i was hoping stevens would win...get kicked out of the senate...palin chooses to run in the special election against begich and gets her ass handed to her again
or at the worst, she wins and tina fey is forced back onto snl for the next 6 years
either way its win/win as begich will again run in 2010 vs murkowsky
It appears that Republican congress put a loophole in to prevent Clinton from establishing new regulations that now will prevent Bush from making any new regulations permanent.
but at least when we are all huddling around the radio (cuz cable tv is way too expensive) we wont be cringing when the president is giving his fireside chats
Wolf Blitzer today let Palin repeat her innuendo about Obama and Ayers. At some point this sort of chickensh*t interviewing is worse than pathetic, it is complicity. It isn’t enough to ask Palin if she “stands by” her remarks. He has to require she take her words seriously. Is she saying Obama is pro-terrorist? If not, why does she play with such rhetorical fire? And if we should be afraid of Obama, why does she now say she’d be honored to work with him? Does that mean she's anti-American too? A real interview would leave even the wingnuts ashamed of her, and she hasn't had one yet.
The modern conservative movement has no real leaders at the moment, and the “right-side talkers” are filling that vacuum — setting the party’s agenda, deciding which political figures will become popular and which will be cast aside, and in effect performing all the functions that those legendary (and pretty smart) guys in smoke-filled rooms used to perform for the party.
They tell their audience that they are the news and the left is a drive by media. Pretending to be more knowlwdgable than the media has made the media a pawn of their media. It's a sick system.
even if you dont like baseball...search out vids of this kid pitching...he is a freak
i got to watch him close up at his first game in a league ball, and he treated the other team like grade schoolers...and he looked like he was only 12
oh, and larry elder is not only an uncle tom, house negro, he is an idiot
today, he was talking about the fairness doctrine and opined that it only pertained to radio, because the fcc does not oversee broadcast tv.
this guy has a law degree? well that is what affirmative action gets you
btw, larry is older than me, and he should recall the daily editorials from local stations, with responses from viewers, who were provided equal time....that is how tv stations dealt with the fairness doctrine...dumbass
Congress only now chooses to review how it allocates its bail-out money. Today's fat kids have the arteries of people in their 40s!
Yet another school shooting. Didn't get much attention, possibly because people are getting bored at the media exploiting tragedy for ratings. Further proof that 2008 is the Black History Year. Aretha Franklin actually tops Elvis in a Rolling Stone poll on best rock era singer. Hey, alternative lifestyle couples. At least you have Connecticut.
A general is begging Obama not to cut funding for the Military Industrial Complex, er, "missile shield" in Europe.
Soon we can either detect and fix the problem before birth, or pharmaceutical meds during childhood will cure these poor suffering souls.
No more will these people live with the stigma of hearing fantasy voices in the sky.
Looks like Wolf " I stopped reporting real news " Blitzer is giving Greta a run for her money , with who can repair Sara Palin's career the fastest , with embarrassingly idiotic questions like , " if Pres. Obama asked your help would you " , sure blitz , he'd make sure she would get even MORE unnecessary publicity , designed to position her for another frightening run for the oval office .
You would think CNN would have some sense of SHAME for not reporting real news , rather than manufacturing controversies , silly interviews , debates with the same old tired " analyst " ie Gergen, Begala, Brazille , blabbing about absolute NOTHING, no way . CNN not only milked the silly palin interview all day long , that wasn't enough , she had to appear on Larry "skeletor" King, for another infomercial .
not one question about the fact that their rhetoric caused an increase in death threats towards obama and his family
not one question about the findings of the legislative panel, and the absurdity of her own hand picked panel in regards troopergate (and the fact that she may very well have perjured herself)
They are blaming 'pyramid schemes' but that could just be an excuse, some of the legit hedgefunds and others operate close to being Ponzi schemes, the fine line is blurred and not always visible.
But the owners had disappeared, leaving a note stuck to the doors taunting the investors for having been duped.
It said: "Now for being stupid and believing in witchcraft you will have to work much harder to recoup the money you gave us."
Its hard to see a difference between the Ponzi people and the Wall Street crooks and the FedRes/Treasury thieves passing out the two trillion dollars to their starving partying friends in Wall Street.
