It was revealed today by the WH that Bush was treated for Lyme diseaselast year. His doctors described it as "early, localized Lyme disease" after developing the characteristic bullseye rash.

It is interesting that this was not revealed last year, but rather it showed up in his "past medical history" section of this years report. Lyme is a serious medical problem. I would take it that since it was in "past medical history" it is believed to be "cured".

I speak as a person with lyme and as a medical professional practicing clinical medicine as a PA for 20+ years. I had my lyme diagnosed in 2005 after a vague, undiagnosed illness of 8 years.

This race is still within grasp of winning. When the votes are counted, they are going Larry's way. Robin Hayes, the Republican incumbent, now has only a 329 vote lead over Kissell, making this the tightest recount race in the country.

Thank you Larry for counting every vote. This is just another example of why we have rallied all over the country for you. We need Democrats like you in congress.

NC has a terrific young progressive state party chair in Jerry Meek. He has been a huge booster of Larry Kissell and the grassroots and netroots. (Kos writes about Meek in Crashing the Gate).

Just got this email from NC Dem Party Chair, Jerry Meek, on behalf of Larry:

As many of you know, the US is building itself one of the largest, most secretive embassies in the world for Baghdad.
It will equal Vatican City in size (more than 100 acres).

The construction site has never allowed journalists to vistit, but word is leaking out from hired American contractors about unbelievable brutal, inhumane treatment of the third world labor force.

Asia Times has the story here,http://www.atimes.com/...

Thus declares John Aravois over at his blog, Americablog.com. "This guy" being Rahm Emmanuel. Aravois even labels a photo attached to his post of a snow-capped mountan peak, "Mount Rahm".

Anyone who visits Americablog knows John to be a passionate, if not sometimes hyperbolic (but that's his charm) guy. Seems Rahm has John Aravois's fancy now, everyone else be damned.

Too bad none of Aravois's readers agree with his declaration (ok, only one or two out of 85 posts agree with him). The comments take John to task for not giving credit to others, such as Dean, the grassroots, the netroots, the 50-state strategy, etc...
 

"It" being 61yo patriot Harry Taylor dressing Bush down at his appearance at Central Piedmont Community College.

"Speaking from the balcony of a theater at Central Piedmont Community College, the 61-year-old commercial real estate broker had laced into Bush for his conduct of the war on terror, his environmental record and his opposition to legalized abortion.

This is a speech that Harold Pinter -- British playwright, poet and political activist -- gave on December 7, 2005 as his Nobel Lecture for having been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. http://tinyurl.com/...

It is amazing to me that such a blistering speech could have been given at such an internationally acclaimed forum as the Nobel Prize Lectures, and yet so many of us had not heard that this speech was even delivered. Our international corporate media have become very good at not allowing this kind of US criticism to surface.

Ashveville elects it's first black mayor (Terry Bellamy), and a woman at that! She smashed her Repub opposition with 56% of the vote IN THE SOUTH! She's not really a full-on social progressive (in my book) but it's a wonderful historic win, AND a democrat rather than a Repub. http://tinyurl.com/...

And, since Terry Bellamy will vacate her current Asheville City Council seat for mayor, another seat will open up.

If we play our cards right, the 4th highest vote getter, a 29yo male, progressive Dem carpenter-- Bryan Freeborn-- will also be seated on the council -- for a progressive majority (that sounds nice to say!).

YeeaaarrrggghhHH!!  

Hard work pays off (finally)!

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I know this would be a more effective diary if the photos were inserted but I am working on a old OS and don't know how.

The woman, identified in the salon.com article as Terri Jones, exudes tender-hearted kindness along with her broken heart of despair at the misery of her charges.

I think the guy was really caught off guard when I corrected him, noting that it was the netroots that launched Paul Hackett into the electable zone, not the DCCC.

How bout if this could be a permanent feature on the front page?  The 'little people' paid for Dean's presidential campaign, let's pay for our party and take it back from the fat cats.

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, unapologetic in the face of recent criticism that he has been too tough on his political opposition, said in San Francisco this week that Republicans are "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."
"The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people," Dean said Monday,  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/07/MNdean07.TMP&type=p rintable

Santorum, O'Reilly and other righties have explained to us the slippery slope of homosexuality and bestiality. You know, love someone of your own gender and pretty soon you'll wanna hump a dog, or a mule. Ok, let's just say a lot of us never quite got their 'reasoning'. Seems you have to be a extreme right wing-nut job to harbor these concerns.

Neal Horsley is the author and proprietor of christiangallery.com, a website devoted to his advocacy of militant anti-abortion, secessionist, and anti-homosexual views. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Horsley

The other night as a guest on Fox's Alan Colmes show Horsley 'fessed up to his wild and crazy days as a farmboy in Georgia and his mule who was his "first girlfriend".