Aren't churches supposed to lose tax exempt status for stuff like this

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/kvh_schlosser

This is an excellent article which reminds us that it's time for a new New Deal that includes the three key elements of FDR's program - relief, recovery, and reform.

Barack,

It's not 3AM but I'm ringing the phone.  Robert Scheer at truthdig.com says one of the instigators of Georgian aggressiveness may have been the McCain adviser who used to be a lobbyist for the Georgian government.  Thhis august surprise may be designed to make you look hesitant and John McCain look decisive.  Michael Moore at Michaelmoore.com is worried writing about 6 ways the election could be blown.  McCain ads are all over my local airwaves here in Philadelphia.  You are on vacation in Hawaii.  Hello! Wake up!  The future of our country is at stake.

Maureen Dowd takes a lot of heat (some of it deserved in my opinion) but I have to admit that she was spot on about John Edwards when she called him on his expensive haircuts.  The guy is now an admitted narcissist.

Finally, Karadzic has been found so he can be held accountable.  Bush/Cheney et al are a lot easier to find so that Congress and then a Truth Commission can hold them accountable.

    Nancy Pelosi says that W is a total failure.  Actually, I didn't think he was that good.  Could she be, as George might say, misoverestimating him?

    I know we have had some real losers in the executive branch over the last two hundred and twenty one years, but I think Dick "Dark Side" Cheney might be the worst of them all.  Of course, Darth Vader claims to be a branch of government all to his own.

    Bozo the Clown (Larry Harmon) has died.  Bozo the President (George W. Bush) has two hundred days left in the White House.

Hello - Can we talk more about Cheney's plan to attack Iran and less about summer reading?

    I still need help finding my couple years worth of old posts here at the Cafe. I know they exist - I've seen some of them on here once. Andrew and Josh kept assuring me they are not lost and I would get them. So help me on my June 7th birthday - where are they? How can I access them?

A few days ago Wayne Madsen at the Wayne Madsen report said there was a plan afoot to provoke trouble in Lebanon so that Cheney's neo-con cabal could use it as an excuse to bomb Iran. So now I see that there is trouble in Lebanon, we are blaming Iranian backed Hezbollah, and the US is considering a response. Am I being paranoid or is Cheney going to launch the attack on Iran that he has long wished for so that he "gets it over with" before he leaves office 256 days from now.

Does anybody else here read the Wayne Madsen Report. Madsen has been saying for over a year that Dick Cheney was a client of the DC Madam's service back when he was at Halliburton. We know that two other Bush administration officials were involved with her escort service. It has been reported that Sen. Vitter was involved. Now she's dead.Are you thinking what I'm thinking or am I being paranoid?

I assume this is a good sign. How soon until I can see all of them?

    David go to your room, read Juan Cole every day, and write 1,000 times, "I will not be snookered."


Real Change 04.10.08 -- 1:05PM By David Kurtz

Charlie Rose kept me up late last night against my will, but his interview of the NYT's John Burns and Dexter Filkins about Iraq was fascinating, largely because it shed new light, for me at least, on how much things have actually improved on the ground there.

Whether the reduction in violence changes the strategic equation remains to be seen -- and Burns and Filkins agree that the odds remain long. But coming from two men who were in Iraq during the worst of times, their astonishment at the turnaround there within a relatively short time is notable:

I certainly knew violence was down. But since the pronouncements of improvement in Iraq have come from such an unreliable messenger, the Bush Administration, they have been easy to discount. Perhaps too easy.

As always, Kevin Phillips clearly explains the big picture in this alternet.org post http://www.alternet.org/workplace/81004/.

Hopefully, Josh will have Kevin here soon to explain more. The bottom line is that we are in big economic trouble and it's going to get worse.