Hey, I'm first tonight. :coolsmile:

Congratualtions snoli, you have just won a valuable prize!

s the opening statement from Saturday’s show going to be posted on “Common Dreams”? It needs to be preserved for prosperity.
Posted by snonli on 04/10 at 07:08 PM
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Hope so. I tell ya, I was worn out after last night's show. Really got my money's worth that's for sure. :cheese:

OOh, OOh, What did I win?
Posted by snonli on 04/10 at 07:10 PM
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By law we can't tell you here just keep checking your mailbox. :roll:

http://ariannaonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22557

Arianna talks about Bush in Italy...

HOY BLOGKINS!

i have a question about the BUSHWOMEN panel this week @ nyu!

i've been trying to call to rsvp for tickets, but i keep getting a voicemail that doesnt mention anything about the panel!

does this mean theres no room left?

On Saturday's commentary -- it's not fully written up yet, but I'll try to get to it and get it to CommonDreams tonight... Glad you liked it.
Let's Party!

Will Pete be joining us tonight?

I think Pete is stranded on a desert island named 2004 taxes...

Here is a link to a blog by a woman who lives in Iraq.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

Here's another of Interest!
Shades of Vietnam Again, Guerilla's/Insurgents don't need only Explosives to get Message Out, Populace Will as they Shield the Insurgents!!
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Millions Said Going to Waste in Iraq Utilities - Another Way To Make The Point, Get Out!!

THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-waste10apr10,0,3572459.sto...

Millions Said Going to Waste in Iraq Utilities
A coalition memo says water, sewage and power facilities rebuilt with U.S. funds are falling into disrepair. Iraqis say they need more money.
By T. Christian Miller
Times Staff Writer

April 10, 2005
SNIP

James Starowicz
USN '67-'71 GMG3 Vietnam '70-'71

On Saturday’s commentary—it’s not fully written up yet, but I’ll try to get to it and get it to CommonDreams tonight… Glad you liked it.
Let’s Party!
Posted by Lflanders on 04/10 at 07:19 PM
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I'll drink to that! :lol:

Good evening from ustate NY!

George Miller ( D-Rep.)
"Organize and force us to catch up."

The challenge to the electoral malfeasance in Ohio provided an early example. Inside the Beltway, protesting the President's electors was unimaginable.

But progressive organizers, together with third-party activists, liberal lawyers, Internet muckrakers and civil rights groups, kept the heat on. Representative John Conyers responded with a report detailing the outrages in Ohio, where the Secretary of State--shades of Katherine Harris--was co-chair of the Bush campaign. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and others called on senators to support progressive House legislators who were demanding a debate.

When Senator Barbara Boxer stood up, the public learned more about the shabby state of our democracy and the need for drastic electoral reform.

The lesson is clear: When progressives move, Democrats will follow.

"Don't expect this place to lead," says Representative George Miller. "Organize and force us to catch up."

Do you know what's really HILARIOUS ?

If the PDA hadn't busted the Ohio FIX wide open, the public would have most likely slept through the OLYMPIC scale raping of the NYC Metro taxpayers and snored though the minutia of handing over what remains of "West Side Story" territory over to the Res/Mitnich/born again Koch's without even turning to prevent bed sores.

Funny how the NATIONAL mindset manipulation by the NEOCONS reminds us that BEDBUGS really do bite and righteous/green exterminators are essential to keep the melting pot from rusting through.

Gentrification is nice, but if you annihilate diversity using unethical practices, it will come back to bite you, if not draw and quarter, tear you limb from limb without malice, prejudice or remorse ( Who's Rodney King? ).

What's the PDA you ask?

