Obama, Clinton Spin
Past Each OtherMarc Ambinder
01 May 2008
Listening to the
Clinton and Obama campaign conference calls today was like dipping
into two parallel, universes.
THE OBAMA UNIVERSE is
governed by the reality that every night, when the Clinton campaign
turns out the lights in
Geoff
Garin, Clinton Chief Strategist, Once Called For Violent Revolution
The Huffington Post | April
30, 2008
http://urel.binghamton.edu/PressReleases/2008/May-Jun%2008/5-2%
20Selfish.html
Binghamton, N.Y. -- Just as religions dwell upon the eternal battle
between good and evil, angels and devils, evolutionary theorists
dwell upon the eternal battle between altruistic and selfish
behaviors in the
I agree with your basic pts below about payroll taxes. I'm not
opposed to the idea of a flat tax across all income groups, but it
seems the macroeconomic and politic situation has been biased against
the middle class in favor of the upper 1% for about 25 yrs now, all
the numbers show this growing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Why is her nose covering his willie?
So you are not only ignorant on so many levels, but art also? A loin
cloth serves that puropose in this Dali painting.
OffWorld
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For someone who is so against war and killing you sure have alot of
bile and hatred in your system, Off.Kilter...
Your hatred is the biggest on FFL life by far and everyone sees it.
Your heart has become the heart
On May 1, 2008, at 7:32 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Bob wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/48r4ar
Bob, in the grand scheme of things, do you
not think that this is really of no consequence?
What would you expect from a drug addled clown
like Bob?
Hey, be nice. Someone probably slipped him
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is
used?
Are you offended because it stems from a French word for 'black' that
your forefathers used. Your forefathers, who chose to fight, at all
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@
wrote:
It's not an internet rumor. It's from a book called The Real
McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents
Shouldn't by
A new perspective on this from two physicists their computer model
http://www.newstatesman.com/200209020014
NS Essay - The science of inequality
Mark Buchanan,Published 02 September 2002
You always knew that the rich got richer through no merit of their
own, didn't you? Now, with the aid of
On May 2, 2008, at 7:59 AM, off_world_beings wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word is used? Are you offended because it stems from a French word for 'black' that your forefathers
off wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/5amqxh
In addition to forgery, Fuller was charged
with unlawfully carrying a weapon and
possessing marijuana.
Apparently this poor black man was born in
Nigeria and was in the United States illegally.
Jesus, banks nowadays can be so picky!
So, maybe they
Barry2 wrote:
Yes, we should tax the very rich out of existence.
Give me one good reason why I should pay your income
taxes, subsidize your rent, pay for your food, or
provide for your medical care while you waste your
money (what little you have) on toys made in China
or Japan and lay around
Bob, in the grand scheme of things, do you
not think that this is really of no consequence?
What would you expect from a drug addled clown
like Bob?
Vaj wrote:
Hey, be nice. Someone probably slipped him some
garlic. :-)
From what I've read of your posts, you worship a
Why are you posting these notes? Everything I've
read is just newage boilerplate. No big deal. This is
not news or some radical understanding. What impact
would any of this have on any ru meditating more than
30-40 years? Most of these ideas are self-evident. Who
is assuming the guru role in
Al Gore's and the enviro-nazi lobby's promotion of their man-made
catastrophic global warming fantasy has already started to kill humans
in third world countries. Ethanol policies that have resulted as a
direct result of eco-nonsense has pushed the price of basic foods out
of reach of many
On May 2, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Peter wrote:
Why are you posting these notes? Everything I've
read is just newage boilerplate. No big deal. This is
not news or some radical understanding. What impact
would any of this have on any ru meditating more than
30-40 years? Most of these ideas are
Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History
CNN
Posted: 2008-05-02 10:31:19
Filed Under: Nation News, Politics News
WASHINGTON (May 1) - A new poll suggests that President Bush is the
most unpopular president in modern American history.
President George W. Bush
Highest Disapproval Rating: 71
off wrote:
Unfortunately, McInsane is also a complete idiot.
Yeah, compared to you, he's a complete idiot.
Its a proud day for you drug addled clowns as you
focus on the real issues, instead of the distractions.
You probably figured this one out just from the post
subject line.
I am not a student of Afrocentrism, nor am I expert in
the mainstream history of the slave trade on this
planet. That said, however, there are several red
flags that go up for me in reading the piece Moral
Stains: Slavery and Reality.
