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The comment below was posted on TENNESSEE GUERILLA WOMEN 's website.
The conversation went from MSNBC to Obama and one women wrote this fascinating comment below. Reading it, I wondered why we had not thought of looking at what BO produced before?

Why didn't we take pictures of his district and ask the question: "While Obama was eating Arugula and shopping at Whole Foods what did he do to provide for the people he represented ?"

Because that is a good indication of what he will do for us.

I am sure the republicans will produce this ad - a camera films while driving through the neighborhoods described below while a voice-over says, "No whole food markets here, in fact no grocery stores at all".

The Hillary democrats did not do it because of course we would be called racist by the Bobots and the democrats are afraid of that, whether it is true or not.

"Racist" in the democratic party has come to mean anything which focuses on black people or white people and speaks honestly about them, the realities of their life and the relationships between them. Political Demographics, if mentioned by the Clintons is proof of their "racism" according to the fast talking AA law professors on MSNBC. The "inference" we are told, the appeal to white racism, is there.

It would be good if we could get the idiot race police off our backs so we could speak our truths without fear. The race police bully us into making choices that are against our best interests.

Racism has also come to mean any criticism of Obama by Clinton supporters.

This is also called "hurting the democratic party" and "hurting the nominee's chances to be elected" and the ever fruitful " working to defeat BO so Hill can run in 2012". These myths can and will serve to blame Clinton for the loss of the election if the Precious One blows it. Maybe the party leaders can find a way to pin Kerry's and Gore's losses on her as well.

Because the continual losses to repubs could not possibly be because of the stupidity of our party's leaders and million dollar consultants, - could it?

This is the comment I read on TGW.

Are you talking about our communities as in some black communities they could use a few principles the black community is suffering and when Obama was a State
Senate they suffered most of all in his district while he appeased and supported Rezko with his slumlord business those buildings that Rezko owned are now abandoned and boarded up they are a blight on the community what did
Obama do as a state senator not a dam thing.

In places like Englewood , Robbins, Harvey, they dont even have major supermarkets where children can have
fresh food these communities are laced with liquor stores and predatory lending, pawn shops and rent to own are you kidding with guns, project living, drugs, gangs, cameras throughout the communities up on light poles at every traffic stop.

Who are you trying to kid. I am black and I dont even live there
my husband was born and raised in Illinois and he loves to give me the scary tour.

And furthermore Rev Wright is the issue because he was his mentor, spiritual advisor, sounding board, listen to his wife complain about him, blessed his new home, baptized his children and hopefully very soon it will show that he lent
his pulpit to Michelle so she could rant and rave about the ill's of the white world like Rev Wright taught her.

So go away and come back when you get
better talking points.

So much for your community clean up your own
home first before you talk about community

marie3548 05.22.08 - 4:36 pm #

Court: Texas had no right to take polygamists' kids
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints mother, right, and her attorney navigate the yellow police tape put up to keep journalists back while walking to the Tom Green County courthouse for the fourth day of custody hearings near San Angelo, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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SAN ANGELO, Texas -- A Texas appeals court said Thursday that the state had no right to take more than 400 children from a polygamist sect's ranch, a ruling that could unravel one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.

The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the state offered "legally and factually insufficient" grounds for the "extreme" measure of removing all children from the ranch, from babies to teenagers.

The state never provided evidence that the children were in any immediate danger, the only grounds in Texas law for taking children from their parents without court approval, the appeals court said.
The state never provided evidence that teenage girls were being sexually abused, and never alleged any sexual or physical abuse against the other children, the court said.

It was not immediately clear whether the children scattered across foster facilities statewide might soon be reunited with parents.
Every child at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado was taken into state custody more than six weeks ago, after Child Protective Services officials argued that members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints pushed underage girls into marriage and sex and groomed boys to become adult perpetrators.

