Boo

The thematic structure of the right-wing smear campaign against Barack Obama

The most striking feature of the 2008 election may be the sheer volume and variation of the attacks being directed at Sen. Barack Obama.

Though they come from many sources, arrive through a variety of media, and cover a wide range of subjects, a close examination reveals a unified thematic structure to these attacks.

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Links:

http://mediamattersaction.org/swiftboating/

http://mediamattersaction.org/swiftboating/factsheet

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Thanks for the heads up Chubby!

would she bring her children out
in the open like that. Especially while
she is getting BOO-ED?
What a fucking moron

for the "New Thread Alert!"

Busy day tomorrow (almost today)
going to the new house to do a little yard work.

Have a good one everybody.... xoxo

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To those who clicked my link on the last page:

I didn't know that a `right mouse click, copy link address' link would lead to the preview comment page.

Sorry if it freaked anybody out.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?
WHAT?
NO ONE SEEMS TO TELL ME DOG SHIT...MA HEAD IS BANGING..

WHAT MAN WHITEY'S
WHAT?

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

>>I wonder what they will do tonight? I hope they have a better band!

ToniD, I just hope the name of the band doesn't make me fly into a self-righteous snit, again.

but see slides here and there

what whitey's?
what??

act like i really care

please please

say something else

oh now i say fuck you too than
sheet

watch over me miss....watch act like i care

((fuck off))

NO ANSWERS.....NO ANSWERS

PUNKS

you aint about shit neither
now there i said that
take me down

wont
fuck off
you make a better place for me
YOU

is fucking ACT
now there you have it
DARE

My head is bangin'

for me and my gal....

Lucille, if your head's all abangin' maybe you should see a doctor about it.

NYT must be full on them, you should be able to find one you could trust.

I knew this one guy, all the doctors said he was paranoid.

Then he met one, you know, he could "trust" and he told him his head was pounding,so the doctor took some tests.

The doctor told him he was lucky to have come in that day, that his head would certainly explode in the next week, two weeks tops!

Then the doctor gave this guy a pill and his head stopped pounding. takes them everyday.

This was in 1975.

And that young, head-always-be -a-bangin' guy grew up to be John McCain!

did i mention alway came out on top too

JUST SO YOU FUCKERS KNOW

TO CONTROL ME....
GO AHEAD HAVE FUCKING FUN
MONEY DOES THAT
SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME ON FUCKING YOU PUNK ARSE BARSTIDS

>>SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME ON FUCKING YOU PUNK ARSE BARSTIDS

I have to admit, when you're right, you're right.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I am shamed.

Sad but true..What a Twity Loser !

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

cunt arse bitches

i am not one you are

i have one yeah
but am not one
just so you know
throw it out there

((fuck off))

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

cspan is free??? how do they stay alive again???

i know no one will tell me that again

vox all the fucking way baby

who fucking emails themselves?
only Lucille (sorry meant to say cazy Lucille)

right?

A Place Called Chiapas:

On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army–made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas–took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops, and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Fighting for indigenous Mexicans to regain control over their lives and the land, the Zapatistas and their charismatic leader, guerilla poet Subcomandante Marcos, began sending their message to the world via the Internet. The result was what THE NEW YORK TIMES called “the world’s first postmodern revolution.” Years into the uprising, filmmaker Nettie Wild traveled to the jungle canyons of southern Mexico to film the elusive and fragile life of the rebellion. Her camera effectively and movingly captures the personal stories behind a very public clash of traditional culture and globalization.

Somebody knows how to clear out a room.. ;)

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

Help build a mandate for progressive change by convincing fence-sitting Americans that progressive ideas are what America needs now.

To start, adopt a fence-sitter or two that you’re close to...give them a first nudge off the fence with some progressive tipping points.

p.s. Happy Autumn, bloggers! GOTV!

