What The Fork Is Goin' On?

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The Everett Herald has an article about an attack ad, entitled "Fork in the Road", being run against Congressman Rick Larsen: "GOP group slams Larsen in TV ad and he slams them back ".

The ad is produced and paid for by a group called American Future Fund of Iowa (AFF), they've bought $607,720 worth of air time to run the attack ad.

Brooke Davis, Larsen's campaign manager, issued this statement in response to the ad:

“Shadowy, out-of-state special interests like the American Future Fund are not interested in Northwest Washington. They're interested in using anonymous political donations from multi-millionaires and billionaires to promote their own right-wing agenda – and candidates like John Koster that support it.

“Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the choice facing Washington voters than the contrast between Rick Larsen and the mysterious right-wing group backing his opponent.” (Everett Herald 9/24/10)

The right-wing multi-millionaire and billionaire donors behind this out-of-state group might be a secret, but we do know something about some of the low-life's inside AFF. Remember the "Willie Horton" ads and the "Swiftboating" of John Kerry?

That's right, the people inside AFF are the scumbags responsible for those lowest of low smear tactics: "Secrets of the American Future Fund ". And now they're trying to use their filthy tactics on Rick Larsen and other Democratic incumbents.

The revolution will not be spell checked

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Glen Beck wants the tea partiers to lose the signs and costumes so they don't look as crazy as they are.



The revolution will not be spell checked

a local example

Maddow Outs Dino Rossi's Hypocrisy

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Rachel Maddow nails Dino for being a complete hypocrite. Dino is against the stimulus, he sez... but that didn't stop him from doing a photo-op at a shipyard that was able to hire 80 works because of the stimulus.

Fiesta Patrias - Democrats Honor American Hispanic Heritage

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Fiesta Patrias in Ferndale was a little scaled back this year, but, as in previous years, Democrats were there to celebrate a vital part of our America heritage.

42nd Legislative District Democrats had a booth and Representative Kelli Linville, candidates Al Jensen & Pat Jerns and Congressman Rick Larsen, all came to the Fiesta.
Although Whatcom Republicans had a booth featuring their candidates at the Ferndale Street Festival, there was no sign of them at the Fiesta.

Whatcom Republicans Chair Outraged That Latinos Get To Vote

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Yes, Luanne Van Werven saw something on FoxNews and now she's outraged that Latinos get to vote. Clearly it's not the six votes part, because all voters in Port Chester get six votes.

GOP/Teabaggers Blame Dems for THEIR Deficit Spending

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Pass it on...

PRICELESS: GOP/Teabaggers Blame Dems for THEIR Deficit Spending
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Depleted (NOT) uranium is still genocide.

I recieved this reminder (Deadly Legacy - Iraq) of the results of our actions in other humans homeland, As we continue fairly comfortable and distracted, in this age of bread and circus, humans far away and out of our view, are suffering from our disposal of toxic waste as the gift that keeps on giving. We spread tons of this toxic contaminant through out their lands and they are now seeing the results as children are born with crippling deformaties or are developing Leukemia in early childhood. As we see news of our "withdrawal" (NOT) from Iraq the people whose country never did one thing to threaten our country will suffer, long after the current residents of Earth are long gone, from our reckless, criminal and immoral attack, invasion, and occupation. Heartbreaking!!!

Wake up america....

Tea Party Edge-e-ka-tion

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Glenn Beck University Ad

You've probably heard Glenn Beck is starting his own university. The TV ad for it
explains it a little further.

Starring Brendan Collins. Written by Claudia Castillo and Eric Cunningham. Edited by Jared Bloom and Eric Cunningham - TheFullGinsburg

If You Don't Vote, You Can't Complain Later!

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Tomorrow is Primary Day. If you haven't filled out your ballot yet, here's a cute reminder from FUSE:


My personal recommendations are:

U.S. Senate - Patty Murray

2nd Congressional District - Rick Larsen (sorry Larry)

42nd Legislative District Senate - Pat Jerns
42nd Legislative District House of Rep, Position 1 - Al Jensen
42nd Legislative District House of Rep, Position 2 - Kelli Linville

40th Legislative District House of Rep, Position 1 - Tom Pasma
40th Legislative District House of Rep, Position 2 - Jeff Morris

Whatcom County Council District 1, Position B - Jean Melious

Washington State Supreme Court, Position 1 - Stan Rumbaugh

Washington State Supreme Court, Position 6 - Charles Wiggins

this really is priceless!!

looks like Ohio's 8th District has a real race and a real chance to send a quality public servant to work for the American people. let's hope they step up!!!!!!




Justin Coussoule for Congress, OH 8th District

John Koster and the Tea Party

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Rick Larsen's campaign has a new informational video

Quote: “The Tea Party Movement, the Patriot Movement to me is one of the most exciting things to happen to this country for a long time.” -John Koster


The local Tea Party has been trying to clean up their image, but their extremist idea's haven't changed.

UPDATE:

Goldy at HA caught something very important in Koster's statement: "The Tea Party Movement, the Patriot Movement to me is one of the most exciting things to happen to this country for a long time."

