Does estrogen poisoning make us more ethical and less violent?

by murphy on December 10, 2008

in 3rd Profound Question of the Day,Blagobamagate,PURrrr!,Women Who Smoke

In case you missed it, today is International Human Rights Day, established 60 years ago by Eleanor Roosevelt and her UN Commission on Human Rights. It is the most-translated document in the world.

Far be it from me to say or even imply that women are better than men at keeping the public’s trust or at participating non-violently in civilized society.

I merely pass on these numbers for your delectation:

  • Women make up 47% of the workforce, but less than 25% of those in jail for white collar crime are women.
  • Women make up 17% of both the House and Senate (funny huh?) and 24% of state legislatures. 15% of governors are women. So, shouldn’t about 20% or so of all political corruption and scandal cases involve women? Still looking for conclusive data, but so far I’ve found that of around 6,000 Americans in jail for fraud and corruption (including non-political crimes) about 4% are women.
  • Women make up 52% of the US population, yet they represent only 16% of ALL convicted felons. Furthermore, one in nine men will commit a violent crime for which they are arrested. One in 54 women will be arrested for a violent crime. But, while 75% of the violent crimes committed by women were “simple assaults,” only HALF of those committed by men were “simple assault.” Most violent crimes committed by men are aggravated assault, robbery, sexual assault, or murder.
  • Women make up 52% of the population, but only commit 2% of the sexual assaults.
  • Women make up 52% of the population, but from 1976-1997, women committed 60,000 murders (3,000 a year) while men committed 400,000 murders in that same period (20,000 a year)
  • One in 8,700 men will commit murder. One in 77,000 women will commit murder.
Women hold roughly 20% of all elected offices in this country, but less than 4% of those convicted of corruption are women. Or, to put it another way, there is a 96% chance that if you are reading about a corruption case in the newspaper, the accused criminal is a man. Or, to put it another way, at least 96 of every 100 corrupt politicians are men and less than 4 of every 100 corrupt politicians are women.
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ipotter 12.10.08 at 8:01 pm

If women were more prone to corruption, perhaps there would be more of us in the House and Senate.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 8:03 pm

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murphy 12.10.08 at 8:04 pm

no way ipotter — please, everyone read this. I got it in email a few minutes ago. MORE WOMEN IN OFFICE. IT”S YOUR DUTY TO THE INTEGRITY OF DEMOCRACY. WOMEN ARE LESS CORRUPT. IT’S A FACT. NUMBERS DONT LIE!

Emerge Oregon is hanging out its shingle. As a state affiliate for Emerge America (http://www.emergeamerica.org/), we will be working to identify, educate, inspire, and train Democratic women to run for public office and win here in Oregon. Emerge is an incredible organization that has made extraordinary strides in a few short years and I am proud to be part of this amazing organization.

Right now, we are looking for an Executive Director. The job description is attached for your perusal. If you are interested kindly forward your resume to contact@emergeamerica.org

If you know of someone who is, kindly forward the job description to them. If you have any additional questions, feel free to email me.

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murphy 12.10.08 at 8:08 pm

oh, and please — a personal request. Betty Jean needs our support. Please leave a comment regarding Gropergate. She’s taking a stand and needs our opinions.

http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/whose-agenda-is-this-anyway/#comments

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ipotter 12.10.08 at 8:09 pm

Murphy, just kidding.

Donation: $25.00
For being 1st

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CTKEY 12.10.08 at 8:19 pm

Posted for Betty Jean. Carville has disappointed me. He is old news. The TNA is boring. More of the same. Are there any fresh voices besides PUMA ?

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bmw60 12.10.08 at 8:23 pm

Hello… been lurking cause when I talk here…seems that I get a subject going that causes disruption with some. Don’t like that very much

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bmw60 12.10.08 at 8:23 pm

Hello… been lurking cause when I talk here…seems that I get a subject going that causes disruption with some. Don’t like that very much

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bmw60 12.10.08 at 8:23 pm

OOOOOOOOOOPS!!!! DOUBLE CLICKED
SORRY

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TrishfromCanada 12.10.08 at 8:25 pm

Finally signed the petition and added this comment to it…

Pres. Elect, why are you silent on this, had it been Michelle’s image that Favreau was groping all hell would have broken out. I’d suggest you invite Jon to dinner, I’d love to see what photos he’d pose for with Michelle. On second thought, I wouldn’t. He’s just one of the many sexist people in your camp. Fire the horndog, before his fantasies turn to reality and you end up with a sex predator on your team.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 8:27 pm

http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/whose-agenda-is-this-anyway/#comment-1093

BettyJean is taking a stand…. go make comments, please

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 8:28 pm

Funny. I thought O said he hadn’t had contact with the governor, or something like that… Silly me. I thought if you’re shaking someone’s HAND that means… uh… contact?

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/nation/ill-governor-arrested-in-corruption-scandal-284742.html

Please NOTE THE DATE: December 2, 2008… THAT’S 7 DAYS BEFORE HE SAID HE HADN’T TALKED TO THE GOVERNOR. What am I missing here?

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ipotter 12.10.08 at 8:41 pm

#12 TXRepGirl
What are you missing here?… either bo has early onset alzheimer’s or he lies like crazy

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 8:42 pm

Made a comment on BJ’s site . Probably wont make any friends because of it though …

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 8:46 pm

I’m curious, Murphy, et al. Is there a secure way to set up a site that could post things that “go down the memory hole”? I know many sites are owned by Google and they simply scrub what they don’t want remembered. Would there be a way to set up a site not beholden to Google or to Yahoo like this? It seems this will be the only way to keep info about O from disappearing forever.

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 8:47 pm

My vote: He lies like crazy, but he has enough “backing” to cover him that he can get away with it. The question is, how do we go around the backing and get the info out anyway?

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 8:48 pm

And I was fully aware of O’s lies. I’m just finding it hard to believe that nobody can or has connected these two simple dots.

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 8:49 pm

In fact, I’ve seen THAT pic several times in relation to this story, just never the date it was taken. I would think this would give pretty definitive proof that O needs to come out and qualify his statement again… ;)

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TrishfromCanada 12.10.08 at 8:50 pm

Ok did the e-mail to Jarrett, I’m behind on prowls but will try to catch up tonight

btw Murphy, I love the term BlagobamaGate

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ipotter 12.10.08 at 8:54 pm

#18 TXRepGirl
Yeah, I didn’t know when it was taken either. Did see a link today where the two of them met in Philly earlier this month where they discussed “IL budget”. Had no idea there was a photo of them together taken at that time.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 8:54 pm

Hi Trish

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murphy 12.10.08 at 9:01 pm

Stay tuned at 9:30 for

THE VIEW FROM UNDER THE BUS!

on Puma United Radio (PURrrr!)

A new show hosted by 5 long time Conflucians.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/no-we-wont

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 9:05 pm

BeetyJean is taking a stand against Nothing New Agenda’s stance on the gang rapist…. she needs 25 more comments within the next hour and 1/2:
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/whose-agenda-is-this-anyway/#comment-1093

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 9:11 pm

wonder if this is true??

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Blagojevich_questions_censored_on_Transition_site.html?showall

Fun fact of the night: Blagojevich’s wife, Patricia Blagojevich, is the Realtor who got the Obama’s their house in which Rezco did the land deal.

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 9:15 pm

Dances – from 25 different people ? or just 25 more comments ?

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TrishfromCanada 12.10.08 at 9:16 pm

DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 8:54 pm

Hey :)

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invalidresponse 12.10.08 at 9:25 pm

TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 8:42 pm

Made a comment on BJ’s site . Probably wont make any friends because of it though
______________________________________________

tt… I liked your comment on BJ’s site. guess it depends on that kind of friends your looking for ;)

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 9:28 pm

invalid ;)

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invalidresponse 12.10.08 at 9:36 pm

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/NO-WE-WONT/

new show on now …view from under the buss….

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TrishfromCanada 12.10.08 at 9:36 pm

Posted this on Nothing New Agenda for Enablers of Horndogs like Jon the Comeon.

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You must be kidding about not firing that horndog. He’s a sexual assault waiting to happen.

I sent this to V. Jarrett earlier, all those in favour of keeping gropeboy employed please raise your hands, not too high though, never know who is behind you with a cupped hand looking for some “innocent” fun. Freaking enablers!

—-

Ms. Jarrett,

I’m sure you’ve received many emails asking the question in the subject line above. I am concerned about this man being placed in any position where he is seen as a person of importance in government. Why am I concerned? It’s simple. I was sexually assaulted and brutally beaten as a child, the three guys that did this too me also liked to use photos etc to make innuendos and
vulgar gestures. I believe some men start small and move on from there. Can you be sure Jon doesn’t extend his perversions beyond a cardboard copy of Sen. Clinton. I can’t be sure of this. Therefore, I’m questioning why he was not fired. And why any grown man would stupidly place the photo on facebook and not have his character and idiocy level scrutinized. No matter how you boil it down, Jon Favreau leaves considerable doubt of his ability to use proper judgment and I want to see him fired for his sexism, his devaluation of women and his public ridicule of an elected official.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 9:41 pm

Thank you, Trish.
((((Trish))))

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 9:44 pm

gyspy #24. yes. That’s true. Some of the scrubbed questions…

Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will ’serious’ campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?
In light of the recent corruption scandals (Blagojevich, Rangel, Jefferson, Stevens, etc) that have dominated the political scene,is there any ethics legislation being crafted to actually curb corruption and prevent another wave of nixonian cynicism?
Is Barack Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama’s top aides?

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invalidresponse 12.10.08 at 9:47 pm

Ok lurkers go make a comment to BJ”S site….Trish showed hers so I will show you mine,…Please, go give yours… here is the link

http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/whose-agenda-is-this-anyway/#comments

here mine….yours should be next….

