"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one". --A. J. Liebling (I own this Blog, GET-IT?) --DA
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." --Cyril Connolly
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."--Louis D. Brandeis
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
Thom Hartmann: Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It (BK Currents)
MUST READ: Either buy it, or check it out from your library, just be sure to READ IT! (*****)
Randall Robinson: An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
As much about American and French Politics as it is about events in Haiti. (*****)
"I sometimes feel that Alfred E Neuman is in charge in Washington,"; "What, me worry?"-- Senator Hillary Clinton
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it." --Clarence Darrow
Click the picture (below) to enlarge this WaPo, color "sample":
"Knowledge about government is power" --GovTrack
A Ludicrous Denial
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, May 16, 2008; 1:29 PMWhat do you call it when White House officials say one thing in public and almost the exact opposite in private?
You might call it lying.
...
[Read the rest by clicking here]
To steal Joe Biden's line-of-the-day:
Yeah, that's what we need, a First Lady who was a pill-popping druggie like Lush Bimbaugh. She stole from a non-profit medical relief organization to support her HABIT, too. How low is that?
Hey way to pick 'em McSame! And what number wife is Cindy, again?
Unlike in previous election cycles, if we can't get along, we're gonna get it on, this time around. Ya wanna play nasty? Ya wanna play rough? To coin the shrub's own line: BRING IT ON!
Hey, don't take my word for it:
Gee, it sounds like Hillary was wrong again. Sounds to me like blue collar, white collar and every color collar favors Barack Obama! Besides the steelworkers, the President of the Communications Workers of America provided his personal endorsement of Barack Obama too. The Steel Workers had previously endorsed John Edwards. So, it looks like the Clinton camp was wrong when they said the Edwards endorsement didn't mean much, too. Wrong again, Clintonistas!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/steelworkers-endorse-obam_n_101888.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Steelworkers_for_Obama.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/15/america/Obama-Steelworkers.php
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/steelworkers-endorse-obama/
FINALLY! A United States Senator, Delaware's Joe Biden, tells it like it is, publicly! But first, my own take on Bush:
Bush is a fucking moron and all but an ever shrinking minority of Americans have figured that out finally!
Any of those who ever voted for this pinheaded dipstick named 'Bush' owe their nation a make-up call ... Bushies owe this nation a correction ... Republican'ts owe their nation their vote for Democrats ... Bush supports' initial error has been so damn injurious to America that Bush voters owe it to their nation to vote a straight Democratic party line ticket this time around, and that's just for starters!
Bush is a nimrod, a pinhead ... the dude is defective. The story goes that Georgie's muther drank while carrying his lame ass, and I think he is retarded as a direct result of her stupidity ... but how damn dumb were those who ever voted for this mutant? WE TOLD YOU SO! That's right you S.O.B.s, we friggin' told you so! Maybe you'll be smart enough to listen to the majority THIS time around:
[snip]
“This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset…and make this kind of ridiculous statement,”
[snip]
“He’s the guy [Bush] who’s weakened us. He’s the guy that’s increased the number of terrorists in the world. His policies have produced this vulnerability the United States has. His intelligence community pointed that out not me. The NIE has pointed that out and what are you talking about, is he going to fire Condi Rice? Condi Rice has talked about the need to sit down. So his first two appeasers are Rice and Gates. I hope he comes home and does something.”
Biden quoted Gates saying Wednesday that we “need to figure out a way to develop some leverage and then sit down and talk with them.” [one of several SOURCE(s)]
YOU GO JOE! And HEY PELOSI, GET IMPEACHMENT BACK ON THE DAMN TABLE, OR GET YOUR OWN LAME ASS TO THE CURB!
This level of public honesty by Joe Biden goes a long way toward forgiving Joe's suck-up vote on bankruptcy reform ... almost.
BUSH: Worst damn President in the history of the world. A complete and totally useless dumb-ass. And Georgie, hold your damn breath while you wait for history to paint it any differently.
VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA for PRESIDENT!!!
The Sunday Oregonian edition for May 4, 2008 made Amanda Fritz their 'recommendation' for City of Portland City Council, No. 1. The Oregonian republished their recommendations in list format last Sunday 5/11/08 and still Amanda Fritz remains their 'recommendation'.
