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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Adult Supervision is Returning to Wall Street

October 31, 2008 – 5:12 pm

Obama Pumpkin

So says our Representative Brian Baird and I quote him from a link to a story in my earlier article:
Baird said the legislation also will prevent executives who presided over the financial crisis from reaping huge salaries and bonuses.
“Any company that chooses to participate in the program will not be able to offer their [...]

By John | Posted in Baird, Brian, Clark County, Congress, Economic justice, Fiscal policy, House of Rep. | Comments (0)

we don’t torture, but our torture techniques are a matter of national security

October 31, 2008 – 12:22 pm

The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review the government’s assertions that the allegations of torture from men held in the CIA’s black site prisons — [...]

By missy | Posted in 2008 Election, Bush crime family, Constitution, Domestic spying, Fascism, Gov Acctability, Human rights, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans, Torture | Comments (0)

christian men: do you know if your wife is truly female?

October 30, 2008 – 12:52 pm

Today is Write to Marry Day, when like-minded bloggers are speaking out against Proposition 8 in California, and all of the other anti-gay marriage constitutional amendments and legislative initiatives past and present.
While this may come as a shock to the Mormons and Catholics and Evangelicals behind Prop 8, either their god is completely ignorant of [...]

By missy | Posted in Gay rights, Human rights, Religion | Comments (0)

you can shut up now, bill

October 30, 2008 – 10:44 am

When William McKinley was inaugurated, a state legislator from New York who had long experience with the force of nature that was Governor (and, at that moment, Vice President-elect) Theodore Roosevelt, snarked that he wasn’t there to see McKinley sworn in, but rather to “see Teddy take the veil.” Republicans thought that by shunting [...]

By missy | Posted in 2008 Election, Obama, President Barack H | Comments (0)

a trifecta for the telecoms

October 29, 2008 – 11:12 am

Here’s a riddle for you:
What can expand market share for cable, internet and satellite TV providers without costing them a dime while reducing the information (including emergency broadcasts) available to lower income and rural folks, increase our trade deficit, and potentially move emergency services from standard free radio communication to purchasing their radio services from [...]

By missy | Posted in Bush crime family, Congress, Corporate control, Media, Money Party | Comments (1)

pumpkin #1

October 28, 2008 – 8:26 pm

Every year I carve 4 pumpkins: one for our tae kwon do school, one for me, one for J., and one for L.
This one’s for me.

By missy | Posted in Dept. of just Sayin' | Comments (0)

Obama’s Closing Argument

October 28, 2008 – 11:55 am

Thanks to Truthout.
Here is some good news from Guardian.Uk, US election: Obama leads McCain by 19 points among early voters, Pew says.
But it also sounds like November 4th is going to be utter chaos for those states without mail-in voting.

By John | Posted in 2008 Election, Obama, President Barack H | Comments (0)

melancholy day

October 28, 2008 – 10:59 am

In addition to being my late friend Karen’s birthday, I just got news from Mom that my 107-y.o. aunt in Windsor, Ontario has had a stroke. She’s a tough old broad but this may be the beginning of the end.
Aunt Camilla’s been extraordinarily lucky, though - this is her first real health problem other than [...]

By missy | Posted in Dept. of just Sayin' | Comments (0)

militia-madness is back

October 27, 2008 – 3:46 pm

And Sarah Palin is their poster girl:
Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.
In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said [...]

By missy | Posted in 2008 Election, Civil rights, Constitution, Culture, Media, Obama, President Barack H, Republicans | Comments (4)

hulk bad

October 27, 2008 – 3:33 pm

Hulk convicted:
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was convicted on all seven charges of making false statements on Senate financial documents about gifts he received from contractor Bill Allen, oil services company VECO Corp., and others.
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty.
I like the sound of that.
How about you, Don Young?

By missy | Posted in Republicans | Comments (0)