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GasBuddy & GasPriceWatch & enter your zip code in the site below, and it tells you which gas stations have the cheapest prices on gasoline in your zip code area. It's updated every evening:

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2009 Oct 2 The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro would be the first time the Olympics would be south of the equator. But the fact that Chicago didn't win the 2016 venue, Republinazis are twisting the IOC decision as an Obama failure and are celebrating!? Any patriots in the Republican Party?

2009 Sep 30 If the Republicans in Congress and the Senate think that govenment-run medical care is so bad, why do they use the healthcare plans available to members of Congress? Why do they go to the doctors at Bethesda Naval Hopital? I'll believe the Republicans in Congress are honest AFTER they reject their use of government-run healthcare!!

Special Health Care for Congress: Lawmakers' Health Care Perks FactsAboutReform.Org Obama And Big Health: Who's Co-Opting Whom? Floating Hydro-Electric Barrel Generator HealthcareCantWait.Com For Lessons on Green Economy, World Looks to Spain

Widgets for greener living - Media Matters deep RedState.org/ACORN connections Sustainable Cooking?

2009 Sep 29 Since nothing but dreck comes out of the U.S. Senate, regarding healthcare reform, that proves the Senate and a bicameral legislature are unnecessary. See Unicameral.Org.

2009 Sep 28 PNM (Public Utility of New Mexico), Exelon national utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Nike have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. I'm not renewing my membership, either, in the Edgewood Chamber of Commerce. It's dishonest and corrupt to smear the scientists who claim that global warming is a dire issue and to discount the long term savings that could be provided by either a single-payer or a public option healthcare plan.

2009 Sep 15 Today, every delegate at the AFL-CIO convention voted for a resolution supporting government single-payer healthcare.

Largest Offshore Wind Farm to Go Online

When Getting Beaten By Your Husband Is A Pre-Existing Condition

New satellites blow Google Earth away

"Only the educated are free." - Thomas Jefferson

Billionaires for Wealthcare

Bill Maher On The 'Tonight Show': Obama Should Stop 'Dicking Around'

Don't drink these bottled waters: Arrowhead, Dasani, Deer Park, Fiji, Ice Mountain, Sam's Choice, & Volvic - from Mother Jones magazine

TRAILER: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story'

2009 Aug 24 50 Best Websites 2009

2009 Jul 27 YouTube Barbie: Homage to my fellow San Diego airheads.

2009 Jul 26 Wow. Pinch me. Both Big Pharma & the AMA are, now, for healthcare reform!!!

2009 Jul 19 I loved the movie Swing Vote. They have one of the best lines of any movie: "If we live in the richest country in the world, why are there so many of us who can't afford to live here?"

2009 Jul 23 Poll: Jon Stewart is America's Most Trusted Newsman

2009 Jul 24 Write, call, email your U.S. Representatives to support HR 676. The documentarian Michael Moore has an online petition that makes contacting your reps easy: http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/petitions/pnum649.php

2009 Jul 05 Stop Roadblock Democrats

2009 Jul 03 Sarah Palin is stepping down as governor of the state of Alaska.

2009 Jun 23 Freegate software.

2009 Jun 21 "We are all Neda."

2009 May 21 You get to use clip art to make your own Psychedelic era poster @ the Psychedelic Poster Art exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.

Hubble space camera : out of this world images

2009 Apr 08 Republicans: Party of No - - Democrats: Party of Know.

2009 Apr 17 Susan Boyle conquers the world with I Dreamed a Dream. Boyle sang Killing Me Softly in a 1999 Demo.

2009 Mar 27 Heifer.Org.

FAQ for redneck pseudo-Christians: Jesus was NOT Swedish. Remember those 9 Hebrew tribes who crossed over to Ethiopia enroute from Babylon to the Levant? >

2009 Feb 14 Too many people who stupidly got into an Adjustable Rate Mortgage are having difficulty paying their higher monthly mortgage payments. In Canada, ARMs are handled by adding months to the mortgage duration rather than increasing the monthly payment due. So, the recent frenzy of foreclosures could have been prevented!!! But since we have government of the predators, by the predators, for the predators - I don't expect business practices or policy changes soon in the U.S. The tougher bankruptcy laws passed a few years ago, written by bankers and not even challenged by Dennis Kucinich, are another example of institutionalized sociopathy.

