08 - It's Hillary Time!

Respect versus Arrogance

LITTLE DINE' FOR RECALL ON COLUMBUS DAY — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:11:46 EDT

Which of the above prevail here?

Respect Versus Arrogance.

50/50?

75/25?

80/20?

90/10?

Respect
an act of giving particular attention : consideration3 a: high or special regard : esteem b: the quality or state of being esteemed cplural :

arrogant

1 : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner
2 : proceeding from or characterized by arrogance

Are 5th grader's more respectful than us on PB?
We already know there are some smarter.

LOBO.
PEACE.

SPIRITED DONA INQUIRES TATER OR PATATOE' ?

SPIRITED DONA — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:51:50 EDT

OUTRAGE.The old Switcheroo by an Afro-American jazz singer.

LITTLE DINE' FOR RECALL ON COLUMBUS DAY — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:24:03 EDT

L.A. Times article read's as follows:.

Denver's City Council president is getting hammered with hate-filled messages in response to Tuesday's surprise performance of the "Black National Anthem" by a jazz singer during a city event.

Chanteuse RenÃ© Marie had been invited by Mayor John Hickenlooper's office to sing the national anthem during his annual State of the City address.

Council President Michael Hancock, the master of ceremonies, introduced Marie, who sang what is known as the "Black National Anthem" instead.

Her performance evoked angry reactions among some of the estimated 700 people at the event.

"There is no substitute for the national anthem. Period," Councilman Charlie Brown said.

"This is the State of the City address. It's not an NAACP convention," he said, referring to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Hickenlooper and his staff said they expected Marie to sing the "The Star-Spangled Banner" and that they were surprised when she sang something different.

In a statement late Tuesday, Hickenlooper said: "I'm disappointed that this matter has been a distraction from the great work and significant accomplishments of our city employees over the past year and the many important initiatives on tap for the coming year."

Hickenlooper said in an interview that he spoke to Marie after the ceremony and that she apologized profusely.

The mayor also said that Marie told him she meant no disrespect.

"She blended the two songs together," Hickenlooper said. "She was trying to make an artistic expression of her love for the country. She did not intend to make a political statement or anything."

Marie sang the first verse of James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," also known as the "Black National Anthem," but adapted those lyrics to the tune of the "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Marie said she had no regrets. She deliberately didn't tell anybody about her song choice "because I don't think it is necessary for an artist to ask permission to express themselves artistically," she said.

"I would not change a thing," Marie said.

"You have to risk things. You have to. Otherwise, you might of well live your life by a script."

Hancock said he had no idea that Marie was going to sing anything but the national anthem.

"I just read off the script, which was to introduce her to do the national anthem, so I expected the national anthem," he said.

Hancock, who met Marie for the first time Tuesday, said Marie should have cleared her song choice with the mayor and his administration.

It was "inappropriate" that she didn't, he said.

"She certainly should have given the mayor and the administration the opportunity to decide if they wanted her to sing the song that she sang," he said.

Hancock said he's been getting hate-filled e-mails over the song.

"I'm getting â�" as if I made the decision to do this â�" I'm receiving a lot of hate mail," he said. "I've received quite a few e-mails that are quite nasty."
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Afro-American jazz singer which abused the opportunity on a freebee gig. Decendent of Francis Scott Key, was outraged. What is Barack's View on this?
Does anyone know if he has addressed the issue?
If you do can you please shed some light, and please no racial slur's on this post. Not supporting Barack does not justify racially motivated attack's. Thank you.
By lobo. monitoring pages 4 little Dine' while he attend's to prolonged family matter.

SPIRITED DONA SAYS-- HILLARY IS SOMEWHERE LIVIN' LARGE!

SPIRITED DONA — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:42:27 EDT

I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT HER 4TH WHEN I TRACK IT DOWN! THIS IS THE SYMBOL FOR LIVIN' LARGE THAT THE ROCK STARS DO. SHE IS A STAR WHO ROCKS ME!

SPIRITED DONA WISHES HILLARY CLINTON A HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! A PATRIOTEER!

SPIRITED DONA — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:22:37 EDT

I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO WISH HILLARY A HAPPY 4TH, AS I HOPED TO FIND OUT WHAT SHE DID. SO FAR, NO CLUE! SHE WAS A PATRIOTEER TO SHOW US A WOMAN CAN BE DEVOTED TO A JOB WITH RESPECT NO ONE EVER DARED, EVEN MYSELF, TO HOPE OUR FIRST SERIOUS WOMAN CANDIDATE COULD COMMAND! HILLARY YOU COMMAND ME "IN" CHIEF! LOL! HAPPY 4TH HILLARY!

