Jul 09 2008
Ok, so we have lost the Fourth Amendment. But take heart! In light of yesterdays wildly successful Dharmathon to help a friend in need, and the fact that McCain will undoubtedly continue Bush’s policy of selling off America with the help of impoverished Democrats like poor Jay Rockefeller, all we have to do is be the highest bidder for the rest of The Constitution!!! Start saving your pennies Dharmaniacs!
Jul 09 2008
As we wait for the many coming books, I’m sure more will be surfacing, as many try to cleanse their souls, of these last eight years plus, in seeking their higher kingdom, we might have the time to take this seemingly telling descriptive tale into the fold of good reading. We could even make the copies a collective item reminding us, in a comfortable way, of what we’ve been put through, us and the rest of the world. Comfortable because it might not enrage as we read and study the pictures, like the hard reality of the history will.
Jul 09 2008
An editorial from http://socialistworker.org: http://socialistworker.org/200…
Jul 09 2008
Scooter Libby.
We all know the name. (BTW, a grown man named Scooter really is kinda creepy, don’t you think)? Anyway. Ol’ Scooter stepped on his crank pretty good when he deliberatly outed a CIA covert agent, Valarie Plame-Wilson on what we expect were orders from Vlad Cheney when Ms. Plame-Wilson’s husband, Joe Wilson, told everyone that the Niger – Iraqi “Yellow Cake” nuclear weapons-of-mass-destruction information that the Bush Administration was throwing around was bunk. After Mr. Wilson published his article “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” in the New York Times, BushCo went after Wilson and his wife with a full court press.
Well, Scooter was tried and convicted of lying to the Fed’s about his and the Bush Administrations role in all of this, and subsequently had his sentence commuted by Presnit-wit Bush for his troubles.
It looks as though V.P. Vlad was at it once again when it came to altering evidence in another case where the Administration didn’t like the scientific answers
that were forthcoming and they once again tried to alter the scientific reality into a corporate-friendly reality.
Jul 09 2008
That is, truly enjoing the Onion‘s 3 July 2008 Green Issue: “Our All-Paper Salute to the Environment.”
Well-done satire provides a painful window on the soul of an issue.
And, the Onion specializes in that well-done satire.
This issue pulls together some top environmentally-oriented satire from the past decade. Lets take some bites of that green onion …
But, first, some related breaking news …
Jul 09 2008
The Morning News is an Open Thread
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Judge to Bush admin.: Guantanamo is top priority
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago
| WASHINGTON – A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.
“The time has come to move these forward,” Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully. “Set aside every other case that’s pending in the division and address this case first.” The Bush administration hoped it would never come to this. The Justice Department has fought for years to keep civilian judges from reviewing evidence against terrorism suspects. But a Supreme Court ruling last month opened the courthouse doors to the detainees. |
Jul 09 2008
Call, fax or email. It’s too late now to send a postcard to stop this heinous capitulating “cave-in to be” but it’s not too late to start letting them know that gutting our fourth amendment is not cool.
Why is it necessary, why is it politically expedient, to set in stone and make yet another law that falsely legitimizes the crimes of the Executive, of Congress, of the Department of Justice and the telecom industry? In light of the FACTS that Bush Committed 30 Felonies and did not do so alone, did not act without support and protection from Congress — what makes it so important that this must be passed today? There are ongoing cases that this would shut down — more reason, not less, to send this disgraceful veil of faux legitimacy to an early and ignoble grave.
Jul 09 2008
 Muse in the Morning |
–Katharine Lee Bates
–1913
It’s a great song. But times have changed…
State of the Onion XXV
America the Ugly
America, America –Robyn Elaine Serven |
Jul 09 2008
While looking out my window in the middle of farmland in SE Indiana, I see woods at various distances from approximately a quarter to three-quarters of a mile away. In between me and those woods are soybean and corn fields, scattered houses, their lawns, a few roads and lanes, the margins of those fields and roads, and (closest to me) our yard, that we decided not to mow this year. It is mid-July, and in all of this very green, rural scene, the only substantial group of flowers of any kind is our yard. A little island of “proper” flowers, and flowering “weeds”. And it is full of bugs, namely BEES.
Across countless acres, I see nothing but fields and lawns.
Jul 09 2008
So, there I was one day last week, in a funk. Nothing about the world was right. GWB and his rethugs were (are) still up to their dirty deeds plus all kinds of other things were just going wrong. Decided to do something positive.. like maybe taking some time to wash out the bottles and cans for recycling. Into the kitchen, up to my arms in soapy water. Scrub, scrub.. ooh, getting things nice and squeaky clean. Oh shit! Sliced (gashed really) the hell out of my thumb on a tin can. And it is bleeding like a stuck pig… I mean a LOT of blood. Quickly pressed it with my other thumb and stuck both hands in the air. Standing there saying, “Oh, this can’t be good.” Slow bleeding enough to dial the phone … reach the mister.. “Get home NOW”. Two minutes later he’s pulling down the driveway. We look at it, it’s still bleeding but not gushing now. Get it bandaged and put it back up in the air. Discovered that it’s next to impossible to type one handed.. CAPITAL letters are a real problem. Ok, time to go outside and sit down to watch the birds and chipmunks. There I sat, under a tree, arm still in the air. Suddenly felt something on my leg… A bird had shit all over it. Started laughing like a fool. It was then I realized just how stupid life can be and what my place in it really is… bird shit!
Jul 08 2008
We all know that the hallmark of John Edward’s presidential campaign was ending poverty in this country. And during the primaries, we were able to hear at least some of his thoughts about how to do that.
But did you know that Newt Gingrich also has a plan to end poverty? Well, until today, I didn’t either. And since both Edwards and Gingrich have written articles recently about their ideas, I thought it might be interesting to compare them. Neither of these men is running for any office right now (at least not that I’m aware of). And when I read these, it reminded me of some of the basic fundamental differences between the Democratic/left and the Republican/right. So lets take a look.