"Dont celebrate, organize." - E. J. Dionne

2009 Feb 07 "Solid As Barack" song by Ashford & Simpson

2009 Jan 28 Me: Repair America - When it comes to cogently addressing the Federal bailout of a sinking American economy, I defer to Chris Matthews and Jim Cramer: Pay union workers, wearing hard hats, to repair bridges, replace old water pipes, and repair roads. (Me: We're still benefiting, today, for the long range vision of FDR when he put Americans to work during the Depression of the '30s by building Hoover Dam and the Tennessee Valley Authority.)

Matthews & Cramer point out that much more serious bailouts are underway in China and Singapore. They say that a more credible bailout of a sinking U.S. economy should be 10 times more than what's currently being proposed.

Me: So, if Republicans are already being obstructionists with the FIRST Obama bailout bill, it's a safe bet that fewer Republicans will be re-elected in 2 years. Regarding the war on terrorists, Republicans were more concerned with getting re-elected than they were concerned with what's best for America. Now, regarding America's economic downturn, again Republicans are obsessed with politics rather than what's best for the country. Don't tell the Republicans, but they lost the last election. Let Republicans be Republicans. And let us real Americans repair America.

2009 Jan 6 12 Things to Look Forward to in 2009

2008 Dec 15 Universal health care just makes sense according to Christianity ("What you do to the least of these you do to me."), the Constitution ("LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness") AND capitalism (we need the workplace to be operating at maximum efficiency don't we? That calls for preventive medical attention). Read Steven Hill of Yes! magazine & The New America Foundation. Look for a Union of Concerned Scientists report proving universal healthcare being good for the economy. - Andrew Homer

2008 Dec 12 Even a bigger political miracle than Obama winning the election: Shrub, Jr decides to bailout the Detroit automakers, contrary to the psuedo-patriot Republicans in the Senate!!!!!!!!! I guess he didn't want to go out w/ a 21% popularity rating and choose to do the OPPOSITE of expected behavior. Wheee, pinch me I'm dreamin'.

2008 Dec 08 President Shrub, Jr confessed that weapons of mass destruction were NOT found in Iraq. <So, the French President was right adapting American law (innocent until proven guilty) & the American President was wrong adapting French law (Napoleonic Code: guilty until proven innocent).>

"You can put lipstick on a Republican, but it's still a pig." - Andrew Homer

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2008 Nov 7 Election results: Obama 52% vs. McCain 47%.

2008 Oct 21 Poll: Registered voters for Obama 52% vs. McCain 38%.

2008 Aug 21 In an article titled "Udall Makes Appearance at Edgewood School" in today's Mountain View Telegraph, as a non-candidate attendee, I was given more coverage than a U.S. Senate candidate, the State Attorney General, or the two Congressional candidates who gave presentations at an East Mountain lunch picnic and Democratic Party rally last Tuesday.

Excuse my modest intuition, but just as everyone was leaving the picnic and Lee Ross, a Mountain View Telegraph reporter, started asking me questions, I knew I'd be quoted out of context. After-all, skewing the truth is where Republicans excel.

I'll provide, here, the context:

In these financially strapped times, I can appreciate that the Mountain View Telegraph couldn't afford to send a real journalist to the Democratic Party fundraiser, but could only send a graduate of the Rush Limbaugh-Ann Coulter-Jerome Corsi School of Journalism Ethics.

- Andrew Homer

PS - For more on the population control of kudzu, prairie dogs, and Republicans; see StarHeart.US/Party_Republican.html.

In the interview, Ralph says that Obama is "a corporate candidate from A to Z."

Ralph condemns Obama's speech to AIPAC and calls Obama the "panderer in chief."

Please forward this Democracy Now interview to five of your friends and family now.

Compatibility videoDuring the interview, Ralph promotes the idea of VotePact.

Here's how it works.

Let's say you live in a swing state.

Like Michigan.

Where it's a virtual dead heat between McCain and Obama.

This week it's McCain 42, Obama 41.

Doing the math, that leaves 17 percent of the population of Michigan who don't like either of the corporate candidates.

(Last we heard, Ralph Nader was at ten percent in Michigan - and that's with approaching zero mainstream media publicity.)

