tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41186612012-01-22T12:05:40.589-05:00<center><img src="http://static.flickr.com/40/84658241_cc09e7f342.jpg?v=0"></center> <small><br><b>Internet muse.<br> Daring, bold, never sold. My daily weblog of politics, humor, philosophy...and a constant and nagging reminder of the existence of universal love.</b>...</small> <br><br>Jude Nagurney Camwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03222096568711491361noreply@blogger.comBlogger45881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118661.post-71741202294152183422012-01-22T11:58:00.005-05:002012-01-22T12:05:40.600-05:00

BOOK REVIEW - "Pity the Billionaire" by Thomas Frank Thomas Frank has written an informative and interesting book with keen insight into the unlikely and unexpected comeback of the Right after the election of Barack Obama. I wanted to share some of my thoughts with you about the book, "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right." In many ways, the book

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"Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." Turning my thoughts to Martin Luther King: [Listen to] "I Have a Dream" speech - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.[Listen to] "We Must Work" - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.[Listen to] "We Shall Overcome" Jun 17 1966 – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.[Listen to] "I've Been to the Mountain Top April 3, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Truth has a way of asserting itself despite all attempts to obscure it." ~ Senator Robert C. ByrdSenator Robert C. Byrd was one of my heroes in the dark days of post 9/11 Bush-led America. I chronicled his words as I blogged from day to day at Iddybud. I'm sad to hear he has passed away and wanted to share some of the lines of his that I heard clearly when so many of my leaders seemed to be

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VISIT ME

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I'm Moving - Come and VisitI've been told by many that this site took too long to load. I'd regret to think I'd drive readers away with a painfully slow site.I'm in the process of moving my content over to my new Beta Blogger site.Please come on over to IDDYBUD JOURNAL.Your comments about my new site would be welcome and appreciated.Add me to your links: http://iddybudjournal.blogspot.com/Thanks!

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Sen. Kerry Should ApologizeIn 2004, I can't tell you how frustrated I became - more and more by the day - by Senator Kerry's slowness to tap into the pulse of the people. My blog was filled with advice to Senator Kerry to speak out on the Iraq war with force and convincing reason - and to defend himself against the Swift Boat political operatives. This time, I'm afraid it doesn't matter what his

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Note to MSM: Enough with the Caviezel Jesus Thing!If I hear one more reference made to Jesus Christ every time the MSM shows the actor Jim Caviezel in one of those anti-embryonic stem-cell research ads, I think I'll scream. On ABC Nightly News Sunday night, it happened again. They showed the ad and for the umpteenth time, I heard a news anchor say "That is the actor Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus

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Introducing The Sole of Africa CampaignA Message From Mike Kendrick; Founder of MineseekerLandmines kill, maim, terrify and starve the population. There are over 100 million landmines buried beneath the surface of this planet. Every twenty minutes a land mine kills or maims someone… usually women and children. They render over 800 thousand square kilometers of land useless and terrify millions of

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Novak Pretends to Know What Dems Are ThinkingOpines on Race Rather than Individual Conscience to Make Baseless PredictionsHopping on the bandwagon of the moment, conservative columnist Robert Novak buys into the latest hype over Barack Obama, thinking he has a finger on the pulse of how Democrats will vote in the 2008 primaries long before any potential candidate has even declared their

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Bill Kristol's Full of Baloney on Election 2006If any Republican wins on November 7, it surely will not be because of the Bush Republicans' great leadership on the Iraq war. It will be because of local politics.On today's Fox News Saunday panel, the neoconservative cult's favorite journalistic representative William Kristol extended his fantasy that the upcoming election is to be a referendum on

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My Online Encounter with Michael SchiavoYou never know who you're going to get the opportunity to chat with when you belong to an online community.Last July, Michael Schiavo bashed U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave at a campaign event for "inserting herself in the wrenching national debate" over the prolonged death of his wife, Terri Schiavo. This week, Rep. Musgrave had authorities physically remove Mr

