Good morning, all.

This photo has President Obama reminiscing with Senator McCain about the debate where McSame was viewed by hundred of millions wandering around aimlessly on the stage. Poor Senator McCain can't remember. It's just as well.

So they bury Michael Jackson today. Sarah Palin decided to "beat it" first and buried her political career last Friday.

We hardly knew either of them. It's just as well.

Biden can confirm everything and add some of his own observations. Just try to stop him.

Hi Sandy,

Biden or Obama opens their mouths----and the Reich Wingers are all over it, taking it out of context, making something of it that was not meant! Oh, how angry they used to get when we repeated what the Chimp had to say, and laughed our butts off at him.

Hi, Pam.

You don't have them explaining anything Palin says because nobody understands her.

When the Right stirs up these fake controversies, it just serves to show how this administration is working on serious problems instead of spinning publicity stunts. Quite a contrast from the last failed administration.

I personally think Biden is the perfect foil for Obama. Older voters identify with the Vice President especially when he drives Obama's younger staff bananas. The President genuinely seems to like having this older adviser around to shake things up for him.

It allows the President to remain above the fray continuing to make slow and steady progress. It's very reassuring. He's performing just the way voters expected. Meanwhile, the Republicans continue with all their mavericky, silly tricks to excite the media. Voters expect more from this President and they can see they are getting it.

Gotta run. later.

When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.
The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.
Boehner told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that in Ohio, "the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago," as part of the economic recovery package, "there hasn't been a contract let, to my knowledge."
Karl Frisch, senior fellow for Media Matters, a media watchdog group that monitors news reports, said it seemed that Boehner, a Republician from West Chester in southwestern Ohio, might want to be more aware of what's going on in his home state.
Frisch said he also wanted Wallace to have some basic facts on the stimulus spending in Ohio if he's going to interview Boehner on the topic.
"This is something pretty basic," said Karl Frisch, senior fellow at Media Matters. "If you're going to interview someone on stimulus funding, you should know something about it." Media Matters, a nonprofit "progressive research and information center," monitors daily newspapers, Sunday news talk shows, and other media outlets looking for and correcting conservative misinformation.
An ODOT spokesman called Boehner's statement "disappointing."

You don't have them explaining anything Palin says because nobody understands her.

When the Right stirs up these fake controversies, it just serves to show how this administration is working on serious problems instead of spinning publicity stunts. Quite a contrast from the last failed administration.

Sandy, the word is, that Paline's resignation was so incoherent, people did not even understand her rambling.

And that 'sirring up controversies' is also called Wagging the Dog! It was a dream come true for Republicans that Jackson died-----it took Sandford and his crazy adulterous affair out of the spotlight ! they can go back to pretending they are all Family value Christians!!!

I really can't understand the Reich Wingers reluctence to admitting Science is more realistic than their false views !!

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future (Hardcover, July 13th Release)
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum
BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
A great companion book to "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free", but with more scientific detail and documentation. Less snarky and more serious in its warning that we abandon science as a nation at grave peril to our future.

This is a truly vital book for the future of our country, because we will fail to revive our nation if we continue to margianize science and the scientific community.

"For every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; 46 percent of Americans reject evolution and think the Earth is less than 10,000 years old; the number of newspapers with weekly science sections has shrunken by two-thirds over the past several decades. The public is polarized over climate change—an issue where political party affiliation determines one's view of reality—and in dangerous retreat from childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile, only 18 percent of Americans have even met a scientist to begin with; more than half can't name a living scientist role model.

For this dismaying situation, Mooney and Kirshenbaum don't let anyone off the hook. They highlight the anti-intellectual tendencies of the American public (and particularly the politicians and journalists who are supposed to serve it), but also challenge the scientists themselves, who despite the best of intentions have often failed to communicate about their work effectively to a broad public—and so have ceded their critical place in the public sphere to religious and commercial propagandists.

A plea for enhanced scientific literacy, Unscientific America urges those who care about the place of science in our society to take unprecedented action. We must begin to train a small army of ambassadors who can translate science's message and make it relevant to the media, to politicians, and to the public in the broadest sense. An impassioned call to arms worthy of Snow's original manifesto, this book lays the groundwork for reintegrating science into the public discourse--before it's too late."

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one more goodie on Palin!

But told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she recognizes she might not have political staying power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 GOP presidential run.

"I said before ... 'You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she said.

No, you didn't say it before, but let us know when the wake is, I shall send plastic flowers!!! heehee

There has been speculation that she has some legal issue that is not yet known to the public. But her lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday that she has no legal problems whatsoever, and simply is tired of the hostile political climate, legal bills and other distractions.

"She is leaving now because I think she believes that she has become the issue, rightly or wrongly, with all these ethics complaints and with the issues involving the Legislature, the combativeness they've been demonstrating toward her since she returned from the campaign," Thomas Van Flein said.

"I think she believes it's in the best interest of the state to progress forward, for her to move on to other issues."

Palin has become a lightning rod for partisan politics in Alaska since her return from the 2008 presidential campaign after John McCain selected her as his running mate for the GOP ticket. She has racked up an estimated $500,000 in legal bills defending the flurry of ethics complaints, including one filed Monday that alleges she is violating ethics law by taking per diem payments when she stays in her Wasilla home instead of the governor's mansion in Juneau.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_resignation

But her lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday that she has no legal problems whatsoever, and simply is tired of the hostile political climate, legal bills and other distractions....

She's tired of the hostile political climate? After creating a circus last fall with her wild accusations and hate-mongering at rallies? She thinks it gets any easier now?

The Mormons will mow her down if she gets in Mitt's way in 2012. She has no idea how hard it gets from now on if she runs for another public office...even if she tries to stage a primary challenge for Lisa Murkowski's Senate seat.

Stick to speakers engagements and book tours where you are responsible for nothing. Just read your script and sign autographs...and pick up your check. That's the life for a maverick who can't be coherent when speaking for more than 30 seconds at a time.

She can't cope? What about all those who are underemployed and are facing foreclosure or bankruptcy because of major medical emergencies? They cope.

PamB on July 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM

Pam,

I hold out hope. Every once in a while when scrolling through the dial, people stumble on great niche programming like National Geo or the Discovery Channel and realize what they have been missing by wasting their time with Headline News.