Money goes in, magic happens, money vanishes.
The only thing that is clear and defined, is the obvious fact that its a mugs game to actually work for a living, sitting in a plush office and phoning up your old Yale buddies and crying for money is far easier.
I posted this yesterday on the open thread, but since our petition to get Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond appointed Secretary of Education started only 2 days ago, we've had over 1000 signatures. Teachers, Parents & Students have all signed. Please check it out. There's information on Dr. Darling-Hammond's qualifications there as well.
You know, I'm still mad about the Palin-Africa hoax. I read about it in the NY Times, via The Daily Beast. I did not want to have to budget a second guess into my opinion about Palin, and thanks much obscure filmmakers for the expense.
I think Evan is towing the party line and making like a pussy to appear like a good cop. There are several senate seats still undecided, and until we know which way those seats are going the Dems will pretend to play nice. I don't think we'll know if they hear us about Lieberman until mid-December, when all the run-off elections and recounts are called.
Evan wants more than Indiana (just look at the guy!), and he's willing to play along for now - IMHO.
Blackwater shipped 900 weapons to Iraq without the paperwork required by arms export control regulations, one department official said. Some of the weapons are believed to have ended up on the country's black market.
wtf?
A wingnut friend send this to me late last night, but I can't find any other source about it but this one story http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dem...
Byline is dated 11/4, so it is already over a week old, & a google search only shows links back to the original story.
cBc:
The Federal Government has been bailing out private pensions for years. www.pbgc.org
I'm not sure about taking over 401k benefits but I do know that Dems and Repugs have for years turned a blind eye to protective measures that ensure that 401k accounts are fully funded.
Tax payers should know that part of the bailout of the auto industry will be "geared" towards dumping legacy costs into the grossly underfunded PBGC.
To me , "confiscating" 401k retirement money from workers doesn't sound at all like "bailing out". Is the writer of the article just another wingnut loony, or is this being seriously considered by the Dem Congress? Will the American people stand for this? I sure as hell sill not.
New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/new-e...
Along with wind and solar, geothermal energy is also developing at an explosive rate. Some 96 geothermal power plants now under development in twelve western states are expected to double U.S. geothermal generating capacity. With California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah leading the way, the stage is set for the massive future development of geothermal energy.
And soon Oregon will nearly double its wind generating capacity with a 900-megawatt wind farm in the wind-rich Columbia River Gorge.
Southern Ocean Could Hit Ocean Acidification Tipping Point 30 Years Early - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/south...
The end of marine life as we know it? The consequences for marine organisms, particularly those which form shells or skeletons made out of calcium carbonate, would be devastating.
This matters because many other organisms up the food chain depend either directly (zooplankton) or indirectly (fish and other larger predators) on their presence. (In other words, many of these species are likely to go extinct.)
Every Vote Counts; in Alaska Begich leads Stevens by 814 votes! - http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/586989.html
Begich, who was losing after election night, now leads Stevens by 814 votes -- 132,196 to 131,382 -- with the state still to count roughly 35,000 more ballots over the next week.
The state Division of Elections tallied some 60,000 absentee, early and questioned ballots on Wednesday. The ballots broke heavily in the Democrat's favor, erasing the 3,000-vote lead Stevens held after election night Nov. 4.
But if Begich Wins, It's a Two-fer. The Democrats Pad Their Lead in the Senate, and We'll be Saved the Farce of Palin Disgracing Those Hallowed Halls.
This is just another reminder of how $hitty the GOP in Georgia is....they won't count regular ballots much less absentee & early ones....
Why GM executives are bastards: Like a Hummer with teeth - http://flagrancy.net/entry-like_a_hummer_with...
General Motors' Director of Economic Policy, Thomas Walton, joined the global warming denial think tank the Heartland Institute in 2001. Bob Lutz, the Vice Chairman of Global Product Development, is of the opinion that global warming "is a crock of shit" and doesn't "believe in the CO2 theory". General Motors spews propaganda into the media as "news" and spends millions of dollars every year directly lobbying our government.
