Starting to rain here in NC, thankfully. Maybe we'll get back to pre-drought conditions soon. Spring has sprung...this cycle of nature is one of my favorites, time to get busy planting soon, after the low of 33 is reached next Thursday morning.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Just another day in the reign of the Election Fraud Emperor.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Good morning
Snow today in the twin cities.....in the mid to low 30's...hopefully by Wednesday we'll see 60's temps.
Another soldier from St. Paul was reported killed yesterday in Iraq.....22 yrs old...leaving behind his wife, a 1 year old and 3 step children...
grandma
· 1 year ago
"They did this in your name, Americans. "
The fact that Bush felt comfortable confirming his own approval of White House torture planning indicates that far more dreadful moral outrages were planned and committed by these bastards. And that those horrors are official United States policy.
Should Bush, et al immediately be impeached and removed from office for these and other heinous activities? Should he and the others stand trial? Of course they should, it goes without saying.It is a measure of how far removed we are from a representative democracy that, politically, it is simply inconceivable that the top level of planners will ever encounter justice.
grandma, not in my name, NEVER in my name. Only impeachment would ever be in my name for these criminals.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Older and Wiser
What is so disgusting is these criminals don't ever seem to give a damn.,....they could care less what American citizens think........Bush is as cocky and arrogant as ever.
And McCain pretends to be anti-torture...
From digby:
"Perhaps someone on the campaign trail could ask Senator McCain, the allegedly anti-torture Republican what he thinks about this. I'm sure he'll say that he's "against torture," which they all do. But in this case the highest levels of the Bush administration personally approved water boarding, which even he has admitted is actual torture. I'd like to see someone pin him down on this. He gets a tremendous amount credit and affection for his bravery and "principles" on this issue, when his history is actually one of real political cowardice."
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Disqus
Pros------ -- faster, very few "burps", hasn't been down or unavailable
Cons------ unable to refresh, ratings system
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Seems like Philly is into "blackmail" politics. If a campaign doesn't shell out $400,000 or $500,00 to ward bosses guess what, they won't get out the vote. . All across this country people VOLUNTEER to help get their candidate elected but not in Philly, oh no, they want to be paid.
I'm glad to see Obama isn't taking part in the 'street' money.....I hope it doesn't cost him the election.
grandma
· 1 year ago
From today's NY Times:
The U.S., once the greatest can-do country on the planet, now can’t seem to do anything right. The great middle class has maxed out its credit cards and drained dangerous amounts of equity from family homes. No one can seem to figure out how to generate the growth in good-paying jobs that is the only legitimate way of putting strapped families back on their feet.
The nation’s infrastructure is aging and in many places decrepit. Rebuilding it would be an important source of job creation, but nothing on the scale that is needed is in sight. To get a sense of how important an issue this is, consider New Orleans.
Other nations can provide health care for everyone. The United States cannot. In an era in which a college degree is becoming a prerequisite for a middle-class quality of life, we are having big trouble getting our kids through high school. And despite being the wealthiest of all nations, nearly 10 percent of Americans are resorting to food stamps to maintain an adequate diet, and 4 in every 10 American children are growing up in families that are poor or near-poor.
The U.S. seems almost paralyzed, mesmerized by Iraq and unable to generate the energy or the will to handle the myriad problems festering at home. The war will eventually cost a staggering $3 trillion or more, according to the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. When he was asked on “Democracy Now!” about who is profiting from the war, he said the two big gainers were the oil companies and the defense contractors.
This is the pathetic state of affairs in the U.S. as we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
grandma, and the biggest defense contractor in the US, GE, can't even keep its profits up, such is the greed. Of course, some of its money probably went into the housing ponzi scheme, so will the govt give it even more money?
Everything for corporations making mega-bucks, but nothing for the rest of us, not even jobs. As Cheney would say, go fuck yourself.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Oh, and that LA article made it seem that only Dems engage in the "street money" stuff. I was living in Philly in the early 70s, and it was the Nixonite ward heelers in the working class neighborhoods who engaged in this practice. They practically blackmailed and bullied people into voting for Nixon if you weren't in their camp, buying votes as it were. I don't see anything wrong with paying for people's gas or lunch money when they're volunteering in poor areas, but beyond that, it seems more like bribery.