"The existence of the FLDS belief system as described by the department's witnesses, by itself, does not put children of FLDS parents in physical danger," the court said in its ruling, overturning the order to keep the children by state District Judge Barbara Walther, a former family law attorney.

The appeals court also said the state was wrong to consider the entire ranch as an individual household and that any abuse claims could apply only to individual households.

Julie Balovich, an attorney representing 38 mothers of the children, said the appeals court "has stood up for the legal rights of these families and given these mothers hope that their families will be brought back together."
"It is a great day for families in the State of Texas," Balovich said.
She said Walther has 10 days to comply with the appeals court ruling.
CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins said department attorneys had just received the ruling and would make any decision about an appeal later.
"We are trying to assess the impact that this may have on our case," he said.

Calls to FLDS officials were not immediately returned Thursday.
Roughly a third of the children taken from the west Texas ranch were babies, and only a few dozen were teenage girls.
Of the 31 originally believed to be underage mothers, 15 have been reclassified as adults - one was 27 years old - and the state conceded a 14-year-old girl had no children and was not pregnant, as officials previously asserted.

Five judges in San Angelo, about 40 miles north of Eldorado, have been hearing CPS's plans for the parents seeking to regain custody. Those hearings, which began Monday, were scheduled to run for two more weeks - though it was unclear how the appellate ruling might affect those cases.

The custody case has been chaotic from the beginning. The hearing in which Walther ruled that the children should all enter state custody ran two days.

Hundreds of lawyers crammed into a courtroom and nearby auditorium, queuing up to voice objections or ask questions on behalf of the mothers who were there in their trademark prairie dresses and braided hair.

CPS has struggled with even the identities of the children for weeks.

The sect children were removed en masse during a raid that began April 3 after someone called a domestic abuse hot line claiming to be a pregnant abused teenage wife.

The girl has not been found and authorities are investigating whether the calls were a hoax.

The FLDS, which teaches that polygamy brings glorification in heaven, is a breakaway of the Mormon church, which renounced polygamy more than a century ago. Members contend they are being persecuted by state officials for their religious beliefs.

Over the past decade, elections for state high court seats have gone from sleepy, mildly partisan affairs to major political battles with huge campaign spending, millions in independent special interest advertising, and misleading and negative attacks in the forefront. TV advertising is now apart of virtually all (91%) contested state supreme court elections, up from about one in five elections in 2000.

And in 2006 business groups were the source of more than 90% of those ads. Business groups are also the source of almost half of all campaign contributions in these races.

The amount of money now entering these races is staggering. Between 1999 and 2007 candidates for state supreme courts raised over $165 million dollars.

This is a situation which troubles Americans greatly, even at the beginning of the decade 84 percent of voters and 79 percent of judges hd concern about special interest groups influencing judicial elections.

Wisconsin Business Groups Spend Millions to Hijack the State's Supreme Court: After corporate defeat in consumer safety litigation, business groups in Wisconsin have pouredmillions in the past two election cycles to defeat two members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and replace them with pro-business jurists.

The court has now been switched from having a majority of pro-consumer jurists to a majority that supports corporate interests over those of individuals.

Both races have seen more third party spending than that spent by the candidates themselves and have been marked by particularly harsh and deceptive advertisements.

The first of the two brutal and exceedingly expensive campaigns led the entire supreme court to issue a letter last year supporting public financing of supreme court elections -- even signed by the member recently elected with the help of massive business lobby spending.

Soon after her election that justice, Annette Ziegler, paid fines and was recommended for censure for previously hearing cases involving a company her husband helped manage.

West Virginia's Chief Justice Taken Down by Influence Scandal: West Virginia Chief Justice Elliott Maynard recently lost his re-election bid after a scandal erupted over pictures of him vacationing in Monte Carlo with the CEO of Massey Energy at the same time the company was appealing a $240 million jury verdict to the high court.

The chief justice originally refused to recuse himself from the case, but finally relented after the petitioners obtained a rehearing.

Massey Energy is a controversial, union busting coal company with considerable power in the state.

