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After Midnight

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »

CAMPAIGN FINANCE

I just got another donor request pleading for donations to the DNC. This prompted me to think about the status of Obama/McCain donations. As you are probably aware, we don’t usually get to see the data until around the 20th of the following month. However, the Candidates campaigns must account for their funds accumulated on an end of month basis. The DNC is attempting to coordinate their push with the needs of all their candidates. Thus, the plea for contributions before midnight has arrived. I checked in with the League of Women Voters. See their thoughts on presidential campaign finance disclosure thus far:

League, Reform Groups Compare Senators McCain and Obama on Donor Disclosures

The League and reform organizations sent follow-up letters to Senators McCain and Obama seeking full disclosure of donor information on bundlers to their presidential campaigns. The groups also released a chart that compares how far each candidate has come in meeting the groups’ requests for transparency and disclosure.

 

http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11761

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Have You Seen This Man?

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »

In case you have been hibernating under a rock, or vacationing on the Galapagos lately, there has been an ongoing debate over the state of Senator Obama’s “Birth Certificate” and citizenship. No Quarter has been keeping tabs. What is wanted, of course, is transparency, just like for all those IL State Senate papers we have never seen. Check this out and read the supporting links in the blog:

Birth Certificate: Obama, Soetoro, or Dunham?

By TexasDarlin on July 30, 2008 at 7:29 PM in Barack Obama, Certification of Live Birth, Dual Citizenship, Dunham, Indonesia, Soetoro, birth certificate, eligibility, hawaii

NOTE: This summarizes the status of our investigation and current theories. (Links at end.)

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/30/birth-certificate-obama-soetoro-or-dunham

Anyone else think the family’s upcoming Vacation to Hawaii might be related to the quest for enlightment?

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Valor and Service

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on July 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »

To Him..

There is no loss in what you have done, only honor. 

The wave is coming, Let it lift you!

To Her..

There is no failure in this position; 

transformation is a hydra headed thing,

born out of unexpected places.

Bill Clinton is off to do what he would have done, had Hillary been president. Hillary is working hard for her constituents, and by her actions, for all of us. Check out Alegre’s Blog!

ALEGRE’S CORNER

We’re not finished folks – not by a long shot!

They Attacked Him As a Racist

by: Alegre

Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 23:59:05 PM EDT

 http://alegrescorner.soapblox.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=398

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If You Want to be Outraged, Read This!

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »

The Black Agenda Report has produced a wonderful synopsis of  events regarding the doling out of  digital TV channels to big media, thereby leaving out everyone else.  Is there any hope the next election season will be better?  What are we going to do about this? 

Big Media Steals 5,100 Digital TV Channels

Wednesday, 30 July 2008

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

“Acting as agents of the broadcasting industry, Congress awarded the already filthy rich a digital TV bonanza valued at $80 billion.”

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=722&Itemid=1

 

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Sheez People! Get it Right

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Update

I guess I’m popular, since I just got notice of a scrambled spam, generated by using this text, off my site. Thus the change in title. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Denver

O.K.- So city employees, have their own gas pumps. I get that, Chicago has a similar set up and when I was there, around 2000, let cabbies use it tax free. Course, that was about time the city raised the prices, so the cabbies got stuck.  Hmmm… wasn’t that about the time Obama was involved in his great learning experience about “Gas Tax Holidays”?

But wait, these aren’t City employees per see, they are the DNCC! Well, I guess the Mile High City had to have some enticements to the get the Convention there.

But wait, isn’t this the candidate who said gas tax holidays don’t work?  Way to match the message to the action people!! I know! This must be Hillary’s fault!! Check this out!

[DNCC vehicles have gotten to pull up to city pumps for the past few months, with a price as low as $2.62 per gallon, while a contract for the gasoline usage seems to have been an afterthought. Records reviewed by Rocky reporters show 61 DNCC vehicles (out of a fleet of 450, stressed the party) gassing up at city facilities, racking up a bill of $11,141.53 as of a week ago.]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/30/convention-committee-makes-right-call-in-fuel/

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So Much to Read!

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Catch up on these blogs today:

 

Read all of Heidi’s blogs, but start with today’s on the latest DNC money grovel:

Her clear and concise arguments articulate the importance of  paying down Clinton’s debt, and supporting The Denver Group, PUMA PAC, and Just Say No Deal:

http://heidilipotpourri.blogspot.com/

 

Riverdaughter’s comments  about Obama’s band and bratwurst laden event at the Tiergarden:

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/monday-the-big-o-and-the-obots/

 

Ooh, Nuance’s comment on narcissism (Obama’s):

Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Narcissist, Part Deux 

http://oohnuance.blogspot.com/2008/07/narcissist-part-deux.html

 

Gary’s comment’s on the media’s positonings:

When the Tingle becomes a Chill…

Posted on July 28, 2008 by garychapelhill

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/when-the-tingle-becomes-a-chill/

 

Remember this?

Barack Obama and Me

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

By Todd Spivak

published: February 28, 2008

http://www.houstonpress.com/content/printVersion/730783

 

Recent reports of PUMA sightings:

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Obama campaign strives to unify Texas Democrats

Many Clinton supporters waiting to see how party treats her, who will be V.P. pick.

By W. Gardner Selby

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Saturday, July 26, 2008

http://www.statesman.com/search/content/region/legislature/stories/07/26/0726texdems.html

 

And last but not least, bostonboomer’s great synopsis of the 1968(Correction: Not 1972, What was I thinking?)DNC Convention:

Forty Years Ago in August

Posted on July 21, 2008 by bostonboomer

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/forty-years-ago/

 

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My Kind of Guy.

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »

See:

Of Vocabulary and the Fourth

Filed under: Diversity, Politics, Sense of place — Ed Quillen at 11:34 am on Saturday, July 5, 2008

[Thus it seems odd that we often read of patriots and patriotism, but seldom see mat riots and matriotism — they ought to be pretty much the same thing. On the other hand, if we’re trying to avoid sexism, matriot is no improvement on patriot.] 

UPDATED LINK: http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/of-vocabulary-and-the-fourth?

 

When I see these ruminations, plucked from the GOAT’S hinterlands, I am immediately plunged back into some of the philosophical swing stage discussions in which I, and my coworkers engaged. Life isn’t always fair; versus, if it’s not right, fix it.

What then, to make of the fact that the 160th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention passed with relatively little fanfare? (If you need a refresher check this, and this out.)

In a web search yesterday of “seneca falls” 160 anniversary, I found just 4,130 results. This is a sad commentary when, “hillary sleaze” will get you 3,650, and “hillary liar”, will get you another 3,690 hits.

10 years ago Hillary Clinton, as First Lady, gave a speech commemorating the 150th anniversary. So you see, the gravitas of Senator Clinton is now synonymous with the date. 

Remarks by the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

150th Anniversary of the First Women’s Rights Convention 

Seneca Falls, New York

July 16, 1998

http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1998/19980804-3206.html

It makes perfect sense that Senator Obama chose this week to fly away on his much anticipated but delayed international trip. How lovely it would have been to overwrite history at the Brandenburg Gate. Alas, the Germans wouldn’t allow it.

Frederick Douglass would not be amused. He would have an idea on how to fix it.

 

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