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Tip A Fence-Sitter Resources:

http://www.ourfuture.org/tipafencesitter/

POOR MAN'S BRICK TEE VEE

courtesy la times

SUNDAY

Today: Career advice for tough economic times; preparing the house for winter. 6 a.m. KNBC 56218

Good Morning America: Voters share their concerns at a town hall meeting in a small church in New Orleans. (N) 6 a.m. KABC 83386

CBS News Sunday Morning The role Barack Obama's race may play at the ballot box; Debra Winger ("Rachel Getting Married"); innovative stamps from Bhutan; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. 7 a.m. KCBS 38909

Reliable Sources Debate coverage: Candy Crowley; Lynn Sherr, ABC; Roger Simon, Politico. William Ayers story: Frank Rich, the New York Times; Debra Saunders, the San Francisco Chronicle. Media on the economy: Ali Velshi; David Zurawik, the Baltimore Sun. Host: Howard Kurtz. 7 a.m. CNN 772270

Meet the Press The Senate Debate Series continues with candidates Rep. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) discussing New Mexico issues. 8 a.m. KNBC 14831

This Week With George Stephanopoulos Economy: Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). Panel: Paul Krugman, the New York Times; Dan Balz, the Washington Post; Cokie Roberts; George Will. 8 a.m. KABC 49541

Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Obama advisor David Axelrod; McCain advisor Rick Davis. McCain supporter Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.); Obama supporter Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.). The sights and sounds of the 2008 election. Panel: Brit Hume; Mara Liasson; William Kristol; Juan Williams. 8 a.m. KTTV 67819

Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer Economic crisis; bailout plan: McCain supporter Steve Forbes, Forbes Inc.; former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Politics and the economy: Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.); Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). Economy; election: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.). Election: Tara Wall, the Washington Times; Democratic strategist Paul Begala; Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez; Democratic strategist James Carville. Panel: Gloria Borger; Candy Crowley; Ed Henry. 8 a.m. CNN 643473

Face the Nation Presidential politics: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.); Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. (D-Colo.); Mayor Doug Wilder (D-Richmond, Va.); Rep. Adam H. Putnam (R-Fla.). Wall Street meltdown: Dr. C. Fred Bergsten. 8:30 a.m. KCBS 43522

The Chris Matthews Show Howard Fineman, Newsweek; Cynthia Tucker, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; David Ignatius, the Washington Post; Gloria Borger, CNN. 9 a.m. KNBC 52270

Fareed Zakaria GPS Global financial crisis: George Soros. 10 a.m. CNN 364454

Meet the Press 3 and 11 p.m. MSNBC 7604102, 7301928

Larry King Live 6 and 9 p.m. CNN 923096, 589541

60 Minutes An FBI agent talks about infiltrating the Gambino family; footage of advanced weaponry in action; the Antinori family. 7 p.m. KCBS ]

I had company. And the RAYS WIN 9-8 in 11 innings to tie the series up!

More brick teevee (if yer good).

Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism
Naomi Klein at the Chicago School of Economics 6 Oct 2008

--Man..
Submitted by MMRules on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 2:23am.

Somebody knows how to clear out a room.. ;)--

...but who's being announced when it starts? I can't hear it very well, but i have to wonder if that's the captain of the opposing team being announced as he enters the rink that causes the booing to start.

http://www.zendegi.ca/film/tasavvor/index.htm

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Virtual fun and culture...

There are 10 to-the-eleventh-power stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number.

But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them
astronomical numbers.

Now we should call them economical numbers.

- Richard F

Bartcop.com

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

and

Yes and No!

I love the use of the kids as a human shield. Didn't work but nice touch.

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LOVED your music...is that you singing? or Guitar or whu?

Doing alright, you? Probably going to turn in soon; been decorating for Halloween with the kids all day. I hope it's not getting too chilly up in your area...?

Behind the panic:
Financial Warfare over future of global bank power

F. William Engdahl
www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/
Oct 10, 2008

Stock market falls of 7 to 10% a day make for dramatic news headlines and serve to foster a broad sense of unease bordering on panic among ordinary citizens. The events of the last two weeks among EU banks since the dramatic state rescues of Hypo Real Estate, Dexia and Fortis banks, and the announcement by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling of a radical shift in policy in dealing with troubled UK banks, have begun to reveal the outline of a distinctly different European response to what in effect is a crisis 'Made in USA.'

There is serious ground to believe that US Goldman Sachs ex CEO Henry Paulson, as Treasury Secretary, is not stupid. There is also serious ground to believe that he is actually moving according to a well-thought-out long-term strategy. Events as they are now unfolding in the EU tend to confirm that. As one senior European banker put it to me in a private discussion, 'There is an all-out war going on between the United States and the EU to define the future face of European banking.'

