Genarlow Wilson has been freed. Maybe someone could make a post?

Since there actually is something to be positive about to day, allow me to offer major props to Nancy Pelosi and the House leadership for keeping the SCHIP fight alive. It's about time they found something that they felt was worth their time and energy.

This is how we fight the GOP - push them back over and over onto unpopular ground. We get to win tactical victories *and* keep inflicting them with election-time shrapnel.

If I wasn't on the list before, I probably am now. I was responding to this story elsewhere:
http://tinyurl.com/2bv95f

and I think I might have inadvertently given the terrists some hints about better targets.

That's our Jerry. Always so helpful.

If I'm not on the list, I've been doing something wrong.

Also, Donald Rumsfeld earned his own no-fly list spot today. The French have signaled that from here on out, if he's ever in their country that he will have to feel prosecution for war crimes.

Maybe one day he'll be like Kissinger and unable to travel to the civilized world ever again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071026/ap_on_he_me/boiled_peanuts

Boiled nuts help protect against illness

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - For lovers of boiled peanuts, there's some good news from the health front. A new study by a group of Huntsville researchers found that boiled peanuts bring out up to four times more chemicals that help protect against disease than raw, dry or oil-roasted nuts.

Lloyd Walker, chair of Alabama A&M University's Department of Food and Animal Sciences who co-authored the study, said these phytochemicals have antioxidant qualities that protect cells against the risk of degenerative diseases, including cancers, diabetes and heart disease.

"Boiling is a better method of preparing peanuts in order to preserve these phytochemicals," Walker said.

The study will appear in Wednesday's edition of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The other co-authors in the study are A&M researchers Yvonne Chukwumah and Martha Verghese, as well as University of Alabama in Huntsville researcher Bernhard Vogler.

Walker said peanuts and other plants use phytochemicals for things such as helping avoid disease and insect attacks.

"These things are not nutrients; at the same time they have health benefits to humans," he told The Birmingham News. "The trick is to keep those health benefits, not to process them out of the foods."

According to Walker, water and heat penetrate the nuts, releasing beneficial chemicals to a certain point. Overcooking the nuts destroys the useful elements.

Alabama is third in the nation in the amount of peanuts produced with a crop valued at more than $67 million last year.

AS much as i love my indie rock...KISS is the shit.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pvu396NIOQU

I hope the DCCC / Rahm licking Hillary's butt kerfuffle makes the Monday open thread. I only found out about it once I got home from the Hillary Birthdasturbathon and nearly clogged up my keyboard with puke, and I still haven't fully recovered my sense of democracy. Thank you, Rahm, for reminding us that resistance is futile.

In took me a way to find it by the Google (or at least be sure this was your reference).

Rahm's been the Clinton money man for quite some time though. Is it really that suprising that he'd let something like the independence of the DCCC get in his way?

uh the HRC/DCCC deal is kinda much ado about nuttin...

Bill didnt ask for money for hillary and if i understand correctly, they offered that to all the top tier candidates and HRC was the only one who said she wanted to use it...

IRE, when you click Submit to wish HRC a happy birthday, you get a big fat "CONTRIBUTE" button. You think this was an email campaign about warm fuzzies? Pleez.

So you have no gripe with DCCC not extending the same courtesy to Bill Richardson, who was within a burrito toss of overtaking Edwards several times this year? Nothing about this makes you feel like we're just being assimilated by the Borg?

no. If your candidate or campaign is not good enough, why bitch about how you are treated from nationals.

And to be honest, I really don't care about how the DCCC or DSCC or DLCC acts in the presidential primary. This race is not what they work for and are supposed to be neutral about.

Really, whats the deal with "the big scary establishment"? Ive never understood that

Question:

What's this argument about? Did the DCCC send out Hillary's 60th stuff?

Jen B. - yes, it was a letter written by Bill.

I don't see this in itself as a big deal, but I would tend to assume that any arm of the Democratic Party (or caucus) should try and stay neutral in a big run like this. It's not cool if this is a sign of this to come.

IRE - The big scary establishment is troublesome because it tends to serve its own interests rather than our own. I can share in Shelby's frustration (not entirely - for better or worse, Edwards is still considered pretty viable) that some candidates have to all but set themselves on fire to get attention, while others just have to pass a little wind and appear on every Sunday news show.

It's that nothing succeeds like success thing.

Also, the last thing I want to see is a Democrat "humping in" massive contributions. Some see our return to cash as a good thing - I see it as endangering us to return to business as usual.

see i dont really care if they serve their own interests rather than our own (What, they don't want Democrats to get elected?), if i understand where you are coming from, and they did do everything the base wanted, we would get nothing done because we would all whine about this is what should be done, listen to me please, etc etc etc...so im much happier a group just going we'll do it this way and leading our efforts, i mean, seriously, i cant think of anything that we want that they dont....

For those who missed it, a Politico.com story:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/An_email_from_the_DCCC.html

A DCCC spokesperson (or persons) responded a little differently on two occasions, as some have reported elsewhere, first saying they extended the same offer to "all the candidates" but then clarifying it was just for the top 3.

I understand it's not a big deal to most people. But then again, I don't particularly give a crap about the voter ID requirements, cause I gots me a driver license.

Ahh..

The offer should have been extended to ALL candidates, not the top three bullshit.

I'm on the DCCC email list, and the Clinton list, so is was both a "list swap" and "wash", because I didn't get it.

Agree Shelby. Bad move. Hate it. Totally wrong. The kind of thing that makes my head explode.

Yea see, i understand why they didn't offer it to all candidates.

See Gravel with this list would probably piss off some more moderate/indy people on the list and would hurt us. Also, mailing listts are valuable, and my boy's isn't. No benefit to switch.

Look, should the DCCC have done this, maybe not.

But does it really matter? Will this affect how the DCCC opperates or is neutral in contested primaries for congressional seats? no.

Before you say this shows the DSCC DCCC DLCC would opperate under a HRC presidency, that they would only go after who she wants, that will be the case with who ever we nominate so im not really concerned.

And this directly hurts my candidate.

Maybe we should all just chill for a second, come back and think about it.

Its about as insignificant as issues come.