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I have lived in Sacramento for the last 7 years and the place is growing like gangbusters. I would like to see the San Juan Unified data trended against private schools in the same geographical area. I'd bet money that you would see an inverse curve.

I have not been following this story closely and I've never read Nyquest before. I followed some of the links in his article and on his site and found this (written back in October).

In this essay he talks about the political killing of an author and names Alexander Litvinenko as another similar author. He doesn't come out and predict AL's assasination, but considering what he was poisened with, I am now very intrigued:

The Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya

http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2006/1020.html

The Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya

KGB-directed false flag terrorism in Chechnya has justified the re-establishment of dictatorship in Russia (see the work of former KGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, author of Blowing Up Russia)....


...The death of Politkovskaya is openly acknowledged in Russia as a political assassination. As such, it sends a chill through those who know the truth. Who will dare to warn the West in yet another book? Who would give their life in an appeal to the apathetic sneers of the indifferent?

Hey everybody, thanks for the feedback. I posted this and couldn't check it until after work. Thanks again.

A humbly submitted blog post...

I am looking forward to watching the Bush administration defend this for three reasons:

1) The drama associated with the Friday release... obvious media manipulation (again).
2) The motives (book release, patriot act, CIA leak lost steam, CIA old timer power play, perhaps all of the above and more
3) The Bush team is pushing back harder and holds all of the cards in this... the cat is out of the bag and a revelation about what kind of people we spyed on and what they were planning is just what the country needs and the last things the dems need (a plank of protecting the civil rights of terrorists in their platform).

pop some corn, here we go (again)

If it is true, Kerry will have a lot of backpedaling to do. How do you explain and sell the need for a global test while downplaying the fact that the folks testing you are not only getting rich in a conflict of interest, but running special operations that aid your enemy.... Grab some popcorn, kick back, and watch rats go hysterical on this one...

What a disturbing thread.... The world would give him #1 and #3 in a second just to spite GWB. #2 blocks it but in essence, that would be the only thing that would block it. I have thought through many undesirable scenarios should Kerry become president, but this one takes the cake.

severely disfunctional sibling rivalry...

Once the Dems identify who their guy is, the 2+ year omission of alternative policy (versus blatent obstruction) will certainly begin to get more focus.

Sit back, enjoy the circus, and see which clown gets to go in and try to take down the lion.

I speak democrat... I can translate:

"must not let GWB demonstrate leadership"

"must not let GWB communication vision"

"must not let GWB speak of things that might cause patriotism becasue it can only lead to ethnocentrism which makes it hard to convince other americans that we are vile"

"must not let GWB offend the rest of the world by demontrating that they are challenged in Olympics and space travel"

This is a great question. His words and actions leave little doubt that he looked to Christ for a model of leadership. You can go to google, query for Dr Martin Luther King Jr, pull up a page of quotations, and come to the conclusion that he was a secular leader. However, you can go to google, do the same search with the word "christ" and retrieve a completely different set of quotes (example below). There is little doubt in my mind that if he were alive today, and didn't compromise on his core principals, he would confuse the heck out of the ACLU......

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We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire. I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

Was not Jesus an extremist for love -- "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice -- "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ -- "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist -- "Here I stand; I can do none other so help me God." Was not John Bunyan an extremist -- "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist -- "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist -- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill, three men were crucified. We must not forget that all three were crucified for the same crime--the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thusly fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people—a black people—who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."

Now that I've thought about it, I really don't want these guys to ruin good songs. I like your Madonna idea much better...

That would be funny if I wasn't thinking that it might be so true..... maybe Dean could use this one:

And I went down to the demonstration To get my fair share of abuse Singing, "we’re gonna vent our frustration If we don’t we’re gonna blow a 50-amp fuse" You can’t always get what you want

MODONNA HERSELF threatened and riding GWs coat-tials to try to get attention... A sign that the culture war in America isn't even near being lost to the left.

For all of his faults, I love the way GW doesn't fit into the paradigm of self centered excess. I love the way they they try to use him to build themselves up, and I love the way they extend themselves (on the record) for what they really are.

You can use this link to find media by zipcode:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

I used to like him ... but know I understand that he is just confused ...

It's crazy, I'm thinking...
Just knowing that the world is round...
Here I'm dancing on the ground...
Am I right side up or upside down...
Is this real or am I dreaming...

-Dave Matthews

Interisting. Im actually a registered democrat (haven't taken the time to change that yet). I actually found the free republic through the Democratic Underground. I stumbled upon their site, Posted, and was quickly booted. They said to go back to Free Republic and I ended up here. In my opinion, you guys are doing a fine job helping moderate dems go cold turkey... They don't seem to mind sending people your way either.