I thought the new agenda was going to take a stand for women….but now all of a sudden they have decided to rehabilitate a speech writer that was in a sexual harassment type picture and then allowed it to be published, as some big joke. Women are fighting for the respect they deserve…and the new agenda has now started walking backwards on their positions???? When I heard of this backpedaling all I could think of was this headline……THE NEW AGENDA BEING A WOMENS GROUP… TAKES A SOFTER LINE!!! Soft lines on issues and backpedaling away from respect issues got NOW where they are today

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 9:48 pm

Trish,

Very powerful post…….your words are beautiful and strong. I am proud that you are puma.

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 9:49 pm

TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 9:44 pm Evidently Patricia’s Real Estate deals have to be or have been turned over to the FBI – but that is only what I’ve researched so far….

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 9:50 pm

Is anybody watching Hannity tonight? I just came home and turned it on…. caught it in the middle of a photo. If I understood right it was a photo of O and the IL gov shaking hands on Dec 2? Hmmm.. then that was at least TWO times they were together since the election- Nov 5 and Dec 2? How can O possibly say that he had “no contact” with this guy? Ok, I should have figured it out long ago- a lie to O is as natural as breathing…

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 9:50 pm

gyps- do you have a link ? maybe we can get it out tomorrow morning .

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 9:54 pm

KarenWI. I posted a link to that very pic a little while ago. See post #12

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 9:58 pm

TxRepGirl, has anybody “saved” that site before it vanishes into thin air?

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 9:59 pm

Tell me how and I will!

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 9:59 pm

If you haven’t posted at BJ’s site yet about the weak , backpeddling response the New Agend had for Favreau’s cardboard cutout mess- PLEASE go post over there now . She is taking a stand about the New Agenda NOT explicitly calling for Obama to fire him and publically denounce his behavior .

http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/whose-agenda-is-this-anyway/#comments

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 10:00 pm

The Nothing New Agenda © dwp LOL

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SouthernGAL68 12.10.08 at 10:01 pm

TexasT … How did everything go?

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Casper Cat 12.10.08 at 10:02 pm

Posted!!!!!!!!RE: Freemenow… Great Radio Show!!! DWP..Wonderful Post above..You are a true talent and an incredible WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOW……… :lol: :cool:

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 10:03 pm

my post for BJ

First of all, Hillary is a former First Lady and deserves everyone’s respect – male and female.

Second, anyone that thinks this type of behavior is acceptable is lowering their own personal integrity and values.

Third, this is sick person with twisted humor. He doesn’t think much of women – wonder if he would think someone groping his own mother would be funny!!

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TrishfromCanada 12.10.08 at 10:06 pm

Texas,

Just completed your prowl to the media, thank you!

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:08 pm

You know what pisses me off so bad about the NNA (c DWP) ?
When you are going to fight for something you have to FIGHT . You have to step into the ring with whatever kind of sexist you are going after and you have GOT to deliver a knockout blow . You can not be polite and accomodating . You have got to knock them the hell out or they will just get right back up and you will have to fight them again and again . And even worse , neither the person you are fighting or anyone who is watching is going to take you seriously .
For a young organization , just coming onto the scene , they really blew it when they had the opportunity to show favreau , Obama and the whole Country that they mean business when it comes to FIGHTING for women .

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SouthernGAL68 12.10.08 at 10:08 pm

Dances … I sent you an e-mail. I read through the prowl topics (I can not open them) … Is the topic I chose re
redundant? There are BC topics and other topics that are similar to this issue? If this topic already exist (or similar) should I find some other issue?

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:09 pm

Oh, wait. This Pattie Blago thing gets better.

The Blagojeviches still refuse to say how much her home-based River Realty Inc. made from Rezko.

A look at past deals But a Tribune analysis of public records, along with real estate listings and interviews, reveals it earned more than $700,000 in commissions on other deals after her husband began raising money in 2000 for his first run for governor.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-patti-main-19-oct19,0,2541018.story

That means it’s not just some company she worked for… IT’S HER COMPANY! She owns it. Quid pro quo anyone?

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Casper Cat 12.10.08 at 10:09 pm

Hey, Murphy just a thought….A while ago DR.Phil ( I know I don’t watch him anymore) was asked a question regarding Men Vs Women..And, his response was ” Women and Men are wired differently”…I don’t know?? But, it appears to be something to think about??? I just cannot believe WE AMERICANS question other Country’s regarding the way they treat their women and Yet, look at America????????? What a joke!!!

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:09 pm

(((trish))) – no , thank YOU . I didn’t know if I would ‘see’ you so I just sent it to you – hope you don’t mind :)

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Casper Cat 12.10.08 at 10:10 pm

OOPs!!!!!!!!Sorry for the typos…On my laptop again….

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 10:10 pm

SouthernGAL68
Not redundant. Theyre all a little different, and even if it is redundant…who cares?? We need to keep the heat on them

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murphy 12.10.08 at 10:12 pm

interesting article about Patti Blagojevich’s ties to rezko. Her real estate firm collected $700,000 in commissions from Rezko’s development company.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-patti-main-19-oct19,0,2541018.story

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TrishfromCanada 12.10.08 at 10:12 pm

TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:09 pm

I don’t mind at all, it was nice to see the prowl from you in my mail :)

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murphy 12.10.08 at 10:13 pm

TXRepGirl is my sock puppet.

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murphy 12.10.08 at 10:14 pm

TexRep — I’m trying to track down whether Patti Blago was actually the realtor for the Obama-Rezko real estate deal. Someone dropped that on the Politico blog, but I cant find confirmation . . .

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:15 pm

((((Southern))))We were stuck with another situation today , but I think it is going to work out for us . I’ll know tomorrow afternoon . You are the BEST . I am begining to think you really ARE Ghandi !!!!

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:16 pm

Murphy, great minds think alike. Haven’t found anything on that exact deal, but she seems to have worked almost exclusively for Rezko. Going back to read that story a bit closer.

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goofsmom 12.10.08 at 10:16 pm

Hi Puma’s checking in…

Goofsdad is stuck on a plane on the tarmac at Houston… sigh… seems it’s snowing there and they don’t have that to often and are having difficulty de-icing the planes… he is one of 30 planes sitting there…

Good news is they are showing movies for free… bad news he was supposed to be at LAX at 8:00PM… and it’s 7:15 PST now… good thing he was taking a shuttle home…

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 10:16 pm

I don’t know how TxRep… I just know that things that seem to even possibly implicate O have a way of vanishing into thin air lately. Maybe kat or DWP know..

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 10:17 pm

TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 9:50 pm

Which part are you asking about? Patricia Blagovich’s real estate deals or her being the realtor?

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:18 pm

Gyps – her being the realtor

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goofsmom 12.10.08 at 10:19 pm

SouthernGal68

I got your mails… I like the topic of the proposed prowl… good job… ;)

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SouthernGAL68 12.10.08 at 10:19 pm

Dances .. okay! I was just making sure before I sent it over.

I may wait until in the morning to send — I am sooo tired, that I want to make sure that it is legible.

I am going to go get into the bed! No one will have to “rock me” to sleep tonight! LOL
I am getting too old to go without sleep – I paid for it all day.

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 10:19 pm

murphy 12.10.08 at 10:14 pm I haven’t found the exact transaction, but it has to do with the Appraiser’s law suit. I have the link to that “somewhere”. Maybe you can find it.

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murphy 12.10.08 at 10:22 pm

thanks Gyps — now wouldnt that be a fine how de do??

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SouthernGAL68 12.10.08 at 10:22 pm

Goofsmom,

Good, thank you! I have it written up – I just want to read through it one quick time (when I am fresh) before I send it to the action center. I stayed up waaaaay too late, last night.

Good night …

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goofsmom 12.10.08 at 10:24 pm

Nighty-night SouthernGAL68

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:27 pm

A 10′ strip of land? Ten feet. I’ve been reading up on the Rezko thing and that’s what they sold the Obamas. Ten feet of land? What sense does that make?

Someone else with more brain cells please read this and explain it to me…

The complaint said the Rezko loan was approved by Mutual Bank President and CEO Amrish Mahajan and others so that Mrs. Rezko could buy a 9,090-square-foot vacant parcel of real estate. It said that in January 2006, Mrs. Rezko and Mr. Obama, along with his wife Michelle, signed an agreement to sell a 10-foot strip of the property to the Obamas. At that point, according to the complaint, Mr. Connor’s firm asked him to conduct the reappraisal.

This is at: http://wasteofmyoxygen.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/fck-rod-and-patricia-blagojevich/ Second story down

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 10:28 pm

4 murphy 12.10.08 at 8:08 pm

oh, and please — a personal request. Betty Jean needs our support. Please leave a comment regarding Gropergate. She’s taking a stand and needs our opinions.

http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/whose-agenda-is-this-anyway/#comments

**************************
What I do not understand Murphy, if you would like us to leave a comment regarding Gropergate, which is basically an attack against The New Agenda, why would we not go and post our dissent directly on http://thenewagenda.net/ ???

I posted my comments at TNA this afternoon.
Am I missing something.

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SouthernGAL68 12.10.08 at 10:30 pm

This really is my last post. LOL

TexasT. – That was sweet for you to say, but I have been there before (Glad to help, if I can!) “Another situation” … I hope everything is okay! Well, just let me know how everything works out ??? You know how to reach me, if you need the “other”.

Goodnight!

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atypical 12.10.08 at 10:31 pm

How about Jarrett’s former job in Chicago real estate managem,ent?

