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Just got back from the press interviews for Factotum, I’m not seeing the movie until tonight, so I will do a write up after. Here are a couple of pics. of Matt Dillon, and Lili Taylor.

Good Morning, I am on my way over to the 4 Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills to do a press session for a new Movie called Factotum, which I am seeing tonight in a sneak preview. The Movie is based on the book by Charles Bukowski. Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, and the director of the movie are going to be there. Marissa Tomei is also in the movie, but is not scheduled to be there. We’ll have all the details later.

Feingold: Joe Lieberman ‘Doesn’t Get It’

Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) echoed Vice President Cheney last week by arguing that a timeline for Iraq redeployment (backed by 57 percent of Americans) “will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again.”

This morning on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) responded to Lieberman’s remarks. “Joe is showing with that regrettable statement that he doesn’t get it. He doesn’t get it,” Feingold said. Watch it:(click on pic)

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LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves
Terrorists planned to mix liquids so why are they all being poured into airport bins?

Steve Watson / Infowars.net | August 11 2006
The latest terror plot facade is nothing more than an exercise to assess how subservient the general population has become and a primer to making permanent the panicked and ridiculous freedom crushing security measures we are seeing being rushed into implementation at the moment.

Whilst the government is saying there is no going back on these measures and that they will become permanent, the media is bleating about rushing in biometric retina scanners and Orwellian behaviour sensing technology. This is the only way they can do these things without backlash and protest, just have a major terror alert and rush them through.
How is it that people can still deny that our governments are forwarding a big brother control agenda? ID cards, Biometric databases, retina scanners, face scanning cameras, behaviour sensing machines. The list goes on. It has been proven over and over that these measures will not help prevent terrorism, the government itself has even admitted this, so why do they relentlessly push them?

The latest mind bending terror stupidity has every passenger at airports pouring their potentially explosive liquids into bins inside the airports.
How stupid can things get? How far does it have to go before people start asking simple questions about what they are being made to do in the name of security?
If these liquids are potentially explosive what the hell is the good in pouring them all into large bins inside overcrowded airports and mixing them all together?

The Asheville Citizen Times interviewed a mother who was forced to pour away her baby’s milk:
“I have mixed feelings about all this,” Leoni said as she waited to board a flight for Miami at Asheville Regional Airport. “On the one side, I’m fine with the safety measures and the effects, but on the other hand, I had to pour out my baby’s milk this morning. They said I couldn’t take it on board.”

And here she is pouring the potentially deadly milk into a vat of other potentially explosive dangerous liquids.
The official counterterrorism statement told us that the plan involved mixing a sports drink with a gel-like substance to concoct explosives that could be ignited with an MP3 player or cell phone. The sports drink could be combined with a peroxide-based paste to form a potent explosive cocktail, counterterrorism officials said.
If you believe the dodgy science that suggests that these liquids can be ignited by calling up your mom or whacking on a bit of Led Zeppelin on your MP3 player then they better clear the airports pretty smartish because those bins full liquids could go up any second. unless they are just bins full of baby milk and Dr Pepper that is.
The Scientific American states:
Furthermore, some chemicals can be mixed to create a toxic gas capable of killing people in an enclosed space such as an airplane.
Great, marvelous, lets get mixing them in bins then!

The XOPL blogger here is bang on the money and I couldn’t put it any better:
Sir, I’m going to have to take this bottle of water away from you since it might be a liquid explosive, and I’m going to have to mix it with all of these other bottles of possibly liquid explosive, and I’m going to have to dump them all in this trash can… together. Nevermind that the plot specifically mentions mixing chemicals and/or nitroglycerin… which explodes if handled too roughly.
The only conclusion you can reach here is that airport security are not looking for terrorists because if they truly believed terrorists were attempting to board planes with liquids they wouldn’t be mishandling the liquids in this way.

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INFOWARS: BECAUSE THERE’S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND

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H.L. Respongs
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From: Leora Skolkin-Smith
In response to the current crisis in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, a group of authors have organized a benefit reading, with donations and book sale profits to go to Seeds of Peace, a non-profit which brings together teenagers from conflict zones, especially the Middle East, to teach skills aimed at advancing reconciliation.

The reading will be held September 18th at McNally Robinson Booksellers,
50 Prince Street, New York.

Fifteen authors will read in all, and the current list includes
Robb Forman Dew, Masha Hamilton, Binnie Kirshenbaum and Leora Skolkin-Smith.

