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U. S. Rep. Alan Grayson, (D-FL) (Orlando-Eustis-Ocala)


November 20, 2009


[div class="excerpt"]Yesterday [link:fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/19/fdl-statement-on-the-committee-passage-of-h-r-1207-the-paul-grayson-bi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3646 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:58 Jane Hamsher [link:fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/19/fdl-statement-on-senate-combined-health-care-bill/|goes on record]:



November 19, 2009


[div class="excerpt"]It is encouraging that Senator Reid respected the will of the American people and included a public option in the merged Sena... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3645 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:09 From [link:thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/68595-geithner-defends-job-blames-economic-troubles-on-previous-administration|Tony Romm] at [i]The Hill[/i]'s Blog Briefing Room:


November 19, 2009


[div class="excerpt"]Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner fiercely battled against the su... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3644 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:10:58 [link:fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/19/pretty-bad-so-far-eight-things-wrong-with-the-senate-health-bill/|Jon Walker] at Firedoglake is reading the merged Senate health care reform bill, and is not liking what he's finding:


November 19, 2009



[div class="excerpt"][b]1) Delays Start Unt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3643 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:49:00 [b][link:thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/68459-house-dem-gorwing-consensus-among-liberals-to-dump-geithner|House Dem: 'Growing' liberal consensus to dump Geithner][/b]

November 18, 2009


[div class="excerpt"]A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there's "growing conse... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3642 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:53:13 I can't scrub this one out of my mind.


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http://www.newsfollowup.com/id/i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3641 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:51:27 Juan Cole wrote [link:www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/index.html|soon after] John McCain introduced America to his VP running mate last year:


[div class="excerpt"]John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3640 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:22:04 Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Rubio.



[div class="excerpt"]Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R) said on Monday that he would welcome the endorsement of ex-Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska).

The conservative insurgent candidate challenging Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) said that Palin's end... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3638 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:08:43 Andy Kroll at [i]Mother Jones[/i] [link:www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/sen-vitter-formaldehyde-shill|reports]:


November 12, 2009


[div class="excerpt"]In May, President Obama nominated a renowned scientist known as the "father of green chemistry" to head the EPA's Office of Research and D... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3636 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:05:06 http://girldujour.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/wink-queen_1016573i.jpg
With the Queen of England



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With Chancellor Merkel of Germany



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With the Pope



ht... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3635 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:54:25 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/15/us/15health_CA0/articleLarge.jpg
Luke Sharrett/The New York Times

[i]“One of the reasons I have long supported the U.S. biotechnology industry is that it is a homegrown success story that has been an engine of job creation in this country.” This wri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3634 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:37:33 Is anyone surprised in the least to hear [link:www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/business/16drugprices.html?pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss|about this]?


Duff Wilson writes in the [i]NYT[/i]:

November 15, 2009


[div class="excerpt"]Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3633 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:08:01 [b][link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6986128&mesg_id=6986128|Thom Hartmann: 'The rising influence of evangelicals in the Democratic Party has blindsided many.'][/b]


Author of [i]The Family[/i], Jeff Sharlet, discussed with Thom Hartmann that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3632 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:46:34 This sheds a whole new light on the relatively sudden interference by Catholic bishops in the wrangling over the House health care bill, The Affordable Health Care for America Act.

What threw everyone off the track was that the Catholic Church had been [link:www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us/politic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3631 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:14:26 to describe a medical procedure that is properly known as "late term abortion".



Until we take back control over our language from these creeps, we will continue beating our heads against the wall.


The GOP didn't hire [link:www.commondreams.org/views05/0226-27.htm|Frank Luntz] merely to l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3630 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:11:45 [b][link:www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111123612.htm|New Evidence That Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress][/b], November 12, 2009


[div class="excerpt"][i]ScienceDaily[/i] (Nov. 12, 2009) — The "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3629 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:12:46 [link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R0a9xq6uek|You Tube]


While millions of courageous women fight for equality, economic, political and social justice, others remain in shallower waters, moralizing from their perch atop hypocrisy.







(Posted here due to technical problems with video foru... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3628 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:06:31 [b][link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/12/bart-stupak-there-will-be_n_355083.html|Bart Stupak: 'There Will Be Hell To Pay' If My Amendment Is Removed][/b], November 12, 2009


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And when more people find out about your ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3627 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:39:34 [b][link:www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone?allavailable=1|Get a Safer Phone][/b]



In general, phones that emit more radiation than 1.0 Watts/kilogram to the head/body are considered less safe. The lower the W/kg number, the safer the phone. (1 Kg ~ 2.2 lbs)


You can also g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3626 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:44:23 [b][link:journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3585| RE the health care bills: Where is contraception?][/b]



[link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6441415&mesg_id=6441857|The Family] seems to be getting everything it wants, most especially,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3625 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:05:51 Source: [b]SF Chronicle[/b]

A ruling that allowed a prisoner to sue former Bush administration attorney John Yoo for devising the legal theories that justified his alleged torture threatens to "open the floodgates to politically motivated lawsuits" against government officials, Yoo's lawyers say.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3624 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:44:13 John Conyers [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/john-conyers-tells-obama_n_353802.html|scolded] Obama a few days ago:


[div class="excerpt"]Earlier this week, Michigan Representative John Conyers told reporters that he'd like President Obama to start fashioning himself after a different mod... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3623 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:54:04 [b][link:www.au.org/media/press-releases/archives/2009/11/south-carolinas-christian.html|Federal District Court Rules Against South Carolina’s ‘Christian’ License Plate][/b]

November 10, 2009



[div class="excerpt"]A federal district court ruled today that a special Christian license plate m... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3622 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:44:09 We've seen the terrible havoc the religious right brings--- [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4000221#4000552|Blackwater USA]; corrupting the mission of our [link:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3199212.stm|military]; the [link:findarticles.com/p/articles/m... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3621 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:27:58 In an interview today that Thom Hartmann had with Jeff Sharlet, author of [i]The Family[/i], they discussed the ominous rise of the evangelical movement in the Democratic Party and its perverse effects on the party platform.


The radical Stupak anti-abortion amendment that is attached to the Hou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/3620 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:03:31