Re-post from previous thread.

I found this on wikipedia. Just one more reason to be sure we elect a 'bullet-proof' majority to both houses of Congress. If we were to do that, in theory, President Obama could then 'pack the court' (as FDR tried to do) and be sure to get us our 'New Deal!'

Size of the Court
The United States Constitution does not specify the size of the Supreme Court; instead, Congress has the power to fix the number of Justices. Originally, the total number of Justices was set at six by the Judiciary Act of 1789. As the country grew geographically, the number of Justices steadily increased to correspond with the growing number of judicial circuits. The court was expanded to seven members in 1807, nine in 1837 and ten in 1863. In 1866, however, Congress wished to deny President Andrew Johnson any Supreme Court appointments, and therefore passed the Judicial Circuits Act, which provided that the next three Justices to retire would not be replaced; thus, the size of the Court would eventually reach seven by attrition. Consequently, one seat was removed in 1866 and a second in 1867. In the Circuit Judges Act of 1869, the number of Justices was again set at nine (the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices), where it has remained ever since. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to expand the Court (see Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937); his plan would have allowed the President to appoint one new, additional justice for every justice who reached the age of seventy but did not retire from the bench, until the Court reached a maximum size of fifteen justices. Ostensibly, this was to ease the burdens of the docket on the elderly judges, but it was widely believed that the President's actual purpose was to add Justices who would favor his New Deal policies, which had been regularly ruled unconstitutional by the Court. This plan, referred to often as the Court Packing Plan, failed in Congress. The Court, however, moved from its opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal programs, rendering the President's effort moot. In any case, Roosevelt's long tenure in the White House allowed him to appoint eight Justices to the Supreme Court (second only to George Washington) and promote one Associate Justice to Chief Justice.[7]

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 8, 2008 at 01:33 PM

Typical Republican Double Standard behavior!
Go Get 'EM Gov. Dean! Expose them for the lying hypocrites that they are!

WASHINGTON - Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.

"You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This is a privacy issue. My husband is the candidate," Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain, said in an interview aired on NBC's "Today" on Thursday.

Asked if she would release her tax returns if she was first lady, Cindy McCain said: "No."

The Arizona senator released his tax return last month, reporting he had a total income of $405,409 in 2007 and paid $84,460 in federal income taxes. He files his return separately from his wife, an heiress to a Phoenix-based beer distributing company whose fortune is in the $100 million range.

Sen. McCain is routinely is ranked among the richest lawmakers in Congress, but he and his wife have kept their finances separate throughout their marriage. A prenuptial agreement left much of the family's assets in Cindy McCain's name.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Cindy McCain's refusal to release her tax returns gives the appearance of a double standard on the part of her husband.

"What is John McCain trying to hide?" Dean said in a statement. "Throughout this campaign, he has acted like his own calls for openness and accountability apply to everyone but himself. Now he thinks he can bring that same double standard to the White House."

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton filed joint tax returns with their spouses and publicly released those returns.

Guess what everyone! Bush is pissing off the people of India now because their middle class workers (which used to be us) eat better!! It's not about the oil afterall.

Bush Comment on Food Crisis Brings Anger, Ridicule in India

By Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 8, 2008; Page A18

NEW DELHI, May 7 -- A brief comment by President Bush about the role of India in the world food crisis has set off a firestorm of criticism in this country.

Speaking to employees at a high-tech firm in St. Louis over the weekend, Bush noted that much of the developing world was prospering and that U.S. businesses could benefit. As an example, he cited India, where the "middle class is larger than our entire population."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703405.html?hpid=sec-world

Posted by puggles on May 8, 2008 at 02:10 PM
He pays companies to take our jobs and give them to the people of India and now ..... Oh - that POS makes me so mad! We have got to rid ourselves of him and all of his minions!

Good afternoon fellow Democrats.

Obama \ Clinton 2008

Yes we can!

Si se puede!

Change we can believe in!

Sen. Clinton's website.

How 'bout sending me a private message via PartyBuilder. 'At'll work.

Posted by TheOriginalHillWilliam on May 8, 2008 at 01:47 PM

ok, now i'm feeling stupid. i can't find how to do that. help!

To Michael Link:
2 things - clean up on troll isle - please
and
Can you provide a link to the web site of Bob Tuke. He's running against L. Alexander for Senate and I'd like to make a contribution to his campaign and learn more about him.

