Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos fame reports from his “Crashing the Gate” book tour, and recaps for his readers some of the “local buzz” he’s picking up along the way. First stop, WA-08:
Darcy Burner is taking on freshman Republican Dave Reichert in WA-08. She will report numbers of over $300K for Q1, which is impressive. But more so than that, the Washington state blogosphere helped her raise over $90K online in the closing hours of the fundraising quarter without any national buzz. That’s not Daily Kos or Atrios, that’s the local bloggers, and $90K is more than what we “big boys” can usually raise. If that’s not a sign of the growing power and influence of the local blogs, I’m not sure what is.
I think perhaps more than any other race, WA-08 has the potential for being a true testing ground for some of the strategic rethinking Markos and co-author Jerome Armstrong propose in Crashing the Gate. We have a smart, energetic candidate in Darcy Burner, well matched to a district that should be “swing,” but which hasn’t swung into the Democratic column since, well… forever. She is also a candidate that has recognized and embraced the power of the netroots since well before declaring her candidacy.
But equally important, Washington state has quickly evolved some of the most influential and mature local netroots in the nation… a loose coalition of bloggers who have enthusiastically embraced Burner in return. Unlike the high-profile candidacy of say, Paul Hackett, where national netroots raised gobs of money for his Ohio campaign, it was local bloggers who jumped on the Burner bandwagon early, helping to push up both her fundraising totals and her profile — and with zero national support.
Andrew Villeneuve at NPI has been in the Burner camp since day one (almost from the day we first met her at Camp Wellstone,) advising her campaign and personally introducing her to his fellow bloggers. While I waited for the field to shake out before publicly endorsing her, I’d been in regular contact with the Burner campaign for months.
And the relationship has always been two-way: Burner not only actively sought our support, she also welcomed our input and advice. Burner and her staff trust us… and that trust has been returned in spades. When Burner stopped by Drinking Liberally last week to thank the netroots for helping her blow past her fundraising targets, she knew she wasn’t going to garner any new votes — hell, most of us don’t even live in her district. I’m guessing that part of the reason she stopped by was simply to share in the genuine excitement and enthusiasm of a gathering that was about as close as you can come to an election night victory party… seven months prior to the election.
Burner came to this campaign as a political outsider, a designation proven once again in yesterday’s Washington Post, which described her as a “third tier” candidate, citing the Democrats’ failure to recruit a stronger challenger. In fact, the Democrats didn’t recruit her at all. Nearly a year ago Burner told me she was running because she was absolutely convinced that, conventional wisdom be damned, she was the perfect candidate to represent the 8th District, and since then, she’s managed to convince an awful lot of other people, including me.
Would State Rep. Ross Hunter have brought more name recognition, money, and experience into the race? Absolutely. But I sincerely doubt that an establishment Democrat like Hunter could have garnered the kind of genuine grassroots excitement that Burner has generated over the past few months. Burner is for real, not because the consultants and power brokers say she’s for real, but because she has managed to prove herself to the grassroots, the netroots, and the party leadership.
Of course, with her early success comes risks. One of the things that Markos and Jerome rail against is the way the national party steps into local campaigns, bringing in their establishment consultants, and demanding the same-old losing strategies. This not only ignores and devalues the unique insight of local political talent, it stunts their development… and judging by the Democrats near permanent minority party status at the federal level, it doesn’t seem to be working.
But if the national party should respect local perspective and talent then the same should hold true for the netroots, and just as Burner has proven herself to the DCCC, so too have our local netroots proven to our national counterparts our ability to generate buzz and money beyond all expectations. We know the district. We know the candidates. We know the muck that’s going to make Reichert’s reelection a muddy row to hoe. So when we ask that Burner be “netroots edorsed” — with all the money, support, and attention that will bring — we ask the national netroots to trust our local judgement.
Burner has quickly gone from unknown, political neophyte to the cover of Roll Call, and while she and her campaign deserve most of the credit, I don’t believe she could have done it without the enthusiastic support of local bloggers. Now it’s time to help Burner move to the next level, and we simply can’t do it without a little national support.
Markos also saw fit to comment on Sen. Maria Cantwell… and it wasn’t so glowing. Tomorrow I’ll talk about the opposition Sen. Cantwell faces from local Democratic activists and what impact this could have on the entire Democratic ticket.
Hackett, not Hacket…
I saw the Chap on TV the other night and he was a lot better than the interviewer who was an idiot .He has many great points and it is sorely needed for the Democrat Party in order to unload the dead wood that is dragging everyone down. This Country needs two healthy parties to govern in a healthy manner. Today the greatest threat to this country is the mass media and its yellow journalist why of making a point.
Flakey Klake @ 2
To me, you’re the troll most easiest to ignore on HA.org. Your posts are a never ending stream of nonsensical babble and cut n’ paste from wingnut propaganda sources. I hope you see the light and stay put over at (un)SP for their “healthy” dialogue.
Roger and Gang is it fair to believe that Blacks, American Indians and other poor folks do not have documents to prove they are citizens of this country. Do these folks not acquire birth certificates when they are born and have social security cards when they went to school or work? The writer of this editorial must be blowing smoke in my ear, or is this country that backward. For the Clueless disregard for this would be a unhealthy dialogue for yourself.
http://www.nytimes.com/
Medicaid Rules for Immigrants May Hurt Others
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: April 16, 2006
WASHINGTON, April 15 � More than 50 million Medicaid recipients will soon have to produce birth certificates, passports or other documents to prove that they are United States citizens, and everyone who applies for coverage after June 30 will have to show similar documents under a new federal law.
The requirement is meant to stop the “theft of Medicaid benefits by illegal aliens,” in the words of Representative Charlie Norwood, Republican of Georgia, a principal author of the provision, which was signed into law by President Bush on Feb. 8.
In enforcing the new requirement, federal and state officials must take account of passions stirred by weeks of national debate over immigration policy. State officials worry that many blacks, Americans Indians and other poor people will be unable to come up with the documents needed to prove citizenship. In addition, hospital executives said they were concerned that the law could increase their costs, by reducing the number of patients with insurance.
On second thought I put JCH and Klake the flake at even steven. I filter out their babble so well, I hardly even notice they’re here.
Roger and Gang is it fair to believe that Blacks, American Indians and other poor folks do not have documents to prove they are citizens of this country. Do these folks not acquire birth certificates when they are born and have social security cards when they went to school or work? The writer of this editorial must be blowing smoke in my ear, or is this country that backward. For the Clueless disregard for this would be a unhealthy dialogue for yourself.
Because they generally don’t have much access to nifty things like safes or safety deposit boxes. It’s pointless bureaucratic overhead which applies to people which have to jump through too many hoops already. You dumb shit.
