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At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09.
This will never happen again.
Good morning, all.
Thousands demonstrate silently in Tehran
updated 10:09 p.m. EDT, Sun June 28, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Watched closely by police, several thousand protesters moved slowly down a major Tehran thoroughfare Sunday in the first demonstration over the country's disputed presidential election that authorities have allowed in days.
About 5,000 people shuffled in silence down Tehran's Shariati Street to the Ghoba mosque, where two of the opposition candidates in the June 12 election were to appear to honor a slain hero of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Authorities rode motorcycles alongside the marchers, who tried to walk slowly. Police beat their batons on their shields to keep them moving, but some demonstrators told officers that they had the legal right to protest in peace...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.demonstration/index.html
I wonder how long it will be before all 5,000 are put in prison or one of Bush's "Free Speech Zones"? The two situation with two repressive governments are not that unalike.
June 30, 2009
Senator Byrd Released From Hospital
By Kate Phillips
After several weeks of hospitalization for a staph infection and recurring fevers, Senator Robert C. Byrd has been released and is recuperating at home, his office announced in a statement today.
The West Virginian Democrat, who turns 92 later this year and is the longest-serving senator, will continue to receive physical therapy at home. “I am pleased to be home in anticipation of celebrating our Nation’s birthday with my loving family,” his statement read. “I also thank everyone who sent me their good wishes and prayers.”
His office had been sending out weekly notices that he would not be returning to the Senate as he remained under treatment for a staph infection he had contracted while receiving medical care at an undisclosed hospital. In recent months, the senator’s health has suffered a number of setbacks; he was hospitalized after a fall in February and again in March before this lengthy recent stay.
His absence has been acutely felt on some close votes in the Senate, particularly those procedural ones needing 60 to avert filibusters. With both he and Senator Edward M. Kennedy absent because of his battle with brain cancer, the Democratic leadership has struggled on various issues to muster that tally.
Mr. Byrd’s office did not indicate when he was expected to return to the Senate...
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/senator-byrd-released-from-hospital/?nl=pol&emc=pola1
I wish the Senator well and hope he enjoys the nation's birthday.
Why can't sick Senators unable to travel to Congress vote by visual phone in a teleconference or similar set up over the internet? This is the 21st century?
This needs to be changed pronto now that we have 60 votes in the Senate. Maybe our newest Senator could introduce the bill?
gotta run. later.
BTW, FOR THOSE WHO THINK IT IS STRICTLY DEMOCRATS WHO FIND PALIN A JOKE, READ THIS ONE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF REPUBLICANS WHO WATCHED AND UNDERSTOOD SHE WAS NOT CONSERVATIVE---RATHER A RELIGIOUS FANATIC, WHO WANTED TO TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND 180 DEGREES !
Palin story sparks GOP family feud
A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket – tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that paralyzed the campaign in its final days.
Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin, usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes. Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting.
The vitriol also suggests the degree to which Palin remains a Rorschach test not simply to Republicans nationally but within a tight circle of elite operatives and commentators, many of whom seem ready to carry their arguments in 2012. Was Palin a fresh talent whose debut was mishandled by self-serving campaign insiders, or an eccentric “diva” who had no business on the national stage? Going forward, does she offer a conservative and charismatic face for a demoralized and star-less party? Or is she a loose cannon who should be consigned to the tabloids where she can reside in perpetuity with other flash-in-the-pan sensations?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24392.html#ixzz0K11k7GUh&D
Anybody who think Palin is a 'hottie" should check out this photo of her. You can see why her nickname is a fish!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24392.html#ixzz0K10oJqOS&D
Congratulations Senator Franken...it will be nice to have an old fashioned Minnesota Progressive in the Senate again.
Sweet Sister Sarah believes she could beat President Obama in a foot race. I think the fact that she was picked to be lead dog on a team that placed 36th in this years Ididarod Trail Dog Sled Race has gone to her somewhat small brain.
But then we already know that her bark is much worse than her bite...
One for the road....
Four months later, he got on a plane to Argentina for another rendezvous with Chapur when he made an important discovery. "I will be able to die knowing that I had met my soul mate," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor
Nothing like putting salt in a wound. This, I presume, is the way most fiscally and socially conservative men feel is the proper way to treat their wives?
If they would do it to their own family, what pray tell would they do to others and the country? What Bush/Cheney did to us? You betcha.
So arrogant...and so in love with themselves. Get a divorce for heavens sakes like we divorced them last November. Want to bet the Other Woman doesn't want him?
Gregg, Her 'bark" is what did her in!
She should have been ordered to keep her mouth shut, and let McCain do all the talking !
She killed his campaign as surely as the sun comes up!
Screwy Limpballs trying to blame Sandford's adultry on Obama??? Says Sandford just gave up, with the country going to hell in a handbasket!!! Funny, he started that particular affair over a year ago, when Chimpy was in office !!!
He really IS a big fat idiot !!
Boy, I can't wait till this all comes back out, when pit bull Palin tries to come back as the Pres candidate !!!
Sarah Palin trashed by members of John McCain's campaign team in Vanity Fair
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors."
That's how one longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain, the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, described veep nominee Sarah Palin.
In an expansive story in the August edition of Vanity Fair, a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team told reporter Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election.
"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be," Vanity Fair reports.
During the campaign, there were reports of anonymous McCain aides describing Palin, the governor of Alaska, as a "diva" and a "whack job."
You think these Repugs are going to come back out and say they were just 'taunts' not actual facts about her???
The only base she had, was the extreme right wing Religious nutcases ! The minute it came out she was against abortion, that is all that it took for the screwballs to jump on her bandwagon. Anybody listen to CSpan this morning, and the callers when the discussion was Palin???
