
if you had anykind of common sense, which you don't, you would realize as the old pugs die off, the young dems is coming on. Even old pugs, has got young dem offsprings. Idiot.
Sally he payed his taxes, it might of been late but he payed them, plus penalties. And you can take this to the bank he will be approved for the SET. And it will be a bi-partisan vote. Like i said your a idiot.
Glacier Slowdown in Greenland: How Inconvenient
World Climate Report
In this week’s Science magazine, science writer Richard Kerr reports on some of the goings-on at this past December’s annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. While he didn’t cover our presentation at the meeting in which we described our efforts at creating a reconstruction of ice melt across Greenland dating back into the late 1700s (we found that the greatest period of ice melt occurred in the decades around the 1930s), Kerr did cover some other recent findings concerning the workings of Greenland’s cryosphere in his article titled “Galloping Glaciers of Greenland Have Reined Themselves In.”
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Here is how Kerr starts things off: “Things were looking bad around southeast Greenland a few years ago. There, the streams of ice flowing from the great ice sheet into the sea had begun speeding up in the late 1990s. Then, two of the biggest Greenland outlet glaciers really took off, and losses from the ice to the sea eventually doubled. Some climatologists speculated that global warming might have pushed Greenland past a tipping point into a scary new regime of wildly heightened ice loss and an ever-faster rise in sea level.
And some non-climatologists speculated disaster from rapidly rising seas as well. During his An Inconvenient Truth tour, Gore was fond of spinning the following tale:"[E]arlier this year [2006], yet another team of scientists reported that the previous twelve months saw 32 glacial earthquakes on Greenland between 4.6 and 5.1 on the Richter scale - a disturbing sign that a massive destabilization may now be underway deep within the second largest accumulation of ice on the planet, enough ice to raise sea level 20 feet worldwide if it broke up and slipped into the sea. Each passing day brings yet more evidence that we are now facing a planetary emergency - a climate crisis that demands immediate action to sharply reduce carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in order to turn down the earth�s thermostat and avert catastrophe.”
Oh how things have changed in the past 2 years. Gore�s �massive destabilization� mechanism for which the earthquakes were a supposed bellwether (meltwater lubrication of the flow channel) has been shown to be ineffective at producing long-term changes in glacier flow rate (e.g. (Joughin et al., 2008; van de Wal et al., 2008). And for still another, the recent speed-up of Greenland�s glaciers has even more recently slowed down.
Here is how Kerr describes the situation: “So much for Greenland ice’s Armageddon. “It has come to an end,” glaciologist Tavi Murray of Swansea University in the United Kingdom said during a session at the meeting. “There seems to have been a synchronous switch-off” of the speed-up, she said. Nearly everywhere around southeast Greenland, outlet glacier flows have returned to the levels of 2000.
All told, it is looking more like the IPCC’s estimates of a few inches of sea level rise from Greenland during the 21st century aren�t going to be that far off- despite loud protestations to the contrary from high profile alarm pullers.
Maybe Gore will go back and remove the 12 pages worth of picture and maps from his book showing what high profile places of the world will look like with a 20-foot sea level rise ("The site of the World Trade Center Memorial would be underwater"). But then again, probably not - after all the point is not to be truthful in the sense of reflecting a likely possibility, but to scare you into a particular course of action.
Sally he payed his taxes, it might of been late but he payed them, plus penalties. And you can take this to the bank he will be approved for the SET. And it will be a bi-partisan vote. Like i said your a idiot.
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chassie on January 24, 2009 at 06:43 PM
He paid his taxes after he got caught. It is the same thing as a bank robber giving the money back after he gets caught. If Bush had nominated him you wouldn't be so forgiving.
Obama’s EPA Raises Objections to South Dakota Coal Power Plant
By Catherine Dodge
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed a hold on approval of a coal-fired power plant in South Dakota, a move environmental groups say indicates increased scrutiny under President Barack Obama.
“This is a signal that the Obama administration is taking a much harder look at coal power from the previous administration,” said Darrell Gerber, a program coordinator at Washington-based Clean Water Action, which along with the Sierra Club opposed the plant.
The EPA said in a letter to the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday that the state didn’t meet requirements under the Clean Air Act in part of its proposed permit for the plant. The state has 90 days to respond to the agency’s objections.
Obama has pledged to fight global warming by cutting the amount of greenhouse gases released in the U.S. and pursuing clean-energy technology. Coal-fired power plants account for almost 30 percent of heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S., according to the Sierra Club.
The power plant, called Big Stone II, is needed to meet growing demand for energy in the region and would have carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent lower than similar plants, according to the proposed plant’s Web site.
The Sierra Club and Clean Water Action said in a joint statement that this is the first major coal-plant decision by the EPA under Obama, and it means other proposed plants will are likely to come under greater federal scrutiny.
Bush Explains Who's Fault It Is On War And Economy? This should be a psychologists delight! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28437768#28628617
There's a big problem that needs to be overcome in the movement to convince people that they need to be "green" and live a more sustainable lifestyle.
After a lot of amazing work over the years by the environmental movement and other community leaders to communicate their concerns about the degradation of our planet, we're seeing that concern amongst the general public is at record levels. And we should be concerned. We're at point now where we need to make a decision to either start living lives that don't take from the earth without giving back or keep on the path we're currently going down and consume the human race into oblivion. The great thing is that a lot of people already want to "go green" and for those motivated enough there are a lot of green options available.
But there remains a big problem.
While many people are highly motivated to live sustainably, a vast number more of us are concerned but find it very difficult to live a sustainable lifestyle. In our busy day-to-day lives practicality often trumps our good intentions. For example, when I rush into a sushi shop 10 minutes before a meeting while chattering away on my cell phone , it's very unlikely that I will wonder whether the tuna sashimi I'm buying is sustainable or not. I just gotta eat and run. And it's not just me, we're all busier than ever. Many of our day-to-day choices come down to convenience rather than the laudable goal of saving the human race.
So what's the solution? I would suggest that one of the answers lies in thinking more like marketers than campaigners for change. In particular, we need to start thinking more like Coca Cola.
I'm sure many of you've heard the Coca-Cola business mantra: "within an arm's reach of desire." The idea is simple, Coke's goal is to make sure that when people feel like a Coke it's easy to find a Coke (disclosure: I'm addicted to Diet Coke). So for the green movement this means two things, one simple and one that is much more difficult.
The first goal is to ensure that "green" products are put within the reach of those who desire to go "green." That's the easy one and we're getting pretty good at it. I can now go into my grocery store and buy green soap powder and baby diapers. But this first goal only gets us so far.
The bigger goal has to be putting "green products" in arm's reach of those with the desire to consume. If we can do that, then we'll start to see the change we need to make to avoid wiping ourselves clean from the planet.
So what does it look like to put green products in front of those looking to consume? That's the tricky part. But in my humble opinion I would suggest that the time has come to start investing a lot MORE thought and time into figuring out how to make going green more convenient and a lot LESS time and energy spent convincing people of the need to go green and live sustainability. The people are already there and those that aren't will be dragged along when they see their peers going green and how easily they're doing it.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about that I came across while I was researching this piece. It's a very simple new iPhone application that uses local search so people can find green companies and services wherever they are.
So next time I'm running late and jonesing for some raw tuna, a quick tappy-tap on the iPhone will show me the closest sustainable sushi shop. Done and done, food and green living all wrapped into one. The challenge now is to make it that easy for everything we do, everyday.
Japan Launches Satellite, Ibuki, To Monitor Global Greenhouse Gases
TOKYO — Japan on Friday launched the first satellite to monitor greenhouse gases worldwide, a tool to help scientists better judge where global warming emissions are coming from, and how much is being absorbed by the oceans and forests.
The orbiter, together with a similar U.S. satellite to be launched next month, will represent an enormous leap in available data on carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, now drawn from scattered ground stations.
"I'm saying Christmas is here," said an enthusiastic Inez Fung, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. "Now we get about 100 observations every two weeks. With the satellite we'll get a million."
The satellite _ named "Ibuki," which means "breath" _ was sent into orbit along with seven other piggyback probes on a Japanese H2A rocket. Japan's space agency, JAXA, said the launch was a success, and officials said they were monitoring the satellites to ensure they entered orbit properly.
Ibuki, which will circle the globe every 100 minutes, is equipped with optical sensors that measure reflected light from the Earth to determine the density of the two gases.
Carbon dioxide, the biggest contributor to global warming, is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels by power plants, motor vehicles and other sources. Methane has a variety of sources, including livestock manure and rice cultivation.
International science agencies report that carbon dioxide emissions rose 3 percent worldwide from 2006 to 2007. If emissions are not reined in, a U.N. scientific panel says, average global temperatures will increase by 4 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 to 6.3 degrees Celsius) by the year 2100, causing damaging disruptions to the climate.
"Global warming is one of the most pressing issues facing the international community, and Japan is fully committed to reducing CO2," said Yasushi Tadami, an official working on the project for Japan's Environment Ministry. "The advantage of Ibuki is that it can monitor the density of CO2 and methane gas anywhere in the world."
Chassie,
Now, now, we shouldn't engage in mindless drivel.
(hee hee hee)
Fromm on January 24, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Fromm,
Thanks for the link.
Carbon dioxide is not the biggest contributor to global frickin warmin were there any. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas by far.
Pugs SUCK always have, and always will.
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chassie on January 24, 2009 at 07:28 PM
Who was it that was complaining about drivel a little while ago? The fact is there are a lot of you on here who make your party look like idiots. Were anyone ever to read it.
Chassie,
I've been here a long time and trust me.
Whenever you take the sides with a repub trolly, you always end up regretting it in the future.
The repub trollys are not here to engage in any meaningful discourse.
The repub trollys like (sally, neo-con, swirly, cactus and evil dr. burd) are only here to undermine the Democratic Party and unpatriotically destroy America.
The repub trollys represent the republican party and after 8 years of the idiotic bush administration the repub trollys have nearly destroyed this country.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Chassie,
You see, the repub trollys (sally, neo-con, swirly, cactus, and evil dr. burd) have been
humiliated
manhandled
laugh at
disgraced
and utterly destroyed
especially by the intelligent bloggers who post here in support of the prosperity of America.
The republicans have completely lost everything.
So it would make sense that the repub trollys would be angry and mad.
After all repub trollys (neo-con, sally, evil dr. burd, cactus and swirly) are ignorant, gullible cowards.
sally make the republican party look like idiots. when anyone ever to read it.
314dusty2006 on January 24, 2009 at 08:20 PM
Dusty,
I agree.
Don't get me wrong, the republicans do fine job of making themselves look like idiots.
And with pee-brains like palin, coulter, limpballs and hannity, you'd think the last thing the republicans could use are worthless trollys.
The trollys (like sally) have been wrong about everything.
Let me repeat that...
The trollys (like sally, neo-con, evil dr. burd, cactus and swirly) have been wrong about...
EVERYTHING!
Oh and did forget to mention that....
AL FRANKEN IS GOING TO MAKE A GREAT SENATOR
AND
THE republicans and their trollys CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK!
the biggest contributor to global frickin warming is the republican trolls talking nonsense on this blog
I leave for an hour and what have I missed? Robert's puppet show that's what! Robert has a Duhsty hand puppet on one hand and Benji on the other. And now they are talking to each other in retard talk as there is no one else to talk to.
im not puppet i real person you jerk i dont know robert your puppet of cactus
I leave for an hour and what have I missed? Robert's puppet show that's what! Robert has a Duhsty hand puppet on one hand and Benji on the other. And now they are talking to each other in retard talk as there is no one else to talk to.
yeap if dont talk nonsense then im retarded i get i now sally your your all ways retarded every day and moron and love cactus al the time
sally you post on here is nonsense go back to cactus house and make him happy leave us alone to post real information on this democrats sight
I know that global frickin warmin caused this because it isn't global frickin warmin no mo but climate change:
Snow falls in the United Arab Emirates
24 01 2009
Yes more anecdotal evidence of a colder winter in the northern hemisphere. This is the second time in 5 years. A USATODAY story says it was “the first time ever” in 2004. Even the BBC reported it. - Anthony
This is the frozen north … of the UAE
by Anna Zacharias of The National, in Abu Dhabi
RAS AL KHAIMAH // Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded history yesterday.
So rare was the event that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.
According to the RAK Government, temperatures on Jebel Jais dropped to -3°C on Friday night. On Saturday, the area had reached 1°C.
Major Saeed Rashid al Yamahi, a helicopter pilot and the manager of the Air Wing of RAK Police, said the snow covered an area of five kilometres and was 10cm deep.
“The sight up there this morning was totally unbelievable, with the snow-capped mountain and the entire area covered with fresh, dazzling white snow,” Major al Yamahi said.
“The snowfall started at 3pm Friday, and heavy snowing began at 8pm and continued till midnight, covering the entire area in a thick blanket of snow. Much of the snow was still there even when we flew back from the mountain this afternoon. It is still freezing cold up there and there are chances that it might snow again tonight.”
