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Elizabeth May broke down the barriers of what she called the "old boys club" Wednesday as the Conservatives and NDP backed down on their opposition to her participation in the upcoming televised leaders' debate.
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This website doesn't have all the information loaded yet, I think they were waiting for after the DNC and RNC. I believe they have info on local races by zipcode. It is one of several places to get non-partasin information. However that isn't all this is about.
If you could please consider this idea. A new standard for Americans, starting here at current. We are here for hope and change right? Well.. lets do some of that.
When politics are discussed, what happened to respect when it comes to others choices?
I ask this because there seems to be a Pavlovian response here to anything that is remotely conservative and guess what, there are a handful here who think middle of the road or to the right even. Yeah.. surprising I know.
wow
You see this place is a liberal haven. Most everyone here is anti anything that doesn't give with Gore. Ok.
So what. It is hardly the representation of the nation.
Does anyone here think that slinging mud at either Senator or VP is going to change anyone's mind here? I would say that is HIGHLY DOUBTFUL.
And to address some here, yeah some women do have a value system that is fine with the VP's record on "femine" issues. We are not cookies, we are individuals. And yeah we all think and we are intelligent and we have opinions... yeah we women.. do.
Grow up. Quit putting everyone down.
If your Obama is the man you say he is.. then why in the hell are you guys feeling so threatened by the RNC?
Yeah, the writing about the VP, people are so afraid that it might steal Obama's thunder.
Respect each other, use your extra energy getting people to vote, and give them their own minds... Don't belittle them for one side or the other.
A very small percentage of America actually votes.
To me that is extremely pathetic. And that is the main issue.
What I disagree with are groups of people that are to "get out the vote" and then present a liberal or conservative message, without giving both equal weight. Give both or have neither.
Voting should be what is encouraged. Not what side. This is not a fight. People seem to think it is. (???) No wonder the country is all screwed up and our dollar is falling.
I think it's the mud slinging. If someone cannot win based on positive output, then we are doing something wrong.
So try something new in politics.
Yes, it's something that the talking heads don't do, the newspapers and the websites don't always do it.
Try respecting others. Wow. New concept isn't it.
Maybe if we start here in this little community online, it might spred, as we talk to others respectully in our lives, if we demand positive and respectful handling of our entire election.
You do realize that WE the people determine how the adds are made. If we demand a stop to negative and derogatory adds, and mudslinging and have them focus on what each person has to offer... we could change our country.
So for those who what hope and change, start right there with you... here...
respect others. please, give it a try.
Thanks.
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This is one of Obamas greatest speeches.
The reason I posted this is because this speech took place before the so called ""hype"" that overshadows Obamas campaign today.
This is one of Obamas greatest speeches.
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Four years after its plan to use outspoken commentators Michael Moore and Ann Coulter to write about life at the presidential conventions misfired, USA Today is taking a safer route...Four years after its plan to use outspoken commentators Michael Moore and Ann Coulter... more
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Im surprised this video hasn't been posted. Earlier this week Barack Obama spoke for 30 minutes on the energy crisis. Unfortunately, John and Elizabeth's marriage prove far more important than some boring energy crisis. Im surprised this video hasn't been posted. Earlier this week Barack Obama spoke... more
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This is a truly ridiculous story. A government official was caught and charged with trashing his competitors.
Following the arrest of Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Watford, Ian Oakley, and his guilty plea today on five charges of criminal damage and two charges of harassment, Liberal Democrat Chair of Campaigns and Communications, Edward Davey has written to David Cameron demanding that he holds an urgent inquiry into the procedures and activities of Watford Conservative Party.
Mr Oakley has also asked that 68 similar offences be taken into account.
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WASHINGTON — Federal and local authorities are girding for huge protests, mammoth traffic tie-ups and civil disturbances at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this month, fearing that the convention will become a magnet for militant protest groups.
Officials say that what makes Denver different than past conventions is the historic nature of Senator Barack Obama’s nomination, a megawattage event whose global spotlight could draw tens of thousands of demonstrators, including self-described anarchists who the police fear will infiltrate peaceful protest groups to disrupt the weeklong event.
The Secret Service is wary of discussing threats against the people they protect, but with Mr. Obama poised to become the first black presidential nominee, there are special worries. While law enforcement officials say there are no specific, credible threats against Mr. Obama, they expressed concern about low-level chatter on Web sites frequented by white separatists who spew hate about Mr. Obama’s race and what they perceive as his liberal agenda.
