David G. Healy

simple math Don.... Most guys like the abortion idea (despite what they tell their wives). Most women like choice (despite what they tell their husbands and ministers) More women vote than men, more women are Dem's.... that's why The GOPER's will lose this election by a ton... Palin will return to Alaska and face ex-communication from the Bull-Moose party and obscurity. McCain will fall into that never ending, Hanoi Hilton depression. Sen. Ted Stevens will become Governor of Alaska as a federal inmate, Ms. Palin's 17 year old daughter will become Lt. Governor and run the state.... (only in America)

Maybe you could explain who these "many" people were. Maybe you could give us the name of just one respectable historian or economist who argued this. It definitely was not the American electorate who went onto re-elect him in 1936, 1940 and 1944. Define "respectable". FDR taxed the hell out of EVERYONE, the poor and the low wage hit hardest. Thats an undisputed FACT. Excessive taxation reduces private economic activity. If you slow PRIVATE economic activity you slow the rate of recovery. Thats the true legacy of FDR. wasn't for FDR, AND his legacy, you'd more than likely be shootin' squirrel (instead of digital photos) for supper this evening....

evidently, it just worked for me.

The link does not work. What did it say? Have her lawyers ordered it to be taken down? the link above works... as of 1 minute ago...

and recently John McCain's campaign has focused on the "most" serious issue confronting we Americans this day: "lipstick and pitbulls"! Is the Karl Rove smell ALL over this campaign, another one? Which means the GOP dumbing down of America is moving ahead at full throttle.... there's plenty of room under that-thar GOP bus... The Dem's just need to focus on the issues, hammer the simple fact home: the cowards are hiding from the issues. Appeal to the electorate (and the media) to pay attention, raise their own questions, and hold their nose till the debates.... simple as that! Whining about the GOP goes no where, as we've seen for the past 8 years.... Welcome to the campaign Karl... wasn't that you I saw on the tube, you're a FOX-TV Commentator, too?

Seperation of church and state? Exactly how does that apply in this in instance? The problem is that we don't teach religion in our schools, lest we 'offend" someone. Heck in most places singing christmas carrols is impossible. In the case of the origins of life, science has a theory, back by incomplete evidence, and it must be taken on FAITH that the theory is correct, given that the evidence in incomplete. We don't know that the thjerory for the origins ofg life is correct. So whats the harm in saying so and then pointing out there may other possibilities such as intelligent design or creation? I have great respect for science. I also know that science sometime make the wrong conclusions. And some things are simply beyond the current state of science and perhaps will always be. of course.... human evolution and the big bang can be sorted through, if you DON'T get hung up on what else, TIME. Sans TIME, both evolution and the big bang (GOD inspired) work hand in glove... a primary dilemma:TIME (and all its connotations). The debate isn't about evolution or science per se, its a debate about human beings, US! Our human frailties and ideas, real or imagined! And GROWTH, to what end and for WHAT reason... Then the ever perplexing, WHY. And there's only one place that answers that....