It's almost like comparing Paula Abdul with Bill Moyers. Once you have made the connection with truly entertaining, intelligent conversation, you won't go back. You'll always wonder why you allowed yourself to be lured in by such silly stuff to begin with.

Faux News will someday go the way of the dinosaurs...and the Republican Party.

Hi Sandy,

I just couldn't understand WHY Faux news got the number of people who watch it, so I sat one day in my Dentist's office while it was going, just the words on the screen, no voice. And it struck me, all they do is show a couple of people sitting at a desk, discussing their OPINIONS on the news. Oh don't let's bother the people's pretty little heads with video of the war, of those out of work, the uninsured, the homeless-----nahhhhh, let's just gloss over the truth of what has happened to this country under Bush/Cheney!!! So people feel better when they watch Faux----it seems like things are really going well, all except for that damn Obama who is trying to ruin us with spending!

I watched the British court the other day on C-Span. The Conservative kept jumping up saying how bad Gordon Brown was with his spending.
Gordon Brown kept trying to explain that the way OUT of this recession is to SPEND----every Economist says so! But the Conservative kept spinning and distorting what he was saying.

But Gordon Brown DID manage to get in, that if the Conservatives got their way, there would be cuts in Education, college aid, other services that help the people!

I guess some of those Greedy Conservative genes crossed the ocean and spawned here in our USA!

for those still arguing that sarah failin can or should have a future as an elected political leader, let alone president, I’m baffled. And I think that Palin’s defenders do her absolutely no favors by consistently making excuses for her no matter the circumstances.

Esquire interviews Howard Dean on health care reform.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/4452

"ESQ: Fifty percent of Republicans want a public option?

HD: Yeah. That's in a Kaiser poll and in a New York Times/CBS poll last week. The Senate is in the process of self-destructing. They are talking about managing health-care reform to make sure that a relatively small sliver of American industry is satisfied at the expense of 72 percent of their constituents. That's unbelievable."

More at the link.

for those still arguing that sarah failin can or should have a future as an elected political leader, let alone president, I’m baffled. And I think that Palin’s defenders do her absolutely no favors by consistently making excuses for her no matter the circumstances.

14peaceman on July 7, 2009 at 01:44 PM

peaceman, the Reich Winger Repugs do not care WHO they vote in, if they think they can get back the WH and the majority of congress! Look at the scum bags they have now! Hypocrites who pretend that they are Christian, family value people, who end up corrupt, criminal or perverts.

hey what the heck is going on here?? didn't the troll promise that this would never happen??? i am so.......disappointed!!hahahahahahahaha

MSNBC
WASHINGTON - Al Franken became a senator on Tuesday, completing the transformation from comedian to politician.

The Minnesota Democrat's swearing-in marked the end of an eight-month political and legal struggle and drew thunderous applause in the Senate chamber. His presence gives Democrats 60 votes, enough to thwart possible Republican filibusters.

Vice President Joe Biden administered Franken's oath, slapping the former Saturday Night Live performer on the back, then embracing him in a full hug. Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a Minnesota native, accompanied Franken. Franken was introduced by fellow Minnesotan and Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar...

Senator Al Franken, (D) of MN.

what a nice sound that has to it!

Almost as nice as President Barack Obama (D) !

Lots of progress in Russia yesterday on Arms Reduction, Afghanistan, the creation of a Bilateral Presidential Commission, military re-engagement, and more.
http://www.obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=304

Lots of progress in Russia yesterday on Arms Reduction, Afghanistan, the creation of a Bilateral Presidential Commission, military re-engagement, and more

Hey SandNSea,

Doesn't common sense, diplomacy, understanding, niceness go such much futher than tough, bully boy tactics????

God Bless Barack Obama!

Good afternoon, all.

madfloridian on July 7, 2009 at 01:50 PM

madfloridian,

If our Dems can't see their way to deliver on a promise, they will be exposed as frauds worse than any in the Republican Party. I'm actually beginning to think that all of them...the whole lot of them...are afraid of success.

How cowardly. To be charged with such a grave responsibility and to give into doubt now? Did Churchill and the Brits ever give in? Did the troops at Valley Forge give in? Do our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan ever give in?

While health care does not present itself as an immediate mortal threat as seen by planes slamming into buildings, it is an issue of human dignity just as great. We rarely get an opportunity such as the one now before the Senate.

For all of those who have ever been sick and suffered, for all of those who have ever died worrying about the medical bills their loved ones will be left with, for all of those who could have had that transplant if only they could raise enough money....we owe it to ourselves to make this happen.

Margaret Thatcher, who now deals with the ravages of dementia disease, once told George H. Bush to "don't wimp out on me now." Did FDR find it so hard?

Don't wimp out on us now, Senators. Yes, you can do this. Tell the lobbyists for once that there are more important things in life...and death. Put your career on the line. We citizens put our votes on the line last November to get to this moment.

Just do it.

Welcome Sen. Franken. Another true democrat, a dying breed.

Last November I was excited, finally the democrats are back in control. Now, not so much. It seems that the dems have a super majority of 60 senators, which means our agenda for the American People should have a fairly easy time getting passed.

Reality takes over, the dems actually have a super minority. We have a two party system, the Neo-cons and conservatives, and both belong to the Corporate Right. There are very few Democrats in the Senate.

Democrats have one ideology... Always be on the side of the people.

When our Democratic President says that businesses are too big to fail, that is not being democrat, that is being a neo-con.

When our Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Baucus, arrests ordinary citizens for voicing their opinions while listening to the Health Care Corporate big shots, that is not being a Democrat, that is serving the Corporate Interest.

When the HELP Committee writes legislation that mandates people buy private insurance, that is not being a Democrat, that is closer to Fascism.

If true health care reform with a strong public option, by that I mean, an option that gives ALL Americans health care that lowers costs and allows to chose their own doctor, then the American people will see first hand just how much our Government is bought and paid for by Corporations.

If premiums, co-pays and deductables were taxes, both sides of the isle and the American people would be fired up to change the system.

Currently our health is bought and sold on Wall Street. The Insurance Companies have to show to their stock holders each quarter that they made more money than the same quarter of the previous year, and that the portion of premiums paid to health care continue to drop.