Systematically Driving Corporate Policy Through the Courts: As we highlighted in a Dispatch last year, starting in the late 1990s, Karl Rove worked with politically-aligned business interests to begin a systematic takeover of state courts to undermine consumer rights and limit corporate liability for harm to consumers.

In 2004, for example, business groups spent $21.5 million on state supreme court elections, eclipsing the amount spent by plaintiffs' attorneys and their allies, with courts including Texas and Alabama shifting to the corporate defendants' side. In 2005-2006 business groups contributed twice as much, $15.2 million, directly to supreme court candidates than lawyers did.

Strategies for Protecting the Judiciary: Many states have avoided problems like those is Wisconsin and West Virginia by implementing basic reforms to insulate the Judiciary from corporate special interest spending:
Public Financing: North Carolina and New Mexico now have full public financing of high court campaigns. New Mexico's system is brand new, but in North Carolina public financing has had a transformative effect on judicial elections.

Special interest and attorney contributions have been driven out of the process, from 73% of non-family funds in 2002 to 14% in 2004.

Over two-thirds of judicial candidates now run for office under public financing. The North Carolina system is immensely popular with the public, a year after it was implemented 78% of voters approved of maintaining the practice.

Public financing is also supported by the American Bar Association, which adopted it as an official policy in 2002.

Merit Selection: Many states have an independent merit selection process for appointing justices combined with retention elections. This so-called "Missouri plan" insulates the judiciary from special-interest dominated election campaigns while still allowing for voters to exert some democratic control over the judiciary.

Such systems have almost uniformly been free of expensive campaign spending and politicized campaigns and theses systems instill confidence in the public. In Missouri, 68 percent of voters trust the Missouri Supreme Court to adhere to the letter of the law rather than their own political beliefs.

Recusal Standards: Establishing better standards for when a justice should or must recuse themselves is another way to help limit the influence of big donors.

It also reduces the incentive for special interests to insert themselves in judicial campaigns because their favored justice won't be in a position to support them in any dispute before the court.

With corporate special interest money increasingly seeking to control judicial outcomes, states with elected courts have a number of options for helping to reduce the avenues for money-dominated elections to distort justice.

This release above is from the Progressive States Network (PSN) which is not itself free of corporate interests. While purporting to speak for the working class and Unions, it organizes to protect corporations' ability to hire scab illegal immigrants, thereby lowering wages, eliminating benefits and busting Unions.

So you have to wonder who is paying THEIR staff salaries and who is on their Board. They do not represent the interests of working class citizens. They represent those who want to exploit slave labor which includes some so called Unions. There will be no strong labor movement until the working folks take back their organizations from the wealthy who make policy and the criminals who take the money and pensions.

Still, this particular report is useful to voters.

Fake Clinton support websites have been set up urging you to donate to them through paypal -- this is a fake one:

bugshale has left a new comment on your post "CLINTON SUPPORTERS COUNT 2":

Hi: please join us by logging on to w.clintonsupporterscounttoo.org.
together we can change the course of history of this great nations. It is time for the common man to take a uncommon stand and tell the DNC and Super Delegates " hell no, we won't go"

The sexist language is one sign of a false website - Another sign of a false website is the fact that it is asking for money - diverting money from Hillary -- with nothing to show for it but a cheesy website.

DON'T GIVE TO THESE TYPE OF WEBSITES!

Give to Hillary at her official website or to Clinton Supporter PAC.

Don't give to false websites set up by con artists and Bobots.

Today I listened to nauseating women on NPR. One from NARAL explaining why they were proud to endorse Obama. One from Emily's List excusing women they gave 300,000 & 500,000 dollars (of OUR money) respectively, for endorsing Obama. If I hear one more national so called feminist leader excusing their own and the MSM's sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton I will explode.

