A Jersey City, NJ based company gave its penny stocks to Bill Clinton as payment for services in 2004. What was a $0.66 a share stock in a private company was sold by Bill Clinton for $3.50 a share in 2006 and given to his foundation. The company in question is owned by convicted money launderer and the Chinese government. While not directly tied to Hillary, this is the one of the types of financial dealings that have shown up on the Clintons' tax returns in the past. What's on there now? It's a valid question.

Candidate Chris Lugo Speaks Out Against Nuclear Waste Transport and Asks "Why Are We Importing European Nuclear Waste to Tennessee?"

Nashville, TN: In a statement released from his Nashville office today, US Senate Candidate Chris Lugo asked why the federal government is considering allowing a private corporation to transport and process massive amounts of nuclear waste from Europe into Tennessee, "Why is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission considering allowing the company called 'Energy Solutions' to ship in nuclear waste to burn, melt, transport and dump right here in Tennessee? Since when did Tennessee become a dumping ground for European nuclear waste? I oppose the NRC issuing a permit to this corporation to pollute our state. It is bad enough that we have our own nuclear waste to deal with from years of nuclear weapons production as well as nuclear power generation. The federal government doesn't even know what to do with its own nuclear waste. Taking in nuclear waste from Europe to dump in the United States is simply unacceptable."

obama/clinton pay for fla/mich
do-overs

clinton puts up 15 mill
obama puts up 15 mill

hold election/caucus june 7

Been on the road and have just arrived at our new temporary HQ. Sitting here watching a big storm roll down the Atlantic coast. Tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings in effect. Welcome to Florida, I guess.

Is it not time to mandate the carrying of concealed firearms by the clergy? A properly armed preacher could have nipped this attempted pastorcide in the bud.

We listened in horror Wednesday evening as scanner traffic revealed the news. A woman was being brought into the UT ER from a car crash that occurred as she ran from a shooting at her church, a shooting that appears to be caused by a glitch in the sanctity of marriage.

The name of the church rang a bell (no pun intended) here at The Home . This is the same church that posted the signs a couple of years ago assuring us that Pope John Paul II was "hell-bound."

McCain gets angry today. Even the reporter asks, "why are you so angry?"

temper, temper.

Do you really want this man answering the red phone at 3 in the morning?

We can beat him like a drum in November.

here's a scenario under a McCain presidency:

McCain: "Prime Minister Harper said WHAT? Scramble the B-2s. We're bombing Canada."

Adviser: "Sir, he said 'The grain crop is a failure'...Not McCain, that fop, is a failure."

McCain: "oh. well, then...eh, bomb 'em anyway."

Since nobody else had posted about it yet...

Congratulation to Rikki Hall for his new column, Sideways Glance, in the Metro Pulse. His first offering is available now.

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I am for progressive values and ideals. I am for bringing people together to create a better future. But, I am NOT for Obama. I do not support someone whose entire campaign has been based on a speech they made as a state Senator in the comforts of their chambers. A speech is not a vote. Obama never even cast a vote on the resolution and if he had been in the Senate, his current voting record suggests that he would have voted "present." I do not see him having the courage of Kucinich or Feingold. I highly doubt that his squeaky clean rhetoric that was spouted in Illinois would be so bold if he had REALLY been an elected member of the Senate.

I DO NOT support a man who talks about race in the most subtle and unsubtle ways in order to drum up votes. He does this when he specifically refers to race in his speeches. "This is not about being black or white" is specifically using race and it makes him the black candidate or "the one" (quote from Oprah) rather than a well grounded candidate reaching out to people. His cadence in his speeches, especially in high minority areas and ESPECIALLY in the South is that of a southern black preacher. It is so pronounced and obvious that he's trying to be the "black" candidate that he goes so far as to mispronounce America! However when he's interviewed this "accent" or cadence completely disappears. I believe this is just more of the facade of Obama.

I feel it is extremely unfortunate and disgusting that Obama has chosen to sink to these lows especially after we just had a minority candidate emulate how to run for a national office as a real uniter rather than this psuedo uniter that Barack Obama is. The best example of this minority candidate was Harold Ford Jr. His campaign was about platform and ideas. He ran without EVER talking about race and without ever talking about NOT talking about race. Obama has not done this. I find it disgusting and painful that Obama continues to trump around "race" within his speeches. His own actions have caused the divisiveness in the campaign. It's time for him to get over his own racial issues and run as a grounded candidate with a platform rather than the African American political messiah!