It is dangerous for our federal government to exist without the constitutional system of checks and balance. At it sit now bad laws may be passed without challenge. This will be to the detriment of democracy.
It is dangerous for our federal government to exist without the constitutional system of checks and balance. At it sit now bad laws may be passed without challenge. This will be to the detriment of democracy.
15WolfgangBanger on July 1, 2009 at 02:58 PM
duhhhh, Wolf, where exactly were you, when Chimp Bush and the Republican majority were in charge, and passed some of the most outrageous policies in history? Talk about BAD laws! Guess it didn't matter to you then?????? When your freedoms, your civil rights, your liberties were all thrown out like yesterday's garbage! Get real, pal. The Democrats have taken care of this nation and it's people since the beginning of this country and they will continue to take care of you and your's!
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.
He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.
(hahahahaha, yeah right!)
Heard on NPR this morning, both Adulterous Repugs, Ensign and Sandford, were members of a DC group, called C-Street. It is a private Fundamental religious group, hoping to garner enough world leaders to throw Religion into our laws!
Talk about your Hypocrites!! Just more perverted, lying, Republicans. sitting all pious with Bible Study, and pondering WWJD, then leaving the meetings and going to visit your mistress!!! My Gawd, these men have no morals, no values at all!
"Despite the objections of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, and you, the Senate is on track to pass a defense authorization bill that includes billions in extra spending on F-22 fighter jets we don't need.1 We were really angry when we got the news, and we weren't the only ones: President Obama has announced that he might veto the entire authorization bill if the planes aren't taken out.2
But there's another chance for our leaders to do the right thing. The full Senate will begin review of the bill right after this week's recess, and if we convince them to take the planes out, we can avoid an ugly confrontation.
Email your Senators right now and demand that they keep these wasteful warplanes out of the bill ─ so the president doesn't have to.
http://www.truemajority.org/nof22
Why the added F-22s have been allowed to remain in the bill this long is a mystery. But the weapons builders are a powerful lobby in DC, and sometimes have influence regular citizens don't know about. Fortunately, we've got some powerful allies in our corner too, including President Obama and his Secretary of Defense who called these planes 'a big problem' for the Pentagon.3
Now the fight moves to the Senate floor, where we've got plans to work with the president's team and the Pentagon to make sure that the final Senate bill does not include these unneeded planes. You can help by sending an e-mail to your senator right now and asking him or her to get on board.
-Matt
Matt Holland
Online Director
TrueMajority / USAction
ENOUGH with money spent on War, blood, death! Let's start putting that money into education, health care, paying off Bush's deficit, etc.
OMG, what a bunch of fruitcakes these Repug Extremists are !!!!
Joe the Plumber won’t run for office: “You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
Last year at the height of his “fame,” Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — aka “Joe the Plumber” — said that he was considering a run for public office. “I’d be up for it,” he said. Excited fans even set up a “Draft Joe the Plumber” site. But in a new interview with WorldNetDaily, Wurzelbacher said that he now isn’t planning to run because God doesn’t want him to:
Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, “I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, ‘No.’”
He continued, “I believe he’s gotten me on this grassroots movement. If I can encourage leaders to step up, that’s what I would like to do. That’s a heavy role. That’s something I don’t know if I am prepared to do yet.”
But Wurzelbacher said he will keep that door open if God ever calls him to be that leader.
Right now, Wurzelbacher is preparing to participate in the upcoming tea parties.
And I will be willing to bet he almost believes it!!
Obama: Time To 'Stop Clinging To' Unworkable Health Care System
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer (2009-07-01)
ANNANDALE, VA (Associated Press) - President Barack Obama says he recognizes the heavy price tag of revamping the health care system but that it would be much more costly to do nothing.Obama went to a community college in suburban Virginia Wednesday to again press his case for legislation overhauling the system, saying it's "not too soon" to act on the problem.
He spoke as members of Congress continued a Fourth of July week recess away from Washington. The lawmakers will focus anew on the issue when they return next week. Republicans have steadfastly spoken out against Obama's proposed overhaul, saying the country can't afford his choices.
Obama acknowledged that the speed with which he is acting is an issue, saying he recognizes that some people think "we're moving too fast."
© Copyright 2009, Associated Press
You tell 'em, Mr. President! We have sixty votes in the Senate now. This is the prefect opportunity to get a single payer system through. The time has long past that corporations should be allowed to make a buck off of someone's illness. They've abused that privilege for far too long.
Bob, Just think if these obstructionist Republicans had met Hillary even half way on health care when she was trying to create something for this country! It shows that they have no desire to help the uninsured. Those with medical problems. Preventive care for children and others. Fetal care, so babies are born healthy. Those who have lost their homes paying for catastrophic medical costs out of their pockets.
Is there really anyone out there, who thinks it is the Government that 'runs"Medicare. Pays claims, administers the plan? They use United Health Care as the Administrator, and the same principle would be used for a Single payer plan ! No Government would be telling you who to use for a Doctor!
I listened to Al Franken's victory speech today (the internet is a wonderful thing isn't it?) and one of his comments to some union groups in attendance was that he was a member of several unions and that if it wasn't for unions he and his wife Franny wouldn't have had health care these last few years.
Now, correct me if I am wrong but is private health coverage that expensive that Al Franken couldn't afford to buy his family their own coverage? he's not a poor man by anyone accounting including USA Today:
Al Franken worth between $4.3 million and $9.9 million 5/22/2007WASHINGTON (AP) — Al Franken, a comedian and best-selling author before launching his Senate campaign this year, is worth between $4.3 million and $9.9 million, according to a financial disclosure form he filed with the Senate.
Franken, a Democrat who hopes to challenge Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman next year, listed a salary of just over $1 million last year from his corporation, Alan Franken Inc.
