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“Happy Holidays” “Happy Holydays” “Happy Thanksgiving"….

Do you honestly think we give a flying fuck what you call it?



There is much at this time to be thankful for.
That which we have always been thankful for, that which we have to be thankful for now, and finally…at long last, we can be thankful for a future of promise and prosperity for the common man.

And perhaps, that elusive peace and love everybody talks about all the time.

Happy Thanxgiving.

It’s not much, but it’s a start.

From the Houston Chronicle…

Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer © 2008 The Associated Press
Nov. 18, 2008, 10:49PM

McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers.

The indictment, which had not yet been signed by the presiding judge, was one of seven released Tuesday in a county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles in recent years. Another of the indictments named a state senator on charges of profiting from his position.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra himself had been under indictment for more than a year and half before a judge dismissed the indictments last month. This flurry of charges came in the twilight of Guerra’s tenure, which ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.

Cheney’s indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.

Gonzales’ attorney, George Terwilliger III, said in a written statement, “This is obviously a bogus charge on its face, as any good prosecutor can recognize. Hopefully, competent Texas authorities will take steps to reign in this abuse of the criminal justice system.”

Willacy County has become a prison hub with county, state and federal lockups. Guerra has gone after the prison-politician nexus before, extracting guilty pleas from three former Willacy and Webb county commissioners after investigating bribery related to federal prison contacts.

Another indictment released Tuesday accuses state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. of profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies. Guerra announced his intention to investigate Lucio’s prison consulting early last year.

Lucio’s attorney, Michael Cowen, released a scathing statement accusing Guerra of settling political scores in his final weeks in office.

“Senator Lucio is completely innocent and has done nothing wrong,” Cowen said, adding that he would file a motion to quash the indictment this week.

Last month, a Willacy County grand jury indicted The GEO Group, a Florida private prison company, on a murder charge in the death of a prisoner days before his release. The three-count indictment alleged The GEO Group allowed other inmates to beat Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. to death with padlocks stuffed into socks. The death happened in 2001 at the Raymondville facility, just four days before de la Rosa’s scheduled release.

In 2006, a jury ordered the company to pay de la Rosa’s family $47.5 million in a civil judgment. The Cheney-Gonzales indictment makes reference to the de la Rosa case.

None of the indictments released Tuesday had been signed by Presiding Judge Manuel Banales of the Fifth Administrative Judicial Region.

A second batch of indictments targeted public officials connected to Guerra’s own legal battles.

Willacy County Clerk Gilbert Lozano, District judges Janet Leal and Migdalia Lopez, and special prosecutors Mervyn Mosbacker Jr. — a former U.S. attorney — and Gustavo Garza — a long-time political opponent of Guerra — were all indicted on charges of official abuse of official capacity and official oppression.

Garza, the only one who could be immediately reached Tuesday, called it a sad state of affairs.

“I feel sorry for all of the good people this unprofessional prosecutor has maligned,” Garza said. “I’m not at all concerned about the accusations he has trumped up.”

Lozano said in a story for Wednesday’s edition of the Valley Morning Star that he wasn’t surprised by the indictments.

“Guerra had made comments that he was going out (of office), but that he was going to take several officials with him,” Lozano said. “I know that he has made comments that I am in his hit list.”

Banales dismissed indictments against Guerra last month that charged him with extorting money from a bail bond company and using his office for personal business. An appeals court had earlier ruled that Garza was improperly appointed as special prosecutor to investigate Guerra.

After Guerra’s office was raided as part of the investigation early last year, he camped outside the courthouse in a borrowed camper with a horse, three goats and a rooster. He threatened to dismiss hundreds of cases because he believed local law enforcement had aided the investigation against him.

On Tuesday, Guerra said the indictments speak for themselves. He said the prison-related charges are a national issue and experts from across the country testified to the grand jury. Asked about the indictments against local players in the justice system who had pursued him, Guerra said, “the grand jury is the one that made those decisions, not me.”

The indictments were first reported by KRGV-TV.

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Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann in Washington contributed to this report.

UPDATED:

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas indictments alleging prisoner abuse

CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
AP News

Nov 19, 2008 21:25 EST

A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.

