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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:25 AM
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Has anyone else noticed that the rhetoric just got turned up a few nothces?
Olbermann's special comments last week...

RFK JR at Live Earth...

Michael Moore on Wolf Blitzer...


Someone turned up the dial a few notches. It's nice to see some people are finally speaking truth to power. Are we gearing up for something big?

(if you haven't seen those three videos, you better catch up!)

What's next? Better stock up on popcorn!
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:29 AM
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1. How about the editor for the John Birch Society's publication
writing this "If we truly want to celebrate the Founding Fathers who won our independence for us, and support our modern-day citizen soldiers who have been placed in harm’s way in Iraq, we would bring our soldiers home — now!"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1289665&mesg_id=1289665

Drip.drip.drip....
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:29 AM
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2. NYTs calling for withdrawal. Wall Street just bailed, imo.
:shrug:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:31 AM
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3. Who owns the WSJ?

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:34 AM
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5. Yes. And notice, Mr Conyers said the I word yesterday, too.
Something has shifted, bigtime.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:41 AM
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9. I pick a fine week to stop smoking DU!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:43 AM
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11. LOL! Good luck, Swampy!
:loveya:
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 04:02 PM
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30. The green zone is for unloading only.
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 07:25 AM
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25. Good luck Swamp
Edited on Tue Jul-10-07 07:26 AM by Lochloosa
I've quit a thousand times and it's never easy. Till the next one.

Whoops....meant for Swamp Rat
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:51 AM
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14. Actually, Murdoch hasn't made the deal yet "Anyone But Murdoch"
Even as Dow Jones seemingly nears a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., there could be a fresh bid on the way. The Wall Street Journal publisher will talk Monday with a supermarket billionaire who has an eye for buying a major paper.

Dow Jones (nyse: DJ - news - people ) board members arescheduled to meet with billionaire Ron Burkle. Last month, the Dow Jones union approached Burkle about a possible bid. The union, which represents over 2,000 employees, has opposed a $5 billion, $60-a-share offer from News Corp. saying that Murdoch could meddle with the media company's editorial products and hurt its journalistic integrity.

Burkle, the 117th-richest American, made a fortune buying and selling supermarket chains and has been looking to use some of his $2.5 billion to pick up a major newspaper. Earlier this year, Burkle pursued an acquisition of the Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ), owner of the Los Angeles Times, but the company instead took an offer from the even-richer billionaire Sam Zell. (See: "Zell's Bid Wins")

According to a report on the Wall Street Journal Web site, Burkle will meet with a committee of the Dow Jones's board. The committee consists of Dow Jones Chief Executive Richard Zannino, three independent directors, and the Bancroft family's lead trustee.

-snip-

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/07/09/dow-burkle-murdoch-markets-equity-cx_af_0709markets09.html
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 07:27 AM
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26. Anybody but Murdoch is right! This is good news.
I hope he is successful!
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:31 AM
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4. One aspect of my signature line is coming true.
As it -had- to. There is no simple, "vote 'em out of office" solution to this problem.

Also, Cindy's demand upon Pelosi...
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:40 AM
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6. President Gore and Melissa Etheridge too.
The pendulum is on the upswing now.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:53 AM
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15. Indeed!
Strength and change through unity is the only solution to those who have unified against us.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:40 AM
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7. Most definitely.
I think the saturation point has been reached and the whole political solution is about to titrate out. People have had it and change can't wait until 2008.
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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:41 AM
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10. has a nice ring to it - "Don't wait till 08! " n/t
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:46 AM
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13. Yea, maybe someone could make a jingle tune out of it or something
Where is that cheap help when you need them anyway :shrug:
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:41 AM
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8. Dammm... what did Bobby say? I haven't had a chance...
...to dig into the 22 hours of Live Earth I taped on the Sundance Channel.

NGU.
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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:43 AM
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12. Grab some popcorn and click here my friend.
http://tinyurl.com/25kwcj
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 01:02 AM
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18. Thanks a LOT!!!
:bounce:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:54 AM
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16. He was great! Go see.
:)
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 02:51 PM
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28. oh it is a must hear!
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 12:58 AM
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17. 7-7-07
Maybe they really are magic numbers. We can hope. :)
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 01:23 AM
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19. Commuting Libby went too far.
I always knew something would do it...Humpty Dumpty is falling.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 01:24 AM
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20. Wait. I thought we were losing.
That's what I've been reading here lately, anyway.

;)
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 02:18 AM
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21. Well, the Federal prosecutor scandal was the Saturday Night Massacre
to the Nth degree, but I guess it took the Libby commutation to finally wake Congress up.
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 02:19 AM
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22. "Tax and spend Democrats" from Bush's Saturday radio address.
Oh, you mean as opposed to "spending our grandchildren's future in the deserts of Iraq fighting a lost cause Republicans", Señor Presidenté?
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Phrogman Donating Member (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 04:01 AM
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23. Its all coming to a head, "I don't know how much more she'll take Captain"...
Before she blows!
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 04:10 AM
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24. It may be more a symptom of the Bush stock plummeting,
like all of us who were anti-Bush and anti-war from the start KO, RFK & MM have always been saying the same thing, it just went unreported in the MSM.

Suddenly (:sarcasm:) the spineless media have inched away from the Republican party line to make it look like they are fair and balanced after all. "Hey look everybody, we've discovered a different point of view - who knew?"
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AnotherMother4Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 08:47 AM
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27. Put the popcorn aside & follow-up with letters/phone calls that are "dialed up a few notches"
Keep up the pressure and momentum. Everyone is realizing the emperor has no clothes.
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BornagainDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-10-07 03:40 PM
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29. The Repugs, ugh, I mean Republicans in Congress are
starting to turn against Bush in a big way. IMO that is our only hope of dealing with these pschopaths.
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