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I went to Sugargrove, PA for an "Abolitionist Contevetion" a re-inactment of an 1850's convention where Buffalo Native William Wells Brown spoke--really an actor, of course. The night before someone burned a cross on the Church's lawn.

And food riots everywhere else! http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080414/wl_t...kbgTtDPOXus0NUE The sociology of the food riot is pretty straightforward: The usually impoverished majority of citizens may acquiesce to the rule of detested corrupt and repressive regimes when they are preoccupied with the daily struggle to feed their children and themselves, but when circumstances render it impossible to feed their hungry children, normally passive citizens can very quickly become militants with nothing to lose. That's especially true when the source of their hunger is not the absence of food supplies but their inability to afford to buy the available food supplies. And that's precisely what we're seeing in the current wave of global food-price inflation. As Josette Sheeran of the U.N. World Food Program put it last month, "We are seeing food on the shelves but people being unable to afford it."

That's a good point. I wonder if he will compare Obama's election to the presidency to the holocaust. Wouldn't surprise me in the least. I wouldn't be surprised if McCain uses Lieberman to try and consolidate his Conservative base.

Did you put poison in it?

Sen. Joseph Lieberman's friends are certain that if Democrats expand their one-vote Senate edge in this year's elections, they will kick him out of the Senate Democratic caucus and, therefore, oust him as Homeland Security Committee chairman. Lieberman risked the usual punishment of ejection from the party caucus when he endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain for president and actively campaigned for him. But with Democrats in a Senate majority of only 51 to 49, they would lose control if Lieberman defected to the Republicans. After being defeated by an anti-Iraq war candidate in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary, Lieberman kept his Senate seat in the general election by running as an independent and now calls himself an ''Independent Democrat.'' http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/891653,...novak13.article

Pennsylvania is a strange state. Step over the border and its like you are in Alabama. The rural areas are very, very Conservative. Lots of churches, 10 commandment signs on lawns and confederate flags. Yet the big cities are of course very liberal. Its like the two big cities and Alabama in between. New York would never elect a complete as-wipe like Rick Santorium to the Senate. Our as-wipes are much more liberal. As for Erie, it's airport is a real sh-- hole.

Ethanol supporters maintain that any increase caused by biofuels is relatively small and that energy costs and soaring demand for meat in developing countries have had a greater impact. “There’s no question that they are a factor, but they are really a smaller factor than other things that are driving up prices,” said Ron Litterer, an Iowa farmer who is president of the National Corn Growers Association. He said biofuels were an “easy culprit to blame” because their popularity had grown so rapidly in the last two or three years. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, called the recent criticism of ethanol by foreign officials “a big joke.” He questioned why they were not also blaming a drought in Australia that reduced the wheat crop and the growing demand for meat in China and India. “You make ethanol out of corn,” he said. “I bet if I set a bushel of corn in front of any of those delegates, not one of them would eat it.” The senator’s comments reflect a political reality in Washington that despite the criticism from abroad, support for ethanol remains solid. Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, said he had come to realize that Congress made a mistake in backing biofuels, not anticipating the impact on food costs. He said Congress needed to reconsider its policy, though he acknowledged that would be difficult. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/business...l?th&emc=th

No, more likely it was started by the ghost of a real American patriot who was born and lived his life in Terre Huate. Eugene Debs, the American Socialist Party's nominee for President, the guy who went to jail for ***gasp** making a speech against America's involvement in World War One. Yes, in jail for a speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

Kirk>>>>>>Picard

Perhaps the travel and campaigning of this endless, moronical campaign is getting to the old geezer. AWOL on the new GI Bill for vets. It costs too much I guess. Ya, he loves the troops. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/...8_04/013500.php And this one is hysterical: McCain mentions Ronald "Big Debt" Reagan as a guide to reducing the deficit, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04...eagans-example/

Who asks your stupid neocon as-- anyway? Happy?

No, why would that make a difference, aside in your idiotic world? I mean what an incredible stupid point. Clinton picked some guy years ago that Bush would later choose after 4 years of war to be his number one cheerleader for a failed occupation and that means.....oh, something in Tommybot world. Also, how do you know Betrayus isn't a liberal? According to Darin he is the leader of a major Liberal operation.

Ya, when the Sabres were eliminated I took hostages

Nope, just Fox News, it's his eye on the world

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2...aq_war_hel.html WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus cast doubt yesterday on President Bush's bedrock argument that the war in Iraq is helping to protect the nation against another terror attack. The general stunned a packed Senate hearing room when he answered, "Sir, I don't know, actually," to a question from Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) on whether pressing ahead with the war "is making America safer." But he says we should stay there indefinetly? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2...to_stay_in.html Despite genuine gains, "We haven't turned any corners, we haven't seen any lights at the end of the tunnel. The champagne bottle has been pushed to the back of the refrigerator. And the progress, while real, is fragile and is reversible," he cautioned the Senate Armed Services Committee. Of course it's all Iran's fault. Nothing worse than a four star propagandist

Alright!!! Ten more days! http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080328/wl_t...litantsdeadline

I'd call that a distiction without a difference.

Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who has been serving a seven-year federal prison sentence for bribery, was ordered released from prison Thursday pending appeal. The House Judiciary Committee had already requested that the Department of Justice release Siegelman to testify about the circumstances of his prosecution and conviction, which Siegelman and his supporters, including many in the blogosphere, contend was politically motivated. On Thursday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there were "substantial questions" about his case, without specifying what those questions were. Siegelman will be free on bond during the appeals process; on Thursday his wife and daughter were headed to Oakdale, La., to pick him up and bring him back to Birmingham. http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

I was talking with some people about Indian religion and they were laughing about it when I said, well, they had a prayer for rain in Georgia few months back, and this one guys lights up and said "it worked!" He brought me the news story later and a weather report about how it rained the next day. Ummmmm....ok

Is artificial inflation non-organic with lots of preservatives and trans-fats in it?

WASHINGTON — President Bush, saying that "normalcy is returning back to Iraq," argued Thursday that last year's U.S. troop "surge" has improved Iraq's security to the point where political and economic progress are blossoming as well. Bush coupled his description of the situation in Iraq, meant to lay the groundwork for next month's report to Congress by U.S. military and diplomatic chiefs, with a forceful slap at war critics. "Some ... seem unwilling to acknowledge that progress is taking place," Bush said in a speech at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. He accused war opponents of constantly shifting their critique, adding: "No matter what shortcomings these critics diagnose, their prescription is always the same — retreat." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/31825.html

http://www.amazon.com/Murdering-McKinley-T...7134&sr=1-4 This is a crazy good book on the topic of the assassination in Buffalo. Really gets into the doings of the era. I'd highly recommend it

Polk: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and a big chunk of the Pacific northwest. I'm pretty sure that tops Jefferson, but I'll admit Alaska is a pretty big piece of land, so I don't know

Lincoln's "spot resolution" basically said that. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/...ln-resolutions/ And it wasn't Salsa, but land they were after. Land for slavery? Maybe. James K. Polk added more land to the nation than any other president