just for fun ...Lewis Black

this one cracked me up the other day while listening to Stephanie Miller on 930 AM ....delivered by Lewis Black as only he could...I paraphrase (as I'm informed he did from a joke delivered on MASH back in the day...)

It really bothers me when I hear people calling Obama a socialist. There's
only 8 of them left, and he's never been to one of our meetings.

and just for fun, a few moments with, Lewis Black, who always fails to bring hope to the table.....

a large injection of hope.....

thanks Rick for this 4 minutes.....

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Vote Sanity!

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Vote Sanity - Vote for Democrats
Because you might be mad...
But they are CRAZY.

Message From The Future

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MoveOn.org has a message for you.

Voting is important. But somehow this year it doesn't feel as important as it did in 2008, right?

WRONG!

Here's a message from the future about what will happen if you and your friends don't vote on November 2 (hint: it's not pretty).

Our Ad - Washington's 2nd District

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I can already hear the Republican whining about "MoveOn"; but, the folks in this ad are local and it really is us (WA-02 voters) against the corporate front groups and oil billionaires.



Script:
This ad is NOT paid for by the corporate front groups and oil billionaires that are trying to buy this election.

This is OUR ad made by hardworking Americans who live right here in Washington and we have one simple message: John Koster is being backed by one of those front groups, and if he's on their side, he's sure not on ours.

Vote Rick Larsen!

Global Work Party,,,,,,solar coming soon...

Transition Ferndale met today on my roof for some theatre, lunch, fellowship and enthusiasm as we strive to work to bring awareness and action to getting our atmospheric CO2 back down to 350 parts per million. (currently 392 and climbing)

Oh and we are celebrating the coming solar panels.!! Net Metering by years end.

Last year I had my son paint a very large 350.org on my roof and my frequent air traffic has been enjoying it all year. Before this year's end 350.org will be covered by solar panels and net metering. This is happening on the heels of our Transition Ferndale group inviting Dana Brandt from Ecotech Energy Systems LLC to come and give his excellent presentation to our group. We will be on the roof today with signs and enthusiasm to be part of the important work of getting our CO2 in the atmosphere back to levels that give future living things a chance to enjoy life on our beautiful planet Earth.

10/10/10: The Global Work Party On 10/10/10, people at 7347 events in 188 countries got to work on the climate crisis.

here we are, from our corner of this earth, participating with over 7000 groups around the world......

Jerns vs. Ericksen - If A Tree Falls, After The Herald's Deadline?

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I read the article about the League of Women Voters candidate forum in the B'ham Herald and wondered what happened to the 42nd LD Senate candidates.

Pat Jerns (D) and Doug Ericksen (R) are running for the State Senate but they weren't mentioned at all in the article. I looked at the Politics Blog on Twitter and Sam's last tweet from the forum was at 9:06 PM.

So, I'm guessing that since the Senate candidates didn't finish before the Herald's deadline, for the Herald it's as though the debate never happened.

Fortunately, I did get a note from someone who did attended the forum all the way to the end. And what they had to say was quite interesting.

It was interesting to read Sam Taylor's blog comments concerning the face off's between Al Jensen and Jason Overstreet and Kelli linville and Vince Buys at the League of Women Voters forum. Unfortunately Sam missed some of the best comments of the evening between Pat Jerns and Doug Ericksen.

In Jerns opening statement, he clearly challenged Ericksen on several points, namely his lack of business experience and his habit of telling voters he supports programs and then voting against funding the programs.

In the questioning between the candidates, Jerns asked Ericksen to justify his co-sponsoring a bill to add a bed tax on seniors. Ericksen reply was basically, 'it's a complicated issue'.

In spite of his years in office, Ericksen became upset, red-faced and had difficulty responding to the challenging questions presented by Jerns.

Unfortunately, Sam missed a great opportunity to keep the readers informed on an interesting and informative exchange.

It sounds like poor ol' Doug-E has spent so many years working more as a Republican Party operative than a representative of his constituents in the 42nd District, that he doesn't know what to do outside of the hothouse environment of a political rally.

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.....