Thanks for any/all help that you can provide and for all that you do!

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 8, 2008 at 02:29 PM

The gentlelady from TN's request:

http://www.tukefortennessee.com/

Posted by BobVADemHawk-Obama08 on May 8, 2008 at 02:25 PM

There you are! Finally! Unfortunately, I'm about to go but please be sure to see my post at the top of this page.
If it was good enough for FDR, then it's good enough for me!

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 8, 2008 at 02:29 PM

Tuke for Tennessee

Michael - you are so THE MAN!
Thank you!

here's something everyone might want to share with their friends and anyone else who might be having problems stretching their food budget. the site was mentioned yesterday on public radio and looks pretty good. check it out -- usda recipe finder.

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 8, 2008 at 02:34 PM

Indeed I did. It is a good history and civics lesson for those who take time to read it. As you know, my chief concern for this election is the SCOTUS nominees for the next POTUS' term.

i can't find how to do that. help!

Posted by BoilerMan on May 8, 2008 at 02:26 PM

BoilerMan,

If you wish...

Make a comment at Night Bird's Fountain, enter your email under your name in the area provided (it won't show public).

I will retrieve it and send it on to HillWilliam for you.

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo has a cool GoogleMap mash up showing where Chimpy is "finding" the money to pay for his tax cuts. He's doing this to saddle the next President with a mess just before he takes off to Paraguay with all the loot he stole.

Just enlarge the map and click on your state to see the gory details. Illinois is getting screwed.

awol uses the google
to showcase where his budget cuts will land....

Boilerman,

Go into the partybuilder and search on my handle. If you're logged in to PB, you can send a friend request. That'll get the ball rolling.

Posted by Barbi on May 8, 2008 at 02:48 PM

Thanks Barbi, but the search in PartyBuilder worked this time; was searching for 'theoriginal..', 'hill...' did it.

{{{Barbi}}} you da best :)

Okey Doke. I'm glad it worked out, BoilerMan. :-)

Posted by TheOriginalHillWilliam on May 8, 2008 at 03:01 PM

Hey Bill, great job on the NC primary day before yesterday. Any post-primary insights from the great state of North Carolina?

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 8, 2008 at 02:36 PM

You're very welcome. Thanks for the heads-up.

What the Pentagon Pundits Were Selling on the Side

The Pentagon pundit scandal was not only a corrupt marriage of propaganda and corporate lobbying -- it was completely illegal.

The Pentagon launched its covert media analyst program in 2002, to sell the Iraq war. Later, it was used to sell an image of progress in Afghanistan, whitewash the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and defend the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping, as David Barstow reported in his New York Times expose.

But the pundits weren't just selling government talking points.

[...]

Today, the broadcast and cable networks are steadfastly refusing to cover or otherwise address the Pentagon military analyst program, with very few exceptions. In this case, though, the pundits' undeclared financial interests are only part of a larger and much more serious problem. These officers participated in a covert government program designed to shape U.S. public opinion -- an illegal program, and one that relied on the willingness of major media to play along, without asking too many questions. And that's exactly what happened.

The media outlets that featured the Pentagon's pundits need to address both aspects of this debacle -- that they failed to identify or disclose conflicts of interest, and that they helped propagandize U.S. news audiences.

Aww, {{Rev}}!! *blush*

Which of the three options is going on now?

"Campaign bubble"? May 31 meeting? Or the racism lawsuit against the DNC?

You afternoon all. I had enough of Hillary Clinto already. Get a load of this:

Sources: Clinton supporter pressures Pelosi
Posted: 10:45 AM ET
Sources say Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut contributions to congressional Democrats.
Sources say Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut contributions to congressional Democrats.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off contributions to congressional Democrats unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced his plan to finance revotes in Florida and Michigan, three officials familiar with their conversation said.

Weinstein and Pelosi talked on the phone late last month, the sources said.

The three officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the conversation.

They said Weinstein, a top supporter of Clinton's presidential campaign, appeared determined to buy Clinton more time in her battle against Sen. Barack Obama by pushing for the revote. He was also pressing Pelosi to back off her previous comments that superdelegates should support the candidate who's leading in pledged delegates in early June, the sources said.
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Hillary - give it up! You are NOT seating all of the delegates from the unfair and invalid Michigan and Florida elections. A compromise is to seat them 50-50 which makes sense to me. All of this threatening of super-delagates, Howard Dean, leade Pelosi is beneath the dignity of someone who claims to be "best" qualified to be President.