I seldom agree with the Oregonian newspaper's endorsements / recommendations but on this race, I agree/concur with the Oregonian Newspaper's recommendation of Amanda Fritz for City Council, No. 1 to replace Sam Adams.
Here is what The Oregonian Newspaper wrote about Amanda, in making their recommendation:
"In a strong crop of candidates running to replace Adams, Amanda Fritz, a nurse, neighborhood activist and former planning commissioner, is the most proven, polished and capable of getting things done." [SOURCE]
The choice was easy for my wife and I. Why we voted for Amanda Fritz:
For starters, Amanda has been a Registered Nurse since 1981. That's a damn noble profession and a lot of 'real' hard work.
Amanda is the mother of 3 according to her bio, and being a parent, be-it mother or father, is the world's toughest job.
Besides being a RN for 27 years, Amanda has done other real work as well ... Salvation Army, Audubon Society, Summer Camp Cook, Restaurant Food preparer and cashier. Those gigs qualify her to truly GET-IT when it comes to the real working-class.
Amanda's prior government experience appears to be much more extensive than even that listed in the voter guide, according to her election filing form.
Amanda is practically our neighbor, in the same quadrant of the city as we live (SW). Amanda Blogs, I Blog.
In addition to all of those numerous reasons to favor Amanda Fritz, I have some reasons to vote against one of her more publicized opponents, Chris Smith, whose campaign is spending plenty to run radio Ads in opposition to Amanda Fritz. I have spoken to at least one prior co-worker of Chris Smith's (Christopher P. Smith, 2343 NW Pettygrove St.). Someone who worked alongside Chris from approximately 1988 through 1996, with Tektronix in Wilsonville. The Chris Smith that was characterized to me sounds, to me, to be a complete yuppie-scum member of the Corporatocracy.
I prefer and voted for Amanda Fritz for City of Portland, City Council, No.1!
Ahhh, another House seat in-play ... it's gonna be a fun year.
I wonder if this list has been updated recently? http://hammernews2.com/scandals.htm
Dear Oregonians,
Everyone knows that it is Primary Election Season in Oregon. We are all being exposed to various groups promoting their agendas. Some legit, and some simply bullshit.
During the lunch hour today (Friday, May 9, 2008) I saw a television Ad running on KGW (broadcast channel 8) that I found highly misleading/slanted and provocative ... an insult to our intelligence.
The Ad was simply a right-wing-nut attack upon Organized Labor and Unions. It was an attack from the shadows, and by lackeys of the Corporatocracy. My first response was to check the domain registration for the domain name/URL being promoted in the Ad, to see who is behind it. And "behind" is the operative word.
I discovered that the registrant of that domain name prefers SECRECY; no surprise there, based upon the nature of their Ad. The cowards who created it obviously anticipate a highly negative response, and simply stated, they don't have the balls to confront responders.
I called the station (KGW 503.226.5000) and had to leave a voice-mail message. They have not called me back yet, I doubt if they ever will.
Connecting the dots (reads: follow the money and the whores), keep in mind that KGW is an NBC affiliate and NBC is owned by GE; GE is a key player in the 'Military-Industrial Complex' that Eisenhower warned us about. I don't know if KGW's station license and FCC regulations require them to disclose the contact information for their paid advertisers or not ... but I intend to find out, and I'll leave it to others to decide whether KGW is about the money, or about the whores, or both.
More poking around on the 'net revealed a possible link between that Ad's hate-speech and these old, ubber-conservative anti-organized-labor types (reads: GOP Republican-types) and what I found makes me wonder even more about the timing of the Ads.
Richard "DICK" Berman (don't ya find it interesting that some of the biggest haters in America are named "DICK" (i.e. Cheney, Nixon, Berman)? and James Bowers. Click the link to DICK's bio and you'll discover that DICKIE has made it his life's work to bash American Workers and Organized Labor. Here is an excerpt (emphasis added), but ya just gotta visit their web-site, by click the link, to see a picture of exactly what we're dealing with here; heck, if he wasn't filthy rich he could pass for a Clinton supporter, you-know old, white, and angry:
... Berman was previously employed as the Executive Vice President of Public Affairs for the Pillsbury Restaurant Group, where he was responsible for the government relations programs of all restaurant operations. Berman also was a (anti)labor lawyer for the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Dana Corporation, and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Rick Berman has testified on numerous occasions before committees of the various state legislatures, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives and has been named a "Star Rainmaker" on Capitol Hill by The Hill, a popular Washington, DC newspaper. He has appeared on all major television networks and has organized national coalitions on a variety of issues."
