THROW JOEMENTUM OUT!

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 3:18 PM PST

2006/03/17 · 15:18

I just received a nice email from the Ned Lamont campaign, who as you know is going to finally throw Joementum Lieberman, the awful Fox News Democrat, out of office.

Two months ago I stated that if 1,000 people from Connecticut signed up on our web page (www.NedLamont.com) I would agree to challenge George Bush's favorite Democrat in a primary on August 8th.
We have significantly exceeded that goal and on Monday March 13th we had a very successful campaign launch. Read the news here:
Hartford Courant Article

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Is it appropriate to stage a protest at a military funeral?

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Tuesday February 21, 2006 · 7:51 PM PST

2006/02/21 · 19:51

Right now there's a CNN quickpoll (which vanished as soon as I posted this diary) asking whether it is appropriate to stage a protest at a military funeral. The results right now are 90% no, 10% yes.

I see that today in Missouri, the house recently voted to ban protests protests at funerals:

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The House on Tuesday approved a bill banning protests near funerals an hour before to an hour after a service, sending the measure to the governor.
The legislation, a response to a recent protest at the St. Joseph funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq, sets no limit on how close protesters can get. But lawmakers said that before the session ends in May, they plan to pass a second measure specifically prohibiting protests within 300 feet of a funeral.
Missouri is one of at least 14 states considering restrictions on funeral protests because of the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The nondenominational church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, claims soldiers are being killed as divine retribution because the United States tolerates gays. ...

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 8:45 AM PST

2006/02/16 · 08:45

Every day, I come to work wondering what San Francisco will smell like today. Will it smell like shit? Like rotting fish? Like homeless people? Today I discovered a new smell, old cheese. The entire city smells like old rotting cheese.

What's in the news today?

Four Dallas Police Officers Shot
(02-16) 07:53 PST DALLAS (AP) --
Four police officers were shot Thursday as they tried to serve a federal drug warrant on a home in southwest Dallas.

Wow, I'm glad to hear that Dallas has so little actual crime that they can focus all their time on winning the war on drugs. We've been fighting that awesome drug war for like 50 years now, right? So by now we must be winning, right? How long do you suppose it will be before there's no more drugs? Another 50 or 100 years? Read More

Scalia is CRAZY

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Tuesday February 14, 2006 · 3:30 PM PST

2006/02/14 · 15:30

Neo-Nazi Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says:

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.
In a speech Monday sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, Scalia defended his long-held belief in sticking to the plain text of the Constitution "as it was originally written and intended.

For those of you who don't know, the constitution as it was originally written:

Had no bill of rights. No freedom of speech. No protection against cruel and unusual punishment. No separation of church and state. No protection against illegal search and seizure, and so on

Did not allow anyone to vote except white male landowners

Specifically allowed slavery and regarded black people as 3/5 of a person

This is the world that this fascist bastard lives in and this is how he judges cases in the highest court in the land. Scarey

Around and Around We Go

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 10:09 AM PST

2006/02/09 · 10:09

Here we go again! Bush gets harshly criticized at Coretta Scott King's funeral, and today we have news that a terrorist plot was thwarted four years ago. Of course this is a lie, OF COURSE it's a lie. IT NEVER HAPPENED.

CNN BREAKING NEWS
President Bush says in mid-2002, U.S. disrupted al Qaeda plot to use shoe bombs to hijack plane for attack on L.A.'s Liberty Tower.

I call bullshit. I know for a fact that this never happened because everything Bush says is a lie. If Bush says it's raining, he's lying. If Bush says the sky is blue, that's a lie. See? You know he's lying because his mouth is moving. Read More

The Lock-Step Media Propaganda Campaign To Confirm ScAlito

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Friday January 13, 2006 · 9:39 AM PST

2006/01/13 · 09:39

Has anyone else noticed the VERY CREEPY, very coordinated hack job that the traditional has done on the Alito hearings?

Let's take a look at today's headlines:

Associated Press: Democrats Try to Slow Alito Confirmation
New York Times: Democrats Still Dislike Alito but Can't Stop Him
CNN: Alito likely to be confirmed
ABC News: Alito's Confirmation Seems Likely
San Francisco Chronicle: Democrats Can't Rattle Alito

I don't think I've seen such a bizzarly scripted media frenzy since the Bush v Gore campaign. Every news media outlet seems way too on-message, repeating the same talking point over and over, "Alito will be confirmed."

Where are the democratic talking points? Not one single headline includes anything but rightwing propoganda. This is scarey.