Aisha al Hebsy, a woman in her 50s who has lived in the mountains near Jebel Jais all her life, said snowfall in the area was so unheard of the local dialect does not even have a word for it. Hail is known as bared, which literally translates as cold. “Twenty years ago we had lots of hail,” said Ms al Hebsy. “Last night was like this. At four in the morning we came out and the ground was white.”
Bush Green-Lights Cape Wind; Pass the Popcorn, Please!
Posted by Vladimir (Profile)
Saturday, January 24th at 6:46PM EST
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Promoted from diaries, with some maniacal laughter mixed in. - Moe Lane.
Yr humble correspondent recently provided a run-down on the Cape Wind Project, a private initiative to construct a 130-tower windfarm in Nantucket Sound.
As it happens, offshore Massachusetts has the combined advantages of being ideally suited to wind power, while being relatively close to population centers. It has the distinct disadvantage of also being relatively close to Nantucket Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and a small but politically-influential compound at Hyannis Port. He-he-he.
One of the last official acts of George W. Bush as President was to give the project the go-ahead; the final Environmental Impact Statement was published last week; it rated the project’s environmental impact as “negligible”, apart from a “moderate” impact on the scenery.
Ted Kennedy sunbathing, the EIS notes, has an “ungodly” impact on the scenery. Just kidding.
Now it’s up to President Obama to either advance his green agenda or piss off New England’s rich & powerful. Without his interference, construction on the project could begin within a year.
He’s Off to a Great Start
Posted by Streiff (Profile)
Saturday, January 24th at 6:25PM EST
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One of The One’s first acts was signing an Executive Order which is supposed to close down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Other than Jack Murtha’s offer to move them all to his district, there seems to be no plan to deal with the dangerous prisoners. Apparently sending them home is out of the question for reasons I’m not terribly clear on. Off course, some feckless Euro can always be prevailed upon to take in a terrorist or ten.
What is pretty obvious is that we can’t have a catch and release program. Two men we released since Robert Gates began his I’m-Not-Rumsfeld toadying offensive have now returned to leadership positions in al Qaeda. At least 61 have returned to combat.
If we ever had any question about what is more important, the safety of American citizens and soldiers or paying off campaign debts to Code Pink an MoveOn.org, that question has been answered.
Jon Stewart - The Daily Show
See Jon Stewart's clip covering the War in Gaza:
On top of being stupid, ignorant, idiotic and not one bit of common sense, they are also incoherent.
The Pugs lost the election HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH. And will be crying to their graves, cuz they know in there heart of hearts that they will never win another one, on the national scene. In the executive branch of goverment.
Suck it up asshats, your thur. all you will be able to do about it in your life times is cry a river and bitch, like little children.
Good night good DEMS, just thought i'd post some endless Drivel.
Oh and i forgot the main issue Pugs, are unpatriotic. They love Money only, and hate America the beautiful.
I say Fuck-Em.
Trollies, are worried that Global Warming Polices, is going to cost them a couple of bucks.
Pugs are fresh out of new ideas, its just the same old tired crap, all they know is TAX CUTS TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, and more TAX CUTS.
Which equals MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY and more MONEY. That is all they give a crap about.
FUCK EM.
Now i'm really gonzo, blog you all in the many Democratic days to come.
right wing nut ball television and radio are really at a loss for what to say to become relevant. glenn beck has his own show on fox now along with huckster...i am not sure what happened to dennis miller, he is probably doing lap dances at a biker bar somewhere in dakota cause it is impossible to find him anywhere at all...anyhow beck had sarah on and she is getting more and more shrill and more and more lavender in skin tone as the days go by. i figure she must be downing her oxy with straight moose blood cause she is looking very weird...have the kids finished those ged's, gotten married or for that matter gotten off the moonshine?
glenn beck is the kind of kid who spent all of his high school years with an atomic wedgie that even a proctologist couldn't remove...what a friggin dork loser!
that vampire lawyer ben ginsberg from recount 2000 fame is sucking whatever blood he can from norm holeman and the suckers in minn as he cheers norm on in his doomed attempt to grab back his senate seat. ben is one of the great evil characters of the right wing and will be on the losing end of another stupid trick attempt...but of course he will line his pockets with the suckers money...a real pos!
Give it up on the creative writing greggy - you suck at it. You are about as good at is as Benji.
Sarah looks terrific but then, what would you know.
one more in what has already become a long line of sweeping changes obama is making to how government and buisness are conducted in this country...
Obama Plans Fast Action to Tighten Financial Rules
Officials say they will make wide-ranging changes, including stricter federal rules for hedge funds, credit rating agencies and mortgage brokers, and greater oversight of the complex financial instruments that contributed to the economic crisis.
Broad new outlines of the administration’s agenda have begun to emerge in recent interviews with officials, in confirmation proceedings of senior appointees and in a recent report by an international committee led by Paul A. Volcker, a senior member of President Obama’s economic team.
A theme of that report, that many major companies and financial instruments now mostly unsupervised must be swept back under a larger regulatory umbrella, has been embraced as a guiding principle by the administration, officials said.
Some of these actions will require legislation, while others should be achievable through regulations adopted by several federal agencies.
Officials said they want rules to eliminate conflicts of interest at credit rating agencies that gave top investment grades to the exotic and ultimately shaky financial instruments that have been a source of market turmoil. The core problem, they said, is that the agencies are paid by companies to help them structure financial instruments, which the agencies then grade.
“Until we deal with the compensation model, we’re not going to deal with the conflict of interest, and people are not going to have confidence that the ratings are worth relying on, worth the paper they’re printed on,” Mary L. Schapiro said in testimony earlier this month before being confirmed by the Senate to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Timothy F. Geithner, the nominee for Treasury secretary, made similar comments in written and oral testimony before the Senate Finance Committee.
Aides said they would propose new federal standards for mortgage brokers who issued many unsuitable loans and are largely regulated by state officials. They are considering proposals to have the S.E.C. become more involved in supervising the underwriting standards of securities that are backed by mortgages.
The administration is also preparing to require that derivatives like credit default swaps, a type of insurance against loan defaults that were at the center of the financial meltdown last year, be traded through a central clearinghouse and possibly on one or more exchanges. That would make it significantly easier for regulators to supervise their use.
Officials said that the proposals were aimed at the core regulatory problems and gaps that have been highlighted by the market crisis. They include lax government oversight of financial institutions and lenders, poor risk management efforts by banks and other financial companies, the creation of exotic financial instruments that were not adequately supported by their issuing companies, and risky and ill-considered borrowing habits of many homeowners whose homes are now worth significantly less than their mortgages...
It won't take long for the nation to get real sick of Obama.
my dearest sally and your carbona huffing mom, what pray tell are we to make of this?
"Do you really think that who Obama chooses as a running mate is going to have any bearing on the election? Obama is going to lose in the biggest landslide ever. How is that not obvious to you all?
Posted by Sally-* on August 22, 2008 at 03:05 AM"
and this:
"If you take the average of the 3 top polls, Hussein Obama's lead is now only 3.7 points. If you consider that is virtually within the margin of error and subtract the Bradley effect, it is shaping up to be a McCain landslide.
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Sally-* on October 18, 2008 at 10:54 PM"
and this:
"McCain wins 56 - 44. Take it to the bank.
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Sally-* on October 30, 2008 at 12:15 AM"
but then shooting fish in a barrel gets boring. so good night my sweet troll and roll your mom out of the middle of the highway and into the ditch before you go to bed...so she won't get hit by the snow plow...
the people realy got sick of bush crimes and sick of bush coddleing the rich that why he lost
What the hell is carbona?
Again I am honored that you save all of valuable posts that you may treasure them.
I see you are back on you mom fetish again. Did your mommy make you lick her pee pee? Is that why you hate moms?
And you should learn when you are being taunted, McCain was/is a horses ass and I said so all along. McCain would have lost by 20 points had he not picked Sarah. Sarah will be the President after 4 years of the Obamunist.
What happened to all that counsel you gave the others to ignore the trools?
bull shit and obana will in other term and then his vice president will be president for 8 years and pailin will never be president take that to the bank she to weird like you sally
For the uninformed, Robert posts here as PeeWee, Rjsnj. Benji, JohnyBoswell, Chicago, Barbi or BigYellowStain or Duhsty or his newest - palinclown et al.
im not robert im dusty i live minnesota cant you get that straight oh i forgot your retard you to stupid you think everybody is robert you need to go to see a theripist to get your meds for phycotic episode that all the time
i rather have Obama on MT Rushmore: then bush 1 bush 2 or regan
the troll is throwing it's presidential candidate under the bus. it's presidential candidate has a few pointy sticks he will jam into the eyes of the back stabbers and morons of his own party who gave him tepid support and who fawned over his idiotic vp choice "sarah" at his exspense.
may a thousand sarah's bloom.
the pelicans are making there stand on some great positions:
-against dealing with global warming
-against health care for all
-against more regulation of the banking and lending industries
-against rebuilding the nation's infrastructure
-against equal rights for women and minorities
-against alternative energy
for greed and war.
they are gonna be in the desert a long, long time.
not to drag the cold war back into focus but just maybe we ought to start finding some common ground with these folks before they become russian or chinese satellites??
ooBolivia Votes on Morales’s Constitution Cementing Indian Gains
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By Jonathan J. Levin
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bolivians head to the polls today to vote on a new constitution that would reward President Evo Morales’s Indian supporters with land and government jobs, and allow him to seek another five-year term.
As the nation’s first Aymara Indian president, Morales is promising Bolivia’s native populations the proposed constitution will keep the white “oligarchs” who ruled the country for 183 years from returning to power. It would authorize the government to distribute land to indigenous communities and set ethnic quotas for state jobs, including members of congress.
“The new constitution is a massive structural exercise in affirmative action, using discrimination to try to end discrimination,” said Nicholas A. Robins, a Bolivian history professor at North Carolina State University.
Morales, 49, a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is seeking to consolidate his power after nationalizing the natural gas industry and pledging to expand state control of the economy to fund social programs. Business owners and ranchers in the opposition predict Morales’s plans will scare off more foreign investors, staunching prospects for economic development in South America’s poorest country.
Morales, bedecked in a coca-leaf-and-flower garland, has drawn cheering crowds while campaigning for the constitution in mile-high mining towns. The former head of the coca growers union, he appeals to both of the country’s biggest ethnic indigenous groups, the Aymara and Quechua.
Sixty-five percent of Bolivians favor the proposal, according to a December poll from the government-run Public Management Observatory...
good morning.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-dolls25-2009jan25,0,265734.story
Michelle Obama objects to dolls of Sasha and Malia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/25/AR2009012500290.html
Obama breaks from Bush, avoids divisive stands
Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush's unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-parks25-2009jan25,0,6965342.story
Bush legacy leaves uphill climb for U.S. parks, critics say
carpenter is awake. time to cook up some vittles.
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to provide for those who mourn in Zion -- to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
- Isaiah 61:1-3
enjoy the day.
Good morning, all.
Well, lookee here.
House Republican Leader John "Bing Crosby" Boehner is on Meet the Press this morning saying there isn't any need to release the rest of the bailout money or pass a stimulus package even thought there is no liquidity in the market ...unless ALL of the American people (Filthy Rich) get a tax cut.
So Boehner is happy to criticize the very strategy he voted for in September and intends to act as a country club obstructionist. He indicated that he (like Limbaugh) "wants Obama to fail" to address the problem unless he makes the tax cuts for the wealthy permanent.
I assume they would like to have the Bush Depression lasts long into the next decade so they can re-build their majority with the carnage that it creates? Now there is a patriotic stance. By all means, let's continue the Bush policies that led to the economic meltdown and stabbed the middle class in the back for the sake of Paris Hilton and Donald Trump.
The Republicans have chosen "failure" as their new family value and greatest virtue. It's the same one they've embraced all along...they plan to blame Obama for making the situation worse...after Clinton caused it somehow?
Boehner is almost as lame of a bad Republican actor as Bush. As far as I'm concerned this doorknob is a keeper. Make him the new face of the Republican Party...
"I'm Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life"; and no, you can't have a loan from the bank unless you are willing to pay dearly for it. Now where did I leave my golf cart?" Funny, I remember Bing singing a lot sweeter song than this Limbaugh diddy.
not to drag the cold war back into focus but just maybe we ought to start finding some common ground with these folks before they become russian or chinese satellites??
gregg on January 25, 2009 at 07:51 AM
What are you, one of those losers who can't create their own reality? Common ground? The Bush Doctrine mandates that we disregard common ground and common sense.
Esmeralda on January 25, 2009 at 07:55 AM
Essie,
I agree with the First Lady.
But it is interesting that nobody ever suggested that the Bush Twins should be marketed as Barbie dolls. I'm thinking we should be seeing a Palin doll being sold out of Christian gift shops (and adult bookstores) soon.
gregg on January 25, 2009 at 07:48 AM
"I'm Mr. Republican Potter. I'm against everything except wild speculation and warprofiteering. Get off my grass. You're messing up the lay of my golf ball."
Why is the Party wasting money financing a blog for the Republicans trolls to talk to themselves? Just a thought.
bbl.
Good afternoon.
This is good news that Obama will pass the Fair Pay act.
Lots of positive change already.
