Hillary Has a Big One

Imagine Hillary ihn the KING's role of MacBeth! The similarities are amazing. Coming to the throne, well almost, from a flawed origin. Having every confidence of her role, only to be misled by her own imperfections and the advent of young moor named Obama.

Is Obama also in the Bard's quiver? I don't think so unless one rewrites Hamlet so that the Prince ends up as the living King.

In the meantime, Hillary has proven one thing. She IS a fascinating personna in her own right. Her character in the play of life rivals Nixon and easily passes the personna of Lear or Richard III. Where will she go next.?

I have a predicition. HRC is not going t do any of the things folks say. She will not be the new Majority leader nor will she be the new Tessy. If I may mix gender terms, HRC is headed for the same status that Nixon achieved despite his shame faced fall.

As of now, other than Obama, Ms. Clinton is the single most authoritative elder statesman in the US and maybe the world. When she speaks, Obama will listen. Her aggressive candidacy, in my opinion, failed because it met a brilliant new form of campaign masterminded by Obama and Axelrod. BUT, the bad taste is no worse than that following Humphrey after his fall form liberal grace and a lot less than the usual demo disdain for candidates who do not make it.

What will she do with all this clout? There is the rub. WE do not know .. or at least I do not know, what she believes in.

D: Notebook - WSJ.com : Murdoch: Obama's a Rock Star

D: Notebook - WSJ.com : Murdoch: Obama's a Rock Star: "Murdoch staunchly defended the Fox News Channel’s “Fair and Balanced” motto as accurate, adding that even Bill O’Reilly “gives both sides all the time” — a remark that prompted laughs from the audience.

So why aren’t there more liberal voices on Fox News, Kara Swisher asked? Murdoch replied that he would hire a liberal voice if he could find one that was strong enough.

“Would you hire Keith Olbermann?” Swisher asked."

“No, I fired him five years ago… He’s crazy.”

opportunity for Goldy?

Sigghh .. The Blogs play Gotcha with McCain

McCain Daughter Dons Islamic Terror Scarf!

An email tipster discovered John McCain's family blog has been infiltrated at the deepest level by enemies of America. Meghan McCain, daughter of the Republican presidential candidate, is really into the keffiyeh, scarf of Middle Eastern Precious Freedoms Haters, and even wears it on the so-called Straight Talk Express, and also in the presence of her apparent sympathizer mom Cindy McCain! Republicans of course will murder McCain for this horrifying development, because they are fashion whores who know the keffiyeh is so over. Two more shots of Meghan "Mullah" McCain after the jump

HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » Gov. Gregoire honors veterans on HuffPo

31. ByeByeGOP spews:

When you’re a GOP coward who claims to support the war, but yet never fought in one - you’re a chickenhawk. Here’s a partial list of just a FEW of the GOP chickenshit chickenhawks.

Representative Patrick McHenry, R-NC - did not serve. Saw fit to endanger American troops’ lives after a visit to Iraq by violating operational security and helping militias target their mortar attacks on the Green Zone.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve.

Former Senate Assistant Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-MI - avoided the draft, did not serve.

Senate Republican Conference Chairman Jon Kyl, R-AZ - did not serve.

Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair John Cornyn, R-TX - did not serve.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Ensign, R-NV - did not serve.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-OH - did not serve.

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-MO - did not serve.

House Republican Conerence Chair Adam Putnam, R-FL - did not serve.

House Republican Policy Committee Thaddeus McCotter, R-MI - did not serve.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-OK - did not serve.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani - did not serve.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney - did not serve in the military but did serve the Mormon Church on a 30-month mission to France.

Former Senator Fred Thompson - did not serve.

Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did not serve.

Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve.

Former House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.

Rick Santorum, R-PA, formerly third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve.

George Felix Allen, former Republican Senator from Virginia - a supporter of Nixon and the Vietnam war, did not serve.

VP Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in his own words, “had other priorities than military service”)

Former Att’y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve received seven deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State.

Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve.

Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve, too busy being a Republican.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve.

“B-1″ Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting classes (Orange County Weekly article). Enlisted only after the fighting was over in Korea.

Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments.

Right wing talk show hosts Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh both were of age to fight in wars - Rush in Nam and Sean in Iraq 1. Neither saw fit to enlist and Rush avoided the draft because of a pimple on his ass.

JUST SOME OF THE PROMINENT DEMS WHO SERVED

Rick Noriega, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas — joined the U.S. Army in 1979; currently Lt. Colonel in Texas Army National Guard, served in Afghanistan.

Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) — rifle platoon and company commander with the Fifth Marine Regiment in the An Hoa Basin west of Danang; was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts.

Representative Tim Walz, D-MN - Twenty-four years of service in the Army National Guard, retiring in 2005.
Representative Joe Sestak, D-PA - 31 years of service in the Navy, rising to the rank of Vice Admiral.

Representative Chris Carney, D-PA - Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, Carney served multiple tours overseas and was activated for Operation Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle, and Southern Watch.

Representative Patrick Murphy, D-PA - extensive career in the U.S. Army from 1993-2004; earned Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.

Representative Phil Hare, D-IL - Served in the United States Army Reserve for six years.

Representative Jack Murtha (D-PA) - distinguished 37-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts, retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a colonel in 1990.

Former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt - Missouri Air National Guard, 1965-71.

Representative David Bonior - Staff Sgt., United States Air Force 1968-72

Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle - 1st Lt., U.S. Air Force SAC 1969-72

Former Vice President Al Gore - enlisted August 1969; sent to Vietnam January 1971 as an army journalist, assigned to the 20th Engineer Brigade headquartered at Bien Hoa, an airbase twenty miles northeast of Saigon.

Former Senator Bob Kerrey… Democrat… Lt. j.g., U.S. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam

Senator Daniel Inouye, US Army 1943-’47; Medal of Honor, World War Two

Senator John Kerry, Lt., U.S. Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, and three awards of the Purple Heart for his service in combat

Representative Charles Rangel, Staff Sgt., U.S. Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea

Former Senator Max Cleland, Captain, U.S. Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) - U.S. Army Reserve, 1968-1975.

Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) - U.S. Army, 1951-1953.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) - Lt., U.S. Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.

Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) - U.S. Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91

Former Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) - served as a U.S. Army officer in World War II, receiving the Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.