1. The two paragraphs preceding the last one
blatantly
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not a student of Afrocentrism, nor am I expert in
the mainstream history of the slave trade on this
planet. That said, however, there are several red
flags that go up for me in reading the piece Moral
On May 2, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Bob, in the grand scheme of things, do you
not think that this is really of no consequence?
What would you expect from a drug addled clown
like Bob?
Vaj wrote:
Hey, be nice. Someone probably slipped him some
garlic. :-)
From what
Angela Mailander wrote:
There are more issues one could raise...
Not to mention that most anthropologists
have abandoned the claim that there are
any biologically distinct races with
distinct linguistic, cultural and social
groupings.
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of boo_lives
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:16 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Should the rich pay MORE income tax?
This may be all moot as I see no way the US ever gets close to a
balanced
Shemp is up to 70 posts, so he’s out again, this time for 3 weeks.
Thanks to Judy, Barry, and New Morning for carefully counting their posts
and stopping at 50.
Several others are getting close. I hope you’re keeping track.
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG.
On May 2, 2008, at 9:52 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
He realized sometime yesterday that he
was well over the posting limit (about
25 over, by my guess) and that as a
result he won't be around for a few
weeks (hopefully more than two weeks
this time after his...what is it...
fourth time going
On May 2, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Angela Mailander wrote:
I am not a student of Afrocentrism, nor am I expert in
the mainstream history of the slave trade on this
planet. That said, however, there are several red
flags that go up for me in reading the piece Moral
Stains: Slavery and Reality.
True, he is addressing a point that should be made,
namely that Afrocentrism is often guilty of shoddy
scholarship, but if you're guilty of the same thing in
making your point, you're obviously doing yourself a
disservice.
--- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Angela
Afrocentrism is no more or less ignorant than any of the beliefs of
every religion on Earthincluding the secular religions of
democracy, I'm a good guy, and What me worry.
Talk about the blind leading the blind is, well, spurious, when in
fact every group of humans will use delusions for the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of boo_lives
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:16 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Should the rich pay MORE income
George Washington is called the father of our country in history books
whereas George W. Bush will be known as the murderer of our country.
Sal Sunshine wrote:
Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History
CNN
Posted: 2008-05-02 10:31:19
Filed Under: Nation News, Politics News
WASHINGTON (May 1) -
Richard J. Williams wrote:
Barry2 wrote:
Yes, we should tax the very rich out of existence.
Give me one good reason why I should pay your income
taxes, subsidize your rent, pay for your food, or
provide for your medical care while you waste your
money (what little you have) on
Vaj wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Peter wrote:
Why are you posting these notes? Everything I've
read is just newage boilerplate. No big deal. This is
not news or some radical understanding. What impact
would any of this have on any ru meditating more than
30-40 years? Most of these
--- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Peter wrote:
Why are you posting these notes? Everything I've
read is just newage boilerplate. No big deal. This
is
not news or some radical understanding. What
impact
would any of this have on any ru meditating more
The other issue to consider with the pure numbers game on taxes is
what percentage of income goes for basic living expenses? Although
someone at the poverty line pays no taxes, the amount they make
doesn't cover basic expenses. Even the middle class spends most of
its income on basic living
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@
wrote:
It's not an internet rumor. It's from a book called The
Real
Vaj says:
I like some of what Christy says:
You won't like this!
More Carbon Dioxide, Please
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWJlODMxYmUzYWNmZGZiM2NhNmExYTYyNDUzYmViZjQ=
If that doesn't make you choke on your toast, I'm a Dutchman...
--- It's not a matter of Ahhhaa! fluffy, cute mental insights. Those
are the results. It's a matter of working your butt off. (I'm an
anti-Neo-Advaitin).
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vaj wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Peter wrote:
Why are
My guess is that Bush will be an accessory before the
fact; the next prez, whoever he is, will deliver the
coup de grace--unless we go to war with Iran before
the next election or the bush declares martial law or
both.
--- Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George Washington is called the
On May 2, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
George Washington is called the father of our country in history
books
whereas George W. Bush will be known as the murderer of our country.
No doubt. But I think an even more fitting epitaph for this whole
disaster would be to write him out of
Animation: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=89822
I doubt he will be seen as that notorious-- probably will be thought
of more as a minor embarrassment in a decade or so, and a real pain
in the butt for us that lived through it...after all, except for the
neocons for whom he is a defacto saint, who even cares about
ronald what day is it?
