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Coming Together: A Mini Manifesto

by: Ed Encho

Sun May 11, 2008 at 17:39:00 PM EDT





Now that even the corporatist beltway elite lackey media has slowly come to recognize the inevitability of the political version of the unbeatable New England Patriots losing the big one it's time to put the intramural pissing matches aside and to start reorganizing for a shot at the true target. The Hillary Rodham-Clinton campaign now faces fourth and thirty-two, has the ball at it's own twenty yard line, is down by eight and there are sixteen seconds left in the Super Bowl. It's not exactly officially in the books yet but the fat lady is humming and the opposing team has just administered the traditional Gatorade baptism to their head coach on the sidelines.

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Have You Called Mom Today?

by: Intrepid Liberal Journal

Sun May 11, 2008 at 15:53:53 PM EDT

Photobucket The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal, as well as Wild, Wild Left, the Peace Tree, Independent Bloggers Alliance, Out of Iraq Bloggers Caucus and Worldwide Sawdust.

The corporate media, blogs and our individual attention spans are understandably consumed by the celebrity hype of presidential politics these days. Mothers Day however offers an opportunity for all of us to reflect on our society and individual families.

Women have made remarkable gains the past forty years. Indeed when Billy Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in their famous 1973 tennis match, women were typically denied credit cards simply for being women. Today women are CEOs, television news anchors and Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House.

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Sunday Morning Over Easy

by: Diane G

Sun May 11, 2008 at 06:48:22 AM EDT

Happy Mother's Day!

I'm not going to wax all sappy... but being part of another person's exposure to the world, and helping guide what they learn to see is amazing.

The Mother of us all wishes we would learn her lessons, listen and see. She gave us ample opportunity at ever changing day what is important.

I'll leave you with a little "Mother" by Floyd put together with war and nuclear images.

Honor your Mother. Fuck war.

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We refuse to be enemies

by: shergald

Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:41:38 AM EDT

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It's News To M_A - 5/10/08

by: M_A

Sat May 10, 2008 at 09:25:04 AM EDT

cross-posted at WWL, M_A's & OWL
Stories of note from the WTF news desk....




Here's a glimpse of some of the headlines featured below the fold:

Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet

We Can Stop the Iraq Funding - Here's How

Getting a glimpse of Guantánamo

Burmese victims face peril from enemy within

Business Stirs in a Walled Neighborhood

Discovery Institute Blames Methodists for Hitler

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Random Thoughts / Open Thread

by: Diane G

Sat May 10, 2008 at 07:19:15 AM EDT

Kidlet's first baseball game in an hour!

Wheeeee!

Got any kid's sports stories to share?

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Jewish Voice for Peace commemorates Nakba Day

by: shergald

Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:34:18 AM EDT

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It's News To M_A - 5/09/08

by: M_A

Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:45:13 AM EDT

cross-posted at WWL, M_A's & OWL
Stories of note from the WTF news desk....




Here's a glimpse of some of the headlines featured below the fold:

Bolivians to hold confidence vote

Alleged pedophile was beloved Santa

It's Lying ... and It's Murder: How KBR Electrocuted US Troops

Israel's Original Sin

Burma snubs foreign aid workers

Abortion: the battle lines are drawn

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Random Thoughts / Open Thread

by: Diane G

Fri May 09, 2008 at 06:43:26 AM EDT

I got an email from a fairly fiscal conservative friend, who is socially liberal. She thought it funny and thought my head would explode. I found it funny too, and indicative of how the right has framed Liberals.


Democratic National Convention Schedule of Events

7:00 pm ~ Opening flag burning
7:15 pm ~ Pledge of Allegiance to the U. N.
7:20 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
7:25 pm ~ Nonreligious prayer and worship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
7:45 pm ~ Ceremonial tree hugging
7:55 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

8:00 pm ~ How I Invented the Internet - Al Gore
8:15 pm ~ Gay Wedding Planning - Barney Frank presiding
8:35 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast & explains the new amnesty program
8:40 pm ~ Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry

9.00 pm ~ Memorial service for Saddam and his sons - Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon

10:00 pm ~ 'Answering Machine Etiquette' - Alec Baldwin

11:00 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:05 pm ~ Collection for the Osama Bin Laden kidney transplant fund - Barbra Streisand
11:15 pm ~ Free the Freedom Fighters from Guantanamo Bay - Sean Penn
11:30 pm ~ Oval Office Affairs - William Jefferson Clinton
11:45 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:50 pm ~ How George Bush Brought Down the World Trade Towers - Howard Dean

12:15 am ~ 'Truth in Broadcasting Award' - Presented to Dan Rather by Michael Moore
12:25 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
12:30 am ~ Satellite address by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12:45 am ~ Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Nancy Pelosi

1:00 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast & provides swimming lessons
1:05 am ~ Coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton
1:30 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:35 am ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton announces Bill Clinton as her running mate for VP

1:40 am ~ Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home

More below.

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Pentagon Embeds Ex-Generals In Media Ops

by: woody

Thu May 08, 2008 at 20:40:01 PM EDT

Pentagon Embeds Ex-Generals In Media Ops
The NYTimes, on April 20, past, broke a long story which focussed on revelations that the Pentagon and the Bushevik regime had embedded military propagandists, mainly former Generals, in important consultative and commentariat positions with the major US Corporate Media organizations. The NPR Ombud addressed the issue at some (ultimately unsatisfying) length and delicately danced around the problem. She quoted NPR Defense correspondent Tom Gjelten:
Gjelten: "...A General wants to be a military analyst on NPR or some other news organization in order to curry favor with the Department of Defense which in turn will benefit him in his defense contracting. That's a hypothetical scenario we have to be concerned about."
In reply to which, I sent the following message to the NPR Ombudsone:
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Afghanistan: All For Absolutely Nothing

by: Mentarch

Thu May 08, 2008 at 17:17:39 PM EDT

It is now official: every single justification behind the Afghanistan War and its seeming never ending occupation have been disavowed - by the very politicos that have been not only responsible for the lauching and conduct of this war, but likewise by those who have been staunchly supporting this conflict.

