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Escondido Dem Office to Open in September
09/14/2010
Great news! Arrangements for an Escondido office for the 2010 campaign are coming together. A location has been identified at 128 E. Grand Avenue in downtown Escondido. Move in is tentatively scheduled for September 14. |
Want to vote by mail? It is so easy ...
09/12/2010
Want to vote by mail in the comfort of your home? That’s easy too! Click on THIS LINK to the mail ballot application. Print the application, fill it out and sign it. Fax it back to the fax number on the form and you’re done! Beginning October 4, they will mail your mail ballot materials. All you do is fill them out and mail/drop them off. |
Separation of Church and Hate: The NY Mosque
09/11/2010
Separation of Church and Hate: The Mosque Solution. Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I'd like to ask you all a couple of questions... |
End the Silent Segregation in the U.S. Military
09/10/2010
By Tracy Emblem - "In 1948 President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981 proclaiming that "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin."
Compare President Truman's proclamation of equal opportunity and treatment in the military to today's efforts to repeal the 1993 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy imposed by Congress. This discriminatory practice is tantamount to silent segregation of gay and lesbian personnel and puts them at continued risk to lose their jobs and all of their benefits." |
LATE BREAKING NEWS
09/10/2010
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Olga Diaz Closes the Blue Mug
09/10/2010
ESCONDIDO: Olga Diaz's popular downtown coffeehouse closing Sunday (Aug.28).
Councilwoman says eight years was enough for Blue Mug. By David Garrick, reprinted from the North County Times.
-The staff of the Progressive Post mourns the loss of the Blue Mug, an Escondido treasure.
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Council unanimously approves Lowe's project
09/10/2010
CARLSBAD: Council unanimously approves Lowe's project.
Dozens speak out on development plans. By Barbara Henry, reprinted from the North County Times.
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BREAKING: Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico explodes
09/10/2010
Another oil rig 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana exploded. As I write this, the rig continues to burn and Coast Guard helicopters are rescuing thirteen oil rig workers. How many more explosions will it take before we pull the plug on offshore oil drilling?-by Japhet, TrueMajority / USAction
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POLL: 52% Americans now support gay marriage
09/10/2010
For the first time a national poll showed majority support for same-sex marriage. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll shows the gap widens dramatically when age is taken into account. Nearly six in ten Americans under the age of 50 say gay rights are protected under the Constitution. Only 38 percent of Americans over the age of 50 say the same thing. [Perhaps the GOP should start supporing Medicare so their voting base lives longer?] |
Wealthy Right-Wingers Finance Anti-Dem Effort
09/10/2010
For so many of us who worked to get Obama elected, it is difficult to watch his enemies tearing at all his programs and initiatives and creating divsiveness and hatred at every turn. This article from the New Yorker is a must read!
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Who is Joe Miller from Alaska?
09/10/2010
"Joe" Miller is an attorney and the GOP candidate for election to a seat in the United States Senate from the state of Alaska in the November 2010 general election. He has upended the Republican establishment in Alaska. A bright young radical who proposes:
# Abolish the Department of Education
# Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts
# Cut off American funding for the United Nations
# Cut American foreign aid
# Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
And he may have won the election.
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Obama’s increasingly absurd gay marriage position.
09/10/2010
The first lesson is that history does not look kindly on timid presidential conduct on matters of civil and constitutional rights. "Woodrow Wilson is today remembered as a near-great president, but his indifference on questions of gender and race is more than a bit unflattering in retrospect. Second, like Wilson, Obama is running out of time to stay ahead of history." By Richard Just - The New Republic |
There Are No Heroes in Illegal and Immoral Wars
09/10/2010
U.S. officials' claims that the invasions were necessary to protect us from terrorism or locate weapons of mass destruction were never plausible and have been exposed as lies. The world is a more dangerous place today than it was in 2001, when sensible changes in U.S. foreign policy and vigorous law enforcement in collaboration with other nations could have made us safer. By Robert Jensen |
From Women’s Equality Day to Vagina Spray
09/09/2010
Fallbrook writer, Kit-Backon Gressitt writes on Women's Equality Day, and upends some deeply grating primitive attitudes resurfacing: "we now have the likes of Sarah Palin, with the wit of a nit, pretending to be feminists yet advocating for our male-dominated Congress to make personal decisions for us; and young women, the likes of my own kiddo, bobbing to iPods in the wake of the women’s civil rights movement as those rights are rippling away; and senatorial wannabes, the likes of Carly Fiorina, sniping at her opponent’s hair among other targets — her hair, not economic recovery or Pacific Rim business alliances or the state of California’s schools, but sniping at Senator Barbara Boxer’s hair, her hair! Ye gods!" |
No. County Democrats to open HQ in Carlsbad mall
09/09/2010
From Martha Sullivan: - "we are in final stages of securing a temporary storefront in the large, Regional "Plaza Camino Real" mall operated by Westfield in northeast Carlsbad, just south of Hwy 78, between El Camino Real and Jefferson (2525 El Camino Real, Carlsbad. We need a core group of volunteers who will "anchor" our staffing during, say 6-hr shifts during M-F (open and close), and to cover Saturday and Sunday (either full day or partial)." |
Oh no! Teabaggers! Now attacking Soc. Security
09/09/2010
Democracy for America: - The Teabaggers are at it again and this time they're going after Social Security. Teabagger candidates for office like Kentucky's Rand Paul and Nevada's Sharron Angle are working to destroy Social Security as we know it. Teabaggers across the country are backing them up and Corporate Democrats are running scared.
But we're not going to let them win. |
TOP SECRET AMERICA: New investigative website
09/09/2010
"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001. More than a dozen Washington Post journalists spent two years developing Top Secret America |
Ten things I know about the Mosque
09/09/2010
"If there is to be a memorial, let it not be of stone and steel. Fly no flag above it, for it is not the possession of a nation but a sorrow shared with the world.
Let it be a green field, with trees and flowers. Let there be paths that wind through the shade. Put out park benches where old people can sun in the springtime, and a pond where children can skate in the winter. " By Roger Ebert |
'Obama too much like GW Bush' - The fringe left ?
09/09/2010
Glenn Greenwald: "You may think that the reason you're dissatisfied with the Obama administration is because of substantive objections to their policies: that they've done so little about crisis-level unemployment, foreclosures and widespread economic misery. Or because of the White House's apparently endless devotion to Wall Street. Or because the President has escalated a miserable, pointless and unwinnable war that is entering its ninth year. Or because he has claimed the power to imprison people for life with no charges and to assassinate American citizens without due process, intensified the secrecy weapons and immunity instruments abused by his predecessor... " But if so, you are part of the lunatic fringe left and need to be drug tested. |
Evangelist Glenn Beck's Beckapalooza
09/09/2010
By Kathleen Parker - Washington Post : "Beck's "Restoring Honor" gathering on the Mall was right out of the Alcoholics Anonymous playbook. It was a 12-step program distilled to a few key words, all lifted from a prayer delivered from the Lincoln Memorial: healing, recovery and restoration." |
