Not that you didn't know

FRIST !

Listening to yesterday's Hartmann show. John Perkins is supposed to be on in the third hour.

Your VOD was great, too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdj/collections/

dead

Reid: Bipartisan Reports Confirm Bush Administration Spun Nation Into War

Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today in response to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan Phase II reports on pre-Iraq war intelligence, which concluded that Bush Administration statements often misrepresented intelligence and overstated the threat from Iraq:

“Today’s bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report is a rigorous analysis that confirms the Bush Administration engaged in a misleading marketing campaign to rush the country to war. As we have seen in the ensuing six years, this coordinated propaganda campaign is among a series of profound misjudgments by the Bush administration and its Republican enablers, who have collected a long and shameful track record of mismanagement that has gravely damaged U.S. national security.

“I applaud Chairman Rockefeller for completing an investigation that his Republican predecessors did everything in their power to stonewall, delay and undermine. This disturbing report is a reminder of why it is so important that this country has new leadership, a new strategic direction, and a new foreign policy that strengthens America instead of deceiving Americans.”

http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=298785&

Mr. President, five years ago, President Bush and this administration misled this country into a war that should never have been waged, a war that has cost our nation the lives of more than four thousand courageous men and women, squandered many hundreds of billions of our tax dollars, and diminished the world's faith in our country.

This morning, the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by our distinguished chairman, Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, released a report confirming what many have long feared: that the Bush Administration ignored or swept aside substantial, reliable intelligence that portrayed something other than what the President and his political allies wanted America to see.

Mr. President, the decision to take a nation to war, as Chairman Rockefeller indicated, is among the gravest and most momentous that a leader can make. In our democracy, we expect and deserve to be sure that when our troops are sent in harm's way, when their families are made to watch and wait through sleepless nights, when our security and national welfare is put on the line, that that decision has been taken for the right reasons. This is a sacred compact, an article of faith, between our people and their government.

This Administration broke that compact, betrayed that faith.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/06/05/whitehouse-bushs-lies-rot-t...

bottom line.

yup than the senate will only act 7 years later again

the table

100 0r so people out front.

should be a hundred thousand or so eh?

no corp media on the scene.

quite the collection

of assholes in

that hotel.

I was there with you, Sam.

Shortly after 9-11 I started looking for on-line news sources and I came across commondreams.org and Free-speech-radio-news. And I was like .... wow!
"they want to build a pipeline in Afganistan? No, wonder they are conflating the Taliban and Al-Qaeda." "Hamid Karzai didn't get ONE vote the first time?... He's with the Carlyle group? What's that?" "Why are they attacking Taliban gov bldgs and not the Al-Qaeda bases? WTF?"

Holy shit ... it was like "THE SLEEPER HAS AWOKEN!"

There was no fucking excuse for the sloppy journalism that followed and lead us into Iraq dude.

Boobaku

*

twins in summer clothes

playing in mischievious ways

capturing the eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbBclIbMEY

Aiiiee...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gjd_EAa64

is one sick fuck

two beautiful hawks in Central park.

Palemale and Lola share a few smooches:

http://www.palemale.com/

from Sue P

"quite the collection

of assholes in

that hotel."

The Clinton's have standing reservations.

A question that has been running through my mind for the last 8 months is: "Will Obama be one of them?".

Rumors of war: Is Bush
gearing up to attack Iran?

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Something is afoot. Just what is not clear, but recent moves by the White House strongly suggest that Bush will attack Iran in the near future.

http://www.alternet.org/audits/87079/

Obama And Dean Team Up To Recast The Political Map

Sixteen months after he launched his campaign for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama may, just now, be entering his campaign's most perilous stage. Facing a rift of sorts within the Democratic Party and concerns over the scope of his political base, the Illinois Democrat is pursuing an unconventional path to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave: unlike those before him, he has pledged to redraw the electoral map by putting new, traditionally Republican states in play.

A slew of political factors will determine Obama's success in turning red states blue. But the Senator, in no small measure, will be aided in his task by reforms that preceded his run for the presidency. For all of the hoopla surrounding the candidates, the 2008 presidential election will be the first truly national test of the viability and prescience of Howard Dean's 50-state strategy.

Four years ago, when Dean was vaulted to the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee -- following a failed presidential bid months earlier -- he pledged to rewrite the rules concerning where and how Democrats would compete. In the subsequent months, resources and staff were invested into unconventional and even previously untouched locales. The idea was that the party simply couldn't compete without a margin for error.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/05/obama-and-dean-team-up-to_n_105...

Former Vice President Al Gore has endorsed Al Franken's bid for the U.S. Senate.