In this banker's view, the ongoing attempt of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and France's Nicolas Sarkozy to get an EU common 'fund', with perhaps upwards of $300 billion to rescue troubled banks, would de facto play directly into Paulson and the US establishment's long-term strategy, by in effect weakening the banks and repaying US-originated Asset Backed Securities held by EU banks.

Much more at link...

At the rate The Stock Market is falling it should be worth $0,000,000.00 in about 11 days...

Alice is that movie public domain? I'd rather not be sued by the MPAA!

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a LONG poem by Robert Burns

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/halloween/

...
Among the brackens, on the brae,
Between her and the moon,
The deil, or else an outler quey,
Gat up and gae a croon:
Poor Leezie's heart maist lap the hool!
Near lav'rock-height she jumpit;
but mist a fit, and in the pool
Out-owre the lugs she plumpit,
Wi' a plunge that night.
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...I don't know...

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

but not enough for a fire yet...tonight anyway..We've had two in the last week with last years wood...this years wood is going to cost a pretty penny...

There are 10 cats on my bed right now though..they'll warm me up...they think they're sucking off my body heat..but little do they know... ;)

no not my pretty voice, that'll maybe make an appearance someday but I can't sing and do the geetar at the same time and therefore we wouldn't be able to do it live. Any guitars that aren't all chunka-chunka are me.

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Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington. That's the apparent aim of those in power here wanting one continent, "indivisible" minus old-fashioned ideas like "liberty and justice for all" we used to believe in when, as kids, we recited our "Pledge of Allegiance." They now have a whole new meaning. They're just words drummed into young minds hoping they'll still believe them when they're old enough to know better.

There may be a greater scheme for the planet ahead, but this article only focuses on what we know about and how it's unfolding so far. It has a name, in fact, several, but they all aim for the same thing - one nation, indivisible, where three sovereign ones once stood, headquartered in Washington.
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What sort of guitar do you play? Do you have a photo of it?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27054266/

LoL

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I've got the same model as The Boss:
http://media.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/images/2007/10/springsteen.jpg

except mainly melodies come out of mine.

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Families USA has created an interactive way to get to the heart of health care issues.

It’s easy to use: Just select a topic from the drop-down menu and hit “go.”

Then scroll over the picture of each candidate to find out what his plan would do to address issues like children’s health care, pre-existing conditions, or prescription drug coverage.

Our health care online debate gives you the opportunity to find out more about where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on the important health care issues that matter to all Americans.

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Click here to get started:

http://standupforhealthcare.org/

Cool.. :)

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

11 innings. 5 1/2 hours. 7 home runs total. 14 pitchers total throwing 429 pitches. Walk-off sacrifice fly.

Back to Fenway motherf*ckers.

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That's too many for me...if husbot weren't here to regulate the intake...who knows....? :) Someday I'd love to do this for my life tho...take care of cats...until then it's work work work... bleh...

yeah, if it's good enough for keith richards and joe strummer, it's good enough for me.
It's actually the only electric I've ever owned.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfF-nxjDi0

all day, or play with cats all day? there's a difference there. I couldn't deal with more than a couple. I've only got one but he can be a mischievous little bugger.

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Over the last few days, I have received several warnings from people that I consider more knowledgeable than most about the potential for a severe socio-economic disruption within the next week.

The Arlington Institute, a future trends think tank, has been doing a study of precognitive dreams. Of course, dreams are imprecise yardsticks, but based on past patterns, they do seem to reveal aspects of what may take place. John Peterson, the director of TAI, believes that this data, along with other indicators he tracks, reveals the potential for a severe crisis that could unfold this weekend or early next week. Possibilities include a “terrorist” event such as an electro-magnetic pulse weapon, detonated on the East Coast of the US. Such an explosion could lead to a temporary wipeout of electronic equipment and hard drives, forcing the financial system itself to "reset." Another option may be some development connected with Iran or Russia.