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 10:32 pm

Sorry this is so long… but it is VERY interesting. So…. a hard decision for O whether he should take Fitzgerald out and replaced with a new pres? Hmmm…. might be interesting:

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Obama Faces ‘Trial by Fire’ Over Fitzgerald
Once he assumes office, President-elect Barack Obama will face a severe “trial by fire” over whether to fire U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald and other U.S. attorneys, following Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s arrest Tuesday for allegedly offering to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.
Ordinarily, legal and political experts say, an incoming president has broad authority to change both the Cabinet and the U.S. attorneys who serve at his request. But with unanswered questions swirling over the degree of interaction Obama’s team has had with Blagojevich, and the alarming level of Illinois corruption exposed by the probe, any move to fire Fitzgerald would be highly controversial as a possible conflict of interest.

“There are enough connections between the worlds of Blagojevich and Obama that the whole thing has the potential to grow beyond a colorful Chicago tale of corruption to entangle members of the presidential transition team, to test Obama’s carefully cultivated reformist image, and to distract the president-elect just as he is preparing to take office,” Time.com reported Wednesday.

Many of the concerns revolve around a statement Obama made Tuesday afternoon, which ultimately raised more questions than it answered.

“I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so we were not — I was not aware of what was happening,” Obama said, leaving open the possibility that his staff did have contact with Blagojevich. “And as I said, it’s a sad day for Illinois. Beyond that, I don’t think it’s appropriate to comment.”

Obama’s statement evoked concern among the mainstream media that it was too tepid to quell the rising hubbub. “I think it was a very passive statement by Obama yesterday. I don’t think it was enough,” NBC political director Chuck Todd told MSNBC viewers on Wednesday morning.

Concerns over what Obama’s staff knew regarding the blatant solicitation of bribes, and when they knew it, only deepened Wednesday morning as Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod recanted a November statement that Obama did meet with Blagojevich that month.

Wednesday afternoon, apparently in response to media rumblings, Obama commented again, saying via a spokesman that Blagojevich should step down as Illinois governor. Obama has not been considered particularly close to Blagojevich, but did voice strong support for him during his 2006 reelection campaign.

Citing the equivocal statements coming out of the Obama camp, Heritage fellow and legal scholar Robert Alt tells Newsmax: “You already have the whiff of cover-up in the air” inside the Beltway.

“If these sorts of stories continue,” Alt says, “and it starts to look like he’s covering up contacts with Blagojevich, if he then sacks Fitzgerald, that would look very bad indeed.”

In his news conference, Fitzgerald went out of his way to avoid implicating the Obama team, stating “there’s no reference in the complaint to any conversation involving the president-elect or indicating that the president-elect was aware of it.”

Alt, the deputy director of the Center for Legal and Judicial studies at Heritage, says he sees no indication in the criminal complaint against Blagojevich of any improper involvement on the part of Obama’s representatives – but he adds Obama must now tread very carefully.

“It will be a baptism by fire,” Alt tells Newsmax. “Any time there is an investigation touching on the president or close presidential allies, the sensitivity of hiring and firing the prosecutors becomes a high concern. It’s been previously said there’s not much time for on-the-job training for the presidency. And on the issue of U.S. attorneys, he’ll have to make some tough calls right away.”

Republican leaders are already challenging Obama to pledge that after he becomes president on Jan. 20, he will keep Fitzgerald in office.

“What he should do tomorrow is say, ‘Patrick Fitzgerald has a job and can have it for as long as he wants,’” the state Republican chairman of Illinois, Andy McKenna, told reporters. “Some have wondered if Barack Obama would keep Fitzgerald. It would be great if he confirms that he plans to.”

That Fitzgerald suddenly sees Republicans lining up to defend him is profoundly ironic, given that both prominent Republicans and Democrats have found themselves in his investigatory crosshairs over the years.

A former rugby player, Fitzgerald once told a reporter he’d left plenty of blood on the field because “that was the whole point.” No one has ever doubted Fitzgerald, 47, plays for keeps.

Born into a working-class Brooklyn family, Fitzgerald’s father of worked as a doorman in Manhattan. The future scourge of corrupt politicians attended Amherst, and after earning a law degree from Harvard University practiced civil law before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney in New York in 1988. There, Fitzgerald made his reputation prosecuting terrorists like Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who sought to bomb city landmarks. He also tried four men accused of bombing the East African embassy.

As Fitzgerald was demonstrating his prosecutorial chops, a maverick Illinois senator named Peter Fitzgerald – no relation – was looking for a U.S. attorney who would clean up the state’s infamously twisted politics. According to The Washington Post, Sen. Fitzgerald called former FBI Director Louis Freeh and asked, “Who’s the best assistant U.S. attorney you know of in the country?”

Freeh didn’t hesitate: “Patrick Fitzgerald in the Southern District of New York.”

The senator then called the head of the New York office, asked the same question, and got the same answer: Patrick Fitzgerald.

That was when the senator recruited his namesake to be U.S. attorney in Chicago, and the rest is history — bitter history for those Fitzgerald has caught trying to scam the public.

Fitzgerald’s delicious gift for offending the rich and powerful on both sides of America’s partisan divide was never more evident than in the Valerie Plame Wilson case. On the one hand, Republicans were troubled that Fitzgerald decided to prosecute I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, for perjury charges that had little or nothing to do with the concerns that originally triggered the investigation — namely, that a Bush administration official may have broken the law by leaking the identity of Plame, a CIA operations officer, to columnist Robert Novak. Libby was convicted, but President Bush commuted his sentence in July 2007.

During his investigation, Fitzgerald also was targeted by the left and The New York Times, which pounded away at Fitzgerald in its editorial pages, stating that “in his zeal to compel reporters to disclose their sources, Mr. Fitzgerald lost sight of the bigger picture.”

Among Fitzgerald’s other high-profile prosecutions: The 2006 conviction of GOP Illinois Gov. George Ryan, for steering state contracts in return for payoffs.

Having survived repeated prosecutorial run-ins with powerful people bent on breaking the law, now the question is whether Fitzgerald will survive the transition that brings the once-junior senator of Illinois to the White House. Ousting Fitzgerald could raise serious questions about the sincerity of Obama’s commitment to do away with old-school politics.

In September, the former senator who recruited Fitzgerald warned his protégé’s days might well be numbered once Obama moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

“My guess is if Senator Obama got elected, one of the first things that would happen is that they would remove Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago,” the former senator told WIND’s John & Cisco In The Morning show. “And he’d have pressure to do so from all sorts of Daley administration people.”

Bill P. Marshall, a deputy counsel in Bill Clinton’s White House, tells Newsmax that it is rare for U.S. Attorneys to stay on after a shift in power.

Obama’s main task, Marshall says, is “returning some credibility to the Justice Department, but the point is if [Obama] keeps him on, that is the exception rather than the rule.”

Firing Fitzgerald could cause Obama more trouble than it’s worth. The nightmare scenario for Obama would be if the Blagojevich investigation evolves into a smoldering, enduring controversy along the lines of the Whitewater scandal, which dogged and distracted the presidency of former President Bill Clinton.

For now, that appears to most observers rather unlikely. But given the president-elect’s admission of what he described as “boneheaded” involvement in a real estate deal with top Blagojevich fund-raiser Tony Rezko, questions are likely to linger.

And then there is Illinois’ daunting reputation for political corruption.

Law professor James Lindgren, a Chicago-area law professor at Northwestern University, tells Newsmax: “There is enough corruption in Illinois so that all it takes is someone who is serious about finding it to uncover it. If a U.S. attorney is not finding corruption in Illinois, they’re not seriously looking for it.”

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_fitzgerald/2008/12/10/160529.html

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 10:35 pm

SouthernGAL68 12.10.08 at 10:19 pm
Dances .. okay! I was just making sure before I sent it over.
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Wow, you moved so fast! I’m sooooooo impressed!!!
From a question last night to an alomst completed complex Prowl today!!!
Fast learner… that’s the reason your tested out in the lower left Gandhi quadrant, Ms SouthernGandhi !! ;)

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atypical 12.10.08 at 10:35 pm

How about Valerie Jarrett’s former real estate management position? This is one big pool of pollution

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 10:37 pm

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 10:28 pm

4 murphy 12.10.08 at 8:08 pm

oh, and please — a personal request. Betty Jean needs our support. Please leave a comment regarding Gropergate. She’s taking a stand and needs our opinions.
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Sorry, never mind Murphy, I have the answer. I have many valid comments on that site supporting Betty Jean and it is too bad they were not also posted on The New Agenda.

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:37 pm

The Mahajans are the bankers in the land deal. Seems this his and hers thing goes a long way in Chicago…

“like the Rezkos, the Mahajans are a his and hers crime wave. From Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Web Edition:

(snip) larger story laid out for first time the extent of hinky real estate commissions taken by Patti Blagojevich (Illinois “first lady”) $700,000 between 2000-2006, with noted falloff after Rezko hit the clink.

AMRISH AND ANITA MAHAJAN

Commissions: $113,875

Properties: Four apartment buildings and commercial storefronts

Total sales: $5.71 million”

Much more here: http://johnbatchelorshow.com/jb/2008/10/what-is-rezko-talking-about/

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 10:39 pm

On Post #77
Ooopps, Should have read I have read many valid comments…

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Zee 12.10.08 at 10:40 pm

#71 Terry Do

I agree.

The New Agenda is not censoring views, so if you have a view, express it there.

This “Nothing New” Agenda smacks of TROLLDOM and I hope dances and murphy are not attacking a legitimate and effective new women’s group over a disagreement!

Why would this histrionic person need 25 comments by a certain time? WTH is that?

Why would the histrionic person need its own website because it disagrees over the New Agenda’s stance?

Give me a freaking break.

How can it not be to our advantage to have several fronts?

It will only serve to show Obama and Favreau in the worst light if they can’t even agree to smaller measures.

And once they refuse to do that (as the PIGS surely will) then The New Agenda will have the high ground to demand further measures.

Let’s take a long view….we can do both, can’t we?

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murphy 12.10.08 at 10:43 pm

terry do, not at all — great idea.

