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By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jul 22, 2008 11:30pmOur friend (and C&L fan) Richard Lewis returns to Countdown
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John McCain Proves Himself To Be ‘Hollow Caustic’
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. McCain Quest: The Search for Attention!
Catch the re-broadcast, tonight at 1pm edt, 10pm pdt; check your local listings.
Jon Stewart is our nation's pre-emininent journalist! What does that say about the state of journalism in America today?
I'm sensing the stench of desperation.
Yesterday was a very bad day for Grandpa.
And the myth that the MSM is in the tank for Obama is B.S.
Katie Couric is a fraud.
Come on, November....
Faux continues to prove their complete and utter stupidity: http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3083/1000189bv8.jpg
What's with the "American Ethanol" advertisements on C&L? (top right of the site)
Don't you guys know that Ethanol made from corn is barely viable as a fuel supplement, and has driven people around the world into starvation from increased food costs?
Anyway, speaking about throwing a bone for some media types...how about featuring some Hippy Gourmet segments on C&L? Easy enough to link to at www.YouTube.com/HippyGourmet
Peace, Love and Organics!
HippyGourmet @ 4:
Let's feature us all!
Why does the Bush administration hate the US workforce?
U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers' on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins.
The agency did not disclose the proposal, as required, in public notices of regulatory plans that it filed in December and May. Instead, Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao's intention to push for the rule first surfaced on July 7, when the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted on its Web site that it was reviewing the proposal, identified only by its nine-word title.
. . . .
The department's speed in trying to make the regulatory change contrasts with its reluctance to alter workplace safety rules over the past 7 1/2 years. In that time, the department adopted only one major health rule for a chemical in the workplace, and it did so under a court order.
ldzppln @ 6:
How would they like it if we made their workplace a little less safe. They don't really need the secret service, do they?
The Pickens Plan
Do you all remember when Harry Reid said in April of 2007 that we were losing in Iraq? The repugs, and many Dems were all over him and he has been associated with that remark ever since. Well, this tidbit comes from McCain's interview with Katie Couric the other day:
“Couric: Sen. Obama also told me, Sen. McCain, that the money spent on those additional troops, on the surge, might have been more effective had it gone to Afghanistan or even to a better energy policy in the United States. What’s your response?
McCain: The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world.”
RAPPER NAS HAS A TAKE ON FUX
nice video too.
yes, he's another black man they lie about.
Che's Lounge @ 9:
Che, can you send a link to Countdown? I would love to see that broadcast.
Che's Lounge @ 9:
and exactly when is the media going to say anything about this?
tick..tick..tick..tick..tick..tick.....
odanny @ 8:
so now it's more important to help pickens with his investments than it is to have a broader search for real solutions. I'm quite sure he owns a lot of the companies involved in his ideas. and of course, the corporate media will make sure to act as his megaphone.
A 7th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm!
Right-fucking-on!!
Obama declares accountability "off the table":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSrWjY5S0zI
Interesting that none of these so-called liberal/progressive blogs have any interest in this video. Usually, they love Olbermann . . .
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 10:
I like NAS, listen to the lyrics to "We March As Millions", great stuff
Minimum wage earners see new raise vanish
Seventy cents in federal standard immediately eaten up by gas, food costs
kali yuga @ 15:
this video just goes right over these peoples head kind of like fisa and the patriot act!
ldzppln @ 6:
because he has always hated the lower classes.
his base is "the haves and the have-mores"
swampfox @ 18:
people keep forgetting the part of the primary campaign where the media peeled off the progressives, starting with Kucinich.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 17:
Well, us on social security are getting hit harder but it still doesn't make it right. They don't care about you people. Vote your pocketbook in your own self interests. F*ck the already haves.
PASS IT AROUND
I haven't researched the guy, but is anyone wondering if McCain might pick T. Boone Pickens as his running mate? Pickens is running an ad on MSNBC that looks notoriously like a campaign ad, and I can't help but wonder if it is (a) Picken's way of soliciting McCain for the VP slot, and/or (b) an end-run-around-election-laws self-paid advertisement used to introduce Pickens to the U.S. before he is named as the VP nominee. I saw an interview clip with Pickens where he stated that, while he didn't agree with the full gamut of McCain's policies, he is a life long Republican and would be voting for McCain.
swampfox @ 18:
Tyree, why did you change your name?
Ron @ 21:
Well, us on social security are getting hit harder but it still doesn't make it right. They don't care about you people. Vote your pocketbook in your own self interests. F*ck the already haves.
McKeatingFive get $2,000.00/month and he complains about SocSec. He gets that after being on the public tit his entire life.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 13:
Someone will profit, regardless. The challenge is changing the paradigm and it wont happen without corporate America
Keith Olbermann on MSNBC
Inside the McBrain
Ok, I'm too busy to blog extensively these days, but if I've been paying attention, McCain and his McCampaign people have decided to communicate to the public...........
(a) Barack Obama's position against increased drilling on American lands or off American shores is the cause of high gas prices.
(b) Allowing oil companies to begin the process of such increased drilling, the fruits of which will be owned by those companies and sold on a world oil market just like the rest of the planet's waning supply of oil, will magically bring the cost of gasoline down to the prices the preceded the Iraq war.
