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bluegal on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 8:30 PM - PDT
Some helpful advice from the authorities. I guess Nancy Reagan’s “Just say no” program is so 1981. Open thread below….
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We the people…FIRST!
Or we’ll take ‘em and sell them to someone else!!!
but….but….it’s so boring in there man.
Many people who commit Civil Disobedience are unaware that if they are arrested with prescription drugs in their possesion that they will be charged for being in possesion of a controled substance. Later the charges will be dropped, but the media will report the charges and thus discredit the protesters in the eyes of many.
Bush once again lies about torture, coincidentally around the same time a new report says we drug detainees. Cindy McCain profited off of genocide in Sudan. Chicago gives in and decides to bring back the choking of dinner-I mean ducks. Over 600,000 Ford trucks have crappy brakes.
Golf? Gulf? Goof? Every time Bush opens his mouth, he weakens the nation… With a salute to Moe Stooge.
What Nancy meant was ” just say no to voting for your own interests ” .
Release my Tax records?
WASHINGTON — Cindy McCain, whose husband has been a critic of the violence in Sudan, sold off more than $2 million in mutual funds whose holdings include companies that do business in the African nation.
The sale on Wednesday came after The Associated Press questioned the investments in light of calls by John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, for international financial sanctions against the Sudanese leadership.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....01767.html
Alaska is the first to hit the $4 average.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200....._alaska_dc
They have wells and refineries don’t they?
Then there is no reason why gas should cost so much unless someone is fucking with them and us.
Never leave home without them.
hello?
Does that mean that I have to leave my Effexor XR at home as well? I mean, it is the change I deserve. ;)
Does this seem weird to anyone else?
http://news.yahoo dot com/s/nm/20080515/ts_nm/energy_gasoline_alaska_dc
GOP government: Leave integrity, and budget surpluses at the door.
the few times my hometown gets in the news…
DC @ 8:
Did you know that five Supreme Court Justices had to recuse themselves from a case involving the right of people to sue American corporations who had been involved in supporting Aparthied in South Africa because these same five Supreme Court Justices are heavily invested in these same companies?
The case is now moot because you need six justices to hear the case.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 4:
The war on drugs is an unmitigated disaster. Your paragraph highlights but one of the many pernicious side effects (pun intended) of our idiotic and lethally counterproductive response to a demand that will never go away.
We need to abandon our penchant for illegalizing everything we don’t like. In the land of the free, you can’t go a day without breaking one law or another.
Oh, how I long for a civil libertarian, socially progressive political party.
Interesting
http://www.diversityj.com/ElectoralVoteStates.html
Hi Karen! :)
Can you eloborate on this Supreme Court Case i just mentioned?
California’s Supreme Court decides on gay marriage tomorrow.
“Barack Obama passed off a reporter today in Michigan, and she seemed less than amused by his name for her.
“Hold on one second there, sweetie,” he says.
The reporter signed off: “This sweetie never did get an answer to that question.”
Just drink the kool aid sweetie.
So much for the war on drugs. I guess the war is if you bring them into a courtroom but everywhere else………..have at it I guess!
L.A. Confidential @ 17:
The Democratic primary results for each state are hardly indicative of how the state will vote in the general election.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 4:
Where have you been X? Your name was being bandied back and forth today on eariler threads. If we were in 21228 I’d say meet me at the Crab Shanty for some crabs and beer!
getalife @ 20:
I get called sweetie all the time. I never take offense.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 18:
Actually, I’m not familiar with it. Do you have a citation? Or a link?
It sounds like a case about “standing,” a matter of Constitutional case law.
Saint Augustine @ 23:
Not in the mood to read all the threads. I hope it was not too terrible.
Karen @ 25:
I heard about it on NPR. I have not read about it yet.
getalife @ 20:
Your incessant whining about Obama has grown comical.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 26:
Wow, what a day. I thought that earlier thread after Edwards threw in with Obama that tyree and some others were going to duke it out. How is everyone?
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 27:
Apparently i heard the outcome wrong.
“The Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow lawsuits to proceed against more than 50 U.S. and foreign corporations for their connection to South Africa’s racist apartheid policies. Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law at George Washington University, explains the impact of the decision.”
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 24:
Karen @ 22:
That’s the great thing about the SuperDelegates. They are accountable to no one. No matter what they say today, they can change their mind tomorrow.
LibertyLover @ 31:
oops.
Real sweeties never do… ;)
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
Those are the rules, yes. I’m not sure how yours constitutes a response to what I said, but those are the rules.
Certain states limit divorce.
Nice of you to say so, a lot of people here have seen my fangs.
Tequila @ 35:
Reno.
Karen @ 22:
True but the data on swing states is quite illuminating.
My question is, if all those people who support Hillary would vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee, what does that say about Hillary?
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution
Nothing terrible, just talk about points you had brought up the day before, along those lines. I guess people remember you by a part of your name, One White Vote for Obama.
Saint Augustine @ 41:
He’s not by himself.
Karen @ 22:
I agree with that. Obama will surely carry California, Pennsylvania,New York,Massachusettes,all of which went to Clinton.
It is very possible that Obama can take: Michigan,Ohio,Florida, and Indiana, and 2 or 3 states in the solid south.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 40:
The people who have currently won primaries for Hillary account for 295 electoral votes and counting. Well beyond the 270 needed to capture the Presidency.
Peter G @ 38:
It’s not all that illuminating. The fact that people who voted in the swing states’ Democratic primaries preferred Sen. Clinton to Sen. Obama does not necessarily indicate how the state will vote in the general election. It illuminates nothing about how independents who did not vote in the Democratic primaries will vote in the general. It illuminates nothing about how Democrats who did not vote in the primaries will vote in the general. And, on its own, it illuminates nothing about how the Democrats who voted for Clinton in those primaries are likely to vote in the general election.
If we really want to know how states are likely to vote in the general election, we have to use random samples of all of those eligible in the general election in those states.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 40:
It wouldn’t take a whole lot of them to swing to McCain to make a crucial difference x. Most will probably support Obama but given the terrible insults that have been heaped on them by fellow democrats I wouldn’t be surprised if many did. I realize that this argument cuts both ways but at this point, as the presumptive nominee it is up to Obama and his supporters to start the fence mending. Too many just don’t get that.
L.A. Confidential @ 44:
But you can’t use the Democratic primaries to judge how the states will vote in the general. It just doesn’t translate.
L.A. Confidential @ 44:
Oh, you must be counting Florida and Michigan which were disqualified for breaking the rules; where Hillary’s name was on the ballot but Obama’s was not.
Good thinking.