PEACE. Why is such a simple and benevolent concept constantly ridiculed by the Republic politicians?

A little old, but Katrina victims are actually forced to pay back the feds.

WASHINGTON - Congress members have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group.

[Yahoo News]

miss_kitty Hussein @ 5:

shit. I'm older than the peace sign.

Me too.

Former Governor
Former Harvard visiting professor
Current author
Former tough-guy character actor "I ain't got time to bleed"
Perpetual biker
Former US Navy Seal - secret ops, explosives experience
Vietnam Veteran
former Wrestling superstar (when it was good)

Jesse Ventura claims that something the government told us about isn't up to snuff.

His press release:

woodguy @ 2:

PEACE. Why is such a simple and benevolent concept constantly ridiculed by the Republic politicians?

There's no money in peace.

The Case for a New Progressive Creed
Saving the American Left

Paul in Boca @ 7:

OK, open thread on peace. I'll twist it to piece. What's the best piece you have ever had? Mine was with Shari and Susan, the Hotel St. Michel, Coral Gables, FL, 1996....and yours???

After this past Saturday night, only a fool would go there.
At least don't go there here. Right, site monitor?
[Depends on if you want to get banned.Site Monitor.]

Bob Roberts @ 17:

ciu @ 13:

I am not a clinton supporter. However, I have found it astonishing how rabidly the left has turned against the clintons. only a year or so ago we were holding them up as the 'golden age' of liberal leadership in govt. Now they have been so demonized that people feel justified in bandying about words like "whore" and "racists" and demanding chelsea answer questions about her father's sexual trist with monica lewinsky. Does anyone else find this ironic?

It really undermines my faith in the left to rise above the manipulation and mob mentality we so recently saw under rove and the right wing coo-coos.... seems we are not immuned :-(

Of course not. The "left" is just the flip side of the "right". Neither side occupies the moral high ground.

Wait just a moment. I feel that we represent the left progressives and I occupy a high ground.

woodguy @ 2:

PEACE. Why is such a simple and benevolent concept constantly ridiculed by the Republic politicians?

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

randi rhodes called ferraro and clinton whores...good

bush should be in prison

obama is the best we have?

feingold where are you?

Individual bankruptcy filings up 27% [CNN Money]

Bob Roberts @ 17:

ciu @ 13:

I am not a clinton supporter. However, I have found it astonishing how rabidly the left has turned against the clintons. only a year or so ago we were holding them up as the 'golden age' of liberal leadership in govt. Now they have been so demonized that people feel justified in bandying about words like "whore" and "racists" and demanding chelsea answer questions about her father's sexual trist with monica lewinsky. Does anyone else find this ironic?

It really undermines my faith in the left to rise above the manipulation and mob mentality we so recently saw under rove and the right wing coo-coos.... seems we are not immuned :-(

Of course not. The "left" is just the flip side of the "right". Neither side occupies the moral high ground.

Well i for one believe that politics should be more than a football game of "my team against your." I don't support the progressive agenda simply because it is NOT the conservative agenda. I support a progressive agenda because it promotes deliberative democracy, equality and hopefully some measure of social justice. Those are values that should not only be reflected in our policy objectives, but in our processes for getting to those objectives. I am disgusted by the base instincts that have come out in this primary.

Ron @ 24:

Orangutan. @ 23:

Individual bankruptcy filings up 27% [CNN Money]

Worse, I may be next.

I already did (medical bnky). I filed right before the new law went into effect. tried to ride it out, but my atty advised against it.

the best peace i ever had! id say it was the night of november the 28th 1955, i had just been discharged from the navy and boarded a train bound for home and knew id never have to ever go back on that floating prison called a destroyer , i was never happyer im my life , little did i know that even up to today id have nightmares about being back on that ship , but somehow id wake myself up from my sleep and the world was allright again! it was only a bad dream, i guess thierl be lots of these new guys from iraq who will dream about the bad old days too, night all !

tyree @ 30:
tyree, thanks for telling us that story.

good night!

Apparently the actual date was weeks ago, but thanks for posting this - it's great... a great reminder of what spawned the symbol...