Representative Leonard Boswell (D-IA) - Lt. Col., U.S. Army 1956-76; two tours in Vietnam, two Distinguished Flying Crosses as a helicopter pilot, two Bronze Stars, and the Soldier’s Medal.

Former Representative “Pete” Peterson, Air Force Captain, POW, Ambassador to Viet Nam, and recipient of the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-CA: Staff sergeant/platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, U.S. Army; was wounded and received a Purple Heart.

Bill McBride, Democratic Candidate for Florida Governor - volunteered and served as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam; awarded Bronze Star with a combat “V.”

Gray Davis, former California Governor, Army Captain in Vietnam; received Bronze Star.

Pete Stark, D-CA, served in the Air Force 1955-57

Wesley Clark, Former Democratic Presidential Candidate - 38-year career of public service in the Army, culminating as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

05/26/2008 at 3:36 pm

New Button

In honor of the Kennedy family .

These ar availble at CafePress but I plan on giving a lot away.

Cold Fusion: Scientist Creates Cold Fusion For the First Time In Decades

Cold Fusion: Scientist Creates Cold Fusion For the First Time In Decades: "Scientist Creates Cold Fusion For the First Time In Decades

Cold fusion, the act of producing a nuclear reaction at room temperature, has long been relegated to science fiction after researchers were unable to recreate the experiment that first 'discovered' the phenomenon. But a Japanese scientist was supposedly able to start a cold fusion reaction earlier this week, which—if the results are real—could revolutionize the way we gather energy.

Yoshiaki Arata, a highly respected physicist in Japan, demonstrated a low-energy nuclear reaction at Osaka University on Thursday. In front of a live audience, including reporters from six major newspapers and two tv studios, Arata and a co-professor Yue-Chang Zhang, produced excess heat and helium atoms from deuterium gas.

Arata used pressure to force deuterium gas into an evacuated cell that contained a palladium and zirconium oxide mix(ZrO2-Pd). Arata said that the mix caused the deuterium's nuclei to fuse, raising the temperature in the cell and keeping the center of the cell warm for 50 hours.

Arata's experiment would mark the first time anyone has witnessed cold fusion since 1989, when Martin Fleishmann and Stanely Pons supposedly observed excess heat during electrolysis of heavy water with palladium electrodes.

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World: "Former IDF chief: The Golan Heights is not indispensable
Halutz says Israel may have to pay 'real price for real peace;' says barrage on South of country more pressing issue than Iranian threat."

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Camille Paglia on Hillary

Hillary Clinton's candidacy has done feminism no favours

........

Hilllary has tried to have it both ways: to batten on her husband's nostalgic popularity while simultaneously claiming to be a victim of sexism.

Well, which is it? Are men convenient sugar daddies or condescending oppressors?

As her presidential hopes have begun to evaporate, Hillary has upped the ante in the crusading feminist department. Her surrogates are beating the grievance drums, trying to scare every angry female out of the bush.

From that rag-tag crew, she will build her army. Let the red flags fly! Hillary is positioning herself as the Crucified One, betrayed, mocked, flogged, and shunted aside for the cause of Ultimate Womanhood. But doesn't this saccharine melodrama undermine the central goals of feminism? .............................

Charges of sexism have become Hillary's rote strategy for evading scrutiny. But by entangling the noble movement of modern feminism with her own knotty psychodrama, Hillary is reinforcing hoary stereotypes about women. Will every losing woman candidate now turn on the waterworks and claim to be maimed by male pride and prejudice?

Worrisome Polls

Rasmussen Reports™: The most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a presidential election.: "Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 62% of voters would prefer fewer government services with lower taxes."

Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters think American society is generally fair and decent. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think it is unfair and discriminatory. Those numbers have become slightly more positive over the past month.

If John McCain is elected President, 49% of voters say it is at least somewhat likely that the United States will win the War in Iraq. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 20% believe victory in Iraq is likely if Barack Obama is elected in November.

However, the survey also found that voters believe Obama is more likely than McCain to bring home U.S. troops from Iraq. If Obama is elected, 59% say it is at least somewhat likely that virtually all combat troops will come home from Iraq during his first term. Just 43% believe the troops are that likely to come home if McCain is elected.

Barack = Baruch

Obama fielded questions in a Conservative synagogue in a congressional district with one of the highest concentrations of Jewish voters in the country. Photo: AP

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Barack Obama traveled Thursday to the center of Florida’s Jewish community and asked one of his most skeptical constituencies to judge him “by what I say and what I have done.”

Aiming to reverse misperceptions about his background and his policy positions, Obama fielded questions in a Conservative synagogue in a congressional district with one of the highest concentrations of Jewish voters in the country.

It was deemed an essential visit by the campaign, which has been struggling against a tide of negative stories that have raised doubts in the community, and by his Jewish supporters here, who have heard enough of their friends and neighbors trading in the misinformation about him being a Muslim or an unenthusiastic backer of Israel.

The world’s costliest home is set to be sold for £117m | The Sun |HomePage|News|Sun Money

A MANSION in London is set to sell for £117million – making it the world’s costliest home.

The palatial residence, on a street dubbed Billionaires’ Row, is believed to have been bought by Britain’s richest man, steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

Tycoon ... Lakshmi Mittal

He is believed to be close to exchanging contracts with owner Noam Gottesman, 47, a US-born financier.

The home in Kensington Palace Gardens, West London, Princess Diana’s former street, is being sold furnished and with an art collection. It works out at an astonishing £8,000 per square foot.

Mr Mittal, 57, who denies being the buyer, has been looking to splurge some of his £27.7billion fortune on a home for son Aditya, 32.

Mr Mittal moved into the half-mile, tree-lined private avenue four years ago after paying £67million for a 12-bedroom home.

His new pad pips the £115million previous record – paid in March for a flat being built in nearby St James’s Square.

US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut 'will crush John McCain' - Telegraph

US elections: Barack Obama juggernaut 'will crush John McCain' - Telegraph: "Mr Obama has quietly begun to take over the Democratic party. Paul Tewes, who masterminded the Iowa victory in January that stunned Mrs Clinton and set Mr Obama on the path to the nomination, is expected to expected to run the party during the general election.

There have also been overtures to key members of Mrs Clinton’s staff.

