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One of my favorite blogs, DownWithTyranny has just informed me that today is Ashwin Madia Blog Day. Ashwin Madia is running for the Jim Ramstad seat in MN-03.
Ron Paul's peeps are moving his Sept 2nd GOP upsetters meeting to the Target Center, a larger capacity venue, because of increased enthusiasm. How much more drama can we Minneapolitans endure?
Here's the link from NPR
St. Paul, Minn. — Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is moving his so-called Revolution Rally to a larger venue during the Republican National Convention.
McCain he won't be likin this ........
The other day, Minnesota Monitor brought to my attention that a munitions maker named ATK in my home state was in the business of clusterbomb manufacturing. Indiscriminate weapons made right in my back yard. Sad.
At the heart of the controversy is an ATK-manufactured bomblet known as the M85. Packed in missiles and dropped on military targets, the M85 bomblets wreak destruction over a much wider territory than conventional munitions. And because some portion of the missiles' multi-cluster bomb payload fails to detonate on impact, they can go on causing civilian casualties after combat is over.
Digging a little deeper, I find out about Senate Amendment No. 4882 which called for their banning, and was introduced 9/5/06 by Feinstein and Leahy.
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
To protect civilian lives from unexploded cluster munitions.
Back then, Obama voted for the ban, Clinton voted against the ban. Read on....
Power to the People! The biggest primary upset so far in my mind was the pollster/pundit "pros" getting "wronged" by the voters in both Iowa and New Hampshire. There's been a lotta "Doh, maybe we're not as smart as we thought we were." I love it. I'm overjoyed when people (especially voters) start making up their own minds in our media saturated culture. Here's a few examples of post election excuses and tongue-tied explanations from some of these distinguished prophets and mind readers for your reading pleasure....
Do the math. The odds of a terrorist killing a
citizen in the U.S. are lower than just about any
other cause of death, natural or otherwise.
Whether a fire, a car accident, cancer, old age,
emphysema, or obesity.
Here's the top ten from 2002: (below the fold)
High schoolers in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, St. Paul) Public School system are staging a walkout today to protest the Iraq war and the presence of military recruiters at their high schools. Over 1000 students have committed to the walkout and it's got some adults in a tizzy:
"I don't know what disrupting their education and the education of others accomplishes," he said. "These are complex issues. I really hope that, in class, students learn how to think and make decisions."
Here is an excerpt from his PRESS RELEASE JANUARY 14, 2005
A lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The lawsuit alleges that both defendants have acted outside the scope of their job description in waging a war against Iraq. The complaint alleges that both defendants and others working within the White House and Defense Department have covertly implemented a white paper called "Rebuilding America's Defenses" as presented by the Project for the New American Century or PNAC in September, 2000 two months before the murky elections of that year. Among the persons signing the paper were Richard Cheney and Jeb Bush. While the paper was published on the internet, implementation of it by the White House has been in secret.
We all know why Martha's there, but why is this 57 year old nun in prison ?
Clad in white jumpsuits identifying the trio as a "citizens' weapons inspector team," they cut through a security fence, smeared crosses in their own blood on the silo lid, and tapped on the rails - on which the 110-ton cover would move in the event of a missile launch - with ball-peen hammers in a symbolic attempt to beat swords into plowshares.
The stark contrast between Stewart and Gilbert is enlightening, and in many ways highlights the signs of our times. Rocky Mountain News
http://www.chuckherrin.com/rants.htm
Here are some excerpts - but also check out his whole site. This is a man of spiritual integrity, if you ask me. He interprets the Bible way different than your average gay bashing freeper.
He founded FAIR, the New York-based media watch group. He's also been a nationally-syndicated columnist and was the communications director of the Kucinich for President campaign. Major cred.
Here is his speech made at ILCA (Intl. Labor Communications Assoc.) workshop in Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2004.
How can you have a meaningful election in a country where, according to polls, half or more of the American people don't know who attacked us on 9/11? They think Saddam Hussein was involved.
To help Bush mislead Americans, Fox News Channel required that the banner "War on Terror" run when Iraq was discussed.
(more excerpts below, but you gotta read the whole article)
and he goes on to say how crooked the company is...
(Thanks to someone on the openthread for the link)
A Belleville Republican fighting the "Democratic Machine"
Reeb vows to fight vote fraud
Candidate raises funds for his efforts
Where's Belleville?
Lyndon LaRouche: Fascist Demagogue
also speaks out against dirty tricks
And we all know New Hampshire is about to become a test case for the accuracy of optical scan vote-counting machines - thanks to Third-Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik joined Green Party candidate David Cobb who announced yesterday that his campaign has raised enough money to force Ohio to recount its presidential vote.
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