Dean Discusses Strategy At Yale

The one-time front-runner in the 2004 Democratic primaries spoke Thursday about his 50-State Strategy, which aims to build Democratic organizations in every voting precinct in the U.S., including those in predominantly Republican states. Dean, who majored in political science at Yale, delivered the keynote address at a Yale Political Union debate on Thursday evening in addition to holding discussions at a Saybrook Master’s Tea and an event hosted by the Yale Law Democrats earlier in the day.......more

From RightWingStuff.com: December 8, 2005 Looks Like He Is Turning Out To Be A Foreign Policy Expert After All.

Practical Steps towards Energy Security

With Kathy Castor, Linda Saul Sena And Pam Iorio

Tuesday April 10, 2007 10 AM to Noon

Children's Board of Hillsborough County - 1002 Palm Ave Ybor City

RSVP to agustina.guerrero@mail.house.gov

No Development On Preserved Land
Brooker Creek Preserve

There are already lines of cars almost to Alt. U.S. 19 waiting to get into Honeymoon Island State Park. Yet, I am told that our state wants more revenue from admissions. More revenue for what purpose? To expand the bureaucratic staff? To build more parking lots and erase fragile lands in doing so?........more

Take two walks, you'll feel better in the morning

We

Featuring The Words Of Arundhati Roy

We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. We is a completely free documentary, created and released anonymously on the internet.
There are many ways to download and view it. Not On The Net?

Wednesday, April 11, Free Movie Showing, 8:00pm, 937 Central Ave, St. Petersburg

MoveOn Virtual Town Hall

Meeting With The '08 Presidential Candidates

Tuesday, April 10th, 7:00 PM, USF Marshall Center, Tampa

RSVP..... here

Secret Ethiopian Jails

U.S. Citizen Among Those Held

Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.........From The UK Guardian

Amy Goodman's Interview With Anthony Mitchell Who Broke The Story.....here

Ronda Storms, On Her Liberal Critics

"They have thrown at me the worse that they can throw—almost—and I'm still standing. And I still get elected. Praise the Lord. So, here I am, and I'm still going to stand, and I'm still going to fight, and I'm still going to do what I'm supposed to do."

From an interview with Florida Baptist Witness......here

Rules of Executive Clemency

Follow The Rules Charlie, Good Governors Are Hard To Find..... here

Florida governor wins voting rights for ex-felons

Fox News Poll: And The Winner Is Britney Spears?

Incompetent conservatives can't even PROOFREAD THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA before they put it on the air?

In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble Burst

The film shows how "the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom.".......here

Tampa Speaks Out

The FCC is holding its fourth official public hearing on media ownership issues in Tampa
Date: Monday, Apr. 30, 2007 Time: TBD (likely late afternoon) Location: TBD

More Info......here

Obama Raises $25M From 100,000 Donors

Democrat Barack Obama raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party's inevitable nominee......more

Sara Evans- I Could Not Ask For More

Chinese National Flag vs The Developers

The Nail House In China

Ding Zi Hu (lit. "Nail House"):

(It's called a "nail house" in Chinese because it's so hard to pull out)

Person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project.......more

The China Blog

Barack Obama, Opposition from the Start

Dean Says Cheney Full Of Bull

The Vice President’s spin today is more of the same scare tactics and bullish rhetoric that have become a hallmark of the Bush White House when faced with a truth they don’t happen to like?.....here

DFA Tampa Bay Meeting
Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 6:30 PM
Piccadilly Cafeteria 11810 N. Dale Mabry Hwy Tampa, FL 33618

Please bring items for the soldiers. We will be sending packages this week.

Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

Heart Of The Beholder
Watch Banned Award-Winning Movie Online for Free
This movie is based on the true story of what happened to video store owners from across the country that were targeted by religious groups........here

The Malvinas Of Argentina

25th Anniversary Of The War To Recover Their Islands

"The war has not changed the reality: the Malvinas are Argentine, they have always been and they always will be, we will recover what is ours"..........here

George W. Bush Scandal Collector Plate

You Get, Outing Valerie Plame, Invading The Wrong Country, Illegal Wiretaps, Losing $9 Billion In Iraq, The Patriot Act, Gitmo and many many more.

