Hinduism grants some value to a fly and a cow
but how about a virus or a marigold?
How do you value someone's pet dog? You know that companion animal which
gives so much joy to the old folks who live down the block from you but is
left behind during the flood because nobody cares enough that
After watching the Democratic debate the other night, one reader said it's
time to bring back your video.
The audacity of Barack Obama.
Published: January 23, 2008
Here's the exchange at that debate between Obama and Clinton that
triggered that recommendation.
OBAMA ...what I said was is
I know what I have said here before, that the dimes worth of difference
isn't enough. And that is the way I would feel if there wasn't so much of
a chasm between the Democrats and the Republicans. We hardly have a voice.
But the dimes worth of difference might be enough of a difference to
The best way to prevent a war is not to start one in the first place and
the only way to end it is to end it. Not tomorrow, but immediately. The
cause is immaterial. All creatures compete for resources and have done so
since the first bacterium emerged out of the slime. Killing is a natural
(I need to mention here that other Kennedy family members, including
environmentalist-lawyer Robert Kennedy have endorsed Hillary
Clinton...Hank)
PRESS RELEASES
Senator Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing
For Hillary Clinton for President
January 28, 2008
Search Site With
Women have
Published on Monday, January 7, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
An Obama FableIts All About the Mood, Dude
by Ralph Nader
The Obamarama Campaign Express was roaring down a New Hampshire highway
near Nashua when an aide spotted the sprawling No Holds Barred Sports Bar.
Lets stop the bus, she
Boston.com
The Boston Globe
CATHY YOUNG
Gender and the politics of hate
By Cathy Young | January 26, 2008
IT WAS probably to be expected that the first presidential race in which a
woman emerged as a serious contender would raise issues of sexism and
misogyny in politics. Such a debate has
Guilt card'? What about sexist slurs?
Barack Obama
January 27, 2008 6:00 AM
Editor's note: Linda Cunningham is a resident of Portsmouth and Paula Wall
is a resident of Fremont.
By Linda Cunningham
and Paula Wall
Sexism and misogyny are alive and well in America and so embedded in
every
Clinton will Bring Home the Troops
Obama wants to find more troops. Where? More immigrants who can serve for
citizenship? He is no progressive. These issues are not being covered as
they should. See the article posted here yesterday about Rezko. Don't let
the them cover up the truth. Read the
Obama's Special Relationship with Rezko
(for 17 Years)
Hank Roth
We heard it at the Democratic debate when Clinton accused Obama of
representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in
inner-city Chicago. And liberal Democrats were livid. How could Hillary
smear Obama
Obama falsely conflates democracy with the republican form of
government that the Founders preferred as an effective barrier to their
ultimate nightmare - popular democracy. He appears not to understand that
the nation's constitutional fathers saw republican governance as a bulwark
against
Tony was one of the biggest fund-raisers.
AND Rezko has helped to raised millions more. Rezko was among the people
Obama appointed to serve on his U.S. Senate campaign finance committee,
the Sun-Times reported in 2003. The committee raised more than $14
million, according to Federal Election
Judging from, among other things, how Barack Obama has already sold out
the human rights and legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian peoples to
corporate Zionism, it stands to reason that he will also sell out Black
America, our Brown and Red sisters and brothers, and indeed the whole of
A recent detailed investigation published in the online journal No Quarter
(and titled While Illinois' and the Nation's Veterans Suffer, Obama
Campaigns) notes that Obama is nothing if not audacious in touting his
veterans committee membership as contributing to his `foreign policy'
Obama's plan for a phased withdrawal is as bland as his health care plan
is plain wrong - as critiqued by economist Paul Krugman, who is a
progressive. Krugman essentially says Obama's plans are by no means
progressive.
