President Obama goes into Republican den - takes it right to the stoopids:

OBAMA SPEAKING AND ANSWERING STUPID QUESTIONS FROM THOSE WHO HATE HIM THE MOST AT THE REPUBLICAN RETREAT:

LIVE AND VOTE IN CALIFORNIA? STOP THE WATER PIRATES! VOTE NO ON the $11.1 BILLION WATER BOND THIS NOVEMBER.

 

“The Water Pirates” video highlights one of the central policy issues facing both federal panels and the state: the expanding practice of private individuals selling subsidized federal water for huge profits to non-farm users such as real estate developers. “Unfortunately, Sen. Feinstein and others appear eager to expand this harmful practice,” said Collins.
“The NAS panel came about after Mr. Resnick asked Senator Feinstein to request the review and earmark $750,000 in taxpayer funds to make it happen,” according to Collins. “While the panel heard an earful from invited agribusiness representatives and southern California water agency officials in support of stripping protections for fish in order to increase water exports south of the Delta, the NAS inexplicably failed to invite a single representative from California’s quarter-billion dollar salmon fishing industry or from the Delta’s many farming communities.”

The Water Pirates is the first of many videos that explain why it is critical to defeat the water bond that will be on Californias November ballot. The $11 billion dollar measure is a pork-filled, naked power grab that will enrich a small group of wealthy powerful interests at the expense of an already bankrupt California - and thats just for starters. If it passes, it will kill The Delta and be the end for the biggest and most important estuary in North and South America, San Francisco Bay.

Stop the water pirates! They are working hard to make publicly owned water their privately owned asset. Its happening now and the pirates need to be stopped! Watch and share this video. Vote NO on the water bond. Together, we can make what is wrong, right again. 

The Obama Administration has given Shell the green light to begin exploratory drilling off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- during the Refuge’s 50th Anniversary Year no less! Unless we block Shell’s plan, drilling could begin this summer! Please donate now and help NRDC fight in court to protect polar bears, whales, and walruses from Shell’s reckless scheme.

Stop Shell’s Attack on the Polar Bear’s Birthing Ground Before Drilling Starts This Summer! Even government officials admit that an oil spill is inevitable if full-scale production occurs off the coast of the Arctic Refuge -- the main birthing ground of Alaska’s polar bears. Help NRDC fight back in court! Just when you thought the Arctic Refuge and its polar bears were safe from the last administration’s pro-polluter policies and Shell’s drilling schemes, the threat of deadly oil spills has reappeared. Yes, I’m sorry to say that Shell is back with a plan to drill off the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- even after NRDC sent them packing in a major court victory two years ago. I’m even sorrier to tell you that it’s the Obama Administration that has given Shell the go-ahead this time -- which is deeply disappointing since the White House has proposed steps that would strengthen international protections for polar bears. Now NRDC is going back to court to block Shell’s latest plan, and we need your emergency donation to help us prevail for the sake of polar bears and other imperiled wildlife. The shores of the Arctic Refuge are Alaska’s main birthing ground and denning area for polar bears. And government experts have predicted at least one oil spill will occur if full-scale oil production moves ahead. What’s worse, the oil industry has no proven method for cleaning up oil in icy water. When that inevitable oil spill happens, any polar bears swimming in the thickly oiled waters will most certainly die -- since there is almost no chance of survival for oil-covered polar bears. Polar bears that step in oil that washes up on the shore could be killed as well -- as they try to lick off the toxic oil to groom themselves. Mother polar bears and their cubs are especially in danger during denning season. But it’s not just polar bears that would be imperiled. Whales would be suffocated or poisoned ... hundreds of thousands of birds would be killed ... and seal populations would be severely impacted. In short, an oil spill would be an unmitigated catastrophe -- blanketing the coast of the Refuge with an irremovable layer of thick toxic oil for generations to come. Yet, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has given Shell the green light to begin exploratory drilling anyway -- during the 50th Anniversary of the Refuge no less! NRDC needs your immediate financial help to fight in court and stop the drilling -- BEFORE it begins this summer. Yes, we’ve defeated Shell before -- and we can do it again. But we cannot take on Big Oil and the government without your immediate help. So please, give your most generous gift to help us stop Shell and defend our environment in the most effective way possible. I look forward to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Arctic Refuge with you -- knowing that together we have kept Shell’s oil rigs out of its coastal waters. Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council P.S. Please don’t wait for disturbing photos of polar bears covered in oil before taking action. By then it will be too late. Please give now and NRDC will fight to make sure that an oil spill never happens!

