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John Edwards is IN…….WHERE is AL GORE?

John Edwards’s endorsement yesterday of Barack Obama leaves former Vice President Al Gore as the major Democratic figure still on the sidelines in the party's presidential race. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator who ended his own bid for the nomination in January, said Obama is the candidate who can unite Democrats for the ``fight of our lives'' in the November election. Sounds great.....but where is Al Gore?

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EDWARDS SUPPORTS OBAMA —- FINALLY!

As I write and publish this, North Carolina Senator John Edwards, former candidate for President of the United States, FINALLY came out to support Senator Barack Obama for the job. He has waited what appeared to be the longest time to make this decision which says much about the man and even more about Senator Hillary Clinton’s last ditch, desperate attempt to hold on to the hope that she still had a chance. BARACK OBAMA – 2008

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“Don’t Bomb Iran,” says Chairman John Conyers

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers warns, "The drumbeat to war with Iran is getting louder." With only a few months left in the Bush Presidency, it's tempting to sit back and wait until November. But belligerent rhetoric and fear mongering about Iran is on the rise. In the latest example, George Bush's mouthpiece, General Petreaus, claimed that Iran's involvement is "the greatest long-term threat to the viability of a democratic Iraq." John Conyers, is so worried that he is now circulating a letter to his Congressional colleagues "to register our strong opposition to possible unilateral, preemptive military action against other nations by the Executive Branch without Congressional authorization".

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KEEPING THEM HONEST

Whatever Happened ot the Victims of Hurricane Katrina?

Whatever happened to the victims of [tag]Hurricane Katrina[/tag] which was one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made land-fall in the United States.
At least 1,836 people lost their lives as a result of hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. The storm is estimated to have been responsible for $81.2 billion (2005 U.S. dollars) in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.

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May 15, 2008 | Read the story »

John McCain May Have Difficulty Telling the Truth

Was John McCain “hijacked by the right” subsequently “selling his soul.” as Arianna Huffington has claimed? Did he cast his vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Did he disclose this to Arianna and a cast of actors, and a few other unnamed folks who say that he told them no. Why is this such a big deal? It isn’t, other than the fact that he either is or is not lying which speaks to his integrity. If he finds no difficulty in lying about little things, things of no real consequence, then what happens when something of serious importance occurs? THINK ABOUT IT!

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May 10, 2008 | Read the story »

Condoleezza Rice: Teflon No More?

For years, Condoleezza Rice has largely escaped the kind of criticism heaped on others in the administration — especially President Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — for the foreign policy disasters of the last seven years, including the Iraq war and the failure to halt the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea. The good news is that unearned coating of teflon may be flaking away.

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May 6, 2008 | Read the story »

POLITICS

Did You Hear That The Racists Are Deserting Hillary Clinton?

Hillary Clinton’s remaining advocates have said that she was only ‘telling it like it is,’ albeit with what they’d call a little awkward phrasing, when she told the AP last week that “hard working Americans, white Americans” will never vote for Obama. Okay. As long as we’re telling it like is, let’s go for it: Phrasing aside, when it comes to a avidly racist percentage of white working Americans she’s right. But the problem is, a lot of those voters probably won’t vote for a woman either. In fact, it could be the only way they’ll vote for a woman is if her opponent’s black (and she’s not).

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May 14, 2008 | Read the story »

Hillary Clinton - HOT LICKS #23

HERE ARE SOME OF THE HOTTEST AND MOST CURRENT STORIES ON HILLARY CLINTON: A West Virginia Win Is Unlikely to Help Clinton
Forbes - NY,USA
Voters in West Virginia will head to the polls for the primary on Tuesday, and the numbers favor Hillary Clinton. The key demographics: 95% of the state’s …

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May 12, 2008 | Read the story »

Are Young Evangelicals Leaving the Republican Party?

Somewhere along the way, the lines were drawn by the evangelicals of the “Religious Right” as they adopted the Republican party solely because they supported a few specific policies, such as, abortion and homosexuality. It’s was as if they were saying that all of the other issues were of little significance and that the “leader of the free world” should be decided by their clearly defined “religious values”……seems crazy, doesn’t it?

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May 12, 2008 | Read the story »

SOLVERS AND SOLUTIONS

Pangea Day - Will Bring the World Together Through Film

How Pangea Day came to be is an extraordinary story in and of itself as it was created in 2006 when documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize. Jehane wished to use film to bring the world together. May 10, 2008 will be the first Pangea Day event.

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April 14, 2008 | Read the story »

Senator Jim Webb Fights to Give Our Returning Military the Benefits They Deserve

Many of our military members serve two or three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been receiving little in terms of benefits from the country they so selflessly served.

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March 21, 2008 | Read the story »

Angelina Jolie Advocates for Real Victims of Iraqi War

Actress and humanitarian activist, Angelina Jolie, has been a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador since 2001 and is now working on behalf of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Most who have followed her exploits know that she has focused primarily on the plight of Africa with a specific interest in Darfur…and nor Iraq.

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March 1, 2008 | Read the story »

GOLDEN FLEECE AWARDS

Halliburton and KBR - Where Do They Get Their Carte Blanche?