Friends from within the financial world have contacted me to note that the panicked sell-off of stocks may indicate foreknowledge, on the part of some insiders, of an imminent announcement of even worse news than we have heard so far. This could be related to the banking system, or a military maneuver. One option that has been raised is that the banking system will be shut down next week. The officials may be waiting until after banks close on Friday to release this information, in order to limit panic, giving time for the information to be absorbed (Monday is a bank holiday).
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Elections Astrology: Obama, Lincoln, JFK, Bailout Games, and Palin's Potency
VerDarLuz

I have recently received a few emails from people who are actively meditating and visualizing healing, protective light energy around Barack Obama and his family. It is my feeling that we must not only isolate our prayers and luminous meditations to Obama, but also to McCain, the other candidates, and to the bankers and all government officials at this crucial time. This national crisis is an invitation on a personal level to examine our souls. We have the power to flow unconditional love out in all directions, without prejudice or preference, but for the healing of the entire nation.

In some of my research over the last few months, I discovered powerful links in the charts of Abraham Lincoln, JFK, and Barack Obama. Interestingly, Obama wrote an article for Time magazine a few years ago about his connection with Lincoln. In this article, he stated, "And as Lincoln called once upon the better angels of our nature, I believe that he is calling still, across the ages, to summon some measure of that character, the American character, in each of us today."

Besides the similarities of their personal geographies (impoverished upbringing, Illinois), Obama's South Node, which represents our karmic traces, is on Lincoln's Sun. And the reverse is true: Obama's Sun is on Lincoln's South Node. This powerful reversal may suggest a major spiritual theme that has been circulating between these two souls, trying to be implemented in this country for some time. It very clearly could point to reincarnant energy of the same soul.
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Playing with them is part of their care I think... that's why the Kitty Fisher was such a good invention - you just sit there and cast and they play...Plus a laser wand..they love to chase a laser light...

One cat, eh? I remember when I had one cat... :)

nearly 4 on the east coast here. I needs sleeps. L8r

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Are my elixirs..

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

Nite Cranes! MM...Filthy..Star Vox...Blog...

♥

Bold Progressives

This is a new citizen mobilization project by some in the progressive community aimed at pushing Democrats to show bold progressive leadership in 2009.

To get involved, the first step is to sign the pledge.

When you sign, you can write a message to top Democrats about what bold progressive leadership means to you.

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In 2009 and beyond, I will be part of the movement that pushes Democrats to be bold progressives -- and that helps pass a bold progressive agenda into law.

Take the pledge:

http://boldprogressives.org/

They find me though. I've never gone looking for one.

I'm glad I'm not a witch though, because my cat now is a complete doofus, and would be a terrible Familiar.

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very heavy! like a tree around your neck. They sound and play great though, and I'll need to get something with dual-coils eventually. Seems like you get more snap from single-coils but more tone from humbuckers.

night for reals LTR

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The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama
By FRANK RICH
IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender, then you remember the biggest fear about Barack Obama: a crazy person might take a shot at him.

Some voters told reporters that they didn’t want Obama to run, let alone win, should his very presence unleash the demons who have stalked America from Lincoln to King. After consultation with Congress, Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, gave Obama a Secret Service detail earlier than any presidential candidate in our history — in May 2007, some eight months before the first Democratic primaries.

“I’ve got the best protection in the world, so stop worrying,” Obama reassured his supporters. Eventually the country got conditioned to his appearing in large arenas without incident (though I confess that the first loud burst of fireworks at the end of his convention stadium speech gave me a start). In America, nothing does succeed like success. The fear receded.

Until now. At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option.

All’s fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even if Ayers’s Weather Underground history dates back to Obama’s childhood, even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated with the present-day Ayers in educational reform. But it’s not just the old Joe McCarthyesque guilt-by-association game, however spurious, that’s going on here. Don’t for an instant believe the many mindlessly “even-handed” journalists who keep saying that the McCain campaign’s use of Ayers is the moral or political equivalent of the Obama campaign’s hammering on Charles Keating.

What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.

By the time McCain asks the crowd “Who is the real Barack Obama?” it’s no surprise that someone cries out “Terrorist!” The rhetorical conflation of Obama with terrorism is complete. It is stoked further by the repeated invocation of Obama’s middle name by surrogates introducing McCain and Palin at these rallies. This sleight of hand at once synchronizes with the poisonous Obama-is-a-Muslim e-mail blasts and shifts the brand of terrorism from Ayers’s Vietnam-era variety to the radical Islamic threats of today.