I said it during the WAR when I tried to get feminist organizations to support Iraqi and Afghan women and I say it again now. Most First Wave Feminist Organizations (FWFOS) have been wholly corrupted. They do not work for women, are not part of the feminist movement and you should not donate to them. They are working for their non profit businesses. There are republican and corporate types on their Boards and their interests are commercial not feminist. They are even more of a scam than a business. A scam to separate you from your money in order to give it to the elites. They travel in elite circles and have contempt for true believers just as Obama does. They are experts at justifying their betrayals. They say they do it for you, sweetie.

When their actions lose us this election, then will you stop creating a grass roots collection plate for them?

The antidote for this is a refreshing post at Shakesville:

Hillary Sexism Watch, Part Ninety-Goddamn-Six

posted by Melissa McEwan Wednesday, May 21, 2008
In case you needed any motivation for Assignment: Teaspoon below, CNN—yes, the same outlet currently running the question "Do you agree with Sen. Hillary Clinton that the press has ignored sexism in the campaign?" without a trace of irony, unless their position is: "No, we're not ignoring it; we're fomenting it!"—yesterday featured a panel debating whether calling accomplished attorney and advocate, former First Lady, two-term Senator, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a "white bitch" is appropriate.
MORE HERE

This morning, the USDA announced that it will implement a complete ban on slaughter for human consumption of cattle unable to stand and walk unassisted. The decision comes after The Humane Society of the United States documented horrible abuses of downed cows in a series of undercover videos.

For far too long, sick and crippled animals have been allowed into the food supply, subjecting them to needless torment and putting consumers at risk. Thanks in part to many thousands of animal advocates who emailed and called public officials about the scandalous mistreatment of these animals, the USDA is moving to close the downer loophole. We are calling on the agency to expedite the process and ban the slaughtering of downers without delay.

Once the loophole is closed, we'll push for additional reforms. Stronger federal legislation is needed to ensure humane euthanasia of downers and protect all farm animals from this kind of abuse.

If you haven't already asked your legislators to co-sponsor the Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act, please do so now.

Thank you for playing an active part in this victory, and for all you do for animals.

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States

The ballad 'Cries Britches' on Youtube has reached 100,000 visits. They are going to publish this news in the main animalist pages of Spain.

The Below was written by member of the ALF which is a global organization. Their english is not perfect but their hearts are just fine.

SOURCE: ANIMALMUSICA

The song "Cries Britches", with music of the group of Lyvon rock and lyrics of the poet Padilla Angel reached 100,000 visits in the vestibule www.youtube.com .

"Britches Cries" is dedicated to the macaco monkey Britches, that in an American scientific research laboratory, to both days to be born, separated it of their mother and they sewed the eyelids to him to verify if the induced blindness produces cerebral injuries, putting under it simultaneously interminable sessions of ultrasounds emitted by great helmets tied to its small head by fabrics, all it almost greater than its own head.

Britches, luckily, was released by the ALF, Animal Liberation Front (in the page www.animalliberationfront.com can be seen the video of the liberation), not therefore the million animals that anywhere in the world continue being used like coberries in experiments of all type, like the one to cut the head of a dog and to put it in the body of a monkey or the one of "the false mothers", that it consists of separating a monkey of his mother and showing mothers to him of peluche, floods of nails, other who emit current, that the monkey continues itself embracing thinking that she is his mother; experiment this using with the excuse to verify the affectivity of the animals between its same types.

All these stupid and cruel experiments are carried out without no type of anesthesia nor compassion. For that reason, by all those that "still follow there", Lyvon and Padilla they united his creation and arose "Cries Britches", powerful and dark ballad where Britches speaks by all those that "they follow there", as well as by all the other animals that in the world are humiliated and assassinated by the man, who undergo the most extreme solitude, the incendiariest pain and madness, in the cruel zoos, circuses, cattle ranch, traditions... As much the components of Lyvon as Padilla Angel we are thankful to all the affection to the song and, which they have still not listened to it, we animated them to do it: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7May_T5MgDs .

