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Kristol: McCain campaign has "become toxic"

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:33:27 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: the "McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional."

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

leading that particular pack of wolves is Kristol, who says that the "McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic."

Today, the key line of John McCain's rebooted stump speech is directed at his rival, Barack Obama, and it goes a little something like, "We have him right where we want him." That was the plan, all along, you see! Be down double digits in the polls, possessed of the necessity of campaigning in West Virginia, and in need of tempering your supporters' passions because they have suddenly veered wildly in the direction of psychosis. I love it when a plan comes together, even if that plan is only indicative of the fact that McCain's moved to the "denial" stage of grief. Brace yourself, because anger and depression are still to come!

Tags: kristol, mccain

War for Oil Proof - Say iIt Is Not So, George

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:36:22 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Iraqis of the next generation will rue the day they "sold" out for peace instead of a piece of the action.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

A Shell service station seen on September 20 in Manassas, Virginia. The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London. BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are all expected to attend a meeting at the Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair with the Iraqi oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani. (AFP/File/Karen Bleier)

Tags: oil politics, bush league, peace for oil

Brenda Lambert, Mark Cook, Monday4 the Missing

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:47:31 GMT

clipped by: Delilah1234
clipper's remarks: I understand the family leaving it in the hands of God.
If He calls the stars by name, I know He knows
every name of
every missing person

Clip Source: monday4themissing.blogspot.com

Law Enforcement nor anyone else in West Virginia will never do

anything to find our precious sister, so we are leaving this to God"

Keep the faith!

Tags: brenda lambert, mark cook, monday4themissing, missing persons, missing mothers, missing adults, crime, victim, justice

McCain Volunteers Instructed to Accuse Obama of Terrorism

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:10:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Time article tells us:

With so much at stake, and time running short, [VA state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick] did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points -- for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true -- though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

According to Time, McCain campaign staffers in Virginia are teaching volunteers to see Barack Obama as having terrorist 'friends,' and then providing these volunteers with arguments for persuading voters that Sen. Obama, like Osama Bin Laden, shares responsibility for bombings of the Pentagon.

The report from inside the McCain campaign brings to light an alarming fact: while McCain tells his supporters publicly to refrain from violent rhetoric, he continues to teach his volunteers rhetoric designed to elicit violent responses.

The report confirms that the McCain campaign has staked its chances of winning the Presidency on convincing the public that Barack Obama is on the wrong side of the 'War on Terror' and, therefore, his victory in the Presidential election would put the power of the White House in the hands of terrorists.

Tags: news

flashbacks of a fool musics

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:31:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: find em all

Clip Source: www.play.com

Sons Of - Scott Walker
Sea Beyond - Richard Hartley
Regina Coeli Laetare - Various
It Ain't Easy - David Bowie
Ruth's House - Richard Hartley
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Runaway - Richard Hartley
If There Is Something - Roxy Music
Jean Gemie - David Bowie
Simple Things - Richard Hartley
What Goes Up Must Go Down - War Zone

Osama - Obama "connection" campaign propoganda

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:42:54 GMT

clipped by: nchnted
clipper's remarks: Each day it seems to escalate. How can anyone miss the difference between negative campaigning and inducing riots with hate innuendo?

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, Jeffrey M. Frederick

He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: “Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon,” he said.

“And he won’t salute the flag,” one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, “We don’t even know where Senator Obama was really born.” Actually, we do; it’s Hawaii.

This is why it is so disgraceful for reporters and pundits to minimize and dismiss what the McCain/Palin campaign, and Republicans generally, have been doing as they become increasingly desperate

the McCain campaign is stoking tribal hatred and mass incendiary resentments toward Obama

Reporters who are minimizing and dismissing the McCain campaign’s uniquely dangerous smears are aiding and abetting those efforts.

Senator Byrd Rips McCain on Earmarks

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:56:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It takes ear-marks to get back our gas taxes for interstate and highways work. For some reason the federal government taxes at the pump alot but then alots and apportions money to be spent by ear-marks. This is a good example of a necessary and justifiable ear-mark.

Note the republican Congresswoman Capito supported this very big ear-mark too, and West Virginians (and alot of truck lines who move freight through the state, and help pay for the interstates also through tolls) are not complaining.

McCain lost all credibility on ear-marks when he supported the Bailout Bill absolutely loaded with them.

Perhaps McCain's biggest hypocrisy on Earmarks is the enormous earmark spending (he supports) for Israel, instead of for Americans.

Clip Source: wvgazette.com

Byrd slams McCain at U.S. 35 ceremony

Senator: Earmarks build roads, like new Putnam highway

SCOTT DEPOT - Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain "cries and moans about congressional earmarks," but doesn't understand why they're necessary, Sen. Robert C. Byrd said Friday at a ceremony to open part of the new U.S. 35 - a road primarily funded by earmarks.

"He whines that earmarks are an abuse of federal funds," Byrd said of McCain. "He doesn't come from a state where it costs on average $25 million per mile to build roads, and he doesn't understand that the world is simply not flat."

Friday's ceremony celebrated the opening of 2.1 miles of U.S. 35 connecting Interstate 64 to W.Va. 34.