Anyways, I really believe the problem with Cantwell is the lack of communication. There’s all this rampant bullshit out there and she’s doing nothing to correct it. If she turns against her Democratic opponents rather than confronting them it will be a huge mistake. She needs to get out in front of this thing while she still can. And she needs to pull progressive on at least one highly symbolic vote.
To be fair, ANWR was a highly symbolic vote, and people just seem to ignore it. /sigh
Government exists to make private wealth possible.
Commentby Belltowner— 3/12/06@ 4:15 pm
I like Castro’s system better. He confiscates the employer’s property, shoots the employer, and the workers get quality health care for free. We need something like that in America.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 3/19/06@ 3:42 pm
…the oil industry is a zero sum game ( like checkers )
Commentby headless lucy— 4/9/06@ 2:56 pm
“…higher PRODUCTIVITY means fewer jobs…”
Commentby Donnageddon— 4/9/06@ 4:06 pm
“Most wealthy people inherited their wealth and haven’t worked a day in their lives…”
Commentby headless lucy— 4/13/06@ 5:14 pm
Shoe – Cantwell’s problem isn’t “lack of communication”. Her fundamental problem is that she’s a fucking idiot. I don’t think she can fix that.
Cantwell is a good Dem. She’s done a lot for us on the environment. But what Kos said is pretty much right on.
It isn’t that they’re disappointed in her positions on issues like Iraq in an effort to appear “moderate” or “centrist”, it’s that she won’t even talk to them about those issues.
If you’re at all to the left of Nixon you pretty much have to vote for Cantwell, and I think she’s counting on that and “running to the middle” – the strategy that’s worked so well for us in the past.
Here’s what she’s giving up by doing that – us. The activists. The people that will give up their evenings and weekends to make phone calls, knock on doors and haul people to the polls in November. I think that is a huge mistake.
I’ll vote for Cantwell, I’ll even tell other people to vote for her if they ask but I’m not going out of my way to help her. I’m spending my time working for the Burner campaign.
Why not turn half of Alaska into a oil drilling field?? Hell, the Russians are drilling the hell out of Siberia and are oil INDEPENDENT!!!! I don’t see libs bitching about Russian drilling…………Gee, I wonder why?????????????? hehe…..
I ignore:
klake
MarktheRawSewage
BIAW’s Dick
J(ust)C(razy)H(orseshit)
Pee-Dookie
Janet (the ignorant slut)
ProudAss
Pope-A-Dope
In no particular order.
POLL: TAX SYSTEM UNFAIR; AMERICANS BELEIVE RICH DON’T PAY ENOUGH
“Despite Reforms, Americans Think Taxes Unfair, Poll Says”
“By WILL LESTER, AP
“WASHINGTON (April 15) – Fifty-eight percent of Americans belive their tax system is unjust – a number almost unchanged from two decades ago, according to an Ipsos Poll released this week.
“People think the middle class, the self-employed and small businesses pay too much in taxes, the poll found.
“And they think those with high incomes and big businesses don’t pay enough. … ”
For complete story, see http://articles.news.aol.com/
No, I don’t know who copyrighted it! I quoted it under the “Fair Use Doctrine.” If you want to know if it’s copyrighted, click on the fucking link and look it the fuck up! I’m not your fucking research assistant. I’m a fucking rabbit!
ROGER RABBIT POLL
Our tax system sucks because:
[ ] 1. There’s too much paperwork
[ ] 2. The rules are too complicated
[ ] 3. Filling out a 1040 takes too much time
[ ] 4. There’s too many deductions for rich guys and not enough deductions for working stiffs
[ ] 5. Rich Republicans are FREELOADERS!
[ ] 6. Klake is a nazi
[ ] 7. All of the above
I ignore:
klake
MarktheRawSewage
BIAW’s Dick
J(ust)C(razy)H(orseshit)
Pee-Dookie
Janet (the ignorant slut)
ProudAss
Pope-A-Dope
In no particular order.
Commentby rujax206— 4/15/06@ 11:26 am
No you don’t rujax. You read every one of our comments…just like you are reading this one jackass!!
Darcy Blah, blah, Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,Blah, blah,
Burner.
Bad Driver…
Worse Liar!!!
“Most wealthy people inherited their wealth and haven’t worked a day in their lives…”
Commentby headless lucy— 4/13/06@ 5:14 pm
Most democrat wealthy people inherit their wealth and haven’t worked a day in their lives. I would agree with that statement. You want me to name a bunch for ya.
Gee…I didn’t think BIAW’s Dick cared.
Sniff.
Sniff.
ROGER RABBIT POLL
The best way to lower taxes is:
[ ] 1. Adopt a constitutional amendment requiring Republicans to pay all the taxes
[ ] 2. Pass a law against waste, fraud, and abuse
[ ] 3. Exempt rabbits from taxation
[ ] 4. Don’t let Republicans hold public office
[ ] 5. All of the above
Pointy-Headed Wingnut @17
Mr. Cynical — glad to see you’re alive! You disappeared for a while, and I thought maybe Mrs. C murdered you, cut you up in the bathtub, and fed you to the raccoons.
There’s something I gotta ask you. How does your washing machine work? I understand the part about how a $100 bill is still a $100 bill after you turn the crank and it goes through the rollers. But what’s inside the rollers that changes the $100 bill from L & I taxes to Rossi slush funds? Just curious.
Click here for photo of Mr. Cynical in his BIAW office with his washing machine. http://users.isp.com//jrschulte/img/ai03.gif
I just read something a while ago that there are now 8.9 millionaires in Murka…more than ever before. There must be a whole lot of inheriting going on. Hey loocy… if economics is a zero sum game, where’s all that money coming from???
Note: The photo of Mr. Cynical and his washing machine was taken in the 1950s. Mr. C is a little older now. Click here for 2001 mug shot of Mr. C: http://www.acclaimimages.com/_.....-5258.html
Rabbit – Uhhh… GWB DID lower taxes. Thanks for the plug..
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“I just read something a while ago that there are now 8.9 millionaires in Murka…more than ever before.”
That was to be expected, now that taxes on Republican FREELOADERS have been eliminated and we’re running $750 billion a year* deficits.
* The real amount after you cut through the “unified budget” bullcrap and subtract the Social Security surplus, which after all comes from dedicated revenues that do not go into the general fund and can be spent only for Social Security benefits.
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“Rabbit – Uhhh… GWB DID lower taxes. Thanks for the plug.. Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/15/06@ 11:58 am”
You’re welcome, FREELOADER! Where do we send the $3 trillion bill for his borrowing?
