Comedy Central – Jokes: "
The Four Ghosts of the White House
One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him Bush asks him, 'George, what''s the best thing I can do to help the country?'
'Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did,' Washington advises, and then fades away...
The next night, Bush is astir again, and sees the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moving through the darkened bedroom. Bush calls out, 'Tom, please! What is the best thing I can do to help the country?'
'Respect the Constitution, as I did,' Jefferson advises, and dims from sight...
The third night sleep still does not come for Bush. He awakens to see the ghost of FDR hovering over his bed. Bush whispers, 'Franklin, What is the best thing I can do to help the country?'
'Help the less fortunate, just as I did,' FDR replies and fades into the mist...
Bush isn''t sleeping well the fourth night when he sees another figure moving in the shadows. It is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Bush pleads, 'Abe, what is the best thing I can do right now to help the country?'
Lincoln replies, 'Go see a play.' "
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Friday, February 2, 2007
Minimum wage
Here is a list of senator who voted for/against raising the minimum wage.
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---54
Akaka (D-HI)Baucus (D-MT)Bayh (D-IN)Biden (D-DE)Bingaman (D-NM)Boxer (D-CA)Brown (D-OH)Byrd (D-WV)Cantwell (D-WA)Cardin (D-MD)Casey (D-PA)Clinton (D-NY)Coleman (R-MN)Collins (R-ME)Conrad (D-ND)Dodd (D-CT)Dorgan (D-ND)Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI)Feinstein (D-CA)Harkin (D-IA)Inouye (D-HI)Kennedy (D-MA)Kerry (D-MA)Klobuchar (D-MN)Kohl (D-WI)Landrieu (D-LA)Lautenberg (D-NJ)Leahy (D-VT)Levin (D-MI)Lieberman (ID-CT)Lincoln (D-AR)McCaskill (D-MO)Menendez (D-NJ)Mikulski (D-MD)Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL)Nelson (D-NE)Obama (D-IL)Pryor (D-AR)Reed (D-RI)Reid (D-NV)Rockefeller (D-WV)Salazar (D-CO)Sanders (I-VT)Schumer (D-NY)Snowe (R-ME)Specter (R-PA)Stabenow (D-MI)Tester (D-MT)Warner (R-VA)Webb (D-VA)Whitehouse (D-RI)Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---43
Alexander (R-TN)Allard (R-CO)Bennett (R-UT)Bond (R-MO)Bunning (R-KY)Burr (R-NC)Chambliss (R-GA)Coburn (R-OK)Cochran (R-MS)Corker (R-TN)Cornyn (R-TX)Craig (R-ID)Crapo (R-ID)DeMint (R-SC)Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM)Ensign (R-NV)Enzi (R-WY)Graham (R-SC)Grassley (R-IA)Gregg (R-NH)Hagel (R-NE)Hatch (R-UT)Hutchison (R-TX)Inhofe (R-OK)Isakson (R-GA)Kyl (R-AZ)Lott (R-MS)Lugar (R-IN)Martinez (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ)McConnell (R-KY)Murkowski (R-AK)Roberts (R-KS)Sessions (R-AL)Shelby (R-AL)Smith (R-OR)Stevens (R-AK)Sununu (R-NH)Thomas (R-WY)Thune (R-SD)Vitter (R-LA)Voinovich (R-OH)
Not Voting - 3
Brownback (R-KS) Carper (D-DE) Johnson (D-SD)
Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---54
Akaka (D-HI)Baucus (D-MT)Bayh (D-IN)Biden (D-DE)Bingaman (D-NM)Boxer (D-CA)Brown (D-OH)Byrd (D-WV)Cantwell (D-WA)Cardin (D-MD)Casey (D-PA)Clinton (D-NY)Coleman (R-MN)Collins (R-ME)Conrad (D-ND)Dodd (D-CT)Dorgan (D-ND)Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI)Feinstein (D-CA)Harkin (D-IA)Inouye (D-HI)Kennedy (D-MA)Kerry (D-MA)Klobuchar (D-MN)Kohl (D-WI)Landrieu (D-LA)Lautenberg (D-NJ)Leahy (D-VT)Levin (D-MI)Lieberman (ID-CT)Lincoln (D-AR)McCaskill (D-MO)Menendez (D-NJ)Mikulski (D-MD)Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL)Nelson (D-NE)Obama (D-IL)Pryor (D-AR)Reed (D-RI)Reid (D-NV)Rockefeller (D-WV)Salazar (D-CO)Sanders (I-VT)Schumer (D-NY)Snowe (R-ME)Specter (R-PA)Stabenow (D-MI)Tester (D-MT)Warner (R-VA)Webb (D-VA)Whitehouse (D-RI)Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---43
Alexander (R-TN)Allard (R-CO)Bennett (R-UT)Bond (R-MO)Bunning (R-KY)Burr (R-NC)Chambliss (R-GA)Coburn (R-OK)Cochran (R-MS)Corker (R-TN)Cornyn (R-TX)Craig (R-ID)Crapo (R-ID)DeMint (R-SC)Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM)Ensign (R-NV)Enzi (R-WY)Graham (R-SC)Grassley (R-IA)Gregg (R-NH)Hagel (R-NE)Hatch (R-UT)Hutchison (R-TX)Inhofe (R-OK)Isakson (R-GA)Kyl (R-AZ)Lott (R-MS)Lugar (R-IN)Martinez (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ)McConnell (R-KY)Murkowski (R-AK)Roberts (R-KS)Sessions (R-AL)Shelby (R-AL)Smith (R-OR)Stevens (R-AK)Sununu (R-NH)Thomas (R-WY)Thune (R-SD)Vitter (R-LA)Voinovich (R-OH)
Not Voting - 3
Brownback (R-KS) Carper (D-DE) Johnson (D-SD)
ProgressivePunch: Home
Here is a place where you can check your legislators voting record.
