She would have been 81.
In the aftermath of the Fort Hood incident, the American Family Association wants Muslims out until “Muslims give us a foolproof way to identify their jihadis from their moderates.”
If they get their way (they won’t) and they reinstate the draft I can see teenage kids across the country walking into the induction centers and greeting the draft officers with “Assalamu Alikum.”
This Kos poster analyzes it in some detail and argues that it is worse than Hyde. The Republicans may very well have found the silver bullet to kill health care reform once and for all, unless the Democratic Party parliamentarians can come up with something. But with the Republicans unanimous in killing any meaningful reform and there being apparently plenty of anti-choice Democrats in office willing to sink health care reform for the issue, I don’t know that reform will happen any time in the foreseeable future – certainly not in the next decade. Divide and conquer. Hats off.
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Meanwhile, in the Senate it’s crunch time for the six hedging Democrats, and ironically I don’t think any of them would be hot for the Stupak Amendment.
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Addendum: A representative of Stupak’s office is reportedly yelling at people calling about the amendment.
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Second addendum: Obama wants the abortion language out.
But now I’m wondering if the amendment isn’t redundant, and that unless language explicitly allows for coverage of abortions that coverage would simply be barred by the Hyde law. It’s possible that the anti-abortion force overplayed its hand.
So the question is whether any of those Democrats will vote for the bill if the language is stripped in conference, or even changed to create an exception to Hyde.
Third addendum: My post title notwithstanding, nobody actually knows what this amendment would do. That will give some of the Stupak Democrats an out. I bet the language will be replaced with something like “nothing in this law shall alter or except any federal funding from the Hyde Amendment.”
Germans celebrate the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The Nation has posted an interview with President Mikhail Gorbachev on the events.
The day also happens to be the 71st anniversay of Krystalnacht (a Nazi pogrom in which about a hundred Jews were killed and by some historical accounts kicking off the Holocaust), a synogogue in Dresden was vandalized with swaztikas. History isn’t over yet.
Humboldt Watershed Council is having its 13th Birthday Party & Annual Meeting
Friday, Nov 20 from 6 -9 + at the Bayside Grange (corner of Old Arcata & Jacoby Creek Rds.)
From 6 – 8 enjoy a Pot-Luck Dinner, No-Host Bar, Silent Auction, and these great Speakers:
Jeremy Wheeler, ED of the Mattole Restoration Council……………………..Mattole River and Watershe
David Hope, ED of the Friends of the Eel River…………………………………….Eel River and Watershed
Dr. Paul Trichilo, Dir of the Van Duzen River Project and FoVD……………Van Duzen River and Watershed
Greg King, President/Program Dir of Siskiyou Land Conservancy…………..Klamath River and Watershed
Aldaron Laird, Dir Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District…………………..Mad River and Watershed
Hawk Rosales, ED of the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council………….Native Watersheds
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From 8-9 the HWC will present a short program on its past and future activities and a quick tutorial on our recently launched “Interactive” website:
www.voicesofhumboldtcounty.com
Followed by a short business meeting to elect its Directors for the next year. The current board is running for re-election and there is an open seat, so interested parties are invited to send their resume to HWC, PO Box 1301 Eureka, 95502 or attand the meeting in person. Following the election we will close the Silent Auction and announce Winners.
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AND FINALLY, ABOUT 9 PM
The music will start, the bar will remain open, desserts and coffee will be served. This last hour or more is for YOU to relax and meet your neighbors from the next watershed…we are all connected.
For more information, contact: Bill Thorington, tcgroup@suddenlink.net or call 707-496-4703
REMEMBER,
THIS IS OUR ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AND FUNDRAISER…
BE PREPARED TO JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP AND ENJOY THE SILENT AUCTION!
more about “Daily Kos: Midday Open Thread“, posted with vodpod
Addendum: So, Juan Williams is slammed in this satire. I don’t know if he’s the token liberal on Fox or the token conservative on NPR (maybe both), but what I have noticed is that he talks differently for each audience. Even his conservative friends on the Fox panel thought he was overboard in slamming Obama’s DNC speech, and he’s more recently referred to Michelle Obama as Stokely Carmichael in drag (not as a compliment).
In any case, the conservatives are eating him up.
The House passed health care reform. There’s a public option, but I don’t know in what form. I’ll read up and post more later. 220 votes. 218 were needed.
It even got one Republican vote.
The final moments.
And the Republicans were in top form in terms of disruption. Why didn’t they just turn off the asshole’s microphone?
Addendum: It looks like some Democrats joined Republicans to bar federal subsidies of any insurance plan covering abortion. Sucks.
Second addendum: The scene when reform passed.