Flaky klake @2
“sorely needed for the Democrat Party in order to unload the dead wood that is dragging everyone down”
We don’t need some TV talking-head to unload the dead wood in the GOP — the prosecutors are doing it for us! Click here for photo of Republican dead wood: http://www.moroccotimes.com/Pa.....arrest.jpg
And to think Wabbit…. you coulda been one of ’em. But nooooooooooooo…. you decided to forego $200/hour so you could serve humanity, and now 1/3 of your income goes to medical. Bought your ticket to Cuba yet?
if economics is a zero sum game, where’s all that money coming from???
It’s being robbed from the poor and the middle class. Non-supervisory wages have been stagnant since the 70’s. More and more jobs are being exported. Corporate profits are driven by the cheap labor binge. Corporate executives, board members and their lackeys have rewarded themselves hugely.
You ought to know Redneck (the lackey part).
Flaky klake @4
May I see YOUR citizenship papers, please? I have probable cause to suspect you may be an alien life form.
Where do we send the $3 trillion bill for his borrowing?
How could I forget? New millionaires are being minted by helping themselves to money borrowed from Japan and China!
And the vanishing middle class is being counted on to pay for that? I don’t think so.
if economics is a zero sum game, where’s all that money coming from???
It’s being robbed from the poor and the middle class. Non-supervisory wages have been stagnant since the 70’s. More and more jobs are being exported. Corporate profits are driven by the cheap labor binge. Corporate executives, board members and their lackeys have rewarded themselves hugely.
You ought to know Redneck (the lackey part).
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 12:12 pm Karl Marx couldn’t have said it better!!! You libs are just communists. Nothing more or less. Try Cuba, North Korea, or Commie China for your happy Hillary Village!!!! hehe]
if economics is a zero sum game, where’s all that money coming from???
It’s being robbed from the poor and the middle class. Non-supervisory wages have been stagnant since the 70’s. More and more jobs are being exported. Corporate profits are driven by the cheap labor binge. Corporate executives, board members and their lackeys have rewarded themselves hugely.
You ought to know Redneck (the lackey part).
Commentby For the Clueless— 4/15/06@ 12:12 pm ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….[Karl Marx couldn’t have said it better!!! You libs are just communists. Nothing more or less. Try Cuba, North Korea, or Commie China for your happy Hillary Village!!!! hehe]
OK, so how many people have their birth certificate? You know, the piece of paper your parents handed to you when you were 1 day old, which you’ve kept in your wallet ever since? That has always been by your side, that you’ve never lost or misplaced or forgotten where you put it, that never got dog-eared or had coffee spilled on it or was eaten by the dog?
Well, I have a government-bureaucracy story you trollfucks will enjoy, because it tends to reaffirm everything you like to believe about government bureaucrats.
First of all, you should know that I’m not a Seattle native. I’m what biolgists call “a non-native invasive species.” For you laypeople, that means I came from somewhere else and after arriving here ate everything in sight.
When I retired, I needed proof of age to collect my pension. So I went to the web site of the department of vital statistics of my native state, found the instructions for requesting a copy of my birth certificate (which I didn’t have anymore, because a dog ate the original), and sent a check for the exact amount posted on their web site to the indicated address.
For about two months, nothing happened. Then I got a letter explaining my request could not be processed because my payment was $1 short. They had raised the price, and didn’t post the new price on their own fucking web site! … and it took them 8 weeks to print out and mail a form letter telling me they wouldn’t process my request because I shorted them a buck! Meanwhile, I can’t collect my pension and have no income. Fucking bastards!
Yeah, I understand what people mean when they say they hate government bureaucrats, and hate dealing with the government. They’re almost as bad as the typical car dealer service department.
As it turned out, I never did get my fucking birth certificate from the fucking vital statistics department of the State of You’re Fucked If You Need Anything From Us. Fortunately, the bureaucrat in charge of my pension checks is more reasonable than those guys, and accepted my DD-214 in lieu of a birth certificate. That was no problem, because I have my original DD-214! When I got out of the army, I had it encased in glass and kept it in a bank vault, to make sure they could never make me go back into the army again!
It’s not my fault I can’t get my birth certificate! I didn’t choose to be born in a REPUBLICAN state. That was my parents’ fault! If I’d had a choice, I would’ve been born in a Democrat state like Washington. Anywhere Republicans run the government, the government is fucked up.
Does that answer your question why some folks might not have their birth certificates?
In one of the largest sums ever donated to charity by a U.S. public official, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne gave away nearly $7 million last year to help the poor and to medical research…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. [Remember Al Gore’s $400 dollar total charity donation on income of 4 to 5 hundred grand??? Remember Hillary deducting Bill’s used underwear??????? This is sooooooo Democrat classic!!!!!!!]
I really agree with this Darci / netroots commentary –
and tomorrow you are going to give us the DLC style Dem establishment kool aid that “the left” endangers
the candidacy of electable Dukakis who won’t scare the middle and cause us to lose, and by not supporting Duke & by not killing yourself for Duke you are supporting GWB…?
opps, I mean the candidacy of electable Gore who won’t scare the middle and cause us to lose, and by not supporting Gore & by not killing yourself for Duke you are supporting GWB…?
opps, the candidacy of electable Kerry who won’t scare the middle and cause us to lose, and by not supporting Gore & by not killing yourself for Duke you are supporting GWBII…?
the MIDDLE wants NO dobsons or falwells in doctors offices, wants afforable accessable health care, wants accessable and qualtiy education, wants fair taxes and fair pay, wants economic rewards for those who make the next google, semi-conductor, railroad … NOT rewards for those making the powerpoint justifying their fat salary, wants a foriegn policy exporting opportunity for all NOT freedom to steal for only Halliburton and Exxon, …
the lefty Dems are NOT the roadblock to the middle getting what it wants – there are 2 sets of roadblocks:
1. the bushco aristocrats who want us all to be serfs for all of time,
2. the DLC Style sell out Dems who can NOT attract the middle, lead the middle, or even win !
and tomorrow those of us who think doing much of anything for cantwell is a waste of time are going to be told that:
1. if she loses it is our fault … yawn, or
2. some other Dem establishment DLC style kool aid sell on CantfindCantAttractCantLead the middle cantdocrap.
maybe someday you’ll stop enabling the loser wing of the loser party with your support for losers?
rmm.
Given how many states are run by Republicans these days, there’s a LOT of folks who can’t get their birth certificates. Wherever Republicans run the government, the vital statistics department is sure to be fucked up! They can’t run a voter registration roll worth shit, either.
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“if economics is a zero sum game, where’s all that money coming from???”
From a printing press. Bush is printing money like crazy! That’s why everything costs twice as much as it did five years ago.
There isn’t more wealth, just more money that happens to worth less (and, at the rate Bush is racking up deficits, will soon be worthless).
Rabbit – Do you have enough money to move to Cuba? They will take care of you and give you free medical care. I think it would be good for HA to have a “foreign correspondent” so you can keep us filled in on life in Utopia.
Rabbit – M1, M2 or M3?
