Call your Senator at least once a week.

The best advise I've heard recently from the talk radio, is simply, "make voicing your opinion a part of your lifestyle". So I stored both of my Senators and my Congressman's phone numbers into my phone's speed dial. I call at least once a week and just ask to leave a message for the Senator/Congressman. Each week, its a short, but clear message. And I've found each week there something else I want them to know. Because I feel that if I don't at least, tell them what I want, how can I complain on what they vote on.
Its a simply thing and I find it a great stress reducer.

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Teabagging is for me

Teabagging is for me


I've gone to one tea party and really liked it. I plan to make this the new focus of this site.

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Pushing for a Win, Win, Win, Win

Via THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

There has to be a system that permanently changes consumer demand, which would permanently change what Detroit makes, which would attract more investment in battery technology to make electric cars, which would hugely help the expansion of the wind and solar industries — where the biggest drawback is the lack of batteries to store electrons when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining. A higher gas tax would drive all these systemic benefits.

The same is true in geopolitics. A gas tax reduces gasoline demand and keeps dollars in America, dries up funding for terrorists and reduces the clout of Iran and Russia at a time when Obama will be looking for greater leverage against petro-dictatorships. It reduces our current account deficit, which strengthens the dollar. It reduces U.S. carbon emissions driving climate change, which means more global respect for America. And it increases the incentives for U.S. innovation on clean cars and clean-tech.

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When the Truth isn't Desireable

Adjust a single word to make to make a Victim

Review the caption and compare it to the photo. Can you can find the lie?

Egyptian security personnel erected barbed wire on Monday along a section of breached wall in Rafah, a Gaza border town.

By STEVEN ERLANGER

Published: January 29, 2008

Barbed or Chicken
Photo by Eyad Baba/Associated Press

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All the Lies Fit to Print

Thanks Mark

found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan either "committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one." The "committed a killing" formulation includes car accidents.

Thus, with declining deaths in theater, the media narrative evolves. Old story: "America's soldiers are being cut down by violent irrational insurgents we can never hope to understand." New story: "Americans are being cut down by violent irrational soldiers we can never hope to understand." In the quagmire of these veterans' minds, every leafy Connecticut subdivision is Fallujah and every Dunkin' Donuts clerk an Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with an annoyingly perky manner.

It was the work of minutes for the Powerline website's John Hinderaker to discover that the "quiet phenomenon" is entirely unphenomenal: It didn't seem to occur to the Times to check whether the murder rate among recent veterans is higher than that of the general population of young men. It's not. Au contraire, the columnist Ralph Peters calculated that Iraq and Afghanistan vets are about a fifth as likely to murder you as the average 18-34 year-old American male. Better yet, the blogger Iowahawk meticulously drew his own "patchwork picture" of another "quiet phenomenon": the Denver newspaper columnist arrested for stalking, the Cincinnati TV reporter facing child-molestation charges, the Philadelphia anchorwoman who went on a violent drunken rampage. As Iowahawk's one-man investigative unit wondered:

"Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence that America's newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters

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McCain Can't be Trusted

This is why



McCain aide touts 'Mexico first' policy
Skeptics of candidate's immigration stance highlight appointment. While McCain is now emphasizing border security, the policy posted on his website repeats many of the "flexible labor market" arguments advanced in the Kennedy-McCain comprehensive immigration reform bills, arguing for the necessity of a guest-worker program. [Full Story] Issue of Our Lifetime [IOL] [Subscribe] [Feed] [IOL Bloglines] [Email IOL]

Why Blame Bush?

Bluffing at the big table

Since when does the winner of the pot get blamed for having the higher hand? Doesn't logic dictate that blame should be thrown to the one hiding the real story (a.k.a the Truth). Saddam pretended to have the W.M.D.s and played high stakes poker. When you lose, you lose big. The world community (U.N) agreed the W.M.D.s the were in place. They wrote sanction after sanction, for Saddam to come clean. Saddam had every chance in the world to prove to the world the W.M.D.s were not there. ......... What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Saddam chose to sit at the big table and try to bluff his way the the pot. ......... Saddam, What happens in the Middle-East, doesn't stay in the Middle-East.

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McCain is not to be trusted.


With Fred out of the race, I'm afraid McCain is the front runner for the long run. The good thing, he's out of money and big shots aren't forking over any dough. The Conservatives are withholding their support. John is going to have to give in to them, if he wants to win. I just don't trust him, The only way I'll vote for McCain is if he chooses Fred as a running mate. The bad thing is, Fred is his friend and may sign-on with his old buddy McCain. I just hope Fred holds out for some real conservative valve commitments from thr big fat liar.


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Floods

Just Like Water

Just as water will, the flood in Gaza will create a huge hole in the process of peace.

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I'm Back. Just as Fred leaves the race

Maybe Fred will be VP


With Fred Thompsom leaving the race. Hopefully he can steer the GOP from the side.

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What the odds?

What are the odds that weapons of iraq finally become known. Is the nytimes
trying to stay out in front of the story or is it just trying to stay in
front of it self? Time will only tell. And it appears that time is coming
sooner then anyone believed

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Did they get bused into lebenon for the protest

Will Eygpt be surprised

When limited elections come later this year to Eygpt, will Eygpt surprised
the world or will the new middle east surprise Eygpt?

ME IS COMING ALONG

GOod for peple of Lebanon

News Cycle

Have the bombings slowed down because of the news
cycle have something else already planned ie. Kerry
Edwards and the DNC. Or is it the news of Iraq really
isn't the first concern of the US, as the mainstream
news media tells us it is?

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News Cycle

Have the bombings slowed down because of the news
cycle have something else already planned ie. Kerry
Edwards and the DNC. Or is it the news of Iraq really
isn't the first concern of the US, as the mainstream
news media tells us it is?

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he calls that help

Kerry calls himself help to the usa and the troops the
mid east. he should know his type of help is only
cause more trouble down the road

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the crap people can dream up

i read for the first today that Bush started the war
to get re-elected because he didnt have a plan to run
the country until 911. its amasing what crap
somepeople think

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Give it some time

Will the american press please give the new goverment
of Iraq at a few days before denoncing their
indepenence a failure.

earlier the better

who ever decided to go early is thinking ahead. that
is a goodthing. you want to stay in front of these
guys. when they have shown there are no rules to play
by, then playing hard is the opnly to play



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Don't they know they can't stop the handover. They are only going to make the Iraqis in general to hate their cause.


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is there an end?

one day we will happy the US went to Iraq. we just need to stay the course provide the freedom to the Iraqis and let them clean upthe troubleamakers
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Geneva Initiative - Borders Through Maps

Get a feel of what changes may happen if the fence is completed, via borders through maps on JMCC.org

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Wall/Barrier/Fence Map

Here's a diagram of where the wall/barrier/fence is and will be.

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A Jew against the Wall
Israel is cutting itself off from the world and enclosing itself in a ghetto, and not only physically, by Uri Avnery

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Sources of Information
Activist Organizations
[MEMRI] [FLAME] [OneVoice] [Arab View] [JMCC]

Middle East Newspapers "in english"
[AlJazeera] [Arab News] [Jerusalem Post] [Palestine Chronicle] [Ha'aretz]

Columnists & Respected Writers
[Thomas Friedman] [Mort Zuckerman] [Asman Oserver] [Fawaz Turki] [Amr Al Faisal] [Uri Avnery]