WHAT THE RIP-OFF REPUGNICANS AND FREE MARKET DAMNEDOCRATS STOLE FROM ME. WHAT HAVE THEY STOLEN FROM YOU?

They stole the equity in my house.  After 20 years of work with retirement on my mind, NOW it is worth fuck-all because they stole the economy.

They stole my confidence, as I watch so many honest people lose THEIR homes due to being fleeced by laws and rules twisted to suit the scam artist bankers and lenders.

They stole my pride as I watch hard working Americans lose their jobs to Slick Willie's WTO offshore corporations and outsourcing.

I understand that the course America was/is on is not sustainable, that money doesn't grow on trees, that good leaders are hard to find.

What we have now is deep corruption from the Supreme Court,  to the Congress, to the White House.  There IS NO LEADERSHIP one can turn to for truth or guidance.

Our hope turns out to be a President who needs teleprompters and official podiums to speak in a 6th grade school classroom, who invites opinions from international corporate leaders but not from neighborhood associations.

We are in our 60's and want nothing more than to be able to sell our home and move out of this corrupt decayed country. 

What have they stolen from you?

 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS:

   
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him,

"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be an Obama Democrat."

"I am,"replied the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."

The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Republican."

"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."

A SMALL COUNTY IN MONTANA (AGAIN?) IS MAKING MILITIA NOISES:

SO I FERRETED THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE MUCH MIS-QUOTED (IRRELEVANT) FEDERALIST PAPERS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS OUT OF THE COMMENTS AFTER THE STORY (to the Montana militia members I apologize as this is probably more reading than you have done in a long time):

