He was Sec of the navy back when I was on active duty.He is tough,smart and good luck with your swiftboating here,I personally like Wes Clark,but I can see every reason to go with Webb.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day," when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest.

"Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced.

Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who has two young daughters, moved to table Tiahrt's request, setting up a revote. This time, 178 Republicans cast their votes against mothers.

It's just part of a pissy game the GOOPers were playing all last week - but, jeebus....

-by Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail

"..BAQUBA - The water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital city of Diyala, is now running out of water both for drinking and for irrigation. ..."

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Those damn veggies! Involving themselves in our occupation! Why cant they stand up so that we can stand down?

Barack Obama yesterday gave the clearest hint yet that he may consider Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential running mate in the November election for the White House. With the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination close to finished as a contest, Obama began looking beyond his battles with Clinton to the one with the Republican John McCain.

An article from the Daily Telegraph(UK) documenting Hillary’s reinvention of herself from a member of the East Coast Liberal Establishment to Joe Six Pack’s drinking buddy.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch -- whose home and office were recently raided by the FBI --last year shut down a previously undisclosed investigation into the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, according to an internal memo made public Wednesday.

A Florida teacher may have to pull an unemployment check out of his hat after performing magic in front of students, according to reports. Jim Piculas said he made a toothpick disappear and reappear in front of students at the Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Fla., Local6.com reported. He said he later got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he had been accused of wizardry.

The Clinton campaign will be over by this time next week! The two sides must unite to fight a campaign that will get the American voters to focus on the important issues - the potential 100-year war in Iraq and a medical plan to cover the uninsured - to deflect the race issues concerning the candidate, and win back the Republic for the American people.

Is it all over? Wait till Thursday!

Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the United States three years ago, was honored at a gala in Miami. He masterminded the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 on which all 73 on board were killed. We have had an extradation treaty with Venezuela since 1922, and they have asked for him for 3 years. We have not answered.

A little ray of hope:
"A new study shows that very unlikely allies may be helping to clean up these [DU] remains. Marina Fomina from the University of Dundee found that several species of fungi can not only thrive on depleted uranium, but also convert it into stable minerals."

We just got word that in only a few hours, the Democratic leadership will huddle in a room for a closed door meeting on the future of the War in Iraq. Speaker Pelosi will be joined by Representatives Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel and other key leaders to decide their strategy for the upcoming vote on more money for the war.

By the time the funding bill comes to the floor for a vote, it may be too late. The leadership is expected to decide tonight whether to include a timeline in the bill or just give the President a blank check to continue this war. We can't let that happen. Speaker Pelosi has to listen to Democratic representatives who made her Speaker.

"Exit polls show most Republicans who have crossed over to vote Democratic in this primary voted for Obama"

Any howls of rage about Republicans voting in D primaries?

I heard a few when it was assumed that Rs would vote for HRC.

I hear a lot about who did what in the Senate.

For information here's a link which shows where HRC and BHO differed (higlighted in red).

For me there are too many NV (didn't vote) records in Obama's column.

But I think it makes interesting reading, especially if we're interestd in what candidates DO versus what they say.

Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become incoherent. Guards had put him in solitary confinement, and late that night, an ambulance had taken him away more dead than alive. But outside, for five days, no official notified the family of the detainee, Boubacar Bah, a 52-year-old tailor from Guinea who had overstayed a tourist visa. When frantic relatives located him at University Hospital in Newark on Feb. 5, 2007, he was in a coma after emergency surgery for a skull fracture and multiple brain hemorrhages.

The Poll shows dead heat between Obama and Clinton among Democracts. The good news is that both Obama and Clinton have taken a 10%+ lead over McCain. The Republic can be saved!

Fox News Sunday today is relentlessly flogging the Reverend You-know-who . . .

Chris Wallace harped on the Reverend throughout his interviews . . . Meanwhile, as Wallace repeatedly mentions, the Republicans are trying to tie Democratic candidates around the nation (read: the South) to the reverend, for his “damn America” remarks . . .

From a post at First Draft, a little something that made my day:

With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home run cleared the center-field fence.

But it appeared to be the shortest of dreams come true when she missed first base, started back to tag it and collapsed with a knee injury.

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Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases

The following debate between Adolph Reed, Jr. and Melissa Harris-Lacewell on Democracy Now! is linked to here. For those of you with about 120 megabytes of room on your hard drives, and have the mpeg 4 codec, you can download it here. Reed thinks Barack Obama is incapable of getting elected to the presidency, on the grounds that he is a phony who won't be able to withstand the inevitable Republican Noise Machine (though he thinks Hillary Clinton won't be able to, either, for the same reason).

This whole vicious process does nothing to make our Department of Justice look better. The inconsistencies if not injustices can be found at every level:

-Ms. Palfrey's business was prosecuted when reportedly eighty-something other businesses in metro DC are not being prosecuted.

-As ever, the girls are being chivvied into court and into the penal system, and the so-called johns are not.

-A wider social scene that includes a lot of young women acting basically as underemployed prostitutes, and sometimes being married off as such, is driven by corporations in every business from fashion to publishing to lobbying.

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

Check the video -- we see James Carville, George Stephanopolous and Mickey Kantor (chairman, Clinton-Gore '92, Clinton friend since the 70s, Sec. of Commerce under Clinton, and adviser to Hillary '08) going over returns.

Kantor: "Look at Indiana - 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win; those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni***r?"

This shows graphic scenes. It portrays a child on a bicycle which leads to the megalomania of Condoleeza Rice.
It's titled, "Handlebars by Flobots"

The House Judiciary Committee threatened Thursday to subpoena former White House adviser Karl Rove if he does not agree by May 12 to testify about former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's corruption case.

ILWU To Shut Down All West Coast Ports To Protest War, May 1, 2008

The Seattle PI link details how Bush gave back $4 billion in tariffs collected on US timber imports, in return for a "gift" of $450 million to Repug timber interests - just in time to help the R's in the 2006 elections.