tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post9175725311720166508..comments2024-02-24T11:50:55.413-08:00Comments on Lydia Cornell: Dennis Kucinich on the Basham and Cornell Talk ShowFans and Friends of Lydia Cornellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01512357844572930333noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-47771973651417223562007-09-19T18:54:00.000-07:002007-09-19T18:54:00.000-07:00Please check out new post on Blackwater and sudden...Please check out new post on Blackwater and sudden feeling that we've been down this road before..<BR/><BR/>Four dead in Ohio...Fans and Friends of Lydia Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01512357844572930333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-23414782425085073492007-09-19T18:32:00.000-07:002007-09-19T18:32:00.000-07:00Christopher has a list of the most corrupt in Cong...Christopher has a list of the most corrupt in Congress. Notice the ratio of Republicans and Democrats.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.fromtheleft.wordpress.com/" REL="nofollow">From the Left</A>Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-85842242320122624922007-09-19T17:43:00.000-07:002007-09-19T17:43:00.000-07:00Home Foreclosures Up 36%In economic news, new figu...Home Foreclosures Up 36%<BR/>In economic news, new figures show a continuing rise in home foreclosures around the United States. Foreclosure filings reached nearly two hundred forty-four thousand last month -- a thirty-six percent rise over July, and more than double over a year ago. <BR/><BR/>Bush's economy sure does work for homeowners.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-87994776508759909872007-09-19T17:41:00.000-07:002007-09-19T17:41:00.000-07:0050,000 Iraqis Displaced Since JulyIn other Iraq ne...50,000 Iraqis Displaced Since July<BR/>In other Iraq news, new figures show the number of displaced Iraqis his risen by about fifty-thousand since July. The International Organization for Migration says more than two million, two-hundred twenty-five thousand Iraqis have fled their homes since the US invasion. <BR/><BR/>This doesn't matter as long as Bush and Condi have their own lovenest.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-20917647953704362712007-09-19T14:17:00.000-07:002007-09-19T14:17:00.000-07:00Clif:Maybe the trolls are part of the majority tha...Clif:<BR/><BR/>Maybe the trolls are part of the majority that refuse to call themselves Repugs, or they are hiding under a rock because they are Repugs.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-17166764074169242802007-09-19T14:10:00.000-07:002007-09-19T14:10:00.000-07:00Well Larry, even some of the kool-aid sippers have...Well Larry, even some of the kool-aid sippers have figgered out the reichwing is really just second rate dumb wanna be facists, and little more. But still some are just as dumb as the neo-cons and will never figger it out ever, <BR/><BR/>BTW where is crusty, dolt, goo goo, and gay-dalf these daysclifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-27262698236489234692007-09-19T14:07:00.000-07:002007-09-19T14:07:00.000-07:00Five U.S soldiers were killed in Baghdad today.No ...Five U.S soldiers were killed in Baghdad today.<BR/><BR/>No wonder people refuse to call themselves Republicans.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-74596360877841390882007-09-19T14:05:00.000-07:002007-09-19T14:05:00.000-07:00Nobody wants to admit they are Republicans. Nobody...Nobody wants to admit they are Republicans. Nobody.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-91951017148170563902007-09-19T14:03:00.000-07:002007-09-19T14:03:00.000-07:00George W Bush: Destroying the Republican Party, Br...<I>George W Bush: Destroying the Republican Party, Brick by Brick.</I><BR/><BR/>Heck of a job georgie, (and KKKarl)clifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-19540906128350284372007-09-19T14:00:00.000-07:002007-09-19T14:00:00.000-07:00Condi was wanting to gain credibility by seeing th...Condi was wanting to gain credibility by seeing the Pope, but the Pope didn't want to lose hos credibility.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-15591319625134695342007-09-19T13:59:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:59:00.000-07:00Polico:Americans aren’t just having a tough time s...Polico:<BR/><BR/>Americans aren’t just having a tough time seeing themselves pulling the lever for Republicans these days. Fewer are seeing themselves as Republicans, period.<BR/><BR/>That’s the conclusion of one of the party’s most respected polling firms, based on a compilation of its national surveys conducted so far this year. Public Opinion Strategies, based in Alexandria, Va., counts among its clients about one-fourth of all Republican members of Congress and is half of the bipartisan team that conducts polling for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.<BR/><BR/>Party identification — or affiliation, as it’s also called — measures whether people consider themselves to be Republican, Democratic or independent. In 2004, according to the firm’s merged polling data (think of it as one huge data set compiled over the course of a year), Republicans were at rough parity with Democrats in party ID, trailing them by three percentage points.<BR/><BR/>At this point in 2007, they trail Democrats by seven.<BR/><BR/>The development provides another angle from which to view the party’s plight in being defined in the public’s minds by an unpopular president sticking with an unpopular war and a group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill who continue to serve up easy fodder for late-night talk shows.<BR/><BR/>The lag in self-identified Republicans is another worry bead for the string of polling measures that warn of an uphill battle for the party next year. Barring improvement, it will affect their 2008 prospects as much as, if not more than, the far-more-hyped job approval rating of the outgoing president.