JNagarya

January 23, 2010 1:28 AM    in reply to cwnidog

This is the most relevant portion of my most recent statement of the law concerning Militia -- and therefore of the Second Amendment. Read it carefully as concerns the anti-Constitutionalism fed these gun-/nuts by the gun industry via its propaganda arm NRA:
R. B----- says:
"All of the Bill of Rights refer to individual rights. Raving lunatics should read the Federalist Papers for further insight."
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Concerning the "Federalist Papers": the CORRECT title of the book to which refer[red] is "The Federalist". As well, "The Federalist," not having been enacted by a legislature, is both NOT LAW and IRRELEVANT for several reasons. First, they were written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay -- only one of whom would later be a member of the first Congress, which WROTE the Bill of Rights, under the newly-ratified Constitution.
Second, the authors ADMITTED that their purpose was to SELL the CONSTITUTION -- which OBVIOUSLY means they were not OBJECTIVE: they were BIASED in favor OF ratification. Third, and most relevant, as the Constitution was framed, and then ratified, WITHOUT a "Bill of Rights," the only mentions of "Bill of Rights" in "The Federalist" are REJECTIONS of the "NEED" for one.
Fourth, "The Federalist" was written by THREE delegates to the Constitutional Convention -- out of over FIFTY delegates; which delegates agreed on very little. THREE is an INCONSEQUENTIAL MINORITY of OVER FIFTY delegates. And those three were balanced by THREE delegates on the OPPOSITE end of the political spectrum who OPPOSED ratification of the Constitution because it DIDN'T have a "Bill of Rights". One of those was Elbridge Gerry, about whom more below.
Fifth, with ratification of the Constitution completed, Federalist promotion of that outcome ENDED.
Note the following chronology:
1. Several states that ratified the Constitution, beginning with Massachuetts-Bay, included PROPOSED amendments with their Notices of Ratification.
2. Completion of ratification of the Constitution occurred on June 21, 1788.
3. SUBSEQUENTLY, Congress was established/organized under the newly-ratified Constitution.
4. Congress first "achieved a quorum on 6 April [1789]". "Creating the Bill of Rights" (Johns Hopkins, 1991), Veit, et al., at xiv.
5. Madison, the ONLY author of "The Federalist" to be a member of Congress, codified the several states' PROPOSED amendments into a RESOLUTION which he submitted to Congress for DEBATE on May 4, 1789. Id., at 1.
6. On May 25, 1789, Madison himself moved to POSTPONE consideration of the proposed amendments until June 8, 1789, which was agreed to by the Congress. Id., at 5.
7. Debate of the proposed amendments did not begin until August 13, 1789. Id. at 7. That's how "worried" the Founders/Framers in Congress were about there NOT being a Bill of Rights: they were in no hurry.
8. The debates of Madison's resolution in Congress were conducted by those who WROTE the Bill of Rights: the members of that first Congress.
9. Unlike "The Federalist" -- which as made clear is irrelevant to begin with -- the debates of those who WROTE the Bill of Rights are LEGAL AUTHORITY. It is to THOSE we refer when we want to know the intent of those who WROTE the Bill of Rights.
10. The debate which eventuated in the Second Amendment began with and was EXCLUSIVELY concerned with whether to have a standing army -- which the Founders/Framers considered a "bane of liberty"; a THREAT to CIVILIAN GOV'T -- or the alternative thereto: MILITIA. Elbridge Gerry summarized the issue during the debates of that which became the Second Amendment with this statement:
"What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty." Id., at 182.
He makes no mention of "individual". Becasue a MILITIA is OBVIOUSLY no more an individual than is an army. As well, and as obvious, PEOPLE is PLURAL, as in, WE THE PEOPLE. It is NOT "We the individual," or, "I the people".
11. That which became the Second Amendment was drawn from MILITIA clauses in the state constitutions/bills of rights of Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. "Bill of Rights and the States" (Madison House, 1992), Conley and Kaminski, at xviii.
12. Exactly as with the debates of that which became the Second Amendment, those four MILITIA clauses include the phrase "the right of the people [PLURAL] to keep and bear arms [as MILITIA]"; and that is directly associated with the phrase concerning standing armies being the "bane of liberty"*.
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*The US Constitution incorporates four references to MILITIA. The first (US Con. Art. II., s. 2, c. 1) reads:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief . . . of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States."
And when the miltia is not in service to the United States, the commander in chief of it is the states' governor.
The second reference (US Con. Art. I., s. 8., c. 15) reads in relevant part:
"Congress shall have the Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, [and] SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS."
Neither the President, nor the states' governors, are going to call out the militia to "defend against" themselves.
_____
These, in full, are the four state constitution/bills of rights MILITIA clauses from which was drawn the Second Amendment:
"Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, Article XVII. The people [PLURAL] have a right to keep and bear arms [as MILITIA] FOR THE COMMON DEFENCE. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the Legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the Civil authority, and be governed by it."
"North Carolina Declaration of Rights, Article XVII. That the people [PLURAL] have a right to bear arms [as MILITIA], for the defence OF THE STATE; and as standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by the civil power."
"Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights, Article XIII. That the people [PLURAL] have a right to bear arms [as MILITIA] for the defense of themselves AND THE STATE; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
"Vermont Declaration of Rights, Chapter I., Article XV. That the people [PLURAL] have a right to bear arms [as MILITIA] for the defence of themselves AND THE STATE; and, as standing armies, in the time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
13. The first draft of that which became the Second Amendment read as follows, in full, the final clause being the ONLY "individual right" concerning that which became the Second Amendment that was debated by those who WROTE the Second Amendment:
"The right of the people [PLURAL] to keep and bear arms [as MILITIA] shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated** militia [NOT "individual"] being the best security of a free country [NOT "individual"]: but no person [INDIVIDUAL] religiously scrupulous of [AGAINST] bearing arms, shall be compelled [INVOLUNTARY] to render military service [in the MILITIA] in person."
_____
**The third reference to Militia in the US Constitution (US Con. Art. I., s. 8, c. 16) reads in full:
"Congress shall have the Power To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers [this done by the states' governor and legislature] and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress."
As the Constitution stipulates that Congress shall make the laws, "to regulate" means in the form of LAW,
_____
OBVIOUSLY the final clause of that which became the Second Amendment was VOTED DOWN. AS OBVIOUSLY, as it is the ONLY "individual right" debated concerning that which became the Second Amendment, that it was VOTED DOWN means that the Second Amendment has NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH "INDIVIDUAL" ANYTHING.
Asserting . . . NON-law -- "Federalist Papers" -- changes NONE of those facts, BEGINNING with the fact that the authors of "The Federalist," IN "The Federalist," which concerned ONLY the Constitution, REJECTED the "need" for a Bill of Rights; and the fact that the Congressional debates of those who WROTE the Second Amendment are _THE_ LEGAL AUTHORITY we consult to determine what those who WROTE the Second Amendment MEANT with the Second Amendment. And as unequivocally shown, it is SOLELY concerned with ensuring the states -- GOV'TS -- that they can keep their WELL REGULATED MILITIA.
14. The Bill of Rights, consisting of twelve proposed amendments, were submitted to the states' legislatures for consideration on September 25, 1789. The first two of the twelve were rejected.
15. Ratification of the Bill of Rights was completed on December 15, 1791.
16. The fouurth reference to Militia in the US Constitution reads in full:
"A Well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people [PLURAL] to keep and bear Arms [as that WELL REGULATED MILITIA], shall not be infringed."
17. SUBSEQUENTLY, on May 8, 1792, Congress enacted the "Militia Act" of 1792, by means of which to regulate the militia in accordance with the references to it in the Constitution -- including the Second Amendment.
One can either accept those clear and unequivocal facts and that they substantiate -- the Second Amendment has nothing whatever to do with "individual" ANYTHING -- or continue to talk anti-Constitutional ragtime.

