The timing of the sixth is so he doesn't have to report this quarter. We'll know in January.
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I've seen that elsewhere, too, but it isn't true. All monies raised by September 30 must be reported by the FEC deadline of October 15, so Thompson has until then to earn a "Wow!" or a "Ho-hum" from the galleries.

The closer one delves into Who's Fred, which his Hamlet act encourages if only because the news cycle is slow, the more his confirmed positions seem to be in alignment with the liberal ones of Romney and the Ghoul.
Considering his socialist hawk backers (those pesky neocons), I knew he had been flipped at least by the time of the Libby imbroglio, and before that his post-Senate lobbying required a mercenary outlook. So I knew he was weak in the Reagan Dept. No suprise.
Now I read (in the NY Sun) that Fred voted for No Child Left Behind! (I did not know that!)
And that he presented the brief before the Supreme Court on BEHALF OF the McCain-Feingold Bill!
WTF! That's wolfbane to the GOP regulars.
As I suspected, we have an Orwellian redefinition of "conservative" goin' on 'roun' h'yeh. Obviously misperceptions are allowed to persist. Slipping a vegi-burger in and hoping the conservatives won't notice. Add plenty of B-B-Q sauce, just in case!
Explains why Fred's website requires registration just to VIEW comments.
AND why he's ducking every debate he possibly can.
I know he's REPORTEDLY set to enter, but he can't be serious. He's a less vigorous policy clone of Mitt and the Ghoul and Huckabee stole his white lightnin' and is drinking it now.

That should be the NY Observer. The Sun is a neocon commie rag.

I love it. Only bD could make coherent sense with the use of the phrase 'neocon commie', but look, he did.

How much of the obviously present malice in McCain-Feingold was aforethought?

Huckabee may have the new stumphole; Paul has the old virtual.
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Where did you see it? I can't remember where I saw it, or the proposed mechanism, but it was portrayed as legitimate, this purported mechanism of delaying the reporting. I'm sure it is useful politically, but, I, for one, would like to know where his money is coming from. Hillary's too.
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By the way, how about a Hsunami post. This net is huge, maybe I should write 'hsuge'. He gave money to LOTS of Democrats, and the running and hiding is extravagant, widespread, and laborious, as we speak.
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What you don't get, bD, is that Fred will be useful as a loose cannon, unless that thing gets tied down and directed, in which case, Katie Bar the Door. It could get fun. You've got to admit, he's way more entertaining than Edwards.

Your grandchildren will read about Libby in the same paragraph as Star Chambers. His was a monumental injustice, and Fred does have the skinny on that little attempt to derail the Constitution.
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By the way, what is Ron Paul's position about Val Plame, Scooter Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald, and James Comey. I'm very curious to know.

Is my litmus paper showing?
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And since you're an erstwhile union member, I'm not surprised you don't feel the need to hold teachers accountable for their performance to their students, to the parents, to the taxpayers, or to their administrators even. Oh, yes, they're accountable to the union, but only as members, not as teachers.

What is wrong with this picture?
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"Your grandchildren will read about Libby in the same paragraph as Star Chambers.=kim="

Yes. as a member. OSP privy council.

Plame will play the part of John Lilburne.

The American electorate will make a Rump Pariament.

The neocons I nominate for Charles I.

"...By the way, what is Ron Paul's position about Val Plame, Scooter Libby..=kim"

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul285.html

"...I'm not surprised you don't feel the need to hold teachers accountable for their performance to their students...=kim="

???

http://www.amazon.com/NEA-Trojan-Horse-American-Education/dp/0941995070

Thanks for the links; they are helpful. Paul is sadly incurious about the Plame Affair, but does ask a good question; what is the origin of the forgeries. I'd say it may matter as much as it does with the Mapes/Rather ones; it's obvious they're fake. It's the uses put to them. Who sat on the forgeries from October, 2002, when a clerk noted 'funky seals' on them, and March, 2003 when they were belatedly exposed by the IAEA? Who has made most effective use of them since?

I don't expect to convince you or Ron Paul, but historians will convince your descendants, spiritual and/or actual.

Charter Schools. Public, non-vouchered, schools, with accountability for teachers, students and parents, by contract.
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"...what is the origin of the forgeries...=kim"

Ledeen, Chalabi, and Berlosconi's SISMI.

http://news.stcom.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=1603

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7681

"Charter Schools. Public, non-vouchered, schools, with accountability for teachers, students and parents, by contract.=kim"

Hooboy..."non-vouchered" is a supposed to be a selling point? (Tell me MORE about Bush Republicanism, heh heh!)

And "by contract"?

The "make right" priviso works on inanimate objects. Kids' school lives are too short to be wasting large fractions of it among incompetent teachers' college monkeys who must apply to the state for grammar school jobs.

The "teachers' edition" of textbooks is the proof of what I say. Why would teachers need a book of answers to student-level problems? And no, they don't grade from the book. There's a seperate sheet for that (lest the teacher get mixed up and grade Chapter 4 from Chapter 5's answer page. They got it all covered, in their own inferior, make-work way).

Now you are pitifully incurious. So how did Ledeen, Chalabi, and Berlusconi use the forgeries? How did Plame's unit use them?

I was banned from Marcy's blog for pointing out the elephant in the room, from eRisposte's own research, that the French had discovered in 1999 an extensive black market in Africa in yellow cake from artisanal mining of uranium mines shuttered by the dropping commodity price of uranium. The forgeries were a poor and obvious copy of a deal which probably never appeared on paper.

For a so-called libertarian, you are awfully happy to absorb and promulgate the looniest left-wing fantasies. It would behoove you to study up on Africa and yellow cake. I find your political interpretations to be fascinating, and commonly spot on, but not when you are obviously regurgitating talking points, like you are in the Plame case.

What about the 'funky seals', and why Plame's unit apparently couldn't figure out that they were forgeries. And how about, my friend, the three different stories Val Plame has told, one under oath, of how it came to be that her husband went to Africa for the CIA. Do you know he went four times for them, not just once? What was he doing over there?
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