Roland X‘s Profile
Struck by rhetorical lightning while standing by a rack of Dean stickers, mild-mannered writer Roland X was transformed by the power of the Dean for America movement. Now, driven by the superpower of the anti-Bush alliance, he has become Captain ABBA!
Member since 7 Feb 2004, posted 43 diaries and 161 comments (as of 2009). Posts may be copied here at some point.…
I know, Roland doesn’t post much here anymore, but I thought I’d borrow his soapbox for a few lines :-).…
Roland wanted to post this here, but he’s crashed for the night so I’m taking the liberty. Hey, I need to use my posting rights once in a while :-).
Info on a few important Senate and Congressional races:…
This is one powerful commercial. I found it on "Views from the Cyberhenge," and agree with Isaac that this should go viral.
Liberty and Justice for All.As the Blogfather notes, Frank Luntz is still evil, but I don’t think he picked up on how evil (warning: PDF file):
3. What would Jesus do? Tell me what YOU would do and leave Jesus out of it. The time for a conversation about faith and spirituality is in the general election, not the primaries. Democrats don’t want to hear about your church. If they really cared, they’d be Republicans.
Emphasis on last sentence mine.
More below the flip.…
Crossposted to/from Big Orange.
Every so often, I feel compelled to return to this issue, the heart of what shows that Bush is evil — not just his administration, nor Bush himself merely incompetent — but the man himself, the puppet sitting in the Oval Office. He bears responsibility, no matter how he might try to avoid it.
Below the fold, I am going to ask you to come back with me, back to That Day, back to when the millennium truly turned and America changed forever — just not the way we thought or hoped. Just a heads-up.…
Two things differentiate me and BTB. One: I’m stating outright that most of this comes from another source [1]. Two: I actually changed a few words. :-)…
I saw something about this topic in a diary comment while I was catching up yesterday, but it was too far past to comment on. I was going to mention, corporations are only people for the rights, not the responsibilities, and that’s just plain wrong.
Then, today I got this on an email list.…
Roland just sent me a link to an interesting story about the interrelation of the netroots, the “traditional” media, and the political leadership: THE (Broken) TRIANGLE: Progressive Bloggers in the Wilderness [1]:
…“This, then, is the reality: progressive bloggers and online activists – positioned on the front lines of a cold civil war – face a thankless and daunting task: battle the Bush administration and its legions of online and offline apologists, battle the so-called “liberal” media and its tireless weaving of pro-GOP narratives, battle the ineffectual Democratic leadership, and battle the demoralization and frustration that comes with a long, steep uphill struggle.”
