Hilary Clinton
wins in New Hampshire

who would have predicted that
:))

two long shots in New Hampshire ...
Hillary Clinton
and John McCain
imagine
:)

McCain also beat bushman 4 years ago!

hey D,
what do you think then?
is change in the air tonight?
:)

Was the crying fake? Did the Designing Women husband wife producing team give her some acting tips?

Dear Kate: You are Hillary-us!

As women go...pure and divine...half of the time!

.

O Lord! Lead me not into temptation,

but deliver me from the long shot glass.

.

Hey Bobby! Crying is usually accompanied by tears.

Where were they? Was she passing a gallstone or what?

That was a very minor emotional breakdown. I thought

she "got a grip" of herself rather quickly.

Do not the Masters tell us to master our emotions

in order that we might think straight with good reasoning techniques,

thus coming(1/2 the time) to rational conclusions?

.

And bobby,

Do be kind and introduce yourself to the family here. K?

If anyone of you really think that she was crying for us, then I have some real estate I would like to sell you. I am from the Hillary campaign and I promise to use the money from the sale of the real estate to help Hillary get elected by paying for ads showing just how much the country needs Hillary. LOL

It's the middle of January 60 Degrees and raining yesterday, normally it is in the single digits and snowing.

Today the sky is blue and 35 Degrees.

It might be more accurate to rename Global Warming to Global Energy Increase.

Perhaps what has not yet been realized is that this additional energy is there to be harnessed.

It's a simple principle. Take natural motion connect it to a magnet so that the magnet moves within a coil of wire and you have current or manageable energy that can be directed and infused with intelligence to do some work..

This energy can then do the reverse and move a magnet perhaps one that turns a wheel. A bunch of tiny moving magnets combined can move one large magnet.

Storing "the motion" until the motion is needed needs some work. I think I have one solution I am sure others have some. This combined with the nuclear reactor overhead should serve our needs. Burning things, a primitive method no longer supports our evolution but now hinders it.

So the idea is we take the increased environmental energy to reduce the need to derive energy from burning. The natural energy is better distributed eliminating the centralization of energy production increasing adaptability and eliminating single points of failure and vulnerability.

Also there is no monopoly on natural flowing energy as there is oil.

The election is unfolding perfectly. Ron Paul has increased awareness of some of the real issues. Perhaps some one else will execute only the infinite mind knows.

All of it fulfilling the prophecy of:

The transfer of power from the few that benefit to the detriment of the many; to the many benefit the all.

Empowering the collective with high regard for, and preserving the individual free radical that powers the evolution of the collective.

One may have four aces to deal one of the players when the time is right.

Universal Self Government

___(R)evolution---> Our Evolution

Love that Richard! "Global Energy Increase" it really represents what is going on here on earth much better.

"Clean energy" I think we are very close. Burning salt and water is quite interesting, that would be super clean fuel, because it would offer back as water returns to its natural form quickly.

So did you decided to be nice and let Barbra and her new husband stay with you?
I miss you and I am so looking forward to your visit here, lots to do before then though.

Nice that you have a blue sky there in Detroit its like that here too.

You know the strange thing is I felt spring in the sunshine days before the winter sun set.
And every day there a little more sun to warm our angelic bodies.

Toodalou 4 now ; )
love you

boys and girls...

u can put lipstick on a pig...but it is still a pig...

the real deal will win when all's said and done...

no to fonies, no to those who want the job that bad...no to croc tears when the stakes are this high! it's time for change...didn't she vote for the war like old eddie? damn! hey if u did, u don't deserve to be prez...!

If Hillary really wants to jump-start her campaign she should put out a commercial showing her in the kitchen baking cookies. What could be more human and comforting (especially if they're chocolate chip).

Barack should NOT do a commercial showing him in a hunting outfit shooting partridges. He would not look good wearing one of those hats.

ref. 13.

I agree with u skep! damn! nice to see u bahaving...damn!

did u hear bushman calling iran a threat to world peace? is the pot calling the kettle black!

hey bushman...get off whatever u are smoking and just look in the freakin' mirror and u'll see what the real threat is...u F876543 &***#$%^.....

Here's a hint of things to come by post NH:

"I think that Senator Clinton, obviously, is a formidable and tough candidate, and we have to make sure that *we take it to them just like they take it to us*,...I come from Chicago politics. We're accustomed to rough and tumble."

"did u hear bushman calling iran a threat to world peace? is the pot calling the kettle black!"

Talk about crying wolf. Fewer people will ever listen to these "convenient" news events--the ones right before Bush has a need to make another "cowboy" statement. Give it a rest, Bush.

Isn't it a shame Americans can't trust anything coming out of the government? I honestly doubt if the rest of the world would believe any incident provoked by Iran as being true, short of a nuclear attack on the U.S., because of the misleading behavior by the administration leading up to the Iraq invasion.

Yeah..the assault on our fighting men and women in the Gulf of Tonkin cannot go unanswered. The only reasonable response is preemptive war to stop the spread of communism/fascism (or islamocapitalism - or was it islamosexism?) across the free world.
Trust me: We'll be greeted as liberators.

The Iranians know Bush is itching for a reason to attack them, there is no way they would do anything this stupid. What a perfect bit of timing. Try to create a fake incident as reason for attack.

I wonder if we will have a "terrorist attack" or a major "incident" with Iran conveniently timed to help the "tough on terror" Republican nominee for President, whoever he may be, in late October. I wonder if the American people would be unsophisticated enough to fall for such a tactic.

hello everyone,

you can put lipstick on a pig and it is still pig..wow...now that is a pleasant line to read, makes one feel real good about the up and coming generation of young males in America.

priceless.

anyway...sailing right on by..and looking past to more promising communications from folks about this exciting campaign.

evening all, ruth

"did u hear bushman calling iran a threat to world peace? is the pot calling the kettle black!"

Talk about crying wolf. Fewer people will ever listen to these "convenient" news events--the ones right before Bush has a need to make another "cowboy" statement. Give it a rest, Bush.

Isn't it a shame Americans can't trust anything coming out of the government? I honestly doubt if the rest of the world would believe any incident provoked by Iran as being true, short of a nuclear attack on the U.S., because of the misleading behavior by the administration leading up to the Iraq invasion.

Yeah..the assault on our fighting men and women in the Gulf of Tonkin cannot go unanswered. The only reasonable response is preemptive war to stop the spread of communism/fascism (or islamocapitalism - or was it islamosexism?) across the free world.
Trust me: We'll be greeted as liberators.

The Iranians know Bush is itching for a reason to attack them, there is no way they would do anything this stupid. What a perfect bit of timing. Try to create a fake incident as reason for attack.

I wonder if we will have a "terrorist attack" or a major "incident" with Iran conveniently timed to help the "tough on terror" Republican nominee for President, whoever he may be, in late October. I wonder if the American people would be unsophisticated enough to fall for such a tactic.

Take it easy there Diablo, Its all good brotha...I can think of 11 other things to talk bout beyond those ding dongs in DC. Ya think?
Your cute anyway..in spite of your rants.

Think you'll like this one.

Hi Richard

Re your #9. You might be interested in this:

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratory say they can take global-climate-change causing CO2 and sunlight out of the atmosphere and turn it into fuel. The CO2 recycling technique, Sunlight to Petrol project, essentially reverses the combustion process to recover the building blocks of hydrocarbons. The researchers say the technology already works, but very large-scale deployment could be a decade or more away. They hope to have a prototype available by April.

http://sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/sunshine.html

bonnie

Good morning Thurs AM Seattle time!

