Rowan Berkeley Says:
Thus we get people who will eat any amount of economic shit, especially when instructed to do so by a Dem government, as long as their so-called “abortion rights” are left alone.

I guess you mean for example the economic shit we had to endure under Bill Clinton. Try to compare that to the last 8 years or the 12 years prior to Clinton.

I could eat some of that right about now. How’s your porfolio looking? Dow is almost where it was in 2001 and it went from 3000 to 11000 under Bill Clinton….huh.

I guess I just don’t understand what the hell you are trying to say unless you just like republicans and will eat their shit no matter what they do to our economy….

GWB to Divorce over Drunkenness and Infidelity.

The largest robbery of the worker class has been committed in the last 8 years by the Republican corporate socialists and is still going on. With the loss of so many jobs to outsourcing, the destruction of unions, the mass importation of cheap labor, and the bursting of the credit bubble….I have a huge feeling we won’t see recovery for another 5-10 years, if we recover at all. This is a very serious issue that everyone should be more made aware of.

To get a good picture of whats happening to the working class across America, read “Hunting With Jesus” by Joe Bageant.

I see many more people on the right as one-issue voters, whether that is gun rights, anti-abortion, religion or just tax breaks for the rich.

– you know what? it has become clear to me, after forty years of continuous monitoring of the US Left, that the attempt to yoke sexual issues to economic ones as if they affected the same people in the same way is dishonest and suicidal. The constituencies are completely different, inherently unlike, and most to the point incapable of alliances that achieve anything whatever. The Democratic Party has in fact avoided the economic Left issues by hiding behind the sexual ones. Thus we get people who will eat any amount of economic shit, especially when instructed to do so by a Dem government, as long as their so-called “abortion rights” are left alone. I don’t expect any of you to have enjoyed reading what I just said, but, I repeat, it’s based on forty years of continuous monitoring of the US Left.

No justice. No peace.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/bush_energy_plan.html

This still just cracks me up (or depresses me – can it be both?).

After almost 7 years of this terrorist hunt these are the high profile cases: we’ve prosecuted a guy a who filled out a form to join Al-Qaeda, and now we’re going after Osama’s driver.

Yeah, these Republicans are sure tough on terror.

Got Osama?

Freedom Rebel Says:
It is truly amazing and encouraging to see that phone calls and emails to his advertisers and radio stations are making an impact. “Savage says he has lost $1 million in revenue because of the advertiser campaign by nosavage.org.” I sent emails to all of his current advertisers. Plus I sent a transcript of his comments to my local chapter members in the Autism Society. I consider this a minor victory so far; hopefully our campaign will affect his revenue even more in the future.
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 am

Well done, Freb. :-)

Good Morning Zooey :) Thanks. Great to see you, I knew you would appreciate the effort. One station down, 349 to go. Hopefully, we can shame more advertisers to dump that jerk.

However, I’d say consider the source – South Carolina. I used to live there. Anderson SC is not far away from where the movie “Deliverance” is based.

When I lived in SC, another Upcountry senator (Mike Fair) was on a crusade to keep tatoos illegal in SC; his charge was that the Old Testament said not to do it (it is in one of the first 5 books, Leviticus is a good guess).

(Full disclosure: Personally, I hate tatoos and find them yucky. I see the possibility of spreading blood borne diseases. etc. But other than hygeine issues, I don’t see where the state has a whole lot of interest in regulating them).

The widespread adoption of electronic prescribing is expected to save taxpayers as much as $156 million over the next five years and save lives, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Monday.

Yet another evidence of the unnecesary overhead of private healthcare, and why universal healthcare will save much more, straightening the actual overload of bureaucracy.

Radio host angers parents of autistic children

Some parents of autistic children have called for Savage’s firing after he described autism as a racket last week. “In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out,” Savage said on his radio program last Wednesday.

More news about that “valiant pundit” that is Savage Whiner…

VCs pin hopes on green-tech ‘exits’

KPMG is expected on Tuesday to publish results of a survey of almost 300 investors and entrepreneurs. Almost 80 percent thought that IPO activity would start to turn around in 2010 and continue in the following years.