NEW SCOTTISH AMERICAN CRAIG FERGUSON HOSTS BOSTON POPS / CBS/ NOW!

SPIRITED DONA — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:09:31 EDT

CRAIG FERGUSON HOSTS BOSTON POPS / BOSTON

RASCAL FLATTS AND AMERICAN MUSIC!

WATCH NBC'S MACY FIREWORKS; 4TH OF JULY NYC DISPLAY

SPIRITED DONA — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:16:42 EDT

HERE ARE SOME FIRE WORKS BY OUR EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, A SETTING OF "SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE"! AN AMERICAN CLASSIC!

I LIVE IN THE NATION'S FIREWORKS CAPITOL! I MEAN IT; THAT'S WHAT WE CALL OUR COUNTY!

SPIRITED DONA — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:23:36 EDT

Once there was a time.

Vidya — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:36:10 EDT

I would get mad, call friends names, loved ones too, and sometimes people who weren't friends or loved ones, even worse names.

Here were some of my favorites.

Nim Rod

Twit

Numbskull

Bonehead

Dweeb

Zorch

Dufus

Dingleberry

Idiot

Moron

Schitzoid

Zombolina

Dractus

Dimbulb

Barnacle

Numbnut

Leech

Creepizoid

umm.... it's been a pretty long time since I have called anyone anything, decades... perhaps I missed a few.

LOL

I have a question for Obama supporters - this is NOT to goad, I really want your opinion.

Staten Island Democrat — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:27 EDT

I just read in the article that Betty posted that Senator Obama is going to visit several countries over the summer:

Obama plans a visit this summer to Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. The Illinois senator also has said he intends to visit Iraq and Afghanistan this summer as part of an official congressional trip that would be separate from the campaign-funded Mideast and European tour.

Here are my questions:
What is the purpose of traveling to these countries? (I am excluding Iran/Afganastan as that is a congressional trip)

Do you think as a presumptive nominee he should travel and focus energy on countries other than ours especially since our own party is so divided?

How do you feel about having your dollars fund this trip rather than used for campaigning here?

REPOST: Hero Judge Vaughn R. Walker

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:12:38 EDT

My new hero is Judge, Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of California.

Now that it seems apparent our Democratic-led Congress will roll over and let Bush have his way with the Constitution, the judicial branch may be our only hope to save the Constitution. Please read the article that Deb provided the link for below:

http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/deborahwilliams/CRbQ/commentary#comments

FROM THE NYT:

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"Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps

By ERIC LICHTBLAUPublished: July 3, 2008

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government’s claim that the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law.

The judge, Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of California, made his findings in a ruling on a lawsuit brought by an Oregon charity. The group says it has evidence of an illegal wiretap used against it by the National Security Agency under the secret surveillance program established by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Framing the economic debate

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:17:36 EDT

Republicans love slogans -- they're short and they, therefore, cannot be substantive.

John McCain has resurrected the "liberal" and "tax and spend" slogans in this campaign. We cannot take this lightly. These are ingrained in the consciousness of middle Americans -- and much of it is our own fault (see my blog entitled "Elephantizing").

So, how do we frame the truth in slogan form -- something, as Jack Sparrow would say, "It's short, it's easy to remember...."

What is the truth?

Elephantizing

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:35:38 EDT

Elephantizing refers to the process of training a baby elephant to stay tied to a stake with a rope.

When they first do this to the baby elephant, they use a thick, heavy chain. The baby struggles and struggles, but can't break free. He finally gives up in exhaustion, convinced he cannot break the chain.

Over time, they replace the chain with smaller and smaller chains and ropes, until the elephant will stay tied to a stake by a very small rope. By the time he is an adult, he could easily break the small rope, but, because as a baby he was convinced he could not break free, he accepts his confinement without question.

That is what they call elephantizing. Convincing someone they are powerless to break free of the chains that bind them.

How does this apply to us today?

Another view of political spectrum

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:55 EDT

The terms "left" and "right" and "liberal" and "conservative" have entirely different meanings today than they once did. Placing Facists, Nazis and dictatorships on the left is the use of an older connotation of the term "left," where left=total government control. In fact, it is the exact opposite of the meaning of the word today. Which is the main area of dispute I have with Betty Lou's link explaining the political spectrum and government.

Likewise, the terms "liberal" and "conservative" used to apply to judicial philosophy -- liberal being more like Justice Steve Breyers' version of judicial philosophy as he described in his book "Active Liberty." Liberal judicial philosophy believes that, because of the advances in technology and changes in society, there are no provisions in our Constitution that "strictly" apply -- word for word, therefore, you have to do research and make an attempt to understand, as best you can, what the founders would have done in today's case or circumstance. In other words, the founder's intent is the goal of a liberal judicial philosophy. Conservatives accuse liberal judges of "legislating from the bench" when they make an attempt to apply Constitutional principles to modern day life.