That corporation is the business entity that provides Franken's services — such as speaking engagements and his prior service on Air America Radio — and then pays Franken a salary at the end of the year after commissions, taxes and other fees are paid, said his campaign spokesman, Andy Barr.
The disclosure reports require figures to be reported only in broad ranges. Barr said that Franken's net worth is closer to $4.3 million than $9.9 million.
Now one would think a guy who has a net worth in that neighborhood, a pretty swanky area I'd say, could certainly afford his own health care and wouldn't need his union policy or go without coverage.
So even before Mr. Franken takes the oath of office he's telling fibs to hook his supporters deeper. Interesting behavior for our newest senator.
Good afternoon, all.
It appears that the good Governor from South Carolina has been working with a faith-based accounting system...or he doesn't want his wife's lawyers to know what he did with the family jewels?
Sanford backs out of promise to release records
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has backed out of a promise to release personal financial records proving he did not use state money for trips to see his mistress.
A day after Sanford declared in an emotional Associated Press interview that his mistress is his soul mate, spokesman Joel Sawyer says the governor does not want to discuss personal matters in the media anymore. The state is investigating Sanford's travel to see the Argentine woman the governor identified as his lover.
Sanford agreed this week to provide the AP with proof of his payment for trips to New York and Argentina to see her.
His staff first said the records might be made available Tuesday, and then the governor's spokesman said Wednesday Sanford would not release them...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor_records
Resign or be impeached, Governor? The GOP threatened President Clinton with that alternative and he wasn't using government money to romance his girlfriend.
Would they eat their own? You betcha. When it comes to a public official spending money rather than using it as a subsidy for corporations and/or welfare for the wealthy, the Republicans are dead serious.
Now, correct me if I am wrong but is private health coverage that expensive that Al Franken couldn't afford to buy his family their own coverage? he's not a poor man by anyone accounting including USA Today:...
If anyone in the Franken family had a pre-existing condition, he couldn't get any coverage. You could go through a few hundred thousand dollars in no time if it was a chronic condition like kidney failure.
And if someone in the family needed a transplant, Franken would find himself doing standup routines at bake sales to raise funds. This is life in Mainstream America courtesy of the Reagan Revolution and corrupt Bush economics.
What planet to you live on? You are related to Governor Sanford?
PamB on July 1, 2009 at 04:37 PM
Pam,
Those stock options and skyrocketing shareholder returns are just too lucrative for the top 2% to give up and go back to working on salary...if they work at all.
Most CEOs and super rich folk have been living off money gained through Republican graft. Whether its the proceeds from leverage buyouts, unregulated financial dealings, or the interest from the money they've squirreled away in Swiss/Cayman Island tax haven accounts, these people just can't fathom the idea of investing their ill-gotten gains back into the betterment of the country.
Invest in America when they can gamble it away? Perish the thought.
U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.? No. It's globalization, globalization, globalization.
I thought Arnooold was going to show us how Republicans are so much better fiscal managers than Gray Davis.....
Schwarzenegger declares Calif. fiscal emergency
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit and has ordered state offices closed three days a month to save cash.
The Legislature will have 45 days to send him a plan to balance the state's budget, which ended the fiscal year with a $24.3 billion deficit. The shortfall is expected to grow by $7 billion because the Legislature did not enact several stopgap measures Tuesday.
If lawmakers fail to act within the 45 days, they cannot adjourn or act on other bills until they solve the crisis.
The government shutdown will lead to a third furlough day each month for 235,000 state employees, bringing their total pay cut to about 14 percent.
California began its new budget year Wednesday without a balanced spending plan, which will force the controller to issue IOUs...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_re_us/us_california_budget
Didn't Germany operate on a similar system of fiscal crisis before WW II? This is Arnoold's sole contribution to the GOP? Well, I guess he's following in the footsteps of that other great Republican Governor...Reagan.
Bring the state to its financial knees? Make the world's fourth largest economy a banana republic? Well done, Arnooold. Maybe you will be recalled ...this time for a real reason. Another fiscal conservative lunatic bites the dust.
dear woofenburger...again as always you lost. get over it and enjoy your new progressive/liberal/humorous senator....after all what choice do you have for the next 5.5 years??
hahahahahahaha
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SandyH on July 1, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Bingo! I was just ignoring the willfully ignorant.
His wife was treated for alcoholism several years ago, and is therefore suffering from a pre-existing condition. He couldn't get insurance for anybody including his 2 young (at the time) kids without a Union backed plan.
His wife even did a commercial about it:
But the trolls don't care about facts, includung the fact that that article was from May of 2007, when he was better paid than a full time candidate because he had a job back then.
SandyH on July 1, 2009 at 05:08 PM
It's SC, Sandy. I seriously doubt they'll impeach him. It'll prove to be too big of an embarassment to the GOP.
How Dysfunction Helps the GOP
The party says its own mistakes prove government can't work.
By THOMAS FRANK
Columnist
'Remember the $400 hammer? How 'bout that $600 toilet seat?" asks a Conservatives for Patients' Rights TV commercial criticizing President Barack Obama's health-care plan. "Seems when Congress gets involved, things just cost more."
As it happens, I do remember the incident of the $436 hammer, the one that made headlines back in 1984. And while it may "seem" in hazy retrospect as though it showed how "things just cost more" once those silly liberals in Congress get started, what the hammer episode actually illustrated was a very different sort of ripoff. The institution that paid so very much for that hammer was President Ronald Reagan's Pentagon. A private-sector contractor was the party that was pleased to take the Pentagon's money. And it was a liberal Democrat in the House of Representatives, also known as "Congress," who publicized the pricey hardware to the skies.
But so what? Myth is so much more satisfying than history, and with myth the competence of Washington actors from 25 years ago doesn't matter any more. Nor does it matter which arm of the federal colossus did what. Republican or Democrat, White House or Congress, they're all part of a monolithic, undifferentiated "government" that acts according to a money-burning logic all its own.
