here's their homepage--note the image to the right.

http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4g...

I'm sure Big Mouse will be having a word with them.

here's the message I sent to Disney:

"I wanted to alert you to a flagrant violation of one of your copyrights. There is a group called "Miinnesotans for Global Warming(here's a link to their homepage)that has a "No Cap'n Trade" link on their page). The link uses an image of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Knowing your company's reputation for zealous protection of copyright, I assume you'll want to do something about this."

Serves the corporate toadies right to have to fight ANOTHER corporation's legal division.

Sorry for the sports digression, but I can't be the only one watching the AL playoff.

Scoscia pulled his starter in the seventh even though the guy had just retired Damon and was one out away from getting out of it. Now the Yankees have scored six runs and the Angels are probably doomed. Any chance the Angel front office WON'T can the guy for this?

This may be THE bonehead baseball move of the year.

They still cling to the delusion that they could have "won" in Vietnam.

They want to use THIS war to try to prove that.

They never wanted you to be president.

And they know that escalating and bringing in more troops will do unto you what it did
unto LBJ: destroy you and put someone who will mindlessly obey them into power.

The history tells the truth.

Don't let them use this to take you down.

Bring the troops home. NOW.

Save yourself and save the country from what the military class is trying to do.

Judging from the look he had on his face when Obama got the big cheer on the line about how "the Iraq War and tax cuts for the wealthy" weren't paid for.

If you claim to be progressive and also anti-Chavez, you need to acknowledge this. Our history in Latin America was of constant hostility towards anyone who worked for any meaningful social change within the bounds of "representative democracy".

Our country usually overthrew the governments that tried to do that(as we did in Chile, and as we may indirectly have just done in Honduras)or we tried to drive countries that were attempting to have radical, yet democratic change towards less democratic methods through constant economic and military pressure(Nicaragua in the Eighties being the most recent example), or we simply made Latin American democrats abandon the poor and the workers(as we did with Lula and with Alan Garcia in Peru).

This left either the police state approach that the Cuban Revolution fell into by default or the modified semi-authoritarian left-caudillismo, that Chavez is employing as just about the only models that existed for leftists in Latin America who actually wanted to achieve any change beyond trivial incremental window dressing.

If you don't like that, you need to be working for a totally non-interventionist U.S. policy in Latin America. And this is an admistration that could be persuaded to implement such a policy.

That's what you SHOULD be doing. Not starting endless "Chavez is a dictator" threads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_W...

From the Wikipedia article about them:

"Founded by Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman, Anita Blair, and Barbara Olson in 1992, the IWF grew out of the ad hoc group, "Women for Judge Thomas," that was created to defend Clarence Thomas against allegations of sexual harassment and other improprieties. By 1996 the organization had some 700 dues-paying members who met regularly at luncheons to network and share ideas.

Since Silberman, presidents of IWF have included Nancy M. Pfotenhauer and Anita Blair. The current president and CEO of the organization is Michelle D. Bernard, who assumed the role in January 2006. Before joining the IWF, Bernard, who holds a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, served in the executive office of the 2000 Bush-Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee and as a partner at the Washington, D.C. law office of Patton Boggs, LLP.

The IWF has been described as "a virtual 'Who's Who' of Washington's Republican establishment." People for the American Way, which is critical of the organization, describes IWF as "a secular counterpart to Religious Right women’s groups like Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for America."

That you WON, and won by EIGHT MILLION VOTES.

Therefore, you don't need to act like you're the junior partner in a coalition.

When you stand up to the thugs and the 'pugs is when you're strongest. When you negotiate with them, you're at your weakest and at their mercy. It's just not worth it.

Fight like a winner, fight like you do at your best, and we'll GET healthcare with a public option.

The Beltway CAN be broken.

I admit I thought the worst of her. I now realize, due to this story

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/gates.arr...

(which is the subject of its own thread)that Ms. Whalen herself was the victim of Sgt. Crowley's lies, and that I was one of too many people who believed those lied.

Ms. Whalen was not to blame for what Sgt. Crowley did, and I shouldn't have let myself believe that she was. I was wrong.

She should be, as another poster suggested, invited to the Gates-Crowley beer party(if only to pour a beer over Crowley's lying racist head).

It just seems like a pointlessly negative thing. What threads did anybody start that other people felt they HAD to have another way of suppressing?

What brought this on, exactly?

Anyone here still think that everything that's happened is ok because "Congress and the Supreme Court ordered it"?

http://soaw.org/index.php

Quote:
- The people are resisting, beginning to take the streets, block the roads
- dozens of buses of people coming to the capital from other parts of the country
- over 10,000 people gathered yesterday in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa to protest the illegal military coup, and they were violently dispersed by the military, using tear gas and guns (not clear if rubber bullets or otherwise). More protests are planned for today.
- There are wounded and dead, but numbers are still unclear
- our friends in Honduras have been to hospitals and have documented some cases
- THE OFFICIAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND THE FISCAL (ATTORNEY GENERAL) ARE REFUSING TO DOCUMENT THE ABUSES, AND ARE SUPPORTING THE COUP GOVERNMENT. COFADEH ASKS THAT WE DENOUNCE THESE OFFICIALS AS NOT FULFILLING THEIR DUTY AS DEFENDERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. THEY ARE RAMON CUSTODIO, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND SANDRA PONCE, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
- A new cabinet was named by the coup leaders, and they tried to bring them to be sworn in at the presidential palace, but lights were cut and phone lines downed, and this did not take place.
- Two army battalions have declared that they will not be loyal to the coup government
- A crew from TELESUR was detained and beaten, but released, after international public pressure
- Electricity is constantly being cut off, then comes again
- Censorship of the t.v. media, only channels of rightwing media being shown
- Coup govenrment is using well-known human rights abusers and their spokespersons
- Strike of schools and workers taking place

(But remember, the coup is ok because "the Congress and the Supreme Court ordered it".)

President Obama, unlike all his predecessors, is doing the right thing in response to a Latin American military coup. Let's back the man up on this!

YES WE CAN!

There was never a justification for it.

It was a Bush thing.

The public wouldn't hold it against our president that he made travel easier.

And the 9/11 guys HAD passports anyway.

Is there ANY good reason not to get rid of this policy?

We have got to make clear that taxing the benefits provided in any universal healthcare plan will make those benefits unusable to the unemployed and the poor, since they will be unable to afford to pay those taxes.

There is no good reason to add any features to this plan that end up punishing people for using the benefits they'll be entitled to.

There's more than enough wealth in this country to pay for healthcare without putting a burden on the least-fortunate in this society and on those who have been sacrificed by their bosses in the names of appeasing the banks the government has bailed out.

Healthcare should be a right. Taxing healthcare benefits reduces it to being a privelege.

And if such a tax were ever imposed, a future Republican Congress would raise it high enough to make it impossible for anyone to use the benefit at all. And we can assume that that tax, once in place, would never be removed.

President Obama has no reason whatsoever to even be considering the idea.

The "liquid bomb" plot was broken up almost THREE years ago. Why are they still restricting how much liquid stuff you can have in your carry-on bag?

Also, why is the security status still on Orange from that?

Just wondering if anybody had heard anything about this. Seems sort of pointless that Homeland Security won't let the liquid thing go yet.