Last night Chris Dodd went to The Senate Floor and delivered a passionate speech about YOUR CONSITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
http://dodd.senate.gov/

This was hardly the first time that Senator Dodd pleaded with his colleagues to check the IMPERIAL PRESIDENT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDgtIdemZo

It will take you about a half an hour to LISTEN or a lifetime to explain to your children what you were doing the day the Consitution DIED.

Meanwhile...

8400 Americans a day are filing for foreclosures, gas is over $4.00 a gallon, inflation is rampant, civil liberties are being destroyed, soldiers are dying for NO BID OIL CONTRACTS that will NOT include sharing profits with Iraqis. How does this help prevent a deeper war inside Iraq when American Corporations get their resources?. What’s wrong with this picture?

The religious right is attacking our candidate for “distorting The Bible”? Really? This is what we need to concern ourselves with? James DOBSON? Really?


HOMEWORK

ECONOMY

HOME FORECLOSURES ARE SKYROCKETING

HOMELESS SHELTERS REPORT A 61% INCREASE IN TRAFFIC

HOME VALUES PLUMMET IN FLORIDA AND ARIZONA
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25217565/

THE PRICE OF GAS (AND EVERYTHING ELSE!!)

An Apollo project for cars
http://thehill.com/brent-budowsky/the-next...2008-06-23.html

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/news/econo...sion=2008061915

FISA

REID FEELS THE HEAT
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/24/reid-t...from-fisa-bill/

Dodd delivers passionate speech against 'The Compromise'
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/200...dodd/index.html

FULL SPEECH IS 38 MINUTES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDgtIdemZo

FISA VOTE ON WEDNESDAY

Chirs Dodd and Russ Feingold will make this HARD but will they filibuster?
http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2008/06...orrow-in-th.php

THE FEAR CARD: LIMBAUGH

What did Barack Say? They'll try to scare you? Well THAT didn't take long...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200806240008

Blacks are 'Kooks'

IRAQ

THE OCCUPATION - IT WAS A WAR FOR OIL
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editoria...the_war_in_iraq

Senators Schumer Kerry, McCaskill and Levin write letters asking the Bush Administration to prevent Oil Production Sharing agreements from proceeding without Oil Revenue Sharing for the Iraqi people.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/businessIndu...444187920080625

http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2008/0...10071214341844/

BUSH DOESN’T MEDDLE IN IRAQI BUSINESS because THEY’RE A SOVERIGN NATION
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jXG9SdP...OFrW_QD91GIRS00

More Dead Today In Our Hundred Year War
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1549095220080625

Bush Enabler/McCain Suckup Tom Ridge on Fox News Sunday; The tired old "Iraq IS the war on terror" and a mention about how we can expect Americans to be dying "for years" there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_b5M1rqCbM

THE LAST BIG PRE-ELECTION PUSH TO ATTACK IRAN
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/...in4206201.shtml

CRONYISM

Surprise? Bush Goes McCarthy One Better: Only Fellow Travellers Are Hired

Dems And Libs Are Passed Over
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25348796/

Let's pass over those 'elitist' best and brightest for Christian Nutjobs. Remember Goodling?
http://www.boston.com/news/education/highe...ian_law_school/

ANOTHER LEGACY OF THE BUSH YEARS: CHRISTIAN WARRIORS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/us/25academies.html

THE RACE

OLIVE BRANCHES ARE GREEN!

Obama asks his donors to pick up Hillary's Tab:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/oba...debt/index.html

Dana Milbank: Hillary Back On The J-O-B!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8062401282.html

JAMES DOBSON ACCUSING OBAMA OF DISTORTING THE BIBLE
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Focus_o...ly/archives.asp

http://www.jamesdobsondoesntspeakforme.com

Of course it was a war for oil. That's why they called it "Operation Iraqi Liberation"
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20030324-4.html

I wanted Dodd to be president before I wanted Kucinich.
Now I'm for Obama all the way.

Howdy,

I just heard Sen. Leahy use the burgler analogy that Randy uses as he talks about fisa.

Now that is sooooo cool.

Obama GranMama

I think Senator Ben Nelson of Florida gave some pretty good remarks from the Floor of Senate yesterday. He gave a brief history of Enron pointing out the enron loophole was inserted into law during the Transitional period from Clinton to Bush, interesting.

