The War is Over

The war in Afghanistan is over.
The war in Iraq is over.
Time to release the POWs.

Cindy Sheehan

talks about the USA becoming a fascist state.
definitions:
Communism: politics run the economy.
Fascism: corporations run politics.

A patriot

Giving lawyers a bad name

Anti-War Czars

How powerful is the Comander in Chief?

The commander-in-chief is not more powerful than the President. It is only a part of the presidential duties. The point is not to make the president a soldier. The point is to make the military responsible to a politician in terms that they can understand.

Attorney General

Chris Hedges,
foreign reporter
and good man


2003 talk

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Eggs have been around a long long time. Since fishes.

Statute of Limitations

If we didn't get around
to enforcing our borders,
whose fault is that?

Unwed Mom

Flight into Egypt

Refugees.

A hybrid going 60 in the HOV lane

Is being powered by the gasoline engine, like everybody else.

The Two DIFFERENT Energy Crises

1) No oil = no gasoline
2) CO2

To achieve your dreamsyou must wake up

Getting out of bed wouldn't hurt either.

Don't Watch This Movie

PG-99, for sadness

Privatizing Social Security

If you want to make it a private program, why should the Federal Government be involved at all? And if you expect to have a private system at some time in the future, why should not the first step be to cut the social security tax to eliminate the yearly surplus amount that you won't be needing.

Social Security is not a self-insurance program

It institutionalizes the help children give parents.

Lost Works of Art

Many works of art have been lost,
to say nothing of abortion, war, and oppression.

The Boston Massacre, 1770

Five killed, six wounded. [wiki]
The Alamo, a two week battle in 1836, killed 250 Texans.
Fallujah, 2004, one week, 600 Iraqis.
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Kent State, May 4th, four.

I am a crook.

Is torture .. illegal? Quaint.

Guns and Butter

Butter makes everything more palatable.

Environmentalist

A precedent.

Bumper stickers

Attribution at carryabigsticker.com

Homeland Security

Q: If the job of the Department of Homeland Security is to defend the homeland,
what is the job of the Department of Defense?
A: Defend the empire.

John Walker Lindh, first torture victim

Reprisal against Jesselyn Radack.
Most evidence is,
of course, secret.

James Madison

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy.
Nemesis p245

Why are gas prices going up?

Demand exceeds supply?
Officials wonder...

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Wise in their own eyes

Almost Volunteer Army

Ehren Watada
Professional standing army.

Conference talk is cheap

click

The "Liberty" clause of the 14th amendment

Also called the "due process" clause.
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"

Secretary of State

Bert Sacks on Iraq mp3
Interfaith Network site on Iraq. Associated with Bert.
google Bert

Secretary of Commerce

Steven Gaskin of The Farm, Summertown, TN.

Secretary of Transportation

Burt Rutan

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Bob Schindler

"Freedom of the Press" clauseof the First Amendment

Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Max Cleland

Secretary of the Interior

Julia Hill

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
You see her work in the opening credits to Miami Vice.

Secretary of Labor

Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont

And God saw how good it was Gen. 1 v 10 NAB

I'll bite.

Death by dehydration is inhumane

I would have killed her another way.
"After all that long period of time in a coma, I think she would qualify."
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For the record, Terri was not in a coma for a long period of time.

In Cash We Trust

Q: So what's your point?
A: Brace yourself.

Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo on DN

Democracy Now! site
"The Longest Public Execution in American History"

Terri Schiavo on Karen Ann Quinlan

Where there is life, there is hope.
CNN1 CNN2

I kept my promise

What promise was that?

Planned Parenthood

Actually, UnPlanned Parenthood.
Or, Planned UnParenthood.

Should the Police enforce the Ten Commandments?

Why? For religious reasons?
I thought the idea was that you should want to be good.

For civic reasons? One of the constraints is that it becomes impractical to have more than 2 to 3% of the population in jail at any one time. The laws need to conform to the world's priorities: justice without fanacticism. The police are not out to change to world, as the socialists and the Panthers have noted. Mostly live and let live, with the occasional exception.