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Seymour Hersh Keynotes at S.U. Nuclear Iran Symposium There was a symposium hosted by the Law School at Syracuse University on Friday where an esteemed and knowledgeable panel gathered to discuss why Iran wants to be a nuclear power; whether Iran has a legal right to become a nuclear power; the regional ramifications of such newly acquired technology; the U.S. policy of preemption; the capability

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President Clinton Rallies With Upstate Democrats in SyracuseAl Stirpe greeted supporters before the rally began Lisa was passing out Maffei for Congress stickers and signsPresident Clinton is brought onstageMayor Driscoll welcomes President ClintonPresident Clinton with Dan MaffeiMichael Arcuri and Dave Valesky look on as President Clinton speaksThumbs upPresident Clinton joked that the current

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NY25: Of Earmarks, Values, and the Rotten Rubber StampDan Maffei, the Democratic challenger for James Walsh's long-held Congressional seat, has asked why our district has stayed in recession for the last 20 years if the appropriations of which he boasts [the kind of earmarks that were at the heart of recent lobbyist scandals] have meant so much. Maffei has also pointed the contrast between Rep.

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23 Years Ago Today in Beirut23 years ago today, October 23, 1983, a truck bomber struck a building in Beirut that housed U.S. Marines. 241 of those U.S. Marines were killed. President Reagan responded by pledging to keep a military force in Lebanon and not give in to terrorists. In February of the following year - four short months later - he pulled American troops out of the region. You can find

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Frank Rich on Obama & Dems: No More Human Weather VanesIn a column about the Liberal love affair with the decidedly impressive freshman Senator Barack Obama, Frank Rich speaks frankly (no pun intended) about the Democrats' fatal malady - putting up "another Democrat who won't tell you what day it is before calling a consultant, another human weather vane who waits to see which way the wind is

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Look at Buffalo, NY!This place is a disaster. I don't think I've seen one tree or bush that was not affected by the freak snowstorm that occurred on Friday the 13th [of October]!See Phil Fairbanks' Buffalo News story.The following photos were taken today at Mount Calvary Cemetary in the city of Buffalo.The people of Buffalo need FEMA's help as soon as possible.Douglas Turner of the Buffalo News

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Seen in North CarolinaFor this week's Tar Heel Tavern, I'll share a few of my photographic memories of a recent trip to your lovely state.Elizabeth Edwards Greets a reader at a book signing in CharlotteCommon Market, Charlotte NCSenator Edwards and Me in Concord NCAnonymoses reads Elizabeth Edwards' book "Saving Graces"The Charlotte skylineThe Atomic Geezer performs for Iddybud Common Market,

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Humanity: Divinely Minted Coins - Each UniqueRabbi Arthur Waskow compellingly contrasts the New Testament story about Jesus' recommendation to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's with the Talmud passage regarding the creation of humankind by God in Genesis I: 27. Adding one simple yet revelatory line to the New Testament passage, a whole new light is cast upon the lesson to be learned. As every

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Iraq is FUBAR and They Can't Credit GodAt the Nation, Tom Engelhardt's point about Bush and current Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki is short and sweet. The fact that the Bush administration has not been able to set up an Iraqi government that has both legitimacy and that meets America's desires is not lost on those who have paid any amount of attention to the 3 1/2-year long disaster of a war.The news

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Pat Tillman's Brother Calls for ChangeWhen it came to the war on terror, the Tillman boys signed up for the cause because they trusted the intregity of our American leadership. Pat gave everything he possessed here on this Earth for you and me...for our country. He laid it all down. His brother Kevin is speaking out about all that he has learned since those days of trust. To say that he is

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Senator Edwards to Speak at UB October 30Former Senator John Edwards will be at the University of Buffalo on October 30th to deliver the keynote address at the Western New York Poverty Symposium being held in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus. Senator Edwards will speak at 11:05 a.m. after an introduction by President John B. Simpson. A question-and-answer session with members of the

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National Character Counts: Bush Stumps for PhilandererPennsylvania Congressman Don Sherwood may have a record of accomplishment in the House of Representatives, but according to the WaPo's Dana Milbank, he also has a police record - a record of wicked infidelity and a penchant for kinky violence against women.While representing the good people of the 10th District, the married congressman shacked