Grace Paley is helping organize the event, and Skolkin-Smith, whose novel, Edges: O Israel, O Palestine, was Published by Paley’s Glad Day Books, will serve as committee chair and MC. Sue O’Doherty, writer, and clinical psychologist in NYC, is head of The organizing committee.

Contact: Leora Skolkin-Smith , skolkin@nyc.rr.com
or Masha Hamilton, MashaHamil@aol.com
Sue O’Doherty, dr.sue@mindspring.com

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H.L.s Responds
Hope the reading goes well. Wish I could be there as I haven’t been back to my hometown in a while now, but I have the Bartcop Vegas Pokerfest on the 16th and 17th. Catch you some other time.
H.L.

From:
Jessica Stites
Editorial Assistant
Ms. magazine

Dear H.L.,

We’re trying to get word out about Ms.’ new “I Had An Abortion” campaign and thought that The Hollywood Liberal might be interested.

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release Contact: Erin Carmany, 703-522-4201
August 7, 2006 ecarmany@msmagazine.com

Ms. Magazine Launches Women’s Petition on Abortion, Birth Control Groundbreaking New Petition Will Put a Face on the Abortion Issue

Arlington, VA - Ms. magazine has launched a groundbreaking new petition to make visible the millions of women in the United States who have had abortions.

“We must put a human face on the abortion issue,” said Katherine Spillar, executive editor of Ms. magazine. “Ms. calls on women who have had abortions to step forward publicly by signing our petition, which we will send to Congress, the White House, and state legislators. Politicians need to know that their decisions affect their neighbors, their colleagues, influential movers and shakers, and even their own daughters. For the sake of women in the United States and around the world, we cannot lose the right to safe and accessible abortion and access to birth control.”

The “Women’s Petition for Safe, Legal, and Accessible Abortion and Birth Control” is based on the petition that ran in the 1972 debut issue of Ms., in which 53 prominent American women, such as Ms. co-founder Gloria Steinem, publicly declared that they had undergone abortions before the procedure was legal. These women called for the repeal of anti-abortion laws in the United States to end the “untold suffering” and deaths of women who were forced to have unsafe, illegal, back-alley abortions.

Today, the new Ms. petition comes at a time when the South Dakota legislature has voted to ban abortion, and nearly a dozen states have moved similar abortion bans forward. If Roe v. Wade were overturned by the Supreme Court, 17 states would immediately outlaw abortion based on trigger laws or pre-Roe bans still on the books, and another dozen would soon follow. Already, each year, some 70,000 women in developing countries are dying because of botched, illegal abortions, caused in part by U.S. policies such as the Global Gag Rule.

The petition will be printed in the Fall issue of Ms., which hits newsstands October 10, and online at Ms. Magazine

For more information or to read the full petition, visit www.MsMagazine.com.

H.Ls. Responds.
Jessica,
There you go. Hope it helps.
H.L.

Leah_From_Illinois: Do you support the Israeli military action against Hezbolla in Lebanon? How do you feel the current administration is handling the situation diplomatically? Is there anything you would do differently?

Russ_Feingold: I have suggested to the Administration that it immediately appoint a special envoy here as well – someone who has broad respect within the international community, like George Mitchell or Colin Powell or James Baker – whose sole job is to deal with this situation. Condoleeza Rice has so many tasks to deal with, from North Korea to Iran, to Iraq, to
Somalia, to the Middle East, there simply isn’t enough time for one person to give the situation in Lebanon adequate attention.

Finally, people have to understand that the instability in this region is in part a direct byproduct of our Iraq policy. The negative actors in the region know it.
debbie_from_WI: How do you envision your health care initiative working in, say, Wisconsin? Would this reform then encompass Medicare and Medicaid patients?

Joette_from_Wisconsin: More than any other time in history, we are starting to see serious effects from global warming. Much of this is coming from CO2 gases, 25% of which come from the United States (U.S. and Austrailia are largest countries in world not to agree to sign Kyoto treaty). What types of actions do you propose to get the United States on board with the rest of the world to reduce these harmful gases?

Russ_Feingold: The first thing is to make Al Gore’s movie and book required for every Member of Congress. Some of the pages only have 1 line and large pictures. This benefited me. Once you read it or see the movie, a person cannot help but be motivated to act on this critical matter.

Randy_from_Oregon: First, Senator Feingold, thanks for your hard work and this forum. How do we, as progressive Americans who love our country, fight the fact that the media, really scared neocons, and Republicans desperate to keep their jobs paint us as “anti-war extremists” or “pre-9/11 liberals”? I ask this as a proud American who supported going into Afghanistan but can’t stomach how we got into Iraq and what we have done there. Thanks!