Cheney, Gonzales and the others will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment, Presiding Judge Manuel Banales said.

In the latest bizarre development in the case, the lame-duck prosecutor who won the indictments was a no-show in court Wednesday. The judge ordered Texas Rangers to go to Willacy County District Attorney Juan Guerra’s house, check on his well-being and order him to court on Friday.

Half of the eight high-profile indictments returned Monday by a Willacy County grand jury are tied to privately run federal detention centers in the sparsely populated South Texas county. The other half target judges and special prosecutors who played a role in an earlier investigation of Guerra.

One indictment charges Cheney and Gonzales with engaging in organized criminal activity. It alleges that the men neglected federal prisoners and are responsible for assaults in the facilities.

Date: November 18th, 2008

President Elect Obama just made his first major blunder as a leader and he’s not even inaugurate yet.
Don’t get us wrong, we still back him. But we now know that the anticipated disappointments are going to be reality.

Barack Obama has supported the Zionist scumbag traitor, Joe Lieberman, and as a result Congress was moved and Red Joe has retained his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Gov’t Affairs committee.

Bad move, Barack. You fucked up, big time.
This may make you feel like you are no longer indebted to Lieberman, but you did it at your country’s expense.
You allowed a Neocon too much power and power it has already abused.

WTF are you thinking? Please don’t turn out to be a dumb-ass, Barack. We’ve had all the dumb-ass we can take.

From Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Tuesday yielded to the wishes of President-elect Barack Obama and allowed Joe Lieberman to keep his committee chairmanship despite having backed Republican John McCain for the White House, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said.

Emerging from a closed-door meeting, Harkin told reporters that Democrats had stripped Lieberman of a subcommittee chairmanship, a far lesser punishment.

The only position we would like to see Herr Liberbitch in is Ambassador to Iran.

Pathetic Little Man

Don’t take this Mr. Fucking Niceguy shit too far, Mr. President. We want more than four years, right?
Right??

Stand by……I’m still trying to stop laughing…..Oh God, my gut hurts. Thankfully I’m not doin’ shrooms, I’d be busting my sides.

You gotta see this. Over at White’s Creek, good ol’ Steve is attracting flies with his usual expert analysis of the Chimp and his Sadministration.

Some Bush Bots dropped by to insult our Steve and it was a stark reminder of the fact that though Bush himself may be a thing of the past soon, the complete and total fucktards and asshats that worship him are still around. Still spreading their intellectually challenged opinions, offering their willful ignorance, injecting their Satanic lies and being just plain stupid.

Dig this:

One of those “anonymous” clowns said…

This “worst of humanity” president has: appointed more women and minorities to cabinet level posts and other positions than any other president in history.

Does Condi count as two? Or just one? If so, which?
And does this override the fact that she has proved to be the single most incompetent SOS in US history?
7 on the LOLometer.

Some tool called “Minnesota Nice” actually said…

Also, I have traveled to India, Thialand, Nepal, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Russia, Eastern Europe, Jordan, Isreal, and Egypt.
The United States of America, has cleaner air, water, and environment then all of those countries put together.

Thank God we have cleaner air than Mexico (rated worst on the planet). That makes everything just peachy.
9 on the LOLometer.

Some half wit called “Mrs. Robinson” decided to object to my language which I always find very amusing.
Vulgar truth beats whitewashed lies any day…

CaptainKona
Your command of the english language, or lack of ability to use it, only proves to show that you obviously flunked dabate. There are words that have more then four letters. Mister Webster showed us that when he wrote his dictionary.

Well shame on me.

8 on the LOLometer.

“Minnesota Nice", who is apparently a special kind of idiot stated…

..Al Quaeda who murdered over three million people in the US

WOW! I missed that. Anyone got video?

The same snapper head then defended it’s self by attributing this to a “typo” (after a Google to be sure I would think). Million…Thousand…Typo?
An o instead of an i. A switched vowel. Those are “typos". Replacing Thousand with Million is either a blatant attempt to deceive or a product of the unequaled stupidity Bush Worshipers are so famous for.
I’d bet on the latter if there were any takers.
24 1/2 on the LOLometer. Which has a 1-10 scale BTW.

