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Monday, January 12, 2009 06:25 AM
Original article: What mandate for change?

Bush Dark

These are the same democrats who betrayed the electorate and installed an inexperienced and unqualified senator from Illinois as president.

Many of us knew Obama is more republican than democrat and the rest are slowly awakening to this fact.

Just look at Obama's opening moves......chairmanship for Lieberman (someone who actually campaigned for the republicans), $700 billion in corporate welfare, and a homophobic religious fanatic swearing in Obama.

The republicans really won the '08 presidential election.

Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:32 AM

Centrism is code for status quo

which means the country will stay under the control of organized religion and multi-national corporations.

Sunday, January 11, 2009 08:07 AM
Original article: I Like to Watch

Joss Whedon is the single most creative and talented person in television today

and I look forward to anything he does including Dollhouse.

However I've heard they put him in the same time slot as some huge show like Lost or something which is a certain death sentence.

To the moronic television executives......you have killed countless great shows by putting them up against a top ten show that is on another network.

Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:19 AM
Original article: Is Obama aiming too low?

Obama math.....as logical as his religious views

WASHINGTON — One day after the nation’s unemployment rate jumped to a 16-year high, President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday again raised the estimate of how many jobs would result from his economic recovery plan, now saying it would create or save three million to four million, nearly 90 percent in the private sector.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/us/politics/11radio.html

Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:17 AM
Original article: Bill Moyers on Israel/Gaza

Stop! or I'll yell stop again

Criticism by international watchdog groups over the increasing death toll in Gaza mounted this week as the first legal actions inside Israel were launched accusing the army of intentionally harming the enclave's civilian population.

The petitions -- over attacks on medical personnel and the shelling of United Nations schools in Gaza -- follow statements by senior Israeli commanders that they have been using heavy firepower to protect soldiers during their advance on built-up areas. "We are very violent," one told Israeli media.

There is also growing evidence that Israeli forces have been firing phosphorus shells over densely populated areas in a move that risks violating international law by inflicting burns on civilians.

The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, meanwhile, called the events in Gaza a "new Nakba", referring to the catastrophe that dispossessed the Palestinians in 1948. The Palestinian Authority revealed that it was planning to seek the prosecution of Israel's leaders for war crimes in the international courts.

The legal challenges follow a wave of Israeli attacks on schools, universities, mosques, hospitals and ambulances in the past few days.

http://www.alternet.org/story/118686/%27we_are_very_violent%27%3A_israeli_war_crimes_mount_/

Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:02 AM

The black community attacks the gay community at every turn

from Prop. 8 to rappers advocating violence against gays to atheletes saying they don't want gay people on their teams to

black preachers saying they are "in a war with homosexuality" yet some still try to blame the victim.

If no black votes were counted regarding Prop 8 (either for or against) it would not have passed.

African Americans are clearly to blame for trying to take away the rights of gays/lesbians along with organized religion.

Friday, January 9, 2009 05:31 PM

Dean headed the "let all the Iraqis die so the democrats can win an election" campign

I'm sure Obama would like Dean out of the picture asap.

Friday, January 9, 2009 05:28 PM

So they pick the most liberal areas of the state (except for SD) and then only use 2/3s

of the vote totals to reach their conculsions.....that's some study you guys got there. LOL

Friday, January 9, 2009 07:41 AM

Caroline Kennedy is the Paris Hilton of politics

Talk about a spoiled and privileged tool who has done absolutely nothing to earn the right to represent anyone.....oh wait that's Obama too.

No wonder they get along so well.

"But something happened last January as Caroline was pushed by her Uncle Teddy to come out for Obama. The Kennedys, blindsided by the success of pea-picking, penny-ante, polyester-wearing provincials like the Carters and the Clintons, were never all that delighted when Bill Clinton’s wife commandeered RFK’s old Senate seat. Keeping Hillary out of the White House pulled Caroline off the sidelines as much as enthusiasm for Obama, who so shrewdly and assiduously courted the Kennedy blessing. Some of Caroline’s veiled dislike of Hillary was perhaps also vigor envy. No self-doubt in Hillary. No fear of the fight".

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-05/caroline-the-reasons-why

Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:44 AM

Let's cut to the chase

Paris Hilton '12

Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:26 AM

Burris and Caroline.......dumb and dumber?

But something happened last January as Caroline was pushed by her Uncle Teddy to come out for Obama. The Kennedys, blindsided by the success of pea-picking, penny-ante, polyester-wearing provincials like the Carters and the Clintons, were never all that delighted when Bill Clinton’s wife commandeered RFK’s old Senate seat. Keeping Hillary out of the White House pulled Caroline off the sidelines as much as enthusiasm for Obama, who so shrewdly and assiduously courted the Kennedy blessing. Some of Caroline’s veiled dislike of Hillary was perhaps also vigor envy. No self-doubt in Hillary. No fear of the fight.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-05/caroline-the-reasons-why

Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:19 AM

Gaza and the pope

It's been a difficult few weeks in popedom: First, Pope Benedict XVI raised some eyebrows when he compared the need to eliminate homosexuality to saving rainforests. Now, he may have to cancel a planned trip to Israel after the head of the Vatican Council for Justice and Peace compared Gaza to "a big concentration camp." Pope Benedict is German and, as a child, was enrolled in the Hitler Youth. Israel and the Vatican are also at odds over the beatification of Pius XII, the WW II-era pope who remained silent during the Holocaust—a move that would put him on the path to sainthood.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5473588.ece

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