That’s a far cry from simply accusing Obama of being a guilty-by-association radical leftist. Obama is being branded as a potential killer and an accessory to past attempts at murder. “Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family” was how a McCain press release last week packaged the remembrance of a Weather Underground incident from 1970 — when Obama was 8.

We all know what punishment fits the crime of murder, or even potential murder, if the security of post-9/11 America is at stake. We all know how self-appointed “patriotic” martyrs always justify taking the law into their own hands.

Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers’s behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008. What’s troubling here is not only the candidates’ loose inflammatory talk but also their refusal to step in promptly and strongly when someone responds to it with bloodthirsty threats in a crowded arena. Joe Biden had it exactly right when he expressed concern last week that “a leading American politician who might be vice president of the United States would not just stop midsentence and turn and condemn that.” To stay silent is to pour gas on the fires.

More here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pa...

Some People Get a Golden Parachute..

For Everyone Else,
There's the Golden Promise: Social Security

Americans have lost nearly $2 trillion from their retirement accounts in the last 15 months* while Wall Street's financial elites are making away with billions.

Social Security is a golden promise guaranteeing Americans that if we work hard and play by the rules, we will earn the right to retire with dignity. We must not gamble this promise away on risky privatization schemes that guarantee only massive benefits cuts and turn our life's work into a chip for Wall Street’s elites to bet.

Therefore, I pledge to oppose privatization of Social Security -- the diversion of payroll taxes into private accounts -- by any name.

Take The Pledge

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

Lehman, AIG Chiefs Should `Man Up,' Stop `Kissing the Mirror,' Peers Say Executives passing the buck for failures that sank their companies or pushed them to the brink win no sympathy from business leaders and management experts.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aY_c4z_m1M1Y&refer=n...

I guess you believe attempts to rob you of any retirement are wildly exaggerated. Good luck with that Alice. I really hope you are right.

I think the plan is to put us all in shackles until we are dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glrnb_G34E4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRZUaW0HwCM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avGl7k4OGJY

[A]fter the dismantling of the postwar system, democracy is restricted. It has therefore become necessary to control and marginalize the public in some fashion, processes particularly evident in the more business-run societies like the United States. The management of electoral extravaganzas by the public relations industry is one illustration.

"Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business," concluded America's leading 20th century social philosopher John Dewey, and will remain so as long as power resides in "business for private profit through private control of banking, land, industry, reinforced by command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda".

The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats. There are differences between them. In his study Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels shows that during the past six decades "real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the real incomes of working-poor families have grown six times as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans".

Differences can be detected in the current election as well. Voters should consider them, but without illusions about the political parties, and with the recognition that consistently over the centuries, progressive legislation and social welfare have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above.

Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace.
Noam Chomsky
Irish Times

Another beautiful day here in IL.

Reagan Palled Around with Terrorists, Too
Now that McCain and Palin are doing everything they can to wrap themselves in the legacy of Ronald Reagan, it’s worth noting who was “palling around with terrorists” when the Gipper was at the height of his powers after his 1984 reelection and before the Iran-Contra scandal. It was back in 1985 that McCain’s and Palin’s hero hosted Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, then a key Mujahadin leader (and major Islamo-fascist, as some might call him), at the White House. (Hekmatyar is in the foreground on the far left in the photo.)

By Haji Mujtaba

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected U.S. drones fired two missile on Saturday into a Pakistani region regarded as an al Qaeda and Taliban safe haven, killing at least five militants, residents and an intelligence official said.

It was the second such attack in North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border this week.

"The missiles were fired with a gap of a minute," a Reuters witness said from Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan. "They caused huge blasts. I saw flames rising toward the sky after the explosions."

An intelligence official said five militants were killed in the attack on a house in a shanty neighborhood known as Machis Colony. There were foreigners also among those killed and their number and nationality had not yet been ascertained, he said.

"The mud-walled house has long been used by the guests as their abode," he said, referring to the term used for the militants in the tribal areas.

Residents said the drones had been flying over Miranshah for hours and tribesmen also fired shots in the air before they struck.