Stoopid is as Stoopid does.

Perhaps one day there will be a cure for people like this. They are a disease and thanks be to God, the American voter is at least a strong treatment for the symptoms.

LOL, just fucking LOL

Finally got a chance to sit down, at home, relax and thank God Almighty for delivering me (us) from all evil.
The demonic plague that infested America in the form of George Bush and his masters at the PNAC/AIPAC has been driven out before me (us).

I feel good.

As I don my flute of champagne and a joint the size of Sara Palin’s ego, I reflect on what I consider long pursued, often prayed for personal victories throughout this election cycle.

This one is just about me.

After beginning my internet ventures in 1995 by transferring my Anti-Drug War activism online, my focus has been simple. Helping inform Americans about the truths and lies surrounding drugs, their use, and the persecution and systemic abuse of those who choose to self-medicate.
This largely included revenge against Bill Clinton. The lying prick former President of the United States who campaigned as a Liberal then once in office, stabbed a large portion of his base in the back by escalating the injustices and bloodshed of the failed Drug War on American Citizens to record levels.
During Bill Clinton’s presidency, over one million Americans were imprisoned or otherwise had their lives ruined and taken for nothing more than drug use or possession. One million non-violent offenders disenfranchised, killed and cast aside.
Innocent bystanders have often lost their lives at the hands of paramilitary police groups sent to assassinate drug users and dealers.

After two years as a POW in the longest war in American history I finally feel vindicated and somewhat avenged.
By watching Hillary Clinton get thrown under the bus by the New Democratic party, and naturally Bill with her, my heart warmed again.
Here was Bill, in the ‘08 Democratic primary, floundering about like a gasping fish on the deck of my Marijuana laden boat and it filled me with joy. Few times have I ever thought I would delight so in the demise and humiliation of another. But I did.
Vindicated! Everything I ever wrote about the Clinton’s was proven true right before God and everyone.
America, particularly Democrats rejected Bill Clinton. I became proud again.
Good riddance.

Then, just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, my year old prediction came true and John McCain was the Republican candidate. Never had I been so right. I thought “how could I be so gifted? To have had the opportunity to tear Bill Clinton down in front of an innumerable internet audience only to be doubly blessed with the opportunity to do exactly the same thing to McCain".

What joy. What unbridled joy.

Why?

My father worked for the Fluor Corporation based in Irvine California. Fifteen years he trudged the world over for the then largest petroleum engineering firm on the planet.
Bob Fluor was a kindly sort. Nothing like the fascist corporate pigs that ran the other companies like Bechtel, ARAMCO, Gasco and the rest.
He held dear the hard work and dedication of people like my father. These employees had healthy pensions waiting for them when they finally retired.
Or so they thought.

Many of the Fluor corp. pension funds were entrusted to a Savings and Loan entity by the name of Lincoln S&L. Under the control of one Charles Keating. The Keating 5.

My father died poor on Social Security. His pension of 95,000 and his life’s savings of 157′000 stolen by Charles Keating and his Gov’t protection John McCain.
Dad died in ‘95. Though he may not have been here to see this day at least I’m here to see, and participate in it for him.
John McCain, blown out and disgraced for the rest of his miserable life having been overwhelmingly rejected by America in his bid to become President.
The only bid he will ever have.

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. In the end, a loser.
And the icing on the cake? McCain took the entire Republican party down with him. A political entity I have always despised and spent the last eight years assailing. That battle will continue until the Republican party is extinct or I am dead. Whichever comes first.

Revenge is truly sweet. Even sweeter when it’s so well earned. Do I feel guilty about delighting in this? Sure. But fuck it.
They earned the disgrace they reaped. And I earned the right to revel in their perdition.

They say that in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. So long Bill and John. It’s going to be a long, lonely journey for both of you. Alone with the memories of the evil that you’ve done and the images you squandered.

So be it.

It’s a brand new day.
Let the good times roll…

-captainkona

Dear Friends,

Thanks so much for your support this campaign season. Thanks to your efforts I was able to gather 9,067 votes for peace in the US Senate race. When I began in October of 2007 I did not realize how many friends I would make on the trail and how many people in Tennessee are in support of peace and real human priorities for Tennessee.

