Resurrection Church in Aptos is hosting a very moving memorial to the Americans and Iraqis who have died in Bush/Cheney's misbegotten war. It is in the cemetery, facing Soquel drive. You can sort of see...representing all of the dead (based on US numbers, so imagine many many more). I am proud of my church for hosting this. I gotta say, they walked the bloody edge of endorsing Obama and No on 8 today ;-
Awww. .. I'm so glad this story had a happy endin g. Yay Ratch et! Ratch et the Iraqi pup arriv es in Minn. , takes nap Oct 22nd, 2008 | MINNE APOLI S -- After a long, exhau... deplo yment witho ut the pup. Beber g is due to leave Iraq next month . And there 's a photo of Ratch et and Gwen here: Happy Endin g: Soldi er, Puppy to Be Reuni ted
Sarah Palin likes to sing a song of six-packs , but she doesn't do so without criticism. The aptly named copperwise has responded here : Sarah Palin et al. like to call us "Joe Six-Pack... never more so than when they intentionally whip their audiences into mobs, and those mobs into a killing frenzy. We all need to try to hold them to account, before it costs us more than we can bear.
Independent.co.uk Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Robert Fisk reports Tuesday, 7 October 2008 Like all wars, the dark, untold stories...of the victims – there have been hundreds since America introduced "democracy" to Iraq – are said to be insurgents, given the same summary justice they mete out to their own captives. --MORE--
War Is A Racket , by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935 David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster Published: Friday October 3, 2008 On Thursday's edition of The Colbert Report, bestselling author Naomi...Rise of Disaster Capitalism,'" said host Stephen Colbert. "Okay now, what is the 'shock doctrine'? 'Cause, that sounds like a great way to get information out of a prisoner." --MORE WITH VIDEO--
The Modern Party Main ideology: progressivism, equal rights Left-Right: Center-Left Economic Communitarianism vs. Individualism: Communitarianism Cultural Communitarianism vs. Individualism: Communitarianism... Strongly Favor School Prayer: allowed but not sponsored in public school (NOT educator lead) Taxpayer funding of Private Schools: mostly oppose; research grants for private colleges/universities
Whose War Will Win the Election -- McCain's or Obama's? By Ira Chernus In 1932, in the midst of a disastrous economic meltdown, Franklin D. Roosevelt made "the forgotten man" the centerpiece of his... but two currents, affecting the coming election all the more powerfully because they are out of sight, out of mind, and -- interacting in unpredictable ways -- out of anyone's control. --MORE--
Remember Iraq? The drop in violence has made the war an afterthought -- and allowed McCain to claim we're "winning." Here's why we're not -- and we can't. By Gary Kamiya Sep. 30, 2008 | With Congress...allow Osama bin Laden to escape and al-Qaida to regroup, and that it has strengthened Iran. He says that if elected he will withdraw American troops in stages over a 16-month period. --MORE--
Video by: Matt Owens , Michael Schaubach , Rus Garofalo , MacKenzie Fegan , Lindsay Utz , Morgan Currie .... By the Joint Economic Committee ; threetrilliondollarwar.org . Thanks to the authors for their support, and to W. W. Norton for permission to use the research conducted for the book. Link