HERE'S AN INTERESTING HAITI EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS STORY:

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Dear Massachusetts Residents:

I see that you all have YOUR health care coverage taken care of, so NOW you figure just FUCK THE REST of the citizens of other states in the union.



What a bunch of shit-stacks!
YOU are fuck-all dirt bag motherfuckers for not getting out and covering this thing.  You self-absorbed East Coast sonsabitches are just about to piss the rest of us off.  What the fuck are you afraid of?  YOU LIKE REPUBLICANS DO YOU?  Well now, THAT'S a way to make some nice quality new friends, isn't it?


PETITION: "The loss of Ted Kennedy's seat -- due to a lack of enthusiasm among Democrats and Independents -- sends a clear message to Congress. The Senate health care bill is not the change we were promised in 2008, and it must be improved. The Senate must use 'reconciliation' to pass a better bill with a strong public option." Sign here.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SARAH PALIN'S FIRST DAY AT FOX NEWS:

Bank bailouts? Don't let Sarah Palin, the Republicans and tea baggers bullshit you.

I recorded this at a town hall meeting 1 September '09.  It's only a couple of minutes.  Use it to remind people who the Democrats really ARE.

Never forget: The Republicans are simply CON ARTISTS (bait and switch specialists).  We either LEARN FROM THE LAST 30 YEARS OR REPEAT IT.

LOL@AFGHANISTANISTANS KARZAI - if it wasn't so damned serious it would be funny how he so obviously went to the GWTF Bush school of governance!

This is the second time that the Afghan Parliament delivered a blow to Mr. Karzai this month. In early January, lawmakers voted against most of Mr. Karzai's candidates for ministers, forcing him to select new nominees. The ministerial positions that still remain unfilled include transport, communications, commerce and health. "It was obvious from the beginning that most of the nominees would be rejected because they were selected by the president based on political patronage, rather than their efficiency," said Fawzia Kofi, a lawmaker from Badakhshan province.