The endorsement from Gore, who is extremely popular among Democratic activists, comes at a good time for Franken. On Saturday he squares off with peace activist Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer for the DFL endorsement at the state party convention in Rochester.

http://www.jamestownsun.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D9141S500

those birds show so much more love for each other than humans do, makes you wonder

Only 7 percent support taking military action against Iran.
According to a new poll from Public Agenda, nearly 50 percent of those who follow the situation in Iran say “the one” best way to deal with Iran is through using diplomacy “to establish better relations.” Only five percent favor threatening military action, down from nine percent in fall 2007. Seven percent support taking military action:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/05/only-7-percent-support-taking-milita...

Washington DC is correct!

am starving

I make the same argument about people voting for Nader in 2000 (which I believe would include Sam Seder)--it should have been evident Nader was up to no good. It was to me; the guy was telling blatant, ridiculous lies about the two parties being "the same". Who jumps to a third-party candidate who lies like that, who is trying to deceive you into voting for him by telling you that voting for Democrats is like voting for Republicans? In fact, in the real world, not the world of idealistic unreality, voting for Nader was like voting for Republicans.

We don't know yet whether Senator Obama has the courage to stand up to the HRC-for-Veep forces. And we don't know for sure if he'll "take on!" Iran, a country which hasn't attacked a neighbor for 500 years.

But we do know that Barack Obama has the same level of guts as his (would-be) WH predecessors had in standing up to the real outlaw state of the Middle East, Israel.

None.

Change we can believe in

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/5/133212/8386/594/530274

Senate Intelligence Report Undermines McCain’s Claims That ‘Every Assessment’ Justified War In Iraq

Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) sought to excuse his constant and vociferous cheerleading for the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003 by claiming that “every intelligence agency in the world” believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction:

I know why I supported [the war] because I believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as did every intelligence agency in the world and every assessment.

Unfortunately for McCain, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee released the final two sections of its report today on the White House’s use of prewar intelligence, which proves the wide discrepancies between war hawks’ claims and intelligence available at the time. Chairman Jay Rockefeller said his committee “has concluded that the Administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence”:

In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent. As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed. … Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.

The report also notes that pre-war statements by Bush administration officials “regarding the postwar situation in Iraq” — including Vice President Cheney’s infamous declaration that the U.S. would be “greeted as liberators” — “did not reflect the concerns and uncertainties expressed in the intelligence products.”

Like Cheney, McCain was not shy about assuring Americans that we would be “greeted as liberators.” Right before the war began, McCain told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that “absolutely” a “large number of Iraqis” will “treat us as liberators“:

MATTHEWS: Are you one of those who holds up an optimistic view of the post-war scene? Do you believe that the people of Iraq or at least a large number of them will treat us as liberators?

MCCAIN: Absolutely. Absolutely. [Hardball, 3/12/03]

In fact, the Senate Intelligence report on pre-war statements specifically notes a pre-war intelligence report that directly refuted this claim. A January 2003 Intelligence Community Assessment acknowledged that “Iraq was a deeply divided society that likely would engage in violent conflict unless an occupying power prevented it.”

Update In a statement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that the Senate Intel report confirms that "the Bush Administration engaged in a misleading marketing campaign to rush the country to war."

Update Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said in a speech today that it "rots the very fiber of democracy when our government is put to these uses."

Update Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is also calling for a full review of congressional testimony by former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/05/intell-report-false-pretenses/

my kids used to play a video game called star fox, and just before all hell would break loose, you would hear one of the characters say:

its quiet, too quiet...

the whole time I was IM'ng with another participant talking about how disappointed she was about Hillary being pushed out and can't bring herself to vote Obama. It was the first time she talked to me about it.

I wrote "oh yeah? watch this". Then I forwarded the code pink link on the run up to war & gave her 20 minutes. Then I got an IM from her that said "I can vote for Obama".

Just what is not clear, but over the past several months, several moves by the White House strongly suggest that the Bush administration will attack Iran sometime in the near future. According to the Asia Times, "a former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community" said an air attack will target the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force garrisons. Not even the White House is bonkers enough to put troops on the ground amid 65 million Iranians.

http://www.alternet.org/audits/87079/

NEW YORK - The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/JE28AK01.html

if her show is going to be about Bobbie all day. Too hard to be constantly reminded like this.

Don't be taken up by what is election talk. The way to make changes is to first get people on your side. If you listened to Obama's Aipac speech there were veiled inferences of what he expected from Isreal as well.

I know this is worrying you but it doesn't me. I just have a feeling things won't be the same. Unfortunately you have to play the game to get elected. Then the changes will come.

You know they want to do the right thing...we just have to give them reason enough to adhere to their better nature.

One vote at a time Brother.

GOP strategy memo revealed: This is about ‘making political points’ and ‘finger-pointing over blame.’
At 11 p.m. last night, after Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shut down Senate debate on the Climate Security Act by forcing the 492-page bill to be read in full, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) revealed the existence of a GOP strategy memo on the climate debate. The anonymous memo, provided to Reid “by a lobbyist involved in Republican strategy meetings,” explains that their climate strategy is “much more on making political points” than “affecting policy.” See the memo at the Wonk Room.