Tired of the Bosses? Go Here

Men for Hillary suggests:

The superdelegates should be given a gag order (allowable under the rules of a private organization such as the DNC) and released from all commitments to pay any attention to any previous results, whatsoever.

Superdelegates should be required to refund all monies donated to their campaigns by either Clinton or Obama and receive no promises of contributions or further contributions until after the Democratic convention, or, otherwise lose their right to vote.

Superdelegates should then be allowed to vote sometime around the end of June in privacy and the outcome of that vote should be the guiding principle for the determination of the nominee for president.

WOMEN COUNT 2 HAS A WEBSITE

Thanks to gendergappers

A MESSAGE FROM "CLINTON SUPPORTERS COUNT TOO"

Your responses are pouring in and have filled our inboxes in all states. We are moving rapidly and will have a website up soon, and are trying to respond to your emails as quickly as possible. Please pass this information on to everyone you can.

Here's what we need to do.

Make calls to OR and KY. We will have another stunning victory in KY and close the gap in OR. We believe the opposition will announce that he has won the nomination on May 20th after the polls close. It will not be believable when Hillary is announcing a HUGE VICTORY IN KY.

Organize a demonstration in front of your local NBC affiliate on election night, May 20th, starting at 6:30pm, until, preferably, the close of the 11:00 news. If you do not live close to your NBC affiliate, DO NOT WATCH IT. MAKE THEIR RATINGS PLUMMET.

This must be done nationwide so that our numbers and strength are visible. We have announced this boycott of NBC at our press conference. Do this to show the strength of Hillary Supporters to defeat this less-qualified candidate that has been blatantly aided with biased reporting by much of the media, and protest the sexist behavior and disgraceful comments from NBC anchors.

Make you own signs, for Hillary or against any of these offenses. Use your imagination. But most of all, JUST DO IT. YOU BEING THERE WILL MAKE THE STATEMENT THAT WOMEN ALL OVER AMERICA, ARE MAD AS HECK AND AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.

Lastly, for this email anyway….. THIS IS NOT OVER…DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU IT IS AND DON'T LET YOURSELF THINK IT IS. IT IS NOT OVER.

This is only one part of the Road to the White House and the candidates are statistically neck to neck. The next step is the Resolution of FL and MI and we will demonstrate in Washington on May 31st when the Rules Committee meets.

Save the date. …more later. Each time we enter a new phase we will determine the most effective strategy and communicate it to you. Your part is to help make it happen throughout OH, MI, PA and FL, the critical states where we have the advantage.

THIS IS OUR MOMENT. HILLARY IS OUR CANDIDATE. WE HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE HISTORY. LET'S USE IT!

Jamie Dixey
Clinton Supporters Count Too!

Here is some info from the forum posted by threedee:

"BHO superdelegate Sen.Claire McCaskill received from EMILY’s List $518,938 for her election bid in 2006, Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) $357,400 in 2006

see full list of Emily’s List recipients here

Not all are superdelegates of BHO, however, one might note that those that received some of the largest contributions from Emily's List have thrown their support behind BHO.
This is a slap in the face and a violation of trust of the women donors to Emily's List who are pro women candidates.

The elected women that have benefited from Emily's List and are now supporting BHO, should refund their contributions and publicly apologize to Emily's Lists members."

Contact EMILY's List
1120 Connecticut Avenue NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 326-1400
Fax: (202) 326-1415

San Francisco, CA
EMILY's List
100 Spear Street
Suite 1510
San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone: (415) 658-0700
Fax: (415) 658-0707

I used their contact form to send Emily this message:

BHO superdelegate Sen.Claire McCaskill received from EMILY’s List $518,938 for her election bid in 2006, Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) $357,400 in 2006

The elected women that have benefited from Emily's List and are now supporting BHO, should refund their contributions and publicly apologize to Emily's Lists members."

EMILY'S LIST should, in the future, refuse to fund super delegates who defected to Obama before the last primary.