And THEN there's THIS: http://www.newsweek.com/id/157543

FOCUS | Frank Rich: Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-and-...hotgun-marriage The New York Times September 7, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage By FRANK RICH SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech — longer even than Barack Obama’s — you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum’s rush. Still, attention must be paid. McCain’s address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, reminded us of what we once liked about the guy: his aspirations to bipartisanship, his heroic service in Vietnam, his twinkle. He took his (often inaccurate) swipes at Obama, but, in winning contrast to Palin and Rudy Giuliani, he wasn’t smug or nasty. The only problem, of course, is that the entire thing was a sham. As is nakedly evident, the speech’s central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.) Even more fraudulent, if that’s possible, is the contrast between McCain’s platonic presentation of his personal code of honor and the man he has become. He always puts his country first, he told us: “I’ve been called a maverick.” If there was any doubt that that McCain has fled, confirmation arrived with his last-minute embrace of Sarah Palin. We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that she’s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction. She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same. How long before we learn she never shot a moose? Given the actuarial odds that could make Palin our 45th president, it would be helpful to know who this mystery woman actually is. Meanwhile, two eternal axioms of our politics remain in place. Americans vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. And in judging the top of the ticket, voters look first at the candidates’ maiden executive decision, their selection of running mates. Whatever we do and don’t know about Palin’s character at this point, there is no ambiguity in what her ascent tells us about McCain’s character and potential presidency. He wanted to choose the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman as his vice president. If he were still a true maverick, he would have done so. But instead he chose partisanship and politics over country. “God only made one John McCain, and he is his own man,” said the shafted Lieberman in his own tedious convention speech last week. What a pathetic dupe. McCain is now the man of James Dobson and Tony Perkins. The “no surrender” warrior surrendered to the agents of intolerance not just by dumping his pal for Palin but by moving so far to the right on abortion that even Cindy McCain seemed unaware of his radical shift when being interviewed by Katie Couric last week. That ideological sellout, unfortunately, was not the worst leadership trait the last-minute vice presidential pick revealed about McCain. His speed-dating of Palin reaffirmed a more dangerous personality tic that has dogged his entire career. His decision-making process is impetuous and, in its Bush-like preference for gut instinct over facts, potentially reckless. As The New York Times reported last Tuesday, Palin was sloppily vetted, at best. McCain operatives and some of their press surrogates responded to this revelation by trying to discredit The Times article. After all, The Washington Post had cited McCain aides (including his campaign manager, Rick Davis) last weekend to assure us that Palin had a “full vetting process.” She had been subjected to “an F.B.I. background check,” we were told, and “the McCain camp had reviewed everything it could find on her.” The Times had it right. The McCain campaign’s claims of a “full vetting process” for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they’ve invented for her. There was no F.B.I. background check. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically “a Google,” he wasn’t joking. This is a roll of the dice beyond even Bill Clinton’s imagination. “Often my haste is a mistake,” McCain conceded in his 2002 memoir, “but I live with the consequences without complaint.” Well, maybe it’s fine if he wants to live with the consequences, but what about his country? Should the unexamined Palin prove unfit to serve at the pinnacle of American power, it will be too late for the rest of us to complain. We’ve already seen where such visceral decision-making by McCain can lead. In October 2001, he speculated that Saddam Hussein might have been behind the anthrax attacks in America. That same month he out-Cheneyed Cheney in his repeated public insistence that Iraq had a role in 9/11 — even after both American and foreign intelligence services found that unlikely. He was similarly rash in his reading of the supposed evidence of Saddam’s W.M.D. and in his estimate of the number of troops needed to occupy Iraq. (McCain told MSNBC in late 2001 that we could do with fewer than 100,000.) It wasn’t until months after “Mission Accomplished” that he called for more American forces to be tossed into the bloodbath. The whole fiasco might have been prevented had he listened to those like Gen. Eric Shinseki who faulted the Rumsfeld war plan from the start. In other words, McCain’s hasty vetting of Palin was all too reminiscent of his grave dereliction of due diligence on the war. He has been no less hasty in implying that we might somehow ride to the military rescue of Georgia (“Today, we are all Georgians”) or in reaffirming as late as December 2007 that the crumbling anti-democratic regime of Pervez Musharraf deserved “the benefit of the doubt” even as it was enabling the resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. McCain’s blanket endorsement of Bush administration policy in Pakistan could have consequences for years to come. “This election is not about issues” so much as the candidates’ images, said the McCain campaign manager, Davis, in one of the season’s most notable pronouncements. Going into the Republican convention, we thought we knew what he meant: the McCain strategy is about tearing down Obama. But last week made clear that the McCain campaign will be equally ruthless about deflecting attention from its own candidate’s deterioration. What was most striking about McCain’s acceptance speech is that it had almost nothing in common with the strident right-wing convention that preceded it. We were pointedly given a rerun of McCain 2000 — cobbled together from scraps of the old Straight Talk repertory. The ensuing tedium was in all likelihood intentional. It’s in the campaign’s interest that we nod off and assume McCain is unchanged in 2008. That’s why the Palin choice was brilliant politics — not because it rallied the G.O.P.’s shrinking religious-right base. America loves nothing more than a new celebrity face, and the talking heads marched in lock step last week to proclaim her a star. Palin is a high-energy distraction from the top of the ticket, even if the provenance of her stardom is in itself a reflection of exactly what’s frightening about the top of the ticket. By hurling charges of sexism and elitism at any easily cowed journalist who raises a question about Palin, McCain operatives are hoping to ensure that whatever happened in Alaska with Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. Given how little vetting McCain himself has received this year — and that only 58 days remain until Nov. 4 — they just might pull it off. Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