My health is NOT for sale, nor should be my Government.

Democrats it is TIME to BE DEMOCRATS once again. Stand up for the people, not corporations.

Hello. Does this thing go through yet?

Does anyone one here have a total number of American citizens that are currently not covered by health care?

Good afternoon fellow Americans.

WalterNomad on July 7, 2009 at 03:54 PM

The answer to that question is between forty-five and fifty million.

Does anyone one here have a total number of American citizens that are currently not covered by health care?

Michael Jackson Peace Memorial Concert Tour

We are the children of the world’s musical notes,
Singing together in harmony sailing eternal peace,
Holding hands weathering this world close together,
In a greater understanding of the humanity of music,
Praising our heavenly blessings with a greater Love.

Michael Jackson Peace Memorial Concert Tour,
Raising some money for global communication.
Where religions join in with the unity of this Earth
Blessing the diversity of equality of all its people,
Where we can migrate to the melody of world peace.

The greatest musical tour ever promoted worldwide
With 100 concerts spread across the entire globe
Bringing the desire for compassionate understanding
That all races, creeds, religions and divisions can mend
With a “We Are The Children Of The World” magic theme.

With the artists that desire musical World Peace harmony,
The Jacksons, who if they want, can sing with the world,
In uniting this world like Michael would have loved to see.
Where Michael Jackson looks down from heaven,
To see the musical brothers and sisters of World Peace.

David Lester Young 07/07/09 © all rights owned by author
De-Terminated poet, somewhere in America not on company time

"between forty-five and fifty million"

Are these people all citizens. That's my original question. Just trying to qualify and quantify your answer

Sarah Palin legacy is a bridge to nowhere accomplishment, while getting the star Republican role model fashion statement with a walrdrobe make up.

There is a new movie coming out to replace "Mr.Smith Goes to Washington," starring Sarah Palin. The reality is that it would work with American finding out Washington's dirty laundry secrets

From Times Online July 7, 2009

Al Gore invokes spirit of Churchill in battle against climate change

Ben Webster, Environment Editor and Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill today by encouraging political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader and unite their nations to fight climate change.

The former US vice-president accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming. He said lack of awareness among voters allowed governments to avoid taking difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment , sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.” He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.” Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat during World War 2.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshhold where political leaders feel that they must change.

“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.” Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said the great hope for the future lay in the high level of environmental awareness among young people.

He said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the Nasa team which put a man on the moon on 1969.

“The average age of scientists in the space centre control room was 26, which means they were 18 when they heard President Kennedy say he wanted to put a man on the moon in 10 years. Neil Armstrong did it eight years and two months later.” He said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults.

“It will either be ’what were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?’ “Or they will ask ’how is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’.” Sir David King, the Government’s former chief scientist and now director of the Smith School, also berated politicians for failing to follow up their statements on climate change with a clear programme of action.

“I do think it’s relatively easy for a prime minister to make a speech on climate change which sounds committed and very much more difficult for that prime minister to persuade the Treasury to put the finance behind that commitment to make it a reality...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece

Once again, the former VPOTUS has reminded us how ignorant the masses can be and how easily they're fooled by conservative, bought and paid for alleged scientists. I guess they really are too stupid to see the North Pole melting before their eyes.

WalterNomad on July 7, 2009 at 04:31 PM

To the best of my knowledge, the answer is yes, they're all U.S. citizens. I expect that number to be closer to fifty million than forty-five considering all the job losses from the Bush 43 recession.

Does this number include or exclude those who choose to opt out of insurance plans? I recall hearing that those in the age group of 18 - 30+ generally don't feel paying monthly premiums is worth the cost and they rarely, if ever, use doctors services.

U.S. House May Include Surtax on Wealthy in Health-Care Package

By Ryan J. Donmoyer

July 7 (Bloomberg) -- House Ways and Means Committee members are likely to propose a surtax on high-income Americans to help pay for an overhaul of the health-care system, according to people familiar with the plan.

The tax would be similar to, yet much smaller than, a surtax proposed in 2007 by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, a person familiar with the committee’s talks said. That plan would have added at least a 4 percent levy on incomes exceeding $200,000, and was projected to reap as much as $832 billion over 10 years.

Two people familiar with closed-door talks by committee Democrats said a House bill probably will include a surtax on incomes exceeding $250,000, as Congress seeks ways to pay for changes to a health-care system that accounts for almost 18 percent of the U.S. economy. By targeting wealthier Americans, a surtax may hold more appeal for House Democrats than a Senate proposal to tax some employer-provided health benefits.

“The surtax is obviously more attractive to Democrats in the House because it’s more progressive, which they find attractive in and of itself,” said Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research group focused on policies affecting low- and moderate-income families.

Supporters on the Ways and Means Committee include Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat who backs including a surtax among revenue-raising measures in a health- care package, Doggett spokeswoman Sarah Dohl said.

Republicans in Congress, and some Senate Democrats, are likely to fight moves to increase tax rates, said Clinton Stretch, who analyzes tax legislation at Deloitte Tax LLP, a Washington consulting firm...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3wUXb42NPX0#

And for all of those Senate Democrats who oppose the surtax in favor of taxing poor, hard-working people should have to go through a primary challenge because of this. It was the rich bastards who got us into this financial mess and it should come out of the wallets of the rich bastards to get us out of it.

Sen. Reid (D-NV), you have your sixty votes now. Pack up and wheel in the great Sens. Byrd (D-WV) and Kennedy (D-MA) if you have to. No more damn excuses. Get it done or get someone in the Leadership who can.

WalterNomad on July 7, 2009 at 04:55 PM

That, I do not have the answer to, Walter. However, FactCheck.org does, or at least claims to. I find them to be a good, non-partisan source.

http://www.factcheck.org/politics/the_real_uninsured.html

U.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: July 7, 2009

WASHINGTON — Reacting to swings in oil prices in recent months, federal regulators announced on Tuesday that they were considering trading restrictions on hedge funds and other “speculative” traders in markets for oil, natural gas and other energy products.

In a big departure from the hands-off approach to market regulation of the last two decades, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, said his agency would consider new limits on the volume of energy futures contracts that purely financial investors would be allowed to hold.

