Ok, maybe I’m late to the game. A lot escapes me. I admit that.
But a friend of a friend just sent me and invite to a facebook group called “Prevent the ‘Artistic’ Death of a Dog”..
April 2008 archive
Apr 18 2008
Bush says WE need Pope talk re “right & wrong”!! xk*%#
He says we need to be told by the Pope that people are precious, that right and wrong matter!
And, it’s just a “tough” patch we’re going through. Bush just said so. here. But worse:
Listen up, you utterly deprived (not-fit-to-be) lying president, because you caused a great deal of the pain and suffering Americans are right now encountering. You have caused a war that was unnecessary that killed hundreds of thousands of people and wounded many more. Millions are refugees because of your war. Talk about precious life? “Sacred” life? You don’t know the meaning of the word.
Famines may occur because you were unwilling to act on climate change because you wanted to help the rich get richer. Don’t tell me the Pope needs to talk to me about right and wrong!!!!!
Don’t you hate being lectured by an idiot?
~~cross-posted at orange~~
Apr 18 2008
writing in the raw: poetry and dreaming
( – promoted by pfiore8) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ frantically felt for my throat….breathing sigh of relief ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I put my head down and closed my eyes everything was real quite and clear I ran over to him it was warm and clear thousands of stars ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ shaking and broken pathetic and hurt met you at …
Apr 18 2008
…wherein “they” allow al Qaeda to attack us. Again.
For those who didn’t see dday’s excellent diary about the very unimportant Government Accountability Office report out today, well, it is a doozy.
The title itself should bring back memories of the infamous August 2001 PDB titled “bin Laden determined to strike inside the US”, as this one is titled The United States Lacks Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat and Close the Safe Haven in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas”.
The first paragraph lays it all out with the following reiteration of what we have known for quite some time already:
GAO found broad agreement, as documented in the National Intelligence Estimate, State and embassy documents, as well as Defense officials in Pakistan, that al Qaeda had regenerated its ability to attack the United States and had succeeded in establishing a safe haven in Pakistan’s FATA.
Apr 18 2008
Elder Care
The elder care “professional” count is now three lawyers and three financial planners. One lawyer wants 25 grand, one of them I can’t understand and the third seemed like a great guy but….well…you should know about my aversion to “long term” planning. My suggestion to Mom was a large safe to be filled with real cash. I almost had her convinced as she was born in the wake of the depression years.
Apr 18 2008
Pony pARTSy
RiaD is still recuperating from the Andromeda Strain, and doesn’t yet have the stamina to undertake the weighty responsibility of a full-fledged Evening Pony Party, so, since I’m a Trust Fund Guy
(trust that funds will come in eventually) and still have a lot of free time, I am once again filling-in for T.I.T.A.S.S.
We of the O.O.T.L.E. (Out of Touch Liberal Elite) that control the Left Wing, often look to the Arts to sooth our troubled souls. Sometimes by setting up
a Foundation or a Fellowship. Sometimes by starting a a museum, or prize, or school, named for us. Here we tend to focus on writing and computer graphics, so lets take some time to consider some others.
Currently however, funding is pretty tight, so instead of money, we offer an alternative form of support. Once the Democrats control The White House, we are certain that a new era of peace and prosperity will ensue. In the meantime, we encourage the everday working class to take some time out in between your three part-time jobs and delve into the world of the Arts so that you’ll have some skills, and maybe some projects finished, by the time we’re donating money again.
There are many resources availabe for such endeavors, but we choose You Tube, well, because embedding videos is easy, and it’s FREE.
From Oregon PBS – drawing
Enjoy learning!
But DO NOT recommend this. Instead , go to the Front Page for some inspiration.
The rest of the videos will be of reduced size, but remember that if you double-click they will open in a new window and you can begin your new career as a starving artist.
Apr 18 2008
Responding to a Super Delegate’s Request, Not Hillary
Free urges Oklahoma Indians to exercise powerKalyn Free, the founder and president of the Indigenous Democrat Network, says Oklahoma Indians need to exercise their political clout.
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But Free, a member of the Choctaw Nation, says Oklahoma tribes aren’t doing enough to wield their political power. She also says Democrats aren’t reaching out to Indian Country, citing Republican efforts to target Native voters.
There’s a couple things I’d like Kalyn Free to know.
Apr 17 2008
I quote Noam Chomsky & Bill Moyers. (Media issues)
(I couldn’t think of a title for this ‘essay’. But I like Noam Chomsky and I quote him 🙂
It is obvious our corporate controlled media often fails in its job of keeping the public informed and holding those with power accountable( i.e Iraq). All too often the media is willing to carry the water for the Power elite.
As Noam Chomsky said
We live in an era of media concentration, vast efforts on many fronts (political, economic, military, ideological) to insulate state and private power from critical discussion or even popular awareness, and to reduce citizens to isolated atomized creatures restricted to satisfying personal ‘created wants.’ This massive and coordinated campaign has been partially successful, but only in a limited way.
Apr 17 2008
Four at Four
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Why we fight
Bloomberg reports “Iraq will open at least six major oil and natural-gas fields for exploration and production in its first licensing round since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, as the country seeks to raise output without a national energy law. Iraq, which pre-qualified international oil companies this week for the bidding round, will open the southern Rumaila, West Qurna and Zubair fields for exploration, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said in an interview in Brussels today. In the north, international oil companies will be invited to develop the Kirkuk oil field and the Akkaz gas field.”Here are some of the pre-qualified companies: Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Chevron. and Total SA. “Others were Russia’s OAO Gazprom, the world’s largest natural-gas producer, and OAO Lukoil, the Russian oil producer with the most overseas assets. Mitsubishi Corp. and Inpex Holding Inc. of Japan and China’s Sinochem Corp. were also accepted.”
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Our military men and women pay
The Los Angeles Times reports 18.5% of Iraq, Afghanistan veterans have depression or PTSD. “Nearly one in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is currently suffering from depression or stress disorders, according to the latest and most comprehensive study of current and former military service members, released today. Less than half of those 300,000 veterans have received care for depression or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to the study, signaling significant problems with the U.S. mental healthcare system.”
Meanwhile CommonDreams notes that Vets have to press McCain to back greater benefits.
The McCain HypocrisyAccording to Disabled American Veterans (DAV), McCain voted almost a dozen separate times against spending additional money on veterans’ health care in 2005 and 2006 – even as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines were returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and filing disability claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
During that time, McCain voted against expanding mental health care and readjustment counseling for returning service members, efforts to expand inpatient and outpatient treatment for injured veterans, and proposals to lower co-payments and enrollment fees veterans must pay to obtain prescription drugs…
McCain’s vote also helped defeat a proposal by Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow that would have made veterans’ health care an entitlement programme like social security, so that medical care would not become a political football to be argued over in Congress each budget cycle.
John McCain supports the troops like George W. Bush does.
Four at Four continues below the fold with news of peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and the booming U.S. economy.
Apr 17 2008
It’s About Freaking Time!
ABC is the network that BROKE the story of the Torture Conspiracy for gawds sake. But somehow, in spite of the efforts of non-Villagers….the subject never came up.