Reverend Wright was interviewed by The New York Times.

They then distorted what he had to say and used it in their smear campaign against Obama.

Reverend Wright send a letter in protest to the New York Times.  

They have not printed it.

This was from an earlier controversy a year ago and they didn't correct it then and they won't correct new articles now.

The Wright 2007 letter follows below the fold.

That is what the LHS Associates voting results indicate.

But even Fox News secret exit polls in those areas had an Obama win.  The results of the electronic vote tabulators contradict both common sense and the secret exit polls.  They also contradict results from the hand counted areas of the state.

Both the USS Stennis and the USS Reagan appear to be headed off the coast of Iran to join the USS Eisenhower.

Officially the USS Reagan is headed for the western Pacific to replace the USS Kitty Hawk going in for replenishments in Japan.  

However, there are both media reports and rumors that it is headed for off the coast of Iran.

Three carrier battlegroups can only mean an aircraft and missile attack on Iran.

The latest news from Hawaii is that the powerful battlefleet is headed for the Persian Gulf.

OK, my few fans live for my political gossip from unnamed sources so sit down and enjoy.

Current Texas House Speaker Craddick is up the creek and now has Republican challengers swarming out of hiding seeking his job, or at least more power, in the new Texas House.  This would not be happening unless there was a strong likelihood he doesn't have the votes to remain Speaker of the House.  However, as a prime example of the DeLay style corrupt take-no-prisoners GOP leadership, he is prepared to fight back and fight back dirty.

Rumors swirl that Texas representatives not supported him  will be outed as gays or charged with criminal acts.

This may not be the best post. I have a lot the say and I am going to wrap a metaphor and bad song around it.

The Bush administration seems to have been privately pushing an 80% solution in Iraq.  Throw US support to the religious Shiites and just forget the Sunnis.

The other popular consideration is the "double down" plan of building up the military and concentrating them in the short run to beat back the insurgency. This is badly named as there are barely enough available troops to increase them 15% for a few months with a big effort.

It looks like both are going to be pursued.  A better name for both of these two plans comes from a different game than Blackjack.  It is "All In" from Texas Hold'em.  

Fractured Christmas Carol Number One

Lie and Die (tune - Let it snow)

Oh, the neocon's most were Marxists
Their followers now are heartsick.
For they spread their Iraqi War lies
Lie and die, my o my, stay and die.
They're showing no signs of stopping
As our brave soldiers they keep dropping
Chickenhawks in the bye
Lie and die, my o my, stay and die.

I have been doing a little checking my sources and putting myself in an Iranian leader's shoes.

There is circumstantial evidence that Iran ordered Hizballah to provoke this summer's war, in part to demonstrate that Tehran can stir up big trouble if pushed to the brink. The precise extent of coordination between Hizballah and Tehran is unknown.

The real point of this article and similar articles appearing recently in the Israeli press is this line: "That red line, experts say, could be just a year away."  The war on Iran will happen because Bush will say he only had a short time to act before it was too late.  I will write now even more emphatically than I wrote about Bush's "pressing" reasons for invading Iraq - This is Total BS.

http://www.calendarlive.com/...

Suggest we discuss ways of contacting local stations and other media to publicize factual errors in the show, the conservative activism of the writers and the FBI consultant who dropped out.

How much is this different than people self-selecting what they watch and listen to?

Take two, or even a dozen, they're small.  In fact, adopt them all.  The dot in this i is the size of a frozen embryo  - isn't it cute. Ahhh. Won't they be all cutems all snuggled up together in your freezer?

New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, first brought the website similarities to light. Hikind told WND he thought something was "a little off" upon browsing the Kadima USA site.

"Things seemed very generic, almost like what should be descriptions of an American political party," said Hikind.

Could you become a John Bircher extremist and replace DeLay? No to all stem cell research, abortion illegal in all cases, kick the UN out of the USA, eliminate the IRS, the legislative branch gets power over the judiciary, you know, all the things in the GOP Texas platform. The only thing they forgot was the return to the gold standard.

Cross-posted at Texas Kos and Easter Lemming Liberal News.

Ten days ago an "ethics committee" at her hospital said they would pull the plug on her respirator and her dialysis machine. This despite the fact she was cognizant when awake and off of her massive doses of pain medications. Her doctor said this was Andrea's wish to die but when asked the next day she wrote her sister "I want to live."

Her wishes don't matter.

The neo-con press has warned their readers.    

It would be easy to dismiss impeachment as a quixotic fringe movement, yet that would be a mistake. The odds are at least even that Democrats will win the House in 2006. That would make Conyers chairman of the Judiciary Committee, free to push through resolutions and hold hearings as he sees fit.

Feingold is running for president, and as he reaps political gains from the base by pushing for censure (with the possibility of impeachment), other Democratic contenders will gravitate toward his position. Remember that in 2003 the Democratic field was uniformly pro-war until Howard Dean made hay from the antiwar movement, causing the serious candidates to vacillate.

Impeachment is still in the distance, but make no mistake: Eventually the circus is coming to town.

Are You Ready to Rumble?
If the Democrats win in 2006, impeachment is coming.
by Jonathan V. Last

Bout what?

Subterranean Homesick Blues.

U an oldie

But a goodie?

Only if u provide me a place to get it.

Is 99 cents for the album or a dime for the song OK?

hey, dat's not a russki site!

Yes, it is. It directs you from Uruguay to Russia.  They like cheap music in South America since WTO and World Bank screwed their economies.

wot if i want it free?

You mean free p-to-p?  Isn't that pirating?

i'm a ninja pirate u suckers!  but that song z old skool.

It's a political song.

dats real old skool. even u listen to music u messing politics inya head -  thats sad

Rock-n-Roll is politics, so is hip hop and backpack.

U messing with me

Why would I mess with a ninja pirate like you?

wicked, but I want suckin on tootsie roll tunz and no politiks.

Do you think conservatives will let you listen to that if they keep going?

Sh*t, maybe best get politizing

You can wear your pod while you register people to vote.

kool, u an oldie with no tasties but kool

I get that all the time.  Me and Bob Dylan.

From Easter Lemming Liberal News

He thought it would bring moralists who disliked Clinton to the party and carry Florida's Jewish vote.  In reality, only a minuscule  percentage of voters pay attention to Senators or politicians outside of their home state. While it may have helped marginally in Florida it reinforced an image of the Democratic Party as a collection of liberal special interests.

Instead of an East Coast wealthy Jewish Senator who is liberal on domestic policy but conservative on moral and foreign issues a Gore pick of moderate conservative Senator Graham of Florida would have helped in Florida, the entire South, and the overall vote.

Why? Sen. Graham is from Florida, he is from the South, and his pick nudges the party more toward the perceptual right/left center sweet spot.  All of these are factors in the presidential election electoral college game.