Doing the right thing . . .
Not just NO on Prop 8, but HELL NO!
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Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
From teh WTF files . . .
" . . . this 'Mirror Agent' error message on my Mac: is this a sign that Homeland Security thinks I'm violating the PATRIOT Act? (expletive deleted) Republicans!"
-- a customer from Berkeley I talked to this morning
Me: "No, Mirror Agent handles making a copy, or mirror, of your online iDisk on your desktop. It has nothing to do with the US Government, Homeland Security, domestic signals intelligence or Republicans."
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Now playing: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
via FoxyTunes
-- a customer from Berkeley I talked to this morning
Me: "No, Mirror Agent handles making a copy, or mirror, of your online iDisk on your desktop. It has nothing to do with the US Government, Homeland Security, domestic signals intelligence or Republicans."
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Now playing: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
via FoxyTunes
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The RNC / Palin Nomination
Just a few observations about this week's political convention:
1. I'm going to ignore the speeches. There is nothing that they have said or will say that I have not heard before, and staying out of thrown weapons range of a TV screen is a wise maneuver. Since I'm ignoring the speeches, I'll not comment on them. As Mom told me as a wee lad, if you cannot say anything nice about someone,you're probably going to grow up a blogger don't say anything at all.
2. As to the Palin nomination, which is something that has been blogged to within an inch of its life, I have this to say: the pick clearly was not vetted by John McCain, and even more clearly was a sop to the theocratic wing of the Republican Party. I agree with Barack Obama that the nominee's families should be off limits. Palin's politics and performance as Govenor of Alaska is not. Her resume is thinner than an anorexic starlet on a week-long purge, her management style makes Dick Cheney look like Barney the Purple Dinosaur by comparison, her record on reproductive choice is unsupportable and if, Goddess forbid it, the McCain-Palin ticket wins or steals the election, this 44 year old tyro will stand one 72-year old heartbeat away from the highest office in the land. Don't be fooled by her attractiveness, she's a hardcore Christian Dominionist in sheep's clothing.
3. One more thing about St. Paul and Minneapolis: I've been there, those towns are lovely places. Hard to imagins such a place overrun with riot cops and no-knock flying squads on pre-emptive raids. It's almost as though the cops are trying to provoke a riot. As for the violent ones among them . . . I'm willing to bet some of them are cops -- agent provocateurs sent in to discredit the nonviolent ones and to justify the $50 million price tag for "security."
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Listening to: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down
via FoxyTunes
1. I'm going to ignore the speeches. There is nothing that they have said or will say that I have not heard before, and staying out of thrown weapons range of a TV screen is a wise maneuver. Since I'm ignoring the speeches, I'll not comment on them. As Mom told me as a wee lad, if you cannot say anything nice about someone,
2. As to the Palin nomination, which is something that has been blogged to within an inch of its life, I have this to say: the pick clearly was not vetted by John McCain, and even more clearly was a sop to the theocratic wing of the Republican Party. I agree with Barack Obama that the nominee's families should be off limits. Palin's politics and performance as Govenor of Alaska is not. Her resume is thinner than an anorexic starlet on a week-long purge, her management style makes Dick Cheney look like Barney the Purple Dinosaur by comparison, her record on reproductive choice is unsupportable and if, Goddess forbid it, the McCain-Palin ticket wins or steals the election, this 44 year old tyro will stand one 72-year old heartbeat away from the highest office in the land. Don't be fooled by her attractiveness, she's a hardcore Christian Dominionist in sheep's clothing.
3. One more thing about St. Paul and Minneapolis: I've been there, those towns are lovely places. Hard to imagins such a place overrun with riot cops and no-knock flying squads on pre-emptive raids. It's almost as though the cops are trying to provoke a riot. As for the violent ones among them . . . I'm willing to bet some of them are cops -- agent provocateurs sent in to discredit the nonviolent ones and to justify the $50 million price tag for "security."
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Listening to: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down
via FoxyTunes
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Last Man Club -- US version
Last living WW1 veteran honored by Vietnam-era deserter at White House.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
An double IV drip of "Irony"
Another factoid in the current debate on domestic spying:
The US Attorney General has a portrait of Grorge Orwell in his ofice.
He says he admires Orwell's style and clarity as a writer. Yea, and I used to read Playboy for the articles, too.
/bangs head on desk to dull the pain . . .