One recent scheduling change caused a major shift in security plans. When Mr. Obama announced last month that he would accept his party’s nomination not at the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver, where the convention is being held, but at Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos, the Secret Service scrambled to work out plans with local authorities to secure the open-air stadium, which seats more than 75,000 people. Invesco is also adjacent to Interstate 25, a major corridor through the Northern Rockies that will most likely be closed for at least part of Mr. Obama’s acceptance speech. . .
. . . “Because of the Internet, the ability of protesters to mobilize and share information has metastasized,” said Troy A. Eid, the United States attorney for Colorado. “That would be fine if it were peaceful, as we expect. But we have to plan accordingly.”
In recent days, domestic security officials issued a heightened awareness bulletin urging greater attention because of a number of factors, including the election and the conventions. But law enforcement authorities say they are trying to strike a balance between planning for every conceivable threat, including terrorist attacks and large public demonstrations, and not strangling a city’s commercial life in the process.
“We’re not looking to shut down an entire city,” said Malcolm Wiley, a Secret Service agent involved in security planning for the convention in Denver.
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This looks like the opposite of the pods I've seen on current. Wonder what to make of it.
Anyhow, I thought I would post it since Global Warming is so "hot". Here they say we actually had thicker and more ice this year than in the past... Very interesting.
Personally I hope that neither ice nor floods come. But there is only so much one nation can do. Until the world is on board, we have to just trust in .... dare I say God? (don't hate me).
Enjoy!
Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."
Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."
He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.
It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.
***Please reference the above article, as most would not fit in this space. Explains cycles that the earth goes thru including mini cycles. I found it very interesting.***
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A man who the police say entered a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tenn., on Sunday and shot eight people, killing two, was motivated by a hatred for liberals and gay people, Chief Sterling P. Owen IV of the Knoxville Police Department said Monday.
“It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement,” Chief Owen said of the suspect, Jim D. Adkisson, 58. “We have recovered a four-page letter in which he describes his feelings and the reason that he claims he committed these offenses.”
According to a search warrant for Mr. Adkisson’s house filed by the police, during interrogation Mr. Adkisson admitted to the shooting and said “he had targeted the church because of its liberal leanings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country.”
Mr. Adkisson was not a member of the church and congregants said they did not recognize him, but two people said his former wife had once attended the church, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist.
Mr. Adkisson was arrested at the scene and has been charged with one count of first-degree murder. More charges are expected, and Chief Owen said the police were treating the shooting as a hate crime.
The authorities and witnesses said the gunman, carrying a guitar case that concealed a 12-gauge shotgun, entered the church just as a children’s performance of “Annie Jr.” started.
Standing near the door of the sanctuary, he opened fire. Chief Owen said the man had fired only three blasts, but had 73 more rounds of ammunition with him. Mr. Adkisson’s letter indicated that he expected to be shot and killed by the police when they arrived, Chief Owen said, but church members tackled and subdued him.
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Rough cut #1 for the working title- "Swing State Special". Let me know how it rolls and what fat can be trimmed.
Amazing musician, EZKL, helped me out with some masterful music...grown straight from Arapahoe County.
As always, thanks for listening.
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"The dangers inherent in the foreign policy advocated by the neo-conservatives are well known. While many Americans have become increasingly aware of those dangers, far less attention has been focused on the dangers of neo-conservative economic policies. This issue is of critical importance right now, because many are mistakenly pointing their fingers at the free market as the culprit behind our current economic plight.
There are only a few in elected office who have any real loyalty to free markets and limited government. The agenda of neo-conservatives in the economy calls for a very active central government. Indeed, while there are some neo-conservatives who continue to use the rhetoric of limited government, and who oppose increases in the federal income tax as a way to maintain the political benefits that apply to those who talk about free markets, it is now the neo-conservatives who promote fiat monetary policies even more than those on the liberal left.
While I have been a strong proponent of cutting taxes on all Americans, and therefore supported the tax reductions offered by President Bush, the neo-cons argue that tax rate reduction alone is the key to “getting the government out of the way” of economic growth. Moreover, they invariably argue for tax reductions targeted toward the wealthy, and toward multinational corporations.