It has been a tremendous honor to travel this beautiful state. My campaign began last year in Jonesborough, Tennessee where hundreds of us gathered to call for an end to the production of depleted uranium weapons at the Aerojet facility in Irwin. We learned about the role that Aerojet plays in the production of depleted uranium and how it has caused long- term health problems for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since then I have been to all corners of this state - to Oak Ridge for the Stop the Bombs annual action to call for an end to the remanufacturing of nuclear bombs. We were also in Oak Ridge this year for the Department of Energy Hearings and spoke out in support of putting hundreds of people to work cleaning up the toxic legacy of sixty years of DOE activity in the area. Many of us closed out the year at a conference sponsored by S.E.A.C. at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro where we learned about the interconnectedness of the nuclear issues in this state, where foreign countries ship waste into Tennessee to incinerate, landfill and put into permanent temporary storage facilities.

Thanks also to the support I received this year from Democracy for East Tennessee and the Knoxville Greens as well as students at Heritage High School in Maryville, Tennessee and Kevin Rowland for his efforts. I would also like to recognize the work that so many people are doing in East Tennessee to promote peace and support a progressive agenda, especially members of the GLBT community.

There are so many wonderful people to thank who have offered their support and encouragement for the past thirteen months. I would like to thank the NAACP for hosting the only US Senate debate this season at Austin Peay State University, the Green Party of Middle Tennessee, the Green Party of Tennessee, the Chattanooga Area Greens, Democracy for Tennessee, Scott Banbury for personally securing a visit of Cynthia McKinney to Tennessee to submit her nominations to be on the ballot in as our presidential candidate. I would like to thank John Miglietta who ran a fantastic campaign as the Green Party candidate for the 5th District US House seat and was my constant companion in middle Tennessee as we traveled to neighborhood meetings, festivals, fairs, public events and campaign meetings.

I would like to thank my partner, Nini Thomas, who traveled with me across the state from Memphis to Chattanooga to Jonesborough and all points in between. Nini listened to my speeches, proofread my letters, designed my buttons and brochures and was a constant source of encouragement. I would like to thank the peace activists in Memphis at the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center and the Gandhi-King conference, especially Allison Glass and Jacob Flowers for promoting peace through a fantastic conference that brought together hundreds of peace activists from around the world to talk to each other and hear Amy Goodman.

I would like to thank the Nashville Peace and Justice Center for all the good work they do to promote peace and offer a center for community groups to gather and hosting numerous events this year all while fighting a lawsuit and undergoing an audit. I would like to thank the Nashville Movement for letting me flyer at their events this summer to seek justice for taxicab workers, HUD houses for the homeless and a living wage for everyone. These groups did not endorse me and they did not take a position on any candidate because of their non-profit status, but their work for social justice has made Tennessee stronger and I believe in what they are doing.

I would like to thank the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, whose path I crossed many times this campaign season including in Nashville where Sherri Honkala helped lead an occupation of an abandoned HUD house with the Nashville Homeless Power Project, and again at the Republican National Convention protests in St. Paul where I marched with Sherri Honkala and the Green Party of Minnesota and hundreds of protesters demanding economic human rights, and then again in Chattanooga this fall when Sherri came in October and we marched to the doors of the city council with demands to address the needs of the working poor and homeless in Chattanooga.

Thanks also to the folks at Clarksville Online and the activists in the Clarksville area where almost ten percent of all troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are stationed or shipped through, and their long struggle and transformation from Clarksville Freethinkers for Peace and Civil Liberties into their work with Clarksville Online and the Unitarian Church and their collective struggles for peace in the heart of a military town.

I would also like to recognize the work that the Cumberland County Center for Peace and Justice are doing with communities in the plateau region around Monteagle, Sewanee, Tracy City and points beyond as well as the Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. I am so impressed with the efforts of the Peace Roots Alliance and their work, especially Liz Barger and Alan Graf and Judy Meeker and Albert Bates and so many others at the Farm, which has held its space for the past thirty years as a home for peaceful, community seeking individuals. This campaign season I crossed paths with so many different people all of who had a collective vision of peace, social justice, the environment, a living wage, economic justice, the need to address the deep wounds of racism, disarmament, education, alternative energy and more.

