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Clinton looks for votes, gets marriage proposal, CNN.

After discussing her economic plan today in LA, some guy in the crowd yelled, “Hillary, marry me, baby.”

[The appropriate expression]

On Monday at a pre-primary New Hampshire speech, two guy screamed from the audience, “Iron my shirt”

“Nick Gemelli, who is 21, and born at least a decade after ‘iron my shirts’ was an anti-women’s rights slogan, didn’t have much of a rationale. ‘I just don’t think a woman should be President,’ he said.”

I don’t like Clinton’s agenda, but damn, I sympathize.

“The EPA’s plan appeared in the Federal Register Dec. 28, 2007 and seeks to exempt livestock farms from reporting non-emergency emissions of [A] ammonia, [B] hydrogen sulfide and other pollutants.” (Jan. 8 2008)

A. “Ammonia, a toxic form of nitrogen released in gas form during waste disposal, can be carried more than 300 miles through the air before being dumped back onto the ground or into the water, where it causes algal blooms and fish kills.”

B. “Large hog farms emit hydrogen sulfide, a gas that most often causes flu-like symptoms in humans, but at high concentrations can lead to brain damage. In 1998, the National Institute of Health reported that 19 people died as a result of hydrogen sulfide emissions from manure pits.”

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“If I were running for office at this point I’d be saying, ‘Vote for me, I’m–I’m gonna be an agent of change.’”–Bush, MSNBC.

at least, bush acknowledges that even he wouldn’t want to be associated with his administration.

ok, out of context. it may be more of that he admits that it’s all just the same rhetoric, but what he fails to account for is the ideal of status-quo promoted by the republican party.

But when have democrats changed anything?

To quote Utah Philips: “I’ve decided that talking to a conservative is like talking to a refrigerator. The light goes on; the light goes off. It isn’t going to do anything that isn’t built into it. And I’m not going to talk to a conservative any more than I’d talk to my damn refrigerator. Now, working for the democratic party, that’s kind of like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Common interests, if not common faith. Bush comments on his friend, the dictator of Saudi Arabia:

“My faith, I strongly believe, has help me establish personal relations with other leaders of faith,” Bush said. “I think of my friend, the King of Saudi Arabia. We share a different faith. But I’ve made it clear to him we share the same God. And I believe we do.”

[bush and abdullah sitting in a tree, k-i-l-l-i-n-g (images from 2005)]

King Abdullah is one of the only Muslim leaders that would consent to such a characterization, but then again, a $20 billion weapons deal can provide an army of friends, bearing in mind, that they have common interests. Like Israel, who of course will get $30 billion in the same bill (an arab country can’t get more!)
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what? from al Jazeera
the first time in 100.

that’s global climate change for you: it just increases the extremes in temperature.