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Bumper Stickers Recently Seen:
What Part of "Bush Lied" Don't You Understand?
Even Nixon Resigned
George Bush is Creating the Terrorists Our Kids will Have to Fight
Let's Fix Democracy in This Country First
America: One Nation, Under Surveillance
Jail...
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From CBS:
"The Army forced its surgeon general, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, to retire, officials said Monday, the third high-level official to lose his job over poor outpatient treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Kiley, who headed Walter Reed from 2002 to...
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This morning in my email I had a letter from a group of Democrats..to be more precise..the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC.
Now, I signed up for their emails only to be informed as to what this heinous group of ner-do-well's and all around special interest kinda guys and...
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Ok, this won't make some folks happy, but here it is..
Do to overwhelming pressure, the Democratic party bowed to pressure demanding that Fox Noise..er News not be allowed to host the Nevada debates.
"The Nevada State Democratic Party is pulling out of a controversial presidential...
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Surely most folks have heard about her comment at CPAC last week where she referred to Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards in a derogatory gay word. Well, Trashcan Annie, who had roughly 100 newspapers syndicate her column as of last summer, is now down to 44 newspapers according to...
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It seems that the insurgency is alive, well and growing in Afghanistan, just as I have been saying it was and would all along. While the anti-war and anti-Bush crowd have been distracted by all the crap in Iraq, they have(again as I said they would)lost focus on the war on terror and now it's...
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Though it is a highly complex phenomenon,
http://neuro-conservative.b...
recent studies seem to demonstrate a clear role of genetics in determining a person's political predilections.
Just suppose we juxtapose the terms genetics and...
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WASHINGTON - The Army said Thursday that the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been relieved of command following disclosures about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who was commanding general of the North Atlantic Regional...
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I like Rudy, America's favorite mayor and a former US Attorney General. I like his stand on gay and pro-choice issues. His stance during his tenure as Mayor of NYC showed he respects illegals as human beings when he issued a decree that stated city employees could not contact the feds with...
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Clark and Soltz of VoteVets.org have created a YouTube Video about their new website: StopIranWar.com
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Gee, couldn't be because we borrow money to fund the war in Iraq? We can't afford to have China 'slow down' right now..they won't be able to keep loaning us money for our war effort.
The Dow fell 500 pts today..biggest drop in quite awhile. MSNBC has a nice writeup here about how the Chinese...
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For the first time since 1979, religious leaders from America have met with an Iranian leader, in this case..yes, that man..Ahmadinejad. American Friends Service Committee General Secretary Mary Ellen McNish has a video up here, on google about her discussions with Ahmadinejad and...
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Since Arnolds plan to send inmates out of state was shot down in the courts, he has now announced he will be forced to release prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes. A judge has threatened Federal oversight if something isn't done about the overcrowding in our state prisons.
We already...
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This is an email I posted today in our Kern County Barack Obama supporters group. If you would like to join and participate in the discussion, please feel free to do so at: http://my.barackobama.com/p...
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Editor and Publisher has a transcript up of a partial interview with Len Downie, executive editor at The Washington Post for many years. The interviewer is Lowell Bergman. The transcript is part of a 4 part "Frontline" series on the media.
Q. Do you worry about [reporter] Dana...
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Since Lieberman was, for all intents and purposes, a DINO, this news shouldn't surprise anyone. Politico has a piece up here. If the Dem's vote to defund the war, he probably will go to the 'dark' side..(snark button on)
"I have no desire to change parties," Lieberman said in a...
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I took part in an online conference call Tuesday with the progressivestates.org committee and Senator Ted Kennedy. There were also several state legislators on the call as well. CA has two bills working their way through the State legislature, one in the assembly and one in the Senate.
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Michael Mixon aka Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, was indicted friday for transferring $152,000 to fund the purchase of equipment for use in a militant training camp in Afghanistan.
Bet the republican party(NRCC) isn't too keen on him now. As TPM points out:
"As ABC's new ace...
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Let me start by saying, I am no fan of Hillary’s. I do appreciate what she went through when her hubby Bill was in office, there is no denying the fact that she put on a happy face and trudged through that part of her life. It has become obvious however, why she did that.
She...
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We are five years into the economic expansion and Americans are still waiting for their fair share with inflation swallowing pay raises. Businesses are hiring but forecasters fear the economy is about to stall. "If this is a recovery" the leader of the opposing political party said,...
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I see the state has decided to pass out 1.75 million bucks to help the farmworkers pay their bills due to layoffs after the "Big Freeze". I suppose it's a compassionate thing to do, but when I(along with many others)got laid off in 1980 when work ran out on the RR, nobody offered to...
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Yesterday, our current occupant of the oval office held a Press Conference. The entire transcript can be read here as the government is very good about providing us with Bush's immortal words.
This part of the transcript caught my eye:
Q Thank you, sir. General Pace says that these...
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Blue Mountain is one of the largest online sites that offer e-cards. Apparently their political views run very right of the center. Check out this RawStory article about a recent e-card which says its a "VD" card showing love "Democratic Style". The link to the e-card is here....
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I am organizing local support for Barack Obama, if you are interested in getting involved I have groups going on MySpace and also on My.BarackObama.com. Click the links below.
http://groups.myspace.com/k...
http://my.barackobama.com/p...
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This is a debate we have needed for quite sometime from our legislative leaders. Cspan has it online in radio format. It only works if you use Internet Explorer..apparently they aren't friends of Firefox.
If you wish to listen you can click the link here. Its also live on Cspan if you wish to...
