LiveBlog for Friday, April 3, 2009

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• Author and theologian Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners and author of “God’s Politics,” calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about working with President Obama on faith issues.

farrell• Actor, author, and activist Mike Farrell calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about his new book, “Of Mule and Man,” and about President Obama’s Gitmo ruling.

• Leaders of the world’s largest economies agreed yesterday to a package worth more than $1 trillion to tackle the global economic crisis. President Obama called the deal a “turning point in our pursuit of global economic recovery.” The plan calls for reform of the international banking system and the injection of more than $1 trillion into the world financial system.

The Senate passed a $3.53 trillion version of the federal budget for fiscal year 2010 late last night in a party-line vote, ending several weeks of acrimonious partisan debate. Earlier in the evening, the House passed its own version of the spending plan – a $3.55 trillion budget.

• Impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested in December on charges of conspiracy and fraud, was indicted yesterday on 16 felony counts by a federal grand jury. The 19-count indictment charges Blagojevich and some of his closest aides with a wide-ranging “scheme to deprive the people of Illinois of honest government.” Blagojevich maintains he is innocent.

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This is off today's topic but SO important to our food:

US House and Senate are about (in a week and a half) to vote on bill that
will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (bill HR 875). There is an enormous rush to get
this into law within the next 2 weeks before people realize what is
happening.

Main backer and lobbyist is Monsanto – chemical and genetic engineering
giant corporation (and Cargill, ADM, and about 35 other related
agri-giants). This bill will require organic farms to use specific
fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency
to "make sure there is no danger to the public food supply". This will
include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.

If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds
but only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with
unexpected diseases in humans.

There is a video on the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXNJNjYBvw&fea...

And another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWVkTU1s1E

The name on this outrageous food plan is:
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (bill HR 875).

THIS IS REAL, FOLKS! PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL CONCERNED ON YOUR
MAILING LISTS & CALL YOUR SENATE REPRESENTETIVES TODAY!
Get on that phone and burn up the wires. Get anyone else you can to do the same thing.
The House and Senate WILL pass this if they are not massively threatened with loss
of their position.... They only fear your voice and your vote.
The best thing to do is go to www.house.gov/writerep all you have to do is
put in your zip and it will give you your congressperson and how to get in
touch with them. When you call their office someone will answer the phone,
just tell them (politely) that you are calling to express your views on HR 875.
Tell them your views, they'll take your name and address and pass your
comments along to the congressperson.

The following link is a list of the U.S. senators and their contact info:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/...

On that note, See you all next week! Have a great weekend!

Hey, I just hopped on, but has anyone seen on the front page of Huffpo, the pictures of Obama and Michelle with Sarkozy? If you click in the arrow at the bottom to advance the pics, there is Sarkozy on the second picture standing next to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy with his hand on his hand on her derriaire! Ah, it's good to be the king!

Have a great weekend!

Love you all

What a great day, great liveblog and the end to a very good week!

Mama and the mooks returned and all my blogger brothers and sisters are the most funny, smart and best looking group of bloggers on the nets!

*group hug*

You all have a great weekend and we'll see ya here on the Monday!

Ciao!

Great show, everyone!

Have your Best Weekend Ever, won't you?

See you Monday!

Have a loverly weekend, everybody.

See ya Monday mookies, have a good weekend!

have a good weekend all!

Happy weekend, all.

Thanks Cindy, I'll check out your twit.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

(Sorry, I couln't help myself. Blame Jim.)

Sen. Boehner, now starring the 2009 remake of Soul Man!

...when a U.S. senator facing an identity crisis goes overboard with the bronzer in order to compete in a changing world, hilarity ensues.

also starring Bobby Jindal and Micheal Steele.

"I’ve heard that even republican staffers laugh at him behind his back."

You mean the staffers who keep buying him bronzer and telling him he looks good in that shade of orange?

:lol:

mmmmmmm pudding!

If Tim Pawlenty wants to be president, he'll sign the certificate and end this nonsense. Bending over the for the lunatic Newt Gingrich wing of his party won't get him anywhere.

I think Klobachar (sp) need to start billing MN for all the overtime and additional staffing her office requires since she's the only MN senator right now ... so they are all going to her

No, scooter...Reggie Jackson will try to kill her!

The Boehner is a joke. He can't even act. He's pathetic, and I've heard that even republican staffers laugh at him behind his back.

This is another way to take over the peoples land.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/02/foreclosure.d...

It's sad when the ex-CEO of country wide, a major contributor to this fiasco, now has his hands in the repo grabbag. This is criminal in my opinion.

#413 Nice Naked Gun reference.

now THAT's a colloquy!!!

Ooooo giant marauding lesbians make me kinda horny . . .

(sends a twitter up my leg)

*SKATES*

But his wife DID say it!

"Right Wingers Say the Darnest Things" hosted by Stephanie Miller.

What if the Queen's Ipod contains hypnotic cues? Guess we'll know should she try to assassinate Reggie Jackson.

on and Ron I also get news from my hometown
http://twitter.com/denverpost

408 - Both would be a good.

When Boner was a kid all the other kids taunted him about being pasty faced. He is still haunted by those cat calls.

I think the case of binkies with GOP logos on them would be appropriate for Boehner and company. Send them to him to distribute amongst themselves.

Damn, but Boehner needs an ass whipping!

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The Boehner needs a time out.

The Boehner, "What's my motivation?"

When the Boehner was a kid he threw his lincoln logs against the wall when they didn't look right.

and we WOMEN are so emotional that we shouldn't be allowed to votes

my gawd!

#394 Yup. One man's loss of civil rights is another man's monetary gain.

Damn, but Boehner needs an ass whipping!

"I hadn’t heard that but it’s no surprise."

The rich Jews were coincidently the first to be sent to camps. The poor were to follow but the whole idea was to strip the Jews of their wealth and holdings. (gold teeth and eye glass frames were just a bonus)

hey the Boner slurred "somebodies gotta jes say..."

I think we need to send the Boehner boxes of Kleenex!

We need to decide what Boehner's salary is - make it $20K per annum.

I have tried to twitter but ended up feeling like a twit (I never got it working correctly)

:lol:

>> Amy,Outside of DC says:
>> #366 The same thing happened in Europe during the Holocaust. Your neighbor has a bigger house and nicer stuff? Report them to the Gestapo as Jews, they’ll get taken away and you can take over.

I hadn't heard that but it's no surprise. Here on the west coast, there were LOTS of predators who got Japanese land and property cheap.

Yay!!! An SM Bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I SO miss them... :(

Laura, the posts jumped by and I was busy on a conference call. I'll keep the MSNBC link open and pray for a safe resolution.