*Activist and artist Gerald Holtom came up with the design on February 21, 1958

Wikipedia's got it... April 4 was the date of the rally, it's 'outing' - Feb 21 was apparently the date of the design.

Holtom was a World War II conscientious objector[1], who on 21 February 1958 designed the Nuclear Disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, Easter 1958 (4-7 April). The logo was not copyrighted, and was available for use by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also founded in 1958; it later became known in the wider world as a general-purpose peace symbol.[2][3] The design was a combination of letters of the flag semaphore alphabet for "N" and "D", standing for nuclear disarmament.

what's going to happen with the new torture memo?

Nobody really cares. People who think
Bush/Cheney will be impeached are out-of-touch. By impeaching
Clinton, the GOP effectively removed that option as a viable political
tool for at least a generation. The reasons to impeach
GeorgeFuckingBush are far too many to mention or list; but the
Conservatives have turned fear into a shield of impenetrability ever
since 9/11. Besides, McCain has already been elected; we're only one
terrorist attack away from his coronation. The only thing that will
wake up enough Americans to actually confront the government is a
forced military draft. For chrissakes; millions are without health
care, tens of thousands are losing their homes, diesel is at $4.00
per, corn closed (just today) at $6.00 a bushel - and still the
hapless, pathetic, gutless Democrats sputter on in Congress, and the
Conservatives get a free ride.

Ron @ 39:

There might be a revolution, but I'm to old to parcipate.

Participate.

Roket @ 41:

Oooo. This is interesting. They’re going to play whack-a-mole with Mitt Romney’s great-great-grandfathers remains. They want to move his body to Salt Lake City and since they’re not sure where he’s buried, I guess they’ll have to keep digging until they find someone who looks like him. (?) The article doesn’t say which one of Parley Parker Pratt’s twelve wives is the Mittster’s great-great-grandmother. Mormon’s, geesh.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23945756

Talk about digging up the past, we should be doing more of that.

republicanSScareme @ 43:

Ron @ 39:

There might be a revolution, but I'm to old to parcipate.

No one is too old to participate. Take a stand. At least let the thugs know that you don't like want they're doing.

Peace.

I mean physically.

I tried to get you all to talk about the torture memos last night. Isn't anyone disgusted. The torture authorization went to the highest levels, George Bush and Dick Cheney.

For anyone who would like to hear about how this country is turning fascist, listen to the following exchange between Ron Paul and Federal Reserve chief Ben Berbanke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJP5dmIQs7c&feature=related

He asks the Fed chief pointed questions about how business and government are more and more teaming up. It's a good video for learning about the business cycle as well.

anyone with the ability to move out of this country
should as soon as possible. we have seen the last
of democracy here......fascism has taken over.
the USA is passe. the people are effectively
dumbed down and willing morons to their own demise.

so if you have somewhere else to go, it's a good time to go.

dadams @ 50:

anyone with the ability to move out of this country
should as soon as possible. we have seen the last
of democracy here......fascism has taken over.
the USA is passe. the people are effectively
dumbed down and willing morons to their own demise.

so if you have somewhere else to go, it's a good time to go.

So we move somewhere else. The right wing will just say that country is part of the axis of evil. We have to fix it here.

Ron @ 52:

dadams @ 50:

anyone with the ability to move out of this country
should as soon as possible. we have seen the last
of democracy here......fascism has taken over.
the USA is passe. the people are effectively
dumbed down and willing morons to their own demise.

so if you have somewhere else to go, it's a good time to go.

So we move somewhere else. The right wing will just say that country is part of the axis of evil. We have to fix it here.

i'm surprised they have not called parts of this country in the axis of evil.

Good night all.

Look at the electorial map. Obama cannot win. He will not win as many states as Kerry did. If you want a Democrat in the white house you better get behind Hillary. She is not likable but she is competent. Obama loses by default.

