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    <title>Pennsylvania Students for Barack Obama</title>
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    <description>We are the collective voice of over 60,000 students who see, for the first time in our generation, a promising political and moral future for America. We stand together to help Senator Barack Obama become America&#039;s next President, and to lead this country toward a new politics of hope in the 21st Century.

Senator Obama shows us that we can regain our greatness by bringing America together. He reminds us of our common goals. We believe that in order for America to confront the new challenges of the 21st Century, we must first come together in order to solve issues like energy independence, healthcare, the Iraq War and maintaining America’s strength in this new global economy. We believe that Senator Obama is the leader to bring our country together in overcoming our differences and successfully meeting the challenges ahead.</description>
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            <title>Cheney &quot;kept us safe&quot;??????</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The former&amp;nbsp; VP &amp;quot;Dick&amp;quot; Cheney keeps repeating the same tired refrain, as if he is stuttering badly from drunkeness, that he &amp;quot;kept the country safe&amp;quot; by using torture.&amp;nbsp; Nothing&amp;nbsp; could be farther from the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Upon taking office, George W Bush and Dick Cheney were warned by the CIA and Clinton intelligence officials about the dire threat from Bin Laden and Al Queda.&amp;nbsp; Bush and Cheney paid no attention to&amp;nbsp;the warnings.&amp;nbsp; In the spring of 2001, Condolezza Rice, the new National Security Advisor appointed by W Bush, published an article in Foreign Affairs magazine in which she stated that the threat from terrorists was overblown, a relic from a paranoid Clinton administration which was trying to divert attention away from scandals.&amp;nbsp; The real threat to America came from Russia and China.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Over the summer of 2001, numerous American intelligence agencies were reporting alarming amounts of &amp;quot;chatter&amp;quot; being intercepted over the internet and telephone indicating a huge attack on America was coming.&amp;nbsp; The NSA, CIA, FBI, and Defense Intelligence all were warning of an imminent attack.&amp;nbsp; In August, W Bush, Cheney, and other top officials were given a Daily Briefing titled, &amp;quot;Bin Laden determined to attack the U.S.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; W Bush, and most importantly, Dick Cheney, did NOTHING, in spite of the seriousness of the warnings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; On September 11th, 2001, the most horrific terrorist attack ever by foreign nationals was perpetrated against the American people.&amp;nbsp; Almost 3000 innocent Americans lost their lives.&amp;nbsp; In spite of repeated warnings from&amp;nbsp;multiple sources, W and Cheney did&amp;nbsp;NOTHING to stop the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Now, after this failure to protect America from the&amp;nbsp;worst terrorist attack&amp;nbsp;ever, Dick Cheney has the gall to claim that he kept America safe through torture.&amp;nbsp; How is allowing 3000 people to die after you were warned for almost 9 months straight, &amp;quot;keeping us safe&amp;quot;???&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Bush and Cheney were the most incompetent Pres and&amp;nbsp;V. Pres we have ever had.&amp;nbsp; They did NOT keep us safe from anything.&amp;nbsp; Look again at the twin towers collapsing on video.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I ASK ONCE MORE, HOW IS ALLOWING THAT HORRIFIC ACT OF MASS MURDER,&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;KEEPING US SAFE&amp;quot;?????&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:56:32 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Robert Lynch</dc:creator>
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            <title>President Obama&#039;s First 100 days!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I am inviting you all to chime in tomorrow night at 5:00pm Pacific Coast time, 7:00pm Central, and 8:00pm Eastern. You can blog, tweet, or even call in. CNN has been pretty good about airing twitters, but&amp;nbsp;I am not certain, who the M.C. is going to be. I have twitter Address&#039; for Larry King, Don Lemon, &amp;amp; Anderson Cooper, so far. The Tea-Baggers, will be out in force, but guess what, we out number them, and I am thinking, we are on our computers more! The Inter-Net, the new &amp;quot;Power-Tool!!!!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My goal is to break records, of the most participation, in one of these events, ever! If even half of&amp;nbsp;the people that voted for him, called, twittered, or blogged, we could literally blow up their circuit boards, now THAT would be news.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&#039;d like to&amp;nbsp;follow me, tomorrow evening,&amp;nbsp;I am @bigskygirl&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be there or be square! Obama will be speaking directly after. Let&#039;s show our new POTUS how proud we are!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;N.Mc.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:51:25 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Organizing for America</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Please Join me this weekend for a community discussion on the economic recovery plan!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hope your can make it! This is such an important step in rebuilding our economy and our nation-- the voice of the community and the neighborhood. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptcsv&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank You in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kimeka&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:56:14 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Queen Kaye</dc:creator>
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            <title>President-Elect Obama&#039;s Science Team Rollout Radio Address</title>
            <description>&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;strong&gt; Remarks of the President-Elect Barack Obama&lt;br /&gt; Science Team Rollout Radio Address&lt;br /&gt; Friday, December 17, 2008&lt;br /&gt; Chicago, Illinois&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Over the past few weeks, Vice President-Elect Biden and I have announced some of the leaders who will advise us as we seek to meet America&amp;rsquo;s twenty-first century challenges, from strengthening our security, to rebuilding our economy, to preserving our planet for our children and grandchildren. Today, I am pleased to announce members of my science and technology team whose work will be critical to these efforts.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Whether it&amp;rsquo;s the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life-saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create twenty-first century jobs&amp;mdash;today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It is time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America&amp;rsquo;s place as the world leader in science and technology.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Right now, in labs, classrooms and companies across America, our leading minds are hard at work chasing the next big idea, on the cusp of breakthroughs that could revolutionize our lives. But history tells us that they cannot do it alone. From landing on the moon, to sequencing the human genome, to inventing the Internet, America has been the first to cross that new frontier because we had leaders who paved the way: leaders like President Kennedy, who inspired us to push the boundaries of the known world and achieve the impossible; leaders who not only invested in our scientists, but who respected the integrity of the scientific process.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Because the truth is that promoting science isn&amp;rsquo;t just about providing resources&amp;mdash;it&amp;rsquo;s about protecting free and open inquiry. It&amp;rsquo;s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology. It&amp;rsquo;s about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it&amp;rsquo;s inconvenient&amp;mdash;especially when it&amp;rsquo;s inconvenient. Because the highest purpose of science is the search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us. That will be my goal as President of the United States&amp;mdash;and I could not have a better team to guide me in this work.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dr. John Holdren has agreed to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. John is a professor and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Harvard&amp;rsquo;s Kennedy School of Government, as well as President and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center. A physicist renowned for his work on climate and energy, he&amp;rsquo;s received numerous honors and awards for his contributions and has been one of the most passionate and persistent voices of our time about the growing threat of climate change. I look forward to his wise counsel in the years ahead.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;John will also serve as a Co-Chair of the President&amp;rsquo;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology&amp;mdash;or PCAST&amp;mdash;as will Dr. Harold Varmus and Dr. Eric Lander. Together, they will work to remake PCAST into a vigorous external advisory council that will shape my thinking on the scientific aspects of my policy priorities.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dr. Varmus is no stranger to this work. He is not just a path-breaking scientist, having won a Nobel Prize for his research on the causes of cancer&amp;mdash;he also served as Director of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton Administration. I am grateful he has answered the call to serve once again.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dr. Eric Lander is the Founding Director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard and was one of the driving forces behind mapping the human genome&amp;mdash;one of the greatest scientific achievements in history. I know he will be a powerful voice in my Administration as we seek to find the causes and cures of our most devastating diseases.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Finally, Dr. Jane Lubchenco has accepted my nomination as the Administrator of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is devoted to conserving our marine and coastal resources and monitoring our weather. An internationally known environmental scientist and ecologist and former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Jane has advised the President and Congress on scientific matters, and I am confident she will provide passionate and dedicated leadership at NOAA.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Working with these leaders, we will seek to draw on the power of science to both meet our challenges across the globe and revitalize our economy here at home. And I&amp;rsquo;ll be speaking more after the New Year about how my Administration will engage leaders in the technology community and harness technology and innovation to create jobs, enhance America&amp;rsquo;s competitiveness and advance our national priorities.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I am confident that if we recommit ourselves to discovery; if we support science education to create the next generation of scientists and engineers right here in America; if we have the vision to believe and invest in things unseen, then we can lead the world into a new future of peace and prosperity.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;                           Upcoming Events             &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/learn/inauguration&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;pngfix&quot; src=&quot;http://change.gov/page/-/wrapper/img/inauguration.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Inauguration Event&quot; width=&quot;260&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/&quot;&gt;The Agenda&lt;/a&gt;         &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li XSSCleaned=&quot;padding-top: 10px&quot;&gt;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/economy_agenda/&quot;&gt;Revitalizing the Economy&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/iraq_agenda/&quot;&gt;Ending the War in Iraq&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/health_care_agenda/&quot;&gt;Providing Health Care for All&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/homeland_security_agenda/&quot;&gt;Protecting America&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/foreign_policy_agenda/&quot;&gt;Renewing American Global Leadership&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;   &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/agenda/&quot;&gt;More Agenda Topics&lt;/a&gt;                Your Administration                      	      &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/learn/presidentelect/&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;     	      &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/learn/vicepresidentelect/&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;               &lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;padding-top: 150px; text-align: center&quot;&gt;Read more about the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/learn/presidentelect/&quot;&gt;President-elect&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/learn/vicepresidentelect/&quot;&gt;Vice President-elect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;     	                        Open Government                      	   &lt;img usemap=&quot;#sb&quot; src=&quot;http://change.gov/page/-/open%20government/yourseatatthetable/sb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;345&quot; /&gt;            	                        Transition Directory                    &lt;img class=&quot;float-right-pad&quot; src=&quot;http://change.gov/page/-/side/transition.png&quot; alt=&quot;GSA Transition Directory&quot; /&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:15:40 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jill 4 Obama</dc:creator>
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            <title>Wind &amp; Solar Power Grids And Rechargeable Pure Electric Hybrid Cars Are The KEYS To Revitalizing America &amp; The Worldâ€™s Economy AND Ecology</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;For weeks I have been beating the following drum of analysis on how properly restructuring the auto industry with pure electric hybrids is THE critical magic bullet response to everything from global warming to restoring America&amp;rsquo;s manufacturing sector to drastically curtailing our oil-producing enemies ability to fund global terrorism.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mickiboop, a Veteran Obama Blogger, gave me a link to a recent 60 minutes episode which details the Saudi Oil Biz.&amp;nbsp; While the segment is largely a commercial for the wonders of the Saudi&amp;rsquo;s Oil Empire... there were several EXTREMELY revealing moments in interviews with high Saudi officials.&amp;nbsp; Especially take note of what the Saudi Oil Minister says at the end of segment #1 and the look of deep fear and defensiveness in his eyes when he says it... it totally backs up this analysis...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo; But the oil companies know the cats are out of the bag now... just like when the cigarette companies finally couldn&#039;t resist the pressures of the ultimate high court... the court of global mass public opinion (no matter how many lying &#039;scientists&#039; they trotted out to support their nefarious claims that cigarettes did not cause cancer... or in the case of big oil... that global climate crisis isn&#039;t real).&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We need to take the Auto CEO&#039;s up on what they said at the house and senate hearings... that they were ready to allow for federally mandated restructuring... meaning we can finally get them to build the kind of pure electric hybrids which will actually become best-sellers all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That old addage about the Chinese symbols making the word &#039;crisis&#039; are one for &#039;danger&#039; and one for &#039;opportunity&#039; combined was never more apt. We are literally on this razor&#039;s edge brink... on the brink of destroying ourselves via global climate destruction and on the brink of saving ourselves via a complete restructuring of the auto AND energy industries towards wind/solar electricity grids and rechargeable pure electric hybrids (especially at a time when China and India are developing exploding middle class populations who will all be looking to buy the cars of the future).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Obama stays resolute and doesn&#039;t compromise the obviously MASSIVE leverage we now have to make a revolutionary shift to save the planet AND millions of jobs by shifting to mass production of electric hybrids... we may very well get to witness an even more momentous historic accomplishment than his Presidential victory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mass production of pure electric, wind/solar powered hybrids is the lynchpin essential to every aspect of Obama&#039;s America and World Transforming agenda... whether we&#039;re talking about greening the planet or creating millions of good-paying jobs, or limiting our oil-producing enemies abilities to fund global terrorism thereby greatly reducing the threat of future wars over oil.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS-- Why do you think gas prices are going so low right now? Because the oil industry has read the above-mentioned handwriting on the global wall and they are rightly panic stricken. Better start learning how to make long-life car batteries boys if you want to survive cause we&#039;re about to break the mass homicide/suicide pact you&#039;ve attempted to foist upon the entire world, WIDE OPEN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How perfect that our American economic recovery/revitalization via pure electric hybrid vehicle production should also be intimately linked to our global ecological recovery/revitalization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poetic justice of historic proportions by simply applying common sense solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a winner to me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4653109n&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/60minutes/main4650223.shtml&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:43:19 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Wind &amp; Solar Rechargeable Electric Hybrids Are The KEY To Revitalizing America AND The World</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;We need to take the CEO&#039;s up on what they said at the house and senate hearings... that they were ready to allow for federally mandated restructuring... meaning we can finally get them to build the kind of pure electric hybrids which will actually become best-sellers all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But just ask Bob Baer, the ex-CIA middle east expert who wrote &amp;quot;Syriana&amp;quot; what the oil industry does to the people who get in the way of their profits.  That explains the genuine look of fear and resignation in the CEO&#039;s eyes at the hearings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the oil companies know the cats are out of the bag now... just like when the cigarette companies finally couldn&#039;t resist the pressures of the ultimate high court... the court of global mass public opinion (no matter how many lying &#039;scientists&#039; they trotted out to support their nefarious claims that cigarettes did not cause cancer... or in the case of big oil... that global climate crisis isn&#039;t real).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Obama stays resolute and doesn&#039;t compromise the obviously MASSIVE leverage we now have to make a revolutionary shift to save the planet AND millions of jobs by shifting to mass production of electric hybrids... we may very well get to witness an even more momentous historic accomplishment than his Presidential victory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mass production of pure electric, wind/solar powered hybrids is the lynchpin essential to every aspect of Obama&#039;s America and World Transforming agenda... whether we&#039;re talking about greening the planet or creating millions of good-paying jobs, or limiting our oil-producing enemies abilities to fund global terrorism thereby greatly reducing the threat of future wars over oil.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS-- Why do you think gas prices are going so low right now?  Because the oil industry has read the above-mentioned handwriting on the global wall and they are rightly panic stricken.  Better start learning how to make long-life car batteries boys if you want to survive cause we&#039;re about to break the mass homicide/suicide pact you&#039;ve attempted to foist upon the entire world, WIDE OPEN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:47:41 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>As The LAST Substantial Manufacturing Jobs in America... Suggesting Auto Bankruptcy Is Worse Than Ludicrous... It Is Downright Dangerous</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;For all those suggesting bankruptcy as an option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the time chapter 11 proceedings are complete... these brands would be utterly destroyed in domestic and global terms. Any corporate marketing analyst will tell you... once a brand has been destroyed... it TAKES MORE THAN A DECADE TO REGAIN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND TRUST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American automakers are doing well overseas... why?... because they have been forced to build and supply ENERGY EFFICIENT VEHICLES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BY FORCE INJECTING OBAMA&#039;S GREEN VISION ON THESE WAYWARD BEHEMOTHS... WE CAN SAVE THE COMPANIES AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MARKETS FROM WHAT MOST ECONOMISTS PREDICT WOULD LEAD TO TRIGGERING A GLOBAL DEPRESSION. Even if this assessment is only 50% likely to be correct... that is not a chance worth taking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MILLIONS of American jobs are intimately connected to the auto industry.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, no one will buy a car from a bankrupt company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;700 billion for white collar Wall Street and not even 14 billion to save millions of blue collar jobs here at home? &amp;nbsp;Stop smoking crack and get better informed before spouting off your union-busting, depression instigating swill here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The top Automobile Executives have already pledged to allow the Fed to have a HUGE hand in restructuring this vital and stricken industry. &amp;nbsp;It is CRITICAL to the revitalization of the American and Global economies that we accept their desperate invitation and finally manage these companies in a way which will benefit everyone... by building products the world market will be clamoring for... pure electric hybrids.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:57:36 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Lincoln&#039;s Better Angels vs. Ike&#039;s Warned of Demons... The Defining Life &amp; Death Struggle of All Human History</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;No corner of the globe is yet immune to the painful condition that has plagued the entirety of human history... our self-destructive worst instincts and behaviors vs. our best attempts to live as one... free of the fear and loathing which leaves the world enslaved and leads inevitably to ruin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;America the Promised Land vs. America the front for global thieves has been a battle raging since the Revolutionary War when the first congressmen included war profiteers who got rich by selling shoddy equipment to our armed forces. Sound familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Angels and demons... angels and demons... for as much as we like to pretend how far we&#039;ve advanced in the last two hundred years... hell... the last two thousand... not much has really changed... sure, the slaves have better quarters now and we live longer... but the same old master/servant paradigms of fear and the minions who serve them, scratch and claw for every twisted minute of control they can wrestle away from the all-inclusive sane.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we&#039;re going to change this struggle for the soul of the world and the shape of reality... it will start with a continuation of the self-same mass awakening that it took to get Obama elected in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But let&#039;s not kid ourselves good people of this Good Fight... electing Obama has simply gotten the epic battle between our better angels and our worst demons to a draw... which is a whole lot better than the parade of &amp;quot;go f yourselves&amp;quot; evil we&#039;ve had to endure for the past eight years... hell, since the modern war profiteers blew up Jack and Martin and Bobby...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So now we&#039;ve got to finish the job with a combination of the love of harmonizing saints and the cunning of ruthless wolves... because the industries of mass death are like deeply dug in ticks, and they&#039;re not going to give up their blood feast willingly... we&#039;ll have to outsmart the vampire zombies if we expect to truly save this nation... we&#039;ll have to show them better ways to make even more money than the way they are doing it now via war and the mass strangulation of the planet with fossil fuels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like I said... as patient and loving as harmonizing saints and as cunning and ruthless in our right makes might purpose as well-coordinated wolves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I haven&#039;t bored you to death by now...see my posts on transforming our industries of mass death into the means of American reconstruction... helping to build high speed rail to link our cities to our suburbs... helping to build massive solar arrays and the wind corridor..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&#039;ll beat our swords into soaring stock shares (at least a goodly portion of the antiquated budget bloating ones that the Dept. of Defense should have ended years ago)... the beast will be exorcised and our Promised Land Balance restored... and so too the world... because the lifeblood of every culture under the sun courses through the heart of this American Dream... and the Founders&#039; sacred trust of Liberty and Justice for ALL shines in the still-believing faces of every culture&#039;s color and in the generational songs of every faith and therein resides our greatest hope.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cost of Liberty IS eternal vigilance... that and the courage to stand up for what we know in our hearts, minds and very bones is RIGHT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN THE COMMON GOOD, AMERICA AND OURSELVES WE TRUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LIVE FREE OR BUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:47:48 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>I&#039;m Trying To Be Civil, But Some Of The Ignorance Being Expressed About The Auto Industry Is Truly Appalling</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;For all those suggesting bankruptcy as an option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the time chapter 11 proceedings are complete... these brands would be utterly destroyed in domestic and global terms. Any corporate marketing analysts will tell you... once a brand has been destroyed... it TAKES MORE THAN A DECADE TO REGAIN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND TRUST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American automakers are doing well overseas... why?... because they have been forced to build and supply ENERGY EFFICIENT VEHICLES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BY FORCE INJECTING OBAMA&#039;S GREEN VISION ON THESE WAYWARD BEHEMOTHS... WE CAN SAVE THE COMPANIES AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MARKETS FROM WHAT MOST ECONOMISTS PREDICT WOULD LEAD TO TRIGGERING A GLOBAL DEPRESSION. Even if this assessment is only 50% likely to be correct... that is not a chance worth taking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MILLIONS of American jobs are intimately connected to the auto industry.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, no one will buy a car from a bankrupt company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;700 billion for white collar Wall Street and not even 14 billion to save millions of blue collar jobs here at home? &amp;nbsp;Stop smoking crack and get better informed before spouting off your union-busting, depression instigating swill here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:39:12 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>I&#039;m Trying To Be Civil, But Some Of The Ignorance Being Expressed About The Auto Industry Is Truly Appalling</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;For all those suggesting bankruptcy as an option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the time chapter 11 proceedings are complete... these brands would be utterly destroyed in domestic and global terms.  