Okay, so let's say you are a Michigan Democrat who doesn't exactly care for Obama's pro-right-wing AIPAC stance on the Middle East.

You'd prefer to vote for the peace candidacy Nader/Gonzalez, but you are concerned about throwing Michigan to the war hawk McCain.

What to do?

Pick up the phone and call a friend, or a relative, who is a moderate anti-Iraq war Republican.

That Republican would like to vote for the anti-war Nader/Gonzalez ticket, but he is concerned that if he does, he will tilt the election to Obama.

You get together with that Republican and both of you decide to vote for Nader/Gonzalez.

That way, Nader/Gonzalez get two votes, McCain and Obama get zero.

Nothing "spoiled."

This idea is called VotePact.

We like it.

Why?

It gives Nader/Gonzalez a chance to win in swing states.

(In non-swing states, you can vote for Nader/Gonzalez straight up without fear of "spoiling" anything.)

If VotePact catches on in Michigan, Nader/Gonzalez could move from 10 percent to 20 percent.

And with Nader/Gonzalez at 20 percent, people will sense a three way race.

Get Nader and Gonzalez on the debates, and 30 percent becomes possible.

And 30 percent is striking range in a three-way race.

So, anytime you run into someone who is concerned about "spoiling" it for Obama or McCain, tell them about VotePact.

The Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, has resigned for being a longtime customer of a high-priced prostitution ring.

The President of the United States, George W. Bush, remains, disgracing his office for longtime repeated violations of the Constitution, federal laws and international treaties to which the U.S. is a solemn signatory. In his forthright resignation statement, Eliot Spitzer—the prominent corporate crime buster—asserted that “Over the course of my public life, I have insisted, I believe correctly, that people, regardless of their position or power, take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself.”

In a recent speech to a partisan Republican fund-raising audience, George W. Bush fictionalized his Iraq war exploits and other related actions, and said that next January he will leave office “with his head held high.”

Eliot Spitzer violated certain laws regarding prostitution and transferring of money through banks—though the latter was disputed by some legal experts—and for such moral turpitude emotionally harmed himself, his family and his friends.

George W. Bush violated federal laws against torture, against spying on Americans without judicial approval, against due process of law and habeas corpus in arresting Americans without charges, imprisoning them and limited their access to attorneys. He committed a massive war of aggression, under false preteneses, violating again and again treaties such as the Geneva Conventions, the UN Charter, federal statutes and the Constitution.

This war and its associated actions have cost the lives of one million Iraqis, over 4000 Americans, caused hundreds of thousands of serious injuries and diseases related to the destruction of Iraq’s public health facilities. As the popular button puts it, "He Lied, They Died".

From the moment the news emerged about Spitzer’s sexual frolics the calls came for his immediate resignation. They came from the pundits and editorialists; they came from Republicans and they started coming from his fellow Democrats in the Assembly.

Speaker Sheldon Silver told Spitzer that many Democrats in the Assembly would abandon him in any impeachment vote.

George W. Bush is a recidivist war criminal and chronic violator of so many laws that the Center for Constitutional Rights has clustered them into five major impeachable “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” (under Article II, section .4)

Scores of leaders of the bar, including Michael Greco, former president of the American Bar Association, and legal scholars and former Congressional lawmakers have decried his laceration of the rule of law and his frequent declarations that signify that he believes he is above the law.
Many retired high military officers, diplomats and security officials have openly opposed his costly militaristic disasters.

Only Cong. Dennis Kucinich (Dem. Ohio) has publicly called for his impeachment.

No other member of Congress has moved toward his impeachment. To the contrary, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Dem. Calif.), Rep. Steny Hoyer (Dem. MD) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman, John Conyers (dem. Mich.) publicly took “impeachment off the table” in 2006.

When Senator Russ Feingold (Dem. Wisc.) introduced a Resolution to merely censure George W. Bush for his clear, repeated violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—a felony—his fellow Democrats looked the other way and ignored him.

Eliot Spitzer came under the rule of law and paid the price with his governorship and perhaps may face criminal charges.

George W. Bush is effectively immune from federal criminal and civil laws because no American has standing to sue him and the Attorney General, who does, is his handpicked cabinet member.

