mandated AF vehicles running on oil products

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 10:15 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 10:15

Federally-mandated alternative fuel vehicles are important in creating the fueling network that will allow the entire country to run on less carbon emissions. Unfortunately, the program is not being run with an eye on meeting that goal. At the risk of counting unhatched chickens, this is a matter for the Obama agenda.

Residents of CA and NY are mostly unaware that most states have fewer than ten stations for NG vehicles.

biodiesel is no more widespread

Ethanol is widely available wherever corn is grown. But corn ethanol has its own issues; McCain's right, calling for the import of cheaper, more eco-friendly sugar cane ethanol. This requires facing down agricultural interests financially vested in Bush corn ethanol subsidies.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 12:54 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 12:54

AP reports that:
"Readers of Ohio's three largest newspapers, along with papers in Florida and Nevada, will find an anti-Obama DVD included in editions this week.

"Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., plans to release a 95-minute film in the five swing-state publications to highlight Obama's record on abortion rights, foreign policy and associations. The group said it planned to spend more than $1 million to distribute about 1.25 million copies of Hype: The Obama Effect."

Remember Obsession? This sounds like its coming from the same deep pockets.

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 11:26 PM PDT

2008/10/25 · 23:26

Dr. Nouriel Roubini has been like that cartoon guy with the white robes and a beard, holding that familiar sign...wait a minute I'll do an image search...."the end is nigh"...

Mo white robes, but it'll do....that's Nouriel Rubini, economic blogster and Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business.

But it turns out all of Dr. Doom's predictions have come true, and the latest prediction -- that a meltdown of hedge funds will cause a halt to trading for up to a week -- is coming true before our eyes, at least according to Doc Doom.

In the video below the fold, he endorses Obama at the 6-minute mark, though he anticipates an L-shaped disaster rather than the U-shape everyone is hoping for, no matter what anybody does.

"The only light at the end of the tunnel is that of the oncoming financial and economic train wreck."

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Should Obama talk with Nourini?

90 votes Vote Now!

Should Obama talk with Nourini?

heck no, he shouldn't risk a winning campaign with Mr. Negative!

8 votes

Roubini is the man! Obams should talk to him with no preconditions!

24 votes

Announce Roubini for Treasury Secretary!

16 votes

Talk with him non-publicly, or after Nov. 4

39 votes

Nourini's accurate predictions were a fluke! Forget him.

3 votes

The Rehabilitation of Colin Powell

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 1:59 PM PDT

2008/10/19 · 13:59

For years, the well-informed among us have known that Colin Powell was "the voice in the wilderness" of the Bush administration, the only dissenting insider as the Chief Executive laid down the drumbeat to war.

I was surprised to learn yesterday that some people seeing Powell portrayed in this role in Stone's "W" were previously unaware of how Powell's 'devil's bargain' with Bush had made him into a tragic hero. (as this diarist shows).

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Saturday October 18, 2008 · 5:16 AM PDT

2008/10/18 · 05:16

Flipping past CNN this evening, I found Mr. LD flogging his daily online poll, as he is wont to do on a nightly basis. "Is the media being fair to Joe Wurzelbacher? Stop by Lou Dobbs dot-com and let us know in our nightly poll."

Now, we all know that Dobbs is a phony centrist, one of those make-believe warriors for the middle class who couldn't tell you the retail price of a quart of milk. But there was something in Dobbs's tone that told me that his invite to the website was specifically a lie. I couldn't put my finger on what gave that away (other than the fact that his lips were moving), or what kind of lie was being perpetrated; I perceived only that there was dishonesty afoot, and that LD was aware of the deception.

Whrn I arrived at the website, here's what the actual poll question turned out to be:

Do you find it interesting that the national media surrounded Joe the Plumber's house and has barraged him for days and has yet to put a satellite truck in front of Bill Ayers' house?

Damn that CNN and their liberal bias.

ACORN needs to be truthful.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 5:21 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 05:21

I've been full circle on this ACORN story.

To start with, after the raid here in Las Vegas, I wrote a diary expressing my suspicion of Republican "dirty tricks" --

http://www.dailykos.com/...