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NNSA Conversion Would Mean Less Highly Enriched UraniumI found this interesting news at the Student-Operated Press website. The Bush administration is making efforts to minimize the use of highly enriched uranium in civil applications around the world. Now if they could just find the diplomatic smarts to stop (idiotically) pissing off every kook in the world who has access to the highly-enriched

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Hot Soup is ReadyThe heat under Ron Fournier's Hot Soup was switched on yesterday.The question was asked: "What is the most important issue ignored by mainstream media and our leaders?"Donna Brazile says it's Poverty, an issue to which Senator John Edwards has placed a public magnifying glass.I commented about Ms. Brazile's opinion here.I commented about Ed Gillespie's opinion here. He had the

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McCain Jests About Committing SuicideThere are some things that will just never be funny and you wonder how high-profile leaders can make such thoughtless comments and expect that no one will notice. Suicide is all too real and mental illness is all too prevalent in our society to respect a public figure who would take the subject so lightly. Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death for all

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More on Converge Southcross posted at American StreetConverge South was held last weekend at Rev. Jesse Jackson's alma mater North Carolina A & T University , Greensboro, N.C. There was a barbeque held at the home of Greensboro blogger Dave Hoggard on Friday night, and I regret to say I couldn't make it. I heard it was a lot of fun and that a lot of new blogging relationships were formed. One new

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Converge South 2006 - Some PhotosHere are a few photos from Converge South. It's always a pleasure to see the people of "Blogsboro" again, and I wish to thank Ben, Sue, Ed, Dave, and all the bloggers of Greensoro who made this unique and wonderful experience possible. These people are the trailblazers of creating a blogging community that should inspire all other aspiring blogtopias.Anonymoses

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The Sacred is Found in the OrdinaryWritten for the Tar Heel Tavern [Edition 85]The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham MaslowThe greatest example of courage, faith, and love in my

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E.J. Dionne Hurls Boulder Through GOP "Family Values" FacadeIn today's WaPo, E.J. Dionne blows the lid off the phony "family values" vibe the GOP tries to embrace. He asks the question that sends a bullshit-detection boulder through their "family values" facade:"When confronted with an issue, do politicians focus on narrow political imperatives or do they care most about the well-being of

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Jonathan Alter on Barack ObamaBarack Obama was not a member of the U.S. Senate when he opposed the war in Iraq. Both John Edwards and Hillary Clinton were in the Senate, and if there's one thing we all should understand, it's that it's a whole lot easier to say "No" when you are not directly responsible as an elected representative for the security of hundreds of thousands of constituents and

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Rove Aide Resigns in Abramoff Corruption WakeHaving passed inside White House information to ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove's aide Susan Ralston has submitted her resignation. Her official title was Executive Assistant to the Senior Advisor to the President of The White House. A White House spokeperson has said that Ms. Ralston recognized that "a protracted discussion of these matters

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Moyers on Norquist, My Back PagesWatching Bill Moyers' fantastic documentary about the Jack Abramoff/Grover Norquist/Tom Delay net of deception, evil, and corruption, I was reminded to look back to some of my posts on Grover Norquist.This one from 2003 is a doozy, and I've heard nothing in the mainstream media about it.How this crook and others like him get away with stealing our most precious

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Why Don’t We Hear About SPP?The U.S. Department of Commerce is, for all intents and purposes, rewriting U.S. administrative law with absolutely no Constitutional justification.What would you think if you knew that George W. Bush, while speaking from the bully pulpit about the need to build a wall across the Mexican/U.S. border, has been pushing for a commitment to a long-term goal of dramatically

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David Brooks Frames Doubt About Dems' Direction UnfairlyIn his NYT column today that weakly attempts to divide the Democratic party, David Brooks asks, "Can a politics that evades the modern realities of Islamic extremism and the skill-based global economy really be the basis of a majority movement? I doubt it."It happens far too often that columnists lump a whole bunch of Democratic candidates

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Happy Birthday, President Carter!I would like to remind Congresswoman Jane Harman, who gave credit for presiding over the end of the Cold War solely to Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bush 41 this morning on Fox News, that it was President Jimmy Carter who painstakingly laid a hopeful and firm foundation for the end of the Cold War.I regret she forgot to mention him, especially since today is

