You need to call your Senators re: FISA today! Here’s help:
http://tools.advomatic.com/7/fisa/totals

Obama will give his acceptance speech at INVESCO Stadium in front of 75,000
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/...amp;format=text

Obama is holding a CONTEST. For a $5 donation you can win roundtrip airfare and BACKSTAGE PASSES to his Acceptance Speech at Invesco Field?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvnlZZF...q3CqAAD91PLNQO1

Let’s see Granpa fill a 75,000 seat arena!

Today on the Campaign Trail
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNxTApa...bEXw7gD91PMFCO1

CC loses 30M a year and they pay Rush Limbaugh TWICE what he was making and are in talks with Hannity for $200M?
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/07/rush-limbaugh-4.html

I consider myself a defender of corporate America,” – Rush
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/magazine/06Limbaugh-t.html


HOMEWORK

Obama Blogs A Response To FISA Compromise Opponents:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/p...rospars/gGxsZF/

AT&T Whistleblower Calls Out The Dems - Klein Urges Against Immunity For His Former Employers
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/7/att_t...gainst_immunity

Good Summary from Last Week of Our Argument
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25463360/

IRAQ

Iraq Politely Shows Us The Door.....

Maliki draws up timetable for when he'd like to see his friends take the party somewhere else
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...-presence_N.htm

Bush Administration smiles back, chalks it up to a 'transcription error'
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/07/maliki-timeline/

Bush In May 2007; "If they were to say we needed to leave, we would leave"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...t/20070524.html

A regional US commander in Kirkuk lowers the American profile.....and the body count.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/v-print/story/43359.html

THE VETS

Iraq/Afghan Vets Struggle With The Bottle - Neglected upon homecoming, war vets find solace in booze.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/us/08vets.html

FAT BASTARD

The Lies 400 Million Will Buy You

Limbaugh Says The Cash 'Was Actually A Cut'.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030005

KATRINA

More Horror Stories From Katrina...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/mississip...rina/index.html

THE VOTE

Foreclosures Mess Up Voting Rolls - how can you keep a valid voting card if you can't keep an address
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/06/...le4235328.shtml

Obama To Accept Nomination In InvescoField. Opens acceptance speech to non delegates, 75,000 people expected. First non-convention climax speech since Senator Kennedy in 1960
http://www.politicswest.com/node/26680/print

ECONOMY

Black Tuesday?

World Stock Markets suffer two year low
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSHKG35069520080708

I wish Rush Limbaugh would just disappear along with anyone else who is anti-Roosevelt.
We need to improve the "New Deal' not eliminate it.

We've got a really big shoe today!!! Get cracking!!!

Hannity, OMG, telling everyone, YOU ARE A GOOD AMERICAN! I am sick of the brain washing. My neighbors agree with me that there is not much to be proud of when it comes to America these days. We cannot help our disaster victims here at home, we cannot follow our own laws, we cannot keep the peace without the threat of WW3. We have Mexican Nationals walking around everywhere and who knows what else. The contractors and corporation owners run a black market run work force. Free trade equals free pillage. Chinese steel now is used to build American buildings, which are probably going to be owned by the Chinese so who actually cares anymore. You are a great NAZI Hannity, you would make Goebbels proud.

Show Topic: FISA

Well ya know, The Whitehouse is such a charity case, why not volunteer to help them out ? Doing work for someone else without expecting anything in return is a reward in itself, isn't it ? It's like the ultimate Public Service work, to help the Number One Public Servant without a kickback. It's, "I'll scratch your back, nevermind about my back, I'm cool" . What an act of Humility, as it is said that once an being a spook was an honorable profession. I am truly not worthy myself.

Pestone, I appreciate you sharing insights with us personally. I have to say that Pignose does not demonstrate an active recovery from addiction due to a public display of egocentricity, a lack of humility. He may say, "Look at me, I am giving to charity" but that just makes him a neoconservative in my eyes. Was taught to me not be the hypocrite saying things like, "Look at me, I am praying in Public" or "Look at me, I am giving to charity". The motive of course is political gain by perverting standards of Christianity. And maybe, sucking up can also be described as an inferiority complex driven defect, I am not sure.

Randi posted:



I got a giggle out of this when I read it last night. And no response, and a dash to covering up and spinning it by White House.

