Where would we be without Howard ?

Thanks Mary vb, I'd forgotten that about her background.  Now it makes sense.

I'll watch her tonight with an open and receptive mind and heart.

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Verdict had the snip of BO putting on a flag pin he said was given him by a Nam vet.  He was between a rock and a hard place after what he said about pins last year.  Let's see if he keeps wearing it.    More food for Rove.  :-( 

First!  That's our Howard.  (except that this is 3rd).

I just received an email from a tango friend who said her son is on his way back to Iraq for his 3rd tour. 

IMPEACH! 

"Me and Barack............"

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but our next First Lady should be able to diagram a sentence properly IMO.

 What wrong with me?

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What wrong with me?

I can't spell that's what's wrong with me~

Oh, I just love it how this magnificent blog software bundles my posts~

Ah, I was wrong, seashell has the power to break the bundle

Did you ever notice that there is hell in in the sea?

That's awful - a third tour in Iraq. I've heard some are on their fourth tour. I can't even imagine what sort of psychological damage that can do - not to mention your chances of getting seriously injured or killed. What a toll this war has taken. I think many Americans have just turned the other cheek and that's so sad.

I just received an email from a tango friend who said her son is on his way back to Iraq for his 3rd tour. 

IMPEACH! 

I'm sorry, as tragic as this is on the individual level, he volunteered. He volunteered to execute the orders of the commanders in chief.
Now, is it his fault that we have a lousy commander in chief?

That's the risk one takes when signing up.

On the broader level. Yes, Impeach.

One of the reason against impeachmet is that it's not timely to bring it up now.
The priority is to win the election.

I could live with that. Only when one is in a position of power can justice be executed.
 

There's a vet in our town who was wounded in the line of duty and assumed his fighting days were done until he got a notice this week that he has to go back to Afghanistan again for another year.

He can't figure out how this could even be possible, but he's getting ready to go.

-- volney

I got my Vanity Fair in the mail the other day and had a chance to read this article tonight. He makes some strong points that: the powers that be really are in danger of being prosecuted for war crimes if they are not on US soil -- I don't think he means Bush/Cheney so much as some of the lawyers who drafted the memos and such. Also, that the Military Commissions Act that Bush signed into law was actually a mistake b/c of how it would be seen in foreign countries-ie, that there would be no redress in the US, giving them more reason to prosecute elsewhere. Also, he leads us to believe that the methods OK'd at Gitmo happened before Abu Ghraib - in other words the abuses at Abu Ghraib grew out of the methods they had developed at Gitmo - what he calls The Great Magration.

THE WHITE HOUSE
The Green Light
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the pressure—then blame abuses on the military. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges.
by PHILIPPE SANDS May 2008

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...

My friend said it's not as bad for her as it is for those on their 4th and 5th tours.    I've heard that we're now taking inmates and people who are not stable mentally.

No wonder the citizens are being ravaged.  I'm wondering just how many are really signing up and how many are coerced.

there's a new group, following the organizational model of dfa and moveon.  it's called J Street-- non-partisan, small donor-based, pro-israel, and dedicated to broadening the discussion of peace between israel and its neighbors.  if this group really gets going, watch for fireworks between it and rapturist haggee and the neocons. 

didn't hillary say that none of the big pro-israel donors would be happy with barack?

The Frontline on health care around the world was pretty good. It was a fairly objective look at the health care systems of countries like ours. All we need now are some Congress people not beholden to the health care industry to pass some laws.

'me and Barack' -- what was the rest of the sentence? Surely she didn't use it as a subject? As an object there's nothing wrong with it, except we usually say ourselves last, eg, 'That's what happened to me and Barack' is just fine grammatically -- although 'That's what happened to Barack and me' sounds 'nicer' to our ears. Surely she didn't say 'me and Barack have two girls'??

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didn't hillary say that none of the big pro-israel donors would be happy with barack?

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One more reason to vote for Barack.

Michelle Obama's comments:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0...

It wasn't properly transcribed in this write up - they left off the *me*.

a choice by kid oakland.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

I find kid's diaries to be so thoughtful.

 http://vid9/11: The Road to Tyranny Extraseo.google.com/videoplay?docid=6590902524406340680

mary vb - okay that's wrong but excusable :~)

My sister is a teacher. She mentioned it to me today. Oh well. None of us are perfect even with a degree from Princeton and Harvard.

Make sure y'all read kid oakland's excellent essay.

George Washington: People Worry That Bush Could Easily Implement a Police State. But They Forget to Ask Whether He Has ALREADY Done So (1 comments) People Worry That Bush Could Easily Implement a Police State. But They Forget to Ask Whether He Has ALREADY Done So

Heartwarming.

Suzana Megles: Amazing Animals For too long animals have been treated as second rate - sadly even by Christians who should know better. God doesn't make anything second rate. Hopefully, we will realize this and make their lives happy as we want our lives to be.

thoughtful and unnerving.

George Washington: Are We ALREADY Living in a Non-Constitutional COG America? (4 comments) 

The young and the restless; 'A new generation drawn to politics by Obama could just as easily become alienated.' 4/16

Warning:  This is controversial.

Outside his audacity of hope, it could be Barack Obama's audacious scrutiny of religion that becomes his undoing.

Did I mention it's 2008? And yet we're still talking about God. Despite being so advanced and clever in all aspects of our existence, human beings are still talking about a bearded dude, who supposedly walked on water, and could cure people with one touch, but couldn't navigate his way off a cross.

Perhaps recognizing the benefits of leading a population fearful of an invisible daddy figure in the clouds, moderate politicians have always approached the issue of religion cautiously. After all, terrified people are easily led and fed all kinds of crazy bullshit. Why educate them and screw it all up?

Presented at George Mason University on April 14, 2008
Dedicated to Betty Hall and the New Hampshire State Legislature.

John Adams, who was later the second president of the United States, wrote some words in the Constitution of Massachusetts that have been quoted approvingly by the U.S. Supreme Court and every state supreme court in the United States. He described a separation of powers among three branches of government and said that this would be done

"to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men."

Thomas Paine in his "Common Sense" pamphlets that helped launch the American war for independence, wrote that

A reader posted this on Andrew Sullivan's blog:

Thank God for Obama's speech. I live in rural Kentucky and yes, many, many people here have nothing: no job, no money, and no future. Ironically, people on the coasts call him elitist for saying something that most here agree with. Maybe that's why nobody is talking about it around here--old news.
Something that he was trying to point out was that in spite of their Arkansas roots, the Clintons did nothing for rural America. Good jobs here have been vaporized or sent abroad. Now, people can work at Wal-Mart or McDonald's with no health insurance. And that is why they are bitter.
It is interesting (ironic?) that the only major candidate to mention the anger of the white poor is black.
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Bath time.  And then "Boston Legal."  :-)

new thread

long day

til we meet again friends, my dreams will be of defendant Cheney 

hearing the list

Cokie Roberts on Charlie Rose playing the gender card for Hillary