David Axelrod, Mr Obama’s chief strategist, is understood to have held talks with Patti Solis Doyle, a senior Clinton adviser who was ousted as her campaign manager in February.

Mr Obama’s advisers believe he can win in states such as Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, New Mexico and Missouri that President George W. Bush won in 2004, though they concede they have work to do in Michigan and Florida, where he has not campaigned extensively because their primaries were disallowed by the party."

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Marijuan and Compliance

Hi Greg,

I ran across your name on a blog I use, HorsesAss. Basically a friend of mine, Lee Rosenberg, is advocating the "rights" of transplant patients to medical marijuana. He refers to a Stranger article using you as a reference.


While I am personally a strong advocate of legalized MJ and am impressed with the clinical work on THC, I worry that misplaced activism will misuse the MMJ issue to cause even more harm at the UW from "compliance."

I wonder if you would be interested in replying.
If you want I can post to HA or (really) I suggest you post. either ion HA or at my blog, SeattleJew.

Lee is a good guy, but it seems to me that academics need to be firm as we can about keeping the politcal process out of clinical medicine.

Here is my post.

It refers to the piece on HA and that refers to a piece in the Stranger.


YELLOW JOURNALISM

Last night at DL we had a speaker who, rightly, trashed the radical right for its misuse of journalism. His point was that FAUX and fiends misuses the media by lies and slurs. True enough.

So, is the same strategy OK if it is used to promote a liberal cause? I share Lee's enthusiasm for legalizing marijuana ... I even support legalizing marijuana. BUT, that support does not justify swift boat attacks on the medical care system.

The article cited by Lee, has more horse turds than a 1908 NY City street..

Here area few, simple facts:

1. Experts ... Of the two UW "expert" cited in suport of the reporter's attcks on transplant medicine, Dr. Roffman has no relevant credential. Roffman is a (PhD) sociologist specializing in entrepreneurship.

Dr. Greg Carter is a clinician in rehab medicine who does study use of cannabinoids in muscular dystrophy. According to the article, contamination of MJ by a fungus is the major reason userfs of commercial MJ are rejected and Dr. Carter rejects this.

I am sufficiently skeptical that I plan to email Greg Carter and see if I can get him to comment. Until then let me point out to HA readers that njeither Dr. Carter nor I (nor Lee or the Stranger reporter) know the rules used to assign priorities for transplant.

3.Just because some Doc prescribes MJ does not mean that this is good medical practice. As long as something is harmless, as MJ probably is, a physician can prescribe ANYTHING. Your friendly local doc can prescribe massage, sex, herbal tees, or chocolate covered grasshoppers. Marijuana is NOT an approved drug. The designation of MMJ exists BECAUSE of the same dumb laws that pretend it is a gharmful drug.

4. Medical MJ is an impure plant, not very different in its supervison than healthfood peanut butter. Why do I mantion the latter? Well, like MJ, peanut butter is a good "soil" to grw a toxic fungus. If the shop grinds its own PB but is nto sufficiently careful, you may get aflatoxin .. a carcinogen .. along with that PB&J sandwich. I suspect that the fungus Apergillis, can grow on MJ even after it is is provided to a pt unless the stuff is carefully kept.

Given the costs of a transplant and the rarity of donor organs, would it be unreasonable of a transplant committee to prioritize those patients most willing to abode by strict guidance form their physicians?

Finally Lee, all of us are worried about the future of healthcare. As an inmate of the healthcare asylum I can tell you one of the biggest problems we face is overwhelmingly regulation resulting from activists groups.

--
Stephen M. Schwartz
Pathology

15.05.2008: George Bush's visit to Israel | Cartoons | guardian.co.uk

© Steve Bell 2008 steve.bell@guardian.co.uk

Symbolism

As of today, the Burj Dubai skyscraper in the Middle East stands at 650 meters, and here's a diagram found on the SkyscraperCity forums, comparing it to all the other towers. The construction has finally surpassed the current tallest man-made structure, the Warsawa radio mast in Poland, which stands at 646 meters. Only another 169 meters to go before the tip of the aircraft beacon is up, then. Clicky for bigger. [SkyscraperCity—thanks, Brian] skyscrapers

Chuck Hagel Takes On McCain, Repeatedly Praises Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post

Chuck Hagel Takes On McCain, Repeatedly Praises Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post:


"Chuck Hagel is quickly becoming Barack Obama's answer to Joe Lieberman.

The Republican Senator from Nebraska was a political thorn in McCain's side on Tuesday night, repeatedly lavishing praise on the presumptive Democratic candidate and levying major foreign policy criticisms at the GOP nominee and the Republican Party as a whole. At one point, Hagel even urged the Arizona Republican to elevate his campaign discourse to a higher, more honest level.

............

Asked whether he would be open to serving as Secretary of Defense in a hypothetical Obama administration, Hagel demurred. But in the process, he praised the Illinois Democrat for being open to a bipartisan cabinet.

'Take me out of the equation,' he said, 'I do think that the next president and Obama has talked about this, and McCain not as much, I think he is going to have to put together a very wide, smart, experienced, credible, bipartisan cabinet. And that is going to be required absolutely."

Hillary at the bar: Oner MoreTime!

Hillary, "one more time!"

(26 May SJ News service, San Juan Puerto Rico)

Hillary Clinton received the news about the discovery of life on Mars with exhilaration. The candidate announced to her rapt followers at the Tamboo Tavern, "Just one more cerveza and one more election. This thing is not over until we know whether there is life on Mars!."

Asked for his opinion on the possibility that the Democratic nomination would have t await results of the Martian expedition, Barck Obam pointed out that even if intelligent life were found, there is no Constitutional law supporting voter rights for non human sensient
beings.

cross posted at SeattleJew

Ferraro vs the KKK

Ku Klux Klan Endorses Obama: "KENTUCKY - USA - Imperial Wizard, Ronald Edwards has stated that, 'anything is better than Hillary Clinton.'


White Christian Supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America.

Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that 'crazy ass bitch' as President.

This is the first time in Klan history that any member of the KKK has ever publicly supported an African American candidate for the presidency.