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/

Iran: A Threat, Yes, But An Existential One?
Our guest blogger is Andrew Grotto, a Senior National Security Analyst at the Center for American Progress.

President Bush reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday that Iran posed an “existential threat to peace.” That would put Iran up there with the Soviet Union, which pointed thousands of thermonuclear weapons at the United States for decades, had dozens of alliances, wielded formidable conventional military forces, and had an industrialized economy.

Some perspective is in order here:

– Iran has no nuclear weapons that we know of, and according to U.S. intelligence is unlikely to be able to produce a single weapon for at least another few years, let alone field a credible arsenal of them.

– Iran has no real allies to speak of, its conventional military forces are paltry, and its economy is in shambles with unemployment and inflation in double digits.

– Iran is no Soviet Union. Not even close.

What Iran does have is a bellicose president who talks a tough game (all the while driving his domestic economy into the ground), natural resources in the form of oil and natural gas, and, of course, a formidable ability to make trouble in the region through proxies such as Hezbollah. Iran’s support for these groups and its meddling in Iraq and elsewhere is a primary source of violence and instability in the region, and the United States must contain these efforts at every turn. But they do not pose an existential threat to the United States or Israel.

Iran’s nuclear program is far more worrisome. At some point in 2009, Iran will likely acquire the technical option to produce enough highly-enriched material for a bomb within one year of a political decision. That means that Iran could have enough material for a bomb sometime in 2010. Iran is operating well over 3,000 of its first-generation “IR-1” centrifuges and has begun to install an additional 3,000. It is not operating these machines at full productive capacity, however, most likely because of lingering technical difficulties. It is unclear when Tehran will overcome these difficulties, but most experts believe it is only a matter of time — probably within the next twelve to eighteen months. When that time comes, 3,000 IR-1 centrifuges operating at full capacity for a year could produce more than enough highly-enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb. Read the rest of this

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/05/iran-no-existential-threat/...

Hopefully you're right. Bush ran promising "compassionate conservatism," and being a "uniter." Perhaps, the best way to choose a candidate is vote for the one that says the most objectionable things to you, and then hope he is a liar.
Anyway, I'm with Obama to the end now. But I'm pissed, and wish he would listen to Jimmy Carter.

nothing like a sea of pink dresses full of perky boobs chanting peace songs being lectured and yelled at by war mongering Hillary to get them to see the light.

Be back in a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5kAxuye5xY&feature=related

Good decision. I'm listening--sort of. She won't let won't let go of Hillary's miserable campaign. Naturally, HRC supporters call in and the battle begins. The only thing worse than listening to Randi is calling Randi. She starting in on me a couple of days ago, because I was silly enough to ask her why I wasn't hearing more about Wexler as a VP.

I like Randi but like hell I'm calling her. Even if your point is excellent, she's going to humiliate you unless you stroke her the whole time.

Then again, I never called Sam either and he's respectful to his callers, even the dicks.

Wow. Can you imagine if Wexler was in there, exploiting the office like Cheney has?

Yikes! There'd be Republican heads rollin' all over the place!

http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=12125199476129010...

Multnomah County Animal Control employees turn to the classifieds to reunite ‘Poppy’ with owner

By Jim Redden

The Portland Tribune, Jun 3, 2008, Updated Jun 3, 2008
“Poppy” the pygmy goat is back home.

Multnomah County Animal Control officials found the owner of the lost goat Tuesday afternoon and reunited the bus-riding critter with its owner.

What a story Poppy will have to tell the other animals. The 35-pound goat climbed aboard a TriMet bus Monday night at about 9:45 at Southeast 94th Avenue and Foster Road. The bus was on a layover and the operator was standing outside with the doors open when the goat ambled up the stairs.

Because traffic was heavy, the operator became concerned about the safety of the goat and closed the doors. She immediately called dispatch, which called 9-1-1. A Portland police officer showed up and took the goat to animal control.

Although the goat was wearing a nylon collar, it did not have identification tags.

“This kind of thing doesn’t happen very often, said TriMet spokeswoman Peggy LaPointe. “This is the first goat that’s boarded a bus since I’ve been here.”

According to Fox 12 News, animal control checked online classified services to see if anyone had lost a goat, and there was an ad with the sad story about how the goat learned to open a gate and made a break for freedom near Interstate 205 and Foster Road.

Animal control employees called the owner and Poppy was on its way home.

Fox 12 News contributed to this story.

Footage of the goat from the bus's onboard camera: http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonlive/2008/06/pygmy_goat_boards_trimet...

...we didn't vote for him either. :)

I get you GD. I wouldn't invite ANY of them home for supper either.

Hell, even Kucinich was a staunch pro-lifer until 2002.