As Randi said, winning in Iraq equals, "We get your oil."

Mind you, this comes along with all this spinning about the oil companies getting their sure deal in Iraq. But where is that sure deal. Has anyone signed on the dotted line? Nope.

An email I received on April 1, 2008 from Sen Claire McCaskill (D-MO)




I called her office yesterday to ask she vote to deny retroactive immunity to the telecoms. I think she will vote for immunity. In doing so, she will be voting to protect companies and not to protect Americans.

Wow! I'm glad I'm not married to you! I know I'm not perfect but I know my wife is still proud of me. The United States of America may not be perfect, but it is still the greatest country God has ever placed in this world!

Well, there are those who dont believe in God at all, and many more who think God has nothing to do with placing America in the world - as you put it...

it in fact implies that God favors us, surely you dont believe that?

is personally responsible for the war in Iraq and every death that has occurred as a result...

i state this every chance I get, reminding people that he more so than almost any other media personality promoted this war (funny, when he was of age and able to serve in a war he chose not to) and therefore must take some responsibility

From today's homework:

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a security agreement with Washington.

It was the first time the U.S.-backed Shiite-led government has floated the idea of a timetable for the removal of American forces from Iraq. The Bush administration has always opposed such a move, saying it would give militant groups an advantage.

The security deal under negotiation will replace a United Nations mandate for the presence of U.S. troops. The U.N. mandate will expire Dec. 31. The contentious issues have been U.S. authority to carry out military operations in Iraq and arrest the country's citizens, plus legal immunity for private contractors and control of Iraqi airspace.

"Today, we are looking at the necessity of terminating the foreign presence on Iraqi lands and restoring full sovereignty," al-Maliki told Arab ambassadors in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, in an exchange shown on Iraqi state television.

The prime minister provided no details. His national security adviser, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, told the Associated Press the government is proposing a timetable conditioned on the ability of Iraqi forces to provide security. U.S. officials in Baghdad had no immediate comment.

Of course the kicker is that US is intentionally NOT training Iraqi security forces, instead using private contractors, so the Iraqi people will never be able to properly defend themselves...

Hey Dan, did you get this from your cat ?

Link I provided last night shows that there has been public domain information on this drill back as far as April of 2008. That means "Security Arrangements" have been debated for nearly 3 months now and may go as long as the end of December 2008.

That does not mean the Brass may make some reccomendations. Hopefully their advice and consent will be applied without political corruption in that a "surge" may get McCain elected. Quite the opposite has to be considered when "surges" have not worked back to the First Crusade under a Church/State union by the Roman Empire itself.

Deer stuck in headlights is the same as Nero fiddling to me. However, we must get this motherfucker right this time so maybe patience is prudence.

Well now, like Obama on this isssue, is she not listening to the populus ? I believe there was a plea from a telecom Chief of Eggs today, not to endanger his employees. I would say his lawyers damaged employees taking counsel from the Whitehouse, stupid me I say, stupid me.

Well now, like Obama on this isssue, is she not listening to the populus ? I believe there was a plea from a telecom Chief of Eggs today, not to endanger his employees. I would say his lawyers damaged employees taking counsel from the Whitehouse, stupid me I say, stupid me.

I believe it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

So are you denying this is the greatest Nation that has ever existed? That was the point of my first post.

Update:

According to the Almighty me, the Big fuckin Bang himself, Black Tuesday on the stock market was not so black itself. Good right, not !!! Oil Speculation this time decreased the price per barrel due to bets on our economy getting worse and leading to global economic collapse. Oil dropped 5 bux, so what. On one day not too long ago oil increased by 11 United States dollars in one day. So over all this is still bad news not good news like Rove was leading the band encouraging us all to sing "Happy days are here Again' because tomorrow Wallstreet may experience lots of sidewalk debris due to jumping traders.

Randi said black tuesday, is she a racist now ? I used an old term spook which points out spies like to scare people. Now where is my semi-automatic 9mm, 25 for the sock and a very, very interesting legal deer rifle ?

In the end, those playing with fire will get burnt, call it Karma. If they are Gawds then of course they can create a star for me so I may name it, in my own Honor. No, make that a galaxy, I want a galaxy with at least one Supernova in it each week so I can see it with my nekked eye. It's all about me !!!