I ran across an interesting segway of items during morning coffee. First was this bit of good news from South Carolina, major Bible Belt State:

Creationist efforts to pull one of the nation's best biology textbooks were crushed when the school board voted, 9 to 7, to keep using the book
tinyurl.com/25fn6g

And a commenter on that article linked to this:

India aims for 'quantum jump' in science
www.nature.com/news/2008/080109/full/451112b.html

But what I really thought would be good material for IBers was this article (which was linked to in the sidebar of the Science Blog article):

Algorithmic Inelegance
http://tinyurl.com/2k4swd

A former computer scientist who is now a developmental biologist looks at the DNA code and finds that it is, well, full of old code from lots of past mistakes, and lots of hacks to fix problems the system has encountered along the way...

Very interesting viewpoint. Enjoy.

Ref. South Caorlina Creationism/Yogi -one

Good news for South Carolina but some insanity from Florida:

The Taylor County and Baker County school boards have have voted to oppose evolution

www.flascience.org/wp/?p=377

www.flascience.org/wp/?p=379

*****

Ref. Algorithmic Intelligence

"A former computer scientist who is now a developmental biologist looks at the DNA code and finds that it is, well, full of old code from lots of past mistakes, and lots of hacks to fix problems the system has encountered along the way..."

http://tinyurl.com/2k4swd

The author of that article is the biologist PZ Myers and the article recently appeared in the SEED Magazine.

"Complexity in living things is a product of the lack of direction in evolutionary processes, of the accumulation of fortuitous accidents, rather than the product of design." PZ Myers

Like in programming, good sub routines are re-used.... life never starts over all again even with imperfections in the code. And the copying errors are countered by bisexual reproduction in larger organisms.

Edmund Hillary dies

To my great delight I realised we were on top of Mount Everest and that the whole world spread out below us --Sir Edmund Hillary

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7182376.stm

Everest legend Edmund Hillary dies
CNN

"Hillary took his fame in stride and considered himself just an ordinary beekeeper.

He was 88."

"Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities," Clark(NZL Prime Minisiter) said. "In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility and generosity."

---

"In his later years, Hillary became a strong supporter of environmental causes and worked to improve the lives of Nepal's Sherpas -- helping to build and fund schools for them."

---

"Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain," he said at the time. "I think the whole attitude toward climbing Mt. Everest has become rather horrifying -- the people just want to get to the top."

---

"The legacy of Sir Edmund Hillary will live on," Clark said "His exploits continue to inspire new generations of New Zealanders, as they have for more than half a century already."

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/edmund.hillary/index.html

Circles of light
I become
in my fuzzy dream
Love
restore to me
the light
so I may
give
a clear refection of love
back.

Today was a fun time.

Yo, Sir Edmund!

Hillary climbing her mountain, too!

The stage is set.
The hands have left the building.
Scattered litter and faint aromas remain
as if they were waiting for a draft of fresh aire.

Lonely is the actor, quickly forgotten as he usually is.
Forlorn as the pen that knows the feel of dry paper.

It was a good run. The show goes on as it must.
The songs may change key, and yet...
the familiar rhythm strikes a chord I know.

Speaking as an outsider;I think it is a safe bet to say that Hillary Clinton is the Next President of the United States.

She is a familiar face to the people

People are ready for a drastic change in who is the president including their gender and she represents that for the people.

I think the biggest thing she has going for her is that she stands for change, she is brand new and yet has been around for a while. This gives her a massive advantage over the other contenders.

Whether or not she will be a good president remains to be seen but she will be diffferent and I think it is that what people are hungry for in their president. Something different, something new.

It is in the Bag for Hillary.

Regards

Simon

says an outsider...

simon ..."Speaking as an outsider;I think it is a safe bet to say that Hillary Clinton is the Next President of the United States."

u mean she will be the next wannabee? and btw how much do u wanna bet...since u think it's such a safe bet!

u and that hyperactive granny will be eating crow together! i'll supply the sauce for yous...say simon...how's tony b.liar?

To the ignorants, whether outsiders or insiders,
Obama's campgian for Change or Hillary's Change is
not about changing the skin color or the gender of
the white American President in the White House.

Looks like no one has wanted to comment on the news story of Edmund Hillary's Death, but okay.
(Ref. 26, 27)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_on_re_au_an/obit_edmund_hillary

Hillary seems to have been a wonderful person in many respects. My only quibble is with this business of who reached the top first, and even there he has been not too bad. But he yielded in the end to the western superiority complex. The story says:

In his 1999 book "View from the Summit," Hillary finally broke his long public silence about whether it was he or Norgay who was the first man to step atop Everest.

"We drew closer together as Tenzing brought in the slack on the rope. I continued cutting a line of steps upwards. Next moment I had moved onto a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing by space in every direction," Hillary wrote.

"Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realized with had reached the top of the world."

Before Norgay's death in 1986, Hillary consistently refused to confirm he was first, saying he and the Sherpa had climbed as a team to the top. It was a measure of his personal modesty, and of his commitment to his colleagues.

-----

Now he should have stuck to this "team" thing, because, even if he DID put his foot first there, it WAS a team thing. His earlier position was no mere politeness or modesty. Tenzing more than held his end up, cutting steps, leading pitches, knowing the way to go probably better than anyone on the expedition, since he had come so close the year before with a Swiss expedition. Etc etc.

It is unfortunate that he gave in to this western competitive obsession when he could have left it alone. But he was a good man too.

Oh well, Irvine

Snow fell for the First time in man's memory in Baghdad today.

Snow is very Peaceful.

I think that is a sign... I know I asked for one.

Hey Irvine
Most people are too consumed with the other Hillary to give any energy to Sir Edmund. Everyone's looking for a savior.

Yo and peaceful travels to you Sir Edmund.

And yo I don't think anyone has made it to the top of Everest without a team.

It wasn't that long ago that our world was still big and unexplored. Now I can Google Earth Mount Everest and see it in 3D on my computer. It's not the same as standing on the top of the world but I do get to see the same sight as Sir Edmund. I wonder if Sir Edmund Google Earthed Everest before he died?

Now back to Hillary and the race for world leadership. I wish I could Google Earth Hillary and see her in 3D.

peace comes from peace

derek

Yo Richard
It only take a moment and a small amount of energy to transform a a dark situation. Then it takes an even smaller amount of energy to maintain that transformation.
Snow is a peaceful and natural expression of our world. It only turns to a slushy mess when humans step all over it.

derek

silly humans........

Hey Derek,

"It only take a moment and a small amount of energy to transform a a dark situation. Then it takes an even smaller amount of energy to maintain that transformation.

Snow is a peaceful and natural expression of our world. It only turns to a slushy mess when humans step all over it. "

Are you aware you made two transformations in your post #37? And 38 really is the result of it :)

Snow IS peaceful whether or not humans step all over it. It will always snow again :)

Peace, Mieke

Hey, Diablo, can we help be but cynical?

