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Subject: Obama will be a one term president.
SYSOP    11/11/2008 7:39:57 PM
Obama will be a one term president.
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ker    Sympathy Pains III   4/16/2009 5:33:19 PM
So if you meet me                                                                            Stones
Have some courtesy                                                                         Sympath
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or Ill lay your soul to waste, um yeah
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A vote for Obama is a vote to end the culture wars.
Ha Ha Ha
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Prez. Caldiron of Mexico says that the U.S. has couroption as well.
Did he get coupys of the blogo tapes?  Or flow charts of the bail outs hot linked to congressional fundraising and personal funds records?  Did his drug intel guys do a little cross border work?  Or maybe he just saw how well the blaim America first bit works with Obama.
 
I do think that both America and Mexico need change.  Mexico need to build a private sector ecconomy that Joe on the street can make a living in with out turning to crime.  America need to allow medical insurance companys to require drug testing as a condition of coverage.  Positive tests lead to higher fees like speeding tickes do for car insurance.  And test results get atomated data captured into DEA data banks. Big brother camping out in our lives might as well earn his keep.  And you guessed it, let profile MS-13 rather than the First Infantry Division. 
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"Don't Tax Me Bro!"
The million cracker march was very ilumanative.  What the press says tells you who the press is.  They feel a duty to create the reality the world needs more than transfer information.  The press are players in the game, no surprise there. 
 
When Alaska gained statehood Texas complained about becoming second biggest.  Alaska said stop carping or well split our selves into four states and leave you at fifth place.  What Alaska threatoned to do to Texas Fox is doing to CNN.  The people who should be telling us what the goverment is doing find it more profitable to play gotcha with each other. 
 
Cable companys needed to buy up internet providers to protect their cash flow.  Streaming video kills the cable company and the cable companys pretend to fear internet brown outs to excuse increasing prices on heavy internet users to kill internet TV competition.  That will work for about 15 seconds. 
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Janet "I'm sorry I'm talking with the meadia" Napolitano stutters. 
 

"This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy
and civil liberties of many Americans -- including war veterans," Mr.
Thompson said in the letter sent Tuesday.

"As I am certain you agree, freedom of association and freedom of
speech are guaranteed to all Americans -- whether a person's beliefs,
whatever their political orientation, are 'extremist' or not," Mr.
Thompson said.

 
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ker    Sympathy Pains III   4/16/2009 5:49:45 PM
So if you meet me                                                                            Stones
Have some courtesy                                                                         Sympath
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or Ill lay your soul to waste, um yeah
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A vote for Obama is a vote to end the culture wars.
Ha Ha Ha
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Prez. Caldiron of Mexico says that the U.S. has couroption as well.
Did he get coupys of the blogo tapes?  Or flow charts of the bail outs hot linked to congressional fundraising and personal funds records?  Did his drug intel guys do a little cross border work?  Or maybe he just saw how well the blaim America first bit works with Obama.
 
I do think that both America and Mexico need change.  Mexico need to build a private sector ecconomy that Joe on the street can make a living in with out turning to crime.  America need to allow medical insurance companys to require drug testing as a condition of coverage.  Positive tests lead to higher fees like speeding tickes do for car insurance.  And test results get atomated data captured into DEA data banks. Big brother camping out in our lives might as well earn his keep.  And you guessed it, let profile MS-13 rather than the First Infantry Division. 
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"Don't Tax Me Bro!"
The million cracker march was very ilumanative.  What the press says tells you who the press is.  They feel a duty to create the reality the world needs more than transfer information.  The press are players in the game, no surprise there. 
 
When Alaska gained statehood Texas complained about becoming second biggest.  Alaska said stop carping or well split our selves into four states and leave you at fifth place.  What Alaska threatoned to do to Texas Fox is doing to CNN.  The people who should be telling us what the goverment is doing find it more profitable to play gotcha with each other. 
 
Cable companys needed to buy up internet providers to protect their cash flow.  Streaming video kills the cable company and the cable companys pretend to fear internet brown outs to excuse increasing prices on heavy internet users to kill internet TV competition.  That will work for about 15 seconds. 
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Janet "I'm sorry I'm talking with the meadia" Napolitano stutters. 
 