Paul Krugman in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Dec 19, 2007) writes, Do
Clinton Endorsements
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsome
Geraldine Ferraro, feminist and former VP candidate
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Boston mayor Thomas Menino
former Sen. Richard Gephardt
former Amb. Joe Wilson
Gen. Wesley Clark
former VP Walter Mondale
Analysis
Clinton Camp Aims to Minimize Differences With Obama on Iraq
By Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, March 21, 2007; Page A02
In criticizing Sen. Barack Obama over his early views on Iraq, Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign appears to be trying to
Actually he didn't. He says he did but that is understandable since he is
running for president but he wasn't in the Senate at the time so he could
not have voted against the war but may have voted for Bush's legislation
to put pressure on Iraq to reveal their WMD program. They did have one
Now, Obama is befriending the coal industry, a major producer of
greenhouse gases. Tag-teaming with Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Obama
is promoting the Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007, which, the
Washingon Post reports
Were you responding to me? If you were you did not read what I wrote in
context. OR, worse, you didn't follow the link, choosing only to reply hap
hazardly to the teaser. If you followed the link to the entire article you
would read it in context, part of which reads as follows:
(quote)
Is
The church is also unashamedly racist.
Hank
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, rob_analog wrote:
He belongs to Trinity United Church of Christ, eight thousand
members, black only.
http://www.tucc.org/about.htm
Their home page is racial to an extreme. See if they accept you
Sunday morning for worship
Yes, and it may also be the size of nanoparticles. You may still not see
it.
Hank
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, rob_analog wrote:
Yes, we understand we can't see objects beyond c. And the universe
dims over time.
But why would intelligent civilization not flourish in the universe?
Cosmological
Class Struggle
Marx said The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They
have a world to win. Workers of the world unite! Dialectical materialism
meant the struggle of material realities, a conflict or struggle of ideas
and applied to political economy, it became class conflict
Corporate America is determined to eliminate as many permanent jobs as
possible while replacing them with all these contingent, part time and
temporary jobs paying minimum wages and providing no health care
insurance, paid holidays, vacations, or other benefits. And perhaps most
important to
Deceptions
Paul Street has been writing extensively about the Obama phenomenon since
Barack emerged in the political arena and exposing his hypocrisy and lies.
You can read his writing in Zmag (online and in hard copy) and elsewhere.
He says serial liars without power are sometimes amusing,
Long before any formal announcement (I'm writing this in early January),
it was obvious that overnight sensation Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) wanted
to be the U.S.'s next chief executive. The charismatic Obama was
campaigning by at least November 2005, less than a year out of the
Illinois
Continued from _Obama is No Leftist_
we can be sure that the
right-wing Republican noise machine will denounce the nation's potential
first non-white male president as a dangerous leftist. The charge will
be absurd, something that will hardly stop numerous people on the portside
of the
Not a Progressive
Obama is not a progressive. NOT even close. Nor, do I suspect he is Black.
At least not by the standards of the Congressional Black Caucus is he as
Black as say, Kucinich. With a 70% rating he is not very Black.
Obama is a war whore, ready to attack Pakistan and Iran and
Obama's Misstatements
You all know who Joe Wilson is, the husband of Valarie Plame, the CIA
agent outed by the White House and of course Joe broke the story on Bush's
16 word lie which put us into the war in Iraq. Both Joseph and Valarie are
supporting Hillary Clinton. This is the first time
Ezra Klein for Prospect:
Obama not only has a mandate for kids in his own health care plan -- what
if the parents can't pay, one might ask? -- but he said, in last night's
debate, If people are gaming the system, there are ways we can address
that. By, for example, making them pay some of
(Read this on the web at: http://pnews.org/ArT/WaR/Obama.shtml
Take the poll and post in the comments section
--
Worm Hole - Crypt
Not a Progressive
Obama is not a progressive. NOT even close. Nor, do I suspect he is Black.
At least not by the standards of the Congressional
Sean Wilentz states, Historians cannot expect all politicians and their
supporters to know as much about American history as, say, John F.
Kennedy, who won the Pulitzer Prize for a work of history. But it is
reasonable to expect respect for the basic facts -- and not contribute to
Motivation based on economic success is debasing to the human spirit of
collective well-being. I bake the bread and share it. That way everyone
eats.
