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Filing Deadline Today and, Oops, We Don’t Have Any Candidates

by derek, posted to News / Our Government

From The Daily Kos on Alabama’s House campaigns.
3 of 5 GOP incumbent congressman are running unopposed as of right now, and the filing deadline is at 5:00 central time. We need candidates to run against these thugs.
Doesn’t sound to me like the well-oiled machine that is going to take back control of the House…

Arnold is Numero Uno

by derek, posted to California / Our Government / Video

Here’s a video I found of Governor Arnold smoking a fat joint and, my favorite, wearing a shirt that says “Arnold is Numero Uno.”


My friend was a flight attendant for Universal Studios and said whenever she had to fly […]

Publicly Funded Elections Becoming a Reality?

by derek, posted to California / Our Government / San Francisco

The idea with publicly funded “Clean Elections” is that politicians should spend their time listening to their constituents instead of selling tickets to $200/plate dinners to pay for their campaigns. The current system seems so obviously flawed that it’s a wonder that we have it at all.

Supporting democracy is our goverment’s main function. So […]

Does He Have a Chance?

by mm, posted to Chicago / Illinois / News / Our Government

I first heard about Alexi Giannoulias about a year ago. His father started a bank near my neighborhood in Chicago in the late 70s. Alexi has been the bank’s VP and Senior Loan Officer for the past four years, and his name sometimes comes up in conversations about local businesses.

I heard about him […]

Open Letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi

by derek, posted to Our Government / San Francisco

I was reading this article in the Guardian and it prompted me to write the following letter to my congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, House Minoritly “Leader.”
Impeachment is more important than the fall election. Justice must be served if our laws are to have any meaning. Our President thumbs his nose repeatedly at the enacted laws of […]

US Propping Up Yet Another Dictator to Overthrow in Uzbekistan

by derek, posted to News / Our Government

It seems the Bush administration and US interests are helping to prop up another ruthless dictator and creating of another terrorist hotbed over in Uzbekistan. I was just reading through telegrams written by former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. “The Register“:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/30/murray_lets_slip_blogs/ has the story on the documents. Below are some excerpts from Murray’s telegrams. […]

Secret CIA Prisons Only The Beginning?

by derek, posted to News / Our Government

Yesterday on Democracy Now, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh played down the story of secret CIA prisons and torture as “not where the real game is.”
AMY GOODMAN: By the way, do you believe that the secret prisons are in Romania and Poland, as Human Rights Watch believes, that the Washington Post won’t name, but exposed?

SEYMOUR […]

Coyners’ Dig on Frist

by derek, posted to Dissent / Our Government / Transparency

Check out Congressman Conyers’ response to Frist’s tizzy over the Democrats closing the Senate doors.
“Never have I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution.” - Senate Majority Leader Bill FristSorry Senator Frist, but having to face questions about why we are fighting a war based on […]

The Founding Fathers Are Dead

by derek, posted to Dissent / Opinion / Our Government

So, the founding fathers are quite dead now. Why do they still get a voice?

Sexy Scooter

by mm, posted to News / Odd / Our Government

If Scooter Libby winds up in some cushy white-collar detention facility, he’ll have more time to do what he’s really passionate about: writing bad erotic fiction. And he’s got some company in the Family Values crowd. Lauren Collins writes in The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town,

Libby has a lot to live up […]