Mr. Stupak says his stand is a straightforward matter of Roman Catholic faith

The Pope also says, NO RUBBERS!

Read the article carefully and you will see why Stupak will get re-elected in his district.

Last survivor of a-bomb died at age of 93.

Change you can belie…ah, screw it.

Does the president regret those campaign trail promises about negotiating the bill on C-SPAN, the press secretary was asked?
“No.”

At last, a bit of honesty we can believe in.

Morning, all. Don’t miss Gail Collins on Dorgan.

New in 2010

Kossacks are the new sheeple.

Wall Street bankers are the new n******.

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Not sure he was the last survivor, but he was recognized as the only person to survive both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

Typed what I thought I heard on democracynow. Amazing story.

I’m not a Christian, much less a Roman Catholic. I’ll be damned if I let any church dictate to me. Fuck you, Stupak.

Mornin’, BT, pups.

Obama has to be the most duplicitous, hypocritical President since, well, George W. Bush. I agree with Professor Westin’s recommendation that liberal/progressive groups have a sit down and give him an ultimatum that unless he reverses his position in regards to the working and middle class they will mount a primary challenge. He’s either conflict averse, in the pockets of entrenched interests or just way out of his league.

Marion noted also last thread. It’s a great read. Recommend.

Prompted me to write a short piece over at The Seminal…must reassure the mavens of the media that we North Dakotans are up to the task of nominating a solid candidate for the Dorgan seat.

As soon as the wind dies down and we dig out….

Just a little clarification, not a contradiction by any means. He was the only person certified by the Japanese government to have been irradiated at both locations. There were other claims that weren’t validated. Amazing that he lived so long. Also interesting that he worked as a translator for the Americans later on.

Off to read. Are you pushing for Schultz?

Change you can belie…ah, screw it.

I received a survey from the DNC yesterday titled something like “Survey on the President” that asked for a rating on foreign affairs, the economy, health care, Afghanistan & Iraq, and a few other things. I gave him only fair or poor on all. There was a place for comments, and I filled up all of the lines with all of the things I could think of (thanks to Drew Westen’s article, which I reread yesterday, that put them all in one convenient place). It ended, naturally, with a place to give a donation, which I also covered with “NO” and “local candidates only” and “no money for failed Democrats.”

I am sure it will be tossed into the circular file, but it felt good to blow off steam, at least.

democracynow guest points out role Dorgan played in net neutrality.

I guess Obama is second guessing his decision to play down the Umar bomber as “no-biggie”.

Just fyi, I wasn’t able to get into this site all day yesterday, last night and this morning until I downloaded firefox. Just on my computer. The other two in the house were working. And, we’re all on the same network, but my computer is the oldest. Dunno, just thought I’d let the mods or back stage people know.

No problems with Safari 4.0.4 if that helps. I do remember that Westin was commenting about computer problems last night as well.

Wouldn’t connect to server through IE, but Firefox 3.6 beta is working. I only mentioned it because Things said down stairs that it seemed slow and yesterday someone else, can’t remember who, mentioned some problems getting on as well. I am not a computer geek, but because I have access to other people’s computer could see what others were saying.
At any rate, I’m here.

No problems yesterday either here at work or at home. IE at work, Firefox at home.

Very depressing outlook for net neutrality segment just covered on democracynow. Don’t know enough about the subject to summarize it, but recommend it.

Happy for you. I have a personality or genetics or whatever that makes me susceptable to addiction. So, for a moment there, I was a little but, but, but. All good now.

UBS whistleblower is heading to jail, the only one going to jail in the whole mess.

Another plane incident.

What?

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4,374

US KIA Afghanistan: 951

Looks as if icasualties had 2 casualities in Afghanistan that should have been listed under Irak.

Iraki and Afghan casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2010: 744

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Have I told you lately how much Verizon DSL sux?

Doesn’t seem a very bright thing for him to have done. Kinda reminds me of some of the folks who come here and start name calling. A plane troll?

Name like Bradley Birkenfeld. Issue was UBS maintaining illegal accounts in Switzerland to the tune of $20 billion U.S. tax evasion. It’s an amazing story. Apparently he tried to get UBS, IRS, SEC, etc. to listen to the story. Apparently DOJ thought he was an easy mark to scapegoat.

No profiling allowed.

If Ed Schultz runs for Senate, I’ll watch that action on pay-per-view. The wingnuts say he’s just another Franken … as if that were a BAD thing. (I find him personally annoying because his voice sounds to me (a North Carolinian) just like Rush’s, but he seems to stand for most of the right things.)

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more talk of trying to oust Stupak. Are candidates for Michigan’s US house delegation chosen by party insiders or primary? If it’s the former, has there been any interest in taking him on?

As for Obama, I agree…screw it. If no one mounts a primary challenge, I’ll just write-in George McGovern.

RASH PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR

A nationally-known politician will be caught cheating on his wife

A celebrity will enter rehab.

The U.S. will not win the World Cup

Wall Street will prosper; Main Street won’t

Israel and Palestine will not sign a peace treaty

A talk show host will publish a book

Michele Bachmann will say something incredibly stupid

Sarah Palin will say something (on the way to the bank)

TV will bring us “breaking news”

A brave dog will save a child

Sanctimonious Joe Lieberman will draw attention while undermining

Republicans will put defeat of Obama ahead of country

Democrats will mess up legislation with individual agendas

Some Democrats will fail to support Obama because of timidity or special interests

Obama will fail to put LBJ-like pressure on recalcitrant Democrats

Climate change legislation will not easily sail through Congress

Dick Cheney will emerge to issue undue criticism of Obama

Obama will give an superb speech; Repulicans will trash the speech

We will have Madness in March

The NBA season will eventually end

homer http://www.altara.blogspot.com

Or he’s just a politician who likes to win elections, starting strong left with the primary and now positioning strong center for the 12 general. If there are principles or political philosophies involved, they aren’t very clear or at minimum quite fungeable. He has strong pushback today from the right, virtually no pushback from the left where ‘populism’ somehow became unpopular. Is the President better positioned in 2012 against the specter of a Republican majority in Congress. Possibly. So is he worried today. Maybe not.

He may be a blowhard–but he’s a lovable progressive one; I was hoping
he’d run after he gave Barney Frank a ‘hissy fit’ one afternoon when Ed
challenged him on the bank bonus fiasco–resulting in Barney’s now
memorable: “Don’t Condescend To Me” quip. Just thinking of the dynamic
duo of Franken and Schultz teaming up on ‘dog and pony shows’ in the
chamber has boatloads of appeal. Ed: I’m ready to write the check…GO BABY GO.

Talk about having a bad trip. He goes to one city and gets nuked and then returns home and gets nuked again. The only two cities in history to get nuked and he gets ‘em both. Truly amazing!

I thought he was a Swiss national. Why on earth would we punish a guy who did so much good for America? Bizarro world we live in.

Not bad. 29 of 30 is okay, but you need to work on your free throw shooting percentage. Keep it up and in a couple of years you might get drafted in the 32nd round.