Hank
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, rob_analog wrote:
You-bake-the-bread-and-I-eat-it! runs the economy of the world,
including China. Is there a better
The Collective Pain is the Economy,
Not the War
But this is not the only thing which will sink his campaign. If Obama
is nominated by the Democrats he will be buried over this, not to mention
now his familial connection with Islamists in Kenya, the leader of which
is his cousin who
It Takes a Plan
During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly
three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and
his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times
has found. (Chris Fusco and Tim Novak, Chicago Sun Times -
Obama's Special Relationship with Rezko
(for 17 Years)
Hank Roth
We heard it at the Democratic debate when Clinton accused Obama of
representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in
inner-city Chicago. And liberal Democrats were livid. How could Hillary
smear Obama
Permalink: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZuLu/BamB.shtml
Worm Hole - Crypt
Barack Obama: Bamboozling America
by Larry Pinkney
It's strange sometimes how things occur. Nevertheless, what goes
around will always, ultimately, come around.
A very short while ago I sat staring at the contents of a
Permalink: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZuLu/TranS.shtml
Worm Hole - Crypt
Obama is Transformative
in all the wrong directions
Hank Roth
Edwards is the most progressive of the three top contenders and he just
dropped out. Kucinich was not viable and a vote for Dennis would have been
wasted. He
Jude: I'll say the same thing to you I said to Jon.
Quote
I changed the subject line. I wanted it to reflect the topic here and the
discussion I was trying to avoid. Hello Jon Paul. We meet again. Let's
both of us keep it civil. First let me say, I am not an apologist for the
Israelis. They
Permalink: http://pnews.org/ArT/Xray/PaLP.shtml
On Gaza and the Palestinian situation
Author: Palestinian People's Party
Statement issued by the Palestinian People's Party
June 17, 2007
Our Palestinian people, wherever they are, have been shocked by the bloody
developments and events
Permalink: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZuLu/PlaN.shtml
Worm Hole - Crypt
It Takes a Plan
Hank Roth
During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly
three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and
his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the
Permalink: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZuLu/MisT.shtml
Worm Hole - Crypt
Obama's Misstatements
You all know who Joe Wilson is, the husband of Valarie Plame, the CIA
agent outed by the White House and of course Joe broke the story on Bush's
16 word lie which put us into the war in Iraq. Both Joseph
Permalink: http://pnews.org/ArT/ZuLu/DeC.shtml
Worm Hole - Crypt
Deceptions
Paul Street has been writing extensively about the Obama phenomenon since
Barack emerged in the political arena and exposing his hypocrisy and lies.
You can read his writing in Zmag (online and in hard copy) and
It takes a lawyer. Obama was a lawyer who worked for the firm which
specialized in obtaining the funding for _low_ income housing.
Hank
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, momkoz1 wrote:
They had NO construction experience so formed a company,
Rezmar Corp., and they borrowed $629,000 from City Hall to
it in this way.
We, humans, have never really progressed past feudalism.
_
From: PNEWS-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
adar
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:19 AM
To: PNEWS-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [PNEWS-L] Re: Donella Jude
Families and Clans exist
Sure Jon. Got that. My name is Epsilon.
Hank
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Jon Paul McClellan wrote:
My name is Jon Paul, not Jon.
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From: PNEWS-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
adar
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:09 PM
To: PNEWS-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject
Yes, I have some thoughts on this but I'm a bit busy right now. Check
tomorrow. I'd like to follow up on this.
Hank
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, physisvnomos wrote:
In the Selfish Gene there is a discussion of ants that are good
warriors but rather poor housekeepers, hence they enslave the worker
Especially for Jon:
Psycho USS Liberty Conspiratorial Slanders
This is like beating a dead horse. It has been covered here so many times.
It is a conspiracy for which there is absolutely no proof. It just so
happens I worked in the war room for the Chiefs of Staff. I know about
people like
Jon left. He left when I asked him to present his credentials since he
held himself out as such an expert on the USS Liberty. He declined because
I must assume he didn't have any and what I really dislike and we try to
avoid it here is the reposting of propaganda. PNEWS-L has been around for
It is all show business!
Where is the beef?
