Bailout Money to be used in elections

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Sunday January 25, 2009 · 12:53 PM PST

2009/01/25 · 12:53

Welcome to the brave new world where your federal bailout dollars will be used to re-elect member of Congress in the next Federal elections.

Hundreds of millions of bailout dollars will be used to elect members of congress, mostly conservatives. Some of the money will find its way into state elections in Gubernatorial, Supreme Court, and legislative races.

Most likely, some of the money is already earmarked to defeat Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson who is on the April ballot in the Badger State.

Saturday’s New York Times reported that Congress is considering legislation

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 4:35 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 16:35

Dear Rachael, Alex, and Natasha:

In 1966 roommate Jesse Samburg and I were discussing the tragedy of American foreign policy. The War in Vietnam was devastating Vietnam, our nation, and our generation. Casualties were mounting and Lyndon Johnson was escalating the war. We spoke about LBJ and his generation's responsibility for the loss of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and American lives.

I said to Jess, "After the Vietnam war is over, another cruelty is that it will divide our generation, perhaps forever."

That war divided us and prevented my generation from participating in profound change...

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 · 6:33 AM PST

2008/02/20 · 06:33

With half of of Wisconsin tallied, it was clear than Barack Obama won, and won decisively. In between the total returns are these gems:

Obama is handily trouncing Hillary Clinton in, of all places, northern Wisconsin's vacation destination, Door County. More impressive than the Obama 60-40 domination is that over two-thirds of the votes were in the Democratic column. That could be lack of interest in the Republican candidates, but more likely it is moderate Republicans and independents embracing Obama.

In conservative Republican Green County less than 25% of the votes went to GOP candidates. Again, Obama is scoring over 60% against Clinton. Green County, the most solid Republican suburban county, cast 7300 Democratic votes and 2000 Republican votes.

Statewide, Hillary Clinton's total is greater than all of the Republican totals.

The implications:

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Thursday August 23, 2007 · 5:31 AM PDT

2007/08/23 · 05:31

In his speech August 22, 2007 President George W. Bush, displaying a profound and dangerous misunderstanding of American History and our involvement in World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War, took a sentence from Senator J. William Fulbright's The Crippled Giant and mangled it out of context.

In 1972, one antiwar senator put it this way: "What earthly difference does it make to nomadic tribes or uneducated subsistence farmers in Vietnam or Cambodia or Laos, whether they have a military dictator, a royal prince or a socialist commissar in some distant capital that they've never seen and may never heard of?"...The world would learn just how costly these misimpressions would be...

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Thursday July 19, 2007 · 7:03 PM PDT

2007/07/19 · 19:03

The specific explosion in New York City was not brought to us by Republicans but as sure as the sun rises in the morning you can believe there will be more such disasters orchestrated by the Republican Party and the Democrats who play along with policies designed to assuage the moderates but end up irritating everyone.

News item: Blast shows age of U.S. infrastructure:: With a blast that made skyscrapers tremble, an 83-year-old steam pipe sent a powerful message that the miles of tubes, wires and iron beneath New York and other U.S. cities are getting older and could become dangerously unstable

This country was built on investment, investment in infrastructure. Urban residents paid to help bring rural electrification to the farms. Easterners paid for dams that watered the western plains. City resident paid for highways that opened up the suburbs. Rural folks helped pay for lands given to the railroads that brought agricultural goods to the cities.

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Wednesday April 11, 2007 · 10:52 PM PDT

2007/04/11 · 22:52

I am available and prepared to serve as War Czar. My qualifications:

*I attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin at the same time as Dick Cheney. Neither of us got our degrees.
*I had a double undergraduate major in history and political science. I totally understand the concept of irrational behavior in a world of nuclear armaments. I read Herman Kahn.
*I have seen Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb at least eight or nine times.

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Monday April 09, 2007 · 8:15 AM PDT

2007/04/09 · 08:15

Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary should order the issuance of a subpoena for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Steven Biskupic, to appear before the committee. Biskupic should be asked to bring all documents or communications between himself and any staff members of President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pertaining to discussions regarding the investigation or prosecution of state employees for the purpose of embarrassing the administration of Wisconsin Govenor Jim Doyle.

Biskupic obtained a conviction last September of State of Wisconsin purchasing agent Georgia Thompson. The timing could not have been worse for Democrats as the case made headlines through out the state in the months preceding the November elections after the September sentencing.

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Monday January 15, 2007 · 7:14 AM PST

2007/01/15 · 07:14

Richard Nixon: The Silent Majority Speech

But the question facing us today is: Now that we are in the war, what is the best way to end it?

In January I could only conclude that the precipitate withdrawal of American forces from ~~Vietnam~~ Iraq would be a disaster not only for ~~South Vietnam~~ Iraq but for the United States and for the cause of peace.

For the ~~South Vietnamese~~ Iraqis our precipitate withdrawal would inevitably allow the ~~Communists~~ terorists to repeat the massacres-...

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Sunday January 14, 2007 · 6:28 PM PST

2007/01/14 · 18:28

LBJ:

The contest in ~~Vietnam~~ Iraq is part of a wider pattern of aggressive purposes.

Why are these realities our concern? Why are we in ~~South Vietnam~~ Iraq?

We are there because we have a promise to keep...I intend to keep our promise. To dishonor that pledge, to abandon this small and brave nation to its enemy - and the terror that must follow - would be an unforgivable wrong.

We are also there to strengthen world order...

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Monday December 11, 2006 · 7:44 AM PST

2006/12/11 · 07:44

Not content with the stupidest, cruelest war since the advent of British imperialism, compounded with a fiscal policy set on bankrupting this nation, departing lame-duck Republicans managed a major legislative disaster this week.

As described by one of their own, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg, R-NH:

You just have to ask yourself how we, as a party, got to this point, where we have a leadership which is going to ram down the throats of our party the biggest budget buster in the history of the Congress under Republican leadership.

Gregg was referring to, as:AP reported

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Thursday November 23, 2006 · 6:50 AM PST

2006/11/23 · 06:50

Food for the Revolution! Food for People, Not for Profit!
How appropriate for Thanksgiving Day.

Ben Masel was kind enough to send the PDF of Michael Bodden's very accurate, well written, and at times humerous, *People's History: A History of the Mifflin Street Community Co-op* by .

Michael did not believe in paragraphs. I am in the process of editing and that is the only change I am making--shortening paragraphs. Even the very rare 'typos' are left intact.

Mifflin Street Co-op: Food For the Revolution

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Wednesday November 22, 2006 · 12:50 PM PST

2006/11/22 · 12:50

Crossposted at Waxing America

Update: History of the Mifflin Street Community Co-op

A few years ago I attended a fund raiser for the Mifflin Street Co-op, and spent several hundred dollars on a few shares of stock signed by some revolutionary named Delgado and an old banner from The War At Home.

From 1966 until 1969 I shopped at the White Front Grocery at the corner of Mifflin and Basset. That winter of 68-69, when word came that the Caruso family was going to close the business, a dozen of us decided it was time to form a food cooperative.

The rest is history. And the history was not always pretty,

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