Any corporate marketing analysts will tell you... once a brand has been destroyed... it TAKES MORE THAN A DECADE TO REGAIN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND TRUST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American automakers are doing well overseas... why?... because they have been forced to build and supply ENERGY EFFICIENT VEHICLES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BY FORCE INJECTING OBAMA&#039;S GREEN VISION ON THESE WAYWARD BEHEMOTHS... WE CAN SAVE THE COMPANIES AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MARKETS FROM WHAT MOST ECONOMISTS PREDICT WOULD LEAD TO TRIGGERING A GLOBAL DEPRESSION.  Even if this assessment is only 50% likely to be correct... that is not a chance worth taking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, no one will buy a car from a bankrupt company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case closed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:30:10 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Open Letter To Bloggers &quot;Josh and Kade&quot; On Their Brain-Dead Union-Busting Tripe</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;As a general rule I try never to get personal in my responses here but this time I am compelled to make an exception considering HOW MANY MILLIONS OF AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE ON THE LINE... NOT TO MENTION A LOOMING NATIONAL AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;__________________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Josh and Kade&amp;quot;...I suggest you research the history of how and why unions got started in this country to begin with. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Women and children shot down in cold blood by corporately owned goon squads for daring to protest HORRIFIC working conditions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Once you&#039;ve absorbed that, if you still hold the same opinions as expressed in your ignorant post... you need some serious help. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The unions have stated REPEATEDLY that they are ready willing and able to make concessions regarding everything from pay to pensions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Not to mention... that once Obama and Congress deliver on universal healthcare reforms... a big fat chunk of the financial solvency problems will be taken care of. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; For example... by simply mandating that all health insurers go to a single computerized claims protocol... fully 40% of healthcare costs will be reduced. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; But hey... if giving even MORE power to the same corporate barons who have raped the working class since the industrial revolution is your thing... then might I suggest you join up with that dying dinosaur of a political party across the street since you&#039;re already supporting them anyway with your union-busting tripe.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At this critical point in American History... the ignorance you display in  your comments is worse than just ill-informed, it&#039;s downright dangerous. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Your so-called &#039;independent contractors&#039; &#039;negotiating&#039; with corporate owners would truly be laughable if it wasn&#039;t so completely inane and destructive to workers rights. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; History has proven that collective bargaining ALONE is the only way to get corporate power to the table in the first place, let alone achieve reasonable living wages and benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try peddling your union-busting snake oil somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WE&amp;quot;RE NOT BUYING.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:06:46 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Senate RepubliThugs Continue To Hang Themselves With Depression-Provoking Stupidity</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The brain-dead party of Herbert Hoover, The &amp;quot;Great Depressor&amp;quot; is at it again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would the RepubliThugs block the auto bailout of 14 billion for millions of American workers after serving up 700 billion dollars to the fat laughing thieving pigs of Wall Street?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the ill-informed public has shown it does not support the auto bailout. &amp;nbsp;Translation? &amp;nbsp;The desperate and dying RepubliThugs are playing poll-driven politics plain and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do they care if millions of Americans lose their jobs, their health benefits, their homes. &amp;nbsp;These RepubliPigs all got paid already, have the best healthcare money can buy, and usually two homes AT LEAST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keep it up swine... we&#039;ll be casting you out soon enough until all that&#039;s left in Washington are Progressives, independents and moderates who actually give a crap about WE THE PEOPLE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- Remember Old fart Bush the first&#039;s promise that &amp;quot;America would be dragged kicking and screaming into the &#039;new world order&#039;&amp;quot;... well folks, this is exactly what that fossilized f*** meant. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gut American manufacturing... sell it all off to slave labor markets because hell... America has just become a nation of cross-breeding mutts anyway right KKK RepubliThugs? &amp;nbsp;Remember Katrina? &amp;nbsp;The war of lies in Iraq? &amp;nbsp;The Wall Street Steal-a-thon called a &#039;bailout&#039;?... they are selling us out and selling us off... and when millions more homes are foreclosed on... they can repay their buddies in Saudi Arabia and China who will then buy everything up {which they&#039;ve already BEEN doing for years now by the way} until all that&#039;s left of America is the flag these sleazoid vampire zombies hide behind the entire time they are raping and pillaging the American Dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wake up good people. &amp;nbsp;Electing Obama was only step one. &amp;nbsp;Until we cut the corporate puppet strings controlling Congress and their lawmaking capacity we will continue to be sold down shit creek.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See my previous posts on the &#039;No Bribes Allowed&#039; Constitutional Amendment which bans corporate lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking function once and for all. &amp;nbsp;Until then, prepare for more of the nightmarish same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;END CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTION OF CONGRESS NOW BEFORE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONLY EXISTS AS AN HISTORICAL REFERENCE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE HARD PART HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED... GATHERING OURSELVES INTO A POLITICAL FORCE... NOW IT&#039;S TIME TO EXERT THAT FORCE TO THE MAXIMUM SO WE CAN SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY AND SO... OURSELVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNITED WE STAND... DIVIDED WE GO BUST.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:06:52 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Bomb Trigger That Is Washington DC Is Still Wired For National DestructIon And Disgrace</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Until we muster the courage to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning all lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking function via legalized bribery that keeps the house and senate legislating in favor of corporate interests above and beyond the interests of We The People... until THAT historic day... we will continue to be mired down by the swamp of corruption even if we do have a good man as President.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes... Obama will be the chief executive... but he cannot write the laws. &amp;nbsp;As long as THAT critical function is left to the lobbyists... a government for and by we the people, is nothing more than words on a page... a cruel hoax.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The men and women who have DIED for those Liberty preserving words deserve better...we all do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lobbyist legalized bribes that have virtually destroyed our Constitution are completely against everything our founders ever intended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The airwaves that broadcast all TV are owned by THE PEOPLE. &amp;nbsp;Make all national political ads free and there is no need for the bribes which bind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prostituting the first amendment as a cover for raping the national treasury and trust is NOT what the Founders had in mind, and is clearly superceded by the essential need to restore our Congressional lawmaking body to serving the interests of a TRULY REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT THAT IS FOR AND BY WE THE PEOPLE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S GET IT DONE BEFORE THIS MALIGNANCY IN THE HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY CAN DO ANY MORE DAMAGE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:46:44 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>RepubliThug Party Continues To Hang Itself</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Why would the RepubliThugs block the auto bailout of 14 billion for millions of American workers after serving up 700 billion dollars to the fat laughing thieving pigs of Wall Street?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the ill-informed public has shown it does not support the auto bailout. &amp;nbsp;Translation? &amp;nbsp;The desperate and dying RepubliThugs are playing poll-driven politics plain and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do they care if millions of Americans lose their jobs, their health benefits, their homes. &amp;nbsp;These RepubliPigs all got paid already, have the best healthcare money can buy, and usually two homes AT LEAST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keep it up swine... we&#039;ll be casting you out soon enough until all that&#039;s left in Washington are Progressives, independents and moderates who actually give a crap about WE THE PEOPLE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- Remember Old fart Bush the first&#039;s promise that &amp;quot;America would be dragged kicking and screaming into the &#039;new world order&#039;&amp;quot;... well folks, this is exactly what that fossilized f*** meant. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gut American manufacturing... sell it all off to slave labor markets because hell... America has just become a nation of cross-breeding mutts anyway right KKK RepubliThugs? &amp;nbsp;Remember Katrina? &amp;nbsp;The war of lies in Iraq? &amp;nbsp;The Wall Street Steal-a-thon called a &#039;bailout&#039;?... they are selling us out and selling us off... and when millions more homes are foreclosed on... they can repay their buddies in Saudi Arabia and China who will then buy everything up {which they&#039;ve already BEEN doing for years now by the way} until all that&#039;s left of America is the flag these sleazoid vampire zombies hide behind the entire time they are raping and pillaging the American Dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wake up good people. &amp;nbsp;Electing Obama was only step one. &amp;nbsp;Until we cut the corporate puppet strings controlling Congress and their lawmaking capacity we will continue to be sold down shit creek.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See my previous posts on the &#039;No Bribes Allowed&#039; Constitutional Amendment which bans corporate lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking function once and for all. &amp;nbsp;Until then, prepare for more of the nightmarish same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;END CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTION OF CONGRESS NOW BEFORE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONLY EXISTS AS AN HISTORICAL REFERENCE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE HARD PART HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED... GATHERING OURSELVES INTO A POLITICAL FORCE... NOW IT&#039;S TIME TO EXERT THAT FORCE TO THE MAXIMUM SO WE CAN SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY AND SO... OURSELVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNITED WE STAND... DIVIDED WE GO BUST.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:22:49 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Bomb Trigger That Is Washington DC Is Still Wired For National DestructIon And Disgrace</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Until we muster the courage to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning all lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking function via legalized bribery that keeps the house and senate legislating in favor of corporate interests above and beyond the interests of We The People... until THAT historic day... we will continue to be mired down by the swamp of corruption even if we do have a good man as President.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes... Obama will be the chief executive... but he cannot write the laws. &amp;nbsp;As long as THAT critical function is left to the lobbyists... a government for and by we the people, is nothing more than words on a page... a cruel hoax.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The men and women who have DIED for those Liberty preserving words deserve better...we all do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lobbyist legalized bribes that have virtually destroyed our Constitution are completely against everything our founders ever intended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The airwaves that broadcast all TV are owned by THE PEOPLE. &amp;nbsp;Make all national political ads free and there is no need for the bribes which bind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prostituting the first amendment as a cover for raping the national treasury and trust is NOT what the Founders had in mind, and is clearly superceded by the essential need to restore our Congressional lawmaking body to serving the interests of a TRULY REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT THAT IS FOR AND BY WE THE PEOPLE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S GET IT DONE BEFORE THIS MALIGNANCY IN THE HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY CAN DO ANY MORE DAMAGE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:00:57 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>As a National Security Imperative...Use An Auto Industry Public/Private Partnership BUYOUT to Create Millions of Green Jobs &amp; Break Our Addiction to The Middle East Corporate Crack Pipeline</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do you think gas prices are going so low right now? &amp;nbsp;Because the following strategy is precisely what the globe-strangling oil industry fears most.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know many of you have seen this appeal already... but considering how DENSE Congress is, and how devoid of common sense solutions they are... I am forced to repeat this revolutionary concept yet again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book... AMERICAN REVOLUTION II... it was originally posted immediately following the election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American Automobile Industry has proven one thing emphatically... It is literally TOO STUPID TO LIVE (In it&#039;s current brain-dead form).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally GOLDEN opportunity to achieve some MAJOR campaign goals. &amp;nbsp;How?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;Fine. &amp;nbsp;In order to get it, you will dump your top management and resurrect the EV1. &amp;nbsp;That&#039;s right... GM&#039;s original best electric car.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JUST AS IT WAS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY TO CONVERT AUTO PRODUCTION DURING WWII TO BUILD THE WEAPONS WHICH DEFEATED HITLER, SO TOO NOW WE WILL CONVERT OUR GAS GUZZLING MIDDLE EAST OIL ADDICTION INDUSTRY INTO ONE WHICH FREES US FROM THAT CORPORATE CRACK-PIPELINE ADDICTION ONCE AND FOR ALL.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGE. &amp;nbsp;The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000... add in a $7,000 bailout funded tax break to the consumer and just watch how these electric vehicles will fly off the shelves. &amp;nbsp;Another huge plus regarding the EV1 is that the production techniques already exist since it was produced in the 1990&#039;s for the California zero-emission imperative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... while we&#039;re at it... let&#039;s just boot the top executives and boards... force these strategic manufacturing changes, and then fill the management posts with vetted public service appointments. &amp;nbsp;After all, if we&#039;re going to be the chief shareholders... it SHOULD be up to us how these companies are run.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Socialism shmocialism... I WANT PRACTICAL RESULTS NOT THE SAME OLD INCOMPETENT FAT PIG GLUTTONY &amp;amp; THIEVERY.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GM&#039;s bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. &amp;nbsp;Yeah right. &amp;nbsp;What do you say we try that again and you won&#039;t have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! &amp;nbsp;Plus... we won&#039;t even have to wait for developmental ramp-up BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR THE EV1 ALREADY EXISTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100&#039;s of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;FINE... WE&#039;RE TAKING YOU OVER AND MASS PRODUCING THE EV1 NOW!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. &amp;nbsp;Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... a car that a GM VP admitted yesterday on MSNBC would not even be able to mass produce the essential batteries until 2010 AT BEST... the EV1 will end up outselling the toyota corolla RIGHT NOW.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:57:20 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Lincoln&#039;s Better Angels vs. Ike&#039;s Warned of Demons... The Defining Life &amp; Death Struggle of All Human History</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;No corner of the globe is yet immune to the painful condition that has plagued the entirety of human history... our self-destructive worst instincts and behaviors vs. our best attempts to live as one... free of the fear and loathing which leaves the world enslaved and leads inevitably to ruin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;America the Promised Land vs. America the front for global thieves has been a battle raging since the Revolutionary War when the first congressmen included war profiteers who got rich by selling shoddy equipment to our armed forces. Sound familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Angels and demons... angels and demons... for as much as we like to pretend how far we&#039;ve advanced in the last two hundred years... hell... the last two thousand... not much has really changed... sure, the slaves have better quarters now and we live longer... but the same old master/servant paradigms of fear and the minions who serve them, scratch and claw for every twisted minute of control they can wrestle away from the all-inclusive sane.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we&#039;re going to change this struggle for the soul of the world and the shape of reality... it will start with a continuation of the self-same mass awakening that it took to get Obama elected in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But let&#039;s not kid ourselves good people of this Good Fight... electing Obama has simply gotten the epic battle between our better angels and our worst demons to a draw... which is a whole lot better than the parade of &amp;quot;go f yourselves&amp;quot; evil we&#039;ve had to endure for the past eight years... hell, since the modern war profiteers blew up Jack and Martin and Bobby...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So now we&#039;ve got to finish the job with a combination of the love of harmonizing saints and the cunning of ruthless wolves... because the industries of mass death are like deeply dug in ticks, and they&#039;re not going to give up their blood feast willingly... we&#039;ll have to outsmart the vampire zombies if we expect to truly save this nation... we&#039;ll have to show them better ways to make even more money than the way they are doing it now via war and the mass strangulation of the planet with fossil fuels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like I said... as patient and loving as harmonizing saints and as cunning and ruthless in our right makes might purpose as well-coordinated wolves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I haven&#039;t bored you to death by now...see my posts on transforming our industries of mass death into the means of American reconstruction... helping to build high speed rail to link our cities to our suburbs... helping to build massive solar arrays and the wind corridor..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&#039;ll beat our swords into soaring stock shares (at least a goodly portion of the antiquated budget bloating ones that the Dept. of Defense should have ended years ago)... the beast will be exorcised and our Promised Land Balance restored... and so too the world... because the lifeblood of every culture under the sun courses through the heart of this American Dream... and the Founders&#039; sacred trust of Liberty and Justice for ALL shines in the still-believing faces of every culture&#039;s color and in the generational songs of every faith and therein resides our greatest hope.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cost of Liberty IS eternal vigilance... that and the courage to stand up for what we know in our hearts, minds and very bones is RIGHT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN THE COMMON GOOD, AMERICA AND OURSELVES WE TRUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LIVE FREE OR BUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:39:41 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Why Do You Think Gas Prices Are Going So Low?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Simple really. &amp;nbsp;OPEC and the Exxon/Mobils of the world are running scared... Why? &amp;nbsp;Because the current American auto manufacturer restructuring gives us the truly golden opportunity to revolutionize an about to explode global demand for pure electric, wind and solar rechargeable cars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the exponential growth of China and India&#039;s middle class... whoever is first to mass produce electric cars with a REAL driving range of 100 miles per charge will truly become the next manufacturing superpower... and guess what... AMERICA ALREADY HAS THE TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE THIS ECONOMY SAVING DREAM A REALITY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the economic experts have projected China to overtake our economy in about ten years... well, HERE&#039;S A NEWS FLASH FOR THE SO-CALLED EXPERTS... IF WE START MASS PRODUCING THE EV! ELECTRIC VEHICLE WE CAN STOP THAT SLAVE LABOR/BRUTAL TYRANNY BY CHINA IN IT&#039;S WORLD DOMINATING/TWISTING TRACKS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then of course there&#039;s even more job creating possibilities...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;High speed rail buildout linking our cities to our suburbs may be one of the most important infrastructure job creators America can muster. All plans for highway and bridge rebuilding should integrate a high speed rail system at the onset so as to not end up making such rail buildout more difficult down the road.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Combine these efforts with turbine buildout of the wind corridor along with vast solar arrays in our desert southwest and a mass production of EV1 already existing electric auto manufacture which will create HUGE international demand for a KEY American product line... and just watch how we turn a near depression into one of the biggest and longest sustained economic booms the world has ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;High speed rail is also an excellent way to rechannel bloated defense industry contractors/ jobs into constructive infrastructure jobs thereby thwarting the all too common business urge of military industrial contractors to sabotage attempts to pare down the defense budget... which happens to be the most likely place (DOD) to find billions in essential federal budget savings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it also makes sense to increase vital funding for Veterans Affairs... what better more common sensical place to get that essential funding than from bloated unneccessary defense programs/antiquated weapons systems. Naturally, this will require a Secretary of Defense with both the military stature and political wisdom to get this cost-cutting job done with the least amount of corporate/political interference/sabotage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colin Powell or some like-minded military hero/pragmatist would be best suited to this all-important reform function cabinet post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given our current economic woes, no one can successfully argue against the simple fact that ONLY the most essential weapons systems are the ones worth funding anymore... especially support of our veterans as the ultimate living weapons system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This integrated approach to national repair will succeed because it recognizes the essential rot and corruption which has led to financial disaster across all economic fronts and addresses them all with a comprehensive no-nonsense approach that has been sorely lacking in our governmental function for far too long.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;America has the innovation and the spirit of team effort essential for success in rebuilding our nation. Now it&#039;s high time we prove this to ourselves and to the entire watching world.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:34:30 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Lincoln&#039;s Better Angels vs. Ike&#039;s Warned of Demons</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;No corner of the globe is yet immune to the painful condition that has plagued the entirety of human history... our self-destructive worst instincts and behaviors vs. our best attempts to live as one, free of the fear and loathing which leaves the world enslaved and leads inevitably to ruin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;America the Promised land vs. America the front for global thieves has been a battle raging since the Revolutionary War when the first congressmen included war profiteers who got rich by selling shoddy equipment to our armed forces.  Sound familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Angels and demons... angels and demons... for as much as we like to pretend how far we&#039;ve advanced in the last two hundred years... hell... the last two thousand... not much has really changed... sure, the slaves have better quarters now and we live longer... but the same old master/servant paradigms of fear and the minions who serve them, scratch and claw for every twisted minute of control they can wrestle away from the all-inclusive sane.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we&#039;re going to change this struggle for the soul of the world and the shape of reality... it will start with a continuation of the self-same mass awakening that it took to get Obama elected in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But let&#039;s not kid ourselves good people of this Good Fight... electing Obama has simply gotten the epic battle between our better angels and our worst demons to a draw... which is a whole lot better than the parade of &amp;quot;go f yourselves&amp;quot; evil we&#039;ve had to endure for the past eight years... hell, since the modern war profiteers blew up Jack and Martin and Bobby...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So now we&#039;ve got to finish the job with a combination of the love of harmonizing saints and the cunning of ruthless wolves... because the industries of mass death are like deeply dug in ticks, and they&#039;re not going to give up their blood feast willingly... we&#039;ll have to outsmart the vampire zombies if we expect to truly save this nation... we&#039;ll have to show them better ways to make even more money than the way they are doing it now via war and the mass strangulation of the planet with fossil fuels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like I said... as patient and loving as harmonizing saints and as cunning and ruthless in our right makes might purpose as well-coordinated wolves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I haven&#039;t bored you to death by now...see my posts on transforming our industries of mass death into the means of American reconstruction... helping to build high speed rail to link our cities to our suburbs...  helping to build massive solar arrays and the wind corridor... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&#039;ll beat our swords into soaring stock shares (at least a goodly portion of the antiquated budget bloating ones that the Dept. of Defense should have ended years ago)... the beast will be exorcised and our Promised Land Balance restored... and so too the world... because the lifeblood of  every culture under the sun courses through the heart of this American Dream... and the Founders&#039; sacred trust of Liberty and Justice for ALL shines in the still-believing faces of every culture&#039;s color and in the generational songs of every faith and therein resides our greatest hope.