KKK lodges all over America have been gathering and holding rallies supporting the black presidential candidate."
OLD LIBERAL LADY HATES OBAMA: Geraldine Ferraro, the horrible old woman who made history in 1984 by giving Ronald Reagan 49 of 50 states, continues her winning streak today by telling the NYT she probably won't vote for Obama in November because she's racist he's, uh, "sexist." [Real Clear Politics]

KENNEDY

A source in Boston tells me this is actually a glioblastoma multiforme.

For the four cretins who seem to enjoy this, glioblastoma multiforme is not only a death sentence it is a MISERABLE way to go.

Since I do not see any reason to feed the vipers here, I will not discuss what Mr. Kennedy now faces but .. having watched friends go through this kind of death I have trouble believing that any human would wish this sort of death on any of us, or for that matter even on any animal. This is a death worthy of the morality of Dr. Mengele or of the Priest, Torquemada.

Friends with glio were one reason I became a devout atheist. Any Deity, must take resposibility for this sort of death and that Deity, He, She or It would have to be a far worse person than I am. I pray that no Deity exists cruel enough to do this to any human.

For Roger and other believers here, I hope you are right and that your prayers find the Deity you beleive in.

Like many others I am troubled by Mr. Kennedy’s origins and have a hard time thinking about Chappaquiddick and wondered if this man was made of anything more than the DNA left after the invention of his more able brothers.

I did, however, have the good fortune of spending several hours on an airplane with Mr. Kennedy. We discussed one of my favorite issues .. school reform. I learned to respect Kennedy. He was awfully kind to a stranger and taught me a lot about the balance needed in politics between idealism and the need to achieve real goals.

So, I will tell you what. Tonite is DL and I have a shit load of work to do, I wasn’t planning to make it but .. as a Bostonian, and adopted Irishman, I will be happy to buy a vrew for anyone willing tonite to drink a toast to a great man.

May you be in heaven a full half hour
before the devil knows your dead.

’Sláinte!’

Kennedy

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A source in Boston tells me this is actually a glioblastoma multiforme.

For the four cretins who seem to enjoy this, glioblastoma multiforme is not only a death sentence it is a MISERABLE way to go.

Since I do not see any reason to feed the vipers here, I will not discuss what Mr. Kennedy now faces but .. having watched friends go through this kind of death I have trouble believing that any human would wish this sort of death on any of us, or for that matter even on any animal. This is a death worthy of the morality of Dr. Mengele or of the Priest, Torquemada.

Friends with glio were one reason I became a devout atheist. Any Deity, must take resposibility for this sort of death and that Deity, He, She or It would have to be a far worse person than I am. I pray that no Deity exists cruel enough to do this to any human.

For Roger and other believers here, I hope you are right and that your prayers find the Deity you beleive in.

Like many others I am troubled by Mr. Kennedy’s origins and have a hard time thinking about Chappaquiddick and wondered if this man was made of anything more than the DNA left after the invention of his more able brothers.

I did, however, have the good fortune of spending several hours on an airplane with Mr. Kennedy. We discussed one of my favorite issues .. school reform. I learned to respect Kennedy. He was awfully kind to a stranger and taught me a lot about the balance needed in politics between idealism and the need to achieve real goals.

So, I will tell you what. Tonite is DL and I have a shit load of work to do, I wasn’t planning to make it but .. as a Bostonian, and adopted Irishman, I will be happy to buy a vrew for anyone willing tonite to drink a toast to a great man.

May you be in heaven a full half hour
before the devil knows your dead.

’Sláinte!’

Caterers find eco-standards tough to chew - The Denver Post

Politically correct??????

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And now .......

Caterers find eco-standards tough to chew - The Denver Post: "democratic national convention
Caterers find eco-standards tough to chew
By Douglas Brown
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 05/18/2008 11:33:44 PM MDT

Fried shrimp on a bed of jasmine rice and a side of mango salad, all served on a styrofoam plate. Bottled water to wash it all down.

These trendy catering treats are unlikely to appear on the menu at parties sponsored by the Denver 2008 Host Committee during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

Fried foods are forbidden at the committee's 22 or so events, as is liquid served in individual plastic containers. Plates must be reusable, like china, recyclable or compostable. The food should be local, organic or both.

And caterers must provide foods in 'at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white,' garnishes not included, according to a Request for Proposals, or RFP, distributed last week.

The shrimp-and-mango ensemble? All it's got is white, brown and orange, so it may not have the nutritional balance that generally comes from a multihued menu.

'Blue could be a challenge,' joked Ed Janos, owner of Cook's Fresh Market in Denver. 'All I can think of are blueberries.'

The national nominating convention Aug. 25-28 will bring about 50,000 people to Denver, and many"

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Patty Murry for VEEP

Skeptical Brotha, a black activist blogger, has suggested our own senior senator as VEEP.

I doubt his. Patty seems to me to be a very efffective, happy senator, still it would be one way of moving on from the Hillary era.

Nader has a Mass rally Too.

Like Obama, Nader Really Packs 'Em In

Here is presidential candidate and glorified hobo Ralph Nader speaking at the first "Cluster Bomb Olympics" in D.C. yesterday, courtesy of Wonkette hobo-security operative "Nicholas." The event celebrates the humanity of cluster bombs, which are like clusterfucks, in bomb form. While Obama drew 75,000 people to his little vaudeville act in Portland yesterday, Nader probably got like 20. And that may be just enough to tip this election, again. [Ekklesia]

75,000 rally for Obama in Portland

And now, for his second performance ....

A recent editorial I read compared the Obama campaign to a third party movement. The author (I no longer remember where I read this) compared BO to Gene McCarthy, Ross Perot, Nader, etc .. because all of these guys represented movements, of perhaps personified them.

Moreover, in this sense, the Obama machine is awesome. It can out organize the dem party and out fund raise the party as well. BUT, Obamania remains a personal movement.

One of the most striking examples of this is the lack of credible surrogates .. if one excepts Michelle. Not only is there a lack of surrogates, the campaign really lacks any generals below Obama himself. Axelrod and Plouffe, the campaign braintrust are awesome but they are not obviously ideological. The ideologues on the team ... Kennedy, Bradley,Tribe, seem rather quiet .. at least when you comapre them to the cacophony on the Clinton side. Even Brezhinski, one of the most vocal vips in America, has become quiet since signing onto team Obama.