I am really enjoying listening to the right wing coming unglued. They are in full shrill mode now and sound like a whining bunch of sore losers.
What goes around comes around:
Bush's legal foes now Obama's legal team
President Barack Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecessor's fiercest critics, and lawyers who have spent years defining the limits of executive power will now be helping to wield it.
The change may be most dramatic at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — which defended some of Bush’s most controversial policies — where a small cadre of lawyers who had an outsized influence on legal criticism of Bush are taking the top three jobs.
Those three — Dawn Johnsen, Martin Lederman, and David Barron — and others made the case that Bush’s interrogation policy was justified by flawed legal reasoning. Their arguments precipitated one of Obama’s most dramatic early acts: flatly repudiating all government legal advice on interrogation issued between September 11, 2001, and January 20, 2009.
“I think they will be an irritant for Obama in the best possible way — they’re very honest lawyers,” said Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown University Law School, where Lederman also taught. “When Dawn and Marty and David think that he is asking if he can do something that in their view pushes the envelope and goes beyond the bounds of what is legal, they’re going to say, ‘Sorry Mr. Obama, we think that would be illegal.’”
They step into positions ripe for conflict, and have staked out clear positions that could possibly restrain Obama’s ability to, among other things, conduct military operations against the wishes of Congress.
“They have alarmingly narrow views of executive power,” said a former Bush aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17895.html
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This is very good. I see the "unitary executive" concept going away under President Obama.
Hey I like saying that ... President Obama!
Norm Coleman Denied Request For Minnesota Ballot Inspection
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A three-judge panel on Friday rejected Republican Norm Coleman's request to investigate alleged vote-counting irregularities that may have contributed to his opponent's lead in Minnesota's Senate race after a recount.
"The court is not convinced that another inspection of the ballots is efficient or needed to prepare for trial," the judges wrote. The recount trial starts Monday and is expected to last weeks.
Coleman's lawyers had identified 86 precincts where they said problems may have contributed to Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead. Coleman is suing to overturn the result.
Franken's attorneys had said Coleman's request was a fishing expedition for votes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/23/norm-coleman-denied-reque_n_160537.html
Give it up Normy! Man up, you lost the election!
Good move that Obama reversed Bush's "global gag" rule. Enough of Bush's religious right bullshit.
Hey right wing nuts, elections have consequences.
YOU LOST THE ELKCTION
YOU LOST IT BAD
GO RIDE A DINOSAUR
Global warming doubles tree deaths in western US: study
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Global warming and the resulting drought have likely doubled the tree death rate over the past 30 years in old-growth forests in the western United States, according to a study released Thursday.
Researchers said the accelerated forest loss could trigger an environmental domino effect on the region's wildlife and climate.
Temperatures in western US forests have increased on average more than 0.5 degrees Celsius over the past 30 years, reducing snowfall accumulations, prolonging summer droughts and raising the insect population, including tree-killing bark beetles.
Over the past 10 years, these insects have consumed around 1.4 million hectares (3.45 million acres) of lodgepole pines in northwestern Colorado, according to the study led by the US Geological Survey (USGS) study and published in the journal Science.
Warmer temperatures are also conducive to greater tree disease, the researchers said.
"This regional warming has contributed to widespread hydrologic changes, such as a declining fraction of precipitation falling as snow, declining water snowpack content, earlier spring snowmelt and runoff, and a consequent lengthening of the summer drought," the researchers wrote.
Increasing tree mortality rates mean that western forests could become net sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, further speeding up the pace of global warming.
An overabundance of decaying trees on the forest floor is also a source of increased CO2 emissions.
"The increase in tree mortality rates documented in the study is further compelling evidence of ecosystem responses to recent climate warming," said biogeography professor Thomas Veblen of the University of Colorado, a participant in the study.
"The findings are consistent with other well documented, climate-induced ecological changes, including increased wildfire activity since the mid-1980s and bark beetle outbreaks that are occurring at unprecedented levels in western North America forests, including Alaska," Veblen added in a statement.
The study found that the increase in dying trees has been pervasive. Tree death rates have increased across a wide variety of forest types, at all elevations, in trees of all sizes, and in pines, firs, hemlocks and other kinds of trees.
The tree death rate in Canada's British Columbia doubled in only 17 years, 1.5 times faster than in California's old-growth forests, where tree-death doubled in 25 years.
Tree death rates are slower in western US forests that do not border the Pacific Ocean, such as in Colorado and Arizona, the researchers said.
"Tree death rates are like interest on a bank account, the effects compound over time," said Nate Stephenson of the USGS, co-leader of the research team.
"A doubling of death rates eventually could reduce average tree age in a forest by half, thus reducing average tree size."
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Global warming is real. The flat headed flat earthers and those who think the earth is 6000 years old are not credible when they deny it.
Limbaugh responds to Pres with vomit, defense of Merrill Lynch Hotlist
by Bob Sackamento [Subscribe]
Sat Jan 24, 2009 at 06:10:35 PM PST
As Icebergslim notes in her popular diary, Obama recently educated Republicans on the wisdom of ignoring Rush Limbaugh. Yesterday, Limpaugh responded by spewing the following verbal diarrhea (click link at your own risk) from his sullied pie hole:
There are two things going on here. One prong of the Great Unifier's plan is to isolate elected Republicans from their voters and supporters by making the argument about me and not about his plan. He is hoping that these Republicans will also publicly denounce me and thus marginalize me. And who knows? Are ideological and philosophical ties enough to keep the GOP loyal to their voters? Meanwhile, the effort to foist all blame for this mess on the private sector continues unabated when most of the blame for this current debacle can be laid at the feet of the Congress and a couple of former presidents. And there is a strategic reason for this.
* Bob Sackamento's diary :: ::
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Actually, Obama is trying to make the argument about his plan, and his words were a good faith effort to herd the sheep-like Republicans away from the Rush Limbaughs of the world who desire to lead them over a cliff.
The impotent blowhard goes on to don a tin-foil hat and accuse Obama of putting politics and a potential Democrat permajority before the country's economic well-being. According to Limpbaugh's drug-crazed logic, Obama seeks to manipulate the electorate by luring them into an economic plan brimming with poisons such as job creation and economic relief for the middle class and poor.
Limbaugh also asserts that Obama's plan threatens the future of tax cuts, and, amazingly, he defends Merrill Lynch's 1.2 million dollar redecoration of an executive's suite in the same inebriated breath. As a lifelong, loyal democrat and a fervent supporter of the current president, I urge Rush Limbaugh to keep up the good work:
Obama was angry that Merrill Lynch used $1.2 million of TARP money to remodel an executive suite. Excuse me, but didn't Merrill have to hire a decorator and contractor? Didn't they have to buy the new furnishings? What's the difference in that and Merrill loaning that money to a decorator, contractor and goods supplier to remodel Warren Buffet's office? Either way, stimulus in the private sector occurs.
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Drug Limbaugh is a joke. He should shut his fat ugly mouth up.
Sarah Palin may be shopping a book
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palin25-2009jan05,0,4820913.story
What is she going to "write" about? Mooses?
Palin is a right wing nut joke.
Back to the moose burgers ...
I am really enjoying listening to the right wing coming unglued. They are in full shrill mode now and sound like a whining bunch of sore losers.
500 gallons of free heating oil is on its way to N.J.
Official: 6 killed by Turkish avalanche
Sun Jan 25, 6:12 am ET
Avalanche in Turkey kills 10 AFP/File – Ten climbers have been killed during an avalanche in northeastern Turkey and rescuers are still searching …
ANKARA, Turkey – A government official says at least six people were killed by an avalanche in northeastern Turkey.
Governor Enver Salihoglu says six other people are missing, buried under the avalanche that occurred on Sunday morning.
The hikers were part of a group of around 15 walking on Mount Zigana, in Gumushane province when snow crashed down on them.
But this cannot be true! We have Global Warming. Al gore gets no more free heating oil.
rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 12:05 PM
rj,
It sounds like Limbaugh has a interior decorator or two for friends.
I wonder how much each of his three or four wives spent on trying to make the place look better before they realized the real problem was Limbaugh sitting in the middle of the room?
I wonder how much each of his three or four wives spent on trying to make the place look better before they realized the real problem was Limbaugh sitting in the middle of the room?
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SandyH on January 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM
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Hi Sandy, drug Limbaugh is a typical nonsensical right wing nut. If the right listens to this smuck, they will be out of power fro a long time.
Vintage nonsensical drug head Limbaugh:
Limbaugh against stimulus because its success could hurt GOP’s electoral chances.»
On Friday, when President Obama met with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss his economic recovery and reinvestment program, he told GOP leaders, “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Asked for a response by National Review yesterday, Limbaugh said that Obama’s “plan is to isolate elected Republicans from their voters.” He added that passage of the stimulus bill would hurt Republicans electorally:
Obama’s plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR’s New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy. Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing “eternal” power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy.
Limbaugh’s argument echoes former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s recent claim that Obama’s stimulus plan “could create a major electoral advantage for Democrats at taxpayer expense.” “Creating 600,000 new jobs might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House,” said Blackwell.
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So creating jobs is bad because it may hurt the GOP?
LMAO
With attitude such as this, the GOP will be out of power for a long time.
A Great Start to Restoring the Rule of Law
by Senator Russ Feingold
Just hours after his historic inauguration, President Obama has made history again, by signing executive orders that undo, with the stroke of a pen, some of the Bush Administration's worst mistakes. President Obama is off to a great start on restoring the rule of law, and he's giving the country the fresh start we desperately need after the last eight years.
President Obama has rejected the policies of the last administration, both in his words and in his actions. In short order, he has signed orders to close Guantanamo, suspend the military commission system, subject all interrogations to the guidelines in the Army Field Manual, end long-term CIA detentions, require humane treatment of detainees consistent with the Geneva Conventions, and guarantee the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all prisoners held by the U.S. government, and announced a return to the presumption of FOIA disclosure under the Clinton administration. That is a breathtaking list, and the beginning of change that is long overdue.
The new President's quick actions to end both excessive secrecy and flawed detention and interrogation policies are very encouraging. I have long opposed the Bush administration's policies in these areas. As chair of the Senate's Constitution Subcommittee, I held a hearing shining a light on the secret laws that last administration created - keeping OLC opinions under lock and key, for instance - and called for a major overhaul of these policies. I also held a hearing in September 2008 on restoring the rule of law, at which John Podesta and others testified about what changes should be made by a new administration. In December, I wrote then President-elect Obama urging him to take these and other vital steps to restore the rule of law. I applaud his quick action on these issues. It's a great sign of his commitment to working on the other issues that still need to be addressed, from the separation of powers to domestic surveillance and privacy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-russ-feingold/a-great-start-to-restorin_b_160124.html
No more Gitmo! I don't care if it takes one year or two to close it. It will be closed. Congress should move on revoking the military commissions act as well.
Offshore Drilling
Now is the time to drill with the price down
With so many in the oilfield unemployed
That with the billions of profits can invest
In future oil wells to keep OPEC prices low.
Cheney Republicans stated we must drill now
And because Big Oil want to own offshore leases
So they can use American oil and ship it overseas
With paperwork never paying OPEC-A prices.
Congress needs to have “We the people” companies
Make God Bless Made in America Obama employment
Investing in the American dream of working families
Where oil fields are production facilities of our future
Republicans cannot say these offshore drilling sites
Cannot say they sites cannot be drilled for profit
For the yoke of being shackled to OPEC monopoly
Must be broken like John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil.
Note: Congress need to make it a federal crime to export a natural resource and bring it back as a inflated import product. This Accounting takes taxes away for it is exported and with the shell game to make it OPEC oil brought back at that price on the tax books for a write off. OPEC-A Big Oil is a Enron Tory accounting scheme of shell game criminal acts. The amount of oil exported and imported must be subtracted with Big Oil paying higher taxes on that amount that in fact we have a OPEC importing Fee that escalates upon market manipulation.
The spot market price of oil must be extended by a month for future oil prices that investments less than six month be taxed at a higher rate in the oil industry.
In a crazy scenario Big Oil may fund Conservationists to give Obama from requiring new oil exploration for the near term solution to our energy crisis. Like the petroleum reserve these oil rigs can be insurance against OPEC cutoff.
Just think President Obama of Big Oil being Un-American and not investing in God Bless Made in America.
David Lester Young 01/24/09©
De-Terminated poet, somewhere in America not on (Mercedes Benz) company time
Gone-tanamo Bay: the Right Decision
by Congressman John Murtha
President Obama took the first key step in restoring America's image and credibility in the world by issuing an Executive Order to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and to prohibit the use of torture by U.S. personnel.
I applaud his judgment and I wholeheartedly support this decision.
The Bush administration never understood what the Guantanamo detention facility symbolized to the rest of the world. They saw it as simply a prison, and just weeks ago, Dick Cheney commented that he thought "Guantanamo has been very well run." The problem with Guantanamo was never about its bricks and mortar. The problem with Guantanamo is that its very existence stains and defies the moral fiber of our great nation.
The Bush administration created the prison following the attacks of September 11th as a way to circumvent the rule-of-law, to legitimize the use of torture, and to justify the permanent detention of those denied the right to petition their imprisonment.
