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Yesterday's anti-Palin rally was the largest political protest rally in Alaskan history :-)
MSM reported a couple hundred people at the rally but the crowd size was over one thousand. Alaska has never seen anything like it before.
(Thanks to my far flung friend Carlita)
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/...
September 10, 2008, 8:58 pm
Obama's Rabbi
By Niko Koppel AND Sarah Wheaton
Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr.Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. at Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago. (Photo: Sally Ryan for The New York Times)
Who knew?
Even as Senator Barack Obama has tried to overcome skepticism by some Jewish voters, he has been keeping a little family secret. Turns out that a member of the Obama clan is a member of the tribe - and a rabbi at that.
Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr., who heads a predominantly black congregation in Chicago, is a cousin of Michelle Obama, Mr. Obama's wife. Rabbi Funnye is the son of Verdelle Robinson Funnye, the sister of Mrs. Obama's grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr. The relationship was first reported in The Wall Street Journal without mentioning Rabbi Funnye by name.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a statement, said they will appear together at the World Trade Center site on Thursday ''to honor the memory of each and every American who died'' in the 2001 attacks.
Since the speech by Mitt Romney I have been apoplectic and getting worse, speaker by hateful speaker. How stupid do these people think Americans are ? How contemptuous can they be and keep a straight face ? Mitt started the "Washington doesn't work " mantra, blaming the last eight years on who ? Not Georgie Porgie...no it was Obama, Liberals in general, and the rest of Democrats who allowed Bush and Congress to run amok, because we didn't defeat them. Who was in charge Mitt, you useless piece of hypocrisy? The Senate, Congress, and the White House were Republican for six years you dolt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09...
Editorial Running Against Themselves
Published: September 3, 2008
Three days into the Republican National Convention, it is clear that the G.O.P. has settled on a message: "Washington is not working." The phrase is included in virtually every speech and every statement in St Paul.
We agree completely that Washington is in desperate need of renewal and reform. We're not even going to quibble about the fact that Barack Obama said it first. The problem is that American voters have yet to hear - from John McCain or his warm-up acts - any serious ideas on what, exactly, is wrong with Washington, apart from the fact that a Democrat might win the White House, never mind how to truly fix it.
The difficulty for the Republican ticket in talking about change and reform and acting like insurgents is that they have been running Washington - the White House and Congress - for most of the last eight years.
Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee, was a combative and witty relief at a torpid convention. But it was bizarre hearing the running mate of a 26-year veteran of Congress, a woman who was picked to placate the right-wing elite, mocking "the permanent political establishment in Washington."
And we couldn't imagine what Mitt Romney was thinking when he denounced "liberal Washington" and then, at the convention of the party that brought you unimpeded presidential spying, declared: "It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!"
but his memeory lingers on...(with apologies to Schubert and Papa Hadyn)
When John Edward spoke to the facts of corporate Democrats, with their lawyers cum lobbyists, and corporate Rethuglican with same phalanxes, he was dead right. It doesn't matter so much who is in power, the game goes on. There is a movement on Facebook to keep Barack from naming Evan Bayh as his Veepstakes winnah.
Here's some of the research on his wife Susan and her million dollar plus haul from corporate boards and advisories. These monies come from folks upon who's fortunes the Senator has been voting. I am not saying he votes to satisfy the interest who pay his wife...but you may draw the conclusion that good politicians don't bite the accounts that feed them.
http://www.journalgazette.net/...
"Susan Bayh has become a professional board member, earning more than $1 million a year in director fees for advice she gives to companies that make pharmaceuticals, operate radio stations, sell health insurance policies, offer online banking and distribute ingredients to fast-food restaurants.
Mukasey loosens post-Watergate restrictions, authorizes FBI to gather intelligence inside the US
FBI to Get Freer Rein on Terrorism Suspects
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251...
Wednesday 13 August 2008
by: Marisa Taylor,
McClatchy Newspapers
Washington - Attorney General Michael Mukasey confirmed plans Wednesday to loosen post-Watergate restrictions on the FBI's national security and criminal investigations, saying the changes were necessary to improve the bureau's ability to detect terrorists.
Mukasey said he expected criticism of the new rules because "they expressly authorize the FBI to engage in intelligence collection inside the United States." However, he said the criticism would be misplaced because the bureau has long had authority to do so.
Mukasey said the new rules "remove unnecessary barriers" to cooperation between law enforcement agencies and "eliminate the artificial distinctions" in the way agents conduct surveillance in criminal and national security investigations.
"There was clear-eyed and bipartisan recognition after the attacks that we needed to be able - and allowed - to collect intelligence in the United States," he said in speech prepared for an anti-terrorism conference in Portland, Ore. "Indeed, there was a loud demand for it."
same mistakes, insanity, been there before, South east Asia to Iraq, what's going on under your name ?
Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
(c) 2008 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.; Motion Picture Artwork and Photography C2008 Silver Bow Productions, Inc.
My sentiments exactly.I am off to work, but need to put this up. The more things change...the more they remain McSame.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07...
New York Times
Editorial Low-Road Express
Published: July 30, 2008
Well, that certainly didn't take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the Bush White House. Less than a month later, the results are on full display. The candidate who started out talking about high-minded, civil debate has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove's low-minded and uncivil playbook.
In recent weeks, Mr. McCain has been waving the flag of fear (Senator Barack Obama wants to "lose" in Iraq), and issuing attacks that are sophomoric (suggesting that Mr. Obama is a socialist) and false (the presumptive Democratic nominee turned his back on wounded soldiers).
There was never any doubt, after he kissed the ring of the one who slimed him, he stoops to please, no level too low.
Bob Herbert on New Yorker writer Jane Mayer's new book about the Jack Bauer fans inside Bush and Cheney's torture world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07...
Op-Ed Columnist Madness and Shame
By BOB HERBERT
Published: July 22, 2008
snip
When the constraints of the law are unlocked by the men and women in suits at the pinnacle of power, terrible things happen in the real world. You end up with detainees being physically and psychologically tormented day after day, month after month, until they beg to be allowed to commit suicide. You have prisoners beaten until they are on the verge of death, or hooked to overhead manacles like something out of the Inquisition , or forced to defecate on themselves, or sexually humiliated, or driven crazy by days on end of sleep deprivation and blinding lights and blaring noises, or water-boarded.
To get a sense of the heights of madness scaled in this anything-goes atmosphere, consider a brainstorming meeting held by military officials at Guantánamo. Ms. Mayer said the meeting was called to come up with ways to crack through the resistance of detainees.
"One source of ideas," she wrote, "was the popular television show '24.' On that show as Ms. Mayer noted, "torture always worked. It saved America on a weekly basis."
I felt as if I was in Never-Never Land as I read: "In conversation with British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, the top military lawyer in Guantánamo, Diane Beaver, said quite earnestly that Jack Bauer 'gave people lots of ideas' as they sought for interrogation models."
Donald Rumsfeld described the detainees at Guantánamo as "the worst of the worst." A more sober assessment has since been reached by many respected observers. Ms. Mayer mentioned a study conducted by attorneys and law students at the Seton Hall University Law School.
You be the judge. Pick one, the one that inspires you to confidence. Or you can move to Scottsdalke and feel right at home...a tip o' the hat to Chip and Yahoo News !
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former President George H.W. Bush, right, arrive by golf cart for a news conference at the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, Monday, July 21, 2008.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
or
In this photo released by the U.S. army, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, left, and top U.S. military commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, talk as they take a helicopter ride over Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 21, 2008. Iraq's government welcomed Obama on Monday with a message of apparent common ground on American troop withdrawal goals: expressing hopes that combat forces could leave by 2010.
(AP Photo/Ssg. Lorie Jewell, HO)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200... Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 16, 7:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON - President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003.
The president's decision drew a sharp protest Wednesday from Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of House Oversight Committee, which had subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over the documents. "This unfounded assertion of executive privilege does not protect a principle; it protects a person," the California Democrat said. "If the vice president did nothing wrong, what is there to hide?"
Waxman left little doubt he would soon move for a committee vote to hold Mukasey in contempt of Congress.
AND THEN TAKE THEM TO COURT
In Concord on Saturday Rep. Waxman said that the revelation of the name of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame, is treason under the law passed by then President G.H.W. Bush. The refusal to testify to the people's House is tantamount to an admission of guilt. I think I hear Nixon, drunk, weeping still. This is calumny, a ruse , a fraud employed to deceive judicial proceedings.
It strikes me as we hear the names Shaheen and Sununu everyday in the Senate race, that no one suggests they are unpatriotic, or expresses sentiments that they are Muslim leaners, because of their names. Barack Hussein Obama, well you see where I'm going don't you ? He's been called Halfrican American by Rush the blowhard, many still think he's Muslim, or secretly so. Why not the others ? Is it because they appear white ? Please suggest what is wrong with this picture ? Am I barking up the wrong family tree ? I think it is blatant, perhaps subconscious, but blatant none the less.
This editorial hits the nail on the head about the precarious nature of the court today. It is one vote from full tilt Right Wing Nut Job Control.
Blog on !
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07...
Editorial
Published: July 3, 2008 A Supreme Court on the Brink
In some ways, the Supreme Court term that just ended seems muddled: disturbing, highly conservative rulings on subjects like voting rights and gun control, along with important defenses of basic liberties in other areas, including the rights of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The key to understanding the term lies in the fragility of the court's center. Some of the most important decisions came on 5-to-4 votes - a stark reminder that the court is just one justice away from solidifying a far-right majority that would do great damage to the Constitution and the rights of ordinary Americans
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