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New video of 9/11 Attackers Atta, Jarrah SurfacesThe Times of London says that it has secured a 6-1/2 year old never-before seen video of two men - one who led and one who participated in the 9/11 attacks in the United States. The Times online states:A video shows two of the world’s most infamous terrorists joking and laughing while filming their ‘death wills’ at Osama Bin Laden’s lair in

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Clinton Global Initiative*Dedicated to my fellow Tar Heel Tavern participants and all fellow travelers on this road called Life...Archbishop Desmond Tutu joyously speaks of hope to the audience of CGI participantsNow that the transcript is available at the Clinton Global Initiative website, I wanted to share with you some of the most inspirational and

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The Buck Stops with BushBefore the course of events can change in Iraq, President Bush must change.What we have done in Iraq - the way we went about this venture - is something I'm sure that President Bush now regrets, even though he'd never admit it. We have a strategic nightmare on our hands, and we also have citizens of Iraq - not al Qaeda, but citizens - murdering one another. The children in

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Apollo's Story - A Boy Gets a Second Chance in War-torn UgandaWe need to spend more on humanitarian relief and education, and far less on building walls, guns, bunker busters, ABM systems, space war technology, and daisy cutters. In northern Uganda, as many as 30,000 children have been kidnapped and forced to serve as soldiers in a nightmarish civil war that the world has largely ignored. These

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Bush: A President Securely in DenialBy taking strong and very wrong steps after 9/11, President Bush has sought to bury his administration's utter failure to stop the 9/11 attacks with macho rhetoric in which he runs down his fellow countrymen more than he criticizes the terrorists themselves. Today in his wretched speech to the Reserve Officers Association in Washington D.C., he said some

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Torture is at the Root of Jihad and RadicalizationDo these three Senators who have claimed to have "stood up" against George W. Bush and against torturing prisoners of war look proud of themselves now that they have passed a law that fails our nation's 217-year old high standards to refuse to copy the brutal standards of unciviled groups of thugs and murderers? When he first ran for Congress in

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Steve Reich Interview on NPR Oct. 1To see what the press has been saying about the amazing experimental musician/composer Steve Reich, check out the links below:New York Sun, 9/26/06New York Times, 9/29/06If you listen to Weekend Edition this Sunday, 10/1/06, on NPR, you'll hear Jeffrey Lunden's interview with Mr. Reich. Excerpts that were not included in the broadcast will be available at

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Keith Olbermann Video Shows Bush Admin Actions Pre-9/11At Raw Story David Edwards has provided us with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's fantastic video of the Bush administration's pre-9/11 actions and failures. A transcript is also provided. Don't miss it. Keith and staff have done a thorough job.At American Street, Barbara O'Brien has wisely gathered a collection of selected excerpts from writings and

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SeptemberDeparting summer hath assumedAn aspect tenderly illumed,The gentlest look of spring;That calls from yonder leafy shadeUnfaded, yet prepared to fade,A timely carolling.- William Wordsworth, ‘September’ The Last Daisy of SummerThen summer fades and passesand October comes.We’ll smell smoke then,and feel an unexpected sharpness,a thrill of nervousness, swift elation,a sense of sadnessand

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The Clinton Global InitiativeOriginally posted SEPTEMBER 20, 2006, there are now transcripts available of each session (posted below):President Bill Clinton at the 2006 CGI ConferenceThe second annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) officially launched this morning with an opening plenary session which included First Lady Laura Bush and panelists including President Ellen

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Russia Helping Iran Complete Its Bushehr Nuclear PlantZaman.com:A group of Iranian officials have been in talks with officials in Moscow to get a promise from the Moscow administration to finish the power station in Bushehr as well as to supply nuclear fuel to it. The document specifies March 2007 as the date when Iran will receive 80,000 tons of nuclear fuel from Russia. An agreement signed in

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The Time Has Come For Brilliance and GenerosityIs the opinion of those who live outside the borders of the United States important? In the new global economy where we seek to peacefully cooperate with the international community and create opportunity and security for us all, it matters now more than it ever did before. That's why I'm disturbed to see our nation going in the opposite direction in