While I still believe that Republicans are plenty willing to stretch the truth or outright lie to make hay with the ACORN situation, it's become pretty clear that ACORN spokespeople aren't being as straightforward as they could be. And there are some aspects of the way they treat their employees that I just cannot support.

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Sunday October 12, 2008 · 5:32 AM PDT

2008/10/12 · 05:32

There is no shortage of early declarations of an Obama-led rout come 11/4, three weeks from now.

Chickens.
Not hatched.
Don't count.

Still, here's just a few feel-good samples from diverse quarters:

Top campaign officials for both parties, pollsters and independent experts say the intense focus on the economic turmoil and last week’s bailout vote have combined to rapidly expand a Democratic advantage in Congressional contests. Analysts now predict a Democratic surge on a scale that seemed unlikely just weeks ago, with even some Republicans in traditional strongholds fighting for their political careers, and Democratic leaders dreaming of ironclad majorities.

In North Carolina, Senator Elizabeth Dole, a former Republican presidential contender and cabinet member, is teetering. In Kentucky, the opponent of the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, has drawn even in some polls, though Republicans say they believe he will win.

NY Times

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 8:00 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 20:00

"McCain Lauds and Attacks Obama in Same Day" is the headline for Elisabeth Bumiller's piece, that seems to carry an overriding theme of bipolarity.

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — After a week of trying to portray Senator Barack Obama as a friend of terrorists who would drive the country into bankruptcy, Senator John McCain abruptly changed his tone on Friday and told voters at a town-hall-style meeting that Mr. Obama was “a decent person” and a “family man” and suggested that he would be an acceptable president should he win the White House.

But moments later, Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee, renewed his attacks on Mr. Obama for his association with the 1960s radical William Ayers and told the crowd, “Mr. Obama’s political career was launched in Mr. Ayers’ living room.”

http://www.nytimes.com/...

While McCain's defense of/attack on Obama seemed to play well with the Lakeville crowd, it seems nutty when reported in the national media

ACORN - voter fraud or dirty trick?

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 6:34 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 06:34

I wish I could say definitively that the bust of ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) -- which comes just as McCain's campaign starts grumbling about Obama's campaign donors, and renews efforts to malign our candidate's background as a community organizer -- was a nefarious plot. It sure looks like it to me, but it's way too soon to know.

But, from here, the major media's reportage seems pretty one-sided,

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 4:21 PM PDT

2008/10/04 · 16:21

Related Diaries

Associated Press:
NEW YORK - Newspapers that carried an advertising supplement in recent weeks containing a DVD critical of radical Muslims have faced complaints from readers and questions about whether newspapers should offer a platform to everyone willing to pay for distribution.

Although a few papers refused to carry the DVD, about 70 including The New York Times distributed it on the grounds that rejecting it would violate the sponsor's right to free speech. The decision generated letters, cancellations and even a protest.

The Clarion Fund, a nonprofit founded in 2006 to address "the most urgent threat of radical Islam," spent millions of dollars distributing the DVDs mostly in battleground election states. That targeting led to further outcry about the group's motives.

"This is definitely the most feedback that I've gotten to an ad," said Ted Vaden, public editor for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. "It's among the heaviest reaction I've gotten to anything. The great majority of the reaction was negative."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/...

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 7:06 PM PDT

2008/09/27 · 19:06

This is a longstanding can of beans that The Nation has recently re-opened.

Commenters have persuaded me to pull most of this diary; thanks for that!

In view of the preponderance of evidence that McCain is being "swiftboated" here:

Does anyone see merit in the above-linked Nation piece? Its author, Sydney Schanberg, has a solid reputation built upon his work in bringing the "killing fields" of Cambodia to the light of day while at the NY Times.

Assault on the Wall Between Church And State

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 11:33 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 23:33

>Alliance Defense Fund, described by the NY Times as "a consortium of Christian lawyers that fights for conservative religious and social causes," is pursuing an initiative they call "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," in which participating ministers "will preach from their pulpits Sept. 28 about the moral qualifications of candidates seeking political office." Participants will send copies of their sermons to the Internal Revenue Service, intending to provoke a legal challenge to IRS regulations regarding tax-exempt status.

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