if
2 + 2= 4
then what do we make of this:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God's judgment on America for "throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked."
plus this
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I am Only A Child
McChicken nuggets, TBHQ, thats really scary!
“Households are spending about $1,000 more per year for gasoline than they were just five years ago, an 85 percent increase” according to consumer groups’ analysis prepared for the House Judiciary Committee. “In the past five years the oil industry has picked consumers pockets for 200 billion in excess profits,” said the Consumer Federation of America.
LINK
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anne_mce_070510_the_mushroom_cloud_t.htm
By Anne McElroy Dachel
The Mushroom Cloud That Caused Autism
How do you inject a known neurotoxin into the world's children and sleep at night?
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http://www.rense.com/general76/chchem.htm
Government Study Ties Chemical Food Additives To Child Behavior Problems
Spread of Disease Tied to US Combat Deployments
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050807HB.shtml
A parasitic disease rarely seen in United States, but common in the Middle East, has infected an estimated 2,500 US troops in the last four years because of massive deployments to remote combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, military officials said.
huffpo, an easy target for scumbag trolls, has suspended comments on falwell's seizure and subsequent licking of the collection plate.
leaving the people who still have use of their brain to express their glee elsewhere.
pat robertson has wished death on supreme court justices, he still walks among us.
spread that hypocracy as thick as ya wanna, trolls.
http://infowars.net/articles/may2007/110507bees.htm
Organic Bees Are Thriving
While commercial bee populations are plummeting
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2542406.ece
Discrimination against girls 'still deeply entrenched'
By Terri Judd and Harriet Griffey
Published: 15 May 2007
Almost 100 million girls "disappear" each year, killed in the womb or as babies, a study has revealed.
The report, "Because I am a Girl", exposes the gender discrimination which remains deeply entrenched and widely tolerated across the world, including the fact that female foeticide is on the increase in countries where a male child remains more valued.
The report highlights the fact that two million girls a year still suffer genital mutilation, half a million die during pregnancy - the leading killer among 15 to 19-year-olds - every 12 months and an estimated 7.3 million are living with HIV/Aids compared with 4.5 million young men. Almost a million girls fall victim to child traffickers each year compared with a quarter that number of boys.
Of the 1.5 billion people living on less than 50p a day, 70 per cent are female, with 96 million young women aged 15 to 24 unable to read or write - almost double the number for males.
While many of the most shocking figures in the Plan International report relate to developing nations, sexual discrimination is still prevalent in the north.
In the UK, two women a week are killed by current or former partners. The country also has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe and having a baby at a young age means women are more likely to miss out on education and slip into poverty. There has also been a substantial rise in obesity in young girls in the UK.
While girls in Britain often outperform boys in school, they are still victims of discrimination in the workplace. The report points out that a recent study found they were still woefully underrepresented in the boardroom, in politics and the courts. While the pay gap between young men and women is 3.7 per cent, it rises to 10.7 per cent for those in their thirties.
Yeah scary, Toni, and also disgusting Typical that the government and corporations feel removed enough from the rest of humanity to try to poison us legally.
Groundwork Yonkers
Yonkers, NY $30,000
www.groundworkyonkers.org
This leading community environmental justice organization received a second-year program grant for the expansion of ComNet, a neighborhood effort by trained senior/youth teams utilizing advanced data collection and communication technology to pressure city government to respond to community environmental hazards. The 2006 grant supports an outreach worker to increase the program's connections with the city's Latino community. A second grant supports Groundwork's exciting new initiative to lead a broad-based community coalition which will coordinate efforts among Yonkers' nonprofits to craft an effective Community Benefits Agreement to ensure that extensive gentrification plans benefit all community stakeholders and that low-income voices are heard in the process.
TELL CONGRESS TO PASS FEINGOLD-REID, VOTE DOWN THE IRAQ SUPPLEMENTAL
You can call toll free at
800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or 800-614-2803
and ask for your own Senators.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.millionphonemarch.com/no_iraq_supplemental.php
92 percent: Proportion of the world’s opium that Afghanistan now produces. Bush administration officials acknowledge that until recently, “fighting drugs was considered a distraction from fighting terrorists.” The problem has become so severe that American officials now “hope that Afghanistan’s drug problem will someday be only as bad as that of Colombia.”
LINK
it IS CATO, but
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa592.pdf
it’s useful for people to know how interconnected state and corporations are - these are tax dollars remember
________________________
May 14, 2007
Policy Analysis no. 592
The Corporate Welfare State: How the Federal Government Subsidizes U.S.