What's a "Star Rainmaker" you might ask, well here is the dictionary definition:
"Slang. an executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, increase profits, etc.: The president has several rainmakers among his advisers."
Some might shorten that formal definition to a single word: 'WEASEL'. Certainly not the type of person who toils for a living or actually manufactures anything (except lies) or contributes anything of substance to the greater good. Pretty much a just butt-muncher.
DICK Berman is a LOBBYIST whose organization can be hired to attack any cause. Here is a report by 'Consumer Deception' about this ass-hole's attack on PETA: http://www.consumerdeception.com/
If you'd like to know more about the clown behind these Union bashing Ads, click the links below and READ even more:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=8984
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-04-name-edit_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2006-07-31-lobbyist-usat_x.htm
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=4140447
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/32386/
Here is an excerpt from a Washington Post article about this stain named DICK (emphasis and comments added):
"But even the MOD Squad is a pale imitation of the reality of the Beltway's most outrageous advocate, who goes by the name of Rick Berman. In recent months Berman has been in the news for placing full-page ads in major newspapers (funding sources unidentified) that gently compare America's union leaders to Fidel Castro and like authoritarians. The unionists' sin, Berman argues, is their support for allowing workers to join unions simply by signing affiliation cards rather than subjecting themselves to a National Labor Relations Act election process in which pro-union workers are frequently fired.
But Berman's salvos against unions are just the latest in a line of attacks he's leveled against drunk-driving laws, anti- smoking statutes, food safety ordinances and minimum-wage standards. He is, broadly speaking, the lobbyist for the Hobbesian state of nature.
Working chiefly under the aegis of his Center for Consumer Freedom, Berman has accused Mothers Against Drunk Driving and kindred groups (in the words of one of his Web sites) of "junk science, intimidation tactics, and even threats of violence to push their radical agenda." Another Berman Web site was devoted to dismissing the dangers of mercury levels in fish.
[nice ... bashing 'Mothers Against Drunk Drivers' ... that speaks volumes about this steaming dung-pile's credibility, aye?]
Berman's center was jump-started in 1995 with money from Philip Morris, and, thanks to memos that were made public in the discovery process during the lawsuits against Big Tobacco, his strategic vision is now plain for all to see. "The concept," he wrote Philip Morris at the time, "is to unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend their consumers and marketing programs against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat, etc. activists." The industries apparently have appreciated Berman's work. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, a former Berman associate has produced documents showing that Coca-Cola, Wendy's, Tyson Foods, Cargill and Outback Steakhouse are among Berman's largest donors.
The law may have hauled Abramoff off the stage, and DeLay may be huddling with his counsel and his Creator to plan his next move. But Rick Berman rolls merrily along, an inexhaustible source of material for the Reitmans, Buckleys and all who aspire to chronicle our depravities." [SOURCE]
[nice ... DICK is said to be a lower life form than Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay]
PRWeek (Public Relations) magazine's Hamilton Nolan added this about this back in the June 26, 2006 edition; Pg. 25, about this not-so-dynamic-duo's anti-union campaign:
"Perhaps the most visible development in the field this year has been
the establishment of the Center for Union Facts (CUF), an anti-union
group backed by undisclosed corporate interests which has undertaken a
powerful multi-year, multimillion-dollar push to discredit organized
labor. James Bowers, a creative director at CUF's firm Berman &
Company, is responsible for the group's public campaigns, which center
around an extensive Web site supported by advertising campaigns and
national media coverage." [SOURCE]
Richard Berman single handedly makes the case for a woman's right to choose. He's an abortion gone wrong. If you believe that smoking is good for your lungs, and that driving drunk is a safe thing to do, DICKIE is your boy.
Anyway, I could go on and on, presenting all sorts of parallels between these two greedy haters and everything negative for working-class Americans, but it is easier to ask you a few questions which might help to challenge the logic behind their nonsensical Ads:
Conservative, GOP Republican Ronald Reagan single-handedly decimated the Air Traffic Controller and Airline Unions in the 80s.