Why is Obama, Inc so centered on one man? The obvious answer is a worrisome one; Obama is very much a special person, natural leader with Reagan/Kennedy charisma and the IQ of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. His colleagues may simply be cowed by the presence of greatness!

I find this quasi religious story hard to take and inconsistent with the government in waiting Obama appears to have assembled as advisers. These include a very young crew, as young as 35 with most in their 40s. Many are faculty at Harvard, Stanford, Berkely, Chicago and they represent overall a strong centrist point of view. Many now serve or have served with major public policy groups and .. at least among the older members of the team, a number were aides in the Clinton era. Among the recognizeable names: Samantha Power (foreign policy), Austan Goolsbee (economics), Lawrence Tribe (law), Jeffrey Liebman (soical security), Christina and David Romer (macroeconomics), , Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (immigration, latino issues), Preeta Bansal (Asians, high tech immigration, international civil rights issues, woman's rights), Tony Lake (foreign affairs, Iraq),Susan Rice (Africa),John Brennan (intelligence), Jason Grumet (environment, works for a policy center founded by four recent Senate majority leaders), David Cutler (health care, Obamcare), Stuart Altman
(Obamacare, health policies),Heather Higginbottom (policy strategies), ... these are all highly professional wonks .. representing the sort of brain trust we have not seen in government since Kennedy.
Over and over again when I google these folks there is a story of conversion .. of meeting or hearing Obama and wanting to work with him.

Noticeably absent from this list are such shrill voices as Carville, Lani Guanier, Howard Wolfespon, Ira Magaziner, or Lani Davis.

The question is, having put together such a crew, can and will BO lead then into government positions and provide them with the kind of leadership that now seems sadly lacking in the similar crew that came to power with JFK?

One worrisome indication, is the lack of close advisers from the relatively a political worlds of business and science. His own science advisers seem to have little direct contact with Obama., although perhaps more contact then Clinton's have with her. This makes me worry ... many of the decisions Obama will have to make depend on hard ass science. Fir example his energy adviser, Jason Grunet, has come up with a plan to invest an awful l0ot of money into a sort of Obama version of the Star Wars Initiative, this time directed at energy. Fair enough but Mr. Grunet's credentials do not seem to include expertise in physics or engineering. Is he capable of planning for research where the only answers may violate the laws of thermodynamics .. like the first star wars effort under Ronnie Reagan?
Similarly, Larry Lessig .. a tech adviser from Google, is a Stanford attorney rather than a computer scientist. Policy is important BUT it nee4ds to be formed form facts and I am concerned that Obama does not seem to include scientists in his coterie. Tom Robey, another Seattle blogger, has several interesting essays about science and 08 politics.

As I think about, I am getting worried. Obama's coterie seems too ... well, serious. Planners and policy wonks may lack the vision that more creative types bring to the table. When I imagine the best that Obama might be, my hope is that he could be a Jefferson. Our third President, however, was never very successful as a policy wonk. His contributions might never have born fruit if Jefferson vision had not been metered through the ever rational Madison and melded with the wonkish structures implaced in government by Hamilton. I will feel more confidant in Barack when I learn that some of his coterie are the sort of crazy folks I hang out with.

Differential diagnosis of flushing

Common Causes

Benign cutaneous flushing

Emotion
Temperature
Food or beverage

Rosacea*
Climacteric flushing
Fever
Alcohol

Uncommon, serious causes

Carcinoid
Pheochromocytoma
Mastocytosis
Anaphylaxis

Other causes

Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Pancreatic cell tumor (VIP tumor)
Renal cell carcinoma
Fish ingestion
Histamine
Ciguatera

Psychiatric or anxiety disorders
Idiopathic flushing
Neurologic

Parkinson’s
Migraine
Multiple sclerosis
Trigeminal nerve damage
Horner syndrome
Frey syndrome
Autonomic epilepsy
Autonomic hyperreflexia
Orthostatic hypotension
Streeten syndrome

Medications

Very rare causes

Sarcoid, mitral stenosis, dumping syndrome, male androgen deficiency, arsenic intoxication, POEMS syndrome, basophilic granulocytic leukemia, bronchogenic carcinoma, malignant histiocytoma, malignant neuroblastoma, malignant, ganglioneuroma, peri-aortic surgery, Leigh syndrome, Rovsing syndrome

* Rosacea

“Rosacea is a chronic cutaneous disorder, primarily of the central face. It is often characterized by remission and exacerbation and it encompasses various combinations of such cutaneous signs as flush, erythema, telangiectasias, edema, papules, pustules, ocular lesions, and rhinophyma. Primary features considered as necessary for diagnosis include flushing, erythema, papules, pustules, and telangiectasias. A variety of secondary features are listed that may be absent or present as a single finding or in any combination.”

Spending your Defense Dollars.

Cape Times

Cape Times: "Faithfulness, circumcision are keys to reducing the HIV rate
Top researchers have called for male circumcision and the reduction of multiple sexual partnerships to become the cornerstone of HIV prevention in Africa if a significant impact is to be made on the HIV epidemic. [ Full Story... ]"

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My Way News - Clinton seeks largely symbolic win in W.Va.

My Way News - Clinton seeks largely symbolic win in W.Va.: "CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic presidential race nearing an end. Obama conceded defeat in advance in the state, looking ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and the fall campaign against John McCain, the republican nominee-in-waiting.

Interviews with West Virginia voters leaving their polling places showed an electorate that was overwhelmingly white. ??I wonder what question was asked to get this answer?"

Nearly one in four of all ballots were cast by voters 60 and older, and a similar number by West Virginians with no education beyond high school. More than half the voters were in families with incomes of $50,000 or less. Clinton has done particularly well in primaries to date among older, less well-educated and lower-income families."

On White Liberalism and Hillary

Skeptical Brotha: "Hillary Clinton’s trail of crocodile tears into the bosom of blue collar, redneck America has been an interesting fall from the imperial heights from which this campaign began. Getting down and dirty with America’s great unwashed hoards was only supposed to be an indignity reserved for Iowa and New Hampshire before the coronation. Conventional wisdom told us that anything more would be unnecessary because it was obviously Hillary’s turn. Her claim to the throne as America’s Queen, ironclad."


I do not want to cross post the full essay here because it is so well written that quotes would not do it justice.

