Wow! Blogger seems to have lost my last post! I wish I had saved it, since it was about the inaugural address. All that talk about freedom and liberty – I hope that many other people experienced the cognitive dissonance that I did when I heard it. Just compare those words, and others about no one deserving to be a slave, no one a master, with the actual policies and actions of this administration. I turned it off when the…
Review of the New Pearl Harbor by prominent theologican Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether Dr. David Ray Griffin, a process theologian from the Claremont School of Theology argues the case for our government’s complicity in the events of 9/11 in The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 Dr Ruether, one of the most widely-read theologicans in the world is the author of the classic work Sexism and God-Talk (worth a good read, by the way –…
Check out the official list of donors and the entertainment. Big donor companies include ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Cinergy Corp, Ford Motor, Occidental Petroleum, Pfizer, TimeWarner, Ford, UPS, Mariott, and Wachovia. Energy, drugs, cars, post office replacement, hotel/convention, and banks. Big surprise. Look for more laws to let them do what they want. The inauguration and last year’s party nominating conventions are not covered by the new restrictions in campaign finance laws, of course. They all have reasons to give. According to…
black-thursday.com “The re-election of George W. Bush, in spite of his innumerable failures of policy and practice throughout his first term, inspires disbelief among many. How is it that a man who has overseen the deaths of over 100,000 people in the course of a war fought on specious grounds at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and in violation of international laws manages to retain his office? How is it that a man who seemingly dedicates himself…
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | A man-made tsunami Thank you once again Terry Jones!!!! Why no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead? “Of course it’s wonderful to see the human race rallying to the aid of disaster victims, but it’s the inconsistency that has me foxed. Nobody is making this sort of fuss about all the people killed in Iraq, and yet it’s a human catastrophe of comparable dimensions.” … “I haven’t seen many TV reporters standing in the…
January 20 2005 is the second coronation day of aspiring King George. Turn Your Back On Bush DAWN March at Malcolm X Park (16th and Euclid Sts NW – nearest to U Street and Columbia Heights Metro Stations) at 9:00 AM. Feeder marches organized by other groups will join the DAWN march at points along 16th Street. From McPherson Square, march participants may join in several actions. Join up with Billionaires for Bush for satirical protest. Billionaires For Bush, Re-Coronation…