Tony Blair is joining one of the Wall Street’s best-known banks in what the former UK prime minister told the FT would be the first of a series of positions he expects to take in the private sector. Blair, who stepped down as prime minister last year, is to become a part-time adviser to JPMorgan, where he will use his experience and contacts to provide political and strategic advice to the US bank and participate in some client events. Blair’s income from the job has not been disclosed, although recruitment consultants say it is likely to be more than $1m a year. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive, said Blair would be “enormously valuable” to the company. Since leaving office, Blair, who is believed to have a large mortgage on a London house, has joined the international conference circuit. He was paid $500,000 for one speech in China. His move comes a month after Jonathan Powell, his former chief of staff, landed a full-time job with JPMorgan’s rival, Morgan Stanley.
ftalphaville.ft.com

Grandpaw.

Billy Joel - Two Thousand Years Lyrics

In the beginning
There was the cold and the night
Prophets and angels gave us the fire and the light
Man was triumphant
Armed with the faith and the will
That even the darkest ages couldn't kill

Too many kingdoms
Too many flags on the field
So many battles, so many wounds to be healed
Time is relentless
Only true love perseveres
It's been a long time and now I'm with you
After two thousand years

This is our moment
Here at the crossroads of time
We hope our children carry our dreams down the line
They are the vintage
What kind of life will they live?
Is this a curse or a blessing that we give?

Sometimes I wonder
Why are we so blind to fate?
Without compassion, there can be no end to hate
No end to sorrow
Caused by the same endless fears
Why can't we learn from all we've been through
After two thousand years?

There will be miracles
After the last war is won
Science and poetry rule in the new world to come
Prophets and angels
Gave us the power to see
What an amazing future there will be

And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new
We are two thousand years.

Ok so that piece about your recent trip to Israel, completely vanished, whats up with that?
I recall something in your notes to the effect of " "Evil is something" can remember exactly now, its gone.. But I did want to add, "evil" is "live" spelled back words, what dose evil mean in the mind and the heart? Isn't it yet another word, searching for a meaning? I did plan on responding to some of the other statement, but alas there gone...

Change and transformation is reverberating in our collective consciousness like waves. The change any one particular individual seeks, I suppose, depends on which 'reverb' you happen to catch.

However, all our perceived problems, war terrorism, hate, fear, racism, sexism, poverty etc and etc. can be funnelled down to ONE thing.... living in disharmony with nature.

So are we collectively ready to rescind Descartes' philosophical mind-body split that has separated us from nature since the 15th century? Do we truly understand our interdependence with nature in order to regard ALL life on Earth, not just human life? Are we ready to reform civilization away from empire's pattern of tragic destruction so we can recover our reverence and wonder at being part of nature in the ongoing creation of Earth and Cosmos?

Our very success as a species, creates the responsibility for maintaining the interconnected life-systems of our small and amazing planet. We are caretakers not rulers. No more of this nonsense about "conquering nature."

This long-overdue 'change' in consciousness will occur by individual efforts not by some saviour even if you do "believe in them to deliver the goods," whatever the 'goods' might be.

Hey Mieke
I was not aware of my transformations and I wasn't even trying to transform. :)

Bonnie
I see this already happening. Change is happening. Not through a saviour but through the people. So many people are waking up to see the importance of balance and sustainability. Our imbalance with nature peaked in the 50's and 60's. There are so many people creating green technologies.
The government and corporations are slowly being force to become greener. Our leaders are slowly being forced to become more transparent. Time is our friend.

We can not see the future with the eyes of the past.

derek

I see this change to more balance and sustainability coming regardless of who is elected president.

Oh and Mieke
silly humans, is a quote from The Q on Star Trek. He's a mischievous god like character.

Diablo,

I have no idea how Tony Blair is doing.

As regards Hillary Clinton,

It is clear that you dislike her as you do most other people..... and as regards the statement you spewed forward about me and her eating something together.... I think you will find that never anywhere in my post did I say that Mrs Clinton is a genuine or sincere person or that I support her in any way. I am merely saying that I think she will win the election based on several facts.

What I have noticed more so recently about the western society more so recently than before is this.....

The Press control the world

Think about that, a lot of people are constantly monitoring the press to see what is going on in the world and like mindless sheep they consume all of the information given to us by this entity. In here it is extremely evident by the politicaly driven people that visit the blog. Their views on world affairs come straight from the morning news topped off with their own spin on things not to mention the spin and drama it has already had shoveled on top of it. If there is one thing that gets my goat on the Internet it is Chatroom Politicians, they are the worst. If they know so much about politics and how to run the world properly then why do they sit on an Internet Blog all day spewing out pages of their own world ideology.

Really it is the press that is responsible for these people also. As well as other disasters around the world.

Here is an example of a disaster here in the UK that the British Press is directly responsible for.

The Northern Rock Crisis. (Should be called the Northern Rock destruction by the british press)

For those of you not familiar with the Northern Rock Crisis. It is a British Bank that experienced a very small amount of potential financial problems following the economic crisis experienced in the USA earlier last year. Northern Rock approached the Bank of England for a short term loan in order to be able to cover all of its financial commitments. The press got wind of this and because there was not much in the news that week it was sensationalised to kingdom come. It got so much attention from the press that millions of people flocked to the bank and withdrew all of their cash out.

So from having a bank that was simply borrowing from another bank to stabilise its commitments it is now hanging by a thread in turmoil with no way back to becoming the strong and wealthy organisation that it had been for decades. If that was not bad enough, millions of people lost their investments in shares in the bank.

The people have a right to Know and I am all for Liberty and freedom of Information.

BUT, I really think that the press are sometimes worse than vultures and there should be tougher Laws in this country and in America that stops the press from reporting information that can cause Mass Hysteria and undue confusion and also unneccasery damage to people.

The same applies to this election. The press are all over it like vermon, trying to get a story and sensationalising every little detail.

All you need to know is who won!

Simon

simon...

friend...if u go back and look at what i said...i never claimed that u support hillary...u think that she'll be prez and i say no...and i said u and granny will be eating crow when she loses in november to the tidal wave now sweeping america...it's a north american saying that u'll have to take ur word back...damn dude!

granpa ed...hello!

Yo derek

I am impressed by Edmund Hillary's fund raising programs for the poor in Nepal. He gave back a lot. He was also into reforesting bigtime.

Calm climbs from basecamp

Derek wrote:

"And yo I don't think anyone has made it to the top of Everest without a team."

Yo
i wonder
how many of us ever reach the 'top'
of anything
without the support/guidance of
those who have gone before
found the way
blazed a trail
positioned ropes
fastened anchors
cut 'ice steps' for us
or support our efforts in any
number of other ways
that we may not even be aware of?

is there really any such thing as
a 'solo' effort?

methinks ...
we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

2=2?

Skeptisch likes poetry

Irvine likes poetry

Skeptisch spams us with endless cut and paste

Irvine spams us with endless cut and pastes

Skeptisch defends Dawkins

Irvine defends Dawkins

Skeptisch likes politics

Irvine likes politics

Skeptisch is obsessed with spoon bending

Irvine? just give it time! damn!

Irvine
We stand on the shoulders of giants as well as those of the common man. it has taken everyone to get us where we are. There are no supporting roles. There are only supporting roles.

It is quickly becoming the intention of the masses to live in balance with our technology and nature, the politicians and big business will have to catch up, and they are. They may kick and scream but they will conform to our wishes.

Nice to meet you Irvine. A reasonable mind is also filled with intuition.

derek

for all the reasonable people out there who missed this song the first time.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4wVRcE5gIs&feature=related

First time in living memory that it snows in Baghdad....

Curse global warming!

Steve

Yo Diablo
It's not like we know who the hell you are.

