A Nobel Candidate

Al Gore is not running for president. But might the publicity and sheen of a Nobel Peace Prize change his mind? Some Democratic activists sure hope so. Grass-roots Gore loyalists have been buzzing for weeks about the Nobel Prize announcement scheduled for Oct. 12 in Oslo, Norway. Gore was nominated for his work on global warming, and several longtime Nobel observers believe this could be the year that a champion of climate change gets the prize. “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize … then he can’t not run for president,” says Roy Gayhart, a San Diego-based organizer of a California draft Gore group.........here

GOP '08: Feel the Excitement!

Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Headed For Key West

When workers at Colonna’s Shipyard in Norfolk finish scrubbing the Vandenberg clean of asbestos, petroleum and toxic PCBs, the ship will be towed down the Atlantic coast and sunk about six miles southeast of Key West – the largest artificial reef in Florida.......here

They Are Destroying The Female Species In Congo

The Democratic Republic Of Congo

In Congo, since ten years ago, the war started in ’96. After the genocide in Rwanda in ’94, all the one who made the genocide arrived in Congo and stayed there in camps. And in ’96, when the war started, they went out from the camps and went inside the forest, and then they started killing and raping the Congolese population. Three years ago, we had the report from International Rescue Committee that already four million people died in Congo.....here

The Hospital Of Panzi In Bukavu

Run for Congo Women

The Hidden History of 9/11/2001

Clinton-Obama 2008

Giuliani Predicts
Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, frontrunner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is predicting that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will team up to form the Democrats' White House ticket. "That's the candidacy we are going to be facing, and that is a very formidable candidacy," he said in an interview conducted late last week......here

Sunshine State Losing The Snowbirds

For almost a century, Florida has been a magnet for mobile Americans. The state's plentiful sunshine and open space have attracted "snowbirds" fleeing winter, retirees living out the last chapter of their lives. Florida's pull has been weakened mostly by rising costs. Though real-estate prices are now falling, the median price for an existing single-family home, at $231,900 remains 64 percent more than five years ago. That kind of price appreciation has increased property taxes, especially for newcomers and for snowbirds, whose primary residence is out of state........more

James Oddo - Get The F*** Out Of My Office

Colorado State University Gets It Right

After a four-hour debate about the fate of Rocky Mountain Collegian editor in chief J. David McSwane, the Colorado State University Board of Student Communications announced late Thursday that they would admonish McSwane for violating two sections of the code of ethics regarding lack of ethics and professionalism, for printing the "Taser This. F*** Bush" editorial on Sept. 21......here

Rocky Mountain Collegian

Fanatic Joe Kaufman Family Day At Six Flags

A Florida-based group called Americans Against Hate plans to protest a Muslim Family Day at Six Flags Over Texas later this month because it says the Islamic organization sponsoring the event supports terrorism. Local Muslims called the accusation a lie........here

Mr. Kaufman's Rant....here........His Video........here

Muslim Family Day will go on and that the park will also be open to the public that day. "We don't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, political persuasion or any other factor, Our ultimate goal is to provide a day of fun for all of our guests."

Sharon Parker, Public Relations Manager For Six Flags

John Edwards with Keith Olberman

The Six Feet Lap Dance

Three Hillsborough County ordinances governing adult businesses are legal, a federal judge ruled Thursday. If the ruling stands, dancers at bikini bars will have to stay six feet away from patrons, and the selling or drinking of alcohol would be prohibited at adult businesses........here

"It's all designed for public safety,"........ David Caton

Howard Dean Lays Out Dems' Strategy

Dr. Howard Dean

Urged grass-roots party workers to emphasize the deep divisions separating Democrats and Republicans as they campaign in upcoming state and national elections. Speaking at a state Democratic Party fundraiser in Union County this morning, Dean emphasized the importance of local political organizations in November's state Legislative elections, next year's congressional races and the '08 presidential campaign......here

Kids Warn Conservatives on SCHIP: No More Photo Ops

Bill Nelson Vs. Howard Dean

Republican Lite Sen. Bill Nelson
Followed through on his threat to sue his own party, taking the Democratic National Committee to court today over his state’s right to help pick a presidential candidate. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tallahassee, Nelson accuses the Democratic National Committee and its chief, Howard Dean, of voter ``disenfranchisement on a massive scale'' for stripping Florida of its 210 delegates to the national convention next summer.......here

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Dems Who Condemned MoveOn Took Its Cash

Forty-four congressional Democrats who voted to condemn MoveOn.org for its ad branding Army Gen. David Petraeus "General Betray Us" have accepted more than $3.9 million in contributions from the influential anti-war group and its members. Among those who opposed resolutions specifically repudiating the full-page ad in The New York Times, only 17 Democrats and one independent took cash from the group and its members — contributions totaling almost $1.4 million.......more

Video Of Brutal Crackdown In Myanmar!