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland
Security Committee,  dose not stutter.

"This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy
and civil liberties of many Americans -- including war veterans," Mr.
Thompson said in the letter sent Tuesday.

"As I am certain you agree, freedom of association and freedom of
speech are guaranteed to all Americans -- whether a person's beliefs,
whatever their political orientation, are 'extremist' or not," Mr.
Thompson said.
link
 
She said that the report was not accusatory.  She hasn't admitted that the report was defamitory. 
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By the way single issue voter is code for citezens who want goverment to give the people proper governace and not just pretty ballon drops.  Substance voters look single issue.  They have a train of thought that can stay on the track for more than one sound bite.  Groupy voters look balanced and tastefull.  They like Obama's dog.
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Dems want to shape the political cliemet to help them selves.  They want to discurage vets from running for office expesily as independents.  America need a return to disiplin but vets running on that plattform would be "suspect."
 
They also want law enforcement types nervice about working with political groups smeared with the report. 
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Play nice and mind your manners or you could get named in a goverment report  your self.
If your not cheating your not trying.
 
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ker    A Few Small Repairs   4/17/2009 5:12:23 PM
Sunny came home to her favorite room      Colvin Shawn
Sunny sat down in the kitchen                    link /> She opened a book and a box of tools
Sunny came home with a mission

She says days go by I'm hypnotized
I'm walking on a wire
I close my eyes and fly out of my mind
Into the fire

Sunny came home with a list of names
She didn't believe in transcendence
It's time for a few small repairs she said
Sunny came home with a vengeance

She says days go by I don't know why
I'm walking on a wire
I close my eyes and fly out of my mind
Into the fire

Get the kids and bring a sweater
Dry is good and wind is better
Count the years, you always knew it
Strike a match, go on and do it

Days go by I'm hypnotized
I'm walking on a wire
I close my eyes and fly out of my mind
Into the fire
Light the sky and hold on tight
The world is burning down
She's out there on her own and she's alright
Sunny came home
Sunny came home...
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Don't think of an Elephant.   
I just made you think of an elephant. 
Don't think vets are dangerious.  Same differance.  If DHS head has lots of public meeting where VFW and other tell her vets arn't dangerious all she dose is make more people wonder if vets are dangerious.  She kills two departments with one stone because she spends out what good will DHS had and portrays DoD as suspect. 
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If Obama isn't using ICE could the state of Texas borrow it?  At lest lay them off to save moeny if they arn't going to do anything.  Or we could compromise and send them to raid gun shows.  That would curtail spill over violence. 
Union Yes/deportation No.
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Shapping political battle grounds of the future.
Currant political realitys force Obama to act on some problems.  In the mind of team Obama W set the table in bad ways.  They can't ignore that table but they can work to reset it over time. 
 
Obama tailers his responces to most problems in a ways that put people in mental frames that serve Democrates.  Overseas Contingency Oporations.  Woman Caused Disasters.  Rightwing Extreamist Terroists.
 
DoD mind set is replaced with HHS mind set regardless of the problems.  If you arn't caught in the spell they acuse you of Cold War Thinking like Rosevelt and Churchill shut up in a room together with brandys and out of touch with reality. 
 
The footnote may be a gaff.  Thats where some one mistakenly says what they really belive.  I hear that the tellaprompter comando frons on that.
 
The other option is that it was an intentional error.  Remember when Regan declaired the USSR illigal and anounced the bombing would start in 15min.  Then he pretended he didn't know the mike was hot.  Well, Palentano is pretending that she dosen't read foot notes.  And so is Obama.

