Repetition does not transform
a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I'm going to give you
back your Democratic Party, I'm going to
give you back the White House and I'm going to give you back your country."
Friday
29 February 2008
Deep End News
Slow Locals . . .Rahaim and Farber had been living in the residence temporarily while they looked for permanent housing.
Trashing of historic fire chief's home called 'symbolic gesture'
Jaxon Van Derbeken, sfgate
Best candidate on Ohio ballot:Support for Edwards will be wasted
unless he captures 15 percent of the Democratic vote in a congressional district or 15 percent of the vote statewide.
The late father of the Democratic frontrunner was from western Kenya.
Clinton faces Kenya cattle fine over Obama photo Daniel Wallis, Reuters
"What is disturbing about the campaign’s response is that it leaves unchallenged the disgraceful and racist premise behind the entire “Muslim smear”: that being Muslim is de facto a source of shame."
"These pigs feed and breed. That's all they care about."
US military declares war on feral pigs at Georgia's Fort Benning AP
"
Blablabla
blabla," Bush said in a statement.
Katrina recovery chief resigns post Reuters
Thursday
28 February 2008
Slow Locals . . .All asphalt, all the time:
"I believe Senator Obama better
blablabla," Bush said, as a Chicago-area shopping center
blew up . . .
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the Iraq war the "$800 billion gorilla in the room"
Senate Continues Debate on Iraq Pullout
Paul Kane, washpost
Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries on Candidacy of Elderly Republican Milita-Nut
Carl Hulse, nyt
Soldier-cult SadoState:
Live Blog:
On The Road With Sen. Barack Obama
Jay Gormley, cbs11tv
Geneticist Craig Venter creating life form that turns CO2 to fuel
AFP
"Debris"??
Wednesday
27 February 2008
Major setback to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation came despite a reported last-minute telephone call by Vice President
Dick Cheney . . .
Turkey steps up Iraq onslaught as US calls for quick pull-out AFP
900,000 Names on U.S. Terror Watch Lists
Justin Rood, abc
Several large earthquakes shake Indonesia
misterinfo, USGS
Kenyan town plans demo over Obama Somali photo
Noor Ali, Reuters
African outfit no big deal after all, Obama says of photo flap
Michael Saul, dailynews
"All you have to do is put a match to it and the whole thing will catch fire."
U.S. inciting Kosovo instability: Russia's Medvedev
Reuters
Colombia: FARC Frees Four AFP
Tuesday
26 February 2008
Gardening while black . . .Memo Parker was booked Monday on suspicion of marijuana cultivation, cultivation for sale and committing a new offense while on bail.
Oakland School Turns Out Pot Club Pros
Lisa Leff, AP
--> Nuke plant shutdown spurs Florida power outages
AP
citynews.ca: "The software giant will only say the scope of the problem is international and that they're working to fix it."
Microsoft Windows Live Services Suffer Global Outage Kevin McLaughlin, crn
"Obama in the past expressed outrage when the SEIU was helping former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, in Iowa. He doesn't seem so outraged anymore."
Obama's Selective Outrage
on Third-Party Groups
Jake Tapper, abc
Obama, Clinton Helped Contributors Secure Special Tax Breaks
Ken Dilanian, usatoday
"Every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot . . .
The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it."
April 2007:
Money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.
In the Wisconsin primary, almost nine per cent of Obama's vote came from Republicans.
Monday
25 February 2008
"It's easy to blame Ralph because, well, he possesses the
stubbornness of the last sane man in a world of screaming
lunatics. He has spent his life working to protect the repressed
and exploited, even though they never thank him. In fact,
they frequently mock him like dumb bullies do to the smart kid
in the class, who always raises his hand when he knows the
answer instead of remaining mute so people will like him."
Obama is an overly cautious captive of his handlers who has a “relatively mediocre” Senate record.
Clinton, Nader said, “is a panderer and a flatterer.”
Far from keeping his distance from lobbyists, Senator Obama
and his campaign seems to be brainstorming with them.
Obama’s Money Cartel: How he’s fronted for the most vicious firms on Wall Street
Pam Martens, zspace
Weather-phobiaClinton, Obama Spar on Ties to Radicals
Justin Rood, abc
A turban and a dress! ... what's not to like?Obama Photo Causes Stir
Jim Kuhnhenn, AP
Breathe. Relax. The Drudge 'Dressed Obama' Photo, in Perspective.
Andrew Romano, newsweek
Indeed, fainting has become so common that a team of medical volunteers is ordered to be on hand to treat the victims, and Mr Obama has interrupted his own speeches to give his followers a blow by blow commentary of their recovery.
On Nightline tonight: Obama "played it safe" and often "went along with the program," not fighting for the kind of bold change that has come to define the oratory of his presidential campaign.
Senator Obama’s father, who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Catholic school, was also polygamous in keeping with local custom, taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Mr. Obama’s mother but remained a consort, according to accounts by local people and the senator himself.
Sunday
24 February 2008
People's Email Network:Shirley Golub, a long time Democratic progressive activist, has stepped forward to challenge Nancy Pelosi for the party primary nomination in 8th Congressional District of CA. youtube links
Why Democrats should nominate John EdwardsNovember 15, 2007: John Edwards wants universal coverage from birth to death
qctimes
All of that soaring rhetoric is supported by policies that are so old they creak. Obama may be shiny, bright and new, but his ideas are suffering from senility.
He will offer a platform to the left of the two Democratic contenders, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Cute when he's mad:the three-story dwelling is occasionally used for high-ranking city employees who are in need of transitional housing The inside of the home looked "like there was a huge frat party," said sources who asked to be unnamed because of the sensitive nature of the case.
Boyfriend of city's new planning director John Rahaim accused of arson, trashing historic home
Cecilia M. Vega, sfgate
Saturday
23 February 2008
Slow Locals . . .Mitch Clogg for Congress"Congressman Clogg could be part of a fresh class of Congress members willing to finally rid the Legislature of its current complicit Democratic leadership."
New attacks hit American-protected Green Zone in Iraq's capital Baghdad
John Affleck, AP
Vietnamese plaintiffs v. Dow Chemical, Monsanto Co, nearly 30 other companies
Court upholds dismissal of "agent orange" suit
Martha Graybow, Reuters
Now we see a woman running as the fighter and a man modeling a “woman’s way” of leading . . .
Ellen Goodman, truthdig: "If Hillary Clinton was the tough guy in the race, Barack Obama became the Oprah candidate . . . He finely honed a language usually associated with women’s voices.
We see a younger generation in particular inspired by ideas nurtured by women, as long as they are delivered in a baritone.
So, has the women’s movement made life easier? For another man?"
Big Tent Democrat, talkleft: "Obama's Unity Schtick is precisely what the DLC and Joe Lieberman have been preaching for decades."