Announcing the arrival of sunny d! Our new VJ!

sunny d will be picking a cool YouTube clip for us every week for your amusement and amazement1

Right sunny?

Hey sunny d! sunny….sunny?

What’s that? Oh….

It seems sunny is in the wilds of The South on an unexpected tour! So…His debut will be delayed.

Flash Update: Thru the miracle of texting and the InnerTubes sunny d has sent this to all his fans!

Groove with it!

I picked something before I got the text from sunny d and since I’m still in a Yardbirds frame of mind so….

Here it is:

Whoops! This ain’t Yardbirds…hey, sue me. And think about this video still being right on the point….40 years later. Yo! Barrack, Hillary, Bill, John….whas up wit dat?

So….You’ve Made Your Decision and You Know Whom Your are Supporting in the Primary….

Is that so? Well, maybe you’d better take the quiz. Some folks are quite surprised at how they ‘Score’.

Clik right here…………..

Good luck and be truthful now!

Here’s a little something on Stemijzer. It’s Dutch for one thing!

NYT, Not a Bastion of Sense in the Last Ten Years Does Not Think Much of ‘SellOut’ Reid…

Here’s the money quote from today’s Op-Ed:

‘The Senate (reportedly still under Democratic control) seems determined to help President Bush violate Americans’ civil liberties and undermine the constitutional separation of powers. Majority Leader Harry Reid is supporting White House-backed legislation that would expand the administration’s ability to spy on Americans without court supervision and ensure that the country never learns the full extent of Mr. Bush’s illegal wiretapping program.’

Meanwhile Senators Cackle and Compromise have nothing much to say and don’t seem to be planning to be in the Senate on Monday. Busy ya know….

Here’s John Edwards:

‘When it comes to protecting the rule of law, words are not enough. We need action.

It’s wrong for your government to spy on you. That’s why I’m asking you to join me today in calling on Senate Democrats to filibuster revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would give “retroactive immunity” to the giant telecom companies for their role in aiding George W. Bush’s illegal eavesdropping on American citizens.

The Senate is debating this issue right now — which is why we must act right now. You can find your Senators’ phone numbers here or call the Senate Switchboard at 1-(202)-224-3121.

Granting retroactive immunity is wrong. It will let corporate law-breakers off the hook. It will hamstring efforts to learn the truth about Bush’s illegal spying program. And it will flip on its head a core principle that has guided our nation since our founding: the belief that no one, no matter how well connected or what office they hold, is above the law.

But in Washington today, the telecom lobbyists have launched a full-court press for retroactive immunity. George Bush and Dick Cheney are doing everything in their power to ensure it passes. And too many Senate Democrats are ready to give the lobbyists and the Bush administration exactly what they want.

Please join me in calling on every Senate Democrat to do everything in their power — including joining Senator Dodd’s efforts to filibuster this legislation — to stop retroactive immunity and stand up for the rule of law. The Constitution should not be for sale at any price.

Thank you for taking action.’

John Edwards
January 24, 2008

Fire up those phones folks. Last week you crashed the Obama and Clinton campaign’s servers on this issue can you do less than bring Congress’s phone system to a halt?

DFA has a handy-dandy linky you can use to pressure Senators Cackle and Compromise see it here in this OrangeLand Diary by Charles Chamberlain

All of the ‘Big Three’ Campaigns have committed. How about You!

Friends:

This a last minute invite and get together, we expect a great turn out! I have been busy getting this event organized with my colleagues from our Drinking Liberally cohort in Oakland.

I spoke to many of you early in the week about a public open forum Drinking Liberally is holding, hosted by the owner of the Grand Lake theater at his site in Alameda, Auctions By the Bay. It should be exciting and citizens have shown interest in doing a discussion and open forum studying the potential candidates for the Democratic Nomination. There are still so many undecided voters.

We at Drinking Liberally, Oakland in the grip of the excitement of the first CA primary which will have an actual effect on the national race are putting together a special event for all progressives who would like to take part. It will be an open forum where you the citizen will be able to discuss the issues of the day and have a chance to get some feedback on your questions from staff members of the three leaders Obama, Clinton and Edwards.

The format will be to ask the audience 3 questions, right now from initial discovery it looks like those questions for Oaklanders are around: The Economy, Health Care, and an exit strategy in Iraq and on the Environmental strategies of each candidate’s platform.

The idea is to facilitate questions and answers in a way the truly pulls forward the issues, and we hope to send a strong message to each candidate what the people of the East Bay would like to hear from their candidate. Much of the discussion I hope will lean toward the mechanisms to make make each platform come alive during their future presidency.

Super Tuesday is upon us!

 The Citizen’s Forum on The California Primary in the Democratic Party will be on:

January 29th, 2008

at

Auctions by the Bay

clik here for directions

or
http://drinkingliberally.org/blogs/oakland/archives/2008/01/announcing_the_cit.html

Doors open at 6:00 pm

I hope to see you there!