The myth has been getting a lot of play from conservatives in recent weeks as the debate over health care has heated up. The message, as always, is that government can't do anything right.
Where the conservative mythologists show their hand is when they use their own monumental screw-ups, committed during conservatism's long years in charge of the government, to prove that government in general is a futile proceeding, and that Democratic health-care plans, in particular, can't possibly succeed.
I've always thought that P.J. O'Rourke was only half joking when he wrote, years ago, that "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." Conservatives grasp the grand strategic sweep of politics better than liberals, and consequently they have always seemed to understand that what they do when they're in charge can help to reinforce the myths that put them there...
A government that works, some conservatives fear, is dangerous stuff. It gives people ideas.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640443679876503.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
Once upon a time when I was a child, the government worked really well. Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson gave us the longest period of prosperity in this country's history. That's not a myth. It can happen again if the electorate wants it enough...and votes Democratic.
This is the truth we Baby Boomers better start telling the young and direct them to history books that prove it. They can find out for themselves on the internet.
Yes, we can. We can have prosperity and a government that works...but never with Republican conservatives in charge. That's a fact, too. Bush and Arnoold are proof positive.
Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on July 1, 2009 at 05:56 PM
Doo-Bee, I'm beginning to think you ought to apply for a job at the Annenberg Public Project Center and\or FactCheck.org . Once again, well done!
BobVADemocratHawk on July 1, 2009 at 05:58 PM
Bob,
You're probably right. However, from what little I've been able to observe about fundamentalist Christians, they seem to like stoning those they consider "less deserving" sinners than themselves.
Rush will want him out by the end of the week, too, if his wife decides she's had enough of this tragic and all-consuming "love story" and is ready to "tell all" on The View or to Oprah.
That poor woman needs to consult with the black sheep in her family (Democrats and/or Methodists/Lutherans) before she takes to drinking and popping pills. She has gone way beyond the parameters of what is considered "forgiving." Jesus was sent to this world to save wives like her from this sort of mental and emotional abuse.
If she doesn’t have anyone else to turn to, she should take herself and those kids to a battered wife shelter. This ridiculous situation has gone way too far. The people of South Carolina have to be feeling abused by this man, too.
Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns
Scientists say between 10,000 and 13,500 square kilometres of coastal land around New Orleans will go underwater due to rising sea levels and subsidenceHurricane Katrina exposed the vulnerability of New Orleans and other low-lying areas of Louisiana.
A vast swath of the coastal lands around New Orleans will be underwater by the dawn of the next century because the rate of sediment deposit in the Mississippi delta can not keep up with rising sea levels, according to a study published today.
Between 10,000 and 13,500 square kilometres of coastal lands will drown due to rising sea levels and subsidence by 2100, a far greater loss than previous estimates.
For New Orleans, and other low-lying areas of Louisiana whose vulnerability was exposed by hurricane Katrina, the findings could bring some hard choices about how to defend the coast against the future sea level rises that will be produced by climate change.
They also revive the debate about the long-term sustainability of New Orleans and other low-lying areas.
Scientists say New Orleans and the barrier islands to the south will be severely affected by climate change by the end of this century, with sea level rise and growing intensity of hurricanes. Much of the land mass of the barrier island chain sheltering New Orleans was lost in the 2005 storm.
But the extent of the land that will be lost is far greater than earlier forecasts suggest, said Dr Michael Blum and Prof Harry Roberts, the authors of the study. "When you look at the numbers you come to the conclusion that the resources are just not there to restore all the coast, and that is one of the major points of this paper," said Roberts, a professor emeritus of marine geology at Louisiana State University.
Blum, who was formerly at Louisiana State University, now works at Exxon. "I think every geologist that has worked on this problem realises the future does not look very bright unless we can come up with some innovative ways to get that sediment in the right spot," said Roberts. "For managers and people who are squarely in the restoration business, this is going to force them to make some very hard decisions about which areas to save and which areas you can't save."
Efforts to keep pace with the accelerated rate of sea level rise due to global warming are compromised by the Mississippi's declining ability to bear sediments downstream into the delta...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/29/rising-sea-level-new-orleans
It would appear that someone is going to get an ocean in their backyard or in this case, a gulf. People like Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) ought to be tried for treason as Dr. Krugman suggested yesterday in his Op-Ed.
Sestak pulls the triggerThe Wayne (Pa.) Independent has posted a brief tease of an interview with Rep. Joe Sestak, in which the congressman declares unambiguously that he'll challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic primary:
In an interview with The Wayne Independent Wednesday morning, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.,confirmed his intention to run against Specter, a longtime Republican who switched to the Democratic party earlier this year.
“I am going to get into the race against Arlen Specter ... for senator,” Sestak said in his first media interview as part of a three-week tour through all of the commonwealth’s 67 counties.
UPDATE: Sestak spokesman Jonathon Dworkin has issued a statement confirming that Sestak plans to launch a Senate bid, but asserting that the interview this morning didn't break news — "This morning at 4:00AM, Congressman Sestak began a trip to the 67 counties in Pennsylvania over 3 weeks to listen and meet with the good people of Pennsylvania, including local Democrats and media. He does, as he has said recently, intend to get in the Senate race as he finalizes his decision with his family, who are very supportive."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Sestak_pulls_the_trigger.html
I'd like to wish Rep. Sestak (D-PA) the best of luck in his endeavor. It's time to retire, Sen. Specter (D[Well, sorta']-PA). Your service to this nation is appreciated.
SandyH on July 1, 2009 at 06:24 PM
Then again, you may be right, Sandy. According to Politco, the heat is on for Gov. Sanford (R-SC) to resign. I now find myself hoping he doesn't as this'll prolong the scandal. I want to get some popcorn and enjoy the show!