So, if you are old enough to have flown on the airlines back then, like I am, and you've also flown recently, lemme ask you this question: Was flying a better experience in the 80s and before, or has it been a better experience for you recently?
Anti-Union GOP Republicans and BushCo, along with Corporations like Wal-Mart have been running this show called the American Capitalist system for the past several decades now (including the Republican Congress through the Clinton years) ... what has been the net result for American workers and the directly linked American middle class? Not so hot, huh?
Where have these coalitions shipped our jobs? Overseas.
How many Americans have lost access to employer-based health care coverage? 47-Million plus? Hell there are only something like 300-million of us in total. There is increasingly two groups in America, the HAVES and the HAVE NOTs; THEM versus US. GOP Republicans and their failed economic theories, like those of these two misguided, anti-Union Cretins, have brought us the weakened economy threatening the very existence of the American Middle Class.
How many of you know of stories about corporations hiring part time and temporary workers to displace full-timers with paid benefits?
Again, I could go on, and on, drawing parallels between the stupidity of the premise presented by DICK Berman, James Bowers, and everything negative for the American middle class. But, an analogy probably sums it up best ...
If you were a player in the NFL, would you want to be in the room alone with billionaire franchise owners like the Washington Redskins' Daniel Snyder, or the Dallas Cowboys' Jerry Jones to negotiate the terms of your employment agreement? Or, would you want an agent and the Players' Union there to help you negotiate? We can't all afford our own agent, but we can afford to VOTE to elect political candidates who will at least pass laws making it possible for you to organize and become part of a Union that can help you negotiate a fair deal.
Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are in Portland this weekend. Hillary claims to represent the best interests of specifically hard working, middle class, non-college-degreed, white workers (she specified the race). Personally, I want a candidate that represents the interest of ALL workers, even if they are sky-blue-pink. And the best way to do that is to support workers' rights to organize. PERIOD.
Another question I have is, could it be that in her desperation Hillary's campaign, or perhaps McCain's campaign, or who knows, maybe Karl Rove, or the Swift-Boaters paid DICK Berman's WASHINGTON, D.C. based Company for the timing of these Ads, hmmm?
And still another question: Do Oregonian's want some "Star Rainmaker" in WASHINGTON, D.C. telling us more of the same old, same old? I don't. Oh sure, the Unions all have offices in D.C. too, but they also have offices right here in Portland, and they employ Oregonians who become feet-on-the-street and live voices on the phone, not robots ... the message is OPEN and receptive to your feedback. You won't be limited to yelling at the TV screen!
When you see one of those Ads from DICK & their dark-side, there isn't much you can do to respond directly, beyond yelling at the boob-tube.
But, when someone has the 'nads to walk right up to your front door and look you in the eye, and ask for your support, the way the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, "Working America" has been doing, or when one of their phone-bank callers rings your phone and identifies themselves for the same purpose, or perhaps a volunteer from SEIU does, those are LOCAL people from your very own community. They are not some rich executive/lawyer hiding 3,000 miles away in Washington, D.C. behind the skirt of his layers of executive secretaries! No. those are real folks outside in the rain or shine! So who ya gonna trust, local, regular folks, willing to contact you one-on-one, and accept your responses eye-to-eye or some rich girlie-men hiding in D.C. and sending their message by proxy (TV Ad) instead? Doesn't that say something to you about the honesty of either's message? It does to me.
The lawn sign is in the front yard. But, I dunno if I can afford the gas to fire-up the lawn mower to mow the lawn around it!
Here are some closing quotes that seem timely to me:
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."--John Kenneth Galbraith
"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote."--William E. Simon
"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized."--Albert Einstein
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."--Plato
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."--Aristotle
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."--Louis D. Brandeis
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
All of those people, quoted above, are more intelligent deceased than DICK Berman is alive.
The "DICKS" of the world promote a philosophy of "Divide and Conquer" and Unions promote the opposite: "United We Stand". You choose.
VOTE A DEMOCRATIC TICKET!
In timing with the visit to Portland by the Presidential candidates, I wanna disclose my own vote for a presidential candidate. I'm more than half a century old, I'm white, I'm male, I'm working poor, and I'm voting for the next President of the United States:
If you are a Democrat, you'd stay in a lean-to before you'd stay in a Marriott.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703819.html
The current crop of Supreme Court Justices have done for the Supreme Court what George W. Bush has done for the Office of President; made a mockery of it.