Who cares if Irvine is Skep, or you or just Irvine?

doodooman...

scoop it up dude!

yo amber...snow in Baghdad? damn dude!

that must be strange for them!

now maybe there is a market for snow tires and snow ploughs! and do their cars have heaters? yo!

Yo Derek, great video!

I contain multitudes.

From Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman #51

The past and present wilt--I have fill'd them, emptied them.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute
longer.)

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I concentrate toward them that are nigh,
I wait on the door-slab.

Who has done his day's work?
who will soonest be through with his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?

Will you speak before I am gone?
will you prove already too late?

http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/1900.html

More positive inputs to Obama Campaign going into South Carolina after the NH loss.

John Kerry, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano and Tim Johnson of South Dakota endorse Obama.

And of course the Unions are supporting Obama in Nevada.

"2 - 2 = 0"?

Well, I have everything, and I am everything.

The more people who offer an opinion of me the more things I (can) become.

In fact, pretty much everyone I know thinks I am something different than the others.

And yet, I am who I am.

Ditto for everything else in the All.

Get the picture?

Steve,

Ironic isn't it? I remember in 5th grade science the book said we were entering an ice age. Which would make global warming the perfect solution for preventing an ice age, then again ozone is produced by pollution, so does that mean if we pollute more we will plug the ozone hole and save Antarctica?

I wonder if we could drain the CO2 out through the ozone hole?

Actually last year the ozone hole unexpectedly and without explanation shrank an enormous amount. Makes one wonder is we have any affect at all. Amazing though is the timing corresponded with the expiration on the patent for Freon and the granting of a Patent for a replacement.

Derek,

If not for the silly humans there would be no comedy in the universe.

The ozone hole is conveniently on the bottom of the planet.

Yeah, Republitards may like this. Arm Yourself. Enjoy.

http://www.global-warming-info.com/

Global Warming Research - Articles - Facts

Conclusion: Global Warming is a Scam

derek
Re your #44

I suppose my environmental roots are showing. :)
We seem unable to get along with each other not to mention Mother Nature.

Sure change is occuring, but evolution is now a race to see if we humans can find room in our hearts and minds and lives for the better 'angels' of our nature. This will not occur naturally for the majority of us,since it would take eons, and there's simply not enough time. If we find ways to balance love and power, and come back into harmony with nature, The Revolution could be a pleasant one.

On the other hand, if/when imbalance and disharmony reach sufficient extremes,as is now occurring, corrections automatically set in. It would be imprudent, not to recognize the possibility that the Revolution could occur in crisis and by force, and with astounding repercussions. In that case, the changes everyone wants will not be anything like we expect.

Hey, why no article about the new $2500.00 Indian Car called the TATA Nano? Looks cool, mercedes drivers are afraid they will have to share the road and poorer families piling onto scooters are supposedly happy they will have a chance to get a car instead! What are thoughts on this car?

goodsaturdayeveryone,

I was just reading a piece at Huffpo by a new supporter of Barak Obama and why he is suporting him.

This person says he is supporting him for his forward visionary thinking and his progessive ideas and the fact that he thinks he is the new "Uniter." He thinks he will fix healthcare and make it available for all(imagine that!) he thinks he will fix the US's aging infrastructure(no small deal here either) he thinks he will unite America and the World(a simple WOW will do) and most importantly he has proven that he can do all this BECAUSE he voted against the Iraq War(Barak's big claim to fame, for his campaign,) yes, this claim to fame was indeed a very forward visionary act.

Let us look at it. When Barak Obama voted against going to war he was a political nobody on the National Politial scene, nobody cared a hoot about Barak Obama or his votes, truly, so really it was a very safe vote for him. Now, I am not saying he was not against the war, did not think it was wrong, BUT...Barak Obama has proven he is a man who has great and ambitious political aspirations, and, well, he knew that there were plenty of votes in the House and Senate for the President to go to war...the decision was not going to be based on his vote...but if it were, say his vote was going to have been the deciding factor in whether to go or not...how do you think he would have voted?...he would, of course, have voted to go...America and the World were presented with the "so-called" evidence and who knew for sure and who is going to take the risk of being wrong...when your Nation's safety is at stake...one politican...is going to be the holdout and say no...I think not. If Barak Obama's vote was a vote that was going to make the difference in whether to go or not he would have voted to go. I have no doubt of this. Now, I suspect that what was forward visionary thinking about this vote was the fact that Barak Obama knew he wanted to graduate his very "junior" positon in the Senate, not for a senior position but for the highest position in the Government and since he had nothing to lose and EVERYthing to gain, I mean the Nation was covered, he was covered, he could afford to vote his conscious, end of story.

Now, do not get me wrong I think Barak Obama has a ton of promise for the Presidency but now is not his time. What is so scary about this election right now is the fact that he could get the nomination based on our Nation's need to be infatuated with a political candidate...no different than the infatuation that put Bush in the White House by the evangelical vote...they were voting for..their saviour, their second coming...their "answer" to all their problems.

Infatuation is in the drivers seat once again with the appearance of Barak Obama's political candidacy and that is what is so scary and depressing about the fact that he could actully win. Infatuation always leads to disappointment, there is no way Barak Obama can do all that people long for him to do as a political candidate o a Presdent.

Let us look at the remark Mrs. Obama made about this being a now or never run for Obama, who decides to run for the Presidency and expects to win on their first try or say they are out? What is he going to quit politics if he doesn't win and open his own law firm? I think this remark says a lot about this couple's politica maturity and lack of.

Another thing they say about him is his temperment...it is good...so vote for him..what is that all about? He isn't going to yell at us, slap his staff around...throw a hissie fit if things don't go his way. What is with the temperment stuff?

If it is now or never for a Barak Obama run, I say never is fine with me, and if America is smart, they will say it is fine with them too, afterall, if Barak is really serious about being President I am sure never means 2012.

Barak Obama will make a great President when all the infatuation about him wears off and we have more time to expericence him on the National political scene...I don't think American should make the same mistake twice...marrying a President during the infatuation process...it is time to live with him awhile before walking down the aisle.

have a great saturday everyone, ruth,,,ducking now in anticipation of all rocks being thrown my way.....hahah

ruth

I would much rather read what you have to say than listen to the paid commentarians and the main stream media's diversionary tactics away from the real issues facing us, and the best candidate to offer pragmatic solutions.

It seems they have concluded what we really, really need for change is a black evangelicalized atheist hermaphrodite. Yep! that'll git 'er done.

I'm turning all this off for a while.

Change that to 'multiracial evangelicalized atheist herhmaphrodite'

Hey Irvine
It is an amazing expression of a compassionate heart. This is also true of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCclrQ1pOAo&feature=related

Hey Bonnie
I believe the revolution will be a non event.

Peace to you Bonnie

derek

Yo Ruth you are the best, are you sure your not a pro?

an old new yorker is on a mission to smear barack...what makes her think for one minute that America will not make a mistake electing billary!

Bush is the worst president in our history...

barack will not squander our future fighting an unnecessary war...

lest we forget...billary voted for the war as she voted for the patrot act as she has supported bush on most of his proposals...

barack will be a good prez..billary will be a disaster!

post 65...

"It seems they have concluded what we really, really need for change is a black evangelicalized atheist hermaphrodite. Yep! that'll git 'er done."

i don't understand...pls explain..

looks more like racist hate crime to me! whoa!

