Obama's haul for May was 22MM.  I think the primary season was toooooo long.  I bet he picks up for June.

Nite all!

Print dress she wore on ‘The View’ sells out; designer is ‘very surprised’

Donna Ricco has been a successful fashion designer for a long time — but it took Michelle Obama to make her famous.

Ricco opined that Michelle Obama’s choice to wear dresses instead of slacks or suits is a wise one.

“A dress is a great choice for her to wear,” Ricco told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Friday in New York. “No one else is wearing dresses in the campaign. I think it gives her kind of an edge. Women want to feel feminine; they want to look pretty. Wearing a dress, especially this one, is I think a very powerful image and it can help her stand out from the crowd.”

for the very 1st time, bfa wouldn't take my login.  i guess mprov's dead.  now i'm just boring ol' mark b. boring...

hope the mprov prob is temporary - good impov on the new name!

ah ha!!!! mprov lives!!!!  the terror resumes...

6 of the last 8 posts landed on a 6 minute....

ummmm, I mean mprov(once again!). the new blog software 'ate' my old monniker - you may remember me as Jo*in*Vermont.

hi all - I'm borrrowing time to blog for just a bit - computer is dying and it may be a bit before it's replaced...

haven't caught up on the back threads or the news - so what's new? do I really want to know? I did hear something about Hagel stating he would consider being Obama's vp if he was asked...! what a long strange campaign season this is!

and voting machine problems haven't gone away.  Thanks for the post Kevin to keep the issue in the forefront.

I'm afraid that election tampering and fraud has taken somewhat a backseat with all the other criminal acts to focus on these days (years....). I keep waiting for this to become a front page issue for the voters (and the politicians, dammit!) but hardly any media follows it - Lou Dobbs once in a while but he's so over the edge no one pays much attention to him anymore.

I've seen (and read and heard of) some great activism in many places at the local level but it's a national problem - I think Howard should shine a laser beam on this issue as it's in our party's (and our nations!) best interest to tackle it NOW, before the election.

Howdy donna and Jo - ...got a call and need to take care of some stuff.

bbs

is a great program for yoga. try it.

I hate to exercise but this has got me hooked.

and it says I have got balance.

try to get one.

it is a lot of fun.

...that after obama-man's sworn in, he should create a body of world roving ambassadors using our proven statesmen. for example: gore on global warming, carter on election protection and human rights, nunn on conflict resolution, pat schroeder for women's issues, gary hart for multi-lateral cooperation, and on and on. we could have a large and immediate impact on world affairs using people who only have the best interests of all at heart.

got a better suggestion???

btw, jo: i just love the line "you may remember me as...", straight out of the simpsons. lol!

S/O was reporting that half the voters will be using paper ballots in Nov. but that still isn't good enuf to ensure a dem victory, is it, the way those repugs cheat.

Excellent post, mprov and smashing idea.  Is there a place on his website that lets us make suggestions? 

Steny Hoyer FISA Ad To Run in Washington PostColor of Change and Blue America PAC teamed up to run the above ad in the Washington Post, placing the blame for the FISA travesty in the House squarely where it belongs -- on the shoulders of Steny Hoyer. It will appear next Thursday. We've already raised $266,000; you can help by donating, too. By Rady Ananda  (5 comments)

Won't it be too late by Thurs?

Isn't this ducky?  Not.

Pentagon: Over 1000 Nuclear Weapon Parts Missing?Many people have raised the spectre of nuclear WMDs being sourced from nefarious sources-- from errant former Soviet states, from N. Korea, Iran or Pakistan. It may be that to those fears must be added the threat that American nuclear weapon technology may be circulating in the black market as well. By Rob Kall  (11 comments)

Cowards Compromiseoutrage By robert braunstein  (2 comments)

Why Obama Will Pick Jim Webb for VPThere's enough buzz about the possibility of some conflict with Iran, either US or Israel initiated that we have to take this very seriously. Once conflict starts, this could give McCain, with his military credentials, at the least, a claim to having better experience... By Rob Kall  (25 comments)

It has occurred to me that this fawning over Israel is designed to prepare us for the bombing of Iran by Israel - and then we have to run to the rescue.

Olmert's as crazy as p***.

Hi All. Webb's been my first pick ever since I saw enough evidence that Senator Obama would be the candidate - after he lost by less than 10% in Pennsylvania, in spite of a blistering onslaught of negativity by . . . . well, let's say we're beyond the "I told you so" stage of 2008 politics.

Ands, as always, . . . . . .

Military Told Media and Family That It Was 'Friendly Fire' -- But It Was Murder Spc. Block was actually murdered, and the killer, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Brandon Norris, then turned the gun on himself. Her commanders knew right away that she had been killed by a fellow soldier in Iraq, who had been harassing her. It was a standard murder-suicide. Incredibly, the Army first told her parents that it was an accidental death due to friendly fire."