<BR/><BR/>Of real concern is the firm’s finding of fewer self-identified Republicans among men over the age of 55 and men who live in rural areas — groups that have been GOP mainstays for most of the Bush era.<BR/><BR/>Data compiled by Public Opinion Strategies this year also reaffirms a more widely acknowledged point in political circles: that the GOP continues to trail dangerously on the question of whether voters would be more inclined to elect a Democratic or Republican member of Congress, aka the generic congressional ballot test.<BR/><BR/>According to the firm’s merged polling data for 2006, the party was at a 10-point disadvantage during a year that landed Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress.<BR/><BR/>At this point in 2007, the party remains at a nine-point disadvantage.<BR/><BR/>Much of this erosion is due to independents increasingly favoring Democrats. As the data show, self-identified Republicans and Democrats have been answering the generic ballot question basically the same way over the past few years; it is among independents that support for Republican members of Congress has plunged.<BR/><BR/>Between their growing deficit in party ID and loss of favor among independents, the math does not add up for the GOP — at least not at the moment. Even if their presidential nominee continues to receive about 90 percent of his party’s vote, that 90 percent will be smaller than the 90 percent of the Democratic vote going to that party’s nominee, and independents cannot be counted on to help the GOP compensate.<BR/><BR/>George W Bush: Destroying the Republican Party, Brick by Brick.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-47005745232669639422007-09-19T13:58:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:58:00.000-07:00I guess the Pope don't wanna see Condi-lies-a-lot ...I guess the Pope don't wanna see Condi-lies-a-lot until she gets rid of that "taint" of Bush she has on her.clifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-68937294651217250112007-09-19T13:54:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:54:00.000-07:00U.S. housing starts and building permits both decl...U.S. housing starts and building permits both declined last month to a 12-year low, lagging analyst expectations, according to a joint report issued today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. <BR/><BR/>Builders broke ground on new dwellings in August at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1.307 million units per year, a 2.6-percent decline from July’s revised annual rate of 1.367 million and a 19.1-percent decline from the revised August 2006 rate of 1.646 million. <BR/><BR/>The new rate was well below the 1.35 million median forecast from a Bloomberg News survey of 77 economists. (Their estimates ranged from 1.24 million units per year to 1.40 million.) <BR/><BR/>Building permits for privately-owned housing also fell, indicating the slump is likely to continue. Permits were issued in August at a rate of 1.307 million per year, a 5.9-percent decline from July’s revised rate of 1.389 million permits per year and a 24.5-percent decline from the August 2006 rate of 1.731 million. <BR/><BR/>The Bloomberg survey had predicted permits would fall only to 1.348 million units per year. <BR/><BR/>“The housing market now has another down-leg ahead,” John Silvia, chief economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, N.C., told Bloomberg News. “We don't expect sales to bottom out until late this year, and prices will likely moderate even further.” <BR/><BR/>More results of the Bush economy.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-77296805625341720862007-09-19T13:47:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:47:00.000-07:00Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of ...Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday.<BR/><BR/>Rice "made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope" to boost her diplomatic "credit" ahead of a trip to the Middle East, the Corriere della Sera daily reported without citing its sources.<BR/><BR/>She was hoping to meet the pontiff at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo at the beginning of August, it said.<BR/><BR/>Even the Pope wants nothing to do with Condi!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-85646214675447386162007-09-19T13:45:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:45:00.000-07:00Carl:I agree with you, I think Rather got screwed ...Carl:<BR/><BR/>I agree with you, I think Rather got screwed so CBS could not have problems with Bush.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-25339418237927138592007-09-19T13:42:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:42:00.000-07:00Larry,I've always maintained that Rather was railr...Larry,<BR/><BR/>I've always maintained that Rather was railroaded and the memo was not only accurate and factual, but real.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-792362682831231662007-09-19T13:39:00.000-07:002007-09-19T13:39:00.000-07:00CBS The Republican Network:Dan Rather, whose caree...CBS The Republican Network:<BR/><BR/>Dan Rather, whose career at CBS News ground to an inglorious end 15 months ago over his role in an unsubstantiated report questioning President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service, filed a $70 million lawsuit this afternoon against the network, its corporate parent and three of his former superiors. <BR/><BR/>Mr. Rather, 75, asserts that the network violated his contract by giving him insufficient airtime on “60 Minutes” after forcing him to step down as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” in March 2005. He also contends that the network committed fraud by commissioning a “biased” and incomplete investigation of the flawed Guard broadcast and, in the process, “seriously damaged his reputation.” As plaintiffs, the suit names CBS and its chief executive, Leslie Moonves; Viacom and its executive chairman, Sumner Redstone; and Andrew Heyward, the former president of CBS News.