Senator and President Clinton, it would be your fault

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 5:54 PM PDT

2008/05/22 · 17:54

When this contest began, Obama was clearly the most electable candidate. His widespread appeal among independents and even crossover Republicans, particularly in such a blue wave year, made any general election outcome a forgone conclusion. His most difficult task would be to win the primary against a very strong array of candidates and a hostile establishment. But that was before the kind of campaign you decided to run.

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Saturday March 01, 2008 · 2:34 PM PST

2008/03/01 · 14:34

It wasn't always this way. Even though you didn't always vocally support progress, and sometimes voted in ways that frustrated us. We believed you ultimately had the best interests of the country and progressive causes at heart. Unfortunately with every week that this primary season drags on, it becomes clearer that this is more about one person's ambition than a struggle to determine what is best for our party and our country.

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BC04 WA headquarters broken in to last night

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Friday October 01, 2004 · 2:08 PM PDT

2004/10/01 · 14:08

The Seattle Times has the story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002051443_webbush01.html

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance called it a "Watergate-style break in" and said he suspects Democrats are behind it.

"If you're just some burglar looking for computers to sell to buy drugs you take every laptop in the office maybe," he said. "But they knew exactly whose computers to get. They got the executive director's computer and the get-out-the-vote director's computer."

"To me there is some scary stuff going on from liberal radicals whose Bush hatred is out of control," Vance said.

This story can't end well for us. :\

Please write CNN to ask for balanced coverage

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Friday July 30, 2004 · 12:06 AM PDT

2004/07/30 · 00:06

Immediately following John Edwards' speech on CNN Wednesday, Wolf Blitzer asked Ralph Reed for his reaction. CNN proceeded to allow Ralph to ignore the question and talk about what a bad senator Kerry was. For 10 minutes.

Thursday night, immediately following Kerry's speech, CNN turned to Ed Gillespie. And allowed him to smear Kerry some more.

Please go here and let CNN know that you eagerly anticipate hearing Howard Dean and Michael Moore's reactions to the Bush Cheney speeches at the GOP convention next month.

Scary political email exchange at work today

jbrians

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Tuesday June 08, 2004 · 10:45 PM PDT

2004/06/08 · 22:45

I had the following heated political email exchange at work today following a heated lunch time political discussion. The moral of the story is; don't discuss politics at work. I don't think this guy has any power to actually cost me my job, but he can darn well cause some trouble.

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Macedonia kills 7 innocent Pakistanis to prove it is helping in the war on terror

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Saturday May 01, 2004 · 3:56 PM PDT

2004/05/01 · 15:56

Yikes.

Macedonian police gunned down seven innocent immigrants, then claimed they were terrorists, in a killing staged to show they were participating in the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism, authorities said yesterday

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Thursday April 22, 2004 · 12:12 AM PDT

2004/04/22 · 00:12

A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times.

Kos put this picture on the front page a couple days ago. As we predicted, the picture was taken secretly and without permission. Bravo to the Seattle Times for running this photo, then following up with a front page story when she got fired. I love how the Times sticks it to the DOD by running the photo on the front page AGAIN to accompany the new story. Bastards.
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Arnold scores a big victory for corporations

jbrians

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Friday April 16, 2004 · 3:55 PM PDT

2004/04/16 · 15:55

And a killer blow against the working class. This is disgusting. Worker's comp has been gutted in CA:

The bill aims to save billions of dollars by imposing stricter limits on medical benefits, setting a higher standard of proof for workers claiming to be injured, and requiring employees to use doctors approved by their employers and their insurance companies.

In addition, the legislation would require that treatment meet American Medical Association guidelines. And it says that employees cannot collect benefits unless their injuries are scientifically measurable using medical tests such as X-rays or MRIs.

So basically unless you lose a limb or break a bone at work, you will just be told to quit your damned whining and get back to work or be fired. RSI? Carpal tunnel? Back pain? Respiratory problems? It's all in your head! You aren't injured! Stop wasting the state's money!

The legislation does not regulate the amounts insurance companies can charge businesses for workers' comp insurance. Democrats initially insisted on regulating rates, but Schwarzenegger refused, saying the reforms will spur competition among insurers to lower rates.

I love this little twist-of-the-dagger at the end. This will end up increasing profits and workers insurance premiums while not returning anything to workers. Yay for laissez-faire!

If you live in CA, tell your Democratic legislature to get off their knees and stand up to Arnie and his corporate cronies.