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“Most democrat wealthy people inherit their wealth and haven’t worked a day in their lives. I would agree with that statement. You want me to name a bunch for ya. Commentby RUFUS— 4/15/06@ 11:49 am”
Okay … name a bunch for us.
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“Rabbit – Do you have enough money to move to Cuba? Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/15/06@ 12:34 pm”
No.
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If you have four degrees, why do you have to ask a rabbit that question? Have you ever seen a printing press that can print M2 or M3? You are a fucking idiot.
An illegal immigrant who tried to bring down a U.S. Border Patrol helicopter by throwing rocks at it was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison, the U.S Attorney’s Office said. Antonio Eretza-Florez, 33, will be under supervision for 36 months after his release for the July 2004 incident. He was sentenced Thursday. Eretza-Florez was a passenger in a stolen vehicle packed with immigrants that a Huachuca City police officer tried to stop. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..[Vote Democrat!!! Bring in another 30 million Mexicans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Sheesh. Even bunnies know deficits create more M1 that has to be processed by the banking system before it ends up as M2 or M3.
Okay … name a bunch for us.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 4/15/06@ 12:36 pm…………………………………………………………………………… {how about Teddy Kennedy, John Fucking Kerry and Al Idiot Gore???? How am I doing soooooooooooooo far??]
Redneck’s brain capacitators are shorting out.
My problem with this blog is that it seems to be about winning elections with only rare glances at what Democrats would actually do if they won.
While I have _always_ voted Democratic, I realize now (and to my chagrin) what that has given us is a pack of zombies at Seattle’s City Hall.
If you can’t do better than that bunch, I see no reason to spend a lot of energy supporting Democrats.
Why don’t the Cubans swim for Haiti???? It’s sooooooooooooooooooooo much closer that Florida, and has a “diverse” culture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gotta love it when the righties get this upset, you know they realize they are in BIG trouble.
Darcy is going to kick Sheriff Dave’s ass. And as soon as we can get some media attention on his past problems with women, it will be even easier.
Good googling Wabbit. Didja learn something? Mission accomplished…
Raw Data calls it correctly.
I see day after day of posts about how much money Darcy has raised, how the R’s are sweating her candidacy, how she is so well-qualified, etc. The bickering back and forth between SP and HA about her (non)credentials has been a pathetic distraction from the real issues that ought to define a candidate. Apparently it doesn’t matter what her positions are, simply having a D after her name is all it takes for the endorsement of most in the HA community. We’ve become a nation of cheerleaders.
Ms. Burner saw fit to send in her law school grades to fend off accusations. That shouldn’t even matter. Let the right wing grow increasingly shrill about it. It makes them look like the dolts in time. It’s a stupid and shallow distraction. By pandering to these questions right out of the gate, Burner has already moved to a defensive stance and is allowing opponents the first bit of leverage in defining her. It seems to me that it is a mistake. Furthermore, by disseminating this information via Goldstein, it calls into question the incestuous relationship between bloggers and candidates.
SP and HA have convinced me that blogs should be strictly regulated for their political operations.
Redneck – Fuck you and your irrelevant questions about money aggregates.
Here’s how the world works at this point in time for your puny mind:
America has been reduced to an oil for paper trade. We need oil to run our consumption-driven economy so we send dollars to Canada, Mexico and OPEC, all of which are countries with smaller populations or small numbers of people controlling the oil production. They can’t spend all of that money so they send a lot of it back here to the U.S. to buy stocks and bonds. This has done two disfunctional things.
One: enabled U.S. corporations to cut costs and fuel their profits by exporting jobs to China and other low cost countries. Are these companies using that easy money to throw off more jobs in the U.S. Hell no! There’s more money to be made doing capital spending in low cost domiciles. Who needs environmental regulations and paying a decent wage?
Two: enabled Americans to buy houses and gas-guzzling cars at low interest rates thinking the value of their house is going to increase, interest rates are going to stay low forever and that they’re going to cash out for a decent retirement.
With corps throwing Americans out of work and into lower paying service jobs, Americans are making ends meet by going into debt, i.e. borrowing on their houses.
Real Estate development has made this whole situation even worse. More sprawl and more consumption means more energy consumption and an even higher need for imported oil and natural gas.
And so the whole vicious cycle repeats.
Another neat side-effect of sending dollars overseas for oil is that the people you send the money to can buy things like your ports for example. So how do you prevent that?
Well one way is to cut taxes on your rich people so they have an incentive to keep owning your countries’ assets. A neat way of making your rich richer.
Another way is ownership restriction laws.
Guess which way we chose?
Roger and Gang another event happen after the nation wide parades on illegal immigration and the deportation has started. Now folks what is the real purpose of the Red Latina and does it support the Cuban style of government or the over throw of this Republic?
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famul.....1520061238
Publisher of Hispanic newspaper in Missouri deported after 5-year immigration battle
ST. LOUIS, April 15 — The publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper said Saturday she will continue her work even though she has been deported after a five-year legal battle over her immigration status.
Cecilia Velazquez was escorted into Mexico on Friday and will be barred from re-entering the United States for 10 years, said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency.
Velazquez, 36, is the publisher of Red Latina, meaning ”Latin network.” She also is president of Radio CuCui, a group that brings performers and commentators to WEW-AM radio in St. Louis
Flaky klake @4
May I see YOUR citizenship papers, please? I have probable cause to suspect you may be an alien life form.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 4/15/06@ 12:13 pm
Funny little rabbit you can get it from Dean Logan. The last time I voted in King Country they would not count my vote for Ron Sims unless I was the one who placed thatvote. Strange twist Rabbit, he almost lost another vote due to his Election Satff.
The comment threads here have gotten so predictable and boring.
Goldy are you reporting your daily Darcy Burner promotions as in-kind campaign contributions? You are starting to sound like Kirby and Carlson on KVI when they were cheerleading for I-912.
58 – Go here. As you can plainly see, you’ll have the comment threads there just about all to yourself.
No wonder the righties are bailing on that lying bitch Harris. Have you seen these polls? The cunt’s getting CRUSHED by the Democratic opponent – CRUSHED 30 points. HE HE HE HA HA HA HO HO HO ! What a fucking looooooserrrrrr!
http://politicalwire.com/
A mainstream candidate like Ross Hunter could have given Dave Reichert a close contest. An extreme candidate like Darcy Burner will get steamrollered by Reichert.
The Democrats made some inroads on the Eastside by running mainstream candidates when Republicans were running extreme candidates. Do a role reversal, and the Eastside will become solid Republican again.
If anyone needs a copy of their birth certificate, you simply need to go this website:
http://www.vitalchek.com/?clicked=1
Back in 2000, I needed a copy of my birth certificate from Mississippi to apply for a passport. I made my request and payment online on the VitalChek website on Monday morning, and had Federal Express deliver certified copies of my birth certificate all the way from Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon.