Posting at TNA is an excellent idea.

http://thenewagenda.net/

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:44 pm

The more I read about this, the more I’m convinced Fitzgerald HAD to come out with the info NOW. He could not wait to get closer to Jan. 20th as apparently all US DA’s get fired that day?!! But I think he has the goods on many of these people. It was a matter of where to start. When Blago started the selling of the Senate seat, I’m thinking that was a pretty good place to start. But this is a TANGLED web:

Rod Blagojevich: Governor
Patti Blagojevich: First Lady, real estate developer

Tony Rezko: Worked bundling $$ for Blago AND on land deals with Patti (who it seems was probably selling him those run-down landlord apartment things, which makes that comment in one story about her new job working with the downandouts head-shakingly insane!)
Rita Rezko: Good friend of Rod & Patti who “purchased” the land that was then sold to the Obamas in such a way that made her purchase worthless (what was left of the land cannot be built upon)… and the question is: Why would she do that?

Barak Obama: State Senator (when some of this was going down) obvious pay-to-play intermingling of paying off some for the benefit of his close friends (which I think is why Blago got so ticked off when he refused to play now)
Michelle Obama: Hired onto two different boards and a huge increase in pay at a hospital AFTER her husband was elected to the State Senate.

These people give new meaning to the words power couple!

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ipotter 12.10.08 at 10:45 pm

#70 TXRepGirl
bo wanted a side yard but didn’t want to pay for it, or the full price of the house

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 10:46 pm

TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 8:46 pm
I’m curious, Murphy, et al. Is there a secure way to set up a site that could post things that “go down the memory hole”? I know many sites are owned by Google and they simply scrub what they don’t want remembered. Would there be a way to set up a site not beholden to Google or to Yahoo like this? It seems this will be the only way to keep info about O from disappearing forever.
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You can take screen shots and you could download video clips. I’m willing to save on my secondary harddrive videos sent to the actioncenter, as I can create a section in the ActionCenter, Blagobama, and upload screenshot for reference.
But first I have to get the My favorite Pets section up (I was bad this weekend, didnt get to it).

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:47 pm

“Patricia Blagojevich appeared several times in the FBI affidavit describing charges against her husband, Rod Blagojevich. She is a real estate agent and former business partner of convicted felon Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko.”

PARTNER? She was Rezko’s partner?

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:48 pm

ZEE – If you are going to FIGHT , you have to do just that – as I know you are well aware .
If your first major stance against a blatant display of sexist abuse as an organization is a slap on the wrist I think you lose a lot of credibility .
I also don’t think your perception of BJ is accurate and that site is not new and was not put up to just disagree with NA .
BJ is a strong , outspoken woman , as are you , and I have a lot of respect for the point she is making .

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invalidresponse 12.10.08 at 10:51 pm

Dances …you have mail

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 10:52 pm

murphy 12.10.08 at 10:22 pm

thanks Gyps — now wouldnt that be a fine how de do??
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I’m looking – honestly. I did find several links that says Patty cake was Rezko’s partner and that her business deals are under investigation, but…………… I’m trying

You see should the web info about her – you were asking about women in prison?? She’s a perfect candidate so far……… or so it seems!!

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murphy 12.10.08 at 10:52 pm

betty jean is not histrionic. far from it.

isnt calling a woman you disagree with “histrionic” sort of like calling her “hysterical”?

The Nothing New Agenda smacks of humor. Humor with a bite, but I hardly expect you to object to humor with a bite!

Having several fronts is excellent — having fronts at odds with each other is not such a good idea.

Not sure I follow your logic on the last bit. To me it looks more like making a demand, having that demand met with flat-out refusal, lessening your demand to something symbolic (not even getting in to how offensive that particular symbolic demand is), having the lesser demand met with flat-out refusal, and then . . .

claiming the moral high ground!

but, you’re right Zee — there is no reason for this disagreement to be anything more than it is — a healthy disagreement that leads to a productive and effective solution.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 10:54 pm

Zee 12.10.08 at 10:40 pm
This “Nothing New” Agenda smacks of TROLLDOM and I hope dances and murphy are not attacking a legitimate and effective new women’s group over a disagreement!
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Zee, Of course you can characterize it, and me, anyway you choose too, but, I’ve listened to NNA radio programs, I’ve read two of their press releases, and it seems to me they are much like NOW,practically pandering instead of taking the STRONBG stand for women that they claimed they would.

I think you’re being unfair to Betty Jean, you;re entitled to that as well, she layed out her grievance in a civil manner. I see nothing wrong with it. And, her website has been around for quite some time now… and it wasnt created for trolling.

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 10:56 pm

Murphy – The NA and every other woman ALREADY had the moral high ground the second Favreau decided to play his little joke . When you make your first demands and then they are not met , you don’t back down , you get even LOUDER .

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 10:59 pm

Deep timeline of the Blago mess. This didn’t just start happenin’ folks. It’s been in the works for at least four years.

http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/chi-investigation-timeline-1208,0,7424036.story

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 11:01 pm

In other words , when they first demanded that Favreau be fired – THAT WAS being nice . After that comes protests and demonstrations , not compromises and pleas for community service .

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:01 pm

hey yall

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:02 pm

now no one in therir right mind would believe anything jesse or his son says…..but then again america fell for that one…o well…the usa deserves what it gets.

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:04 pm

Here’s another male-dominated criminal enterprise: (warning, child sex abuse trigger) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7776692.stm

And we haven’t even gotten into a discussion about serial killers. I love to eviscerate idiots who cite her as evidence that there are female serial killers. There aren’t any that we know of, for the record, not like the men. Men and women are so different that even their dysfunctional criminality expresses itself differently.

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:05 pm

uh, her= wournos, ftr. Heh

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:05 pm

TT, a-yup.

I gotta tell ya — i am loving THE HELL out of these new developments tying Patti to Tony to Bammy.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:06 pm

invalid,
Got it. Thank you. It’s uploaded now.

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:06 pm

Wait a minute.. back up.. did someone say that Blagojevich’s wife is in big-business realty, and that she was Rezko’s PARTNER? A business partner? Is there any proof of that somewhere? Think something like that should be sent on to Hannity or Greta or Drudge or something? I mean.. this is CONNECTION big-time if it’s true. And, if a true business partner, why wasn’t she in on the federal indictment? Or was she? Something smells very interesting here…..

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:07 pm

murphy

i am tickled too…but i have to admit…the media will prob protect that one…and remember all that one has to do is pull out the race card and then everyone starts hiding under their beds.

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:07 pm

anna belle what about that woman who Charlize Theron played in Monster? she was a real live serial killer i think.

exception that proves the rule maybe?

btw, hi! great to see you.

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wontbackdown 12.10.08 at 11:08 pm

I tried to post on Billie Jean’s post but couldn’t get my post to go through???

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:09 pm

Ario! yeah, but there is only so much spinning the media can do.

this is spinning out of control of the spin-meisters.

this is tectonic!

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:09 pm

Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:05 pm
uh, her= wournos, ftr. Heh
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wournos was justified…
of course, she got the death penalty, while many men just sit in prison for the rest of their lives (manson comes to mind). The patriarchy does not like women who kill men… no matter how brutal those men are to them. Oh, and they hate lesbians, too.

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:09 pm

What scares me is that the Chicago politial machine, with all it’s filth, scum, and encrusted s**t is now on it’s way to Washington to teach Washington the “how to” of mafioso. Like Washington politics wasn’t bad enough without mafioso Chicago-style added to the mix!

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 11:10 pm

WBD – I just read your post over there , are you hittin the bottle or somethin ? :)

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:11 pm

murphy 12.10.08 at 11:07 pm
anna belle what about that woman who Charlize Theron played in Monster? she was a real live serial killer i think.
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That was Wournos

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wontbackdown 12.10.08 at 11:11 pm

Murphy: SHE WAS BRUTALLY RAPED BY A MONSTER!!!

I am not making excuses for her… but damn it, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING SAID ABOUT THE TRAUMA OF IT ALL!!! WE ARE CARRYING CENTURIES OF COMPOUNDED TRAUMA! imo!

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:12 pm

i pray u r right…

but u would think and i hope im right that people would finally say…”who the hell is this guy and who the hell are all these shady characters surrounding him?” i mean the list is humungous….wright…rezko…ayers..jackson…the governor…the kenyans…i could go on and on….o and who was the crazy catholic priest…i forget his name!!!!

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:12 pm

I think that I read somewhere that even MSNBC’s Chuck Todd was saying that O’s first response re the Chicago travesty was “too weak” or something like that. If MSNBC says O’s answer is too weak, then it’s REALLY too weak!

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:13 pm

WE ARE CARRYING CENTURIES OF COMPOUNDED TRAUMA! imo!
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I am in full agreement with your opinion.

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:13 pm

btw…im leaving dc for a week vacation during the inauguration…i cant bear the thought of an obama orgy on my door steps!

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lilibet 12.10.08 at 11:13 pm

ON FRENCH TELEVISION CHANNEL 2 they had a story about the Illinois sandal
entitled: “UN SCANDALE AUX ETATS UNIS QUI EMBARRASSE BARACK OBAMA”!
They showed Obama claiming that he had not talked to Blagojevich and then showed a total of three pictures of the two of them together. Perhaps the Europeans will begin to put two and two together.

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:13 pm

Who are we talking about who was brutally raped by a monster?

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wontbackdown 12.10.08 at 11:14 pm

TexasTigress:

Oh. Guess I left too soon!

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:15 pm

you know its sad when we are counting on the french:(

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:15 pm

Karen — a-yup! it’s a whopper.

Patti raked in over a million dollars in real estate commissions brokering deals for rezko and other developers.

read all about it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/us/politics/11wife.html

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 11:15 pm

Lilibet – WONDERFUL !!!!!
I hope it was one of our prowls that alerted them !!!! :)

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:16 pm

Murphy, I’ll look at it now… but at first glance… this is the NEW YORK TIMES??? And THEY exposed this? Wow! If THEY said something…. it’s truly out in the open….

