NW Progressive Convention

Yesterday America in Solidarity
held its first NW Progressive Convention
A friend said to me: That name sounds socialist.
That shows you how the language has been hijacked.
Does this sound socialist?

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln

[Presentations]
[[Presidential Poll]]

Congresswoman Lynne Woolsey - Congressman Adam Smith - CIVIL RIGHTS PANEL: 8th Congressional District Candidate Darcy Burner, ACLU Attorney Salvador Mungia, Backbone Campaign Executive Director Bill Moyer - - Retired Major General Paul Eaton - Washington Fair Trade Coalition - Washington Public Campaigns - Washington Community Action Network - Healthcare for All Washington
[Other Attendees:]
Americans United for Separation of Church and State - The Sanctuary for Veterans and Families - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Local Content

See Labels: Local(at bottom of this post)
or LABELS
INDEX
TO DIGEST
HELP NAVIGATE
Or THE GAME(I have consolidated from the right collumn.)

HERE IS THE LOCAL CONTENT INDEX (Incomplete).
King County Executive Race

Local Radio
Thank you Dave Ross
Lefty Blog
"Thank you Veterans" Day
NW Progressive Convention
Northwest Perspective Update
Home Economics
Eastside Democratic Dinner
Attorney General Gonzales Retreats
Perfect Presidents or Perfect Politicians?
Happy Subpoenas Day
Happy Earth Day
Presidential Profiles
Fare Market Ideas
Face The Music!
Legislative District Townhall Meeting
What's going on?
SJM 8016 / US Attorney Scandal
All Politics Is Local?

This may be a lame local link as it only references a local reporter, but it is also at issue that local papers may be bought out by conglomerations. Far from lame though I almost missed (in this update) the other link thereSpecial to the Times by someone I know and is even more local. Thank You, Donald Smith.

Politics Local and National

Find your local party organization.
DEMOCRATS
Republicans- not so easy
Liberals- at your own risk*
Conservatives
Green Party
Independents (you are on your own)
Libertarian or Ron Paul
Actually this was just a quick search which evolved from "find your(specified)organization" to find your specified "party", and my comments are more about the ease with which they are found.

As a local example: 41st LD Democrats **
Puget Sound Liberals
Northwest Progressive Institute
Progressive Radio
Organizing for America
Democracy for America
King County Democrats
Washington State Democrats

This may seem condescending, but what the Beck!
MoveOn
Think Progress The Final Act for Health Reform
Media Matters
not to mention Democrats.com Save our Democracy!

[BTW: two proposals(rhetorically)
a. If corporations have individual rights, where do they come off as being able to own other individuals?
b. And where does an individual share come in? I mean there is the equal protection clause but an individual gets one vote per share of stock?
c. It seems that congress should tighten up immigration when it comes to such commerce let alone labor.
Actually these could be substantive considerations.]

*if I can't offend my own, who can I offend, well maybe everyone, but I am being ironic with a keen political calculus. Actually my own is "progressive", and we must stop running with(or at or from) words like scissors.

** attendance at District Nominationg Convention and Caucus was surprisingly low, but could be attributed to the forgone conclusion that there would be no opposition to our incumbents, satisfaction with work being done, anticipation of the work to come, and the nature of the top two primary holding some surprises if not a field for competition from the wings of hope and cynicism.

Great Segue!

After Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention,
my first comments are:
So far, so good!
"No way! No how! No McCain!" Now that is a flip-flop.

Seriously...
From "Faint Praise/Criticism" to Progressive Narratives.
Not to mention pragmatism...

but I would like to note belated congratulations
to Rachel Maddow (nfry*) on getting her new show on MSNBC. Rachel refers to herself as a liberal not a partisan. Righteously so.[*] It is really hard to criticize Rachel, but she is the perfect flip-flop of Pat Buchanan. He is sometimes valid in his criticism of Republicans and praise or suggestions for Democrats, only the better to eat you my dear. Said the wolf to Little Red Riding Hood. While Rachel may be the same for Democrats, only the better for the country.** (Embedded in these asterisks are references to their work. Earlier encounters with Howard Kurtz, long time agitation by Pat Buchanan and recent enthusiasm tempered with caution for Rachel. Let me just say that her liberal enthusiasm and hopes may be cast as negative shadows on the pragmatism needed for progress.*** But criticism of Democrats and our process, taken in the right light, can be good for all.)

*The segue is filled with the likes of Howard Kurtz, and Patrick Buchanan.
** not a perfect flip-flop, the Democrats not the country.
*** it might have helped, yet it might not have, to remember the particular comment that I had a problem with, but it was only a comment on the progress of the convention or one of the speakers that caused me to wonder about her perspective as she makes progress. Had it changed or is it what got her where she is?

[A regressive update, meaning only a thought that I had when Biden was announced: That he should well vet humor and plagiarism. Now that is a well contained line. Of attack, for us, and by us, not necessarily of us. And depending upon McCain's VP a wonder of the Republican vetting process.]
[John McCain: An Experience We Don't Need! Thanks to Thom Hartmann.]{Not to mention: Breaking the Yalta Conspiracy}

[* 9-3-08 Update link]

Taking the Bear by the Horns!

Obama Team Moves to Regulate Complex Financial Instruments
by Kevin G. Hall - McClatchy TruthOut

Reform Movement:
Rachel Maddow at commondreams.org
Philip Zelikow on His Testimony tortured memos
www.TomPaine.com
The Progressive
OurFuture.org
Center for American Progress
Think Progress
The Huffington Post
The Pelosi Brief
The Noble Stunt Meme*
and The Ticking Time Bomb Scenario.
Blame the counsel, the comedian and the computer.

* Sen. Linsey Graham[update] (Bush Administration saw law as "nicety we could not afford")
"there is a purpose for everything, there is a reason people do what they do...hierarchy of needs..."(14:50-15:24)
the levin report(15:30)
Brian Beutler TPMMuckraker
Jane Mayer The New Yorker
"the moral high ground in this war is the high ground, it is not a location..."(15:40)
common article 3?(16:35-17:00)
the Geneva Convention did not apply? an argument
"what we do in looking back, may determine how we move forward..." (17:30-19:00)
(all times for Noble Stunt Meme[video])
[The Golden Rule(in Progress) is no joke. Nor are the fine points of law or politics just stunts.]