If Mississippi can send out a birth certificate order on the very same day that it is made via this website, then every other state should be able to do so as well.
Cluless – I suggest you spend some time on a university campus learning how the global economy works. One of my degrees is in International Business…you’re post above is so stoopid, I don’t even know where to start. It is infinitely more complex than you portray it above. Try this: Read a book called “Commanding Heights” or if you’re too lazy to read a book, rent the PBS video of it. It’ll start to give you an insight into what is going on.
Also, I’m one of those people who doesn’t try to borrow myself into prosperity. I don’t finance cars and I don’t take out home equity loans. MOST responsible people are similar to me.
You should pick up a newspaper once in a while too…. the Dubai ports thing wasn’t to buy the ports you dumass. They were going to buy that company that runs some portions of the overall port operations.
Hey Pope – I’m reading a recently released book called “The Box”. It’s about Malcom Maclean and containerization of ports. Facinating story about globalization and economics and the role of corporations, the geniuses behind them, and of government and unions.
The book mentions Port of Seattle as one of the beneficiaries of containerization. Is it possible to get tours of the waterfront?
Richard Pope – there’s nothing extreme about Darcy Burner. Air Force brat, working class family, worked herself through school, position of responsibility at Microsoft, straight A’s in law school.
By your behavior here, at (un)SP and in the public sphere – it is YOU who is on the fringe.
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Maybe it is time for Jeb Bush to run for the U.S. Senate. Bill Nelson is leading Katherine Harris by 57% to 27%. Harris leads Nelson among Republicans by only 45% to 33%.
I like Rasmussen’s number for Washington State much better. Maria Cantwell is ahead of Mike McGavick by only 48% to 40% as of April 4. The margin keeps getting closer — Cantwell was ahead 51% to 36% on January 2.
Mark the Thieving Redneck,
Nobody give a shit about your “degrees”, or your (half-baked) opinion about economics. You are a fucking thief, who has stolen $100 from Goldy. Make good on your bet, you fucking asshole, or don’t show your face ’round here (so to speak).
63 – Redneck – Ok genius. Who owns more of the “commanding heights” of their own economies? The U.S. or Great Britain? I bet you don’t know the correct answer.
Granted, the world is more complex than I’ve outlined but I could have added a few more details and I would have gotten the essential outline pretty much nailed. America employs fewer and fewer of her people in manufacturing. Services aren’t going to cut it because they can be easily substituted by Indians and other English speakers willing to work for less. All Americans can’t work in retail because it doesn’t pay anything and eventually Americans are going to run out of credit to spend.
Have you seen the American savings rate lately? It’s gone negative.
So how about responding in kind instead of name-calling? I know that’s a fruitless request because you’ve been name-calling since the very first post you put up here.
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Darcy looks a hell of a lot more mainstream than Dave
http://www.darcyburner.com/dif.....page_id=27
Hey Redneck – less oil for your luxury SUV. Take a look at these nice pictures.
What a great return on the trillion we’re going to spend in Iraq!
Now Rabbit Pellet this is funny: OK, so how many people have their birth certificate? You know, the piece of paper your parents handed to you when you were 1 day old, which you’ve kept in your wallet ever since? That has always been by your side, that you’ve never lost or misplaced or forgotten where you put it, that never got dog-eared or had coffee spilled on it or was eaten by the dog?
Now we know what the problem with Rabbit Pellet is. He is Jonathan Winters from Ork (Mork and Mindy) where you are born as a full-sized dumb adult and you have pants on for the wallet. Me and my children were born normally as humans where our ambulatory skills were lacking and pants didn’t fit too well due to the diapers!
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Don’t be so fucking stupid.
How do you intend to regulate free speect? Repeal the federal constitution?
ANYWHERE in America all media, all folks, all venues, all public squares. all organizations —- all are given total free speech……
AND the MOST protected is political content free speech. Some big time direct link to democracy and a free society with many differing opinions.
Get a clue. If you thik that this dialogue, or other, has no value, tune out.
MTR likes to brag about his higher education, but knowledge delinked from ethics can be the most dangerous threat to the planet. Consider MTR’s proposal for genocide far larger than that perpetuated by the Nazis:
“There are 6 billion people in the world. 2 billion of them are muslim. That means that all the rest of need to pair up and kill one of them. When we all do that, the problem will be solved. And it really is like a cancer… you hafta get every trace of it… every cell, or it will come out of remission with a vengeance. This also solves the global population problem you guys are so worried about, so we kill two birds with one stone.”
Commentby Mark The Redneck— 12/17/05@ 8:51 pm
The next time MTR arrogantly struts around his “advanced” economics knowledge, remember that his morals are no better than Hitler’s.
PS: Hey MTR, where do you intend to put the bodies?
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All very visible. Port of Seattle made a great decision to install 6 or 7 of the giant cranes for containers in the very beginning of the system. Major capital cost – smart indeed.
They are very much a part of the cityscape at the waterfron.
Orange metal forms, giant scale, industrial and artistic as well.
Hey Thumb:
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Bob – Yeah, I know all that… I’m wondering who the people were and what they did. Who was the champion of the idea in Seattle? Who were his enemies? How were the battles fought?
Aptly named Clueless – Look, you gotta make a decision. You can choose to fight globalization and lose. Or you can embrace it, adjust to the new realities, and be a winner. It’s up to you.
Losers like you can choose to fight it, but in the end you will lose. The forces involved are infinitely larger than a person, a corporation, or even a country. But you have to pull your head out of your ass to understand it.
Or you can embrace it. Figure out what it means to “move up the value chain”. Figure out where the new jobs are going to be and get there. You might have to do some that there “book larnin'” along with some work experience. Don’t wait to be handed a job… find an opportunty… be proactive… make your own future.
MArk The Moron @ 75
Yeah it would have been great if Bush had kept looking for OBL and brought these criminals to justice.
But Bush hates Americans and he had no interest in bring the OBL to justice. He even admitted less than 6 months after 9/11 that he wasn’t “concerned about Osama Bin Laden”.
He pulled the troops out of Afghanistan (cut and run) and started a war on a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.
Bush is an anti-America, anti-troop, traitor.
“MTR is a morally repugnant chilling nazi”
Commentby Mark The Redneck� 4/11/06@ 4:15 pm
MTR @ 75: That debating tactic is very similar to the one used by the Nazis to justify the Holocaust. You’ve learned your lessons well.
Oh, God, JCH is funny.
Finally is love African man-love was too embarrassing even for him and he changes his handle TO A GIRL’S NAME!
God, what a closet queer!
Thumb – Really? How did the Jews terrorize the Germans? Regale us with stories of their attacks against the good German people.