Dear Bonnie and Derek,

Thanks for your thumbs up on my comments, I appreciate it, and Bonnie after listening the the paid media's running comments around this campaign so far all I get is frustrated..they love infatuation of a political candidate and they love to feed it, non-stop. They also love to crucify them when they are done, drives me crazy!

Diablo, I don't think we have to worry about unnecessary wars once Bush is out of office. Like I said if Barak's vote on the Iraq war had any real chance of making the difference of whether to go or not....you bet he would have voted to go. He knew his vote not to go was not going to count one way or another, his no against the Iraq war was a luxury no, plain and simple. So, please all you Barak Obama supporters quit making it more than it was, and Barak Obama should stop making it more than it was too, it was his little luxury vote.

All I am doing is taking a closer look at Barak Obama without all the misty eyed longings of a desperate citizen in need a "Leader." Barak Obama is very much a man who wants to achieve in all he does, no different than Hillary Clinton, he is a man who desires to be in the seat of power and be the President of the United States of America, no differen than Hillary Clinton, he is a man, imperfect, with faults, who will trip and fall and have to get back up, just like Hillary Clinton, and his intentions need to be scrutinized just as Hillary Clinton's are instead of assuming his intentions are somehow more pure, more wise, more knowing than Hillary Clinton's because they aren't. All of the sudden he has become, with the help of the media and press, "THE" man instead of what he really is, just "a" man, a politican who desires his turn at the wheel of American politics.

have a great evening everyone, ruth

"if Barak's vote on the Iraq war had any real chance of making the difference of whether to go or not....you bet he would have voted to go. He knew his vote not to go was not going to count one way or another, his no against the Iraq war was a luxury no, plain and simple."

Really? He is against Iraq war on a matter of principle which he doesn't like Hillary does, or not. Hillary voting for enabling Bush's war is a consistent pattern and tells a story in itself. You should be naive to think that her actions as a president doesn't reflect her voting record.

"if Barak's vote on the Iraq war had any real chance of making the difference of whether to go or not....you bet he would have voted to go. He knew his vote not to go was not going to count one way or another, his no against the Iraq war was a luxury no, plain and simple."

Really? He is against Iraq war on a matter of principle which he doesn't compromise like Hillary does, or not. Hillary voting for enabling Bush's war is a consistent pattern and tells a story in itself. You should be naive to think that her actions as a president doesn't reflect her voting record.

SURPRISE!!!! Bush says troop cutbacks might stop

AP White House

MANAMA, Bahrain - President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.

Obama Camp's Memo on Clintons' Politicizing Race
January 12, 2008 01:15 PM
by Sam Stein at HuffPost

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.

The memo, which was obtained by the Huffington Post and has been made public elsewhere, is believed to have been given to an activist and contains mostly excerpts from different media reports. It lists the contact info and name of Obama's South Carolina press secretary, Amaya Smith, and is broken down into five incidents in which either Clinton, her husband Bill, or campaign surrogates made comments that could be interpreted as racially insensitive.

The document provides an indication that, in private, the Obama campaign is seeking to capitalize on the view - and push the narrative - that the Clintons are using race-related issues for political leverage. In public, the Obama campaign has denied that they are trying to propagate such a perception, noting that the document never was sent to the press.

But irrespective of the memo, the image of the Clinton campaign sowing racial discord did bubble to the surface following a series of comments made this past week. On Friday, Bill Clinton called into multiple African American radio shows, including one hosted by Al Sharpton, to tamp down backlash against him for calling Obama's candidacy a "fairy tale."

In the memo, the Obama campaign highlights these "fairy tale" remarks and notes that Donna Brazile, Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager, "lashed into Bill Clinton" for them. The Clinton campaignhas said that the former president was referring to Obama's position on the Iraq. And indeed, Clinton made his remarks in the context of discussing criticism of the war.

"It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year," said Clinton, "and never got asked one time, not once, 'Well, how could you say, that when you said in 2004 you didn't know how you would have voted on the resolution? You said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war and you took that speech you're now running on off your website in 2004 and there's no difference in your voting record and Hillary's ever since?' Give me a break.

"This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen..."

Other incidents cited in the Obama memo include remarks made by Sen. Clinton, that, in regards to civil rights legislation, "It took a president [Lyndon Johnson] to get it done"; and comments made by Clinton supporter and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that, "you can't shuck and jive at a press conference." In the memo, the Obama campaign says Cuomo was referring to the Illinois senator. Cuomo's spokesperson Jeffrey Lerner has argued that Cuomo was "clearly saying that Iowa and New Hampshire were important primaries because the candidates could not duck the tough questions."

The document also says that "Bill Clinton Implied Hillary Clinton Is Stronger Than Nelson Mandela," when the former president declared, "I go to Nelson Mandela's birthday party every year and we're still very close. [...] But if you said to me, 'You've got one last job for your country but it's hazardous and you may not get out with life and limb intact and you have to do it alone except I'll let you take one other person, and I had to pick one person whom I knew who would never blink, who would never turn back, who would make great decisions [...] I would pick Hillary.'"

Finally, the memo notes that on several occasions the Clinton campaign and its surrogates have raised the issue of Obama's youthful drug use.

In putting together a memo on these comments, the Obama campaign is seemingly implying that they are part of a larger, ugly pattern of the Clintons trying to politicize the issue of race. Prominent African-American figures have argued as much. This past week Rep. James Clyburn, D-SC, said he would reconsider his decision to not make an endorsement should the questionable undertones of the campaign dialogue continue.

The memo also underscores the growing testiness of the Democratic primary campaign. Following Obama's victory in the Iowa caucus, Sen. Clinton promised a more aggressive strategy in the New Hampshire primary. And, to a large extent, she delivered, calling Obama to task on his voting record, his connection to a New Hampshire lobbyist, and the idea that he was more rhetoric than substance. Obama did hit back, criticizing Clinton for saying that the he was offering "false hope."

The Obama camp did not return repeated requests for comment. But campaign spokesperson Candice Tolliver told Politico that, in regards to the race-based comment: "Folks are beginning to wonder: Is this really an isolated situation or is there something bigger behind all of this?"

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About Sam Stein

Sam Stein is a Political Reporter at the Huffington Post, based in Washington, D.C. Previously he has worked for Newsweek magazine, the New York Daily News and the investigative journalism group Center for Public Integrity. He has a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. Sam can be reached at stein@huffingtonpost.com.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html

Over 1000 comments. enjoy.

Remember the 2000 Republican race Bush vs. McCain in South Carolina?

"On February 1, 2000, he won the primary with 49 percent of the vote to Bush's 30 percent, and suddenly was the celebrity of the hour. Other Republican candidates had dropped out or failed to gain traction, and McCain became Bush's only serious opponent. Analysts predicted that a McCain victory in the crucial primary in South Carolina might give his insurgency campaign unstoppable momentum; a degree of fear and panic crept into not only the Bush campaign but the Republican establishment and movement conservatism.