GO.READ

DEMOCRATS! WAKE UP! PAY ATTENTION! THEY ARE KILLING YOUR SONS AND MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS!

THIS IS NOT NEW NEWS.  THIS IS AS REAL AS IT WAS WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED THE LIE WAR LEAD UP.  WE LET THEM DO THIS TO US AND TO THOSE POOR FUCKS IN IRAQ.  WE LET THEM!
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.

DEMOCRATS WAKE UP!  PAY ATTENTION!  THEY ARE KILLING YOUR SONS AND MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS!

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from THE FEDERAL OBSERVER "a Voice of Truth for America":

The Bankers Manifesto of 1892

The Father and his more famous son.

Revealed by US Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, SR from Minnesota before the US Congress sometime during his term of office between the years of 1907 and 1917 to warn the citizens.

"We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance.
The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in our interest or disrupt them.
At the coming Omaha Convention to be held July 4th (1892), our men must attend and direct its movement, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This at the present time would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination (conspiracy) and legislation.
The courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
When through the process of the law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of the government applied to a central power of imperial wealth under the control of the leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.
History repeats itself in regular cycles. This truth is well known among our principal men who are engaged in forming an imperialism of the world. While they are doing this, the people must be kept in a state of political antagonism.
The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organization known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection with the reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party.
By thus dividing voters, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to the common herd. Thus, by discrete action, we can secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accomplished." 

LINK

IN PORTLAND, OREGON, IT'S NICE TO SEE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT LEADING BY EXAMPLE

Portland high-rise to get 250-foot-tall trellises

PORTLAND, Ore. – They haven't figured out yet how to get the pruning done, but architects and federal officials plan one of the world's most extensive vertical gardens in downtown Portland — what amounts to a series of 250-foot-tall trellises designed to shade the west side of an 18-story office building

The work is part of a $135 million remodeling, with most of the money from federal stimulus funds. It is the largest single stimulus project announced so far in Oregon. The U.S. General Services Administration says its goal is to create a "landmark high-performance building."

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DEAR AMERICAN DEMOCRATS: DEFEND YOURSELVES, REMEMBER THE PAST DECADE OR PREPARE TO RE-LIVE IT x A THOUSAND!

WALL STREET JOURNAL correspondent and author of THE WRECKING CREW: HOW conservatives RUINED GOVERNMENT, ENRICHED THEMSELVES, AND BEGGARED THE NATION takes a look back at the decade that was. WATCH THE VIDEO NOW.

I had to go into town today (about 2 miles) for some things including a coupon for a dozen eggs for 89 cents.  When I was leaving the "super"market in Ocean Park, I noticed this great engineering to level some new nailers someone was installing.


IS IT LEVEL YET?

IN HAITI THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS INJURED AND DEAD, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS LIVING IN HORROR AND RUSH LIMBAUGH CONTINUES HIS RACISM, HATE AND IGNORANCE:

While he MIGHT have used his fat-man chair and microphone to raise relief funds for Hatians or help in positive ways, he does not - I venture he CAN NOT, as the inbred fool of the son of assholes...


This fat fuck would not make a decent pimple on the ass of a good citizen.

TO HELP HATIAN EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS 

FOLLOW THIS LINK

Republicans calling President Obama is truly the height of hipocracy:

A resurgence in the Taliban, a government riddled with corruption...

A resurgence of the teabaggers and sarah palin, a government riddled with corruption...

Washington kettles who call the pot...

The Americans not only support corrupt leaders far away... 

The Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron's 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion – a notion the pope has warned against - STFU -

"Worship of nature can replace religion"??

Let me ask you, Mr. Pope - leader of the bishops and priests who hide and protect the rapists of little boys:
WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT YOU THINK?
Religion?   What the hell GOOD is it?  It is LESS than the oneness and complete all-ness of nature.  It is FEAR that some "god" is going to "get you" if you mis-behave...unless, of course, you are a big shot in said church!