I think the middle east would differ. But we don't care about other people's opinions do we. How many do we have still on our side, I can probably count them on one finger.

So you're saying this isn't the greatest nation on the face of the earth? That's too bad. My love and affection aren't based on what other people think. Again, we're not perfect but no other nation has ever been more generous to the rest of the world. Most of the nations in the middle east weren't real happy with us before Irag and Afghanistan.

We could once again be the greatest nation, but it will take the public to quit drinking the coolaid. Right now China and Russia could get together and really show America what a real problem is. If you think taking out weaker nations is great, then you got your wish. What made us great was our sense of morality, we allowed people to be free and create their own destinies. Iraq now wants us out, and Iran who wanted to help us at the beginning of this war, and is the most like us in the middle east, is now dealing with being bombed to the stone age. Sorry, great nations do not destroy entire cultures, but this one does. Right now this so called great nation is attacking the middle class of it's own land. It is attacking the rights fought for 230 or so years ago. It is going back on its word, so it cannot be trusted.

So basically what your saying is that when a dem is running things again we'll be great. When Jimmy Carter the worst president in history, was in charge I was still proud of this nation and we were still the best in the world. We got a few bloody noses during that time but we still were on top. As for Russia and China getting together, I've been hearing that for years but again we're still on top. We are still morally on top as our continued generosity shows. We're working to help the Iraqis and the Afghanies to do just that in a free society. Those people were living in fear of their leaders. Most of Iraq is grateful for our presence, but I guess I'm just a kool-aide drinker for accepting that. Iran? Iran? Come on they were dancing in the streets after the September 11 attacks. Iran has been an enemy of ours since the Carter admistration. You remember that debacle I'm sure. Iran was never like us. They are a dictatorship run by extremist who has always wanted to and is willing to whatever is necessary to wipe us off the face of the earth. He denies the holocaust happened and wants to do the same thing to Israel. By the way Israel is the nation most like us in the middle east. A free scociety. I'm in the middle class and I certainly don't feel attacked. I've never had more prosperity than during the last eight years. Lower taxes always helps. I still have all of my rights. I can say or write anything I want without fear of reprisals. So it seems can you. What rights are you talking about? What rights have been taken away from you? Please explain. So far the fact that you were able to freely write what you did just verifies my statement, despite our inadequacies, The United States of America is still the greatest Nation on God's earth!

You know, Iran just fired off a bunch of missles during their war games today. The Spiritual Leader of Iran warned them, the President of Iran warned them. I am sure other leaders, like in Russia warned them about tough rhetoric that makes people nervous the world over. But, they never fuckin learn. Perhaps oil prices will go back up today, one never knows. Cheney liked the "nuclear option" statement too, didn't he ? Maybe, just maybe, people are standing up to bullies when I believe that a more enlightened principle is ADR, can ask the British about that one. In the meanwhile, this is my fond farewell again, this time of my own decision. I am now a paid consultant or back in retirement. Wake me up in January of 2009, cause you probably could afford my fees when compared how much is paid for lousy advice. I am the Big fuckin Bang, yes not just a Gawd but the Creator, top that fools, top that fools . Thank-you all for quite a learning experience, laughter and joy, joy, joy.

I too saw the news today about the missile tests. This will just stir up more hatred and war mongering, this is not a good thing. Israel had their show of force the other week. We have our aircraft carriers sitting outside their territories, looks like everyone is ready to play. Sorry if I upset you, these were not my intentions. Had we listened to President Carter, we would not be in this situation. I am glad when Korea played with their missiles, we did not get all hot and bothered. I hope we will not play with our toys today.

Rush Speaks For Corporate America - No wonder we're shipping jobs overseas. Soon there won't be a corporate America, what will you represent then Rush, Corporate Dubai in America, Corporate China in America, Corporate Saudi Arabia in America?

Defender of the Corporations - Mighty Rush - Wields His EIB Mic from high a top his Ivory Tower.

Best Political Painting 4' X 4' in oil I saw was of Rush Limbaugh on all fours licking a microphone that was projecting out of GHW Bush's Fly ... Wish I Bought It or at Least Took a Picture of it !!! I always thought it was a copy ... if anyone has ever seen it please post it. I'll go back the the place I saw it and see if it's still there.

OMG that is classic.