Businesses
by Stephen Slivinski
Stephen Slivinski is director of budget studies at the Cato Institute
and author of Buck Wild: How the Republicans Broke the Bank and Became
the Party of Big Government (2006).
The federal government spent $92 billion in direct and indirect
subsidies to businesses and private-sector corporate entities --
expenditures commonly referred to as "corporate welfare" -- in fiscal
year 2006. The definition of business subsidies used in this report is
broader than that used by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of
Economic Analysis, which recently put the costs of direct business
subsidies at $57 billion in 2005. For the purposes of this study,
"corporate welfare" is defined as any federal spending program that
provides payments or unique benefits and advantages to specific
companies or industries.
butane-flavored dipping sauce can't B 2 far behind. and u thot obesity was the only prize in that thar happy meal!
“For the first time,” the Senate is expected to vote today on measure sponsored by Sen. John Warner (R-VA) “that would force President Bush to report to Congress how he intends to revise U.S. strategy if the Iraqi government fails to meet certain benchmarks.”
LINK
“Warm temperatures melted an area of western Antarctica that adds up to the size of California in January 2005, scientists report,” noting “clear signs that melting had occurred in multiple distinct regions, including far inland and at high latitudes and elevations, where melt had been considered unlikely.”
LINK
Judges Back Access to Evidence for Detainees
Two federal appeals court judges appeared to support giving detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, access to all the evidence against them when challenging their designation as enemy combatants.
The Bush administration proposes to limit detainees' lawyers to the evidence presented to the U.S. military tribunal that made the determination. That position drew intense questioning from Judges Douglas Ginsburg and Judith W. Rogers.
"Why shouldn't the court and the counsel see all of the evidence?" Rogers asked an administration lawyer. "Who knows what evidence was gathered?"
Ginsburg remarked: "I don't see how there can be any meaningful review if we don't know what we don't know."
Justice Department attorney Douglas Letter told the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that only a small amount of evidence would be withheld. "There isn't some massive body of information that the attorneys and this court is not going to see," he said.
LINK
STOCK MARKET WATCH, Wednesday May 16
Source: DU
Wednesday 16 May, 2007
COUNTING THE DAYS
DAYS REMAINING IN THE * REGIME 614 DAYS
DAYS SINCE DEMOCRACY DIED (12/12/00) 2327 DAYS
WHERE'S OSAMA BIN-LADEN? 2037 DAYS
DAYS SINCE ENRON COLLAPSE = 1997
Number of Enron Execs in handcuffs = 19
ENRON EXECS CONVICTED = 9
Other Arrests of Execs = 54
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AP: Children face exposure to pesticides By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Writer
Tue May 15, 9:05 PM ET
STRATHMORE, Calif. - On Grandparents Day, Domitila Lemus accompanied her 8-year-old granddaughter to school. As the girls lined up behind Sunnyside Union Elementary, a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves, witnesses say. Lemus started coughing, and two children collapsed in spasms, vomiting on the blacktop.
She and the little girls have since recovered without apparent lasting effects. But an Associated Press investigation has found that over the past decade, hundreds, possibly thousands, of schoolchildren in California and other agricultural states have been exposed to farm chemicals linked to sickness, brain damage and birth defects. The family of at least one California teenager suspects pesticides caused her death.
There are no federal laws specifically against spraying near schools, and advocates say California and the seven other states that have laws or policies creating buffer zones around schools to protect them from pesticides don't do enough to enforce them.
"The regulations are inadequate. In the vast majority of cases, people who didn't follow the laws received at best a $400 fine," said Margaret Reeves, a scientist with the Pesticide Action Network, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco.
The pesticide industry says it is committed to safety, and regulators say they are doing their best to enforce the laws.
In the Strathmore incident last November, grandparents said the spraying was being done less than 150 feet from the children. Tulare County authorities fined an unlicensed pest removal company $1,100 for spraying a restricted weed killer that morning. But no action was taken over what witnesses said happened to the children.
Because no one reported the incident as a case of pesticide drift, county agricultural inspectors never swabbed the jungle gym or took grass samples, making it impossible to establish whether pesticide had, in fact, drifted onto the playground.
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Edwards urges action against Iraq
during Memorial weekend
Democrat John Edwards' call for voters to speak out against the Iraq war on Memorial Day weekend has drawn criticism from a leader of the American Legion, who called the effort "revolting."