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Don't you just love the thought that Al Qaeda and the U.S. always seem to have the same targets in mind? Isn't it odd that they almost appear to be working together? Funny how the right wingers never seem to pick up on that. Even if that is not the case and Al Qaeda is what the Bush regime claims then the only other logical conclusion to made is that Al Qaeda is an instigator and the U.S. is its patsy used by Al Qaeda to eliminate its enemies:

Al Qaeda #2: We'll Attack Iran

"Recently, Senator John McCain has repeatedly indicated that Iran and al-Qaeda are in cahoots. The terror group's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would beg to differ. In a long-promised online Q&A session, Zawahiri says it would be "in the interest" of Al-Qaeda to see Iran "sap[ped]" by a fight with the United States."

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/al-qaeda-2-well.html

Well we found out today we will have to keep a pretty close eye on Dad’s meds in the White House.
During the morning pandemonium getting him ready he sent me to get some meds he takes as required. From the dining room I thought I heard him yelling two blue. Turns out his demi-grapefriut squirted him in the eye eliciting a couple of hearty, Fuck yous. Oh well, shit happens.
Still undecided on the Ferrari red or the Fire engine red slingbacks you can understand how two blue pills got into his med cup. Right after breakfast he swung by to pick up uncle Joe and they rode together in the back of the limo for an hour and a half across three counties. I met them at the function and as the limo pulled up Dad leaped out of the back smiling broadly and announced “today I have selected a running mate.” Uncle Joe opened the door on the other side and sprinted down the street.
More later.

You can't tell me that a Congress person's stock portfolio doesn't have some bearing on how they vote on any given issue.  Take for example Rep. Blunt's laughable response to say that it does is simply "offensive".  Now tell me, who in their right mind is going to buy a large position in a company's stock only to vote against that company's interests later on?  It makes no sense unless your goal is to see your own stock portfolio decrease in value.
 
This isn't just about members of Congress either.  Cheney's Halliburton and Rumsfeld's Gilead Sciences all gained due issues that related to those companies.  Funny, Gilead Sciences, one of the makers of Tamiflu was all the rage when the bird flu was all over the news.  Now that Rumsfeld is gone, we don't hear a peep about the bird flu.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.
 
 
 
 
New study shows US lawmakers have as much as $196 million invested in defense companies

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/03/america/NA-GEN-US-Congress-Def...

Paul in Boca @ 7:

OK, open thread on peace. I'll twist it to piece. What's the best piece you have ever had? Mine was with Shari and Susan, the Hotel St. Michel, Coral Gables, FL, 1996....and yours???

How much did you tip them?

Joe O. @ 63:

DC @ 61:

I cannot get this McCain guy's stand on issues together. Now McCain says he is pro abortion and the heck with the religious right in the GOP. Huh? Who can trust what McCain stands for?

McCain just flip-flops and slides around. Who knows?

That is McCain's big problem. He simply can not be consistent and come clean about exactly where he stands on the issues that matter to social conservatives (I.E. Evangelicals).  Now, we see that he can not even bring himself to come out openly about his faith.  His reluctance to do this may come to bit him in the ass later on down the road.  The social conservatives were burned bad by the Bush regime and they seem to be seeing the same thing happening to them with McCain. 
 

 
McCain shies away from religion talk

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9361.html

Wow! Just like McCain. Flip -flop, Flip - Flop.

Now he will not release his medical records.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15098.html

What is McCain hiding from the public? Is he that sick?

also looks like the silhouette of a B52

Jesse recalls a post-inaugural meeting with CIA agents. As Ventura told Alex Jones, he was less than cooperative with the CIA because the agents, 23 in all gathered at the Minnesota capitol, would not reveal their names, not even their code names. As Tim Pugmire wrote on the Minnesota Public Radio website last January, “CIA Spokesman George Little confirmed the event … in a written statement, but he offered few details.” Little said that “on occasion CIA officers meet with senior state government officials, as they did in this case, to discuss issues of mutual interest.”

off the record meetings like this esp when its a show of force by a large anon group of twenty three agents is worrying.
This looks more like soviet style commissars and henchmen going to intimidate elected and public officials.
And how could you trust them to be who they actually are unless they document their IDs with proof,
they could be the local mafia or pranksters pretending to be TLAs.
If an event like this is official and part of new Governor initiation into the job, then proper procedures and confidential atmosphere would be expected by all, so doing the anon bit is pointless, theres nothing stopping TLAs sending along a small team of known DC names to brief on security, people who dont need to hide their identitys.