Guantanamo has cast a dark shadow over two centuries of America's moral leadership in the world.
I said over two years ago that in order to restore our international credibility, we must shut down the Guantanamo detention facility. Even President Bush and Secretary Gates agreed. But Guantanamo remained open because the Bush administration refused to provide a legitimate plan and a legal means to charge and try its detainees, and to relocate them to their respective home countries or to maximum security prisons in the United States.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-john-murtha/gone-tanamo-bay-the-right_b_160036.html
For the uninformed, Robert posts here as PeeWee, Rjsnj. Benji, JohnyBoswell, Chicago, Barbi or BigYellowStain or Duhsty or his newest - palinclown et al.
356Sally-* on January 25, 2009 at 02:40 AM
No he doesn't. the old troll does not like to have to admit that we have far more bloggers who think he is disgusting than we do. (ps, this from a idiot who goes by "Sally, Frosty, Pumpkin, eyebrows," etc)
Hey Sandy, When they get that Palin doll manufactured, it will be pregnant, and come with it's own little car that she fits in the back seat of! :)
PamB on January 25, 2009 at 01:20 PM
Pam,
I was sort of hoping for a Todd action figure with his own snowmobile that can be crashed into the son-in-law's family meth lab shed.
Or the Lincoln log House That Todd Built set with bendable Ted Stevens contractor friends figures.
I need to quit giving these hillbillies marketing ideas. Sarah's book deal is going to make them rich the way it is...if they don't spend it all on a new wardrobe.
The right wing nuts are incredibly confused.
It's right wing nuttism, rots the brain.
If Repugs weren't so concerned with their greasy little wallets, the offshore drilling would never have been an issue. You cannot tell me that clever people in this country, cannot invent a motor for an automobile that can run with something other than gas. We can go to the moon, but can't do something as simple as this?
"Campaigning in Florida last June as a presidential candidate, then-Senator Barack Obama blasted the proposal of his opponent, Senator John McCain, to open coastal areas of the United States to offshore drilling. Declaring that it "makes no sense at all," Obama correctly stated that such drilling would make very little difference in the price of gasoline, and supported a reduction of fossil fuel use through a stimulus program that would create "green jobs."
But as gasoline prices soared past $4 a gallon and the Republicans campaigned on the issue of "drill here, drill now," the Democratic leadership softened its position. The end result was that a 27-year ban on drilling in coastal areas off the United States was allowed to expire.
President Obama now has an opportunity to reverse this mistake by re-instituting the prior protection of our coastal environment.
Offshore drilling has resulted in millions of gallons of oil spills and other forms of pollution. The expansion of offshore drilling is widely seen as a threat to the coastal environment, as well as tourism and fishing industries. It is also a misplaced priority, given the need for the development of renewable energy, increased energy efficiency, and other solutions that will slow the pace of global climate change.
The way in which the ban on offshore drilling was allowed to expire offers a remarkable case study in the techniques of modern political manipulation. Perhaps even more striking is the way in which the major media outlets enabled this mass deception to succeed, by shirking their fundamental responsibility to report the most relevant facts.
John McCain says he will vote against the stimulus package
It didn't take long for Barack Obama's bipartisan buddies to obstruct his first big plan to help our desperate country. On FNS this morning, John McCain said that he would not vote for the stimulus package that would try to breath life into our suffocating economy which is suffering because of the conservatives that just lost the election.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/john-mccain-says-he-will-vote-against-s
So the Rethugs are going to be obstructionists after all. I figured they would be dumb enough to listen to the likes of Rush Limbaugh. They are going to lose and lose really bad. If they obstruct the next two years, they will lose another 3 or 4 Senate seats. Then, we won't even bother to listen to them.
So McKook, how will your ideas fix anything? We had eight years of tax cuts and where are we now?
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PamB on January 25, 2009 at 01:20 PM
has anybody heard if they plan on making an Aunt Jemima doll yet? I bet it´ll sell like hotcakes!
If Repugs weren't so concerned with their greasy little wallets, the offshore drilling would never have been an issue. You cannot tell me that clever people in this country, cannot invent a motor for an automobile that can run with something other than gas. We can go to the moon, but can't do something as simple as this?
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Hi PamB,
The Repugs are morons. Their stupid drill, drill, drill ... Supply wasn't increased at all and prices came down. Why? Because of speculation. That was what drove the price up articially high.
The Repugs are morons. Their stupid drill, drill, drill ... Supply wasn't increased at all and prices came down. Why? Because of speculation. That was what drove the price up articially high.
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rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 01:54 PM
And the democrates blamed it "on Bush". Speculation? wow, your just smart as a whip.
When they get that Palin doll manufactured, it will be pregnant, and come with it's own little car that she fits in the back seat of! :)
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PamB on January 25, 2009 at 01:20 PM
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A Palin doll? When you pull the string does it say moronic things like Moose Brains Palin.
You betcha ...
Get a load of this Kit Bond interview of Hardball last week...
Hardball: Kit Bond Defends Torture But Doesn't Want to Call It Torture
By Heather Friday Jan 23, 2009
Kit Bond making one of the most convoluted arguments I've ever heard about why Gitmo should stay open and what defines torture. He resorts to the latest GOP talking point that if we allow the prisoners at Gitmo to be brought to US prisons we should all be very afraid that they're going to escape and kill us all. Way to keep that fear mongering up Sen. Bond. He also claims that anyone wanting to prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes is suffering from the "ultimate in Bush derangement syndrome"...
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/hardball-kit-bond-defends-torture-doesnt-want
When they aren't watching "24" for Jack Bauer's latest torture techniques, the conservatives are watching "Prison Break"?
Hey, the Bush Derangement Syndrome is the Republicans mental health problem. We don't deal in that alternative universe reality stuff. I'm all for dragging Rumsfeld up to the Hill to explain how democracy can get kind of messy sometimes.
The right wing nuts just don't get it:
YOU LOST THE ELECTION
YOU LOST IT BAD
NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU SORE LOSERS HAVE TO SAY
Sandy,
of course all the little Palin dolls will have price tags hanging off their clothes! Indicating that somebody else paid for their clothes.
Let's get together off line, and see how we can get these good ideas out on the market!
Todd should come with a little protest sign that he carries that says" Free Alaska from the rest of the USA".
Glenn Beck and James Dobson cry out about the destruction of GOD
By John Amato Saturday Jan 24, 2009 5:19pm
Dobson on Beck
icon Download | Play icon Download | Play [H/t Dave N.]
Beware America, progressives want to end prayer -- which means to these maniacs the elimination of GOD. That's the wackiness coming from Glenn Beck last week while I was in DC.
He doesn't have John Gibson's hairdo, but he does keep the insane right-wing nonsense alive and well that FOX craves. He easily slips into the 2/5PM time slot quite nicely for FOX as Gibby's replacement. As all C&L readers know, I'm not hostile to religion, I was brought up a Catholic, but extremists like Dobson do a disservice to the moderates that practice religion at their own pace. Now back to the video.
The first order of business was for Beck and Dobson to lovingly embrace each other like long lost lovers for the FOX followers because in late December Dobson was forced to take down a Beck article off his website because Glenn is part of the Mormon Cult. Pam has the story.
Dobson Caves to Evangelicals Who Call Glenn Beck a Cultist
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/glenn-beck-and-james-dobson-cry-out-abo
What a repulsive right wing nuts Glenn Beck is. His show is the worse rated in prime time cable. Lose it. Dobson and the right wing bullcrap just is not relevant anymore.
Latest bull from the right wing:
Bilbray Cites Nonexistent CBO Report as Excuse to Oppose Stimulus Package
By Heather Saturday Jan 24, 2009 6:30pm
On Hardball while discussing the Obama administration's proposed stimulus package, Brian Bilbray cites a report by the CBO saying much of the money would not be spent until after 2011. As reported by the Huffington Post, it turns out that report by the CBO does not exist. I can't believe it. Republicans just making crap up again. I'm shocked! Heh.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bilbray-cites-nonexistent-cbo-report-excuse
Turns out that the CBO only looked at a small portion of the overall stimulus plan. As Krugman points out, so what if the plan continues into 2011. It's likely that this Bush crap economy will need help right in 2011. Besides these are projects that really are needed.
Screw the right wing. Obama should just proceed ahead. They are showing that they don't want to be part of the answer just obstruction. They will pay the price for that.
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of course all the little Palin dolls will have price tags hanging off their clothes! Indicating that somebody else paid for their clothes.
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LMAO! You betcha!
Obama to act quickly on tighter financial rules
Stricter rules seen for hedge funds, credit raters, mortgage broker
By Stephen Labaton
updated 9:14 p.m. ET, Sat., Jan. 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration plans to move quickly to tighten the nation’s financial regulatory system.
Officials say they will make wide-ranging changes, including stricter federal rules for hedge funds, credit rating agencies and mortgage brokers, and greater oversight of the complex financial instruments that contributed to the economic crisis.
Broad new outlines of the administration’s agenda have begun to emerge in recent interviews with officials, in confirmation proceedings of senior appointees and in a recent report by an international committee led by Paul A. Volcker, a senior member of President Obama’s economic team.
Glen Beck is so lame. There are so many Limbaugh wannabees out there, and he is so obvious.
I heard a guy on NPR answering questions last week, and some guy called in about Limbaugh and his comment hoping Obama fails. The guest on the show said that Right Wing Hate radio is on it's way out. that listeners are merely the same group of discontents, and even they are getting sick of the dittos.
Limbaugh is not the only Hate filled Republican out there who hopes for Obama failure. ( Look at the trolls here! they are PRAYING for it. ) Limbaugh is merely the only one who needs attention enough, to say so. Look at all the attention he has gotten. I don't give him enough credibility to even pay attention to what his fat hate filled mouth spews.
So McKook, how will your ideas fix anything? We had eight years of tax cuts and where are we now?
rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 01:51 PM
rj,
Maybe the Republicans will suggest lowering interest rates to minus 5%? Trickle down is about all they have left in their war wagon and nobody wants to give John McCain another tax break...but him.
Did you see Bill Clinton hitting on Cindy McCain at the Inauguration lunch...right under McCain's nose? I think he was asking her if she wanted to dance with a real star.
Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray
President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials -- barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees -- discovered that there were no comprehensive case files on many of them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012401702.html
What a disgrace! Everything is a dysfunctional mess under Bush. That's what happens when right wing nuts run the government.
Now this is another example of Republican obstruction. Wouldn't you think, that if the Repugs did not think Bush and Cheney did anything wrong in the last 8 years, they would not be worried about any charges that might get thrown at him?????
"In an effort to derail the nomination of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, it seems Senate Republicans are now resorting to extortion. They'll confirm Holder if he promises not to prosecute any Bush Administration officials for any involvement in acts of torture, according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse(D-RI).
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have asked Eric Holder to make a commitment, before he is even confirmed, that he will not prosecute any Bush Administration officials for their involvement in acts of torture during the last administration.
Anyone familiar with the criminal justice system - especially those with experience as prosecutors or judges - should know that a prosecutor should make no determination about who to prosecute before he or she has all the facts, and particularly not in response to legislative pressure.
Senator Whitehouse makes a good point about the separation of powers. It isn't for the legislative branch to hold up executive branch appointments, in order to extract promises from those appointees, especially with regard to potential future prosecutions. But it's much more than that.
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2009/01/republican-senators-resort-to-extortion.html
Hilda Solis' Confirmation at Labor Dept. Slowed
We reported yesterday on Republican objections to moving forward on confirming two of Barack Obama's top environmental nominees.
At first the delay was reported as a Senate "hold," but it turned out to be a different breed of slowdown -- Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) had been quoted as raising the alarm, yet he told us that it was nothing but a misunderstanding. By the evening, the objection had been officially lifted and the environmental nominees were approved.
Now it looks like the same thing is happening with Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), the president's nominee to head the Department of Labor.
Technically, Solis' nomination isn't being "held" -- that occurs when a nominee has won committee approval and a senator tries to delay a full vote. Solis has not received a vote yet in the Senate labor committee, chaired by Ted Kennedy (D-MA), but GOPers are slowing down her confirmation over the so-called "card check" bill, a major priority of the labor movement that would allow workers to organize more easily.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/hilda-solis-confirmation-at-labor-dept-slowed.php
Seems to me that Dems moved expeditiously on all Bush cabinet appointments. But the GOP want to delay and harass Obama. There is no spirit of bipartianship from the GOP. I think Obama will figure that out soon enough.
The GOP and their right wing nut base are itching for a fight. Good! I will be more than happy to drive them out of even more House and Senate seats.
PamB on January 25, 2009 at 02:01 PM
LMAO. But I really feel sorry for the Palin children. It can't be easy being born to two rank opportunists with no brain between the two of them.
pull Aunt jemima´s string and she´ll call you a whitey, cracker and even Peckerwood.
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2009/01/republican-senators-resort-to-extortion.html
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PamB on January 25, 2009 at 02:15 PM
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Pam, the GOP is itching for a fight. All the GOP talk of reconciliation is for show. The GOP are proving what destructive foolish morons they are. They are being given a chance to participate but instead all they want to do is obstruct.