How are the free-market advocates dealing with this issue in America? Or is everybody now in favour of government intervention? I believe the term: "no option" is being bandied about. That'll be spun every which way from Sunday... In short, they can't sell it to the marketplace... see the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080908/ts_csm/afanfred

blacklisted? Doubt that.... There's been a lot worse on other US cable networks... Speaking of MTV, have you heard some of the song lyrics? No, the American dumbing down media giants are notorious for NOT soliciting non-American opinion re its presidential candidates...

Socialism for the rich, and free market Capitalism for the rest. in a decade long party, that most of us didn't even get invited too, we are now, in the grand hypocritical tradition, being asked to clear up the mess our ruling class have created for themselves, and by extention the rest of us. the Fannie/Freddie take over will cost US taxpayers a few trillion $. Before you know it, we'll be talking about REAL money. And, don't expect Craig Lamson to pony up -- he'll move in with Sarah Palin's family, hunt bear, and yell to never setting Alaskan sun, "I don't own no stink'in houses"....

time to write another book.... seems to me it was around this time, 5 years ago, that Dr. Jim Fetzers' Great Zapruder Film HOAX came out.... I am working with Jim on his new 911 book in the works now. I have completed the 8 page color section. I don't know the title yet, but it is about the "unsolved mysteries" of 9-11. Jack congrat's Jack, that ought to light up a few around here...

the GOP heads, McCain and the rest of us mere mortals know the presidential debates and vice president debate will seal the fate as to whom will be the next President of the United States. McCain had to get to the debates running at least, a respectable second. Till 2 weeks ago the best the GOP could looked forward to, was the chance to make a decent showing. Forget winning, they needed a decent showing for one simple reason, ensuring the GOP would not fade into obscurity, FOREVER. Now, for the GOP in general, the reich-wing of the party and the far right Christian Coalition in particular, they've now had their "2nd Coming of Jesus" moment; so enter sweet Sarah! Now the race is at least, interesting. Over the next 10 days the US electorate will know who Governor Palin is, and more importantly, what she isn't. The GOP has a history of horrible VeeP picks. This new one has been rocketed front and center (from my perspective: right under the bus). So expect the Dem's to keep her there as a display of John McCain's old and angry old man syndrome, aka: reckless instability. p.s. I can't wait to see the photo's of Governor Palin hunting bears and wolves (do they actually eat the stuff, too?) from a helicopter no-less.....

Gallup McCain 48 Zerobama 45 http://www.gallup.com/poll/110050/Gallup-D...head-48-45.aspx Rassmussen McCain 48 obamanation 48 http://www.gallup.com/poll/110050/Gallup-D...head-48-45.aspx CBS McCain 42 Nobama 42 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/0...ial-race-again/ Wanna try again davie? Maybe you will have a bit better luck next time but I doubt it..the bump for McCain will only get bigger this week and "the one" can't play from behind. He is gonna tank...bigtime. love it when racists welcome home the "Immaculate Conception." She has saved the GOP bacon (sic) for the moment... LMAO! How many planes did John lose while in the Navy? Curious minds want to know....