Russ_Feingold: I couldn’t agree with you more and want you to know if you straightforwardly say what you just said and point out what a mistake the Iraq war was in the larger fight against those terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, you will prevail. The phony arguments for going into the Iraq war are now being matched by the phony arguments to stay in Iraq and the public realizes the Administration is trying to deceive them again.

debbie_from_WI: How do you envision your health care initiative working in, say, Wisconsin? Would this reform then encompass Medicare and Medicaid patients?

Russ_Feingold: It would be entirely up to the state and could very well include Medicare and Medicaid, as long as they move toward universal health care with benefits comparable to those offered to federal employees.
Its still going on but here is some of what is being discussed.

Dave_from_California: How do you defend yourself against attacks made by the Bush administration that getting out of Iraq or not supporting the Patriot Act is giving support to the terrorists?

Russ_Feingold: It is painfully obvious this Administration has bungled the fight against terrorism by becoming obsessed with Iraq and threatening the freedoms of law abiding Americans. Let’s get back to the task at hand.

Update: I signed up for the chat, and am able to go in and start asking questions now, Russ arrives a 1PM Eastern and starts answering. So go on over and sign up if you want to participate. You can also sign Russ’ petition for universal health care, which he will work for when he becomes President. Their is also a transcript of the first online chat Russ did on the site, Which I will post below.

Today (friday) is the day, its Senator Russ Feingold’s Live Webchat. You can listen in on your computer, and ask Russ questions. Get more info and sign up here.

A Message from Russ: Time to Stand Up

Transcript from the first Online Listening Session

Russ_Feingold
Welcome and thank you for participating in my first ever national online listening session. I have held over 950 listening sessions in Wisconsin, and also held 4 listening sessions in other states over the last year. These town hall type meetings are one of the favorite parts of my job because they give me the ability to hear first hand about the issues people are concerned about. I’m excited that so many people are here today, so lets get started so I can answer as many questions as time allows. Please feel free to ask a question, say what’s on your mind, or just feel free to read what others are saying.

Alyce_from_Rhode_Island
Will Congress press forward with hearings regarding the NSA Illegal Wiretapping on Americans, apparently there is much more to this than what was told by the media to the American people.

Russ_Feingold
Alyce – I’m very concerned that what began as a series of potentially useful hearings in both the judiciary and intell committees, I’m a member of both, have been disappointing at best. In Intell, they have appeared to make every effort not to tell us anything useful and the administration has refused to allow any key witnesses from the justice department who oppose the wiretapping program to appear before the Judiciary committee. I’m not optimistic that without real pressure from the public, more hearings will be held. That’s why we as Dems must be aggressive in pushing for hearings and especially accountability on this illegal program

Read the rest of the transcript here

The first part of this is a bunch of crap about Mel Gibson, if you don’t want to hear about that move the slidbar over to about 3:10.

Cheney: Lieberman Loss ‘Disturbing’ Because al Qaeda Is ‘Betting They Can Break The Will of The American People’

Think Progress.org
Excerpt:
As the Mideast sits on the brink of regional war, Vice President Dick Cheney spent his time yesterday holding a teleconference to discuss the outcome of the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut.

Cheney said that to “purge a man like Joe Lieberman” was “of concern, especially over the issue of Joe’s support with respect to national efforts in the global war on terror.” He explained:

The thing that’s partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.

H.L.s Take
Is there any more proof needed that Lieberman was a dyed in the wool republican. When Dick Cheney starts going to bat for Democrats something is wrong. Karl Rove has also offered to help poor old Joe out (see below)

Get Ready, here it comes.

Terror ‘may force freedom curbs’

BBC
Excerpt:
The UK might have to modify its freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their “misuse and abuse” by terrorists, John Reid has said.
He conceded that was never an easy request, but it was up to everyone to ask: “What price our security, at what cost can we preserve our freedoms?”

H.Ls Take:
Patrick Henry answered that question 230 years ago. Live free or die.

This story is brought to your by George W. Bush.

Bombing Near Iraq Shrine Leaves 35 Dead

NY Daily News
Excerpt:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives Thursday near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, killing at least 35 people and injuring 122, an official said.
…
Prime Minister Nouri al-Mailiki, a Shiite, denounced the bombing as a “barbaric massacre conducted by Takfiris (Sunni extremists) and Saddamists who are seeking to inflame sectarian” passions. A statement by the collective Shiite leadership also issued a similar condemnation.
A Sunni insurgent group, Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba, or Soldiers of the Prophet’s Companions, claimed responsibility for the bombing in an Internet posting. It warned Shiites to stop killing unarmed Sunnis, “otherwise wait for such operations that will shake your regions like earthquakes.”

