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Bush Loyalists Admit Impotence

Bush Loyalists Admit Impotence

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Governor Sonny Perdue is joining lawmakers and ministers on the steps of the Georgia state Capitol to pray for rain. How totally embarrassing. Well, Bush let ’em down – “Tough luck, Georgia.” Water is not a partisan issue. You have water or you don’t. They’ve known about the potential problems of a rapidly-expanding state (and city) population for some time. Instead of planning and accountability, we get prayers. They’ve made noises about it being interdenominational, but here that probably means…

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Main Page – WikiThePresidency

Main Page – WikiThePresidency

People For the American Way believes that “a healthy democracy is an informed democracy,” so they have created WikiThePresidency.org to establish a single place for the public to both acquire and share information about Executive Branch wrongdoings. It’s a Wiki, so anyone can edit the site, but there are rules. You must post factual claims (no op-eds), with links to credible supporting material. No spouting off. Take a look. It’s interesting reading. Main Page – WikiThePresidency

A Question to the Religious Right

A Question to the Religious Right

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A question to the so-called “religious right” who want to abolish separation of church and state altogether: How would you feel if the religion expressed on the national stage were some equally skewed version of Islam, or Wicca, or … ( – insert your personal choice for “least appealing religious path” here – for me it’s Jehovah’s Witnesses), rather than this particular view of Christianity? What if they found some “wedge issues” and became the majority in Congress? What if…

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Flying Spaghetti Monster

Flying Spaghetti Monster

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster made it into the Wikipedia, nice! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. Henderson submitted an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education demanding that the Flying Spaghetti Monster be given equal time in classrooms…

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Way Beyond “Republican”…

Way Beyond “Republican”…

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Some people want to argue with me about the effects of this administration on this country. I say words are cheap, propaganda is more effective than it should be, and I judge by actions and evidence. What we are seeing is not a Republican agenda, but a wholesale reorganization of what America is all about. A must-read is Howard Zinn’s article in the Guardian, “It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too.” I wake up thinking: the…

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