Rice Has Surgery for Noncancerous Growths.
Yeah. She’s having the last remaining vestiges of her conscience surgically removed.
Stolen shamelessly from my brilliant, beautiful, wonderful wife. (No, it’s not on her blog. Call it a perk. ;-)
(/) Roland X
Expecting a visit from the Secret Service any day now……
…is simply grief.
…Certainly, the assault on Falluja has given the Iraqi people a lot to look at, and a lot to think about. Some 200,000 people — the great majority of Falluja’s population of some 300,000 — were driven out of their city by news of the imminent attack and the US bombardment. No agency of government, US or Iraqi, which turned off the city’s water and electricity in preparation for the assault, offered assistance. Nor did the United Nations Refugee Agency or any other representative of the international community appear. And where are the people now? And what stories are the expelled 200,000 telling the millions of Iraqis among whom they are now mixing?
For all Bush and his cronies have done, no horror they have yet committed competes with this travesty:
…A video apparently showing the murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan seems to be genuine, says the Foreign Office.
I thought I knew what outrage overload was, until today when the sheer righteous fury literally made my head hurt.
I am crossposting this to my LiveJournal account. Today’s events have taught me that there is no more neutral ground, and no excuse for remaining silent. Never again.…
So the early conclusion on the election is this: We Need A Coherent Message. I couldn’t agree more. Now the big question is, “what is our message?”
Simple. Liberals, progressives, and Democrats as a whole can differ on various aspects of the philosophy, but the basic meme is fair play. Republicans and the conservatives who enable them (not to be confused with classic conservatives) like to say “life is not fair.” We need to respond “we can make it fair.” The package for this is simple: the classic phrase “liberty and justice for all.” How does that fit? Again, simple. …
I may not be a member of the “reality-based community,” but I do know how to face facts. Even if a miracle happens in Ohio or Florida, we (that is, sane Americans) must now take stock.
Let’s assume, for the moment, that Ohio was stolen. (I do.) Let’s even assume, for the moment, that after the mountain of Florida ballots are counted, Kerry closes significantly — still losing, but making it a lot closer. (Obviously, if he wins Florida, everything changes.) Which would mean that Florida, too, was stolen…again.
This does not change the fact that it would take a lot of voter theft for the popular vote to go the other way.…
…as democracy withers…
At the moment, the message throughout the liberal/progressive end of the blogosphere is “don’t give up.” We lost the Big One, but built the foundations to counter the right wing Scaife/Limbaugh/Newsmax/Fox/Washington Times noise machine. This Is Only The Beginning.
Well…maybe.
As much of an incurable optimist as I usually am, I can’t help but see the fundamental flaw in such thinking: movements only matter if those in power can be removed by them. Optimism about our infrastructure would be justified if we could reasonably believe that we will have freedom of speech, press, assembly and petition in the years to come.…
It is easy to feel lost in the storm of political rhetoric, especially in the last days of a political season as charged as this one. It is easy, all too easy, to feel irrelevant in the face of Osama bin Laden’s coming out as the world’s pre-eminent supervillain, in the wake of 380 tons of deadly explosives that simply vanished, in the din of multi-million dollar ad campaigns and talking points e-mailed to millions.
Don’t you believe it.…
This needs to go mainstream now.
In a last ditch bid to win Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, where Democratic Sen. John Kerry is leading is most polls, President George W. Bush has engaged in mailings which contain myriad graphic images of the burning World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
They have the images on their site. It’s real. This is the slimiest hit piece they’ve done so far, and that’s saying something.
Remember, Bush promised not to politicize September 11th. They couldn’t be exploiting it more nakedly than this. Let’s nail them.
(/) Roland X
Kerry/Edwards 2004: Vote While You Still Can
Originally posted on Daily Kos, …