The agency also announced that it would pull back part of the veil on the oil and gas markets, publishing more detailed information about the aggregate activity of hedge funds and traders who arbitrage between domestic and foreign energy prices.

“My firm belief is that we must aggressively use all existing authorities to ensure market integrity,” Mr. Gensler said in a written statement.

Mr. Gensler announced that his agency will hold several hearings in July and August, the first of which will examine whether to impose federal “speculative limits” on futures contracts for energy products....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/business/08cftc.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au

You'd think something that is this common sense would have been employed from the first. We had to wait until the gambling of a bunch of lunatics and a corrupt multinational oil cartel almost brought down our whole economic system.

It's good to see that this Obama administration continues to repair the damage and put measures into place to keep it from ever happening again...or at least until the Republicans get back into power and start the madness up all over again.

33WalterNomad on July 7, 2009 at 04:55 PM

does it matter if they opt out? Maybe they think that paying half or more of their paycheck (since they are young they dont make that much) is worth it especially when, after paying these high premiums, they still owe co-pays and deductables when they do go see a doctor.

You try living off an $8/hr job and paying $500+ per month health insurance.

SandyH on July 7, 2009 at 05:03 PM

Those curbs ought to be enacted in the food market as well, Sandy.

Hey everyone! Good afternoon all Great Dems. This is a really good article:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine

Any child of mine who would be so stupid as to not get medical coverage when it is available at a small charge at that age, would not live long after I was done with them.

Both of my college-age sons work part-time mostly to pay for auto and medical insurance now that they are no longer covered by our family plans. It's the difference between being an adult and showing respect for others versus looking out for only yourself.

Apparently, some people never had the benefit of being raised by loving parents who encourage them to act responsibly. Why would anyone infer that insurance is not needed at any age?

Shit happens to all of us. And sometimes you may be the cause of it even though you didn't mean for anyone else to get hurt. One pays their dues in life whether they are taxes, fines, or insurance.

You don't look for ways to squeeze by in life. Nor does one look the other way when there are other people in need. You take responsibility for society as well as your own interests.

To do anything else is to be a selfish, worthless human being with no values...family or otherwise. Go slither back to wherever you came from in some conservative think tank.

Hi Bob and Sandy! I hope that you are both doing well.

U.S. warns of multiple al-Qaida plots

July 7, 2009 - 3:04pm

WASHINGTON - Last week, German authorities discovered that groups of terrorists may have been dispatched from training bases in Pakistan to launch crippling attacks.

In April, U.S. intelligence officials warned Germany about possible terror attacks. Since that time German security officials have reportedly been preparing for massive, multi-layered attacks for which al-Qaida has become known.

Shortly after the April warning, German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth said in an unrelated interview, "You will understand that I can't go into the details of the terrorist threat, but I can only tell you that we all know that we have to be vigilant and that we have to continue to work very hard on that, but I do not want to go into details."

Intelligence suggests al-Qaida operatives are planning to plant multiple explosive devices in several locations and detonate them either in a simultaneous or sequential fashion.

U.S. and German intelligence sources say that strategy is designed to emulate the ones employed Bali in 2002 and Madrid in 2004. The idea is to draw in first responders to the scene after the first explosion, and then the subsequent explosions are set off in the same location to inflict maximum casualties.

A U.S. intelligence source with knowledge about the situation says "it is a credible threat, which also includes Germans in North Africa."

They say as a minimum of 12 al-Qaida operatives who were trained in the tribal region of Pakistan have left the training camps and are headed back to their home countries. Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Egypt are just some of those countries...

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=778&sid=1711695

I see the Al-Qaeda terrorists are still fighting like cowards. Come out, come out, wherever you are, UBL. What are you afraid of? Isn't Allah going to take good care of you when you martyr yourself? It would appear that they do not believe their own rhetoric; a sure sign of deceipt.

Does anyone know if the Jackson tribute is finished?

I swear, this idiot represents everything that is WRONG about the Southern United States!

From Think Progress:

Sessions Uses Sotomayor Nomination To Continue His Lifelong Crusade Against Civil Rights
Conservatives have chosen a strange leader to spearhead their charge against Judge Sotomayor — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). With only days remaining until Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings begin, Sessions has focused his attacks on Sotomayor’s past service on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), a leading civil rights organization that Sessions calls “extreme” because it “brought several race discrimination lawsuits for minorities” while Sotomayor sat on its board.

Setting aside the facial absurdity of this attack — race discrimination is illegal, a fact which apparently also bothers Sessions — it’s puzzling that conservatives would let Sessions be their public face of opposition against the first Latina nominated to the Supreme Court, especially in light of his own checkered history with race.

In 1986, Sessions’ nomination to the federal bench was rejected by the Senate because of Sessions’ deep-seated hostility to the very notion of civil rights. In comments that are strikingly similar to his recent attacks on PRLDEF, Sessions attacked the NAACP as an “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” organization that “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” When confronted about these statements at his confirmation hearing, Sessions reluctantly conceded that they “probably w[ere] wrong.”

Nor were Sessions’ attacks on the NAACP an isolated incident. As a federal prosecutor, Sessions conducted a tenuous criminal investigation into voting rights advocates that registered African-Americans to vote, an investigation that culminated in an unsuccessful prosecution against a former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Additionally, an African-American attorney who once worked for Sessions testified at his hearings that Sessions said that he “used to think [the KKK] were OK” until he found out some of them were “pot smokers.” The same attorney also recalled being called “boy” by Sessions and being told to “be careful what you say to white folks” after Sessions overheard him chastising a white secretary.

So Sessions’ attacks on PRLDEF fit into a much larger pattern; they are just the most recent phase of Sessions’ crusade against civil rights and the organizations that promote them. America has changed a lot since 1986, but Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III remains exactly the same.

"Go slither back to wherever you came from in some conservative think tank.
40
SandyH"

Who was this comment directed at?

40SandyH on July 7, 2009 at 05:25 PM

Was that aimed at me? If so you missed my point. I didnt say they shouldnt have insurance but maybe they cant afford it.

It is true that paying just for yourself, health insurance may be cheap. But by 30, most are still paying off college (if they went), have a family and one or two kids, have a morgage or rent, keep the lights on, keep food on the table, and pay for gas to get to work. On top of that, they need to keep their vehicles insured and pay expensive (family rate) health insurance.

