You are Athanasius! You are willing to fight alosing battle, just to make sure that the truthis told. But don’t get discouraged; sometimesit takes more than one lifetime for truth totriumph. Which Saint Are You? brought to you by Quizilla More on Athanasius. From the look of things, the willingness to fight a (temporarily) losing battle in the search for truth may be the one thing we share. O holy father Athanasius, like a pillar of orthodoxy you refuted the…
I can relate. In Jerusalem, a journalist heard about a very old man who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was! She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, she approached him for an interview. “I’m Rebecca Smith from CNN. Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall and praying?”…
village voice > news > NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan by Sarah Ferguson City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried – September 19th, 2005 5:54 PM Sheehan was speaking in Union Square at a peaceful protest when the police hauled her off after yanking away her microphone. Zulkowitz, one of her organizers, was arrested for “failing to obtain a sound permit” (something that usually garners a summons). The police said they were responding to his “provocation.” (An updated resource…
Think Progress » Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked Worth a look. (thanks Etherealgirl)
One last try on the Roberts issue. He is clearly smart – but here are my two main objections to him. 1) We just simply don’t know enough about him. It’s too important a job to hand to someone who has been cultivated as an unknowable. What are they holding back by refusing to release those papers? I think that the Senate should be able to see all documents related to Roberts’ government service before voting on a confirmation. What…
Ask the President & Congress to Appoint an Independent Nonpartisan Commission to Investigate Government’s Response to Katrina Common Cause calls on the President and the United States Congress to appoint an independent, nonpartisan commission modeled on the 9-11 Commission to investigate government’s response to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. We believe it is critical that the commission be appointed soon. While the foremost priority now has to be the recovery of the affected areas and, especially, the dislocated residents,…