"It has never been easy to secure federal funds for the building of highways in West Virginia,"

Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has long been a target for anti-earmarks groups and has been dubbed "The Prince of Pork

Capito, R-W.Va., said expanding U.S. 35 has been her "holy grail"

Tags: ear-marks, congress, government spending, sen. byrd, john mccain, capito, west virginia

Long-shot races closing the gap as Repubs slip

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:38:08 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Surprises in WV GA, KY:
West Virginia - the 2nd closest race in the nation, McCain up only 1.1 points!
Kentucky: incumbent Senate Repub Leader Mitch McConnell now has less than 50% of the vote
Georgia: Repub Saxby Chambliss up by less than two

Clip Source: sage

the data above suggest continued progress for the Obama-Biden ticket following Tuesday night's debate.

Meanwhile, things have shifted a bit in races for the Senate. A series of new surveys released over the last few days confirm a significant narrowing in Georgia, which we now classify as a toss-up. Republican Saxby Chambliss now leads Democratic challenger Jim Martin on our trend estimate by less than two percentage points (45.3% to 43.5%).

And in Kentucky, internal polls released by both campaigns disagree on the margin, but agree that incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell is winning less than 50% of the vote (48% on the poll from the Democrats, 47% on the poll by Republicans). Our trend estimate still gives McConnell enough of a lead (48.2% to 42.6%) to rate "lean" Republican status.

Tags: wv, polls, kentucky, georgia

Second case of virgin birth found in sharks

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:11:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.

In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female blacktip shark in a Virginia aquarium contained no genetic material from a male.

The first documented case of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, among sharks involved a pup born to a hammerhead at an Omaha, Neb., zoo.

The Things Their Families Carried

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:17:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Oftentimes you would see a family go up to the grave and they would just launch themselves onto the tombstone and start crying,” Mr. Alpert said. “Our instinct as reporters was ‘We have to film that.’ And we didn’t. We would stand there, and then we would go over without the cameras running, and we would talk to people. And we would explain who we were, why we were there, and ask if it would be possible for them to share with us.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Documentaries come into being in lots of ways, but not many have begun with a phone call of condolence made to a graveyard.

Such was the catalyst for “Section 60,” a somber film on HBO Monday night about the impromptu community that has evolved in the part of Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia where the war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan are being buried.

This is not the antiseptic postcard Arlington. The film captures loved ones leaving flowers, children’s drawings, photographs; if a graveyard can be alive, this part of Arlington is, in marked contrast to other sections.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Much has been made about the restrictions on photographing the coffins returning home in these wars, but “Section 60” has the full range of images: graves being dug, coffins, funerals, honor guards, weeping relatives.

Scientists confirm shark's ‘virgin birth’

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:29:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting anti-extinction ability.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

RICHMOND, Va. - Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.

In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center contained no genetic material from a male.

The first documented case of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, among sharks involved a pup born to a hammerhead at an Omaha, Neb., zoo.

"This first case was no fluke," Demian Chapman, a shark scientist and lead author of the second study, said in a statement. "It is quite possible that this is something female sharks of many species can do on occasion."

The aquarium sharks that reproduced without mates each carried only one pup, while some shark species can produce litters numbering in the dozen or more. The scientists cautioned that the rare asexual births should not be viewed as a possible solution to declining global shark populations.

Tags: nature

NOT Science Fiction

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:10:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Virgin birth confirmed second case in Sharks

Clip Source: www.aainaa.info

Of Virgin-Birth

“It is now clear that parthenogenesis occurs in sharks other than just hammerheads,” Chapman said. “The first case was no fluke. It is quite possible that this is something female sharks of many species can do on occasion.”

Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a “virgin birth” in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. This compelling new study will be published today in the latest issue of the Journal of Fish Biology, a leading international journal.

The new paper is entitled “Parthenogenesis in a large-bodied requiem shark, the blacktip Carcharhinus limbatus.” Tidbit was an Atlantic blacktip shark whom Virginia Aquarium biologists believe had only just reached sexual maturity.

Tags: birth, chapman, demian, discovery, dna, education, mahmood, parthenogenesis

Vigrin Birth

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:53:50 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Very intriguing.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Scientists: DNA testing proves Virginia shark's pup a 'virgin birth'; 2nd case ever confirmed

scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center contained no genetic material from a male.

The scientists cautioned that the rare asexual births should not be viewed as a possible solution to declining global shark populations.

Virgin birth has been proven in some bony fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds, and has been suspected among sharks in the wild. The scientists who studied the Virginia and Nebraska sharks said the newly formed pups acquired one set of chromosomes when the mother's chromosomes split during egg development, then united anew.

"It is very unlikely that a small number of female survivors could build their numbers up very quickly by undergoing virgin birth," Chapman said

their findings offer "intriguing questions" about how frequently automictic parthenogenesis occurs in the wild

Tags: sharks, birth, stress

DNA test proves it--baby shark has no father

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:41:23 GMT

clipped by: LisbethJ
clipper's remarks: This is wild!

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

updated 2:52 a.m. EDT, Fri October 10, 2008

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DNA test proves it -- baby shark has no father

Story Highlights
Pup carried by a female blacktip shark contains no male genetic material
Scientist: "This is something female sharks of many species can do on occasion."
Virgin birth has been proven in some bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds
Virginia aquarium case is nation's second; first was in Nebraska
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RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark.

The first documented case of asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, among sharks involved a pup born to a hammerhead at an Omaha, Nebraska, zoo.

Tags: baby, asexual, shark

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:42:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Best Dishnet Virginia Specials.

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