The Pentagon had no comment on the report.

Six people, including three Arab fighters linked to al Qaeda, were killed in a similar attack near Miranshah on Thursday night.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49A32I20081011

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Unidentified gunmen shot down a journalist in the city of Kirkuk on Friday evening, a security official said.“The gunmen opened fire at journalist Dayyar Abbas off the Kirkuk Association of Artists in central Kirkuk, leaving him severely wounded. He died on his way to the hospital,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk districts’ police chief, told Aswat al-Iraq.“Abbas was a correspondent for al-Ain news agency in Kirkuk,” said Qader, adding the incident is being investigated.Al-Ain is an independent Iraq media corporation.Sever months ago, unidentified gunmen had shot down Kurdish journalist Soran Mama Hama in front of his house in Kirkuk. Hama was in charge of the Kirkuk office of the of Lafin, an independent Kurdish-language political magazine. AmR (P)

I have this little laptop and it is all stretched now...400 width works well. Thanks

enjoy doing yardwork on your new home! That must be so exciting.

Happe Talk

Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis
By David Goldstein and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.

Commentators say that's what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They've specifically targeted the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the federal government seized on Sept. 6, contending that lending to poor and minority Americans caused Fannie's and Freddie's financial problems.

Federal housing data reveal that the charges aren't true, and that the private sector, not the government or government-backed companies, was behind the soaring subprime lending at the core of the crisis.

Subprime lending offered high-cost loans to the weakest borrowers during the housing boom that lasted from 2001 to 2007. Subprime lending was at its height vrom 2004 to 2006.

Federal Reserve Board data show that:

_ More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions.

_ Private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year.

_ Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that's being lambasted by conservative critics.

The "turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007," the President's Working Group on Financial Markets reported Friday.

Conservative critics claim that the Clinton administration pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make home ownership more available to riskier borrowers with little concern for their ability to pay the mortgages.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53802.html

Happe Talk

How's everybody?

Oops Sam,

One major problem, the video you posted at the top of the thread is Not Available at YouTube.

Oh well...

Anyone have another link for it?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj24wJh5rPk

Happe Talk

c-span has Bertha Lewis of Acorn on now.

HuffPo has a working link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNetpeu_mk
this link has great audio!

I think that little video was getting hit pretty heavy which is why for a while one kept getting the message from YouTube that the video was Not Available.

Thank God for Sarah Palin being such a drag down on McCain. :)

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Have you seen this? Bush Yoga.

Can you say xmas fav!

James Baker is a COMMUNIST!

Economic problems too big for private sector and the government needs to bail him out.

He's a communist and a hypocrite I guess....

this from the I am not a crook party.

He says the government shouldn't overreact to corporate scandals. He watched the September 11 attacks at the Ritz-Carlton with the Bin Laden family. He's defending the Saudi's against a trillion-dollar lawsuit brought forth by the September 11 families. He led the campaigns of the last four Republican presidents. Now he's been chosen as Bush's personal envoy in charge of restructuring Iraq's $132 billion in debt. Some say he's the most powerful lawyer in the world. He may be one of the busiest. Who is he? He's Sr. Counsel to the Carlyle Group and Secretary of the Treasury during the last Banking debacle! - Here In Reality

did Roy Blunt put on a penis suit or is that what he really looks like?

Republicans are dumping McCcain -- and dumping on him
Joe Sudbay (DC) · 10/11/2008 10:04:00 PM ET · Link

There is so much information in this article from the top political writers at the New York Times that the whole thing is worth a read.

First and foremost, this is another in the burgeoning number of articles where leading Republicans say sure McCain can win (wink, wink) -- as they go on to trash him and his campaign. The GOPers are dumping McCain en masse.

There are a few highlights to this article. For example, leading Republicans think McCain can turn around the election in the "next 30 days." Okay, election day is in 23 days (the article is for the Sunday paper) -- and people in many states are already voting. I had to read this paragraph a couple times to make sure it said "30 days," and it does:

Again and again, party leaders said in interviews that while they still believed that Mr. McCain could win over voters in the next 30 days, they were concerned that he and his advisers seemed to be adrift in dealing with an extraordinarily challenging political battleground and a crisis on Wall Street.

