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HOMER MCCAIN

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:07:32 GMT

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Source: www.gregpalast.com

Palast: One out of five Colorado voters purged from voter registrationOutcome of 2008 election likely to be skewed by unethical tactics

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the real Sarah Palin (parody)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:12:23 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: palin, video, humor, politics

Palin's RNC speech bent the truth

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:16:12 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan
clipper's remarks: Details and examples in article.

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

•PALIN: "[Obama] is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word 'victory' except when he's talking about his own campaign."

FACT: On July 15, in a speech in Washington, D.C., Obama twice used the word "victory" in reference to Iraq.

•PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform -- not even in the state senate."

Tags: politics, palin, obama

Obama Answers Republican Ridicule

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:21:07 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

"You're hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true," he told a group of union workers at a hydro plant in York, Penn. "What you're not hearing about is you."

"You haven't heard a word about how we're going to deal with any aspect of the economy that is affecting you and your pocketbook."

In Virginia, running mate Joe Biden echoed that complaint.

"Not one time did I hear the phrase middle class pass their lips," he said.

Democrats noted the repeated attempts to ridicule Obama's work as a community organizer among unemployed steelworkers in Chicago as a way of questioning his experience.

"We're talking about being in touch with the homeless, being in touch with the under-educated, being in touch with the unemployed," said Medina. "A community organizer is that presence for hope when hope doesn't exist."

Though Obama caught only a small part of Palin's speech last night, his aides watched and were impressed. She is a skilled politician, they said, and deft at going on the attack.

Tags: obama, republican, palin, politics, community

W.Va. Inmate Says He's Denied Religious Rights

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:26:33 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: sundaygazettemail.com

The state Supreme Court is considering whether to hear a case involving an inmate who says he's being denied the right to freely practice his Native American religion.

Bobby Eugene Roddy wants the court to order the Division of Corrections to provide him with a sweat lodge to use one day a week for a ceremony.

He also insists on two prayer pipe ceremonies per week. The Mount Olive Correctional Complex inmate also wants to grow his hair long and be allowed to wear moccasins and other Native American garments.

The 42-year-old Roddy goes by the spiritual name "Running Cougar.''

Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein says no inmate is prohibited from practicing religion. But he says certain requests must be denied for security concerns.

Tags: religion, rights, legal, prison

Palin the polarizer

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:39:04 GMT

clipped by: lp97702
clipper's remarks: And this comment from a Republican no less. I think he's right. This time there are more D than R's.

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

Republican political consultant Mike Murphy finds himself lonely among his fellow GOPers since he doesn't think Gov. Sarah Palin was a good choice as Sen. John McCain's running mate.

"I think she'll ultimately be a polarizer. After last night's smash, Republicans are in deep love. Nothing thrills 'em like a good 'us vs. them' speech. But I'd guess that most Democrats had the opposite reaction. In a year where the Democrat generic numbers are 10+ points better than the Republican, I don't like the math of a strategy that just polarized the election along party base lines. Among the vital sliver of voters in the middle, I think Palin's rock solid social conservatism will be a turn off. And while voters may value vision over experience, Palin's inexperience is a weakness, denying McCain an argument that has been helping him against Obama."

Tags: palin, mccain

McCain's High Horse

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:39:40 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clipper's remarks: Posted Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000, at 3:30 AM ET
I little trip down memory lane. Here we go again.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Oh, please. McCain cheapens his own heroism when he tries to use five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp as a rhetorical get-out-of-jail-free card.

George W. Bush's widely mocked garble about McCain taking his "high horse" on the "low road" is actually, with a bit of untangling, a pretty good image. It's one thing to drop your negative ads and challenge your opponent to do the same. But it's a bit rich to carry on as if no decent person would ever do what you yourself were doing just a few days before.

Why do you post clips to clipmarks?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:07:58 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: This was clipped from a fellow clipper's comment and really made me feel a need to respond.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

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we are clipping from articles on the net. They don't have to be our words. We just need to believe in what they are saying. And we give that to others who may or may not believe in the same.

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Saimir Strati Does A Leonardo Da Vinci With Nails!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:18:50 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Wow! What an artist!

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Saimir Strati

Saimir Strati (Vlora, Albania, April 11, 1966) is an Albanian artist who is regarded as one of the world's most well known modern mosaic artists.

