A message from those of us who think that wolves have had enough of the short end of the stick. This is why I donate $40 per week, for this commercial, simply because if McCain thinks so highly of his VP nominee, than I have to question their integrity, judgment and ethics.

The republicans are so ascew, backwards and out of touch they don't come close to getting it.

The aerial killing of wolves is so disgusting it makes the political history of Chicago look honorable. Sure we may have our own way of doing things, but at least our hearts are in the right place and our souls are intact. They don't call this the heartland for nothin.

Hi,

Have you ever heard of aerial wolf hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then shot and killed at point-blank range.

Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!

Please watch this powerful video by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover and conservationist you know:

http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo

Well it's a long list, diplomacy, universal health care, equality, civil rights, public education, environment, to name just a few but of course, wildlife come up as a major concern of mine. After writing to Richard J. Durbin, our Democratic United States Senator, I received this letter from him.

Dear Ms. Falck-Pedersen:

Thank you for your message in support of the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act. I appreciate knowing of your interest in this legislation.

The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act (S. 1033) would add an additional program to the Multinational Species Conservation Fund (MSCF). Federal funds directed to this new program would be used to protect 13 feline and canine species, including lions, cheetahs, jaguars, and wolves.

I have long supported the MSCF, which helps us preserve Asian and African elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, great apes, and marine turtles. Multinational species programs have succeeded in maintaining or increasing key populations such as rhinos in Indonesia and mountain gorillas in East Africa.

Protecting animals that are endangered or threatened is one of the most important legacies we can leave to future generations.

The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act has been referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. I am not a member of this committee, but I will keep your views in mind in case S. 1033 is brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

Thanks again for your message. Please feel free to stay in touch.

Sincerely,

Richard J. Durbin

United States Senator


Now see...this is why....
I am grateful for our democratic leaders. This is one of the many reasons why I support Obama. It's not just because of the economy, education, Iraq, and of course the environment. It's because he like so many other democrates, cares about the world around him. I can't say that about McCain. I just don't see McCain or other republicans caring about much other than profiting from their own petty self interests.


Viva Obama~!

An email from my friend, astrologer, and one of my favorite writers, contained this regarding the republican ticket. IMHO, no one phrases thoiughts better than Caroline.

"McCain couldn't be a better cartoon of the emotionally arrested fighter pilot. Mars haunted by guilt, with an infantile relationship to Venus. One beauty queen after another, and now, completely unmoored from any anchor of integrity or authenticity. He has been flailing to shirk his appointment with Fate, (See Appointment in Samarkand. In fleeing our appointments with our fate, we always end up keeping them.)

So let's invite his soul to return - to admit, confess, reveal his state of self, and in doing so take a small step towards mental health.

And Sarah Palin, bless her heart, "Wowee, I'm over my head, and given away my autonomy to the Rovian Dementors, reached the limits of my visualization of what it would look like to meet world leaders, the Road to Nowhere is my Fate, and returning home to Alaska to be impeached and face indictments is starting to look good."

Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
Onward!

Caroline


I wish you all could meet Caroline, see her and, listen to her speak. Caroline Casey is that wonderful combination of wit, wisdom, truth and beauty that many of us aspire to.

Obama 08

Save the wolves

Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,

On Creationism being taught in grade school/high school, as part of a science curriculum...

Ahem....

Why not teach Buddhism, islam, jannism, why not teach every friggen religious theory possible ...

Oh wait they do..as elective theology courses. lol

But no, it is not a science, and it has no business being taught in a science class, because... creationism has nothing, WHATSOEVER, to do with science.

It belongs in some sort of mystical theology class for the priesthood..., or maybe for anthropology or christian/religious historians, or abnormal psych majors...lol

There is, however, a direct correlation between the lack of comprehension in creationists and the lack of tolerance for them in scientists..lol

We are clear on that, now, right?

On most everything....

Oil drilling in Alaska,

De-classifying polar bears as endangered,

Shooting wolves from the air in planes and helicopters,

Reducing gun restrictions,

Denying civil rights to GLBT,

Privatizing education,

and...of course....last but not least.....

Palin and the Bush administration are anti-pro choice.

Here is how our current anti pro-choice administration operates abroad.