In other words: the Afghanistan war was absolutely for nothing.

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McCain's endorsements by religious nuts: UPDATED

by: shergald

Thu May 08, 2008 at 15:39:38 PM EDT

Just how is John McCain getting away with endorsements from such extremist pastoral advisors, two of the most right wing warmongering preachers in America: the anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, and Islamophobic, John Hagee and Rod Parsley. This alert which was just received from BraveNew Films, says: McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam.

We have all heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual sins. Well now we have Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war against Islam, which he considers to be a "false religion." In the past, Parsley has also railed against the separation of church and state, homosexuals, and abortion rights, comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazis.

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It's News To M_A - 5/08/08

by: M_A

Thu May 08, 2008 at 08:48:11 AM EDT

cross-posted at WWL, M_A's & OWL
Stories of note from the WTF news desk....




Here's a glimpse of some of the headlines featured below the fold:

Israel vs. South Africa: Reflecting on cultural boycott

Mind Control by Cell Phone

The Republicrats: A Plague on Both Their Houses

Shaping More Powerful Arguments For Palestine

Abbas's Presidential Guard fighting opposition to Israeli occupation

Reconstituting America

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Random Thoughts / Open Thread

by: Diane G

Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:25:35 AM EDT

The Open is open for non sequitars and random thoughts. But directly below this are two excellent essays by Ed Encho and Stephen Crane.

I have to go on a job site today with the girl who got beat up in my horror story below. They will pick up the man who assaulted her today; one can only hope his nutsoid girlfriend doesn't come looking for retribution.

Wish me luck.

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The March Of The Hillemmings

by: Ed Encho

Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:08:04 AM EDT





Onward to West Virginia! After duping fewer of the "white niggers" in the Hoosier state into believing that she is some sort of brawling, beer drinking, elbow wrestling, blue collar 'one of them' the bitter and recalcitrant monster that is Hillary Rodham-Clinton moves the goalposts one more time. The non-elitist who just happens to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of at least $ 109 million dug around in the sofa cushions in order to lend her never ending crusade another $ 6 million and change in order to remain solvent while the operatives work their chicanery and try to strong arm, sweet talk, cajole and bribe those superdelegates into getting with the fucking program and throwing in the Clinton restoration - when will those fuckers get it that Tracy Flick 2008 is entitled to the presidency goddammit?

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Extermination Camp run by USA Religious Right Missionaries and Orchestrated by the Angel of Death

by: Stephen Crane

Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:55:57 AM EDT

(Dude, You are a Front Pager, why did this not go FP? You rock. - promoted by Diane G)

sam_en

In the 1960's and 1970's escaped Nazi war criminals and racist right wing American missionaries teamed up in Paraguay. Their unholy assignment was to ethnically cleanse the Aché  (Guayaki) Indians from their ancestral home in Paraguay's Chaco jungle for their host that nations brutal Dictator General Alfredo Stroessner. The evil fucks even hunted them down for sport like they were on a Safari. Sometimes they would save one of the Ache's bodies to use later as Jaguar bait.

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Real People; Enablers, Users and Psychos

by: Diane G

Wed May 07, 2008 at 20:40:35 PM EDT

I had a new neighbor move in a while back. I wrote about her before. (probably on mlw, not going to look it up)

I met her through her working at a local flower stand that opens a month or so a year and through the schools. Bubbly, if not a little overwhelming, definitely type "A". (I seem to attract those.)

They moved in the neighborhood, and she decided to (try) and make me her new best friend.

It gets uglier from here, almost like an episode of 24.  Thank God I was not involved in any of it.

I tell ya; in short, her and her boyfriend are both prison bound, and my taste in other human beings is totally in question anymore. I trust way the fuck too easily.

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It's News To M_A - 5/07/08

by: M_A

Wed May 07, 2008 at 11:04:48 AM EDT

cross-posted at WWL, M_A's & OWL
Stories of note from the WTF news desk....




Here's a glimpse of some of the headlines featured below the fold:

ACLU files suit to protect Democratic convention protesters

Troop withdrawal added to war funding bill

Freedom Rider: The End of Truth

Goldman's Murti Says Oil `Likely' to Reach $150-$200

From Inside a Cage at Guantanamo

'Ocean deserts' are growing

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First time I was called a self-hating Jew

by: shergald

Wed May 07, 2008 at 10:23:11 AM EDT

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CounterProductive CounterPunch Story on Iran

by: Jeff Huber

Wed May 07, 2008 at 09:46:13 AM EDT

At least one high profile war critic sounds alarmed by a recent revelation that Mr. Bush signed a "secret finding" against "the Iranian regime" six weeks ago.  I'm frankly less than agog about it.

In a May 2 CounterPunch article, Andrew Cockburn wrote that Bush has launched a "covert offensive" on Iran that is "unprecedented in its scope."  The "directive covers actions across a huge geographic area - from Lebanon to Afghanistan."  The directive, according to Cockburn, also permits an expanded range of actions, "up to and including the assassination of targeted officials."

Wow, I thought as I read it.  That's some scary sounding stuff.  Then, out of habit, I rescanned the piece to note who Cockburn's sources on the secret finding were, and here's what I found: "those familiar with its contents."

Great.  Caesar's.  Ghost.  Credibility wise, that kind of thing puts Cockburn and CounterPunch on an even footing with Michael R. Gordon and the New York Times.

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