And what the hell are you?
Keep in mind that a nice old man whom you would describe as a looney leftist defeated the Soviet Union. He couldn't stand Bush either. May Mr. Kennan rest in peace.
On the other hand, the Bush Administration has rolled HR 418, which impliments General Dimtry Primakov's [now under contract to the Department of Homeland Security] advice on internal passports. Bush's buddy there is the former head of internal security for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under Premier Gorbachav. Anyhow, based on opposition to this bill which is sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mark "of the Beast" Kennedy voted for, it was very recently included verbatim into the War Supplimental Appropriations act all secret-like, and is now sitting in the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Needless to say, Mark "of the Beast" Kennedy voted for that too. You see, this bill mandates a national ID card with an RFID chip in it good for about ten meters to trace your every transaction ["They shall not buy or sell lest they have the mark"].
Call me a Looney Leftist again, I'll really put you in your place, I haven't even begun.
I'd rather discuss issues, instead. You'll find me to be quite educated, and current.
As far as DOD, have you got a problem with sane people working in DOD, or do you just support the current bunch of lunatic stooges who have really made Earth a dangerous place for Americans?
Dennis Tester wrote:
Yup, you've got all the credentials of your typical loonie leftist alright. You'll fit right in here. By the way, what's a liberal doing working for DOD anyway? I thought that was against your "religion" or something.
Nonetheless, welcome.
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:47 PM Subject: [StPaul] Introduction
Hi!
My name is Jim Bryant, I am a Ward Delegate for Ward Seven, from Precinct
Two.
I'm a little late getting into this list, as I've been helping get a few projects both organized and off the ground, and am at a point where I have a little bit of time to do this.
To start with, I'm a bit of a rabble-rouser myself, and have been involved in Democratic politics actively since the 1996 election, and at this point, barring getting a real day job again is about all I do now. My professional background involves like going on 18 years of hardcore experience in the IT field ranging from programming to systems administrator for organizations ranging from the us navy's pacific missile test center to internet companies to Sprint, and generally would bore most of you to tears, so I'll not discuss that here. Needless to say, I do believe I was part of a purge of liberal DOD contractors that began in December of 2000, and for some reason haven't had an interview since.
I have helped out with campaigns since 1996, when I did various activities to support Clinton, and in 1998 as an active volunteer for Dennis Moore's successful bid to oust Vince Snowbarger from the US House, as well as in the same year volunteering for Tom Sawyer for Governer in Kansas. In Y2K, I was helping Dennis Moore again, as well as the Gore campaign. In 2002 I wasn't able to physically help out on campaigns, but did my part online. Last year I basically devoted my efforts to the Kerry campaign, and was a fixture at State HQ here in St. Paul. This last summer, I also canvassed with the Grassroots Campaigns Inc. effort for the DNC, which I found both fun and helpful, since I had just moved up here in June on a vanished job possibility, and it helped me get a feel for the area. I will add, that I also did some work for another campaign to draw the decent Christians out of the GOP via the campaign run by Thomas Harens [don't yell at me, I fully support what he was doing, and his reasons were honest].
On the side, I am the original volunteer moderator for <http://community.democrats.com/>, and have full administrative and moderation privs both there and at both the old and the new <http://www.democrats.com/>, am a chat network administrator for <http://www.bartcop.com>, am a co-founder of the BlogCall weekly press conferences <http://www.blogcall.org> where last week's press conference on Tom Delay made that night's top story at CBS Evening News, and today hosted a Press Conference with Greg Palast on the fact that the Iraq war was planned from the beginning of the Bush Administration, was fought entirely for oil, as well as the falling out with the NeoCons. BlogCall is a new project, and so far, we are very successful after only four Press Conferences. I was also involved in the investigative collaboration with Atrios concerning Trent Lott in early 2003. I am currently furthering the Tom Delay investigation, among other projects. I also am the submitter for many news items for the now defunct, but hopefully soon-to-be-revived Democrats.com daily email newsletter, which I'm sure many of you subscribed to.
I was also one of the first source code reviewers of the Diebold 2002 Source
Code for AccuVote systems, and in particular the ones used in both the State
of Georgia as well as Anoka County, MN. For all of you DU'ers out there, yes,
I'm that Jim Bryant, I'm just one in a long line of people Bev Harris has
slandered, and although I could say a few words about that [rhymes with "witch"],
I won't, because she has done some good with her self-aggrandizement by drawing
attention to the voting machines issue. On a side note I would like to thank
the people of DU for perm-banning her sorry arse, and also would extend a
non-invitation to more than [not]willingly give a copy of what has an injunction
against it's distribution to some of the brighter coders/crackers in the party
for their own review, they will agree that what I didn't give them is what we said.
I've done a lot more, but these are just the highlights.
Anyhow, if anyone is interested in Greg Palast's findings, please visit <http://www.bbc.co.uk/> and look up last Thursday's "Newsnight", or you can visit <http://www.gregpalast.com/> if you have difficulties viewing the archived version [he said that for some reason those outside the UK are having difficulty with the BBC archived video], his work is also in the issue of Harpers currently on the newsstands. Interesting stuff, you can find the BlogCall archives at Ben's <http://www.whiterosesociety.org/>. Wanna know why Jay Garner was fired? Wanna know why Wolfowitz was fired? etc.. [for those who don't know who Greg is, he's BBC's top investigative journalist, and is most famous in the United States for his investigation of ChoicePoint in 2001, and produced the PBS [Frontline?] show on such that was boycotted byh practically every PBS station in every "Red State"]. I also moderated an interactive chat with the public that Greg did in 2001 on the ChoicePoint topic at <http://community.democrats.com/>.
I wanted to kind of keep this brief, so I'll close with the fact that in the nine months I've lived in Minnesota, I've decided to make it my home. I love the people, and the climate is a helluva lot better than Texas. Oh, and I love fishing and hunting! I'll have to get used to freshwater fishing, which I haven't done since I was a child, as I'm more used to Pacific fishing off of California, regardless, there are some huge fish here, with the word "Dinner" written across them :)
As for issues, my two city issues are revitalization of the City, and Mass-Transit/Light-Rail. I believe these two issues really go hand in hand. and that many areas of the city can be revitalized especially with the addition of light rail lines. The Midway corridor on University is a prime example of this. I think that even that bookstore owner can be made to agree to such a plan, and that some of his valid concerns can be addressed. Until we can get a Congress that has the balls to investigate the oil industry and put some price-gouging SOBs in prison, that light rail will go a long way to reducing gasoline and deisel consumption, and will also lower the pollution in the city.
I am currently still undecided on Mayoral Candidate, and feel that both have strengths. It's a good thing they are both friends, and I hope that they will find a way to take each other's good ideas and put them into effect regardless of who gets the Endorsement and regardless of whomever wins.
Kelly can burn in Hell.
jim
jim
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"Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today."
United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995
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"The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom..." -- Benito Mussilini, 1932
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/patriot2-hi.pdf -- The GOP agrees
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