He has used materials including nails, toothpicks, corks, sea glass, eggshells, compact discs, coffee beans, porcelain and mirror glass among other materials. He is also a painter.

Every world record attempt has Saimir Strati has attempted has been a live performance. He has also done large scale artistic performances in Dubai.

[edit] Guinness World Record

[edit] 2006 - Leonardo Da Vinci

Clip Source: www.mosaicart-sast.com

The Largest Nail Mosaic
was made by
Saimir Strati
(Albania)
on
4 September 2006

Tags: artist, mosaic, painter, creativity, saimir strati, albania, tirana

The Show Must Go On at the GOP Convention

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:35:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Well it is over, and in tribute I made this little collage/video. Enjoy the full irony of it all!

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Tags: gop, politics, queen, the, show, must, go, on, truth, mccain

Acclaimed Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:47:45 GMT

clipped by: dmtherob
clipper's remarks: This is a clear violation of the first amendment. Amy and her crew had clearly visible Press badges and the camera's were in plain view. Amy and her crew were filming and reporting on the protester's at the RNC.

Clip Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Government crackdowns on journalists threaten democracy

AMY GOODMAN
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

Nicole was videotaping. Her tape of her own violent arrest is chilling. Police in riot gear charged her, yelling, "Get down on your face." You hear her voice, clearly and repeatedly announcing "Press! Press! Where are we supposed to go?" She was trapped between parked cars. The camera drops to the pavement amid Nicole's screams of pain. Her face was smashed into the pavement, and she was bleeding from the nose, with the heavy officer with a boot or knee on her back. Another officer was pulling on her leg. Sharif was thrown up against the wall and kicked in the chest, and he was bleeding from his arm.

Tags: amy goodman, riot, riots, police, arrest

McCain's hero aura inoculates him against critics

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:02:33 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898

Clip Source: m.apnews.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — How dare you say that about John McCain, war hero?

That, in so many words, is the line of counterattack coming from Republicans who only four years ago dismissed the war service of another decorated Vietnam veteran with his own story of bravery.

Think McCain owns too many houses to relate to the common American? Not fair — he lived in a North Vietnam cell for 5½ years. How dare you?

Question his temperament or his temper? Look what he's lived through.

Yet McCain stands accused of lapses of judgment, moral failings and selfishness. He's been called "dishonest" and a "coward" for putting political expedience ahead of principle in the 2000 campaign, during the debate over the Confederate flag. And it's been said that Hanoi really didn't change the kind of person he was.

Palin's problems

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:57:01 GMT

clipped by: lp97702
clipper's remarks: She's got too many problems like the ones mentioned here .... how does she answer these questions?? Last night was her high point...

Clip Source: www.fivethirtyeight.com

Also, by taking the gloves off herself, she cannot complain when her own words and policies are parsed. Thus far she has had a free pass on the issues and she has been shielded from the media as the campaign team are petrified of what might happen if she gets a grilling by a competent journalist. For instance, how does she answer the question "Is it appropriate for a potential VP to say that the Iraq war was a mission of God?" or "Why should women vote for you when you believe that if they or their daughters are raped, they should have to bear the child to term?".

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She lied

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:09:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is what I hate about these guys. They don't tell the truth...

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

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US Military Deaths, Just a Number

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:54:48 GMT

clipped by: Imnclady
clipper's remarks: Only, declined, the casualties first suffered, since, the latest, at least 4,153, since....2003

These words used in the article seem to detach themselves from the fact that "our " brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, husbands, and friends are being killed in a war with Iraq.

It makes me think that people may be viewing this as just " war " and maybe compared to " the Vietnam War " and not as " the war on terrorism " or " the fight for freedom."

Maybe " that " is why people protest this war, not against the soldiers that are led there, but " the Politics behind it ".

I may be wrong and you may not care what I think, but I hope " I still have the freedom ", to say it.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

2 US soldiers killed in Baghdad roadside bomb

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat deaths in the capital in a week.

With security vastly improved in Baghdad since the U.S. troop buildup last year, the number of American soldiers killed on the streets of the Iraqi capital has declined sharply.

The casualties were the first suffered by the American military in the capital since Aug. 28 when a soldier was killed in a roadside bombing. Another soldier died Tuesday in Baghdad of non-hostile causes, the military said.

The latest deaths brought to at least 4,153 the number of U.S. military members who have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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