Let me try an experiment to see if this "god" is gonna get me -
FUCK YOU MR. POPE.

Hmmm - no lightning bolts
or bad luck yet....

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GOP needs to STFU with this “Harry Reid is just like Trent Lott” BS

Senate Majority Leader was Affiliated with White Supremacist Group

By: Blue Texan Monday January 11, 2010 10:30 am

 

Pictured: Trent Lott with "the right kind of people."

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), that is.

Thomas Edsall revealed that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott had appeared as the keynote speaker at a 1992 meeting of the CCC in Greenwood, Mississippi. In the article, Edsall cited an issue of The Citizens Informer that featured a large photograph of Senator Lott at a CCC conference and quoted him as telling attendees that “we need more meetings like this.” According to the Informer, Lott asserted that “the people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. Let’s take it in the right direction and our children will be the beneficiaries.”
[...]
CCC leaders revealed that Lott had spoken to them on more than one occasion [note: five times]; that his syndicated column regularly ran in The Citizens Informer, and that his uncle, a member of the Council’s Executive Board, called him an “honorary member.”

When someone discovers that Harry Reid is a) chummy with racist hate groups and b) has a deplorable voting record on civil rights — please speak up and speak up loudly.
Otherwise, the GOP needs to STFU with this “Harry Reid is just like Trent Lott” BS.
SOURCE LINK 

curious what AL SHARPTON 

has to say about it?

SPEAK UP TO SAVE THE INTERNET. Send a message to the FCC today:

Who do you want to decide which websites you can visit or what Internet content you can access — you or a big telecom company?

That's what the fight about network neutrality is all about. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet users, not Internet service providers, should be in control.

If you support net neutrality, now's the time to speak out.

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed net neutrality rules that will ensure that the Internet is free from blocking, censorship and discrimination by powerful telecom companies. And the FCC has opened up a public comment period to get feedback on the proposed rules — but only until this Thursday (January 14)!

Tell the FCC: Save net neutrality. Click here and we'll automatically add your name to our petition, which will be delivered before the Thursday deadline.

We need you to speak up because the telecoms are fighting these rules tooth-and-nail. Their pushback began even before the rules were announced. Eighteen Senators (all Republicans) sent a letter to the FCC opposing net neutrality. One Republican senator even announced an effort to prevent the FCC from spending funds to enforce the new rules once they go into effect. Separately, 72 House Democrats sent their own letter to the FCC opposing net neutrality rules.

This type of pressure from Congress hasn't gone unnoticed at the FCC, so now's the time for citizens like you to speak out and fight back.

Save the Internet. Click here and we'll automatically submit your comment to the FCC's public comment period in support of net neutrality.

Without strong net neutrality rules, we might have to rely upon the good will of large telecoms to protect our access to the diversity of political perspectives. We might have to trust companies like Comcast, which actively and secretly interfered with users' ability to access popular video, photo and music sharing applications; AT&T, which censored anti-Bush comments made by Pearl Jam's lead singer during a concert; and Verizon Wireless, which interfered with NARAL Pro-Choice America's ability to send text messages to its members.

We can't let the corporate lobbyists win. What good is free speech if powerful corporations have the power to stifle communications they find objectionable?

Tell the FCC: Save net neutrality. Click here and we'll automatically submit your comment before the comment period closes on January 14.

