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This is a quote from an article published at OhMyNews:

The Twin Cities’ North Star Health Collective (NSHC), a local group that coordinated media response during the protests, began training sessions for street medics weeks before the convention. On Sept. 5, NSHC representatives held a press conference denouncing the “police detention and abuse of medical volunteers.” They also shared examples of the types of weapons used on protesters.

“My medic partner and I were treating a handicapped male in a wheelchair for pepper spray to the face at the parking lot of Jackson Street,” recounted Sean McCoy, an EMT and a Navy veteran. “In the process of treating the patient, we were surrounded by several police officers in riot gear and forcibly thrown to the ground and told we were under arrest. We were then forcibly removed from our patient, handcuffed, and forced to lay face down on the ground while the officers proceeded to cut our bags off of us and remove all of our medical gear by dumping it on the ground.”

Read the entire article, “‘Street Medics’ Describe RNC Protests“

This clip was sent to me by a friend . . . and, it was so good I had to watch it twice.

This clip is CLASSIC GOP!  There is double-speak from Karl Rove, Bill “Pappa Bear” O’Reilly, and Dick Morris from the McCain Campaign.

Watch Karl Rove praise Sarah Palin for being the Mayor of the 2nd largest city in Alaska (population 9000) and then let’s go back a few weeks.  On Video footage from only ONE MONTH PRIOR, Rove belittles potential Obama VP pick, Tim Kaine for being the Mayor of Richmond, VA, Lt. Governor of Virginia, and ultimately the Governor of Virginia–and states how the Mayor of a town of +$200,000 people is CLEARLY not fit to be a heartbeat away from the President.

Pappa Bear O’Reily tells us how teen pregnancy is problem faced by many Americans, and we should not be passing judgement.  But, in a prior clip, that same benevolent and repectful pundit calls the parents of the youngest Spears “Pinheads” (even displaying their picture) because they obviously do not have any control over their children and Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant at 16 years old.

Dick Morris‘ words may be the most blatant of the double-speak.  After abhorring the “sexism” in the media, we flash backward to December of 2007 where he says that Hillary cannot simply pack up her toys and go home when the “Big Boys” are picking on her.  “What happens with the “Big Boys” who run the Middle East, and the “Big Boys” who run Russia start picking on her.  She won’t be able to simply hide behind her apron strings.”  APRON STRINGS!?!?!?

McCain’s Senior Policy Analyst, Nancy Pfotenhaur, says roughly the same things as Morris: We are not being sensitive to Palin, and yet she was cautioned Hillary Clinton–“it would be a terrible mistake for Hillary to play this “victim card.”

Lastly, the 6-minute clip finishes with some nice words from Sarah Palin herself.  She is lecturing a female politician and saying simply this: your “whining” isn’t helping us women.  If you are complaining that you are in politics and people are not treating you fairly, DO MORE.  Work Harder.

Sounds great . . . on paper.

If you have been holding your reservation or been unwilling to do the research, this may be the only proof you need.  Here is a clip of Sarah Palin talking to her church–before she was asked to be Vice President.

There are a few points of interest:  Iraq War is God’s Bidding, and Jesus Give us a Pipeline.

John McCain has changed his opinion plenty of times–and, he is transparently doing so in an effort to please his campaign advisors, please his base, and the corporations who have spent their money of him (who are doing ANYthing to keep America in a more-of-the-same pattern where wealth is consolidating into the hands of the rich).

Here is a comprehensive list by Steve Benen of the John McCain’s Changing Policy and stances.

This is good reading . . . .

John McCain might be a new rising star in the field of double-speakers: saying one thing, and doing another.

There is a great article by Steve Benene discussing the a big double speak: John McCain supports Tax Breaks for Big Oil and has not supported Tax Breaks for Wind-driven energy.

Read the Article about John McCain.

Let me see if I have this straight!  John McCain supports TAX BREAKS for Oil–the companies who have posted record PROFITS month after month . . . .

Read the entire article about McCain supporting Tax Breaks for Oil at Talking Points Memo.

I like the Obama Camp’s style: Calm and collected fact checking. It is good journalism, and it will make a wonderful shift in the behavior and operation of the Executive Branch.

Here’s the Obama campaign video refutes the McCain campaign falsehoods in last Friday’s advertisement.

There is a little tiny bit of discrepancy between what Senator John McCain says about the Housing Crisis in America, and what he actually does. I am certainly not rebuking Senator McCain for being wealthy. Instead, I am remarking at his apparent lack of empathy for fellow America.

If the truth were told, I wish Senator McCain would look a bit deeper at the problems. Each and every person who has lost their home is not merely a statistic. They are people who are fighting to cover food, clothing and shelter–the most basic needs of a human–AND LOSING that battle.

Our tax money is funding a war on foreign soil at the cost of nearly a billion dollars a day. Our dollar has weakened against the world currency. Our government has paid incentives to large corporations to move their businesses (and jobs) to foreign countries, and the cost of gas has driven wholesale prices to the highest point in 27 years.

While there may have been some cases of recklessness, the cost of living in America has grown out of reach of a larger percentage of Americans (men and women were already working an average of 12+ hours a day to cover food clothing and shelter).

Jack Cafferty has written a great commentary examining the similarities between George Bush and John McCain in his piece, “Commentary: Is McCain another George W. Bush?“

Found this little interesting list at HumanEvents.com–the Top 10 McCain Campaign Contributors.

1. Merrill Lynch $230,310 (Investment/Financial)
2. Citigroup Inc. $219,551 (Investment/Financial)
3. Blank Rome LLP $189,226 (Counsellors at Law)
4. Greenberg Traurig LLP $157,487 (Law Firm)
5. AT&T Inc. $153,005 (Communications, Wireless, and Internet)
6. Goldman Sachs $139,520 (Worldwide Investment Banking)
7. Morgan Stanley $136,651 (Global Investment Firm)
8. JPMorgan Chase & Co. $129,400 (Global Financial Services)
9. Credit Suisse Group $110,725 (Global Financial Services)
10. Lehman Brothers $96,050 (Global Investment Banking)

This list is a couple of weeks old–so, some of the actual contribution numbers might have changed, but it is a VERY interesting assortment of financial backers.

Out of the Top 10 Contributors to John McCain’s campaign, 7 of the investors are from the Financial sector, two are law firms, and AT&T.