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How about that new girl on the block? Ain't she a dandy? All chuckles and grins and the sweetheart of the American left. Well, most of them anyway. I speak, of course, about Nancy Pelosi. Other than the fact that she is a liberal, I haven't had much of a chance to formulate a true opinion of...
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After the Iraq Intel used during the run-up to the Iraq war was shown to be false, Democratic leadership is taking a different view of the current Intel showing Iran is a major player in Iraq and responsible for the deaths of over 170 soldiers since June of 2004. Senator Chris Dodd has gone...
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As I cruise through different websites, blogs and message boards, I see something that the vast majority of posters and owners have in common. That is that they take themselves far too seriously. It's a fact that most of the posts on all blogsites are political in way or another, and if the...
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If I had one question I could ask every liberal I met, it would be "Don't you ever get tired of being mad"? It seems like I never hear anything but pessimism from them, even when they talk about their own side. When thing's don't go as I voted or feel, I don't claim disenfranchisement...
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Hello friends, family and fans (too few of you):This would be considered shameless self-promotion, but I feel very ashamed. You all know that if anyone hates to brag, it’s me :) But it looks like I made this rock critics list of top songs of 2006. You’ll find my song, Neil Young...
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Polls..Have you ever seen one? I don't mean the results, I mean the poll itself? I have. They go something like this..
Do you approve of the war in Iraq? Y or N
Do you approve of the way the president is handling the war in Iraq? Y or N
Do you think we should committ more troops to the war...
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Sometime columnist for the Californian and coiner of the term "Shrub" for the current resident of the White House, back when he was only a candidate for the third-highest office in Texas. That she didn't live to see his ultimate fall from grace is partly offset by the fact...
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Oh come now! Another one? It seems that whenever a golden child/cause of the left is called into question it is automatically a cover-up or a vast right wing conspiracy. Today it is Global Warming and it's all Dubyas fault! I wasn't aware that it was a subject that was a secret to the masses or...
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Jason Leopold has followed PlameGate since its inception. He has gotten burned a couple of times with leading stories that were discounted..but in a trial, the info is out there and its part of the court record..today we get this writeup from him:
But Cheney's notes, which were...
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Reuters has an article up here about it. A short blurb:
"A former Defense Department contractor was sentenced on Monday to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in a bribery and fraud scheme involving contracts to reconstruct Iraq, U.S. officials...
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My Mom(SurferGrandma)and I were invited by the Californian to do a spot on the blogs and the generalities of why we do it. It was pretty cool and we had some good laughs, met some fine people and got our 15 minutes. As I was driving home I got to thinking a little more about all this blogging...
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Everyone in the video is a veteran. You can visit their website here. From their website:
"VoteVets.org, with Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, is leading the charge against the President’s escalation of the war in Iraq with a new television advertisement today. ...
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Salon.com has a good writeup about the "March on DC" here. It points out many of the groups that engaged in the march Saturday were not the usual left "wingnuts" and hippies:
"Regardless of size, the protest felt different. The demographics of the crowd had changed....
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For Immediate Release
Date: January 26,...
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Chuck Hagel has a lengthy interview up here entitled:
THE ANGRY ONE
Republican senator Chuck Hagel sounds off on the sorry state of Congress, the president’s lies, and the vote for war that he now regrets
Its 7 pages of who did what in the run up to the Iraq War over in the West Wing of...
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What is Dick Cheney drinking these days if he doesn’t consider the “situation” in Iraq to be terrible? Just what does it take for him to consider Iraq a terrible place? 100 dead Iraqi’s in one day must not count for anything in Dicks world. Blowing the back of the heads...
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this is certainly interesting...
Which U.S. presidents of the past 50 years will be remembered as best and worst? Two opinions are presented below.
Ratings: 4= A; 3=B; C=2; D=1; 0=F
Abbreviations: JFK= kennedy; LBJ= johnson; RN=nixon; GF=ford; JC=carter; RR=reagan; GB=bush the elder;...
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Eliminating term limits(Venezuela has a six year term at this time)only saves him the trouble of terrorizing voters and fixing counts in the next election(or having his competition disappear!)and is certainly a bad sign for those who may re-think their position on him next time after...
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Per the email I got from "his people" this cold morning, they would like everyone to view the video and asked we distribute it widely. So, I am just fullfilling Mr. Moyer's request :) He has quite a well-researched site on this issue on his PBS "Moyers on America" site. For...
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A Miami Herald article states the cost will be in the neighborhood of $125 Million. Thats an expensive neighborhood:
"The Pentagon is invoking emergency authority to fast-track funding of a comprehensive war-crimes court compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to a letter to...
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As this exclusive article in the Independant states, the Iraqi government, along with their "friends" in the Bush administration, are planning on allowing Oil companies to profit from their oil reserves: "Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be...
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In order for Bush to attempt to gather public support for his increase of troops in Iraq, he has begun his tour of military bases, as of yesterday. Stopping at Fort Benning GA, the small assembly of soldiers gave him a polite but far from rousing welcome. As this article in WaPo states, the...
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Of all the red herrings in the world, the biggest one is saying that the Iraq War is part of the War on Terrorism. The War on Terrorism is the war in Afganistan, finding Osama Bin Laden and bringing him to justice. Iraq is in Civil War, and we don't need to spend $400 Billion to bring...
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When Gov. Schwarzenegger says everyone must have health coverage, he means everyone — illegal immigrants included.
And if you can't afford it, you will be enrolled in one of the existing government-funded programs (Medi-Cal or Healthy Families) or will get coverage through the pool of...
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The governor laid out his comprehensive plan to improve health care in the state yesterday. Here are some of the highlights:
All Californians will be required to have health insurance.
Insurers must guarantee coverage.
Access to public programs, like Medi-Cal and Healthy...
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