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Where's Mullah Omar?"Where's Mullah Omar?" has become a question that rings through our ears like "Where's Waldo?"...but in a much more serious sense, of course. We're not talking about a child's picture book - we're talking about tracking down a dangerous terrorist leader. What seems obvious is that neither Hamid Karzai nor Pervez Musharraf know where Mullah Omar is, and the pressure to track

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Keith Olbermann: Clinton's Spoken the Truth About 9/11Please read this piece by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.An excerpt:The headlines about them are, of course, entirely wrong.It is not essential that a past president, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back.It is not important that the current President's portable public chorus has described his predecessor's

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Cornyn Appears on Divisive Show and Says We Need to Unite!The Gall!Senator John Cornyn [R-Tx] gave a phone interview to Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today and called the Clinton presidency "mediocre" and "an embarassment at best." I thought that he sounded like an insulting little weasel to talk about a former President in such demeaning terms. The man I heard talking to Rush today was no

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Gen. Clark: America Will Use the Draft AgainAt Daily Kos, there is a diary from mikebailey2000 about a fundraiser he attended at a private home for Colonel Mike Weaver who is running in Kentucky's 2nd district. In this day and age, I think a lot about the draft, because thanks to the Bush administration's foreign-policy facilitation of the increase of extremism around the world, there is a thin

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Bush Giving Away Secrets to Protect Himself?Democrats can't get a closed session on the new NIE, but President Bush says that he will release sensitive classified information from the report in order to save his own political ass. That's been a disturbing trend with Bush. He went all out to tell the world all about our secret CIA prisons in order to defend his political penchant for torture. Now

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House Aide to Bass Resigns Over Fake Blog PostsHouse Aide Resigns Over Fake Blog Posts What a pathetic waste of a political career and a good reputation. Why would Tad Furtado have risked so much by posing as a liberal blogger? Is it because the grassroots influence of the internet has become so powerful that it attracts those professional political operatives who are so threatened that they

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Opera Cancelled in Berlin Due to Controversy Over Muhammed SceneDeutsche Oper has cancelled a 3-year old production because of a scene in which a severed head of the prohet Muhammed is delivered. After its premiere in 2003, the production of Mozart's "Idomeneo", an opera produced by Hans Neuenfels, drew much criticism over a scene in which King Idomeneo presents the severed heads of Poseidon,

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On the Gordon Brown/Cherie Blair Dust-UpI found it to be extremely unfortunate that Cherie Blair, wife of British PM Tony Blair, made a statement in which she accused likely Blair-successor Gordon Brown of lying when he told the conference on Monday that it had been a privilege to work for Blair. It makes her appear very small on the world stage. She denies it, but I highly doubt that the writers

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U.S. Economic World Competitiveness Rating SinksConsumer confidence may be slightly up, but our economy is quickly becoming less competitive on a global scale. Macroeconomic concerns are eroding prospects for the the health and competitive abilities of the U.S. economy, due in good part to the U.S.' tremendous level of defense spending and tax cuts. The U.S. slipped from Number one in 2005 to

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Musharraf Reveals Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Linked to London AttacksIn his new book "In The Line of Fire," Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf claims that ex-al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was linked to the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings. According to an AP story, this allegation made by President Musharraf is the first one that publicly links Mohammed to the subway attacks, which

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Elizabeth Edwards and Her Family On Oprah WednesdayElizabeth, John and Cate Edwards will be joining Oprah Winfrey this Wednesday, September 27th, to talk about the power of community that Elizabeth writes about in her new book, "Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers." Click here to check your local listings and find out what time the program will be broadcast in

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Rice Would've Dumped Clinton Plan as Quickly as She Demoted ClarkeI look at the picture of Condoleeza Rice, the woman who, after 9/11, told me and the rest of my fellow Americans that she had no idea that al Qaeda would use domestic airliners to attack tall U.S. buildings. She expected us to take her at her word. I look at the face of the same woman who sat with PBS interviewer Jim Lehrer and

