DFA is awesome.

and lindab ROCKS!!!

lindab ~ Delegate to the Democratic National Convention!

congrats atcha.

Your drive and enthusiasm should help to enliven the convention. I'm just hoping there aren't any real boners (I remember all too well Kerry's junior high level acceptance speech).

We all will be tagging along in spirit, you will feel our vibes as he gives his acceptance speech.

You totally deserved it. way to go

and howard.
I have a call into Jim.

your constant help inspired me. This a.m. after a good nights sleep I was so tired from thinking about this.

And the way theydid this was NOT democratic. They wanted all of the delegates to be Elected officials.

But my speech I emphasized what I did . I said I was ACTIVE. WHERE ARE YOU??

Anyway, I am like so excited.

You all are my inspiration. I mean It.

Senior Secret Service supervisors are racist, sexist White Trash:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/washington/10inquire.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

I mean it. I come here for your help. Phil, Joan, Denise,Puddle, Thankful,Huron, et al I love you all. Mean it.

http://www.counterpunch.org/fantina05102008.html

As the U.S. lurches towards the end of President George Bush’s reign of terror, it can look back at a number of Mr. Bush’s ‘accomplishments:’ transforming a record-breaking budget surplus into a record-breaking deficit; starting two wars for no good reason, and generally making fascism fashionable again.

The evaluation and discussion of any of those ‘accomplishments’ is worthy of a volume of books. However, one area that might not be so closely studied is Mr. Bush’s alteration of the English language. A few examples will suffice to show either his brilliance, or the gullibility and stupidity of the U.S. voter. Which it is will be obvious on November 4 (Election Day).

In November of 2000, Mr. Bush proclaimed that he had ‘won’ the presidential election of the most prominent so-called democracy in the world. One tires of pointing out to Mr. Bush that winning an election means garnering more votes than your opponent. Mr. Bush did not win the 2000 presidential election; former Vice President Al Gore did. That Mr. Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court means he became president, not that he won the election. But by saying it often enough, people do tend to believe it.

Four years later, for reasons that call into question the judgment of the U.S. voter, Mr. Bush did indeed win the election, garnering more votes than his opponent, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Voting irregularities in such states as Ohio will not be detailed here. Mr. Bush promptly proclaimed that he had ‘political capital’ to spend, meaning, apparently, that he would run roughshod over all opponents for as long as he wanted to. How this was any different from his first four years in office is not entirely clear, but was somewhat frightening.

Between his two redefinitions concerning elections, Mr. Bush introduced to the world the idea of ‘pre-emptive’ strikes. This apparently means that the president decides he wants to invade a sovereign nation in order to steal their natural resources, and announces to the world that he will do so before they have a chance to attack the U.S. The fact that they have no capability of doing so is unimportant when a ‘pre-emptive’ strike is planned. See, if the U.S. waited until Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, perhaps similar to those the U.S. sold it a generation ago, then the pre-emptive strike would not be quite so pre-emptive.

Early in Mr. Bush’s second war, he announced ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq. For generations that statement had meant an end to whatever undertaking had begun. The war to which Mr. Bush referred at that time has dragged on for five years since that bemusing pronouncement. There is still no end in sight. So ‘Mission Accomplished’ now apparently means that the president has completed a dramatic photo opportunity, wasting the taxpayers’ money by landing in a jet when a helicopter would have sufficed, on an aircraft carrier to speak nonsense.

More at link.........................................

for you all. loves to you all.
A glass of wine is in order.

In this election year, the Republican candidate should have no chance, but polls indicate that that is not the case; Republican candidate John McCain leads the apparent Democratic nominee Barack Obama in early surveys. Mr. McCain has tied himself closely to Mr. Bush’s policies, and in many regards is given a free ride by the media. If the U.S. wants more war, more torturing of political prisoners, more elitism, more divisiness, it should elect Mr. McCain. If it wants some glimmer of hope that perhaps these ills will somehow be eased, however minimally, rather than embraced, it should elect Mr. Obama.

Six months from Election Day, no one can predict with any accuracy what the outcome will be. But the result of a McCain presidency can be predicted; indeed, the candidate himself proclaims the horrors he will continue. It can only be hoped that the U.S. voter is listening.

indeed

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__080509_the__bush___battered.htm

The world only bought our treasury bonds because the dollar was stable and strong. With Bush's conversion of our greatest surplus into our greatest deficit, those days are gone. In Bush's first year, the dollar was 1.19 Euros, now it is only 0.63 €, a 47% drop in the trillions of dollars of the American Dream that our foreign creditors and investors hold: long term bonds, stocks, real estate. All they have to do to provoke a worldwide economic crisis is just start buying Eurobonds rather than ours (forget selling ours). That's started, with the Chinese threatening to dump ours in response to our pressure to revalue their Yuan, the South Korea talking of diversifying their holdings, Iran switching their trade in oil from dollars to Euros (and Putin threatening to), and the Japanese warning of "enormous capital flight" from the dollar. Once the image of American financial invincibility is breached, flight from our bonds could become a flood.