Over the years, I have offered several tax plans designed to assist hard working middle-class Americans to pay for their needs, whether these needs be health-care related, educational or to pay the costs of fuel. A few years back when I introduced one such bill, a prominent Republican approached me on the House Floor and asked, half in anger and half in amazement “why did you do that?” Shortly after that, the committee chairman at the time, also a Republican, sent out a release strongly attacking my tax cut bill.
So, while the liberal economic agenda includes more taxes and spending, the neo-con economic program simply looks to target some tax cuts to preferred groups, but ignore the economic big picture. The neo-con economic agenda is to “borrow and spend” and it is that agenda, even more than the tax and spend ways of many liberals, that has cast us in economic peril at this time.
Simply, on spending, the neo-cons and the liberals share views, just as they share similar views on foreign policy. While each side tries to claim the mantle of change, reality is that more of the same is not change.
The fiat monetary policy we now follow is the most significant factor contributing to our economic peril, and it is central to the neo-con agenda. As we hear new calls to empower the Federal Reserve Board, we should be aware that underlying all neo-conservative policies is the idea of monetary inflation. Inflation is the technique used to pay for the regulatory-state and the costs of policing the world."
Article originally appears at link from Congressman Ron Paul's (R-TX) Texas Straight Talk weekly column.
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Seems the shooter hated the Liberal movement so he shot up a bunch of innocent people at a church play, way to go douche bag.
FROM THE ARTICLE
The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Knoxville church Sunday was motivated by frustration over being unable to obtain a job and hatred for the liberal movement, police said Monday.
Authorities recovered a four-page letter in which the suspect, Jim Adkisson, described his feelings and motives, police said.
Adkisson, 58, of Powell, Tennessee, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in the shootings at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
The gunman killed two adults and wounded seven others before being overpowered by congregants, authorities said.
The case is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.
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If you search on the net for 'Jon Stewart', 'finance reform' and 'Obama', you will find one of the most unintentionally funny sketches the US Comedy Central network has broadcast. Stewart dissects Barack Obama's hypocrisy with his usual goggle-eyed relish. He shows that the Democrat had been all for the public funding of presidential candidates until he realised that his privately raised campaign donations would allow him to outspend John McCain.
Stewart's audience makes a far better spectacle than the comedian on the stage, however. They had roared when he mocked Bush, Clinton and McCain, but when he ridiculed Obama, a few tittered nervously and most sunk into a shocked silence. Ordinary political satire had become a kind of blasphemy.
'You are allowed to laugh at him,' Stewart said. Hardly anyone wanted to.
Like other US comedians, Stewart wonders if the public is frightened of seeming racist. I do not underestimate the significance of America rising above its original sin of slavery by electing a black President, but anti-racism cannot explain soft questions and kid gloves. Black politicians who have not conformed to liberal expectations have found that anti-racism counts for little and the veneer of politically correct manners can vanish faster than breath off a windowpane.
Gary Trudeau had Bush addressing Condoleezza Rice as 'brown sugar' in his Doonesbury strip. Ted Rall decided she was Bush's 'house nigga' and sent her to a 'racial re-education camp' to learn the error of her conservative views. Jeff Danziger drew her as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's slave in Gone With the Wind. All three white men had reached for the dirtiest racial insults they could imagine when confronted with a black woman who disagreed with their politics.
German has the useful word Tantenverführer: 'A young man of excessively good manners you suspect of devious motives [literally, an aunt-seducer].' The sight of 200,000 turning out to hear Obama in Berlin showed the personable young American had wooed and wowed old Europe. If you watched them, the reverence with which liberal sympathisers and journalists treat him might have seemed no mystery. Ignore the imperatives of anti-racism and remember that to a generation raised on The West Wing Obama is the perfect candidate: hip, handsome, commanding, charismatic.
Jon Stewart tried to take on Obama's glamour, too, and got his sidekicks to play American political correspondents covering the world tour. They giggled and gawped like love-struck teenagers and cried: 'He gives me a boner. He should be called Barack O'Boner.'
Crude maybe, but so close to the reality of the US media's coverage it barely qualified as satire. The Nation, once regarded as a serious, left-wing magazine, declared last week that Obama is the new 'Frank Sinatra, so cool he's hot', a centrifugal force that can make 'legions of little girls jump out of their panties'. Michelle was as much of a sex symbol, it continued. She gave him 'hot, married love', while the Republicans were stuck with the 'stiff, asexual, erratic McCain and his zombie-fied former drug addict wife'.
