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Archive for January, 2007
January 24, 2007 at 9:38 pm · Filed under politics
wow. this oped (more op than ed) in the washington post by liz cheney goes a long way towards proving the adage of “garbage in, garbage out.”
a few words for liz: the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, now does it? perhaps you shouldn’t be so worried about what daddy thinks; you’re an adult now and ostensibly capable of thinking on your own. some advice: at the next holiday gathering, decline the offer of kool-aid.
if your daddy hadn’t avoided vietnam like the plague (five deferments and “other priorities” – how courageous he was!), he might have learned a lesson or two about war. as it stands, he’s just another armchair chickenhawk, willing to spend american lives like nickels in an airport casino.
america can only hope that the six cheney grandchildren either stay far far away from public office, or that they manage to confound genetics and grow both hearts and brains.
what a horrific family.
January 9, 2007 at 1:45 pm · Filed under politics
god (or allah, vishnu, brahmin, whatever) bless ted kennedy.
in a speech to the national press club today, he said what any member of congress with any integrity and moral fortitude should be saying: bush’s bullshit ‘surge’ is escalation and we, the people, will not abide.
The American people sent a clear message in November that we must change course in Iraq and begin to withdraw our troops, not escalate their presence. The way to start is by acting on the President’s new plan. An escalation, whether it is called a surge or any other name, is still an escalation, and I believe it would be an immense new mistake. It would compound the original misguided decision to invade Iraq. We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq. We must act to prevent it.
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entire speech is worth reading. and even if you believe that signing petitions is either a fool’s errand or yet another way for the bush administration to track your opposition to them, do your conscience a favor and
sign this one.
the blood of over 3,000 american servicemen and women is on bush’s hands. don’t let him wipe it on yours in an attempt to share the responsibility for his criminal acts. kennedy sums it up nicely by quoting tennyson:
The casualties are high. The war is long. The time is late. But as Tennyson said, “Come, my friends. ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.â€
January 2, 2007 at 11:52 pm · Filed under politics
yes, yes they are. this has to be one of the most infuriating things you’ll read all year (and yes, i know, we’re only two days into it at this point).
but truly, somebody has to stop these people. i’d suggest a plague of some sort (locusts anyone?), but there’s no point in perpetuating the myths used by the fundamentalists to try and force this country back into the dark ages.
now, i have nothing against individuals practicing their own religious beliefs, whatever those might be. after all, there are lots of gods out there from which to choose and who am i to tell someone a) which one to choose; or b) to even choose one at all?
but when a taxpayer-funded entity like the national park service is bending over backwards not to offend a group of people for whom backwards is a descriptor best placed before the word “thinking,” then houston, we have a problem. a big one. a grand-canyon-sized problem, to be precise.
