September 22, 2008 by roofingbird
Good question Ted, maybe we SHOULD revisit a psychological reason:
By Ted Widmer, Sunday, September 21, 2008; Page B01
After a nerve-rattling week in which the U.S. financial system was shaken to the core, here’s a simple question: Why on Earth would anyone want to be president right now?
THIS STORY
Aftershocks: When a New President Inherits a Mess
Monday, Sept. 22, 2 p.m.
ET: Outlook: No White House Honeymoon
[Even in the best of times, it’s a grueling job. But the problems of 2008 seem unusually intractable, and despite the fine talk one sometimes hears about reconciliation, the electorate will be divided no matter who wins in November. Even Bush’s snarkiest critics would have had trouble predicting all the rough weather of the second term, from Hurricane Katrina to the smoldering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the bursting of the housing bubble, the financial meltdown and the Recession That Dare Not Speak Its Name. Would any sane person want to inherit this?…]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902803.html
At 35% of the population in CA, alone, You can bet McCain and Obama are not taking the Hispanic community for granted! Has anyone heard a word about an attempt to woo Asian voters? Continue Reading »
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September 22, 2008 by roofingbird
The latest AP news on the Chinese milk scandal. The figure for sickened children has more than doubled at nearly 12,900. Be sure and read the whole AP story, linked below: Continue Reading »
Posted in Children, Politics | Tagged Children, China, Hong Kong, I Own My Vote, Infant formula, just say no deal, Macau, Melamine, Milk, Nestles, PUMAPac, Taiwan, The Denver Group | 1 Comment »
September 21, 2008 by roofingbird
Ah yes, the astroturf of big money: Continue Reading »
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September 21, 2008 by roofingbird
Why government statistics are a better thing than this, and we go ’round in circles.
-Update: apparently Paul Sniderman was involved in at least helping to score the survey. It still isn’t clear whether he helped develop it, although he has ages of experience in teaching race relations. His name runs back to the Clinton years with his first book, “The Scar of Race” published in 1993.-
Riverdaughter has a good blog on her view of the recent AP Yahoo survey pontificated upon in Politico. She refers to Politico’s take in the link below:
The AP is working for the Republicans
Posted on September 21, 2008 by riverdaughter
[How else do we explain the AP-Yahoo study that purports to show that one third of Democrats will not vote for Obama because of his race. Only 59% of Clintonistas will vote for Obama (Really? We’ve been that successful?! Alright! {{high-fives all around}}). So there must be a correlation between the reluctance of these former Hillary people and their prejudices….]
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/the-ap-is-working-for-the-republicans/
Or not.
Continue Reading »
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September 21, 2008 by roofingbird
I just had to cross post this reminiscence on feminism from Dr. Socks:
SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2008
How did we go from Tomato Nation’s “Yes, You Are” to this?
Five years ago, Tomato Nation published a post that rapidly became legend. It was emailed, re-posted, printed out, probably even framed somewhere. Maybe you remember it. It was called “Yes, You Are.”
Here it is:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2008/09/20/how-did-we-go-from-tomato-nations-yes-you-are-to-this/
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September 20, 2008 by roofingbird
The USA is currently unable to democratically elect a presidential candidate!
Voting has already begun in places like Virginia, and other states are still trying to register voters, yet we are just getting ready to have our first debate on Friday between McCain and Obama. I turn your attention to this recent article:
High Turnout, New Procedures May Mean an Election Day Mess
By Mary Pat Flaherty
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 18, 2008; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703663_pf.html
Continue Reading »
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September 20, 2008 by roofingbird
What Gary Said:
Vote, or risk having your vote stolen
Posted on September 20, 2008 by garychapelhill
[I sincerely believe that Obama for America intends to try to steal the presidential election, just as George W. Bush did in 2000. Obama’s track record proves that he has absolutely zero integrity and an utter disregard for democratic prinicples. That is the primary reason that I do not support him and think that he would be a danger to our country, and perhaps put the final nail in the coffin of our democratic process. People like Bush and Obama want to make voters irrelevant. They care only about the corporate vote, which is cast not with a ballot, but with a greenback.]
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/vote-or-risk-having-your-vote-stolen/
Registration
If you need to register to vote, contact your State, City or County Elections Board. A voter registration with either party’s candidate puts you in their databank. If you register in the field with one of the partisan groups, Continue Reading »
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September 20, 2008 by roofingbird
The FDA is not finding evidence of melamine contaminated infant formula thus far in the USA. However, note at the bottom of the statement they are also now checking into milk derived products generally, in asian markets. If you know anyone who shops asian, let them know. For myself, I’d be wondering about the “finished food products” like maybe cookies? Almond Pudding? CHECK THE LABELS! On the other hand, in some asian products, that’s no guarantee either. Continue Reading »
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September 19, 2008 by roofingbird
I’m crossposting this article from chinaview because it is so important. It is in line with the recent FDA warning to beware of infant formula in Asian markets. The facts now are that this was going on at the same time we had melamine related pet deaths in the United States. Be sure and click on the link below to read the entire article:
Three year cover up in China milk scandal
Posted by chinaview on September 19, 2008
The Radio Australia, September 19, 2008-
[Reports in the Chinese media suggest the company at the centre of a contaminated milk scandal knew it had a problem as far back as 2005.
Our correspondent Kerri Ritchie reports, more than 6,000 children in China are sick and four babies have died after drinking milk laced with melamine.
Chinese media is reporting dairy company Sanlu knew its products were contaminated three years ago but kept quiet.
Sanlu’s chairwoman has been sacked along with a number of government officials.
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra part-owns Sanlu.
Fonterra knew about the crisis six weeks before it went public.
New Zealand trade minister Phil Goff doesn’t believe Fonterra’s representatives at Sanlu should be arrested but he says Fonterra should learn some lessons.
“China is a market of huge opportunity but it’s also a market which operates quite differently from New Zealand,” he said.
Fonterra says it’s now doing all it can to make things right.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government quality watchdog says nearly 10 per cent of milk samples taken from top Chinese dairy companies was contaminated by melamine….]
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/three-year-cover-up-in-china-milk-scandal/
I Own My Vote, PUMAPac, The Denver Group, Just Say No Deal
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September 19, 2008 by roofingbird
FLORIDA
Voter Registration ends in Florida Oct. 6th. Click HERE, to go to the Florida Division of Elections and register. Avoid the Partisan bum’s rush!
Blogged by Brad Friedman on 9/18/2008 12:55PM
McCain/GOP ‘Voter Caging’ Underway in Florida
Local Democratic Party Chair Seems Clueless About Republican Attempt to Disenfranchise His Voters…
From the St. Petersburg Times…
[…The mailings sent to registered Democrats appear to be classic “caging” letters, marked as “Do Not Forward”, so that they will then be returned to the GOP if there is any problem with delivery. Those returned letters will likely then be used as a basis to challenge the legitimacy of those particular voters on Election Day….
The first-class GOP mailing has a “Do not forward” instruction on the envelope, meaning they will be returned to the GOP if a recipient has had mail forwarded, perhaps to a summer address, or has moved. Continue Reading »
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