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 [...]

Based on “Angels we Have Heard on High”
by Donatra
Shock and Awe we heard on high
Boldly causing death and pain
And Iraqis in reply
Gasped their last in dying strains
Sieg- - - - - Heil- - - - - Praise our mighty Fuhrer
Sieg- - - - - Heil- - - - - All praise our mighty Fuhrer

Muslims [...]

POSITIVE LIBERAL VALUES FROM THE GREAT BEYOND
by Donatra
Does anyone remember a post that I wrote a few weeks ago, a post in which I asked: “Why are you a liberal?”
Well, I think I have an answer. Of sorts. We recently learned that one of our founding members is suffering from terminal liver cancer. [...]

Continuation of our series on the 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo uses them. The first Essay in this section was incorrectly labeled as Part 4 Sunday. It is of course Part 5. -Dusty
PART V: RAMPANT SEXISM
(Women at Risk: The Dangers and Consenquences of a Christian Republic)
Section 2
So what does this [...]

Why am I a liberal?

That, my friends, is a short question but it requires a somewhat complicated answer. In a nutshell I suppose that I could say that I have seen just how destructive the new brand of “compassionate conservatism” can be, but that’s too easy. In fact it’s a bit [...]

Part V: Rampant Sexism
(Women at Risk: The Dangers and Consequences of a Christian Republic)
By Donatra, Shakti and Katie
Section 1
“Women whom Nietzsche never had, he consigned to a distinctly inferior status, as did the Nazis, who decreed that their place was in the kitchen and their chief roll in life to beget children for [...]

By Donatra
Are you sick and tired of Republican attack ads? Are you sick and tired of verbal assaults on twelve-year-old-boys and two-year-old-girls by rich, white fat men who share a basic contempt for change and who practice rhetorical savagery as a virtue? Yeah. I am too. And I think I [...]

When Right Wing Sadism Intrudes Into Our Every Day Lives
by Donatra
I will not, under any circumstances, vote for a candidate who does not support a single payer health care program. I have always said this, always believed it, but in the last few days events have unfolded which have brought the health care (and [...]

This is the final installment in this series of conversations with Uncle Abe. We hope you have enjoyed visiting with Siren’s resident historian, I know I did.-Dusty
The Beginning of the End: Joe McCarthy Self-Destructs and the After Effects of McCarthyism
Having already attacked the Truman Administration for being soft on Communism, McCarthy leveled the same [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

MORE REMINISCING ABOUT THE 1920s and 1930s
Part IV
They Really DON’T Give A Damn!
One of the primary symbols of this compassionate conservatism was the Hooverville. With two million homeless people, families had to live somewhere, and all too often the only source of shelter was a flimsy, hastily improvised structure made out of readily [...]

MORE REMINISCING ABOUT THE 1920s and 1930s
PART III
HOOVER AND HIS CREW IN DENIAL
“When the war closed the most vital of all issues, both in our own country and throughout the world, was whether governments should continue their wartime ownership and operation of many instrumentalities of production and distribution. [...]

Part I of the series can be read here.
MORE REMINISCING ABOUT THE 1920s and 1930s PART II WEAKNESSES IN THE COOLIDGE/HOOVER ECONOMIES
Despite the outward appearances of strength, the truth of the matter is that the economy of the 1920s was built on shifting sand. Yes, workers were enjoying relatively good wages, but there [...]

MORE REMINISCING ABOUT THE 1920s AND 1930s
PART I
Dirty Tricks and Corruption During the 1920s
by Donatra, Praetor One, Bible-Belted, Uncle Abe, and Thomas Paine.
As a direct result of my recent conversation with Abe regarding the differences between George W. Bush and Franklin Roosevelt, I realized that we had enough material to compare the [...]