We got what we got. Politics is an exercise in compromise. I will be happy with just the frame work for a health care plan in place and no war with Iran. Anything more than that is gravy.

I know where that took place; I'm surprised she's allowed to keep a goat in town like that.

Sara sent me the story this morning; I asked if that meant she wanted a goat?

She said, "No, it'd just get out and hop the bus."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdj/collections/

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/pet/707572390.html

The follow-up post on Craigslist

>>What Iran does have is a bellicose president who talks a tough game (all the while driving his domestic economy into the ground)

See the US and Iran have more in common than we think!

homosexual denier. He wields no power.

I looked at this for grins and was astounded of the syncronicity.

I wasn't thinking, but I don't know anything about Wexler, but after I saw him last Saturday, I thought he was fantastic. So since Randi lived in Florida, I thought: I'll call Randi. Every evening I take that KOS poll about who should be vp and don't remember seeing Wexler's name on a poll. I thought perhaps he had some baggage--like Webb's sexism-- and thought Randi might have some insider knowledge. Calling was a disaster-- twenty questions about blogs and much comment about how they are waste of time, and no answer to a simple question.

Btw, I was eight, living in CA, when Bobby was shot and was watching the his reception on TV when it happened. At first all you saw was confusion. I remember this event well, but not as well as watching Johnson announce that he would run again.

>> I'm surprised she's allowed to keep a goat in town like that.

Poppy is a pet. I think pygmy goats and potbellied pigs (kept as pets) are generally allowed in areas that don't allow livestock.

Hillary Spokesperson: "She Is Not Seeking The Vice Presidency"
By Greg Sargent - June 5, 2008, 3:05PM

The Hillary camp -- perhaps sensing that all the calls from Hillary supporters for her to be made Veep are now hurting more than helping -- moves to distance itself from all such efforts by sending out this statement from Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson...

"While Senator Clinton has made clear throughout this process that she will do whatever she can to elect a Democrat to the White House, she is not seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but her. The choice here is Senator Obama's and his alone."

This was probably made necessary by the fact that VoteBoth, a group devoted to bringing about an Obama-Hillary ticket, announced today that senior adviser Lanny Davis had joined its effort.

Of course, it's perfectly likely that figures like Davis -- and many other Clinton supporters calling for her to be made Veep -- are acting independently here. The problem, however, is that it doesn't look like this is the case. And that's the rub, since any perception that Hillary is trying to force Obama's hand through whatever channels only makes the possibility that he'll offer the slot to her more remote.

also watched it but please lets not talk about that. I'm at work and have been trying to avoid it.

I heard that segment gd. I didn't know that was you. She was a real turd to you. You didn't deserve that.

She talks about us as if we don't use the exact same sources she does. "These bitches ain't no betta" - How High 2001.

Wis. high school officials propose topless-fan ban

``Many times we get some cross-dressing, when boys are wearing bikini tops that some people find to be offensive,'' he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7565818

Who will be the VP?

5 virtual bucks per pick...

put me down for a sawbuck

Sebelius...or Richardson.

US reopening review of torture charges

US reopening investigation of government's action in case of Canadian deported to Syria

A leading Homeland Security Department investigator said Thursday his office is re-examining the conclusions of a probe that exonerated the government in the case of a Canadian engineer who was seized by U.S. officials, sent to Syria and allegedly tortured.

The chief of internal investigations at the Homeland Security, Richard Skinner, said at a congressional hearing that his office could not rule out that the United States wanted to send Maher Arar to Syria because it believed he would be tortured. He said that the U.S. Justice Department had been informed of that possibility and is currently investigating.

Skinner said that his office has new information that contradicts an earlier conclusion of its own investigation on the Arar case.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/06/us_reopening_review_of_torture...

nope! try again

from Randi or Keith for the first time. They might put more lipstick on the pig but usually, I get that news first here. Right here. Not from the radio.

``Meet Obama's Terrorist Friend.''

RASHID KHALIDI: Khalidi is a scholar and author on Middle Eastern affairs who has criticized Israeli policies and was part of a Palestinian advisory panel to peace talks in the early 1990s.

He's also a friend of Obama.

They met while both were teaching at the University of Chicago and living in the same neighborhood. Obama and his wife sometimes had dinner with Khalidi and his wife, Mona. The Khalidis hosted a political fundraiser for Obama in 2000, and the Woods Fund charity gave money to the Arab-American Action Network, run by Mona Khalidi, while Obama served on the charity's board.

Khalidi and Obama have both said they hold very different opinions on Israeli issues, but their friendship has been used to raise questions about Obama's support for Israel

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7565829

Do tell, do tell....

Woman accused of setting gas price protest fires

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_gas_protest_fires.html...

DANVILLE, Calif. -- A Danville woman faces arson charges after she allegedly set fires at two gas stations and a coffee house, saying she was protesting high gas prices.