Beware America, progressives want to end prayer --which means to these maniacs the elimination of GOD. That's the wackiness coming from Glenn Beck last week while I was in DC.
420rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 02:01 PM
hiya, rj. maybe beck & dobsen should read the DNC blog...the only maniacs that want to lose bible verses, love and peace, family values and prayers for those who post here are the repug trools.
this one is for them:
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
enjoy the afternoon, everyone.
Beware America, progressives want to end prayer --which means to these maniacs the elimination of GOD. That's the wackiness coming from Glenn Beck last week while I was in DC.
420rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 02:01 PM
hiya, rj. maybe beck & dobsen should read the DNC blog...the only maniacs that want to lose bible verses, love and peace, family values and prayers for those who post here are the repug trools.
this one is for them:
Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
enjoy the afternoon, everyone.
Afghans protest against U.S. on civilian deaths report
By Mohammad Rafiq Mohammad Rafiq – 1 hr 48 mins ago
MEHTAR LAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Afghans protested against President Hamid Karzai and the United States on Sunday over reports of fresh civilian deaths caused by U.S.-led troops during a raid against Taliban militants.
The Anoited One will just clap his hands and they rise from the grave, thus keeping his hands clean.
hiya, rj. maybe beck & dobsen should read the DNC blog...the only maniacs that want to lose bible verses, love and peace, family values and prayers for those who post here are the repug trools.
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Hi Esmeralda, you hit the nail on the head. Right wing nuts have no credibility.
rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 02:01 PM
rj,
Beck is a Mormon? I had him tagged as a Scientologist. He has that Tom Cruise jumping
all over the coach look to him.
Both Dobson and Beck think they are experts on all things concerning child birth and God? Clearly, neither of them have ever experienced either.
rjsnj on January 25, 2009 at 02:19 PM
rj,
You get the feeling that Obama has been luring them in to drop a bomb on them. It gives me great hope that Bin Lauden is next on his list.
The guest on the show said that Right Wing Hate radio is on it's way out. that listeners are merely the same group of discontents, and even they are getting sick of the dittos...
PamB on January 25, 2009 at 02:11 PM
And the majority of them are old men who are losing their hearing and balance. This doesn't bode well for the future of hate radio, does it? Limbaugh might have to go back on food stamps?
bbl
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine...
Esmeralda on January 25, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Hi, Essie.
Isn't that the Good News of the day? We certainly try to keep the spirits up and soul healthy around here.
Well, it's time to start cooking my Cincinnati Chili. I need to fire up the old bones with this latest winter blast...might not get up to 15 degrees today with snow and an ice storm forecasted for tomorrow night.
later.
Evidence suggests US Airways jet hit a soft body
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 25
WASHINGTON – A visual inspection of the battered, dented left engine of the US Airways jetliner that ditched in the Hudson River found no evidence of organic matter, but there are signs the plane hit a soft body, federal investigators say...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_us/plane_splashdown
I didn't know that Poppy was skydiving over the Hudson that day?
Sandy, I feel sorry for those poor Palin kids myself.
Did you know that Palin's son Track was arrested when he was 17, for stealing vodka and vandalizing school buses? They were trying to connect it to his enlistment, because he got no punishment, and they want to say that he HAD to promise to enlist as a condition of that, but there's no proof
Then the 16 year old, obviously unsupervised and left on her own, to only get pregnant.
The others you have to feel sorry for, watching them paraded all over to try and make Sarah look like a good Mother, when she really should have been home taking care of them all, especially the Special Needs child. Special Needs Mothers all over the country were commenting on that fact. They are not called "Special Needs" for nothing. There are all kinds of therapy, exercise, etc that they need.
Sally-* on January 25, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Well Sally,
The way the "one" keeps flip flopping around everyday, add that fact they don't know anything about him except he is black.
They don't want to talk about him, so they go after Sara.
Pammy is just jealous,
The only "beauty contest" pammy ever won, was when she was drunk, and stumbled into a dog show.
Thax Sally,
That was nice, kids are our future, too bad some dopes want to murder them in their mothers womb.
ahhh, Stevie, Stevie. I told you and told you, you have NO IDEA about my 39 year old daughter, who WANTED this baby and went through a lot to get it, unlike Palin's teen who spread her legs in the back seat of a car for the High School dropout, who does not even have a job! How is that parenting coming along, anyways? Any idea where the kid is living? I mean both kids, mother and daughter!
And I will say it again. I PRAY that the Repugs are stupid enough to bring Palin out and try and dust her off, and start out with her and her inexperience and dumbness again. She WAS the gift that just kept giving. I cannot tell you how many people I have spoken to, who said SHE was the reason they could not vote for McCain, and these were even Republicans!! So you make yourself feel really good, that this bimbo may try and run again.
ps, did you see all the Pro Abortion policies Obama is doing? You can make book on it, that these laws will be in place for MANY MANY years to come. Won't that just irk your little itty bitty heart? That Women will have rights, just like you do with your penie?
I heard Boner on MTP this morning, quoting these same numbers. 61 of Guantanamo prisoners went back to being Terrorists is a lot of bull crap! They won't even tell HOW they made up these numbers. Just more of Bush scare tactics to keep these poor slobs who were rounded up for ransoms in Gitmo with no trials. Why don't you know, a trial would prove they were innocent !!!
Security Experts Skeptical on Guantanamo Detainee Report
Saturday 24 January 2009
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by: CNN
A group of freed detainees walk out of Afghanistan Peace Commission in Kabul. They had spent several years in US prisons at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo: Travis Heying / MCT)
Washington - Security experts are questioning information released by the Pentagon last week, saying 61 former detainees from its detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have returned to terrorist activities.
The report, released days before President Obama took office, says 18 former detainees are confirmed to have participated in attacks, and 43 are suspected to have been involved in attacks.
Pentagon officials have said they would not discuss how the statistics were derived because of security concerns that such information could give clues to how U.S. intelligence officers collect their data.
"It is painstakingly done by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and they go over this with great care," Morrell said.
He said evidence of someone being "confirmed" to have returned to terrorism could include fingerprints, a conclusive photograph or "well-corroborated intelligence reporting."
19 years old, and your daughter just managed to snag her first boyfriend? does she live near the Blind School of Osseo or something???
HERE IS WHY Limbaugh and other Repugs are so against Obama and hope he fails. Because they KNOW that if he suceeds, the chance of Repugs ever ever getting office again are NADA !
Limbaugh against stimulus because its success could hurt GOP’s electoral chances.»
On Friday, when President Obama met with congressional leaders from both parties to discuss his economic recovery and reinvestment program, he told GOP leaders, “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” Asked for a response by National Review yesterday, Limbaugh said that Obama’s “plan is to isolate elected Republicans from their voters.” He added that passage of the stimulus bill would hurt Republicans electorally:
Obama’s plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR’s New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy. Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing “eternal” power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy.
Limbaugh’s argument echoes former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s recent claim that Obama’s stimulus plan “could create a major electoral advantage for Democrats at taxpayer expense.” “Creating 600,000 new jobs might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House,” said Blackwell.
www.thinkprogress.org
hey rj, wait up. My Moose roast is just about done, too, so I will bbl............ :)
"no" not "now"
Words the trool has heard hid entire life.
Hello and Happy Sunday all you patriotic America-loving Democrats.
I told you and told you, you have NO IDEA about my 39 year old daughter, who WANTED this baby and went through a lot to get it,
pammy
Gee,
She must have had to sit on a bar stool for hours, untill some one got drunk enough to take her out to the parking lot.
464CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Hey look, it's Dufus-Dan (aka Cactus).
Talking about sitting on bar stools and being drunk... two of three things he knows anything about.
Oh look its Robert "crack head" posting as chitcalgo,
F O dorkfish.
467CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 04:58 PM
Obviosly "names" is not the third thing Dufus knows anything about. I've been posting here on and off for years; have only ever used one name. Chicago. Unlike Dufus-Dan who posts as all things Cacti and demonstrates his unique brand of stupidity under all for all to see.
Thanks Dufus, for showing us all what it means to STILL be a republican dupe.
Tell it to someone who cares , Robert.
Same repetitive posts over aver Robert, you sick bastard.
Earnings, economy - here comes 'terrible'
The week ahead: Investors gear up for a deluge of weak earnings and the biggest plunge in GDP in 26 years.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/25/markets/sunday_weekahead/index.htm?postversion=2009012508
Thanks a lot George W. Bush (you stupid idiot) for listening to the "trickle-downers". Those tax cuts for the top 1% sure kept our economy growing strong, now didn't it.
Stupid republican idiots.
Good afternoon, all
Hi Chgo!
I just HAD to comment on the obvious Freudian slip made by the "smartest fool" in Stupidville.
Hey Chicago,
I see the trolls are still convinced everyone is named Robert.
Pretty lame.
Robert has not read a news paper in weeks, maybe years, or he would know that the "one" is not only keeping President Bush's tax cuts, but adding almost 3 billion of his own.
Stay with what works, right Robert?
I am sooooooooo looking forward to....
SIX YEARS OF SENATOR AL FRANKEN!
"I AM SPARTICUS!"
"No, you're Robert."
"Well, O.K., then."
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...PeeWee, (actually not Robert)- Rjsnj. (Lives on the East Coast) - Benji, _A woman in CA) - JohnyBoswell, _Lives in the Ohio River Valley ) - Chicago, (From what is called "the Land Beyind O'Hare) - Barbi (Eastern Michigan) - or BigYellowStain (originally from the NW Chgo burbs, and went to colege in the southern part of the state, now residing elsewhere) = or Duhsty (Maple Grove MN) - or his newest - palinclown et al. (A woman in the extreme Midwest).
Yeah, Silly. You have it ALL figured out.
Oh looky, the turd is back in the punch bowl. LPD can't find enough on Democratic ideas to pick apart, so now it is spelling! Get a life, LPD. You SEE how stupid the trolls look playing these same simple games !!!!!
Evening Chicago. Now you went and made Doofus Danny all mad. He hates it when you call him that. Don't you know, that is merely his 'stage' name!
His wifey must be out this evening at the Bingo parlor, so he donned her panty hose and high heels and sits here playing like he usually does!
Careful, he will hit you with his purse if you keep it up!!! heehee
heading out for a while. Take care, Dems.
And SMILE-------- WE WON!
Fuck YOU allegedly "Lincoln Park" Fuckwad, Pug talking point spewer / sewer.
It's called a TYPO, (and not as an excuse I had a sick and / or dying cat sitting on my lap, while you have a dunce cap sitting on your head).
NOW are you going to defend your absolute Pug bullshit talking point about a few low income home buyers causing a several TRILLION DOLLAR mortgage collapse or you going to shut the fuck up and come out as the Pug troll you really are?
Spell check THAT, you fucking bitch.
It's called a TYPO, (and not as an excuse I had a sick and / or dying cat sitting on my lap
You must have been a hit, at the YMCA dance with your new purfume, "De-sent of Catcrap".
Poor Pammy,
You are the only one that would think people are angry, when they are laughing at you.
Robert has not read a news paper in weeks, maybe years, or he would know that the "one" is not only keeping President Bush's tax cuts, but adding almost 3 billion of his own.
Stay with what works, right Robert?
476CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 05:13 PM
Well, Dufus, I have been kind of busy traveling and such, so maybe I missed it. You claim Obama is going to KEEP the Bush tax cuts? Please provide a link so we know you are not a stupid idiot. Because here is what it says on the Whitehouse web site:
Middle class families will see their taxes cut -- and no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase. The typical middle class family will receive well over $1,000 in tax relief under the Obama-Biden plan, and will pay tax rates that are 20 percent lower than they faced under President Reagan.
Families making more than $250,000 will pay either the same or lower tax rates than they paid in the 1990s. Obama will ask the wealthiest two percent of families to give back a portion of the tax cuts they have received over the past eight years to ensure we are restoring fairness and returning to fiscal responsibility. But no family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/taxes/
Unless something has changed and they have not updated the web site, it looks to me like Obama is replacing the Bush tax cuts for the top 1% with a tax cut for the middle class.
Poor, poor Dufus-Dan.
Head full of gas like a methane can.
Dumber than a post,
Stupider than most,
Spews his gas like a flatulent fan.
He's proving it again today.
Thanks for showing everyone what it means to STILL be a republican.
Poor stupid little republican dupe.
Well what is the "one" President Obama up to, lets see,
He is going to follow President Bushs plan to draw down the troops in Iraq, but he is going to call it a Troop withdraw.
In 16 months there will only be 70 or 80 thousand left untill 2011.
And...Eat shit and die, you fucking Lincoln Park poseur. You couldn't name the corner with the Thai restaurant and the Italian joint with the Jewish Deli 30 feet away, right next to the Pakistani bakery if you Googled it (which you will do).
Eat shit and die. You Pug operatives just let the entire world know how lame, and how much you cling to LYING you all are.
The whole bunch of you.
So, I've been waiting for your explanation of your Pug talking point about how a few low income working poor were smart enough to manipulate the ENTIRE world markets into a financial meltdown.
Your opinion is that it was "those damn niggers".