It puts its money where its heart is: it's been a long time contributor to almost every crackpot anti-environmental hack shop or think tank one could probably think of - from Tech Central Station, the Reason Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, to the finally defunct Global Climate Coalition - that has been in the business of opposing every effort to force GM to adopt a sustainable business plan.
Then they follow up decades of opposition to sound environmental policies that would have made them more competitive by lying about their own record. Their business plan has basically amounted to trashing the environment and then blaming their employees' union for their own poor business decisions.
Barack Obama would ask us to help them survive in order to save all those factory jobs in Mexico and Canada, rather than let one American auto worker find employment in the same factories under new, undoubtably better, management. That way GM can survive to throw its massive political clout against his health care plan, his environmental agenda, his tax policies, and lobby to ensure he doesn't get any funny ideas about expanding social security to replace the private pension plans the big automakers bitch and moan about every day in the business pages.
This is why I'm totally against 'bailing' them out....they are responsible for their own insanely stupid 'strategic' business decisions....let Japanese, German, & Korean automakers buy them out...maybe then these arrogant moron investment class bozos will get the point...its a tragedy that their workers have to suffer for their bosses' stupidity; they made their bed with Big Oil, eschewed efficiency & higher MPG technology, etc....its their fault (just like Wall Street)
Scott Rafferty: Why Al Franken Will be Minnesota's Next Senator "No one should be surprised if Democrat Al Franken is elected to the U.S. Senate in the Minnesota vote count or canvass, which is not completed until Nov. 18, and that a statewide hand recount, an election contest in Minnesota courts, and the United States Senate will all confirm this result."
- http://www.alternet.org/democracy/106625/
Mark Morford on the Obama Victory: This is not just a big, warm, fuzzy liberal hug. This is light years from mere short-lived gloating over a long-overdue Democratic victory, or just a handful of overexcited libs taking home a souvenir. This is something else, something electric and enthralling, a preternatural vibe journalists from all over the globe have been struggling to capture since the Obama rocket began its phenomenal rise. The best part: This feeling has roots, is anchored in the hard concrete of reality and fact. It's already getting ready to pay off.
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
Joe Conason: Bring on the Filibuster. It Won't Work This Time Around, Republicans. You are an Endangered Species.
- http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/whos-af...
Dispatches from Moronville: Gene Lyons: "Two days after the election, Limbaugh began blaming Obama for the ongoing financial crisis. The presidency of George W. Bush, you see, never actually happened. Right up until Nov. 3, every bad thing that happened in the U.S.A. was the fault of Bill Clinton. Starting Nov. 4, it’s all Obama’s fault."
- http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/243290/
I'm still trying to decide who is more idiotic, the Limbaugh dittoheads or the O'Reilly/Hannity fans....it could be debated for centuries and we would never get our answer...
Another reason we need true justice on the high court: "The U.S. Supreme Court has removed restrictions on the navy's use of sonar in training exercises near California. The ruling is a defeat for environmental groups who say the sonar can kill whales and other mammals."
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/772...
Citing ‘High Percentage Of Minority Vote’ In GA, Chambliss Laments Not Getting ‘Our Folks’ Out To Vote. What the Chickenhawk Chambliss Did to Vietnam War Hero Max Cleland Was a National Disgrace.
- http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/11/chambliss...
'Our Folks' translated = Idiot rednecks, racist morons, fairytale tax lemmings, religious right wingnuts/rapture expressers, 'anti-socialists' who don't know what the definition is, and people that vote against their own best interests because they believe 'they'll be rich too'...someday.
Feel assured work on this project is in full swing because so much has to be done almost immediately before we can go forward with our choice of CHANGE. I believe it would be most beneficial if Obama would consider Johnathon Turley for his AG. Appears he is going to need a scholar of Constitutional Law to understand and know how to reverse all the crap Bush put into law without the knowledge of the people.
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I sleep better now.
Constitutional Scholars Troubled by Cheney’s Latest Theory: The ‘PERPETUAL Executive’
..then check out the New York Times
Can't wait for that to come to fruition.
that's a front page I want to see.
Pranksters Distribute Fake New York Times Declaring 'Iraq War Over'
Link includes pdf of the "Special Edition" and video documenting its creation.