Just more proof that Conservatives can screw-up a train wreck.
The net impact of the Supreme Court's most recent, dumb-ass, decision was seen during this week's Indiana Primary Election.
Summary: A dozen nuns were refused the right to vote because they don't have drivers licenses.
Conservatives always want to restrict the number of those who can vote, while Liberals always want to include everyone. Therefore, if you are a Conservative, you are always trying to limit Democracy, and if you are Liberal you seek to expand Democracy. How plain and simple does it have to be before everyone GETS that to be a Conservative (reads: Republican) is to be anti-Democracy (reads: a dumb-ass)?
Here is an excerpt from Mother Jones on this incident, with my own bold and italic emphasis added to highlight the bits I found most revealing within it:
'In its decision, the court insisted the state had a legitimate interest in depriving lots of people of their right to vote because it would deter phantom fraudsters, even though the state has never had a single documented case of voter impersonation fraud. Clearly, the justices hadn't anticipated the sisters, who don't drive and didn't have much need of ID in the convent. Now shut out of court and the voting booth, the Indiana brides of Christ will have to appeal to God for a remedy.' [SOURCE]
Additional references: TalkingPointsMemo; Boston Globe; AP
Here is a link to the full text of Supreme Court Rulings:
Here is a link to the specific case they most recently screwed-up:
It is time to place term-limits on Supreme Court Justices rather than permit lifetime appointment. I think that somewhere between a 9-to-15 year term limit makes more sense, and would be better for America than the current life-time appointment.
As I have typed many times already, Hillary is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat.
Besides previously saying that McCain would make a better Presidential candidate than her own Democratic party rival, she continues to express her envy and admiration for all-things-Republican:
“If we had the rules the Republicans had, I’d be the nominee." [Source: NYT]
Lemme guess, she mis-spoke?
Interestingly, you'll have to do some digging, at this hour, to find very many sources of the full text that includes that specific line of Hillary's. Makes ya wonder why most of Main Stream Media has neglected to include THAT specific line when reporting her words today.
So, there she goes again wishin' she was a Republican once again (she was a full-fledged Republican 'Goldwater Girl' in college).
Then there was the McCain-Clinton Gas Tax Holiday that would cost just one state alone (California) 23,107 jobs; be bad for jobs and the economy nationwide.
And then there is Hillary's Republican-style deficit-spending and mis-management of her own campaign's finances; requiring her to again issue a personal loan to her campaign in order to continue in the race. As she struggles to manage her own campaign finances, I guess we can expect that when that phone rings at 3AM, it'll be a collection agent calling (from China / Saudi Arabia probably)!
AGAIN, look for Hillary Clinton to be McCain's Vice Presidential running mate once she finally concedes the nomination to Barack Obama.
Who is the elitist?
Here ya go folks, the REAL Hillary Clinton; the one I have been saying all along is really a Republican.
Remember, Hillary was a full fledged Republican 'Goldwater girl' in college; was a member of the board of directors of right-wing Wal-Mart for 6+/- years; takes monies from ultra-conservative Rupert Murdoch, has openly endorsed Republican McCain for President over fellow Democrat Barack Obama, and thinks that lobbyists are people too. ;-)
You watch ... when Hillary finally concedes the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, she will join forces with her real party and accept McCain's offer to be his running mate.
The Clintonistas immediately began lying their asses off to try and cover for Hillary saying that she said something different than what she really said. Next thing ya know, Bill will be out there telling us that she was just tired and mis-spoke (again). Sheez. Let's roll the tape ... let's go to instant reply to make the call ourselves:
Yep, she's a Republican all right! A vote for Hillary Clinton, is a vote for a Republican. I damn-sure don't want to see this happening: Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. Dear voters in Indiana and North Carolina, please help put Hillary out of this race; we'll definitely be doing our part in Oregon, by May 20th.
In an obvious sign of the times, and perhaps of a pending tsunami, Democrat Don Cazayoux took an open Congressional seat previously held by Republicans since 1974! That's 34 years; 3-plus decades, and along damn time, too!
It happened in the conservative 6th district around Baton Rouge. A place typically as red as red gets.