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cost of Liberty IS eternal vigilance... that and the courage to stand up for what we know in our hearts, minds and very bones is RIGHT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN THE COMMON GOOD, AMERICA AND OURSELVES WE TRUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LIVE FREE OR BUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:19:26 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Open Letter To The President Obama Transition Team</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;High speed rail buildout linking our cities to our suburbs may be one of the most important infrastructure job creators America can muster.  All plans for highway and bridge rebuilding should integrate a high speed rail system at the onset so as to not end up making such rail buildout more difficult down the road.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Combine these efforts with turbine buildout of the wind corridor along with vast solar arrays in our desert southwest and a mass production of EV1 already existing electric auto manufacture which will create HUGE international demand for a KEY American product line... and just watch how we turn a near depression into one of the biggest and longest sustained economic booms the world has ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;High speed rail is also an excellent way to rechannel bloated defense industry contractors/ jobs into constructive infrastructure jobs thereby thwarting the all too common business urge of military industrial contractors to sabotage attempts to pare down the defense budget... which happens to be the most likely place (DOD) to find billions in essential federal budget savings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it also makes sense to increase vital funding for Veterans Affairs... what better more common sensical place to get that essential funding than from bloated unneccessary defense programs/antiquated weapons systems.  Naturally, this will require a Secretary of Defense with both the military stature and political wisdom to get this cost-cutting job done with the least amount of corporate/political interference/sabotage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colin Powell or some like-minded military hero/pragmatist would be best suited to this all-important reform function cabinet post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given our current economic woes, no one can successfully argue against the simple fact that ONLY the most essential weapons systems are the ones worth funding anymore... especially support of our veterans as the ultimate living weapons system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This integrated approach to national repair will succeed because it recognizes the essential rot and corruption which has led to financial disaster across all economic fronts and addresses them all with a comprehensive no-nonsense approach that has been sorely lacking in our governmental function for far too long.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;America has the innovation and the spirit of team effort essential for success in rebuilding our nation.  Now it&#039;s high time we prove this to ourselves and to the entire watching world.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:12:38 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Frankly... I&#039;m Stunned</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Obama Bloggers not allowed access to march in the innaugural parade?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering re-election will require the same grassroots effort, I&#039;m stunned by this obvious snub and lack of good judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Certainly, the nation has far bigger fish to fry... with 533,000 more jobs being lost in November and the auto makers about to go bust...two wars to end...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was not going to be able to make it to DC anyway (a fact which still pains me), but I was looking forward to seeing my compatriots from this amazing community, carrying our banner on that historic day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alas... such is the lot of the hard-working life blood of America dear friends... the red in the red white and blue is all too often taken for granted...whether on the battlefield, or in the sphere of political battle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll celebrate the day anyway, and I&#039;ll fight for every inch of middle class restoration our movement lived as its central rallying call, in every policy initiative and legislative struggle to come... and I will never forget what we accomplished here for our nation... because the ultimate banner is the one we hold high in our hearts... the one we&#039;ve held high all these long months as we&#039;ve struggled to redeem this great nation... and it simply says... &amp;quot;We Reclaim An America For And By WE THE PEOPLE.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for making the effort anyway Lisa from Texas and JFK Fan. &amp;nbsp;Your devotion to this cause will not be forgotten.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:29:40 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Roots Camp Pittsburgh</title>
            <description>&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 10pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;rootscampPittsburgh&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is &lt;a href=&quot;http://rootscamppittsburgh2009.pbwiki.com/&quot;&gt;RootsCampPittsburgh&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RootsCamps are participant driven events or forums, using the &amp;quot;unconference&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;open space&amp;quot; format that is born from the desire for activists, organizers, leaders and politicians in the progressive sphere to share and learn in a productive, fast-paced, open environment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white&quot;&gt;Think of it as a cross between an election debrief and grassroots organizing skills share. The progressive community &amp;mdash; everyone from the &amp;quot;netroots&amp;quot; to precinct captains to field organizers to national message consultants &amp;mdash; come together to share successes, failures, impart old wisdom and new discoveries.&lt;/p&gt;RootsCamp is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. There are NO SPECTATORS. This open format never fails to yield an astounding exchange of information, spin-off projects, and cross-pollination among unexpected partners.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white&quot;&gt;Find out more about RootsCampPittsburgh at &lt;a href=&quot;http://rootscamppittsburgh2009.pbwiki.com/&quot;&gt;http://rootscamppittsburgh2009.pbwiki.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When is RootsCampPittsburgh?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RootsCamp will be held at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usw.org/&quot;&gt;United Steelworkers&lt;/a&gt; Building, 5 Gateway Center in Pittsburgh on &lt;strong&gt;January 24, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who should come to RootsCamp?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RootsCamp will be for anyone who played a role in the 2008 elections and/or working in progressive politics. As fellow organizers, we&#039;ll be meeting each other, reuniting with team members, discussing the innovations and challenges from this cycle, and most importantly, celebrating!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white&quot;&gt;RootsCamp 2009 will bring together the best and brightest organizers that were engaged in 2008 campaigns, including staff and volunteers from:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white; margin-left: 0.5in&quot;&gt;Presidential Campaigns&lt;br /&gt;Down ballot races&lt;br /&gt;Labor&lt;br /&gt;Non-partisan GOTV and voter registration operations&lt;br /&gt;Online organizations&lt;br /&gt;Advocacy organizations&lt;br /&gt;Tech support&lt;br /&gt;Blogs and other media&lt;br /&gt;Media, message, polling and targeting consultants&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At RootsCamp, you will:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in&quot;&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Share stories and knowledge with each other from all over Pennsylvania, especially the western part of the state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in&quot;&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Teach others from the progressive movement what you did and how you did it. Brainstorm ways that the methods you practiced can be exported to unions, advocacy organizations and community organizations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;background: white; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in&quot;&gt;&amp;middot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Strategize about how to help progressive institutions to sustain what you&#039;ve started.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;To find out more about RootsCampPittsburgh or to register, go to:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://rootscamppittsburgh2009.pbwiki.com/&quot;&gt;http://rootscamppittsburgh2009.pbwiki.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:08:02 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>As a National Security Imperative...Use An Auto Industry Public/Private Partnership BUYOUT to Create Millions of Green Jobs &amp; Break Our Addiction to The Middle East Corporate Crack Pipeline</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I know many of you have seen this appeal already... but considering how DENSE Congress is, and how devoid of common sense solutions they are... I am forced to repeat this revolutionary concept yet again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book... AMERICAN REVOLUTION II... it was originally posted immediately following the election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American Automobile Industry has proven one thing emphatically... It is literally TOO STUPID TO LIVE (In it&#039;s current brain-dead form).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally GOLDEN opportunity to achieve some MAJOR campaign goals. &amp;nbsp;How?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;Fine. &amp;nbsp;In order to get it, you will dump your top management and resurrect the EV1. &amp;nbsp;That&#039;s right... GM&#039;s original best electric car.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JUST AS IT WAS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY TO CONVERT AUTO PRODUCTION DURING WWII TO BUILD THE WEAPONS WHICH DEFEATED HITLER, SO TOO NOW WE WILL CONVERT OUR GAS GUZZLING MIDDLE EAST OIL ADDICTION INDUSTRY INTO ONE WHICH FREES US FROM THAT CORPORATE CRACK-PIPELINE ADDICTION ONCE AND FOR ALL.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGE. &amp;nbsp;The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000... add in a $7,000 bailout funded tax break to the consumer and just watch how these electric vehicles will fly off the shelves. &amp;nbsp;Another huge plus regarding the EV1 is that the production techniques already exist since it was produced in the 1990&#039;s for the California zero-emission imperative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... while we&#039;re at it... let&#039;s just boot the top executives and boards... force these strategic manufacturing changes, and then fill the management posts with vetted public service appointments. &amp;nbsp;After all, if we&#039;re going to be the chief shareholders... it SHOULD be up to us how these companies are run.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Socialism shmocialism... I WANT PRACTICAL RESULTS NOT THE SAME OLD INCOMPETENT FAT PIG GLUTTONY &amp;amp; THIEVERY.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GM&#039;s bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. &amp;nbsp;Yeah right. &amp;nbsp;What do you say we try that again and you won&#039;t have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! &amp;nbsp;Plus... we won&#039;t even have to wait for developmental ramp-up BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR THE EV1 ALREADY EXISTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100&#039;s of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;FINE... WE&#039;RE TAKING YOU OVER AND MASS PRODUCING THE EV1 NOW!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. &amp;nbsp;Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... a car that a GM VP admitted yesterday on MSNBC would not even be able to mass produce the essential batteries until 2010 AT BEST... the EV1 will end up outselling the toyota corolla RIGHT NOW.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:26:38 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>As a National Security Imperative...Use An Auto Industry Public/Private Partnership BUYOUT to Create Millions of Green Jobs &amp; Break Our Addiction to The Middle East Corporate Crack Pipeline</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book... AMERICAN REVOLUTION II... it was originally posted immediately following the election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The American Automobile Industry has proven one thing emphatically... It is literally TOO STUPID TO LIVE (In it&#039;s current brain-dead form).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally GOLDEN opportunity to achieve some MAJOR campaign goals. &amp;nbsp;How?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;Fine. &amp;nbsp;In order to get it, you will dump your top management and resurrect the EV1. &amp;nbsp;That&#039;s right... GM&#039;s original best electric car.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JUST AS IT WAS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY TO CONVERT AUTO PRODUCTION DURING WWII TO BUILD THE WEAPONS WHICH DEFEATED HITLER, SO TOO NOW WE WILL CONVERT OUR GAS GUZZLING MIDDLE EAST OIL ADDICTION INDUSTRY INTO ONE WHICH FREES US FROM THAT CORPORATE CRACK-PIPELINE ADDICTION ONCE AND FOR ALL.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGE. &amp;nbsp;The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000... add in a $7,000 bailout funded tax break to the consumer and just watch how these electric vehicles will fly off the shelves. &amp;nbsp;Another huge plus regarding the EV1 is that the production techniques already exist since it was produced in the 1990&#039;s for the California zero-emission imperative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... while we&#039;re at it... let&#039;s just boot the top executives and boards... force these strategic manufacturing changes, and then fill the management posts with vetted public service appointments. &amp;nbsp;After all, if we&#039;re going to be the chief shareholders... it SHOULD be up to us how these companies are run.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Socialism shmocialism... I WANT PRACTICAL RESULTS NOT THE SAME OLD INCOMPETENT FAT PIG GLUTTONY &amp;amp; THIEVERY.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GM&#039;s bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. &amp;nbsp;Yeah right. &amp;nbsp;What do you say we try that again and you won&#039;t have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! &amp;nbsp;Plus... we won&#039;t even have to wait for developmental ramp-up BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR THE EV1 ALREADY EXISTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100&#039;s of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;FINE... WE&#039;RE TAKING YOU OVER AND MASS PRODUCING THE EV1 NOW!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. &amp;nbsp;Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... the EV1 will end up outselling the toyota corolla.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:08:24 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Barack Obama... Cultural Hybrid AND a Policy Hybrid As Well</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;It is indeed ironic that we in the over-intellectualizing West, don&#039;t, generally speaking, have the basic philosophical ability to grasp the simple and all-important concept of duality...  From Obama&#039;s hybrid nature as a black AND white American... to his ideological stance as both &amp;quot;good cop &amp;amp; bad cop&amp;quot; (merciful and conciliatory &amp;amp; tough-minded and disciplinary).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the political far left sees Obama&#039;s appointments as an overly conservative betrayal... the political far right sees these appointments as superficial &amp;quot;window dressing.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The truth, as usual, resides in the middle... a fact this fortunately wise beyond his years president-elect grasps in no uncertain terms.  These complex times call specifically for a world leader who can walk and chew multi-variant policy positions at the same time.  Especially when considering the challenge of being tough on global terrorism while simultaneously employing more nuanced diplomacy to encourage terror-prone hotbeds to become more cooperative and stable.  This dualistic balance is perfectly displayed by the foreign policy team Obama has assembled and introduced today.  Combined with his committment to rebuild America&#039;s crumbling infrastructure, creating millions of good American jobs, simultaneous to repairing our deteriorated global image... it becomes clear that America has chosen it&#039;s next president wisely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only problem now is the nearly two month wait for him to finally be sworn in.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:54:01 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Lizard-Brained Fear-Driven Trolls See Monsters in Every Shadow</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Why is it that to every fear-motivated neanderthal... all those who dare make their stands for peace and unity are somehow the monster?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To quote the Public Address announcer at Woodstock... &amp;quot;Do NOT take the brown acid... it&#039;s BAD.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seek help you monster-making trolls... You are the pure fear-addicted poison in the American bloodstream which leads to the worst kinds of nightmares forcing their way into reality and in case you missed it on election day... AMERICA AND THE WORLD HAS HAD ENOUGH!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GET LOST&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GET HELP&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GET WELL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;OR GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY BECAUSE HEALING MEANINGFUL CHANGE IS THE NEW ORDER OF THE DAY&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:10:19 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>For JFK Fan And All Those With Sacred Native Blood Coursing Through Their Veins</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m copying all your posts from today brother JFK. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The Joshua Tree Highway... a place in a little known corner of Nevada where the native spirits dwell... they are murmuring your name tonight brother and feeling the long overdue peace that comes to long forgotten spirits of the true human beings, finally properly remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Joshua trees stand there, reborn shaman sentinels protecting space and time from those who feel they have the right to defile all that is noble and fine... that feel they have the insane right to enslave the divine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their jagged perfect symmetry, standing still dancing... singing entrancing another kind of romancing... one where all life is revered as sublime... where even the hunted are seen as enshrined... worshipped with every form of life and death is not a cause to spite the force which creates these immutable laws but instead is just another part of the living thriving chain... made sane, rearranged into a mystical portal without shame... without name... without unecessary hate-invoking blame.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So pay proper tribute this day and night... feel the drums beating death in our hearts so tight... the self-same rhythm of all that&#039;s right... not chains... not fright... but the unbreakable chorus that sings the end of our master/servant plight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pass the peace pipe my brothers and sisters and make it light...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pass the peace pipe my brothers and sisters and make everything alright.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:54:13 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Why Would Bush Commit Us To Another Three years In Iraq?  Simple Really...</title>
            <description>He&#039;s just a company man through and through.   Don&#039;t forget, the Bush administration is two thirds oil company executives... and, ex CIA chief daddy Bush is DEEP in military/industrial stock portfolios.  &#039;nuff said. &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:51:15 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>A Holiday Card For Our Obama-America Family</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Turkey&#039;s roasting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the stuffing&#039;s mixed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;yams are baking&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;with a brown sugar cinnamon kick&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the lions are losing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;some things never change&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;except our new President&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;FINALLY WON&#039;T BE DERANGED!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;HAPPY THANKSGIVING OBAMA FAMILY!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WE GOT THE BEST EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER THIS YEAR!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:35:36 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The REAL Deal About Exiting Iraq... And The Next War... And The NExt... And The Next...</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The true challenge for Barack can be found in Eisenhower&#039;s final address to America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do we satiate the military industrial monster created by two world wars? &amp;nbsp;A monstrous money making mass death machine that doesn&#039;t like taking no for an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until we have leadership with the combined balls and vision to convert these industries to peaceful and MORE profitable enterprises such as infrastructure repair and the buildout of high-speed rail... the twisted cottage industries of death will keep on pulling their devastating strings on congress to make the darkest nightmares an obscenely profitable reality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This has been the America/World destroying challenge confronting America since JFK,MLK and RFK tried valiantly to stop Vietnam ahead of schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So that these brave ultimate Americans and all those lost in uniform whose names we&#039;ll never know... are not allowed to have died without us learning the ultimate lesson... let&#039;s finally beat the war machine at it&#039;s own horrible game... by using the one language... the one strategy they can understand and respect... a better way to make even MORE money than that afforded by mass death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until then... their bloody gears are gonna keep on turning and churning.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:07:02 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Big Hoax...</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;In response to Clemency Rampand&#039;s excellent post...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The big hoax has been so called &amp;quot;reality&amp;quot; since human history has been recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hoax of master/servant enslavement of the masses to fear, poverty and the perpetual threat of being left out of the bounty intended for all to share.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a world where half the population claims adherence to JC and Muhammed... we still have yet to come close to living up to their simple charity-driven blueprint for heaven on earth... to take the bounty meant for all to share... and to use it to care for EVERYONE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is enough food on the planet to feed it three times over, yet millions are left to starve... there are cheap drugs which would cure virtually all of the world&#039;s sick children... but millions are left to die...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THESE are the proof of the cruel cruel hoax humanity has been trapped in for far too long.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answers... the solutions are not calculus... they are not even algebra... the solution to all this unneccessary mass death is the simple number &amp;quot;1&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When we stand together and demand this, our true liberating birthright... then and only then will we be living up to our truest potential as fully realized HUMAN beings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:45:33 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>An Answer To The Call For An Energy Independence Plan</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The following is a response to blogger Rick&#039;s request for energy independence ideas...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I admire your initiative... you kind of answer the &amp;quot;why not&amp;quot; question with your first point about how much is spent industrially and militarily to keep the oil flowing out of the gulf... this is all part of &amp;quot;the cross of iron&amp;quot; Eisenhower was talking about America hanging itself upon... to undo this self-destructive/globally destructive paradigm will take visionary strategems and leadership of biblical proportions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; We MUST essentially find a way to shift the planet killing/war feeding oil industries into massive peace-supporting new energy initiatives such as the buildout of high speed rail, which in the end, will make the industries of death more money than the current mass death paradigms.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THEN... with their crosshairs taken off the heads of our better angel leaders...we can do full buildout of the wind corridor, massive solar arrays, and home use wind/solar generators capable of charging pure electric hybrid cars which could become the NEXT biggest world export since computers and dvd players, thereby completely reinvigorating the American manufacturing sector, and of course, millions of good new jobs in the process.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And oh... by the way... those home generating units for the electric cars will put billions of freed up dollars back into the economy... if we&#039;re not spending hundreds on gas per month... that&#039;s money we can spend shopping and eating out and taking vacations right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah... and that built out new wind-powered/solar generated electricity grid?  A PUBLICALLY owned utility... screw you remaining Enrons of the world and all your globe choking brethren... I guess we can let them help buildout the new infrastructure and give them some cut of the operating management and costs just to keep their filthy assassins at bay as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And there you have it.  If we could gear up a similar effort to win WWII in a couple of years... we should be able to accomplish all of the above in 2-5 cause THAT&#039;S what America is truly made of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:29:14 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Despite The Current Negative Obsession... Hillary Clinton is NOT The Anti-Christ</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Look folks... during the primaries, I was one of the most vociferous opponents of the Clinton candidacy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before IOWA... I announced on Jim Zogby&#039;s global satelite TV show that Hillary was past her political expiration date. &amp;nbsp;Then, before the Pennsylvania Primary, I announced all of her unsavory union-busting ties as a Walmart Board member.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Believe me... I know all about Clintonian ruthlessness and dirty tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But I would be a hypocrite and a small-minded childish bore if I failed to admit that she has atoned for many if not all of her Obama attacking sins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her Convention appeal/speech in Denver was nothing short of brilliant... not just because she rallied HER faithful to the Obama cause... but because she did so forcefully and with poetic sincerity. &amp;nbsp;The closing rally from the words of Harriet Tubman perfectly captured the sense of enslavement we have ALL felt for the last eight years of fascistic abuse... hell.... the last 45 years of fascistic abuse... and it was nothing short of one of the most powerful political speeches in American History AND IT WAS GIVEN TO HELP FUEL THE OBAMA ELECTION.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her campaigning, especially in Florida where she potently refuted the stagnant BS of &amp;quot;Drill baby drill,&amp;quot;...chanting instead, &amp;quot;JOBS BABY JOBS!