And if they do get sick then their health insurance will fight not to pay the bills or they will be stuck with a high deductable or they might just drop them all together if it is serious enough.

marymac_memphis on July 7, 2009 at 05:41 PM

Hello Mary. It's good to "see" you again.

This is so GOOD!

Pass the Ball for Victory?
Sunday 05 July 2009
by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Columnist

Insane southpaw Bill "Spaceman" Lee once described Boston Red Sox baseball (pre-2004, of course) as high tragic opera, the kind of shattering long-running mental and emotional experience that leaves one with arms flung heavenward screaming, "Why, God, why?"

One must assume there were very many Republican strategists greeting the Saturday dawn in painfully similar fashion. It would not come as a tremendous surprise if reports surface next week about a rain of frogs and plague of locusts striking Republican National Committee headquarters.

http://www.truthout.org/070509A

Sandy,

When I use to sell and service Health Insurance to Groups, one of the requirements was that everyone HAD to participate, unless they signed a form that said they had other coverage through a spouse. Only way they could opt out. and that's the way it should be. Those young people complaining they did not want the coverage, are the ones who incurred the injuries, while skiing, the gym, auto accidents, etc. Of course they would hobble into work the next morning and try and say it was Workers Comp!

Evening all good Dems,

Peter King (R,Asshole) of New York is going to run for Hillary's old Senate seat in New York. This guy is a real prick. He doesn't say a word about the serial adulterers ensign and sanford or the fairy craig. He is a typical asshole republican hypocrite.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

After what this asshole said about Michael Jackson, he is TOAST in New York.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

http://bossip.com/128883/fck-a-peter-king-congressman-talks-mess-about-michael-jackson-calls-him-a-pedophile/

http://www.actblue.com/page/jacksonfansagainstking

Peter King (R, Asshole) is a congressman. I have seen him on the New York CBS TV feed and he IS a royal prick.

TMH,

No, I wasn't referring to your comment. We both obviously agree that universal coverage is a necessity in this underemployment economy.

Health care costs must be spread over the entire population so everyone can afford a good quality of life. Using taxpayer money to subsidize a for-profit delivery system will only result in more people losing coverage as they have been.

Good night fellow Americans. Keep the Faith and keep the faith. Yes we can, yes we will, and yes we did!

Evening Mary,

The Jackson tribute ended about noon L.A. time. It was very successful and people filed peaceably into the venue and were very respectful.

Jackson's daughter spoke and what a tearful tribute to her father she made.

Hi, mary.

I thought it would be a circus. Apparently, it was a dignified affair with much love expressed by many in a formal memorial service. You never know what to expect when the MSM gets involved and feeds into all that hero worship hype.

May he rest in peace.

That picture at the head of this thread tells it all. Mccain is an old, grouchy, fart who is too damn old and senile to remain in office. He should resign gracefully and give his constituents a break.

Johne,

this has been a very bad quarter for the Repugs.
Ensign, Sandford, Palin, Franken wins the election! It's like the Gods have had enough of Republican hypocrites and corrupt, criminal, perverts and are throwing up roadblocks to kill off the party ! They are babbling on TV like crazy men! and their biggest problem??? They have no leaders to tell them what to do! Limbaugh, Cheney, and Gingrich! What a motley crew !

One must factor in those persons who are counted as "uninsured" those for whom insurance is something that they opt out for reasons other than high costs such as quoted by Sandy above. Yes, if you are working a low wage job, say $8-$10/hr a premium of $500/mo would be outrageously high but I think that this scenario is considerably rarer than Sandy is trying to make it appear.

In order or a cover all health plan it be fair and ensure that the cost is shared by everyone covered all people will have to pay some level of premium costs. This is where a national health plan gets a bit sticky.

To a young healthy male in the prime of his life, 18 - 30, even a monthly premium of, say $50, is too much because their priorities are beer and good times which that $50 would be better spent in their way of thinking. Forcing them to pay this will be difficult. If they have a regular job with a managed pay system you could do an automatic deduction but many youth work for cash so you would have to track them down and enforce a mandatory coverage with premium system.

That would be expensive.

Michael Jackson was a musical genius. What he did for music and a new era of song is remarkable.

Rep Peter King is an ass. Michael Jackson was acquited of 14 counts by a jury. He paid off the family of one of the sue happy families in order to bring some dignity back to his own and get rid of them.

PamB on July 7, 2009 at 06:02 PM

That was my point. Accidents happen. Cancer happens. All kinds of things happen when you least expect them to happen. Same goes for auto insurance. Accidents happen.

For someone to say it's unfair to make young people pay for health insurance because "they never get sick" is just plain stupid. Everyone gets sick...sometimes really bad; and if you don't have insurance, the costs get passed along to the rest of us who can no longer can afford it in this economy.

If you plan for emergencies, they are easier to handle. And there is no reason to make some in society feel inadequate because they can't afford insurance. Providing a workable alternative is called promoting the "general" welfare.

Responsible politicians don't advocate rolling the dice when there is a viable, affordable bill that would cover everyone.

I'm glad that the Jackson Tribute went well. Michael Jackson did some amazing work in the entertainment field and did a lot for charity and created scholarships. I know someone who got one of those scholarships and she is now a Dentist. Without the generosity of Michael Jackson, that might not have been possible. She 'donates' one day per month to performing dental services for free for veterans in need.

That said, as a news 'junkie' I'll be glad when the MSM start covering other things in addition to the Michael Jackson tragedy.

Gee, maybe we should give those young people a chance to prove you wrong. Most kids are not as selfish as their conservative elders who would apparently have written them all off as all drunks.

Johne on July 7, 2009 at 06:18 PM

Johne,

I always thought the jury got the verdict right. There are way too many rank opportunists in this world who will say or do anything for their greed. Being rolled by the financial banks has given us a whole new insight on how the corrupt prey on the innocent.

And I bet he had medical problems nobody knew about. I always thought that plastic surgery might have been reconstructive. I have a relative with sinus cancer who went through years of operations.

I'm glad he's been laid to rest and Wolf Blitzer is now at peace with the black community. Talk about pandering. He can't stop.