I further do not support a candidate who cannot present specific ideas on any issue. This is dangerous to the country. We, the voters, do not know what to hold Obama accountable for when he only stands for "change". Guess what, we will have change no matter who wins the election. What type of change we want, how we want that change, and when we want the change should be the dictating factors of selecting a nominee; not that the nominee will bring about change.

I do not support a candidate who uses living in Indonesia for four years as a child as a base for having the best international relations policies. He specifically stated this on November 19, 2007 at a speech in Iowa. Personally, after I traveled over seas to two different countries and hosted international camp counselors from literally all over the world, I find it insulting that Obama assumes to have a complete worldview understanding based on his experiences as a 6-10 year old boy! He would have done better to claim that he has limited international experience or to point to something, anything that he has done as an adult, espeically as an elected officer. But, to reach so far as to insinuate that he had the skills as a baby to internalize his experiences for his future presidency represents the height of arrogance and an arrogant president is NOT what this country needs in the next term!

I am not for a candidate who has so little to stand on that they give any progressive ideals away by claiming that they will include all Republicans. This is naive of Obama. Does he actually believe that without a veto-proof legislative majority that the Republicans actually want to work with him? He is not a political god and the Republicans actually have very little motivation to meet his goals because he's already said that he's basically willing to go meet theirs. This is not acceptable out of a candidate who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination.

Lastly, I, as a registered Young Democrat am sickened and insulted by Obama's comment that "I know that if I get the nomination her people would support me because I'm the Democrat, but I don't think that I can say that my supporters could support her should she be the nominee." That was said on the same day that Michelle Obama said on Good Morning America that she just didn't know if she could support Hillary should she get the nomination. This type of rhetoric and attitude is actually dividing our party and will be the same kind of attitude to divide this country.

It's time to STOP giving Obama a free pass because people either want to feel like they're on a perpetual feel-good honeymoon or because they feel that it's wrong or not politically correct to question the African American candidate. Obama needs to answer questions, take a real stand, stop using the race card, stop trying to channel the cadences of previous black leaders like MLK, stop using the party as his personal vehicle for divisiveness while running for the party's nomination, stop talking about how bad superdelegates are in public while viciously "working" them in private (especially the black superdelegates), and to stop giving away any progressive position by saying that he will work with any and all Republicans anywhere at any time.

Well, I have decided to start a blog. I actually decided as I was watching the election returns and candidate speeches from Tuesday. So, I started posting my thoughts in the typical social networking sites. I also knew about this site and have decided to post here.

I hope some DEMOCRATS come here and read. I hope that they REALLY think about the future of our party and our country. So, before I dive into my random political thoughts, I want you to really know where I am coming from, politically and what I hope to accomplish here.

Yes, I'm going to take the plunge and dive into National Politics. I know there are probably hundreds of blogs on the subject but I haven't found any DEMOCRATS who are seriously questioning Barack Obama as a candidate for the Democratic Nomination. I know, I can't be the only DEMOCRAT who has serious questions and serious problems with Obama. I think it's time that Democrats who want to raise these issues about this candidate take a stand.

I am NOT an independent. I am NOT a republican. I AM A DEMOCRAT. I am also one of those illustrious YOUNG Democrats that the media can't seem to stop talking about. I have voted Democratic, given time to the party and money to the party, and helped out Democratic Candidates up and down our ballot. There are people who post regularly here who can attest to that.

Why am I doing this? I am doing this because I believe that I am not the only DEMOCRAT out there who has been insulted and angered by Barack Obama and who feels that he is using our party as a divisive tool for his own political gain while simultaneously seeking our party's nomination. I further feel that long-term damage of our party has been done both directly and indirectly because of his campaign.

I will give you reasons in my next blog about why I don't support Obama. Afterwards, I'm going to address the issue of the media so-called superdelegate system and I'm going to give you ideas and thoughts about how Obama's call for a "winner take all" of the superdelegates is actually a complete break from the Democratic Nominating Process.

I plan to comment on a regular basis about the Democratic Campaign, overall.

If you want to take issue with me about Barack Obama, I will welcome that. But, I will not respond to you if you tell me he's the first black....(whatever), he was a community organizer, he "voted" (but not really) against the war, he's for change, you're just inspired but don't know any real reason why, or that Bill Clinton is a racist. If that's all an Obama supporter can say to me then I don't have time for you and you would be the very type of person that has helped create this political hijacking of the Democratic Party!

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This reeks. Anybody up for throwing up a picket line around Federal Court?? I've never heard of a "secret" trial -- not in America, anyway.