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Any wonder why it is not recognised in our country?

MAY DAY - THE LABOR DAY May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in most countries. The United States of America and Canada are among the exceptions. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the USA, linked to the battle for the eight-hour day, and the Chicago anarchists.

The struggle for the eight-hour day began in the 1860s. In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, organized in 1881 (and changing its name in 1886 to American Federation of Labor ) passed a resolution which asserted that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labor organizations throughout this district that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution". The following year the Federation repeated the declaration that an eight-hour system was to go into effect on May 1, 1886. With workers being forced to work ten, twelve, and fourteen hours a day, support for the eight-hour movement grew rapidly. In the months prior to May 1, 1886, thousands of workers, organized and unorganized, members of the organization Knights of Labor and of the federation, were drawn into the struggle. Chicago was the main center of the agitation for a shorter day.

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Mission Accomplished Boasts Pres!
oops that was four years ago.

Wow. This is accomplishment?

Glenn Greenwald great today on Israel v. US when it comes to treating issues of war seriously.

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This is seconds after Dennis Miller tells O'Riely that no matter who says that there were no wmd and no matter who decides that Iraq was wrong he will always believe they existed and that it was the right thing to do.

When two nutjobs have a conversation like this there is only one word for it. Poetry.

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Post Bankruptcy Bill, these folks will never get out from under this.

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This is not good.

and this:

2008 Republicans back war
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
Fri May 4, 9:20 AM ET
SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters)

is not surprising.

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Not this one. Not the next. Debut on the 20th.

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but I do have some time on my hands monday through friday.
and I am not a racist idiot.

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from Josh Marshall

As you know, Gonzales is returning to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Time now reports that Kyle Sampson told congressional investigators "three times in as many minutes that Gonzales was angry with McNulty because he had exposed the White House's involvement in the firings had put it's (sic) role "in the public sphere," as Sampson phrased it, according to Congressional sources familiar with the interview."

Should be some fireworks thursday.

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Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
By Murray Waas, National Journal

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but this is a family friendly blog. Let's just call him John MCcain talking about his waltz through a Baghdad market.

"I'll be glad to back to that market -- with or without military protection and Humvees, etc."

via TPM

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Dick Cheney should stay in the bunker.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates --Iran's president led a raucous anti-American rally on Sunday in this tightly controlled U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, a day after a low-key visit by Vice President Dick Cheney aimed at countering Tehran's influence in the region.

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and this is a reflection of what republicans, bush and the liebermans used in order to occupy Iraq.

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Is the launch date for the new blog! What we have now will not go away. However, there will also be a "diary" type section where if you register with the site you will be able to post your own stories. And more, we will begin to offer audio, video and audio blogs from various special guests.

I spent the day (actually the past two weeks) building Honeydo Farms. Pics to follow.

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The new last vestige

President George W. Bush met privately with Focus on
the Family Founder and Chairman James Dobson and
approximately a dozen Christian right leaders last
week to rally support for his policies on Iraq, Iran
and the so-called "war on terror."

It gets crazier:

Dobson went on to enumerate a series of meetings
convened by Christian right leaders in Washington to
discuss the supposedly existential threat to the
United States from a nuclear Iran.

“I heard about this danger [from Iran] not only at the
White House but from other pro-family leaders that I
met during that week in Washington," he said. “Many
people in a position to know are talking about the
possibility of losing a city to nuclear or biological
or chemical attack. And if we can lose one we can lose
ten.

"If we can lose ten we can lose a hundred," he added,
“especially if North Korea and Russia and China pile
on.”

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REMINDER: new blog in less than 48 hours

But how can one not pick it.

if 2 + 2= 4,

then what do we make of this:

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"

Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God's judgment on America for "throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked."

plus this

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We are ruled by criminals.

watch this video...

then read Greenwald explaining what this means.

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Check it out Samsedershow.com lives.

This site as majority report radio will stay put for the moment but will soon fade away and then redirect you to samsedershow.com

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