&amp;quot;... again, perfectly charged the moment and the electorate in a state where the critical Clintonian influence paid HUGE dividends on election day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the Clinton political entourage come with a travelling sideshow? &amp;nbsp;Yes. &amp;nbsp;But do we really think Barack Obama is not up to the task of keeping control of his top team members and advisors?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For what the persistent and often hysterical attacks against Hillary Clinton have come to express is less a repudiation of her... &amp;nbsp;and more an expression of insecurity about our beloved president elect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enough IS finally ENOUGH.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In closing... let&#039;s not forget that ANY candidate for national office, must, as a prerequisite, be possessed of a fairly enormous ego. &amp;nbsp;Hillary Clinton is no exception. &amp;nbsp;She was, for the better part of a year... ahead in all the polls over Barack by up to 30%... the process of Obama&#039;s ascension was more akin to an exorcism of that ambition at points, than a simple political victory. &amp;nbsp;And yes, that exorcism included some ofthe ugliest and most vicious tactics ever displayed in politics... everything from the race card to the incompetence card was played... but let&#039;s keep in REAL perspective why they were played, and why they were used so unsuccessfully... because they were employed out of sheer desperation and resentment... a desperation and resentment that was beautifully shed that night in Denver and again in Florida and all over the campaign trail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And one final note... no matter how I feel about Hillary&#039;s Machiavellian tendencies, one thing is irrefutable... she is a sharp intellect, a leader, and the Clinton brand is STILL stellar globally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So let&#039;s all take a deep breath... and give our president elect the credit and the faith he so richly has earned and deserves. &amp;nbsp;We need to close ranks and not be like the self-destructive party we just defeated and which has sparked worldwide jubilation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We must be the team which pulls closer together in these tough times if we are to have ANY chance of rising above the historic challenges confronting us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the woman has made her share of egregious mistakes... but she has redeemed herself as well and when it counted most. &amp;nbsp;Let&#039;s show her the respect a confident and faithful movement has the power to exert in the name of the common good and leave the team management to the young visionary we just gave our historic vote of confidence to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNITED WE STAND...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNITED WE SHALL OVERCOME.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:08:20 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>All Roads Of Rot &amp; Ruin Lead To This... A Bought &amp; Sold Congress = A Sold Out America</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I will be repeating the following post ad nauseum BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE SINGLE ISSUE MORE CRUCIAL FOR RIGHTING EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO GO WRONG IN AMERICA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From The Declaration of Independence... one of our two binding original Founders&#039; Contracts with and for We The People.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING OPENING PASSAGE TO BE THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE WE MUST NOW EMPLOY IF WE ARE TO SAVE OUR STRUGGLING DEMOCRACY FROM THE TYRANNY OF CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTION OF OUR ALL IMPORTANT CONGRESSIONAL LAWMAKING PROCESSES.... AND PARTICULARLY IF WE EXPECT TO SEE EVEN HALF OF BARACK&#039;S WORTHY POLICY GOALS MAKE IT INTO ACTUAL REALITY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature&#039;s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly ALL EXPERIENCE HATH SHEWN, THAT MANKIND ARE MORE DISPOSED TO SUFFER, WHILE EVILS ARE SUFFERABLE, THAN TO RIGHT THEMSELVES BY ABOLISHING THE FORMS TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED. BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IT IS THEIR DUTY,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOW... PLEASE CONSIDER THE ABOVE CLEAR FOUNDERS&#039; MANDATE IN CONSIDERING THE FOLLOWING ASSERTIONS.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of Billions for Wall Street millionaires and billionaires... hand wringing and excuses for millions of blue collar auto workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We either force a Constitutional Amendment banning all corporate lobbyist legalized bribery and co-option of our Congressional Lawmaking function or we can continue to watch America being sold out to China and Saudi Arabia and others as a nation of debtor slaves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack&#039;s election WAS a shining symbol of hope and change... but short of a revolutionary Constitutional Committment to END legislative corruption... we&#039;re all in for more of the sold out same.&amp;nbsp;THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT THE FOUNDERS MEANT WHEN THEY SAID...&amp;quot;BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Demand a Constitutional Amendment banning corporate lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking processes NOW while we still have a viable Democracy capable of being saved.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EVERYTHING FROM JOB PRESERVATION, TO NEW GREEN JOB CREATION, TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF WAR INDUSTRIES INTO PEACETIME INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDING, LITERALLY DEPENDS ON THIS AMERICA SAVING/DEMOCRACY RESTORING, FOUNDING FATHER MANDATED, CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;FREEDOM FROM CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTING TYRANNY OF CONGRESSIONALLY HIJACKED LAWMAKING OR BUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:23:36 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Basic Math... Bought &amp; Sold Congress = Sold Out America</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;From The Declaration of Independence... one of our two binding original Founders&#039; Contracts with and for We The People.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING OPENING PASSAGE TO BE THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE WE MUST NOW EMPLOY IF WE ARE TO SAVE OUR STRUGGLING DEMOCRACY FROM THE TYRANNY OF CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTION OF OUR ALL IMPORTANT CONGRESSIONAL LAWMAKING PROCESSES.... AND PARTICULARLY IF WE EXPECT TO SEE EVEN HALF OF BARACK&#039;S WORTHY POLICY GOALS MAKE IT INTO ACTUAL REALITY.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature&#039;s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly ALL EXPERIENCE HATH SHEWN, THAT MANKIND ARE MORE DISPOSED TO SUFFER, WHILE EVILS ARE SUFFERABLE, THAT TO RIGHT THEMSELVES BY ABOLISHING THE FORMS TO WHICH THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED.   BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  IT IS THEIR DUTY, ( I T    I S    T H E I R    D U T Y !!!!!! ) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOW... PLEASE CONSIDER THE ABOVE CLEAR FOUNDERS&#039; MANDATE IN CONSIDERING THE FOLLOWING ASSERTIONS.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of Billions for Wall Street millionaires and billionaires... hand wringing and excuses for millions of blue collar auto workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We either force a Constitutional Amendment banning all corporate lobbyist legalized bribery and co-option of our Congressional Lawmaking function or we can continue to watch America being sold out to China and Saudi Arabia and others as a nation of debtor slaves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack&#039;s election WAS a shining symbol of hope and change... but short of a revolutionary Constitutional Committment to END legislative corruption... we&#039;re all in for more of the sold out same.&amp;nbsp;THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT THE FOUNDERS MEANT WHEN THEY SAID...&amp;quot;BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Demand a Constitutional Amendment banning corporate lobbyist corruption of our Congressional lawmaking processes NOW while we still have a viable Democracy capable of being saved.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EVERYTHING FROM JOB PRESERVATION, TO NEW GREEN JOB CREATION, TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF WAR INDUSTRIES INTO PEACETIME INFRASTRUCTURE BUILDING, LITERALLY DEPENDS ON THIS AMERICA SAVING/DEMOCRACY RESTORING, FOUNDING FATHER MANDATED, CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;FREEDOM FROM CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTING TYRANNY OF CONGRESSIONAL LAWMAKING OR BUST !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:40:22 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Basic Math... Bought &amp; Sold Congress = Sold Out America</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of Billions for Wall Street millionaires and billionaires... hand wringing and excuses for millions of blue collar auto workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We either force a Constitutional Amendment banning all corporate lobbyist legalized bribery and co-option of our Congressional Lawmaking function or we can continue to watch America being sold out to China and Saudi Arabia and others as a nation of debtor slaves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack&#039;s election WAS a shining symbol of hope and change... but short of a revolutionary Constitutional Committment to END legislative corruption... we&#039;re all in for more of the sold out same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DEMAND A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING CORPORATE LOBBYIST CORRUPTION OF OUR CONGRESSIONAL LAWMAKING PROCESSES NOW WHILE WE STILL HAVE A VIABLE DEMOCRACY CAPABLE OF BEING SAVED.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EVERYTHING FROM JOB SAVING, TO NEW GREEN JOB CREATION, TO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF WAR INDUSTRIES INTO PEACETIME INFRASTRUCTURE LEADERS, LITERALLY DEPENDS ON THIS AMERICA SAVING/DEMOCRACY RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:25:40 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bailouts, Burn Outs, and Assorted BS</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Like many of you... I&#039;m bone-aching tired. &amp;nbsp;Tired of carrying such a heavy load... tired of the liars and their lies... tired of being despised.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that Bush and Co. has engineered the single most treasonous rape of the national and global trust... from Iraq to Katrina to Wall Street... we are actually being duped into wondering whether or not we should save some three million auto industry jobs at a time when losing them would almost certainly spell complete economic ruin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all... there is no gold standard anymore... our money is only worth the honor and integrity we inject back into our society... so the only real question is whether we believe we deserve a long painful recession or a longer even more painful depression.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Man... when will we ever get over our &amp;quot;I&#039;m not worthy of your love dear God&amp;quot; enslaving indoctrinating master/servant BS. &amp;nbsp;Soon I hope. &amp;nbsp;Soup lines and mass suicides were bad enough the first time around.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So fine... make as a condition of saving these woebegone industries of rusted out incompetence a complete management takeover which makes nothing but electric cars and hybrids... but to do nothing at all is to buy into the last phase of the neo-con scheme to completely gut America and sell off it&#039;s scrap to the Chinese and Saudis. &amp;nbsp;Yeah... that&#039;ll really show those fat cat clowns whos&#039;s boss.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Money? &amp;nbsp;Money is nothing but the last hypnotizing voodoo of the golden calf... printed like so much confetti... worth only as much misplaced faith as we put into it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So long as we keep our faith where it belongs, in ourselves and in The Common Good (which is God&#039;s truest name) we&#039;ll turn out alright.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So do yourselves a favor... stop listening to the same quacks who waddled our way into this toxic muck and start shovelling, cause the mountain of sh-t they&#039;ve left us stuck in is obscuring our view of the Promised Land we all deserve as our birthright... and I&#039;m not just talking about America either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peace&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shalom&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Salaam&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we believe we deserve to be saved... we will be... by our SELVES.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:35:36 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>One Giant Leap</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Why is it that the closer to rock bottom I get...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The more real I feel...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clinging to the lost, the dumped, the concealed&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the closer this whole thing we call &amp;quot;civilization&amp;quot; comes to completely unravelling...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the closer we&#039;ll get to making the changes that can truly heal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that the lies we all agree to tell&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;always seem to sell and sell and sell...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;until they finally cave in to reveal the stinking hell they&#039;ve been built on all along.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that I feel such affirming comfort&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;in the saddest songs...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the ones where everyone knows the words&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;but pretends not to know how to sing along.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why must the greatest strengths&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;be perfected out of weaknesses furthest flung most desperate lengths&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does sleep seem so sweet and deep&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;with every promise too tough to keep&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why can&#039;t I stop dreaming of a better way&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;even when the worst seems to get harsher with every passing day...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I just can&#039;t seem to think it away...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;can&#039;t drink it away...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;can&#039;t even deep sink it away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just like the lecture Holden got...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;guess I better learn how to play&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;the game&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the one where all that&#039;s palpably insane &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;parades as normal and ingrained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But now we&#039;ve rocked the boat,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;this global house,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and crossed the moat of two-timing lies...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and now that we&#039;re DEEP DEEP DEEP INSIDE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;will we honor THE SACRED I HAVE A DREAM...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;or will we smoke the same old tired scream...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;the same old tired lies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;that trap the world in self-despise&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;or will we finally, ultimately dare to&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;RISE AND SHINE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time will tell...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time and the unmistakeable smell...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;of victory roses or of sold out hell...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time and the unbroken&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;or BROKEN WIDE SPELL...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You see, the election was only giant leap ONE...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crossing the chasm of insanity, death, and self-imposed ruin has only just begun&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;so let&#039;s not celebrate too hearty yet dear friends &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;until the job is TRULY complete and mends&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;all the broken lives we strive to unite as one&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and the VICTORY over tyranny&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;has totally been won.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN THIS CAUSE BIGGER THAN OURSELVES AND AMERICA WE TRUST!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:59:50 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Good Day Sunshine People of Earth In This The Season of Our Rebirth</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Here&#039;s a blast from what now seems like the ancient past... a posting originally made on March 23, which I now submit in celebration and tribute to all who have contributed to this amazing and historic effort in the annals of human justice and liberty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heartfelt thanks to all!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;______________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As flowers burst forth&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;from the perverting master/servant gloom&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;we send apocalypse&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;to it&#039;s room&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;in never was&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and shouldn&#039;t be&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;embrace instead&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;true liberty&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;for this is&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE SEASON&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and this is&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE REASON&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;for finally bringing forth the cure&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;to vampiric TREASON&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;each by each&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;mended breach by mended breach&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Universally empowered&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reach by supercharged reach&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don&#039;t buy the hater&#039;s hype&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;for darkness cannot remain entrenched&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;when each by each sniffs out&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;their stench&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;mended breach by mended breach&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;hand in courageous&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;determined hand&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;we rise up and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;make our unwavering&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;stand of Common Good Demands&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in the projected FORCE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;which makes us real&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abraham, JC, Mohammed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and Buddha&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Walt Whitman and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pablo Neruda&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;each by each&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;trumpet blast by trumpet blast&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&#039;ll run the TRUE flag up the mast&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;to replace their barcode phony cast&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;of character assassins&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;who rape this planet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;while Dick Cheney laughin&#039;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;all the way to the bankrupting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;of our national trust&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;while industry is left to rust&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;piece by sold out cheapened piece&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;never worrying about the least&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;of these, as their ignored saviour proclaimed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;lip service Christians, lip service patriots, it&#039;s all just part&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;of the same deranged game&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;so very lame&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;so very insane&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;HEY DICK! &amp;nbsp;HEY GEORGE! AND &#039;LET THEM EAT YELLOWCAKE&#039; BARBARA TOO!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THIS IS A LIVING PLANET,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOT SOME BIZZARE ZOO CREATED FOR YOUR OBSCENE AMUSEMENT&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SO LET&#039;S NOT HAVE ANY CONFUSION&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YOU FOULING BETRAYERS DESERVE TO BE LOSING YOUR GRIP&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ENLIGHTENED FLIP BY ENLIGHTENED FLIP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is ONE HOME&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ONE LIFE ON LOAN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNTIL WE FINALLY GET IT RIGHT&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;put down our guns and learn how&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;to REALLY&amp;nbsp;fight...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Light by TRUE leadership recharged light&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THAT is the shape of the REAL GOOD FIGHT!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;HOW DO YOU EAT A RAMPAGING ELEPHANT?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BYTE BY PATIENT BYTE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NIGHT AFTER DETERMINED NIGHT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sleep tight (and hold this one last thought CLOSE tonight... RIGHT makes might).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:24:01 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Gay Marriage Is None of The Government&#039;s Damn Business</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Gay, lesbian and transgender brothers and sisters... here&#039;s your best argument.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marriage is a RELIGIOUS RITE. &amp;nbsp;PERIOD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Separation of church and state never had a clearer cut precedent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALL marriages are therefore CIVIL UNIONS AS FAR AS THE CONSTITUTION AND LAW IS CONCERNED &amp;nbsp;(see the fourteenth amendment as well as the most basic statements about all being created EQUAL in the eyes of the law).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MARRIAGE, as defined by the sancrosanct &amp;quot;separation of church and state&amp;quot; provisions, should ONLY be determined by the couples seeking such a RELIGIOUS CEREMONY and the CLERGY willing to perform said RITE (PUN INTENDED).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See you in court for a long overdue Constitutional VICTORY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- If you are somehow offended by gay marriages... then might I suggest you DON&#039;T ATTEND THEM. Haven&#039;t our &amp;quot;Inalienable Constitutional protections of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness&amp;quot; been abused enough for the past eight years? &amp;nbsp;Just because your hetero marriage isn&#039;t working out is no reason to foist your pent-up frustrations on same sex couples willing to make their Constitutionally protected leaps of faith.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In other words... mind your own damn business and let people exercise their religious freedoms as they see fit.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:44:13 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>How To Use An Auto Bailout to Create Millions of Green Jobs &amp; Break Our Addiction to The Middle East Corporate Crack Pipeline</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book... AMERICAN REVOLUTION II&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally GOLDEN opportunity to achieve some MAJOR campaign goals. &amp;nbsp;How?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;Fine. &amp;nbsp;In order to get it, you will resurrect the EV1. &amp;nbsp;That&#039;s right... GM&#039;s original best electric car. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JUST AS IT WAS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY TO CONVERT AUTO PRODUCTION DURING WWII TO BUILD THE WEAPONS WHICH DEFEATED HITLER, SO TOO NOW WE WILL CONVERT OUR GAS GUZZLING MIDDLE EAST OIL ADDICTION INDUSTRY INTO ONE WHICH FREES US FROM THAT CORPORATE CRACK-PIPELINE ADDICTION ONCE AND FOR ALL.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGE. &amp;nbsp;The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000... add in a $7,000 bailout funded tax break to the consumer and just watch how these electric vehicles will fly off the shelves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... while we&#039;re at it... let&#039;s just boot the top executives and boards... make these strategic manufacturing changes, and then fill the management posts with vetted public service appointments. &amp;nbsp;After all, if we&#039;re going to be the chief shareholders... it SHOULD be up to us how these companies are run. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Socialism shmocialism... I WANT PRACTICAL RESULTS NOT THE SAME OLD INCOMPETENT FAT PIG GLUTTONOUS THIEVERY.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GM&#039;s bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. &amp;nbsp;Yeah right. &amp;nbsp;What do you say we try that again and you won&#039;t have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! &amp;nbsp;Plus... we won&#039;t even have to wait for developmental ramp-up BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR THE EV1 ALREADY EXISTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100&#039;s of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;FINE... WE&#039;RE TAKING YOU OVER AND MASS PRODUCING THE EV1 NOW!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. &amp;nbsp;Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... the EV1 will end up outselling the toyota corolla.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:39:38 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Hillary AND McCain In The Cabinet!?!?!?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s a distinct possibility... here&#039;s why.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I beat Hillary like a pinata during the primaries... and even though I favor Gov. Bill Richardson for  Secretary of State... it looks like Hillary may get the job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only plus I can see, is that it will keep her from maneuvering AGAINST Obama&#039;s legislative initiatives in the Senate...AND... no matter how we feel about her, she and Bill still have  stellar brand name in the eyes of the world which is a key prerequisite for diplomatic success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Believe me, I am NO FAN as evidenced by my CSPAN attacks against her being complicit in Walmart&#039;s slave labor tactics across the globe... but... if nothing else... Barack is proving to be a Real Politik type of leader... dispassionately weighing his options in terms of what he believes is best for the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if You think this Hillary for Sec of State possibility is galling... what if he decides to name McCain Secretary of Defense?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rationale?  McCain will clearly have big respect from the Pentagon rank and file... and now that he is free from having to kiss up to the RepubliThug base... he can go back to one of his key goals on defense... cutting bullshit weapons systems that exist solely to pad the profits of the military industrial complex.