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The Democrats and the Internet$
The Repubs fear of the YouTube debate enforces the fact that Progressives own the Internet. And now, thanks to you, it's a more powerful tool than ever, giving candidates the (before unlikely) scenario of going into a campaign knowing that they can be financially equal of the Cons.
"Zack Exley: Campaign
like it's 1999--What's at
stake in the GOP YouTube debate" Huffington
Post
As Kerry began to close in on Bush's fundraising numbers (thanks to the Internet), the campaign could say, "Chip in again to completely level the playing field for the first time in decades."
Unfortunately for the Kerry campaign, almost no one expected parity in fundraising. The Bush camp had planned way ahead for a massive campaign. The Kerry camp had planned for one half as big--and late changes due to a rush of unexpected money can only accomplish so much.
Fast forward to the present. In terms of fundraising, the Democrats now have two massive advantages on their side: First, it sure took them a while but professional Democratic high-dollar fundraisers have learned the lesson of the Bush Ranger/Pioneer pyramid scheme. The Hillary and Obama high-dollar bundling operations appear to be right on par with Bush's. Even if another candidate gets the nomination, that apparatus will probably be available to him.
Mormon-Mitt clueless about what he didn't sign up for...
“No, Mitt, see,
it’s this series of tubes…”
Romney Confuses MySpace and YouTube" C&L
“YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained. “YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000.”
Actually, YouTube is the popular site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos. The web site, which is owned by search-engine behemoth Google, also was a co-sponsor of the Democratic presidential debate held on Monday night.
The web site MySpace is the one to which Romney actually was referring. MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., said this week it had found 29,000 registered sex offenders who had submitted profiles to its site and removed them.
- - 2007-07-24 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(sadly not) Only on CNN: Two Republicans and one neutral give their opinions on the Democrats
"Debate Scorecard" CNN
Considering that "you" gave the candidates the same scoring as they did this is kinda important stuff.
- - 2007-07-21 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Bryant Gumbel
speaks the truth
about David Beckham in the US
- - 2007-07-19 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Fiction vs Nonfiction
- - 2007-07-17 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
UPDATE: No word yet on how Blackwater employees spent their hard earned "freedom". But we're guessing it wasn't on Kucinich.
"Freedom"
Breaks Ron Paul's Heart
- Oligarchs in '08 have the word
Congressman Ron Paul loves the free market. Everything Ron Paul does revolves around the free market and how great it is. Hell, Ron Paul loves the free market so much he wants to marry it. But since RP is convinced that marriage is between a man and a woman, and the free market certainly ain't no place for pussies, he have resorted to the second best thing - running for President of the United States of America using the un-free market way of democratic elections.
Sadly for Paul, the free market (aka "freedom") doesn't really feel the same way about Paul. Yes, the Ron Paul camp did receive more money from active duty, or retired, members of the military than the Desperado himself did in the last quarter.
But what does that really mean in real "freedom"? How much "freedom" is that as oppose to other forms of "freedom"-spreading in other parts of the world?
Since this is Ron Paul-day* at SFO, lets have a look at how much "freedom" Ron Paul have received from the US Military in the second quarter of 2007.
In Obamaland (aka Mecca), the Newman household equaled more than a third of the "freedom" that the US Military delivered to the Paul camp.
In the Richardson district (aka Where the border is), Black Rain pulled in almost a quarter of the "freedom" brought in by the US Military to Ronnie.
In Hillary country (aka Hillary c***y), beloved coming of age phenomenon Blossom raked in more than a third of the "freedom" the US Military sent Pauls way... and that's just from two episodes!!
* Ron Paul-day doesn't exist, cause "days" are for commies and Mexicans and Ronnie wants nothing to do with either, not on his day.
- - 2007-07-14 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Tom Tancredo wins NAACP debate
"A Picture of the GOP on Civil Rights" Frameshop
The one photo the GOP does not want anyone to see was snapped at yesterday's NAACP GOP Presidential Candidate Forum. The NAACP invited all 9 Republican candidates to the forum, but only one showed up: Tom Tancredo. All the Democratic Presidential hopefuls showed up for their forum.