Joe you are a Whore’s Whore why don’t you just pack up your stuff leave now, and you can start your new job with AIPAC on Monday.

George Stephanopoulos: Can Karl help Joe?

ABC News
Excerpt:
According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President’s political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: “The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do.”
But in a year where even some Republican candidates are running away from the President on the campaign trail, does this offer have any value to Lieberman? Still smarting from all that coverage of “the kiss” at last year’s State of the Union, the Lieberman camp isn’t looking for an explicit endorsement. That could create more problems than it solves.

H.L.s Take
The story goes on to say that Rove may help Lieberman by not allowing the weak republican candidate on the ticket to be replaced, but wouldn’t that help Lamont. Lieberman will syphon more Republican votes then Democrat votes. Now that the Democrats that voted for Lieberman see what a punk he is, they will come back home and vote for Lamont.

The Republicans stole the election in Ohio in 2004, so of course the thing to do is to make new voting registration laws that make it harder for poor people, (especially black) to vote.

New Registration Rules Stir Voter Debate in Ohio

NY Times
Excerpt:

CLEVELAND For Tony Minor, the pastor of the Community of Faith Assembly in a run-down section of East Cleveland, Ohio new voter registration rules have meant spending two extra hours a day collecting half as many registration cards from new voters as he did in past years.

Republicans say the new rules are needed to prevent fraud, but Democrats say they are making it much harder to register the poor.

In the last year, six states have passed such restrictions, and in three states, including Ohio, civic groups have filed lawsuits, arguing that the rules disproportionately affect poor neighborhoods.

But nowhere have the rules been as fiercely debated as here, partly because they are being administered by J. Kenneth Blackwell, the secretary of state and the Republican candidate in one of the most closely watched governors races in the country, a contest that will be affected by the voter registration rules. Mr. Blackwell did not write the law, but he has been accused of imposing regulations that are more restrictive than was intended.

H.L.s Take
Yep, everyone knows that the poor people are going to try to steal the vote for the democrats this year. Good thing Mr. Blackwell, (the reason Bush is still in the White House) is being extra careful to make sure that does not happen

LONDON - British authorities said Thursday they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in carry-on luggage.

H.L.s Take
Question: Why would they try to bring explosives in carry on luggage? When the carry on luggage is so throughly screened, and checked baggage isn’t screened at all.

Chertoff is saying the plot is “Suggestive” of Al Qaida, now I know it is Bullshi*t.

Chertoff: Plot ’suggestive’ of al-Qaida

AP
Excerpt
WASHINGTON - The terror scheme disrupted in London is “suggestive of an al-Qaida plot,” the Bush administration said Thursday as it issued its highest terrorism alert ever for commercial flights from Britain to the United States and raised the threat level for all domestic and international flights.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said there was no indication of plotting in the United States but said officials cannot assume that the terror operation in Britain had been completely thwarted

H.L.s Take
Sniff, Sniff…smell that, its Republican fear. Now they have something to talk about other then how they are about to get their asses kicked in the upcoming elections. They think this will get them the elections back, but people are wise to this BS now. Sorry guys no sale, I’m not scared.
We all knew something like this was coming. Bush can’t pull another real 9/11, he is lucky if he ends up getting away with the last one. But they can sure “Thwart” another terrorist attempt and raise the fear level anytime they want. Why does Chertoff still have a job? Isn’t he the guy who deliberately screwed New Orleans?

The Israelis are getting their asses kicked, Lieberman losses his election, The war party is starting to look vulnerable, its an election year, They want to start trouble in Iran, so you know what that means.

Time for Another Thwarted Terrorist Attack

Time to crank up the fear again, but will it work this time??? Here are the details.

British police thwart aircraft bomb plot

AP
Excerpt
Officials raised security to its highest level in Britain and banned carry-on luggage on all trans-Atlantic flights

H.L.s Take
All this will serve to do is have “Homeland Insecurity” Ban all carry on luggage from now on. Even though its the checked baggage that doesn’t get screened. “Oh my god they tried to smuggle in a bomb on carry on baggage!!! Lets ban it.” Now the airlines can lose everyones luggage, so you see everyone wins.

Read the info. and Decide For Yourself.
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Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in The Connecticut Democratic Primary yesterday in case you didn’t know. Seems Lieberman is pissed off at those ingrateful proles who did not go along with his blind obedience to Bush, Israel, and The Iraq War. Here is Lamonts Victory Speech.

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