Charlie Cook declares Feingold's seat is a toss-up

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Thursday August 05, 2010 · 3:48 PM PDT

2010/08/05 · 15:48

According to Charlie Cook, Senator Russell Feingold is in a toss-up election battle with Republican Ron Johnson. Johnson currently has a slim lead over Feingold.

Just three weeks ago, we moved this race between Democratic incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold and businessman Ron Johnson, the presumptive Republican nominee, from the Solid Democratic column to Lean Democratic. After watching the back and forth between the candidates and having met with Johnson, the race is making yet another move to Toss Up.

Russ Feingold is no stranger of close elections. Hopefully, he will pull out another victory.

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"system that is tilted too much in favor of labor" to be 'reformed' by Governor Christie

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Wednesday May 19, 2010 · 11:33 PM PDT

2010/05/19 · 23:33

Governor Christie of NJ is a right wing pigeon. Christie has been at war with unions since he first took office in Janurary.

His latest (anti-union) effort is promoting a 'tool kit' that will weaken the civil service sector. According to Christie it is in "getting rid of an arbitration system that is tilted too much in favor of labor and against management" that will solve NJ budget woes!

When I read that quote it sort of annoyed to me to the point of pissing me off a little. My opinion is that a major problem in America (since the inglorious Reagan revolution) has been that everything has been basically tilted against labor.
Christie can not stand that New Jersey is one of the few states that still has a strong labor presence. And being the good right wing pigeon he is, he's doing his damndest to weaken unions and tilt things in the favor of management.

His proposal includes letting "Municipalities that reject a plan to exit civil service can try again in two years, but cities or towns that opt out can't return for 10 years."

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from outer space sent to destroy the human race

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doesn't give a damn about you or me

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just buy guns and watch TV

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Dead Milkmen reference, really?

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Jim Hoffa applauds Obama, Gov.Christie is already anti-union and union decline.

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 3:24 PM PST

2010/01/22 · 15:24

(A few union news stories out there today)

Jim Hoffa applauds Obama for moving in a positive direction in proposing stricter bank regulation.

"President Obama is clearly moving in the right direction on this issue," Hoffa said. "He understands that our financial system deserves special treatment because it serves a crucial function: providing capital to businesses so they can create jobs. Unfortunately, financial firms are selling irresponsible products such as credit default swaps that destabilize U.S. businesses and jeopardize jobs. It is crucial to regulate these little-understood, 'financial weapons of mass destruction,' to borrow Warren Buffett's term."

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Should Lieberman be stripped of his chairmanship and kicked out of the Democratic Caucus? (poll)

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 12:03 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 12:03

Another day and another comment by Joe Lieberman expressing his contempt for progressives and his zero loyalty to the Democratic Party. The Party perpetually looks the other way and never takes disciplinary action against perhaps one of the most petty egotistical man in the Senate. When is that going to change?

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What is your approval of Joe Lieberman (poll)

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Wednesday December 09, 2009 · 6:14 PM PST

2009/12/09 · 18:14

"I’m a Democrat with a 35-year record of fighting for progressive causes, for the middle class, for civil rights, for women’s rights, for human rights and a lot more. I voted with my Senate Democratic colleagues 90 percent of the time."

— Joe Lieberman, 7/6/06

"I want Democrats to be back in the majority in Washington and elect a Democratic president in 2008."

— Joe Lieberman, 7/7/06

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The Republican & Loyalist threat in Northern Ireland?

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Thursday November 05, 2009 · 11:18 AM PST

2009/11/05 · 11:18

According to Independent Monitoring Commission "dissident Republican groups are posing their biggest security threat to Northern Ireland for six years." The two main dissident groups are Continuity Irish Republican Army and the Real Irish Republican Army.

In the overview of dissident republican activity over the six months then under review which we gave in our previous report we said that: - CIRA and RIRA had remained extremely active and dangerous. Both had
engaged in a high level of violence, often with the intention of murdering
members of the security forces and placing the lives of members of the
general public at peril. Dissident republican activity since the early
summer of 2008 had been consistently more serious than at any time
since we had started to report in April 2004.