LINK
You've no doubt seen that the White House is now saying that "all options are on the table" with respect to Paul Wolfowitz's future as president of the World Bank. Rich with irony and just not a good sign for Paul considering that's the phrase this White House usually reserves for rogue states just before they get whacked.
-- Josh Marshall
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2007/05/news_talk_websi.html
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2007/05/news_talk_websi.html
News talk websites: why don't they get it?
Wow!
I really like the new blog.
Amazing what a popular talk show host can do with the internets!
Im impressed!
-conbo
Speaking of Funky Food:
Tainted-Feed Pigs Cleared (to be eaten by humans)
Source: Associated Press via New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 15 (AP)
Link
Why post that link, Anon? I don't get it.
Clearly the author is moron.
I particularly like the part were he said they Liberal station site left up the gasoline boycott day (May 15) promotion LONG after the day had past. And then he posted his report today (May 16)
Anonymous said...
Oh yeah! that is something else we have to look forward to!
Live National coverage of Falwell's funreal!
whooop whooop!
-conbo
May 16, 2007 1:21 AM
Not very Christian like for a Christian.
Are they going to bring in Alan Combs next? I'm fuming
May 16, 2007 9:52 AM
i don't bother with NY AAR at 9. i was listening to Stephanie Miller, but she's only good in small doses.
sometimes ya have to walk away from a car wreck. lionel can't be better than springer.
dumping sam was STOOOOOOOOOOOPID!
I am pretending the old blog is te new blog
:)
Anonymous said...
Oh yeah! that is something else we have to look forward to!
Live National coverage of Falwell's funreal!
whooop whooop!
-conbo
May 16, 2007 1:21 AM
Not very Christian like for a Christian.
May 16, 2007 10:14 AM
I am not looking forward to the live funeral and I most likely won't even watch it. That comment above was sarcastic. :)
-conbo
"Wanting to reform the world without
discovering one's true self is like
trying to cover the world with
leather to avoid the pain of walking
on stones and thorns. It is much
simpler to wear shoes."
I just love this new blog
It's cutting egde with brand new tubes that have been barely been used.
Plus it reminds me of the old one
It's great
-conbo
//Not very Christian like for a Christian.//
Would Jesus think A live Funeral on TV is a good idea?
Just the whole idea of live funerals are wrong and the antithesis of humble.
And Im not entirely sure that Jesus would go around blaming homosexuals for the world's problems. In short Falwell has nothing to do with my Christianity.
Stop making me try to defend my faith. No one makes you defend your
...you know that problem you have...yeah...THAT ONE
-conbo
George W. Bush eats Dick!
Pass it on!
First All Female Peacekeeping Police Force Arrives In Liberia
The United Nations first all-female peacekeeping force of more than 100 Indian policewomen arrived in Liberia Tuesday to assist with peace-building in the country.
The paramilitary policewomen will spend at least six months in Liberia which is emerging from a 14-year civil war that a UN report says claimed more than 250-thousand lives. The police commander at the UN Mission in Liberia Mohamed Alhassan describes the occasion as “very important ….as this is the first all-female force in the history of the United Nations,” adding that “they have come to contribute to the peace-building process in Liberia.”
He says the contingent will be deployed across the country where they will help in general security duties and work to prevent “gender violence and aggression against children.” The police commander says the presence of the Indian policewomen “is very significant in the sense that it will encourage Liberian women to join the newly UN formed police in Liberia.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/238/story/103379.html
White House open to idea of replacing Wolfowitz
http://media.star-telegram.com/smedia/2007/05/16/05/570-125828-98661.embedded.prod_affiliate.58.jpg
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/34009D36-F76B-4D7C-B960-954D2D2A1819.htm
The US president has selected a general as his "war tsar" to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The White House tried for weeks to fill the position and approached several candidates who reportedly turned it down, before Lieutenant-General Douglas Lute, the defence department's director of operations, agreed to take the job.
____________________
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, an advocacy group, issued a statement citing a remark General Lute made in an interview with the Financial Times in August 2005, in which he argued for significant troop reductions. "You simply have to back off and let the Iraqis step forward," the general said at the time. "You have to undercut the perception of occupation in Iraq."
