Mendocino County Elections Department 27 December press release:
"January 21, 2008 is the last day for electors to register in order to vote in the February 5, 2008 Presidential Primary Election, according to Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder Marsha A. Wharff."
Support the Troops. End the War.

John Edwards for President:
johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards link

Undo the Coup: Time to Impeach


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."
-- John Edwards
16 December 2007
Saturday 12 January 2008

Deep End News

"According to icasualties.org, at least 3,921 U.S. troops have been killed since we were tricked into invading Iraq. Have Clinton and Obama completely forgotten about the war?"

Have Hillary and Obama Forgotten Iraq?
Mona Gable, huffingtonpost

  • “This could ... keep culinary members from voting.”
  • Culinary union secretary-treasurer D. Taylor said the plaintiffs are using "Floridian Republican tactics to suppress cooks, housekeepers, people of color and women."
  • "Clinton's state chairman is Rory Reid, a well-connected Clark County Commissioner whose father is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev."
  • "...pits white collar union against blue collar union ... "
  • Culinary union officials dismiss the complaints as sour grapes from Clinton allies. "It's strange it's coming after our endorsement."
  • Clinton's Class War Campaign:
    Teachers Sue to Block Hotel Workers’ Union Vote in Nevada Caucus
    Steve Freiss, New York Times
    Kathleen Hennessey, AP
    Jake Tapper, abc w/comments
    Ken Bazinet, nydailynews
    Paul Kane, WashPost w/comments
    Paul Kane and Alec MacGillis, WashPost

    Roll Dem Bones: “Give me a break,” Clinton said. “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever heard.”

    Bill Clinton's Bitching About Backlash . . .
    Mike Allen, politico
    Reuters

  • Journalist Sidney Blumenthal arrested: 70 mph in a 30 mph zone.
  • "This occurred on Monday the 7th and was not seen anywhere until today, the 12th."

    Clinton adviser charged with Drunk Driving in NH
    nashuatelegraph w/comments
    Suzanne Smalley, newsweek w/comments
    Leave Sid Blumenthal Alone (Hillary pal) youtube w/comments

  • nashuatelegraph: Primary lingers as recount looms

  • AFP: "United States dead last, in providing timely and effective healthcare to its citizens."
  • We Don't Need Insurance,
    We Need Guaranteed Healthcare

    www.guaranteedhealthcare.org

    How California governor "cuts the budget":
    $147,900
    a year for deputy chief of staff, 28
    Friday 11 January 2008

    Corporate elite fear candidate Edwards
    Kevin Drawbaugh, Reuters


    "Clinton's chief campaign strategist, Mark Penn, is CEO of a PR firm that prepped the Blackwater CEO for his recent congressional testimony, is aggressively involved in anti-union efforts, and has represented everyone from the Argentine military junta and Philip Morris to Union Carbide after the 1984 Bhopal  disaster.
      Clinton supported an Iran vote so reckless that Jim Webb called it "Dick Cheney's fondest Pipe Dream," and did so, according to her campaign insiders, because she was covering herself for the general election."
    continued here . . .

    more on Hilly-Billy's handlers, "Spinning Hillary Centrist" here

    Thursday 10 January 2008

    John Edwards - 'Rockin' in Columbia, SC
    OneCarolinaGirl, dailykos

    See bradblog, blackboxvoting.org
    "Kucinich alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Sen. Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton."

    Kucinich seeks NH Dem vote recount
    Stephen Frothingham, AP


    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."

    "I found my own voice" ??
    Kentucky Fried Hillary
    Selma, Alabama -- 5 March 2007 youtube

    We Don't Need Insurance,
    We Need Guaranteed Healthcare

    www.guaranteedhealthcare.org

    opensecrets.org: [Clinton] has asked her top tier of supporters, the "HillRaisers," to raise at least $1 million each from other donors -- 10 times the amount that George W. Bush's "Pioneers" were asked to raise in 2000.
    Wednesday 9 January 2008
    "Tonight we saw the fatal flaw of Senator Obama -- that if you don't fight for change, you can't win."