- - 2007-07-13 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Clueless-Kristol comes up with bright new idea
Loosing to teenagers
on the streets of Baghdad is not enough for Dan Quayles brain, now he's in
the making of a brilliant plan to invade Pakistan.
Cause God knows we have to fight them over there (read Iraq, Lebanon and now
Pakistan) so we don't have to fight them here.
"Neocon Bill Kristol
expects Bush to attack Pakistan"
Raw Story (with video)
A Fox host then cited a new report that "al Qaeda ... is running from Iraq, apparently to Pakistan" and asked "did this report come out on purpose so that we will have the right ... to go after Pakistan now?"
Kristol responded, "I think the president's going to have to take military action there over the next few weeks or months. ... Bush has to disrupt that sanctuary."
- - 2007-07-08 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Just shut the
f**k up
a short and angry talking point about Live Earth
There has been a lot of bitching and moaning about Live Earth. Especially from people who make a living changing peoples minds. Sadly they've either missed the point or just choose to ignore it.
To win over a whole generation of people in parts of the world that matter when it comes to the environment (not the west), means so much more than if Fall Out Boy have low energy light bulbs in their tour bus.
So Matt Drudge and his little smear links, FOX News and all the other M$M-haters just need to shut the f**k up and get back to focusing on how fat Al Gore is.
UPDATE: "Live Earth's Greatest Bits" Stereogum
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"Resign - Keith Olbermann's Special Comment" OneGoodMove
It is nearly July 4th, Mr. Bush, the commemoration of the moment we Americans decided that rather than live under a King who made up the laws, or erased them, or ignored them—or commuted the sentences of those rightly convicted under them—we would force our independence, and regain our sacred freedoms.
We of this time—and our leaders in Congress, of both parties—must now live up to those standards which echo through our history: Pressure, negotiate, impeach—get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our Democracy, away from its helm.
For you, Mr. Bush,
and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very
low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon
showed, on August 9th, 1974.
Resign.
- - 2007-07-04 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Johnston's release
"Hamas role in Johnston's release" BBC Middle East
Fortunately for Alan,
when Hamas took control in Gaza the rules of the game changed.
Hamas's priority is to restore law and order to the Gaza Strip, and one the
first items on that agenda was to get Alan Johnston freed.
The group's Executive Forces, a kind of irregular police force in Gaza, and
its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, deployed in the Dogmush
neighbourhood.
Up to five members of the clan were detained in the last few days. There are
reports that water and electricity were cut off in some streets.
Calls also came from senior members of the family from different branches
to free Alan.
"'Not enough room
in Gaza - Hamas, Clan Rivalries,
and Alan Johnston's Dangerous Predicament" Der
Spiegel
It's an open secret in Gaza City that the Dagmoush clan -- called the "Sopranos of Gaza City," an allusion to the US television series -- is holding Johnston. Still, everyone who has something to say about the kidnapping prefers to remain anonymous: The clan's influence is too great for anyone to want to provoke its anger. Still a surprisingly detailed picture emerges from conversations with various sources. What results is the panorama of a strip of land fought over by rival clans -- the setting for dramas whose ruthlessness and brutality remind one of the Montague and Capulet families in Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet."
- - 2007-07-02 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"Europe"
(and the US) says
US biggest threat to peace
"Europeans see US as threat to peace" Financial Times
In the US itself, North Korea and Iran are seen as the biggest risks. However, the youngest US respondents share the Europeans’ view that theirs is the biggest threat, with 35 per cent of American 16- to 24-year-olds identifying it as the chief danger to stability.
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"Our democracy is the best defence against terrorism" The Observer
This is why the long
view taken by those Britons whose phlegmatic calm so discountenances the foreign
media is the right one. For terrorists do not pose, as some melodramatically
claim, a threat to our way of life.
In fact, they show us its strengths.
