and another take on Jena . . .
It seems we are, in so many ways, moving backward in time. I am hearing, seeing, reading of an increasing acceptance of racist views expressed and acted upon. I am hearing it, as in hearing expressed, to my face, right here where I live.
It started with the Muslims post-September 11. It moved to immigrants of [...]
TAIL GUNNER JOE = REPUBLICANS 2007 Part 2
Part two in our series of Conversations with Uncle Abe, comparing the fear campaign of McCarthy to Bush’s fearmongering.
PART II
The Only Thing They Have to Spread is Fear Itself:
Repressive Legislation and Court Decisions
I specifically asked Uncle Abe if he saw any similarities between the Red Scare of the 1950s and what’s happening [...]
U.N. envoy fails to meet with Myanmar dictator
But get this..he did meet with the country’s leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi! The idiots running the country actually let her leave the house where she has been under arrest, Suu Kyi has spent 12 of the last 18 years under house arrest. Her party won the last real elections held there..but they [...]
TAIL GUNNER JOE = REPUBLICANS 2007
Our resident historian, Uncle Abe sat down with Donatra for another series of conversations about then and now..and how they match-up.
McCARTHYISM RIDES AGAIN
By Donatra, Uncle Abe, and PraetorOne
Edited by Bible Belted
PART I
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Member of the Communist Party?
“At the wars end we were physically the strongest nation on [...]
something nice
i originally got this from thornie- and i wanted to highlight this again. if you crochet or whipstitch- or know folks who do– or could simply advertise- shelley has a good thing going here. she is making afghans for kids with cancer at camp sanguinity- i think that’s how you spell it. check out her [...]
Myanmar is hell on earth, what is the UN doing about it?
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The Monks in the beginning of the video started the protests. The brutal regime that has controlled Myanmar, formally Burma have been arresting and/or locking down all their monasteries in an attempt to keep them silent. Thursday, a Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was murdered by a soldier at pointblank range during one of the protests [...]
The Gospel According to Bob: Education
I just had a time-lurch while reading Liquid Daddy. He was talking about the 80s and T.J. Hooker, which he’d initially assumed was a parody of a cop show, and his realization that it was dead serious, that TV programming was social programming, etc. etc., and suddenly, there I was, back in Laguna Beach, watering [...]
Expressing Myself Authentically
I’ve been blog-surfing for hours, trying to come up with something to post about and I gotta tell ya, I got nothin’.
Sometimes I come across things that get me excited (more like worked up) and I start pounding out what ends up being an incoherent rant that goes straight into the “delete” zone.
One of the [...]
Jena 6 Update: Mychal Bell Released on Bail
Ya’ll know I don’t normally post full articles I find, but this one needs to be read in its entirety for you to grasp why I am pretty worked up about now (I’ll emphasis/bold the excerpt that really pisses me off).
Teen at heart of US racial protests released from jail
AFP – Friday, September 28
CHICAGO (AFP) [...]
By request – A new book…another cure?
Another wonderful and moving post from the Angry Black Bitch. How I love to read her words, they give me hope-Dusty
My older brother Bill is autistic and tomorrow morning my sister and this bitch (co-guardians) will attend his annual plan meeting.
Imagine Snakes on a Plane in a conference room with bad coffee and no pastries.
Anyhoo, [...]
We must not be silent..
The uprising in Burma is getting worse by the day. People are dying simply because they are speaking out..because they are protesting and trying to let the world know how horrible it is ‘over there’. The Independant has an article up that I felt the need to share. As some know my family is dealing [...]
what the politicians don’t want you to know about iraq
it has been a rough ride for me these last few years. there was a time when i was- while not a bright eyed idealist- a naive young person bent on saving the world. because back then- i thought i could one person at a time. it has become abundantly clear that [...]
QUICK INTERVIEW WITH SATAN
By PraetorOne
Under normal circumstances I prefer to write our posts in an article format, but when I considered the cultural, moral, and spiritual influences that our guest has exerted throughout mankind’s history I decided that it might be prudent to present this post in an interview format with as little editing as is humanly possible.
The [...]
Edwards campaign will accept public funding.
Which means it’s not going well for him on the fund-raising front. The Hill has a short article on it here.
Tags: John Edwards,
Walter Reed is still a clusterf**k according to the GAO
Paul Reickhoff, of IAVA, has a piece up at HuffPo about the latest reports showing Walter Reed Army Hospital is still a quagmire and our wounded soldiers are still suffering. The 32 page GAO report is here for your viewing. Below a short blurb from Paul’s HuffPo writeup;
This latest report joins the increasing chorus [...]