    Edwards fights on
    Matthew Philips, newsweek

    Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?
    Maureen Dowd, New York Times

    Clinton Schedules Official Crying Jag for South Carolina
    Andy Borowitz, huffingtonpost.com


    Cry-baby Clinton in NH: "It's about our kids' futures . . . "

    2006: Chelsea Clinton joins New York hedge fund
    Reuters

    Blair to be advisor to Wall Street bank
    AFP


    AP: U.S. to send 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan

    Monday 7 January 2008

    An Obama Fable–It’s All About the Mood, Dude
    Ralph Nader, commondreams

    "I want the same access to healthcare that Vice President Cheney
    and all members of Congress now receive."

    California Nurses Association:
    Sign our online petition for "CheneyCare"

    Al-Qaeda watching US election:
    Clinton, in Obama swipe
    AFP

    rawstory/AFP: Israel to brief Bush on Iran strike
    Gulf Daily News: Bush - Blair - Bahrain

    Watching the Gulf of Tonkin unfold ...
    Larisa Alexandrovna, at-Largely


    California mail balloting begins today . . .
    Greens, Libertarians, Peace & Freedom please note:
    "The last day to register or re-register with a different political party for the February 5 election is January 22."

    California Voters' Head Start
    Kerry Benefield, PressDemocrat

    Note: Mendocino County Elections Department 27 December press release:
    "January 21, 2008 is the last day for electors to register in order to vote in the February 5, 2008 Presidential Primary Election, according to Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder Marsha A. Wharff."
    Sunday 6 January 2008

    Edwards: No Conscience in Clinton Campaign
    Julie Bosman, New York Times

    Medical victims join Edwards
    Charles Babington, AP

    "Polls show Edwards performing the best of any Democrat
    against any Republican presidential candidate
    ."

    Gauging the Fear Inside the Palace Walls
    David Sirota, sirotablog

    Campaign a shared mission for the Edwardses
    Kate Zernike, New York Times

    Edwards Pledges Ban on Lobbyists
    Julie Bosman, New York TimesAll troops out, including those training Iraqis, within 10 months of taking office.

    Edwards Calls for Full Withdrawal from Iraq
    Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

    "As president, universal health care will be my number one domestic priority."

    My Plan to Stop Corporate Abuses
    John Edwards, Wall Street Journal

    Thursday 3 January / Friday 4 January 2008
    Mendocino County

    Slow Locals . . .

    Both men had been resident deputies in Covelo . . .

    Second Suicide for Sheriffs
    Ben Brown, Ukiah Daily Journal
    Glenda Anderson, Press Democrat

    Santa Rosa cops kill another "mental patient"
    Mary Callahan, Press Democrat


    Iowa Caucuses:
    Mauro Heck fotos: Three Hillary Clinton campaign staff guard the entrance to her Des Moines, Iowa headquarters as peace activists conduct a sit-in to protest the candidate's support for the war in Iraq.

    Peace Activists Re-Occupy Clinton Campaign Office on Day of Iowa Voting Mike Ferner
    Peace Activists Occupy Obama, Romney Offices
    Mike Ferner

    A dozen protesters arrested outside Obama, Romney Iowa headquarters
    David Edwards and Nick Juliano, rawstory
    Daniel Nasaw, Guardian

    Join Call for Cheney Impeachment:
    www.wexlerwantshearings.com


    Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
    HR 1955/S. 1959:

    Stop the Thought Crimes Bill
    People's Email Network: www.usalone.com

    California 1st District Rep Mike Thompson voted for HR 1955
    See November 2, scroll down at link . . .

    Ray McGovern:
    Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons
    consortiumnews

    Naomi Wolf:
    America's Fascist Coup and Bush's Nazi Grandfather
    [Senator Prescott Bush]
    Paul Joseph Watson, prisonplanet

  • Naomi Wolf, Guardian:
    Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
  • Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell, Guardian:
    How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
  • BBC: Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup In America
  • Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism
  • more:
    end-of-December 2007. . .
    December 9 - December 15
    November 30 - December 6
    November 25 - December 1
    November 18

    1st District Rep Mike Thompson votes "Yea" on HR 1955:
    November 2 - 7

    October 28 - November 2
    October 21 - 24
    October 16 - 19
    October 8 - 14