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NY25 - New Poll Makes Maffei/Walsh Congressional Race a Dead HeatThere is some really exciting news from Dan Maffei's campaign for a seat in the U.S. Congress. A September 24, 2006 communication at the Maffei campaign website shows a set of polling results indicating that the race for New York’s 25th Congressional District is a statistical tie, with 18-year incumbent Republican James Walsh

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Is McCain's Reason for Bolton Support Good for U.S.?With pleas both domestically and internationally for the United States to return to good faith diplomacy, I wish someone would remind Senator John McCain that we don't need to shoehorn a dud like John Bolton into the U.N. simply because Hugo Chavez is a loose cannon and we want a macho counterpart to put him in his place. That just isn't a good

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God Dwells in Cardboard Boxes"God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill. I hope so. He may well be with us as in all manner of controversial stuff. Maybe, maybe not. But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths and ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor.God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has

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The Clinton Global Initiative - A Model for a Sustainable and More Secure WorldThe Clinton Global InitiativeAs you may know, there was a meeting held last week in New York City of the Clinton Global Initiative. It was an invitation-only event intended to bring influential and wealthy people, CEOs, celebrities and former and current heads of state together with activists. Former President Clinton

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Rosh Hashanah and the Green MenorahI spent Rosh Hashanah with my dear friend Barbara in New York City. Barbara is an observant Jew. I am a Catholic. We teach one another about our respective faith traditions and we enjoy diverse and rich discussions and experiences that neither of us could know unless we knew one another. Rosh Hashanah is a celebration of the Jewish new year which falls on the

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DMI's Tort Deform Blog Features Guest BloggersThe Drum Major Institute has a two-week-old Civil Justice Defense blog called TortDeform.com. The blog focuses upon the need to protect access to the courts and to dismantle the arguments put forth by the tort "reform" movement - "one post at a time." This week's TortDeform features guest blogger Henry Greenspan, founder of Justice in Michigan, on

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Tar Heel Tavern #83Erin has a great new edition of the Tar Heel Tavern up for your reading pleasure at Poetic Acceptance. It's the 83rd edition - isn't that amazing? The THT has to be one of the most successful blog carnivals out there. Great job, Erin and all Tar Heel Tavern participants!I wanted to re-post one of our Tar Heeler's feature writings. It's from the Blogging Poet Billy Jones, and it

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Clinton Global Initiative: Rochester's Tom Golisano Invests in HopeInvesting for the long term by Jerry Zremski, News National Correspondent, Buffalo NewsNot content with saving the Buffalo Sabres, Tom Golisano now wants to help save the world. And the Rochester billionaire and longtime political rebel is working with a former Democratic president to do it. [..][..] Golisano echoed the themes

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Fox Misleads President ClintonThey tell him they want an interview about CGI, and then go on a right wing attack. But what's new? They mislead all of us!Mara Liasson gave a pretty lame excuse on the Fox News Sunday panel today that, basically, the attack on Iraq was predicated, and at the time justified by a wide belief among the most powerful American leaders (past and present) that Saddam

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CGI: There will be many more PostsThe 2006 Clinton Global Initiative Meeting may be over, but I haven't begun to advise you readers about all the conversations that took place over the past three days. It's been exhausting, yet exhilarating. I am reminded of the days when William Jefferson Clinton was presiding over a nation that the people of the globe looked up to with hope that it would

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CGI: Senator Clinton's Panel on Women and the Power of Economic OpportunityThis morning, Senator Hillary Clinton joined a group of panelists to discuss the desires, challenges, and lessons of women and the global struggle for equal rights. The feminization of poverty hurts more than women. Lifting the sights and health of our children can only be successful when we focus upon their mothers. In

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Sir Richard Branson Commits $3 billion Virgin Profits to Tackle Global WarmingSir Richard Branson just after the announcement about his company's $3 billion commitmentAll photos by Jude Nagurney CamwellBreaking News: At the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting this morning, Sir Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin group has just commited profits from the Virgin group to focus on tackling issues