The funniest thing to me is that no one here has yet convinced me that
they grok Advaita enough to know what it is enough to accept or reject
it. To reject neo-Advaitans is easypeasy if you don't know what
you're talking about. It takes some very adroit observations to catch
the neo-Advaitans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
..the rich are, by
ANY objective standard of measurement, already paying far more than
their share.
i don't have the answers, but some questions and some random thoughts:
where does all the wealth come from,
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
Walk a mile in a man's shoes before you tell him he's wrong.
Why?
Because then, when you tell him, you're a mile away and have his
shoes! A nice head start!
Edg
very profound made me chuckle
thanks Edg,
I'm not a Dubya fan but, he can say, It all depends on how you look
at it. That, at least, he was not impeached by Congress, and is not
likely to be so.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History
CNN
Posted:
---Thx...without even resorting to looking at the theology; very
first step is to look for (in the statements of Neo-Advaitins).:
1. half-truths
2. outright false statements
3. unworkable courses of action or proposals.
4. subtexts containing self-contradictory statements.
5. and on the whole,
Then, too, we should remember that it took since the
fifties or earlier to get us to the point where we
would not impeach a bush.
As for it all depending on how you look at it, take a
look at the movie, Hero. The wise emperor whom it
depicts was one of the most ruthlessly cruel bastards
the
He doesn't inspire me; in fact, I can't bear to watch
that mealy-mouthed weasel.
--- matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
---Thx...without even resorting to looking at the
theology; very
first step is to look for (in the statements of
Neo-Advaitins).:
1. half-truths
2. outright false
Angela Mailander wrote:
He doesn't inspire me; in fact, I can't bear
to watch that mealy-mouthed weasel.
So Edg thinks Wayne Liguorman seems 'smarmy' and
you think Tolle seems 'mealy-mouthed'. Matrix
thinks that Adwaita is a theology. Peter thinks
its newbie boiler-plate. And Barry, who
Angela,
You're going a bit on a limb here, perhaps with a dramatic effect (a
la Charleton Heston in the movie, Planet of the Apes).
If I could brain storm about the role of the USA in the world, here's
one scenario. Given the jyotish chart of the USA, the American
declaration of independence
Here's something to put the relative importance of the
Clinton/Obama issues into a more global perspective.
WHAT POWER LOOKS LIKE
By David Rothkopf
Newsweek
April 5, 2008
http://www.newsweek.com/id/130637
They ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and
manage the credit
crunch in their
Yes, John, anything is possible. And I do love movies
of that genre.
--- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Angela,
You're going a bit on a limb here, perhaps with a
dramatic effect (a
la Charleton Heston in the movie, Planet of the
Apes).
If I could brain storm about the role of the
For once we agree on something, willitex.
The only complex thing about philosophical monism is
karma.
--- Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Duveyoung wrote:
The funniest thing to me is that no one
here has yet convinced me that they grok
Advaita enough to know what it is
On May 2, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
Afrocentrism is no more or less ignorant than any of the beliefs of
every religion on Earthincluding the secular religions of
democracy, I'm a good guy, and What me worry.
Well, it's not a religion, but it does sometimes impact it.
For
From: Dana Brekke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:45 -0500
Dear Yoga Teachers, Students and Friends,
On the Spring Equinox this year an idea that has been percolating in
my mind for several years finally bubbled up with so much joyful
energy that I need to share it with my
Angela Mailander wrote:
The only complex thing about philosophical
monism is karma.
The Buddhist teaching on karma is entailed in
the Buddha's sermon on the Second Watch of the
Night when the Buddha described his attainment
of enlightenment. In the First Watch of the
Night Buddha had
From: Dana Brekke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:30:45 -0500
Dear Yoga Teachers, Students and Friends,
On the Spring Equinox this year an idea that has been percolating in my mind
for several years finally bubbled up with so much joyful energy that I need
to share it with my
Angela,
Sorry, but I must dissent. And, since words are my tools, I'll be
wrong, but dissent I must.
There is no one -- also no non-one, and no no's. That's three
negations in a row, but it would take an infinite amount of them to
even begin to cover what THAT isn't, and then all you'd be left
On May 2, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
The funniest thing to me is that no one here has yet convinced me that
they grok Advaita enough to know what it is enough to accept or reject
it. To reject neo-Advaitans is easypeasy if you don't know what
you're talking about. It takes some
On May 2, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Angela Mailander wrote:
He doesn't inspire me; in fact, I can't bear to watch
that mealy-mouthed weasel.
