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Oil could hit $200 in 'super-spike' Oil prices threaten to hit $200 a barrel in a final "super-spike" over coming months as 'producers fail to keep pace with blistering demand from China and the Middle East,' according to a controversial report by Goldman Sachs.
Buck Fush
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Carolyn Kay
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Happy Mother's Day! Reminds me of a song....

General NewsHere's one for you by The Intruders. Happy Mom's Day, Mom.

I`ll always love my mama, She`s my favorite girl
I`ll always love my mama, She brought me in this world

Sometimes I feel so bad
When I think of all the things I used to do
How mama used to clean somebody else`s house
Just to buy me a new pair shoes

I never understood how mama made it through the week
When she never, ever got a good night`s sleep

Talking `bout mama, Oh, she`s one of a kind
Talking `bout mama
You`ve got your yours, and I`ve got mine
Talking `bout mama
Oh, hey mama, hey mama, my heart belongs to you, oh, yeah

I`ll always love my mama, She`s my favorite girl
You only get one, you only get one, yeah
I`ll always love my mama, She brought me in this world

Mmm, a mother`s love is so special
It`s something that can`t you can`t describe
It`s the kind of love that stays with you Until the day you die

She taught me little things
Like saying `Hello` and `Thank you, please`
While scrubbing those floors on her bended knees

Talking `bout mama, Oh, she`s one of a kind
Talking `bout mama
You`ve got your yours and I`ve got mine
Talking `bout mama
Oh, hey mama, hey mama, my heart belongs to you, oh, yeah
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Better Late Than Never, I Guess

MusicI think I'm very late to the party on this one, but Pandora.com is simply fabulous. Forgive my tardiness.
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Bubble Boy

Economics & FinanceOf course he "hadn't heard that," he's a fucking moron.

Feb 28, 2008:

Q What's your advice to the average American who is hurting now, facing the prospect of $4 a gallon gasoline, a lot of people facing --

THE PRESIDENT: Wait, what did you just say? You're predicting $4 a gallon gasoline?

Q A number of analysts are predicting --

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, yeah?

Q -- $4 a gallon gasoline this spring when they reformulate.

THE PRESIDENT: That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

Q Yes, sir.

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White House: Time not right for three-way Mideast meeting WASHINGTON - President Bush's second trip to the Mideast this year, designed in part to make progress toward a peace deal before the end of his presidency, will not see him hosting a joint session with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the White House said Wednesday.

Of course we’re not ready to talk. Bush only talks AFTER he’s blown a country to smithereens.—Caro

Project for the Old American Century
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Carolyn Kay
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Bolton on whether Bush might bomb Iran before he leaves office: ‘I think so, definitely.’ (Think Progress) In a Fox News interview this afternoon, former UN Ambassador John Bolton discussed his desire to bomb camps inside Iran that are reportedly training and arming Shiite insurgents who fight in Iraq. Fox host Martha McCallum asked, “Can you imagine a scenario where President Bush would do that before the end of his term?” Bolton responded, “I think so, definitely.” He added later, “This is entirely responsible on our part.”

We can’t believe anything you say, Mr. Bolton. We know you're just pimping for George Bush, trying to get him another war.—Caro

The Radical Fringe
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Carolyn Kay
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Racist? No. Stupid, Divisive and Disingenuous? Hell, yeah.

PoliticsStill picking my jaw up off the floor after reading this:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Now, I won't accuse Hillary Clinton of racism. That's the easy explanation, but it's way too easy. And the Clintons have long had the respect and support of the Black community, so calling them racists would be a stretch that I'm not willing to make.

Having said that, I'm afraid that this latest statement is just further evidence that Clinton is willing to use loaded words and dog-whistle politics in an increasingly desperate attempt to save what is essentially a dead campaign. And at this point in the primary, that is a dangerous and damaging course to take.

This was a stupid, stupid thing to say, but does that mean that Hillary Clinton is stupid? No. Quite the contrary - she is without a doubt a very bright person. She is a lawyer, and lawyers are trained by profession to zero in on the meaning of words and arrange them in a very precise manner, so as to narrow and limit any interpretation that would vary from the interpretation that the lawyer wants to convey.

