Here's the BEST Question for the CNN/YouTube Republican Debate

In this video, you'll hear the best question submitted for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate ever! One which will most likely not slip by the censors.

Originally posted on DailyKos, here's a second look at this "Video Greeting Card" which was created to congratulate everyone at Yearly Kos for a job well done. The event, the Blogger's Brunch, was broadcast live into Second Life's Progressive Island. Everyone is really enjoying themselves - were you there and can you spot yourself?



I must say again: What an incredibly nice group of people those Progressives are!
;-)
To view other events from Yearly Kos as seen in Second Life click "here".




(Music excerpt of "Praise You" from Fatboy Slim's album You've Come A Long Way Baby)

Michelle Malkin stalks a 12 year old boy

Michelle Malkin has taken it upon herself to harrass a 12 year old boy in retaliation for a speech he gave supporting the S-CHIP program.

From TP:
Two weeks ago, the Democratic radio address was delivered by a 12-year old Maryland boy named Graeme Frost. Graeme told his story of being involved in a severe car accident three years ago, and having received access to medical care because of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. He said:

If it weren’t for CHIP, I might not be here today. … We got the help we needed because we had health insurance for us through the CHIP program. But there are millions of kids out there who don’t have CHIP, and they wouldn’t get the care that my sister and I did if they got hurt. … I just hope the President will listen to my story and help other kids to be as lucky as me.

Michelle and other right wing bloggers immediately launched a smear campaign against Graeme and have repeatedly called him at his home asking for details about the family's living arrangements.

But Michelle went a step further. Michelle did a "drive by" of Graeme's father's small business where she corralled a tenant to interrogate him about the Frost family.

From Michelle Malkin's website:
2:50pm Eastern: I just returned from a visit to Frost’s commercial property near Patterson Park in Baltimore. It’s a modest place. Talked to one of the tenants, Mike Reilly, who is a talented welder. He said he had known the Frosts for 10 years. Business is good, he told me, though he characterized Frost as “struggling.” Reilly was an outspoken advocate for socialized health care without any means-testing whatsoever and an insistent critic of the Iraq war.

My, my that must have set her off. So she headed to Graeme's house.

I also passed by the Frosts’ rowhouse. There was an “01 - 20 -09″ bumper sticker plastered on the door and a newer model GMC Suburban parked directly in front of the house. I’ve seen guesstimates of the house’s worth in the $400,000-plus range. Those are high.

She's now obsessed with the value of their house? How many people have bought houses years ago that have increased in value to the point where they couldn't afford to buy them today? And that sticker on the door obviously means they're not Bushies, so in her mind they're fair game.




Michelle is one sick bitch. I wouldn't be surprised if she publishes their address and encourages her readers to harrass them as well. Does the family need a restaining order?

"The pictures are what will stop the war", Brian De Palma

Thank you to BlueGal at Crooks and Liars for posting my video "Right to Life", on their site.

Ken Burn's documentary on WWII, "The War", had some of the first horrific images of that war that have ever been broadcast. He and directors like Brian De Palma with "Redacted", are breaking the rules because we need to know that war is hell. Bush wouldn't know this. Neither would Cheney. That's why sending Americans to die in their war is so easy for them.
And that's why we need intelligent, compassionate leadership.

I made the video over a year ago, because I think there is such a disconnect between what war supporters believe and reality. The networks refuse to show us what our tax dollars are paying for in Iraq. If they broadcast the mangled bodies of innocent dead children and our dead soldiers, this war would be over and companies like Cheney's Halliburton would lose money. So corporate media shuts its eyes and ours.

Rachel Maddow's Campaign Asylum: Values Voter Debate

MoveOn.Org Hits a Nerve

My, my, my Republicans, thou "dost protest too much."

-- From Hamlet (III, ii, 239)
Queen Gertrude speaks these famous words to her son, Prince Hamlet, while watching a play at court. Gertrude does not realize that Hamlet has staged this play to trap her and her new husband, King Claudius, whom Hamlet suspects of having murdered his father. She also does not realize that the lady who "doth protest too much" is actually herself, as the Player King and Queen represent King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude. The former will be poisoned (in this play within the play) by the king's brother, as in reality (Hamlet suspects) Claudius killed King Hamlet. Gertrude's statement is in response to the play-Queen's repetitive statements of loyalty to and love of her first husband.

Republicans voted to condemn this ad, yet they voted against condemning ads against other military personnel. Of course, those other military folks were Democrats.

Seems that the Republicans have proven once again that they're phoney hypocrites. No surprise.

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"I will not be quiet, I will fight back, and I will keep speaking out until Congress forces an exit plan for this awful war."

CHENEY: What he Knew then...

It seems that Cheney knew it would be too dangerous to invade Iraq and that American casualties would be high.
But that was before he was in a position to reap huge profits from such an attack.

Do they really want a plan to withdraw from Iraq?

Dear Senator Clinton,

Please note, this Administration does not want to have a plan to withdraw from Iraq. If forced by the Democrats to pull out, they would prefer that it proceed very badly. Lives are of no importance to them, the more that are lost, the more chaotic the withdrawal becomes, the more valid their position becomes: that pulling out of Iraq is worse than staying in Iraq.

If Republicans can’t keep this War for Profit going on indefinitely, then many of them want a bloody, horrific end to it, and they will stop at nothing to try to pawn this catastrophe onto Democrats. It’s their only hope of survival.

Sincerely,

Raging Gurrl