Who really cares WHAT the GOP no brainers say? I'm more worried about the so-called "Democrats" who have their own agenda and don't want to do anything about Health Care, Immigration or ANYthing else the President wants to do. What we need is to educate not only the voting Democrats but also these other "Democrats" in Congress that what really matters is their re-election and if they want money from US or the DNC they better start thinking like US and NOT the Goopers they want to represent.

MARYMAC, I hear that Jackson will left 40% to his mother, 40% to his children, and 20% went to charity ! the guy must have been a Democrat---you know no greedy Republican's will is like that

watching these assanine Repug Senators, trying to diss and get rid of Sotomayor I have to wonder, do they maybe think Obama will withdraw her, and put in a Conservativeone ? Is the Party of No that stupid? Do they think they can influence who gets in there?

This makes the 5th Catholic on the SCOTUS. What the F.... more do they want??? Maybe they are holding out for one who has been tap dancing in an airport men's room????

I am really getting sick of every subscription I get, having coverage of Palin, too. She quit to get out of politics and the limelight, yet she invites the press to follow her around?

What a narcisstic, egotistical POS. Bring her on, I say. Let's make a fool of her all over again!!! that was a ball last year.

heading out, Dems.

will blog ya tomorrow..........

Evening all (except right wing nuts of course)

Franken is sworn in. Hey, didn't a certain right wing nut "predict" he'll never serve in the Senate?
Chalk that up with McCain is going to win in 2008.

Lots of nice pictures here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/7/750881/-Senator-Al-Franken

Steele On Palin: "2012 Off The Table"

At a loss to explain Sarah Palin's resignation after months of putting herself in the spotlight, many pundits -- particularly conservatives who support her political career -- have suggested the Alaska governor is working on a 2012 presidential run. But Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said, in no uncertain terms, that it simply can't happen.

"Not having talked to the governor, I take 2012 off the table right now simply because given everything she's going through personally, dealing with the financial mess that all these ludicrous investigations have put her and Todd in, at the moment, I think she's trying to focus on getting her house in order, her personal house in order," Steele told FOX News.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/07/steele-on-palin-2012-off_n_227057.html

Ha Ha Ha Ha

Mikey speaks.

So much for former Guv Moose Brains (now Guv Quitter) run for President. She may be able to run for dpg catcher in Wazilla (maybe ... if she isn't convicted for being the crook she is).

What a narcisstic, egotistical POS. Bring her on, I say. Let's make a fool of her all over again!!! that was a ball last year.

heading out, Dems.

will blog ya tomorrow..........
===================================================
PamB, I call Moose Brains, Governor Quitter now.
When the going got tough, Moose Brains quit.

Good luck to Senator Franken. It's been a long time coming but the GOP lost again.

Good night, everyone.

"For someone to say it's unfair to make young people pay for health insurance because "they never get sick" is just plain stupid.
SandyH"

Well, since I was the only one who used the word 'fair' on her in this string of posts I will assume you are again directing your retort to me even though you have taken what I said out of context and twisted it around.

I didn't say that it was unfair to make young people pay for health insurance because they are yound and healthy, I said "In order or a cover all health plan it be fair and ensure that the cost is shared by everyone covered all people will have to pay some level of premium costs." Not quite the same statement by anyone's interpretation.

I did say that kids that age might not accept a forced premium. Simply put, statistically they suffer the least from any chronic health problems and at that age so many feel invincible. To their way of thinking there are many more 'fun' ways to spend their few discretionary dollars, health care would be way down the list.

Evening rj,

Goodnight Pam,

Here are some of the republican talking points. It seems to me that they are all addressed and dealt with in the HELP plan coming out of the Senate. So what are they bitching about?

I wonder when the neocons will come up with some more.

Choice: I support the right to choose my own doctor and to choose a health insurance plan that best fits my family's needs and budget.

Access: I want to get the treatment I need, when I need it, without delay or denial and I want my health care to be patient-centered rather than government-centered.

Fairness: I want the same tax breaks employees get if I have to pay for my own health insurance; and I want government assistance redirected to those that truly need help.

Responsibility: I want more control to cover my own health care decisions and I want a system that encourages everyone to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse. I want insurance that I can take with me if I have to change jobs.

The Canadian and English systems were good at one time and are still good. Unfortunately thatcher and the conservative whacko elected to lead Canada have their heads up their asses and ruined them.

"Unfortunately thatcher and the conservative whacko elected to lead Canada have their heads up their asses and ruined them.
74
Johne"

Thatcher? In Canada? You have something confused.

wasn't "walter" one of s*'s old alias? usually he can't stay one of his other personalities for long.

oh well.

time for beauty rest.

There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
Luke 12:2-3

May I point out a several things about our "health care" system?
This is a multi-part problem.

Firstly, as far as some young people not feeling that they need health insurance. Most kids are not being educated in the simple processes of everyday 21st century survival. It's not being taught in schools, and few parents either have or take the time to sit down with the kids and explain budgets, checking accounts or credit/debit cards. Most especially they don't get any kind of insurance explained to them.
This means that they usually some foggy notion of how things work, which many times isn't how things work. Then they wind up learning the hard way.

Another part of the problem is there is not any kind of continuity of medical care, since the primary care community, doctors, PAs, and RNs, are fairly transient, moving to greener pastures as the opportunities present themselves.

A third part of the problem is the stagnation of wages, and scarcity of entry level jobs that pay living wages, and its effect on purchasing insurance.

The first part of the problem can be fixed through education, both by and of parents, and through the media.

The second part is extremely urgent, because we have a growing shortage of primary care physicians. We need many more MDs in the primary care field. The shortage is being caused by the pay differential between primary care docs and specialists. Primary care docs don't get paid jack, and the specialists are cleaning up. When a new doctor comes out of med school, he looks at the debts he's racked up in student loans, and at this pay differential, and goes for a speciality, so he can get his loans paid off before his kids go to college.
This leaves the field open to less well trained PAs and NPs, who are also looking for better pay so they can pay off their student loans, so they keep job shopping. This lack of continuity of primary healthcare is detrimental to good health management.

