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Nov 18 · The Big Heist
by: David Sirota
Tue Nov 18, 2008 at 10:24
In the slapstick classic Funny Farm, Chevy Chase ends up writing a novel called The Big Heist which is so bad - so painfully, terribly awful - that he ends up going insane and burning it in front of his horrified wife. With that in mind, here's my question after reading this little-noticed two-week-old story: Are we all living on a funny farm, and does this story prove that we've just experienced the big heist - ie. a pathetically unf
Nov 18 · I think back a lot into Joe Lieberman's run against Ned Lamont. I was amazed at the number of power Democrats who came to his aid. I was amazed that even when he made up his own party to run against Lamont...many power Democrats still supported him instead of the Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont. There was a group called Dems for Joe which contained many well-known names.
It was really eye-opening. Joe Lieberman lost the primary. He flat out lost. Yet he still won his seat back. He went
Nov 18 · Marc Cuban painted a big red kick me sign on himself when he hired Dan Rather.
Here is what the former CBS anchor had to say about his current employer, Marc Cuban recently:
Later, Rather, who now works for HDNet, suggested that the cable channel's owner, Mark Cuban, will prove to be a savior of independent journalism.
"So much depends on whether, at the very top, particularly the ownership goes back to at least some semblance of seeing news as a public trust and has some commitm
Nov 18 · Half the story has been told. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that Bush is creating civil service positions for loyal appointees, in order to make it hard for Obama to get rid of them.
Bush has also, for some time now, been terminating large numbers of employees in the federal government, people known as whistleblowers, people suspected of disloyalty. Some of the higher profile cases are well known.
But there is more to the story. And it follows the strategy described in Thomas
Nov 17 · Yes, I posted this last year. But I was reading it over again in the light of the transition team, in the light of Obama's staff picks. We are still in waiting mode, but never too early to be on guard. As an aside: I think we are very lucky to have Obama as our President Elect. If I question, it is the people around him I mean.
I see the I feel like many of us who worked for and donated to the DNC are not going to be needed again for the next four years. I did not think it would be that
Nov 17 · George Bush, with his "war on terror" project, has transformed the middle east and Afghanistan into an inflamed bomb ready to explode, but has not found out anything about his beloved lost Usamah Bin-Ladin so far.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Afghan article says US Bin-Ladin hunt phoney
The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stoppe
Nov 17 · THE entire effort to get the Iraqis to agree with the Bush White House on the future of the occupation of their country by U.S. forces is a cynical one in which Bush intends to commit the next administration to continuing his Iraq folly.
Although it's certainly notable that the Iraqi regime is coming around to the idea that there will need to be an end point to the U.S. protection of their propped-up, autocratic rule, barring some immediate rejection of the presence of forces, the decision o
Nov 14 · I needed to hear from Al From today like I needed this head-ache I have. Al even reminds Barack how hard it will be to be "post-partisan" with a Democratic congress. He says it will be harder to not let our "partisanship" show.
I knew I had heard that word a lot lately. I have heard it on TV a lot, I have read it a lot. It is front and center at the for our party.
I heard it used a lot on C-Span yesterday in a forum called
It featured:
Garin, Geoffrey Pollster, Democratic Party
Nov 16 · Last week I had a discussion of the recent election with a friend of mine who considers herself a moderate. She complained to me that Obama won because African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for him because of his race, and she didn’t think that was right.
I disagreed with her. In the first place, I explained, African-Americans in recent decades always vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate for President (although not quite as much as they did for Obama). They have a very good
Nov 16 · I. Forget Health. The FDA’s Job is to Decide How Much Melamine the Market Will Allow
It is hard not to think the worst of the Bush administration. They took an outbreak of food poisoning this summer and botched it so badly that they just about killed the Mexican tomato industry---while doing a big favor for the greenhouse tomato industry, which should have seen prices fall as summer crops came in. It took local public health officials to locate the true source---peppers. Score another one f
Nov 16 · I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around the "gay marriage threatens 'traditional' marriage" meme.
OK, I confess...I AM divorced. From Husband #1. But that divorce was in 1981, long before same-sex marriage was legalized anywhere in the United States. So golly, what happened?
I'll tell you what: physical abuse threatens marriage. Emotional and psychological abuse threatens marriage. That's what happened to me. Abuse that was never acknowledged by my ex; never dealt with, admitted, ap
Nov 16 · During the Bush years, especially from 2001 through 2005 there were many people who stood up and told the truth about what was happening in our country. These people risked public scorn, career set backs and sometimes even their own safety to help the country the best way they knew how, and we own them a debt of gratitude. After 2005 it was mainstream to oppose Bush and his polices, so no courage was needed; but during the few years after 9/11/2001, courage is exactly what it took. Please feel f
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