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bluegal on Friday, May 9th, 2008 at 8:30 PM - PDT
Really Joe, have you checked on Dubya’s bearings lately? Madness of King George found at 2 Political Junkies.
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Hillary’s campaign is done. Some nice coroner should explain this to her.
McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 9, 2008; Page A01
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers.
Initially reluctant to support the swap, the Arizona Republican became a key figure in pushing the deal through Congress after the rancher and his partners hired lobbyists that included McCain’s 1992 Senate campaign manager, two of his former Senate staff members (one of whom has returned as his chief of staff), and an Arizona insider who was a major McCain donor and is now bundling campaign checks.
When McCain’s legislation passed in November 2005, the ranch owner gave the job of building as many as 12,000 homes to SunCor Development, a firm in Tempe, Ariz., run by Steven A. Betts, a longtime McCain supporter who has raised more than $100,000 for the presumptive Republican nominee. Betts said he and McCain never discussed the deal.
The Audubon Society described the exchange as the largest in Arizona history. The swap involved more than 55,000 acres of land in all, including rare expanses of desert woodland and pronghorn antelope habitat. The deal had support from many local officials and the Arizona Republic newspaper for its expansion of the Prescott National Forest. But it brought an outcry from some Arizona environmentalists when it was proposed in 2002, partly because it went through Congress rather than a process that allowed more citizen input.
Although the bill called for the two parcels to be of equal value, a federal forestry official told a congressional committee that he was concerned that “the public would not receive fair value” for its land. A formal appraisal has not yet begun. A town official opposed to the swap said other Yavapai Ranch land sold nine years ago for about $2,000 per acre, while some of the prime commercial land near a parcel that the developers will get has brought as much as $120,000 per acre.
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The Myanmar thugs have been blocking aid to the region. The military adds armor to vehicles five years too late. Obama/Clinton is not happening. Another Russian leader takes a swipe at Bush.
Why the popups at C&L?
[Because you don’t have a popup blocker-Sitemonitor]
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 2:
Is it time for her coroner ration already? Not what she had in mind when she started, but it looks like the job is hearse…
Hi, x
;-}
I’m not sure the ‘Madness of King George II’ analogy holds. Dick Cheney’s been the Prince Regent for 7 years already.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 6:
Hi 2B :)
Have you seen this?
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 8:
lol
Yeah, checked out last nite’s OT earlier and watched it based on you’s guys reactions. My kinda tasty teste tastelessness, haha.
Dubya lost his bearings just before he went AWOL, no wait, he was gone more than thirty days, it was desertion!
Pericles @ 7:
Actually, I think its more of Cheney in the role of Deputy Führer Melakon, and Bush is John Gill from Patterns of Force.
great episode btw. very instructive.
I would just call it absolute brilliance.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 6:
WTF? I thought they had kidnapped you and had you in one of the secret prisons. Hi 2b.
Have you seen this?
http://www.wcltam.com/news/spe.....detail.cfm
Rebel Patriot @ 11:
IIRC, John Gill had been a respected historian before he tried the experiment on Ekos. bush knows nothing of history
I believe a small group of people with enough integrity can change the world for the better. After all a small group of people with absolutely no integrity have proven theu can change it for the worse. The thing is these people have created a lot more adversaries than they expected to.
http://www.wcltam.com/news/spe.....leid=23261
try this one.
miss_kitty @ 15:
yes he does. his grandfather was a closet Nazi. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 16:
yes i believe that too, maby the salvation army band with several tamborines playing on street corners!
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 8:
I could watch that all night. Hilarious!
An interesting take on the lack of critical thinking in America today. If only he had been as critical of Ann Coulter when the anorexic pundit appeared with him on the Tonight Show about a year and a half ago.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/.....p_america/
i guess hillary’s position is ‘it ain’t over til it’s over’. she came close and it must be difficult to end it after all the effort.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 16:
Don’t buy it. The small group of people that have nearly ruined the world in the last 8 years were able to do it because they were giving away trillions of dollars to really bad and already really rich people. When that happens, all of us grumble and some shout but we all continue to eat our shit sandwitch.
When a small group of people try to change the world for the better, that usually means the already very rich people don’t get any richer. That fact usually pisses them off very much and they have that small group of people with integrity bought off or knocked off. Usually the second option is cheaper.
tyree @ 19:
So, Tyree. Last week you were for Hillary. Today you are for nobody. Just exactly what is it you are for?
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 6:
That is really uncalled for…You leave 8 Belles Clinton alone!
Ron @ 13:
WTF? I thought they had kidnapped you and had you in one of the secret prisons. Hi 2b.
Hi Ron, still reading yer link…
;-}
Erroll @ 21:
good video. exactly correct.
Just Hussein Of It @ 23:
Then the solution may be to make the small group larger, remove the money from the rich group and remove their propaganda macine. In the meantime please don’t try to sell me on the concept that there is no possibility for positive change because your solution sounds like mass suicide and i am not interested.
anybody remember the first pretzil debates 2000 ago where bush was photographed with the box under his
suit jacket?
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 24:
something you can depend on instead of two worthless politicans like clinton or obama ! loose women cuban cigars and 57 chevy convertables!
tyree @ 30:
tyree, it seems like you use depends a lot.
tyree @ 30:
Yeah, i see a lot of those on the road.
Seen a few 57 Chevy’s on the road too.
Just when everyone thought that Hillary was dead — afterall her personal physician said there was no pulse–she will sit up and whip off her rubber mask to reveal that she is really Bill Clinton!!!!!!!!!
‘Twas difficult to be in two places at once, but that’s the art of prestidigitation for you!
Ron @ 31:
grow up kid !
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 8:
That gave me the best ab workout I’ve had all week!!!
tyree @ 34:
I ain’t no kid, but thanks for the complement.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 28:
Remove the money from the rich group? LMFAO.
Remove their Propaganda machinery? LMFAO.
yeah, okay.
how are you going to do that when THEY own the system? When They make the rules? When They control the Police, the Secret service, the FBI, the Military, and every other instrument of compliance?
The solution to 1984 is 1776.
miss_kitty @ 35:
It deserves an award.
Ron @ 36:
sorry but ive read your posts thought you were!
tyree @ 34:
No shit, lol.
Hi, tyree!!!!
;-}
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 40:
hi proud dam your on a roll tonight , like your blog
Rebel Patriot @ 37:
We let them make the rules and we let them own the system. We can’t go back to 1776. The planet has changed. But just as every prison is run by the prisoners until they stop running it we can do the same thing. What if we stopped working and went on strike? What if we stopped accepting “legal tender” as legitamate collatoral? What if we refused to pay our debts?