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Over $7.3 billion dollars committed at Clinton Global Initiative MeetingPresident Clinton delivered the closing address of the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) this morning and anounced that the 2006 meeting had secured over 7.3 billion dollars. He also thanked the bloggers who spread the news of the meeting results throughout the globe via the internet. Blogger Ted Widmer said something

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CGI Workshop on DarfurTrading in on your celebrity or cashing in on your business influence is ethically neutral in and of itself. Most people would probably see it as "bad" if someone uses their influence for matters of greed or pure self-interest. What do most of us see as the right thing to do? A person might use their corporate influence in a way that sheer profiteers would consider crazy

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Elizabeth Edwards' Saving GracesOn the Today show tis morning, there was a short segment reporting that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Senator John Edwards, is cancer free. A Reuters article reports that there are excerpts from her book "Saving Graces - Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers" featured in a current People Magazine, where she gives a graphic account of what she

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The Clinton Global InitiativePresident Bill Clinton at the 2006 CGI ConferenceThe second annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) officially launched this morning with an opening plenary session which included First Lady Laura Bush and panelists including President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, President Alvaro Uribe Velez of Columbia and

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First Lady to Speak at Clinton Global Initiative Conference and UN"This is one of those rare things." * There are times when the needs of our world take precedence over partisan politics. I believe this is one of them. The Clinton Global Initiative conference looks beyond politics and toward a mission that President Bill Clinton has characterized, inspired, and animated by relating it to the

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Announcing WNCNN Netroots Political ShowWestern North Carolina News Network Launches Political ProgramSeptember 18, 2006 - Asheville, NCWestern North Carolina News Network (WNCNN), created by local political organizer, Gordon D. Smith, is political satire presented as a cable news program in the vein of Steven Colbert's The Colbert Report and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. WNCNN will air weekly

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Constitution Day & The Sage of Gunston HallConstitution Day is today - September 17. Last Tuesday, in honor of this special day, I visited Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason (1725-1792), creator of the Virginia Declaration of Rights adopted in 1776 and used as the model for our national Constitution's Bill of Rights.A tour guide named Ed gave me an extremely interesting and amusing history of

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Tar Heel Tavern: It's Apple Time in the Catoctin MountainsAs the adopted daughter of the Tar Heel Tavern, I am happy to report that Mel's Kitchen is hosting this week's Tavern and that the orchards north of the Carolinas are abundant with ripe, sweet apples begging to be used in our favorite recipes.Traveling through Maryland on my way home from Washington D.C. this week, I found an hour to stop

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Science and the human heartThere is no limitThere is no failure here sweetheartJust when you quit- From the song "Miracle Drug" by U2The Health Care Crisis in AfricaAre you aware that most Liberians are living off 50 cents a day? Former President Jimmy Carter said at Emory University last night that Liberia and other African countries suffering from major diseases need far more medical attention

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President Carter Meeting With Iran's Khatami in DoubtPresident Jimmy Carter has never been ashamed to say that he places a major emphasis on human rights. It is no secret that the Bush presidents - George H.W. and his son alike - have often been at odds with President Carter for Carter's sometimes assertive post-presidency involvement with international leaders while bypassing the authority of

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India Must Be Accountable if a Nuclear PlayerIn his latest book, President Jimmy Carter has pointed out that, until recently, all American presidents since Dwight Eisenhower have striven to restrict and reduce nuclear arsenals. Today, U.S. policy is threatening the effectiveness of international agreements that have been laboriously negotiated by almost all previous presidents. Because of the

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Senator John Edwards & President Carter on Universal Health CareSenator John Edwards and former President Jimmy Carter seem to get together a lot these days. In July, it was to podcast for the One America Committee Book Club. Yesterday it was to talk about the future of universal health care in America at a convention of the Laborers' International Union of North America in Nevada. Senator

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Former Pres Clinton Meets Progressive BloggersMcJoan has a diary up on the front page of Daily Kos in which she's reporting on a meeting that former President Bill Clinton held with chosen progressive bloggers (a la former Senator John Edwards, who has been doing this on a regular basis for over a year now). Barbara O'Brien of Mahabog was among the group of invited bloggers, as was Matt Stoller