I have seen a shift in Tennessee. In 2006 I think that there was much less tolerance for the message of peace and the environment. People seem to be more tolerant and more interested in the message. I think that perhaps this is the beginning of a real shift. I think it will be a long time coming, and perhaps it won’t come at all, but I definitely noticed a change. Everyone in Tennessee seemed to be more open minded, more willing to hear differing perspectives this year, more willing to consider alternatives.

Thanks to the Tennessee Alliance for Progress for all the work they are doing to promote a common message in Tennessee and Radio Free Nashville for promoting democracy on the airwaves. Thanks to Middle Tennessee Students for a Democratic Society for all their fantastic work at MTSU and thanks to the folks in Dyersberg, Lexington, Lebanon, Jackson, Hohenwald, Shelbyville, Cookeville, Crossville and other places in rural Tennessee who expressed support this campaign season, especially to Howard & Katey for all the work they do for the Green Party of Tennessee and Catherine Austin Fitts for all the work she does to reclaim our democracy and thanks to the Reverend Larry Fagre of Vetsburg for all his work to support housing for homeless veterans.

Thanks to Cathy Danielson and to Kathi Gregory for her blog Streetalker and Dan and Beverly Sweeton for all their support this year, especially at the Wilson County Fair. I would be remiss if I didn’t also say thanks to my parents for their support as well as Marylin and Ray Williams, Eric Schecter, Glenn Christman, Sandy Hepler, Courtney Meeker, Richard Aberdeen, Ricky Nickolson, Beth Dachowski, Ken and Fle Frasure, Martin Holsinger, Bill Humble, Free Land, Gigi Gaskin, Rhonda Fergus, Joe Shedlock and Sizwe Herring for all of his fantastic work at the Carver Food Park and being an anchor of the community in so many ways.

But I would especially like to thank the Nashville Peace Coalition for all of their support and fantastic work for peace this year, especially organizing the fifth anniversary peace rally and the alternative presidential debate. It was so exciting meeting eight presidential candidates this year and having six of them attend our alternative debate. I can’t believe how much work everyone I have met across the state of Tennessee is doing on peace, the environment and other areas of social justice.

I would also like to thank my opponents, the Libertarians, for their spirit of cooperation on many issues including tolerating my many posts on their message boards and for the cooperative work they did with the Greens this year on the ballot access lawsuit as well as coming out for protests against the war, against FISA and turning out for the alternative debate. Daniel Lewis is a man of integrity and it was a pleasure to run against him for the US Senate seat. I would also like to thank the Democrats for their support this campaign season.

Many progressive Democrats were supportive of my running and I wanted to personally thank them, even if I didn’t receive their vote - especially the folks at the L-Club and Democracy for Tennessee who have been so nice and respectful all this campaign season. I would also like to congratulate Bob Tuke on a good run. I was always impressed with his professional approach and happy to see his support on environmental issues in Tennessee.

I don’t think I have mentioned all of the people I wanted to thank for their support this campaign season nor all of the national contacts that we have made. If I have omitted someone please forgive me. I just wanted to thank everyone who was supportive this campaign season. The reason that I ran is because it is my hope that we can build a progressive majority in Tennessee

I think the most important thing we need to do is talk to each other. As a candidate I have had an opportunity to meet a lot of communities, and I think one of the principal needs we still have is to get together and network more and let each other know what we are doing. The other need I really see is for us all to come together under one big tent on issues we can all agree on. I think this is possible in Tennessee, but we need to talk more. Really I think more than anything we need to talk to each other and learn who we all are. There are actually a lot of progressive in Tennessee and if we get to know each other then I think we can build a strong movement in this state..

To end I would like to leave you with a letter for your consideration, written by Tom Hayden of Progressive Democrats for America and co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960’s. I met Tom this summer at the Democratic National Convention protests in Denver, and he talked about pushing the Democrats from within.