BUT, the blog offers an indictment of white liberalism .. in the form of an effort to explain Hillary's campaign failures, that should be read by anyone .. right, left, Obamist or Clintonite. The essay talks factually about Hillary's career and about the one sidedness of her efforts to be helpful.

I have tried many times to write this sort of thing into words and failed. There is nothing wrong with white liberalism, but there comes a time when the effort to help another group, in this case the AA, comes full circle. That time is when the liberal's efforts from her white platform have made that platform broader and the once disadvantaged group, the target of good deeds, assumes equality on and above that platform.

This is more than simply waking up t a boss who has black skin. That is hard enough. What is much harder is to find that your black skinned boss is culturally black.

Those who know me at all know that I identify with the Black community and see a bond between Jewish and Black interests. In all that, however, I know that I am not Black and that Jews and Blacks have different interests. The hard thing as I have grown up is to transcend the stage of "us" helping "them." That happens when one begins to encounter AA people in one's own filed who are as bright or more bright than oneself.

Put another way, I doubt that Hillary has ever had an AA boss before. Is she ready to be helped by a person who is not only black skinned but who attends an openly black church?

The End

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May 9, 2008--Rasmussen Reports has been tracking the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination daily for nineteen months… since November 2006. For the last few months, the most remarkable feature of the race has been its consistency and stability. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both running historic campaigns and both have captured the votes and hearts of distinct and important constituencies within the Democratic Party. Obama has won Primaries in states where the demographics favor his campaign and Clinton has won in the states that favor her campaign.

However, while Senator Clinton has remained close and competitive in every meaningful measure, she is a close second and the race is over. It has become clear that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.

At the moment, Senator Clinton’s team is busily trying to convince Superdelegates and pundits that she is more electable than Barack Obama. For reasons discussed in a separate article, it doesn’t matter. Even if every single Superdelegate was convinced that the former First Lady is somewhat more electable than Obama, that is not enough of a reason"

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The Chinese4 Nightmare Airplane Looms

Wired News - AP News: "BEIJING (AP) -- China has established a homegrown company to make passenger jumbo jets, state media reported Sunday - a step forward in the country's quest to become less dependent on Boeing and Airbus.

China Commercial Aircraft Co. was established in Shanghai with registered capital of 19 billion yuan $2.7 billion, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

It said the central government and the Shanghai government are among the major shareholders, as are China's two main aircraft manufacturing and servicing companies, China Aviation Industry Corp. I and China Aviation Industry Corp. II, which were split off from state-owned China Aviation Industry Corp. in 1999.

Europe's Airbus has forecast that China's domestic market will increase fivefold by 2026. Airbus and Chicago-based rival Boeing dominate the market for commercial airplanes carrying 100 or more people.

Xinhua said Commercial Aircraft Co. will be able to make planes with more than 150 seats.

General manager Jin Zhuanglong said in a Xinhua interview that it was too early to say when a Chinese-developed jumbo jet would be taking off, as it would take a long time to develop homegrown talent and do research.

"According to the development history of Airbus and Boeing, the development and success of civil planes cannot be realized by relying on one or two generations," he said.

Clinton's Chance at Greatness

HorsesAss.Org » Blog Archive » On second thought… Obama Wins!: "Clinton and Edwards have a brief chance at greatness now. Not for either to be President but to be a true leaders in troubled times.

From Edwards POV, he should endorse Obama ASAP, but better yet would be to coordinate with Hillary, That coordination could build a truly historic team for reform.

IF she is a patriot, she will announce tomorrow that the vioters have spoken and BHO is the candidate. At the same time, she should make a deal with him to work together on the huge number of issues on which they agree, her in the Senate ,,,

healthcare
a “smart” answer to Iraq
rebuilding of the US alliances
restructure the tax system so it is progressive and productive

If Edwards is a patriot this is his last chance to bargain with Obama from strength. He should ask for the AG job and in that capacity he can lead a much needed effort at corporate reform and maybe even tort reform to benefit the average guy!

There is far more on this plate than any one person can handle, to clone a term ..

It takes a dream team to reform an injured country ."

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May 6, 2008
Vol. 3, No. 19
from HumanEvents@humaneventsonline.com

My Plea to Republicans: It's Time for Real Change to Avoid Real Disaster

By Newt Gingrich

The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November.

The facts are clear and compelling.

Saturday's loss was in a district that President Bush carried by 19 percentage points in 2004 and that the Republicans have held since 1975.

This defeat follows on the loss of Speaker Hastert's seat in Illinois. That seat had been held by a Republican for 76 years with the single exception of the 1974 Watergate election when the Democrats held it for one term. That same seat had been carried by President Bush 55-44% in 2004.

Two GOP Losses That Validate a National Pattern

These two special elections validate a national polling pattern that is bad news for Republicans. According to a New York Times/CBS Poll, Americans disapprove of the President's job performance by 63 to 28 (and he has been below 40% job approval since December 2006, the longest such period for any president in the history of polling).

A separate New York Times/CBS Poll shows that a full 81 percent of Americans believe the economy is on the wrong track.

The current generic ballot for Congress according to the NY Times/CBS poll is 50 to 32 in favor of the Democrats. That is an 18-point margin, reminiscent of the depths of the Watergate disaster.

Congressional Republicans Can't Take Comfort in McCain's Poll Numbers

Senator McCain is currently running ahead of the Republican congressional ballot by about 16 percentage points. But there are two reasons that this extraordinary personal achievement should not comfort congressional Republicans.

First, McCain's lead is a sign of the gap between the McCain brand of independence and the GOP brand. No regular Republican would be tying or slightly beating the Democratic candidates in this atmosphere. It is a sign of how much McCain is a non-traditional Republican that he is sustaining his personal popularity despite his party's collapse.

Second, there is a grave danger for the McCain campaign that if the generic ballot stays at only 32 % for the GOP it will ultimately outweigh McCain's personal appeal and drag his candidacy into defeat.

The Anti-Obama, Anti-Wright, and Anti-Clinton GOP Model Has Been Tested -- And It Failed

The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti- Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail.

This model has already been tested with disastrous results.

In 2006, there were six incumbent Republican Senators who had plenty of money, the advantage of incumbency, and traditionally successful consultants.