Hillary it's time for you to step down!

Finance Director of Democratic congressional campaign: Hillary is destroying us
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/08/2008 01:35:00 PM ET · Link
Discuss this post here: 23 Comments · reddit · FARK ·· Digg It!

I received this email last night from a reader who is also the finance director for a Democratic congressional campaign. While the letter below is anonymous, I know the name of the author and the candidate they work for - this is for real.

John,

I got home tonight from my job as finance director for a top-tier Democratic Congressional challenger and read your post regarding the negative impact of Hillary's staying in the race upon our Congressional candidates' fundraising. I can say definitively that what you wrote is absolutely true. My candidate speaks every day to donors who tell him directly that they're more focused on the Presidential right now, or that they're tapped out because they've given so much to the Presidential. Or simply, as you say, because they're just pissed off about the Presidential.

And that's not even counting those who simply don't return our calls, or blow the candidate off when we do get them on the phone. We'll never know how many of those people would have been max-out donors to us, but are simply too involved in (or turned off by) the Presidential race to give a damn about someone who's running for a House seat.

We had a good 1st Quarter anyway, but I don't think we can continue to reach our fundraising targets unless this thing gets settled, and quickly. For her to wait until June is a nightmare that may well guarantee that not only my guy, but dozens and dozens of other challengers will come up badly short of their goals for the 2nd Quarter. And my candidate is in the very top level of targeted races. I can only imagine what the lower tiers of challengers are facing (well, no, actually I've heard from some of them, including the finance chair for a candidate in the Midwest to whom I spoke today).

We need her to drop out now, not only for the sake of our real Presidential nominee winning in November, but so that the rest of us can finally have a fighting chance with donors.

Thanks for all you do.

Regards,
AMERICAblog Reader
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Hillary:

GET OUT NOW!

Bob,

NC is a really odd mix of very Progressive Blue and some real luddite red. Somehow we manage to get along. My gut says if we went for Obama by such a margin, with the weak Republic turnout that it's pretty likely we'll go Obama in the General. There's an excitement that hasn't been present for some years.

If yard-signs are any indicator, the flock of Democratic signs and the near-complete lack of republic signs (or stickers... there are a very few remaining Boosh stickers and I did see a Huckabee sticker the other day; no McKooks, though) the Democratic determination may carry the day. Judging by the throngs that showed up for both Clinton and Obama (and the throngs that stayed away from McKook), I'm pretty sure Obama has NC in the General.

Even republics around here are saying things like "McCain/McSameAsBush" and we don't want another.

Interesting, quite. There just isn't the enthusiasm on the R side. Good.

RJsnj:
How can anyone not realize that Sen. Obama has the nomination sewen up? I think that those in Sen. Clinton's camp realize that it's over for their candidate and at this time they are negotiating 'terms for surrender' in that they are trying to get concessions and possibly promises of positions for individuals. What you posted sounds to me like 'posturing' in the hopes of improving their negotiating position. Sen. Obama has publically set a May 20 deadline, I'm going to wait and see what happens between now and then. I'll bet that they will come to an agreement between now and then and she will withdraw.

Vote for Hillary - She's Whiter
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/08/2008 11:11:00 AM ET · Link
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Well that didn't take long. It was less than 24 hours ago that Hillary spoke with congressional leaders about her insistence on continuing her fairy tale campaign for the presidency. As we reported last night, our congressional leaders (that would be Reid and Pelosi) said it was fine for Hillary to continue wasting our time, our money, and our focus for yet another month. But, they said that she wouldn't be going negative.

Oops.

Hillary is race-baiting again. Gee, no one could have predicted that one. I wrote yesterday how it was rather odd that, within one 24 hour period, Hillary and two top allies kept saying that Obama's voters weren't very good because they're black, and that her voters were better because they're white. The language was stark - starker than politicians normally use when talking about race - and even the journalists covering the comments noted as much. It smelled to me like more than a coincidence. For some reason, Hillary wanted to drop the word "white" and "black," and that somehow mentioning the races, reminding voters that she is white and Obama is black, would help her win. Considering the Clintons recent history of race-baiting Obama, the reappearance of racial talking points is disturbing.