<BR/><BR/>In the suit, filed this afternoon in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Rather charges that CBS and its executives made him “a scapegoat” in an attempt “to pacify the White House,” though the formal complaint presents virtually no direct evidence to that effect. To buttress this claim, Mr. Rather quotes the executive who oversaw his regular segment on CBS Radio, telling Mr. Rather in November 2004 that he was losing that slot, effective immediately, because of “pressure from ‘the right wing.’ ” <BR/><BR/>He also continues to take vehement issue with the appointment by CBS of Richard Thornburgh, an attorney general in the administration of the elder President Bush, as one of the two outside panelists given the job of reviewing how the disputed broadcast had been prepared.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-17082910466606692342007-09-19T10:11:00.000-07:002007-09-19T10:11:00.000-07:00Unable to attract enough war-weary Republicans, Se...Unable to attract enough war-weary Republicans, Senate Democrats are abandoning calls for a full withdrawal of US troops from Iraq as the chamber resumes debating the war this week.<BR/><BR/>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Democrats will push for a deadline of June 2008 and make a "stronger effort" to cut off war funding rather than calling for an immediate withdrawal to begin, according to an article in Wednesday's Washington Post.<BR/><BR/>"It's all definite timelines," Reid said.<BR/><BR/>The move appears part of a political maneuver by Reid, who, speaking to reporters Tuesday, indicated he wouldn't allow Bush 'wiggle-room,' by bringing forth an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) whose bill calls for end of combat by summer 2008.<BR/><BR/>Of course you will Harry the phony!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-90050886206218784402007-09-19T10:07:00.000-07:002007-09-19T10:07:00.000-07:00Senator Jim Webb appeared on CNN's American Mornin...Senator Jim Webb appeared on CNN's American Morning to discuss his proposed amendment that would force the military to allow troops to be home for at least the same amount of time as they are deployed in Iraq.<BR/><BR/>CNN asked Webb about Senator John McCain's statement that the Constitution doesn't give Congress the right to manage troop rotations and that the Webb amendment "would create chaos." Webb replied, "Senator McCain -- who I've known for 30 years -- needs to read the Constitution. There's a provision in Article 1 Section 8 which clearly gives the Congress the authority to make rules with respect to the governance of ground and naval forces."<BR/><BR/>"I've been around the military all my life," said Webb. "This is something that can work. This administration can no longer be believed when it is talking about policy in Iraq. ... If we now have an administration that's admitting it want to be in Iraq for the next 50 years, we have to put a safety net under the way that they are using our people."Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-35297192418286487912007-09-19T10:06:00.000-07:002007-09-19T10:06:00.000-07:00Republicans and the Bush administration used a 'bo...Republicans and the Bush administration used a 'bogus' terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government's spy powers last month, a top intelligence committee Democrat said Wednesday.<BR/><BR/>Congress agreed to give President Bush and the nation's intelligence agencies extra authority to spy on Americans just hours before lawmakers left for a month-long recess in August. In the legislative session's final week, news emerged of an impending plot by foreign terrorists to attack the US Capitol, and Republicans pointed to the reports as justification to expand the administration's powers.<BR/><BR/>"That specific intelligence claim, it turned out, was bogus; the intelligence agencies knew that," Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) said at a forum on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act organized by the Center for American Progress in Washington. However, lawmakers did not learn of the claim's unreliability until "the day" they approved the FISA expansion, she said.<BR/><BR/>Now that you have admitted the truth, what are the Democrats going to do about it?Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-23913798351963669502007-09-19T10:03:00.000-07:002007-09-19T10:03:00.000-07:00Barack Obama unveiled his tax cut plan Tuesday in ...Barack Obama unveiled his tax cut plan Tuesday in Washington. Some would call it a Robin Hood approach, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. (Related: Obama tax plan: $80 billion in cuts, five-minute filings)<BR/><BR/>"At a time when Americans are working harder than ever, we are taxing income from work at nearly twice the level that we're taxing gains for investors," said the Democratic presidential candidate.<BR/><BR/>Robbing the Republican elitists base to give to the poor. Best plan yet.