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember, in tough times like these... it will take substantial budget cuts to fund mandates like healthcare reform and job creation.  Considering there is no single departmental budget larger than Defense... what better place to free up the cash... which then of course requires someone respected enough within the Pentagon to get the cost cutting job done without getting whacked (mob style) in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of this may be like chugging a bottle of cod liver oil... but in the end... it could turn out to be sheer genius.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plus... don&#039;t forget... if such controversial appointments don&#039;t play ball by Barack&#039;s rules... he can always give them the boot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keep your friends close... and well... you know the rest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:12:22 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Paulson...Parasitic Point Man</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Paulson is the stinking poster mutant for the entire traitorous Bush Inc. &amp;quot;administration&amp;quot;.  Sleep with fascists, and you&#039;re gonna get bitten by bubonic plague carrying fleas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&#039;s just pass some legislation and seize the assets of this entire corrupt pack of parasites RIGHT NOW.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For vermin like them... taking the dough they&#039;ve stolen from the treasury is a fate worse than death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Execution is too fast. Let &#039;em trade that surf &#039;n turf they&#039;ve been getting fat on for some moldy government cheese.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bon apetit scumbags.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:13 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>To Those Calling For More Nukes</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A recent Stanford University study proves that if ALL available harvestable wind were tapped into and interconnected... it would provide enough electricity to power 47% of the ENTIRE American demand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google &amp;quot;Stanford wind study&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add to this a massive solar array in the Mojave desert, and we could fuel the rest of America&#039;s energy needs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better to make up any shortfalls with hydro, bio-fuels, and geothermal than to resort to the exorbitantly costly and filthy nuclear alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you really think it&#039;s a coincidence that NO ONE wants spent nuclear fuel in their backyards? The stuff stays toxic for THOUSANDS of years... not to mention the regular cost overruns associated with building nuclear power plants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we could build the Panama canal and put men on the moon... we can certainly buildout CLEAN energy alternatives such as wind and solar... let&#039;s do THAT first and then we&#039;ll see how much more energy we REALLY need.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:19:16 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>ENLIGHTENED POLICY #1&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;How To Create Millions of High Paying Green Jobs &amp; Break Our Addiction to Middle East Oil While Simultaneously Stimulating The Economy BIGTIME</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Obama Administration... I would love to serve in the new administration where the following clear thinking/problem solving would be my pleasure to share. &amp;nbsp;I&#039;ll do so anyway, but considering I am facing bankruptcy, it would be nice to have a job which would allow me to provide for my wife and three children.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have more practical solutions which extend to global peace initiatives but I figured I&#039;d start with Jobs here at home first.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;______________________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally golden opportunity to achieve the FOUR main campaign goals stated above. &amp;nbsp;How?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;Fine. &amp;nbsp;In order to get it, you will resurrect the EV1. &amp;nbsp;That&#039;s right... GM&#039;s original best electric car. &amp;nbsp;More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 miles on a single charge. &amp;nbsp;The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000... add in a $7,000 bailout funded tax break to the consumer and just watch how these electric vehicles will fly off the shelves).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GM&#039;s bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. &amp;nbsp;Yeah right. &amp;nbsp;What do you say we try that again and you won&#039;t have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT. &amp;nbsp;As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! &amp;nbsp;Plus... we won&#039;t even have to wait for development BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE ALREADY EXISTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100&#039;s of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;YOU GIVE US THE EV1 NOW!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. &amp;nbsp;Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... the EV1 will outsell the toyota corolla.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:29:52 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>How To Create Millions of High Paying Green Jobs &amp; Break Our Addiction to Middle East Oil While Simultaneously Stimulating The Economy</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Obama Administration... I would love to serve in the new administration where the following clear thinking/problem solving would be my pleasure to share. &amp;nbsp;I&#039;ll do so anyway, but considering I am facing bankruptcy, it would be nice to have a job which would allow me to provide for my wife and three children.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have more practical solutions which extend to global peace initiatives but I figured I&#039;d start with Jobs here at home first.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;______________________________________________________________________&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current financial crisis in the auto industry offers the Obama Administration a literally golden opportunity to achieve the FOUR main campaign goals stated above. &amp;nbsp;How?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Say to the big three automakers... you want a multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;Fine. &amp;nbsp;In order to get it, you will resurrect the EV1. &amp;nbsp;That&#039;s right... GM&#039;s original best electric car. &amp;nbsp;More practical and affordable than the Chevy Volt... the EV1 is a normal sized family sedan that can go 100 miles on a single charge. &amp;nbsp;The Chevy Volt only goes 40 miles and costs an estimated $45,000 while the EV1 costs around $27,000.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GM&#039;s bogus argument for scrapping the revolutionary EV1 was that it was a loss leader... meaning they took a loss on every car because the demand was not there. &amp;nbsp;Yeah right. &amp;nbsp;What do you say we try that again and you won&#039;t have to worry about losses BECAUSE WE WILL BE PAYING FOR IT. &amp;nbsp;As a matter of fact... we will simply DEMAND that you build these green, job creating, middle east oil weaning vehicles OR NO GO ON THE BAILOUT DOUGH!!! &amp;nbsp;Plus... we won&#039;t even have to wait for development BECAUSE THE BLUEPRINTS AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE ALREADY EXISTS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better still... we will DEMAND that GM share the blueprints with Ford and Chrysler who can then build their own style versions of the EV1... thereby meeting sure-to-be-exploding demand, driving down production costs, and paying GM a percentage of their profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You think there might be a market for a car which can be sold on the benefit of saving soldiers lives by getting them out of the middle east oil business AND saves the consumer 100&#039;s of dollars per month in fuel savings which can then go back into the economy? And as every junior economist will tell you... consumer spending makes up fully two thirds of all economic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So there it is GM, Ford and Chrysler... you want the multi-billion dollar bailout? &amp;nbsp;YOU GIVE US THE EV1 NOW!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh... and by the way... the EV1 will rapidly become the fastest selling American export EVER. &amp;nbsp;Think that might be good for jobs, your bottom line, AND fighting global warming... not to mention the not so little ancillary benefit of dropping the price of oil even further thereby limiting our enemies ability to fund global terrorism via their depleted oil revenues? (Iran).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- And when GM whines about the Chevy Volt being undercut... simply say... that car is out of reach for the average consumer anyway at $45,000 and impractical with only a 40 mile charge range... think of it as the Corvette of electric cars... the EV1 will outsell the toyota corolla.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:42:18 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE... AMERICA&#039;S VETERANS DESERVE NOTHING LESS</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Live on CSPAN from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial... along with the veterans and their families in attendance, I can see the face of my childhood hero... a 20 year old neighbor whose chopper went down in &#039;68... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Me and the rest of my grade school buddies thought he was invincible... thought our playing war in our backyards with bottle rockets and firecrackers was all guts and glory tribute to him and those like him... but when we found out he was gone... our games went from high-spirited revelry to somber practice for what we believed was the fate of every boy in America... to go to war and maybe never return.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It wasn&#039;t until many years later that I learned of the lies and historically tone-deaf misguided policy which was directly responsible for those nearly 60,000 brave young men who died... not in vain... for they died protecting America in that most elemental and sacred of ways... they died loving and protecting each other, brother to brother... the living stars and stripes...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So now... as I watch those who made it home... the scars of war etched upon their tear streaked faces... I know that the ultimate tribute we can provide is not a parade... not some D.C. event... the ultimate tribute we can bestow upon these brave soldiers and courageous defenders of the living America is to bring our Iraq soldiers home as soon as possible... for every minute they are left to referee that bloody civil war... a living part of all of America&#039;s veteran brothers and now sisters and families suffers with them... and put quite simply... THEY HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let us all pledge now together... NEVER AGAIN WILL WE SEND THESE FINEST PATRIOTS INTO HARMS WAY UNLESS IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR THE DEFENSE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY. &amp;nbsp;NEVER AGAIN WILL WE ALLOW PROFITEERING LIARS AND THIEVES TO USE OUR BRAVEST PATRIOTS AS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SO LET&#039;S VOW TO GIVE ALL OUR VETERANS THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE THEY ALL SO RICHLY DESERVE... BRING THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS HOME AND GIVE THEM THE VERY BEST IN HEALTHCARE AND ASSISTANCE THEY HAVE SO HONORABLY EARNED IN SERVICE TO AMERICA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BRING THEM HOME!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:13:06 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights</title>
            <description>Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.truthout.org/111008J&quot;&gt;Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;article_date&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday 10 November 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;article_source&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by: Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;alignright&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.truthout.org/files/images/M1_111008J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;photo&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Photo: Bahrain Center for Human Rights) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Celebrations of Barack Obama&#039;s election as president of the United States erupted in countries around the world. From Europe to Africa to the Middle East, people were jubilant. After suffering though eight years of an administration that violated more human rights than any other in US history, Obama spells hope for a new day. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;While George W. Bush was president, I wrote &amp;quot;Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law,&amp;quot; which chronicled his war of aggression, policy of torture, illegal killings, unlawful Guantanamo detentions and secret spying on Americans. When the book was published, it seemed unimaginable that we could elect a president who would turn those policies around. But the election of Obama holds that potential.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the first in a series of articles in which I will suggest how the Obama administration can start undoing some of the damage Bush wrought, by ratifying three of the major human rights treaties and the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Although the US government frequently criticizes other countries for their human rights transgressions, the United States has been one of the most flagrant violators. We have refused to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). And while the United States worked with other countries for 50 years to create the International Criminal Court, it has failed to ratify that treaty as well. When we ratify a treaty, it becomes part of US law under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this article, I will explain why the United States should ratify the ICESCR, which is particularly relevant now that we are in the midst of the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose New Deal helped lift us out of the Depression, gave his famous Four Freedoms speech, focused on freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Roosevelt fleshed out the freedom from want and fear principles in his Economic Bill of Rights. It contained equality of opportunity, the right to a job and a decent wage, the end of special privileges for the few, universal civil liberties, guaranteed old-age pensions, unemployment insurance and medical care.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FDR&#039;s Bill of Rights formed the basis for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Eleanor Roosevelt helped draft, and which the UN General Assembly adopted in 1949. The Declaration embraced two types of human rights: civil and political rights on the one hand; and economic, social and cultural rights on the other.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These rights were codified in two binding treaties: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The United States ratified the ICCPR in 1992. But it has refused to commit itself to the protection of economic, social and cultural rights. Since the Reagan administration, there has been a policy to define human rights in terms of civil and political rights, but to dismiss economic, social and cultural rights as akin to social welfare or socialism.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indeed, the United States&#039;s inhumane policy toward Cuba exemplifies this dichotomy. The US government has criticized civil and political rights in Cuba while disregarding Cubans&#039; superior access to universal housing, health care, education and public accommodations and its guarantee of paid maternity leave and equal pay rates.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The refusal to enshrine rights such as employment, education, food, housing and health care in US law is the reason the United States has not ratified the ICESCR. This treaty contains the right to work in just and favorable conditions, to an adequate standard of living, to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health, to education, to housing, and to enjoyment of the benefits of cultural freedom and scientific progress. It also guarantees equal rights for men and women, the right to work, the right to form and join trade unions, the right to social security and social insurance and protection and assistance to the family.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the United States, more than ten million people are unemployed, two to three million families are homeless each year, and 46 million have no health care benefits. Untold numbers lost their retirement savings when the stock market crashed. Obama has pledged to give the rebuilding of our economy top priority after he is sworn in as president. He promised to create jobs and to ensure that all Americans are covered by health insurance. When Obama said he would cut taxes for 95 percent of the people, but end the tax cuts for the rich, he was criticized for wanting to &amp;quot;spread the wealth.&amp;quot; But Obama&#039;s plan is fully consistent with our progressive income tax system. After the election, 15,000 physicians called for a single-payer health care plan, which Obama and Congress should seriously consider.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The United States&#039;s flouting of the United Nations in its unilateral war on Iraq, and torture of prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Iraq has engendered widespread condemnation in the international community. Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, citing Professor Louis Henkin, summarized the hypocrisy of the United States in the area of human rights as follows: &amp;quot;In the cathedral of human rights, the US is more like a flying buttress than a pillar - choosing to stand outside the international structure supporting the international human rights system, but without being willing to subject its own conduct to the scrutiny of the system.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should encourage President-elect Obama to send the ICESCR to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification. Becoming a party to that treaty will help not only the people in this country; it will also engender respect for the United States around the world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-------- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the president of the National Lawyers Guild. Her new book, &amp;quot;Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent&amp;quot; (with Kathleen Gilberd), will be published this winter by PoliPointPress. Her articles are archived at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marjoriecohn.com/&quot;&gt;www.marjoriecohn.com&lt;/a&gt;. The next article in this series will explain why the United States should ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>The Miracle That Is America Reborn... United We Stand</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;As I drove home last week from my visit with the always fired up JFK Fan, everything felt different... the air itself seemed relieved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sight of cultures all across the globe spilling into the streets to dance and sing of LIBERATION... yes indeed... this was far more than just another American election.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in the reddest of red states like Oklahoma and Texas... there was an increased level of civility.. people holding doors for one another, white, black and every shade in between.  Yes, there was a palpable sense of exhausted resignation too in those opposed to our historic cause... but they seemed somehow more peaceful... as if a great measure of toxicity had been driven out of them by this historic process of meaningful and essential CHANGE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now don&#039;t get me wrong... I&#039;m not so starry eyed that i believe the powers of dissension and hatred won&#039;t regroup in some way... which is why I am thrilled that this site will remain here for our networking/mobilization efforts to continue... because while we HAVE heaved a mighty old boulder over the top... now the hard work of rebuilding our cherished American Middle Class Dream must commence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&#039;t know which will seem longer in coming... the last excruciating weeks leading up to this historic election of mass liberation... or the weeks leading up to Team Obama being sworn in to take the reigns of power and CHANGE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE DID!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IT&#039;S A BRAND NEW DAY IN AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALELULLIA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR NEVER LOSING FAITH AND FOR FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT TO RECLAIM OUR WE THE PEOPLE RIGHT TO RUN THIS WORLD LEADING DEMOCRACY!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>America FInally Breaks The Neo-Con Spell</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I just returned from a 5000 mile campaign slog through Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania and all I can say is...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE DID!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our good buddy JFK Fan put me up in New England where we watched the returns come in like the living answer to a waiting world&#039;s group prayer. &amp;nbsp;The man is a testament to the heartfelt dedication and faith of this truly amazing movement. &amp;nbsp;To all of you, both here and abroad, it will probably take YEARS before the total weight and scope of this victory can finally be fully absorbed for it is truly that monumental.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fear, death and destruction rejected in favor of hope, vision and mutual respect. &amp;nbsp;Even the Republican Leadership was openly relieved, in the immediate, to see such a joyous victory... &amp;nbsp;But let&#039;s not kid ourselves... what&#039;s left of the decimated Republican base will undoubtedly go back to their deep muscle memory response/tactics of attack attack attack... country first my ass.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So it&#039;s a VERY good thing we are keeping this online community going because we will need it to help mobilize the focus and support essential to achieving all of the reforms and changes required by our current national/global crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winning the nomination was the first giant boulder we all helped push up and over the mountain to fill the breach between what our abused democracy had been allowed to become and what our WE THE PEOPLE empowering founders always intended to be a nation of Liberty and Justice for ALL.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next even more massive boulder was of course the just won election... but we have so much more work to do before the chasm between what is and what should be, has been properly and so essentially achieved... JOBS... HEALTHCARE... GLOBAL AFFAIRS... EDUCATION... ENERGY... CLIMATE CRISIS... &amp;nbsp;The good news is... we are stronger now due to our combined efforts, and we are ready to make it all happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So by all means... let&#039;s celebrate this historic win... but never forgetting that the work has just begun... and the best is still yet to come.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WAY TO GO AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WAY TO GO TEAM OBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&amp;quot;S TAKE THIS HARD-WON MOMENTUM AND MAKE THE BETTER NATION AND WORLD WE ALL SO RICHLY DESERVE!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:18:19 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Change.gov - The Official Website of the U.S. Presidential Transition</title>
            <description>Very interesting. Launched at amazing speed!&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Change.gov&lt;/a&gt; is a website launched by the Obama team&#039;s Presidential Transition Project which documents the transition into power and solicits ideas from the public. &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Change.gov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Change.gov - The Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;              &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.&amp;quot; - President-Elect Barack Obama                     &lt;br /&gt;Change.gov - The Official Web Site of the The U.S. Presidential Transition&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, November 06, 2008 | 75 Days Until Inauguration&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/page/s/yourstory&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://change.gov/page/-/wrapper/img/ammoment_sidebar.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;          &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.change.gov/newsroom/entry/president_elect_obama_speaks_on_the_eve_of_this_election/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://change.gov/page/-/feature/enight_feature.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Barack Obama&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;257&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; 			 &lt;img src=&quot;http://change.gov/page/-/wrapper/img/feature_slider_image.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Obama &amp;amp; Biden in Grant Park&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;                         &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/newsroom/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Newsroom&lt;/a&gt;                    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 04:09pm EST /  in &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/newsroom/blog&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.change.gov/newsroom/entry/president_elect_obama_speaks_on_the_eve_of_this_election/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Change has come to America&lt;/a&gt;      Last night, President-Elect Barack Obama delivered the final speech of a presidential campaign that promised change in Washington.                        Open Government                &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/page/content/americanmoment&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;It&#039;s Your America: Share Your Ideas&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;p&gt;The story of the campaign and this historic moment has been your story. Share your story and your ideas, and be part of bringing positive lasting change to this country.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;GSA Transition Directory&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Transition Directory was developed to introduce Presidential nominees, appointees, and members of the President-elect&#039;s Transition Team to the operation of the Federal government and to the resources available to help them begin their service in the new Administration.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://change.gov/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://change.gov/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:37:08 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>&quot;We Did It!&quot; &quot;Yabba-Dabba-Do!&quot;</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m sorry we couldn&#039;t turn Montana for you all, but boy, did we try! The win, was overwhelming, and a little hard to believe! I bauled like a baby!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m going to *MISS* you guys, it&#039;s been such an exciting time for our country, and what a &amp;quot;GREAT&amp;quot; outcome!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So send me a note from time to time, and stay in touch, O.K? O.K.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:bigskygirl2001@gmail.com&quot;&gt;bigskygirl2001@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BSG ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:36:52 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bitter Sweet And Swung Low But Lookin&#039; Up Somehow</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;As this historic campaign sprints the final stretch, I just want to thank everyone who has been an intimate part of this crucial citizens effort to return America to We The People.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll be re-posting some blogging blasts from the past in the next few days as a tribute to you all and to our candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keep voting early!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&#039;s not stop fighting until the new day has been won!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_____________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BITTER SWEET &amp;amp; SWUNG LOW BUT LOOKIN&#039; UP SOMEHOW&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was just a tike...