And now Hillary is doing it again. This from today's USA Today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

You can listen to Hillary boast of her "white" support here.

There sure is a pattern emerging here. The Clintons are using racism to try to win the nomination against a black man. And our party leaders are okay with it. (Well, in all fairness, our congressional leaders said that Hillary had better not adopt a "negative tone." They never said she couldn't adopt a racist one.) Is it any wonder blacks aren't voting for Hillary? They shouldn't vote for Hillary, ever again. If our party continues to give a thumbs-up to race-baiting in American politics in the year 2008, race-baiting in our own party, I'd be very surprised if blacks came out for us in November. Nor should they.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/vote-for-hillary-shes-whiter.html
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So her campaign is once again sleazing it up.

Hillary ... you have lost!

Get out now and stop this sore loser whining stuff.

Gallup: Obama's Support Among Whites Equals Kerry's Hotlist
by SusanG
Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:20:24 PM PDT

The pollster calls hogwash on Hillary's claims of being the only candidate who can deliver white voters in November:

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama's current level of support among white voters in a head-to-head matchup against John McCain is no worse than John Kerry's margin of support among whites against George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.

Much of the talk following Tuesday's Indiana and North Carolina primaries has focused on just how electable Obama -- now the highly probable nominee -- will be in the general election. The Clinton campaign has argued that Obama's weaknesses among white voters and blue-collar voters will hurt him against McCain in the fall.

But it appears that the way Obama stacks up against McCain at this point is similar to the way in which Kerry performed against Bush in 2004 within several key racial, educational, religious, and gender subgroups.

One talking point down, six zillion to go.
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Oiii, so even the polls contradict what she is saying. It's time for Senator Clinton to get out of the race. She can hold her delegates until the convention and use them as bargaining chips. But please stop this racially divisive stuff.

Posted by marymac_memphis on May 8, 2008 at 03:35 PM
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Mary, I sure hope so but I am very concerned that once again her campaign has turned racially divisive. This is not right.

She can stay in the race technically. She can hold her delegates until the convention. But she needs to stop the garbage sleazy campaign tactics. Otherwise, it has the appearance of spite work against Obama. People will never forgive the Clintons if they do that.

Posted by rjsnj on May 8, 2008 at 03:28 PM

The guy who owns the Hyatt Hotel chain (Pritzker) pulled that same stunt a month ago. I hope the DNC finds hotel rooms other than at the Denver Hyatt for the convention. That smacks of extortion. Maybe he'd like to see how it feels to take a hit in the wallet for a change.

Posted by Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on May 8, 2008 at 03:49 PM
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Doo-Bee, sadly this isn't the first time that large Clinton donors have done this. I don't get what they hope to gain by threatening the Democratic party, DCCC, Speaker Pelosi, Dr. Dean and anyone else they think is getting in the way. Whatever happened to the attitude of letting the voters vote ...

When I say Hillary should get out, I mean that she should run a silent campaign at this point. No more trash talking against Obama, no racially divisive speeches, no threats from her supporters.
She can use her delegates as a bargaining chip later on. I would expect any politician to do that.

Posted by TheOriginalHillWilliam on May 8, 2008 at 03:33 PM

Bill, you may have wrote that post about VA. VA has not voted Democrat since LBJ in 1964.

Still I worry about the racist vote. In VA, I would estimate that to be about 25% to 40% of the electorate, IMHO, though I have no scientific basis for that argument; just forty years of residence.

In 2006, former Sen. George Allen (R-VA) still garnered 48% of the VA vote even after the infamous "Macaca" speech. In NC, the GOP is running the infamous "Rev. Wright" ad. None the less I, too, believe we have a real chance at turning VA and NC blue this time especially with Sen. Obama (D-IL) as our nominee.

RJ: I gotta' go but just please keep in mind when posting that Sen. Clinton is still a very influential member of the Senate, not to mention the Democratic party, and we will need her support to get a lot of things passed and Justices confirmed. I know that it is hard to be patient but please, let's see how things go between now and Sen. Obama's deadline.

Hillary will win if the Democratic Party will open up Florida and Michigan. If they don't this is another unfair election like 2000! The people will never be satisfied just like they were in 2000 and 2004. Wake up folks we don't want another unfair election like the Supreme Court elected George W. Bush.