LMFAO -- I didn't realize stand-up comedy was part of your forte, Craig... Lookee here, Ms. Palin and her family, are effectively under the GOP bus, thanks to an angry, bitter old man, John McCain. John McCain knew what he had to do, and DIDN'T do it, WITHDRAW. McCain is through, so is the GOP as is Reverand Dobson radical, religious right crowd. The farce that began with Ronnie Ray-gun is OVAH! The GOP has nearly bankrupted this country with idiotic policies, and a WAR in Iraq that only George Bush and his merry band of neo-con warriors wanted. (Billy Kristol chief architect and NEO-CON shape-shifter looked horrible at the convention, guilt finally caught up with him, eh?) Say, do you think Ms. McCain's $300,000+, propping up Hubbie (role) in that ridiculous colored acceptance speech outfit think that outfit went over in middle America? Not quite sure how Mrs. McCain feels about the "moose" hunter sharing the stage with John (Ms. Palin however does look great in a mini-skirt - AND John does have an eye for the ladies)... And finally, Ms. Palin can't hide from the press cameras for long... surely she's been indoctrinated with GOP policies by now? What's so complicated about starting go-no-where wars, and spending away time at a family retreat 60% of the time, while those policies you advocated (and acted on) usher the US economy into the toilet? We have plenty of questions for THEE one "Madame moose hunter" Ms. Palin. We haven't baptized her, YET, Craig... Say, did any of those moose(s) shoot back? and the next time she picks up a M-16 tell her to use the sights, you just don't point that thing anywhere... I'm sure Abe 'GOP' Lincoln has turned over in his grave, TWICE even.... Let see davie, the polls show the obamanation falling, the viewership numbers shows McCain/Palin trashed them and you think it OVER? Now thats TRUE comedy davie. And all of this with the MSM in the bag for ZERObama. Sure is gonna be an interesting 8 weeks. The libratards are going nuts! 47 Obama-45 the old, angry dude, John Mc. How come Sarah and John are running from the press? He finally getting around to the vetting couch? Could it be that "4 more years after the past 8 GOP years" mantra is enough? The right Reverend Dobson have those radical reich-wingers in Indiana up and at 'em yet? How do you spell(sic) Dan Quayle? Bet old Ron Paul is looking pretty good these days, eh?

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time to write another book.... seems to me it was around this time, 5 years ago, that Dr. Jim Fetzers' Great Zapruder Film HOAX came out....

LMFAO -- I didn't realize stand-up comedy was part of your forte, Craig... Lookee here, Ms. Palin and her family, are effectively under the GOP bus, thanks to an angry, bitter old man, John McCain. John McCain knew what he had to do, and DIDN'T do it, WITHDRAW. McCain is through, so is the GOP as is Reverand Dobson radical, religious right crowd. The farce that began with Ronnie Ray-gun is OVAH! The GOP has nearly bankrupted this country with idiotic policies, and a WAR in Iraq that only George Bush and his merry band of neo-con warriors wanted. (Billy Kristol chief architect and NEO-CON shape-shifter looked horrible at the convention, guilt finally caught up with him, eh?) Say, do you think Ms. McCain's $300,000+, propping up Hubbie (role) in that ridiculous colored acceptance speech outfit think that outfit went over in middle America? Not quite sure how Mrs. McCain feels about the "moose" hunter sharing the stage with John (Ms. Palin however does look great in a mini-skirt - AND John does have an eye for the ladies)... And finally, Ms. Palin can't hide from the press cameras for long... surely she's been indoctrinated with GOP policies by now? What's so complicated about starting go-no-where wars, and spending away time at a family retreat 60% of the time, while those policies you advocated (and acted on) usher the US economy into the toilet? We have plenty of questions for THEE one "Madame moose hunter" Ms. Palin. We haven't baptized her, YET, Craig... Say, did any of those moose(s) shoot back? and the next time she picks up a M-16 tell her to use the sights, you just don't point that thing anywhere... I'm sure Abe 'GOP' Lincoln has turned over in his grave, TWICE even....