Now is the time to push the incoming administration to bring the troops home and it is the time to push hard. Maybe they will give us what we have been working for six years to end, or maybe they won’t. The jury is out. But I will leave you with this letter to consider for our President Elect.

Thanks for your support and best wishes.

Sincerely,

Chris Lugo
9 Music Sq So #164
Nashville, TN 37203
615-593-0304
chris4senate@gmail.com

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Dear President-Elect Obama,

We are deeply moved to address you as our nation’s first African-American president and, we proudly note, the first president whose campaign began with a pledge to an anti-war rally. Your courageous speech in October 2002, provided the rationale momentum that led to victory in Iowa and other Democratic primaries, and we still applaud you for that stand.

We write amidst this exciting week to urge your immediate attention and opposition to the so-called Status of Forces Agreement on Iraq being prepared in secret negotiations by the outgoing Bush Administration. The current United Nations authorization ends December 31st, making it imperative that you take leadership even before being sworn in.

The proposed agreement is a transparent attempt to circumvent Congress and formally bind your Administration to a war and occupation that far exceeds your stated commitment to a 16 month withdrawal of our combat troops. As your own website specifically states, any agreement should include a commitment to begin withdrawing our troops and avoiding any permanent bases. We also believe that thousands of Iraqi detainees should be treated according to human rights norms, or released in the absence of charges or evidence. You also have committed to a role for Congress in affirming any agreement.

Already the Bush administration and Pentagon are threatening “consequences” if the Iraqi parliament fails to endorse this pact.

We believe instead that you should signal your intention to abide by your pledge and work with the Congress immediately to formulate an agreement consistent with your pledge to end this war as rapidly as possible. We propose that you include the withdrawal of all American forces, including trainers and advisers caught in a sectarian crossfire, as recommended by all peace and justice organizations as well as such Washington think tanks as the Center for American Progress.

In place of this counterinsurgency war. we recommend an immediate diplomatic surge, including talks with Iran, as the only alternative to the continuing quagmire in Iraq which now costs our taxpayers some ten billion dollars per month, puts lives needlessly at risk, and stains our national honor.

We realize you will be hearing from all sorts of advocates for prolonging the occupation by one means or another. We urge you to keep the faith with the voices of those who put you on the road to the presidency, by implementing your pledge to end the war in 2009.

In the shadow of the great national victory we of the Democratic Party are enjoying, looms a sad and painful reality here in the great state of Tennessee. …

Simply, Tennessee Democratic candidates made no effort whatsoever to win their elections. The Party as a whole has failed in this cycle.
How many Tuke ads did we see here in Lamar Alexander’s turf? None, I saw none.
Rob Russell? How many public rallies did he hold? Just like that loser Trent Green from two years ago. No effort in the street whatsoever.

State wide? Governor Asshat, Phil Bredesen (Jr. Republican in training), did nothing to promote Democratic candidates in this election cycle.
Ford Jr. and the now even more worthless Tennessee Blue Dogshits (DLC) did nothing. Nothing.
As a result, we lost the legislature for the first time in many, many years. Tennessee is now in even more danger of fiscal ruin and social oppression.
Before we can remove the Republicans that just skated, virtually unopposed, to victory in this state we must replace the Blue Dog Republican Enablers in the Tennessee Democratic Party hierarchy and in Nashville with more progressive, people oriented Democrats and Greens.
Fighters who will actually challenge the status quo and scrap in the gutter to win.

Our friend S-townMike at Enclave makes a fine point of it and shows us a historic example by which we can put what happened to this state in perspective.

Two years. We have two years to find an answer and organize from the ground up.
We pulled off the impossible by putting Barack Obama in the White House and taking total control of the government. We can defeat the evil in Tennessee too. We just need to find some Democratic candidates and organizers with conviction and courage. Something we don’t have now.

All over town this morning I have seen the frowning faces of Right Wing vermin as they sit quietly and lament the fall of the Fascist Regime that has scourged this nation for the last eight years.

But hey, it’s a free country. You can always leave.

Hey, baby. It’s all ours now.

FUCK YOU, MCLAME. FUCK YOU, PALIN. FUCK YOU BUSH. FUCK YOU GOP.

Let a new light shine upon this nation and her people.

