Keep an eye on the local boy...
NAME D-R-TOTAL (possible 20-15-35)
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Gail 14-13-27
Barbara 14-10-24
Joan 11-11-22
John N. 12-10-22
Dave L. 11-10-21
Hartley 11-10-21
Thmar 12-9-21
Shawn 12-8-20
DeeDee 11-8-19
Steven 13-5-18
Tamara 11-7-18
Charles 10-8-18
Jason 14-4-18
Dave C. 10-8-18
Damian 9-8-17
Len 9-8-17
Gus 8-9-17
Erica 11-5-16
Alex 7-9-16
Robby 8-5-13
Jerimee 4-6-10
NO RECOUNT!
]]>Hillary Clinton
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson
Declaration - Request - Promise: Lead - Lobby - Legislate
Future - Present - Past::Obama - Edwards - Clinton.
Future is to Present is to Past as
Leadership is to Lobbying is to Legislating.
DECLARATIONS
Leaders create the future. They bring it forth. They declare it. They speak, and in the moment of their speaking, the future is.
John F. Kennedy and we SHALL put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
In that moment, we "shall it," all of us, the entire country. Kennedy declared our future. He brought it forth. He languaged it. And as one, we moved forward to meet the challenge, more or less, together.
If you were alive July 20, 1969, and of a certain age and in the western world, you watched as Jack Kennedy's declaration unfolded. I was ten years old and I remember everything.
That's leadership in action. Leaders make DECLARATIONS.
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]]>Democrats:
Obama 940 38% 16
Edwards 744 30% 14
Clinton 737 29% 15
Richardson 53 2% 0
Biden 23 1% 0
Uncommitted 3 0% 0
Dodd 1 0% 0
Gravel 0 0% 0
Kucinich 0 0% 0
Republicans:
Huckabee 39,814 34% 17]]>
Romney 29,405 25% 12
Thompson 15,521 13% 3
McCain 15,248 13% 3
Paul 11,598 10% 2
Giuliani 4,013 4% 0
Hunter 515 1%
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Iraq 4-eva!]]>Chaos was the plan; oil is the prize, just like Henry Kissinger said. Jim Holt in the London Review of Books does the math:
Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be ‘stuck’ precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is no ‘exit strategy’.Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves. That is more than five times the total in the United States. And, because of its long isolation, it is the least explored of the world’s oil-rich nations. A mere two thousand wells have been drilled across the entire country; in Texas alone there are a million. It has been estimated, by the Council on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220 billion barrels of undiscovered oil; another study puts the figure at 300 billion. If these estimates are anywhere close to the mark, US forces are now sitting on one quarter of the world’s oil resources. The value of Iraqi oil, largely light crude with low production costs, would be of the order of $30 trillion at today’s prices. For purposes of comparison, the projected total cost of the US invasion/occupation is around $1 trillion.
Well, if all this is true, it’s going to be the first business venture that George W. Bush has ever succeeded in.
And, er, if the Iraqis want their oil back?
And about those Cheney Energy Task Force records….
NOTE Via No War blog.
Last night on The Charlie Rose Show, former Bush political adviser Karl Rove claimed that he was “opposed” to holding the pre-war Iraq vote just ahead of the 2002 elections. “The administration was opposed to voting on it in the fall of 2002,” Rove said. He stated that his upcoming book will argue that the administration did not want to schedule an Iraq war vote prior to the 2002 elections...
I think I'll pass on this one...
]]>Author of 'What Would Jesus Buy?' to speak at NCSU
Billy Talen, aka Rev. Billy, will speak at N.C. State University at 8 p.m. Nov. 28. Rev. Billy will discuss his book “What Would Jesus Buy?” at Stewart Theater in Talley Student Center.
Rev. Billy leads the Church of Stop Shopping, an activist performance group based in New York City. Using the form of a revival meeting, on sidewalks and in chain stores, Rev. Billy and his gospel choir exhort consumers to abandon the products of large corporations and mass media; the group also preaches a broader message of economic justice and anti-militarism, protesting sweatshops and the Iraq war.
Though Talen does not call himself a Christian, he says Rev. Billy is not a parody of a preacher, but a real preacher; he describes his church's spiritual message as “Put the Odd back in God.”
"What Would Jesus Buy?" talks about the “Shopocalypse,” starting your own stop-shopping church, and retail interventions.
Before the day of show, tickets are $10 for the public, $5 for non-NCSU students and free for all N.C. State students, faculty and staff. For more information or to order tickets, contact Ticket Central at (919) 515-1100, TTY: (919) 515-7371 or on the web at http://ticketcentral.ncsu.edu. The event is being sponsored by the Issues and Ideas Committee of the Union Activities Board, Honors, Caldwell Fellows, First Year College and the Inter Residence Hall Council at NCSU.
New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman to Speak at Duke]]>Durham, NC -- New York Times columnist Paul Krugman will discuss the links between political partisanship and economic inequality on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Duke University.
In his new book, “Conscience of a Liberal,” Krugman combines social and political analysis with historical commentary to examine connections between political ideologies and economic trends, from the Gilded Age to the present. He maintains that New Deal policies created postwar prosperity and that the time is ripe for a return to liberalism.
About his new book, Krugman has said, “My generation grew up in a nation of strong democratic values and broadly shared prosperity. But both those values and that shared prosperity have been slipping away.
“We can reverse that trend. Political and economic reform turned the oligarchic America of the Gilded Age, a place of vast inequality, bigotry and corruption, into the imperfect but far better society of the postwar era. The challenge now is to do again what the New Deal did: to create institutions that will support and sustain a decent society.”
A New York Times op-ed columnist since 1999, Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the best-seller, “The Great Unraveling,” and the textbook, “International Economics: Theory and Policy” (currently in its seventh edition), considered the standard on international economics without calculus.
Krugman taught at Yale, MIT, University of California-Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Stanford University before joining the Princeton faculty in 2000. From 1982 to 1983, he spent a year working at the Reagan White House as a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Krugman’s appearance is co-sponsored by the Regulator Bookshop of Durham. Copies of “Conscience of a Liberal” will be for sale at the event. A book signing will begin at 7 p.m.
Parking is available for a fee in the visitor lot on Science Drive or the Bryan Center parking lot and garage. For directions, visit the Sanford Institute website: www.pubpol.duke.edu/about/location.php.
For more information, contact: Allison Rosenstein | (919) 613-7312 | allison.rosenstein@duke.edu
Statement of Belief :: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir believe that Consumerism is overwhelming our lives. The corporations want us to have experiences only through their products. Our neighborhoods, "commons" places like stoops and parks and streets and libraries, are disappearing into the corporatized world of big boxes and chain stores. But if we "back away from the product" - even a little bit, well then we Put The Odd Back In God! The supermodels fly away and we're left with our original sensuality. So we are singing and preaching for local economies and real - not mediated through products -- experience. We like independent shops where you know the person behind the counter or at least - you like them enough to share a story.We ask that local activists who are defending themselves against supermalls, nuke plants, gentrification -- call us and we'll come and put on our "Fabulous Worship!" Remember children... Love is a Gift Economy! — The Rev
They have a movie out called 'What Would Jesus Buy?', produced by Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame), which looks pretty funny. Go check out the trailer (below) and keep an eye out for local screenings.
]]>I would have hoped that you'd be pretty familiar with it already, because you have at least three times in your life taken a solemn oath to uphold, protect and defend it, but all the signs indicate that you either don't know what's in it, or you don't care.
Thus begins the letter that President George W. Bush will be receiving with each of at least 30,000 copies of the constitution. The effort to give the president this early holiday gift is led by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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