An Average Joe @ 66:

Paul in Boca @ 7:

OK, open thread on peace. I'll twist it to piece. What's the best piece you have ever had? Mine was with Shari and Susan, the Hotel St. Michel, Coral Gables, FL, 1996....and yours???

How much did you tip them?

AJ,
Made me chuckle.
Nothing.

It is actually the Rune for WAR and Death.. not PEACE...

Look at the last 50 years that the symbol has been used...

They have been no where near peaceful....quite the opposite..

Time to turn the symbol upside down.. So its Arms are raised up to the sky..

Then we will see different results...

But as long as people keep walking through this reality the same way we have been... nothing is going to change.

So what is the next oath breaking fascist invented, created, and controlled, white noise to cover worse crimes, truth mixed with lies, fear based, fake religion based, specifically timed and court delayed, sexually related, gay bashing, race hating, constitution destroying reality news story going to be from the WH/Pentagon?

more fires, earthquakes, the FAA and the airlines, Cold War II with Russia, electrical blackout? Anyone?

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 80:
As for the peace symbol, it's a combination of the two letters "ND" in semaphore. If you turn it upside down, I'm who knows what two words it will stand for.

"ND" meaning nuclear disarmament.

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 72:

Last month it was reported that the US lost 63k jobs in Feb. Today's NFP numbers are coming out @ 8:30 EST, and analysts are expecting the report to say that 50k more jobs were lost in Mar.

But hey, according to Bush, the economy is just dandy.

...aaaaand worse than expected:

80k jobs lost, unemployment @ 5.1%

I have a religious question

Before our Glorious Resurrection

Do maggots, and other vermin

Have to do some serious ralphing first?

And did Ritchie Cunningham's friend Ralph Malph

Find himself throwing up in his mouth much?

diamondmc @ 78:

Truth B Told @ 11:

Truth B Told @ 10:

Former Governor
Former Harvard visiting professor
Current author
Former tough-guy character actor "I ain't got time to bleed"
Perpetual biker
Former US Navy Seal - secret ops, explosives experience
Vietnam Veteran
former Wrestling superstar (when it was good)

Jesse Ventura claims that something the government told us about isn't up to snuff.

His press release:

http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2008-04-0403-004.shtml

Being from Minnesota, you had to bring up that mistake we made. Jesse left out one bit of his bio. Jesse was sargent of arms for the Mongols Motorcycle Club, the same club that had the shoot out with the Hells Angels in Nev. The Mongols are a 1% outlaw mc club. With that in his bio, he would have been perfect for a bush appointment.

As a fellow MN resident, its a hard choice, Jesse or Gov. Tim (wanna buy a bridge, quick before it falls down) Pawlenty,
that I35W bridge was known dangerous for 4 years, coincidentally the start of TP's reign.
How many bridges collapsed here in MN under JV's reign ?

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 83:

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 72:

Last month it was reported that the US lost 63k jobs in Feb. Today's NFP numbers are coming out @ 8:30 EST, and analysts are expecting the report to say that 50k more jobs were lost in Mar.

But hey, according to Bush, the economy is just dandy.

...aaaaand worse than expected:

80k jobs lost, unemployment @ 5.1%

5% is the critical point, things get nasty above that.
and remember these are adjusted gov approved 'looking for work' figures not true jobless.

ferrofluid @ 74:

my #72 comment is 'awaiting moderation' makes me all tingling in anticipation

I'm always tingling from anticipation

Just no satisfaction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAfahu8WDJA

ferrofluid @ 87:

diamondmc @ 78:

Truth B Told @ 11:

Truth B Told @ 10:

http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2008-04-0403-004.shtml

Being from Minnesota, you had to bring up that mistake we made. Jesse left out one bit of his bio. Jesse was sargent of arms for the Mongols Motorcycle Club, the same club that had the shoot out with the Hells Angels in Nev. The Mongols are a 1% outlaw mc club. With that in his bio, he would have been perfect for a bush appointment.