Got a letter published in Seattle Times

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Wednesday April 14, 2004 · 11:04 AM PDT

2004/04/14 · 11:04

In response to a pro-Diebold editorial, I managed to get my letter to the editor published in the Seattle times.

It only takes one bad election worker with a little technical knowledge five minutes to alter the entire vote count from one machine. With paper ballots, a corrupt election worker can only throw away or alter individual votes, so causing hundred- or thousand-vote swings is difficult.

Without saved paper print-out confirmations of individual votes, a recount is not possible. In order to have confidence in the system, we'll need to have independent election observers watching the electronic transitions from precincts up to the state level.

Perhaps the U.N. can practice here in November before the January Iraq elections.

Short and a little choppy I know; I've found that editors tend to like letters with a lot of content packed into few words.

Sunni and Shiite alliance

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Wednesday April 07, 2004 · 2:44 PM PDT

2004/04/07 · 14:44

This is bad. It's good that they are working together instead of killing each other for now, but not so good that they are working together to kill us. Also, I'm sure if we leave they will stick together long enough to exterminate the kurds before they turn on each other.

Most accounts on the ground that I've read maintain that the militant Shiites are in the minority and most still want to try and make things work with the US. The important battle being fought right now isn't specifically over Muqtada Sadr or some thugs in Fallujah, but rather it is over the hearts and minds of the moderate Shiite majority. If we lose the latter battle, the outcome of the former military one will not matter. I just hope Bremer and BushCo understand that.

Kerry to cut corporate taxes. Ugh.

jbrians

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Friday March 26, 2004 · 3:37 PM PST

2004/03/26 · 15:37

Here is the story on the first part of Kerry's economic plan.

Current tax laws allow American companies to defer paying taxes on income earned by their foreign subsidiaries until they bring it back to the United States. If they keep the money abroad, they avoid paying U.S. taxes entirely.

Kerry would require companies to pay taxes on their international income as they earn it rather than being allow to defer it. The new system would apply to profits earned in future years only, not retroactively.

Ok, sounds good.

Kerry's campaign estimates that the change would save $12 billion a year. The savings would be used to reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 33.25 percent -- a 5 percent reduction.

WTF?!! Why bother to throw this bone back to the corporate community? They clearly aren't going to support him over Bush, so I see no reason we should pander to them. Are the kind of Americans who would even consider voting for Kerry sensitive to charges of being "anti-business?" I doubt it. All this does is give more ammo to the Nader-ite "Both parties are corporate whores" contingent, of whom I am feeling one-foot-in-one-foot-out these days.
-Brian

SCLM buries the Clarke story

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Monday March 22, 2004 · 10:16 PM PST

2004/03/22 · 22:16

The first round of stories about Clarke seem to be Bush's response, rather than Clarke's allegations.
Cnn.com runs this story with line on their front page: "Bush team rejects 9/11 allegations." The story starts with Rice's response. Keep in mind, for somebody who only gets news from cnn.com, this is their introduction to the charges.

Currently MSNBC has NOTHING on their front page that even mentions Clarke, his book, or the 60 minutes appearance. Earlier today they ran a headline to the effect of "Whitehouse strongly rebuts Clarke criticism." Now on their second-tier "news" page they have White House blasts terror critic. Again, this is the original point of view for the story. Their first article on this story is the Bush team's rebuttal.

Slate has a great service called Today's Papers, where they run down what's in the big hardcopy newspapers. The death of Yassin bumped Clarke off of the WaPost's lead (still made the front page). Everyone else buried Clarke off the front page. How much do you want to bet tomorrow NYT, LAT, and others front-page Bush's rebuttal to Clarke?

The Daily Howler has a typically grand rant against the NYT here. Like everyone else, the NYT article gives Bushco a few paragraphs to blast Clarke's credibility before actually stating the charges.

When did the media learn to frame everything starting from conservative principals? How did we get here? Is there anything we can do to fix it? Do we have a shot at winning with less money and the mainstream media unwilling tell our side of the story?

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Senator Clinton, we will not support you

BC04 WA headquarters broken in to last night

Please write CNN to ask for balanced coverage

Scary political email exchange at work today

Macedonia kills 7 innocent Pakistanis to prove it is helping in the war on terror

woman who took soldier coffins photo fired

Arnold scores a big victory for corporations

Got a letter published in Seattle Times

Sunni and Shiite alliance

Kerry to cut corporate taxes. Ugh.

SCLM buries the Clarke story