I kept the pertinent part of your last post, see above. Now, deal with my previous post or simply pass, can your ego take the challenge?

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008...five-obama.html

David ... lets not get side tracked on getting that all important request made for you to get to examine all those historical films and photos so they can be authenticated. Show Zavada how the varsity works! After all, if Zavada finds out that you don't care enough about actually following through with your complaints, then he may not wish to take you seriously ... much like the rest of the JFK community doesn't take you seriously. Show them the new David Healy who actually puts his money where his mouth is ... who isn't just a mouth-piece ... who has better things to do with his time than to xxxxx-on like he has been doing for the past decade or more. Lets have one for the gipper!!! Also, let me know if I can help you write out the request. Let's see what you've gotten done so far??? If you have a mental block and need direction, then maybe Zavada can help you get started. Bill Miller Hey young fella, (After nearly nine months? Appears its you who can't keep up, son) Only film I'm interested in is the in-camera original Zapruder film, you know, the Z-film housed at NARA. If you insist, make yourself useful! Get me written certification stating that the Zapruder film housed at NARA is indeed the Nov 22nd 1963 8mm Zapruder in-camera original, with exact, EXACT physical description and film makeup-properties. Signed and dated by NARA curator responsible for the film AND, same witnessed and signed by Gary Mack. Send me (to my atty's address, which I'll provide Gary Mack) one of two originasl, signed documents (the other one stays with the 6th Floor Museum) I'll also need 4 certified copies (I'll pay for the xeroxing ). THEN we can proceed to the next step.... Yours in research, Aeffects p.s. Oh, I won't need Rollie Zavada. But by all means, your side can make good use of him and his materials. Everything I/we need from Rollie is in his report. Thanks for asking though. Say, how is Mr. Zavada doing these days? Last I heard (through Len 'Brazil' Colby) Rollie was very ill... I was quite surprised when Len told me he was ill, fit as a fiddle to me? You knew he showed up at a SMPTE conference at Lake Tahoe, didn't you? Even flew his private plane cross-country to Reno..... (Rollie contacted JFetzer, requesting my number. Jim graciously told him how to get in touch with me - did I ever tell you about our conversation?)

whatever her speech, believe Karl Rove approved it!

the RIGHT (GOP-Republican Party) has marched lock step with the "family values", a mantra since Ronald Reagan days. NOW they're embracing pre-marital sex and all its virtues? I'm sure those in the bible belt are scratching their heads. "Where have our morals gone, John McCain? You've all but alienated the press, John!" Will Sarah carry the ball for you now? It's getting crowded under that GOP bus these day's.... **a plane has been sent for the future Dad, the photo op was too much to ignore, see it tonight... What-a-GOP-cartoon, and THIS is the party of Abraham Lincoln? The left need say nothing about Ms. Palin's (mother or daughter) family life. There's enough Alaskan political fodder for months on end. McCain and the GOP finally found the diversion they needed, a diversion to hide McCain's tenuous grasp on reality. btw, I'm sure the DEM'S can thank the GOP for this elections moral HIGH GROUND. If they choose to accept it, of course... Stick to the issues, and the economy DEM'S -- steady as she goes...

Nah, not a "year" its what a difference a pregnancy makes.... btw, Obama's "MOM" wasn't running as a reich-winger on a GOP presidential ticket known for espousing/preaching family values... The GOP has seen the light, thank you Jesus! The election is still in the hands of women. The Dem's will stay away from Palin -- Inertia and the press will do the job, McCain's judgement is front and center.... If Obama was smart, he'd announce his entire cabinet the day after the GOP convention. Perhaps there's a few more hamlets in Alaska Johnny can tap -- This election cycle is MADE for TV

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