There are a few bloggers out there (like Jerome Armstrong, who just gets more pitiable every damn day) who are perfectly willing to write this off as Clinton mis-speaking, saying something she did not mean in the course of a free-wheeling interview.

I don't buy that for a second.

I believe that Clinton said exactly what she wanted to say - and while I won't say she's a racist, I will say that she seems willing to use any tactic, however disingenuous or divisive, to try and get her epic failure of a presidential campaign back on the rails.

I can only imagine what any uncommitted black superdelegates are thinking at this point. I can only imagine what black voters in my state of New York are thinking. I can only imagine the twisted thought process within the Clinton campaign that came to the conclusion that this was a good tactic or a smart thing to say.

The short-term damage will be to Barack Obama's campaign and his chances for success in November. This one goes in the growing file of 'Statements John McCain Can Use Against Barack Obama That Were Said By Hillary Clinton.'

But in the long term, this will come back to hurt Clinton herself. It will damage her stature in the black community and will tarnish the Clinton legacy, and could seriously damage her chances for re-election to the Senate.

And if she is willing to use these reprehensible tactics for what she sees as short-term gain, then she deserves every bit of damage that this is certain to cause her in the long term.

This type of thing is exactly why she is losing the primary. Democrats hate this type of stuff when Republicans do it, and they are repulsed and saddened when a Democrat does it.
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Clinton to Fight On Despite Split Result With her hopes for a shift in campaign momentum deflated by Senator Barack Obama’s commanding victory in North Carolina on Tuesday, his strong showing in Indiana and signs of mounting financial problems, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton nonetheless vowed to fight on, heading early Wednesday for a new round of speeches, rallies and town meetings in West Virginia, which holds its primary on May 13.

And more power to her.—Caro

All Hat No Cattle
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Carolyn Kay
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Pentagon Backs Plan To Build U.S. ‘Zone Of Influence’ Of Hotels And Resorts In Baghdad (Think Progress)
The White House has repeatedly insisted that the United States has “no desire for permanent bases” in Iraq. Nevertheless, the Bush administration is seeking to leave its footprint on Iraq through other means. The AP reports that the Pentagon is backing a $5 billion dollar plan to “transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone” into a “centerpiece for Baghdad’s future,” resulting in “big paydays for early investors.”

A fairyland for investors. In a war zone. And you thought “Apocalypse Now” was fiction.—Caro

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United States is drawing up plans to strike Iranian insurgency camp The US military is drawing up plans for a "surgical strike" against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue with attempts to destabilise Iraq, western intelligence sources said last week. One source said the Americans were growing increasingly angry at the involvement of the Guards’ special-operations Quds force inside Iraq, training Shi’ite militias and smuggling weapons into the country. "If the situation in Basra goes back to what it was like before, America is likely to blame Iran and carry out a surgical strike on a militant training camp across the border in Khuzestan," said one source, referring to a frontier province.

Gotta have another war, eh George?—Caro

Freeway Blogger
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Carolyn Kay
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Where's the April fundraising numbers?

PoliticsSeems like in the past months we've heard pretty quickly from the campaigns about how they did in fundraising for the previous month. Heck, Hillary's folks were able to say how much came in after the PA primary almost immediately, so I doubt some obscure accounting problem is behind this. Maybe no one wants to announce until just before next Tues. primaries? Both sides seem to have gone all in and are getting a little dramatic before throwing down their cards. Or maybe I'm just antsy because I once again tossed some coin Obama's way (4th time, a record for anyone for me) in hopes that indeed, the media will take some note about how well his support has or has not held up over the latest rough patch.

Or maybe these numbers are out there and I'm too dumb to find them? If so, let me know and as for the rest...never mind.

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Mind-Bending Quote Of The Day

PoliticsJosh Marshall is having a little fun with the McCain campaign's whining over a DNC ad mocking his '100 years in Iraq' quote (posts here and here), and in the second post he points to a quote by Hendrik Herzberg which so perfectly captures the shithouse-rat aspect of McCain's quote, I had to post it here.

McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal--that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll stay.

Heh. Indeedy.
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Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president. "No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

The Methodist Church doesn’t want his library to be at SMU, either.--Caro

Bartcop
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Carolyn Kay
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The Return Of 'Sid Vicious'

PoliticsRight Wing politics - it isn't just for Democrats any more.

Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term "vast right-wing conspiracy" used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton White House where he worked as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now acting as a senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is exploiting that same right-wing network to attack and discredit Barack Obama. And he's not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.

Almost every day over the past six months, I have been the recipient of an email that attacks Obama's character, political views, electability, and real or manufactured associations. The original source of many of these hit pieces are virulent and sometimes extreme right-wing websites, bloggers, and publications. But they aren't being emailed out from some fringe right-wing group that somehow managed to get my email address. Instead, it is Sidney Blumenthal who, on a regular basis, methodically dispatches these email mudballs to an influential list of opinion shapers -- including journalists, former Clinton administration officials, academics, policy entrepreneurs, and think tankers -- in what is an obvious attempt to create an echo chamber that reverberates among talk shows, columnists, and Democratic Party funders and activists. One of the recipients of the Blumenthal email blast, himself a Clinton supporter, forwards the material to me and perhaps to others.

These attacks sent out by Blumenthal, long known for his fierce and combative loyalty to the Clintons, draw on a wide variety of sources to spread his Obama-bashing. Some of the pieces are culled from the mainstream media and include some reasoned swipes at Obama's policy and political positions.

But, rather remarkably for such a self-professed liberal operative like Blumenthal, a staggering number of the anti-Obama attacks he circulates derive from highly-ideological and militant right-wing sources such as the misnamed Accuracy in Media (AIM), The Weekly Standard, City Journal, The American Conservative, and The National Review.

To cite just one recent example, Blumenthal circulated an article taken from the fervently hard-right AIM website on February 18 entitled, "Obama's Communist Mentor" by Cliff Kincaid. Kincaid is a right-wing writer and activist, a longtime critic of the United Nations, whose group, America's Survival, has been funded by foundations controlled by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife, the same millionaire who helped fund attacks on the Clintons during their White House years. Scaife also funds AIM, the right-wing media "watchdog" group.

The Kincaid article that Blumenthal circulated sought to discredit Obama by linking him to an African-American poet and writer whom Obama knew while he was in high school in Hawaii. That writer, Frank Marshall Davis, was, Kincaid wrote, a member of the Communist Party. Supported by no tangible evidence, Kincaid claimed that Obama considered his relationship to Davis to be "almost like a son." In his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote about meeting, during his teenage years, a writer named "Frank" who "had some modest notoriety once" and with whom he occasionally discussed poetry and politics. From this snippet, Kincaid weaves an incredulous tale that turns Davis into Obama's "mentor."

Kincaid's piece had been previously circulating within the right-wing blogosphere, but Blumenthal sought to inject the story into more respectable opinion circles by amplifying it in his email blast.

In the same piece, Kincaid, expanding his guilt-by-association tactics, also wrote that Obama "came into contact with more far-left political forces," including former Weather Underground member William Ayers. Until a few weeks ago, Obama's tangential connection with Ayers -- whose 1960s anti-war terrorism occurred when Obama was in grade school -- was echoing among right-wing bloggers.

Some Clinton supporters who also knew about Ayers have been discreetly trying to catapult the story out of the right-wing sandbox into the wider mainstream media. On April 9, Fox News' Sean Hannity interviewed fellow right-winger Karl Rove, who raised the Ayers-Obama connection. The next day, ABC News reporter Jake Tapper wrote about Ayers in his Political Punch blog. The following week, on his radio show, Hannity suggested to his guest, George Stephanopoulos, that he ask Obama about his relationship with Ayers at the upcoming Philadelphia presidential debate. Stephanopoulos, who was Bill Clinton's press secretary, replied, "Well, I'm taking notes." The following night during the April 16 nationally televised Presidential debate, Stephanopoulos dutifully asked Obama about Ayers, who is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

I guess the Clinton campaign's new attitude is 'To win as a Democrat, run like a Republican.' Maybe her supporters are fine with it, but I'm not.

For years, bloggers have explained time and time again how negative stories about Democrats make their way from Rightard hate sites like Michelle Malkin's to the mainstream media. Blumenthal looks like he took notes and decided to use the same techniques. Clinton should be ashamed, but I'm afraid that's expecting far, far too much.
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White House admits fault on 'Mission Accomplished' banner WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.
From exactly two years ago:
My Stolen Nation
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Carolyn Kay
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