The battle between Bush and McCain for South Carolina has entered American political lore as one of the nastiest, dirtiest, and most brutal ever. On the one hand, Bush switched his label for himself from "compassionate conservative" to "reformer with results", as part of trying to co-opt McCain's popular message of reform. On the other hand, a variety of business and interest groups that McCain had challenged in the past now pounded McCain with negative ads.[99] The day that a new poll showed McCain five points ahead in the state, Bush allied himself on stage with a marginal and controversial veterans activist named J. Thomas Burch, who accused McCain of having "abandoned the veterans" on POW/MIA and Agent Orange issues: "He came home from Vietnam and forgot us." Incensed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing Bush to Bill Clinton, which Bush complained was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican primary." But that was not the worst. A mysterious semi-underground campaign began against McCain, delivered by push polls, faxes, e-mails, flyers, and the like, and comprising a series of smears: most famously, that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock (a hurtful reference to the McCains' dark-skinned daughter Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh, and thought to be an especially effective slur in a Deep South state where race was still central, but also that his wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, that he was a "Manchurian Candidate" traitor or mentally unstable from his North Vietnam POW days. The Bush campaign strongly denied any involvement with these attacks; Bush said he would fire anyone who ran defamatory push polls. Above ground, Bush mobilized the state's evangelical voters, and conservative über-broadcaster Rush Limbaugh entered the fray supporting Bush and going on at length about how McCain was a favorite of liberal Democrats.Polls swung in Bush's favor; by not having accepted federal matching funds for its campaign, Bush had unlimited money to spend on advertisements, while McCain was near his limit. With three days to go, McCain shut down his negative ads against Bush and tried to stress a positive image. McCain lost South Carolina on February 19, with 42 percent of the vote against Bush's 53 percent, allowing Bush to regain the momentum.

While South Carolina was known for legendary hard-knuckled political consultant Lee Atwater and rough elections, this had been more: Michael Graham, a native writer, radio host, and political operative, would say "I have worked on hundreds of campaigns in South Carolina, and I've never seen anything as ugly as that campaign."In subsequent years there would be persistent accounts trying to tie the anti-McCain smears to high levels of the Bush campaign: the 2003 book Bush's Brain would use it to build up their "evil genius" depiction of Bush chief strategist Karl Rove, while a 2008 PBS NOW program showed a local political consultant stating that Warren Tompkins, a Lee Atwater protegé and then Bush chief strategist for the state, was responsible. In contrast, in 2004 National Review's Byron York would try to debunk many of the South Carolina smear reports as unfounded legend. McCain's campaign manager said in 2004 they never found out where the smear attacks came from, while McCain himself never doubted their existence; McCain would say of the rumor spreaders, "I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those."McCain regretted some aspects of his own campaign there as well, in particular changing his stance on flying the Confederate flag at the state capitol from a "very offensive" "symbol of racism and slavery" to "a symbol of heritage"; he would later write, "I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary. So I chose to compromise my principles." According to one report, the South Carolina experience overall left McCain in a "very dark place."

McCain's campaign never completely recovered from his defeat in South Carolina, although he did rebound partially by winning in Arizona and Michigan on February 22, mocking Governor Hull's opposition in the former and capturing many Democratic and independent votes in the latter. However, he made serious mistakes that negated any momentum he may have regained with the Michigan victory. Still reeling from his South Carolina experience, he made a February 28 speech in Virginia Beach that criticized as divisive conservative Christian leaders such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, declaring "... we embrace the fine members of the religious conservative community. But that does not mean that we will pander to their self-appointed leaders." McCain lost the Virginia primary on February 29, as well as one in Washington. A week later on March 7, 2000, he lost nine of the thirteen primaries on Super Tuesday to Bush, including large states such as California, New York, Ohio, and Georgia; McCain's wins were confined to the New England states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont. His overall loss on that day has been attributed to his going "off message", ineffectively accusing Bush of being anti-Catholic due to having visited Bob Jones University and getting into a verbal battle with leaders of the Religious Right. With no hope of catching Bush's delegate lead after Super Tuesday, McCain withdrew from the race on March 9, 2000."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain

Things can get uglier with the Democratic Campaign!

The Sam Stein's blogpost on Clintons Politicizing Race posted here by Irvine Welsh, has over 1200 comments in less than 4 hours!

I see now why HuffPo is the most popular political blog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huffington_Post

JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) -- The remains of an adult and a fetus were found Saturday in a shallow grave in the backyard of the primary suspect in the death of a pregnant Marine, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown announced.

what a waste! what a shame! how sad!

Here's an excellent article by Hitchens from Slate. A must Read.

Identity Crisis: There's something pathetic and embarrassing about our obsession with Barack Obama's race.

By Christopher Hitchens

To put it squarely and bluntly, is it because he is or is it because he isn't? To phrase it another way, is it because of what he says or what he doesn't say? Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is the current beneficiary of a tsunami of drool. He sometimes claims credit on behalf of all Americans regardless of race, color, creed, blah blah blah, though his recent speeches appear also to claim a victory for blackness while his supporters—most especially the white ones—sob happily that at last we can have an African-American chief executive. Off to the side, snarling with barely concealed rage, are the Clinton machine-minders, who, having failed to ignite the same kind of identity excitement with an aging and resentful female, are perhaps wishing that they had made more of her errant husband having already been "our first black president."

Or perhaps not. Isn't there something pathetic and embarrassing about this emphasis on shade? And why is a man with a white mother considered to be "black," anyway? Is it for this that we fought so hard to get over Plessy v. Ferguson? Would we accept, if Obama's mother had also been Jewish, that he would therefore be the first Jewish president? The more that people claim Obama's mere identity to be a "breakthrough," the more they demonstrate that they have failed to emancipate themselves from the original categories of identity that acted as a fetter upon clear thought.

One can't exactly say that Sen. Obama himself panders to questions of skin color. One of the best chapters of his charming autobiography describes the moment when his black Republican opponent in the Illinois Senate race—Alan Keyes—accused him of possessing insufficient negritude because he wasn't the descendant of slaves! Obama's decision to be light-hearted—and perhaps light-skinned—about this was a milestone in itself. But are we not in danger of emulating Keyes' insane mistake every time we bang on about the senator's pigmentation? If you wanted a "black" president or vice president so much, you could long ago have turned out en masse for Angela Davis—also the first woman to be on a national ticket—or for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. So, why didn't you? Could it have been the politics?

Last week happened to be the week that the nation of Kenya—birthplace of Obama's father—was convulsed by a political war that contained ghastly overtones of violent and sadistic tribalism. It would sound as absurd to a Kenyan to hear praise for a black candidate as it would sound to most of my European readers to hear a recommendation of a "great white hope." A white visitor to Kenya might not be able to tell a Kikuyu from a Luo at a glance, but a Kenyan would have no such difficulty. The time is pretty much past, in our country, when a Polish-American would not vote for a candidate with a German name or when Sharks and Jets were at daggers drawn, but this is all because (to borrow from Ernest Renan's definition of a nation) people agreed to forget a lot of things as well as to remember a number of things. So, which are we doing presently?

Sen. Obama is a congregant of a church in Chicago called Trinity United Church of Christ. I recommend that you take a brisk tour of its Web site. Run by the sort of character that the press often guardedly describes as "flamboyant"—a man calling himself the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.—this bizarre outfit describes itself as "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian" and speaks of "a chosen people" whose nature we are allowed to assume is "Afrocentric." Trinity United sells creationist books and its home page includes a graphic link to a thing called Goodsearch—the name is surmounted with a halo in its logo—which announces cheerily that "Every time you search or shop online! Our Church earns money." Much or most of what Trinity United says is harmless and boring, rather like Gov. Mike Huckabee's idiotic belief that his own success in Iowa is comparable to the "miracle" of the loaves and fishes, and the site offers a volume called Bad Girls of the Bible: Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue, which I have added to my cart, but nobody who wants to be taken seriously can possibly be associated with such a substandard and shade-oriented place.