But the voters in all six states had adopted a simple position: "Not you." No matter what the GOP Senators attacked their opponents with, the voters shrugged off the attacks and returned to, "Not you."

The danger for House and Senate Republicans in 2008 is that the voters will say, "Not the Republicans."

Republicans Have Lost the Advantage on Every Single-Issue Poll

A February Washington Post poll shows that Republicans have lost the advantage to the Democrats on which party can handle an issue better -- on every single topic.

Americans now believe that Democrats can handle the deficit better (52 to 31), taxes better (48 to 40) and even terrorism better (44 to 37).

This is a catastrophic collapse of trust in Republicans built up over three generations on the deficit, two generations on taxes, and two generations on national security.

House Republicans Should Call an Emergency, Members-Only Conference

Faced with these election results, the House Republicans should hold an emergency members-only meeting. At the meeting, they should pose this stark choice: Real change or certain defeat.

If a majority of the House Republicans vote for real change, they should instruct Republican Leader John Boehner and his team to come back with a new plan by the Wednesday before the Memorial Day recess. This plan should involve real change in legislative, communications, and campaign strategy and involve immediate, real action, including a complete overhaul of the Congressional Campaign Committee. The House Republican Conference would then vote for the plan or insist on its revision.

If a majority of the House Republicans are opposed to acting then the minority who are activists should establish a parallel organization dedicated to real change. This group should focus its energies on creating the changes necessary to survive despite a conference with a minority mindset that accepts defeat rather than fights for real change (which is what we had when I entered Congress in 1978).

Nine Acts of Real Change That Could Restore the GOP Brand

Here are nine acts of real change that would begin to rebuild the American people's confidence that Republicans share their values, understand their worries, and are prepared to act instead of just talk. The Republicans in Congress could get a start on all nine this week if they had the will to do so.

1. Repeal the gas tax for the summer, and pay for the repeal by cutting domestic discretionary spending so that the transportation infrastructure trust fund would not be hurt. At a time when, according to The Hill newspaper, Senator Clinton is asking for $2.3billion in earmarks, it should be possible for Republicans to establish a "government spending versus your pocketbook" fight over cutting the gas tax that would resonate with most Americans. Lower taxes and less government spending should be a battle cry most taxpayers and all conservatives could rally behind.
2. Redirect the oil being put into the national petroleum reserve onto the open market. That oil would lower the price of gasoline an extra 5 to 6 cents per gallon, and its sale would lower the deficit.
3. Introduce a "more energy at lower cost with less environmental damage and greater national security bill" as a replacement for the Warner-Lieberman "tax and trade" bill which is coming to the floor of the Senate in the next few weeks (see my newsletter next week for an outline of a solid pro-economy, pro-national security, pro-environment energy bill). When the American people realize how much the current energy prices are actually a "politicians' energy crisis" they will demand real change in our policies.
4. Establish an earmark moratorium for one year and pledge to uphold the presidential veto of bills with earmarks through the end of 2009. The American people are fed up with politicians spending their money. They currently believe both parties are equally bad. This is a real opportunity to show the difference.
5. Overhaul the census and cut its budget radically. The recent announcement that the Census Bureau could not build an effective hand-held computer for $1.3 billion and is turning instead to 600,000 temporary workers to do a paper and pencil census in 2010 is an opportunity to slash its budget, shrink its bureaucracy, and turn to entrepreneurial internet-based companies to build an information-age census. This is an absurdity that cries out for bold, decisive reform (see my YouTube video "FedEx versus federal bureaucracy" for an example of what I mean).
6. Implement a space-based, GPS-style air traffic control system. The problems of the Federal Aviation Administration are symptoms of a union-dominated bureaucracy resisting change. If we implemented a space-based GPS-style air traffic system we would get 40% more air travel with one-half the bureaucrats. The union has stopped 200,000,000 passengers from enjoying more reliable air travel to protect 7,000 obsolete jobs. This real change would allow the millions of frustrated travelers to have champions in congress trying to help them get places better, safer, faster.
7. Declare English the official language of government. This real change is supported by 87% of the American people including a majority of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Latinos. It is an issue of national unity that brings Americans together in a red, white, and blue majority.
8. Protect the workers' right to a secret ballot. The vast majority (around 81%) of Americans believe that American workers have a right to have a secret ballot election before they are forced to join a union. Last year the House Democrats passed a bill that would strip American workers of the secret ballot. A new bill should be introduced reaffirming that right, and it should be brought up again and again until marginal Democrats are forced to vote with the American people against the union power structure.
9. Remind Americans that judges matter. Senate Republicans should mount an ongoing fight (including a filibuster of other activities if necessary) to get the American people to realize that liberals want to block all current judicial appointments in order to maximize the number of left wing radical judges they can appoint if they win the White House. This issue has three advantages. It reminds people that judges matter and that a leftwing radical Supreme Court would be bad for the values of most (70 to 90 percent, depending on the issue) Americans. It shows the Democrats are not engaged in fair play. It arouses the activism of those who have been disappointed by Republicans and have forgotten how bad a liberal Democratic Presidency would be.Without change we could face a catastrophic election this fall.

   Without change the Republican Party in the House could revert to the permanent minority status it had from 1930 to 1994.

   Without change, the majorities of Americans who support the Republican principle of smaller, more efficient, smarter and fairer government will be in for a rude awakening.

   It's time for real change to avoid a real disaster.

   The "May Day Massacre": Can Liberals Govern in a Global Economy?

   Despite the poor outlook for conservatives in our elections this November, there is encouraging news from across the Atlantic. The conservative wave sweeping Europe hit England last week when the liberal Labor Party suffered its worst local election results in 40 years.

   Boris Johnson became the first Conservative Party member elected mayor of London when he defeated Labour candidate "Red" Ken Livingstone. In contests for more than 4,000 local seats across England, Conservatives captured 44 percent of the vote, compared to 25 percent for the Liberal Democrats and just 24 percent for Labour.

   This Conservative victory in England comes on the heels of a history-making rout of the Communists and the Greens in parliamentary elections Italy two weeks ago. And the Italian results follow center-right victories in France (Sarkozy) and Germany (Merkel). The countries of so-called "old" Europe are turning away from the liberal high tax, big government policies that have crippled their economies and are turning toward pro-growth, pro-competitive center-right solutions.