The woman, 64, remained Thursday in a Contra Costa jail on $810,000 bail on suspicion of premeditated arson and burglary.

Police say the woman used a fireplace log and a lighter to set fires in the restrooms of an Arco station, a Chevron station and a Starbucks on Wednesday. No structural damage was reported at the locations.

Police later found the woman at a nearby fast food restaurant with eight fireplace logs with her. She told officers that she was behind the fires and said she woke up that morning wanting to do something about high gas prices.

Police say they don't know why she targeted the Starbucks.

Charges have not yet been filed, and it's not clear if the woman has a lawyer in the case.

brain is frozen just ate....throw names at me...just not richardson too many "non whites" in one place not good

Alex Jones link

http://www.infowars.com/infowars.asx

cut and paste into your media player.

some history and they're trying to "fire alarm"

Alex Jones out of the hotel.

I was ten at the time

please

rahm emmanuel no?

Reid stands by Lieberman despite Obama attack
Posted: 03:58 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday stood by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, despite Lieberman’s attack on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama a day earlier.

Lieberman criticized Obama’s Middle East policy Wednesday in a conference call organized by the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain.

“I think everyone should understand that Joe Lieberman has made a decision on issues related to the war. And he’s decided to back John McCain. But Joe Lieberman is an important vote for this caucus,” Reid told reporters after being asked if he was considering removing Lieberman as chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The Democrats control the Senate by a 51-49 majority because Lieberman and another independent, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, vote with the Democrats.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/05/reid-stands-by-lieberman-despite...

Obama: ‘Everybody needs to settle down’ about VP choice
Posted: 03:40 PM ET
BRISTOL, Virginia (CNN) — Barack Obama said Thursday he’s in no rush to pick a vice presidential candidate, telling CNN “everybody needs to settle down” and let the vetting process run its course.

Speaking with CNN’s Candy Crowley, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said it’s not in his best interest — or in the interest of his former rival, Hillary Clinton — to make a hasty decision about who will serve as his running mate.

Many of Clinton’s supporters have publicly called on Obama to put Clinton on the ticket to help unify the party since he captured the nomination Tuesday night.

“Everybody needs to settle down. We just completed this arduous process,” Obama told Crowley. “It’s only been two days, and I think it’s not just in my interest and Senator Clinton’s interest, but in the Democratic Party’s interest and the country’s interest, to make sure I make this decision well.”

He added, “I will be deliberate and systematic about it because this will be my final counselor when I am making decisions in the White House, and I want to make sure I get it right.”

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/05/obama-everybody-needs-to-settle-...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?ID=1769

Senate: Iranian intel concealed from CIA, DIA

It focuses on a much-investigated series of meetings held in Rome over three days in December 2001 as the war in Afghanistan was being waged and the invasion plan for Iraq was in the initial planning stages.

Then-Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith sent two Pentagon employees to the Rome meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian dissident already dismissed by the CIA as untrustworthy, and several Iranians who were former and current members of the security service. It also involved an unspecified foreign government's intelligence service.

Ghorbanifar used one of those meetings to press for regime change in Iran, and outlined a plan for it on a napkin, according to the report, saying it would cost about $5 million to start.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7565805

I hope your are joking about Rahm Emanuel!

Please! He's a war monger. He's from my area so I know him well. Don't like him at all.

Alain Robert, "French Spiderman," Climbs New York Times Building (Photos) (Video)

Alain Robert, also known as the 'French Spiderman,' decided to climb 52 stories of the New York Times building on Thursday before being arrested by the NYPD upon reaching the summit. Robert, who is known to scale high-rises to draw attention to environmental issues, did this particular climb untethered. Upon reaching the top he unfurled a banner that read "Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/05/alain-robert-climbs-new-y_n_105...

The Mic, one of the very few affiliates that hung on to the AAR stream after Randi left, has decided to run Hartmann in the afternoon slot (they run Ed Schultz in the Hartman slot).

Choice was based on audience desire.

I believe it would have been different if Seder or Maron was tapped instead of Kuby.

The Mic, one of the very few affiliates that hung on to the AAR stream after Randi left, has decided to run Hartmann in the afternoon slot (they run Ed Schultz in the Hartman slot).

Choice was based on audience feedback.

I believe it would have been different if Seder or Maron was tapped instead of Kuby.

Steny Hoyer?

Daily Show: McCain's speech was 'going so well until his mouth ruined it'

and Rahm is a DLC dick.

Justice Department investigating two US Attorneys for political prosecution

Mississippi US Attorney said to share tax returns of one of his targets with “unauthorized personnel”

The US Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the conduct of at least two specific US Attorneys in the “selective prosecution” of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, sitting Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver E. Diaz Jr., and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor, according to attorneys close to the investigation.