And I hate machine politics of any sort.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
my local paper buried the story about bushco condoning torture in the very last page of the first section...and of course it was 'enhanced interrogation measures"
its TORTURE. the United States of America TORTURES people thanks to the idiot bushco administration. that's a war crime. it's a crime against humanity.
afafkd
· 1 year ago
---that's a war crime. it's a crime against humanity shhh don't tell congress or the media
nsr
· 1 year ago
Learning from their President dept: Merck and Schering-Plough, under investigation by Congress for what they knew about the effectiveness of Vytorin, wanted to blame their consultants for screwing up the evaluation. So they just made stuff up.
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Snow today in the twin cities.....in the mid to low 30's...hopefully by Wednesday we'll see
60's temps.
Another soldier from St. Paul was reported killed yesterday in Iraq.....22 yrs old...leaving behind his wife, a 1 year old and 3 step children...
The fact that Bush felt comfortable confirming his own approval of White House torture planning indicates that far more dreadful moral outrages were planned and committed by these bastards. And that those horrors are official United States policy.
Should Bush, et al immediately be impeached and removed from office for these and other heinous activities? Should he and the others stand trial? Of course they should, it goes without saying.It is a measure of how far removed we are from a representative democracy that, politically, it is simply inconceivable that the top level of planners will ever encounter justice.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/they-did...
What is so disgusting is these criminals don't ever seem to give a damn.,....they could care less what American citizens think........Bush is as cocky and arrogant as ever.
And McCain pretends to be anti-torture...
From digby:
"Perhaps someone on the campaign trail could ask Senator McCain, the allegedly anti-torture Republican what he thinks about this. I'm sure he'll say that he's "against torture," which they all do. But in this case the highest levels of the Bush administration personally approved water boarding, which even he has admitted is actual torture. I'd like to see someone pin him down on this. He gets a tremendous amount credit and affection for his bravery and "principles" on this issue, when his history is actually one of real political cowardice."
Pros------ -- faster, very few "burps", hasn't been down or unavailable
Cons------ unable to refresh, ratings system
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-stre...
I'm glad to see Obama isn't taking part in the 'street' money.....I hope it doesn't cost him the election.
The U.S., once the greatest can-do country on the planet, now can’t seem to do anything right. The great middle class has maxed out its credit cards and drained dangerous amounts of equity from family homes. No one can seem to figure out how to generate the growth in good-paying jobs that is the only legitimate way of putting strapped families back on their feet.
The nation’s infrastructure is aging and in many places decrepit. Rebuilding it would be an important source of job creation, but nothing on the scale that is needed is in sight. To get a sense of how important an issue this is, consider New Orleans.
Other nations can provide health care for everyone. The United States cannot. In an era in which a college degree is becoming a prerequisite for a middle-class quality of life, we are having big trouble getting our kids through high school. And despite being the wealthiest of all nations, nearly 10 percent of Americans are resorting to food stamps to maintain an adequate diet, and 4 in every 10 American children are growing up in families that are poor or near-poor.
The U.S. seems almost paralyzed, mesmerized by Iraq and unable to generate the energy or the will to handle the myriad problems festering at home. The war will eventually cost a staggering $3 trillion or more, according to the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. When he was asked on “Democracy Now!” about who is profiting from the war, he said the two big gainers were the oil companies and the defense contractors.
This is the pathetic state of affairs in the U.S. as we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/opinion/12her...
Everything for corporations making mega-bucks, but nothing for the rest of us, not even jobs. As Cheney would say, go fuck yourself.
And I hate machine politics of any sort.
its TORTURE. the United States of America TORTURES people thanks to the idiot bushco administration. that's a war crime. it's a crime against humanity.
shhh don't tell congress or the media