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 is not soon enough for me!
at BUZZFLASH
*haha* great photoshop pic!~ can't wait till WE can HIT that darn button...........YES WE DID!~ & YES MUST CONTINUE!~
As absentee/early voting results are counted, Mark Begich has passed Ted Stevens by a few votes!
Since Begich really focused on early voting while Ted was "otherwise occupied" in Washington DC, look for the lead to increase.
i was hoping stevens would win...get kicked out of the senate...palin chooses to run in the special election against begich and gets her ass handed to her again
or at the worst, she wins and tina fey is forced back onto snl for the next 6 years
either way its win/win as begich will again run in 2010 vs murkowsky
It appears that Republican congress put a loophole in to prevent Clinton from establishing new regulations that now will prevent Bush from making any new regulations permanent.
:<[)
And every time my Barack Obama does something smart or good, I will think of Bush, and smile.
http://onlysayin.com
Someone once said: "You can't know true Joy until you know sorrow". Bush provided the sorrow,and now for the Joy.
... and we've waited so long for it. Happy days!
but at least when we are all huddling around the radio (cuz cable tv is way too expensive) we wont be cringing when the president is giving his fireside chats
At 1:20 AM EST, George W. Bush will have 100,000 minutes to go in his term. Read about what he can do with that at TheZoo.
What if these headlines were true
Who was that guy standing in front of NYT building? Chief editor?
He was so defensive about it and then someone mentioned Judith Miller. He gave her a dirty look and ran back into the building.
Was that fake? if not, that's fricken hilarious!
No one can undo the millions of innocent Iraqi lives lost or ruined for no good reason.
for legally sponsored revenge.
Rush is still using the word "creepy" when referring to Obama.
I will not do!
u r da man!
:<[)
does that mean that sean is now a terrorist?
{Deleted, Don't go there OK. Not even in jest. SiteMonitor}
Hard to shoot someone in the SEWER.
Wolf Blitzer today let Palin repeat her innuendo about Obama and Ayers. At some point this sort of chickensh*t interviewing is worse than pathetic, it is complicity. It isn’t enough to ask Palin if she “stands by” her remarks. He has to require she take her words seriously. Is she saying Obama is pro-terrorist? If not, why does she play with such rhetorical fire? And if we should be afraid of Obama, why does she now say she’d be honored to work with him? Does that mean she's anti-American too? A real interview would leave even the wingnuts ashamed of her, and she hasn't had one yet.
He doesn't have anything relevant to contribute anymore.
The situation room will be converted into a coffee and Foosball lounge. ....or Candy Crowley's feeding trough.
Are cooking up some trouble in that "underground" he spoke of...
Are republicans smarter than a seven year old?
ladies and gentlemen, i give you tweedledum and tweedledummer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y74ApwWu1L8&fe...
of course beck thinks palin is an intellegent woman...he is a pin head
That guy is a brain dead hack.
rofl
Future radio trype in BFE.
Two boneheads going to the boneyard. Faux is going to lose.
When Rush Limbaugh is the real RNC chairman…
They tell their audience that they are the news and the left is a drive by media. Pretending to be more knowlwdgable than the media has made the media a pawn of their media. It's a sick system.
just a full reinstall should do
wipe out all the viruses and spyware
even if you dont like baseball...search out vids of this kid pitching...he is a freak
i got to watch him close up at his first game in a league ball, and he treated the other team like grade schoolers...and he looked like he was only 12
oh, and larry elder is not only an uncle tom, house negro, he is an idiot
today, he was talking about the fairness doctrine and opined that it only pertained to radio, because the fcc does not oversee broadcast tv.
this guy has a law degree? well that is what affirmative action gets you
btw, larry is older than me, and he should recall the daily editorials from local stations, with responses from viewers, who were provided equal time....that is how tv stations dealt with the fairness doctrine...dumbass
Congress only now chooses to review how it allocates its bail-out money. Today's fat kids have the arteries of people in their 40s!
Yet another school shooting. Didn't get much attention, possibly because people are getting bored at the media exploiting tragedy for ratings. Further proof that 2008 is the Black History Year. Aretha Franklin actually tops Elvis in a Rolling Stone poll on best rock era singer. Hey, alternative lifestyle couples. At least you have Connecticut.
