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Good Guys Wear Red, White & Blue
Growing up in Atlanta during the 70s, I spent quite a bit of time watching WTBS. Those were the early days of Ted Turner’s media empire. Channel 17 was a local UHF station. They showed a variety of old TV shows and movies. There wasn’t much contemporary stuff on WTBS, other than Braves baseball. Afternoons [...]
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Funk Vigilante: Worst President Ever
Funk Vigilante have put together a song and video that, I think, accurately expresses what a number of patriotic Americans feel (I mean patriotic in the real sense of the word, not the deranged version the Republicans hijacked). Political issues aside, it’s just a damned good song.
Oct 9th, 2008 | Filed under Politics -
Accountability
Sign the petition at kucinich.us. Let’s show the world that Americans do not tolerate presidents who think themselves above the law.
Aug 8th, 2008 | Filed under Politics -
The Price of Arrogance
Since first taking office, members of the Bush administration have acted as if America’s long dominance in the world made them untouchable. They have repeatedly gone their own way, using diplomacy when it suited their purposes and ignoring the world when it didn’t. This collective arrogance is personified in the cocky smirk and swagger of [...]
Jun 17th, 2008 | Filed under Politics -
Veterans Petition for Bush Impeachment
Spending time wondering why Bush hasn’t yet been impeached makes my head hurt. It’s a travesty, really. Congress has failed gloriously in its duty. I don’t care what the rationale is, the refusal to bring about impeachment hearings on a president who has so blatantly broken the law and violated the rights guaranteed by the [...]
Jun 14th, 2008 | Filed under Politics -
More Congressional Foolishness
Since coming to power in the last elections, the Democrats in Congress have demonstrated a severe lack in ability to achieve anything meaningful, while displaying a keen skill in wasting time. One example of meaningless time wasting was the condemnation of MoveOn.org last month. Aside from gratifying the self-righteous egos of those who voted for [...]
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Waste Lives, Don’t Save Them
The Decider has a moral compass that is pointing in the wrong direction. He can’t sign a bill to spend $35 billion over five years to provide health insurance for children who need it, potentially saving a number of lives, but has no problem spending four times that in one year on sending our soldiers [...]
Oct 4th, 2007 | Filed under General -
Polling Pakistan: The Struggle of Our Time
Critics of the Decider’s “war” on terror repeatedly say that it’s disastrous and misguided. They say that we cannot successfully decrease terrorism and protect our country as long as we continue to follow such a policy. The war mongering conservatives who still think that patriotism means killing Iraqis are quick to deride the critics as [...]
Sep 12th, 2007 | Filed under Mythology (Religion), Politics -
Keith Olbermann on the Decider
When Olbermann launches into a Special Comment about the Decider, he often has a lot to say. And he’s often angry. In a recent Special Comment regarding the Decider’s annual unannounced trip to Iraq, he seemed a bit angrier than usual. He should be. So should all Americans. The thing I like about Olbermann is [...]
Sep 5th, 2007 | Filed under Politics -
The Latest Bush Gaffe
When the Decider does something stupid, it’s hard not to cringe. People are dying for his stupidity, after all. Last night’s speech to the VFW, in which he invoked America’s past wars to build his case for staying the course in Iraq, definitively proves that the man isn’t just an idiot but also lacks the [...]
Aug 24th, 2007 | Filed under Politics