Good night fellow Americans. Keep the Faith and keep the faith. Yes we can, yes we will, and yes we did!
If anyone in the Franken family had a pre-existing condition, he couldn't get any coverage. You could go through a few hundred thousand dollars in no time if it was a chronic condition like kidney failure.
What planet to you live on? You are related to Governor Sanford?
22SandyH on July 1, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Sandy, I get such a kick out of these people who spout off about "just buy your own health care", and don't have the vaguest idea what the hell they are talking about.
If you even were treated in the past for a mental condition, or marital counseling, an insurance company will not take you for coverage, they figure you might go crazy and try and hurt yourself. Preventive care is very limited. there are Maximum limits on total coverage they will provide! I SOLD individual health insurance coverage, and I HATED it. The time you put into it, only to have rejections was ridiculous!
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BobVADemocratHawk on July 1, 2009 at 06:16 PM
Thanks, Bob. I do what little I can do. The Pugs with the low level intelligence and their non-stop talking points have become less than amusing. And just like cats swatting at any ball of bullshit hung in front of them, they ALWAYS go for the "shiny object" that they find on Google and miss the prize right in front of them.
LAZY, easily distracted, and with an agenda. And can't fact check or source, not to mention LOOK AT THE FUCKING DATE OF THE ARCHIVED ARTICLE!
Since Franken announced his candidacy he voluntarily went off the air. He has been spending his OWN money to run a grass roots campaign to take on a sitting Senator who was the former Mayor of St. Paul. Coleman had a record and name recognition. Coleman LOST, and the 2 MN trolls insisted that Franken would never win.
Once again, Trolls ZERO smart people WON!
Just a reminder of what a Republican Administration did !
Bush Lied. Soldiers keep Dying.
4,321 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq
716 U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan
31,371 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (source: DoD Update as of June 23, 2009)
100,964 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: Iraq Body Count)
1,331,578 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: justforeignpolicy.org)
All this blood is on the hands of those who voted in Bush 2 times (well, actually once, because they stole the first one)
there are Maximum limits on total coverage they will provide!...
PamB on July 1, 2009 at 07:36 PM
pam,
This is the part that really scares me. Someone is feeling suicidal (probably because of the primarily industry-tested drugs allowed on the market) and they pull the plug on doctor visits just when the patient is finally making progress.
Sure, a person who is about to blow their brains out can wait six months to resume treatment? What kind of idiot reasoning is that? It's all about making a bigger profit not solving a problem that could come back to negatively affect the welfare of others in society. What if that person turns the gun on their neighbor?
This suppose to be health care? It's criminal behavior.
And the same conservatives who back this practice for purely financial-gain motives are the first to say that suicide is sinful and a crime. These people are are so immoral is almost sickening in itself.
Remember that day last year, when the media was all abuzz, that McCain was flying in some unknown to be his VP? Remember how everyone was interested and viewed her with interest at first, until it was proven that there had been no Vetting done with the choice of this female? And it went from bad to worse! By the end of the campaign, she was a laughing stock, and her ego is so big, she thinks they did not win because of McCain! EVEN MCCAIN WILL NOT COMMIT TO SAYING HE WOULD SUPPORT OR VOTE FOR HER! His daughter has said she was an idiot. His staff despised her ! Leading Republicans disrespected her. And she somehow thinks she might get the nod to be Presidential candidate? There are not that many Religious freaks out there, to carry that hope !
"Todd Purdum was a guest on 'Hardball" tonight to discuss his mammoth 10,000-word Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin and her involvement in the McCain presidential campaign. The piece is filled with former McCain staffers making damaging statements (albeit anonymously) about Palin on a wide range of issues, from her lackluster efforts to prepare for debates to her diva-like behavior and strained relationships with the campaign staffers assigned to her.
Essentially, Purdum describes a "desperate" campaign which "took one of the great leaps of faith in American political history." However, the lack of deliberation and vetting behind the decision backfired on the campaign:
They needed something to shake up that race and she did shake up that race... In the short term, in the first 10 days it seemed to be working. What happened though was what the McCain campaign has not really taken the time to find out was there was a whole sort of counter-story about her in Alaska that was a lot less rosy than the one they sold of a governor... record-high approval ratings, 80 percent support in her state, who'd taken on big oil and so forth and so there were always a lot more problems with her than they knew.
Purdum explains the anonymity of the negative quotes about Palin to the staffers finding it painful, even privately, to reflect on the selection of Palin because:
There is ultimately no way to read [it] as reflecting anything but an appalling egotism, heedlessness and lack of judgment... They all know that if their candidate - a 72-year-old cancer survivor - had won the presidency, the vice presidency would be in the hands of a woman who lacked the knowledge, the preparation, the aptitude, and the temperament for the job.
Chuck Todd, filling in for Chris Matthews, pressed Purdum on these extremely harsh words, asking if Purdum actually had McCain staffers telling him this or if it was more of a read-between-the-lines of the staffers' statements. Purdum demurred, saying he didn't want to get into a discussion about sources, but he stated it's safe to say that he had people from the McCain campaign saying words extremely close to those words that he wrote
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/todd-purdum-discusses-his_n_223569.html
Sandy, People are ignorant when it comes to Private Insurance contracts. Also HSA's which the Repugs love to tout !
Group Insurance Medical plans are the ones which must have State mandates in them, which give the most coverage.
There is no reason WHY we cannot expand Medicare to cover everyone. The law of large numbers always prevails, so if you cover everyone, you have the healthy carrying the ill.
And there is no reason Employers cannot be made to continue pitching in towards health coverage. They do so now. Healthy employees make for better employees.
If not for the Party of No, this should all be a piece of cake !
hmmmm, CNN digital is now #1?