The third problem is wage stagnation, which has been bad for the past 8 or 10 years, and now we have job losses to add fat to the fire. Wage earners don't know if anyone in their families will get sick, but they do know there are immediate needs like groceries, gas, housing, and myriad other needs that keep occurring for their household.
Add to this a chronic health problem, which, in this day of non-permanent jobs means that there are gaps in employer paid health coverage, and a choice between peonage to a company that has provided the original coverage, or moving to maybe a better paying job, and having a family member excluded from health coverage because of a "pre-existing" condition, puts that wage earner between a rock and a hard place.

This current "health care system" is more like anarchy, and leaves many many people out in the cold, whether they have insurance or not. Don't forget HMOs do not allow people to choose their doctors, and all HMOs and insurance companies feel they can dictate/limit the care their customers get, if they feel they can get away with it.

Some communities have Community Health Clinics, like the one here in Butte, that have sliding scale fees based on patients ability to pay, but they are underfunded and overworked.
I have several friends and relatives who have been shafted by the "health care system". I'll lay odds that even the trolls know several people who have been screwed by the current system, if they'd be willing to face up to reality.

In a way, I'm lucky, since as a military retiree I have Medicare plus Tricare For Life, which don't dictate either what doctor I go to, or any limits to the care I get. In a way this is single payer insurance, but they come out of different pots, and are handled by different agencies. I'm still better off than most civilians.
But in another way I am being victimized too, because it's hard to find a primary care giver who is; a. as competent as the majority of Army doctors who've treated me, and b. will stick around for longer than about a year.

Locally, Butte is short at least 5 primary care physicians, a cardiologist, a decent orthopedics doc, and who knows what else. And we're better off that many other towns in the area.

Healthcare reform is imperative if we are to continue as a first world nation. These bonehead "conservatives" who keep blathering against reform, are falling into the trap of the rich and greedy parasites who are getting fat of the suffering of the rest of us.

Essie,

You have a longer memory than the GOP interns have a list of alternative personalities. If we could pass a universal health care bill with a public option, maybe a few of them might finally get some affordable mental health care treatments.

A lobotomy or shock treatments could do wonders. Someone has a fear of cats?

"a system that most people are satisfied with"
hahahahahahaha. You conservatives can be pretty funny sometimes.

Good night, all.

Butte on July 7, 2009 at 11:51 PM

Hi, Butte.

Didn't see you there. That's a pretty comprehensive review of where we're at...anarchy.

I don't see how giving more subsidies to the current insurance carriers is going to improve anything. Changing a few rules here and there to make sure everyone can at least get coverage doesn't keep down costs or address the doctor shortage.

Like everything else that is wrong in this country, we aren't investing where it will do us the most good. All our assets are now being sucked out of the country or manipulated into the hands of a few degenerates.

President Obama knows where all the problems are. I guess we will have to give him some time to tackle one after another till things can be turned back around in the right direction.

I've never understood why med students are not treated like military recruits. We should be paying their tuition in exchange for service after they graduate. The same thing should be done for all vital services.

Hell, why aren't we financing the education of all our brightest the way all the rest of the world does? Talk about waste.

Wish I could stay to talk. I have a busy day tomorrow. Good night.

We

Peter King Republican Insensitivity

Oh Republican, quivering mouths of insensitivity,
Whose words flood out like a Katrina hurricane.
Bulldozing American compassion of Washington
Congressional Representative foot in mouth disease.

The “At Will” Republican Judge of label judgment,
Who act like a political God of human persecution.
They serve their own reflection of vile venom words
That somehow their reign were Supreme human beings.

The Republican arrogance that has alienated America,
When the world sees this Tory Royal pain in the hinny.
Yes, I still see the floating coffin boxes and Blackwater
Republican vision of Prefabrication of Truth’s Paramount
Condition.

Peter King, you will feel the people’s heartbeat vote,
Where you words demonized someone who lost their life.
That unlike a Bush Lie, they will have a divine legacy.
And Sir, you wrote your epitaph of the media’s headstone,
For another insensitive losing Republican.

David Lester Young 07/08/09 © all rights owned by author
De-Terminated poet, somewhere in America not on company time

Only in America will a poet be called Obscene by Mercedes Benz for having a heart of compassion that uses few obscenities, but the sword of the word's truth to open up eyes to the abuse abomination of humanity. That opening minds is a Corporate sin that poets do from their own Home Sweet Home Civil Liberties. I have been CEO judged in America with a Guantanamo judgment, where the Scales of Concrete Justice were for not. For in a Court of Federal Law we could be found innocent, but the Scarlet Letter is the Tory curse for any Whig artist.

Only in America's Conservative state, can one be Terminated for Poetry, as the reason for being discharged, where their resume is cursed for even in Concrete Truth, America has convicted them to write the winds of America's Uni-Verse of retirements PTSD Walking Wounded status that Vietnam vets never earned the right to speack out from within their own homes Free Speech. That Free Speech is like smoking and drinking, eliminated in hidden corporate policies that ban the fingers Vietnam rants.

I could ask Washington to ask Mercedes Benz for closure that they reclassify my termination Walking Wounded wound to "Terminated" from "Terminated for Poetry." That they will promise not to ban the America homes Artmosphere. But in Washington we have Rep. King's of persecution, not poetic saviors. I doubt that even most Democrats have the heart to put a poet to rest.

One can scream in America, and Washington is a Katrina mirage of insensitivity, except for their own Blackwater needs. Washington has become the anti matter of “We the people” God Bless Made in America solutions, but the Hollywood fashion model of Tory Country Club Productions with bridges to nowhere compassion of humanity’s heart.

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SandyH on July 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM

Obama has a good idea of what's going on, but he has to get the legislation past the good 'ol boys in the senate.
Not all the Democrats in the Senate are populists who are looking out for their constituents, including Max Bacchus. He's so lobbyist oriented that he stays in Washington and holds fund raisers there instead of coming back to Montana and talking to his constituents. He just got re-elected last November, mainly because he had no viable opposition in either the primary or the general elections so we're stuck with him for the duration. (No, I didn't vote for him, I didn't vote for his opponent either. There ought to be a block for "None of the Above" on ballots.)
He's running the committee that's working on the healthcare bill for the Senate, and you can bet your bottom dollar that it won't come out as any real solution to this mess. He'll go with the lobbyists and hope we don't remember this in 2014.
Montana only has one real representative in Washington as far as looking out for his constituents, and that's Jon Tester. He's also the only one who shows up for public events here on a regular basis and talks to real people instead of K Street phonies.
Makes you want to support term limits, that's for sure.