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There's always talk of the evangelicals that lean so hard to the right that they may as well be laying facing east at all times. However, a new movement within the Evangelicals shows a new kind of religious voter, with high emphasis on morality, which could either bring about great change to the Republican Party or doom it to electoral defeats. Interesting read.There's always talk of the evangelicals that lean so hard to the right that they... more
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Hey all you Liberals and peaceful people,
I think it's time we stand up for our beliefs, and stop pandering to the false Patriotism that the Right Wing continually uses to beat us up.
Frankly, the war in Iraq is illegal and immoral, and I am against both the war, and the troops that are fighting there. There is no reason why we should support a volunteer armed forces, regardless of whether or not the soldiers are pro-war or not. For too long Democrats and liberals have been painted un-patriotic because they don't often believe military force is necessary.
If the Democrats in Congress had more of a backbone, they'd stand up against war, and not be pigeon-holed into a corner for being anti-war and pro-troops.
I'm against them both. Does that anger you? Am I anti-American? No, I'm not. I just use my brain. Hey all you Liberals and peaceful people,
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Book review of Naomi Wolf's The End of America and Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism. Book review of Naomi Wolf's The End of America and Jonah Goldberg's Liberal... more
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A 60-year-old librarian received a trespassing ticket today after a liberal group's protest outside a John McCain town hall meeting Monday.
Clutching a sign that read "McCain = Bush," Carol Kreck was removed from the atrium at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts by four Denver police officers.
Kreck, a former Denver Post reporter who works part-time as a librarian for an education think tank, said she was removed as she quizzed a police officer about whether he could deny her free speech "on city property" by taking away her sign, while McCain supporters wore buttons inside.
Jenny Schiavone, a spokeswoman for the performing arts center, said the venue is city-owned rental property, but is not legally defined as public property.
The liberal group ProgressNowAction had called before the event and asked about being inside the atrium, she said. The group was told it would have to rent space or use previously designated protest areas along the street, Schiavone said.
Michael Huttner, who organized the rally, said Progress NowAction was not told to rent space or stand anywhere.
A Youtube video of Kreck's removal, posted by Progress NowAction, shows a performing arts center security officer asking Kreck to put down her sign, noting he had asked her and other protestors to do so earlier. In the same video, a police officer tells her she can attend the event if she gets rid of the sign.
A McCain spokesman said no one, including McCain supporters, were allowed to carry signs.
Detective John White, a spokesman for the Denver Police Department, said officers acted as they would for any complaint on private property.
"Our officers received a signed complaint from a security guard at a private event and acted accordingly," he said.
Tom Kise, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, did not know about Kreck's ouster, but said the town hall-style meeting was open to supporters and opponents.
"All the campaign asked for is a respectful dialogue," Kise said.
At a speech at the University of Denver in May, war protesters interrupted McCain four times until they were removed from the event.
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When it comes to paying for carbon emissions, the NDP tackle the problem at its source -- business -- and people overwhelming prefer it to the Liberal plan.
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Justice Department officials illegally used “political or ideological” factors in elite recruiting programs in recent years, tapping law school graduates with Federalist Society membership or other conservative credentials over more qualified candidates with liberal-sounding resumes, an internal report found Tuesday.
The report, prepared by the Justice Department’s own inspector general and its ethics office, portrays a clumsy effort by senior Justice Department screeners to weed out candidates for career positions whom they considered “leftists,” using Internet search engines to look for incriminating information or evidence of possible liberal bias.
One rejected candidate from Harvard Law School worked for Planned Parenthood. Another wrote opinion pieces critical of the USA Patriot Act and the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. A third applicant worked for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and posted an unflattering cartoon of President Bush on his MySpace page.
Another applicant, a student at the top of his class at Harvard who was fluent in Arabic, was relegated to the “questionable” pile because he was a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that advocates civil liberties. And another rejected candidate said in his essay that he was “personally conflicted” about the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping without warrants.
The report, prepared jointly by the office of the inspector general, Glenn A. Fine, and the Office of Professional Responsibility, is the first in a series of internal reviews growing out of last year’s controversy over the dismissals of nine United States attorneys. The report is the first from an official investigation to support accusations that the Bush Justice Department has been overly politicized.
In 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft gave his political aides final say over hundreds of applications in response to what some officials believed was a liberal tilt favoring Ivy League schools.
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