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Christopher Michael Neill

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:49 PM

OT - Kucinich barred from Iowa debate

Glenn,

FYI,

"The Des Moines Register has arbitrarily barred Democratic Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (OH) from participating in their Democratic Presidential Debate.

Please register your displeasure, politely, with the Des Moines Register here:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS09/71212029/0/NEWS09

Also, you can, and should, email or call them and register your displeasure. Public debate, regardless of being sponsored by corporate media, should be beholden to equal time rules -- barring Kucinich may not be illegal, but it is surely immoral and unfair.

Call the Des Moines Register at 1-800-247-5346 and protest their private decision to censor a public election. The Iowa Caucus has National Implications and the Des Moines Register is excluding Dennis Kucinich from the Debate based on local politics. If that infuriates you, step up and call the Des Moines Register at 1-800-247-5346.

Better yet, call their Editorial Board too:

Carol Hunter - 515-284-8502

Laura Hollingsworth - 515-284-8041

Those of you calling The Des Moines Register to prtest their censorship of Kucinich, should also email their editors at the following...

Carol Hunter - 515-284-8502

chunter@dmreg.com

Laura Hollingsworth - 515-284-8041

Lhollingsworth@dmreg.com"

(The text is a portmanteau of my opinion - top, and the contact information was posted earlier today by Elizabeth Kucinich on MySpace - bottom)

Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:23 AM
Original article: The GOP's field of dreams

In whose pockets are the Des Moines Register editorial staff?

Well, this is not at all surprising considering that Carolyn and Company have decided to arbitrarily bar Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich from the Dem debate coming up.

Democrazy inaction? What is a portmanteau of Media democracy? Oh, yes, I recall.. its Mediocracy.

Shame on the Des Moines Register!

Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:18 PM
Original article: Flirting with disaster

I see..

..that salon.com hasn't learned any lessons from Kurdt Cobain.

I say leave the poor girl alone, hopefully she'll sort it out. She may be no Cobain, or Elliott Smith, but if the floodlights of media attention don't let up, I see the inevitable story-arc ending tragically.

Friday, December 14, 2007 04:02 AM

All six candidates?

Where were Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich?

Friday, December 14, 2007 04:05 AM
Original article: Harry Reid's FISA games

OT -- Iowa Debate

Glenn,

I'm curious to hear your take on the exclusion of Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich from the last Dem debate.

Friday, December 14, 2007 01:42 PM

@bernbart

What is so nutty about embracing energy reform, peace and progress?

Why is it considered a good leadership quality the willingness to kill and maim with impunity? The American Empire is collapsing, game over. We need to switch gears right away and move away from the "policing the globe" hegemony that has overwhelmingly informed our statecraft and foreign policy aims for over 100 years.

It could be said that pursuing these imperial aims will bankrupt the country eventually; that is incorrect, the truth is it already has -- morally, financially.

Therefore, it is against the self interest of any American, unless they be an arms manufacturer or big oil tycoon, to vote for any candidate willing to play ball with the current FP/imperial aims zeitgeist. The two candidates who most vocally oppose our ill-conceived and poorly executed foreign policy and militarization are Gravel and Kucinich.

War is over, if you want it.

Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:33 AM

@hunthorse

You.. idiot!

Stephen Decatur 1816 " My country right or wrong"

You seem to be saying, in so many words, "if you don't love it, leave it." This is the rallying cry for American Fascists like yourself who pine for the good old days (which never existed). Love it or leave it.. right, so America can be full of pigs like yourself, white-bread, WASP, Republican grease balls. I don't think so. I ain't leaving without a fight.

My country, love it or change it.

Sunday, December 16, 2007 01:37 AM
Original article: I Like to Watch

wow..

Heather..

"The Maria Bamford Show.."

I'm watching all of them right now, rocking back and forth, terrified.

I love it!

Sunday, December 16, 2007 01:50 AM
Original article: I Like to Watch

@Nulla Sallus

I cannot vouch for all of the Adult Swim products, but I can assure you that Seth MacFarlane is no scab:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGqRN1t2ZQc

Sunday, December 16, 2007 04:15 PM

Careful, Glenn

You wouldn't want to be labeled a "blame America first" type, would you, citizen?

Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:28 PM

I just snarfed all over my screen

As I've said elsewhere, it's very easy to point fingers when all the facts are in. -Shooter242

*slowly clapping* bra-vo, the slow horse finally crosses the finishing line (my apologies to stewie griffin).

Thanks for the laugh. Now go play in traffic,

feliz homo-sapiens-sapiens!

Monday, December 17, 2007 05:04 PM
Original article: This Modern World

Imperfect Candidates

Maybe if the lot of you weren't a bunch of spineless diaper wearing equivalent cowards and actually stood up for what you believed, or, better yet, actually believed something (it helps to read, and turn off CNN once in a while) then maybe we wouldn't be faced with choosing from the three most milquetoast Demo crapdidates the beltway Pol machine can throw at us.

Monday, December 17, 2007 06:29 PM

Electioneering

Two things:

First, Dodd actually suspending his campaigning in Iowa to stop this abomination of a bill from passage today in the Senate probably did more for his campaign than being in Iowa all month;

and Second: Senator Obama's tepid non-response condemning telecom amnesty while not lifting a finger to do anything about it has taken him down many notches in my mind, and Senator Clinton's refusal to say anything meaningful at all about this and so many other issues solidifies her place at the bottom of the field (or neat the top of the Republican field).

Monday, December 17, 2007 07:26 PM

@chris sinnard

sounds like someone hasn't had their V-8 today, and has been drinking their Hatorade instead.

screw the MSM, meet the internets. if the fringes are deciding elections nowadays, then i'm riding by the seat o' my pants! huzzah!

Monday, December 17, 2007 10:06 PM

Unitasker

This is what Alton Brown, undisputed king of kitchen gadgets, would label as a "unitasker." Its a toaster, that fries eggs. As other people have pointed out, I have a toaster oven, and it does a hell of a lot more than make Egg McMuffins (two words = "pita pizza"). I think I'll pass on this gadget.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 03:07 PM
Original article: The atheist delusion

why..

is this claptrap still the lead article.. FISA, anyone?

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