It's worked wonders...   Read More »

Palin is an anti-choice, vindictive, gun toting, Alaskan drilling, wolf-killing republican puppet.

Will that win her new found best buddy McCain any votes on their ticket for the GE?

From who?

Who would choose to be that dumb, unless they were already dinked before?

Which of the right wing conservatives has he won over now, which of those were considering voting for Obama anyway?


What has he gained other than a cupie doll with no value?

Let the political wolves and polar bears have at this little decoy, that would be poetic justice.

McCain will soon regret tethering himself to this ball and chain!

She wants to drill in Alaska, is against gun control and is for aerial shooting of wolves, which is disgusting, if you've ever seen it. No wonder the good old boys in the White House approve of the newest puppet/dummy as a running mate.

What a yes girl, she's turned out to be, absolutely no integrity!

Prevent them from shooting wolves...

Please sign the petition in the link below in the comment section.

Please forward it to people you know.

Please help.

In tribute to Shopman and all others who have had their hard work, and honest thoughts erased, I would like to say thanks Shopman, though I know you're out for the night.

My favorite was the groucho post, does anyone remember that one?

I know I went off the deep end, but it was such a funny picture I couldn't stop myself.

I confess, I went back to it many times, just for the crack up.

I can't do that anymore.

I can't read Ben's fantastic blogs, or any of the people who were wrongfully silenced and whose words were permanently deleted.

This site will never live that down, unless.....

Things can be put back the way they were, otherwise, it is just a crime of ignorance.

Never will this site have as much integrity as it once did,
until these senseless crimes have been atoned for.

Obama makes us proud to be democrats.

The republicans are a long ways off from realizing equality, integrity, and compassion.

Knowing that, we are so far ahead of them.

Clearly the differences between our two parties are simple.

We are not only progressive, we have evolved far beyond the dismal days of bigotry, sexism, greed, and violence.

We are the party of evolution, of the future, and of the perseverance of mankind.

We are the democrats.

We overcome obstacles.

We work with problems to create solutions, not deny and sweep them under a rug.

We deal with problems, because we are capable and willing to deal with them.

What ever the problem, we can work through it and rise above it.

No matter how much the republicans have screwed things us, we can handle it, because we are the democrats.

What a night, what a party!

Good night.

Obama/Biden 08 !

Either you are too, or it's time to call yourself something other than a democrat.

As Hillary said, "Were you in this just for me?"

Hopefully, you are in this for the American people.

The Americans who need health care.

The Americans who are fighting for equal pay.

The Americans who are GLBT and, who deserve equal civil rights.

The Americans struggling to keep their homes and jobs.

The Americans who deserve a great public education.

The Americans who want clean air, water and land.

The Americans fighting for women's rights.

The Americans who want an end to war profiteering.

We are the democrats, that's why we are voting for Obama in 08.


Vote for Obama

Be a Democrat in 08.

Make a copy of your post before you post it, so you have it, and so that others can see that there was no real reason to delete it, when you repost it.

Save yourself the trouble of rewriting it, just repost it.

There was nothing wrong with her terminology if that's really the way she feels.

This has to stop, but we all have to work together to make it stop.

Education, education, education. Learn how to deal with adversity, controversy and objectivity, or all that will be left is monotony.

Let's allow real people with real opinions in the real world, it's better than filtered opinions in a sheltered world. Let's work together to be diplomatic.

We simply cannot continue to be this thick headed as to completely lose the ability to reason with those that differ in perspective. As you must know I am not referring to obvious slander posts, and hers was not one, hers was a legitimate concern, she was treated rudely, and dismissed with censorship.

This cannot be how democrats have discourse.

I really miss Ben, and Shopman

It's really not fair, doesn't anyone care?

I miss all my others friends too.

They didn't do anything I wouldn't do.

It was just a funny joke about a bra.

Shopman's was a bit satire and drama

What's so bad about being silly and funny?

Or calling each other sweetie, dear and honey?

I even miss Jackie and Edison,.... from a distance.

I miss the challenges they posed in an instance.

It must be bad, it must feel sad,

To have your posts all gone, it seems so wrong

I am wishing all the bloggers be brought back in tact.