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 11:17 pm

KarenWI #100. Several sites say this about the Patti B/Rezko connection:

The newspaper also reported that Mrs. Blagojevich also had a long business relationship with Antonin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago developer and former Obama fundraiser who was convicted on fraud charges earlier this year. The Blagojeviches reportedly refuse to disclose how much the real estate company made off Rezko.

I’m thinking given the threads here, it’s a good bet that she was the one that handled the Obama sale.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:17 pm

There’s aprowl… ask US media why French media is more aware of blago and oreobama than they are.

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:18 pm

oh, sorry — I thought Wournos was someone else.

wbd — yeah I know — you’re right. a lot of men who commit violent crimes were also sexually assaulted or abused.

sexually assaulted by men that is.

i either need a very big drink or another chapter of Dostoyevsky right now.

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:19 pm

wbd — yes.

yes, yes, yes.

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:20 pm

Murphy,

That was Wournos, and she doesn’t meet the criteria. She murdered for opportunity after she found she could actually do it. Men do things like kidnap and torture their victims. Just because a person kills serially does not mean they meet the criteria for a serial killer as defined by the FBI. So far, only men have met that criteria.

I seriously don’t think it’s in womens’ natures to abuse or mistreat others on that level. That’s a power game. Whether that’s a function of biology or of inbred oppression, I do not know, nor would I hazard a guess. I just notice patterns.

I’m no scientist, ftr.

Good to see you too!

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:20 pm

lets not stoop low ok?

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:20 pm

wbd — yeah I know — you’re right. a lot of men who commit violent crimes were also sexually assaulted or abused.
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Not all survivors of sexual abuse commit vilent crimes, although, my guess is, many more are thinking about it this year. :roll:

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:22 pm

DWP: Wournos first murder was justified. Afterward she murdered for opportunity, because she found she coul live with herself after the first one.

Unlike male serial killers, her experience was not the result of years and years of fantasizing about murder, but rather something she stumbled into. See my comment above for more details on the differences.

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 11:23 pm

Oh yeah – it’s on the Drudge too – it snowed in Houston – my grandchildren got to make snowballs!! Whoohoo!!!

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:23 pm

the paperwork connected with the obama-rezko land deal was subpoenaed in 2006 and AGAIN on October 18th of this year, so SOMEBODY knows something about this and SOMEBODY is interested in how all the pieces fit together.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/18/whistleblower-hits-obama-friends-appraisal/

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 11:23 pm

murphy 12.10.08 at 11:05 pm

TT, a-yup.

I gotta tell ya — i am loving THE HELL out of these new developments tying Patti to Tony to Bammy.
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Murphy the FECKER Troop did a marvelous job ferreting out the Political Money Connections, such as giving and the refunding money and the phoney donor names etc., I would bet, they would do a marvelous job, exposing the Real Estate Connection REC.
We can call them the RECKERS :)

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:24 pm

AnnaBelle,
My recollection is she was a prostitute, and murdered the men, her Johns, who assaulted her in unagreed upon ways… i.e. fucking her anally with a broken bottle, etc.

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 11:24 pm

“Since the Tribune first disclosed her eight-year financial relationship with Rezko, though, authorities have taken an interest in many of her real estate deals.”

Eight years. Starting when? Ending when? Questions. Questions. Questions.

I’m assuming it ended in September of this year or last because she quit when Rez went to jail. So eight years back would be 2000 or 2001. That would definitely include the time of 2004, the purchase of the O house.

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:25 pm

one can only hope that thye governor takes down everyone including that one when he goes down

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 11:26 pm

Terrydo
since it involves both Politics and Real estate can we call them Pecker Reckers ?

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Seattlegirl 12.10.08 at 11:26 pm

So old BO is really setting a new record for early scandal involvement in a Presidency. I hate to say it but it looks to me like years from now people will just want to rid them selves of sleaze in the whitehouse the way they did at the end of Bill Clinton’s terms. Bill did a lot of good things but they were overwhelmed by the impression of sleaze.

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:27 pm

Wow.. just read that NYT story about the governor’s wife. Wow wow wow…! I think this arrest of the governor is just the very tip of the iceberg, and at the bottom of it you’ll find not only Rezko, but O… This has them all tied together so tight that they are all sardines in the same can! Oooo I sure hope this explodes all over O’s face and before Jan 20! I’m afraid that the teflon man will just walk away again with a few appropriate lies as usual. Snake-Oil Salesmen of the late 1800′s and early 1900′s would have envied this guy (Obama)! I sure hope somebody who has clout somewhere (Hannity? Rush? SOMEBODY?) can dig, dig, and keep digging, and FORCE this sulpher-covered demon out into the open air for all to see!

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:28 pm

She was a prostitute, indeed, DWP. And she did murder her first victim after he brutally raped and tortured her. After that, though, she generally killed john’s for money and for their cars. She didn’t torture them or detain them–she just killed them and moved on. She later claimed that they ALL raped her, but that is an unlikely scenario that is unsupported by the facts. It is possible some of them did, but all? At any rate, we’ll never know it all, since her victims are dead, there where no real witnesses, and she’s gone now too.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:29 pm

This morning this headline:
Calls for Governor to Quit in Scandal on Senate Seat
read
Obama Calls for Governor to Quit in Scandal on Senate Seat

wonder why they omitted resident-select oreobama’s name??

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:29 pm

ooooo its not cute to be called a modern day lady macbeth!!!! o my the hurly burly!!!!!!

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:31 pm

once again we stoop to a racist low….but im not gonna get pissed

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:31 pm

I can’t believe that crap about Blagojevich. I told my husband this morning: “Right out of the gate!” Hehe. Corrupt assholes. I hope they’re all indicted by the end of this. In my (admittedly tipsy) opinion, I think it would be the height of irony and humor if the Republicans did to Democrats what Democrats should have been doing to Republicans all these years, namely: enforce the law. What a world, what a world, eh?

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:31 pm

theres always one bad apple in the bunch

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:31 pm

She later claimed that they ALL raped her, but that is an unlikely scenario that is unsupported by the facts. It is possible some of them did, but all? At any rate, we’ll never know it all, since her victims are dead, there where no real witnesses, and she’s gone now too.
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Okay, but if there weren’t any other witnesses…
what facts did authorities rely on?

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:32 pm

anna girl what u sipping on?

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:33 pm

im doing grey goose and grapefruit juice…vodka boy here

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goofsmom 12.10.08 at 11:34 pm

Hey Ario

Kettle One is pretty smooth too…

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Seattlegirl 12.10.08 at 11:35 pm

Murphy 89: There is one thing good about the New Agenda making one demand, having it refused, making a lesser demand having it refused etc. And that is they are making clear to themselves and everyone that the Dems and BOites do not care about women. I think many people were not believing what was obvious about the misogyny in the Dem party and this makes it perfectly clear. They don’t car about sexism, they think it is a joke, they don’t care how women feel and they don’t care about equal opportunity for women or crimes against women.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:35 pm

Opps menat to cite the source: nytimes.com
This morning this headline:
Calls for Governor to Quit in Scandal on Senate Seat
read
Obama Calls for Governor to Quit in Scandal on Senate Seat

wonder why they omitted resident-select oreobama’s name??

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:36 pm

hey goof!

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:37 pm

ario, what did i miss? what racist low?

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:38 pm

Seattlegirl 12.10.08 at 11:35 pm
Murphy 89: There is one thing good about the New Agenda making one demand, having it refused, making a lesser demand having it refused etc. And that is they are making clear to themselves and everyone that the Dems and BOites do not care about women.
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No offense meant personally toward you, but, didn’t teh New Agenda rev up due to the fact Oreobama’s sexism and misogyny? Do they serious beieve thay have to establish that fact by backing down from their position?

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 11:38 pm

Could someone check the site Murphy posted? I was just there and it started acting weird – hope it hasn’t been scrubbed!!

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:39 pm

Anna Belle,

Aileen Wuornos was a friend of mine, and she was murdered by the state after being victimized since the day she was born.

Victimized as a child, she ran away from home. Forced into prostitution, she was raped and brutalized IN ADDITION to being sexually violated to survive. Finally, she snapped. Just like military people after war, post trauma stress can cause many bad side affects. For Aileen, the sexual violence–which was the only sex she had ever known–became in and of itself (which it WAS) an attack on her body. She was a street walker, and as such had little protection even as far as prostitutes go, and her johns were horrible brutes. EACH and every one of them deserved to die.

I wrote all the big name attorneys–you know who they are– both male and female. And no one took up her cause. She was a poor woman, like a bunny caught in a trap, and when the state murdered her it was a sad day. a sad day indeed.

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 11:39 pm

“April 26, 2008: A Tribune investigation reveals at least three of every four $25,000 donors to Blagojevich got something from the administration–including jobs, contracts or favorable regulatory rulings.

June 4, 2008: After nearly three months of testimony that lays bare some of the innermost workings of the Blagojevich administration, Rezko is convicted of using his political ties to the governor to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme.”

http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/chi-investigation-timeline-1208,0,7424036.story

Can someone tell me off the top of their head WHEN the Obama house was purchased? Year?

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Ario 12.10.08 at 11:39 pm

nevermind murphy:)

but i do have a question for you…i have been out of the country as u know…what is ur view of clinton as sec of state?

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 11:41 pm

TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 11:26 pm

Terrydo
since it involves both Politics and Real estate can we call them Pecker Reckers ?
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lol, I like that name ever better!