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Literally born into the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK assassination, MLK, RFK, Kent State... grew up watching Vietnam spilling into my living room... thought every boys fate was to lay and wait for death to pass over their dark foxhole... especially after my twenty year-old neighbor hero went down in his chopper... we thought he was invincible... I can still see his smile through his mother&#039;s tears... never saw her smile again... how many more lies... how many more lives... the wmd industrial monster grandaddy Abraham Ike warned us all about still roaming the earth, devouring us in slow horrific motion like some twisted tradition or genetic defect we&#039;re too stunned, stupid, cowardly to shake loose from... and then along comes HOPE to replace the mass media dope we&#039;ve been smoking for far too long... and those too sorry to admit we&#039;ve been trading precious life for spit desperately start throwing whatever pathetic shit they can to stop the PLAN to escape this madness I&#039;ve been forced to live my hole life long... this pain... this strain... this pounding in my tortured brain CAN be stopped... can be lopped off as the malignancy it&#039;s always been if and when enough of us trade the baa baa bleat for a different more courageous beat... the one which goes on inside our hearts and reminds us that we are a part of something far greater, something far straighter... an end to fear... the beginning of wisdom... an end to the sitting idly by as yet another generation of mothers are forced to cry for their sons who should have never died... and SURPRISE of all surprise... it was always there deep inside, just waiting for us to come back ALIVE.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;Choose One&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(A) &amp;nbsp;The same old toxic &amp;quot;steal from the poor to give to the rich&amp;quot; nightmare&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(B) &amp;nbsp;A sincere attempt at Liberty &amp;amp; Justice for ALL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please submit by Nov. 4th (pun intended of course)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:45:44 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>You&#039;ll Never Guess Who I Met Today In Line Waiting To Vote...</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The King of kings...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, not Elvis... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JESUS... that&#039;s right... the man, the myth, the legend... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JESUS was in the waiting line to vote, and he got arrested for telling everyone to cast their ballots for Obama or else &amp;quot;I won&#039;t be held responsible for what might happen to them.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Of course he vanished just as the cops were about to put him in the cruiser, and reappeared moments later as millions of Americans in voting booths all over America. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; GOBAMA!!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN GOD, AMERICA AND OURSELVES WE TRUST!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;KEEP VOTING EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:35:40 EDT</pubDate>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;Choose One&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(A) &amp;nbsp;The same old toxic &amp;quot;steal from the poor to give to the rich&amp;quot; nightmare&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(B) &amp;nbsp;A sincere attempt at Liberty &amp;amp; Justice for ALL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please submit by Nov. 4th (pun intended of course)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:48:05 EDT</pubDate>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;Choose One&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(A) &amp;nbsp;The same old toxic nightmare&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(B) &amp;nbsp;A sincere attempt at Liberty &amp;amp; Justice for ALL &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please submit by Nov. 4th (pun intended of course)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:10:31 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS... WILL WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW OUR WORST FEARS TO DEFINE US OR ARE WE TRULY MATURING TO EMBRACE OUR BETTER ANGELS?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;McCain/Palin have spent two months straight trying to draw out these worst instincts calling Obama everything from a terrorist to a communist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AND STILL THE POLL NUMBERS ARE CONTINUING TO GO AGAINST THEM... WHY? BECAUSE AMERICA IS FINALLY GROWING UP AND EMBRACING OUR BETTER ANGELS OF HOPE AND VISION OVER SEEING AND INVENTING MONSTERS OUT OF THE SHADOWS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a defining moment for America in that very sense... we are FINALLY choosing a constructive vision of renewal OVER a decidedly negative call to self-destruct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:48:18 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>HOW DO YOU GET THE CORPORO-FASCISTS TO STOP CRAVING BLOOD?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Just as middle class consumer spending is the main engine which drives American prosperity at it&#039;s best... Out of balance thievery by the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals and corporations as facilitated by the Republican Party is the main obstacle to keeping our all-important middle class prosperity engine humming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The last eight years have amounted to stealing from the poor to give to the rich... a recipe for disaster that has even crippled the wealthy&#039;s ability to prosper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So why would the forces of wealth at the head of the corporo-fascist movement (the Republicans as puppeted by big corporate money), allow the system to break down so completely that it would directly affect their bottom lines as well?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because like locusts, they have no remorse for their victims... devoid of any larger innovative vision of renewal... they simply consume everything and move on to greener pastures... in this case to third world nations where they can soullessly pad their profits on the blood sweat and tears of slave labor, in many cases, child slave labor... for the corporation is a blood-drinking zombie whose only allegiance is to profits and not people, or country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These corporate traitors and the &amp;quot;politicians&amp;quot; like McCain/Palin who serve them above and beyond God OR Country, are treating America the same way the junk bond traders of the 80&#039;s treated American businesses... they sold them out piece by piece, job by job and now they are doing the same thing on a national scale to America.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Country first? &amp;nbsp;What a crock.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So how do we break their spell? &amp;nbsp;How do we save our jobs and America if these vampires in patriot&#039;s clothing are so intent on selling us to China and the Saudis?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By using the only language they understand... PROFITS. &amp;nbsp;BY PRESENTING A BETTER BUSINESS PLAN THAN THEIR CURRENT FASCIST REPUBLITHUG TRAITOROUS SELLOUT NIGHTMARE PROVIDES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JUST ANNOUNCED... Whirlpool 8,000 jobs to be cut..., American Express, 7,000 jobs to be cut... Motorola, 3,000 jobs to be cut.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So what is the vision which can save America from the corporate wolves? &amp;nbsp;We must shift, as President Eisenhower urged, from a war-based unsustainable economy, to a globally essential green technology economy, and export these new technologies as the restorative backbone to our best days being ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better more efficient wind turbines and solar arrays... electric cars which can travel 60 miles on a charge and which doesn&#039;t use ANY fossil fuels... including a home charging unit which can supply energy to the home as well. &amp;nbsp;Think there might be a market for such a device? &amp;nbsp;Who better to manufacture such a device than our converted defense industries IN LEAGUE WITH THE FINE YOUNG MINDS OF OUR ENVIED UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean we don&#039;t want new innovative more cost-effective defense technologies? &amp;nbsp;Of course not... but, a combination of leaner more efficient defense spending (a strategy McCain agrees with by the way), and defense industry sharing with university and think tank innovation... we can create the technologies this climate crisis stricken world community is clamoring for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look at how America mobilized itself to build the armed forces needed to save the world from nazi fascism in WWII with hundreds of tanks and planes and ships built virtually overnight. &amp;nbsp;Can you imagine if the same &amp;quot;can&#039;t do&amp;quot; bullshit was the order of the day back then? &amp;nbsp;If so-called leaders had said it would take 10 to 20 years for us to convert our industries to combat global tyranny? &amp;nbsp;IF WE COULD MOBILIZE SUCH AN EFFORT THEN... WE CAN MOBILIZE SUCH AN AMERICA AND PLANET SAVING EFFORT NOW!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;America is ready willing and able to mobilize an historic national effort to remake ourselves into the competitive middle class MANUFACTURING ECONOMY WE ONCE WERE... THE ONLY THING THAT HAS BEEN MISSING, IS VISIONARY LEADERSHIP... UNTIL NOW.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And how about this for a green project which can create tens of thousands of high paying jobs while simultaneously re-directing our defense industries to peacetime activity that is MORE profitable than war as Grand-Daddy President Eisenhower so wisely advised... LIKE HIGH SPEED MAGNETIC LEVITATION TRAINS CONNECTING OUR CITIES TO OUR SUBURBS RUN PURELY ON WIND AND SOLAR POWER.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like science fiction? &amp;nbsp;Well, the fact is... these 200 MPH plus trains already exist in several European nations as well as Japan. &amp;nbsp;Building this system out would not only relieve urban traffic congestion, but it would, again, create millions of high paying jobs from the engineers needed to design the system, to the construction workers needed to build out the actual tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By reinventing America in these ways... &amp;nbsp;(just think of how much more you&#039;ll have in your pocket if you are paying NOTHING to drive your car every month!)&amp;nbsp;we restore the American spending middle class engine which drives ALL prosperity including the upper classes prosperity AND we will have given big business a better blueprint by which to EXPLODE THEIR PROFITS BEYOND WHAT THEY COULD MAKE EVEN IN WAR OR BY THE SELLOUT OF THE AMERICAN WORKER IN FAVOR OF SELF-DESTRUCTIVE SLAVE LABOR.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THIS is how America can best save ourselves from our worst tendencies and usher in a better day FOR ALL AMERICANS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;KEEP VOTING EARLY UNTIL VICTORY HAS BEEN WON!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LIKE BARACK ALWAYS SAYS... THIS IS NOT ABOUT A BLUE AMERICA OR A RED AMERICA... THIS IS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:07:54 EDT</pubDate>
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            <description>check out my new video on you tube.com called change the world for obama search nish gaveer</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>EMERGENCY ACTION &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; DESTROY ALL DIEBOLD And ES&amp;S VOTING MACHINES NOW</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;To insure we do not experience another stolen election... we should develop a fund to bail out all those individuals who are willing to BRAVELY DESTROY A DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINE AT THEIR POLLING PLACE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DIEBOLD DE-FRAUDING/&amp;quot;VOTING&amp;quot; MACHINES HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO FLIP VOTES FOR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BASED ON CORRUPTING CODE DESIGNED TO STEAL ELECTIONS.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ANY PATRIOTS WILLING TO DESTROY THESE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ABOMINATIONS BY POURING WATER INTO THEM, SHOULD BE BAILED OUT AT NO EXPENSE TO THEM FOR BEING WILLING TO TAKE A VITAL STAND IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AND THE SANCTITY OF OUR VOTES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DESTROY ALL DIEBOLD MACHINES NOW!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:28:31 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>International Publication Endorses Obama</title>
            <description>The Economist backs Obama in US poll raceLONDON (AFP) &amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;The Economist, the widely-respected&amp;nbsp;weekly current affairs magazine, on Thursday backed&amp;nbsp;Barack Obama&amp;quot;wholeheartedly&amp;quot; to become the next US president, describing him as a gamble America should take.&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; line-height: 145%; margin: 0px&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;In terms of painting a brighter future for&amp;nbsp;America and the world, Mr Obama has produced the more compelling and detailed portrait,&amp;quot; the London-based magazine said in its leader, published on its website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; line-height: 145%; margin: 0px&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;He has campaigned with more style, intelligence and discipline than his opponent. Whether he can fulfil his immense potential remains to be seen. But Mr Obama deserves the presidency.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; line-height: 145%; margin: 0px&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Economist does not have a vote, but if it did, it would cast it for Mr. Obama. We do so wholeheartedly: the Democratic candidate has clearly shown that he offers the better chance of restoring America&#039;s self-confidence.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; line-height: 145%; margin: 0px&quot;&gt;The Economist has a worldwide circulation of around 1.3 million, with nearly 680,000 readers in the United States alone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:15:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Citizens Arrest Of McCain &amp; Palin For Hate Crimes Against American Democracy</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The fact that two Hitler-loving nazis have been caught plotting the assassination of Barack Obama and dozens of African Americans, and the corporo-fascist McCain and Palin have done NOTHING to refute or repudiate these vile hate-mongers after having used the nazi dog whistle of hate speech FOR WEEKS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL makes them duplicitous nazi stooges of the most disgraceful and detestable order.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hereby put forth this proclamation as a citizens arrest of these thinly veiled neo-nazi generals, whose continuous hate speeches directed at Barack Obama... slanderously calling him everything from a terrorist to a communist... are guilty of inciting riot and attempted murder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I call on the U.S. Justice Department to launch a full investigation while simultaneously demanding a cease and desist order on all slanderous hate speeches by these two hate-spewing cancers on the heart of American Democracy. &amp;nbsp;So heinous and vile is their current political desperation, that they believe the ONLY way they can gain the presidency is by instigating the murder of the better candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will announce our ultimate banishment at the polls in a few short days... but if ANYTHING should happen to Barack Obama or Any African American citizens as a direct result of McCain/Palin&#039;s disgusting and disgraceful thinly veiled calls to racist violence... I WILL, AS MY MOST SOLEMN DEMOCRATIC DUTY AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, FILE A CASE IN FEDERAL COURT WHICH WILL PROSECUTE THE NEO-NAZI ACTIVITIES OF MCCAIN/PALIN FOR THE ABOVE-STATED CRIMES.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE REPUBLITHUGS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO LABEL EVERY NON-FASCIST A DANGEROUS COMMUNIST OR TERRORIST. &amp;nbsp;SUCH CLEARLY NAZI/FASCIST TACTICS MUST NEVER BE TOLERATED IN OUR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PROGRESSIVES, LIBERALS AND INDEPENDENTS WHO ARE DETERMINED TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THESE VILE CORPORO-FASCIST NEO-NAZIS AT THE CORE OF AMERICA&#039;S ILLS (FROM KATRINA, TO THE WAR OF LIES IN IRAQ, TO THE MASSIVE WALL STREET FRAUD/THEFT SCAM)... MUST RISE UP AS ONE TO THWART THESE HATE-MONGERS... FOR WHAT IS AT STAKE RIGHT NOW IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE CRITICAL CROSSROADS STRUGGLE FOR THE VERY SOUL OF AMERICA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;KEEP VOTING EARLY UNTIL VICTORY FROM THIS INSANE TYRANNY HAS BEEN WON!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Now McCain/Palin Is Trying To Smear Obama With A Connection To A Palestinian Professor MCCAIN HAS GIVEN $500,000 TO IN A RELATIONSHIP GOING BACK FOR MORE THAN A DECADE</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;These stupid trolls will say and do anything. &amp;nbsp;They are beyond pathetic, they are truly toxic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I sincerely hope that they have SO damaged their own dubious integrity, that they will not only fail to gain votes by their dispicable efforts, but their repugnant behavior will effectively KEEP potential McCain/Palin voters from the polls entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BIG THANKS to Keith Olberman for daring to do the homework necessary to expose these foul frauds and hypocrites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations McCain/Palin... you will go down in history as the sleaziest most dishonorable candidates in American Political History.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;KEEP VOTING EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:40:39 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>The &quot;Kool-Aid&quot; Has Worn Off And The Republicans Are Running FOR COVER!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The day of the brain-dead bully is over now that America has finally built up resistance to their favorite RepubliThug date rape drug of choice... the steady stream of hate and lies that USED to keep elections close enough to steal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOT THIS TIME THUGS AND TROLLS!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THIS TIME OUR EYES, HEARTS AND MINDS ARE WIDE OPEN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THIS TIME, WE&#039;RE GOING WITH HOPE OVER YOUR TOXIC BRAND OF FEAR!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GO AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;KEEP VOTING EARLY AND BEAT THE REPUBLITHUG CHEATS!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:18:40 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>The Republican Party... About As Palatable As a Turd Popsicle</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;An economy in shambles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An endless war of lies in Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A campaign strategy formulated in a sewer pipe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Calling the Republican brand a turd popsicle at this point is being KIND.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;OUR KIDS DESERVE TREATS NOT MORE REPUBLITHUG TRICKS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:52:36 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>KEEP THIS WEBSITE ALIVE!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;After we succeed in pushing Obama over the top... we are going to NEED this site bigtime to mobilize and repel the endless barrage of rotten eggs the RepubliThugs will undoubtedly be throwing throughout an Obama Adminstration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, the corporo-fascist RepubliThug Party has shown itself to be COMPLETELY without integrity and prepared to say and do ANYTHING to disrupt their political adversaries, even when it is to the detriment of America. &amp;nbsp;Just look at their last eight years in office which has been all about self-aggrandizement AND the destruction of the American middle class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their dishonorable stock in trade is to take the absolute worst of their own behavior and try to pin it to their rivals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WE WON&#039;T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;CONTINUE TO VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS CORPORO-FASCIST REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:34:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>If The Candidates Were Cars...</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Tell me the cars you feel best represent the candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example... I think of McCain as an old busted and rusted Ford Bronco on cinder blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama is a turbo charged hybrid minivan with enough room for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can have either one for the same price... hmmmm... let me think... DUH!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:08:41 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Troll In Chief McCain &amp; His Flying Monkey Palin Dive Back Into The Slime</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;They&#039;ve tried calling Obama everything BUT an adroid sent from some evil planet... although with a few days left...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These phonies are a blight on the American Political scene that NEED to be flushed before they can stink up this nation any further.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In what will go down as the MOST VILE month in American Political History, McCain/Palin have thrown every piece of brain-excrement they can vomit up in their desperate attempt to keep the corporo-fascist RepubliThugs in power.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank goodness the American Public is finally waking up in time to sweep these dangerous and disgraceful frauds out of office.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THE CORPORO-FASCIST REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:03 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Frenzied Last Days Till The MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY Is Obscuring THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON For American Political Psychosis</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;How could it happen?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A seemingly endless war of lies in Iraq that&#039;s destabilizing our already crippled economy while killing thousands like some demented disgrace-ridden meat grinder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A regulatory watchdog function so stripped down that it has allowed for the mass national/global fraud and theft to end all financial crimes ever perpetrated in world market history, thereby crushing the lives of millions of working class Americans by stealing their homes and retirement funds in one fell swoop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A repugnant &amp;quot;let them eat bayou sludge&amp;quot; ignoring of our own citizens drowning even as they pleaded for help from flooded rooftops in New Orleans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jobs allowed to be shipped overseas where slave-labor enriches the corporate rapists and punishes the working class backbone of America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And an elections process that has become so corrupt by corporo-fascist fraud (Diebold election machines guaranteed by their corrupt president to deliver elections for the RepubliThugs) that we have become envious of third world country elections where they use VERIFIABLE PAPER BALLOTS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do all of these malignant cancers helping to destroy the American Dream all have in common? &amp;nbsp;They all originate from a Congress that has allowed it&#039;s sacred Democratic Representative Lawmaking and Watchdog functions, to be sold off to the highest corrupting lobbyist bidders in Washington.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their &amp;quot;pay to play&amp;quot; MASS TREASON has led us to this sorry state, and if we think one man is going to change THAT seismic fact... we are doing ourselves and Obama, a grave disservice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For Obama and this movement to deliver on even HALF of the reforms we all dream of... we need as an ESSENTIAL PREREQUISITE to kick the corrupting corporo-fascist lobbyists and their legalized bribes out of Washington ONCE AND FOR ALL so that we get laws which TRULY reflect the Common Good Interests of WE THE PEOPLE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, a Constitutional Amendment which bans all lobbyist legalized bribery of Congress, and further bans the lobbyists from continuing to write the laws, as they do now, will finally restore the integrity of a TRUE REPRESENTATIVE LAWMAKING FUNCTION THAT SERVES THE INTERESTS OF WE THE PEOPLE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE ALL-CORRUPTING CORPORATE ELITIST INTEREST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is a well-known fact that given a choice between profits or harming people... corporations almost exclusively choose profitable harm over protecting us. &amp;nbsp;That is precisely why we HAVE a Congress... to REGULATE INDUSTRY AND PROTECT WE THE PEOPLE FROM THE CORPORATE EXCESSES WHICH ALL TOO OFTEN SPELL DISASTER.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLITHUG CORPORO-FASCIST NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:57:37 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}  FORGET The Polls !!!  The ONLY Poll That Counts Is The One Being Announced on Nov. 5TH!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Vote EARLY and in HUGE theft-proof DROVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&#039;s END this RepubliThug nightmare and RESTORE the American Middle Class Dream ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:03 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>What&#039;s MOST DANGEROUS About Sarah &quot;In It For HERSELF ALONE&quot; Palin</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Bad enough that she&#039;s a fire-breathing fascist who delights in cynically dividing the nation just to froth up the ever-shrinking republithug base... What is truly most dangerous about her is, with zero foreign policy knowledge of her own, or even knowledge on key domestic policy issues such as the economy, she proves she is the worst form of evil automaton willing to do or say whatever is programmed into her empty hateful head out of sheer ambition and fascist cynicism alone... evidence her calls to label Obama everything from a terrorist to a socialist.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So to hell with the opinion that she should be given a free pass just because she was plucked from obscurity by a desperate McCain Campaign... therefore we should allow her a few months to get up to speed and then she&#039;ll be perfectly acceptable as a national candidate. &amp;nbsp;WHAAAAAAT!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why, just because she&#039;s fun to cover and says all kind of crazy half-wit stuff on a daily basis?!?!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that she&#039;s never shown the NATURAL INCLINATION OR CURIOUSITY required to formulate HER OWN ACTUAL INFORMED AND INTELLIGENT OPINIONS on national and global affairs is what is most disturbing !!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She is again, a ruthless ego-driven beauty pageant bubble-brain giving herself over to say or do ANYTHING to impress her corporo-fascist rabble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pornographic hate speech in an aging beauty pageant wrapper. &amp;nbsp;Can American Politics get any more cynical than this? &amp;nbsp;I shouldn&#039;t even ask.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sooner Palin is rightly rejected out of politics entirely and on the home shopping network where she belongs, the better it will be for everyone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS CORPORO-FASCIST REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:48:06 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>McCain/Palin... Death Rattle Of Corporo-Fascist RepubliThuggism</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&#039;s just me, but I swear... the closer we get to November 4th, the more John McCain and Sarah Palin sound like a couple of deranged disease-carrying mosquitoes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz &amp;nbsp;Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz &amp;nbsp;Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz &amp;nbsp;Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SPLAT!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THE REPUBLITHUG CORPORO-FASCIST NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:33:04 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}  FORGET The Polls !!!  