As a fellow MN resident, its a hard choice, Jesse or Gov. Tim (wanna buy a bridge, quick before it falls down) Pawlenty,
that I35W bridge was known dangerous for 4 years, coincidentally the start of TP's reign.
How many bridges collapsed here in MN under JV's reign ?

Agreed, we've have had a bad run with electing kooks and crooks.

ferrofluid @ 90:

ysbaddaden @ 88:

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 72:

Last month it was reported that the US lost 63k jobs in Feb. Today's NFP numbers are coming out @ 8:30 EST, and analysts are expecting the report to say that 50k more jobs were lost in Mar.

What do we care about Martian unemployment?

must be close to zero or so unmeasurable its...
only the blue shell fish / snail critters living on Burns Cliff (check out the hires Mars Rover pic L257, prob interesting shaped pebbles but who knows)

Too bad their Operation Terran Storm didn't work out for them.

Should have said, we've had a bad run of kooks and crooks.

ysbaddaden @ 96:

ferrofluid @ 87:

diamondmc @ 78:

Truth B Told @ 11:
Being from Minnesota, you had to bring up that mistake we made. Jesse left out one bit of his bio. Jesse was sargent of arms for the Mongols Motorcycle Club, the same club that had the shoot out with the Hells Angels in Nev. The Mongols are a 1% outlaw mc club. With that in his bio, he would have been perfect for a bush appointment.

As a fellow MN resident, its a hard choice, Jesse or Gov. Tim (wanna buy a bridge, quick before it falls down) Pawlenty,
that I35W bridge was known dangerous for 4 years, coincidentally the start of TP's reign.
How many bridges collapsed here in MN under JV's reign ?

Your governed by toilet paper?

some cruel hate crazed people might say that, locally and nationally...
other dont let their lives be obsessed by the squares ;)

Obama and King
Jesus would've left Wright's church.
by Juan Williams
WSJ

...As the nation tries to recall the meaning of Martin Luther King today, Mr. Obama's campaign has become a mirror reflecting where we are on race 40 years after the assassination. Mr. Obama's success has moved forward the story of American race relations; King would have been thrilled with his political triumphs.

But when Barack Obama, arguably the best of this generation of black or white leaders, finds it easy to sit in Rev. Wright's pews and nod along with wacky and bitterly divisive racial rhetoric, it does call his judgment into question. And it reveals a continuing crisis in racial leadership.

What would Jesus do? There is no question he would have left that church.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 100:

Did anyone else here get arrested in the mid sixties at demonstration?
I framed my notice that came up in the San Francisco Chronicle and still in touch with my mates from that.

only for public pooping in my nappy (diaper)

ferrofluid @ 99:

ysbaddaden @ 96:

ferrofluid @ 87:

diamondmc @ 78:

As a fellow MN resident, its a hard choice, Jesse or Gov. Tim (wanna buy a bridge, quick before it falls down) Pawlenty,
that I35W bridge was known dangerous for 4 years, coincidentally the start of TP's reign.
How many bridges collapsed here in MN under JV's reign ?

Your governed by toilet paper?

some cruel hate crazed people might say that, locally and nationally...
other dont let their lives be obsessed by the squares ;)

That's what I'ma talkin' about,

Squares of TP.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 104:

Good, I see everyone is ignoring fluidboy working out of his moms basement.

sorry but not in a basement, not even vaguely boy aged, just a crazed lefty Brit.

dennis @ 101:

Obama and King
Jesus would've left Wright's church.
by Juan Williams
WSJ

...As the nation tries to recall the meaning of Martin Luther King today, Mr. Obama's campaign has become a mirror reflecting where we are on race 40 years after the assassination. Mr. Obama's success has moved forward the story of American race relations; King would have been thrilled with his political triumphs.

