I agree! it’s very difficult keeping track of conversations here. Gotta keep scrolling up and down to follow the conversations. And then if someone responds to you you need to scroll back through all the comments to find it.

Ps. a little help at #72, please!

but, what WOULD help, it getting the time back next to the name…
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may be too late for a reply, but i wondered if anyone else has my problem here:

the tabs USED to be titled with the name of the thread (shortened, but,) -
not now… very annoying and confusing…

and, the whole page lights up and gets underlined when the cursor is on the area… also annoying…

i’ve sent notes to admin., but no reply…

anyone else?

“finances of many states have deteriorated so badly that they appear to be in a recession, regardless of whether that’s true for the nation as a whole.”

Is this recognition that despite the rhetoric, the country has yet to meet the recessionary threshold?

If we’ve been in recessions before (many since the Great Depression, one only months after Clinton left office) and our current economic data doesn’t support the assertion that we are currently in a recession (a decline in GDP for 2 consecutive quarters) is it still reasonable to believe that our current economic conditions are the worst since the depression? Or even significantly poor when you consider they aren’t recessionary?

Ding…ding…ding! This is something that has always confused me. I don’t see how they don’t get that if they bankrupt us, they will eventually be bankrupting themselves.
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Ha! The quote you reference wasn’t from 2mil, it was mine (2mil posts a whole bunch of other worthwhile stuff). See Post #52.

I’m really not complaining about not getting credit, but I’d like to use this example to point out to TP that this new system of theirs makes it VERY difficult to keep track of who said what. It’s especially confusing when somebody is referencing several parts of a conversation — I can’t always tell who is on what side.

TP — when we respond to a specific post, we generally like to paste the comment we are responding to, along with the poster’s handle and the date/time. Just by separating the time and the person’s name, you have made this difficult.

Have you ever considered a “tree” format, like they have on Media Matters and other forums, where all posts replying to a specific post appear under that post?

Yet another way the bush cabal is supporting the troops. This is an abomination.

http://www.shirley08.com/

Since I am on the opposite side of the country and I understand that Cindy Sheehan is also either considering a run or is running against Pelosi I’m asking for your thoughts.

Thanks,
-TRRiRW

BTW, I got back a really nice thank you e-mail from Helen Thomas today.(I sent her a note thanking her for being the only real Journalist left in the Press Corps.)It was heart warming to get a response back from her.

Clinton debt larger than reported

Hillary Clinton’s campaign debt at the end of March was bigger than it appeared because she didn’t list the $5 million she loaned herself, a campaign finance watchdog group reported this afternoon.

Clinton, in her filing with the Federal Election Commission, reported that her campaign had $9 million in cash on hand as of March 30, and $10 million in debts.

“The Clinton campaign itemizes its debts to vendors, totaling $10.3 million by the end of last month, but since January, when Clinton infused her campaign with $5 million, the campaign hasn’t been adding in that loan when reporting its overall debt to the Federal Election Commission,” the Center for Responsive Politics said.

“An FEC representative tells us Clinton’s debt to herself, even if she won’t be paying it back, should be lumped in with the campaign’s debts to others on the first page of the monthly filings, not just listed deeper within her disclosure forms — that’s how the other big self-funder in 2008, Mitt Romney, reported the $42 million he lent himself.”

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/clinton_debt_la.html

That’s interesting. Most people thought that the 10 million she was in debt included the 5 million she lent her campaign.

So, if she were to do the right thing and use the 10 million she collected to pay off her debts (like Obama pays off his debts), she would still be 5.3 million in the hole.

I feel so sorry for all the small businesses that gave Clinton a line of credit. They are being stiffed by the woman who says she is best to lead this nation economically.

Would this be less harsh, as harsh or harsher than a strongly-worded letter?

The quickest way for them to create a military and police force to protect themselves is for us to leave. As long as they can hide behind the American military, they have no incentive to create their own.

Ding…ding…ding! This is something that has always confused me. I don’t see how they don’t get that if they bankrupt us, they will eventually be bankrupting themselves.

Boy, that standing up thing is sure taking its time. And the lives of our soldiers.
What a crock.

Exactly. This tax, the “income tax” was originally created to tax income not wages. Unfortunately it has become a “wage tax” and is no longer an income tax. I seriously resent paying 30% tax on my wages when some fat cat playing the stock market pays 15% on the income they create from their investments.

In its letter of “letter of “qualified admonition” — the committee found that Domenici should have known better than to contact Iglesias about an ongoing investigation.

Right now, Sen. Domenici is saying, “A letter of ‘qualified admonition’? Dear God! No-o-o-o! How could this have happened to me? Life is so unfair, going from a respected Senator to one who has received a letter of qualified admonition.”

“Oh, the horror, the horror…”

I think Senator Domenici needs to be placed on suicide watch.

So, why are Schumer and Rockefeller mouthing off about healthcare right now. They are playing into the Republicans hands. Why are they doing that? Are either of these two up for re-election. If so, it’s time to send them packing.

Oh – and good morning – for whatever it’s worth. :o/

~A

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ world/ 2008/ apr/ 25/ terror.language

Pretty amazing that they finally figured it out eh? Of course.. doesnt stop McCain from using the insulting words in question.
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Great article. Reveals an administration more concerned with controlling the message than anything else.

The term Islamofascist is pure nonsene. It means nothing.

What I observed is that the term fascist was gaining traction on progressive websites a couple years ago to describe the Bush administration. The neo-cons saw this happening and quickly stole the term and applied it to Arabs.

This is their most obvious trick. Label your adversary exactly the opposite of what it is. The best example of this is calling the media LIBERAL.

Control of the public mind is a sick sick art. The neo-cons have near mastery of this science.

If british dentistry is anything comparable, i doubt Britian is much of a mecca of body modification… (except for perphaps peircing and other oddities…)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/25/terror.language

Pretty amazing that they finally figured it out eh? Of course.. doesnt stop McCain from using the insulting words in question.