(c) If you don't believe (b), just ask the oil companies, and their word will prove it to you.
(d) All good things in Iraq are the result of the surge, including events that preceded it.
(e) Only John McCain had the courage to support the surge despite common political wisdom that it would cost him the election, which, in turn, means he deserves to win the election.
(f) We have won the war in Iraq. Obama's insistence that the troops come home within a year and a half indicates his unwillingness to recognize that we have won in Iraq. Therefore, we must stay there.
(g) Failing to understand the basic differences between Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and each of their respective relations with Iran in no way undermines McCain's knowledge of how to fight the war on terror.
(h) The fact that world leaders, including the Iraqis, have acknowledged that Obama's judgment and plans vis-a-vis Iraq are not just sound, but desirable, in no way bolsters the argument that Obama is qualified to become the commander-in-chief. The fact that McCain was shot down in Vietnam decades ago proves that he is qualified to become the commander-in-chief.
(i) To question the latter assertion in (h) is to denigrate McCain's actual military service in Vietnam, to Swiftboat him.
(j) Czechoslovakia remains a major player on the world stage, and Iraq borders Pakistan.
(k) McCain's greatest asset is his understanding of foreign policy.
To continue to assert such claims, the McCain camp is betting that by November, enough Americans will believe them for McCain either to win the election or to steal it without being overly conspicuous.
Please tell me that even Americans aren't that fucking stupid.
odanny @ 26:
Karen @ 28:
Let's make sure all americans get access to Google Maps. That will solve everything. The internet tubes will flood their minds with cleansing knowledge, washing away the thought-clogging ignorance. The resulting enlightment will....
*pop*
oops! think I dozed off in mid-thread
odanny @ 26:
this is still about wealth and not about productivity or creativity. Is pickens going to raise all boats in his wake? no! he will continue profiting. this is not about a solution to the energy problem, but about profits for pickens. settling for another corporate solution will keep us where we are - in deep shit.
a word from president john f. kennedy
mcSurge video worth watching anbar awakening started prior to surge....good gems for most of us will get but other people that have a different life it's much easier for them to believe mccain that the SURGE was successful cuz of him and he invented the surge
http://www.veracifier.com/episode/TPM_20080723
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 31:
Whoever can get some results as to solving the energy problem would be a plus. His interest will create more investment for a solution. Let's keep an open mind about this.
constituent @ 33:
McCain invented the surge right after he invented the wheel.
Ron @ 34:
when prices drop, you can pry mind open with a feather. until then, there will be no acceptable profit-based solution provided by a corporation. they want to sell you stuff NOW, so you can buy stuff NOW so they can profit NOW. there are plenty of scientists and plenty of other ideas than pickens'. I'd like to see more. his 'alternatives' are too convenient for me. and when did he become such a great scientist?
FEMA's trying to avoid responsibility again, this time over those toxic trailers. Speaking of toxic, some French nuclear reactor workers have only been "slightly" contaminated. Global warming expands the Gulf dead zone. Cancer does appear to be linked to cell phone use, while on-line banking ain't safe.
May i be excused from prying anyone's mind open with a feather? It sounds like a highly skilled profession to me. :)
Olbermann: McKeatingFive denies what he just said about the "SURGE", Then says he was right and he re-explains....
And CBS posted the complete video instead of the manipulated one.
Tequila @ 37:
you're scaring me.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 36:
Point taken, but it will still take investment. We can't look at it as a situation that someone can't profit because someone always will. Hopefully, we will all benefit from it. I agree that it will require more investigation, but the ones that are trying to drill or control oil leases should be under more scrutiny.
kali yuga @ 15:
i see same stuff different day....i addressed this the other night. many don't like what bush has pulled and gotten away with....i'm sure your more interested in talking obama vs. pinning the tail on the real guilty donkey(bush/cheney). why obama's legal counsel said they would go after the "most egregious" let's go directly to obama and ask.....bush and his DOJ legal team have used the "war" to go after their agenda.
a crime is a crime i get that......i don't like dirty politics
i'm not sure we know absolutly(100%) what obama is going to do.
oh...i did address and didn't let it go over my liberal head....and i don't usually love obama or any pop culture people.....except some cool bands
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 40:
Nukes, coal and offshore drilling will save us!
From a quality life.
The sun comes up in the east.
The sun sets in the west.
Fish got to swim.
Birds got to fly.
The price of gas goes down before presidential elections.
xoites defends Constitution @ 43:
"x" is in the casa
xoites defends Constitution @ 43:
Hi X, nice to have you back.
I NEED ALL YOUR HELP TO SEE IF I AM THE ONLY ONE NOTICING THE FOLLOWING:
1. The flag on the military uniform is being shown 'backwards' on some sleeves
.
2. In watching hearings on C-Span, DoD officials' name card said "HON. Chertoff" instead of the usual "Mr. Chertoff".
3. Late but noteworthy: The unit assigned (now dismantled) to find Bin Laden referred to him as 'UBL-Usama Bin Laden'. How and when did they change it to 'Osama Bin Laden?
