THE MORAL VOTERS by Michael Hammerschlag

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 10:39 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 22:39

For decades harsh evangelicals have controlled and distorted the Republican party, drowning out other voices and imposing their narrow views on the country; But a new morality has emerged in Obama's historic election from the vast bulk of voters who are sick of war, of corruption, of lies, and stupidity... who believe in Obama's phrase that we are our brother's keepers

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As the returns came in on this incredible election, a pall began to lift off the country- a smoke of lies and corruption and greed- the noxious malignant cloud of the Bush years. Obama is many things- a brilliant tactician, a calm and stable leader, a decent man- but he will of necessity disappoint the stellar hopes he has engendered. But now, we can see clearly, after the joy and wonder, the wreckage of this foul Administration that started a war as a statement; that gave $4 trillion to the rich, that reveled in making Americans afraid; that deregulated Wall St. into an international catastrophe.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 5:15 PM PST

2006/11/02 · 17:15

I know it's ridiculously late, but I wrote (and may produce) a tough Harry + Louise ad that goes after the most inexplicable source of the Repubs support- that they are good on national security. It's too long- about 1:30, but it might be injected into contests that Dems are down. The advantage is that it's generic and will work anywhere.

http://hammernews.com/...

Sincerely,
Michael Hammerschlag Read More

CHAFEE FADING in RI- Bizarre Ad Loses Support

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 11:39 PM PDT

2006/08/09 · 23:39

SENATOR CHAFEE's support vs expected Dem. nominee Sheldon Whitehouse has dropped to a 6 point deficit in the slow steady decline he's suffered since he had a 6 point lead in February.

parentheses show earlier polls fm RIFuture
# Sheldon Whitehouse (d) - 44% (46) (42)

# Lincoln Chafee (r)- 38% (41) (44)

Chafee hasn't by helped by his right wing pandering to beat extremist Mayor Steven Laffey in the Repub primary. Witness this bizarre Chafee mailing I got, "LAFFEY IS STRADDLING THE FENCE ON IMMIGRATION" excoriating Laffey for not being the real right winger because he:
"said we should recruit illegal labor at the border"
"accepted controversial (Mexican and Guatemalan ID) cards"
"visited the border to sympathize with illegal immigrants" Read More

KOS INTERVIEW- MARKOS RIPS SEN. LINCOLN CHAFEE

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Saturday June 10, 2006 · 6:41 AM PDT

2006/06/10 · 06:41

http://hammernews.com/... 9 min AUDIO

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, proprietor of Daily Kos, the most popular liberal blog web site, came to Providence May 22. The famous blogger, who looks like John Cryer, was promoting his book, Crashing the Gate (about how to effect progressive change with the Internet), with coauthor Jerome Armstrong, who hosts MY DD and helped set up Howard Dean's Internet operation that was emulated by Kerry and others. He spoke at the Brown book store, but I saw him at Trinity Brew House, along with almost every top Dem political campaign assistant for the various RI campaigns. Daily Kos Site costs $4000 a month to maintain, about $50K a year to handle 1/2-1 million hits a day, though ad income may substantially defray that.
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Massacres inevitable with AG who says anything

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Friday June 02, 2006 · 4:22 PM PDT

2006/06/02 · 16:22

Massacres are inevitable with AG who says anything short of death or major organ failure isn't torture, only a handful are slapped on the wrist for Abu Ghraib or Afghan prisoner killings, and soldiers blast unknown cars on the "principle" that it might be a terrorist. Almost every time troops riddled a car of innocents, it was a war crime. When you hear one of the Canada deserters say, "Hey, I'm a hero- I did crazy stuff over there... but they wanted me to shoot women and children,", he is talking about these roadside ambushes. One reporter said US soldiers were hiding invisibly by the road while they were shooting up their car. (below)

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Saturday May 27, 2006 · 4:29 AM PDT

2006/05/27 · 04:29

http://hammernews.com/caenergyripoff.htm
HAMMERNEWS
The Kenny Boy Lay and Jeff Skilling conviction was gratifying, but neither lowlife should ever see the light of day again. In the Great 2000-2001 California Energy Robbery, a group of 6 power companies, led by Enron, through manipulating power production, raised rates up to 90 fold. California people and firms were paying as much in a day for electricity as they had in 3 months (Market Manipulation-CBS), threatening to shutdown the world's 6th largest economy. Then in a breathlessly audacious scam, the Republicans (who had probably helped engineer it to punish California for voting 12% more for Gore) managed to use the 3-fold higher power contracts Gray Davis signed with a gun to his and the state's temple... to depose him in an unprecedented recall and replace him with the Terminator.
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NSA DIRECTOR ODOM DISSECTS IRAQ BLUNDERS

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Monday April 24, 2006 · 9:06 PM PDT

2006/04/24 · 21:06

by Michael Hammerschlag

http://HAMMERNEWS.com/...
Full Audio (realplayer) 52 min

Providence, RI: April 7
Former National Security Agency Director Lt. General William Odom dissected the strategic folly of the Iraq invasion and Bush Administration policies in a major policy speech-America's Strategic Paralysis- at Brown University for the Watson Institute. "The Iraq War may turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in American history. In a mere 18 months we went from unprecedented levels of support after 9-11..to being one of the most hated countries. Turkey used to be one of strongest pro-US regimes, now we're so unpopular, there's a movie playing there- Metal Storm, about a war between US and Turkey. In addition to producing faulty intel and ties to Al Qaida, Bush made preposterous claim that toppling Saddam would open the way for liberal democracy in a very short time... Misunderstanding the character of American power, he dismissed the allies as a nuisance and failed to get the UN Security Council's sanction. We must reinforce international law, not reject and ridicule it." Read More