But when Barack Obama, arguably the best of this generation of black or white leaders, finds it easy to sit in Rev. Wright's pews and nod along with wacky and bitterly divisive racial rhetoric, it does call his judgment into question. And it reveals a continuing crisis in racial leadership.

What would Jesus do? There is no question he would have left that church.

Please tell us, how many sermons have you heard of Rev Wright? How many times have you been to his church? I'll bet the only thing you know about Rev Wright, is what the msm has told you. Aslo, when was the last time Jesus told you how he felt about Rev Wright?

ysbaddaden @ 108:

dennis @ 101:

Obama and King
Jesus would've left Wright's church.
by Juan Williams
WSJ

...As the nation tries to recall the meaning of Martin Luther King today, Mr. Obama's campaign has become a mirror reflecting where we are on race 40 years after the assassination. Mr. Obama's success has moved forward the story of American race relations; King would have been thrilled with his political triumphs.

But when Barack Obama, arguably the best of this generation of black or white leaders, finds it easy to sit in Rev. Wright's pews and nod along with wacky and bitterly divisive racial rhetoric, it does call his judgment into question. And it reveals a continuing crisis in racial leadership.

What would Jesus do? There is no question he would have left that church.

Although there's questions as to whether he ever existed or not.

Myrddin Wyllt inspired maybe ?

ohio progressive (typical non-typical white person) @ 110:

whoopseee

clinton gets caught again

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120726769569388303.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

Surely Mark Penn should be working 24/7 on getting Hillary the nomination and then on her Presidential run ?
10$ million doesnt get you much these days does it !

ysbaddaden @ 112:

107 ferrofluid

Did the expression limey come from the ancient pre-La Tienne Celts habit of going into battle just wearing britches, with hair they spiked with lime?

The Roman Legions musta thought they wondered into a Sex Pistols concert.

RN and MM sailors drinking lime juice to avoid scurvy.

diamondmc @ 114:

Ok, I'm sorry, I responded to the troll. Please forgive me, its early, and I haven't had enough coffee.

i think i made the same mistake

he got me

sorry

ferrofluid @ 115:

ysbaddaden @ 112:

107 ferrofluid

Did the expression limey come from the ancient pre-La Tienne Celts habit of going into battle just wearing britches, with hair they spiked with lime?

The Roman Legions musta thought they wondered into a Sex Pistols concert.

RN and MM sailors drinking lime juice to avoid scurvy.

I was going to add that but it would spoil my "joke."

Actually in the early Byzantine church they showed Jesus as quite severe looking. He may have felt more of a kinship with Wright.

Does that mean he's Wright-wing?

Daily Reading pt 1...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: So, you want to be a 'McCain Democrat'? - http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/0...
I put this at the front...because it CAN NOT be stated, it is INCALCULABLE how important it is to show up in November and vote for the Democratic Nominee...
There are too many reasons to list why McBush/McSame is like throwing a stick of dynamite into a room of gun powder (the room is our country)...just remember that...THIS ELECTION IS TOO IMPORTANT...WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME...for our country & our planet...

****Message for all women out there: Blame Pollutants For Hike in Breast Cancer: Scientist - http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=cfd6a1e4-01e4-4...
Evidence is mounting that certain chemicals are causing breast cancer in women, said Brody, executive director of the Silent Spring Institute. The institute is named in recognition of Rachel Carson’s book that tied the use of pesticides to adverse effects on wildlife.
"We can bike to work, buy a hybrid vehicle and stand up for better air control at the national level," Jane Brody said.
Pollution has long been associated with cancers, all the chemicals that have never been introduced into our biosphere & our bodies....
Going green isn't just for efficiency, its for our lives...

The Republican War on Voting - http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_republican_war_on_voting
Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans.
Voter Fraud is the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, & Supply-Side economics all wrapped in one....its a house of cards mythos to divert attention from the GOPs well documented election fraud...