4. There has been NO mention of Saddam's doubles. Where are they?
1-3 seem signs of attempt of programming or control our thinking by slight changes that are not immediately noticed until we start really thinking.
Just wondering all......
xoites defends Constitution @ 43:
I guess I'll have to choose between various cancers and simple suffocation. I think I'll get a haircut at Sweeney Todd's instead.
meohmy @ 47:
Food for thought, but that's all.
Oh joyful day, AREVA's coming to Idaho. Be still my heart (poor choice of words).
http://www.snakeriveralliance.org/News/Articles/tabid/122/ctl/ArticleVie...
seevee @ 44:
the only question is: are these vampires disciplined enough to do it, or are they so far gone they get the shakes after sundown?
NOTE about post #47: Chertoff is Homeland security, but the name card for Dod officials also showed 'Hon.' in front of their last name. It was the Appropriations Committee meeting I was watching. Senator R.Byrd is the Chairman.
As far as I know, it is a new tactic. If someone agrees, please tell me what you think.
Olbermann and Maddow dissect the CBS participation in the McKeatingFive protection racket called the media.
test on pew kind of interesting takes1-2 minutes
http://typology.people-press.org/typology/
bullfrog @ 51:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/gas.prices.drop.2.778351.html
Ron @ 46:
Hey ron, you brought your charm? ;<[)
Good evening all :)
Tequila@37
Just today I was watching some Repub blowhard on c-span talking about how the French were so much smarter than we are for their use of nuclear energy. Looks like they are trying to push through as many unsafe laws as possible before the next administration.
seevee @ 55:
yes! oil is down to $12*.00/barrel. and gass will come down, just like it did in 2006. yes, it actually did come down until after the election. I believe they waited until mid January to pick up the pace again.
xoites defends Constitution @ 57:
evening, evening, Professor X.
:<[)
LOL! There seems to be a case of mistaken identity. :)
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 59:
That's how they roll baby! You can set your watch by 'em.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 59:
I remember that very clearly. Bush was running on the platform that everybody was happy because gas prices had gone down.
thomas @ 58:
i'm not absolute about this but one of the issues i've heard about nuclear is gettingthe new reactors/facilities insured...also investors for projects like this don't want any risk. often this ends up being a social project. of course there are other issues like environmental.
ron you may not believe this but thiers people here that dont like me, thats why i changed my name , see i was an ok guy when we all hated bush but now that im not an obama fan well you know! but its ok im still in the only guy worth voteing for dennis kucinich, you know the guy who stands up for impeaching bush, lord love the little kooch!
xoites defends Constitution @ 63:
and people saw through it and switched 9 house seats from (R) to (D).
swampfox @ 65:
I still dig you!
you got spunk, kid.
Oh i forgot, also fear. Gas prices and fear.
Now McCain is running on the platform that whatever he says is true unless he miscorrects it and the his miscorrection is true until he decides to go back to his first mistatement.
That and the solitude factor.
If you want real honest to god privacy go to a McCain appearance.
swampfox @ 65:
Hey everyone, I solved another mystery it seems. Swampfox may very well be tyree. Go back to #24.
Ron @ 69:
I knew that weeks ago. :)
Hi Tyree. :)
constituent @ 64:
the biggest problem is our current, aging nukular implementation. essentially, the radioactivity poisons everything, and I mean everything, including the 'containment' and they are talking $3ooMil at least per reactor. the radioactivity also breaks down everything, and I mean everything at the subatomic level, so ther is decay at the subatomic level.
any proposed nuclear solution will pretty much guarantee the slow poisoning of this country on a far greater scale.
It's totally unviable as a long-term solution.
xoites defends Constitution @ 70:
Sure you did. Whatever.
Alright, go ahead and insult me.
GNA!
mccain giving props to bush for the drop in crude price....my guess it has more with movement of the u.s. dollar ...i also think
speculators are getting some pressure (that's a maybe) and it won't
get talked about...they don't want the public catching on to speculators. this is a little strategy for the bush following
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923OQCO0&show_article=1
swampfox @ 65:
Actually, most of us liked you, we just didn't agree with you on all things.
xoites defends Constitution @ 68:
-------- like this --------
it is mind-numbing that he could think someone believes the shit he spews.
xoites defends Constitution @ 73:
peace and
night night!
xoites defends Constitution @ 73:
Hey, just kidding. Stick around.
Minimum wage can't keep up with rising costs.
Minimum wage hikes, I mean.
Watching my local news just now, I've learned that McGrandpa is coming to Bakersfield Monday to fundraise...yep, rather go to the country club than deal with the poor people of Kern County. Oh well...I predict Kern will go red anyway...it always does. Lots of wingnuts here.
Annaleigh @ 81:
mccain giving props to bush for the drop in crude price....my guess it has more with movement of the u.s. dollar ...i also think
speculators are getting some pressure (that's a maybe) and it won't
get talked about...they don't want the public catching on to speculators. this is a little strategy for the bush following
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923OQCO0&show_article=1
i doubt will see him stopping in santa monica
Four of our soldiers got charged with premeditated murder.
constituent @ 82:
Good point, first thing that came to mind when I heard this was the oilmen. I'm sure they'll use our local drilling as an excuse to drill further in this country! *sigh*
Mississippi has to worry about the recent oil spill turning into another Exxon Valdez-style disaster.