   All of which raises the question: Can the Left successfully govern in a modern, global economy? The voters of Europe seem to be saying no.<

Hillary as Pinnochio?

David Sirota: Spinning? Fine. Spinning AND Lying? Not Cool. - Politics on The Huffington Post: "Here's what ABC News reports that Clinton is now saying:

'We came from so far behind in Indiana. We're still the underdog.'

Clinton is trying to set expectations in advance of Tuesday's Indiana primary, with the goal of making it seem as if a victory in Indiana would be 'unexpected' and proof that she has 'momentum.' The spinning part -- the expectations part -- is fine, and no surprise. That's what candidates do, and that's part of politics. What's not fine is the dishonest basis of the storyline. Clinton has been ahead in Indiana from the beginning -- and in, fact, has been ahead in the majority of Democratic primary polls done in the Hoosier state.


As Real Clear Politics shows, Clinton has been ahead or tied with Barack Obama in 12 out of 18 Indiana primary polls. In fact, she's never been behind by more than 5 points -- basically the margin of error in these polls. Put another way, Clinton has been either ahead or right on the cusp of the margin of error in 100% of the polling done in Indiana.

This isn't surprising. Indiana is squarely within the Race Chasm (ie. the group of states whose black populations are above 6% and below 17% of the total population). Clinton has won most of her victories in Race Chasm states. I believe that is, at least in part, because of her deft use and exploitation of racial politics. In other words, Indiana is precisely the kind of state Clinton's scorched earth campaign has proven adept at winning in a Democratic primary -- her being consistently ahead or close is not news because it is to be expected.

But that's not the point here -- and frankly, I don't really care who has been ahead or behind in polls. What's notable -- and disturbing -- is that Hillary Clinton feels the need to lie in very obvious fashion, as if everyone is just too stupid to look up the easily verifiable facts. I'm going to capitalize this and boldface it for emphasis: SHE HAS BEEN EITHER AHEAD OR AT THE MARGIN OF ERROR IN EVERY SINGLE MAJOR POLL* DONE IN INDIANA, YET IS CLAIMING WITH A STRAIGHT FACE THAT "WE CAME FROM SO FAR BEHIND IN INDIANA."

This is not normal human behavior -- not by a long shot. It's actually rather scary, and it gets to a deeper issue -- the issue of trust. Why does Clinton feel the need to lie in the face of verifiable facts? She did it with NAFTA, she did it with Bosnia and now she's doing it with polling numbers. I just don't get this - and I say that not as a "Hillary hater" but as an honest declaration of frustration. Her behavior tells me she's either so arrogant that she's fine with insulting the public's intelligence with such in-your-face lying, or she's a pathological liar that has gotten so used to lying that she doesn't even know she's doing it anymore.

Look, it's one thing to spin -- it's another thing to spin and lie, all at once. It is that penchant for brazenly trampling the truth that troubles so many people about Clinton.

If you can't trust her to at least acknowledge the verifiable facts, how can you trust that she's serious about doing what she says she'll do as president? I mean, really, would anyone be surprised if - seeing this pathological behavior now -- Clinton gets into the White House, and then pretends she never made all the promises she made as a candidate? I think not -- and that trust issue, more than anything, is what polls show makes so many people uncomfortable with her candidacy.

Latest Indiana And North Carolina Polling Averages - Politics on The Huffington Post

North Carolina Democratic Primary RealClearPolitics Average
Obama 49.2
Clinton 42.2

Indiana Democratic Primary RealClearPolitics Average
Clinton 47.3
Obama 41.5"

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Joseph J. Andrew: On My Switch From Clinton to Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post

Joseph J. Andrew: On My Switch From Clinton to Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post: "A New Era of Politics

My endorsement of Senator Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign. If the campaign's surrogates called Governor Bill Richardson, a respected former member of President Clinton's cabinet, a 'Judas' for endorsing Senator Obama, we can all imagine how they will treat somebody like me. They are the best practitioners of the old politics, so they will no doubt call me a traitor, an opportunist and a hypocrite. I will be branded as disloyal, power-hungry, but most importantly, they will use the exact words that Republicans used to attack me when I was defending President Clinton.

When they use the same attacks made on me when I was defending them, they prove the callow hypocrisy of the old politics first perfected by Republicans. I am an expert on this because these were the exact tools that I mastered as a campaign volunteer, a campaign manager, a State Party Chair and the National Chair of our Party. I learned the lessons of the tough, right-wing Republicans all too well. I can speak with authority on how to spar with everyone from Lee Atwater to Karl Rove. I understand that, while wrong and pernicious, shallow victory can be achieved through division by semantics and obfuscation. Like many, I succu"

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All salmon fishing banned on West Coast

Does this include WA waters??? Funny it has not been in the local papers.

Whatever, when will folks realize the unrealistic challenge of man managing an entire eco system?

The liberal and conservative worlds need to learn that there are real limits. No matter how many hatcheries we build, the expansion of human habitat can only come at the expense of natural habitat and I find it hard to believe we can create a natural world for the salmon.

There is a corollary of all this .... evolution and religon, in different ways, suggest that nature or God will save the salmon .. presumabkly by destroiying us or mutating them. Do you suppose the fndies might pray for evolution of the salmon to adapt to our needs? Try this cool blog written by a salmon.

All salmon fishing banned on West Coast:
Salmon fishing was banned along the West Coast for the first time in 160 years Thursday, a decision that is expected to have a devastating economic impact on fishermen, dozens of businesses, tourism and boating.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez immediately declared a commercial fishery disaster, opening the door for Congress to appropriate money for anyone who will be economically harmed.
The closure of commercial and recreational fishing for chinook salmon in the ocean off California and most of Oregon was announced by the National Marine Fishery Service.
It followed the recommendation last month of the Pacific Fishery Management Council after the catastrophic disappearance of California's fabled fall run of the pink fish popularly known as king salmon.
It is the first total closure since commercial fishing started in the Bay Area in 1848.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency last month and sent a letter to President Bush asking for his help in obtaining federal disaster assistance. Schwarzenegger plans to appropriate about $5.3 million for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects.
The disaster declaration allows state officials to work with Congress on obtaining appropriations for businesses and fishermen and women, some of whom will lose as much as 80 percent of their annual income.
Although salmon spawning has been in declin"

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