Moreover, the courts have consistently refused to take cases involving the conduct of foreign and military policy by the president and the Vice President regardless of the seriousness of the violation. The courts pronounce such disputes as “political” and say they have to be worked out by the Congress—i.e.. mainly the impeachment authority.

Meanwhile, the American people have no authority to challenge these governmental crimes, which are committed in their name, and are rendered defenseless except for elections, which the two Party duopoly has rigged, commercialized, and trivialized. Even in this electoral arena, a collective vote of ouster of the incumbents does not bring public officials to justice, just to another position usually in the high paying corporate world.

So, on January 21, 2009, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be fugitives from justice without any Sheriffs, prosecutors or courts willing to uphold the rule of law.

What are the lessons from the differential treatment of a public official who consorts with prostitutes, without affecting his public policies, and a President who behaves like King George III did in 1776 and commits the exact kinds of multiple violations that Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other founders of our Republic envisioned for invoking the impeachment provision of their carefully crafted checks and balances in the Constitution?

Well let’s see. First, Bush and Cheney are advised not to travel to Brattleboro or Marlboro Vermont, two New England towns whose voters, in their frustrated outrage, passed non-binding articles instructing town officials to arrest them inside their jurisdictions.

Second, George W. Bush better not go to some men’s room at an airport and tap the shoe of the fellow in the next stall. While one lame-duck Senator barely survived that charge, for the President it would mean a massive public demand for his resignation.

We certainly can do better as a country of laws, not men.

2008 Mar 5 - Dennis Miller & Bill O'Reilly have interesting observations why Hillary Clinton won the primaries in Ohio and Texas, yesterday. But Marcella, my wife, I believe has the more valid comment.

For years I've declared that one of the tactics of Communists is to exploit the vulnerabilities of the electoral process of a country, then once they have control - hasta la vista legit elections. It appears that the Republican Party has borrowed a page from the Communist Party playbook.

The Bloomberg-Los Angeles Times poll shows that while Barack Obama would loose to John McSame by 2 points, that Hillary Clinton would loose by 6 points.

In states with open primaries, such as Ohio and Texas, Republicans can vote in Democratic primaries. So, people as Republican radio comedian Rush Limbaugh have been instructing Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries.

The Limbaugh factor: the Dallas Herald stated that 8% of those who voted in the Texas Democratic primary were Republicans, but the exit polls showed that most of them voted for Barack Obama.

So, Marcella sez: "Right, and I'm the Queen of England."

2008 Feb 17 : The best way for the 3 final Presidential candidates to improve their odds of winning the General Election is by their choice of a running mate for Vice President.

Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton should pick her husband Bill Clinton, the 42nd President, to be her VP. When John Edwards was still running, a poll found that Bill Clinton was more popular than any of the 3 candidates. While Bill can't run again for re-election as President, there's nothing regarding his becoming Vice President.

Senator John McCain should pick Condoleezza Rice, current U.S. Secretary of State. Though Rice can do a throwdown with Obama's race and Clinton's gender, both Rice and McCain are tied to an unpopular war which even many Republicans are, now, criticizing. I know McCain won't do it, but a better chance of getting Democratic voters would be to recruit Ron Paul as his Vice President.

Senator Barack Obama should pick General Wesley Clark, former commander of NATO allied military forces. John McCain will resort to stinging commentary that Obama doesn't have what it takes to protect Americans from terrorists. Having Gen. Clark on his team should help Obama to shut-up McCain.

2008 Jan 21 -

WHAT THE CANDIDATES AVOID
by Ralph Nader

Here is a short list of what you won't hear much of from the front-runners in this presidential primary season. Call them the candidate taboos.

* You won't hear a call for a national crackdown on the corporate crime, fraud, and abuse that have robbed trillions of dollars from workers, investors, pension holders, taxpayers and consumers. Among the reforms that won't be suggested are providing resources to prosecute executive crooks and laws to democratize corporate governance so shareholders have real power. Candidates will not shout for a payback of ill-gotten gains, to rein in executive pay, or to demand corporate sunshine laws.

* You won't hear a demand that workers receive a living wage instead of a minimum wage. There will be no backing for a repeal of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which has blocked more than 40 million workers from forming or joining trade unions to improve wages and benefits above Wal-Mart or McDonald's levels.

