Independents are of free mind and thought..............

8:41 Howard Dean is indeed, first. Cheney must be impeached first.

Independents are of free mind and thought..............  

What is this supposed to mean?
A Democrat or Republican is not of free mind and thought?

Independents are superior to anybody else?

 I say Dean is first because he was first in questioning Bush in such a public manner.
As nobody else dared to do at that time.
And Dean was and is a Democrat.

Good report, Bill.  Too bad 'Eric the Red' wasn't able to make it.

Our Evanston/NorthShore DFA is on what you might call a hiatus.  But the Northside DFA is active and busy supportng candidates.

There are times when silence is betrayal.

That's why I like BFA, it gives me a voice. Even if the BFA clock won't tell you in a timely manner~
It helps confuse the timid.

Text message mania (front pg. headline)

Communicating in cyber-world can literally become addictive, a study by a Fresno State professor finds.

By Diana Marcum / The Fresno Bee

His date kept her cell phone sitting on her leg throughout dinner.

Every few minutes she'd glance down and type a few strokes.

"I told her it was annoying me. She even apologized. But she kept right on texting," said David Cano, 23, a Fresno State chemistry major.

On another occasion the same girl wanted to know the state of their relationship, so she text-messaged him "what are we?" questions 19 times in one night.

"That's being hooked on texting. Not hooked on me," he said. "When I talked to her on the phone, conversations lasted two minutes."

Cano may be right in calling it "hooked."

Professor Tamyra Pierce recently completed a study that found texting and other cyber-communications -- such as MySpace.com, a social networking site -- can be addictive for teens and college students. full article: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/21421...


Interview with MySpace researcher Dr. Tamyra Pierce: http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2007/02/m...

Senator Dodd statement:  (concerning the McClellen book)  “During his confirmation process, Attorney General Mukasey said he would act independently. Accordingly, today, I call on the Attorney General to live up to his word and launch an immediate investigation to determine the facts of this case, the extent of any cover up and determine what the President knew and when he knew it." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6994.html

If Bush History is any lesson – then Scott McClellen is in trouble.

The Publisher of McClellen’s book released only three paragraphs…none of them with any real detail. But WITHIN A DAY…the publisher backed off the first person quote by McClellan, with a rather bizarre claim that the book wasn’t finished yet, even though it was the publisher that posted the quotation on its website. McClellan was in seclusion, of course, no doubt being waterboarded by some of Cheney’s crew.

Thanks Reed, mainefem and puddle.  If I had a blog, I wouldn't  update it methinks.  puddle, you're the master (mistress?) of creating fascinating blogs.   For my business, I think I would like a simple website and a domain name and a page or two about the business and a link to the product I'm selling.

Someone suggested that I may be able to buy a windows program for Macs which would then enable me to use Homestead.

I'll check lots more tomorrow.

Annilow, which is correct, Beethoven or Schuman?

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Doctor/acupuncturist said I can start dancing nice and easy on Monday. 

Dang – the Republicans have finally realized that  Glib Rudi, Slick Mitt,  Tired Fred and Somber John – don’t have a chance in the 2008 election.

On another occasion the same girl wanted to know the state of their relationship, so she text-messaged him "what are we?" questions 19 times in one night.

"That's being hooked on texting. Not hooked on me," he said. "When I talked to her on the phone, conversations lasted two minutes."

Well,
it looks like the medium of communication is changing. Instead of face to face communication more and more we use technological devices.
E.g. you call on your cell phone the person you have an appointment with just prior to the meeting to make sure the meeting is still on. You keep talking and end up walking next to each other talking on the cell but not face to face.

Devices will take over. Now we can't live without robots anymore. ~

Independent? Yes, maybe, but only from humans.

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JudyforDean
Fri, 11/23/07
5:04 pm

Judy, thanks for the great explanation. I see the Swiss have a n'al ID which I have no problem with here, altho I know the Dem's scream about it for whatever reason, ostensibly privacy, more likely a fear of losing voters imo. About the medical, now that I have Medicare (altho it is costing me about $350 for a Cadillac supplemental version) I would hesitate on living elsewhere b/c Medicare is no longer any good. I have looked at Italy, specifically Milan.