All this easy talk about being a "uniter" and not a "divider" is piffle if people are talking out of both sides of their mouths. I have been droning on for months about how Mitt Romney needs to answer questions about the flat-out racist background of his own church, and about how Huckabee has shown in public that he does not even understand the first thing about a theory—the crucial theory of evolution by natural selection—in which he claims not to believe. Many Democrats are with me on this, but they go completely quiet when Sen. Obama chooses to give his allegiance to a crackpot church with a decidedly ethnic character.

http://www.slate.com/

Slate article continued...

The unspoken agreement to concede the black community to the sway of the pulpit is itself a form of racist condescension. The sickly canonization of Martin Luther King Jr. has led to a crude rewriting of history that obliterates the great black and white secularists—Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther—who actually organized the March on Washington. It has also allowed a free pass to any demagogue who can manage to get the word reverend in front of his name. The white voters who subconsciously make the allowance that black folks sure love to hear their preachers are not only patronizing their black brothers and sisters but also helping to empower white ministers or deacons who make the same pitch, from Jimmy Carter to Mike Huckabee. The Iowa caucuses of 2008 were not the end of our long national nightmare about race, but another stage in our protracted national nightmare of piety, "uplift," and deceptive optimistic windbaggery.

link to the article and Slate Video that go with it:

Tale of Two Rallies

http://www.slate.com/id/2181460/

To whom it may be concerned:

I hope I'm not out of place here, if I ask
those of you who pray for others, if you would--

Please keep Kate and her family in mind.

Her father was failing fast...she was in New York.
I don't know if he made it through the night.
She took a fast train out to go be with him.

I hope this loving daughter of his made it in time.

I pray to the Prince of Peace:

Do, please, visit and stay with Kate and her family today!

Thank you, folks! And thank you, Lord! Amen.

goodsundyeveryone,

I just read an article where President Bush is saying that Iran is the biggest threat in our World today and went on to describe how it sponsors terrorists, muslim extremists in Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, Afganistan, etc.

The interestng thing is when I was reading the article I thought, gee, it sounds like the United States of America during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Really, we did exactly what Iran is doing but we did it "to stop the spread of Communisim" especially in South and Central America. We helped to take out some really fine Leaders and we supported very corrupt ones because they were in favor of America Business interests, we armed and trained militias, and rebel groups that went on to murder and kill innocent citizens of these nations and we didn' bat an eye. We(Unied States of America) had our "Interests" to protect...so what is the difference with Iran....it seems Iran has their "Interests" that they are trying to promote and protect....so the game goes on and on.

What is interesing is the timing of his trip to the MidEast and his statements....he says..."the World needs to confront Iran before it is too late." hmmm. Lets see, there was that "very dangerous"(according to the US Navy) incident in the Gulf this week..hmmm.

What do you think is too late..the election of a new President? And the possibility that it will be a Democratic one and therefore the "World" can count America out as acting like the "the biggest, bad_ss, toughtest World Cop around," which means we won't be invading and attacking anyone anytime soon...we will be saying, hey, there "World Community." put up or shut up when it comes to Iran...What are YOU GUYs going to do about the problem, you see we have all these DOMESTIC affairs that need our attention since the previous Admin...completely ignored the home front for 8 _ucking years!

So, to make a long pondering short...what do you think...before it's too late really means when it comes to Bush and his lov'a Iran?

have a great Sunday, ruth

Hi Keith,

Will keep Kate in my thoughts and prayers, thanks for the update..ruth

# 80
Thanks Keith, with you all the way, and feeling the pain. We love you Kate.

people who overly cut and paste are really showing their mental weakness as they despately try to make them selves look good by posting other people's opinions...shame! shame ! shame! on them! they fail to realize that they are extremely boring ...and that originality counts for a lot more! i sroll past their garbage! give us a break dudes! damn!

This is great check this out. CS Monitor on the Faith and Values of the Candidates:

Heading into Election 2008, the Monitor profiles the candidates through the lens of their core convictions - through their values, worldviews, and, when applicable, religious faiths.

http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/primaries08/

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Obama's article is particularity interesting:

Barack Obama: Putting faith out front

How the Illinois senator came to embrace religion in his life.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0716/p01s01-uspo.html

Peace and love Kate and to your father.

derek

Good Wishes and Strength to you Kate.

Peace and love to ALL the candidates, they probably need it a well.
They must be quite dizzy from all the spinning.
They can come over to my house and I promise we wont talk politics. They could probably use a break.

With a whole nother year of spinning, they may be too dizzy to lead us.

derek

where is liberal talk show host bernie ward? haven't heard him since Xmas! is he dead or been removed by big bro? u neva know! anyone knows? damn!

Saudi Arabia beheaded 137 people last year, up sharply from the 38 in 2006.

Clinton Denial

MSNBC Reports:

This morning on Meet the Press, Hillary Clinton defended her 2002 vote for the Iraq war resolution, saying that she "thought it was a vote to put inspectors back in" so Saddam Hussein could not go unchecked. She insisted that she and others were "told by the White House personally" that this was the purpose of the resolution, and cited President Bush's assurances to defend her position.

"Moderator Tim Russert pointed out that the title of the resolution was the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002." Clinton responded saying, "We can have this Jesuitical argument about what exactly was meant. But when Chuck Hagel, who helped to draft the resolution said, 'It was not a vote for war,' What I was told directly by the White House in response to my question, 'If you are given this authority, will you put the inspectors in and permit them to finish their job,' I was told that's exactly what we intended to do. "

*****

Clinton also attacked Barack Obama's record on ethics and the Iraq war.

See the article:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7864.html

****

Obama responded during a conference call this morning:

" What we saw this morning is why the American people are tired of Washington politicians and the games they play. But Senator Clinton made an unfortunate remark, an ill advised remark, about King and Lyndon Johnson. I didn't make the statement. I haven't remarked on it and she I think offended some folks who felt that somehow diminished King's role in bringing about the Civil Rights Act. She is free to explain that, but the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous.

I have to point out that instead of telling the American people about her positive vision for America, Senator Clinton spent an hour talking about me and my record in a way that was flat out wrong. She suggested that I didn't clearly and unambiguously oppose the war in Iraq when it is absolutely clear and anyone who has followed this knows that I did. I stood up against the war when she was voting for it, at a time when she didn't read the intelligence reports or give diplomacy a chance. She belittled the most sweeping ethics reform since Watergate despite the fact that she stood on the sidelines during that negotiations on that bill.
I have to say that she started this campaign saying that she wanted to make history and lately she has been spending a lot of time rewriting it. I know that in Washington it is acceptable to say or do anything it takes to get elected but I really don't think that is the kind of politics that is good for our party and I don't think it is good for our country and I think that the American people will reject it in this election. What I want to do is spend talking about how we are going to make sure that people who are losing their jobs get work. How are we going to make sure that our young people are going to afford college? How are we going to make sure that the sub-prime lending crisis does not lead to an all out recession? How are we going to create the kind of foreign policy that allows us to bring our troops home and makes us safer and goes after a genuine terrorist threat? Those are the issues that we are going to spend time talking about in this campaign and if Senator Clinton wants to be distracted by the sorts of political point scoring that was evident today then that is going to be her prerogative."

