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August 23rd, 2008 by 
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Alan Grayson (D-FL): Three Days Before Primary Day
thirteen 2006 challengers endorsed by blue america for the nonce sit in congress– senators acheter levitra ben cardin (d-md), john tester (d-mt) and amy klobuchar (d-mn), plus reps. arcuri (d-ny), bruce braley (d-ia), carney, donna edwards (d-md), kirsten gillibrand (d-ny), john hall (d-ny), paul hodes (d-nh), jerry mcnerney (d-ca), patrick murphy (d-pa), and joe sestak (d-pa)– and 4 others from 2006 had close calls and are cool-headed to procure in november: vic wulsin (d-oh), larry kissell (d-nc), charlie brown (d-ca) and eric massa (d-ny). not everyone of these was a “sure thing” or unruffled an calmly race. we leave the easy races due to the fact that others. blue america does the hard ones. our first pick of 2008 was alan grayson and this tuesday he faces recently “converted” republican mike smith and an the Church hack and wealthy clownish shill from the republican wing of the democratic party, charlie stuart, in the democratic primary. after a sheer sound race alan looks like the prohibitive favorite to win tuesday and go into the general election campaign against occupant rubber stamp ric keller with a full head of steam. i see alan as one of the blue america good stories. if you’ve missed our earlier chats with alan, i want to advisable you read the arrogance fair feature about his efforts fighting iraq war profiteers or go over and watch some of the tv shows he’s been on talking about these efforts.upstairs is a snip of alan’s identify untrained tv ad which he just started running on orlando TV. it’s powerful and to the point. i think you’ll like the ending.today alan is joining us in the comments slice of firedoglake at 2pm, est for another bull session. the other day i asked him to help me understand the whole concept of “change” in a political setting.barack obama won the democratic nomination by being the office-seeker of modification. now john mccain says that he’s the prospect of change, and we bite our lips and try not to laugh out loud. but since the promise of change crosses the whole political spectrum, we’d better start thinking– what will change… and how?what will change are our priorities. specifically, we will concentrate on meeting human needs, our needs. health is a human need. education is a sympathetic need. public safety is a human necessary. affordable transportation is a lenient need.here are some things that are not human needs: making sure that you can own a gun. preventing two people of the same gender from uniting. insisting that other people speak english. instigating supererogatory wars. when our priorities change, these issues round a back seat.i, for one, would as if to live in a place where the hungry are fed, the tramps are sheltered, the children are educated, and the sick are healed. that’s what we’ve been told, for around 3000 years, that a just society tries to accomplish. merely recently has anyone suggested that a neutral society is one where everyone is packing heat.and when that transmute occurs, the economy will improve dramatically. why? because meeting human needs keeps money in the country. if the bridge that fell down in minneapolis– which is still down– were rebuilt, then the construction labourer who rebuilds that connect will flee money. he will use that money to make someone pay for his rent, and his landlord will deliver the goods a succeed money. the Boniface choose go to dinner in a restaurant in minneapolis, and the waiter will make money. the cup-bearer hand down get his locks cut, and the barber will make money. assembly mortal needs means putting more money in the hands of americans. and spending it on the war in iraq means it’s gone, forever.the u.s. job deficit is $2 million a r?sum?. under the bush superintendence, in has gushed out of this country. no wonder gas is $4 a gallon, the fetch of living is rising, unemployment is up, and the covering market is down. it’s the worst case of economic mismanagement in american history.and that disposition change. because people with a conscience are coming together, and saying “we need to take care of each other.” people with a wrong are taking power in america. and people are letting their conscience guide them.we’re changing. and that’s real interchange.i have no doubt alan is accepted to win on tuesday. after that he faces a well-financed incumbent with nearly a million dollars on hand– a well-financed incumbent who has been faithfully serving the festive interests who have given him millions of dollars and have every intention of shelling out whatever they be struck by to to save up him in office. but orlando is a very changed district and ric keller has never been up against a candidate like alan achat cialis grayson. this could be whole of obscene america’s most noted achievements. take a look at the clip up peak
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morgan spurlock commencement gained attention with his oscar-nominated documentary wonderful size me! now he turns his attention from big macs to bin laden his latest documentary which takes him through war-torn territories of the middle east in search of the world’s most wanted terrorist.the put together-up is this: with the impending birth of his first child, spurlock wants to make sure the world is all right payment the newborn. the hitch is, the radical intelligence behind 9/11 is still on the loose. so spurlock sets off with his camera crew to find osama. seriously now–if you’re about to bring a youth into the world, do you risk your being by traveling to the most troubled spots on the planet? is spurlock out of his freaking make?!!!it’s an daredevil construct, but the execution is absolutely formulaic: travel to the midst east and get together with with the people and detect out what they muse on. not suprisingly, most of them claim to like the american people, but hate our regulation. hey, most american people abhor our government, too! and that ends up being spurlock’s prime thesis: despite the differences in wording, refinement and religion and the fact that many people in afghanistan and pakistan, etc. live in deplorable conditions due to the continuous arguing within their countries, we all–americans and muslims–just want the non-warring, success and opportunity to raise our children safely. with the exception of a group of received jews in israel, spurlock is treated with diplomacy by just about everyone he encounters on his so-called “search” for osama. so in the immortal words of rodney king, “can we all impress along?”there are moments of intelligent irreverance (e.g.; an moving osama dancing to m. c. hammer’s can’t touch this) and introspective learning (father nabil haddad, a priest living in jordan says, “religion is being used as a pretence to hide the cruelty, the ugliness of violence…”), but entire there’s mere little in the started 
