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Milwaukee's Lowest Gas Price Today

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:27:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What are you paying for a gallon of Regular today?

Clip Source: www.milwaukeegasprices.com

Citgo Milwaukee - NW Sat
4:33 PM ratfree
HWY 100 & Capitol (CASH ONLY)

What Must Change: Intentionally Misleading Voters is Legal

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:51:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.866ourvote.org

Every state provides some method to challenge the eligibility of a voter. However, bad-faith challenges may cross the line and can constitute voter intimidation, particularly when mass challenges are based only upon a voter’s race or status and the challenger lacks personal knowledge of the voter’s eligibility

State laws differ regarding who can make challenges, when challenges can be made, what are the proper grounds for a challenge, which party has the burden of proof, what evidence is relevant, and who decides challenges

Deceptive practices deliberately mislead or intimidate voters in order to alter the outcome of an election

Instead of employing physical threats, those who wish to intimidate voters have turned to more sophisticated and nuanced tactics to fraudulently prevent turnout in targeted communities

Disturbing example

armed gunmen intimidating, mocking and misinforming voters at heavily Latino precincts in Arizona

providing false information about where to vote

deceptive fliers

Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote.

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:32:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Republicans. The party of the Nazis.

Clip Source: www.care2.com

We live in The United States of America, home of the free. Where homeowners are free to vote, as long as they haven't been foreclosed on. Are you o.k. with that?

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Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOPâ€™s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

Tags: lame, tricks

Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote.

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:32:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Republicans. The party of the Nazis.

Clip Source: www.care2.com

We live in The United States of America, home of the free. Where homeowners are free to vote, as long as they haven't been foreclosed on. Are you o.k. with that?

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Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote

Tags: lame, tricks

Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote.

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:32:20 GMT

clipped by: cptenaud
clipper's remarks: Republicans. The party of the Nazis.

Clip Source: www.care2.com

We live in The United States of America, home of the free. Where homeowners are free to vote, as long as they haven't been foreclosed on. Are you o.k. with that?

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Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote

Tags: lame, tricks

David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents a Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party"

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:01:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But he didn't think those were the only two options. He thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. And his whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.

Hitler's Influence on G. Gordon Liddy, McCain's Terrorist Associate

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:32:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

The Fuhrer was G Gordon Liddy's first political hero. Liddy was a sickly, asthmatic child when he grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, in the 1930s. The town was full of ethnic Germans who idolized Hitler. Liddy was made to salute the Stars and Stripes Nazi-style by the nuns at his school; even now, he admits, "at assemblies where the national anthem is played, I must suppress the urge to snap out my right arm.

When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body."

after reading the writings of the notorious anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh, Liddy decided to pick his wife on eugenic grounds

He used to take his kids to see Leni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda movie 'The Triumph of the Will

Liddy's seems to believe -- as his childhood icon did -- that life is an eternal war against Absolute Enemies

The View Gets Uglier: Barabara Can't Stop Elisabeth's Obama-Bashing

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:53:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Preceding the clip below, Barbara called for a move away from gutter politics towards a discussion of what really matters. Elisabeth then kept talking about Obama's connection to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko, called Wright a "hate-monger" and asked of Obama, "Are you a liar or do you have poor judgment?"

Soon after, Sherri jumped down Elisabeth's throat (as she sat expressionless) asking about McCain's first wife with, "can we talk about poor judgement?"

The argument escalated and Joy (celebrating her birthday today) pretended to get up and leave.

Elisabeth interjected, "When did this get personal? Wow. This is super personal," and she told Sherri to "relax."

Barbara again asked to no avail, "Can we stop slinging mud around?"

Elisabeth then brought up Obama and claimed Democrats pushed subprime loans, to which Joy called out, "You're listening to Sean Hannity too much!" With that, Whoopi quickly took the show to break.

Watch, as no blow-by-blow will do it justice:

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The Streets of Saint Petersburg...

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:59:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: need some help.

Clip Source: englishrussia.com

Sometimes streets of St. Petersburg, one of the most beautiful Russian cities, look like this.

Kitteh has rite of wai ALWAYS

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:08:07 GMT

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Clip Source: ihasahotdog.com

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Tags: dogs, cats, pic, pups, kittens, sunday, fun, funny

S&M Porn Illegal-Real Life Torture-OK!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:39:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But for our highest government officials, including the ones responsible for this prosecution, we have a different story altogether. In 2002, the Bush DOJ radically re-defined "torture" and illegal treatment of detainees to exclude anything that falls short of "the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." The DOJ's John Yoo even decreed that the President could legally order "'scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance' thrown on a prisoner" and possibly even "slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb."

Clip Source: www.salon.com

In seeking a more lenient sentence, one of Little's attorneys argued that the videos were not sadomasochistic. "Urine and vomit, our argument is, isn't sadistic or masochistic," James Benjamin said.
"What about humiliation?" the judge asked.

That, Benjamin replied, isn't in the legal definition of sadomasochistic.

"Clearly, there seemed to be pain," Bucklew said.

That was acting, Benjamin said. "The person that was involved in the conduct sat [in court] with a smile on her face and wrote your honor a letter saying, 'Judge, this was a beautiful part of my life.'"

"I don't even think this is a close call," the judge said. The videos portrayed "sadistic conduct . . . This is clearly degrading, clearly humiliating and intended to be so."

UPDATE: Put another way, top Bush administration officials have been immunized and protected despite -- according to a former U.S. Army Major General -- being responsible for real sadistic obscenities (i.e., "war crimes") as illustrated by these:

Tags: hypocrisy, law, crime, torture, stupidity, morality, police

After bailout, AIG sent executives to the spa

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:00:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Can you believe these people?

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday.

The tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees at the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy.

The retreat didn't include anyone from the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers were still enraged over thousands of dollars spent on catered banquets, golf outings and visits to the resort's spa and salon for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance subsidiary.

Finally...

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:24:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.streetprophets.com

Tags: palin, war, beauty queen

Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:44:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: McCain says he knows how to "win a war." Where did he learn this? He was the very bottom of his class (so he didn't learn it there), he crash three jets during peace-time (so he didn't learn it there), the explosion on the carrier was actually his panicking and dropping his bombs into a fire on the deck (so he didn't learn it there), he was downed and became a POW (so he didn't learn it there), the war he was in was Vietnam, the only war the U.S. ever lost (so he didn't learn it there). So where exactly did McCain acquire this great ability to "win a war?" I don't see it!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Three crashes early in his career led Navy officials to question or fault his judgment.

John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings.

McCain recounted the accident decades later in his autobiography. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," he wrote. But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure.

The crash was one of three early in McCain's aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials.

In his most serious lapse, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires

After McCain was sent to Vietnam, his plane was destroyed in an explosion on the deck of an aircraft carrier in 1967.

How race is used in this election to divide workers

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:15:36 GMT

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Clip Source: resistracism.wordpress.com

AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka speaking about racism in the context of the election. I especially appreciate the part where he talks about how race has been used to divide workers

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