* You won't hear for a call for a withdrawal from the WTO and NAFTA. Renegotiated trade agreements should stick to trade while labor, environmental, and consumer rights are advanced by separate treaties without being subordinated to the dictates of international commerce.

* You won't hear a call for our income tax system to be substantially revamped so that workers can keep more of their wages while we tax the things we like least, such as pollution, stock speculation, addictive industries, and energy guzzling technologies. Nor will you hear that corporations should be required to pay their fair share; corporate tax contributions as a percent of the overall federal revenue stream have been declining for 50 years.

* You won't hear a call for a single payer health system. Almost sixty years after President Truman first proposed it, we still need health insurance for everyone, a program with quality and cost controls and an emphasis on prevention. Full Medicare for everyone will save thousands of lives a year while maintaining patient choice of doctors and hospitals within a competitive private health care delivery system.

* There is no reason to believe that the candidates will stand up to the commercial interests profiting from our current energy situation. We need a major environmental health agenda that challenges these entrenched interests with major new initiatives in solar energy, doubling motor vehicle fuel efficiency, and other quantified sustainable and clean energy technologies. Nor will there be adequate recognition that current fossil fuels are producing not just global warming, but also cancer, respiratory diseases, and geopolitical entanglements. Finally, there will be no calls for ending environmental racism that leads to more contaminated water, air, and toxic dumps in poorer neighborhoods.

* The candidates will not demand a reduction in the military budget that devours half the federal government's operating expenditures at a time when there is no Soviet Union or other major state enemy in the world. Studies by the General Accounting Office and internal Pentagon assessments support the judgment of many retired admirals and generals that a wasteful defense weakens our country and distorts priorities at home.

* You won't hear a consistent clarion call for electoral reform. Both parties have shamelessly engaged in gerrymandering, a process that guarantees reelection of their candidates at the expense of frustrated voters. Nor will there be serious proposals that millions of law-abiding ex-felons be allowed to vote.

Other electoral reforms should include reducing barriers to candidates, same day registration, a voter verified paper record for electronic voting, run-off voting to insure winners receive a majority vote, binding none-of-the-above choices and most important, full public financing to guarantee clean elections.

* You won't hear much about a failed war on drugs that costs nearly $50 billion annually. And the major candidates will not argue that addicts should be treated rather than imprisoned. Nor should observers hope for any call to repeal the "three strikes and you're out" laws that have needlessly filled our jails or to end mandatory sentencing that hamstrings our judges.

* The candidates will ignore the diverse Israeli peace movement whose members have developed accords for a two state solution with their Palestinian and American counterparts. It is time to replace the Washington puppet show with a real Washington peace show for the security of the American, Palestinian, and Israeli people.

* You won't hear the candidates stand up to business interests that have backed changes to our civil justice system that restrict or close the courtroom to wrongfully injured and cheated individuals, but not to corporations. Where is the vocal campaign against fraud and injury upon innocent patients, consumers, and workers? We should make it easier for consumers to band together and defend themselves against harmful practices in the marketplace.

Voters should visit the webpages of the major party candidates. See what they say, and see what they do not say. Then email or send a letter to any or all the candidates and ask them why they are avoiding these issues. Breaking the taboos won't start with the candidates. Maybe it can start with the voters.

My 01 Dec 2007 post:

Dear hypocrite 2-faced NRA,

If you really give a crap about civil rights, why did you let habeus corpus be deleted from the law books???

Reality check: the 2nd Amendment is NOT our sole civil right. There are others. It's a package deal, Einstein.

Without habeus corpus what good is the 2nd Amendment??

Republicans may get it "right", but never correct.

Andrew Homer

I love the new TV series "Commander and Chief". Having Gena Davis play an American President, the producers are preparing us for who I consider to be the dream team for the 2008 General Election: Hillary Clinton & General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. (Remember you read it here, first. - 10/15/05)

General Wesley Clark endorses Hillary Clinton for her campaign for U.S. President. - 09/18/07

2007 Aug 07 - The Democratic Presidential Candidates @ the AFL-CIO Forum, in Chicago

* Hillary Clinton - She sounded authoritative. It seemed that Chris Dodd & Joe Biden did her dirty work knocking Barack Obama and John Edwards. I believe Clinton went up in the polls, tonight.