Fucking perverts
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824206,00.html?xid=feed-c...
"The price of oil dropped $10 a barrel," said McCain, who argued that the psychology of lifting the ban has affected world markets.
There he goes again with the "it's all in your mind" arguement!
actually i've got proof that phil gramm was complicit in allowing banks to hide billions in assets, and i'm going to the dept of justice to show them all the secret evidence just as soon as i cross the stree----AAAAAAHHHH IT'S ROBERT NOVAK IN A CORVETTE!!! ***WHAM!!!!*** urrrrgggggghhh....
Annaleigh @ 87:
mccain giving props to bush for the drop in crude price....my guess it has more with movement of the u.s. dollar ...i also think
speculators are getting some pressure (that's a maybe) and it won't
get talked about...they don't want the public catching on to speculators. this is a little strategy for the bush following
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923OQCO0&show_article=1
he's trying to give credit to bush....and he may be due some credit
i personally doubt it.....the u.s. dollar gained some relative value
and i believe the oil speculators are getting some pressure that's just my thought
last year the average cost of a gallon of gas about 2.95 bring it down to that and offer tax breaks for hybrids
constituent @ 89:
mccain giving props to bush for the drop in crude price....my guess it has more with movement of the u.s. dollar ...i also think
speculators are getting some pressure (that's a maybe) and it won't
get talked about...they don't want the public catching on to speculators. this is a little strategy for the bush following
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923OQCO0&show_article=1
he's trying to give credit to bush....and he may be due some credit
i personally doubt it.....the u.s. dollar gained some relative value
and i believe the oil speculators are getting some pressure that's just my thought
That makes sense, Bush has basically whined to the Saudis to increase production, the administration may be trying their luck to pressure the speculators to cut them some slack.
skippy @ 88:
i wish you did have a link to expose gramm maybe even mccain
with UBS and avoiding taxes
Annaleigh @ 91:
That makes sense, Bush has basically whined to the Saudis to increase production, the administration may be trying their luck to pressure the speculators to cut them some slack.
the saudi's are enjoying these profits in the 90's they were hurting and they haven't forgotten that...the oil production is nationalized so their economyis dependent on it. my guess is speculators accelerated the price very quickly this hurt the airlines
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69257
this is a quick read a couple paragraphs airlines complaining about
speculators...these people know oil futures...this wasn't in the media but it was being talked about on capitol hill.....bush and co. doesn't
want the public to catch on to speculators rather blame groups that won't drill
constituent @ 90:
What was it when Bush was awarded the POTUS, $1.14?
Radically Moderate @ 95:
yup and u.s. dollar has lost 40-45% relative value
The EU is pissed that we're not nicer about visas.
Tequila @ 97:
i heard about this on bbc world service wehave until the 010109
constituent @ 96:
The Chinese and the Saudis' will not be funding our debt much longer.....it's called diminishing returns, and the more they loan us, the more our currency deflates.
Why are you guys linking to Amazon? Bezos is a harcore rethug..... try Barnes & Noble or Powell's Books
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 66:
That did exactly what good, wait I remember:
Zero!
Blue dogs are for dog meat. Dog meat is dog meat, call it what you will.
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 67:
Anybody for Kucinich is ok with me, spell checker or no.
Ron @ 69:
swampfox = tryree
It has been common knowledge for sometime. How is work on the wheel coming along?
I met some people from Iowa when I was on vacation in the Yukon. They found it interesting that Canadians are following your election so close.
oh yah
Go Barrack
Arnie's "budget" forces firefighters to be picky.
CAlI @ 86:
Dude, didn't they see the movie?
Slippery slope indeed!
.
Q U E S T I O N:
What kind of man advocates against ringing a bell,
promises not to ring said bell,
and proceeds to ring it while promising to unring it IF he is elected to be the president?
Wouldn't this "unringing" require one of two things...
1) A Congress, void of Obama, passes legislation to undermine what Obama voted for...
2) A Supreme Court ruling challenging the immunization vote UNCONSTITUTIONAL...
Either way, why prefer to hedge your bet for a man who screwed your civil protections in order to achieve a "COMPROMISE" of your Rights...
... Like Bush is already doing to all of us WITH Senator Obama's support... NO?
McTORTURE is change we can not afford...
Status quObama is not "real" change...
Isn't it time for a THIRD PARTY and "CHANGE" the political landscape, altogether?
.
constituent @ 54:
Gee, there's a shock! I'm a liberal! Who'da thunk?
xoites defends Constitution @ 63:
Um...bush wasn't running for anything (except, maybe, cover) in 2006.
Radically Moderate @ 95:
I know it was only about $1.35/gal, even in high-tax California. As recently as three years ago, people were worried that the price of oil was approaching $70/barrel...
Tequila @ 97:
I'm curious; can American private citizens travel to the EU without Visas now? I haven't been to Europe since the 80's.
How can people hardly stand it it? MSNBC has spent all morning trying to fix McCain's problems and how they will eventually turn into liabilities for Obama. McCain only has a few issues--he's old and stupid. Did I happen to mention, my friends, that the surge has worked?