Third addendum: Maddow suggests there will be a revolt if the Stupak amendment isn’t removed in conference.
And this Kos poster lays out precisely the dilema Democrats face now.
There’s been a little bit of a stir over the tea bagger signs on the Capital steps yesterday comparing the anticipated victims of health care reform to Dachau victims, complete with photos of bodies found in the famed death camp. Republican after Republican scrambled to speak in front of the crowd, but nobody bothered to comment on the sign until today, following pressure from Jewish groups. Senator Eric Cantor has now deemed the sign “inappropriate” and even gone so far as to criticize Rush for inflaming the debate by comparing Obama to Hitler.
It’s in the Friday afternoon dump, but tea baggers don’t take kindly to criticism of their icons or the perceived weakness of apologies (to liberals). Anybody want to start a pool on how long it will take Cantor to recant his anti-Rush heresy?
TPM has put together a list of the ritual apologies made to date, entitled “Forgive me Rush for I have sinned.”
Meanwhile, some Democrats are seizing the moment to make the wingnuttiness the story of the protest. Fair game? You decide. Rep. Steve Israel:
“I can’t believe that Congresswoman Bachmann would stand where she stood, and see those images, and not have the common decency to say, ‘I disagree with the use of those images.’ I think that she owes the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust an apology. She owes us all an apology. And I’m waiting. We’re all waiting.
Don’t burst former Rep. Tancredo’s bubble! “You bet it’s appropriate” he says. And he blames anti-Bush demonstrators. As previously noted, the right wing approach these days is: Don’t apologize. Always attack. Don’t worry about how lame it sounds. They’ll praise you for “straight talking.”
Well, in light of the information available to us, we are probably going to have our kids innoculated. Here is an article entitle “Swine Flue: Eight Myths that could Endanger your Life.”
Talk me down.
Addendum: On a side note, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is calling for an investigation to determine why Wall Street firms are being placed first in line for the vaccine when there are so many Americans in much more serious need.
At this point any written input (with 9 copies) must be brought in to the hearing on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. The Board will simply be deciding whether to accept the petition. There will be time for oral public comment as well following the initial presentation.
PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
On Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 1:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing in the Board of Supervisors’ Chamber, Humboldt County Courthouse, Eureka, California, to consider the matter listed below. Further information regarding the proposed project may be obtained from the Planning Division of the Humboldt County Community Development Services Department at 3015 H Street, Eureka, California 95501, telephone: (707) 445-7541 (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Contact Person: Michael D. Richardson, Senior Planner.
A General Plan Petition application, Case No. GPP-08-02; SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY PARK, applicant; File Nos. APN 222-091-03, 222-091-06 (portions) & 222-241-08; Garberville area. A General Plan Petition to 1) add to the Framework Plan and the Garberville-Redway-Benbow-Alderpoint (GRBA) Community Plan a Public Recreation (PR) Plan designation, which would allow Natural Resource uses, Resource Production uses, Recreation uses, and Education and Research uses, 2) change the land use designation on some parts of the property to the new Public Recreation designation, and 3) change the land use land use designation on other parts of the property to a combination of Agricultural Exclusive (AE), Public Facilities (PF), and Residential Multifamily (RM) to allow other uses as shown on maps in the project file. These other uses include agricultural production, music events, recreational trails, sports fields and multifamily housing, among others. The land use designations currently applicable to the property are Agricultural Lands (AL20) and Agricultural Rural (AR 5-20).
THE PROJECT SITE IS LOCATED IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, IN THE GARBERVILLE AREA, ON THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY PARK LOCATED AT 1144 SPROWEL CREEK ROAD. NOTE: If the Petition is accepted, the project would be subject to a further application for a General Plan Amendment and would require full environmental review. Any person may appear and present testimony in regard to this matter at the hearing. If you challenge the nature of the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Board of Supervisors, at, or prior to, the public hearing.
Documentation to be filed on this matter for the official record MUST CONTAIN AN ORIGINAL AND NINE (9) COPIES OF EACH DOCUMENT. Documentation includes, but is not limited to: written correspondence, audio and video tapes, maps, photographs, and petitions. If possible, all documentation is to be submitted to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Room 111 of the County Courthouse, 825 Fifth Street in Eureka, (476-2384), by noon on Thursday, November 5, 2009. for the documents to be placed in the Board’s hearing packets. Otherwise; ·documents must be submitted during the public hearing ·on· November 10,2009. FAILURE TO SUBMIT NINE COPIES WILL RESULT IN THE DOCUMENT/S NOT BEING PLACED IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLIC HEARING RECORD.
DATED: October 16, 2009
Kathy Hayes,
Clerk of the Board
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