I’m waiting…
I wonder if the righties ever feel the slightest remorse that all of their political candidates have to try to make hay off the backs of 3000 dead Americans who died on 9.11 because MonkeyFace blew through all the warnings from Dems on Osama?
No, I have remorse that Nobel Prize winning Worst President of the Twentieth Century let those assholes in Iran jerk us around for 444 days while he was held hostage in the Oval Office whimpering.
I have remorse that Bubba let attack after attack after attack go unanswered enboldening our enemies to think we had lost our will. I have remorse that Bubba gutted the military beecaue he was so fucking naive to think that evil was a thing of the past.
So now it’s time for the adults to come in and clean up the fucking mess made by kook moonbats of the past.
Figure out what it means to “move up the value chain”.
Where has that gotten you dickhead? Frittering away your life on HA.org? Losing bets you never intend to honor? Filling your head with wingnut drivel?
I’ve outlined the “forces” already and they begin with oil. The only way to battle the oil-paper-land casino is to opt out of it through micro-capitalism, localized production and consumption – it beats working at Wal-mart and hollowing yourself out being a corporate whore.
Redneck – how did we topple Saddam?
Answer: with Clinton’s military.
Redneck – how did we eliminate the Taliban?
Answer: with Clinton’s military?
Where has it gotten me? Ummm… successful and fucking wealthy.
I notice you used the word “casino”. Are you one of those? Do think there’s a difference between Vegas and Wall Street?
Clueless -fascinating… keep going.
Can you explain “micro-capitalism, localized production and consumption”
MTR “Where has it gotten me? Ummm… successful and fucking wealthy.”
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Hey Donna – any luck figuring out what those “low level technical people” in your office do?
How many passwords did you reset today?
Bob from the Lazy B @ 72
“Don’t be so fucking stupid.”
Way to start off a flame, cocksmoker. I’ll dance.
Tell me why Kirby and Carlson were barred from discussing I-912 on air, including forcing the I-912 campaign to claim $100,000 worth of in-kind contributions from Fisher Communications?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....alk21.html
Is that free unregulated speech or does it have an in-kind equivalent value? Apparently a judge thought so.
Shit, even Goldy was there jeering and cheering the shutdown of their enterprise, gloating in June 2005 that, if you can’t beat them, join them.
http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=769
and then ranting for regulatory intervention a month later.
http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=817
Your final point typifies your ignorance and reactionarism.
“Get a clue. If you thik (sic) that this dialogue, or other, has no value, tune out. ”
First of all, dunce, it’s a monologue. There’s only one person talking. Second of all, I didn’t say it had no value. In fact, I said the opposite, that it does have value and it ought to be regulated. Furthermore, if voters didn’t want to hear Kirby and Carlson’s message, then why wasn’t it adequate to simply advise them to “tune out”?
This isn’t partisan bullshit, I want all sides regulated. Ideally, I would love to see Sharkansky’s and Goldstein’s records trotted out for everyone to see. They both stink like shit and are operatives for their respective parties. As far as that goes, so is a good chunk of the blogosphere.
Come out of your ideological fantasyland where you and the family take a picnic into the townsquare to hear the barkers on soapboxes because that isn’t the world we live in.
MTR @ 91 at least I am employed, rather than getting checks from the state GOP for sitting in my trailer lying about how “succesful and fucking wealthy” I am!
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88 – Somehow I doubt it. A successful and wealthy person would be retired in a sunny clime, settled down with the trophy wife making babies and letting others grow his pile bigger. He wouldn’t be frittering away his remaining time demonstrating his ignorance on HA.org.
And why do you think I’m “one of those” if I advocate opting out?
Are you stoopid or something?
81…Yawn………You sure seem interested in me. Some might consider that a little sick. I don’t know you so I have no opinion, but you seem a liitle too interested. Maybe you need some help.
Clueless – No, “one of those” who is too fucking stoopid to know the difference between gambling and investing. Are you?
“Retired to a sunny clime…” Industrious never fucking occurs to you does it. Interesting comment clueless… kinda give a glimpse into your (lack of) character. No wonder you’re a democrat and a fucking loser…
Roger and Gang it is unfortunate it takes a natural disaster to fix corruption problem and change peoples options about their local government. What say you?
New Orleans faces an election like no other
After Katrina, city largely divided over race, money, future
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12332174/
Updated: 7:54 p.m. ET April 15, 2006
NEW ORLEANS – High heels echoing, Ruby Ducre-Gethers crosses the floor of her airy but unlivable home — ear on her cell phone, eyes on the workers replacing her flooded-out walls, and mind on payback at the ballot box.
Across town, Irma Williams says the election for mayor this Saturday isn’t truly an election without her neighbors to vote — but she says it’s past time for street lamps to work outside her temporary trailer.
Alex Beard wakes up a thousand miles away and reads the New Orleans newspaper online, following each day’s campaign news convinced that the storm brought a chance to rescue the city he adopted and then reluctantly fled.
Klake – WTF is wrong with you? Katrina was a racist storm that GWB aimed at Nawlins because he hates black peoples.
We need to spend at least a half trillion dollars to rebuild Nawlins and give everybody who lives there all the money they want for the rest of their lives. Or do you hate black peoples too?
Rex – the supremes will throw it all out.
Some local hack judge, that decision in under appeal.
Cocksmoker – what does that mean, fucking asshole.
What does your homophibic slur have to do with the issue – Stupid pussy eater.
You breeder boys really don’t like it when open homos jerk you around a bit.
I made my own point on the topic, now lets’s see what the courts decide at the top level where constitutional isues are decided.
Fuck you. Stupid breeder.
You breeder boys really don’t like it when open homos jerk you around a bit.
Commentby BOB from BOEING— 4/15/06@ 5:41
……………………………………………………………………………..Er., Bob, Do you “know” Dlaw?? I have no doubt he would like to “know” you.
We need to spend at least a half trillion dollars to rebuild Nawlins and give everybody who lives there all the money they want for the rest of their lives. Or do you hate black peoples too?