Congress has held only a handful of official hearings into contractor abuse and fraud including that of Halliburton and its subsidary, Kellog, Brown & Root (KBR), the largest contractor in Iraq.. The House Committee on Government Reform has held only four full committee hearings into the matter since the war began while the Senate has held only one hearing. —WHY?
In other words, Congress has delegated nearly all of its oversight responsibilities required by the Constitution to officials at the Pentagon even though military auditors discovered $8.8 billion in taxpayer funds went missing in Iraq while another $12 billion in cash was disbursed without any record of how it was spent. —WHY?

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May 10, 2008 | Read the story »

Nelson Mandela Adds Terrorist Watch List to Resume

Today’s “Golden Fleece Award” goes to the Department of Homeland Security, its Secretary, Michael Chertoff and Secretary of State, Condoleezza “Condi” Rice for their dilligence in maintaining the U.S. Terrorist Watch List.
Would it be difficult for you to beleive that a Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom was flagged and put on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA.? Well, it’s true!

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May 8, 2008 | Read the story »

INSIGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS

Bush Administration Assists Afghanistan with Opium Production

There has been a dangerous, but very interesting shell game going on in the opuium fields of Afghanistan that is primarily dictated by the policies of the Bush Administration and carried out by the United States Marines as they sleep beside a grove of poppies in the world’s largest opium poppy-growing region surrounded by green fields of the illegal plants that produce the main ingredient of heroin

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May 7, 2008 | Read the story »

Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s Not So Hidden Agenda

Barack Obama initially reported that his now former jeremiah wright, Reverend, the man who mentored, married him, and baptized his daughters was a man that he respected and trusted to guide and do right by him…

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April 29, 2008 | Read the story »

Arianna Huffinton Exposes Mainstream Media’s Bizarre Hires

Arianna Huffington, one of my idols in the blogosphere, shares her thoughts on some of the very bizarre and certainly suspect action by the mainstream media…

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April 25, 2008 | Read the story »

Bill Maher’s Comment on “The 100 Years War”

In the past 24 hours, Dick Cheney has been in Baghdad, calling the Iraq War a “successful endeavor.” John McCain’s there too, and actually uttered those four magic words, “the surge is working,”….which only differs from Cheney’s analysis in the scary possibility that McCain might actually believe it. Then again, maybe Cheney’s pronouncement can be chalked up to youthful exuberance — after all, he’s almost 5 years younger than McCain.

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March 22, 2008 | Read the story »

Money Can Buy Happiness - But There’s a Catch - You Have To Spend It On Others

The Bible counsels misers that it’s better to give than to receive……and science agrees. Money CAN buy happiness – but there’s a catch…. you have to spend it on others!

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March 21, 2008 | Read the story »

Soldier Blogs Connect the War Front with the Home Front

There are hundreds of so-called “soldier blogs”, some amazing, others incomprehensible. They include Air Force computer technicians writing about hardware problems, Army lawyers describing jogging in the Green Zone and a military nurse sorting pensively meditating on the wounded.she is tending to.

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March 17, 2008 | Read the story »

Larry David - In His Own Words Commenting on Hillary Clinton

Those of you who are fans of Seinfeld and/or Curb Your Enthusiasm are intimately familiar with Larry David. The comic genius that has made a fortune with one sitcom presumably about nothing and another pseudo relaity show about this same sitcom creator living life on lifes terms and fucking up daily, unable to get out of his own way

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March 8, 2008 | Read the story »

BRAIN FOOD

Albert Einstein Was Much More Than a Scientist!

The word genius and the name Albert Einstein has been synonymous for as long as I can remember. He is best known for his theory of relativity, and its equation, E = mc2 and receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 and is one of the recognized people in history, especially after being named Time magazine’s “Person of the Century” in 1999. As the father of relativity, his previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954. As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they “have no different quality for me than all other people”. Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people…..

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May 14, 2008 | Read the story »

Oliver Stone’s Bush Bio, “W” Will Hopefully Show the Ugly Truth

“How did George Bush go from an alcoholic bum fending off the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, to become the most powerful figure in the world?” Oliver Stone asked these questions and more including Bush’s belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and launch a pre-emptive attack on Iraq in his new movie titled, “W”.

Stone asked and will answer these questions in “W”, which could begin filming as soon as April and be released in time for Bush’s departure from the Oval Office, and the following presidential election in November.

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May 11, 2008 | Read the story »

The Simple Arithmetic of Energy Independence

All of the hoopla over eliminating our dependence on oil from the Middle East thereby giving the United States genuine energy independence is just another diversionary tactic by political hacks to avoid looking at and dealing with the real issues…

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May 5, 2008 | Read the story »

Only Barack Obama Can “Turn the Tide”

Is Barack Obama the answer? It may be possible for Hillary Clinton to show up at the Oval Office on January 21st, 2009 and perform the duties of President of the United States. HOWEVER, America, our wounded and ailing country needs so much more than a custodian to mind the White House store for another four years, making minor, insignificant changes so they can issue press releases tooting their own horn.

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March 26, 2008 | Read the story »

Vote for Equality - Women Fight for Their Political Voice

Just 100 years ago, women didn’t have a voice in U.S. elections. The suffragist movement changed that, eventually allowing them to hold the highest offices in the land.

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March 17, 2008 | Read the story »

The Amero and the North American Union - Fact or Fiction?

NEWS FLASH: In 2005, the leaders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico have agreed to merge their countries into one entity by 2010 and will be known as the North American Union along with the Amero, a Euro-like currency that will replace the dollar and peso.

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March 6, 2008 | Read the story »

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