Obama is no Progressive. Hillary is also not a great candidate but she is
saying a lot of the right things this time around. She is to the left of
her husband. She isn't Bill. People tend to see them as one. She could be
another Roosevelt. He,
There are philosophical differences which should preclude any progressive
from considering a Republican today. That was not true 50 or 60 years ago,
but it is today. Neither could a progressive consider a Libertarian under
any circumstances. The alternative to the Democrats must be either a
From National Organization for Women (NOW)
Ignorance and Venom: The Media's Deeply Ingrained Sexism
Below the Belt: A Biweekly Column by NOW President Kim Gandy
February 14, 2008
My email runneth over. I can't tell you how many people have emailed or
called me outraged by the sorry display
@yahoogroups.com, adar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are philosophical differences which should preclude any
progressive
from considering a Republican today. That was not true 50 or 60
years ago,
but it is today. Neither could a progressive consider a Libertarian
under
any circumstances
Philosophy doesn't need mantras.
Hank
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, rob_analog wrote:
And those philosophical differences are our mantra and will take us
suggesfully and safely into the future with whom?
R
--- In PNEWS-L@yahoogroups.com, adar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are philosophical
Change? Then why is Obama sucking up to Ted Kennedy and John Kerry? Both
are old school. There is nothing new about them. So where does change come
in when you he is trying to sell a message of reconciliation with
Republicans. Doesn't he mean capitulation is his message? Isn't that what
Obama and his Problem with Ethics and Judgment
The NYT described Antoin Rezko as a collector of politicians, which is
the way he was known in Chicago. His office was full of framed photos of
politicians he met and gave campaign contributions to and we now know he
often let them know there
This is interesting. I received it from another list via hapi22 (see
below) - There is an awful lot here I was unaware of. I admit I have not
been informed - according to this. This is indeed, an awesome record. I
will have to reappraise my attitude about Bill Clinton. He accomplished a
lot
Barack Obama and his fellow state senators considered more than 175 pieces
of legislation... Of those measures, Obama voted present obama did not
show up to vote in the senate often in his short time there, missed 130
votes! will not answer any reporter on how he would voted at the time.
But
Hillary is opposed to NAFTA. Obama voted twice to expand it.
NAFTA is not much different than the EU. It will become necessary to
establish Global mechanisms for trade because of shrinking economies.
NAFTA can be fixed, not eliminated.
Hank
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, warren greer wrote:
They sure do. They hate anyone who is that smart.
And all those White men hate women. Sexism is every bit as bad, if not
worse than racism here.
Hank
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Jude wrote:
Unfortunately no one cares they just hate anyone named Clinton.
Jude
_
From:
I never said NAFTA has been good for labor. It has been good for
investment. I fought against NAFTA. As a former grove owner in the citrus
business for many years it proved devastating as we knew it would. What I
said, or think I said, was - it is a global economy and the world has
shrunk,
It may surprise you to know McCain has always been a rather liberal
Republican. He does flip flop though and he has been as caught up in
scandals as all the rest. They all stink pretty bad. Hillary was opposed
to it. There is a citation from one of the Clinton biographers, but I
don't have it
Are you new here?
See http://up-yours.us/crypt/
for articles - why Obama can't win
and we already know Hillary is about to lose ..
If she pulls this off I think it would be a miracle and I don't believe in
them. Any distance between them in the big delegate states is closing
fast. In Texas
Cells divide without sperm. Cloning doesn't require sperm. We're cells
first and in fact I would suggest we are all universes first and
cooperating cells second. And like our cosmos is stretching we are also
expanding and some of us faster than others. Our perspective on our world
is limited
No question in my mind that Hillary is more experienced and to the left of
Barack Obama. And she has worked harder. Obama comes along late and
appeals first to the youth who go nuts over his mantra and now others are
falling in behind him. There is a sickness in the land when you have
someone
Is it no big deal that Obama lies?
IT IS A VERY BIG DEAL!
-- http://inyourface.info/ArT/Theta/JW.shtml
So, here's the lesson these kids will learn if the media, as they seem
likely to do, go too easy on Mr. Obama for this crime: The trick is in
getting away with it. That's the lesson they will learn, when the sad
thing is they could have learned so much more from him. Mr. Obama's
dismissal of
I want to post this again. This was first posted on Jan 24th.