Meanwhile, though big sister network CNN has fallen behind MSNBC in weekday primetime, it fared well this past month in absolute terms.
The network posted its strongest June ever, topping MSNBC in the 25-54 demographic (M-F, M-Su) and in total primetime (M-Su) viewers. "Campbell Brown," despite much buzzed-about ratings woes, increased 22% in total viewers from June 2008, while "Larry King Live" beat MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" in both total viewers and the A25-54 demo.
The network's online arm, CNN Digital, performed strongly, helping the network triumph in Nielsen's Fusion Data, which tracks both television viewership and online readership.
CNN Digital was this quarter's #1 digital News and Information property, with 9% of online news, beating out MSNBC.com, Foxnews.com and NYTimes.com, among others.
Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on July 1, 2009 at 07:38 PM
DPD,
They are like cockroaches. The GOP trolls and Young Republican interns just keep on coming back out of the woodwork with the same lies and fraudulent copy points no matter how many times you swat them. But somebody has to do it or they'll get away with it.
We can't ever let them get the last word....or you end up with Reagan or even worse...a Bush. Jeb is still out there and they have been grooming on of the nephews as a faux Latino. I wouldn't rule out a Bush running again in 2012 as another "compassionate" conservative.
There is no such thing as rehabilitated conservative. They're money crazy and selfish by nature. Their professed patriotism and Christianity is their ticket to political gain and financial successful. They could care less about either.
Catch you all later.
Good night, everyone.
Funny, though all those Dead Iraqis, and US boys died for NOTHING. For Lies.
No Wmds,
No 9/11 connection
No Terrorists until Bush invaded
No Democracy nor peace in the country amongst the sects!
Wasn't a war at all, was just an illegal invasion and occupation, all for Oil and a US presence in the Middle East.
THAT is the shame of Bush/Cheney and Republicans and those that voted for them!!
Time to head out for the evening, Dems.
Keep the faith. Those 2010 elections are just around the corner. Remember how fast the 2008 one came upon us? We have our work cut out for us, but YES WE DID AND YES WE WILL !!!
Blog ya tomorrow.........
PamB on July 1, 2009 at 08:12 PM
The Iranian revolution had to help.
These sorts of "real" breaking news stories always tip the scales for the more internationally-skewed cable network. I bet the Jackson death watch and continuing funeral orgy will keep them in the lead most of the summer. Just wait until the Barry Bonds trial begins.
MSNBC is primarily political programming. Faux is all fairy tales and conservative outrage. They have their niche but that's about as far as they go.
Bye.
If anyone in the Franken family had a pre-existing condition, he couldn't get any coverage. You could go through a few hundred thousand dollars in no time if it was a chronic condition like kidney failure.
And if someone in the family needed a transplant, Franken would find himself doing standup routines at bake sales to raise funds. This is life in Mainstream America courtesy of the Reagan Revolution and corrupt Bush economics.
What planet to you live on? You are related to Governor Sanford?
SandyH
Sandy, I get such a kick out of these people who spout off about "just buy your own health care", and don't have the vaguest idea what the hell they are talking about.
If you even were treated in the past for a mental condition, or marital counseling, an insurance company will not take you for coverage, they figure you might go crazy and try and hurt yourself. Preventive care is very limited. there are Maximum limits on total coverage they will provide! I SOLD individual health insurance coverage, and I HATED it. The time you put into it, only to have rejections was ridiculous!
PamB
Hello ladies. It seems that both of you completely missed my point. Al Franken is a multi-millionaire. He made that statement to pander to the union members in the audience because Al will say anything to anyone to get applause. He's an entertainer and that is what he thrives on. Attention.
It's just like he thought he's get some laughs long ago when he made a comment about a rather nasty murder of a gay man and thought it quite funny:
FRANKEN JOKES ABOUT KILLING OF GAY MAN"He [Al Franken] recalled writing a skit called 'Seamen on Broadway' that was rejected from the Hasty Pudding show 'by some preppie so they could take some other preppie's skit.' Franken started to smile again, but his tone was serious, too serious. 'It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.' The smile became so broad it pushed his eyes shut. He couldn't stand it any longer. 'Put that in, put that in,' Franken laughed, leaning over the desk. 'I'd love to see that in The Crimson.'"
Source: Harvard Crimson, April 16, 1976Or when he had those great skits for SNL joking about rape.
I hope you now get it. HUH?
good evening, everyone.
http://www.ruralvotes.com/thebackforty/?p=1684
President Announces Rural Tour
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 30, 2009
President Obama Announces Rural Tour with Cabinet Secretaries and Administration Officials
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, President Obama announced the launch of his Administration’s Rural Tour. This summer, over the course of the next few weeks and months, top Administration officials, including Cabinet Secretaries, will fan out across the nation to hold a series of discussions on how communities, states, and the federal government can work together to help strengthen rural America.
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretaries Gary Locke and Tom Vilsack will kick-off the Rural Tour on July 1st by visiting Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, to discuss the issue of rural broadband.
“A healthy American economy depends on a prosperous rural America,” President Obama said. “Rural America is vast and diverse, and different communities face different challenges and opportunities. That’s why we’re going out to hear directly from the people of rural America about their needs and concerns and what my Administration can do to support them.”
Administration officials participating in the Rural Tour will hear about the diverse set of challenges and opportunities facing the small towns and rural communities that are so integral to the fabric of American life. They will share some of the Administration’s ideas about how to nurture strong, robust, and vibrant rural communities. And, when they have heard from the people, they will report back to the President about the state of rural America, and what the Administration can do to strengthen it.
These events, involving multiple Cabinet secretaries, will serve as listening sessions to focus on such issues as broad-based rural health, economic development, infrastructure, education, energy, natural resources, and agriculture. Events will be held in Alaska, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. And, Secretary Vilsack will hold listening sessions in additional states with local and state elected officials.