Goldy writes:"Just as disturbing is Koster’s praise of “the Patriot Movement,” long known for its white supremacist and anti-semitic rhetoric, and its close ties to the right-wing militia movement. Either Koster doesn’t really know what the Patriot Movement is, or more frightening… he does."

Read the whole thing HERE

Kelli Says Vote for Al Jensen

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This call from State Representative Kelli Linville (D) came in just a little while ago.

VOTE FOR AL JENSEN!

barbaric extraction...greed and rand paul

loved this shocking insight into dr. paul's understanding of mountaintop removal mining in his state published at TPMMuckraker

Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Isn't So Bad -- It Enhances The Land!
Evan McMorris-Santoro July 29, 2010, 9:38AM709

In a wide-ranging profile due out in next month's issue of Details, Kentucky's Republican nominee for Senate, Rand Paul, stands up for all the good things the controversial practice of mountain top-removal mining can do for the environment. Despite warnings from conservationists that blowing the tops off of mountains to get the precious, precious coal underneath can have a seriously negative impact on the surrounding land, Paul says that when you really stop to think about it, losing those mountain tops is actually a net positive.

From the lengthy article, which was reported before Paul shunned the national press:

Paul believes mountaintop removal just needs a little rebranding. "I think they should name it something better," he says. "The top ends up flatter, but we're not talking about Mount Everest. We're talking about these little knobby hills that are everywhere out here. And I've seen the reclaimed lands. One of them is 800 acres, with a sports complex on it, elk roaming, covered in grass." Most people, he continues, "would say the land is of enhanced value, because now you can build on it."

i have a suggestion for dr. paul...call it "creative disruption".....i think it's already been fuc_us grouped and it's free...you don't even have to hire james carville to greenwash it.....

DNC Web Ad: 'ONE AND THE SAME'

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Yes, the Republicans have stopped pretending that the TEA Party isn't just the Republican Party with funny hats. They're crazy, they're mean and they want to drag America backwards into the nineteenth century.

'ONE AND THE SAME'

Republicans "THINK CRAZY" & lie about the media

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I read today on the Bellingham Herald's Politic Blog about how Republican candidate Jason Overstreet and Whatcom County Republican Party chairwoman Luanne Van Werven think that a reporter making a public records request is somehow an attack on the candidate. And then I ran across this video (thanks John Amato) which explains it all. Republicans have gone just plain crazy.

If you're as offended by Overstreet's attempt to raise campaign funds by falsely claiming that he's being attacked by the media, then go give some money to his opponent, Democrat Al Jensen . Al is a stand up guy and a grade A Democrat running for the WA State Legislature, 42nd Legislative District, position 1.

greed justified

Today, listening to Thom Hartmann, his guest Carrie Lucas had me rolling in the aisles when she said the one hundred jobs brought to a community by monopoly retail, as 1000 are lost, is a “creative disruption.” Yes Carrie, monopoly retail is more efficient. It makes a handful of people and their descendents filthy rich as small, local family businesses, that employed twice as many people, are thrown on the heap of collateral damage. And the profits are tranferred out of the communities they are generated in. And let's not forget how efficient it is to import cheap goods from countries where people are working for slave wages. Really Carrie, is that cute little cheap outfit from monopoly retail, produced by slave labor, worth that much to you? I think it is shameful. Free trade is only free to the people who refuse to acknowledge the price being paid by unseen humans in far away places.

The bad news is we may not survive our fossil fuel orgy. The good news is, if we do, we will all have jobs cuz we will be the cheap labor.

Wake up America! The greedy, selfish, multinational corporatists, enriching themselves in the cancerous phase of unregulated, crony, casino capitalism, are stealing our descendents future.

stop the greedy in Washington State

move to amend corporations are not persons with unlimited ability to fund the buying or destroying candidates.

Tell Congress it's time to get tough on chemicals!

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Washington Toxics Coalition has a new call for legislative action and a video to go with it.

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage of chemical industry strategy meeting.


Tell Congress it's time to get tough on chemicals!

Colbert has some advice for Palestinians

brilliant!!

Thom meet TXsharon

Today was a great day! Thom Hartmann had Josh Fox, filmaker, on his show to talk about his must see movie Gasland. It will premiere on HBO on June 21st. And then a caller suggested TXsharon to Thom.....Yahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! TXsharon speaks from the state where hydralic fracturing is on steroids.

Hydralic fracturing is to the land, air, and water what deep water drilling is to the ocean. No bees or ocean=no humans.

end barbaric extraction....mountaintop removal must end.

After David Neiwert's excellent coverage over at Crooks and Liars and then seeing Ashley Judd on the C-span where she addressed the National Press Club and took questions, my attention is again drawn to the people whose lives are being devasted so we can continue to overconsume and carry on with business as usual. As 50% of electicity we use in America is generated by burning coal, the humans living in harmony with nature in the second most diverse forest on planet Earth are being relegated to the collateral damage pile as greedy selfish corporate interest rape the Appalachian Mountains. SHAME SHAME SHAME!!

Mountaintop Removal mining is barbaric extraction and it must end!!!!



Dave's expose of Rand Paul and Randie exposes himself on the video.....



YIKES!!!!