A general is begging Obama not to cut funding for the Military Industrial Complex, er, "missile shield" in Europe.
the queer eye for the straight guy. eecchhh, just embarrassingly awful.
It even hit Michael Jackson.
Nice thought but it's going to take more than an easy undo button fix the mess we are in. I still like it though.
A do button in some prosecutors offices. That would work for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehKteqExWwo
Hit That button!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soon we can either detect and fix the problem before birth, or pharmaceutical meds during childhood will cure these poor suffering souls.
No more will these people live with the stigma of hearing fantasy voices in the sky.
Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene (Youtube video)
I sent it to my understanding friends... and a couple of groups that have simply been too quiet lately. That'll stir 'em up!
Looks like Wolf " I stopped reporting real news " Blitzer is giving Greta a run for her money , with who can repair Sara Palin's career the fastest , with embarrassingly idiotic questions like , " if Pres. Obama asked your help would you " , sure blitz , he'd make sure she would get even MORE unnecessary publicity , designed to position her for another frightening run for the oval office .
You would think CNN would have some sense of SHAME for not reporting real news , rather than manufacturing controversies , silly interviews , debates with the same old tired " analyst " ie Gergen, Begala, Brazille , blabbing about absolute NOTHING, no way . CNN not only milked the silly palin interview all day long , that wasn't enough , she had to appear on Larry "skeletor" King, for another infomercial .
same too with mccain
not one question about the fact that their rhetoric caused an increase in death threats towards obama and his family
not one question about the findings of the legislative panel, and the absurdity of her own hand picked panel in regards troopergate (and the fact that she may very well have perjured herself)
and so on, and so forth
ya...real liberal press
guess blitzer was looking for some strange
They are blaming 'pyramid schemes' but that could just be an excuse, some of the legit hedgefunds and others operate close to being Ponzi schemes, the fine line is blurred and not always visible.
BBC News article
Its hard to see a difference between the Ponzi people and the Wall Street crooks and the FedRes/Treasury thieves passing out the two trillion dollars to their starving partying friends in Wall Street.
Money goes in, magic happens, money vanishes.
The only thing that is clear and defined, is the obvious fact that its a mugs game to actually work for a living, sitting in a plush office and phoning up your old Yale buddies and crying for money is far easier.
made legal by the fed and other goverments
in a sane world, every ceo would be heading for prison...not getting bailed out
and every day, paulson, the new king, gets to change the rules of the game
i really hope that obama brings krugman into his new administration...he may be the only man who really can talk sense to our new president
we must begin the new trickle up economy on jan 21
massive works program....rebuild in the same way that roosevelt did
bring us back to the times when yes, we were all our brothers keeper
Hello Fellow C&Lers,
I posted this yesterday on the open thread, but since our petition to get Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond appointed Secretary of Education started only 2 days ago, we've had over 1000 signatures. Teachers, Parents & Students have all signed. Please check it out. There's information on Dr. Darling-Hammond's qualifications there as well.
http://www.petitiononline.com/DHammond/petiti...
And once you sign, please spread the word. We want at least 10,000 signatures by January 1st. Thank you!
You know, I'm still mad about the Palin-Africa hoax. I read about it in the NY Times, via The Daily Beast. I did not want to have to budget a second guess into my opinion about Palin, and thanks much obscure filmmakers for the expense.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=35PGHnMgGQ0
wonder if he disciplines his kids this way
evan....son, put that down
son...fuck you daddy
evan....now son
son...fuck you up your liberal pussy ass daddy
evan...oh come on son, dont talk like that
son...fuck you, you terrorist loving, america hating commie
evan...now son, this is your last chance, be nice or i will take your car away
son....oh, im sorry daddy (you stupid pussy)
hey evan...holy joe has been playing this game since 2000...you really think that holy joe will resign??? hahahahaha....never in a million years
he wants to caucus with the repugs, his career is over in 2012
no, he will play nice and hope to regain some stature in 2010....he must be smacked hard
evan, you will never have a leadership role in this senate
I think Evan is towing the party line and making like a pussy to appear like a good cop. There are several senate seats still undecided, and until we know which way those seats are going the Dems will pretend to play nice. I don't think we'll know if they hear us about Lieberman until mid-December, when all the run-off elections and recounts are called.