ProgressivePunch: Home: "ProgressivePunch is a non-partisan searchable database of Congressional voting records from a Progressive perspective. But we're convinced it's extremely useful irrespective of anyone's political positions. We show the performance of members within 160 different issue categories, and detailed vote descriptions, thereby empowering you to zero in on what matters to you."
ProgressivePunch: Home: "ProgressivePunch is a non-partisan searchable database of Congressional voting records from a Progressive perspective. But we're convinced it's extremely useful irrespective of anyone's political positions. We show the performance of members within 160 different issue categories, and detailed vote descriptions, thereby empowering you to zero in on what matters to you."
Thursday, February 1, 2007
This is an email I received copied to my blog.
"Anthony D. Romero, ACLU"2:03 pm (5 hours ago)
Running Roughshod
The Bush administration has run roughshod over our rights and the rule of law. With the help of phone and internet companies, the NSA has monitored phones and email without a warrant. The FBI and Pentagon are monitoring activists and peaceful groups.
All of these actions are part of a broad pattern of the executive branch encroaching on the privacy and free speech rights of Americans without real oversight. It’s time to bring this to an end.
Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible.
Read the New York Times op-ed piece by our client Jim Bamford.
Dear Friend,
Yesterday, ACLU attorneys from the national ACLU and our Michigan affiliate went head-to-head with the National Security Agency (NSA) over its illegal spying program. In a federal court room in Cincinnati, we argued that President Bush broke the law by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of Americans.
The hearing was the next step in our ACLU v. NSA case in which a federal court ruled that the Bush administration’s program is unconstitutional and must be stopped. It’s up to each and every one of us to hold the president accountable and put an end to this disregard for the Constitution. Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible for authorizing and implementing the illegal surveillance.
Our lawsuit and pressure from the public and Congress are making a difference. Two weeks ago, the Bush administration -- flip-flopping on its repeated claims that the NSA spy program is legal -- was forced to concede that the FISA court has a role in overseeing spying done by the NSA. Now that the FISA court is belatedly involved, the government is trying to get our case thrown out of court, because it claims the illegal spying has ended.
As Jim Bamford, one of our clients in this case, noted in an op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times, “That’s a bit like a bank robber coming into court and arguing that, although he has been sticking up banks for the past half-decade, he has agreed to a temporary halt and therefore he shouldn’t be prosecuted.”
Because the president claims he has the “inherent authority” to violate the law at any time in the future, we argued yesterday that the appeals court must still rule on our case. Now the court must excercise its proper authority and require the president to follow the law. The inherent powers of the president do not include the ability to conduct an indefinite and unlimited domestic surveillance campaign.
Lawmakers are only beginning to assert necessary and long-delayed leadership on this issue, and fundamental questions remain unaddressed. How many Americans had their private conversations listened to over these past five years? What role did telecom and internet companies play? The administration thinks it can throw us a bone and we’ll go away but we won’t.
Those responsible must be held accountable. Our democracy requires intense constitutional and congressional scrutiny to ensure it endures. Congress must conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the NSA domestic spying program to uncover the truth about the illegal program. Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible.
You and the ACLU have been working so hard on this because you understand that this case is about more than putting an immediate end to the Bush administration's warrantless spying program; it is an important step in the battle to curb the Bush administration’s relentless disregard for the Constitution. Let’s be sure we keep the pressure on. Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible for authorizing and implementing the illegal surveillance.
Sincerely,Anthony D. RomeroExecutive DirectorACLU
"Anthony D. Romero, ACLU"
Running Roughshod
The Bush administration has run roughshod over our rights and the rule of law. With the help of phone and internet companies, the NSA has monitored phones and email without a warrant. The FBI and Pentagon are monitoring activists and peaceful groups.
All of these actions are part of a broad pattern of the executive branch encroaching on the privacy and free speech rights of Americans without real oversight. It’s time to bring this to an end.
Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible.
Read the New York Times op-ed piece by our client Jim Bamford.
Dear Friend,
Yesterday, ACLU attorneys from the national ACLU and our Michigan affiliate went head-to-head with the National Security Agency (NSA) over its illegal spying program. In a federal court room in Cincinnati, we argued that President Bush broke the law by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of Americans.