To keep countries buying (funding our habit), bond interest rates will have to be jacked way up- causing interest rates to rise across the board (instead they've been cut, depressing the dollar more), and causing an avalanche of bankruptcies by firms and people bloated by cheap credit. If you think the mortgage crisis is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. Out of survival, the world is shifting away from dollars, and the ultimate result could be a global economic collapse, because America is overextended way past the cliff, the net is disappearing, and a sinking America will drag down the world.

7 months ago I urged my friends and acquaintances to sell all their holdings and buy gold (then $740/oz) because a category 6 financial hurricane was coming. Well, it's here.

There's one linda who really has made a difference on so many levels -- as a progressive, as a state activist, as someone who successfully works with party outsiders and outsiders, and who even has gone toe to toe with Ed Schultz (and now Ed speaks highly of Howard).

Congratulations linda b and we'll be looking to see you televized in the convention in Dever !

Printable version

Food waste on 'staggering' scale

Food waste contributes to landfill, creating methane gas

People are needlessly throwing away 3.6m tonnes of food each year in England and Wales, research suggests.

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) found that salad, fruit and bread were most commonly wasted and 60% of all dumped food was untouched.

The study analysed the waste disposed of by 2,138 households.

Environment Minister Joan Ruddock said the findings were "staggering" at a time of global food shortages and WRAP added it was an environmental issue.

'Value of food'

The study found that £9bn of avoidable food waste was disposed of in England and Wales each year.

It is mostly food that could have been consumed if it had been better stored or managed, or had not been left uneaten on a plate.

Much of that food waste goes into landfill rather than into council food disposal and composting programmes, it said. There are climate change costs to all of us of growing, processing, packaging, transporting, and refrigerating food that only ends up in the bin

Joan Ruddock, Environment Minister

Based on the data for England and Wales, WRAP estimated that householders across the UK throw away £10.2bn of avoidable food waste every year.

Using the same extrapolation, they also estimated the average UK household needlessly throws away 18% of all food purchased. Families with children throw away 27%.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7389351.stm

Politico.com this week posted a very good piece about the work the unions are doing in Washington to influence the content and vote next month in the Senate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. The proposal, which is the first global warming measure approved by any Congressional committee, narrowly passed (11-8) the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in December. It would set the United States on a very new industrial, economic, and environmental path to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions up to 66 percent by 2050, according to an analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a full-page advertisement yesterday in the New York Times, the NRDC described “how America gets richer by reducing global warming.”

Indeed, Chris Frates reports on Politico.com that unions successfully inserted into the bill a requirement that government money on clean energy projects be spent domestically. The AFL-CIO is seeking to expand that “made in America” provision to make sure that 85 percent of labor and production supported by government investment on responding to climate change occurs in the United States.
“It’s pretty obvious you’re going to build a windmill here. It’s not obvious that you make the turbines here,” Bob Baugh, co-chairman of the union’s energy task force, told Frates. “Let’s make sure we do it right from production to construction. Let’s make sure that those investments are anchored in our economy.”

Well, one of my heroes anyway. Will you be able to come to Deanfest so we can pass you notes for the convention?

Just kidding. You are doing just fine as you are.

Just saw that on the last thread. I'll start drafting notes right away!

donna
kind of exciting to know somebody famous. isn't it

As BO would say, they tried to "bam-boozle" you out of the running for delegate:))

Glad you read those 47 pages of rules and soooo happy you outsmarted the bam-boozlers.

Go Linda!

Where is everyone? I thought we were going to have a wine and cake party:))

clink! A toast to lindab!

bbs

I dont know how conventions work linda, so excuse my ignorance, but if you
have to provide your own transportation,then i'd start looking now! airfares
are pretty wacky for this summer.

...very weird.

Oh Johnnie, you're a real Goodie ! (another aspect of McCain surfaces -- he lacks background checking skills):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_el_pr/gop_convention_resignation

Leader of GOP convention quits after Myanmar ties reported

1 hour, 34 minutes ago

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar.

Doug Goodyear resigned as convention coordinator and issued a two sentence statement:

"Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign. I continue to strongly support John McCain for president, and wish him the best of luck in this campaign."

...

Oh yes instant karma got them, oh yes it did!

Good on ya lindab - you have a keen way of knowing the right path to take, and you don't give up. And you don't take anyone down maliciously and you win gracefully - w00t!!

CONGRATS!

deserves an honorary post here.

WTG, Linda and Wayne.  This is incredible.  Congratulations, linda b.  You won't let us down in Denver -- you'll be making history.  Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!