A spokesman said General Lute was not available for comment on Tuesday evening. Mr. Hadley said the general had expressed his doubts, but that he now supports the strategy.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,483174,00.html
Today's Must Read
By Paul Kiel - May 16, 2007, 9:44 AM
It took little more than 12 hours after Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced that he will resign for Alberto "I accept responsibility" Gonzales to lay the U.S. attorney firings at his feet. As many have pointed out, Gonzales barely gave McNulty any time to turn around before he stabbed him in the back.
Actually, it was a clever double stab by Gonzales -- his resigned chief of staff Kyle Sampson (who's been stabbed before) collected the recommendations and it was McNulty's job to vet those recommendations. What's left for an attorney general to do?
But there is an important point to be made here. Everything that Gonzales said about the duties of the deputy attorney general is true. For instance:
The Deputy Attorney General has a unique position at the DOJ. Most of the operational authority and decisions are made by the Deputy Attorney General. He is the chief operating officer — that’s the way I’ve structured the Department. And so he occupies a very central place in the work of the Department....
Mr. Sampson provided the recommendations. The one person I would care about would be the views of the Deputy Attorney General because the Deputy Attorney General as a direct supervisor of the United States Attorneys...
Gonzales' appalling dereliction of duty has tended to obscure McNulty's appalling dereliction of duty. It shouldn't. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Here, for instance, is how McNulty's predecessor, James Comey, described the duties of the deputy attorney general:
"I was the direct supervisor of all the U.S. attorneys, and so dealt with them quite frequently on a variety of matters: resolving disputes, talking with them about resources, trying to support them in any way that I could."
"Trying to support them in any way that I could."
By contrast, we have a deputy attorney general who allowed himself to be steamrolled by his inferiors to fire eight U.S. attorneys for, in most cases, no apparent reason. And then after that was done, he helped smear their reputations in order to cover for the Department and the administration.
You need look no further than the case of U.S. Attorney for Nevada Daniel Bogden as a vivid example of this.
Here's McNulty meekly writing to Sampson two days before the firings that he was "a little skittish about [firing] Bogden... I'll admit I haven't looked at his district's performance." Later, he would tell congressional investigators that "he had hoped for some explanation for Bogden's inclusion on the list because he saw no apparent reason to fire him." Nevertheless, he testified to Congress that Bogden had been fired for "performance" reasons. He now says that he regrets the firing.
Maybe this was Gonzales' strategy -- to surround himself with such an eminently blameworthy staff?
LINK
Stop making me try to defend my faith. No one makes you defend your
...you know that problem you have...yeah...THAT ONE
-conbo
May 16, 2007 10:28 AM
what problem? Name it.
Faith is faith and the faithful always think their right. The faithful wish the rest of us to hell.
I wonder if George ever tasted Wolfowitz's comb?
Senate voted on the Iraq money and it has been rejected again. Re MSNBC
Stop making me try to defend my faith. No one makes you defend your
...you know that problem you have...yeah...THAT ONE
-conbo
May 16, 2007 10:28 AM
what problem? Name it.
Faith is faith and the faithful always think their right. The faithful wish the rest of us to hell.
I am hardly ever right, and I admit all the time.
:)
I don't spend my days thinking about who is going to hell either.
I don't think Im better
I don't think Christianity is better than other religions that seek God
I don't want to talk about this because I understand that people don't like Christians, but if you notice I never bring it up, someone else does usually
-conbo
but you will dance the jig when someone of your faith dies.
Support The Troops,End The War.
A John Edwards supported web-site.
Some good things on it.
Link
Jerry Falwell inspired millions of evangelical Christians to get active in mainstream politics for the first time—forever changing the way religious conservatives engage democracy.
//but you will dance the jig when someone of your faith dies. //
Well, death means they are going to heaven right? Im just celebrating the crossing over into Eternal Life.
All's Well that Ends Well
-conbo
Anonymous said...
but you will dance the jig when someone of your faith dies.
May 16, 2007 11:15 AM
Anon, enough. This is rediculous!!
It's none of your business about anyone's faith.
I'm happy Falwell met his fate also. He had a wierd way of looking at Christianity. If a jig will help, I will try to do one also.
Lay off!!
cure 4 cancer?
someone page tony snow!
http://hinessight.com/cancercure.html
No you're not.
God knows you're lying.
So much for faith.
Good Morning, Blog! :)
*
Dallas woman on life support gives birth to daughter
- A pregnant Dallas high school teacher who was kept on life support after suffering an aneurysm so she could give birth has died following the delivery of her daughter.