Greenwald: What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by "bipartisanship" It's bad enough watching the likes of Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel and a disturbingly disoriented Nancy Pelosi eviscerate the Fourth Amendment, exempt their largest corporate contributors from the rule of law, and endorse the most radical aspects of the Bush lawbreaking regime. But it's downright pathetic to see them try to depict their behavior as some sort of bipartisan "compromise."

Dennis Diehl: We Don't Need Politicians...We Need Enlightened Humans Leading Unless we all come to grips with the truth that we're all small parts of the same one big thing, we'll never get out of this mess selfish politicians and corporate greedmeisters have gotten us all into.

ok, on topic, if i have to...

during the feburary presidential primary, i volunteered to be a precinct inspector.  out here that means the guy running the show.  i hadn't done this work before, but had been meaning to for a long time. 

anyway, this was the 1st election with paper ballots and scanning machines.  i attended a 3 hour training session.  the woman conducting the training knew everything, but was so boring, mono-tone, and long winded that i felt lucky to have survived the trial.

so, election day arrives.  i had gone to the site the day before to make sure all of the equipment and supplies had been delivered and to make arrangements for acces to the building.  smooth, no problem.  i come back at 6 am and open the door.  the 3 other volunteers wandered in.  i discovered that none of them had gone through the training.  i think i remembered 80% of what i was taught.  we set everything up, and lo and behold, at exactly 7 am, opening time, a voter was waiting to get in.

the 1st voter gets to have a tour of the voting facility and gets to inspect that everything i set up as it should be.  a good rule.  we conducted this business, the voter voted and left, and a line statred that didn't end until closing at 8 pm.

lots and lots of people were undeclared voters that wanted to vote on the dem ballot.  we have provisions for that.  a rep from debra bowen's office stopped by at mid-morning to ask how things were going.  i was impressed and told her the truth.  for every voter that came to he precinct, i did my best to accomodate their vote,n always providing a provisional ballot if nothing else.  at about 4 pm we ran out of undeclared dem ballots.  i called the registrar and they told me to literally write the title at the top of an otherwise unused type ballot.  ???  anyway, everyone got to cast a ballot and i left it up to the registrar to decide what was valid.  

the last voter came in at about 2 minutes to 8.  he was a 30 something young fellow that had obviously never voted before, but who was there to do his duty.  the guy kept having problems with the ballot, asking me for the advice i couldn't give him and spoiled 2 ballots before i had to inform him that this was his last chance.  you can spoil 2, but #3 is the last go around.  the rule.  he managed to mark #3, we scanned it, i shook his hand, and we closed the door.  

we spent the next 2 hours dismanteling the equipment, guarding the safe guards, creating totals, and otherwise being completely burned out and operating on less that a qurter of our brain compacity.  huh?

we delivered the votes to the authorities and went home to die.

my reason in telling this story is to point out the best intensioned, ill conceived, under trained, complpete kaos that i experienced that day.  i've only related a small portion of it here.  i tried to use my best leadership skills learned in the navy, but when the others revolted at my authortarianism, i gave in to mayhem.  america votes and i earned $175.

just imagine if any sort of fraud or suppression had been an issue.

Diary Entry by Richard Volaar

Richard Volaar: Mossad Planning Major Security Incident In Houston (1 comments)

 
Keep your eyes peeled, sports fans...the Mossad is in Houston, big time, and is up to no good.

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The assassination of former CIA Houston station chief Roland "Tony" Carnaby was just the beginning.  The fact that Carnaby was a personal friend of George H.W. Bush and that the Bushes have left their home in the Tanglewood section of Houston suggests that something really untoward is taking place within the deeper state of global politics.

More on this a little later...

Here's some info on the Carnaby case.

Mystery "CIA" Man Shot by Houston PD: Attorney Says it was an Assassination at DBKP.com

BTW, I didn't write this:

Keep your eyes peeled, sports fans...the Mossad is in Houston, big time, and is up to no good.

Actually, I Didn't write any of that.  It's copy and pasted from opednews.

Off to watch Moyers cuz Phil sez so!!  :-)

geez, its down to 95 f in my apartment now.  feel cool now?  i heard it was 102 in san francisco today.  stories of people melting where they stood...

the talk of a twenty billion dollar negative impact versus eighty for Katrina/Rita sounds about right, a little brother version of similar destruction

my feed truck driver had his river run through the first floor of his house, he says it can't be saved

i was over in the valley yesterday, bakersfield, etc., and couldn't help but think:  here's the people who bought it:  the suv's, the stucco boxes, the long commutes, the walmart mentality, etc.  i didn't see any people who were particularily happy.  lots of frowns, some jokes about global warming, less traffic on the roads....what's next for the commuter cities who've been created as a result of this greedy have-mine sloth society?  will they be abandoned, return to their prior small town state, something else???  where will these people go, the one's who've bought in???  what are their next decisions???

just signing out and found a new thread...

http://democracyforamerica.com/users/261694-edwin-rutsch/blog_posts/25664-failed-conservative-values-arianna-huffington-on-family-values-hypocrisy

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