Posted by BobVADemHawk-Obama08 on May 8, 2008 at 04:01 PM

Bob, check out the comparison maps of racism, the Klan and votes by county nationwide v.s. Appalachia.

How Kentucky, West Virginia and Racism Could Screw Up the Clinton Exit

That was produced before NC and IN voted, so Here's North Carolina

SPLC "Hate Map" Click on relevant State.

So, yeah, I can see her holding on through WV and KY since she is using popular vote total as a bargaining chip, although the Primary and Caucus system is based entirely on the number of DELEGATES, and she's already mathematically eliminated.

The blacks are so racial. They are voting for OBama just because he is Black!

This will be another Black mark against the Blacks.

It will make the whites want to hold the blacks down and set History back several Centuries.

I pray the Blacks will come to themselves and let the Blacks wait another 8 years to elect OBama. He needs more experience.

The above statement made by oneforall, was made by a Black Man on National Television.

Posted by oneforall on May 8, 2008 at 04:26 PM

Paid for by the Committee to elect John McCain President.

Posted by BobVADemHawk-Obama08 on May 8, 2008 at 04:01 PM

I haven't put in a call to St Jude yet ;-) There is real hope.

Bob: If you are still here, I want to thank you. Yesterday you told me that I could volunteer to campaign for whomever was running against Sen. L. Alexander. I responded with something like 'it's hopeless.'
Well, I started thinking and it will be hopeless as long as I and others think so. Talk about a self-fullfilling prophecy! So, Today, I made up my ,mind and got information about Bob Tuke who is running against Sen. Alexander.
Win or loose, it's about getting the message out. Of course, I want to win but even if we do not, we may be setting up other wins and, making Sen. Alexander campaign and fight for his seat might just push him toward retirement. Then, there is the fact that Tennessee is suffering under the rule of the current administration and they are getting angry. Maybe they are ready for the change that Bob Tuke can bring, who knows, we might just win.
Thank you Bob for your suggestion and I hope everyone who blogs here will donate to and volunteer for campaigns in their respective states, especially the ones that seem 'hopeless' because they may just be the most valuable. If Sen. Obama's candidacy has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that it starts with us.

Go Democrats Go!

Posted by oneforall on May 8, 2008 at 04:26 PM

Then how do you explain Bill Clinton getting 84% of the African American vote? How do you explain Hillary's support plummeting from a similar number at the outset of the season to whatever minuscule percentage it is today in the AA community after the race baiting started in SC? Using race to pander for white votes and hoping nobody would notice was a bone headed move.

How do you explain IA, ND, NV, UT, KS, MO, NE, etc.?

You can't. Hillary lost. Get over it.

Posted by oneforall on May 8, 2008 at 04:30 PM

I was for Sen. Biden and then for Sen. Edwards. You were for Sen. Clinton. The fact is, Sen. Obama is going to be our candidate. It's just that simple, the people have spoken. Now it is time to put that which divided us behind us and to unite. Even if you can not unite behind the candidate, please unite to defeat lamebrain mcsame. We need you and all of the supporters of Sen. Clinton if we are to overcome the illegal advantage that Republicans have assured themselves with their no-paper-trail voting machines, their politicizing the justice department as a whole and the supreme court in particular and their ability to disenfranchise voters, like the nuns in Indiana. Please consider the benefits of unity and the consequences - for all of us - of not uniting.

This week's Republican of the Week isn't Indiana Republican congressional candidate Tony Zirkle, who lost his bid after campaigning at a birthday party for Hitler. No, this week's Republican of the Week is Staten Island family values Republican representative Vito Fossella who had had a very bad week. He was arrested for drunk driving, faces a mandatory prison sentence and now has admitted to an affair.

I received this today. It seems that mclame has two "pastors (freaks)" who support him. hagee says New Orleans destruction was a result of the homosexual parade. parsley hates all muslims.
Nice f**king people.

why hasn't the MSM played this story over and over and over and over and over and over like the did Obama's "pastor". I am furious. mclame needs to be exposed for the ahole he is. These Nazi aholes hate America.

"You may have heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual "sins." Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war against Islam, which he considers to be a "false religion." In the past, Parsley has also railed against the separation of church and state, homosexuals, and abortion rights, comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazis.