Tequila @ 83:
again, they seek a bandaid, face-saving remedy to this genocide by tossing a few smallfry to the dogs. and they's won't end the war and they won't get the soldiers the help they need.
a recent suicided soldier told his mom he killed over 200 people, many of whom did not deserve it. he could not sleep because of the nightmares.
There are over 150,000 of the over 1,000,000 soldiers who suffer from the mental trauma of Iraq/Afghanistan. That will be our legacy for the 21st century.
Alice X @ 101:
blame the leadership. they even marginalized the new senator from virginia. reid and pelosi are the problem let's begin there. then we can see what shakes out.
Plan Would Use Antiterror Aid on Pakistani Jets
By ERIC SCHMITT
The Bush administration plans to shift nearly $230 million to upgrading Pakistan's F-16s, which critics say are not used in counterterrorism efforts.
"This is the most important piece of housing legislation in a generation."
- SENATOR CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, chairman of the banking committee, on House passage of far-reaching government assistance for the housing market.
KREMLIN RULES
An Investment Gets Trapped in Kremlin's Vise
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
The fall of one of Russia's most prominent foreign investors points to the official corruption that afflicts the country.
Deluge Rakes Coasts of Texas and Mexico
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Hurricane Dolly brought a deluge of rain and gusts of high wind, raising fears of flooding in the region.
A City's Police Force Now Doubts Terror Focus
By DAVID JOHNSTON
Police officials in Providence, R.I., are questioning the balance between antiterror efforts and crime fighting.
Oil Survey Says Arctic Has Riches
By JAD MOUAWAD
The Arctic may contain as much as a fifth of the world's yet to-be-discovered oil and natural gas reserves, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey forecast.
HippyGourmet @ 4:
That's why they have cellulosic ethanol now you fucking eco-fascist
swampfox @ 18:
more like a big steaming pile of quid pro quo that fell off the table
Very Important Video to Watch - especially if you purchase tires
Daily Reading pt 1...
Make no mistake...Pickens is an Oilman at heart, he's no Al Gore: T. Boone Pickens On Expanded Oil Drilling: “East Coast, West Coast, ANWR, Get It All” - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/pickens-says-drill-offshore-anwr...
While we all applaud his wind power ideas & plans....we must not forget that A) He's still a corporatist right wingnut and 'former oil barron', B) He's a con-servative Republican who is mainly driven by profits & wealth accumulation, and C) He's no 'environmentalist' not by a long, long, long shot....his views on climate change are not at the heart of his 'transformation'...
Air industry calls for U.S. crude reserve release - http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2342085820080723
The U.S. government should tap the national petroleum reserve to relieve ailing airlines that have been stung by soaring oil prices, the industry's leading trade group told lawmakers on Wednesday. "History shows us that even a temporary increase in supply will immediately lower oil prices," James May, president and chief executive of the Air Transport Association, told the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
FINALLY BUSH crime family and Republicans Drilling BS called out! Remember voters...this is the fastest way to lower prices just like the Democratic leaders Reid & Pelosi have been trying to tell you....THINK, THINK, THINK..
Now...here's the question...will OPEC, Big Oil, and their personal hedge fund/speculating pimps out there bow to their biggest customer???
A perfect example of insanity: Offshore spilling, Ship-barge crash closes Mississippi at New Orleans - http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=8723008
And...wait for it......McBush pushes offshore-drilling plan - http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-07-22-mccain-energy_N.htm
Notice the keywords here folks (especially those who insanely believe more leases = more drilling)...."McCain plans to promote more domestic oil exploration"....Promote...key word there...ie, the leases will be given, but Big Oil won't have to do anything with it, and they'll sit on it like they planning to....
So...if that oil spill seems like a great thing to you coastal area living US citizens (sans West Coast, they have functioning brains over there)....by all means vote McSame and your pretty little coastal areas will be dead spots in no time, make sure you eat the fish, take your kids swimming, etc....
I hope this costs McBush....say...in Florda votes for instance....
Protesters denounce Fox Noise as racist - http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2342214420080723
Protesters gathered on Wednesday outside Fox Noise Channel to denounce what they claim is its racist campaign coverage, including a pundit who called Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama a terrorist.
The crowd of some 150 people wielded a petition with more than 600,000 signatures objecting to news coverage by Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, organizers said.
Joining the protest was hip hop star Nas, who said the Fox coverage inspired a song "Sly Fox" on his new album. "Fox poisons this country every time they air racist propaganda and try and call it news," he said.
Fox Noise....racism is their base...
Big GOP Donor Faced Trouble Back Home - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR200807...
"For two years, Berkman had been battling his investment partners after admitting that he had lent himself $5 million of their money without telling them. A civil fraud case against him was about to go to trial. Berkman continued to raise money for McCain. He and his wife have donated $50,000 to Republican candidates and party committees this election cycle, including a $28,500 check to the Republican National Committee's Victory Fund on May 29 to support McCain's bid. Berkman's political generosity has angered his former investors, who prevailed in court but have not seen a penny of the $28 million in civil damages that a jury awarded them."