Commentby Mark The Redneck— 4/15/06@ 5:39 pm Mark, my respects, but is half a trillion enough?? There were a few thousand homeless blacks displaced. Each should get several million. Maybe more. Maybe they should ALL get homes in the Hamptons, or Cape Cod. Maybe they need homes next to the Kennedy Compond. hehe……..Ask the libs. Anything less would be racist. Oh…taxpayers must pay for everything. Raise taxes because anything less would be racist. [Libs: very classic Marxists]
Dlaw…….A little Hawai’i background news. The New Orleans Levy Board [ALL Democrat….mostly black] LOVED to have their “conference” in Kapalua, Maui each and every year. The “civil servants” were armed with “guvment” credit cards and spent taxpayer money like water at the PGA golf courses and the Plantation Estate for expensive meals and entertainment. Nothing like black “civil servants” with “guvment” credit cards to run up huge bills and ass fuck the New Orleans Levy Board for the cost. Still………………… Somehow Bush is at fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [hehe] Fuck you, JCH
Dlaw…….A little Hawai’i background news. The New Orleans Levy Board [ALL Democrat….mostly black] LOVED to have their “conference” in Kapalua, Maui each and every year. The “civil servants” were armed with “guvment” credit cards and spent taxpayer money like water at the PGA golf courses and the Plantation Estate for expensive meals and entertainment. Nothing like black “civil servants” with “guvment” credit cards to run up huge bills and ass fuck the New Orleans Levy Board for the cost. Still………………… Somehow Bush is at fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [hehe] Fuck you, JCH
Dlaw…….A little Hawai’i background news. The New Orleans Levy Board [ALL Democrat….mostly black] LOVED to have their “conference” in Kapalua, Maui each and every year. The “civil servants” were armed with “guvment” credit cards and spent taxpayer money like water at the PGA golf courses and the Plantation Estate for expensive meals and entertainment. Nothing like black “civil servants” with “guvment” credit cards to run up huge bills and ass fuck the New Orleans Levy Board for the cost. Still………………… Somehow Bush is at fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [hehe] Fuck you, JCH
I thought this was decided in King County – now that I read the link, it was that hotbed of judicial brillance, Thruston County.
Those judges are all in the pocket of the State agencies, and rarely issue any but the most mudane deciaions. They know the appelate path well, and I think they do a sloppy job, knowing they will be appealed in most cases.
By the way – in the modern living room there are more soap boxes to hear than ever in any old tiome public square. It is METAPHOR – not litteral.
Wait until you own cause gets in the same judical jaws.
Viva FREE SPEECH. Viva THE CONSTITUTION.
-I love the fact that JCH, a retiree is concerned about transfer payments when the biggest transfer payment program IS HIS FUCKING SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK-
Commentby LiberalRedneck— 4/14/06@ 6:31 pm [Er……………………………..Lib, I’m 50!!!!!!!! How does one collect Social Security when one is only 50? You fucking dumbass!! Answer the question!!!!!!!!! Hopw totally fucked up are you????????]
JCH – Yeah, you’re right about raising taxes to pay for Nawlins, but they gotta be TARGETED tax increases. It should target those who are “lucky” and rich. Anyone who inherited their wealth should be exempt, but those who worked their asses off should be severely punished.
-I love the fact that JCH, a retiree is concerned about transfer payments when the biggest transfer payment program IS HIS FUCKING SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK-
Commentby LiberalRedneck— 4/14/06@ 6:31 pm [Er……………………………..Lib, I’m 50!!!!!!!! How does one collect Social Security when one is only 50? You fucking dumbass!! Answer the question!!!!!!!!! How totally fucked up are you????????]
JCH – thanks, but already well stocked with names. As you ALL know, Seattle is wide open when it comes to the Gay and Lesbian communities.
108.Mark……No new taxes. The “rich” are paying out the ass already, but you and I both know that. The libs love to “redistribute” other’s wealth “Marxist style” because they haven’t a clue as to how wealth is created. The Democrats all have UNLIMITED needs and someone else always must pay. Disagree and we are “racist” or “hateful” or “mean”. Well, fuck them. Their socialism has failed EVERY time it has been tried. Best regards and with respect, JCH
Bob, you may be gay and a Democrat, but you write well and seem to be productive and respectful of those who pay the taxes in the private sector. My respects.
108..Mark, I understand many of the New Orleans Democrat felons are raising hell in Houston and other Texas communities. Gee, what a surprise!!!
Fuck you, JCH
Comment by JCH — 4/15/06 @ 5:58 pm
Not even with your Dad’s dick!
114, Don………A brillant, well thought out post. Very informative, and really your best work to date. JCH
DON…………….A little Hawai’i background news. The New Orleans Levy Board [ALL Democrat….mostly black] LOVED to have their “conference” in Kapalua, Maui each and every year. [very expensive] The “civil servants” were armed with “guvment” credit cards and spent taxpayer money like water at the PGA golf courses and the Plantation Estate for expensive meals and entertainment. Nothing like black “civil servants” with “guvment” credit cards to run up huge bills and ass fuck the New Orleans Levy Board for the cost. THis is how the Democrats spent the Levy fuds prior to Katrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Still………………… Somehow Bush is at fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [hehe] Fuck you, JCH
DON…………….A little Hawai’i background news. The New Orleans Levy Board [ALL Democrat….mostly black] LOVED to have their “conference” in Kapalua, Maui each and every year. [very expensive] The “civil servants” were armed with “guvment” credit cards and spent taxpayer money like water at the PGA golf courses and the Plantation Estate for expensive meals and entertainment. Nothing like black “civil servants” with “guvment” credit cards to run up huge bills and ass fuck the New Orleans Levy Board for the cost. THis is how the Democrats spent the Levy funds prior to Katrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Still………………… Don, “Somehow Bush is at fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” [hehe] Fuck you, dumb ass lib, JCH
JCH – WTF is the matter wif you? Don’t you know that the rich pay ZERO taxes? It’s time to really screw them because it’s all a zero sum game. Right?
“Retired to a sunny clime…” Industrious never fucking occurs to you does it. Interesting comment clueless…
Industrious? What like your pal, JCH?
And just what are YOU producing besides crap on HA.org?
If you’re wealthy and successful, one would think you’ve EARNED your retirement.
Or maybe you CAN’T retire because you work for the freakin’ mob? That would explain a lot of things. You collect all those pieces of paper at the end of the barrel of gun maybe?
For the Cluesless: Here are the facts about “Clinton’s Military”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/.....f/hist.pdf
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
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1,409,489 1,461,877 1,515,802 1,560,535 1,601,250 1,652,585 1,701,891 1,788,773 1,863,770
National defense 1 …………………………………………………………………………..
291,086 281,642 272,066 265,753 270,505 268,456 274,873 294,495 305,500
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Total outlays …………………………………………………………………………………..
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Golly FTCluesless; the amount was dropping until FY2000 and 2001. I wonder why? Trying to get ALGore erected? Also look at it as part of GNP!!!
Nice try Puddybud but it’s useless to deny that GWB toppled the Taliban with Clinton’s military and added little value to the military that toppled Saddam.
Bob from Boeing wrote this wonderful missive in #100: “What does your homophibic slur have to do with the issue – Stupid pussy eater.”
I have to ask Bob; What is wrong with eating a little pussy? Some of us like eating pussy. Oh shit For the Cluesless will call for my banning.
Also Boeing Bob, most of the homophobic slurs have been directed at you from your side. In fact they use homophobic slurs and short buses in theie descriptions. Don’t you remember in another thread how your good ASSHead friends tore you apart for your Darcy Burner questions. Why do you want to be associated with people of the Goldy Northwest Division of Lunatic Moonbats?