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Bush's Sandwich SpeechBush stuffed a lot of lofty rhetoric in his sandwich speech last night (it was raw meat between two wonder-bread ABC drama segments)....but when he spread Iraq on that sandwich, it was like putting mustard on peanut butter. Iraq had no connection to 911 and Bush politicized the 5th anniversary of his failure to adequately warn Americans about the aviation risks and stop the

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5 Years After 911: A Bad Recipe for DemocracyAt a ceremony at the Pentagon this morning, Vice President Dick Cheney called this a "day of national unity." Looking back five years, the call Mr. Cheney raised for unity landed flat and hollow. No doubt, all of our hearts, our healing thoughts, and our prayers are with our fellow Americans who lost loved ones in the 9/11 tragedy in New York,

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Hillary Clinton and PolarizationTime magazine say those who "love" Senator Hillary Clinton have "an edge" over those who "hate" her. This is based upon a survey taken; the question was asked of Time readers. Look at the results. It isn't much of an edge. For whatever it's worth, this survey clearly shows that Senator Clinton is an incredibly polarizing political leader. In today's American

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Tar Heel TavernTar Heel Tavern's up at Billy's place!

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The Water LilyBroad water-lilies lay tremulously, And starry river-buds glimmered by, And around them the soft stream did glide and dance With a motion of sweet sound and radiance. - Percy Bysshe ShelleyThose virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun's awake. - Thomas MooreBut it

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Scholastic Provides Rewritten Guide to Focus on Critical ThinkingThe Scholastic company, who withdrew a guide to the upcoming docudrama about 9/11 two days ago because they "believe it was not in keeping with their high standards," has "rewritten this guide to focus more sharply on the issues of the docudrama as well as the background events." This program is highly controversial because:As a

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NY25: Rep. Walsh Caught Flip-FloppingAt Daily Kos, a blogger from Rochester, N.Y. has posted an audio of a question he asked of Congressman James Walsh about the minimum wage issue, claiming that he received far less than an honest reply.This USATODAY article shows that Rep. Walsh voted "Yes" last June for a raise in the federal minimum wage on an appropriations committee that had no official

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Bolton is ToastSteve Clemons is reporting that John Bolton's confirmation as U.N. ambassador is all but dead - squashed flat - finito.In his book Our Endangered Values - America's Moral Crisis, President Jimmy Carter questions some of John Bolton's past statements about the very international organization that he represents on behalf of our country. Mr. Bolton, who is the United States'

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The True Path to 9-11: What ABC won’t tell you by Kevin HaydenDon't miss this definitive piece by the owner and chief operator of the American Street.An excerpt:After the USSR fell apart, our Presidents have had to redefine alliances, revamp our military for post-Cold War needs, compete with the rising oil needs of the world’s two largest populations in China and India, modernize our

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Most Blatant Lie of the Day: Marc Platt on Disney Disaster"We've portrayed the essence of the truth of these events."This humdinger is from Marc Platt, executive producer of the Disney/ABC disinformation drama about 9/11 that is drawing strong protests regarding misrepresentations of the public figures from the Clinton administration and disgust from Americans who value a modicum of accuracy and

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"My heart is open to all the winds..Wherever God's caravans turn, the religion of love shall be my religion. And my faith."- Aribi, 13th CenturySufi traveler and mystic

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Message of Solidarity in Faith From Shalom CenterFrom Faithful America:"Beneath the scorching sun of hate is a tent of peace - where all are welcome."Yesterday's admission by President Bush that the C.I.A. has been operating secret prisons abroad stunned the world. More alarming still is his admission that "alternative methods of interrogation" are being used. These, along with the

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Indie Film Review: Military Intelligence and YouAt a time when we citizens of the U.S. are still scratching our heads over former Secretary of State Colin Powell's pre-Iraq war intelligence presentation to the United Nations in 2003, all of which was wrong, wrong, wrong and for which he is embarrassed today, a new film strikes a rather heartsick humorous chord.Military Intelligence and You! is a

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photo by Jude Nagurney CamwellThis being human is a guest houseEvery morning a new arrival.A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor.Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you out for some new delight.The dark thought,

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