June 21, 2008 archive

Jun 21 2008

Congress to Patrick Henry: Drop Dead

Give me liberty or give me death.

— Patrick Henry, 1775

You have no civil liberties if you are dead.

— Senator Pat Roberts, (R-KS), 2006

The issue is completely straightforward.  It could not have been put more clearly by Senator Roberts.  

Congress has decided that the threat of another attack, and more dead civilians, is more important than the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States.  They are unabashed, unashamed cowards.  They believe that the American people are unabashed, unashamed cowards.  

Jun 21 2008

Is There An Election Coming??

If so, looks like the ‘boogeyman’ will be letting our Troops follow it back to the homeland, or the scare is being germinated in the populace:

Jun 21 2008

Friday Night at 8: Fire!

Sam Cooke, A Change is Gonna Come:

We managed to avoid the horrors of the candidate wars, oh weren’t we the wise ones?  This community was an oasis of sanity for many all over the blogosphere, and that’s no lie.

But the primaries are over now and the detrius we find ourselves wading through that calls itself our government is something we cannot avoid.

Folks in the Midwest are losing their homes to floods and there’s fires in California and lord knows what else.  Pick a city, any city.  Our whole country is suffering.

I have read some excellent incendiary rhetoric here at Docudharma this week.  Such fires blazing in our souls!

Burn, baby, burn.

Jun 21 2008

Bomb, Bomb, Iran? ;NY Times: “U.S. Says Exercise by Israel Seemed Directed at Iran”

Well, we all remember McCain’s rendition of “‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.”


“McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song,” the Georgetown Times reports.

“‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,’ he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann,” the paper notes.

Unplugged McCain sings ‘bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran’

Today, the New York Times reports that the military exercise Israel performed a few weeks ago looks like a “rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

More tidings of possible war, and why Obama, while perhaps not perfect,  is far better than McCain on this, after the fold.  

Jun 21 2008

Friday Philosophy: Diversity

We read.  We absorb.  We often find thoughts expressed in much better ways than we could ever express them ourselves.  Sometimes we seek to share those thoughts, hoping against hope that someone else will see what we see, hear what we hear, feel what we feel.

I’ve been spending a long time reading/reading about William Stafford, a neighbor of days gone by, trying to absorb perhaps what could have been in another happentrack.

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The Locomotive’s engineer cast hir mind outwards and sought awareness.  The WeaveMothers, those collective consciousnesses which had distilled from the collective knowledge of all creatures in the Greataway were tending their flocks and new happentracks were condensing into existence.  SpaceTime expanded.  There were new choices for the path of the train to take.

The Storyteller plucked a poem from the past.  The Listener perked up.  The Passenger slept.

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