VIDEO LINK [ http://www.pdamerica.org/video/2005_DC_Summit/PDA-2005-Promo-HIGH.rm ]

Vodka gimlets, if you don’t mind!
Posted by Lflanders on 04/10 at 07:46 PM
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Don't mind at all! vodka gimlets it is!

hic! ;-)

hey... it wasn't the PDA that broke the Ohio election fix. It's Bob Fitrakis' website: www.freepress.org

If Memory Serves Me The Afgan Women Weren't To Happy With 'Pickles' Visit, Don't Remember If They Wrote About It But There Is Plenty At A Site Some Have Had Up Since The Taliban Fell:
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
http://www.rawa.org/

Speaking of Riverbend—the Baghdad woman blogger—the Feminist Press is about to publish the first year of the blog as a book—blurb by yours truly

Posted by Lflanders on 04/10 at 07:49 PM
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Thanks for the Info Laura
She's Good and Honest at that!!!!!

hey… it wasn’t the PDA that broke the Ohio election fix. It’s Bob Fitrakis’ website: http://www.freepress.org
Posted by srose14 on 04/10 at 07:49 PM
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..it only costs $12/yr to subscribe to the freepress, just thought I'd mention that. ;-)

Bob had a nice chat with Marty this weekend didn't he?

I know what I want Harry Reid to say...

[i][b]"I'd like to yield the balance of my time to the gentlelady from California, Senator Boxer please take over."[/b][/i]

the paid subscription is pretty different than the website, which is free and much more extensive…
Posted by srose14 on 04/10 at 08:04 PM
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True, but just cuz it's called the "freepress" doesn't mean they don't have bills! :lol:

I'm thinkg a Boxer/Tubbs-Jones ticket would really shake 'em up wouldn't it?

Hey raine! Welcome back and pardon my manners. :red:

Don't know how many New Yorker's there are out there, but this story appeared at Dailykos.com today.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/10/112317/193

It seems as tho there is a strong push to replace the voting machines with With touchscreen electronic machines.

Currently they are looking for people to start making phone calls to legislatures.
Just an FYI.

ok, I have to go back to listening.

Watching 60min, just announced that the Italian Reporter held in Iraq and Shot by U.S. Troops will be on the Wednesday 60min.
Should be an Interesting Interview!!!!!!!!!

Is there any way to defend Kate O'Beirne ( BIO http://tinyurl.com/5jtax ) for speaking on behalf of DeLay's transgressions on Meet The Pres today?

The published Transcript for April 10 below, IS NOT WHAT I HEARD ON THE REBROADCAST ON WLIB AT 6PM THIS EVENING. It's almost as if she had the chance add third person reverences when she said "I" during her appearance.

MR. RUSSERT: "A 3rd DeLay Trip Under Scrutiny. 1997 Russia Visit Reportedly Backed by Business Interests." And then The New York Times the same day: "Political Groups Paid 2 Relatives Of House Leader Over $500,000 Since 2001. DeLay Wife and Daughter Got Money for Work Tied to Campaigns."

This prompted Tom DeLay to say this. He "angrily dismissed [the] newspaper accounts...In an interview with CNN...He called the article `just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me'

MS. O'BEIRNE: I believe that he's been singled out, and his colleagues agree. Trips funded by private groups that are not uncommon. The story this week about Tom DeLay's wife and sister--and daughter being paid about $50,000 a year in private campaign funds to work on the campaign. That is not an uncommon practice. That particular story about Tom DeLay's family was reported two years ago, and so they highlighted that story as a perfect example of the kind of attacks that are being made against Tom DeLay.

MR. RUSSERT: Is Congressman DeLay accurate in this attack on the judiciary about Schiavo?

MS. O'BEIRNE: Well, what bothers him and I, I think he has quite a bit of company in this concern on Capitol Hill, is that Congress passed a law asking the federal court, only asking them, Tim, to take another look at the facts.

That single judge, Greer, you cited is the only one who ever had the factual finding and, of course, it was given real deference as that case was appealed up through the states and the federal courts. They wanted a new look at the facts to make sure federal rights, which we all have under the 14th Amendment in her case, Terri Schiavo, weren't violated. Many members are extremely bothered at what they consider the judges' flicking away the congressional law.

One judge, in dissent, one federal judge, chastised his two colleagues for doing that, explaining, you know, "Congress didn't pass this and have the president sign it for no reason. We do owe real deference to this federal law." So I think he has plenty of company in being bothered by that.

LINK [ http://tinyurl.com/7y9we ]

If Giuliana is giving interviews now, Laura you might try for one and let it be known if you can get one, Ratings would Fly!!!

i hope there is room left @ the BUSHWOMEN panel!