The ONLY Poll That Counts Is The One Being Announced on Nov. 5TH!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Vote EARLY and in HUGE theft-proof DROVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&#039;s END this RepubliThug nightmare and RESTORE the American Middle Class Dream ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:15:34 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}       VOTE EARLY!!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m going right now!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;FIRED UP!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS CORPORO-FASCIST REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:43:50 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{THE TROLL PATROL}:}:}:}     HEY TROLLS!!!!     YOUR DESPERATION IS SHOWING!!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Obama is this... Obama is that... blah blah blah blah blah...&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No... something didn&#039;t crawl into your trash and die... that smell is the stench of our lowlife unwanted intruders... McCain supporters who, friendless for obvious reasons... come here to fart out their mouths for all the world to be disgusted by...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the openness of our site unfortunately allows these vile hate-mongers access, I am compelled to smack them down for their dishonor...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So Jethro, put down that out of tune banjo and prepare to take your annual shower cause don&#039;t look now but I do believe your septic tank has been backing up into the still again and no, those aren&#039;t olives floating around in your moonshine martini.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do us all a favor and go back to the slime you came from and don&#039;t come back until you&#039;ve finally evolved into human form. &amp;nbsp;Oh yeah... that&#039;s right... you don&#039;t believe in evolution. &amp;nbsp;Tough break.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Better pray for a miracle then... you&#039;re gonna need it (Thing is... God doesn&#039;t answer hater&#039;s prayers...)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TOUGH BREAK AGAIN TROLLS!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TIME TO END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND REVIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:37:13 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}  FORGET The Polls !!!  The ONLY Poll That Counts Is The One Being Announced on Nov. 5TH!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Vote EARLY and in HUGE theft-proof DROVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&#039;s END this RepubliThug nightmare and RESTORE the American Middle Class Dream ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:34:04 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}  The REAL Reason McCain &amp; RepubliThugs Rail Against A Democratically Controlled White House AND Congress</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Because they don&#039;t want to give up their corporo-fascist ability to rape and pillage the Constitution and national treasury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Democratically controlled White House AND Congress spells millions of American Dream Restoring JOBS JOBS JOBS. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEWS FLASH REPUBLITHUGS... your days of corporo-fascist abuse of the American Middle Class and global financial market system are NOW BEING BROUGHT TO A SANITY-RESTORING CLOSE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AND WHEN WE&#039;RE DONE SETTING THIS AMERICAN HOUSE IN ORDER, WE&#039;RE GOING TO SEIZE BACK THE ASSETS YOU HAVE STOLEN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LOSING THIS ELECTION WILL BE THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS --&amp;nbsp;AS OUR FOUNDERS SO RIGHTLY SET FORTH AS OUR ULTIMATE AMERICAN DUTY... THAT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT NO LONGER REPRESENTS THE INTERESTS OF WE THE PEOPLE... IT IS THE OBLIGATION OF THE PEOPLE TO ELIMINATE SUCH TYRANNY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BETTER RUN FOR YOUR HOLES TROLLS CAUSE HERE WE COME.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Calling this &amp;quot;class warfare&amp;quot; is just another corporo-fascist RepubliThug tactic designed to intimidate the working class victims of their continuous exploitive abuse of the Constitution and the VAST MAJORITY of Americans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN THE SAME WAY THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION WENT HEAD-ON AGAINST THE CORPORO-FASCIST CROWNED TYRANNY OF OUR PEOPLE... NOW, THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMON GOOD ABOVE AND BEYOND THE RAPE BY THE GREEDY, BULLYING, FASCIST FEW HAS RE-EMERGED AS THE TRUE AND ONLY ISSUE AT THE HEART OF THIS STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TO ME THIS DOESN&#039;T REPRESENT CLASS WARFARE SO MUCH AS IT REPRESENTS PLAIN OLD FASHIONED GOOD VS. EVIL.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like I said before... RUN TROLLS RUN!!! &amp;nbsp;CAUSE THIS TIME, WE&#039;VE GOT OUR EYES, HEARTS AND MINDS WIDE OPEN AND WE ARE GOING TO THE POLLS EARLY AND IN THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:22:23 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}  SMASH MCCAIN&#039;S BOGUS TAX CLAIMS</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Everytime McCain or his surrogates falsely assert Obama will raise taxes while they will lower taxes... bring up the fact that McCain&#039;s 100 year committment to war in Iraq is the ULTIMATE TAX ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE to the tune of 10 BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then talk about Obama&#039;s middle class tax cut and POOF goes the BS McCain tax smear.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN CORPORO-FASCIST NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:54:33 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>{:{:{:{FINAL KEYS TO VICTORY}:}:}:}  Obama MUST Stress McCain&#039;s Promise To END Medicare &amp; Social Security</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Older voters are the final critical voting block now coming over to support Barack Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The campaign needs to cement this crucial group of Americans in the final days with an ad in all the battleground states using clips of McCain from the second debate talking about ending Medicare and Social Security. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is THE CRITICAL ISSUE to senior voters... a voting group which ALWAYS shows up in big numbers when their medicare and social security benefits are being threatened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GO AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY &amp;amp; IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:31:06 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>FORGET The Polls !!!  The ONLY Poll That Counts Is The One Being Announced on Nov. 5TH!!!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Vote EARLY and in HUGE theft-proof DROVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&#039;s END this RepubliThug nightmare and RESTORE the American Middle Class Dream ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:57:04 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama Will Be One of The Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents</title>
            <description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;**&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;ecmsonormal&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frank Schaeffer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obama-will-be-one-of-the_b_132843.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obama-will-be-one-of-the_b_132843.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama Will Be One of The Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence. Like firemen, cops, doctors or soldiers, presidents need a crisis to shine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is one of the most intelligent presidential aspirants to ever step forward in American history. The likes of his intellectual capabilities have not been surpassed in public life since the Founding Fathers put pen to paper. His personal character is also solid gold. Take heart, America : we have the leader for our times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say this as a white, former life-long Republican. I say this as the proud father of a Marine. I say this as just another American watching his pension evaporate along with the stock market! I speak as someone who knows it&#039;s time to forget party loyalty, ideology and pride and put the country first. I say this as someone happy to be called a fool for going out on a limb and declaring that, 1) Obama will win, and 2) he is going to be amongst the greatest of American presidents. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is our last best chance. He&#039;s worth laying it all on the line for. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a man who in the age of greed took the high road of community service. This is the good father and husband. This is the humble servant. This is the patient teacher. This is the scholar statesman. This is the man of deep Christian faith. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good stories about Obama abound; from his personal relationship with his Secret Service agents (he invites them into his home to watch sports, and shoots hoops with them) to the story about how, more than twenty years ago, while standing in the check-in line at an airport, Obama paid a $100 baggage surcharge for a stranger who was broke and stuck. (Obama was virtually penniless himself in those days.) Years later after he became a senator, that stranger recognized Obama&#039;s picture and wrote to him to thank him. She received a kindly note back from the senator. (The story only surfaced because the person, who lives in Norway , told a local newspaper after Obama ran for the presidency. The paper published a photograph of this lady proudly displaying Senator Obama&#039;s letter.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where many leaders are two-faced; publicly kindly but privately feared and/or hated by people closest to them, Obama is consistent in the way he treats people, consistently kind and personally humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that. He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama puts service ahead of ideology. He also knows that to win politically you need to be tough. He can be. He has been. This is a man who does what works, rather than scoring ideological points. In other words he is the quintessential non-ideological pragmatic American. He will (thank God!) disappoint ideologues and purists of the left and the right. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first black contender for the presidency who will win, Obama, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged racial hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Obama has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no white candidate ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been even for white presidents.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice stories or even unparalleled courage isn&#039;t the only point. The greater point about Obama is that the midst of our worldwide financial meltdown, an expanding (and losing) war in Afghanistan, trying to extricate our country from a wrong and stupidly mistaken ruinously expensive war in Iraq, our mounting and crushing national debt, awaiting the next (and inevitable) al Qaeda attack on our homeland, watching our schools decline to Third World levels of incompetence, facing a general loss of confidence in the government that has been exacerbated by the Republicans doing all they can to undermine our government&#039;s capabilities and programs... President Obama will take on the leadership of our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in better times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As luck, fate or divine grace would have it (depending on one&#039;s personal theology) Obama is blessedly, dare I say uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances. Obama is a person with hands-on community service experience, deep connections to top economic advisers from the renowned University of Chicago where he taught law, and a middle-class background that gives him an abiding knowledgeable empathy with the rest of us. As the son of a single mother, who has worked his way up with merit and brains, recipient of top-notch academic scholarships, the peer-selected editor of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Harvard Law Review&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;and, in three giant political steps to state office, national office and now the presidency, Obama clearly has the wit and drive to lead. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is the sober voice of reason at a time of unreason. He is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking. He is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife. He is also new enough to the political process so that he doesn&#039;t suffer from the terminally jaded cynicism, the seen-it-all-before syndrome afflicting most politicians in Washington . In that regard we Americans lucked out. It&#039;s as if having despaired of our political process we picked a name from the phone book to lead us and that person turned out to be a very man we needed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. For eight years we&#039;ve been ruled by a stunted fear-filled mediocrity of a little liar who has expanded his power on the basis of creating fear in others. Fearless Obama is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we have watched Obama respond in a quiet reasoned manner to crisis after crisis, in both the way he has responded after being attacked and lied about in the 2008 campaign season, to his reasoned response to our multiplying national crises, what we see is the spirit of a trusted family doctor with a great bedside manner. Obama is perfectly suited to hold our hand and lead us through some very tough times. The word panic is not in the Obama dictionary. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America is fighting its &#039;Armageddon&#039; in one fearful heart at a time. A brilliant leader with the mild manner of an old-time matter-of-fact country doctor soothing a frightened child is just what we need. The fact that our &#039;doctor&#039; is a black man leading a hitherto white-ruled nation out of the mess of its own making is all the sweeter and raises the Obama story to that of moral allegory. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama brings a moral clarity to his leadership reserved for those who have had to work for everything they&#039;ve gotten and had to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the color of their skin. His experience of succeeding in spite of his color, social background and prejudice could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of forgiveness and enlightenment. Obama radiates the calm inner peace of the spirit of forgiveness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking as a believing Christian I see the hand of a merciful God in Obama&#039;s candidacy. The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the cornerstone... the last shall be first... he that would gain his life must first lose it... the meek shall inherit the earth... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For my secular friends I&#039;ll allow that we may have just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way America wins. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only a brilliant man, with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly family doctor can lead us now. We are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all out of hope. Obama is the cure. And we Americans have it in us to rise to the occasion. We will. We&#039;re about to enter one of the most frightening periods of American history. Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him, fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hundred years from now Obama&#039;s portrait will be placed next to that of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. Long before that we&#039;ll be telling our children and grandchildren that we stepped out in faith and voted for a young black man who stood up and led our country back from the brink of an abyss. We&#039;ll tell them about the power of love, faith and hope. We&#039;ll tell them about the power of creativity combined with humility and intellectual brilliance. We&#039;ll tell them that President Obama gave us the gift of regaining our faith in our country. We&#039;ll tell them that we all stood up and pitched in and won the day. We&#039;ll tell them that President Obama restored our standing in the world. We&#039;ll tell them that by the time he left office our schools were on the mend, our economy booming, that we&#039;d become a nation filled with green energy alternatives and were leading the world away from dependence on carbon-based destruction. We&#039;ll tell them that because of President Obama&#039;s example and leadership the integrity of the family was restored, divorce rates went down, more fathers took responsibility for their children, and abortion rates fell dramatically as women, families and children were cared for through compassionate social programs that worked. We&#039;ll tell them about how the gap closed between the middle class and the super rich, how we won health care for all, how crime rates fell, how bad wars were brought to an honorable conclusion. We&#039;ll tell them that when we were attacked again by al Qaeda, how reason prevailed and the response was smart, tough, measured and effective, and our civil rights were protected even in times of crisis... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&#039;ll tell them that we were part of the inexplicably blessed miracle that happened to our country those many years ago in 2008 when a young black man was sent by God, fate or luck to save our country. We&#039;ll tell them that it&#039;s good to live in America where anything is possible. Yes we will. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:28:22 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>SMASH MCCAIN&#039;S BOGUS TAX CLAIMS</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Everytime McCain or his surrogates falsely assert Obama will raise taxes while they will lower taxes... bring up the fact that McCain&#039;s 100 year committment to war in Iraq is the ULTIMATE TAX ONTHE AMERICAN PEOPLE to the tune of 10 BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then talk about the middle class tax cut and POOF goes the BS McCain tax argument.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:17:20 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>WORST CASE SCENARIO VACCINE&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;ARMED FORCES ALERT&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; RESIST AND REJECT ALL CALLS TO ENFORCE MARTIAL LAW AS A FINAL PHASE BY THE NEO-CONS TO REPLACE TRUE DEMOCRACY WITH OVERT CORPORO-FASCIST ENSLAVEMENT</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;To all members of our brave armed forces...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not allow the corporo-fascist corrupted government to use you against the American people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If after seeing CLEAR polling data showing a MASSIVE OBAMA WIN is still stolen by the Republican election fraud machinery... there is a very real potential for mass protests to spill into the streets all across America. Personally, I would rather see a widespread general strike all across the nation if another election theft were to occur, but we cannot discount the potential of a massive and public backlash against such a glaring crime against the Constitution and Democracy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These same Bush Inc. incompetents who have placed you in harm&#039;s way without proper protective equipment (remember when Rumsfeld basically told that brave Sargeant to go F himself for daring to ask why they were sent to fight in Iraq without proper body army... &amp;quot;You don&#039;t go to war with the forces you wish you had... you go to war with the forces you have.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;What a false-patriot/self-serving dick!)...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember the rats and lack of care for some of our most heavily wounded vets at Walter Reed Hospital in DC? &amp;nbsp;Nothing would have been done if a member of the so-called, &amp;quot;liberal media&amp;quot; had not blown the lid off of Republican Bush Inc. lip-service to the essential care of our veterans which is the very LEAST we owe these bravest American citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And speaking of lip-service... how about the fact that John McCain has voted AGAINST virtually every critically needed increase in veterans benefits legislation that has ever come before him at the same time he USES veterans as a cynical prop in his campaign speeches. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, John McCain has received the LOWEST rating possible from veterans watchdog groups, for his total lack of congressional support for veterans benefits issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So please, if the utter destruction of Democracy call via totally unjustified orders for martial law should actually materialize, you must as true patriots, resist and reject these corrupt false authorities in their attempt to turn America into an overt fascist nightmare state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;United we stand as a true We The People Democracy... Refuse to give in to their divide and conquer/master vs servant insanity.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PLEASE see the following website for more information on this most disturbing of threats to the sanctity of the American Democracy our Wise Founders have always intended for us to defend and cherish, and which our brave men and women in uniform have laid down their lives to protect, Liberty and Justice For ALL, a government FOR AND BY WE THE PEOPLE... for anything less than the preservation of this ESSENTIAL AMERICAN CORE IDEAL MAKES A DISGRACEFUL MOCKERY OF OUR COURAGEOUS SOLDIERS ULTIMATE SACRIFICE IN DEFENSE OF OUR DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/7/us_army_denies_unit_will_be&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(This article is not meant to infer that an attempt by corporo-fascist elements within our government to impose martial law is an inevitability... the citing of this article is meant to warn us of the potential lengths these twisted self-serving traitors are willing to resort to in order to maintain their fascistic grip on power... the same corporo-fascist excess and insanity which has crippled our economy and so, directly threatens the wellbeing of our shared American Dream of a prosperity we can live by, build upon, and then leave to our children.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:24:07 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>TROLL PATROL... Smackdown Of The Brain-Dead &quot;It&#039;s Not Fair That Obama Has So Much Money&quot;  Crybaby Swill</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;McCain&#039;s Trolls ignorance knows no bounds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now you&#039;re crying foul because WE THE PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN OUT OF OUR POVERTY TO CREATE THIS HISTORIC CAMPAIGN THAT RIGHTFULLY CAN OUTSPEND A MCCAIN CAMPAIGN THAT IS BEING STARVED DUE TO IT&#039;S GLARING INCOMPETENCE &amp;amp; FRAUD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But then... I guess that&#039;s why glaring incompetents like you identify with such a pathetic and desperate campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama&#039;s people-powered campaign is EXACTLY why we are going to win... this historic movement is a CLEAR EARLY VOTE OF CONFIDENCE MADE BY WE THE PEOPLE above and beyond the heads of the few remaining troll stooges who would rather see America further deplete itself at the hands of RepubliThug corporo-fascist tyranny.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put THAT in your sewer pipe and suck it troll.&lt;br /&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;br /&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;br /&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:53:21 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Could This Be The OCTOBER SURPRISE?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The following article just appeared on the news wires.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A widening of the war in the middle east may be part of a last-ditch RepubliThug strategy to shift focus away from the dismal economic news which is KILLING the McCain Campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AMERICA MUST NOT ALLOW THE CORPORO-FASCISTS TO FORCE THIS TOXIC KOOLAID DOWN OUR COLLECTIVE THROATS AGAIN... THIS IS THE SELF-SAME FEAR MANIPULATION WHICH HAS MATERIALLY CRIPPLED OUR FINANCIAL WELL-BEING AND WHICH MUST ESSENTIALLY BE RESISTED IN ORDER TO RESTORE THE HEALTH OF OUR AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM/GOAL OF PEACE AND REVITALIZED PROSPERITY VIA TAKING CARE OF THE HOMEFRONT FIRST AND FOREMOST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most alarming aspect of this story is it&#039;s timing. &amp;nbsp;Note the attack is described as rare... and it was launched one week before the most important presidential election in modern American history? &amp;nbsp;This CANNOT BE A MEANINGLESS COINCIDENCE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;____________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Syrians hold funerals for people killed in US raid&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By ZEINA KARAM and HUSSEIN MALLA, Associated Press Writers&amp;nbsp;&amp;ndash;15&amp;nbsp;mins&amp;nbsp;ago &amp;nbsp;October 27, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SUKKARIYEH, Syria &amp;ndash; Families in this village near the Iraqi border buried loved ones Monday who they said were killed when the U.S. military launched a rare attack in Syrian territory. During the funerals, angry residents shouted anti-American slogans and carried banners reading: &amp;quot;Down with Bush and the American enemy.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Syrian government said four&amp;nbsp;U.S. military helicopters&amp;nbsp;attacked a civilian building under construction shortly before sundown Sunday, killing eight people in the village of Sukkariyeh &amp;mdash; about five miles inside the Syrian border.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A&amp;nbsp;U.S. military official&amp;nbsp;in Washington confirmed Sunday that special forces had conducted a raid in&amp;nbsp;Syria&amp;nbsp;that targeted the network of&amp;nbsp;al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We are taking matters into our own hands,&amp;quot; the official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Syria&#039;s foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, described the raid as &amp;quot;cowboy politics,&amp;quot; Speaking in London, al-Moallem said of the U.S. raid. He warned that if there was a repeat &amp;quot;we would defend our territories.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The attack is another sign that the United States is aggressively launching military raids across the borders of&amp;nbsp;Afghanistan&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Iraq&amp;nbsp;to destroy insurgent sanctuaries. In&amp;nbsp;Pakistan, U.S. missile strikes have killed at least two senior al-Qaida operatives this year and ramped up the threat to groups suspected of plotting attacks on Western&amp;nbsp;troops in Afghanistan&amp;nbsp;and terror strikes in the West.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Iran&amp;nbsp;condemned the attack as did&amp;nbsp;Russia, which has had close ties with Syria since Soviet times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The raid also put the Baghdad government in an awkward position while negotiating a security pact with the United States. Iraqi officials said Monday they hoped the raid would not harm their relations with neighboring Syria, but the government spokesman in Baghdad noted that it happened in an area known as a terrorist haven.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We are trying to contain the fallout from the incident,&amp;quot; Iraqi Foreign Ministry undersecretary Labid Abbawi said. &amp;quot;It is regrettable and we are sorry it happened.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, however, said the area where the raid occurred &amp;quot;is a theater ofmilitary operations&amp;nbsp;where anti-Iraq terrorist activity takes place.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Syrian government statement said eight people were killed, including a man and his four children and a woman. However, local officials said seven men were killed and two other people were wounded, including a woman among the injured.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Associated Press journalist at the funerals in the village&#039;s cemetery saw the bodies of seven men &amp;mdash; none of them children. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sunday&#039;s attack also comes at a time when Syria appears to be making some amends with the United States. Though Syria has long been viewed by the U.S. as a destabilizing country in the&amp;nbsp;Middle East,Damascus&amp;nbsp;has been trying in recent months to change its image and end years of global seclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Syria&#039;s foreign minister, Walid al-Muallem, was in London on Monday and scrapped plans to hold a joint news conference with his British counterpart.