WHY IRAQ DISAPPEARED FROM THE CORPORATE MEDIA
By PraetorOne

With 4000 Americans dead, sectarian violence on the rise in Iraq, and with the fragile truce with al-Sadr coming unraveled at the seams, our wonderful American media has shifted the focus away from the failing Surge in Iraq to domestic matters: The nonstop and all too irrelevant [...]

Orwellian half truths and distortions from the Regime in Washington
By PraetorOne and  ReasonOne
You really have to give the Bush Administration credit–when it decides to engage in Orwellian Doublespeak it doesn’t go half way. On March 19th, the fifth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq we kept hearing about all the wonderful things that [...]

On Wednesday, March 19th, FOX (Fools, Oddballs, and Xenophobes) News ran a highly deceptive story in which it claimed that life was all sunshine and pretty colors in Iraq. Part of this thankfully brief story stated that the military wasn’t broken, that it had enough manpower, and that morale in Iraq was up. [...]

THE BAND PLAYED
WALTZING MATILDA:
Our Favorite Anti-war Song
We must confess. We think this is one of the most beautiful anti-war songs ever written. Granted, it was written in the 1970s and it’s about events which took place in World War I, but the themes are both, eternal and universal–the stupidity and barbarism of war. [...]

NO REAL SACRIFICE: LIES, EXPLOITATION, AND MANIPULATION
By PraetorOne
Obviously I am too young to have experienced World War II directly, but I am well read on the topic and I have forged friendships with older people who did experience that war first hand.
One of the things I learned was that the American people were [...]

Of course we can hear the Social Darwinists even now: “Homeless veterans WANT to be homeless! Why should my tax dollars go to help people who WANT to live on the streets.” Yup. That sounds good to us. Who wouldn’t want to live on the streets during a Wisconsin [...]

Continuing from yesterday, another installment in Lives and Families Destroyed from those wonderful folks at the Coalition for a Democratic America, including Uncle Abe, Siren’s resident historian~Dusty
BY Abe, Donatra, PraetorOne, and Kyle
PART I: GETTING BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN WHEN YOU SHOULDN’T
In the early 1800s they called it “exhaustion.” In World War [...]

Another insightful post from our friends at Coalition for a Democratic America~Dusty
By PraetorOne and Biblebelted
Do you remember how outraged you were during the 2004 Election Cycle when a group of conservative Catholic Bishops threatened to with hold communion from Democratic Presidential candidate, John Kerry? Well, if you thought the Bishops were through you [...]

“Set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few, and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. [...]

By PraetorOne
Sometimes I’m a little slow but it finally dawned on me–there are very real theological reasons why the Christian Right is so attracted to the Republican Party, and I suspect that part of it has to do with the fact that the Evangelical belief in “faith only” salvation goes hand in glove with [...]

Yes, another couple of ditty’s from the folks at Coalition For a Democratic America-Dusty
OH COME ALL YE STUDENTS
Based on “Oh Come Little Children”
by PraetorOne
Oh Come all you students, oh come one and all
To see a recruiter in high school halls.
There slickly they lie for the Bush war machine
So eager, so ready, so dishonestly
They say [...]

We will be featuring one of Praetorone and Biblebelted’s Fractured Christmas Carol’s daily until Christmas..Enjoy!-Dusty
FRACTURED CHRISTMAS CAROLS
by Praetorone, BibleBelted, Donatra,SweetPea. DoctorWho, and SweetPea
T’WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE BLOOD SHED Based on “T’was The Night Before Christmas” New version by BibleBelted
T’was the night before bloodshed and all through the land
All the people were worried, [...]

From the Coalition Press
By Praetorone and BibleBelted

WASHINGTON DC–In yet another attempt to both anger and polarize the American people along theo-political lines, former Right Wing Propagandist, Bill O’Reilly, in yet another attempt to “protect the Baby Jesus,” unveiled what the GOP calls the American Christmas Protection Act.
According to O’Reilly. the measure [...]

The second installment of this series is also crossposted at the Coaliton for a Democratic America-Dusty

Theocratic Crusades Against The Constitution and Freedom of Religion
By BibleBelted and ThomasPaine
Edited by PraetorOne
You really have to give our beloved Theocrats credit. When they decide to take the wrong side in an argument they don’t go half way. [...]

HOW FAR RIGHT THEOCRATS DISTORT LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND THE CONSTITUTION
The Redefinition of Equal Rights: Equality is Not a Matter of Special
Privileges-By SweetPea, BibleBelted, Thomas Paine, and PraetorOne
Whenever I hear people talk about gays and lesbians wanting to promote
the “homosexual life style” I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry.
In the [...]