Something is moving, even in the bussiness field…

Well done, Freb. :-)

Sheer racism and fearmongering. End of story, there is no way to spin it.

Good Morning Liberal Traitor:)
Nico, the journalist that did the story, tried to access the blog post in question at 3PM ET, it had been removed from Bryant’s website. Because of the advertisement’s around the article I didn’t catch the fact it got put back up again.

Thanks, I’m going to send Bryant an email also.

Not totally clear on what this means because you seem to be mixing percentage and nominal terms.

Spending on stock buybacks and dividends hass increased in nominal terms or as a pct of profits?

If the percentage of profits spent to find new deposits has remained flat, that would actually represent a substantial increase in nominal terms because oil company profits have soared in recent years.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d never miss an opportunity to bash Big Oil but this isn’t worded very clearly

It would be interesting to see what he’s actually being prosecuted for. I mean, what they hell can they charge a chauffeur with beyond being an accessory?

What can we charge Cheney’s driver with?

Freedom Rebel Says:
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State Senator Kevin Bryant Posts Osama-Obama Photo

South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant has removed a classy photo from his website showing Osama Bin Laden next to Barack Obama with text claiming the difference between them is “just a little B.S.”

I just got ahold of State Senator Bryant over the phone, and asked him whether he thought the image was appropriate. “It was meant tongue in cheek,” he said, adding, “I’ve got some questions about Senator Obama’s ties to — such as his comment that we should negotiate with Iran. Iran’s a country that would like to destroy Israel, that bothers me. But is this picture appropriate? I don’t know.” He let out a loud laugh. “It’s gotten a lot more attention than I would have expected.”

The South Carolina Senate Democratic Caucus today called state Senator Kevin Bryant’s posting of a photo of Osama Bin Laden next to presidential candidate Barack Obama classless. “Senator Bryant’s posting of this offensive photo is classless and it has no place in politics. Bryant should be more concerned about serving his constituents, who pay his salary, than posting garbage like this on his website. The voters of Anderson County deserve a state Senator with better judgment.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 2008/ 07/ 21/ kevin-bryant-south-caroli_n_114098.html

I have always wondered how people like this get elected. I feel that Senator Kevin Bryant’s action warrants a Censure by the Senate.

Freedom Reb,
It’s still up there, it hasn’t been removed, I just saw it 5 minutes ago, someone over on C&L put up a link to it.

I definitely just sent Bryant a scathing message.

Sheer racism and fearmongering. End of story, there is no way to spin it.

I’m not so sure that he will enlighten us to anything that we don’t already know.

Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:

July 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 am

Someone already has, and that someone was Bush himself:

September 6, 2006 · President Bush acknowledges the existence of secret CIA prisons around the world and says 14 high-value terrorism suspects have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.

Bush publically acknowledged violating international law; law made part of our Supreme Law of the Land through treaties to which the United States is a party. That one act alone violated His Oath of Office, and He should have had articles of impeachment filed against him that same day. Instead, Congress passed His Military Commissions Act of 2006, which, by the way, granted ‘merikans criminal and civil immunity for war crimes.

The warrantless wiretaps was such proof, but Congress scrambled to cover up Bush’s a$$ with the FISA and Telco Immunity.

Enabled by complicit Democratic leadership. Why can’t they just stand up and tell the truth and face the music? I would start to regain some of my respect for them.

ASEAN ministers confront Thai-Cambodia crisis
AFP – 1 hour ago
SINGAPORE (AFP) – ASEAN held crisis talks Tuesday on the military standoff between Thailand and Cambodia, but failed to defuse the row that threatens to escalate into an unprecedented test for the regional bloc.
Cambodia asks UN to intervene in ‘imminent state of war’ with Thailand International Herald Tribune

from the 1st story:
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More than 500 Thai troops are facing off against at least 1,000 Cambodian soldiers around a small Buddhist pagoda on disputed land near the ruins of an 11th-century temple, which belongs to Cambodia.
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The World Court ruled in 1962 that the Preah Vihear temple belonged to Cambodia but the most accessible entrance lies in Thailand and the surrounding land remains in dispute, stirring nationalist sentiment in both countries.

Tensions flared last week when three Thais tried to enter the temple, leading both nations to send troops to the border.
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