GOP = Culture of Corruption...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep John Conyers Plans Bush IMPEACHMENT Substitute - http://www.daily.pk/world/worldnews/84-worldnews/5929-house-judiciary-co...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers said his panel will explore a variety of George W. Bush controversies, including manipulation of prewar Iraq intelligence. Rebuffing Dennis Kucinich’s calls for impeachment hearings on George W. Bush, the House Judiciary Committee instead will hear testimony about Bush’s “imperial presidency” and several of his administration’s scandals.
Living on the Economic Edge - http://www.futuremajority.com/node/2118
Young people are swimming in debt - college loans, medical bills, credit cards. No one in Washington seems to care.
Self hating 'formerly gay' (Allen Ginsberg anyone?) Michael Wiener: Michael Savage is once again the BuzzFlash GOP Media Putz of the Week. "Michael, Michael, Michael, you could have been a mensch; you could have been a member of the civilized community; you could have made something honorable of yourself in the world. But instead, you are sewer stench, swamp gas, a bloviater of vile swill."
- http://mediaputz.com/08/07/putz0724.html
Weiner doesn't belive the stuff he says...but he knows the morons listening to him do...and he's laughing all the way to the bank....
The Latest Boffo Book from Thomas Frank, "Author of What's The Matter with Kansas." The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule.
- http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1211
Daily Reading pt 2...
The Religious Right's Early Matriarch - http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/7/23/143638/021
Elizabeth's anti-Semitic pronouncements are legendary. David Duke praises them on his web site. Ms. Dilling believed that Albert Einstein was a Communist, as well as just about anyone who did not agree with her. She even wrote a book claiming that Franklin Roosevelt was a "Red," which to her was the word she often used for Communists.
She was close friends with Charles Lindberg, as both sought to stem the tide of the nation's commitment to rescue England and Europe from Nazi Germany. In her opinion, the problem did not come from Germans - the problems all had a root in Jewish groups who were ruining the world. She spoke to students at the University of Chicago years later in her life and told the students it was a Red school.
She then defended Fascism to the audience. She also believed the YMCA was a secret Communist organization. She was truly a matriarch for the movement, and her legacy, if not her books, continues to inspire a new host of right wing fringe types. Roy Carlson said that Elizabeth Dilling considered Hitler an angel.
So basically....she was a modern day con-servative right wingnut back in that time...
Are auto jobs lost forever? Why can't North American cars compete; and why should workers bear the brunt from lack of planning? - http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&It...
Healing wounds: Barack Obama has a large, nearly 2 to 1 lead over John McCain among Jewish voters, according to the latest Gallup data. - http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/23/obama_leads_2_to_1_a...
9 Senators, Including Obama, Introduce Bill to Help Vets Register to Vote - http://www.alternet.org/democracy/92432/
Larry Craig wants to continue 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' But Sen. Craig, you're too old to serve - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/23/larry-craig-wants-to-continue-dont-a...
Can Obama break the Democrats' 44-year dry spell in Alaska? According to our long-suffering author, the chances are better than they've ever been.
- http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=5a43f2f1-0c94-49ee-a46f-4d239145eb80
"Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate."
- http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/index.html
A libertarian who votes Republican, isn't a libertarian...
Menace to Society: Unbelievable!! Witness: 'No way' Novak didn't know he hit someone; victim was 'splayed across the front' of his car. - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/23/novak-hits-pedestrian/
Lawsuit on F.B.I. Informant Seeks a Mobster's Link to Kennedy's Assassination - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/nyregion/22docs.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&...
She said the F.B.I. had fought her “tooth and nail” in her efforts to obtain the full Scarpa file for Mr. DeVecchio’s trial. The F.B.I. did not return phone calls seeking comment on that allegation as well. “And that,” she said, “is what really piqued my curiosity.”
The Sloppy, Sophomoric Attacks of the McCain Campaign Show that Obama Doubled Down on the Middle East and Left Grampy in the Dust - http://www.slate.com/id/2195762/
The video that you won't see on Corporate Media: 3,000 GIs MOB Barack in Baghdad (Video and Goodies) - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/22/111651/551/182/555102
Daily Reading pt 3...
A new smear attack is bubbling up on the right against Obama in ways reminiscent of the Swif Boat smear on Kerry. - http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2008/07/who_sent_you_th_1.htm
100% Universal confirmation that right wingnuts are the craziest (insert words here) on this earth...I almost fell out my seat...read on but bring a bag to spit up in...
Bush's Economic "Brightspot": Repossessions flower as economy withers - http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1152226.html
McCain Slanders Obama, Scarborough Slanders Olbermann (Brent Budowsky) - http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/07/23/mccain-slanders-obama-scarborough-...
Couric is about to be fired and does anyone really watch 'cup of joe' anyway????
GM and 30+ Electric Utilities Form Coalition to Support Plug-In Vehicles - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/gm-electricity-utilities-plug-in...
They may finally be getting it!
Los Angeles City Council Votes to Ban Plastic Shopping Bags by July 2010 (Maybe) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/los-angeles-plastic-bags.php
San Francisco has already done this and rumors swelling that New York could possibly do this as well...
Johnny Depp's Green Home, Dark Knight's Eco-blunders, Natalie Portman's Green Project Runway, and More - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/johnny-depp-green-home.php
Barack Obama and the Beijing Olympics, against them before he was for them.