For Obama, a 2-to-1 Edge Over Clinton in Donations in March - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/us/politics/04dems.html?_r=2&ref=polit...
40 million to 20 million raised...Obama 08

Not surprising at all: Dr. Greenspan's Amazing Invisible Thesis - http://online.barrons.com/article/SB120675340444773623.html
Researcher questions whether Alan Greenspan actually earned a PhD. Auerbach portrays Greenspan as a real-life Professor Marvel -- who, through double-talk or "garblement," transformed himself into a mighty economic wizard à la Oz. Auerbach strongly implies that Greenspan's 1977 Ph.D. from NYU was obtained in a few months with little more rigor than a matchbook-cover art degree and that Greenspan has kept his Ph.D. thesis secret in order to protect his vaunted academic reputation.
Like I said....the con-servative Fed....is like anything con-servative...'great on paper' but BS in practice....

Pentagon Holds Thousands of Americans 'Prisoners of War' - http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/node/1237
Penny Coleman, author of Flashback, reports: "Sgt. Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith was one of the many soldiers and Marines, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, who gave testimony at last weekend's Winter Soldier investigation. ...The panel Goldsmith was on was called "The Breakdown of the U.S. Military," so he surprised the audience when he said that he was going to talk about prisoners of war."

Why Joe Klein is a moron (and not even a 'paper liberal'): Attytood: Barack Obama as re-imagined by Time's Joe Klein; What a disturbing image! - http://www.attytood.com/2008/04/barack_obama_as_reimagined_by.html

Daily Reading pt 3....

Jobless claims shoot up to 2-year high; Bush will be jobless on January 20, 2009 - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy;_ylt=Ah_1Q...

Jimmy Carter, Habitat for Humanity Fan, and Obama Man! It's All But Official. -- A BuzzFlash News Alert - http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/341

McCain on the Housing Crisis: Quick, Do Nothing! - http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/03/7755_mccain_on_the_...

Skeeter Bites: New Anti-Obama Smears Published In Tabloids Owned By Staunch Clintonista - http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2008/03/new-anti-obama-smears-publishe...
Further down the right wingnut republican smear campaign rabbit hole Clinton goes....

PA Primary Tightening, But Remember the Polls Have Frequently Been Volatile in This Year's Primaries - http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_43_318.aspx
The latest InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Survey shows Sen. Hillary Clinton clinging to a 2-point lead in the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary. The telephone survey of likely registered Democratic voters, conducted April 2, has been weighted for age, race and gender. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.7%. The results are:
Clinton: 45%, Obama: 42%, Undecided: 12%

Douglas Feith "is a hypocrite who justifies his support of torture and murder as being righteous, when all it is evil. Feith is just another chickenhawk who endangered our own military personnel by encouraging the bypassing of the Geneva Convention and the American Constitution." He deserves more than being Dogulas Feith is The BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.
- http://gophypocrites.com/2008/04/hyp08014.html

ferrofluid @ 113:

ohio progressive (typical non-typical white person) @ 110:

whoopseee

clinton gets caught again

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120726769569388303.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

Surely Mark Penn should be working 24/7 on getting Hillary the nomination and then on her Presidential run ?
10$ million doesnt get you much these days does it !

these guys are are greedy pigs

unbelievable

lock em all up--- murtha, penn, clinton, mccain, delay, SCOTUS (ever read about the gifts that clarence thomas received?)

bribes in any other world but DC

ysbaddaden @ 121:

Actually in the early Byzantine church they showed Jesus as quite severe looking. He may have felt more of a kinship with Wright.

Does that mean he's Wright-wing?

i think that's the real story her-- wright (and his church?) says matter of factly that jesus was black.

that's what gets hannity and all these nuts so crazy fired up....

ohio progressive (typical non-typical white person) @ 128:

ysbaddaden @ 121:

Actually in the early Byzantine church they showed Jesus as quite severe looking. He may have felt more of a kinship with Wright.

Does that mean he's Wright-wing?

i think that's the real story her-- wright (and his church?) says matter of factly that jesus was black.

that's what gets hannity and all these nuts so crazy fired up....

The Wright thing might be getting old for the wingnuts to harp on. Now comes the National Review's hit job on Obamas wife. New fodder for hannity and the wingnuts to talk about 24/7.

strange but true @ 129:

Husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (Party Affiliation: Unknown) Caught In Prostitution Sting on Big Beaver Road at at I75 exit 69.

http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/040408/loc_localn04.shtml

Another targeted LE operation against a Dem !