Why would anyone chose to make that mistake?
-Counter-recruitment is grandulary ingrained in parts of the Dem party.  They try to share their lunches will campus military recruters but forget to boil the eggs.  (The draft was better)
-Shaping what types of jobs returning vets can get to guide them away from political influence.  (They love homeless vets)
-Shaping lawenforcement attitudes towards the listed groups.  Are the Knights of Columbus a terrorist breeding ground? Only when their white. (So police who are KoC might need to become closeted Cathlics at work.)
-Chilling political/speach activety buy or for listed groups. (A third party concerned with illigal imagration must be terroists.)
-Stoking the lefty base by conferming their bias and mental frames. (It must be true the goverment said it.)
-If an woman made disater happens in America potraying it as Rightwing Extreamist act improves Obamas political fallout. So setting the table buy laying the idea on the police ahead of time will make that easyer.  (Hell, AQ might even studding the report and get a clue.)
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Lets let the DoD run any oporations preventing former DoD personel from going postal.  VA can help.  The left is always happy to tell the right that the rights cure makes the sickness worce.  They should take their own advice on this one.  The other problem would be currant or former service personel going to work for a opponet power.  Could happen again.  Might be that they sell sabotage rather than information.  Still not DHS problem to solve. Remember that Justice has been penetrated too and that state is well.... how do I say this tastefull.....state.  Show of hands-Who thinks we don't have press storys about DHS personnel selling secrets to the Russians because they are better at counter intell than everybody else?  Who thinks we haven't got those storys because they are worce at counter intel than every body else?  I think we haven't got those storys just because DHS is new.  Give it time.
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In European conservatism certain privalages and responcibilitys are negotiated with the aristocracy to secure protection from the mob.  In American conservatism certain privalages and responcibilitys are given to the mob which we call the people.  The goverment needs to fear the people much less when it obeys them.  When goverment tries to con the people it becomes fearful of it's own accord.  The goverment class sees the world differently than the rest of us.  They can't help it.
 
 
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ker       4/21/2009 1:57:47 PM

?I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA Director.  I know nothing about this, other than what I?ve read,? said Senator Feinstein, who will chair the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the 111th Congress.

?My position has consistently been that I believe the Agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time.?
 
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,    Old 2005 Qoute from just before she took the committee chair.
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Obama and Feinstein are "mut and jeffing" the CIA.  Be ware greeks bearing offers of protection. 
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"I am writing to respectfully request that comments regarding holding individuals accountable for detention and interrogation related activities be held in reserve until the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is able to complete its review of the conditions and interrogations of certain high value detainees.

This study is now underway, and I estimate its completion within the next six to eight months. A study of the first two detainees has already been completed and will shortly be before the committee."  Feinstein in letter to team Obama

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My question is has the Agency noticed the "good cop bad cop" bit?  You think they would.  I've had my own complaints about the agency becoming a law firm.  Guess which way that trends going.  What were your indecators?
 
 
 
 
 
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ker    Happy Earthday.   4/22/2009 3:58:38 PM
Well the mut and jeff turned into mut and mut a few hours.  Obama's AG found that it was a violation of international law to decive prisonors into the expectation of protection when you had no intention of giving it.  Then Obama decided to tell the CIA the truth about his plans.  I'm from the goverment, I'm here to help you.
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Woods's Law

In August 2006, Woods coined "Woods's Law," which states that,

Whenever the private sector introduces an innovation that makes the poor better off than they would have been without it, or that offers benefits or terms that no one else is prepared to offer them, someone—in the name of helping the poor—will call for curbing or abolishing it.
He applied this law in an article[12] that discussed tax refund anticipation loans and efforts to halt such practices, which he argues are based on the assumption that such loans exploit the poor. Calcutta's daily, The Telegraph cited Woods's Law in reference to the potential effects of the expansion of Wal-Mart's ventures in India.[13]
 
link Wikipeadea
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link His site.
 
Tom Woods makes a good argument which I will basterdise for you now.  The ecconomy works with millions of people thinking and working in their own OODA loops.  Boom and bust cycals only happen when systematic distortions of information cause most of them to make the same mistake at the same time.  Goverment and it's creation central banks are the cause of these distortions.  Central banks kill the messenger of ecconomic causion by manipulating interest rates.  The persons make plans based on manipulated interest rates take a long walk of a short peer.  The central bank was telling them it was a bridge. I can borrow 110% of the cost of a house, party in it for a wile and then flip it for a profit. 
 