Senator Nelson also pointed out that gasolene prices have a synergistic effect with the subprime meltdown. Those regular or ballooning mortages are harder to pay as the family income is depleted through oil prices making a Housing Legislation bailout for consumers imperative. Argument is financing for purchases of re-possessed homes or possible exploitation of the meltdown itself. Sort of slumlord mentality to go out and buy repos and devalued homes and on the government's dime, our taxdollars, think about it ? It's one think to protect consumers and it's another thing to use pubic assets for private capitalization, rather crony banker friendly if you were to ask me.

The other deal is that the Fed is holding the line on inflation. What does that mean, the economy is not fundementally sound, Corporations are not people too or disbelief in supply-side spending:

``The Committee expects inflation to moderate later this year and next year,'' the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement today in Washington. ``However, in light of the continued increases in the prices of energy and some other commodities and the elevated state of some indicators of inflation expectations, uncertainty about the inflation outlook remains high.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...&refer=home

Pssst, the fed never says really bad things so as not to panic the Daytraders.

Oh, and if you have time, check out Mr. Buffet's comments comparing takeovers to Porn Shops. Now where did he get that analogy, I wonder not, wink-wink.

Yep, I was here when the Constitution died, I tried to help, but the doctors weren't listening to me since I'm not a doctor, but it was apparent to everyone what needed to be done in order to save it...

Dear God. They are that simple, aren't they?

There's a screenshot somewhere of their announcing Operation Iraqi Liberation. I'd have to look around to find it.

It's on page 65 of my copy of Armed Madhouse (paperback).

video - http://www.livevideo.com/video/rclark23/5C...eration-i-.aspx

All complicit are part of a Dr Kevorkian ending to our way of life.

I went to San Francisco City Hall yesterday after work to join Cindy Sheehan's memorial for the 4th Amendment, and only one person was waiting in front of City Hall.
No Cindy Sheehan, nobody else. One guy.
So I walked over to the SF Federal Building (the old one) and nobody was there either.
Wonder if they went the other way to the new building, but I was rather disappointed to see nobody there.
Granted, I was about 10-15 minutes late, but I'm absolutely not seeing much happening here.
I want to know where Cindy Sheehan was, and where everyone else was. I wound up walking home all by myself and rather disappointed not only in my fellow San Franciscans for not showing up, but for the fact that Cindy didn't even have anyone waiting around to direct stragglers like me.
Cindy did just get the endorsement of SF's Green Party, however and has about 6 weeks to get the signatures necessary to get on the ballot. Best of luck, Cindy.

SF Green Party Endorses Cindy Sheehan

Need to get that book too.

I have to disagree with something Randi just said on air. Credit card also make money on the transaction fee they charge merchants for processing credit card payments. For example, my company pays about $6,000 per month in fee to our bank to process about $100,000 in credit card sales.

Bastards.

Underhanded smirking jokers is what I would call it.

Welcome to the board!!

The video is in the documentary Bush Family Fortunes by our friend Greg Palast. It's available in DVD form.

I really wish it was Kucinich instead of Obama but we are stuck with another so called moderate! It pisses me off that Barack is gonna vote for the FISA bill!!

Well... Guess I'm gonna make a donation to hillaryclinton.com

There is truth in the statement that she did make Barack a stronger candidate, albeit he's in the GE

which wasn't her objective, but in the spirit of change, let's help pay off the vendor debt.

We have an election to win. Party unity.

This morning, I wake up and pick up the papers...The Houston Chronicle, NYT and WSJ. It's sunny, pleasant, smells fresh and clean after a rain last night, but there's a noted lack of humidity. I always read the Chronicle first as it's quick:)

Here are the Business headlines (some editing for humor):
1. Vietnam's leader will talk bidness--cotton, energy and airline leaders to meet with prime minister
2. The action is in Houston--energy industry draws attorney's interest (let's not forget lap dances and big lawsuits:)
3. Court affirms dropping 4 claims...Grasso (he really will get to keep all that money)
4. No relief expected soon for oil prices (really? what about more drilling? won't that work? you mean I have to sell my Tahoe? Wahhhhhhhhhh!
Turning inside:
1. Adelphia duo gets lighter sentence (we're sorry boys, you really are old and frail)

And the FRONT PAGE NEWS: Exxon Valdez Judgement Slashed...high court cuts punitive damages by 80%...this limits to the settlement to $15,500 per person for the 33,000 affected litigants.

Now I'm really in a bad mood. Do you think I'm too sensitive?