In a May 5 letter sent to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI), OPR Director H. Marshall Jarrett wrote that OPR “currently has pending investigations involving, among others, allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor.”

RAW STORY has confirmed that Leura Canary (above right), the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Dunnica Lampton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi , are under investigation. Their offices are also being probed.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DOJ_Investigating_two_US_Attorneys_involve...

names around
Cent has already given up that fast...dam!

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/?pid=327143

Glad I'm not the only one who's flirted with the idea...

But I did so in New York State and I vote swapped online with folks in Florida... (ie i Promised to vote Nader in NYS if they promised to vote Gore in Fla).

The idea was to exert influence over the Dems.. my understanding of how to do that is more sophisticated now and things like fusion voting, far more effective. 

I can't really say whether or not I would have voted for Nader in a state that was contested, in retrospect it seems unlikely but i just can't remember what exactly my state of mind was at the time. I was not a huge fan of the clinton administration... we were regualarly bombing Iraq, Nafta, telcom of 96, and the finance shit going on were wieghing on me..

just a heads up on toniD' boyfriend..Reid

EEEwww. no! just kidding

The World Needs More SEDER!!!

who will calm older, union, Jewish, blue collar and white voters who voted for Hillary Clinton

Bilderburg central?

mmmmmmaybe, how about the boyfriend that we share? i like him better sherrod brown

Hands off my boyfriend.

Ohio needs Sherrod Brown

The Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act, cosponsored by fair trade champions Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine), was introduced Wednesday with over 50 House and Senate original cosponsors! This landmark legislation sets forth in concrete, detailed terms a progressive vision for good trade agreements in the future and criteria to renegotiate existing failed pacts like NAFTA and the WTO.
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At the Marriot.

Reid hints that Lieberman may be booted from committee chairmanship
RAW STORY

Sen. Joe Lieberman's recent antics on behalf of Republican John McCain's presidential campaign haven't helped his popularity in the Democratic caucus in recent days.

First Democratic nominee Barack Obama gave the Connecticut Independent a stern talking-to on the Senate floor Wednesday -- after Lieberman slammed Obama's speech on Israel.

Now Lieberman's position as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee may be in danger, according to the subscription-only Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reports:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Reid_hints_that_Lieberman_may_be_0605.html

thank you.

I remember the Gore-Nader swapping sites. They got hauled into court for that, didn't they?

Did the courts ever rule on it?

you are so stingy, keep him than shoo!

Lucille Scahill-Greenwald-Obama

obama/gore sounds good, but i don't think gore would want it, but who are those jerks posting comments on the nation's site article? so vehemently anti-gore, i don't get it, what's with all this gore hate? Is everyone losing it?

Does anyone know where Obama is today?

Just curious.....

JMHO,
but
Gore is as big a globalist as the Clintons.

The Clintons are Adepts, and Gore is a Dupe.....

Barack in Bristol, VA: "They do not fund my campaign. They will not fund our party."
By Christopher Hass - Jun 5th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gG5BTW

i had a sad story last april - vote swapped with my sister for mail-in votes in italian elections (me from US, she from Germany) the left party was not on my ballot, the US-Canada and south America list, so i had the choice of conservative democratic, extreme right and family-value party - to make a long story short i swapped with my sister and kept my side of the bargain, she didn't

now we have berlusconi allied with the xenophobic lega and the left has been wiped out. . Can't really lay the blame for this at my sister's feet, but i'm just saying how do you know the swap is going to be respected?

I was really getting angry about that one.

Anybody get the idea the Clinton is going to try to pull something?

I'm slipping. I should have known that.

Well, he is on the other side of the State, but he is STILL not to far to get to Chantilly in an hour or so.

Far, but not far enough. For my liking anyway.

Partisan bickering to doom climate bill?
Measure to cut greenhouse gases, address warming faces almost certain defeat.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Senate_action_on_climate_bill_seems...

US condemns Zimbabwe's detention of US diplomats, plans to raise matter at UN

FOSTER KLUG
AP News

Jun 05, 2008 11:52 EST

The United States expressed outrage over Zimbabwe's brief detention U.S. diplomats Thursday and pledged to raise the matter with U.N. officials

"It is absolutely outrageous and it is a case of the kind of repression and violence that this government is willing to use against its own people," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. "While we are outraged by this incident, it is nothing" compared to what Zimbabweans live with daily.

Zimbabwe's government did release the diplomats, who were stopped at a roadblock just north of Harare, the capital, McCormack said. The U.S. ambassador in Zimbabwe said police slashed tires and grabbed phones, and that "war veterans" threatened to burn the vehicles with the officials inside.

McCormack said the U.S. intended to bring the issue to the attention of the U.N. Security Council, to Zimbabwean diplomats attending a U.N. food conference in Rome and to President Robert Mugabe's government in Harare.