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:41 pm

I am writing a book, and one of the chapters is on her. I failed her, and I am sobbing now. She was a child victim, a victim that never grew up, a victim that never had anyone do a nice thing for her, and then she was murdered by the justic system.

god damn them. everyone.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:42 pm

murphy 11.07.08 at 9:34 pm
no apologies or ass-kissing from me Jenni.
the race card has been played for the last time in this country as far as I’m concerned. Obama’s in the White House and it is time to MOVE ON from racism as the most important social ill that was ever invented in the history of the entire world oh my god oh my god white people are EVIL.
been there. done that.
it’s misogyny time for me.
and every black, white, brown, man or woman who wants to call me a racist to make me shut up about misogyny?
FOAD.*

*fuck off and die

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TexasTigress 12.10.08 at 11:42 pm

((((Jenni)))))

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:43 pm

jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:41 pm
I am writing a book, and one of the chapters is on her. I failed her, and I am sobbing now. She was a child victim, a victim that never grew up, a victim that never had anyone do a nice thing for her, and then she was murdered by the justic system.
god damn them. everyone.
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I’m with you, Jenn.

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:43 pm

and one day whomever made the decision to name that movie MONSTER will have karma visit them. and she will be a brutal beast that day.

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:44 pm

Dances…my friend. I still have all of my letters from her. She was a woman who never had a friend. We should all bow our heads for this woman…

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Ronan 12.10.08 at 11:45 pm

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:45 pm

Texas….my friend

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 11:46 pm

jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:39 pm
I’m sorry to hear about that. Unless someone’s been there, it’s not easy to understand.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:46 pm

jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:43 pm
and one day whomever made the decision to name that movie MONSTER will have karma visit them. and she will be a brutal beast that day.
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I know they didn;t entitle it that for this reason, but if you think of Monster as the men (the sexual Johns, the enforcement Johns, and the criminal justice system Johns, or, the Partiarchy for short. It makes sense.

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TerryDo 12.10.08 at 11:46 pm

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 11:39 pm

“April 26, 2008: A Tribune investigation reveals at least three of every four $25,000 donors to Blagojevich got something from the administration–including jobs, contracts or favorable regulatory rulings.

June 4, 2008: After nearly three months of testimony that lays bare some of the innermost workings of the Blagojevich administration, Rezko is convicted of using his political ties to the governor to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme.”

http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/chi-investigation-timeline-1208,0,7424036.story

Can someone tell me off the top of their head WHEN the Obama house was purchased? Year?
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ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE TXRepGirl :)

From World net daily
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=79390
That much is known. What’s not known is whether any Auchi funds aided Obama’s 2005 purchase of a $1.65 million mock-Georgian mansion in the leafy Kenwood district of Chicago. On the same day, Rezko purchased an adjacent lot from the same seller.

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:47 pm

I’m drinking Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale Arios.

DWP, an example of a fact would be her profound mental illness. Another would be her well-documented propensity for lying for personal gain or advantage. She was pretty unreliable.

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:47 pm

(((((((Jennifer)))))))))) hang in there girl! I think most of us have had someone in our life who we felt we failed… I did too. In fact, I can think of two who are now deceased who I failed and one of the two which might not be dead today had I not failed her. I wish I were there with you right now to give you a big hug… I know it hurts. I KNOW… and now the wounds are just reopened and the it’s bleeding again. I understand. Know what? I think she sees you and understands too. Someday you’ll see her again and then you’ll know she’s ok and that she’s in a better place now where nobody can hurt her again.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:49 pm

DWP, an example of a fact would be her profound mental illness.
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Okay, if she was mentally insane (and who wouldnt be after a lifetime of being brutalized), why was she murdered instead of sent to an institution for the criminally mentally insane?

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:50 pm

Oh, and if MY OPINION counts for jack shit, the NEW AGENDA should slit their wrists because the slow and painful death they are crying out for is just too fucking painful.

Please won’t you please apologize and work with women whom you have/will/would like to violate….

FUCK THAT. FUCK THAT. FUCK THAT. FUCK THAT. FUCK THAT.

How about this shit, fire those fucking assholes and put women in their positions. Dances, Betty Jean, Murphy….

When you beg for nothing you get nothing. We need to start fucking demanding. and more than fucking apologies. Apologies, cries of racism…..FOAD a million times.

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:50 pm

Sorry to hear about your personal story, jenn. Good luck with the book. I agree that she was a creation of her time and circumstance, though I disagree that the men deserved to die (necessarily) and that she was guiltless.

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:51 pm

The one who might not be dead today …. it was in high school. She didn’t have any friends. Well, I didn’t either. However, she was ill kept, huge, and… well.. she reached out to me and I shunned her. We were kids…. and then they found she’d committed suicide. I never forgot it. Nor did I ever forget that she had reached out for a friend and I’d turned my back on her. I will never forget it… so yes, I understand…

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:52 pm

Good question, DWP. I think it’s a given in feminist circles that her case is a special kind of tragedy because it was like a witch-hunt.

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:52 pm

Dances…

excellent question. because the state loves to kill women. esp. women who kill men.

Aileen was not even a serial killer (plans, sexual component, etc., etc.), Aileen was a walking victim living a Post trauma stress nightmare. Each time a man attemped to sexually violate her, boom.

She should be alive in a mental hospital. I would let her come and live with me. She deserved a medal. perhaps she is sitting at the right hand of god wearing one right now.

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 11:52 pm

We’re getting closer – one of Pattycake’s deals in question is for $3.2 million……are things unfolding here?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3433485.ece

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wontbackdown 12.10.08 at 11:52 pm

I’ll day this and exit (and not be sorry that it’s “too personal” or even somewhat irrational:

I hear you Anna Belle… but not necessarily sure I completely agree.

We say it from a cinematic “rationale” depiction of what happened to her and how it played out, and not a psychological assessment of a life-altering event.

There is no way to determine how any two abuse victims respond.

I spent 46 years clueless – CLUELESS! So detached from the memories – I still cannot believe how I did that?

I understand it “clinically”. But I do not understand how I could “remember” yet be completely disconnected from my own experience of it all as “real”.

Aileen Wouros:

I went to that movie alone. I had been in Sexual Abuse (INCEST) recovery for two years and STILL could not talk about my own experiences.

I cried for days and days when I saw that film – It broke soul wide open.

WHY? Because inside everyone of us is the rage, the horror, the desperation of an “Aileen Wouros” to get this fucking madness of MEN RAPING, RAVAGING, DISREGARDING the totality of HUMAN BEINGS CALLED “WOMEN”.

I do not believe that I could actually kill another human being out of such revenge – but I have damned sure wished that every man that has ever walked on the face of this earth that has abused or failed to without utter a word against it, would suffer an ounce of the physical, emotional and psychological pain that ANY KIND OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND WOMEN CAUSES!

IT IS LIFE ALTERING! – and Aileen Wouros’ tragic life was one more lost opportunity for EVERYONE to take a damned good hard look at the brutality and life-altering effects of “RAPE” – in all of its varying degrees.

I am not condoning her madness – but I wouldn’t put HER MADNESS one gnats hair below a John Edward’s SICKO ROLE PLAYING OF MR. PERFECT IN FRONT OF ALL OF AMERICA anymore than Blagojevich’ FUCK EM’ ALL, I AM KING OF CORRUPTION IN ILLINOIS!

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murphy 12.10.08 at 11:54 pm

ario #156, well first of all her position has been compromised by obama before she’s even been sworn in and that is a disgrace!

She’ll be a PHENOMENAL Secretary of State — I LOVE the fact that she will be a global force for improving the status of women EVERYWHERE. i really really love that.

mamapuma had an excellent analysis today. She said that when Clinton suspended she knew she could cut a good deal with O. In August things started to look rough for obama in the general. Every time obama slipped (after the palin pick, his abysmal performance in the debates, joe the plumber, etc) he was forced to go back to hillary and bill and beg for more help. Every time he asked for help from the clintons Hillary got another concession.

only time will tell how much she got from him, but I’m betting it was A LOT.

and that makes me smile.

oh, and this Blago stuff changes the context of EVERYTHING.

hee hee hee hee!

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:54 pm

All I was trying to say was that she did not deserve to be classified with the likes of Ted Bundy, because she doesn’t fit the criteria. I’m tired of people using her to say there are female serial killers. There just aren’t. It does not happen.

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 11:54 pm

“Burton said Obama, 46, toured the property with Rezko for 15 to 30 minutes at some point before the purchase. Burton said Obama wanted Rezko’s opinion of the property because Rezko was a real-estate developer in the area. Burton said he didn’t know when the pre-sale tour occurred.”

??? This is on the sale of the land question. This is an exhaustive story that I found on it. I’m very curious. Why would you write Obama, 46, That seems odd. Do we normally write in newsstories: Sally James, 34, toured the property…

But here’s something even MORE weird. This was in 2005.

WAIT!!!!

Okay, follow me here. If he is 47 this year as EVERYONE has said, that would make him born in 1961, in which year Hawaii was a state. BUT. If he was 46 in 2005, that would make him born in 1959… when Hawaii WASN’T A STATE!

Ummm… and this is from Media Matters.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802210009

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:54 pm

jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:50 pm
Oh, and if MY OPINION counts for jack shit, the NEW AGENDA should slit their wrists because the slow and painful death they are crying out for is just too fucking painful.
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The Nothing New Agenda wants favreau to visit a domestic violence center so that he can have his consciousness raised. (It doesnt seem to matter to them that perhaps it isnt the bets thing for the women to be exposed to a perpetrator… theyre only only women, afterall.)

When I read that I thought, jesus, maybe the Nothing New Agenda needs to visit a domestic violence center to have their own consciousnesses raised, and perhaps be slightly motivated to fight for women instead of saving pricks.

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:55 pm

Anna belle,

I have worked with prostitutes for many years. Many men deserve to die, and many of them rape these women. She was as guiltless as Jesus. She was so mentally ill she was, most of the times, not even ‘here.’ When the men would rape her, she would relive child rape and the chill of death would come over her. She fought to survive, and the way I look at it the child comes first. She was just a sick sad child. and no one ever came to rescue this one.