Rev. John Hagee on Katrina:
Rev. Rod Parsley on Planned Parenthood:

John McCain actively sought and received Parsley's endorsement in the presidential race. McCain has called Parsley "a spiritual guide," and he hasn't said whether he shares Parsley's vicious anti-Islam views. That's because the mainstream media refuses to ask. And so, we've taken matters into our own hands, joining Mother Jones to present the truth about McCain's pastor:

Watch the video:

Since the media won't question McCain about his deeply bigoted pastor, it's up to you to call attention to this issue. Make McCain's pastor problem a major story by forwarding this video to your family, friends, and colleagues. Digg it! Anything to spread the word.

Spread this video, digg it:

We can't let McCain get away with aligning himself with a religious leader who's called for an all-out war on Islam, someone who draws no distinctions between Muslims and violent Islamic extremists. Now is the crucial time to act."

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Team

This would be good news, except for the fact there are those who WANT to be used for politican gain! Ignorants who think we should have a theocracy here, like in the old days when the Bishops and cardinals lived in the King's castles and told them what to do!!!

US Evangelicals Call for Step Back From Politics
By Ed Stoddard
Reuters

Dallas - A group of U.S. evangelical leaders called on Wednesday for a pullback from party politics so that followers would not become "useful idiots" exploited for partisan gain.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050808D.shtml

Posted by Johne on May 8, 2008 at 04:52 PM

Sure makes me wonder what Hagee and Parsley thought caused the big sink-hole in Texas where oil and gas trucks and equipment just disappeared into the ground. Hmmmmm..... What message was God sending then? We should ask them, right before the tar and feather them and run them out of town on a rail!!!!

Pam!
Did you get my posts to you yesterday? I'm sorry again for the brain fart!

Asshole hagee

Asshole parsley

Here's the video

Here's Digg

I can only conclude that mclame is mentally ill and a despicable POS who is not fit to be the custodian at a garbage dump. What does this say about Arizona who keeps electing the prick.

there are also those out there, who do not want these pictures published, because it shows the truth about this occupation and surge, and that eliminating Saddam Hussein was not worth these children's lives! Then these same people go and sit in church and pretend they are great Christians ! HA !

A Picture Worth a Thousand Words: Newspaper Criticized for Publishing Photo
By Helen Thomas
Hearst Newspapers

Washington - Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad's Sadr City "after a U.S. airstrike."

Two-year-old Ali Hussein later died in a hospital.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050808I.shtml

It's a possible win-win-win
for Clinton to continue

She has numerous goals here and she's bound to accomplish at least one:

o oust the entire liberal/progressive element of the party so that the DLC finally wins

o turn the dem party into another version of the republican party -- by attracting reactionary Christianists, racists (Southern and otherwise), and those who love being pandered to and are easily manipulated/propagandized

o get the nomination (and here's my conspiracy speculation contribution) by means of making deals better than even the deals that addled McCain can be trusted to deliver, thereby Hillary would get the blessing of the BushCo-controlled corrupt electronic elections technology cartel (or whatever it can be called).

Hillary, being a Christianist (as her 15 years with The Fellowship indicates), can be viewed as a step above non-Christianist McCain when it comes to attracting the old-time religion (reactionary) vote -- so she truly might do better than McCain when it comes to attracting Bush's base! She is totally pro on prayer in schools, religious lessons in schools, faith-based initiatives, status quo patriarchy (she didn't leave Bill after L'Affaire Lewinsky and loves the military and imperialism, and apartheid in Israel).

Try again.

Asshole parsley

yes MaryMac, I got them.

You are forgiven. I am anything but a moderate/centrist/1/2 Dem.

:)

Another group called aclj is on the radio. They are a bunch of freak religious aholes who are forever bitching about why the Democrats aren't allowing bush's ahole judges to be appointed. They said yesterday that churches shouldn't lose their tax exempt status for telling people how to vote. Last week they were bitching about some university where a philosophy professor made one of their religious freaks feel bad in class. They plan to sue the university.

Talk about a bunch of fascist aholes. They should be taken off the radio.

Posted by Johne on May 8, 2008 at 05:18 PM

They hate the freedoms provided and protected by the Bill of Rights, yet, they forget - it's that very Bill of Rights that protects them and makes it possible for them to express their opinions without fear of legal reprisals in the form of criminal charges and going to jail. It really has not been that long since we were the first society to envision these kinds of freedoms. The combination of Church and State is fine, so long as it is your church but what happens when it isn't their church? They will be jumping up and down quoting the First Ammendment! How easily they forget.

