what leah said

http://www.correntewire.com/an_exercise_for_memorial_day_read_bill_moyers_message_to_west_point

kucinich, conyers, and paul

whenever i see legislation voted on in the house, i always look at kucinich, conyers, and paul

if two or more voted one way, you can bet, bean, the lap dogs, and most republicans voted the other way

almost everyone voted the other way on this
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-300

from: http://www.ohmproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=1
and here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/20/21950/7576/933/518756

all from
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/our_data_oursel.html

they write letters

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/the-torture-mem.html

from

http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/07/they-write-letters/

and others have visitors

http://torture.stanford.edu/2007/09/rumsfeld_joins_stanfords_hoove.html

and things you won't see on the teevee
(or, more appropriately, things you do see on the teevee and why you shouldn't)

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/09/cnn_abc/index.html

understand the difference

voter fraud

http://www.firedupmissouri.com/squelching_the_nun_vote

election fraud

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

the first is hardly an issue (except in chicago, vote early, vote often)
the second is pervasive, think florida 2000, ohio 2004

the remedy for the first, stops people from voting
the lack of investigation of the second, gives us the worst president in history

The 50 most influential US political pundits

yes, this is almost 3 months days old, but i just saw chris matthews talk about it

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/1904702/The-50-most-influential-US-political-pundits.html

redoing the list a bit, taking into accout a trustworthyness and respect factor (should they be so influential ??)

the fact that the majority of these people are conservative white males shows what a falsehood that is the lie of the 'liberal meadea'

here is the list redone (1st number mine, 2nd number from the telegraph, 3rd number weighted ranking)

1, 50. RACHEL MADDOW, 2.1420
2, 19. DONNA BRAZILE, 1.7895
3, 26. ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, 1.1423
4, 37. EUGENE ROBINSON, 0.7189
5, 8. JON STEWART, 0.1125
6, 11. STEPHEN COLBERT, 0.1091
7, 13. KEITH OLBERMANN, 0.1077
8, 15. BILL MAHER, 0.1067
9, 41. MARK SHIELDS, 0.1024
10, 43. PAUL BEGALA, 0.1023
11, 48. PAUL KRUGMAN, 0.1021

12, 33. ROLAND MARTIN, -0.3091
13, 39. DEE DEE MYERS, -2.1538
14, 35. JOE TRIPPI, -2.1600
15, 29. RON FOURNIER, -2.1724
16, 28. JAMES CARVILLE, -2.1750
17, 31. JUAN WILLIAMS, -2.5806
18, 30. PEGGY NOONAN, -2.6867
19, 24. LAURA INGRAHAM, -2.7083
20, 20. JOE KLEIN, -2.7300
21, 14. CHUCK TODD, -2.7857
22, 2. CHRIS MATTHEWS, -3.1500
23, 46. MARK LEVIN, -3.1674
24, 45. FRED BARNES, -3.1689
25, 44. JEFFREY TOOBIN, -3.1705
26, 38. MICHAEL BARONE, -3.1816
27, 34. HOWARD KURTZ, -3.1912
28, 27. PAT BUCHANAN, -3.2148
29, 25. MICHAEL SAVAGE, -3.2240
30, 23. MIKE ALLEN, -3.2348
31, 18. FRANK LUNTZ, -3.2722
32, 17. ANDREW SULLIVAN, -3.2824
33, 16. GLENN BECK, -3.2938
34, 12. BILL O'REILLY, -3.3583
35, 10. MARK HALPERIN, -3.4100
36, 9. DAVID BROOKS, -3.4444
37, 7. TIM RUSSERT, -3.5429
38, 47. JC WATTS, -3.5745
39, 6. MATT DRUDGE, -3.6167
40, 5. JOHN HARRIS AND JIM VANDEHEI, -3.7200
41, 49. MARY MATALIN, -4.1837
42, 42. BILL BENNETT, -4.1976
43, 40. TONY SNOW, -4.2025
44, 36. NEWT GINGRICH, -4.2139
45, 32. WILLIAM KRISTOL, -4.2281
46, 22. DICK MORRIS, -4.2864
47, 21. DAVID GERGEN, -4.2952
48, 4. RUSH LIMBAUGH, -5.1250
49, 3. SEAN HANNITY, -5.4667
50, 1. KARL ROVE, -8.2000

i don't know why chuck todd is so low and joe klein is so high, the fact is that bad reports can be pulled from good data, which reminds me, why is it that i am so against computerized voting agian ??

the worst of the worst

no charges, no trial, released after six years

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/nationalspecial3/02gitmo.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

or - gitmo is a sham and cases there are for political reasons only

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/washington/29gitmo.html?sq=&st=nyt&adxnnl=1&scp=5&adxnnlx=1209769285-zCESTfJK2Rn6sk5oDUt5tA

more of this

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/01/ilwu-shuts-down-west-coast-ports-in-war-protest/

less of this

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/30/williams/index.html

you don't have to agree, you don't have to appreciate, but you have to understand, that when someone says 'god damn america', they could mean the people running the show, at the point in time when that phrase is said, and not the country, or it's peoples

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchlist_N.htm