I have talked about the goverment as fool of last resort and the dangers of having the punch bowl oppen way too long.  After listening to Woods on C-Span and U-Tube I think it is more like a football coach who knows a player is injured but shoots him up with drugs to keep playing.  It helps the team in the short term but the player pays a hell of a price.  The NFL can trade out crippled players for new ones.  The ecconomy can't dispose of the crippled so easly.
 
The wealth effect, which I fell for too, was just a contact high.  When people who have belived they were rich and lived that way find out they were wrong it drags the ecconomy down for a wile.  Lots of resources are wasted in bad projects like building homes and cars no one is really willing to pay for. 
 
Envirmentalist should be the biggest Austrain ecconomists in the world.  Happy Earthday.
 
Wars tie into this thing too.  To fight a war you tend to ginn up the ecconomy.  We didn't want AQ to think 9-11 really stole our ecconomic power from us or even belive that follow on attacks could chip away.
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The coin shavers not only steal from us but they poision our minds.
 
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ker    Blaim Cannida   4/23/2009 10:50:40 AM
link Some people are attempting to watch whats going on.  This site follows bills.
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Crimanalizing policy differences.
 
Oliver North says that people at CIA are being told to get their own lawyers.  Think about the questions a CIA drone would need to fill out on his/her aplication for individual professional liability insurance.  Sources say it's happening.  Can foreners own American insurance companys?  Yes.  Team coheasion is unconstitutional in Obamas America.  So is your lawyer going to agressivly advocate for your rights or position themselves to not be charged crimanaly for helping you to much.
 
One of the key ellements of a multi-party democracy is secure retirement for former members of goverment.
 
What W is O will be.
 
If the members of team Obama feel that loss of a branch of goverment by their party will lead to their crimanal procecution they will not think so clearly when deciding how hard to push to deffeat GOP.  Off balance agression by underlings could back lash O.  Moveon.org hasn't.
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Mrs. DHS Janet Napoll  
 
"I can't talk to that.
 I can't talk to the past,
 Only about the future
 and the future we have
 is one with borders."
 
I would like to have a Sec DHS who could talk intelegently about the history of attacks on America.  I would like to have a Sec DHS who could talk about her own past statments to the press.  I would like to have a Sec DHS who could talk.
 
The future will have borders?  What kind of one worlder extreamists thinks that statement is informative?
 
This woman is tieing her self in knots to normalize the cartel war.  This is just a nusaunce, law enforcement problem.  Vets and Cannadains are just as dangerious as border gangs.  Nothing to see here.
 
Obamas plan for Katrina II is to rebrand it as Oklahoma City II and blaim it on single issue voteing extreamist rightwing militristic masaganistic talk raidoe listerners who can't stand the historic election of the first black POTUSA.  Turn lemons into lemonaid is a plan.  Having a plan and haveing your plan work are to different things.
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Obama needs to present a unified vision of the world which is comfortable for swing state Senators and all those first term congress members who only got in because GOP districs threw out the bumbs.  If they trew out the old bumbs they may well through out the new bumbs too.  O can't have that. 
 
But he must keep San Francisco from freelancing on his left.
 
Continual campain mode continues.
 
 
 
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ker    Tortured Logic   4/23/2009 10:57:29 AM
Keep water bording safe, legal and rare.
 
Any Dems who were co-conspiritors before the fact in the none-torture need to shut down this train.  But outsider Dems may be using the issue to make room for some early promotions for them selves. 
 
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
 
How can you shoot some one if it's a crime to sleep deprive them.  What about their rights before capture?
 
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ker    The continual campain continues   4/24/2009 5:48:48 PM
O intends to turn his stock in GM into voting shares, I mean the goverment owned shares into voting stock.  Will that mean Obama apoints a portion of the board of directors equal to the precentage of stock held by the goverment.  That would be a show.
 
Watch for friction over which GM plants are carried by the goverment and which ones are closed.  Compair it to the base clossing commisions.  Obama can protect Dem Polls by keeping their plants open and letting them say they did it wile cutting GOP polls by closing the plants in their states.  Never happen in Americs?  Remember the base closing commisions.  Thing is we have no reason to belive that that patter of plant clossings will do anything to make GM a successful seller of cars.
 
