Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:00:04 -0400
Rush Limbaugh will make about $38 million a year to continue his (HATE) radio show over the next eight years. In addition, he says will be getting a nine-figure signing bonus from Premiere Radio Networks.
I just learned the McCains upped their household staff budget last year to $273,000..... for the year!
It is so hard to find good help....
I'm going to go plop on the sofa and eat sugar free bonbons while I surf the channels so I can flip off some media whores. Nothing like expressing ones self with a good old flip of the wrist. Did I mention if you add your feet into the move it's considered aerobic?
Don't you just love the 4th of July? Only in America......
Ha, like they'll listen.....
If the recent gaffes, mis-statements, corrections, clarifications by your candidate and staffers are caused by exhaustion after so many months of campaigning, then negotiate a coordinated week of rest for the two campaigns as soon as possible. Agree not to have any press conferences, travel, speeches, or appearances on TV. Nothing will change in a week and the public might actually thank you for the break.
If the cause for the above problems is that your candidate really has lost interest in the process, then let others take over who may be more willing to engage.
Thanks for listening.
Hope you're enjoying good food and good company (or quiet time if you'd rather).
Don't let any fireworks blow up in your pockets. ;p
It's a happy day for young dog, Liberty aka "T" who has been in the family for a year. But also a sad day since Ranger the greyhound (who was terribly afraid of fireworks) left us due to old age not much after July 4th last year.
I won't know what to do without 65 pounds of shaking dog in my face this year...:(
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and one to hear." - Henry David Thoreau
a documentary that is free to watch today.
it's about the inaccuracy of our voting machines
i found out about it from Greg Palast's blog http://www4.gregpalast.com/, entry " Are they going to Steal 2008?"
A Response To Obama's Defense Of The FISA Capitulation
Yesterday, Barack Obama issued a defense of his support for the FISA Capitulation bill. I want to associate myself with the response of Glenn Greenwald:
The new FISA bill that Obama supports vests new categories of warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President (.pdf), and allows the Government, for the first time, to tap physically into U.S. telecommunications networks inside our country with no individual warrant requirement. To claim that this new bill creates "an independent monitor [to] watch the watchers to prevent abuses and to protect the civil liberties of the American people" is truly misleading, since the new FISA bill actually does the opposite -- it frees the Government from exactly that monitoring in all sorts of broad categories.~ snip ~
In the Declaration of Independence, among the grievances listed against King George III were:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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. . . He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
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. . . He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
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. . . For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
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. . . For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:The proposed FISA Capitulation suffers from many of the same faults. Glenn Greenwald points us to Joe Galloway's column today on the same subject:
[T]hese bad actors are prepared to set aside your right to privacy — written into the Constitution as a key part of our Bill of Rights — with hardly a nod in the direction of the true patriots who rebelled against an English king and his army to guarantee those rights.
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That they will do this while the last empty phrases of the political windbags at the Fourth of July celebrations are still echoing across a thousand city parks and the bright red, white and blue bunting and blizzard of American flags still flap in the breeze is little short of breath-taking.How dare they?
We can not remain silent to these abuses. As citizens, we must speak out against the FISA Capitulation. Those who would put candidate before principle here shame themselves.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
says it all:
http://utdocuments.blogspot.com/2008/07/obamas-new-statement-on-fisa.html
Ultimately, so many Democrats have gotten surveillance mud on themselves that Obama probably cannot count on his party leaders' support unless he supports this bill.
Or he cannot count on their support once he's in the White House because the revelations from the anti-surveillance lawsuits will be so damaging that many Dems would lose their jobs.
Thus, everything Obama says about this bill is probably an intentional & calculated lie. He ultimately understands that the amnesty must stand or some of his best friends face terrible embarrassment. But, he wants to go through the motions of standing with the anti-amnesty Democratic base, and he wants to persuade himself, perhaps, that he's a moral being, so he's pretending to try to remove amnesty from the bill.
If amnesty fails, for example, he'll have a smaller field of potential vice presidential candidates who lack surveillance skeletons. I read somewhere he wants Dick Gephardt on the ticket. Gephardt sits on the board of Kansas-based telecom Embarq.
Obama has decided that the pain of lying to his most fervent supporters is far less than the pain of betraying his most powerful supporters to the courts.
overlander | 07.04.08 - 10:45 am | #
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!