The U.S. wants to express to the council "our deep concern, unhappiness and distress" and "highlight the fact that the international system is watching events in Zimbabwe and that the actions by the Mugabe government will not go unremarked."

Doing so, he said, "signifies our deep distress at what happened today. Also, it signals our intention that we are going to continue to press this matter."

Diplomats from the U.S. and Britain were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe and a U.S. Embassy staffer was beaten, an embassy spokesman said. Five Americans, four Britons and three Zimbabweans were in a three-car convoy, according to U.S. Ambassador James McGee. The British diplomats also were released later.

Zimbabwean police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena denied that security agents had threatened the diplomats. He said police were trying to rescue the Americans from a threatening mob.

McCormack said it was absurd to suggest that the Zimbabwean government did not know of the U.S. officials' plans to travel outside Harare.

McGee, who was not with the group of diplomats, told CNN that Zimbabwean police, military officers and the war veterans, who are fiercely loyal and often violent supporters of Mugabe, were responsible for what he called an "illegal action."

"Zimbabwe has become a lawless country," McGee said, adding that he believes the orders of intimidation are "coming directly from the top."

Opposition and rights groups have accused Mugabe of orchestrating violence and intimidation in the run-up to a June 27 presidential runoff.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/US_condemns_Zimbabwe_s_detention_of...

you guys against webb? i think he would be a good choice

but if i were to place my bet i would bet on someone nobody has thought of yet, a surprise pick at the last minute

so i'd say we're just wasting our time speculatin'

about women that are not attractive mire. Plus he voted for some god awful legislation like telecom immunity or kyle lieberman.

Webb has mysogenistic tendencies. That's what I've heard.

I'm not for Webb as VP either. I know he's high on the list but it's just a feeling.

Catch up with everyone later.

And I voted for him for Senate too.

He has a lot of good qualities, but a lot of questionable ones too.

Still haven't got him figured out quite yet. He needs more time in the Senate to show his colors...

I think he has got the goods to be Secretary of Defense though...

and run attack!

Suweet! She may never see what hit her and dancing all around!

Webb should stay where he is. He is needed in the Senate for now. Maybe something else in an administration or in 4 or 8 years.

Richardson could be good. Got a good WASPy name.

NNNNNNOOOOOOO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

you have lousy taste buds i must say! with so many other names out there we can only come up with webb, clark and richardson? oh and now Gore too...come sheeple do better
oh dont we have too many choices left anymore?

Sounds like a bad cartoon

I think she is great.

What about Biden? He would've made a great president IMO, what about as veep?

(although, personally, I would make him Secretary of State)

Interchangeable. Very qualified for VP or SoS, Both have serious foreign policy (dare I say the word) gravitas/smarts.

chuck schumer ok than geez

oh but i was told that biden has loose lips that would sink ships!! whats up with that?

explain to me again why you think that she is great

"The Skinny Kid" is going to need a first rate heavyweight running State to keep the clowns in line.

The UN Ambassador slot is going to need some "Gravy" too.

"Gloria la Riva" beat that!

She has been a very successful "Blue" Governor in a fairly "Red" State (Kansas).

She has managed to push through many "Liberal" policies while keeping the rednecks happy. Not an easy thing to do.

She is bright, bold, and has a kick ass smile.....

I think they are penciled in on the lineup card for that, cent, if not VP.

are you serious about the smile...she is a little bit hard on my eye but maybe that is just me

I canceled my subscription to AAR yesterday! I can't believe they did not hire Sam. It is Nova M for me. I like Thom and Rachel but Sam is my favorite. I think AAR now has a Clinton ass kissing rule.

isnt Biden a cancer survivor?..dont they say one never knows when it can come back again?

richardson needs to loose weight coz he needs to do a lot of running around and you dont need any heart failure there if that were the case

Sherrod Brown for VP. Liberal populist?

that's just me...oh and Edwards as AG

NNNNOOOO>>>>>

next try!

good start Harold

You're high...that shit would rule...

talks tough but does not back it up with his vote as far as im concerned...he has let down many time

NEXT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

But if Hillary had her smile, we might be talking about Obama as VP right now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdj/collections/

I don't think that changes much; makes it easier to find my pics via search words?

Kate Anne from the blog told me to; so I figured, what the heck.