Seashell, I have a webpage for work that I built on yahoo's geocities. If you go to yahoo, geocities, you can poke around there -- it is free. And I have a blog on blogspot which is owned by google. The webpage starts out www.geocities.com/yourname. The blog starts out www.blogspot.com/yourname. But they are free and relatively easy to play with. Actually I've had trouble w/ the geocities and it may be the Mac (I built it on a PC).

Beethoven. (btw, I rarely know the answers -- I wait till they announce them on the radio.)

9. That's great that you get to dance Seashell.
10. sunlight I've been enjoying your posts.

Seashell the old Netscape Composer used to have a great web page building product that didn't require knowing html but you'd have to have a site to upload it to. If you have Mozilla/Firefox I believe this is the new Netscape? I don't know.

You don't need to purchase any "program," seashell (pls. lose the notion of Homestead site builder--I'm hyperventilating)!

For as little as you want to do--just go with a plain vanilla Wordpress blog (nobody will shoot you if you don't update it--99% of what's out there isn't updated).  Nor would you have to know how to use FTP, etc.

Based upon what you want, pls. don't waste $$$ on  a domain name, annual hosting package, & a "flat" web portal interface.

I just found this but haven't tried it:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceL...

"Create your own web pages, quickly and easily.
Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes."

sunlight
Fri, 11/23/07
9:57 pm
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Actually, I think Dean was not the first to question Bush, Kucinich was well before the Iraq war took place.............you can judge Independents any way you want, but they wil make a differance in the next election.................for better or worse

Actually, I think Dean was not the first to question Bush, Kucinich was well before the Iraq war took place.........

That might be factually correct. A lot of others did, even before Kucinich. But as far as I recollect Dean was the one who penetrated into more Amerincan minds because of media coverage.

you can judge Independents any way you want, but they wil make a differance in the next election.................for better or worse

I'm not denying that "Independents" will make a difference.
Everybody is making a difference.

Thanks!

My posts are read and enjoyed?~ 

Tom Paxton has some great protest songs.....about George W and Lyndon Johnson.  Here are the videos.

George W, told the Nation this is not an escalation, it is just a surge to victory.  http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1660

 He based that one on this one....great protest song as well. 

Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x71598

And for something peaceful...Whos Garden was This?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=293x972

2 suicide attacks kill 35 in Pakistan

By MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press Writer
21 minutes ago

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Suicide bombers hit a bus carrying intelligence agency employees and a checkpoint near the headquarters of the Pakistan army on Saturday, killing at least 35 people.

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In Occupied Territories-East, it still appears that the Bush administration isn't doing enough to focus the dictatorship's attention on securing Pakistan rather than suppressing the regime's opponents.

Cholera spreads in Baghdad

Published: Nov. 23, 2007 at 9:03 AM

BAGHDAD, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The Iraqi Health Ministry said more than 80 cases of cholera were reported in Baghdad over the past few weeks.

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All of those billions of dollars going down the can there to prop up a corrupt government and Republicans in this country still refuse to provide MILLIONS of American children with needed healthcare coverage....thats quite a shame.

mainefem, please don't hyperventilate!  :-)

Thank you, everybody, for your suggestions. Since I don't know what I'm doing,  I'll look at everything.

The biggest problem is that my MAC is not compatible with most of the builders of pages or blogs. 

Cholera spreads in Baghdad

War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Three of the four horsemen are now riding with Bush.

Make that all four.......

Mon Jul 30, 2007

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hunger and disease are spreading in Iraq as violence masks a deepening humanitarian crisis, British charity Oxfam said in a report on Monday.

The charity said 28 percent of Iraqi children are malnourished, 15 percent of Iraqis regularly cannot afford enough to eat and 70 percent lack clean drinking water, all sharp increases since 2003....

The biggest problem is that my MAC is not compatible with most of the builders of pages or blogs.
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I used to blog from Edwin's Mac. It didn't do text colors, but everything else was fine.

My posts are read and enjoyed?~
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Always. But you knew that, lol!