Here's the link to the MSNBC full artcile:

CLINTON JUSTIFIES WAR VOTE, HITS OBAMA

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/13/574097.aspx

Politico on Clinton's attack and Obama's response:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7864.html

Praying for Kate and her family,

Mieke

"This morning on Meet the Press, Hillary Clinton defended her 2002 vote for the Iraq war resolution, saying that she "thought it was a vote to put inspectors back in" so Saddam Hussein could not go unchecked." post 91..

dude hillary has not seen a bush proposal she didn't like...

she first voted for the patriot act in 2001 and again in 2006 to renew it..

barbaralee voted against the war...hillary voted for the war..

what did barbara know that hillary didn,t?

hillary might as well be a repub! damn!

kate ..

our prayers are with u!

D.

Nation of whores
From Wonkette (The DC GOSSIP)

GOP Voters Having More Sex ... But Sex With What?

A shocking new study proves that Republican voters are having more sex than their Democratic counterparts, but Democrats are having less sex with more people, and everybody is basically watching pornography day and night, and both the right and left would happily let themselves be sodomized by the new president, in the White House, as long as that president is “attractive” to the kind of people who vote.

Playboy magazine apparently still exists and commissioned the sex poll to prove the point.

Here are some other troubling results:

Check it out:

http://wonkette.com/344120/gop-voters-having-more-sex--but-sex-with-what

LOL!

Blessings to you and your family, Kate

love, Heath

Making the rounds....

A foreigner asks an Indian about India:

Q. You're from India, aren't you? I have read so much about the country. All the wonderful places, the forests, the snake charmers, the elephants. Do you still use elephants for transportation?

A. Absolutely. In fact we used to have our own elephant. But later to save air, we started elephant-pooling with our neighbors, You see elephants have an "emissions" problem…..

Q. Does India have cars?

A. No. We ride elephants to work. The government is trying to encourage elephant-pooling schemes.

Q. Does India have TV?

A. No. We only have cable.

Q. Are all Indians vegetarian?

A. Yes. Even the tigers are vegetarian in India.

Q. How come you speak English so well?

A. You see when the British ruled India, they employed Indians as servants. Since it took too long for the Indians to learn English, the British isolated an "English-language" gene and implanted it into their servants' babies and since then all babies born in India speak perfect English.

Q. Are you a Hindi?

A. Yes. I am spoken everyday in Northern India.

Q. Do you speak Hindu?

A. Yes, I also speak Jewish, Islam and Christianity.

Q. Is it true that everyone there is very corrupt?

A. Yes, in fact, I had to bribe my parents so that they would let me go to school.

Q. India is very hot, isn't it?

A. It is so hot there that all the water boils spontaneously. That is why tea is such a popular drink in India.

Q. Are there any business companies in India?

A. No. All Indians live on the Gandhian principles of self-sufficiency. All of us make our own clothes and grow our own food. That is why you see all these skinny Indians.

Q. Indians cannot eat beef, huh?

A. Cows provide milk which is a very essential part of Indian diet.

Therefore, eating cows is forbidden. However in order to decrease the population of the country, the government is trying to encourage everyone to eat human meat.

Q. India is such a religious place. Do you meditate regularly?

A. Yes, sometimes I meditate for weeks without food and drink. But it is difficult to keep my job, because I have to miss work when I meditate like that. But the bosses there do the same thing. That is why things are so inefficient there.

Q. I saw on TV that people there walk on burning coals. Why do they do that?

A. We don't have shoes. So we burn the bottom of our feet to harden it so that we can walk.

Q. Why do you sometimes wear Indian clothes to work?

A. I prefer that to coming to work naked.

McCain Moves Into Lead; Obama Gains on Clinton

Monday, January 14, 2008

"The first contests of the 2008 presidential campaign have led to a dramatic shake-up in public opinion nationally, with Sen. John McCain now leading the Republican field and Sen. Barack Obama all but erasing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-overwhelming advantage among Democrats, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302514.html

And...

The 2007 Darwin Awards have been released:
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007.html

The Winner:

(20 June 2007, South Carolina) A passing cabbie found a 21 year-old couple naked and injured in the road an hour before sunrise. The two people died at the nearest hospital without regaining consciousness.

Authorities were at a loss to explain what had happened. There were no witnesses, no trace of clothing, and no wrecked cars or motorcycles. Investigators eventually found a clue high on the roof of a nearby building: two sets of neatly folded clothes. Safe sex takes on a whole new meaning when you are perched on the edge of a pyramid-shaped metal roof. "It appears as if [they] accidentally fell off the roof," Sgt. Florence McCants said.

This is a true Darwin Award trifecta: TWO people die, WHILE in the act of procreation, due to an ASTONISHINGLY poor decision. Bottom line: If you put yourself in a precarious "position" at the edge of a pointy roof, you may well find yourself coming and going at the same time.

(Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it)

"My Journey to Obama" by Marianne Williamson

I didn't start out with him. I thought people were projecting wildly onto him, making positive assumptions that he hadn't earned and filling in empty spaces in his resume with mere hopes of substance. But the longer campaign season has worked for me; having watched the candidates move through time, I've seen who's grown and who hasn't. I've ended up -- at least for now -- with Obama.

I'm perplexed by the question often presented by his opponents, "Yeah, but how is he really going to change things?" To me, he already has. He has awakened the sleeping giant of American democracy, and that is the greatest antidote to every problem we face.

Then there's the "Yeah, but it's all just pretty words" argument. Oh please. Kind of like, "Of the people, by the people, and for the people," "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" and "I have a dream"? Are we supposed to think that words never actually changed the world? For me personally, he had me at "Yes, We Can."

Of course, there's the notion that someone else might know what to do from Day One, given how much experience she's already had in Washington. But for me, one of the things I like about Obama is that he hasn't had more experience in Washington. I think he's had just enough to know what he's doing, but not so much that his consciousness has been completely permeated by the rules of that game. When I think of the American government, I'm reminded of a line oft said in Alcoholics Anonymous, "Your best thinking got you here."

Quoting Einstein: "We will not solve the problems of the world from the level of thinking we were at when we created them." Obama is a dreamer and I say Good for him. Only Bobby Kennedy's mythic idealist - who "dreams of what hasn't been and asks 'why not?'" -- will have the power to lead with a new state of consciousness. And nothing short of a new state of consciousness will create a new state of the world.

Obama is a risk -- as is any new president, actually -- because we don't really know where he would lead us. But his main opponent, in my mind, is a greater risk -- because we do. She has clarity and brilliance about a world that is, but he has visions and intimations of a world that could be. He's the natural heir to Bobby Kennedy's mantle of a pioneer who seeks a newer world. There's a wagon train behind him, and -- at least for now -- I'm on it. Because I'm a dreamer too....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-williamson/my-journey-to-obama_b_81372.html

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Marianne Williamson has published nine books, four of which - including the mega bestseller A Return to Love -- have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.

She has done extensive non-profit organizing, having founded both Project Angel Food in Los Angeles as well as The Peace Alliance. A 2007 Newsweek reader's poll named her one of the 50 most influential baby boomers.

Marianne broadcasts a weekly radio program on The Oprah and Friends Radio, XM 156. The show airs every Tuesday and is repeated on weekends. Her website is www.marianne.com

Great song and video.

Dear Kate

I hope you are well. Peace to you and your family.

bonnie

I have yet to hear from Kate. She'll appreciate the support!

Thanks from Me2

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Good on Marianne!

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Romney might be the best manager, fortunately or randomly.

This video made me cry, hard!