GM is shutting down plants for nine weeks this summer.  The open reason is that the blotted inventory must be shrunk.  Storing cars you arn't selling is expencive.  Paying the interest on the steal you made into car you arn't selling is expencive.  I get it.  (workers might still get paid much of their rate but I'm not shure.)   The less open reason is that the more real the company can make people fear of permanet shut down the more pressure for goverment to keep them open. Military bases that were getting flack from surounding civialian goverment and people have been rummored to pay all base employees and personel in two dollor bills.  The shop owners complain about how hard it is to sort the two's in the cash drawers and then they get it.  That base is paying my bills.  (This must have happened back when people were payed in cash.)
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Is the Obama campain coalition compatable with governing?  Change and continuety need to be in funtional relationship with each other.  The core message of the O campain was beat Bush bad.  Bad Bush Bad.  Where is O gona go from here?  He can't form a new centrist coalishion because his ellection base will munkey wrench him like Lyndon Jonson.  He can't rule with the spirt of his base because their anarkests.   link I am not saying I know Obamas mind just that the work horses who made him posible as a political force include a significan fracksion of people who don't really like sustainable goverment.  It also includes a group of people who like goverment very much but have extreamly unrealistic visions of what goverment has hidden under the counter to give them once it acts "fairly". 
 
A winning coalition cored on crimanal acusations against the white house could be inconpatable with white house oporations after the exchange of power.  Run bady run. 
 
The continual campain continues.
 
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The weathermen were just freadom fighters?  Ask Obama that at a press confrence.
 
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ker    Mommys HomeLand Securety   4/27/2009 5:35:19 PM
Napolitano says wash your hands.  She is such a pretty mommy.  No wire hangers or wire taps.
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Abdicate to the extreamists and only then get an increasing awareness of the threat from the extreamist.  Zardari to the Taliban or Obama to SanFransico/Daily Kos?  This retorical flurish of memo release w/o commitment is working as well for Obama w/ his left as PAKs deal w/ taliban.  Difference is O can't shoot his way out of the deal. 
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O cherry pics intel memos for political effect.  He continues with his personal responcibility message.
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"Gary Condet were sorry." The working Press.  Ha  Ha
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Now that O is experementing with handing speeding tickets out at the Indie 500 he is starting a learning curve he thought he finished in some Chicogo teach in.  God Bless.
 
Maybe he wanted a magnitude 2 diversion with the memo release.  He got a magnitude 3 and growing something.  Now he needs a diversion to rescue himself from his other diversion.  Tails waging dogs.  
 
We will protect your idenitys and securety as vigurasly as you prosue your mission.  I will be as vigurous in protecting you as you are in protecting the American people.  [For twelve hours.]
 
We don't have much for CIA to do now that GWOT is over.  I just hope some one told the Veneswailan arm of HezBola that their services are no longer required.  What do we know about Veneswaila?  What are we trying to find out?  What will we wish we knew now when we "lose" Mexico the way we "lost" Iran.  No one see's that comming.  That's my point.
 
If I was a South American Jew I might change my adress and patterns of behavior.  People are stealing list of names.  I am paranoid, remember.
 
Big oporations big problems.  Little oporations little problems.  No oporations no problems. 
 
Real question dose O think CIA really protects America or dose he think they are a manifestation of dangerious cold war thinking?  Institutionalized insanity?
 
O was told that memo release was like "setting a car bomb off outside the Agency." 
 A. He dosen't belive what he is told.         Or          B. He dose. 
 
KSM would have talk under FBI trust building mesures.  We know that.
 
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Remember how nice it was when Dems (John Kerry) just called service people dumb.  They (he) said you served in the military because you wern't smart or educated enough to hold another kind of job.
 
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W like language of good and evil which O was going to free us from is coming back into use.  "It don't matter if it works because it is wrong." 
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Clair McCascal of MO sayes we might need to pull some lawyers cards for giving the W admin. the wrong side of the law.  So we have a politicion threatoning lawyers w/ disbarment because they "caved" to political pressure from the wrong party.    Get intimedated by GOP and we'll send you to the unemploment line. Get intimedated by Dems thats good law craft.
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Mommys HomeLand Securety.
 