Subject: [PNEWS-L] Obama the OOOPs candidate
Obama the OOOPs candidate
Obama is a fraud. He is more conservative than anyone else running. Both
parties are only a dimes difference, which isn't enough for me, but anyone
who
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, rob_analog wrote:
Your kidding, right? Your making a joke?
Hank, less outsourcing and more collective bargaining are TOTALLY
MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. What the hell kind of a weird ass concept is
that? Do you not know that American unions hastened the collapse of
US industry,
Inspiration, Motivation, Screeds and Attitude
Liberals want a winner and they want something called CHANGE - even if
they are not quite sure what that means? Many who are coming out to
support obama don't seem to want to be bothered with the facts.
They just want to FEEL good and Obama and
Slave labor, prostitution and murder - a direct consequence of NAFTA
and the ruling _wealthy_ elite. I don't have the time to lay this out for
you. Most here should be familiar with some of these abuses. Look up
Juarez, Mex where there are officially 500 women workers now missing; the
true
Media has shameful double standard on coverage of Hillary Clinton
Thomas V. DiBacco | Special To The Sentinel
February 26, 2008
It's shameful that the media over the past several months has not leveled
the playing field in covering Hillary Clinton's quest for the Democratic
presidential
The comparisons which have been made, often by him, of himself and
President John Kennedy may be prophetic. Kennedy was idealized much as
Obama is being idealized but it was not a great period in U.S. history. I
lived through it and I remember it as the time when we taught our
children, as
And, I'm glad you are here Rick. Welcome to my insane world (grin).
Hank
P.S. Let the good times roll!
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, rick mason wrote:
I thought I was the only nut that thought this way!?!? Such
philosophically physical questions can never be answered by such
insignificant
Rezko repeatedly lied to the judge. He said he had NO access to money, but
he did, i.e., the $3.5 million from Auchi. All of Rezko's associates were
characters with known underworld connections and either being under
indictment themselves or fugitives from the law. Obama who socialized with
March 1, 2008
Dear Senator Obama:
We were surprised and disappointed to learn that your top economic adviser
reportedly had a secret meeting with a representative of the Canadian
government where he dismissed your anti-NAFTA rhetoric.
According to Canadian news outlets, your adviser, Austan
Barack Obama is as stupid and dangerous as Kennedy. Obama wants to
invade Pakistan, the most dangerous place in the world...
-- Glen Ford
As reported by Glen Ford, editor of the BlackReportAgenda.com Speaking at
the Woodrow Wilson Center on August 1, 2007, Sen. Obama
There is a problem with the definitions. We don't speak the same language.
Oh, it is English, but like Ebonics, it is our interpretation and the
semantics which give these things meaning. Specialists have their own
taxonomy and they rerely agree with each other. When you refer to
dimensions
The word is nothing to do with being derivative. It exists because it was
used by an anti-semite (Jew - hater) to describe Jews. I forgot the name
of the individual but it was in the 17 or 1800s. Do a search. I suppose I
could look it up if you insist? I think his name was Marlberg or something
Rick: I think Finland looks really good - and getting better - in spite of
the fact that I hate cold weather. It is going to get hotter in EVERY WAY
and it should get really tropical on that ice island - and you can cook
over those geothermals too.
Hank
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, rick mason wrote:
The intro page at http://inyourface.info is still under construction but
there are some new things there. I have installed an OPEN free Weblog
where you can post your journal entries. I have initially set it up for
about 3,000 words. There is no password or registration required. I'm
There can be no doubt, judging from the evidence, that Obama had never
been pro-Israel until his successful Senate run of 2004. His
conspiratorial interpretation of the Iraq war, which he blamed -without
any substantive proof- on Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, smacks of
Antisemitism;
was
in no small part manufactured by the neocons of which Paul Wolfowitz and
Douglas Feith were members. The article has been removed.
Hank
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, adar wrote:
There can be no doubt, judging from the evidence, that Obama had never
been pro-Israel until his successful Senate run
Public Corruption Obama Doesn't Want to Talk About posted by TheGolem
03.14.2008 - 2:49 pm
How could Obama not know about Antoin Tony Rezko, the wheeler-dealer
who used minority set-asides and community groups as fronts to win
government contracts, according to Dan Payne, a Boston-area media
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