My opinion, OTOH is that you are just a piece of shit and the world will be a better place once you kill yourself.
JMO.
Crackhead, repetitive Robert is back, sick bastard.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/taxes/
Crackhead,
That is not a newspaper, try looking at the filthy floor in you cage and see if you can find one.
He is going to follow President Bushs plan to draw down the troops in Iraq...
488CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 06:48 PM
AHAHAHAHAHHAAHH. You stupid idiot. Bush refused to set a timetable or discuss withdrawl. You fools called it retreat and surrender, remember? You dupes believed we had to stay there forever so we could "fight them there instead of here" even thought they weren't "there" before we attacked. You have no credibility and neither does your party. Your a poor stupid little republican dupe. And your numbers are WAY down. The non-idiot Americans have figured it out. "It" being that Bush is a dismal failure in every aspect of the job of president.
Dildoe is showing that the true Racists and Bigots,
call them selves "LIBERALS".
Unless something has changed and they have not updated the web site, it looks to me like Obama is replacing the Bush tax cuts for the top 1% with a tax cut for the middle class.
486Chicago on January 25, 2009 at 06:43 PM
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That is not a newspaper, try looking at the filthy floor in you cage and see if you can find one.
491CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 06:54 PM
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Aw, what's the matter, Dufus? Don't you have a link? Can't you support your claims?
Your ignorance is showing. You claimed Obama was going to KEEP the Bush tax cuts. If your NOT an idiot, it should be easy for you to provide a link. Put up or shut up.
Same repetitive game Crackhead,
put duHsty back on, he is smarter then you.
In reversal, Bush to accept Iraq withdrawal timetable
Aug 22, 2008
CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) — From "surrender date" to "aspirational time horizon," US President George W. Bush seemed poised Friday to seal a reversal in Iraq policy by accepting a target withdrawal date.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvY_Ug0eO-Dbwsrq2xpeNbjGqPZQ
Poor Dufus. He just isn't smart enough to understand. He thinks Obama is following Bush's plan. Obama campaigned on pulling the troops. Bush is the one who changed his strategy.
Poor stupid little republican dupe.
Sometimes its good to go back and see who was right...
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January 16, 2004: 6:59 PM EST
Bush and his fellow Republicans say the cuts have supported consumer spending during the long jobless recovery that has followed the 2001 recession, and promise the cuts will ultimately help create jobs.
Democrats, on the other hand -- including the eight vying to take Bush's job in 2004 -- say most of the cuts have helped only the wealthiest Americans, while ruining the federal budget and setting the stage for a far worse fiscal crisis in the future.
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The Republicans were WRONG. The Democrats were RIGHT.
Trickle-down economics DOES NOT WORK.
I hope we don't have to prove it a third time.
In reversal, Bush to accept Iraq withdrawal timetable
Aug 22, 2008
Aug 22, 2008
Aug 22, 2008
Aug 22, 2008
Duh Robert, you were saying?
When did Obama become President?
Same repetitive game Crackhead,
put duHsty back on, he is smarter then you.
495CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 07:06 PM
That's all you got? That's your reply?
Well, I guess that proves it. Dufus-Dan is an idiot and can't support his stupid statements with any kind of link. Poor stupid little republican dupe.
DoPey is cranky and Robert is so doped up, he is posting links that disprove his own comments, thats something I thought only pammy was dumb enough to do.
Good evening, Chicago and DPD.
Did you just see the story on "60 Minutes" about DHL laying off people in Wilmington as they start closing down the whole business? The foreign owners got what they wanted and are now moving on to destroy another economy someplace else.
Just let the Republicans continue to talk about how strong the economy is. The more they brag and lie about the mess they'e made with the help of globalization the bigger the blowback will be next election. These un-American politicians sold this country out to foreign interests who are slowing liquidated our assets, boarding up our operations, and kicking our workers to the curb.
The Republican American Dream? A banana republic. Sick, greedy bastards with no allegiance to the United States...citizens of the cold cruel world and becoming more smug about it every day.
In reversal, Bush to accept Iraq withdrawal timetable
Aug 22, 2008
Duh Robert, you were saying?
When did Obama become President?
498CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 07:17 PM
Wow, Dufus, can you really be that dumb? Let's see if I can lay this out so someone as slow as you can understand.
1. Bush changed his position on troop withdrawl during the election cycle.
2. Obama has consistenly supported troop withdrawl and was backed by a significant majority of Americans.
And now you're trying LAMELY to stick to your story that it was Bush's plan because Obama wasn't elected yet?
Wow, new frontiers in stupidity are being explored by Dufus.
DoPey is cranky and Robert is so doped up, he is posting links that disprove his own comments, thats something I thought only pammy was dumb enough to do.
501CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 07:25 PM
Looks like Dufus isn't smart enough to understand what he reads. Everyone else on here (except perhaps Stupid Sally) understands that Bush changed his position to match Obama's.
Poor stupid little Dufus-Dan. He just can't understand.
. Bush changed his position on troop withdrawl during the election cycle.
Thats a real smart remark there,Robert.
So durring the election cycle, the wall street mess must belong to Obama, right, nat brain?
The Republican American Dream? A banana republic. Sick, greedy bastards with no allegiance to the United States...citizens of the cold cruel world and becoming more smug about it every day.
502SandyH on January 25, 2009 at 07:27 PM
Sandy,
Absolutely right. And many of these uneducated republican dupes still believe trickle-down economics works. They stick to the ideology they have been fed by the republicans and just keep chanting the same old talking points. Too stupid to think for themselves.
Keep saying how smart you are Robert, after all, if you didn't, who would.
Sandy - I just watched it and it made me sick. We are experiencing the same thing here in northern Indiana. It's going to spread and it's going to get a lot worse I'm afraid.
It should be a constant reminder on this blog who got us where we are... George Bush and the Republican Party.
Let us never forget!
Chicago - I could skin some people alive on how they voted this last election. Husbands are laid off and they supported the Republican party. Now how dumb is that? Like I have said - it's like stopping off at Dairy Queen after you go to a Weight Watchers meeting - go figure.
. Bush changed his position on troop withdrawl during the election cycle.
Thats a real smart remark there,Robert.
So durring the election cycle, the wall street mess must belong to Obama, right, nat brain?
505CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 07:34 PM
Dufus,
You weren't making much sense before, but at least there was some logic to your ignorance, even if you couldn't support any of your claims and they were wrong. Now you're not making any sense at all. Is your point that the economic meltdown is Obama's fault because Bush changed his economic policies to those of Obama? Is that the claim you are trying to make?
Stick with mopping floors. A debater, you are not. A stupid little republican troll you most certainly are.
Keep saying how smart you are Robert, after all, if you didn't, who would.
507CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 07:39 PM
Dufus,
I've never claimed to be smart. I'm about average. But compared to YOU, this chair I'm sitting on is smart.
Poor Stupid little republican Dupe
502
SandyH on January 25, 2009 at 07:27 PM
I just watched that piece on 60 Minutes. How sad. I wonder how many of these people voted for mcloser?
I agree, they will wake up at the next Congressional elections and we will see a complete rout of these "boner" type senators and delay type congresspersons.
We need to do something now to help these people, but with people like boner who is against helping anyone other than his rich asshole friends.
People aren't going to take much more before they blow. And woe to any f'g repuke that gets in our way.
chicago and johne, good evening. those hits keep coming:
"Obama to Let California Set Its Own Auto Emissions Standards
By Kim Chipman
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is set to allow California to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions for autos, reversing a Bush administration ruling, people familiar with the matter said.
More than a dozen other U.S. states may then adopt the same standards, which are opposed by automakers. Obama, who will discuss his energy and environmental plans tomorrow, also will start finalizing new rules requiring cars and light trucks to be more fuel-efficient, the people said.
The Bush administration denied California a waiver to begin a state program intended to cut gases tied to global warming by 30 percent by 2016. Obama pledged during his campaign to reverse that decision..."
One of the major sources of antisemitism and propaganda for perpetuating conflict between Israel and Palestine - John Haggee. Jews for Peace:
512Johne on January 25, 2009 at 07:57 PM
Johne,
Remember before the election how the republican dupes would point to the poll numbers for the "Democratic Congress" whenever we pointed out Bush's low approval numbers? They are in denial. The election PROVED that the voters were not angry with the Democrats. The republicans lost their ass and their shirts. And if they continue to be in denial, you are absolutely right. How stupid were they to keep boner as their leader when the country was demanding change.
Hi, Johne.
And now from the same people who gave us outsourcing we have the next generation of a globalization economy: polluted water and maybe a world epidemic from dumping anti-biotic waste in rivers?
World's highest drug levels entering India stream
By MARGIE MASON, AP Medical Writer Margie Mason
January 25, 2009
PATANCHERU, India – When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.
And it wasn't just ciprofloxacin being detected. The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet — a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment, researchers say.
Those Indian factories produce drugs for much of the world, including many Americans. The result: Some of India's poor are unwittingly consuming an array of chemicals that may be harmful, and could lead to the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/pharmawater_india
Isn't it's funny how those who are selling intelligent design over science can go about destroying ecosystems without any worries that it won't come back to bite them and their family values in the ass, too?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/23/obama.abortion/index.html
Oh, yeah... Obama is following right along in Bush's footsteps... NOT!
Fromm on January 25, 2009 at 08:04 PM
Hi, Fromm.
Did you see the "60 Minutes" piece about the West Bank tonight? The apartheid word is being used openly in Israel by many concerned Jewish citizens.
It’s pretty obvious that those illegal Jewish settlements, the new wall to separate Arab communities, and the Hebrew-only highways are going to destabilize Israel from within. They think Hamas is their biggest problem?
Societies that disenfranchise native-born citizens and discriminate according to race never thrive. What are these zealots thinking?
The United States can’t protect them from their own prejudices and obsessions. The settlers say they are on a mission from God...a mission to destroy Israel once and for all?
So durring the election cycle, the wall street mess must belong to Obama, right, nat brain?
505CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 07:34 PM
That makes about as much sense as a flea kicking a elephants ass.
Did you go to school to educate yourself in ignornace?
Pugs are self educated in ignornace, with the help of Coulter, Limpnuts, O'Liely, Hannity, the bate brothers and others.
I just love it the way Obama is setting things right. All the criminal acts committed by the bush administration will come to light, one by one and Obama will set them straight.
rash blimpass needs to be taken off the radio.
The love of Money is the reason that pugs, can't do nothing right, and hate all that America stands for, over their love of Money, its all that they care about, no matter how many they can screw to get it.
They are so lame with there TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, and more Tax Cuts. Thats all they got left, and will never be back in power, in the executive sweet, of these USOA ever again in are live times. America has got there number, and they are thur.
SANDY - Thanks for the news of 60 minutes - sorry I missed it. Here is coverage of Jews who help the Palestinians. These are the type of citizens that should be leading Israel.
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_995.shtml
Good grief - Huckleberry Hound is on FOX attacking Obama - airing his sexual phobias...is biblical skills are not far off from Haggee's...
Evening Chassie, Sandy, Chicago, gregg, Obamamama and FROMM,
The obnoxious bate's twins are still at it spewing their hate. And they call themselves christians. Their kind of christian is Adolf Hitler.
The Pugs Philosophy is cut my personal income taxes, cut the corporate taxes to zilch, cut taxes on dividends, cut the taxes on capital gains, to zero, less have a 2 year tax cut on everyone, to zero.
How do these jackasses, expect the USA to operate, if this would all come to past. And on top of this they want to talk about national security, with no monies to fund it if they got there way, what a bunch of anti American jackasses they are.
Good Lord, they don't have a functioning brain cell in there skulls.
It sounds like huckleberry is just as bad as hagee. Are they all hypocrites?
Chassie,
They also want to cut the government to zero personnel.
This would lead to anarchy and we cannot allow that to happen.
Check out the asshole grover norquist. He blames the Democrats for all our ills and says that government should be zero. Then the jackasses on the networks have this asshole on TV. What is wrong with these brainless trolls. Maybe we need to keep guantanamo open and send them there and release all the muslims.
Johne, its too bad that the bate brothers was not joined at the chest, to there toes when they were born, back in those days they would of been inseparable, and probably would be dead today what a shame. Those two scums is still living.
Johne, the bate brothers are about as much Christiians as the Lizards running around on my patio.
Maybe we need to keep guantanamo open and send them there and release all the muslims.
529Johne on January 25, 2009 at 09:01 PM
Johne seems you got the same idea as James Car ville, he said today that we need to move all the terrorists out of Cuba, and move the wall streets crooks, and crooked bankers in, BTW i agree with him, i think we might need to keep it open for other purposes.
JOHNE
Haggae - Huckleberry - Pat Robertson - Jack Van Impe - do isogesis to the bible instead of exegesis -
instead of reading it in social historical context - they read their phobias into it and then use it to beat people over the proverbial head with....
Like Nathan Bedford Forrest - famed Calvary man from the Confederate Army, took Numbers 25 and read his racism into it and then founded the KKK...
The above group is recooked stuff from Jon Darby and his crazy reading of Daniel 9...