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ker    A Specter Over the GOP   4/30/2009 4:32:42 PM
With out a strong national party leader who has conservative cred, can help down ticket canidates and who can speek wise words to insiders a Spector isn't viable in the party.  McCain is getting a body check from the right.  Spector would get the same.  The party hung spector when they refused W's midle way ideas on imagration and other isues.  Bush saved Spectors baccon more than wonce but thats old news.
 
RNC looks bad crying about Spector.  Remember all the Dems who crossed iales.  Some of the left office gave back moeny raised as a Dem and started over from scratch but not very many.  Live by the sword die by the sword.
 
Maine might jump ship 2.
 
Dems better be carefull what they campaine for they just might get it.
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Unexploded Bomb Theory
 
The bomb that dose not explode distroyes more resources than the one dose.  I am thinking of WWII bombing of British war plants.  The exploded bomb causes damage that gets repaired. The unexploded bomb shuts the plant down just the same and some times for a longer period of time. 
 
If O gets his ideas out into law that is an exploded bomb.
 
If we get delay and ecconomic leaders have to work around the posibility that some kind of dramatic change could happen at any time that is an unexploded bomb.  One distortes the ecconomy and then lets it adapt.  The other frezzes it and keeps it frozzen.
 
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ker    Re-Right   5/1/2009 5:53:07 PM
Nailing down the keystone state for the Dems and for the Obamaist wing of the Dem party in primarys are important goals for team O.  Remember PA was a key stumbling stone for Obama against Hill.  Picking off Spector helps on both counts. 
 
The danger in this oportunity is that the Dems need a GOP that is stable and firmly in second place.  That is the Dems ticket to be stablely in first place.  Not much stability in the GOP right now.  All that balot assess and some one is going to use it.  The libral dems when asked about the need for a third American party were fond of saying that they would be happy if it had a second party.  The old dimes worth of difference not being enough for them.  Back then the left wing of the Dem party said that both party were wholey owned propertys of the banking and other industrys.  That dosn't roll of their tounges so easly now.  They were saying that the Dems in control of the Dem party were too much like the Republicans in control of the county (think 1980's).  Now the party is on the other foot.  The Obama wing is holding forth in the party and the party is on top of the country.  Do they want a second party or not?  They want the right kind of right party.  One that is comfortable in second place and not very inventive or atractive.  As the Dems take over more and more political space they may lower the barriers to entry into the political conversation by lowering the demand/cost of slots in Republican party.  New interests could buy in.  That is even more true in regines where GOP is weakest.  If there isn't a Republican in state wide office and the congresional districts are all safe Dem,  then the kinds of people who fight for GOP slots on the balot will change.  That creates space for the recombanation of political DNA.  A breading ground for new political formations.  Good in theory for democracy and bad in practice for Democrates. 
 
Dems need a GOP that is strong enough to stay unifed (and stationary as in stationary target as in sitting duck) but weak enough to only generate atenuated forms of political inovation.  The atenuated forms of protest serve as inoculations rather than as pandemics. 
 
The party out of power in a democracy is at the same time the understudy, cridic/protestor and stage hand.  How might Iraqi have happened differently if the dems were more understudy and stage hand and less protestor.  How many bones do the Dems need to through the GOP to keep it some what engaged in stage hand work.  What if the GOP splits into the wing that wants a job at NBC when they retire and the wing that wants a job at FOX.  You can't jet much satifaction nailing them to the wall once they lear to be jello. 
 
That lame chicken hawk attack made by the "fight'en Dems" is going to be replaced by the bloody dove attack made by the re-right GOP.  Those "fight'en Dems" were a red hering that worked.  Some peace activists who can't get their books noticed are going to run as North East Republicans against a bogged down Obama.
 
What will the new new right look like?
 