Evan wants more than Indiana (just look at the guy!), and he's willing to play along for now - IMHO.
http://stupidgitsaysso.blogspot.com/2008/11/b...
(I usually don't link to my own page but there were numerous links involved. Sorry for the blog-whoring).
I like how they say "believed to have ended up on the black market" as if that isn't where they were headed in the first place.
Undo. If only it was that simple. We're going to be cleaning up Bush's toxic mess for decades to come.
What the hell is Obama gonna do? ...unvote the things he voted for?
a good start for Obama would be...
apologise for voting for the Patriot act re-authorisation.
apologise for voting for H.R. 1955. (homegrown terror act)
apologise for giving immunity to AT&T and other telecoms for listening to Americans phone calls.
apologise for voting for the bankster bailout.
then maybe he could get to work on "undoing" things that the Bush admin has done. ...clean up yer own house first Obama.
wtf?
A wingnut friend send this to me late last night, but I can't find any other source about it but this one story
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dem...
Byline is dated 11/4, so it is already over a week old, & a google search only shows links back to the original story.
cBc:
The Federal Government has been bailing out private pensions for years.
www.pbgc.org
I'm not sure about taking over 401k benefits but I do know that Dems and Repugs have for years turned a blind eye to protective measures that ensure that 401k accounts are fully funded.
Tax payers should know that part of the bailout of the auto industry will be "geared" towards dumping legacy costs into the grossly underfunded PBGC.
To me , "confiscating" 401k retirement money from workers doesn't sound at all like "bailing out". Is the writer of the article just another wingnut loony, or is this being seriously considered by the Dem Congress? Will the American people stand for this? I sure as hell sill not.
New Energy Economy Emerging in the United States - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/new-e...
Along with wind and solar, geothermal energy is also developing at an explosive rate. Some 96 geothermal power plants now under development in twelve western states are expected to double U.S. geothermal generating capacity. With California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah leading the way, the stage is set for the massive future development of geothermal energy.
And soon Oregon will nearly double its wind generating capacity with a 900-megawatt wind farm in the wind-rich Columbia River Gorge.
Southern Ocean Could Hit Ocean Acidification Tipping Point 30 Years Early - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/south...
The end of marine life as we know it? The consequences for marine organisms, particularly those which form shells or skeletons made out of calcium carbonate, would be devastating.
This matters because many other organisms up the food chain depend either directly (zooplankton) or indirectly (fish and other larger predators) on their presence. (In other words, many of these species are likely to go extinct.)
Every Vote Counts; in Alaska Begich leads Stevens by 814 votes! - http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/586989.html
Begich, who was losing after election night, now leads Stevens by 814 votes -- 132,196 to 131,382 -- with the state still to count roughly 35,000 more ballots over the next week.
The state Division of Elections tallied some 60,000 absentee, early and questioned ballots on Wednesday. The ballots broke heavily in the Democrat's favor, erasing the 3,000-vote lead Stevens held after election night Nov. 4.
But if Begich Wins, It's a Two-fer. The Democrats Pad Their Lead in the Senate, and We'll be Saved the Farce of Palin Disgracing Those Hallowed Halls.
This is just another reminder of how $hitty the GOP in Georgia is....they won't count regular ballots much less absentee & early ones....
Why GM executives are bastards: Like a Hummer with teeth - http://flagrancy.net/entry-like_a_hummer_with...
General Motors' Director of Economic Policy, Thomas Walton, joined the global warming denial think tank the Heartland Institute in 2001. Bob Lutz, the Vice Chairman of Global Product Development, is of the opinion that global warming "is a crock of shit" and doesn't "believe in the CO2 theory". General Motors spews propaganda into the media as "news" and spends millions of dollars every year directly lobbying our government.