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jihad Makdissi, a spokesman at Syria&#039;s embassy in the British capital, accused the United States of &amp;quot;applying the law of the jungle.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The U.S. military in&amp;nbsp;Iraq&amp;nbsp;said it did not have any information about the incident. But the raid came just days after the commander of U.S. forces in western Iraq said American troops were redoubling efforts to secure the Syrian border, which he called an &amp;quot;uncontrolled&amp;quot; gateway for fighters entering Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Sukkariyeh, villager Jumaa Ahmad al-Hamad told The Associated Press he was walking Sunday when he saw four helicopters, two of which landed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Shooting then started ringing for more than 10 minutes,&amp;quot; al-Hamad said Monday. After the helicopters stopped firing and left the area, he and other villagers went to the site and discovered the bodies of his uncle, Dawoud al-Hamad, and four of his uncle&#039;s sons, who he said were killed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Syrian government newspapers also published scathing criticisms in Monday&#039;s editions. Tishrin splashed its front pages with a headline denouncing the raid as a &amp;quot;U.S. war crime,&amp;quot; while the Al-Baath newspaper described the attack in an editorial as a &amp;quot;stunning, shocking and unprecedented adventure.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Even while it&#039;s preparing itself to leave the&amp;nbsp;White House, the&amp;nbsp;Bush administration&amp;nbsp;seems determined to demonstrate its foolishness, and this is a dangerous indication of political madness and stupid arrogance,&amp;quot; Al-Baath said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some Iraqi officials warned that the&amp;nbsp;U.S. military&amp;nbsp;raid into&amp;nbsp;Syria&amp;nbsp;could be used by opponents of the security pact under negotiation with the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Now neighboring countries have a good reason to be concerned about the continued U.S. presence in Iraq,&amp;quot; prominent Kurdish politician&amp;nbsp;Mahmoud Othman&amp;nbsp;told The Associated Press.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abbawi said he did not believe the Syrian raid would affect the security negotiations but acknowledged that &amp;quot;some will use the incident for the argument against the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sunday&#039;s attack comes as the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq has been declining. A senior&amp;nbsp;U.S. military intelligence&amp;nbsp;official told the AP in July that it had been cut to an estimated 20 a month. That&#039;s a 50 percent decline from six months ago, and just a fifth of the estimated 100 foreign fighters who were infiltrating Iraq a year ago, according to the official.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The area targeted Sunday is near the Iraqi border city of Qaim, which had been a major crossing point for fighters, weapons and money coming into Iraq to fuel the Sunni insurgency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ninety percent of the foreign fighters enter through Syria, according to U.S. intelligence. Foreigners are some of the most deadly fighters in Iraq, trained in bomb-making and with small-arms expertise and more likely to be willing&amp;nbsp;suicide bombers&amp;nbsp;than Iraqis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:00:18 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama Needs to Stress McCain&#039;s Promise To END Medicare &amp; Social Security As Final KEY TO VICTORY</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Older voters are the final critical voting block now coming over to support Barack Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The campaign needs to cement this crucial group of Americans in the final days with an ad in all the battleground states using clips of McCain from the second debate talking about ending Medicare and Social Security. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is THE CRITICAL ISSUE to senior voters... a voting group which ALWAYS shows up in big numbers when their medicare and social security benefits are being threatened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GO AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY &amp;amp; IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:44:22 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>The REAL Reason McCain &amp; RepubliThugs Rail Against A Democratically Controlled White House AND Congress</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Because they don&#039;t want to cede their corporo-fascist ability to rape and pillage the Constitution and national treasury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Democratically controlled White House AND Congress spells millions of American Dream Restoring JOBS JOBS JOBS. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEWS FLASH REPUBLITHUGS... your days of corporo-fascist abuse of the American Middle Class and global financial market system are FORCIBLY BEING BROUGHT TO A SANITY-RESTORING CLOSE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AND WHEN WE&#039;RE DONE SETTING THIS AMERICAN HOUSE IN ORDER, WE&#039;RE GOING TO SEIZE BACK THE ASSETS YOU HAVE STOLEN AND PUT YOU IN PRISON WHERE YOU BELONG.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LOSING THIS ELECTION WILL BE THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- If finally waking up from their disastrous RepubliThug corporo-fascist bullying and rape of the American Trust is a radical act... then I am GLADLY AND PROUDLY A RADICAL. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AS OUR FOUNDERS SO RIGHTLY SET FORTH AS OUR ULTIMATE AMERICAN DUTY... THAT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT NO LONGER REPRESENTS THE INTERESTS OF WE THE PEOPLE... IT IS THE OBLIGATION OF THE PEOPLE TO ELIMINATE SUCH TYRANNY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;BETTER RUN FOR YOUR HOLES TROLLS CAUSE HERE WE COME.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Calling this &amp;quot;class warfare&amp;quot; is just another corporo-fascist RepubliThug tactic designed to intimidate the working class victims of their continuous exploitive abuse of the Constitution and the VAST MAJORITY of Americans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN THE SAME WAY THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION WENT HEAD-ON AGAINST THE CORPORO-FASCIST CROWNED TYRANNY OF OUR PEOPLE... NOW, THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMON GOOD ABOVE AND BEYOND THE RAPE BY THE GREEDY, BULLYING, FASCIST FEW HAS RE-EMERGED AS THE TRUE AND ONLY ISSUE AT THE HEART OF THIS STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TO ME THIS DOESN&#039;T REPRESENT CLASS WARFARE SO MUCH AS IT REPRESENTS PLAIN OLD FASHIONED GOOD VS. EVIL.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like I said before... RUN TROLLS RUN!!! &amp;nbsp;CAUSE THIS TIME, WE&#039;VE GOT OUR EYES, HEARTS AND MINDS WIDE OPEN!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Troll Patrol... Smackdown Of The Brain-Dead &quot;Obama Is A Socialist&quot; Swill</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Why don&#039;t you do us all a favor and climb back down your sewer pipe troll.  McCain is part of the ULTIMATE MISSAPPROPRIATION OF WEALTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY.  His support of perpetual war in the middle east is nothing but a continuous corporo-fascist fraud and theft of the national treasury which has directly helped to cause our current economic collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A vote for McCain = support for the serial rapists and thieves who have driven America into our current state of turmoil and disrepair.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A vote for Obama = power returning to WE THE PEOPLE, the same working class who have made this historic campaign the HUGE succe$$ it is with our millions of small contributions becoming a truly DEMOCRATIC TIDAL WAVE OF CHANGE instead of being left in the Constitution-mutilating hands of the corporo-fascist RepubliThug Party. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THE REPUBLITHUG NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR AL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Yet ANOTHER Painful &quot;Senior Moment&quot; For John McCain On MEET THE PRESS</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;As a lifelong registered Independent... I was prepared to vote for John McCain in 2000. &amp;nbsp;But that seems like a million years ago to me now considering how far from grace this once heroic American figure has fallen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ever since selling his soul to the RNC and their corporo-fascist America-betraying $pecial Intere$t$ in that downright creepy ring-kissing, George Bush hugging ceremony on a national stage... Watching John McCain publically wrestle with his inner demons has been a national referendum on a once proud leader&#039;s pathetic and utterly regrettable self-destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Believe me... I take no joy in pointing out that John McCain is clearly having mental/cognitive difficulties ON TOP of his clear shift to the dark side of American politics, but the man IS seeking the most powerful position of leadership in the world so EVERYTHING MUST BE ON THE TABLE... ESPECIALLY something as obviously performance-affecting as this candidate&#039;s clearly eroded mental faculties.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday on MEET THE PRESS, as McCain attempted to name the five ex-secretaries of state now endorsing his campaign... he got visibly stuck searching for the last name, George Schultz.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now this in and of itself wouldn&#039;t be such a big deal... we&#039;ve all had the ocassional momentary lapse of memory. However, McCain&#039;s response to this lapse was what was so troubling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of simply moving on... he lingered long and painfully searching for the name as if he too were disturbed with his inability to remember. And then, when he finally produced the name... he did so with such an overboard response of awkward self-congratulation that I winced for the man.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add this unfortunate example to the UNBELIEVABLE GAFF he made recently in Western Pennsylvania (where he said he couldn&#039;t agree more with those who were saying Western PA was a rascist area).. his Mr. Magoo-like stumbling to cover over his own shock at his own words was SO painful and awkward that I know thousands if not millions of votes HAD to have been lost in that moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a bubble-brained and ruthless Sarah Palin waiting in the wings... choosing McCain to be the next president becomes more than just irresponsible... It&#039;s DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:32:56 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Blowing Up McCain&#039;s Bogus &quot;Comeback Kid&quot; Status</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;John McCain didn&#039;t come back from the dead in his primary fight for the Republican nomination because the Iraq &amp;quot;surge&amp;quot; is working... McCain triumphed because the desperate and grasping Republican base needed to believe the surge is working so they could have ANYTHING to cling to as a shred of even false hope for the general election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That shred of false hope vanished the first time Obama articulated that McCain harping on &amp;quot;the surge&amp;quot; completely ignores the glaring big picture truth that our six long years of death and destruction in Iraq have been a quagmire of grossly incompetent civilian leadership and a strain both to military preparedness and our stricken national budget.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comeback kid? &amp;nbsp;Maybe back in the bad old land of Oz days BEFORE THE WALL STREET PLANNED CRASH AND BURN CON MADE ALL THE TOP CORPORO-FASCIST SWINE SQUEAL AND RUN FOR COVER IN FULL VIEW OF A HORRIFIED AND ROBBED BLIND PUBLIC... but we&#039;re back in Kansas now folks... and the wizard&#039;s curtain has been fully torn... and we&#039;re NEVER going to drink THAT sorry koolaid again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;CHANGE is going to be a whole lot more than just a word, just you wait and see.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S FINALLY END THIS REPUBLICAN CORPORO-FASCIST NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS -- We&#039;ve got your &amp;quot;comeback kid&amp;quot; right here. &amp;nbsp;The guy who was 30% behind Hillary in ALL the polls, but caught fire anyway because he IS the right candidate, in the right place, at the right time for America and the world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:59:54 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama Needs to Stress McCain&#039;s Promise To END Medicare &amp; Social Security As Final KEY TO VICTORY</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Older voters are the final critical voting block now coming over to support Barack Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The campaign needs to cement this crucial group of Americans in the final days with an ad in all the battleground states using clips of McCain from the second debate talking about ending Medicare and Social Security. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is THE CRITICAL ISSUE to senior voters... a voting group which ALWAYS shows up in big numbers when their medicare and social security benefits are being threatened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GO AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY &amp;amp; IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:33:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Yet ANOTHER Painful &quot;Senior Moment&quot; For John McCain On Today&#039;s Important MEET THE PRESS Interview</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;As a lifelong registered Independent... I was prepared to vote for John McCain in 2000. &amp;nbsp;But that seems like a million years ago to me now considering how far from grace this once heroic American figure has fallen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ever since selling his soul to the RNC and their corporo-fascist America-betraying $pecial Intere$t$ in that downright creepy ring-kissing, George Bush hugging ceremony on a national stage... Watching John McCain publically wrestle with his inner demons has been a national referendum on a once proud leader&#039;s pathetic and utterly regrettable self-destruction.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Believe me... I take no joy in pointing out that John McCain is clearly having mental/cognitive difficulties ON TOP of his clear shift to the dark side of American politics, but the man IS seeking the most powerful position of leadership in the world so EVERYTHING MUST BE ON THE TABLE... ESPECIALLY something as obviously performance-affecting as this candidate&#039;s clearly eroded mental faculties.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today on MEET THE PRESS, as McCain attempted to name the five ex-secretaries of state now endorsing his campaign... he got visibly stuck searching for the last name, George Schultz.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now this in and of itself wouldn&#039;t be such a big deal... we&#039;ve all had the ocassional momentary lapse of memory. However, McCain&#039;s response to this lapse was what was so troubling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of simply moving on... he lingered long and painfully searching for the name as if he too were disturbed with his inability to remember. &amp;nbsp;And then, when he finally produced the name... he did so with such an overboard response of awkward self-congratulation that I winced for the man.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add this unfortunate example to the UNBELIEVABLE GAFF he made recently in Western Pennsylvania (where he said he couldn&#039;t agree more with those who were saying Western PA was a rascist area).. his Mr. Magoo-like stumbling to cover over his own shock at his own words was SO painful and awkward that I know thousands if not millions of votes HAD to have been lost in that moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a bubble-brained and ruthless Sarah Palin waiting in the wings... choosing McCain to be the next president becomes more than just irresponsible... It&#039;s DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:35:27 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama Needs to Stress McCain&#039;s Promise To END Medicare &amp; Social Security As Final KEY TO VICTORY</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Older voters are the final voting block now coming over to support Barack Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The campaign needs to cement this crucial group of Americans in the final days with an ad in all the battleground states using clips of McCain from the second debate talking about ending Medicare and Social Security. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is THE CRITICAL ISSUE to senior voters... a voting group which ALWAYS shows up in big numbers when their medicare and social security benefits are being threatened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GO AMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY &amp;amp; IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:02:54 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Terrorist Crisis Tests Simplified... Who&#039;s Best Suited To Lead?... PLEASE!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The McCain Camp&#039;s desperation is their ONLY consistent campaign theme.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggesting that hothead John McCain is somehow better suited to handling international crises is like saying the best way to rid your house of termites is to burn it to the ground.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anything... McCain is far MORE prone to terrorist provocations/attacks, because the entire Al Qaeda strategy has always been to goad us into military over-reactions which would deplete our national treasury and international standing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering McCain still delusionally thinks we can win Vietnam in Iraq and Iran... this presents a very frightening prospect indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;END THE REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:20:39 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>ALL The Experts Agree... Early Voting Is KEY To An Obama Victory</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Forget the polls people!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are up against the most corrupt election-stealing party in American History.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S SHOW THESE THUGS WHAT WE ARE MADE OF!!!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The numbers from the early voting states PROVE that the best way to protect your vote/make sure your vote is actually counted... is to vote BEFORE November 4th.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contact your local Obama Campaign Office (Phone numbers can be found on this site) to find out where you can vote early in your state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make a pledge RIGHT NOW to vote BEFORE Nov. 4th.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Numerous credible sources have reported that the sleazy old RepubliThug election-stealing machinery is still in place. &amp;nbsp;Democrat voting districts are given too few voting machines as an un-American way to STOP PEOPLE FROM HAVING THEIR VOTES COUNTED. &amp;nbsp;BY VOTING EARLY... YOU BEAT THE REPUBLICAN CHEATS SLEAZY SCAM. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALSO, BY VOTING EARLY... IF THEY TRY TO KEEP YOU OFF THE VOTING ROLLS ON SOME BS TECHNICALITY... YOU&#039;LL HAVE TIME TO MAKE A FORMAL COMPLAINT TO THE OBAMA LEGAL TEAM AND YOUR STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY REPRESENTATIVES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our best way to defeat the cheats is to turn out EARLY and in such HUGE numbers that the Republicans CAN&#039;T STEAL ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS DISGRACEFUL REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:56:07 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Why I&#039;m Voting For Barack Obama</title>
            <description>Dear Fellow Voters,&amp;nbsp; I&#039;m voting for Barack Obama because he has the judgement and temperament to lead, and he will bring about the change we so desperately need.&amp;nbsp; I like his decision making process.&amp;nbsp; He&amp;nbsp;surrounds himself with people who will challenge him (both democrats and republicans), carefully listens to their viewpoints, and weighs all sides before making a decision. As President, Barack Obama&amp;nbsp;will reach across party lines and bring sound solutions to the problems of the economy, the war, health care and education reform.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He will restore America&#039;s standing in the world community.&amp;nbsp;I have watched Senator Obama for many months now.&amp;nbsp; I am impressed by his honesty, intellect, integrity and&amp;nbsp;calm yet strong demeanor.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;That is the kind of person I want as my President.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Whatever your party affiliation, I hope you will join me in voting for Barack Obama.&amp;nbsp;A vote for&amp;nbsp;Obama&amp;nbsp;is a vote for change!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Sincerely,&amp;nbsp;Chris Campbell&amp;nbsp;San Diego, CA&amp;nbsp;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:32:37 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Terrorist Crisis Tests Simplified... Who&#039;s Best Suited To Lead?... PLEASE!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The McCain Camp&#039;s desperation is their ONLY consistent campaign theme. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggesting that hothead John McCain is somehow better suited to handling international crises is like saying the best way to rid your house of termites is to burn it to the ground.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If anything... McCain is far MORE prone to terrorist provocations/attacks, because the entire Al Qaeda strategy has always been to goad us into military over-reactions which would deplete our national treasury and international standing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering McCain still delusionally thinks we can win Vietnam in Iraq and Iran... this presents a very frightening prospect indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;END THE REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE AND RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:07 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>THIS JUST IN... Poll Shows HUGE WORLDWIDE MAJORITIES CHOOSE OBAMA</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;The following analysis provides a complete debunking of McCain&#039;s bogus assertion that a Democratically controlled Congress AND White House, would be bad for America (bad for RepubliThug defrauders of the American Trust is more like it).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A recent worldwide poll published in the international affairs magazine, THE ECONOMIST, did the old red state (McCain), blue state (Obama) treatment of a map of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The entire global map WAS BLUE !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is this MONUMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At a time when we are TRULY part of a global economic system as evidenced by our current global financial crisis...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which scenario do YOU think is MOST likely to engender the crucial economic/banking support of our global financial allies?... An Obama Administration which THE ENTIRE WORLD IS ENDORSING OVER JOHN MCCAIN... or a McCain Administration which represents more of the horrific same GLOBALLY FAILED POLICIES OF RAMPANT GREED VIA DEREGULATION THAT GOT US INTO THIS CALAMITOUS MESS TO BEGIN WITH.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly... this is a no-brainer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Bush/McCain Republican Brand is like slapping a bright smiley &amp;quot;new and improved&amp;quot; koolaid label over a bottle of pure arsenic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry... but we&#039;ve seen this travelling snake-oil salesman show before.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the world&#039;s biggest middle-class consumerist engine for the entire global economy...The world wants and NEEDS to believe in America once again for the health and sake of their own market economies as well as for instilling the international banking confidence vital to helping under-write our emergence from this Republican-engineered economic disaster of historic proportions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By voting for Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress... we help the world to see that WE ARE NOT THE SAME OLD IGNORANT AND MISGUIDED AMERICA ANYMORE... while simultaneously showing precisely how Barack will be able to deliver the LEGISLATION SO VITAL FOR ACHIEVING THE AMERICA REVITALIZING GOALS OF REBUILT GREEN INDUSTRIES AND NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE CAPABLE OF CREATING THE GOOD-PAYING MIDDLE CLASS JOBS WHICH FUELS OUR CONSUMER-SPENDING ECONOMY, WHICH IN TURN FUELS GLOBAL ECONOMIC MARKET PROSPERITY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SEEN IN THIS MORE INFORMED LIGHT... A DEMOCRATIC MANDATE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS WILL BE A MUCH NEEDED ACCELERATOR OF CRUCIAL INTERNATIONAL TRUST IN A TRULY REINVIGORATED AMERICAN BRAND THEREBY SPEEDING OUR NATIONAL MIDDLE CLASS RECOVERY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE NEW GREEN INDUSTRIES WHICH WILL CREATE THE GOOD-PAYING NEW JOBS JOBS JOBS WHICH ARE SO ESSENTIAL TO OUR AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... FROM ALTERNATIVE ENERGY BUILDOUT TO INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT LIKE BRIDGES AND SCHOOLS, TO THE NEW ELECTRIC CARS THE WORLD IS SO DESPERATELY CRAVING... ALL REQUIRE BIG INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT... MONIES THE WORLD WILL BE FAR MORE LIKELY TO INVEST IN AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THEY HAVE CLEARLY SHOWN THEY PREFER TO THE OLD FAILED REPUBLICAN MODEL WE HAVE ALL BEEN FORCED TO SUFFER UNDER FOR THE LAST EIGHT INTERMINABLE YEARS OF RUNAWAY FRAUD, GREED AND ABUSE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE CAN RESTORE AMERICA&#039;S IMAGE IN THE WORLD!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE MUST !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YES WE WILL !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN HUGE THEFT-PROOF DROVES!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE SO THE AMERICAN DREAM CAN BE RESTORED ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:32:14 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>On Republican Panic, Thuggery And National Disgrace</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Whether we are talking about Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann calling Obama and Congressional Democrats &amp;quot;Un-American,&amp;quot; like some 50&#039;s McCarthyite relic, or NM&#039;s Republican Women&#039;s Leader, Marcia Stirman, calling Barack Obama a &amp;quot;Muslim Socialist,&amp;quot; or Sarah Palin saying &amp;quot;He likes to pal around with terrorists,&amp;quot; or John McCain insidiously asking &amp;quot;Who is Barack Obama,&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;It has become increasingly clear that the Republican&#039;s utter desperation is showing and it is an ugly panic indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s simple really... the cornered snarling rabid dog posturing we&#039;re seeing from so many RepubliThugs these days is a direct result of having been rightly outed for being intimately complicit in the current destructive abuse of America and the American Dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These hissing republican hate-mongers know that once they lose by a HUGE margin, they will be seen in all their naked America-betraying shame.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering these elitists have held themselves above all of the rest of us for SO long whether it&#039;s via their religious judgementalism or their tax-breaks for the rich stealing trillions from the WE THE PEOPLE &amp;nbsp;MIDDLE CLASS... their ego-driven sociopathic self-image, cannot stand being so starkly exposed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so... out of their ever-increasing desperation... they continue to implode with fear-soaked hatred... calling their rightful detractors every vile name in the book, from traitors to terrorists, at a time when, all too pathetically for them, the vast majority of Americans simply have come to know better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOBAMA !!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GOAMERICA !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VOTE EARLY AND IN THEFT-PROOF DROVES !!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LET&#039;S END THIS REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE SO THE AMERICAN DREAM CAN BEGIN AGAIN!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:17:49 EDT</pubDate>
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