IMPOSE IMMEDIATE 20% excess profits tax on oil companies

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Monday April 10, 2006 · 3:54 PM PDT

2006/04/10 · 15:54

IMPOSE IMMEDIATE 20% excess profits tax on oil companies
retroactive to 2005, producing $20-30 billion. Take this money and distribute this money to GM, Ford, Chrysler after a 6 month contest to create an electric car that gets 150 miles a charge, 0-50 in 8 seconds, batteries with 5 year lifespan. Maybe 20% of it would need to be seed money to bring them back to health (and some to independent inventors who have brilliant patents), with winner to get $10-15 bil and $5-7 bil to runner-up with proviso that it only be used to make an electric car. Within 2 years we could have functional electric vehicles to replace the combustion cars that suck up half of the oil and generate half the pollution (including more potent greenhouse gases- Nitrogen Oxides). Recharging them from centrally produced electricity is maybe 5 times more efficient (because large generators are more efficient and easier to control pollution from), and the 40 cents recharging cost would be irresistible to consumers hammered by $4-5 a gallon oil prices. Read More

NIGHTMARES from the NORTHWEST- Seattle shootings

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Saturday March 25, 2006 · 9:18 PM PST

2006/03/25 · 21:18

Written after the DC sniper story, this explains some of the serial madness of Seatown
Gunman kills 7 at Seattle party today

NIGHTMARES from the NORTHWEST- not surprising one sniper is from Seattle area- world capital for serial killers- causes, effects, and personal impacts- 11/1/02
by Michael Hammerschlag

When it turned out one of the snipers was from the Seattle area, I wasn't surprised. About 50% of the world's serial killers seem to come from a 200 mile radius around Seattle: Ted Bundy- 50-80 victims, Gary Ridgway (Green River Killer)- 55, Robert Pickton (Vancouver BC)- 54, Robert Yates-18, Willie Mak-13, Hillside Stranglers-15, Westley Dodd- 3 children, Randy Roth-3 wives, Kevin Coe-raped 42. Read More

HUNTING TRUTH- The Trouble with Harry by Michael Hammerschlag

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Saturday March 11, 2006 · 4:02 AM PST

2006/03/11 · 04:02

HUNTING TRUTH - The Trouble with Harry- MediaChannel by Michael Hammerschlag

Is the Veep's story as honest as the Iraqi WMD's?, Accident report shows much closer distance than 90 ft claimed- smaller pellet spread, too many pellets + too much penetration; Cheney + Willeford abandon him and go 100 yards farther, Cheney shoots him behind him in the safe zone in a line towards the car, "Witness" sees everything from inside car 100 yards away; with Interviews of Corpus Christi reporters; investigative shotgun pattern comparisons; Whittington blasted by 2/3 of shot in shell! 78 year old hit in heart ejected from ICU Read More

RSCC running attack ads a year before election AGAINST REPUB

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Wednesday November 16, 2005 · 5:05 AM PST

2005/11/16 · 05:05

In the distant RI Lincoln Chafee-Laffey Senate Repub primary contest, incredibly the National Repub. Senate Campaign Committee is running attack TV ads a year before the primary against right-wing punkster Steven Laffey, who as mayor of bankrupt Cranston, has had well publicized fights with unions and city employees. He also does a radio talk show, which was pulled by RI election board as unfair advantage. The ACLU weighed in on his side, and RI election board backed off. Read More

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION- LOOTED ORDNANCE in IRAQ

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 5:37 PM PDT

2005/10/26 · 17:37

An OUNCE of PREVENTION
or LOOTED HOPES by Michael Hammerschlag
http://hammernews.com/prevention2.htm

There has been much commotion over the lack of armor on Iraq vehicles and vests, but that's always been a trade-off: if you reinforce a HUMV enough to survive an RPG strike, you may make it too heavy to accelerate or go fast enough to avoid getting hit, and full body armor suits are great except when 120° temperatures makes the soldier collapse from heat prostration. The far more egregious outrage is why these hundreds of thousands of tons of ordnance were allowed to be looted by insurgents in the first place. Read More

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THE MORAL VOTERS by Michael Hammerschlag

Dem Harry + Louise Ad- Good on Nat. Security????

CHAFEE FADING in RI- Bizarre Ad Loses Support

KOS INTERVIEW- MARKOS RIPS SEN. LINCOLN CHAFEE

Massacres inevitable with AG who says anything

CALIFORNIA ENERGY RIPOFF WASN'T JUST CRIME, BUT TERRORISM by Michael Hammerschlag

NSA DIRECTOR ODOM DISSECTS IRAQ BLUNDERS

IMPOSE IMMEDIATE 20% excess profits tax on oil companies

NIGHTMARES from the NORTHWEST- Seattle shootings

HUNTING TRUTH- The Trouble with Harry by Michael Hammerschlag

RSCC running attack ads a year before election AGAINST REPUB

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION- LOOTED ORDNANCE in IRAQ