It puts its money where its heart is: it's been a long time contributor to almost every crackpot anti-environmental hack shop or think tank one could probably think of - from Tech Central Station, the Reason Foundation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heartland Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, to the finally defunct Global Climate Coalition - that has been in the business of opposing every effort to force GM to adopt a sustainable business plan.
Then they follow up decades of opposition to sound environmental policies that would have made them more competitive by lying about their own record. Their business plan has basically amounted to trashing the environment and then blaming their employees' union for their own poor business decisions.
Barack Obama would ask us to help them survive in order to save all those factory jobs in Mexico and Canada, rather than let one American auto worker find employment in the same factories under new, undoubtably better, management. That way GM can survive to throw its massive political clout against his health care plan, his environmental agenda, his tax policies, and lobby to ensure he doesn't get any funny ideas about expanding social security to replace the private pension plans the big automakers bitch and moan about every day in the business pages.
This is why I'm totally against 'bailing' them out....they are responsible for their own insanely stupid 'strategic' business decisions....let Japanese, German, & Korean automakers buy them out...maybe then these arrogant moron investment class bozos will get the point...its a tragedy that their workers have to suffer for their bosses' stupidity; they made their bed with Big Oil, eschewed efficiency & higher MPG technology, etc....its their fault (just like Wall Street)
Scott Rafferty: Why Al Franken Will be Minnesota's Next Senator "No one should be surprised if Democrat Al Franken is elected to the U.S. Senate in the Minnesota vote count or canvass, which is not completed until Nov. 18, and that a statewide hand recount, an election contest in Minnesota courts, and the United States Senate will all confirm this result."
- http://www.alternet.org/democracy/106625/
Obama’s Transition Team Restricts Lobbyists' Role - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/us/politics...
Mark Morford on the Obama Victory: This is not just a big, warm, fuzzy liberal hug. This is light years from mere short-lived gloating over a long-overdue Democratic victory, or just a handful of overexcited libs taking home a souvenir. This is something else, something electric and enthralling, a preternatural vibe journalists from all over the globe have been struggling to capture since the Obama rocket began its phenomenal rise. The best part: This feeling has roots, is anchored in the hard concrete of reality and fact. It's already getting ready to pay off.
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
Joe Conason: Bring on the Filibuster. It Won't Work This Time Around, Republicans. You are an Endangered Species.
- http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/whos-af...
Dispatches from Moronville: Gene Lyons: "Two days after the election, Limbaugh began blaming Obama for the ongoing financial crisis. The presidency of George W. Bush, you see, never actually happened. Right up until Nov. 3, every bad thing that happened in the U.S.A. was the fault of Bill Clinton. Starting Nov. 4, it’s all Obama’s fault."
- http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/243290/
I'm still trying to decide who is more idiotic, the Limbaugh dittoheads or the O'Reilly/Hannity fans....it could be debated for centuries and we would never get our answer...
Another reason we need true justice on the high court: "The U.S. Supreme Court has removed restrictions on the navy's use of sonar in training exercises near California. The ruling is a defeat for environmental groups who say the sonar can kill whales and other mammals."
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/772...
Citing ‘High Percentage Of Minority Vote’ In GA, Chambliss Laments Not Getting ‘Our Folks’ Out To Vote. What the Chickenhawk Chambliss Did to Vietnam War Hero Max Cleland Was a National Disgrace.
- http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/11/chambliss...
'Our Folks' translated = Idiot rednecks, racist morons, fairytale tax lemmings, religious right wingnuts/rapture expressers, 'anti-socialists' who don't know what the definition is, and people that vote against their own best interests because they believe 'they'll be rich too'...someday.
Transition talk: National Energy Council, Will Obama create a new energy council, as recommended by the Center for American Progress? - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/11/1...
Battery Life Breakthrough Could Increase Capacity by 800% - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/batte...
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2008/11/13/governin...
http://politicalirony.com/2008/11/13/late-nig...
Shouldn't that be a flush handle?
Feel assured work on this project is in full swing because so much has to be done almost immediately before we can go forward with our choice of CHANGE. I believe it would be most beneficial if Obama would consider Johnathon Turley for his AG. Appears he is going to need a scholar of Constitutional Law to understand and know how to reverse all the crap Bush put into law without the knowledge of the people.
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