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-43147976850531173232007-09-19T10:02:00.000-07:002007-09-19T10:02:00.000-07:00Also Mike, if Bush attacks Iran, and the Shiites r...Also Mike, if Bush attacks Iran, and the Shiites retailiate by attacking the infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Bush will have accomplished the total shut down of the major OPEC middle east production of oil, which means removing one half of OPEC production, and over a half of OPEC's exports to the world from the oil markets, for at least six months to a year, which means a long term recession (if not a depression) at the same time oil and other energy resources which depend on oil for their developement(think coal, and all the diesel fuel needed form modern coal mining) will also dissapear, which would result in high prices for energy and very depressed employment and economic production associated problems whch come with that. <BR/>But that ain't gonna stop georgie or dead eye one bit, cause then they could declare a "national emergency" suspend all civil liberties and elections to make Bush the dick-tater he always wanted to be, with dead eye pulling the strings. (at least until the powers behind these clowns remove them and really take over, after they no longer need the fiction of a "democraticly elected" clown to front for them).<BR/><BR/>also, just like the aftermath of Katrina, some assets will be deemed uneconomical to rebuild, so production afer such an attack and resulting economc slow down could result in lower production and exports very long term, (think decades). Which means we in the good ole' USA would have to accept a much lower standard of living for our lives and future generations.....(if we survive WW3).clifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-19395155258592295972007-09-19T10:01:00.000-07:002007-09-19T10:01:00.000-07:00Key Republican leaders are encouraging the party's...Key Republican leaders are encouraging the party's presidential candidates to rethink their decision to skip presidential debates focusing on issues important to minorities, fearing a backlash that could further erode the party's standing with black and Latino voters.<BR/><BR/>Just like the Republicans. Leaving out those who aren't like they pretend to be.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283557503536810926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-18125318515567288942007-09-19T09:46:00.000-07:002007-09-19T09:46:00.000-07:00Mike, any attack on Iran would throw the entire mi...Mike, any attack on Iran would throw the entire middle east into turmoil.<BR/><BR/> The Shiite minorities through out the middle east would see it as a American attack at the behest of the Sunni dictators who need to distract their populations from their repressive policies, and the rising unemployment and frustrations of the large young populations who are much more radical then their older generations were.<BR/><BR/> Given that both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have sizable Shiite minorities within their own countries, they could feel the backlash, The backlash would probably come in the form of attacks on the infrastructure of each countries, so Iran doesn't need to attack the Straights of Hormuz directally(Thus making it much harder for the US and it's military superiority to bring that to bear on the attacks) if they can use their shiite brothers in the oil producing coutries to attack the oil infrastructure which would have the same effect to us, vastly lower world exports of oil, whch would result in marked higher prices of oil and the products we get from oil, which would most definately result in a recession, but combined with much higher prices for oil related producs and a much lower availability of oil and related energy resources to use to recover from the recession.<BR/><BR/> Whether you attack a choke point like the straights or you attack the production and pipelines inside producing countries you achieve the same result.<BR/><BR/> BTW, given that only the Saudis and Russians have the ability to ramp up production (to an extent which means anything to world markets), if any attacks on the Saudis result in their inability to ramp up production and exports when the world needs it, that leaves the Russians as the only swing producer left standing, not what Washington wants, but Puntin definitely knows what to do if that happens, (and Europe is held hostage by the Russians concernng energy supplies).<BR/><BR/> Thus attacking Iran could have the unintended consequences of further enriching the Russians and increasing the stranglehold Russia has over Europe concerning energy supplies and the implications that has concerning geo-political concerns. All our NATO allies could be looking to Russia and it's large oil and natural gas supplies at the same time the idiot in the White House asks them to join him in WW3, and the neo-cons don't have a clue what is gonna happen at that time.<BR/><BR/>Just as the stupid chicken hawk neocons refused to listen to Gen Shinseki, and think of the consequences of ignoring his advice, they will refuse to look at the consequences of this illogical and insane move against Iran beause they want the complete control over the middle east and the oil under the sand there, the consequences be damned .....clifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789324243613548212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102706.post-2895559861128108602007-09-19T07:20:00.000-07:002007-09-19T07:20:00.000-07:00The Harry and Nancy Show continues to tank with th...The Harry and Nancy Show continues to tank with the American people.<BR/><BR/>President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress registered record-low approval ratings in a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.<BR/><BR/>Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll mark of 30 percent in March.<BR/><BR/>A paltry 11 percent rated Congress positively, beating the previous low of 14 percent in July.<BR/><BR/>“The public mood is not just dark. What’s darker than dark?” Zogby said.<BR/><BR/>“The mood is getting ugly.”<BR/><BR/>http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1359Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15788931352232874850noreply@blogger.com