That makes three of us. :-)
Okay Vaj,
Tomorrow I'll be blasting back -- with you, it'll only be funzies.
Edg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
The funniest thing to me is that no one here has yet convinced me that
they grok Advaita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Al Gore's and the enviro-nazi lobby's promotion of their man-made
catastrophic global warming fantasy has already started to kill
humans
in third world countries. Ethanol policies that have resulted as a
direct
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If elected, both Hillary and Barack say they'll put up the income
tax
rates for the rich.
Yet, according to the statistics at the following site
http://tinyurl.com/3cquum http://tinyurl.com/3cquum the rich
are,
Released: May 02, 2008Zogby Poll: Obama Holds Big Lead Over Clinton in NC; Pair
tied in Indiana
UTICA, New York—Five days before the
important Democratic presidential primaries in North Carolina and
Indiana, Barack Obama of Illinois enjoys a substantial lead in one
state and remains tied
Transcendental
Meditation: Remembering The Legacy
2May 2008, 1456 hrs IST,LANEWAGGER
Yet what is most troubling — and what has the most serious
implications for the feminist movement — is that the Clinton campaign
has used her rival’s race against him. In the name of demonstrating
her superior “electability,” she and her surrogates have invoked the
racist and sexist
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 7:59 AM, off_world_beings wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
wrote:
Am I the only one on this forum that is offended when the n-word
is
used?
Are you
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
off wrote:
Unfortunately, McInsane is also a complete idiot.
Yeah, compared to you, he's a complete idiot.
Its a proud day for you drug addled clowns as you
focus on the real issues, instead of the
Albert Hoffman and LSD
LSD May Have Been One of the Bigger Medical Brearkthrouth's in the 20th
Century. It Did Seem to Help Sgt. Pepper.
Albert Hofmann (b.1/11/1906 – d.4/29/2008) died this week. He was a Swiss
scientist best known forhaving been the first to discover, actuallyinjest and
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...who knows, why exactly /udaanajaya/ causes
/utkraanti/ (levitation)!
Its not.
Its the other way around: utkraanti causes udaanajaya.
Evolution leads to the invincible state of levitation. But by the same
token
On May 2, 2008, at 6:42 PM, off_world_beings wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 7:59 AM, off_world_beings wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
wrote:
Am I the only one on this forum that is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George Washington is called the father of our country
On the contrary, George Washington was known as a traitor, thief, and a
despotic landowner, and helping the regimes of fascist papists of
Europe.
whereas George
Dyslexia, in which the mind scrambles letters or stumbles over text,
is twice as prevalent in the U.S., where it affects about 10 million
children, as in Italy, where the written word more closely corresponds
to its spoken sound. Dyslexia exists only because we invented
reading, said Tufts
There were rumors that Hillary Clinton is Lesbian she is starting to appear
more and more like a Lesbian everyday. Not sure if it is because women lose
their femininity in politics or what. She has even gone as far as insituating
she is more of man than he is...
Sal Sunshine [EMAIL
Men of the Cloth
By Katha Pollitt
The Nation
Monday 12 May 2008 Issue
Child abuse. Sexual abuse. Women raised to be baby machines
controlled by powerful older men in the name of God. These shockers -
and many more - are flagrantly on offer in the spectacle unfolding
around
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dyslexia, in which the mind scrambles letters or stumbles over text,
is twice as prevalent in the U.S., where it affects about 10 million
children, as in Italy, where the written word more closely corresponds
to
Hillary's declaration:This is her struggle, this is her
fight...
That she will be nuking Iran,
Possibly taking us into a nuclear apocalypse?
Do we take this literally...
Or, do we go with John McCain who says...
'Stay the Course'
Then there is only one candidate who
can possibly avoid,
Nuclear
--- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Duveyoung wrote:
The funniest thing to me is that no one here has
yet convinced me that
they grok Advaita enough to know what it is enough
to accept or reject
it. To reject neo-Advaitans is easypeasy if you
don't know
What a great piece of work by these physicists. Thanks for posting
this, Claudio.
Here's what I got out of it -- from the following paragraph.
[begin excerpt]
Bouchaud and Mezard formulated a set of equations that could follow
wealth as it shifts from person to person, and as each person
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay Vaj,
Tomorrow I'll be blasting back -- with you, it'll only be funzies.
Edg
Edg, tomorrow you'll be blasting back, but
it will be what it always is with you -- words,
words, words, typed by someone who has
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