Tag Archives: politics

Another Wiki you should know about….

4 May

People For The American Way have a new Wiki on The Presidency. From their main page: (Underlines are my highlighting.)

People For the American Way believes that a healthy democracy is an informed democracy. We have created www.WikiThePresidency.org to establish a single place for the public to both acquire and share information about Executive Branch wrongdoings.

Currently the listed topics include:

  • Torture
  • Detentions
  • Possible Constitutional Violations
  • Political Abuse of Power
  • Taxpayer Funded Propaganda
  • Suppression of Information
  • Interference with Investigations
  • Katrina
  • General Corruption

This may lead you to some things you don’t know, and maybe even a few you wish you didn’t. For example: Pentagon Caught Spying on U.S. Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear Activists

Now I have assumed for some time that I and people I care about were likely on at least one list somewhere…

sollite, looks like that list is TALON…

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Songs of Protest

29 Apr

Songs of Protest
Editorial – The Nation

See and hear some of the mentioned protests here.

I especially recommend Pink’s “Dear Mr. President”.

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Another voice heard on immigration and the Spanish version of the National Anthem

29 Apr

O’zog, kenstu sehn, wenn bagin licht dervacht

Click. Go read it. This is worth the time.

Credit to jokermage

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Now that you have read about the “Compassionate Conservative”, how about this bit of bigotry

29 Apr

CNN: Bush: Sing ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ in English

The national anthem should be sung in English — not Spanish — President Bush declared Friday, amid growing restlessness over the millions of immigrants here illegally.

“One of the things that’s very important is, when we debate this issue, that we not lose our national soul,” the president exclaimed. “One of the great things about America is that we’ve been able to take people from all walks of life bound as one nation under God. And that’s the challenge ahead of us.”

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Read the entire ugly thing by clicking the title.

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Leonard Pitts

29 Apr

Bush dusts off the compassion on immigration

Excerpts

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Another highly appropriate quote on politics

27 Apr

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Sound like anyone we all know (and don’t love)?

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Marx on Politics… Not Karl, Groucho

27 Apr

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

Somehow this seemed especially appropriate.

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War is peace?

27 Apr
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”
George W. Bush, June 18, 2002

“War is Peace”
George Orwell in “1984“

Credit “Impeach for Peace“.

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Impeach Bush Yourself! (86-43)

27 Apr

Go here and download the forms.

Continue reading →

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The Nation: Nuclear Madness

25 Apr

Nuclear Madness
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

I like this quote, a lot. It really says it for me.

“… all the while the charge is led by a little man/would-be cowboy with a messianic vision who finds himself at the helm of the most powerful nation in history. …”

Full Article

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