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 11:57 AM PDT

2009/08/26 · 11:57

John Kerry and Edward Kennedy were close friends. For almost 25 years Kerry and Kennedy served as colleagues representing the state of Massachusetts.

John Kerry now has impossibly big shoes to fill as he becomes the senior Senator from the state of Massachusetts, but I believe he will continue to fight for a more just & fairer world in the tradition of Kennedy...

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 7:11 PM PDT

2009/08/19 · 19:11

The Club for Growth is targeting Senator Olympia Snowe (R)-Maine with a 1.2 million ad so she does not "cave into the liberals on health care."

A conservative group plans to launch a new TV ad targeting Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe and other Republican senators working with Democrats on health care reform.

The Club for Growth says its ads will begin airing on television tomorrow in Maine, Iowa and Wyoming. In a statement on the group's Website, the president of the political action group, Chris Chocola, says the ads are targeting Snowe, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley and Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi because they're "negotiating behind closed doors with liberal Democrats over the future of government-run healthcare."

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Tuesday November 11, 2008 · 10:18 PM PST

2008/11/11 · 22:18

The state of Israel is sometimes very difficult to defend in how they treat Palestinians. This is another example of the arrogance of the Israeli state.

Israeli police evicted a disabled Palestinian man and his wife from their Jerusalem home of more than 50 years.

The eviction followed a court order in July that found that the eastern Jerusalem home, provided to the couple in 1956 by the Jordanian government and a U.N. refugee agency, was built on land they did not own. A Jewish group said it has Ottoman-era documents proving the land originally was owned by Jews who fled in 1948 when Jordanian troops overran eastern Jerusalem, according to The Associated Press.

The wheelchair-bound Palestinian man, Mohammed al-Kurd, and his wife, Fawzieh, were removed from the building before dawn Sunday. The eviction came despite a plea by the U.S. consulate to keep the couple in their home.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 8:13 PM PDT

2008/04/01 · 20:13

The situation in Somalia has not been good for some time.
A baby born in Somalia will have a life expectancy of 48.4 years.
There is little date to measure the full extent of Somalia's poverty but in 1994 the UN Development Program ranked Somolia 165th out of 173 countries in terms of its Human Development Index.

According to the World Bank, health standards in Somalia before the 1991 were among the worst in the world. It was estimated that there was 1 doctor for every 20,000 people (in the United States it was 1 doctor for every 470 people), and 1 nurse for every 1,900 persons (in the United States it was 1 nurse for every 70 persons). Only 2 percent of births were attended by a health professional, whereas in the United States nearly 100 percent of births were so attended. In 1990 average life expectancy at birth was 46 years, the infant mortality was about 123 per 1,000 live births (in the United States it is 7 per 1,000). The adult literacy rate was 27 percent.

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Friday March 21, 2008 · 1:37 PM PDT

2008/03/21 · 13:37

(Not much of a diary, but just wanted to post some animal cruelty/welfare news stories currently out there.)

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~Albert Schweitzer

Violence against innocent animals often reveals the bleak, brutal darkness that is part of this world. Compassion is sometimes a struggle amongst the darkness that surround us.
But many people love animals and can't stand the idea of animals being mistreated or abused. The people that work to protect and promote animal rights deserves much praise. They are willing to stand up against the various mistreatments of animals, rather it comes from individuals, governments, or business. (I was going to post some pictures of animal cruelty. But I just couldn't, they were just too disturbing & disgusting.)

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 4:14 PM PDT

2008/03/20 · 16:14

The real mass media are basically trying to divert people. Let them do something else, but don’t bother us (us being the people who run the show). Let them get interested in professional sports, for example. Let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems or something like that. Anything, as long as it isn’t serious. Of course, the serious stuff is for the big guys. "We" take care of that.

Noam Chomsky

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