The entire tour will provide an opportunity for the Obama Administration to listen to diverse voices throughout rural America, and to highlight its broader vision for growth and prosperity in these regions of the country.
Rural Tour events planned so far include:
(in my congressional district)
AUGUST 16TH
Secretaries Ken Salazar and Tom Vilsack will travel to Zanesville, OH, to discuss green jobs and a new energy economy, with a focus on renewable energies.
"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me"
John 10:27
I'm still taking it to the bank that Al Franken won!
snicker
enjoy the evening, everyone.
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.
— Psalm 127:1
Pandering?
The man wants to help people who are suffering and need help. You call that pandering? Since he's got his then the only logical reason that he's advocating universal coverage is for votes?
That's such a typical conservative attitude. Just because you don't have a compassionate bone in your body, you seek to project your own lack of humanity onto others. How pathetic you are.
I get your point, gangbanger. As usual it's pointless. This is a Democratic site. We actually do care. You have made it more that abundantly clear with your continual posts that you care only about profits and looking out for yourself.
What's it to you that millions of your fellow Americans can't get health care coverage? Can't afford coverage? Can't afford the co-pays and deductibles? Can't afford the continual double digit increases in all medical services and supplies? That the American health care system simply doesn't deliver and is waaaay to expensive and inefficient?
It's an national embarrassment and an outrage that the Republican Party continues to advocate keeping something going that is so incompetent. We Democrats could have fixed this long ago but you conservatives insist on diverting funds to serve your on selfish needs instead. It's insulting that you think this situation is acceptable in a civilized society.
It isn't. And yes, we can change this. And we will.
Live with your illusions because that's all your conservative philosophy is. The American voters have had enough of this nightmare. They woke up and want the American Dream again.
wow the troll is really taking the franken win hard...hey what's the big deal the democrats have only picked up around 15 seats in the last ten years....hahahahaha
by the way here is a great example of how the s.e.c. functioned under that idiot george bozo bush;
from the WaPo
updated 1 hour, 47 minutes ago
An investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission warned superiors as far back as 2004 about irregularities at Bernard L. Madoff's financial management firm, but she was told to focus on an unrelated matter, according to agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.
Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot, a lawyer in the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, sent e-mails to a supervisor, saying information provided by Madoff during her review didn't add up and suggesting a set of questions to ask his firm, documents show. Several of these questions directly challenged Madoff activities that much later turned out to be elements of his massive fraud.
But with the agency under pressure to look for wrongdoing in the mutual fund industry, she wasn't able to continue pursuing Madoff, according to documents and two people familiar with the investigation, and her team soon concluded its work on the probe.
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Walker-Lightfoot's supervisors on the case were Mark Donohue, then a branch chief in her department, and his boss, Eric Swanson, an assistant director of the department, said two people familiar with the investigation. Swanson later married Madoff's niece, and their relationship is now under review by the agency's inspector general, who is examining the SEC's handling of the Madoff case...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31702178/ns/business-washington_post/
thank the lord the days of pimps and greed mongers running the government are over!
Morning gregg,
That's a good one. swanson and donohue should be sentenced to 150 years along with the chief of the department.
Then the ashole marries a relative of madoff. To me this is clearly fraud and criminal negligence.
The neotards have rolled out the talk show liars. Every single one of them is going through the neotard talking points in order. "My wife had to wait eight months for cancer surgery, boo hoo (in Mexico)". "Go to any emergency room and there are long lines". "The socialist Canadian system has long lines". "VA operated on my wife and left a sponge in side her". "It's hard to get an appointment with VA." yataayatayata.
The fact is that we have long lines now with our 1,300 insurance companies running the show. I have a good health plan for which I pay through the nose yet to meet with a dermatologist for suspected skin cancer I can't get an appointment until late September. I understand that any specialist has a long waiting time. My wife had to wait two months for an appointment with and eye doctor. Sometimes it takes two weeks to get an appointment with a nurse practitioner.
I don't buy any of their lies. The fact is that England had Thatcher and Canada has some conservative asshole for prime minister who screwed up the system which used to operate well. The neotards always point to Canada and England as socialist systems.
The neotard system is fascist, letting insurance companies (corporate fascists) rule over people.
we should never forget how that stupid f'in nasty rat bush sold this country down the river with his war of choice in iraq...and how in doing so he strengthened iran's position in the middle east;
Hussein Pointed to Iranian Threat
Specter of Arms Allowed Him to Appear Strong, He Told U.S.
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounced Osama bin Laden as "a zealot" and said he had no dealings with al-Qaeda.
Hussein, in fact, said he felt so vulnerable to the perceived threat from "fanatic" leaders in Tehran that he would have been prepared to seek a "security agreement with the United States to protect [Iraq] from threats in the region."
Former president George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq six years ago on the grounds that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and posed a threat to international security. Administration officials at the time also strongly suggested Iraq had significant links to al-Qaeda, which carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Hussein, who was often defiant and boastful during the interviews, at one point wistfully acknowledged that he should have permitted the United Nations to witness the destruction of Iraq's weapons stockpile after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The FBI summaries of the interviews -- 20 formal interrogations and five "casual conversations" in 2004 -- were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute, and posted on its Web site yesterday. The detailed accounts of the interviews were released with few deletions, though one, a last formal interview on May 1, 2004, was completely redacted...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070104217.html?hpid=topnews
Thomas S. Blanton, director of the archive, said he could conceive of no national security reason to keep Hussein's conversations with the FBI secret. Paul Bresson, a bureau spokesman, said he could not explain the reason for the redactions.