When will that be? When can we see?

Shopman and Ben again?

The blog is mightier than the pen.

Dear Matt,

If you thought you were helping Obama or the democrats by deleting the comments of Rich off my post, you and anyone else who thinks that are sadly mistaken. Trust me to handle my own remarks on my own posts from here on will you please.

I handle all remarks in an appropriate manner and I assure you the fire of adversity can be doused much more diplomatically and effectively that way rather than trying to quell with censoring.

Continue to censor people with controversial opinions and then you create problematic adversity for the party and for Obama.

This is a "General Warning"

You have no place censoring others regardless of your title as moderator
if you are unable to distinguish between foul language, and racial slurs as opposed to misguided adversarial opinions. Rich did not swear, or use racial slurs, he made a accusation. You are walking on thin ice, if you can't even let a life long democratic man who never swears or abuses anyone on this site, put our candidate under scrutiny.

That looks bad, really bad, much worse than seeing Rich's wild accusations.

Trust me on this Matt, you are making matters worse.

Like a few others who act in a precipitous manner on this site
you are actually creating problems where none really existed before.

Either PM with warnings or figure out another way to get your message across, because what you are doing is counter productive and very, very, wrong.

Do it one more time, let me see another bloggers comment (Sans foul language or racial slurs) on my posts disappear again, I do not care how adversely opinionated it is, do it again, I dare you.

If McCain's pro- life administration succeeds in passing laws which prohibit a woman's right to choose, and she is forced to carry to term an unwanted pregnancy and give birth,.......

Well then folks, that is the equivalent of physical subjugation and domination of
that woman's physical being.

Isn't that is what the Taliban do, physically subjugate and dominate women?

Vote Obama, or lose the freedom to choose.

Vote pro-choice

Please, protect a woman's right to choose.

P.S.

Dear Matt,

If you thought you were helping Obama or the democrats by deleting the comments of Rich off this post, you are sadly mistaken. Trust us to handle remarks on our own from here on will you please. If we handle all remarks in an appropriate manner the fire of adversity can be doused diplomatically, however, censor people with controversial opinions and you create problematic adversity for the party and for Obama.

This is a "General Warning"

You have no place censoring others regardless of your title as moderator
if you are unable to distinguish between foul language, and hate speech as opposed to misguided adversarial opinions.

Trust me on this Matt, you are making matters worse.
Like a few others who act in a precipitous manner on this site
you are actually creating problems where none really existed before.

Either PM with warnings or figure out another way to get your message across, because what you are doing is counter productive and very, very, wrong.=.

Do it one more time, let me see another bloggers comment on my posts disappear, I do not care how adversely opinionated it is, do it again, I dare you.

Here is the post of a disgruntled democrat that was just erased, from who I do not know, and I don't care, even if it is a repo agitator, it does not matter, it is not the point.

...I was in the process of commenting on Janes comment... who apparently agreed...with the poster... Jane, is a friend,..except she did not say she would vote for McCain so I wasn't sure where she stood...

Anyway this is what I wanted to say to her, but I never had the chance.

From me Kristine aka "Vidya"

"Well, perhaps he is less qualified than some, but I do think he has enough appropriate qualifications for the job, and surely you would prefer him to McCain, right?"

No, I did not have a chance to comment, or defend my choice. I no longer have the privilege to choose which post I comment on, that is now done for me.

No one is allowed say anything unfavorable about Obama on this site. I read this post, and yes she is mad, and frankly with the crap the is being pulled on this site lately so am I. I do believe I have had enough.

We are all adults here, we can decide for ourselves how to respond or not to at all. Stop the censorship, or more and more democrats will feel alienated, censorship of this sort is exactly the what is causing an uprising within the party. Censorship is wrong, and the scissor happy cutting of posts needs to stop, before it gets around, everyone heres about it and it damages the GE.

Here is the post as it was in it's entirety...I believe you have the right to read it, and it is wrong for the Democratic party, and/or this site to imply that you don't.