Yay for new drug laws

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Tuesday August 30, 2005 · 7:01 PM PDT

2005/08/30 · 19:01

Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Feinstein-Talent Anti-Meth Bill
The bill:

Moves cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine [all cold medicines have it] behind the counter - amends the Controlled Substances Act to appropriately limit the sale of medicines containing pseudoephedrine by placing them behind the counter and sets a limit on how much of such medicines one person can buy in a month - 7.5 grams.

Requires signature and identification for purchases - The Attorney General will develop regulations to ensure uniformity.

Senator Coburn's (R-OK) amendment allows states (or political subdivisions) to go above what the combat meth act will require, such as making cold products containing pseudoephedrine prescription only.

Senator Hatch's (R-UT) amendment requires that cold medicines in which pseudoephedrine is the only active ingredient be moved behind the counter within 90 days of the bill's enactment and medicine with pseudoephedrine and other active ingredients must be moved behind the counter by January 1, 2007

More below the fold. Read More

If You Supported the War, Pay For It

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Sunday August 21, 2005 · 11:47 AM PDT

2005/08/21 · 11:47

By UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE/TED RALL
SACRIFICE? COUNT ME OUT
Northwestern University professor Charles Moskos says: "The political leaders are afraid to ask the public for any real sacrifice, which doesn't speak too highly of the citizenry."
To which I say: Screw that. It's not my duty to suffer for this pointless war. I've been against it all along, and you can stick your victory garden where the desert sun can't penetrate.
I was among hundreds of thousands of Americans who marched against invading Iraq in early 2003. Tens of millions cheered us on. The largest mass protest movement in history brought together pacifists, humanists and people like me. We knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. We didn't believe that the same White House that propped up dictatorships in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia--that had, when it suited them, supported Saddam--could possibly be interested in liberating the people of Iraq. When we scrutinized coverage of the CIA's prewar analyses, we found that there wasn't any...

Stay the course is not a policy

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Sunday August 21, 2005 · 9:00 AM PDT

2005/08/21 · 09:00

Hagel Says Iraq War Looking Like Vietnam
WASHINGTON - A leading Republican senator said Sunday the war in Iraq is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago.
Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), who received two Purple Hearts and other military honors for his service in Vietnam, reaffirmed his position that the United States needs to develop a strategy to leave Iraq.
"Stay the course is not a policy," said Hagel, a possible White House contender in 2008. "By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning."

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Friday August 12, 2005 · 8:29 AM PDT

2005/08/12 · 08:29

Well It's about FUCKING TIME

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, an associate of several leading Republicans, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on fraud and conspiracy charges arising from a deal to buy Florida casino boats in 2000.
Abramoff surrendered to FBI agents in Los Angeles, California, about three hours after federal prosecutors in Miami announced the charges against him and a partner.
Abramoff has close ties to several influential GOP leaders, among them House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas, Americans for Tax Reform director Grover Norquist, and former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed.

I can only hope there's some kind of domino effect here.

Killing good, Sex bad

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Thursday July 28, 2005 · 7:59 AM PDT

2005/07/28 · 07:59

JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST!

NEW YORK (AP) -- A woman upset that she bought the video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for her 14-year-old grandson without knowing it contained hidden, sexually explicit scenes sued the manufacturer Wednesday on behalf of consumers nationwide.

Killing good, Sex bad! Welcome to America, the most assbackwards land of puritanical fucknuts I've ever seen.

Why is it that killing is for kids but sex is for no one? Someone answer me this.

This should be the real story

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Monday July 25, 2005 · 5:32 PM PDT

2005/07/25 · 17:32

Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said Jane Roberts' work for Feminists for Life is irrelevant to the process and to how her husband might decide cases if seated on the high court. . . . With those words, Santorum found himself agreeing with Kennedy, D-Mass., the liberal stalwart with whom he recently exchanged heated words on an unrelated topic. On Friday, in response to a question during a breakfast meeting with reporters, Kennedy said Jane Roberts' work "ought to be out of bounds."

The real story here is the juxtaposition of Robert and Wilson.

Wilson's wife is "fair game"-

Newsweek National News
In early October 2003, NEWSWEEK reported that immediately after Novak's column appeared in July, Rove called MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and told him that Wilson's wife was "fair game."

Why is it that Democrats lose elections, when a vast majority of Americans believe in their positions? Democrats are still afraid to fight dirty.
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THROW JOEMENTUM OUT!

Is it appropriate to stage a protest at a military funeral?

ITS THE SMELL!

Scalia is CRAZY

Around and Around We Go

The Lock-Step Media Propaganda Campaign To Confirm ScAlito

Yay for new drug laws

If You Supported the War, Pay For It

Stay the course is not a policy

Abramoff indicted on fraud charges

Killing good, Sex bad

This should be the real story