Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
– Martin Luther King
– Martin Luther King
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are Republicans, no surprise: MSN.com
While I was reading that article, it occurred to me that the Dem opponents of several of these thugs are included on the BooTrib ActBlue page.
doesn’t seem to be working quote as well at it used to: Think Progress
…or maybe Rumsfeld didn’t get the memo.
How about that dog and pony show on the White House lawn of all the winger talk show hosts? I’m thinking that they are scared to death of probes, investigations and real oversight by a Democratic Congress.
Not to worry! Bush assures us at this morning’s presser that the GOP has people on the ground ‘to vote our folks back into power’.
Meaning, I s’pose, that the shift from power & then back into power will all take place on Election Day, thanks to the wonders of modern technology.
Rumsfeld isn’t on the same page at home or on the same page with his only ally, the Brits.
Cutting and running from “we are staying the course” Well not exactly, but – We’re out of here!
“America signals dramatic shift in strategy, saying Iraq will assume responsibility for security in ’12 to 18 months’[.]”
“Yesterday’s announcement looked like a strategy change carrying implications for British troops in Iraq, although President Bush’s aides deny any “dramatic shifts” in policy. It came after Mr Bush’s spokesman acknowledged on Monday that the President had cut and run from his signature promise that America would “stay the course” in Iraq.”
From Mission Accomplished to Mission Impossible.
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When he learned in 1995 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, William Utermohlen, an American artist in London, responded in characteristic fashion.
“From that moment on, he began to try to understand it by painting himself,” said his wife, Patricia Utermohlen, a professor of art history.
Mr. Utermohlen’s self-portraits are being exhibited through Friday at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan, by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The paintings starkly reveal the artist’s descent into dementia, as his world began to tilt, perspectives flattened and details melted away. His wife and his doctors said he seemed aware at times that technical flaws had crept into his work, but he could not figure out how to correct them
Here’s a link to a slideshow of the paintings. Wow.
Wow.
to the depths a Repug will sink to during election season (rhetorical question)? AP/Yahoo
Yeah, innocent people like the Hispanic voters that your office targeted:
And what is his excuse?
Yeah, right. If he knows that little about what’s going on in his campaign, how’s he going to manage life in Congress?
And it’s about time they started investigating voter intimidation.
He’s taking a page from Mehlman and the RNC: hurl everything you got including the race card, this time in Tennesse, the other state where race is an issue.
We’re dire. GOP, not the candidate calls the shots.
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A website posting said to be from Taleban spiritual head Mullah Mohammad Omar threatens a “surprising” rise in Afghan violence in the coming months.
The message also threatens to bring President Hamid Karzai before an Islamic court whose “justice is known very well to all”.
Mullah Omar condemns the UN and Nato and urges supporters to be united even if from different Islamic schools.
When the Republicans unveiled this season’s big scary commercial about Bin Laden, all I could see was a terrorist leader who has outsmarted and outmaneuvered Bush for years. Why is Bin Laden in Republican political commercials and not in jail? Now ‘ol One Eye Mullah Omar is issuing threats via a website. More proof of Bush’s blundering. I think the Dems should produce an alternative commercial featuring both of these terrorist leaders, who because of Bush are free to threaten, free to commit terror… footloose and fancyfree. I think Bush has abandoned the search for Bin Laden because they think he’s more valuable as a propaganda tool. Besides, you can’t push an eternal bogus war on terror if you capture/kill all the terrorists.
Link to a real shocker that no one could have predicted:
U.S. military officials tell ABC News cross-border attacks by the Taliban are up “300 percent” since President Musharraf declared a “truce” with tribal leaders in the troubled Northern Waziristan region that borders Afghanistan.
“Politically, it is very sensitive for us to raise this issue with Pakistan,” said a senior NATO officer in Kabul. “But the facts are the facts.”
Reports from the district capital Miram Shah say Taliban vigilantes now patrol the streets, while Pakistani government officials and the military are all but absent.
Those pesky militants are ignoring the part of the deal where they are supposed to disarm… heck, they are ignoring the entire deal. NATO is getting downright pissed at Pakistan. Notice how the Bushies are no longer trumpeting Afghanistan as their big success?
That was what I thought when I saw that commercial. “Who is responsible for these guys still being on the loose? Who “doesn’t think much about Osama” any more?”
I think Unka Karl’s strategy of pretending your biggest weakness is your greatest strength isn’t going to cut it this time.
I took a bet that Osama will pop up with a video on Halloween. Funny he has only surfaced just in time before the vote.
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On the heels of the Associated Press report comes news, courtesy of the New York Times, that Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) finds himself on the business end of yet another federal probe. This one isn’t about land swaps at all, but about allegations Renzi used his power to benefit his dad’s employer:
Federal authorities in Arizona have opened an inquiry into whether Representative Rick Renzi introduced legislation that benefited a military contractor that employs his father, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
I thought that this would be all over the news by this morning, but not yet. News of the first probe broke big yesterday. Seems as if Rep Renzi was involved in a shady land deal. Now this. “Another one bites the dust…”
Notes on Iraq:
Really “No one wants to tell the bitter truth
Rush launches a steamer: I totally agree that he has personally gotten more votes for Claire McCaskill than any advertisement. I just saw on CNN that Rush has apologized, complete with a new shot at Fox at the end. Not very sincere and not very effective.
