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
8 February 2008
Deep End News
Deputies Roland Moncivais, Miguel Vazquez
Mendocino County Jail:
Inmate with no vital signs revived by jail deputies
Ukiah Daily Journal
Head of convention online communications logs off Denver Post
Part of Pentagon evacuated due to heavy smoke Reuters
SAN DIEGO Munitions missing from base
AP, news8
He enjoys the benefits of a collective media swoon, and the systematic fawning of the media elites . . . The senator is a weak and passive figure, a quietist.
"something just a wee bit creepy . . . "
And Obama Wept, Jake Tapper, abcSuper Bluesday. James Woolcott, vanityfairInspiration vs. Substance Joe Klein, time
Wednesday
6 February 2008
Every network is the same. Unfortunately, sometimes public broadcasting sounds the same way . . . There’s the illusion of diversity but what matters is who owns these channels.
News flash: Pot calls kettle black . . .
Obama Says GOP Will Have Dirt on Clinton
Nedra Pickler, AP
Obama's politics of cunning, compromise and concession.
w/video:
1. Marines training w/Oakland/Alameda County law enforcement
2. Clergy Response Teams in NOLA
Homeland Security plan ENDGAME sets as its goal the removal of
"all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists" . . .
the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly
775,000 "terror suspects"
with the number
increasing by 20,000 per month.
"Obama's fatuous utopian rhetoric promises a golden age and earthly paradise of political harmony in which all real conflicts will be magically neutralized and submerged by the senator's personal charisma. Above all, partisan political clashes will be forbidden."
-- Webster Tarpley,
more here . . .
Tuesday
5 February 2008
Two-thirds of the delegates are awarded by congressional district. Delegates are allocated based on the Democratic turnout in the last two presidential elections, giving heavily Democratic districts more delegates.
Read "Comments" at link . . ."I don't trust either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to carry the banner of progressive causes."
The witness said he shot Khadr twice in the back and that Khadr replied repeatedly in English, "Kill me."
Khadr was instead given medical treatment and sent to Guantanamo.
U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court
Jane Sutton, Reuters
Monday
4 February 2008
"I don't trust either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to carry the banner of progressive causes."
See also: Suburban Guerrilla
Norvell wasn’t wearing a seat belt. What caused him to lose control remains under investigation, the CHP said.
Sunday
3 February 2008
"It was a little uncomfortable watching the two of them up there together, barely keeping their hands off each other," said DNC chairman Howard Dean. "The sexual tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife."
"The party walked to their anti-war victory in the 2006 midterms over the bodies of New Orleans’ dead."
Baghdad drowning in sewage: Iraqi official AFP
An estimated 1,633 people live in the square mile of concrete housing that was originally built for soldiers in World War II.
Life at the bottom:
San Francisco's Sunnydale project
Leslie Fulbright, sfgate
"If opportunism married to an inflated ego birthed his persona as the Ares of America’s political pantheon, then this psycho-political pathology soon found expression as a full-blown delusional system . . . "
Stark County, Ohio incident (similar to
Mendocino County Sheriffs' tasering of naked woman):
Woman sues Ohio sheriff's deputy over 'outrageous' strip search
Adam Doster, rawstory, w/video
Vote NO on "Indian gaming"
Proposition 91: No.
Transportation Funding.
Proposition 92: No.
Community Colleges Funding.
Proposition 93:
Neutral.
Term Limits. (@T: No)
Proposition 94: No.
Indian Gaming Compact.
Proposition 95: No.
Indian Gaming Compact.
Proposition 96: No.
Indian Gaming Compact.
Proposition 97: No. Indian Gaming Compact.
Dan Hamburg,
MEC Quarterly:"So here we are a decade and a half
later: National health care, first proposed
by Harry Truman in 1948, is still a dream.
And Hillary Clinton ranks
number two
among 100 senators in
contributions
from the
very industry
that beat her to a pulp! That shows that
she’s been to the woodshed, just like her husband ... Bill Clinton won the election in ’92
with populist rhetoric ... But as soon as the
election returns were in, he began singing
from a different hymnal."
Sunday
27 January 2008
Did blacks really make big economic gains during the '90s?Welfare reform, the growth of black imprisonment, and the public abandonment of progressive
African-Americans like Lani Guinier are some of the most memorable racial disappointments of those years."If you don't think last night was a powerful moment in American political history, keep in mind that this writer is not even a Barack Obama voter, but rather a supporter of John Edwards."Yes We Can! South Carolinians
Reject Politics of Racial Division
Paul Burke, sacramentopa
California . . . ALERT -- Stop this bill:from Andrew McGuire, Executive Director, Health Care for All-CA:
"Help us STOP the Governor's insurance bill that punishes poor people
The Senate Health Committee will vote on Monday whether to pass ABX1 1 or not.
If it passes the Senate Health Committee on Monday it will be sent to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
This gives us 3 days to figure out how to stop the bill in the Health
Committee or in the full Senate."
More info, numbers here
Radio Monday: Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, will be a guest on the Ronn Owens program, KGO radio 810-AM to talk about California's February 5 Presidential Primary.
Saturday
26 January 2008
Text of Edwards' Remarks After SC Primary AP / video here
Obama wins South Carolina AFP
Another reason to vote for John Edwards:Obama endorsed Lieberman in 2006 (and so did
Clinton)
"The two Democratic frontrunners -- Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- should fish or cut bait . . . Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina -- also a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination -- would have the U.S. leave Iraq in 10 months if he becomes president."
Review Shows an Additional $100,000 ... "court document accuses Rezko of funneling money from a kickback scheme to Obama's 2004 Senate campaign through an associate."
How Much Did Political Fixer Rezko Raise for Obama?
abcnews
"When he said 'liberal heathens,' he meant, um, something really good.
Definitely. And the way he said it was
inspirational!"
W.O.R.M. -- What Obama Really Meant corrente
. . . mysterious SHEEP circle dailymail
Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases, capturing data for analysis, sources said.
Bush signed the bill on New Year's Eve, and its passage went relatively unnoticed at a time when the media was focused squarely on the first presidential primary contests.
Remedial literary history:
Toni Morrison's
Clinton as
the first black president, 1998
G. William Domhoff, March 2005:
Third Parties Don't Work:
Why and How Egalitarians Should Transform the Democratic Party:
"If egalitarians are going to win any time soon, they are going to have to do so within the context of the current rules by taking over the Democratic Party and making changes in the economic system. They aren't the best rules for insurgents, but they are the hand that has been dealt."
Don't look now, but the sky is falling . . .
it's Skylab time again:
National Security Council: "Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation.""In 2002, officials believe debris from a 7,000-pound science satellite smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and rained down over the Persian Gulf, a few thousand miles from where they first predicted it would plummet."See also:
1.
Dangerous space reentries of spacecraft2.
canada.com, 4 January 2008:
" . . . everything goes what they call dark at NASA and it turns over to the spooks down there in the U.S. who handle the satellites. So if indeed it did come down, you're not going to hear about it."
3.
China shoots down U.S. spy satellite (18 January 2007)