Dean: As Governor Of Vermont

96% of the children in my state had health insurance. That's the sort of commitment our country needs -- and the sort of commitment President Bush doesn't have.
The American people elected a Democratic majority last fall to stand up
to President Bush's misguided priorities. Remind your Senators and Representative just what the American people stand for......here

Cincinnati To Outlaw Playing In Streets

If Cincinnati City Manager Milton Dohoney has his way at next week's City Council meeting, playing in the city's streets will become a thing of the past........more

5th Anniversary of Barack Obama's Anti-War Speech

L.A. Professor Triggers Myanmar Web Shutdown

A Los Angeles academic may have been a driving force behind the move by Myanmar's 19-year-old dictatorship to shut down Internet access after bloggers posted images of soldiers killing civilians......more

"The feeling of being just the conduit for a video of this power and importance--a video which so starkly shows the depravity to which men will sink when compelled by a fascist state to follow orders--was, truthfully, a feeling of power in itself,"

Jim Carrey - Message for Ban Ki Moon on Burma

Dean: 'We Will Find a Way to Screw This Up'

"Folks, let's not forget, we're Democrats, If there's a way to lose, we will find it."

Amid a growing belief that there is no way the Democrats can blow the 2008 presidential election, Democratic National Committee chief Howard Dean sought today to reassure the party faithful that the party was "doing everything in its power" to uphold its losing tradition. At a top-level summit called "Defeat: 2008" being held in Boston, the former Vermont Governor gave a rousing speech to concerned Democrats, bringing his audience to his feet by vowing, "I can assure each and every one of you, we will find a way to screw this up."..........here

Mayor Bob Cashell: A Compassionate Republican

Feds Raid McDonalds
The raids drew immediate criticism from Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and activists. He said he would contact Nevada's congressional delegation and ask the city council to look into the raids. He said that he opposes illegal immigration, as well as immunity for illegal immigrants, but that "there has to be a better way to do this."........here

"Think of some of the people who were arrested and picked up; they have children. They don't know where their mama or their daddy is. That's not right."

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Newt Newton TV Commercial

Monks And Myanmar

"Bloodbath again! Bloodbath again!"

A Yangon resident yelled while watching soldiers break up one march by shooting into air, firing tear gas and beating people with clubs. Thousands of monks had provided the backbone of the protests, but they were besieged in their monasteries, penned in by locked gates and barbed wire surrounding the compounds in the two biggest cities, Yangon and Mandalay. Troops stood guard outside and blocked nearby roads to keep the clergymen isolated........more

Why Doesn't China Do Something About This. Am I Suppose To Be Excited About The 2008 Summer Games in Beijing?

Free Tibet

Bill Clinton On MoveOn

Stealth War Authorization: Attacking Persia

Chickenhawks Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyle
Want the US to attack Iran, but because they know most Americans know that is a crazy idea at a time that the US is already bogged down in a losing war in Iraq, they want to authorize this disastrous expansion of the conflict secretly. That’s why, instead of introducing a war authorizing bill in the Senate, they have introduced a war-authorizing amendment, attached to the latest Defense Authorization Bill currently working its way through Congress......here

The $5.5 Trillion Bush Legacy

Whatever happens over the next 16 months, Bush will leave office having presided over one of the fastest accumulations of government debt in the history of the United States. During his time in office, federal debt held by the public – Washington's equivalent of a credit-card balance – will have increased by more than 50 percent, to about $5.5 trillion. Uncle Sam will be paying interest on that sum for years to come......here

Elizabeth Edwards - A Question For You

3,801 And The Killing Continues

Solidarity Action With The Coalition Of Immokalee Workers

This Sunday, September 30, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) a farmworker organization from Immokalee, Fl will be stopping in St. Petersburg as part of a state-wide "Focus on Florida" mini tour to bring people together for education and action around its current campaign against Miami-based Burger King......More info...here

6:30pm - Peaceful Rally for Justice at Burger King: 4570 34th St. S. Join the CIW and their local student, faith and community allies for a spirited action at Burger King. Art will be available, but feel free to make and bring your own!
7:45pm - Film Screening & Campaign Presentation: Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Ave. Come out to learn more about the lives of Florida farmworkers, the CIW and how you can take action locally to support the Campaign for Fair Food. A silent auction of donated art work will be held during the event.