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."
Saturday
26 January 2008
Deep End News
Text of Edwards' Remarks After SC Primary AP / video here
Obama wins South Carolina AFP
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.
California
Slow Locals . . . 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
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, 1998: Toni Morrison's
Clinton as
the first black president
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)
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."
Friday
25 January 2008
Interview:
Zogby suggests, "The real movement here is by John Edwards, who is the only one who continues to gain ground in our three-day tracking poll. His increase appears to be coming from African American voters . . .
more:
thestate.comEdwards Gains in South Carolina Spook Clinton
thenation
93 percent of the online contributions received by the campaign arrived in amounts of $100 or less. 52% of those making contributions online this quarter are new contributors.
“This is another example of Washington deserting working people and the middle class,” Edwards said. “They gave $70 billion of tax breaks that do nothing for those who’ve lost their jobs.”
Edwards says Senate Dems lack ‘backbone’
Klaus Marre, thehill
Edwards held his ground. "Let me finish here," he said. "Lord knows, you let them go on forever."
The crowd cheered as loudly as it had for anything said by Obama or Clinton.
Rezko with Clintons, too: comments at digg. . .8 things you need to know about Obama and Rezko
Tim Novak, suntimes
Clinton spokesman: "Senator Obama lost and now his campaign is acting out."Hillobama Hassles:
Bill Clinton the issue, as '08 Democrats battle AFP
Mendocino County
Sheriff scandal simmering . . .. . . a scheduled appearance by the congressman's wife has once again been announced and then subsequently canceled.
Thursday
24 January 2008
FresnoBee: "We supported Edwards four years ago in the Democratic primary because he offered a real opportunity to bridge a nation that has been divided along class lines. That need has only increased under the current administration, and we think Edwards, with his populist message, offers a change for the better."
Edwards enjoys the support of more than 760,000 union members across California, including the support of California's single largest union, the California SEIU State Council.Fresno Bee Endorses John Edwards For President
pressmediawire
"To dismiss Rezko as 'somebody who I knew' just isn't going to cut it"
"She cast her vote after failing to read the national intelligence estimates on Iraq," . . . Clinton campaign spokesman in South Carolina said it was
"tough to take his comments too seriously" and accused Obama of
"only changing his position when he became a candidate for the White House.
There hasn't been much action to match Senator Obama's talk."Obama Returns to Clinton's War Vote AP
The wild card for the Democrats involves the superdelegates, nearly 800 elected officials and members of the Democratic National Committee.
Mendocino County
Ukiah Cannabis Cartel . . .
"There are abandoned cars everywhere."
Monday
21 January 2008
"Critics of the Vietnam War were timorous for a long time. Each began his criticism with the mantra that "we cannot withdraw instantly" — the same thing we hear now."
--
Gary Wills, 2006Top Three Dems Debate In SC Tonight AP
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up . . . "
Martin Luther King ally says U.S. holiday an insult upi
"We have ignored the essence of his life and the horror of his death.
We've allowed white America to escape the guilt of his assassination
and we've allowed black America to drift back into a coma."
Black Monday:
World stock markets plunge AFP
Pfaff is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune
"The present election campaign demonstrates that powerful forces in the Washington political and foreign policy communities, reinforced by financial and industrial interests, are committed to suppressing all challenge to policies that already have altered the political character of the United States. The American form of government needs to be defended."
Sunday
20 January 2008
"So we've now had three states vote out of 50. We got 47 to go, and this cause that I'm engaged in is not going to go away and it has not changed . . . I am not finished with this fight."
Every vote for Edwards will be crucial . . .
Edwards Stands Alone Among Democrats
in Challenging Corporate Power
Paul Burke, sacramentopa
Richard J. Codey is New Jersey's state Senate president.
If elected president, he will spend his first day in office submitting legislation that will end health care coverage for the president, all members of Congress and all senior political appointees in the legislative and executive branches unless Congress enacts universal health care reform.
Richard Codey: Why I'm supporting John Edwards
northjersey.com
The John Edwards campaign is a crusade for social justice and universal health care.
Primary preview: John Edwards on crusade for health care
Frank Davies, mercurynews
Former Chairman of the Liberal Party of America,
Tim Gatto is a retired Army Sergeant. He currently lives in South Carolina.
“When I am President we will stop the illegal spying on the American people.”
Mendocino CountySlow Locals . . .
Experts note that this, and other community-associated forms of MRSA, generally begin as a pimple-like sore that looks like a spider bite and starts to get bigger.
“It’s really meant to be used to mean all inclusive, including the men-who-have-sex-with-men population,” he said.
After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men,
University Scrambles to Clarify
Jesse McKinley, nyt
Saturday
19 January 2008
Obama’s relationship with Rezko dates to 1990, when Obama, then a Harvard law student, interviewed for a job with Rezko’s development company, Rezmar Corp.
Nevada’s caucus system was destined to measure little more than a candidate’s sway over the state’s Democratic establishment, which was always firmly in Clinton’s camp.
Vote NO on "Indian gaming"http://www.fclca.org/
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.