We now use the term "strict constructionist" to mean the same as a conservative judicial philosophy, but it is not entirely true. A strict constructionist would say that "data mining" is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, therefore there is no articulated right or special privilege to be granted or removed based on that subject. However, conservative judges who claim to be strict constructionists are not really so. The are conservative idealogues that wish to legislate from the bench as much as the liberals are accused of, but in the direction of their philosophy.

And both uses of these terms are different when speaking politically instead of judicially. Liberals are more bottom-up in their approach to government -- they believe in distributing power to the people. Liberals want the government to give the people as much freedom and protection as possible. Conservatives are top-down. They believe in consolidating the power among a few supra-sovereign elite at the expense of the freedom and protection of the people.

So, if left=liberal in today's terms, Betty Lou's film clip would not be accurate. Likewise with right=conservative. Being right politically is not being correct, it is believing in consolidation of power in the hands of a few.

Proposal: A daily list of member's concerns

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:20:56 EDT

We have at least two people on this blog who have family that are suffering that I know of.

How do you guys feel about publishing the equivalent of a prayer list daily so that we know who is needing our support on special issue? It does not have to exclude those who are not religious, that is why I chose not to call it a "prayer list."

What do you think?

Don't overlook Deb Williams post! My new hero:

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:23:57 EDT

http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/deborahwilliams/CRbQ/commentary#comments

My new hero is Judge, Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of California.

FROM THE NYT:

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"Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps

By ERIC LICHTBLAUPublished: July 3, 2008

HI, MIKEY! DON'T GIVE UP! JUST BE AN OPEN DEMOCRAT!

SPIRITED DONA — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:16:05 EDT

I WILL TALK TO ANYBODY! IF THE SPIRIT MOVES ME! I AM A YOUNG, OLD HIPPIE DEMOCRAT! THE BLOG IS HARD. BE RESPECTFUL. BE TRUE TO YOURSELF! I BELIEVE YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE HEARD FROM JACKIE, BUT, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN A CHATY CATHY THIS WEEK WITH INDEPENDENTS OR TEAM HILLARY! CAMPAINGING IS DIFFERENT THAN ISSUES. STOP DOING ONE, THEY BOTH SUFFER.
WE GOT A WAR.

A WAR ECONOMY

GAY RIGHTS ARE EVOLVING

I AM ON IT!
WON'T YOU JOIN ME FELLOW DEMOCRAT, MIKEY?

For Mikey: My stint in Manila, Philippines -- surviving a revolution and series of terrorist attacks!

Laura Schneider — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:12:08 EDT

It's all far more dramatic sounding than it actually was, but it was real and a real eye-opener, as well.

In 2000, I was an IT consultant troubleshooting a project for Asian Development Bank in Manila. I went in November and left at the end of April of the following year. The year I was there was marked by a terrorist attack and hostages taken by Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino terrorist group linked with Al Qaeda. The first was in May 2000 before I got there and the second was in May 2001 right after I left.

While I was there, Philippine President Joseph Estrada (nicknamed "Erap") was deposed and the current president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was Vice President at the time Erap was deposed took over.

Estrada had started out as an actor who was supposed to be the "man of the people." He ended up being corrupted by the power and money, getting in bed with organized crime and stealing billions from the poor people of the Philippines.

UPDATE / INGRID BELANCOURT SAVED IN COLUMBIA!!!! AMERICA HELPS BRING A GREAT LADY HOME!THEIR HILLARYERSSQUE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!

SPIRITED DONA — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:41:01 EDT

SHE PRAYED! WE PRAYED! GOD HAS RETURNED A FINE LADY! HERE, SHE IS BEING HELD IN THE WOODS WITH DIABETES. HERE A PERSON MOURNS BY HER PORTRAIT! SHE'S BACK IN ACTION! WHOO-- WHO! NOT EVERY BLOG I HAVE ASKED PEOPLE TO PRAY ON-- HAS ENDED HAPPILY. I HOPE HILLARY MEETS HER! I WOULD LIKE TO MEET HER! THANK YOU GOD!

A lesson in diplomacy and strategy from RFK: How to avoid global thermonuclear war.

Laura Schneider — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:05:11 EDT

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

The closest we have ever come to a global thermonuclear war that could pontentially destroy all life on earth happened during the Cuban Missle Crisis and Blockade of 1962. JFK was president and RFK was his attorney general. The Bay of Pigs fiasco in April 1961 (that was planned by the Eisenhower administration), had elevated tensions between the U.S. and Cuba.