Advertising Age: It’s official. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads.
According to NBC’s political file, the campaign had initially requested information about 500,000, $2 million and $4 million package of Olympics spots. The network also offered the candidate a $10 million package.
Just two weeks ago: Obama says he wouldn't attend Olympics opening ceremony
"In the absence of some sense of progress, in the absence of some sense from the Dalai Lama that there was progress, I would not have gone," the presidential candidate told reporters at a news conference.
Obama previously has called on the Republican president to boycott the ceremonies.
Specifically, he criticized the administration for not being “aggressive in encouraging the Chinese government to make serious concessions”.
Aggressive action indeed.
The Chinese will love this next American President. Inexperienced, unprincipled and arrogant.
Ron @ 72:
yeah xoites you were the first! and hi sorry i went to bed just after i posted!
swampfox @ 65:
Tyree, I KNEW it was you weeks ago but you denied it. :>)
C'mon, put on the Nas/colbert performance. It won't kill you to feature a rapper for once.
Dr Acula @ 126:
come on doc xoites said it was me first but you get an atta boy for being second!
swampfox @ 128:
okay swampy.
Dear Richard Lewis and like-minded US "reasonable" citizens:
We (US citizens) have been living inside an empire for...
2008-1776 = 232
... 232 years now AND STILL we kid ourselves that "it's OUR country" and that all we need is "a reasonable man" as US Emperor (aka POTUS) to make everything just and pure like it was back in the good ol' days that never were.
Keep watching and arguing about US TeeVee, everybody. It will keep you out of trouble and reality. (Sorry about your bad back, Mr. Lewis, that keeps you out of the streets and restricted to casinos.)
Good emperor or bad emperor?
Who should I spend hours and hours and how much bandwidth obsessing about for the next four months? Who will I spend 5 minutes voting for in November?
Who will I be having to pressure etc. after November to ACTUALLY get US troops out of Iraq AND Afghanistan?
Will it be good emperor (50,000 left US troops in Iraq and the balance rearranged into Afghanistan's "good war"-- what a fraud) or bad emperor (different rhetoric but the same result)?
Who can know such things? How can one make such decisions?
What I love about Richard Lewis is that's not an act. That's really him.
Steve @ 130:
I am feelin ya, I kept thinking this guy is just scratching the surface here, our problems are way deeper than what all our filtered out information would tell us.
DOOOOOOMMMMmmmmmmeeeeeddddD
These controls over our lives and the use of our Labor go so deep, they are in your town, they are down the street from you, they work at the convinience stores, you feel the heat coming from your walls at your house----radiation, you feeling hot on your skin from time to time?????
HEHE
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 19:
I REALLY hate that term 'lower classes'. I find it hard to believe that someone like G. W. Bush could be considered to be of a 'higher class'' than I am. Considering that his family has a long history of treason, basically makes most of it's money by killing people (both foreign AND American), and are proven thieves, I will never consider him to be of a superior 'class'.
If the phrase were 'middle earners' or something along those lines, it would be a lot less offensive. The whole Class System sounds like something out of the Dark Ages. What's next? Are we going to be calling people Serfs and Slaves?
George and the rest of the thieving, murdering, lying, Bushies, want to be considered royalty. That might be okay for some countries, but this is AMERICA.
The Bush family should craw back under the rock they oozed out from.
Mc Cain hasn't been asked about this, either:
Iraq has been such a 'surging' success, the Iraqi government had to disband their Olympic Committee and won't be able to participate in the Bejing Olympics. Many of them have been targeted and killed along with many of their coaches and star athletes.
Wereas in 2004, the Iraqis did participate and win a medal, without any of their members being killed.
Not so much a victory for the Iraqi's, eh John??
But it gets worse. Mitt Romneys old buddies at the IOC, angered by the government taking such a drastic step - went out of their way to announce that Iraq is "banned" from participating. This is after years of the USOC interfering in Iraq's governance of it's own teams - 30 members suddenly disappeared after the invasion, and just in time for the US led new committee elections - to whom Maliki gave a half a million dollars.. The Iraqis claimed they received no help for their money, and felt the new Committee was more corrupt than the old - at least they qualified and won medals.
Hmmmm, where have we heard that story??
A new government, not yet functional, is being blamed for taking independent action to close down what it believes is a corrupt organization??
Those words are right out of Bush and Mitts' mouth angered mouths, not an 'independent and autonomous mouth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/24/olympicgames2008.iraq?gusrc=...
http://exchanges.state.gov/intlathletics/iraq/diplomacy.htm
It's kinda funny that out of all these comments only two people even mentioned Richard Lewis. This clip is just more evidence I made the right decision in tuning out MSNBC and Olbermann months ago.
Swampfox/Tyree - why would you change your name because those who post here don't like that you are not an Obama supporter? My take - shame on those who don't respect your position. There are plenty of reasons not to support Obama and many of us don't. I can't possibly support McCrazy or any republican so this election is leaving many of us with no one to support. After never missing a vote for 40 years this is a real problem - the only hope is a VP pick by Obama that will draw me back somewhat but I can't imagine who that would be.