Here's one top GOPer making that "30 days" claim:
“The main thing he needs to do,” said Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota, “is focus on a single message — a single, concise or clear-cut message, and stick with that over the next 30 days, regardless of what happens. He’s had a lot of attack lines. But it’s time to choose.”

So, leading Republicans think McCain might win the election in 30 days or on November 11th. Okay, but by then Obama will be the president-elect.

Another classic passage comes from the Pennsylvania GOP Chair:

In Pennsylvania, Robert A. Gleason Jr., the state Republican chairman, said he was concerned that Mr. McCain’s increasingly aggressive tone was not working with moderate voters and women in the important southeastern part of a state that is at the top of Mr. McCain’s must-win list.

“They’re not as susceptible to attack ads,” Mr. Gleason said. “I worry about the southeast. Obama is making inroads.”

Funny that Mr. Gleason is so worried about the "aggressive tone." Last week, as Will Bunch reported, that same Mr. Gleason sent out a press release calling Obama "a terrorist's best friend." Gleason is clearly an idiot. He's got only himself (and McCain and Palin) to blame for the ugliness that's turning off voters in his state.

I'll conclude with a comment from former Bush cabinet secretary Tommy Thompson who was pretty blunt:
Tommy Thompson, a Republican who is a former governor of Wisconsin, said it would be difficult for Mr. McCain to win in his state but not impossible, particularly if he campaigned in conservative Democratic parts of the state. Asked if he was happy with Mr. McCain’s campaign, Mr. Thompson replied, “No,” and he added, “I don’t know who is.”
Yes, the GOP rats are jumping off the McCain ship. Those same rats were all on the Bush ship that destroyed America.

This election is going to be a total repudiation of the Republican party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12strategy.html?hp=&pagewa...

I noticed this link off to the side and played it. Makes for a nice break on a Sunday morning.

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My opinion: People who are having "precognitive" disaster dreams are really just dreaming about the present.

that rant on the last hr about Malloy was great. I'm glad you said that.

breed to be the STUPIDEST breed of dog ever???

The Secret Service needs to shut this reckless bitch down now!!!

Who calls American Presidents "terrorists"? Al-Qaeda? Secessionists?

Who does she think she is??? Michelle Vick? She's a sorry excuse for a human.

She's gonna make William Ayers look like Mr. Rogers...

And please... can we know more about who this JOE VOGLER guy is????....... I heard she addressed his followers at a convention this year....

Is Palin only trying to call out Obama to hide her own ties to extremism?

Again. The Secret Service needs to shut Sarah Palin down now!!!

Free speech is only free when it doesn't incite violence.

I'm going to have the Oct 10, 2008 Mike Malloy Show bronzed!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention as I prolly would have missed that one.

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Nah, he didn't have to put on a suit, he was born a dickhead. ;-)

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No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin’s convention speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America (as opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his anti-Semitism, racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill F.D.R. at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago’s mayor instead in 1933, Pegler wrote that it was “regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong man.” In the ’60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: “Some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow falls.”

This is the writer who found his way into a speech by a potential vice president at a national political convention. It’s astonishing there’s been no demand for a public accounting from the McCain campaign. Imagine if Obama had quoted a Black Panther or Louis Farrakhan — or William Ayers — in Denver.

Palin has her own agenda. McCain can't even control her let alone his "base". Which isn't even HIS base. Many are backing him because of Palin now. All the crazies, the evangelical crazies he couldn't get before Palin.

The republican base is now breaking apart. The true conservatives are seeing this problem and breaking away from what they see as a dangerous situation.

The evangelicals have been trying to take over the repubs for years. This may cause a real skism. Time will tell.

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http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3933#comment-268342

McCain is using Palin as his 'ho'

Palin is playing McCain for a chump

Each has the same goal

Screw their running-mate

I'm not talking about sex

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Either way the poor/working/middleclass gets fucked.

Wow!

And a big shout out to all of the diligent bloggers who add links and sourcing to their posts so we can all see complete articles and contexts and spread the information.

I assume any post not so credited is probably manipulated and dishonestly clipped information.

Or maybe just lazy and inconsiderate.

There is a new thread, btw.

http://samsedershow.com/node/3933