* Dennis Kucinich - With how emphatic, funny, and scoring points regarding implementing universal healthcare, have the U.S. pull out of the WTO, and have Congress fold-up the NAFTA tent; I believe Kucinich went up in the polls, tonight.

* Chris Dodd - Dodd drove home the point that if America had the parlimentary system (proportional representation) that would put an end to the two-party system which gives us the pendulum swing which keeps placing a right-winger into the White House, every time a Democrat loses the General Election. Hillary was nodding in agreement.

* Keith Olbermann - Chris Matthews sounded like he was my co-chair of the Keith Olbermann fan club - this MSNBC commentator did a superb job as the moderator. I believe Olbermann went up in the polls, tonight. (Watch his Countdown show Monday through Friday.)

* AFL-CIO - I think the reason the decision has yet to be made which Presidential candidate to endorse, I believe that the unionists feel that Kucinich stole the show from Clinton & Edwards. The phrase "union White House" was music to their ears.

A Republican Presidential Candidate Actually Made a Good Point

* In the Republican Presidential candidate debate tonight, Senator Brownback actually suggested that the money being wasted on an unnecessary war in Iraq would be better spent on fighting the war on cancer, since 1500 Americans die every day from that disease. - 06/05/07

2007 Jan 01 - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has paid $180,000 to a Pennsylvania think tank for 100 great reform ideas to have the State Legislature implement. But Richardson refuses to reveal just what are those reforms.

Guess what??? Some reform moles in Santa Fe have found some of those recommendations. Read 'em and weep:

* Terminate the death penalty.

* Free higher education.

* Everyday, each New Mexican gets a Rueben sandwich from Cindy & Danny's Cafe in Moriarty, Torrance County.

* Proportional Representation.

* Shut down the U.S. Senate: Unicameral legislature.

* "No taxation without representation." Only Republicans and Democrats should have to pay taxes.

* Free daycare.

* Fusion candidates.

* National Guard will be renamed STATE GUARD and should NOT be assigned aboard.

* Instant Runoff Voting.

* Decriminalize marijuana.

* If you're serious about preventing domestic violence, then you'll put alcohol on the list for "the war on drugs."

* Universal Healthcare: Doctors can be exempt of liability charges if they provide at least 22 hours of pro bono medical service each month.

* Ban guns.

* Stop the embargo of Cuba, New Mexico.

* Have a State 7-year 7%/yr rebate program for adding renewable energy devices to a home or business.

* Revive Quo Warranto.

* Tax churches.

* Take Governor Richardson's 60 cronies off of the New Mexico state payroll if they don't have a written job description or aren't earning their pay.

Election 2006 and the Sins of the Republicans

When all 16 national security agencies unanimously claimed that President George W. Bush and his henchmen lied to the American people, sending American troops unnecessarily into harms way in Iraq, the days of Republican domination in the U.S. were numbered. Thank God the voters finally got smart and put the Democrats back into power.

There seems that there are only 2 media sources which had a cogent read of the political pulse of the American people prior election day. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on the Comedy Central channel, was one. The other was The Economist magazine, from London. The November 4th issue of The Economist had articles titled: "The Real Cost of Climate Change," "The mid-terms: Goodbye to the permanent majority?," "The Battle for Congress: Time to launch the ground war," "Lexington: Madame Speaker?" "Crash course: A political bestseller list shows that Americans are concerned" and the cover story "The Vultures Gather: America's mid-term elections".

At least someone is paying attention. Yesterday's elections showed that a majority of the American voters finally woke up.

Ralph Nader observed that "conservative Republicans have been replaced by conservative Democrats, so that there really is NO mandate for change." - 08 Nov 06

2006 Oct 31 post -

Hi Mike Palecek,

At the moment the "Progressive Society" is my cute Baha'i wife & I. (We live 35 miles east of Albuquerque.)

We'll, I got kicked out of the Estancia Valeey Writers Guild since I'm not for a scam war nor a Republican.

I got harrassed out of the State Green Party because a Republican, actress, adulterous, former wife stalked me from California to New Mexico to smear my reputation as she did when we were married.

To set-up an itinerary for you regarding your Spring '07 book tour:

I haven't gotten kicked out of the Unitarian Church of Albuquerque, yet, so I could try with their Social Justice Committee.