For the Cluesless, yes Clinton did put some money into the budget. Yes Clinton was in for eight years. How about all those officers who quit on don’t ask don’t tell? With the Donko Congress the cuts would have been deeper and you know that.
I suppose it’s time for me to remind you KLOWNS—
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Is your blood pressure up KLOWNS?
I know in your fantasy world where government takes care of you, it is very hard to swallow.
Cynical: when are you going on the road? I’m looking forward to not hearing from you for a while.
Puddybud: Oh! Sue the poor Democrats for wanting a peace dividend after the end of the Cold War. And you don’t think GHWB and his SecDef Darth Cheney didn’t cut the military? As for those officers who quit after don’t ask, don’t tell who the hell needs them? Gays have always served in the military throughout our history just like there’s always been gay Republicans. I guess it’s blasphemy to challenge the military’s proud tradition of going on witch hunts after gays who want to serve their country!
Cantwell has done fine with the Enron scandal.
Ahhhh For the Cluesless, the stinking peace dividend. What happened with this peace dividend? You lost the Congress For the Cluesless! Go back and look at the other reasons these wonderful officers quit. You need a history lesson.
FTC, why do I have to provide a history lesson to your sorry ASS? Oh you were a product of donko schooling!
Puddybud – it’s you who needs the freaking history lesson. Democrats lost the Congress because they lost the South and Appalachia together with a portion of the Catholic midwest. A party that embraces Creationism (see Bush’s endorsement of teaching ID in the schools) and Racism (McCain’s treatment in SC) is no party I want any part of.
If the Republicans choose someone like Frist over McCain that will be the ultimate proof of my point. I heard someone say on the radio just the other day that they’d rather see the Democrats take the White House than McCain get the nomination.
You yourself said the officers quit over gays in the military. Again I repeat who needs them if they want to waste time conducting witch hunts for gays who want to serve their country? Good riddance.
CLUELESS–
YOU are the fucking idiot who bought the “Hybrid” fantasy hook-line-and sinker!!!
Much higher priced vehicles
Poorly constructed
No answers on how long batteries will last AND most importantly, how the batteries will be disposed of in an ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY way.
I guess that’s why you are CLUELESS pal.
You read the hype (BY THE HYBRID FOLKS!) and don’t even ask for answers to the obvious questions.
Of all the Hybrids, the ONLY one I would buy is the PRIUS (and I’d only buy it if I was desiring to die in an accident).
The MUCH, MUCH better alternative is the SMART Cars.
3-Cylinder Diesels….60 MPG….no concern about this battery bullshit.
They are readily marketing in Europe.
Coming to us soon.
CLUELESS is too stoopid to ask simple questions.
He is the typical LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWN SHEEP.
CLUELESS—
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Oh and CLUELESS–
Time to wake up from your other fantasy too cuz:
GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!GEORGE BUSH IS PRESIDENT!!
Happy Easter to Y’all!!
BOZO @ 129
I answered your baloney about hybrid vehicles in the other thread. But I hope you have a great road trip and don’t forget:
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BOZO!!!!
So will she still trust you when she gets blown out of the water in November?
131.
Is that a prediction, and do you wish to make a bet?
122 Puddy
And some of us like not to. I like discussing issues without a lot of name calling. But have no trouble handing it back.
You are right, the blogs per se are loared with anti-gay slurs.
TheBroke Back Mt. era has left some of the goood old boys, even moonbats, a little unhinged.
As for my life, there are several books and movies. Should stop the blogs and get the outlines done.
Happy Jesus Day. Am I the only one who wondered about John the Beloved?
Re: Kirby, john Carlson and “free speech”
You guys, and I think I mean Rex, should really read the campaign finance laws so you don’t sound stupid.
SP and HA are volunteer operations. Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson, such as they are, are paid employees of an FCC license holder making their money out of radio entertainment. John and Kirby used their compensated work time and Clear Channel euipment and bandwidth for political advocacy.
Hey, Rex, if you’re REALLY interested in understanding why the judge decided as he/she did, why not get off your ass and look up the case? You might even learn something. Or are you a know-nothing Republican, ignorant and proud of it?
Is that a prediction, and do you wish to make a bet?
I’m a broke grad student, so I can’t bet much, but sure, I’ve got $50 that says Reichert wins.
DARCY BURNER STILL CAN’T TELL THE TRUTH!
This is an excerpt from an article in the Sunday 04/16/2006 edition of the King County Journal. This story didn’t make it into the on-line edition for some reason — they had two stories about the 8th district race, and only posted one. It is only in today’s print edition.
“Raised in Nebraska in an Air Force family, Burner went to Harvard as a National Merit Scholar and wound up in a high-tech career, ultimately spending five years as a product and group manager at Microsoft. She left the company at the end of 2004 to raise her and husband Michael’s 3-year-old son, Henry. And, she began preparing her political run.”
MAYBE YOU CAN CALL THIS A “WHITE LIE”. BUT WHY IS BURNER SO ASHAMED OF HER ONE YEAR AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LAW SCHOOL, THAT SHE TELLS THE NEWSPAPER SHE LEFT MICROSOFT INSTEAD TO BE A FULL-TIME MOM?
Darcy Burner was so excited on June 15, 2005, the day she filed with the FEC to run for Congress, that she couldn’t control herself. Mind you, this was just five days after finishing final exams for her first (and only) year of law school at the University of Washington.
Burner raced home to share the good news with her husband. She wasn’t paying attention to the cars stopped in front of her to make a left turn and rammed right into them. It was 6:00 p.m. and full daylight. This took place at the intersection of SE Duthie Hill Road and SE 33rd Street in Sammamish, about 9 miles from Burner’s home. Burner caused a four car chain reaction collision, which resulted in two of the cars having to be towed.
Among the passengers were three children in one car and one child in another car, ages between 22 months and 5 years. At least two people were injured in the accident, including someone else’s 3 year old child. Burner’s own son, Henry, who was about 29 months old at the time, was not a passenger in her car.
Source: King County Sheriff’s Office Incident Report No. 05-170074 (Washington State Accident Report No. 1716184)
Too bad Darcy Burner isn’t spending more time taking care of her own small child, instead of injuring other people’s small children through her own carelessness.
Give it a break, Pope.
You know from my posts here and at SP that I am not a doctrinaire Democrat by any means and in fact quiet cynical about, say, our zombies at City Hall in Seattle.
But your attacks on Burner are just so stupid and, in fact, are going to be counter-productive.
If you think she’s a dunce, wait until she says something of subtstance and then attack her.
You are reinforcing my standard line that while the Democrats are idiots, the Republicans are super-idiots..