Hi Gregg,
The shrillness in the troll gets higher and higher, doesn't it? Franken put him over the top! After all that bragging back in Nov, Dec, that Coleman would prevail! Wouldn't most people feel too sheepish with all that crow sticking out their mouths to come back in here and still try and act superior? Mental Illness takes form in many ways, and DENIAL is part of it.
It is a shame he has no health coverage and can't see a Doctor for his illness. His paranoia has kept him from a night's sleep for 5 years now.
Watched Ed Schultz for a few minutes last night as I was cleaning up the kitchen from my husband's birthday dinner. He Was challenging ANY Republican politician, to go with him to Vancouver, Canada and check out the Health system in person ! Talk to the people, the professionals, etc.
What do you want to bet, not a single one of them will accept his offer, because they KNOW that all that is coming out of their Spinning, Lying mouths is bull crap! They would have to come back and tell the TRUTH , which they are unfamiliar with!
Good morning, DEMS.
Gregg, don't forget that the Iranians were about to elect a pro-West moderate until Chimpy started shooting off his booze besotted yap and rarrling sabers. That just made the hard liners more entrenched and forced them to dig in their heels even deeper. Just like wih the Soviet Union and Ronzo. Several Generals have said that the USSR was on the verge of collapse and Ray-Gunz massive arms buildup and bluster compelled them to become even more hard libe, and thus stay in power. They said that Sponge Brain Pee Pants forestalled the end of the Evil Empire by at least 5 years.
But the Military Industrial Complex made a boat load of money in that time, so I guess all was good in that regard.
In other news, the U.S. launched its biggest air offensive since the Viet Nam War against the Taliban last night (our time).
More Chimp detritus left over from that incompetent moron that somebody else has to clean up.
I also heard on the ABC radio news that 58% of doctors interviewed were for a public option.
The AMA has for members just maybe a third of doctors in the country and of course they are most likely the greedy pricks.
I think we need to turn up the heat like President Obama did yesterday in Virginia. The neotard lies need to be exposed and we need to explained why they are lying.
gregg,
Did President Obama fire these SEC shills? I hope he did. The trail runs right back to the pioneers who bought their way into office in the bush administration.
It is going to take years to unravel the utmitigated harm that the bush crime family has done to our nation starting with his father who was probably the ventriloquist for brain-dead raygun.
It is going to take years to unravel the utmitigated harm that the bush crime family has done to our nation starting with his father who was probably the ventriloquist for brain-dead raygun.
72Johne on July 2, 2009 at 08:05 AM
Morning Johne
I shake my head at the people who come in here, and complain that Obama hasn't already solved every single problem that Bush left him with! EIGHT years of failure is a lot of ground to cover, and he has made a good start.
Morning Pam and DPD,
Our only local clear channel radio station announced that they have a book available for the fourth of July with pictures of raygun and quotes. "You just have to have this treasured book for your celebration".
This clear channel station is the only one we get at night and has been infiltrated with fascist pigs who spew the neotard line day and night. The owners of this station also own the progressive radio station which we can't hear at night. In fact, during the day, whenever a progressive radio host talks about something challenging the neotards, the signal disappears for a few minutes. Yesterday Ed Schultz was talking about the public option and challenging the neotards. The signal vanished until he was past this sensitive point.
I think there needs to be an investigation.
In addition, we must invoke the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and break up these radio and tv stations like Fox who spew nothing but lies nationwide.
good morning pam, dpd and johne. i forgot how bush negatively influenced that iranian vote but then he negatively influenced so many things it is impossible to keep them all straight...
Good morning, Johne.
The AMA only represents between in the U.S.
As usual, a small group of whiners who whine the loudest takes precedence over 75% of the population.
The fascist "heritage foundation" also has a brochure spewing neotard lies. The "heritage foundation" and other right-wing extremist groups are where all the lies originate. These groups should be declared subversive enemy groups. Didn't the neotards under nixon have such a list during the 1970's?
That was weird. Half of the post disappeared and the hot link ain't.
AMA only represents 15% to 18% of Doctors in the U.S.
Bill Press will be talking with Al Franken in 5 minutes. If you don't get his show where you are, just click on the LISTEN LIVE button at teh link.
I wonder which of cheney's concentration camps cheney's wife visited to buy her favorite human skin lamp shades. I understand she really goes for the racy tatooed ones. They probably even sell petrified private-parts bookends and wall plaques.
I wonder when cheney is opening his torture museum in Wyoming. I visited torture museums in Germany when I was in the service back in the 1960's. They had some great exhibits like racks, various devices for removing heads without breaking the skin and etc. Cheney could use pictures of human pyramids, naked muslims and rubber hoses. I'll bet it would be popular in the red states. They could do a traveling exhibit like they did with the Vietnam Memorial.
Little Stevie boy, so afraid I might somehow block his Letter to editor, or Oberstar?? THIS is the kind of letter that gets tossed immediately when it shows up at a news source, or a lawmakers office. They never read their email directly, they have aides for that ! The media will never print a letter which they can not verify the facts, and this bullcrap about global warming is too much a Fantasy to even get a laugh out of.
So do not worry, Stevie, I will let your letter stand on it's own, as it has been erased and gone by now, trust me, just like you will be soon!
bbl, Dems......
Off to work. We open bids on our stimulus project on July 14.
When Senator Udall was here on Monday he announced a $3 million project to build a pedestrian bridge with elevators over the rail yard so people can get to town from the Roadrunner train. It will even help students safely cross the tracks to get to school. What a great idea.
bbl.
Franken said he will be on the Judiciary Committee.
So far:
Sotomayor, (he said he won't give an answer now but it sure sounds like a YES).
Public Option, YES (although he has said for years that he favors a Single Payer Universal Health Plan).
Employee Free Choice Act, YES.
He said that his swearing in is penciled in for next Tuesday.
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