Stacy Rojas suffered an aneurysm over Easter weekend. She was a little more than 29 weeks' pregnant when Zoe Sofia Rojas was delivered by Caesarean section on Friday.
Stacy Rojas, who was brain dead but kept alive at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas so her child could grow closer to full term, died on Sunday.
Rojas' husband, Marcus, said yesterday that Zoe was delivered more than two months early because his wife had developed pneumonia. Zoe weighed three pounds, three ounces.
Photo of Dad & baby Zoe
the best comment on Flawell so far:
Crank Bait said…
Peter: “Next!”
Jerry: “Praise Jesus! I have entered the Kingdom of God!”
Peter: “Hold your horses there cowboy. The Kingdom is behind me.”
Jerry: “I have preached the Word of God all of my life! Surely you know me?”
Peter: “It says here that you are #44759395016. And don’t call me Shirley.”
Jerry: “I have a number? I am Jerry!”
Peter: “So is Mr. Lewis. Jerry’s are a dime a dozen.”
Jerry: “Jerry Lewis is here?”
Peter: “No, but we have more spastic Frenchmen than you can shake a stick at.”
Jerry: “So when do I get in?”
Peter: “First things first. You’ll have to answer a few questions. What do you think of Broadway musicals?”
Jerry: “Full of fags.”
Peter: “I see. How about AIDS?”
Jerry: “God’s wrath on homos.”
Peter: “You don’t really want in, do you?”
Jerry: “Of course I do. Ask me another.”
Peter: “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
Jerry: “That sounds like a stupid question from Barbara Walters.”
Peter: “Barbara Walters is God.”
Jerry: “WHAT?”
Peter: “She’s God. Always was and always will be.”
Jerry: “Who is Jesus?”
Peter: “A pitcher for the Padres.”
Jerry: “What about the Holy Spirit?”
Peter: “We made him up. We needed a third leg for the ecumenical stool.”
Jerry: “Do I get in now?”
Peter: “Sure you do. Barbara is a forgiving God, er, God-ette. Check-in time is 12 noon. Here is the name of your roomie.”
Jerry: “Hunter Thompson?”
Peter: “You’ll like him. He’s a trip.”
Falwell managed to mass produce Christian Churches
Amazing
He should be given Kudos for that
-conbo
y'all gotta go to the hinessight.com homepage for a picture of Falwell in a suit on a waterslide.
fynny shit.
the article t'ain't bad neither...
STUDY: Feds Prosecuted Only 38 Cases Of Voter Fraud Between 2002-05, 14 Were Thrown Out
In today’s Washington Post, columnist Harold Meyerson highlights a little-noted study on the politics of voting fraud published in March by Lorraine Minnite, a political science professor at Columbia University, for a group called Project Vote. The study “makes unmistakably clear” that “the government’s failure to prosecute or convict more than a handful of people for voter fraud isn’t for lack of trying.”
Since 2002, the Justice Department’s Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative has, as Gonzales put it, “made enforcement of election fraud and corruption offenses a top priority.” And yet between October 2002 and September 2005, just 38 cases were brought nationally, and of those, 14 ended in dismissals or acquittals, 11 in guilty pleas, and 13 in convictions. Though a Justice Department manual on election crime states that these cases “may present an easier means of obtaining convictions than do other forms of public corruption,” federal attorneys have failed to rack up those convictions, for the simple reason that incidents of fraud have been few and far between.
As the Republican Myth has it, nothing is more fraught with fraud than voter-registration campaigns waged in working-class and poor neighborhoods that are largely black or Hispanic. According to the 2004 Census, 15 percent of blacks and Hispanics were registered during such campaigns; the figure for whites is just 9 percent. But of those 38 prosecutions that the Justice Department brought between 2002 and 2005, a grand total of two were for fabricating or falsifying voter registration applications. This qualifies as one of our smaller crime waves.
LINK
Jerry: “Hunter Thompson?”
Peter: “You’ll like him. He’s a trip.”
May 16, 2007 11:21 AM
and he'll throw down if ya don't keep the drugs comin'
Other amazing things Falwell helped accomplish:
The Destruction of our Country
The guy was an entrepenour
-conbo
hello 2 all ma blogchicas!
ola bibi!
-conbo
Chuck Hagel is calling for the resignation of Gonzales!! Re MSNBC
no better than any right wingers.
Justify it any way you like.
This blog as always been about double standards.
//No you're not.
God knows you're lying.
So much for faith. //
Is that you, God?