Garrison Keillor - was saved from Darby's Plymouth Bretheren movement - and does a great job of unpacking it in a great humorous book entitled - "Lake Wobegon: the Summer of 1956."
They are misguided...and sincere...and deadly...
JOHNE
They are like Dan the Bible Man in the movie, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Check out the asshole grover norquist. He blames the Democrats for all our ills and says that government should be zero.
529Johne on January 25, 2009 at 09:01 PM
Johne,
That is why they are so anxious to get to "the global economy". They don't like the rules of the United States. That's why they are shipping all the jobs to China. If they could get rid of the rights of man as set forth in the constitution and the subsequent laws, then they could have slave labor. Good for profits.
Greed makes men do terrible things.
Right-Wing Myths About The Stimulus
January 23, 2009
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, and Pat Garofalo
... Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) made his opposition known by simply saying "Oh. My. God."
Conservatives have coalesced around "alternative" stimulus proposals like one crafted by the Republican Study Committee (RSC). But in their opposition, conservatives have propagated several myths about the stimulus and its potential effect on the economy. Here are the three most prominent conservative stimulus myths, and why they amount to nothing more than hot air...
MYTH 1 -- SPENDING IS NOT STIMULATIVE...
MYTH 2 -- STIMULUS WON'T CREATE JOBS...
MYTH 3 -- PERMANENT TAX CUTS ARE THE BEST STIMULUS...
Now why would the American people want to continue the same policies the Republicans failed with for eight years much less believe anything these incompetent say?
The RNC encouraged the shenanigans on K Street and Wall Street that led to the crash and are now telling fairy tales about how smart they still are? Voters are going to give more matches to these irresponsible kids and watch what's left of our economy go up in flames?
If only you could create capital from the back of a golf cart or from lying to the cameras about something you know nothing (and I mean nothing) about, John Boehner would be King of the World.
536SandyH on January 25, 2009 at 09:35 PM
Sandy,
The republicans are all about the big lie. And the MSM helps them. Remember when Reagan and his goof-ball economic advisers first created the "laffer curve". George Bush Sr. called it vodoo economics. It was tax cuts for the rich, privatization and big spending to republican friendly companies. Sound familiar. It failed then. The US ran up a huge debt. Bush Sr. ran for election on "read my lips, no new taxes", then raised taxes because he realized it was vodoo economics and it didn't work. But along comes Georgie Bush Jr. a few yrs. later selling us tax cuts for the rich because "the rich people create jobs". And the media does not point out the failings of the Reagan administration. They all go along as if trickle-down economics had been a glowing success. They will do it again if they get the chance. Mark my words, eight years from now, they will be campaigning on tax cuts.
Fromm on January 25, 2009 at 08:44 PM
Fromm,
I've never understood why sex plays such a prominent role in the dominant tenets of these Christian religious outfits. There is something pagan about it.
Catch up with you all later.
Good night, all.
who is robert is he sally bf is that why so worried about him
Chicago on January 25, 2009 at 09:49 PM
Chicago,
Right you are. It's funny how the MSM seems to have forgotten the Reagan recession and deficit of the 1980s entirely. He was such a genius, don't you know?
Nor do they seem to remember how the Soviet Union was brought down by a prolonged war in Afghanistan. Gee, I hope Gates isn't talking Obama into getting bogged down there, too.
Bye.
The Legacy of President George W. Bush
A legacy is not what has happened in the past. It is what is handed down to the future.
By now, most Americans agree that President Bush’s two terms in office have been a profound failure. For months, Bush’s approval ratings have hovered around 30 percent -- while approximately 2/3 of the American people disapprove of the job he’s doing in Washington.
What the polls don’t tell us is that in truth, the failures of the last eight years cannot be chalked up to one man – and that means they won’t necessarily be turned around when he leaves office. The war in Iraq, the floundering economy, the tragedy that befell New Orleans, were the failures of conservative ideology. And they were the failures of every one in Congress who cheerleaded for and happily rubber-stamped the President’s conservative agenda.
The purpose of the Bush Legacy Tour is not to gloat about all that has gone wrong over the past eight years, but to ensure that the legacy of President George W. Bush can be used to ensure that the next eight are drastically different.
We cannot let President Bush and Karl Rove's version of the past eight years go down in history as the truth – and we cannot allow the conservative agenda to continue to fail the American people.
http://www.bushlegacytour.com/page/content/legacy/
it figures that this cretin from italy was bush's best bud during his presiduncey:
ROME - Premier Silvio Berlusconi sparked outrage Sunday for suggesting that Italy's women were so beautiful they needed military escorts to avoid being raped.
Berlusconi made the comments in response to questions about his proposal to deploy 300,000 soldiers in the streets to fight crime. A series of violent attacks, including a rape in Rome on New Year's Eve and another outside the capital this week, have put pressure on the government to crack down on crime.
But Berlusconi said that, even in a militarized state, crimes like rape can happen. "You can't consider deploying a force that would be sufficient to prevent the risk," the ANSA and Apcom news agencies quoted him as saying. "We would have to have so many soldiers because our women are so beautiful."
SANDYH - 60 Minutes on Gaza
Very good video clip!
The settler woman is Theodore Herzl incarnate - g-d and soil - not the G-d of the Torah that goes out to the entire world - she represents the pagan g-d of ancient Canaanite tribalism!
What an irony - if Israel ends up in civil war...the war Germany could have ended up in if the Zionist movement's wing known as the Revisionists could have kept the embargo going against 1933 Germany, instead of bargaining in the Haavara (the Mapai Zionists)- transfer of 60,000 people to Palestine...
To support the settlers - as a Christian - one has to do as the right wingers do - rip the mid section out of your bible - and never read the prophets...
Thanks!
Fromm,
I've never understood why sex plays such a prominent role in the dominant tenets of these Christian religious outfits. There is something pagan about it.
538
SandyH on January 25, 2009 at 09:52 PM
SANDYH
The Hebrew bible is so incredibly sexual - Puritan America can't even begin to see it...where to begin...there aren't enough threads!
OK...if you mark your identity with circumcision...how's that for starters! In the big picture - it is the story of the movement from Goddess culture to patriarchy - See Riane Eisler's book "The Blade and the Chalice."
Collectivist Fabrication: AGW
Posted on January 12, 2009 by chillguy33
by chillguy33?
Golly, gee. That sounds official. Where is his PHD from? Walmart?
The Chris Matthews Psalm
By Tim Graham | January 25, 2009 - 08:38
Just for kicks, this would be what a Chris Matthews homage to Obama would sound like:
Barack is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me lay down my Hardball, he stills my dissent to quiet waters
he restores my Camelot soul. He guides me in paths of purple-state unity for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of partisan rancor, I will fear no obstructionist, for you are with me.
Your calm and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a studio before me, in the presence of the Ditto-heads.
You anoint my head with your charisma; my thrill overflows.
Surely, the audacity of hope and change will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house bought with Rezko forever.
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The official Prayer, of the Kool aid drinkers.
i watched rush on hannity for a few seconds. putting rush on the tube is a big mistake. he really is a gelatinous mass of protoplasm and quite repulsive. at one point they closed in on rush's face as he was making a smart ass remark and his eyes nose and mouth sort of melted back into his fleshy face and it was like looking at a well greased pigs ass just before it went out on a date with sally. i almost ralphed.
Sally,
Roberts gone one plate of fried bologna and eggs too far, look at the names he has posted under tonight, where are the regulars?
Just Old Sandy and the goatman, oh and JohnE Weird.
556CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Dufus-Dan and Stupid-Sally talking to each other about the fact that they can't keep names straight. Could we get some better trolls? At least some that can carry on an intelligent conversation? These two dupes can't understand basic concepts and cite sources like "chillguy33". What a couple of losers.
a well greased pigs ass
Little greggy
Stepping out on the goat, you sick asshat,greggy?
Or just dreaming?
Well, at least you have got DoPeyDoodle fooled Robert. That is not that hard to do though
559Sally-* on January 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM
No, Stupid-Sally, your just too dumb to figure out what everyone else already knows.
Poor stupid republican dupe.
cactASS YOUR THE BIGGEST KOOL DRINKER IN HERE i only pay to homage god cactass pay homage to bf sally
a well greased pigs ass
Little greggy
I take that back, greggy, you have been out with Pammmy.
Oh, look... Dufus-Dan finally found something to talk about that he has experience with... pig's asses.
Oh, look... Dufus-Dan finally found something to talk about that he has experience with... pig's asses.
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Yes Robert I've been on this blog with you and Pammy for several years now.
I'm guessing Stupid-Sally's mother drank A LOT while she was pregnant with him...
Probably kept it up while he was an infant and dropped him a time or two, on the head.
Yes Robert I've been on this blog with you and Pammy for several years now.
567CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Yes you have, and you haven't learned a damn thing, except that you like pig's asses.
Explains why your a republican.
Poor stupid republican dupe.
who robert i dont see anybody named robert on here
570dusty2006 on January 25, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Dusty,
That's Dufus-dan's ignorance demonstrating itself. He can't keep more than about 3 names straight. So he knows Pam, Gregg, and someone named Robert. So he is trying to lump everyone else together as "Robert". He'll probably be calling you Robert next. He's just stupid. Explains alot about how he votes.
Yes you have, and you haven't learned a damn thing, except that you like pig's asses.
No Robert,
I dont care for you are pammy and I think you hurt the democratic party by acting so foolish.
Yes you have, and you haven't learned a damn thing, except that you like pig's asses.
No Robert,
I dont care for you or pammy and I think you hurt the democratic party by acting so foolish.
sally call me retard or robert but he come under so many names he loser and sally mentely ill
No Robert,
I dont care for you are pammy and I think you hurt the democratic party by acting so foolish.
573CactusBarack on January 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM
You think? Since when can you think? We've not seen THAT here before. You just post stupid stuff. You couldn't THINK your way out of a wet paper bag, you stupid republican dupe. Go ask Rush Limpballs what your supposed to think. Hurry up now... so you don't look even stupider...
amd sally and cactus help the democrat party with foolish and nonsense you post on here
amd sally and cactus help the democrat party with foolish and nonsense you post on here
577dusty2006 on January 25, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Dusty,
Stupid-Sally and Dufus-Dan do help the Democratic party. They provide shining examples of what it means to STILL be a republican. THey don't provide links. They cannot articulate an argument. They just post stupid stuff attacking people for goats and things. And when people read their posts and see how stupid they sound, it makes republicans look bad.
Thanks Stupid-Sally and Dufus-Dan for all you do. It is appreciated.
Yes Pammy's family are a real bunch of Morons.
They are ether fags or crazy, or both.
A family that sleeps together, produces Idiots.
Robert and Pammy, what a pair, to stay away from.
The Legacy of President George W. Bush
A legacy is not what has happened in the past. It is what is handed down to the future.
By now, most Americans agree that President Bush’s two terms in office have been a profound failure. For months, Bush’s approval ratings have hovered around 30 percent -- while approximately 2/3 of the American people disapprove of the job he’s doing in Washington.
What the polls don’t tell us is that in truth, the failures of the last eight years cannot be chalked up to one man – and that means they won’t necessarily be turned around when he leaves office. The war in Iraq, the floundering economy, the tragedy that befell New Orleans, were the failures of conservative ideology. And they were the failures of every one in Congress who cheerleaded for and happily rubber-stamped the President’s conservative agenda.
The purpose of the Bush Legacy Tour is not to gloat about all that has gone wrong over the past eight years, but to ensure that the legacy of President George W. Bush can be used to ensure that the next eight are drastically different.
We cannot let President Bush and Karl Rove's version of the past eight years go down in history as the truth – and we cannot allow the conservative agenda to continue to fail the American people.
http://www.bushlegacytour.com/page/content/legacy/
where did dufus dan stupid sally go did they feel stupid and leave
Oh, I'm sorry, pammy prefers to be called an Idjit. She thinks it makes her look smarter then Robert.
581CactusBarack on January 26, 2009 at 12:06 AM
That's the best retort you could come up with, Dufus? Wow... not only are you stupid, you also have no imagination. I hope you're in a job that requires neither. I'm guessing mopping and cleaning toilets would be about the limits of your ability.
Poor stupid republican dupe
The DNC will shut down this blog soon, just to get rid of Pammy and Robert, they do nothing but drag the party down.
long ago it must be i have a photograph...
"But it is good to atart setting up your excuses ahead of time because it is beginning to look like the Republicans are going to win this election too.
Posted by FrostyMacCowpie on October 27, 2006 at 12:34 AM"
and....
"No decision in the Irving Libby trial - that means hung jury and mistrial and Libby skates because they are not gonna do it again.
Posted by Honorable*Sally* on February 27, 2007 at 09:49 PM"
and...
"But, having said that, Libbey will skate.
Posted by FrostyMilkweed on June 5, 2007 at 08:55 PM"
and...
"Here is a prediction I made "If the Republicans lose the House it will insure a Republican Presidential victory in 2008, because those Dems will behave like absolute asshats".
That one will still come true. And with Hillary bringing the ticket down the Republicans will probably re take the House as well.
Posted by TheWonderfulFrosty on January 24, 2008 at 12:26 AM"
and...