Making it an even bigger victory is the fact that GOP Republicans resorted to their typical bullshit dirty politics and pulled out all the stops to try and derail Cazayoux's campaign. WE-THE-PEOPLE were not fooled, and the will of the people could not be hijacked in what was the second special election victory of the year for DEMS!
Cazayoux replaces 11-term GOP Republican Richard Baker.
GOP Republican Baker retired in February to do guess what ... that's right, to do what all GOP Republicans aspire to do, become a lobbyist for hedge fund managers (reads: money-grubbing -whore).
This gives DEMS a second campaign boost, this year, toward extending their majority in the House of Representatives.
Democrats won in an Illinois special election to replace former House Speaker Dennis Hastert earlier this year.
Next-up for special elections is Mississippi's 1st district to fill the seat of appointed Sen. Roger Wicker (R). If DEMS win that one too, GOP Republicans nationwide will be in full-on shit-a-brick mode.
Not only won't the Republican'ts regain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, very likely they will have their collective asses handed to them from sea to shining sea, YEA!
What DEMS really need now, is to elect Jeff Merkley to the U.S. Senate from Oregon, to replace Bush bum-licker: Gordon Smith.
References: AmericaBlog; MyDD; CQPolitics; NYT; TYD; WaPo1; WaPo2; Yahoo/AP; ABC; Bloomberg; LAT; MSNBC; Reuters
It was Margaret Mead who said it:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
Last week, after the Disney-ABC dog and pony show debate there was a strong and immediate reaction from the blogosphere which was then largely discounted by the very same networks who took enough notice to prompt a response.
Sample of last week's outrage:
http://www.bloggerradio.com/2008/04/wtf-was-that-di.html
http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/does-abc-love-america-as-much-as-you-do.html
And the defense that followed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/george-stephanopoulos-def_n_97241.html
Think Progress reports Tuesday that the Blog-driven hub-bub CAN and DOES have an impact:
ABC’s ratings drop after much-criticized debate.»
Last week, after ABC News’s much-criticized Democratic debate, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales declared that “the clear loser is ABC.” The ratings for last week’s evening newscasts are now in, and it appears that Shales was correct: “NBC beat ABC by over 600,000 viewers last week — an unusually wide margin for the dueling newscasts.” Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar notes that “one reason for that wider-than-usual gap” is that “on Friday, NBC beat ABC by 1.1 million viewers — a practically unheard of margin for an otherwise random Friday night.” Here are the numbers:
People recognize when smoke is being blown up their collective skirts. All that needs to happen is for the word to reach the electorate and they will ultimately make an informed decision. That is why the Corporatocracy-run main stream media is fighting so hard to SPIN and DISTORT.
Below is the schedule of events surrounding the 2008 Oregon primary election (as I understand it). So, if you have heard folks claim they have already voted, and you wondered how that's possible, here ya go:
APRIL 4: Ballots Mailed to long time absentee voters.
APRIL 7: Ballots available in Election office.
APRIL 23~25: Voter pamphlets mailed out.
APRIL 29: ***Voter Registration Deadline.*** (encourage EVERYONE you know to register and get 'er done. Times-a-wastin').
MAY 2: Ballots Mailed.
MAY 20: Election Day!
Every event date, and every vote associated with this year's election cycle, from campaigning through primaries, and across the General Election finish-line, marks a historical moment in WE-THE-PEOPLE's and our nation's history. Don't get left out; take your country back, NOW.
I wonder if Oregonians have this 1978 song pop into their heads whenever they see a political campaign Ad for the Democratic nomination to challenge current Republican Senator Gordon Smith? Catchy tune that was a big hit in its day, but apparently the mean-spirited lyrics didn't exactly help Randy Newman's career a bunch because too many folks apparently missed the irony in the message. Ah well, no one will see it here!
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
To live
They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Round here
Short People are just the same
As you and I
(A Fool Such As I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's A Wonderful World)
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
'Round here
"The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."
The Bush Administration is such an un-natural disaster, it warrants a "signal of dire distress" for the nation, for all Americans & for our future.
The GOP doesn't want you to be reminded of their net results. Never forget! Anyone who supported 'Bush' owes our country a make-up-call! So, VOTE DEMOCRATIC!
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