The hearing was the next step in our ACLU v. NSA case in which a federal court ruled that the Bush administration’s program is unconstitutional and must be stopped. It’s up to each and every one of us to hold the president accountable and put an end to this disregard for the Constitution. Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible for authorizing and implementing the illegal surveillance.
Our lawsuit and pressure from the public and Congress are making a difference. Two weeks ago, the Bush administration -- flip-flopping on its repeated claims that the NSA spy program is legal -- was forced to concede that the FISA court has a role in overseeing spying done by the NSA. Now that the FISA court is belatedly involved, the government is trying to get our case thrown out of court, because it claims the illegal spying has ended.
As Jim Bamford, one of our clients in this case, noted in an op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times, “That’s a bit like a bank robber coming into court and arguing that, although he has been sticking up banks for the past half-decade, he has agreed to a temporary halt and therefore he shouldn’t be prosecuted.”
Because the president claims he has the “inherent authority” to violate the law at any time in the future, we argued yesterday that the appeals court must still rule on our case. Now the court must excercise its proper authority and require the president to follow the law. The inherent powers of the president do not include the ability to conduct an indefinite and unlimited domestic surveillance campaign.
Lawmakers are only beginning to assert necessary and long-delayed leadership on this issue, and fundamental questions remain unaddressed. How many Americans had their private conversations listened to over these past five years? What role did telecom and internet companies play? The administration thinks it can throw us a bone and we’ll go away but we won’t.
Those responsible must be held accountable. Our democracy requires intense constitutional and congressional scrutiny to ensure it endures. Congress must conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the NSA domestic spying program to uncover the truth about the illegal program. Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible.
You and the ACLU have been working so hard on this because you understand that this case is about more than putting an immediate end to the Bush administration's warrantless spying program; it is an important step in the battle to curb the Bush administration’s relentless disregard for the Constitution. Let’s be sure we keep the pressure on. Ask Congress to investigate the president and those responsible for authorizing and implementing the illegal surveillance.
Sincerely,Anthony D. RomeroExecutive DirectorACLU
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Bush appointee unable to utter the words "Global Warming" [VIDEO]
This video is something you must see. It shows the political rewriting of science. Often politians get away with editing history but you just can't alter science to agree with you. This administration MUST be removed.
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Bush appointee unable to utter the words "Global Warming" [VIDEO] has the link. Watch the ridicules bouth linking global to warming if you like too.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Young Marine Dies Of PTSD - And Neglect
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Young Marine Dies Of PTSD - And NeglectI'm a vet. I served from 1968 to 1972 in the Air Force. This isn't the way things should be.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Right Wing smear.... failed.
I am sooo happy that the internet is out of the control (I think?) of any government, local or global. I do realise it's monitored and I still have freedom of speech. I can know so much more about what is really going on and from all perspectives. Take this article on AlterNet. I knew Obama's problem went away but not how low the dirt was. Of course I haven't checked to insure this is true. I am a left winger. Am I as bad as Rush but on the opposite side?
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Right Wing smear.... failed.
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Right Wing smear.... failed.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Destruction of the Myth of John McCain [VIDEO]
Personally, McCain lost me when he stood beside Bush supporting an incompetent administration that has broken laws and trust. I can never trust McCain again. Aon
Brave New Films put together this devastating film on "Straight Talkin'" John McCain's whack-a-mole positions regarding Iraq, gay marriage, and the Christian Right as the champagne smash across the bow of a new website, therealmccain.com.
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Destruction of the Myth of John McCain [VIDEO]
Brave New Films put together this devastating film on "Straight Talkin'" John McCain's whack-a-mole positions regarding Iraq, gay marriage, and the Christian Right as the champagne smash across the bow of a new website, therealmccain.com.
AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Destruction of the Myth of John McCain [VIDEO]
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Science vs Politics
Experts: Latest climate report too rosy - Yahoo! News
We have to demand the end to politicians trying to change science. Visit the Union of Concerned Scientists and read Scientific abuses from A to Z "The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science exposes dozens of instances in which research findings have been manipulated or suppressed by political appointees."
We have to demand the end to politicians trying to change science. Visit the Union of Concerned Scientists and read Scientific abuses from A to Z "The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science exposes dozens of instances in which research findings have been manipulated or suppressed by political appointees."
Craft with a C not a K
Image: Frank Ridley Makes a Toy. Photo by Amy Shaw.
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Why Craft is Worldchanging
I have no talent myself to produce strong, useful and beautiful items. My craft is maintaining and fixing the things I have. So many things are disposable, from diapers to electronics. Anything that can be fixed is worth fixing. I love it when something that is beyond my capabilities and is finally dragged to the side of the road (we don't have a curb) and is picked up by someone who still sees value in it.
When you put out items for the trash haulers, do it a few days early and in a way it can be seen. Someone out there needs or wants it. It's a matter of displaying for the longest time to the largest number of passersby is a way they can look for it's value.
Aon
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