John Negroponte, infamous proxy murderer appears more and more on television:

News organisations and government STILL go to the bloody, murderous, hatchet-man called John Negroponte for opinions and advice.  Evidently, President Obama thinks this guy and what he has wrought in Central America are just fine.  What do you think?
1.
The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras. While it's being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media, the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the word quickly with the tragic announcement of each compañero/a.  GO.READ
2.
John Negroponte, former ambassador to Iraq under Geoge W. Bush, was ambassador to Honduras 1981-1985. As filmmaker Paul Laverty wrote in the July 2005 issue of The Progressive, “a prizewinning series in the Baltimore Sun in 1995 demonstrated that Negroponte knew about the torture and murders that Honduras’s Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA, was carrying out. He then covered them up by whitewashing reports back to Congress about Honduras’s human rights record.”GO.READ

I FIND IT UNCONCIONABLE THAT ANY NEWS AGENCY OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY WOULD CONSULT WITH A PERSON LIKE THIS.  ARE WE A PROGRESSIVE, CARING SOCIETY OR ARE WE REALLY ONLY INTERESTED IN WHAT IS GOOD FOR OUR INDUSTRIES, AND THUS THOSE THAT RUN THEM?

From our friends at the ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND comes this column: "Religion and Climate Change," by author and writer Dominique Browning.

Read January's Personal Nature column by Dominique Browning.

A number of religious leaders of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and other faiths have formed a growing movement to transform society from their pulpits by emphasizing the connection between ecology and religion.

Their sermons inspire, educate and mobilize people with topics including climate change, renewable energy technologies and public policy to cut greenhouse gases.

Find out more in this month's Personal Nature column, "Religion and Climate Change," by author and writer Dominique Browning.

This doesn't mean environmentalism is turning into a religion, Browning explains, but that religion harnesses the power of love and faith, both of which bind us to nature, other humans and the health of our planet and inspire us to take action when these are in danger.

"The fact is," Browning writes, "in order to succeed in significantly altering the global course of climate change, we are going to have to harness all the power we have, whether it is the power of the market, the power of technology, or the power of heart and soul."

This month's Personal Nature column takes an inspiring and thought-provoking look at the connection between religion and climate change.

We hope you enjoy.

Thank you for your activism and support,
Environmental Defense Fund

U.S. "JUSTICE" SYSTEM RECRUITING ENEMIES IN IRAQ? use our handy CLICK~N~READ

The Clean Air Act -- the key existing federal tool to cut the pollution that causes global warming -- is under attack.

Keep the Clean Air Act Intact

Who's against clean air?
THIS woman: 

Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska (she may look like a nice lady, but BELIEVE ME, she is an oil coproration scumbag bitch), is expected to bring forward an amendment on January 20 that would stop the Obama administration from using the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Please join us in the fight to save the Clean Air Act by sending your Senators a message today. Just CLICK HERE or above and enter your zip code below to get started.

The futuristic Ady Gil trimaran, which holds the round-the-world speed record for a powered vessel and was enlisted by activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for this whaling season, received "catastrophic damage" and was sinking after being RAMMED by Japanese whaling vessle scroll down for vid

In an unprovoked attack captured on film, the Japanese whaling fleets ship Shonan Maru No. 2 deliberately rammed and caused catastrophic damage to the Sea Shepherd catamaran Ady Gil. six crewmembers Rescued by the Sea Shepherd Ship Bob Barker

According to eyewitness Captain Chuck Swift on the Bob Barker, the attack happened while the vessels were dead in the water. The Shonan Maru No. 2 suddenly started up and deliberately rammed the Ady Gil ripping eight feet of the bow of the vessel completely off. According to Captain Swift, the vessel does not look like it will be saved.

The incident took place at 64 Degrees and 03 Minutes South and 143 Degrees and 09 Minutes East

Until this morning the Japanese were completely unaware of the existence of the Bob Barker. This newest addition to the Sea Shepherd fleet left Mauritius off the coast of Africa on December 18th and was able to advance along the ice edge from the West as the Japanese were busy worrying about the advance of the Steve Irwin from the North. 

America's Longest Wars

America's Longest Wars

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now among the longest in U.S. history.

 

Only the Revolutionary and Vietnam wars outpace them.

 

Former U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke has forecast that the war in Afghanistan will eventually be the longest war in U.S. history.

 

Visit Congress.org to see a graphic timeline of U.S. involvement in war from 1776 to present and learn more about each military campaign.

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