Go! Go now! Get your asses out there and help us fight this madness that is the Republican party and it’s back-assward ways.

Take food and water with you. Take your Ipods (or whatever) take your family take your friends. Take a couple of joints too but don’t get caught, at least until after you vote.

It will take time, the lines will be long. It’s a beautiful day here in NE Tennessee. Tell your boss to fuck off if they won’t let you go vote. You can sue them later for violating your rights.
Nothing is more important than saving this country from Republican incompetence. NOTHING.

This entry will be updated through 9pm as the information makes it to us.

Electoral College

Obama: 338

McLoser: 141

McKinney:

Nader:

Barr:

NOTES:
Obama has a massive lead in North Carolina.
61% to 39%

Obama has a massive lead in Florida.
58% to 42%

McLame has won Oklahoma, Tennessee, S. Carolina and Kentucky.

Obama has won Illinois and virtually all of New England.

Obama maintaining lead in Fla., N. Carolina and Ohio.

Obama has taken Ohio.

Obama will take Virginia easily.

McLoser with slight lead in N. Carolina.

Dead heat in Missouri.

Democrats destroying Republicans in House and Senate races.

Obama retakes lead in Indiana with 92% reporting.

Obama has won Virginia.

Obama has won New Mexico and Iowa.

This one is over.

I am writing today to ask for your vote on November 4th in my campaign for the US Senate. I am running as a progressive, Green Party candidate because I believe that the time has come to end the war in Iraq, ensure that all Americans have access to affordable, quality health care and to restore common sense and decency to our national dialogue.

Health care is a pressing need here in Tennessee where the Democratic Governor has removed over 300,000 people from the health care rolls. For far too long we have neglected the needs of the poor in America, allowing hundreds of thousands in Tennessee to go without healthcare and millions nationally. That is why I support universal single payer health care.

Education if a priority for all Americans. As a candidate I support increased funding for our state’s public schools, universities and community colleges. With only twenty five percent of Tennesseans graduating from college and less than sixty percent graduating from high school, isn’t it time for us to make education a real focus? I support full investment in education from PreK to PhD.

We must take solid steps to ensure that all Americans have safe and affordable housing, that we live in a clear and healthy environment, and that we take steps to address the deep divisions of inequity that still persist in our society. I did not support the bailout of corporate America and would have voted against more money for Wall Street. I believe that we must begin to invest in poor and working class people by supporting an increased minimum wage, a moratorium on housing foreclosures and a rollback of the Bush tax cuts.

I believe in the American dream and I believe that all Americans deserve the opportunity to have a rich and meaningful life, but the only way to ensure that these priorities are addressed is to make certain that our government makes this a priority, that our elected representatives make peace and social justice a priority on a national scale.

I am ashamed of the international reputation that the United States has developed as a purveyor of torture, as a rogue superpower which exercises its military power at will, in the face of widespread international protest. I believe that the American people are not really the way the rest of the world sees us. I believe that we are really a decent, caring, compassionate people. As a candidate I will work to sunset the patriot act, reverse the military commissions act, close Guantanamo Bay and bring the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq.

I want to live in an America where everyone can afford to go to school and earn a college degree, where we are not under the constant fear generated by our own nuclear umbrella, where everyone is paid at minimum a living wage that can feed and house a basic family unit, where our power is generated by clean energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal power. As a candidate I support programs to make these ideas a reality.

I want to live in an America where poor people do not spend years locked up in a criminal penitentiary unit because they have lost hope and do not believe there are alternatives to the path of incarceration. I want to live in an America where every person counts, where no one is forgotten, where our government does not listen in on our private conversations, where people believe that their vote counted and where the environment is a sacred trust that we leave in tact for future generations.

We are at a crossroads in history, and we face a choice in the South which all Americans face. Do we choose to continue down the path of abandonment, of hopelessness and fear or do we choose to embrace the compassionate, hopeful elements of our national identity? I for one, choose to hope. I believe that the government is here to serve the people and our elected leaders are here to serve you. That is why I am asking for your vote on Tuesday, November 4th in Tennessee.

Please consider voting Green on November 4th and thanks for your support.