All powerful, all seeing Being?
Why are you trolling the blog?
-conbo
//This blog as always been about double standards.//
May 16, 2007 11:28 AM
Has this blog ever been about Anything In Particular? Really, lets not get silly.
-conbo
hey, mi conbola.
seems u made a friend!
a double standard? fraid not. you have us confused with the freepers (yech).
I'm winning over hearts and minds, Bibi
-conbo
'Conbola'... hee hee... :)
Bolas (from Spanish bola, "ball", also known as boleadoras) are a throwing weapon similar to the surujin made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, designed to capture animals by entangling their legs. They are most famously used by the South American gauchos, but have been found in excavations of pre-Hispanic settlements, especially in Patagonia, where indigenous peoples used them to catch guanaco and ñandu.
* Sonnet LXXXI *
And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.
The night turns on its invisible wheels,
and you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber.
No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
we will go together, over the waters of time.
No one else will travel through the shadows with me,
only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.
Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
and let their soft drifting signs drop away; your eyes closed like two gray
wings, and I move
after, following the folding water you carry, that carries
me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.
* Pablo Neruda *
I hope to Holy Jesus H. Christ On A Stick that they have driven a wooden
stake through Falwell's chest by now!
Can't be too sure, ya know?
si, me alicia!
nice day?
By ANNE FLAHERTY
(AP) Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008.
The vote was a loss for Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., and other Democrats who want to end the war. But the effort picked up support from members, including presidential hopefuls previously reluctant to limit war funding - an indication of the conflict's unpopularity among voters.
The proposal lost 29-67 on a procedural vote, falling 31 votes short of the necessary votes to advance. Of the 67 senators who opposed Feingold's proposal, there were 19 Democrats, 47 Republicans and Connecticut Independent Joseph Lieberman. Of the 29 supporting, 28 were Democrats and Vermont Independent Bernard Sanders.
Sorry bibi, Had a phone call.
Hola my amigas y amigos!!
ViewsAmerica -Bushy.
Cartoon
Why are you trolling the blog?
cuz...
PROS AND CONS OF THE TOP 20 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
BY JOHN MOE
16.
JESUS CHRIST
Pro: Could draw some initial interest from the Christian right until they research his actual positions in a deeper way; likable; strong leadership qualities.
Con: Unkempt; pretty far left; messianic complex.
Linky
Morning everyone. :)
Morning GBC!!
toniD said...
Sorry bibi, Had a phone call.
toni;
human contact!
i'm trying to get a dr's ofc 2 call me back.
Comey’s Revelations Suggest Either Gonzales Is Lying Or More Spying Programs Exist
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faces new legal problems after yesterday’s testimony of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey.
In a 2006 hearing, when Sen. Chuck Schumer asked him about Comey’s objections to the NSA wiretapping program, Gonzales denied there was any “serious disagreement about the program“:
GONZALES: Senator, here is a response that I feel that I can give with respect to recent speculation or stories about disagreements. There has not been any serious disagreement, including — and I think this is accurate — there has not been any serious disagreement about the program that the president has confirmed. There have been disagreements about other matters regarding operations, which I cannot get into. I will also say –
SCHUMER: But there was some — I am sorry to cut you off, but there was some dissent within the administration, and Jim Comey did express at some point — that is all I asked you — some reservations.
GONZALES: The point I want to make is that, to my knowledge, none of the reservations dealt with the program that we are talking about today.
Gonzales’ answer suggests two possibilities.
1) Comey’s objections apply to the NSA warrantless wiretapping program that Gonzales was discussing. If so, then Gonzales quite likely made serious mis-statements under oath. And Gonzales was deeply and personally involved in the meeting at Ashcroft’s hospital bed, so he won’t be able to claim “I forgot.”
2) Perhaps Comey’s objections applied to a different domestic spying program. That has a big advantage for Gonzales — he wasn’t lying under oath. But then we would have senior Justice officials confirming that other “programs” exist for domestic spying, something the Administration has never previously stated.
During an interview I gave to PBS’s Frontline for a new documentary entitled Spying On the Home Front, I said, “there could be lots of room after you read [Gonzales’] testimony for other programs to be doing really unprecedented things.” Watch it:
You can watch the entire Frontline documentary here.
– Peter Swire
LINK
hi GBC
-conbo
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008.
TIME TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT, DEMS & REPUBS...CLEAN HOUSE '08
American leaders across the political spectrum are eulogizing the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, albeit with some criticism of his tendency to lash out at his adversaries.