Please don't Mention 'Kate OÂ’Beirne', I keep getting the feeling she and the schrub are using Bill's and Monica's HallWay Spot!
What an Arrogant Ignorant Witch and how she got up to the top of the line of Talking Heads is beyond me!!!

>> Speaking of Riverbend—the Baghdad woman blogger—

Has anyone else noticed how we use the noun "woman" as an adjective, and don't do the same with the word "man" (we always use the adjective "male") ?

http://myfugue.blogspot.com/2005/03/woman-used-as-adjective.html

I've heard "woman" used as an adjective in movies from the 1930's, so it's not a new phenomenon. In patriarchal societies, men are seen as the norm, the default. So often we specify gender when the individual in question is a woman, but not when it's a man. For example, if someone is talking about a doctor, they would assume you know it's a man and therefore they wouldn't specify gender. But if it's a woman, they would say "the woman doctor".

But that's not what I'm trying to say. What I want to know is, when we DO specify gender, why do we use a noun as an adjective when the individual is a woman? If people were simply trying to specify gender, they would say "the female doctor", not "the woman doctor".

I'm guessing that it started when women starting moving into non-traditional fields and activities. Today people don't even think twice; they don't even seem aware that they are using a noun for an adjective. I've even heard sentences such as "women doctors now outnumber male doctors" - totally non-parallel forms in the same sentence!

But originally, I think that by using the noun "woman" instead of the adjective "female", the speaker was using a code to indicate his disapproval. Think about the tone usually used when someone says "woman driver". I think that's probably what was conveyed back then whenever the noun "woman" was used as an adjective.

And another feminist issue I have - think about the Viagra commercials and how the couple thinks they can't have sex if the man has an erection problem -

http://myfugue.blogspot.com/2005/04/sexism-in-sex.html

Imagine if we had a matriarchy where sex was decreed to be men performing oral sex on women. Occasionally the women would want intercourse and the male would have an orgasm, but it was considered foreplay and not a real part of sex. Most often, sex would involve men performing oral sex on women and nothing more. Women would have an orgasm and the men would just be happy to satisfy their partners. That doesn't seem so fair, doesn't it?

And a Republican as NYC mayor who claims to have been a Democrat.
Posted by snonli  on  04/10  at  08:28 PM

Bloomberg has his own special identity crisis!

There were hundreds of thousands of protesters in Iraq over the weekend demanding the USA leave Iraq. The new president of Iraq, a Kurd, wants the USA to stay. We are building permanent bases in Iraq, yet today Joe Biden said the USA will lessen the troop involvement in Iraq. Maybe Greg Palast can help sort out the real story of future US intentions in Iraq in relation to the oil our government wants and the fact that a large amount of Iraquis want us out.

I saw an ad on TV for the NY Post. They are promoting a 5-part glossy magazine on Pope JPII to run next week. Will it mention his opposition to the invasion of Iraq? Is it being used as a cheap stunt to boost circulation?

I guess we already know the answers to those questions.

Oh that wacky KTLK, now it has Laura (crossing fingers for last hour). Though its non-functional web site has something about Jesse Jackson starting the 17th.

Not that the web site has ever been right yet. It still has Unfiltered.

Manners pardoned!
Posted by raine1967 on 04/10 at 08:13 PM
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Thanks, this calls for another drink!!! :lol:

You find some real gems in the "leaked" Diebold e-mail. The machine didn't work the day it was demonstrated to the CA secretary of state. Some piece of hardware was jammed, but nobody tried to use it so they didn't notice.

Sec. of state's tech guy at the time reported that the Diebold was the only one he hadn't been able to hack by cracking default passwords. He'd gotten into one of the other ones from a Palm Pilot.

Dean Outlines Plans for Support in States

Fri Apr 8, 3:52 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Friday that the national party will invest almost half a million dollars in state parties in Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota and West Virginia.
All four states were won by President Bush in the 2004 presidential election.

"This is just the beginning," Dean told state Democratic chairs at a meeting of their association in Little Rock, Ark. "We will announce additional investments in the weeks ahead."

Dean has been to 14 states in his two months as chairman and has pledged to build state parties all across the nation, including in states dominated by Republicans.
http://tinyurl.com/47sk4

Those Electronic machines just smell bad to me allover.

I like my lil' old fashioned pull the lever machines.