“American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out,” Huckabee wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs. “The Bush administration’s arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.”– Mike Huckabee

This is coming from Bush’s right flank… Interesting.

But Huckabee is already backing down (sort of)

Then there’s this

“He seems like a nice charming guy… doesn’t believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city — we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.”

– Elizabeth Edwards

And this

Huckabee squashed charges against his son for stoning, hanging dog.

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From C&L

Wexler was hoping to get 50,000 signatures and it didn’t take long — it took just 24 hours to meet his goal and the signatures are still rolling in.

The more signatures Wexler gets, the more clout they’ll have with members of the Judiciary Committee who are on the fence.  Let’s show Wexler the power of the netroots to get behind and support elected officials who are representing our values and desires.

He’s got 61,889 signatures now.

Sign the petition

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We had two cups of coffee and one lemon tart at the hotel in Paris and it came to almost 50 dollars. Two cups of tea in our hotel in London cost us 20 dollars.

A quick check at Expedia shows hotel rooms in London are averaging $300-500 a night while New York City has many for under $200.

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Schwarzenegger declares fiscal emergency as $14 billion shortfall projected for 2008.

Turns out that a stalling economy, plus collapsing real estate are a pretty serious whack on the state’s financial head.

I wonder what will happen to the plans and funding for crucially needed upgrades for the crumbling California water infrastructure?

FutureJacked is not optimistic about what all of this implies.

I’m going ahead and instituting a California DeathWatch. California will be the testbed where the pathogenic mix of gangs, economic implosion due to debt overload, ethnic tensions (African American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian) goes prime time in the U.S.

Imagine what happens if you factor in water and power shortages on top of that.

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