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Maureen Dowd on Hillary and the Dem Convention : Yes She Can
Hillary Clinton campaigning for Barack Obama August 8 in Henderson, Nevada.‘She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps’By Maureen Dowd / August 12, 2008 While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark … Continue reading
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Obama’s Hillbilly Half-Brother Threatening To Derail Campaign
Cooter and Barack Obama. Photo courtesy The Onion.‘Since Cooter’s emergence on the national scene, the Obama campaign has downplayed the brothers’ relationship’August 14, 2008 BOONEVILLE, KY—Barack Obama’s once-commanding lead in the polls slipped to two points Monday, continuing a month-long … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooter Obama, Family, Humor, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Satire
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Homeland Security Hard at Work
Hack your local subwayby Grant Martin / August 13, 2008 Frequent travelers on any metropolitan subway system know that the two major means for fare tracking and billing are via magnetic strip and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). And every nerd … Continue reading
Undemocratic and Dangerous to American Women
I got an e-mail from a friend who said that anyone who tries to convince another person not to practice birth control, or refuses to provide or fill a prescription for a birth control pill, should have to adopt 4 … Continue reading
Oh, Lighten Up Already !!
Three elderly men are at the doctor for a memory test. The doctor says to the first man, “What is three times three?” “274,” was his reply. The doctor says to the second man, “It’s your turn. What is three … Continue reading
Sisters, This Is an Election We Can’t Sit Out
Senator Barack Obama with Oprah Winfrey in Des Moines. Photo by Jason Reed / Reuters. The visceral, gut-wrenching pain expressed by Clinton’s supporters is real, and at least in my case, has caused me to confront my own response, not … Continue reading
The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili
Georgia president Mikhail Saakashvili.‘Saakashvili was deliberately placed in power in one of the most sophisticated US regime change operations’By F. William Engdahl / August 12, 2008 The controversy over the Georgian surprise military attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia on … Continue reading
Old Glory, Oh Lordy! American Flag Flip-Flopped by Our President
Whoops! Photo by Ezra Shaw / Getty Images. ‘Is Dubya using the flag to make a political statement?’ By Christine / August 12, 2008 George W. Bush seems happy as ever as America’s cheerleader-in-chief at the Beijing Olympics. Too bad … Continue reading
Gentle Rage: Clyde Bellecourt Remembers the Birth of the American Indian Movement
Clyde Bellecourt, one of three founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968.‘We had to create our own institutions. Even today, we can do that all across America.’By Brenda Norrell / August 13, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Clyde Bellecourt … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Indian Movement, Direct Action, Indigenous People, Native Americans, Sixties, Social Action
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Berkeley Scientists : World In ‘Mass Extinction Spasm’
Amphibians are dying even in remote Sierra Nevada.Scientists: Humans To Blame ‘Behind all this lies the heavy hand of Homo sapiens’ By John Boitnott / August 12, 2008 “There’s no question that we are in a mass extinction spasm right … Continue reading
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Pastors Go Postal : The Tacky Trial of Diva Osteen
Victoria Osteen and mega-church televangelist husband Joel. Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown told jurors that she could tell Victoria Osteen was “headstrong” during the December 2005 incident that led to Brown’s lawsuit against Osteen. Photo by Steve Ueckert / … Continue reading