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There is a lot of pent up libral demand in America.  In no place is this more concentrated than the four libral members of the Supream Court.  They want to get off the merry go round as baddly as they want to do anything except insure they get a libraly replacement.  O is their ticket out.  I bet they have little back chanles to O and are planing a mass retirement.  The timing will work around the midterms.  The first replacement will be desighned to make GOP oposition apear foolish.  Bait and trap.  Then they can cook the frog by pushing further each time.  The first apointment will be a reverse reflection of Roberts.  She will be left but have a carefully groumed past to give right no tracktion for oposition.  The kind of person who started aditioning for the supream court in law school.  A worker bee judge who keeps her own counsel.  She will be young and politicly "curouse"  about progresive causes. 
 
Those life time apointments keep getting longer. 
 
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The United States Constitution is a much interpreted document.  What kind of contract is it.  A living document like the fine print of your credit card application that allowes the unilateral increase in your interest rate by the issuer     -or-    the firm and unchanging contract like your home morgage where even if the judge or congrass want to help you out they have their hand tied because you sighned a contract?  Get used to the living documents.  Washinton is crawlilng with them. 
Banks  Contracts
 
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mitdevelopment       5/3/2009 3:19:43 PM
Yes, Obama will be a one term president.  Read about the hiddend tax called inflation.  link
You do not have to tax the people if you simply print the money you need.  Printing one trillion and throwing it into circulation is why the Chineese said they were not loaning the US any money. 
When the public sees their cost of living esculate over the next 7 years to twice what it is today even the poor supporters of Obama will jump ship, not to mention the tax payers who will still pay taxes on top of their cost of living increase.
It is looking more and more like the Jimmy Carter days when inflation also got out of hand.  He was reduced to a one term president and the public was saved when Reagan cut the inflation in half his first year.
 
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ker    Budgets are Moral Documents.   5/4/2009 5:20:23 PM
Jim Wallis in the May 09 Sojourners mag under the HEARTS & MINDS heading stated that "budgets are moral documents."  He was happy that a saying he had worked to get into circulation was there under O.  He adds that traditional faith communitys have a calling to care for the "poorest children." 
 
In these statements Wallis is corect.  He goes on to piggy back a bag of falaces on his donkey of truth.
 
"Protecting the vulnerable" is a good thing but .....     Wallis seams more interested in diminishing those at the top of the pyrimid than making good services avalible at the bottom.  (The Fortune at the Bottom of the Primid reference is intentional.
 
"Streanthoning the middle class" is great but  ......       Wallis seams to interpret "strengthening" as an increase in solodarity and counnchuseness more than an increase in options, power and quality of life.  Make middle class people richer is backwards republican thinking.  Making them politicly mobalized for O is real progress. 
 
Remember it "Takes a Vilage to Raise a Child." What we really got from goverment under that bumper sticker was not more or better vilages but more centralized goverment in child raiseing. 
 
 
 
Did any one ever tell you to clean your plait because African children were starving.  I bet they were just making it easyer for themselves to do the dishes.  Making American kids fat or otherwise clean their plates dosn't help African children any more than Wallis proscritions serve their reported intention.
 
Wallis bathes is the free lunch falise.  Govement programs cost and benifit analisis is deeply scued in Wallis world.  Taxing helps poor people twice, first when it sticks it to the people who don't "pay their fair share"  and then when it gets spent on the poor.  It's a propetual mothin machine of blessings for the poor until you acualy try it.  Taxing the rich causes them to hire fewer people.  The people they don't hire are frequently poor.  The spending of goverment moeny on the poor has mixed results.  The front line spenders can get confused about what help is.  Is it good to put food in their bellys if it dosn't increase their political concuseness.  Is it not better to use goverment programs to increase the suffering of the poor so we can build iresitable force for real change.  Think about how pre-workfare wellfair prepaired project resedents for the private work force.  That was intentional.  O is gutting workfare and doing it with the stim spending but doing it permanetly.
 
Inequality v. poverty.  Do we want to lift the very bottom up?  Would we rather pull the undeserving rich down?  The deserving rich like Edwards keep their moeny eather way because they have the conections to get great breifing on tax loopholes and earning oportunitys.  They not only fly in private jets to cry about global warming but they deserve to spend lots of moeny on the lawyers and lobests who keep them rich in the highly regulated ecconomic envirment.  When the Dems are soking it to the rich they always mean the undeserving rich which mostly means the Republican rich.  Republican rich being defined as any one who make real moeny but dosn't donate the proper % to the Dem party.
 