359 days until those people (to use a favorite phrase of Gen. Robert E. Lee) are outta there and our long long national nightmare ends.
His other office portrait, of Supreme Court Justice, US Attorney General and Nuremburg prosecutor Robert Jackson, is likewise ironic. But not in the way he might think it is.
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Listening to: Green Day - American Idiot
via FoxyTunes
The US Attorney General has a portrait of Grorge Orwell in his ofice.
He says he admires Orwell's style and clarity as a writer. Yea, and I used to read Playboy for the articles, too.
/bangs head on desk to dull the pain . . .
359 days until those people (to use a favorite phrase of Gen. Robert E. Lee) are outta there and our long long national nightmare ends.
His other office portrait, of Supreme Court Justice, US Attorney General and Nuremburg prosecutor Robert Jackson, is likewise ironic. But not in the way he might think it is.
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Listening to: Green Day - American Idiot
via FoxyTunes
Monday, December 31, 2007
The Christian Hell Just Froze Over . . .
I am in complete agreement with a New York Times editorial for once.
Friday, August 17, 2007
It figures...
US Navy runs out of Purple Hearts.
. . . in the middle of a fscking WAR.
The only thing I can say about this has been said better by Green Day.
. . . in the middle of a fscking WAR.
The only thing I can say about this has been said better by Green Day.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Incredible...
As I made my rounds of the blogosphere last night, I simply could not believe what I was reading.
Yesterday, the Democratic-controlled US Congress passed a bill that would greatly expand the President's power to spy on Americans -- wiretap them, intercept emails and so on -- in the name of "protecting" the Amurikan peeple from terrorism without the safeguard, such as they are, of the FISA court.
Shrub says he needs these extra-Constitutional authority to keep the American people safe from the threat of terrorism. Given that this has been a summer of incredible unease -- the "gut feelings" of Homeland Security director Chernoff, the unceasing catapulting of propaganda from the Giggling Murder Monkey himself with his barrage of speeches conflating the various species of "al-Quaida," the gathering economic storm that is the US subprime mortgage market -- I have to say that there is a sense sometimes of we are about to face something really really bad.
None of the above scare me half as much as what the Democrats in the US Congress did in enabling that admitted criminal in the White House to continue further shreading the Constitution. I seriously thought the election of a Democratic Congress was supposed to stop this kind of crap, to rein in that pathetic excuse for a leader and human being. Now with the Iraq War bill and this second capitulation, I am now FURIOUS with the Democratic leadership who LET THIS HAPPEN. And, once again, one of the Senators from this "Bluest" of Blue States, Sen. Feinstein, has voted in lockstep with these most evil of men. Kudos to Sen. Boxer and Rep. Matsui for doing what they were sent to Washington to do.
Flogging Molly has the words for how I feel right now.
Yesterday, the Democratic-controlled US Congress passed a bill that would greatly expand the President's power to spy on Americans -- wiretap them, intercept emails and so on -- in the name of "protecting" the Amurikan peeple from terrorism without the safeguard, such as they are, of the FISA court.
Shrub says he needs these extra-Constitutional authority to keep the American people safe from the threat of terrorism. Given that this has been a summer of incredible unease -- the "gut feelings" of Homeland Security director Chernoff, the unceasing catapulting of propaganda from the Giggling Murder Monkey himself with his barrage of speeches conflating the various species of "al-Quaida," the gathering economic storm that is the US subprime mortgage market -- I have to say that there is a sense sometimes of we are about to face something really really bad.
None of the above scare me half as much as what the Democrats in the US Congress did in enabling that admitted criminal in the White House to continue further shreading the Constitution. I seriously thought the election of a Democratic Congress was supposed to stop this kind of crap, to rein in that pathetic excuse for a leader and human being. Now with the Iraq War bill and this second capitulation, I am now FURIOUS with the Democratic leadership who LET THIS HAPPEN. And, once again, one of the Senators from this "Bluest" of Blue States, Sen. Feinstein, has voted in lockstep with these most evil of men. Kudos to Sen. Boxer and Rep. Matsui for doing what they were sent to Washington to do.
Flogging Molly has the words for how I feel right now.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Happy 4th o' July!
1. Can you pass the test to become a US citizen?
I did...and no peeking on teh interweb either, on first try! I had it as a 13 year old and I have it still today!
2. Once again, KO nails it.
3. However, nobody "nailed it" as well as Tom and Company 231 years ago today in Philly.
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