Chris Lugo for US Senate
9 Music Sq So #164
Nashville, TN 37203
615-593-0304
chris4senate@gmail.com
www.voteforpeace.info

This is it. By this time tomorrow Barack Obama will be President of the United States. Provided we get the right push from the right voters.

This isn’t about “undecideds". Anyone who is “undecided” at this point is too confused to even handle standing in line.
Barack Obama will be the President of the United States tomorrow….as long as the youngsters show up at the polls and back up their mouths.
Vote fraud on the Republican side is once again a reality and we need every single vote to render it void.

Youngsters, it’s your future. You can have peace or forever war. You can have college or McDonald’s.
You can have clean air or foul air, good water or bad, trees or sand.

You can have health care or you can rot. Because that’s all the Republican party cares for you. Rot.
Either the youth of America takes their future into their own hands, or they leave it the hands of evil men.

It’s not rocket science.

VOTE THE PIGS OUT OF YOUR FUTURE.

Nothing like being endorsed by the most despicable traitor in the history of our nation.

Congrats, John.

Big hat tip to Tim Valentine at TI&S.

Just in case anyone still doesn’t understand exactly why things are as bad as they are in the US and the world around us…

It began with vote fraud in 2000, the seemingly never ending nightmare of Fascist Corporate rule and general political insanity. From there, America and the world at large, began it’s descent into moral and intellectual oblivion.

The Republican Party. George W. Bush. Dick Cheney (and company). The PNAC and AIPAC.
America has never suffered such a deplorable deception and grotesquely malicious assault from within in our entire history.

The resulting nightmare progressed as such:

The attacks on America known as 9/11 were perpetrated against us by someone who turned out NOT to be Osama Bin Laden. Who that is exactly is not yet known to all. Yet.
We have seen our nation polarized beyond all comprehension.

We went to Afghanistan to hunt for the former CIA operative, Bin Laden, and for no apparent reason our forces were pulled away from that task (so Bin Laden could escape) and sent to attack an innocent people who did nothing, absolutely nothing to us.
Our soldiers have fought and died where Israeli soldiers should be fighting and dying.

In the rush to fulfill the Protocols of the PNAC, Israel and the Corporate Fascist entities Bush represents, evidence to justify the case for war in Iraq was fabricated, presented to Congress, to the people and to the UN.
Most bought the lie. Not all.
Afghanistan is a failure today. Iraq is still the biggest tragedy in modern history with over a million people dead.

A storm battered the Gulf Coast, wiped out New Orleans and the damage to both property and lives remains to this day. Forgotten and snubbed by a worthless, humanity challenged Regime.

We were forced to endure the ugly face of religious fundamentalism both abroad and here at home as the Right Wing Evangelical attempted to assert themselves, through the Bush Regime, and force their twisted version of Christianity upon the country.

We saw the Republican Party scoff at the health care needs of our veterans, our children, our environment. Indeed, all of us.

We saw yet more vote fraud steal the election in 2004.

We saw Treason committed by the Bush Regime, specifically Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage, Robert Novak and Scooter Libby, as covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson was exposed. Effectively costing us our ability to track Iran’s Nuclear weapons programs.

We have seen the Constitution of the United States ripped apart by the Fascist element with the inception of the Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act.
We have seen our streets patrolled by Blackwater Mercenaries contracted by DHS.

We have seen our nation’s good name dragged through the dirt by a Right Wing fringe element that has no respect for God or country.

We have seen Oil Companies gouge us for record profit after record profit as we struggle to make ends meet. Day after day, year after year. For the hard working, average American life has only gotten tougher.
We are suffering the worst economic disaster of our time due to mindless waste of taxpayer funds by the Bush Regime and the insatiable, wanton greed of major corporations and the politicians they own.

All this and more from the Republican Party and their minions. The crimes of greed, sex crimes, crimes against humanity.

John McCain supported the Neocon Regime every single step of the way.

If you’re a real American you know what to do by now. If you’re voting on Tuesday, vote this parasitic evil known as the Republican Party out of the House, out of the Senate, and most of all OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Four more years of FAIL is not an option if America is to be the greatest nation on earth once again.