I got the tool bar from your link Monica and didn't have it before.

same here, I got the tool bar right off the bat without having to Reply first to anyone -- other times it's not that way

it's like a hit or miss with this aspect of the new format

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/402169.html

Posted on Mon, May. 12, 2008

Mongiardo says he's backing Obama

Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo is backing U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in Kentucky's May 20 Democratic primary, the Obama campaign announced Sunday.

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Mongiardo, a former Democratic state senator from Hazard, ran with Gov. Steve Beshear in the 2007 election. Beshear will serve as a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention in August but hasn't announced which Democratic presidential candidate he will support.

Mongiardo is not a superdelegate.

I'm spending $2000 a week on corn so I don't want to hear complaints about groceries, it was $1200 last year.

Given energy based input costs for a corn crop, don't expect milk prices to come down until fuel prices do.

and gasoline would be $.40 a gallon higher without farmers making renewable fuels

High oil prices are driven by a weak dollar, caused by deficits, but I don't think we ought to take the difference out of the school lunch program.

The last time we had a chance to alter the American equation on transportation and land use was the stagflation of the seventies, and we are in the same fix again without having learned a thing because the Republican Party is bought and paid for by Big Oil.

Watching McCain late last night on CSPAN and the way he treats Cindy, I don't really think he cares anything about fair pay for women. IMHO he is disrespectful of Cindy, after giving his speech, he simply looked over at her and gave some sort of hand signal, then he heads immediately down the stairs and ignores her.

Also watched the Obama Rally at Bend, OR, I wonder what all those 8,000 mostly white people in the audience thought of Clinton's hard working, white people statement. My son's girlfriend who has been supporting Clinton is pretty pissed at her. I think Obama is going to win OR big. I heard in a soundbite from somewhere Clinton tell the people in WV that they would be the state who decided who the Dem nom would be. Didn't she say that in NC?

Medgar Evans wife Myrlie gave a very heartfelt introduction of Barack in Bend. The Bend Rally is being replayed on CSPAN2 at 913 AM ET for anyone interested.

It isn't "morning in America", it's dusk on planet Earth.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/85080/

Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.

It's not just the economy. We've gone through swoons before. It's that gas at $4 a gallon means we're running out, at least of the cheap stuff that built our sprawling society. It's that when we try to turn corn into gas, it sends the price of a loaf of bread shooting upwards and starts food riots on three continents. It's that everything is so inextricably tied together. It's that, all of a sudden, those grim Club of Rome types who, way back in the 1970s, went on and on about the "limits to growth" suddenly seem how best to put it, right.

All of a sudden it isn't morning in America, it's dusk on planet Earth.

http://cbs5.com/politics/poll.clinton.obama.2.720136.html

California voters would change their February primary vote for Hillary Clinton to a vote for Barack Obama if the vote were held again, according to an exclusive poll commissioned by CBS 5.

While voters in the California Democratic Presidential Primary backed Clinton by a 10-point margin, a new SurveyUSA poll shows that if given the chance to vote again, Californians would choose Barack Obama by a 6-point margin, 49%-43%.

The poll was conducted on May 7 and 8 and has a margin of error of 4%

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

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I have no idea what thehell you people are looking for...................

I do feel I'm wasting my time even thinking about John McCain, but just in case the Republicans are so stupid as to go with this blow-hard has-been, I wrote up a response to the Ledbetter comment:

Senator John McCain's explanation for his opposition to the Lidy Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,
"I don’t believe that this would do anything to help the rights of women, except maybe help trial lawyers and others in that profession" provides evidence that he's got a problem thinking straight.

First of all, what he believes is not really relevant. A law is not a matter of faith. So, what McCain's assertion tells us in referring to his beliefs, with which it is impossible to argue, is that he's not interested in fact, or in right and wrong.

Secondly, no law is meant to "help" the rights of women or anyone else. Rights don't need to be helped. Rights are either upheld and promoted or violated; it's women that are to be helped--in this case, by using the power of the community to equalize their pay. So, if McCain were really talking straight, he'd admit that he's opposed to treating women equally.

What he's got against helping trial lawyers, regardless of whether they're men or women, is a little more difficult to decypher. Since a trial in a judicial setting is basically the civilized alternative to people settling their disputes and conflicts with lethal weapons on the field of battle, it seems fair to conclude that John McCain prefers warfare to talking.

So, in effect, by not answering the question, John McCain told us a lot more than he probably wants us to know--that he's opposed to equality and women and for war.

mainefem -

If you're lurking, any prediction which way TA will go ?:

http://www.wmtw.com/news/16236591/detail.html?rss=port&psp=news

Congressman Allen To Announce Presidential Support

 will mostly all vote for the nominee on the first ballot, these are just markers.

I think the Obama campaign has a comfortable enough lead to seat Florida and Michigan at one half vote each as penalty as Terry McAuliffe suggested Sunday morning.

Oregon gets the honors.

if she stays in the race and unloads everything she's got on John McCain the next couple of weeks.

is my guess as to Obama's final vote count at the convention. He won't get Clinton's close friendss or most rabid supporters.

You would have thought the national conversation would have been all about coal instead of delegate counts.

Or mine safety if you want to highlight the biggest difference between the two parties.

once I have it I get to keep it if I never hit refresh but instead make some little innane comment like this

the perfect excuse for mindless chatter

"I needed to keep my toolbar."

IMO, the states that steered this dem primary/caucus election:

Iowa, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia, Maine, North Carolina, Indiana.

Or for sure not as much as a drought in Australia the same year America has a short wheat crop.

Is a much more direct link to skyrocketing oil and commodity prices.

But now that the slowdown has set in curing that ill becomes more difficult.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/democratic_race/2008/05/10/2008-05-10_john_edwards_msnbc_comment_not_a_hint_ju.html

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Lieberman losin' it?

Democrat Barack Obama may think Republican John McCain has lost his bearings. Sen. Joseph Lieberman begs to differ.

"I just want to report that this morning, I personally checked John McCain's bearings. He has not lost any of them," the Connecticut senator told reporters yesterday.

Obama had suggested McCain was "losing his bearings" for suggesting the Islamic terrorist group Hamas preferred Obama as President. McCain's camp accused Obama of making an issue of the Republican's age, 71.

Quote of the day

"We move forward with a sense of, um, continuing enthusiasm." - Top Hillary Clinton strategist Geoff Garin.

Blessings to the people of China and Myanmar. Such devastation between the cyclone and now the horrific earthquake. My heart just sunk when I read about the school in China which collapsed with so many children inside.

new thread.