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DancesWithPumas 12.10.08 at 11:56 pm

Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:54 pm
All I was trying to say was that she did not deserve to be classified with the likes of Ted Bundy, because she doesn’t fit the criteria. I’m tired of people using her to say there are female serial killers. There just aren’t. It does not happen.
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Oh, I see. Yep. I agree with you.
And I do question the case and sentencing.

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:56 pm

Dances…

The New Agenda is already OLD….and they are embarassing me.

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wontbackdown 12.10.08 at 11:57 pm

DancesWithPumas:

No shit Dances – a domestic violence center is not a playground for someone else’s SMUG STUPIDITY!

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KarenWI 12.10.08 at 11:57 pm

TxRepGirl, for a second there I got excited… but then I could just hear it “oh, that’s just a typo in the age”. (sigh). Dagnabbit, where is that darn birth certificate!!!

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TXRepGirl 12.10.08 at 11:58 pm

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jenniforhillary 12.10.08 at 11:59 pm

wontbackdown…

for you, for aileen, for us all….

I will never back down

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gypsy rebel 12.10.08 at 11:59 pm

NO ONE KNOWS – I had dreams for years of someone reaching out for me and I would wake up screaming. One of my most memorable dreams that I had was about 10 years ago:

It was dark and I was in a room at my Aunt’s home. I was laying on the couch with a young girl – but I felt the young girl was ME. Suddenly the room was on fire all around me and I could see the dark shadow of a man watching me. I knew I had to SAVE the child. I got the child safely out of the fire, and the adult took over! Deep isn’t it. I had it analyzed too!! I saved the child that once was me.

Now……….back to my research!!

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Anna Belle 12.10.08 at 11:59 pm

I’m out. Goodnight folks.

PS; I love The New Agenda. Everybody in their own way, eh? Women for women, no?

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TexasTigress 12.11.08 at 12:00 am

Well , what EXACTLY is the deterrent in this country (ran mostly by men ) or motivation for men NOT to committ crimes against women and children ? Probation ? Maybe a little jail time and then be placed on a registry ?
Bobby Jindel in La. wanted to do away with the Sexual Predator Regisrty – why ? Because he wanted everyone who raped a woman or a child to spend the rest of thier lives in Angola ! They would all be registered at the same address – prison for life .
BUT our US Supreme Court knocked down the Louisiana law saying it was an unfair sentance !!!! Cruel and unusual !!!
What about the VICTIMS ??
Maybe we should ask the New Agenda to have the Supreme Court Apologize and spend a day at a shelter .

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jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:00 am

Anna Belle,

yes, you are right about that. There has never been a female serial killer.

But I am thinking about breaking that trend :)

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 12:00 am

Oh, Sorry Anna Belle – guess I went nuts! typos and all.

I hated that story. I hated everything it represented.

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lilibet 12.11.08 at 12:01 am

Posted: October 28, 2008
9:22 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Obama and top fundraiser Tony Rezko, a business partner and close friend of Auchi

Just 23 days before a crooked fundraiser helped Sen. Barack Obama
buy his Chicago mansion, a billionaire bagman for Saddam Hussein wired millions into the crook’s account.

“Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating in Saddam Hussein’s regime,” said Mideast expert Daniel Pipes.

Former Iraqi official Nadhmi Auchi bankrolled his longtime friend and business partner, Syrian immigrant and Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko, who in turn bankrolled Obama’s political career before being convicted this year of fraud.

That much is known. What’s not known is whether any Auchi funds aided Obama’s 2005 purchase of a $1.65 million mock-Georgian mansion in the leafy Kenwood district of Chicago. On the same day, Rezko purchased an adjacent lot from the same seller.

In addition, Rezko personally toured the house with Obama before their same-day purchase of the adjoining parcels. He also advised Obama on negotiating his end of the deal.

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KarenWI 12.11.08 at 12:01 am

Jenn, I’ll say this… I want you on my side. I don’t want you against me! You are one tough fighter for justice and the right, and you go-get-’em-girl!

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:01 am

TX

could you send the links to teh action center…
I want to forward them, along with your comment to teh BC/NBC Team…
do you know how to execute screen shots (before the article disappears)?

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Ario 12.11.08 at 12:03 am

murphy well said! i agree 100% and i for one hope that she has the power to push through a “Sane” international agenda and not the nonsense That One was speaking of during the campaign! with her and biden in there hopefully that one wont drive our country off a cliff!

im off to bed yall!!! see yall tomorrow night!

adios!

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jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:03 am

THE NEW AGENDA FUCKING SUCKS….they remind me of judges that sentence child rapist to probation (they will rape again), rapists to probation (most likely will rape again), and chastise women for provoking sexual violence.

What is so fucking new about them. Sounds like NOW, and NOW is yesterday and worthless to boot.

There are lots of women’s clubs–book clubs, cooking clubs, PTA, etc. We need a fucking WOMEN’S RIOT, a MILLION WOMEN MARCH, A TEN MILLION WOMEN PROTEST that shuts down the country…..

the last fucking thing we need is a fucking rapist to go to a women’s shelter….

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jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:05 am

Karen,

we are in a war, but many women don’t realize it. And if you belief in things like truth and justice hell yes we are in a war. Someone once told me to pick my fights, but how can you pick your fights if you believe in good over evil….

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 12:06 am

I don’t know if everyone read what they found in Florida – all of those boys graves and the men that have FINALLY come forward about what happened to them in the detention center….. 40 years ago! Committed by MEN!!!

WAKE UP MALE AMERICA! SPEAK UP!!! EVERYONE OF YOU!!! THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM!!!

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murphy 12.11.08 at 12:06 am

thanks jenni #172, I bet dwp, bj, and I could write some DAMN FINE speeches for Precious.

and we would never ever ever use our skillz to undermine, ridicule, or in any way expose our dear leader as a

lying sack of crap.

Though I hate to be the one who has to break this to you Jenni, as eloquent, sincere and talented as you are, I believe you will have to stay FAR away from the speechwriting table.

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gypsy rebel 12.11.08 at 12:06 am

jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:03 am

Read my post #190 – they all need to be castrated!!

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hillstheone 12.11.08 at 12:07 am

Hi everyone,
Been busy catching up on posts, and then did my own PROWL.
Sent this to about a jillion media outlets w/the heading “Chicago-Gate”:

Change we can believe in, alright. We PUMA’s have known all this for months but mainstream media continues to ignore us, at their peril…
Then, they wonder why no one thinks they’re relevant?

Will Obama fire Patrick Fitzgerald?
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_fitzgerald/2008/12/10/160529.html

~ ~ ~

Not that it will do any good, but hey, obots don’t have the monopoly on HOPE and CHANGE…

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jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:08 am

And when I think about what is done to women, has been done to women, and will be done to women. When I think about the FARCE of NOBAMA and NOPE I don’t like the SOS position one fucking lil’ bit (reminds me a rape victim shilling for the rapist) and the Poster Bit (and yes, this is what they think of Hillary) and the whole fucking mess of it…

well, I get a tad bit angry. bitter. mad. FUCKING FULL OF RAGE. perhaps. yep.

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jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:09 am

Murphy,

well, I have my speech voice and my down time voice. when I want to talk nice, I can talk real nice. and when I can just talk–here I am.

and here I am :)

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hillstheone 12.11.08 at 12:10 am

Names: I liked atypical’s suggestion, just plain ‘ol

CHICAGO-GATE.

Because not only Obama is entrenched in it,
because it’s the _best description_ of how HUGE this whole mess is…

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jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:10 am

gypsy….i’m with you. what a team we would make, give us some machetes and some fire power and an army….

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hillstheone 12.11.08 at 12:11 am

Headclunker,
RE:
“I will not surrender my country to these vultures without a fight. I am not going to wait for them to come for my daughter. I believe that many Americans feel the same. I am not talking about conservatism or liberalism or sexism or racism. I am talking about plain old corruption and exploitation, hiding behind all those issues. Be the ones no one was expecting.
PUMA forever.”

Woot-woot, Headclunker!

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:12 am

jenniforhillary 12.11.08 at 12:03 am
THE NEW AGENDA FUCKING SUCKS….they remind me of judges that sentence child rapist to probation (they will rape again),
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I don’t know if the android who abducted and raped me and another 3rd grader ever raped again. I’m actually glad he got probation, otherwise he wouldnt have been safe in prison instead of being dead 8 years later. :)

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TXRepGirl 12.11.08 at 12:37 am

At the risk of someone’s head exploding from this. If you are following the Rezko issue, this page is a MUST READ…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3433485.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3

Let’s try to put this in a nutshell, shall we?

Rezko had a friend, Auchi–a billionaire from Britain who had been in league with Sadam Hussein (yes, you read that right) and who had made quite a bit of his money from his former country, Iraq. Auchi was having trouble getting a visa to come back to the U.S. Rezko said he had connections with some U.S. Senators who might be able to help. In April 2005, Auchi LOANED Rezko 3.5 million.

June 15, 2005, the Obamas buy the house for 1.65 million, Mrs. Rezko buys the side lot for $665,000….

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TXRepGirl 12.11.08 at 12:38 am

I don’t know how to do a screen shot! But I will if you tell me how.

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 12:41 am

It is like coming home to Mama, with that wonderful welcoming smile from Eleanor Roosevelt, she is looking at us Pumas like she is so proud of the whole pack. :)

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goofsmom 12.11.08 at 12:43 am

TerryDo

That was very sweet… :)

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MKfromLA 12.11.08 at 12:45 am

#210 DWP

i am sorry.

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:48 am

edit #210
otherwise he WOULD have been safe in prison

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murphy 12.11.08 at 12:49 am

Thanks TerryDO — I kept forgetting to mention that.