Wallis go oon to praise the green ecconomy, it's the theam of the whole issue.  When you hear green collor think about the mutant love child of the unions and the EPA.  If you hire a few no work employees (shop stewards/envirment stewards/creation care workers) we could avoid finding a wetland in your property.  What will they do with their time wile you are paying them?  Campaine for Dems and envirmental bills ofcource- working for a "just and sustainable" future.
 
"And for many of those involved, it is also a matter of faith--a transformation that is crucial for our personal renewal, social renewal and political renewal.
   The conversion (and that's the right word) from our addition to oil and other fossil fuels to cleaner, safer, and eventually more afordable sources of energy could redeem our nations foreign policies.  There is perhaps no single greater cause for America's international hypocrisy and habitual drives for war than our current dependence on oil."  Wallis page 6.
 
The real ecconomie is the exchange of energy.  Goverment control of energy is goverment control of wealth.  Goverment control of wealth is goverment control of speach and politics. 
 
 
 
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ker    Don't Dream It, Be It.   5/4/2009 5:34:28 PM
Rocky Horror Picture Show is maybe what the Dems are doing in CO. 
 
Or the Peoples Republic of Iowa City.
 
But I am (one more time) thinking of Spector.  After a 50+ year detor thought the GOP he is returning to his first political home as a Dem. His Govenor and Presedent are pleased but wisely sercomspect.
 
Was it Shroder in the Peanuts cartoon strip who say in high tones, "I love the human race, it's people that I just can't stand."  The long long serving senotor loves the people in general as long as he dosn't half to pay any attention to their wishes in particular.  Those "singal issue voters" who care what the ellected accualy do with the power they recive from the people would make any wise and long long service senotor angry if they votted against him.  Free agency is sweet.
 
I see Spector singing.  I can hear it.  The sound comming from SF have intranced him.  With fear and trembling he sings, "Don't Dream It, Be It."  (Or what ever other part of the Rocky Horror sound track comes to mind.)  Then he reaches down and pulls up the leg of his conservative suit.  No one is more surprised than he to see revealed there a fish net stocking.  He strips down to his corset and stocking and jumps into the Dem pool where he for the first time in his life knows what it means to be happy and loved.  Enjoy the cruse senotor, enjoy the cruse.
 
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ker    Savage Quota   5/5/2009 4:44:54 PM
You may get to fight to the death to protect my right to say that Michel savage is a terorist.  Or  You can't stop me from saying the white man is the devil. 
 
The idea was floated to have quotas in death penelty cases.  It was quietly droped because sounder minds described what casses with white defendents would become.  The defence aturney would colect a large and lured sample of quotes from procecuters in cases where none whites were not sentenced to death.  Procecuters are very evocative and compelling or they wouldn't get the big cases.  Then after setting that tone the white mans deffence aturney would argue that his client did not rise to the real threashold of the death penelty but was only being killed to squaire up the goverments quotas.  That is not the kind of discusion a democracy wants on the public record. 
 
A new kind of absurd quota is creeping into goverment (and press) language guidlines (style bibles).  All lists of terrorist must always have more than 10% fat white guys and never more than 10% muslims.  If this means that organizing rape squades to attack refuge camps isn't always terrorism but that giving the muslim people of the world retorical greif about the rape squodes is some times terrorism that is the cost of living in the new normal. 
 
Mike Savage says that Home Secretairy Jacky Smith (Britons answer to Janet Palenton at DHS and they do have the feel of the same cloth about them) has ordered British cival servants to call Islamic terrorist "persons engaged in anti-islamic activety."  Islamic terrorism dose hurt musslims more than anyone else.  But.  The verbage is a bit torrtured.  Savage is on Britons list of persons to dangerious to enter Briton. He shot back with stock jabs about British food and dental hygean.
 
We don't really want to turn our published terror watch lists into jokes. 
 
Lets get serious.
 
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