Also added more pics of my old Army post in Germany.

give me a young one to rejuvenate me thats all im saying...and i mean no offense to anyone past Obama's age

I'll bet you that his voting record backs up his words more than any other politician on your list with as much history...definitely more than the top ten on Obama's short list, assuming he's not one of them...

examples?

give me time i will get them for you...last one comes to mind..wait! hold up i want to get the facts for you..if you give me a little time tomorrow--

7/27/07 Vote 757: H R 1: This amendment to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 was made in order to implement the recommendations made by the 9/11 commission. Different versions of the bill were passed in the House on Jan. 9 and in the Senate on July 9. A modified version of the bill, with conference report changes, was revisited on July 27 and passed by a vote of 371-40. The bill requires the inspection of all cargo traveling on passenger aircrafts and establishes the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This panel, suggested by the 9/11 commission, is responsible for advising the president and senior White House officials maintaining respect for privacy laws and civil liberties. Other provisions of the bill include grants to states, urban areas, regions, or directly eligible tribes to be used to improve the ability for first responders to react to and prevent terrorist attacks, according to the Congressional Research Service. The bill also outlined details regarding the detention and treatment of captured terrorists. The bill was signed into law by President Bush on August 3.

Not Voting

happy hunting :)~

and, to be clear, I mean examples of a more consistent voting record for your candidate...but feel free to point out Kucinich's inconsistencies in addition to that, if you like...

from a few threads ago:
Lean Obama: ME, NJ, MN, OR, WA (47 votes)

New Jersey a leaner? Are they considering the Barack not hawkish on Israel enough?
Oregon went for Dukakis 1988. Nader polled a lot of votes in 2000;not sure who it hurt the most Gore won by about 5000 in 2000. If Obama does not take Oregon handily, the Dems are in trouble.
Washington State: Aren't they more Blue than Oregon? McCain not a chance. Hell, Ron Paul might beat McCain in Washington.

I'll bet there are more states considered leaners that will go handily to Obama.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/05/1115257.aspx
*TLL*

Sam Nunn?

Kucinich was against the establishment and spending on the Department of Homeland Security altogether and disagreed with its formation at the time...I think time has proven him more than right on that issue...it's a farce

alright alright----thats your choice, ima leave like that..we all have choices.. i am no hunting mood, plus he sees UFO's (oops sorry that was just a joke for good measure)

than vote against it damnit---please stop terrorising me Hussein, please

haha

bar none the most money-where-your-mouth-is conviction than any other progressive politician I can think of...and a firebrand to boot...although I would give serious kudos to Obama if he chose to go the more tempered route with Russ Feingold or Bernie Sanders

Submitted by toniD on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 2:58pm.
Rumors of war: Is Bush
gearing up to attack Iran?
----
Something is afoot. Just what is not clear...
-----------------------------------
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

[For What It's Worth---Words and Music by Buffalo Springfield]

Yeah, he's no slouch...he voted against the grain on the implementation of the 9/11 commission recommendations becasue of all of the insane immigration reform measures in it, as well...fence building, expedited deportation, shit like that...that took major balls and that's big with me...I don't like all of the anti-illegal-immigration measures that seem to accompany homeland security bills and tons of Democrats are scared shitless of touching those issues

Was blue but the republicans have been waging a serious propoganda war here and getting seats on election boards and such. The propoganda war has been gaining a lot of traction with the wealthy real estate and microft employees.

Consider it "purple" with about everyone ready to compromize with the right just to secure a win

As an aside, I've been a registered dem for about 25 yrs now and for the first time ever I didn't receive a ballot to vote in the primary... Of course neither did anyone else in my family.

alright alright now stop terrorizing me please--HA!

NEW THREAD NEW THREAD

geez Nobody! are you that old? (just kidding please dont lash me)

Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step outta line the man come
and take you away
Ya better stop now, watch that sound
Everybody look what's goin' down.
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bluerootsradio

I voted for Nader
Submitted by SEDER on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 4:39pm.

But I did so in New York State and I vote swapped online with folks in Florida... (ie i Promised to vote Nader in NYS if they promised to vote Gore in Fla).
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Bottom line is that FL's votes didn't count, did they. Now, of course, no one's vote counts, no candidate is "progressive", the cabal is in control.

Keep that garden going! Plant really prickly bushes on the perimeter. Look into Zeer pots for temporary measures before you get the root cellar established.

And congratulations on the blueberries! Didja know you can dry them? (Just let them sit out--if it's not too humid.)

BTW, great M v. S; worth waiting for the VOD and missing my Wednesday lunch date lol!

If you haven't heard..It looks like some nasty weather

from N.Texas up and into tornando alley..

www.weather.gov

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

...but that was partially because i had the luxury of knowing that there was no danger of my vote swaying the outcome here in California; Gore had it in the bag. I was surprised in the last few weeks, when Nader's campaign was publicly endorsing Gore in states where it was getting close. If it had been a tight race here, i'm fairly sure i would have voted Gore.

Should anyone have actually known how FUBAR* this administration would be, i'm sure tit would have had far more political impact than Nader did, or could ever again.

* (Available at fine book stores everywhere)

I always liked him. It's just his name really, makes me think of The Sound of Music.

http://media.timesfreepress.com/img/news/tease/2008/05/13/Disasters2.jpg

It'd be nice, in a perfect world...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080604/cm_csm/ylange;_ylt=AgBVXxpcRF4fwA5M...