Snoop Dogg Says: ''F*ck Bill O'Reilly!''

Snoop Dogg offers a few choice words to Billy.

bushflash.com

Shut Down by Homeland Security

The website that you are attempting to visit is currently offline, pending investigation of possible violations of §802 of the USA PATRIOT Act.....h/t - gone like the wind
Prepare, plan, stay informed at READY.GOV

Howard Dean Wins Again
Bringing In Big Money From Major Donors Once Skeptical Of Him

Dean is being helped by the White House's awful political travails. Nonetheless, it's still significant, because it suggests that Dean has had far more success than many expected in winning over the party's major contributors, who were initially so skeptical of Dean's gloves-off, grass-roots approach that they privately were threatening to clamp shut their wallets......more

Democracy for America

The Courage for Peace

One solution to the war-think that so dominates our nation and threatens our world is the establishment of a US Department of Peace. The notion was first suggested by founding father Dr. Benjamin Rush, who advocated for the appointment of a "Secretary of Peace" to the federal cabinet. The idea revived in the 1930s, and again in the '60s, but never gathered the necessary support......more

U.S. Department of Peace

Kasey Chambers - Nothing At All

Amsterdam's Window Prostitutes $66.58

Visitors flood red-light district

Amsterdam's sex workers came to work early on Saturday to offer a free look at the city's famed red-light district. The district -- a warren of narrow alleys and canals lined with sex shops, brothels and neon signs - - is as big an attraction as Amsterdam's art museums and coffee shops, where marijuana is freely smoked and sold......more....What A Country!

Pot raid nets multiple arrests in Tampa

To All Spanish Speaking Ghetto Dwellers
Newt Gingrich wants you to learn the language of prosperity
The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto," Gingrich said to cheers from the crowd of more than 100......more
How Low Can You Go

Barack Obama In Ybor

April 15, 2007

Courtyard of the Cuban Club, Ybor City 2pm

For tickets to the $25 rally, call (813) 258-2224

Belacqua Jones
Letters to the president from his ardent admirer
Isn’t psychosis dynamic? Where would the world be without madness? There would have been no Roman Empire, no Carthage, no Crusades, no bringing of Christianity to the New World. We would have had neither World War I or II, nor Hiroshima, nor Korea, nor the Cold War, nor Vietnam, nor Iraq.........more

City Of Largo Sanctioned Civil Rights Violations

Neko Case - Maybe Sparrow

Publix's new pay system:
High performance, Smaller paycheck
Mass merchants have used performance incentives for years, but they're usually tied to a store's performance and meant to foster teamwork. Publix zeroes in on each worker and adds the unconventional twist of institutionalizing disincentives - even for top performers......more

Grass Roots Planted In Cyberspace
John Edwards's Campaign Leads the Field

No one's sure exactly what role these sites -- a.k.a. socnets -- will play in the upcoming election. But whatever it is, Edwards isn't taking any chances. The man's flooding the zone. He's on the big ones: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, et al., where supporters and well-wishers are sending their best to his wife, Elizabeth......here

Bush Apologizes
"We're not going to be satisfied until everyone gets the kind of care that their folks and families expect."

Gov. Richardson speaks to Democracy For America

That is just one of Governor Bill Richardson's responses to DFA members who wrote comments in our Presidential Primary Petition on Iraq.

MoveOn.org

Successfully Executing Its Vision and Answering Its Critics

10 questions for MoveOn.org's co-founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades about the recent progressive debate over how Democrats in Congress approached stopping the war in Iraq and their plans for the future......more

Blogging with Bush

In trying to win support for his escalation in Iraq, President Bush was reduced to quoting two bloggers in Baghdad -- who turned out to be brothers he once met at the White House -- and their comments were more than three weeks old. Has it come to this?.......more