But lost in this desire not to speak ill of the dead is the troubling story of Falwell's secret financial dealings with South Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon and how Moon's mysterious money bailed out Falwell's Liberty University.
For the full story of Falwell's Faustian bargain, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com
Dick Cheney Dubbed Lord Of The Lies
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 by RLR
From The Niagara Falls Reporter
By Bill Gallagher
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Bibi,
You could be waiting all day for a doctor's office to call you back. Mine calls back after hours!!
Here's that photo of Falwell on the Water Slide: LINK
And the wording that went with the photo:
Hatemonger Falwell back to where he belongs
"While he won't go down in history as the man who destroyed the concept of loving one another or peace on earth goodwill to men, he will be noted for this brief time in history as being one of the tools used by freedom hating, war loving, media manipulating, stupid white men."
PHOTO: Direct route to hell for Falwell
Sure, just what the left and middle want to hear...
GOP candidates fight over
who is the most conservative
Under pressure from their rivals, the leading Republican presidential contenders defended their conservative credentials on abortion, gun control and tax cuts in a feisty debate Tuesday night.
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bibimimi troll'p said...
May 16, 2007 11:55 AM
I'm listening to Vivaldi's Winter.... & it's Spring... :) Yes...nice day....
I just shipped out my first books for bookmooch.com...So I basically spent 18 dollars & I'm going to receive 12 book for that...I think that's fair...
Romney aide
killed in Iraq
The war in Iraq hit home for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a former aide who also was a son of a war critic was killed while serving in Iraq.
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Ha...! Someone actually wants my copy of Bush On The Couch...that could be a good sign... :)
Opinion > op/ed
Single women a sleeping giant for Democratic Party.
Thomas F. Schaller
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Nerina Pallot - Everybody's Gone to War
Beautiful day here today. Sunny and in the 60's. The ducks, geese and a brown egret are all out in the pond.
So peaceful and yet I think of the horrible lives of the Iraqis, Afghans, and now the battle going on in Gaza.
Deadly gunbattles rage in Gaza as Israel strikes by Adel Zaanoun
2 hours, 19 minutes ago
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Fourteen Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Wednesday as raging gunbattles between rival factions kept terrified residents indoors and threatened to plunge the Palestinians into a new political crisis.
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Bush’s worldwide woes
The rapidly declining power at home of the most unpopular, least respected president since Richard Nixon is encouraging multiple challenges to US authority and interests around the world.
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Bible drawn into Hong Kong sex publication row
More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as "indecent" due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal.
A spokesperson for Hong Kong's Television and Entertainment Licensing authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible by noon on Wednesday.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE): “America is a nation of laws. In the interest of the American people, Alberto Gonzales should resign now.“
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Feingold responds to today’s Iraq Vote. » “Today the Senate took another step toward acknowledging the will of the American people, who want to end this misguided mission in Iraq.” Read the full statement:
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Bush Personally Intervened To Arrange Ashcroft Hospital Visit And Kneecap Comey
During his testimony yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey noted that John Ashcroft’s wife “had banned all visitors and all phone calls” to the hospital due to Ashcroft’s poor condition. So how were Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card able to make it into Ashcroft’s room to pressure him to overrule Comey and reauthorize the warrantless spying program?
Comey explained yesterday:
COMEY: Mrs. Ashcroft reported that a call had come through, and that as a result of that call Mr. Card and Mr. Gonzales were on their way to the hospital to see Mr. Ashcroft.
SCHUMER: Do you have any idea who that call was from?
COMEY: I have some recollection that the call was from the president himself.
Comey’s statements show that President Bush was directly involved in the effort to override the administration’s own lawyers and reauthorize the warrantless spying program despite an “extensive review” by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel stating “that the program did not comply with the law.”
This hardly comes as a surprise. As Newsweek reported in January 2006, Bush was “miffed” at Comey for not being a “team player” on the spying issue.
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Corruption musical chairs. Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), who is under suspicion for his ties to Jack Abramoff, “said today he would take over as GOP leader on the space subcommittee, part of the overall House science committee,” replacing Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), who left his leadership post to fill a vacant seat on the appropriations committee. The appropriations seat opened up after Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), stepped down from the committee “following an FBI raid on his Virginia home in connection to the Abramoff corruption scandal.”
Musical Chairs of the corrupt! All three under invetigation.