This cycle the Repugs are running scared and even sometimes forgetting to cover their tracks. I’m thinking that most in the military aren’t as stupid as their commanders seem to think.
As for Canada, they have their own little festering right wing government problem. Some bloggers I know would do well to stop screeching at the US Left for two minutes and look to their own growing cancer. You know, check the mirror.
I mentioned down thread the other racist element being played out in Tennesse. GOP refuses to pull ad.
Rep. Ford replies to GOP’s race ad. Josh has the ad. Watch it
Priceless.
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Actually, Darth Vader is much better looking.
That’s hilarious.
Dick, you are the dark view.
Off we go, into the wild blue yonder: Russia is prepared to repel asteroids to save Earth “if necessary,” deputy head of the Russian space agency Viktor Remishevsky said Tuesday, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. “If necessary, Russia’s rocket-manufacturing complex can create the means in space to repulse asteroids threatening Earth,” Remishevsky said, without giving further details. The official stressed that saving Earth from the threat of asteroids demanded international cooperation.
And continuing in the theme of the reversal of traditional roles in space, President Bush has approved a new national space policy aimed at denying “adversaries'” the use of space capabilities deemed hostile to US interests. Bush authorized the new policy on August 31 and the document, which replaces a 1996 space policy, was published quietly by the White House on October 6. “The United States will preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space; … and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests,” it says. The text also rejects any treaties forbidding space weapons: “The United States will oppose the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit US access to or use of space.”
New measurements of soot produced by traditional cook stoves used in developing countries suggest that these stoves emit twice as much harmful soot and smoke particles as thought. Globally, traditional cook stoves could have a much greater impact on global climate change than previously believed, rivaling that of diesel-powered vehicles.
Researchers have found that men who used a cell phone for four hours or more a day had fewer sperm and those they had moved less well and were of poorer quality.
Tiny crabs that live in South Pacific coral help to prevent the coral from dying by providing regular cleaning “services” that may be critical to the life of coral reefs around the world. The crabs sweep sediment from coral tissue; sediment is known to reduce metabolic and tissue growth rates of coral, increasing the probability of bleaching and coral death. Many corals can remove some sediment from their surfaces but high sediment loads can be deadly. Predicted increases in sedimentation threaten coral reefs in many near shore areas around the world.
Wait `til Steven Colbert hears about this: Scarce acorns, silent guns and rural depopulation are bringing Japan’s bears out of the woods. The number of Japanese black bears caught feasting in fields of sweet corn, apples and other crops has jumped this year, with the animals increasingly undisturbed by hunters, whose ranks are dwindling as the population ages. “There are plenty of bears out there who’ve never even heard a gunshot, so if they do see people, they think it’s OK not to run away,” said Hidetake Hayashi of the Shinshu Black Bear Research Group, which monitors bears in Nagano prefecture…
Hmm. wonder what happens if you put your phone in your front pocket…
Is that a cell phone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? 😉
So glad to see I’m not the only one feeling evil today… 😉
The cell phone article reminds me of an article I read about radiation produced by cell phones and radio transmitters. The article had gathered over a dozen fire fighters and cops who used those big radios that you always see in use where the transmitter clips on the belt and then there is a mic that clips on a shirt pocket. Anyways, each of these guys had a tumor on the leg that they had their transmitter on and there were plenty of others who had much higher rates of cancer. I had owned a cell phone for a few months and promptly recycled the damn thing.
3:20pm; CNN reporting that the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled: under the NJ Constitution, gay couples have all the rights as heterosexual couples.
This is a big win in the battle for gay rights. Absolutely wonderful news.
Just to add: New Jersey does not have a residency requirement for marriage, so anyone from any state could go to Jersey to get married. I’m looking forward to seeing all those Christmas weddings with smiling loving couples all over the media. That’s not snark, I really mean it. Just what Jersey needs to fight the winter doldrums!
Yay!
Hey Manny, good to see you. I’m sorry about your tio.
it’s been a rough week but I’m getting by as best as I can. (((CG)))
BREAKING
Israel denies German report its Air Force jets fired on German naval vessel patrolling Lebanese coast.
The Germany daily Der Tagesspiegel earlier on Wednesday quoted a junior German defense minister as telling a parliamentary committee that two Israeli F-16 fighters flew low over the German ship and fired two shots.
The jets also activated infra-red countermeasures to ward off any rocket attack, the paper quoted him as saying, in an advance release from Thursday’s edition.[..]
Previously, the French had warned Israel to discontinue its overflights.
World war 1 began by accident.