New Quinnipiac numbers:
Colorado
McCain (R) 46% (+2)
Obama (D) 44% (-5)
Michigan
Obama (D) 46% (-2)
McCain (R) 42% (+0)
Minnesota
Obama (D) 46% (-8)
McCain (R) 44% (+7)
Wisconsin
Obama (D) 50% (-1)
McCain (R) 39% (+0)
Uh oh.
"Yes We Can"?
Bluesage @ 135:
This guy is his only hope...Oooppps
HippyGourmet @ 4:
Sigh! I'll explain this slowly so I won't have to repeat myself. It's a little thing called Google ads (and/or similar software). It works by searching for keywords in the pages text. It can't tell the difference between us complaining or waxing poetically about something. All it knows is that "ethanol" was mentioned twenty plus times in a day.probably by guys like you Incidentally that's why this page has ads for John McCain just above articles that ream him. So unless you want to have John waste his time and resources selling his own advertising space...
Richard Lewis, the least funny person on Bob's grey earth.
ysbaddaden @ 144:
yes ysb, hes like listening to a dripping faucet, the more you hear it the more you want to rip the whole dam sink out of its mooreings! praise the hipno toad! id be hard pressed to spend a buck being depressed by richard lewis!
Ya know what Richard Lewis does not do - make his thinking visible. He is not - NOT - funny.
ysb and swampfox
I totally agree. Why does this man even have a career? I, too, would be hard-pressed to pay to listen to him, it's bad enough when it's free.
Johnny2Bad @ 142
If only!! Really, can you think of anyone alive that could make a difference? I am really sad to think that I cannot vote for either of these men. I've only voted republican once in my life and that was for mayor and only because they were both snakes and I wanted my damn street cut thru so I made a deal and by gosh, he did it. I still worry that it was a "going to hell" move on my part.
Perhaps more to the point on the Iraqi sheiks 'loyalty'. Did I imagine it or wasn't that about the time we started buying their loyalty by funding their otherwise recalcitrant militias??
I hear you brother.
Do you ever find yourself at some social function and you have promised your spouse, friend, or associate that you will not bring up politics? So there you are among all of these people and no one is saying anything. They all promised themselves that they wouldn't bring up politics. So you're cruising the room, bored to tears, you make a little small talk here and there when suddenly you over hear someone say something political. You steer in that direction, not to interfere, just to listen. You're curious what they think about what's happening to our country. You look around for your wife, relative, friend and they have you in their sights. They sense that you may be taking the bait, but they are deep into that day's "One Life to Live," so they flash you one of those, "You better not be doing what I think you're doing," looks. You regain your composure, but then in between the music, the sounds from the kitchen, ice hitting glass, twenty conversations just distant enough to sound like mumbling, you hear a word of criticism, just as you asked yourself, "Doesn't anyone care about what happened today." Suddenly, your heart begins to race as you casually draw nearer to the sound of defiance and disgust. Then you hear it, the sweet sound of an offended American. Damn, the voice you heard is talking about important news; intrusions on our rights, the arrogance of ignoring the law, the concept of "retroactive immunity" (also known as the 'get out of jail' free card) or any other disrespect toward the citizens of the country and the Constitution. You stop to offer a thought about a related insult and expand upon their experience and you're hooked. At first there are only three or four of you talking, then a fifth, six, and a seventh join in. From across the room it appears that the group you are with is enjoying itself. When suddenly the reality sinks in and whoever you're with moves quietly and casually in the direction of the group. All of you believe that since there are so many now engaged in sharing their distaste for what is happening in our country that the spouses, friends, whoever will either have to join the conversation or slink away in disgust as they rejoin their discussion about who the greatest dancers of all time have been.
You feel relieved, the pressure is temporarily off. And you begin to bond with your new friends or at least those who you have discovered a sense of community with. You glance around the room and there is the person you came with starring directly into your eyes. From the high of shared feelings you suddenly feel another shared feeling from across the room. Due to the distance you're uncertain whether the chill you feel in the air is because someone changed the temperature setting, or is it pity you're feeling waft across the room for your shameful digression into your compulsion. Is it an urgent desire to leave that you feel from across the room? Whatever it is it demands your attention so you move away from "them".
On the ride home you feel the zeal of organized dissent peal away from your consciousness. The need to be a rebel within a rebellion evaporates as you contemplate the chores waiting for you at home. By the time you reach home you explain to your friend or partner for the evening that he or she has nothing to worry about, because you did not "lose it". You maintained proper decorum as you shared the news of the day, and that no one will remember what you had to say anyway. Secretly you remember the pain, the searching, the communication, and then your mind drifts back to your need for rest before tackling your personal responsibilities in the days ahead. Your sleep is restless and you wake the next day feeling that you left something unsaid or undone, and that there is something you should be doing now. Then you begin your chores as you contemplate the beginning of the work week and the memory of being part of something important. The memory is replaced by your need to fulfill your responsibilities in the coming weeks, months, and years ahead. You regain your normal perspective, the dream of freedom fades and all is well once more except for the anxious feeling hidden in the recesses of your mind that you should be doing something, "but you don't know what it is; do you, Mr. Jones?"
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