It seems that President Obama is giving Mr. Bush his legacy by siding with his redefinitions of John Yoo America.

It is time for Kennedy and Byrd to pass the baton because of age and health concerns that the Old Democrat Vanguard start departing Washington for a new breed of Democrat, for the Shame Ole Same Thing will never do next election. The heir apparent will be forced aside by a new push for Concrete Accountability and to break down Congress fortress of self indulgence.

I pray that Caroline Kennedy will get involved with the new Whig face of changing America away from outsourcing CorPoliticians with their own insulated Social Security HooverNomic insurance.

The big surprise is that the Republicans could run Colin Powell next election, and that would cut into Obama's Reagan image.

The idea of Free Speech is to introduce objectivity, but so may see it as treasonous that someone would dare compete with the party's status quo.

Today Free Speech will get you banned inside your own home by Corporate America, where you cannot write anything down in verse for it is grounds of termination.

Wraith Of American Shadows

A)
The shifting shades shimmer shallow on shadows furrowed lines,
Quivering quill vibration sensation impregnating human thought.
Darkness of enlightenment pitch black birth riding sunlight’s shine
Finite spectrum of light waves depth of perception altered wrought.

Mind altering hallucinogenic meditative medicinal contemplations
Riding natural harmonics illumination writing outside constrictions.
Gyrating the extremes, riding human spreading potential calculations
Into the infinite elocution of the wraith of American shadow solutions.

B)
We are the legacy shadows of our words worth – epitaph.
That must never surrender God’s given gifts to human masters.
Our homes Free Speech must never be conquered as eminent domains,
But declare their divine Declaration of Independence of Free Will
Upon Constitution’s Freedom and Democracy Home Sweet Home.
That Americans will never be slaves in CorPolical redefined dwellings.
We are the shadows of the Revolution wraith, heard around the world.
Our Lady Liberty Civil Liberties, never to be crushed with Katrina’s cane.
Tory Royal Model America, fears the Whig “We the people” Artmosphere,
For our HeArt will never surrender, as a working economic - second class.

David Lester Young 07/08/09 © all rights owned by author
De-Terminated poet, somewhere in America not on company time

I am getting a mental image of a very strange woman with stringy gray hair who lives alone with several cats and has a refrigerator covered with those "cute" magnets that have bible verses on them. Many, many cats.

78SwirlyEyedObamabot on July 7, 2009 at 09:47 PM

I have beautiful hair; long, thick and with lots of body. I've let it grow out it's natural color, which makes it look frosted...women paid hundreds of $$$ to streak their hair, I have to thank God (and my dad) for my crown of glory.

I live a very simple, happy life with my husband, who is a master carpenter and who loves to hunt & fish. No cats, we don't like them. We do have a dog. We just got him on Easter. He's an Austrialian Shepherd. His name is Dexter.

Pictures of my daughters at various ages, the ultra sound pictures of my granddaughters and of the grandson that was miscarried, pictures of me with then Sen. Obama & then Sen. Biden adorn my 'fridge. Also, the 7 steps to living your full potential and the 7 power principles are posted for daily reading and living.

The 7 Steps To Living At Your Full Potential are:

Step 1) Enlarge/Broaden your vision.

Step 2) Develop a healthy self image.

Step 3) Realize the power of your thoughts and words.

Step 4) Let go of your past.

Step 5) Find strength in the worst situation. Stand strong against adversity & opposition.

Step 6) Live to give.

Step 7) Choose to be happy in all situations.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
— James 5:16

time to hit the road, jacq.

enjoy the day, everyone. (it's another B U T full one here in SE OH)

Good morning fellow Democrats.

Morning Essie,

You are long gone but, just the same, have a great day.

I heard on the radio overnight that Albuquerque is hiring 100 new police officers using the stimulus that President Obama gave to the states.

Our stimulus money for infrastructure will start to flow next month. The multi-million street project is going to be awarded later this month and the money should start flowing to workers and suppliers soon thereafter.

I challenge these ahole republican spewers who say that the stimulus in not working. First of all it takes time to advertise and award projects and to advertise and hire people like police officers. Secondly, the POS republicans raised hell about the cost of the stimulus and were instrumental in getting it reduced in size which was a serious mistake. Now President Obama is considering creating a supplemental stimulus bill.

The republicans will howl over this one too. I say screw them and the horse they rode in on.

Morning Peaceman,

That congressman king (R, AHOLE) of New York was openly calling Michael Jackson a pedophile. This POS is going to run for Hillary's Senate seat.

This ahole never said a word about his adulterous and hypocritical friends ensign and sanford. To me, they are the worst kind of human beings.

Michael Jackson was acquitted of all fourteen charges in the child molestation case. Furthermore he paid that one sue happy family so they wouldn't drum up more false charges.

I'll take ten Michael Jacksons before I would take one ensign or sanford. These are the real perverts yet the republicans always point fingers to divert attention from their pedophilia.

By the way, where is limpballs this week? Is he back in southeast asia doing whatever he does over there? Inquiring minds want to know.

Never forget:

congressman king (R, AHOLE) of New York.
senator ensign (R, AHOLE) of Nevada
governor sanford (R, AHOLE) of South Carolina.

We can only hope that their constituents wise up and dump them on the trash heap of history, permanently.

Another zero in my book is rupert murdoch. He not only spews republican hate via his television empire but he was a member of PNAC which brought us 9/11. THIS REALLY FROSTS MY SKINNY ASS!

Off to work. bbl.

Morning Fine Dems........

The news in backwoods MN is so limited it seems, that the fact that Michael Jackson owes a lot of money is seen as a determint to his Estate. Just the record and album sales since his death will make up a lot of that, his personal possessions, his future sales, will all MORE than make a very hefty estate. One should stay off the computer and listen to the REAL news. Naturally the troll does not like Michael Jackson, like the rest of the Republicans, because way down deep inside of them they have these strange perverted yearnings that scare them, so they strike out ! Do yourself a favor old man, go clean some seeds with one of your tin can monstrosities, and smarten up!

Good morning, DEMS!

There is a new Open Thread.