MoveOn is encouraging house parties this weekend to plan for the future. Specifically, they want to plan for the future of MoveOn – the role it will take and the issues it will work on – but they have graciously thrown in “what’s next for the progressive movement” as a related issue. Participants will discuss [...]
Archive for November 15th, 2004
Bash Bush! Build the Future! Pass the Hors D'oeuvres!
Posted in Politics on November 15, 2004 | 10 Comments »
A Great Day Dawns
Posted in Politics on November 15, 2004 | 2 Comments »
The fatuous William Safire is retiring from his political column in the New York Times at the end of January. At last! Now I can stop writing to the Times asking them to fire him. I suppose I should feel a tiny bit of nostalgia – it was my fisking of a William Safire column [...]
GOP: Screwing Voters At Every Turn
Posted in Politics on November 15, 2004 | 12 Comments »
Apparently, the GOP just hates the idea of votes being counted: Are the provisional ballots in Ohio being thrown out? A new rule for counting provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was implemented on Tuesday, November 9 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon, according to election observer Victoria Lovegren. The new ruling in Cuyahoga County [...]
A Sermon
Posted in Culture on November 15, 2004 | 2 Comments »
This is a sermon worth listening to: In my closing minutes, I want to address a few, more focused words to those in our congregation who are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgendered and to your family members and friends. A number of you have written or spoken to me in the last few days to [...]
Burning the City to Save It — Or Not to Save It
Posted in Iraq on November 15, 2004 | 13 Comments »
We are losing in Iraq. Any time a force fighting a guerilla insurgency has to resort to tactics like the ones below, it s losing: “Destruction was everywhere. I saw people lying dead in the streets, wounded were bleeding and there was no one to come and help them. Even the civilians who stayed in [...]
CNN Reporting Powell to Resign
Posted in Politics on November 15, 2004 | Comments Off
Not surprise, of course. Powell sold his credibility to get them their war, but the neo-cons still despised him for his feeble attempts at injecting reality into their day dreams. Of course, Powell had the opportunity to stop the Iraq war, and choose loyalty to the White House over his own misgivings. The man is [...]
No to Vilsack
Posted in Politics on November 15, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Gov. Vilsack is making a bid to become the DNC chair, in part because he wishes to protect Iowa caucus’ first in the nation status. That alone disqualifies him. The status quo is not working for the Democrats, and anyone who wishes to lead the party in order to protect the status quo is not [...]
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