I haven't gotten kicked out of the East Mountain Progressives (Dem club), yet, so I could try there.

I just attended a Democratic Action Albuquerue Meet-Up, so I'm too new to be kicked out, yet. So, I could try there.

So, I'll forward your post to those last 3, since I assume they have integrity (and grasp the Bill of Rights).

So, the Republicans succeeded in passing a law to courtmartial civialians in military court?

So, that means we can try Shrub, Jr; Dick Cheney; and Donald Rumsfield for violating UCMJ, for committing treason for "unnecessarily sending troops into harms way"?

I'm sure a few angry top brass would love to start the proceedings.

- Andrew Homer

For Bernalillo County go to Albuquerque:

One Civic Plaza NW, 6th Floor

(SE corner of 5th Street & Marquette)

For information or directions call 468-1290.

* Early voting: Oct 10 - Nov 4 in County Clerks Office (starts Saturday, Oct 21 @ satellite locations).

For Sandoval County go to Bernalillo:

711 Camino Del Pueblo

For information or directions call 867-7572.

* Early voting: Oct 10 - Nov 3 in County Clerks Office (starts Saturday, Oct 21 @ satellite locations).

For Torrance County go to Estancia:

9th Street & Allen

For information or directions call 246-4735.

* Early voting: Oct 10 - Nov 3 in County Clerks Office.

For Valencia County go to Los Lunas:

444 Luna Avenue

For information or directions call 866-2073.

* Early voting: Oct 21 - Nov 4 in County Court House.

2006 Jul 07 - First there was hep cool Richard Branson, of Virgin Galactic (UK), offering $100 million to match state taxpayers stake in the Southwest Region Spaceport, under construction outside Truth & Consequences, New Mexico.

Now, there's Steve Bennett, of Starchaser Industries (UK), who will spend $100 million over the next 10-years to build a 120-acre Rocket City, west of Las Cruces and 50-miles south of the Spaceport @ the intersection of Hwy 25 & Hwy 10. Rocket City will have restaurants, retail outlets, a hotel, rocket manufacturing facilities, astronaut training & housing, and a rocket garden with full size rockets. As Starchaser's American HQ, there will be 300 employees at Rocket City. Besides launching payloads from the Spaceport, Starchaser will, also, take paying passengers for flights. (The press release didn't mention anything about returning the passengers. Ar ar.)

Move over Florida. There's fewer clouds and less crappy weather in sunny and DRY New Mexico.

2006 Jun 30 - A gentleman came into a REALTOR® office and attempted to purchase a property with an agent, telling them he was also going to do other deals. The man put no money down and said he wanted to close in three weeks, was moving his family out, and needed to build a handicap ramp and make other changes to accommodate a disabled person. The buyer said it was going to cost him $15,000 to perform the necessary work, and asked if the seller would split the cost. The seller agreed, and the potential buyer asked for the $7,500 cash up front. The agent told the seller that if the seller wanted to go forward with the deal their office would not be involved because it sounded like a scam asking for cash up front for repairs. The potential buyer was angry when the seller said they were not going to pay the money up front, the buyer then said he was not going to do business with the agent, firm or seller as he walked out.

Please be careful for these types of situations! - Albuquerque Metropolitan Board of REALTORS®

2006 Jun 30 - Today, all cell phone #s are being released to telemarketing companies and you'll start to receive sell calls. You will be charged for these calls (and they'll be more than annoying!).

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It's the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS OR GO TO: www.donotcall.gov

2005 Mar 24 - Pinch me - I'm dreaming - I never thought I'd live this long to see this, but during the last few days:

* 1 - I find myself in agreement with retired Army intelligence officer Ralph Peters, author of New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy, when he states that Americans are revolutionaries and that we have to continue to war to both defend and promote our emancipation values.

* 2 - Then, Republican U.S. Representative Heather Wilson, from New Mexico, was playing footsy with Bill Maher on his Politically Incorrect TV show, where she said that the American public was duped by President Shrub, Jr regarding his reasoning to invade Iraq.

* 3 - Then, at the 2006 state convention of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, the delegates voted to IMPEACH President Shrub, Jr.

See Beat Bush Gear & Press for Progress.