June 5, 2013

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June 5, 2013

First and best!

June 4, 2013

No Mitt, You Didn't Care At All

. . . and another milestone!

June 4, 2013

Welcome to Detroit Mr. Romney:

June 2, 2013

p.s. here is the complete citation:

It's in footnote #7 of RFK's "Tobacco Science," page image below and link to the full PDF doc below that:



http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/docs/ThimerosalScandalFINAL.PDF

May 31, 2013

I don't see Obama as a centrist but I guess it depends on your priorities.

HRC promised in a televised debate to bomb Iran. Obama was not a senator when the IWR was voted on but he did say something about "dumb wars" and that in my view is what got him elected. He hasn't bombed Iran and he has scaled back the military. Would HRC have done that? Her enthusiasm for the Libyan invasion suggests not. That to me puts Obama far to the left of HRC on any meaningful scale. YMMV.

May 31, 2013

There were 2 DOJ opinions. The second was the torture green light.

Comey approved the first but strongly disapproved the second. He expressed this to his boss, AG Gonzalez, who nevertheless went into a May 31, 2005 WH meeting and gave Cheney what he wanted, i.e. approval of both opinions.

The NYT article of June 6, 2009, includes links to three Comey emails discussing this meeting, but in the paragraph you quoted, misrepresents their content so as to make it seem that Comey approved the 2nd opinion when he clearly did not. Link to NYT article (you might need to sign in):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/politics/07lawyers.html?hp&_r=0

Comey states his objection several times in the 3 emails, and in the passage I posted here, it's clear that "I concurred" refers to the first opinion, but not the second. Link to the 3 emails, which I recommend reading, here:

http://static1.firedoglake.com/28/files//2009/06/050427-comey-emails-compressed.pdf

Greenwald wrote a June 7, 2009 Salon column pointing out that the NYT was lying, link here, with many thanks to ProSense for her post earlier this evening:

http://www.salon.com/2009/06/07/torture_memos/

Now that Comey is headed into the Obama administration, Greenwald has apparently changed his tune, and wants to pretend that the NYT article was right all along. Well, it wasn't, and here's the proof one more time, from the 2nd email, dated April 28, 2005:

Hope that helps!

May 29, 2013

Pass prop 30, the "millionaires' tax," without Brown? Don't think so.

Brown campaigned a year to get that through and ran the gauntlet of RW tricks and distractions. He personally addressed teachers and no doubt other unions at their meetings and persuaded them to accept his cuts and taxes. Believe it or not there are plenty of voters in Cali who resent both and frankly I didn't think Prop 30 had a chance, but it passed in August, and mostly taxes upper brackets as promised:

Based on California Franchise Tax Board data for 2009[8], the additional income tax is imposed on the top 3% of California taxpayers.

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_%282012%29

Meanwhile California's foodstamp program has been renamed CalFresh and advertises widely on radio and TV. I saw an ad last weekend pushing fruits and vegetables and encouraging Californians to give it a try. Older radio spot:



Personally I never saw a foodstamp commercial when Ahnold was wrecking the place. Let's give credit where credit is due eh?

May 25, 2013

Good thing they brought a camera!

May 24, 2013

Thanks, Cha, it was a terrific speech.

He rolled out least 4 new policies:

1 - release Gitmo detainees;

2 - repeal AUMF;

3 - media shield law;

4 - new rules for drone strikes.

Lots of great quotes too. Here's one I hope will be prophetic, on the GWOT:

"But this war, like all wars, must end," he added. "That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/23/obama-counter-terrorism-speech-drones-guantanamo-bay/2354001/

Makes me want to stand up and all over again!

have a great weekend Cha!