"The first Negro President will be a Republican.
219
Sally-* on November 4, 2008 at 06:38 PM"
and...
"NBC caled PA with incomplete data says Fox's Michael Barone. They don't have any precinct data to confirm the exit polls.
Obama has been exit polling 11% over the actual vote.
265
Sally-* on November 4, 2008 at 08:25 PM"
what can you say, sarah is a creepy chick with a meth head river runnin through her family and rush is a repulsive load of gelatin. sorry sweet sally, the reality based community is back in power....hahahahaha
Oh, I'm sorry
584CactusBarack on January 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Yes you are. A sorry excuse for a human being. I've scraped up dog shit smarter than you. Glad we finally found something upon which we agree.
From the post, looks like Greggy has had a little "meth" tonight,
right out of the goats ass.
cactass would know about goat ass he had goat as pet and sniff it ass everyday
I've scraped up dog shit smarter than you. Glad we finally found something upon which we agree.
590Chicago on January 26, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Says alot about the filth you live in robert, are you sure it was the dog or was it you?
why chicago robert you a real big loser cactass jackass
Gregg,
Yeah, these republican idiots keep blabbing away like they know anything. How about this one:
The democrats will lose in '08. They lied to make it in the '06 election and their campaign of doom and gloom will cost them in '08. America votes for winners not WHINERS.
Posted by D_Cactus_Weekend on November 9, 2007 at 08:38 PM
AHAHAHAHA Poor stupid little republican dupe
Says alot about the filth you live in robert, are you sure it was the dog or was it you?
593CactusBarack on January 26, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Dufus, you stupid fool, what's important is that it was SMARTER than YOU. (read that slow a few times so you can understand).
595Robert on January 26, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Well Dummy, you are still here Whinnying same as before the election.
Here is a little more stupidity from our republican friend Dufus-Dan from the archives...
Obama,
Supported by every commie asswipe and now Hamas.
Fat chance of him being elected President.
Posted by *D____Cactus*__ on April 26, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Stupid then, stupid now. The base of the republican party. They never learn.
Dufus, you stupid fool, what's important is that it was SMARTER than YOU
I think it is sick that you live in a home with dog shit all over the floor and then bragg about it, you are sick Robert.
good to see you chicago. i wonder which of bush's idiotic programs and ideas will get flushed down the toilet this week.
good night now.
Does Pammy know about you filthy house Robert or is hers just as trashy?
I think it is sick that you live in a home with dog shit all over the floor and then bragg about it, you are sick Robert.
601CactusBarack on January 26, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Wow, you are stupid. It was outside. HAHAHAAHH.
I see why you vote for the republicans... 'cause you're S-T-U-P-I-D!
More stupidity from our Dufus republican friend:
The democrats plan to grap defeat out of the jaws of sure victory, is working.
Posted by Dan_A_Cactus** on August 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Gosh, that kind of keen intellect is just awe-inspiring isn't it? I wonder if he designs rockets in his spare time...
I bet Pammys house is a real dung heap, with her throwing up on the computer all the time, it must smell a block away.
So Robert/chi
We've learned you live in a cess pool littered with dog crap on the floors, but instead of cleaning up your house, you spend hours on the blog.
Lazy liberal.
Mass. House speaker resigns amid ethics allegation
By RODRIQUE NGOWI – 3 hours ago
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' House speaker said Sunday he would resign amid allegations a close friend used their relationship to push ticket-scalping legislation and paid off legal bills for the speaker's in-laws.
In a letter to colleagues Sunday, Democrat Salvatore DiMasi said his resignation as a state representative and as speaker would be effective at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
"No matter what the critics and cynics will say, all my actions as state Representative and as Speaker were based solely on what I thought was in the best interests of my district and the people of the Commonwealth," DiMasi said in his letter.
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Now a word from President Obama,
As you know, me and Joe aproved that brige to no where several years ago.
With our new economic plan we are going to put the entire nation on the same path to no where.
We know we will enjoy the support of the kool aid drinkers, they never read anything anyway, and hell they are stupid.
A lot of my friends in the senate will make money off my plan, it will stemulate their economy.
Thank you America.
and not as an excuse I had a sick and / or dying cat sitting on my lap
Spell check THAT, you fucking bitch.
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Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on January 25, 2009 at 06:18 PM
Looks like DoPeyDoodle is counting on having Chinese food sometime in the very near future.
Now a word from President Obama,
As you know, me and Joe approved that bridge to no where several years ago.
With our new economic plan we are going to put the entire nation on the same path to no where.
We know we will enjoy the support of the kool aid drinkers, they never read anything anyway, and hell they are stupid.
A lot of my friends in the senate will make money off my plan, it will stimulate their economy.
Thank you America.
pam is smarter then sally and cactass jackass any day
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dusty2006 on January 26, 2009 at 12:12 AM
You only say that out of motherly love, I bet she bribed ya with a new "Black Spiderman Lunchbox".
QUOTABLE QUOTES
"The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal." – P. J. O'Rourke
TODAY IN HISTORY
1998 Bubba airs out his boob tube claim "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...", then he adds "Monica Lewinsky". He had us sold when we thought he meant Comrade Hillary.
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Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on January 25, 2009 at 06:50 PM
DoPeyDoodle is getting pretty edgy just sitting there waiting for that poor old cat to croak. I bet he´ll do it Sweet/Sour with a side order of Cicero Cockroach garnished with garlic.
Cult of personality
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships.
A cult of personality is similar to general hero worship, except that it is created specifically for political leaders.
I feel the time is ripe to start a new disscussion on one of the most popular blogs on the net. So say´s DopeDoodle anyway. Cult of personality. Boy, I bet our pet moonbats won´t like this one, because they thought they could just weasle "B.O." past the security guards. Yup, Cult of Personality is just what the leftwing media has been doing with "The One". Of course we all know a few idiots who tried to do that too.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Ceauşescu, Kim Il-Sung, and Kim Jong-Il.
There is no evidence that "The Messiah" is aware of this, it looks like the leftwing radical moonbat movement is behind it all, including the smear campaigns against anything that remotely even looks conservative. This is evidenced on a certain liberal blog where anybody posting as a Hillary supporter found his post deleted. So much for free speech when "The Party" is in command.
January 25, 2009
Moonbat Messiah Heroin
The Moonbat Messiah has left a legacy already — in the form of a new brand of heroin. From New York State:
Sheriff's deputies and investigators have broken a heroin distribution ring that dished out narcotics across more than half of Sullivan County. … The alleged dealers were pushing a variety of heroin that they called "Obama."
It looks like the drug dealers missed the part in one of his memoirs where the Anointed One brags about using marijuana and cocaine — "not smack, though."
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Sally-* on January 26, 2009 at 04:58 AM
Its a leftwing radical plot to populate the country with "political Correctness".
rush response is false and the web sight is full shit poor republican whiners who didnt do anything for worker now obstruct obama stimulis plan help the mass get job to rebuild bridges roads water works people will hev jobs for that will high paying and last it will be better then 8 years of bush who didnt do anything for worker but sit in office and drink and act stupid
the only native born our the indian were all wetback sally
im not robert you retarded moron sally i post the truth to counter your nonsense
us democrats have to read your have retard talk on here when your on here al night talking to your self
i not pretending to be what you are retarded moron sally
the blog look stupid because of sally neo con cactus swirly spout ing nonsense
all those people are different people not the same you moron im from same state you are from you moron
the blog should keep out necon sally dr turd cactass jackass then might be talk about democratic issues
good night sally retarded moron who need glass he lumps everybody in to robert when were al different people from all the country he need to see thierpist for his problems
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dusty2006 on January 26, 2009 at 05:20 AM
Are you for real? Or did you forget your Meds or what?
Mass. House speaker resigns amid ethics allegation
By RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press Writer Rodrique Ngowi, Associated Press Writer – Sun Jan 25, 10:03 pm ET
BOSTON – Massachusetts' House speaker said Sunday he would resign amid allegations a close friend used their relationship to push ticket-scalping legislation and paid off legal bills for the speaker's in-laws.
In a letter to colleagues Sunday, Democrat Salvatore DiMasi said his resignation as a state representative and as speaker would be effective at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
And another "honest" dem bites the dust.
the economy is grim and getting grimmer. bush left the country with so many nightmares i am beginning to think he was freddy krueger.
bill kristol is done at the times op-ed page. this is wonderful news. now he and dennis miller can get their tap dance routine together and take it on the road.
Morning Dem.......
Too funny. Silly Stevie protesting against birth control, while his own 19 year old daughter (who just graduated btw), is out with her first boyfriend doing the 'nasty' in the back seat of his car! Pray that those mentally ill genes do not go into any babies. The world cannnot abide another one like him. By now though, I will bet the boyfriend has wised up and found someone who is actually pretty, and dresses like a girl, not a Sarah Palin flannel shirt clone to hide thick thighs and butt.
The trolls have become MORE and MORE angry and shrill.
The better Obama does, the more polls finding approval of him, the angrier they get ! Hold on, Trollies, you are in the for the ride of your lives!
Good one:
TIME FOR THE KICK ASS PART OF BIPARTISANISM!!!
Call us a cynical bunch if you must, but the biggest question most hardcore liberal Democrats have had about Barack Obama’s very public love affair with bipartisanship has been the following: how will he respond when it finally bites him in the ass? And at least in the case of his economic stimulus package, his ass is already starting to look a little red.
There’s no denying that Obama tried; his initial stimulus package seemed designed as much to placate Republicans, as to please Democrats. His hope seemed to be that he could buy a little right wing love by putting way too much of the proposal’s spending into (relatively ineffective as stimulus) tax cuts, instead of public spending.
But congressional Republicans are having none of it. They may not have much actual power left, but that doesn’t seem to have put them in a mood to compromise. Either send up a pure George W. Bush-style tax cut package, they insist, or they’ll vote against the bill.
this IS what we must keep track of, Dems! When those 2010 electoins roll around, we must be ready to show the country Exactly how the Republicans acted, in trying to heal this country. How they are for the party, not for the country and the people! Keep notes,keep track.
Gregg
So McCain, and the Right wing media sources are starting their campaign to try and make Obama and his stimulus and other plans look bad! Let's make sure we expose them as to their REAL reasons for doing so.
There is SO much more money to be made on the Right Wing side of the table for them, than on the Left! So let's get ready.
bbl........
Good morning, all.
gregg on January 25, 2009 at 10:34 PM
gregg,
I think it's time for a woman leader in Italy. Actually, I think it's time for anybody besides Spunky's twin brother, Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
All these rich boys snorted too much cocaine growing up? I don't even want to think about how the in-breeding between the top 2% of the world's elite has shaken down their gene pool.
The sexism you kind of expect but putting 30,000 troops in the streets sounds way to much like Mussolini and the return of fascism in Europe.
• Caterpillar cuts 20,000 jobs after earnings fall more than 32%
• Sprint Nextel to eliminate 8,000 positions in the first quarter
You can almost visualize the Republican pyramid scheme crumbling and falling down all over the middle class. The GOP thinks its going to have a chance of escaping blame and retribution for allowing this to happen to our great country after allowing 911 and Katrina, too?
I swear that country club maven Boehner and his Kentucky kicked-in-the-head-by-a-horse counterpart, McConnell, better not hold up the stimulus. They are looking just like Spunky giving McCain a birthday cake and strumming on a guitar while those babies in NOLA had no water.
Do they really want the Grand Ole Party to become synonymous with Nero, Caligula, and Benedict Arnold? Sure looks like it. Hoover is looking almost good about now. Who would ever have thunk?
Rush is playing the role of Homer Stokes in the whole Brother Where Art Thou Odyssey that we are in. "Now is you is or is you ain't my constituency?!"
It looks like the evangelicals are coming to their senses in more ways than one...
January 26, 2009
Unapologetic coach of 100-0 win fired by school
Associated Press
DALLAS — The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."
Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."
Queal did not immediately answer phone messages or e-mail from The Associated Press.
On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier...
http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=904726
The adults are taking back control and not a minute too soon.
Fromm on January 26, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Fromm,
I'm sure Limbaugh would never see the similarity. I'm thinking he's looking a lot like George Wallace these days. The racism is palatable.
Gotta run. later.
stevie /sally need help from the wilmar minnesota real bad to be locked up for longtime
willmar a town in my state that had a place where they placed mently ill people who were danger to them self and other like sally
LPD, why don't you stick to picking out typo errors of Dems??? At least it made you look a little bit more with the program.
It might surprise you to know, I know a LOT about the troll's 19 year old daughter.
How come, you are NOT berating the trolls for their libelous , vile, nasty attacks? Particularly on me and a few others? Perhaps it is because you find yourself more on that side of the aisle, than you do our's??? It certainly seems so. I don't know why you don't stick to Party
Builder, which was created for people like you who like to hear themselves talk and their name in print ???? There, you only made enemies with Hillary Supporters. Here, you have not made one single comment that was POSITIVE to Democrats!
Give us Democrats a break, and go find another liberal blog that might tolerate your childish, silly contrarianism !!!
Good morning!
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New OPEN THREAD! (Now troll-free since 8:41)
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