Wolfowitz to resign this afternoon? “World Bank officials say the bank’s board is completing an ‘exit strategy’ that will allow World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to resign this afternoon and ’still save some face’ over the issue of his efforts to seek a promotion and pay raise for his girlfriend at the bank.”
The officials say the bank’s board will accept Wolfowitz’s resignation but will also acknowledge that the World Bank’s Ethics Committee bears “some responsibility” for giving him bad advice on the issue of his girlfriend.
The decision is likely today, officials say, because Wolfowitz had been scheduled to leave tonight for a European trip.
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Do we fully understand what this means?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/16/115444/263
The news reported Falwell was found in his office at 10:45 yesterday morning "unconscious and without a pulse."
And he DIED...??
He's been unconscionable and without a heart for years and years--that never stopped him!
(Me thinks foul play...)
toniD said...
Wolfowitz to resign this afternoon?
Liked your Josh Marshall quote about it (9:57 AM), Toni.
Plugola:
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Free Democracy
G'day!
Yes Satan is dead! hee hee hee! What a crazy man Falwell was, what a legacy! He helped to make the christian right a powerful political force. wonderful... I can't 'believe' all of the damage that man has done alone! Why do these crazy fundamentalists want to wreck this country so much? They are warped mo fos. and I MISS SAMMY!!!!!!!! This LIONEL guy SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! He's so goddamn annoying. Rayburn is better than LIONEL. But SAM IS THE BEST! I can't wait to hear Sammy AGAIN! Eventhough it'll only be once a week it's better than nothing. The Greeens betted on the wrong horse... I hope Sammy could return to Radio 5 days a week! Air America or elsewhere...
Televangelist Jerry Falwell Dead
Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell died yesterday after being found unconscious in his office.
What do you think?
Cathy Breger, Systems Analyst
"It'll be interesting to see how Jerry Falwell is able to blame the ACLU for this."
Ron Boyd, Veterinarian
"Does this mean my Liberty University online class is cancelled today?"
Carl Furman, Phlebotomist
"He was committed to preaching God's Word and for that he's earned his reward in heaven…unless, of course, he was completely wrong about everything."
hit and run morfternoon.
car resto bud needs some paint help.
i’ll be doing that during the day for a while.
Car bomb near market kills 32 in Iraq
By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer, 32 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near a market in a Shiite enclave northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and wounding 50, police said Wednesday. Hospital officials and victims said chlorine gas may have been used in the attack, but police and the U.S. military denied that.
Clashes also broke out in the mostly Shiite city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, when militants fought with police who had arrested two wanted militia members, police said. Nine Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded, police said.
In Baghdad, at least nine mortar rounds or rockets slammed into the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, killing two Iraqis and wounding 10 people — none of them Americans, U.S. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor said. It was the second such attack in as many days.
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Starving the poor, By Noam Chomsky, 5/16
The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things. Recently, in many regions of Mexico, tortilla prices jumped by more than 50 per cent.
In January, in Mexico City, tens of thousands of workers and farmers rallied in the Zocalo, the city’s central square, to protest the skyrocketing cost of tortillas.
In response, the government of President Felipe Calderon cut a deal with Mexican producers and retailers to limit the price of tortillas and corn flour, very likely a temporary expedient.
In part the price-hike threat to the food staple for Mexican workers and the poor is what we might call the ethanol effect — a consequence of the US stampede to corn-based ethanol as an energy substitute for oil, whose major wellsprings, of course, are in regions that even more grievously defy international order.
In the United States, too, the ethanol effect has raised food prices over a broad range, including other crops, livestock and poultry.
The connection between instability in the Middle East and the cost of feeding a family in the Americas isn’t direct, of course. But as with all international trade, power tilts the balance. A leading goal of US foreign policy has long been to create a global order in which US corporations have free access to markets, resources and investment opportunities. The objective is commonly called “free trade,” a posture that collapses quickly on examination.
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/16/1217/
Give ‘Em Hell, Mr. Terkel
by Amy Goodman
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isn't it kind of like ?
what I really want to know is what you think : )
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/world/middleeast/16cnd-gaza.html?ex=1336968000&en=27d08b623ca38e6d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Fatah Official’s Home Stormed in Gaza Clashes
This whole thing that Comey testified to yesterday may be the reason that Ashcroft decided to resign as attorney general.
What bothers me is why, knowing this, tha people involved did not speak up sooner!
A newer thread is up.
who's taking falwell's place atop his empire?
new thread
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