Isnt eleanor so BEAUTIFUL in that picture?

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:49 am

Heya MK!!
Good to see you, as always!

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atypical 12.11.08 at 12:50 am

First Axelrod, now Emanuel, misremembered.

It’s getting so crowded under the bus with Wright, Grandma, Rezko, etc. The blog at ABC, also dancing around what is fast becoming obvious to everyone who is not on Obama’s payroll:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/questions-arise.html

According to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., Mr. Obama’s incoming White House chief of staff, Emanuel, then-state senator Obama, a third Blagojevich aide, and Blagojevich’s campaign co-chair, David Wilhelm, were the top strategists of Blagojevich’s 2002 gubernatorial victory.

-
Emanuel told the New Yorker earlier this year that he and Obama “participated in a small group that met weekly when Rod was running for governor. We basically laid out the general election, Barack and I and these two.”

Wilhelm said that Emanuel had overstated Obama’s role. “There was an advisory council that was inclusive of Rahm and Barack but not limited to them,” Wilhelm said, and he disputed the notion that Obama was “an architect or one of the principal strategists.”

(An Obama Transition Team aide emails to note that Emanuel later changed his recollection of this story to Rich Miller’s “CAPITOL FAX,” saying, “David [Wilhelm] and I have worked together on campaigns for decades. Like always, he’s right and I’m wrong.”)
And have you seen the NYT chart of influence? Almost funny with the blank spaces.

http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-axelrod-now-emanuel-misremembered.html

OT: I hope they didn’t axe my youtube account again, I have video… oh yes.

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:50 am

I love Eleanor.

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gypsy rebel 12.11.08 at 12:50 am

how can we find out who voted on the bailout tonight?

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:51 am

Eleanor and Mama are watching us.

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 12:51 am

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 12:06 am

I don’t know if everyone read what they found in Florida – all of those boys graves and the men that have FINALLY come forward about what happened to them in the detention center….. 40 years ago! Committed by MEN!!!

WAKE UP MALE AMERICA! SPEAK UP!!! EVERYONE OF YOU!!! THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM!!!
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Basically I think men are predators and they live closer to their animalistic side than their spiritual side.
And that is why they forgive each other so readily, for sexism and violence against women and children because some truly believe, but for the grace of God go I.

What Is The Solution ???

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 12:54 am

P.S. from the cottage on “Miracles”:

I am NOT speaking of “religious Miracles”

I am speaking of the “suddenly” – the “inexplicable” happens – and I do mean the inexplicable universal perfect appearance of something you neither thought of or planned for.

I have no explanation for them – but when I have been committed to something with every fiber in my being, and reach that moment of total silence – because I have not the slightest clue of how to take the next step – or how it can possibly all work – a door, a person, a solution appears that I would have never imagined – and everyone is perplexed as to how in the heck it happened – it’s one of those things that all the great planning never thought of and all the hard work didn’t attempt to produce – it just came.

Anyone know what I mean?

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murphy 12.11.08 at 12:54 am

One in nine men will be arrested for a violent crime. Half of those violent crimes will be assault with a weapon, rape, or robbery.

Numbers dont lie.

The answer is Decimation.

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murphy 12.11.08 at 12:56 am

1 in 8700 men will commit murder.

1 in 77,000 women will commit murder.

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 12:59 am

I love Eleanor… a truly beautiful mind.

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 1:00 am

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murphy 12.11.08 at 12:54 am

One in nine men will be arrested for a violent crime. Half of those violent crimes will be assault with a weapon, rape, or robbery.

Numbers dont lie.

The answer is Decimation.
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Do you mean decimation as in women should stop breeding or shall we just breed female children. LOL
We can go back to being goddess again.

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gypsy rebel 12.11.08 at 1:02 am

DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 12:51 am Dances, the votes are in for Congress on the Auto Bailout – how can I find out how they voted? Thanks

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 1:05 am

gypsy
you know what I would normally want to say but say this instead: It’s in the action centerr, hold on, I’ll get it for you. :)

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 1:06 am

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 12:54 am

P.S. from the cottage on “Miracles”:

I am NOT speaking of “religious Miracles”
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Yes, I know what you mean Wontbackdown, it is your higher ‘self’ nous, soul that is working in your life, bringing about the solution. Many great genius, inventors and physicists have attributed their inspiration to their higher self, this miracle.

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murphy 12.11.08 at 1:06 am

Terry Do #223 — the Florida thing is too much for me. Just read it after avoiding it all day.

Confession: I once accidentally killed a cat in the dryer. It was HORRIBLE. I’ll never forgive myself, even though it really was an accident.

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murphy 12.11.08 at 1:08 am

Decimation: This word, which comes from Latin, originally referred to the slaughtering of one in ten soldiers, a practice of the army of Ancient Rome.

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goofsmom 12.11.08 at 1:09 am

Dances

You have mail… ;)

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 1:09 am

I KNOW you are right, Terry, I marvel when it happens – and get so frustrated when I get in its way.

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Decimation: Murphy, if you are using that as I am interpreting, it is a chilling analogy.

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 1:10 am

Oh Murphy: You were.

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 1:13 am

Investigate Bills Passed and what is currently being
worked on and in committees:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
http://www.house.gov/house/CommitteeWWW.shtml

Economic stimulus summary:
http://appropriations.house.gov/

House Appropriations Committee
http://appropriations.house.gov/members110th.shtml
U.S. House of Representatives

House Financial Services Committee Members
http://financialservices.house.gov/members.html

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murphy 12.11.08 at 1:16 am

I speak only in a theoretical sense of course.

But there is a reason that word and its meaning has made its way down through the ages. must have been a pretty effective way to keep the soldiers in line.

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gypsy rebel 12.11.08 at 1:16 am

DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 1:13 am I have a very clear “image” in my mind on what you wanted to say but didn’t!! Thank you – you always help me! By the way – I went to the Action Center and I got lost!!
:lol:

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 1:16 am

I missed the Florida thing, where is it posted?

How awful for you Murphy and how awful for the cat, I understand you still feeling bad. Maybe that is why you called your blog the Puma to give that cat a great remembrance and power.
Murphy on behalf of the cat, I forgive you! :)

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 1:19 am

murphy 12.11.08 at 1:16 am

I speak only in a theoretical sense of course.
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I just knew you would spoil our fun! :)

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DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 1:19 am

gypsy rebel 12.11.08 at 1:16 am
DancesWithPumas 12.11.08 at 1:13 am I have a very clear “image” in my mind on what you wanted to say but didn’t!! Thank you – you always help me! By the way – I went to the Action Center and I got lost!!
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well, you’re a better perosn for at least having tried. :)

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wontbackdown 12.11.08 at 1:22 am

The horrifying truth about the practice of decimation is all of the variations in which it is incorporated into cultures all over the world.

I believe it is a derision of “The Art of War” By Sun Tzu.

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murphy 12.11.08 at 1:23 am

Thanks Terry! The cat’s name was Lucifer. no joke.

just google “mass grave in florida” if you want to learn more — the murders were committed in the 50′s and 60′s, so a long time ago, but it’s REALLY REALLY bad.

anyways, Happy Song posted.

Take it upstairs!

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TerryDo 12.11.08 at 1:23 am

murphy 12.11.08 at 1:08 am

Decimation: This word, which comes from Latin, originally referred to the slaughtering of one in ten soldiers, a practice of the army of Ancient Rome.
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I will have to read up a little about these Romans, it seems that (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)was killed.
Talk about thinning out the herd.

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Libby 12.11.08 at 2:01 am

A little history. When men invented data processing…they ran it until they figured out other ways to make more money so suddenly women were put in charge of data processing. When men found out that they could wield more power in any position, they allow women to take charge. For the past twenty years women have been on the Human Resources hierarchy while men held all of the other positions.

Nancy Pelosi’s rise should have signaled that men had found another way to keep power over women…and we have seen it played out every single day this past year. We have to TAKE POWER on every level. And it appears the best way to do it is to get the men, who are the problems, in prison.

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Libby 12.11.08 at 2:20 am

PS. But we want to keep the good men going and need to back them on every level also.

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turndownobama 12.11.08 at 4:29 am

TerryDo 12.10.08 at 10:28 pm
What I do not understand Murphy, if you would like us to leave a comment regarding Gropergate, which is basically an attack against The New Agenda, why would we not go and post our dissent directly on http://thenewagenda.net/ ???

I posted my comments at TNA this afternoon.
Am I missing something.
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I’m not Murphy, but if we post against TNA at their own site, they can delete our posts. If we post at B’s supporting B, she can keep the posts ip as long as she wants to.

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turndownobama 12.11.08 at 4:39 am

murphy 12.10.08 at 11:54 pm
mamapuma had an excellent analysis today. She said that when Clinton suspended she knew she could cut a good deal with O. In August things started to look rough for obama in the general. Every time obama slipped (after the palin pick, his abysmal performance in the debates, joe the plumber, etc) he was forced to go back to hillary and bill and beg for more help. Every time he asked for help from the clintons Hillary got another concession.
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Makes sense to me. It fits the timing. The Clintons SLOWLY escalated their support of BO. And then BO appointed a lot of old Clinton cabinet people.

I kind of doubt that the SOS was part of that deal, though.

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turndownobama 12.11.08 at 4:50 am

Terry do siad; I have many valid comments on that site supporting Betty Jean and it is too bad they were not also posted on The New Agenda.
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BEfore hitting ‘submit’, copy your post (by hitting Ctl-A then Ctl-Copy). Then you can paste it at the other site and submit it there too.

Maybe someone will copy large chunks of the thread at BJ’s and post the chunks at TNA; but then they would probably delete it.

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BrianH 12.11.08 at 7:01 am

More ethical and less violent? Yeah, somewhat. And MUCH more self-righteous! :roll: ;)

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