"Well I see that our Speaker has been flapping her gum again. I am a Calif and think I have the right to be insulted when she bashes Hillary supporter. I AM A HILLARY SUPPORTER and will say right up front . I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA, IN FACT I WILL VOT REP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE as I have talk to many others who feel the same way, so you are losing 2 vote per person. 1 for Rep and one taken away from Registered Dem. I am 82, have voted since FDR, still work in the public every day and pay my share of income tax, so have a right to complain and be highly insulted. WE HILLARY SUPPORTERS ARE NOT WHAT IS DESTROYING THIS DEM PARTY, but the lack of the Dem led Congress to do what we sent them there to do, the lack of the DNC to be neutral until a nominee was picked by the American People, by this I mean the people of Mich and Florida were left out .
Had the DNC, Speaker Pelosi put aside there differences and been fair about the choice of people in this country , then and only then could the Dem party been united. Hillary would have been a better choice to run the country, would have been fair to ALL THE PEOPLE, regardless of race , color, gender, age or creed.
I will say this much to the Democratic Party, don't come crying after this is over and either we have a REP Pres, or an inexperience, race , well educated driven man with no plan to save this country from another depression, another war, another separation from reality man, whose main goal is to make a history statement rather than lead a country and ALL THE PEOPLE in the right direction.

SO BASH HILLARY AND HER SUPPORTERS right into the hands of the REPUBLICANS"


Again this is what I wanted to be able to say to Jane, who agreed.

"Well, perhaps he is less qualified than some, but I do think he has enough appropriate qualifications for the job, and surely you would prefer him to McCain, right?"

If you're still out there Jane I'd like to discuss this further.

If, we can at least have that opportunity, that freedom.

Was Laura's post deleted?

She reported what happened recently regarding a vote on finally getting rid of the antiquated, whacko, caucus system, she did it with objectivity....

I had a comment I wanted to make....on her post.

If posts like that are deleted...because they question motives, opinions and choices, then attention will be drawn to this site and this party, and it will not positive attention.

Obama does not need more negative attention, when little minions start making deletions of all types of objective concerns and questions.... it becomes an unsafe place for all democrats.

In other words, if it is not safe to post anything but cheerful, cheerleading posts of our candidate, ......and critical posts of anyone other than democratic candidates, even cheap shots, unfavorable pictures of the opposition, even doctored photo's, but never question our democratic candidate, never disagree with his actions, opinions or choices?

Wow. Well here's my comment to her post, which I believed to be on a valid issue of concern to many within the party....., I am posting it even though her post seems to have, magically vanished...I wonder if this one will be erased as well.

The day we stop questioning a candidates choices is the day we as a party display a collective lack of reasoning....

Of course they question that judgment, caucuses are archaic, and should have been ruled obsolete years ago...

Who wouldn't question a man of change who can't effectively endorse a change which is a simple and much needed change. Could they have made it any easier for him?

I am voting for him, and I campaigned for him during his senate race. We weren't easy on him then either. We weren't afraid to have plenty of questions for him, why should we be afraid now? One thing he still has learn to do, if he wants to win the GE, is to pass on the easy road.

If you talk change, then writing a check with your words means putting money where your mouth is.

Protect a woman's right to chose in America!


On that creepy/CRAZY "Focus on Family" website I saw this, and it made my blood curdle.

"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. �" Pro-life initiative Measure 11 offers South Dakota voters an opportunity to stand in defense of preborn human life during the November election, and carries the endorsement of Focus on the Family Action in conjunction with the South Dakota Family Policy Council.

Both groups are urging South Dakota voters to vote “yes” on Measure 11, which would prohibit abortion except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life or health of the mother is endangered by the continued pregnancy.

“South Dakota continues to be a driving force in efforts to protect women and the preborn from abortion. Focus on the Family Action is pleased to lend its support to this important ballot effort that will result in saving the lives of preborn children,” said Tom Minnery, senior vice president of Government and Public Policy for the organization.

“South Dakotans know the value of human life and the deep threats against it,” South Dakota Family Policy Council President Chris Hupke said. “Our organization pledges to come alongside this historic effort and the state’s voters to help ensure a November victory for Measure 11.”

South Dakota, please say NO, to Pro-life initiative Measure 11!

Focus on the Family is one hellfire and brimstone of an organization, how can anyone worry about Obama, with nuts like that supporting McCain?