On Jul 5, 10:17 pm, graverobber...@yahoo.com wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_on_el_pr/rel_dobson_obama

Dobson has problems with some interpretations that Obama makes of the
Bible. Meanwhile, Dobson feels free to make his own interpretations -
and will brook no truck with anyone questioning his interpretations.
Dobson said that Obama fails to realize that times have changed as
related to how the Bible was written.

*beginning of except from the article, for fair use and educational
purposes

Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which Biblical
passages should guide public policy — chapters like Leviticus, which
Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an
abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, "a passage that is so
radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would
survive its application."

*end of except from the article, for fair use and educational
purposes

Hello:

My name is Chris Telesca and I am a progressive Democrat. I am a
precinct chair in Wake County, a delegate to the State Convention, a
member of the SEC, and the Outreach Chair Advisor for the Wake County
Progressive Democrats, and a member of the Progressive Democrats of NC
PAC. I am asking you to vote next Tuesday (or even before) for John
Brooks for Commissioner of Labor. Go check out his website at
www.brookslaborcomm.com

John Brooks is a long-time Democrat who is also very progressive to
boot! He helped found the Wake County Progressive Democrats with an old
labor lion and Democratic activist named P.R. Latta. Do you suppose
P.R. would not only endorse John's campaign but work hard to get him
elected if John Brooks wasn't the best and most pro-labor candidate?

As a four-term Labor Commissioner, John Brooks has done more for working
people in North Carolina than any commissioner before him or since him -
and that includes former Commissioner Payne. There are more pro-labor
precedents in the case law books under John's name than under any other
commissioner - go check it out in the law library to make sure!.

You have probably heard other candidates and the news media harp on John
about the Hamlet fire. But did you know that the Imperial Chicken
Processing Plant was never registered with the Secretary of...

In The Great Tradition

Obama Is A Hawk
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reaches back into the history of the Democratic Party and describes the tradition of war-making and expansionism that Barack Obama has now left little doubt he will honour.

By John Pilger

14/06/08 "ICH" -- -In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." What has changed? The terror of the rich is greater than ever, and the poor have passed on their delusion to those who believe that when George W Bush finally steps down next January, his numerous threats to the rest of humanity will diminish.

The foregone nomination of Barack Obama, which, according to one breathless commentator, "marks a truly exciting and historic moment in US history", is a product of the new delusion. Actually, it just...

Greetings!

NC passed some of the nation’s toughest election laws in 2005 after
paperless DRE touchscreen voting machines lost thousands of Carteret
County votes in the 2004 General Election. Our highly praised election
laws implemented tough standards are key to protecting North Carolina
voters from harm caused by uncertified software, counting errors, and
unscrupulous vendors.

But now those standards are under attack from people people who are
advocating a voting method called Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). IRV is a
an complex, confusing and expensive method of voting being
misrepresented as election reform. IRV advocates want IRV to be an
option for the future, and are asking the General Assembly to extend and
expand the IRV pilot.

In 2006, North Carolina's General Assembly approved a pilot program that
allowed communities to test the use of the so-called Instant Runoff
Voting, a form of ranked-choice voting.

Whatta guy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-young/president-to-sacrifice-ea_b_102333.htm...

http://www.burningthefuture.org/movietrailer.cfm

May 15, 2008

All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush
from Larisa Alexandrovna (At-Largely)

(cross-posted at Huffington Post)

Dear Mr. Bush,

Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was
nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the
Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in
order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs
from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr.
Bush, of your words today:

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and
radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have
been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary
celebration in Jerusalem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/04/barackobama

... It's not that Obama doesn't know the anodyne, wifely things to say
(essentially, nothing). She is, after all, a 'community and external
affairs' professional. But her pride visibly chafes at being...

People Exclusive
John & Elizabeth Edwards: What We Like (and Dislike) About Clinton &
Obama
By Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
Originally posted Monday May 05, 2008 05:10 PM EDT
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20197952,00.html