We must end commodity trading. These criminals are buying all sorts of commodities on very low margin and cashing in at the expense of the entire world. This is utter greed no matter how one looks at it.

The price of rice jumped today because of Myanmar. The price of oil also jumped.

If we put a stop to the low margin buying of oil, the price would drop by $50 a barrel. People should have to pay at least 50% or more of the price of the commodity. Because of the neocons, there is no longer any regulation on margin buying. Margin buying led to the Republican Depression of 1929 and we are headed in the same direction today. The neocons are too f**king stupid to learn from history and we are going to see the Great Republican Depression of 2009.

Posted by Johne on May 8, 2008 at 06:33 PM

johne, i don't know for certain, but i suspect commodity trading is the main reason the world can not stockpile the huge amounts of food stuffs necessary to save whole nations of people in times of grave crisis. we've got to get rid of the 'me firsters'.

Posted by BoilerMan on May 8, 2008 at 07:11 PM

We just have to reregulate wall street. The neocons removed all regulations in the hopes of destroying America and to let their rich freinds make bundles of dollars they can send to the cayman islands.

Meanwhile, the average "joe" gets screwed. This unmitigated greed has to end.

can you believe this?

Labor Department wants more info from union officials

Labor Department wants more information from unions on disclosure forms

Unions should be required to make public more details of their internal finances, the Labor Department said Thursday as it proposed new changes to union disclosure forms.

Unions are required every year to file financial disclosure forms with the Labor Department. But federal officials are proposing a more detailed form, and penalizing small unions who get into trouble with the law by banning them from filing a simple form.

The proposed changes will be printed on Monday in the federal register.

"This proposed rule provides union members with more complete information about union finances and will better protect their legal rights to transparency and accountability under the law," said Don Todd, deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Labor-Management Standards.

Some of the changes in the proposed rule include:

_ Asking union officials and employees making more than $10,000 to itemize their benefits like life insurance, pensions and deferred compensation. The current form allows benefits to be combined and disclosed as one number, leaving the amount of individual benefits undisclosed.

_ Requiring disclosure of expenses when the money is not reimbursed directly to the union employee or official. Labor officials say indirect reimbursement, when payment for expenses goes to the vendor instead of to the employee or official, currently does not have to be disclosed on the forms.

_ Requiring unions to disclose who bought or sold any union asset worth more than $5,000. The current form only requires disclosure of the sale.

_ And requiring itemization of certain cash receipts of $5,000 or more.

Reporting rules require national, regional and local unions with an income of more than $250,000 to provide financial details in the annual reports they must file with the Labor Department.

Unions who have less income get to file a simpler form, but the Labor Department said they want to revoke that privilege and require the more detailed form for unions who are late with their forms, fill them out incorrectly or get into other trouble.

"The proposed rule builds on the administration's continuing commitment to transparency and accountability for corporations, pension funds and labor unions," Todd said.

New thread!

Posted by fade2bluz on May 8, 2008 at 07:31 PM
They can impose all kinds of regulation on labor unions who represent the middle class but can they regulate big oil and gas, mortgage brokers, etc? No!
Just more 'union busting' tactics by those who value wealth over work and just more reason to elect a Democratic President and get super majorities in the Senate and the House. We have got to take back our country from the wealthiest 1% who use their influence to ensure tax laws that make the middle class pay for everything and they pay for nothing. In short, the rich get richer from our hard work.

We could have told Gorbachev that bush is an asshole and he truly is a fascist pig who is trying to dominate the world. mclame will be worse. Why do we allow these retards to run our government. They should be in prison in the Hague. bush is going to the Middle East next week goosestepping the whole way and accusing more nations of being terrorist. We are the f**king terrorists.

Yesterday, bush told Cuba that he didn't like their new government. FUCK BUSH! I don't give a damn what he likes. He is a royal prick.

Gorbachevc says: “Nonetheless, we see that the USA is passing the defense budget and increasing costs of strengthening the conventional armed forces at the insistence of the Pentagon’s head because of the possible war with China or Russia. Sometimes I think that the USA intends to wage war against the entire world,” Gorbachev said.

Mikhail Gorbachev: 'Every American president must wage war'

So having been stripped of my comments today will teachers and Democrats support a teacher, who was fired for making a toothpick disappear and appear in Florida. They claim it was wizardry.