November 2007 archive

Nov 21 2007

Thanksgiving

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“In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians

were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them.”

“It may be demanded…Should not Christians have more mercy and

compassion? But…sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents…. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.”

-Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana

Crossposted at Native American Netroots &
Progressive Historians

Nov 21 2007

in Other news

Welcome to a weekly roundup of news related to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and otherwise ‘Other’ community.

Quickie roundup this week since I’m out of town for Turkey Day:

That’s all from me, folks: have a safe and happy holiday tomorrow, and I’ll see everyone when I get back!

Nov 21 2007

Will Our Candidates Prosecute Bush?

The political conversation in America is censored.

Censored by a form of consensual reality in which the really bad things this country does aren’t spoken of, aren’t asked about. Censored by “politeness” and “appropriateness.” The ultimate in political correctness. The acme in not addressing what is really going on in this country and in this world. The zenith of denial. The peak of allowing the illusion to continue that there can be “business as usual” In America while we are staging an illegal occupation and engaging in torture….all while the world reels ever closer to catastrophic Climate Change.

Diamonds or pearls indeed.

We don’t want to make anyone “uncomfortable.”

Especially by asking them questions whose answers might make voters “political consumers” uncomfortable. If we face the truth and talk about it honestly the consumers might buy another brand.

Nov 21 2007

Just Whining or Just Tattling

Grrrrr…….I’ve started all the paperwork needed to be reimbursed for the traveling expenses surrounding my sons last surgery.  I requested a change of who his PCM is and was granted that change from the commander of the Lyster Health Clinic at Fort Rucker.  Normally when you are part of an active duty family there is an existing mostly military operated healthcare structure close by that you must originate from on your healthcare journeys.  Most of the physicians who are part of that system right now are also soldiers.  There are a few doctors who are contractors involved as well but I haven’t been really happy with those that I’ve seen at Lyster because they only seem to want to punch the time clock and let’s face it…….if you are a kickin unowned physician you are kickin in your own practice.

I’m not anti military doctor either.  Some are good and some not so good but Dr. Campbell who is the creator of the titanium rib device and procedure that saved my sons life started out as an Army doctor.  He told me that he always desired to be a doctor but his family couldn’t even begin to pay for that schooling so he did what a lot of impoverished future doctors do and sold himself to the military for awhile and they got him the schooling.  My son has been passed onto Dr. Simmons now.  Dr. Simmons is an orthopedic surgeon who put together wounded soldiers coming out of Iraq.  Dr. Campbell knew this Simmons character while in the service and knew that he rocked as an orthopedic surgeon so told him that when his time was up in the military he needed to work with him helping these kids with horrible scoliosis be able to live and Simmons did.  So how could I sanely be anti military physician?

Nov 21 2007

Carnac the Magnificent Says:

Your humble blogger was going to write a post about ‘second choices’ in the Primary race and how perhaps Edwards isn’t out of the running quite yet given he is likely the second choice of many primary voters.

Looking for the truth from prior years’ election cycles, there was evidence supporting this theory from the Republican side in 1999, with George W. Bush being the second choice of most primary voters that time around (bastages).

But then, I found an article written by Anne Kornblut for the Globe last cycle and said ‘screw it’.

Really, there is no way to predict this thing.

Nov 21 2007

The King Stay The King

First of all, a confession and a warning. The confession is that I’m obsessed with the HBO series “The Wire.” I think the creator, David Simon, is a prophet for our times. The warning is that I’m going to share some videos and they contain pretty harsh language. So, if you think it will bother you, be duly warned to not watch. OK, now on with it…

I’d like to start with a clip from the first season of “The Wire.” And I’ll give you a little background so you understand the conversation if you haven’t watched the show. In this clip D’Angelo is teaching two of his “corner boys” how to play chess. D’Angelo supervises the drug trade at a high-rise and his uncle, Avon, runs the show on the west side of Baltimore. Avon’s right-hand man in the business is Stringer. So, here’s the clip:

Nov 21 2007

Pony Party, Thanks….

There’s very little that will make you more thankful for what you have than spending a few hours in your local emergency room.  Human drama…no wonder so many television programs draw on the hospital theme.  Within a few minutes and a few feet of each other you have birth, death, recovery, injury, pain….people who are generally healthy who are moaning or screaming in pain…people who are much worse off, who lack the ability to express it…

Nov 21 2007

ACTION: **KEEP** rjones IMPEACH W on the REC LIST @dkos!!!

I was the one to add the RECOMMENDED tag to rjones2818 diary at orange!

Please go here, REC, tip & comment!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…

rjones has done an excellent job keeping us informed…let’s help him spread the word at the orange place! We need everyone’s help please.

Nov 21 2007

Kucinich to add W to impeachment call!!! w/poll

YAY!

At a press conference today, where Dennis will be endorsed by Betty Hall (New Hampshire State Representative), Dennis will add President George W. Bush to his impeachment call!

Nov 21 2007

Muse in the Morning

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Muse in the Morning

The muses are ancient.  The inspirations for our stories were said to be born from them.  Muses of song and dance, or poetry and prose, of comedy and tragedy, of the inward and the outward.  In one version they are Calliope, Euterpe and Terpsichore, Erato and Clio, Thalia and Melpomene, Polyhymnia and Urania.

It has also been traditional to name a tenth muse.  Plato declared Sappho to be the tenth muse, the muse of women poets.  Others have been suggested throughout the centuries.  I don’t have a name for one, but I do think there should be a muse for the graphical arts.  And maybe there should be many more.

Please join us inside to celebrate our various muses…

Nov 21 2007

The Morning News

The Morning News is an Open Thread

From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 Former aide blames Bush for leak deceit

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer

19 minutes ago

WASHINGTON – Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were “not involved” in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.

“There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”

Nov 21 2007

“The Violent Radicalisation and Home Grown Terrorist Protection Act of 2007”

I really didn’t want to write this, waited all day to see if someone else picked up on it, especially Tigana (from his 10/25 diary, “This Way to the Camps…”).

This is the next step in the crackdown on dissent / free speech.  It’s scarey! Representative Jane Harmon, down there in Rand Corp country sponsored this bill:  

THE VIOLENT RADICALISATION AND HOME GROWN TERRORIST PROTECTION ACT OF 2007

It’s H. Res 1955, offered by Jane Harmon with 14 co-sponsors, including Zoe Lofgren.

It passed the house with only 6 nays coming from DENNIS KUCINICH (pardon my prejudice), and Congresspersons Abercrombie, Costello, Duncan, Flake, amd Rohrabacher.  Six nays: 3 dems & 3 repubs.  Today it was to be reviewed in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Please google & look for more info than I’m able to write right now.  

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