Awakening Members On Strike

post from The Newshoggers on 09 February 2008 11:06:00 PM. © The Newshoggers

U.S.-backed Sunni tribesmen shut their offices and rallied in Baqouba's streets Saturday, calling for the provincial police chief's resignation and accusing him of sectarian bias.

Hundreds of members of Sunni awakening councils in Diyala province held at least three demonstrations Saturday. At one rally in downtown Baqouba, a banner was hoisted above the crowd reading "al-Qureyshi targets Sunnis and kidnaps women" ? referring to Gen. Ghanim al-Qureyshi, director general of Diyala police.

...the men ? who patrol their neighborhoods on temporary security contracts paid by the U.S. ? have grown frustrated with the province's Shiite-dominated government in recent months, and have threatened to halt cooperation.

Some have been denied jobs in the Iraqi security forces, and the blame al-Qureyshi, a Shiite. They accuse him of trying to maintain a Shiite majority in the police department in Diyala, a once-mixed province that now has a slight Sunni majority.

Back in September, Chief al-Qureyshi himself said he would love to hire 1,000 Awakening members right away, but the central government wouldn't let him. The US military is trying to downplay the strike, saying Awakening members have done the same thing before and then gone back to their posts. But surely the point is that they keep striking because their greivances aren't being met despite the US military's promises - over five or six months now.

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What a night for Obama and Huckabee

post from MyDD on 09 February 2008 11:04:19 PM. © MyDD

What a wild election season this has been, and it looks like we are back where we started. In Iowa, both Huckabee and Obama won big upsets, and gained their viability. Tonight, Obama has won the caucus states of Nebraska and Washington, and the primary[...]

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C&Ls Late Nite Music Club with Ennio Morricone

post from Crooks and Liars on 09 February 2008 11:00:27 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer who has worked on over 500 film scores. His best-known are for “spaghetti westerns” like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars and tonight’s feature, For A Few Dollars More. Last year he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oscars. In 2001 I was [...]

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Late Night: Your Favorite Candidate Sucks

post from Firedoglake on 09 February 2008 10:56:15 PM. © Firedoglake

You need to admit that your favorite candidate sucks. Please, be a grownup about this.[...]

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The Jefferson-Jackson Day Speeches: Viriginia

post from TalkLeft on 09 February 2008 10:41:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Here's a thread for the speeches delivered by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at tonight's Virginia Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. (Earlier thread on this here.)

Here is an AP summary of Hillary's speech.

Obama's speech sounds very similar -- almost a replica -- of this one he gave in Denver last week.

Update: 8:53 pm ET: There's your JFK references I predicted earlier, Ted Sorenson at work -- two in one parapgraph.

We’re the party of a man who overcame his own disability to tell us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; who faced down fascism and liberated a continent from tyranny.
And we’re the party of a young President who asked what we could do for our country, and the challenged us to do it.

More...and question for Obama supporters below:

Question for you Obama supporters: This is the second or third time I have heard him refer to being raised by a single mother. I thought his mother remarried when he was 4 or 5 and they moved to Indonesia where he lived with her and her husband until he returned to Hawaii at age 10 or 11 to live with his grandparents, and he lived with them through high school. How many years did he live only with his mother while she was single? Was he really raised by a single mother?

(As a single parent from the time the TL kid was two, this is of personal interest to me.)

[Update: When I saw a transcript of his speech, his reference to a single mother wasn't in it so I thought I misheard and posted a correction here. I just heard the speech for the second time again, and it prominent and at the end. So I'm removing my correction, I was right the first time.)

Update: Thread cleaned of off-topic comments and comments now closed.

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Omnibus results (and Obama speech) thread

post from Daily Kos on 09 February 2008 10:38:02 PM. © Daily Kos

Check it out: Obama wins the US Virgin Islands with 90 percent of the vote, meaning he'll likely get all three of the island's delegates.

Louisiana

73 percent of precincts reporting:

Obama 53
Clinton 39

Delegates:

Louisiana

66 delegates
7 Obama
5 Hillary
54 still unassigned

Obama's projections was for a 31-25 take in Louisiana.

Nebraska

24 delegates
15 Obama
7 Hillary
2 still unassigned

Obama's projection was for a 15-9 take in Nebraska, so worst case scenario he's met that expectation.

Washington

78 delegates
52 Obama
26 Hillary

I shifted from CNN projections to that of the Washington State Democratic Party chair's estimate. The number is tentative until confirmed. Obama's projection was for a 49-29 take in Washington.

US Virgin Islands

3 delegates
3 Obama
0 Hillary
0 still unassigned

Obama's projection was for a 2-1 take in the USVI.

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Rocking the Vote WA, NE, LA and the Virgin
Islands Pt 3

post from Firedoglake on 09 February 2008 10:30:28 PM. © Firedoglake

Results from Democratic races in WA, NE, LA and VI updating every 15 minutes.[...]

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Because I've Been Watching Jeeves and Wooster

Stephen Fry has a blog.

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Virginia Democratic Party Jefferson Jackson
Dinner BARACK OBAMA SPEECH

Bumped -- Todd Please Contribute to MyDD's 2008 Fundraiser Before it Ends Monday Jerome and I are here with Matt Stoller and a ton of our closest friends at the Virginia Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson dinner. Hillary and Barack are here along[...]

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Buyers Remorse

Huckabee looks like he has a shot to go 3 for 3 tonight.KansasWashingtonLouisianaIf these numbers[...]

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