When questioned during the stop, he acknowledged he had been at the hotel with a woman he met on the Internet. On further questioning, he acknowledged he had paid the woman $150 for oral sex.

Dont people know not to say anything without a lawyer present !!!!

131 ohio progressive (typical non-typical white person)

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3910b26e685a.htm

ysbaddaden @ 133:

ferrofluid @ 132:

strange but true @ 129:

Husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (Party Affiliation: Unknown) Caught In Prostitution Sting on Big Beaver Road at at I75 exit 69.

http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/040408/loc_localn04.shtml

Another targeted LE operation against a Dem !

When questioned during the stop, he acknowledged he had been at the hotel with a woman he met on the Internet. On further questioning, he acknowledged he had paid the woman $150 for oral sex.

Dont people know not to say anything without a lawyer present !!!!

Lawyers don't speak with their mouths full.

doing the cooperating thing avoids a nasty immediate scandal, but makes connected persons malleable in other areas.

Stabenow is currently a member of the Finance Committee, along with the Budget Committee and the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee [1]. Previously, she also served on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and the Special Committee on Aging.

and we wonder and wonder why Dems in Congress happily go along and votes instep with Bushco on unpopular topics.

As somebody said long ago "impeachment is off the table"

ferrofluid @ 132:

strange but true @ 129:

Husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (Party Affiliation: Unknown) Caught In Prostitution Sting on Big Beaver Road at at I75 exit 69.

http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/040408/loc_localn04.shtml

Another targeted LE operation against a Dem !

When questioned during the stop, he acknowledged he had been at the hotel with a woman he met on the Internet. On further questioning, he acknowledged he had paid the woman $150 for oral sex.

Dont people know not to say anything without a lawyer present !!!!

He should have said 'no comment' they coundnt prove a damn thing without either a witness in the room or cameras filming the act.

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The people will prevail......

Joe O. @ 139:

dennis @ 101:

Obama and King
Jesus would've left Wright's church.
by Juan Williams
WSJ

What would Jesus do? There is no question he would have left that church.

Since this whole Rev. Wright thing revolves around what he said about America I think Christ would have had a hard time understanding it. In fact, I bet if Christ were around today he probably would have went to Rev. Wright's church and then followed with the question: "What is an America?"

Thanks for your comment, Joe O. I see your point and agree that the Wright flap is an more an issue of anti-Americanism as opposed to race. Juan Williams is villified on this blog but I think he has written a very good and pertinent article on this day and makes a stark and compelling contrast between Obama and Dr. King.

I'm not sure why he wrote the last sentence. I think the better question for this article would have been 'What would Martin Luther King have done? There is no question he would have left that church".

Fox News Marketing @ 142:

Joe O. @ 139:

dennis @ 101:

Obama and King
Jesus would've left Wright's church.
by Juan Williams
WSJ

What would Jesus do? There is no question he would have left that church.

Since this whole Rev. Wright thing revolves around what he said about America I think Christ would have had a hard time understanding it. In fact, I bet if Christ were around today he probably would have went to Rev. Wright's church and then followed with the question: "What is an America?"

Thanks for your comment, Joe O. I see your point and agree that the Wright flap is an more an issue of anti-Americanism as opposed to race. Juan Williams is villified on this blog but I think he has written a very good and pertinent article on this day and makes a stark and compelling contrast between Obama and Dr. King.

I'm not sure why he wrote the last sentence. I think the better question for this article would have been 'What would Martin Luther King have done? There is no question he would have left that church".

Maybe Dr. King would have or maybe not. Dr. King was also an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war so that would have placed Dr. King on an "anti-American" footing as well during his time. In both cases, Rev. Wright and Dr. King spoke out against the same Goverment. That is what they refer to when they say "America". Dr. King, in my opinion, probably would have visited Rev. Wright's church.

PEACE = PROSPERITY
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PEACE = PROSPERITY

Peace to All !