Pander Blab
Anybody Seen Joe Hill?
I have to admit this last week
of nut bucket fear mongering and
presidential grotesque
(that calls a vote for Democrats
a vote for terrorists)
(Conservative Andrew Sullivan
says simply: "Bush has lost his mind.
This is no longer an election,
it's an intervention")
and bizarre behavior
(Senator Allen's Aids Tackle Blogger!)
have jarred me somewhat from
electoral dread and loathing.
Ad space fills up with sexist, racist
crotch grabbing, pander blab
emmanating from the state of denial.
Dick Cheney says waterboarding
isn't torture, his wife says
they inherited a recession,
the religious right's screwing
up the revival tent.
The America I love —
unlikely to recover in my lifetime.
In my home town we can't
build a library without buying off
Freeport McMoRan's spin off
company, Stratus Properties.
Next week we start paying tolls
on roads we've already paid for with
our taxes illustrating once again
that Republicans can't count.
I'm a public spirited person,
who is sick of people at
every level of corporate-owned
governmnent.
I'll vote tho.
I'll study the ballot, make lists for
family members.
I'll take a video camera to the polls.
I'll make phone calls on election day.
If/when the neo-cons, Diebolt et.al.
steal another election, we can,
I suppose, remember what
Abraham Lincoln called the
divine right of revolution.
As much as I'd like
to cast a straight protest vote —
(I've never been so fed up)
I won't do that.
Anyone — a tuna fish, a gargoyle —
would be better for
the planet than a Bush apologist
in any position of authority
anywhere in the world.
This from our friend Tim Jones:
Just in case you've had a rough day, here's a
stress management technique recommended in all the
latest psychological texts.
The funny thing is, it really works.
1. Picture yourself near a stream.
2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.
3. No one but you knows your secret place.
4. You are in total seclusion from the hectic
place called "the world".
5. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the
air with a cascade of serenity.
6. The water is crystal clear.
7. You can easily make out the face of the
Republican you're holding underwater.
8. See, you're smiling already.
©Susan Bright, 2006,
Susan Bright is the author of nineteen books of poetry. She is the editor of Plain View Press which since 1975 has published one-hundred-and-fifty books. Her work as a poet, publisher, activist and educator has taken her all over the United States and abroad. Her most recent book, The Layers of Our Seeing, is a collection of poetry, photographs and essays about peace done in collaboration with photographer Alan Pogue and Middle Eastern journalist, Muna Hamzeh.
*Graphic: Stress Management website
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just when you think it couldn't get worse they find another way to show the world that we have no credibility left:
A military dog handler convicted for his role in the prisoner abuse scandal has been ordered back to help train the country's police.
Sgt. Santos Cardona served in 2003 and 2004 at Abu Ghraib as a military dog handler. After pictures of Cardona using the animal to threaten Iraqis were made public, he was convicted in May of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault, the equivalent of a felony in the U.S. civilian justice system. The prosecution demanded prison time, but a military judge instead imposed a fine and reduction in rank. Cardona has since regained his previous rank of Sergeant.
Cardona said he had told at least one of his superiors that he feared for his safety in Iraq, especially because of his presence in an al-Qaeda video, but was told by an officer, “We need bodies [in Iraq]" and that he shouldn't worry about it.
from Time.com
thanks for these thoughtful and powerful comments --
If/when the neo-cons, Diebolt et.al.
steal another election, we can,
I suppose, remember what
Abraham Lincoln called the
divine right of revolution.
Oh so true! My prediction for the upcoming election; Diebolt wins and the neo con agenda continues in tact.
Although I sometimes get sucked into the propaganda and wag-de-dog focus campaign that we have been subject to since late 1998, each day I try to remind myself of where the true focus should lay. You know and I know that it all began way before 9/11.
The neo con report, written in the late 90s, outlined the new playbook for the world within the coming new decade and beyond and it is a wonderful and powerful plan. It stated in its end that none of the above listed Neo Conservative agenda items could happen unless we had a “Pearl Harbor like event” to unify the country towards our (their) goals. Number one on their list was the invasion of Iraq. Only now are some of these neo cons seeing and publicly declaring the failure of this agenda item within their master plan. I don’t think they anticipated the resourcefulness and dedication of the resistance.
But then again, the arms dealers are making a bundle right now and the oil companies are making wind-fall profits so maybe this Iraqi catastrophe is also part of their master plan.
And now, with the Don of Neo Con, Paul Wolfowitz is now the head of the World Bank, their plan is right on schedule. I would love to get my hands on their entire playbook and not just the initial proposal outlined and available on the web.
What webs they weave!
And I enjoyed the comment on Conservative Andrew Sullivan, ...if we could just find out who really is giving our troops -- including their Commander in Chief -- the orders, we'd be a long way towards figuring a way out of this shit storm we've somehow allowed ourselves to be led into...
That is the million dollar question, isn’t it?
And by the way, I was smiling at the end of that exercise. Thanks for the laugh. And thanks for providing your daily writing. It is my pleasure to read earthfamilyalpha.
JohnnyDakota
again, thanx
Interesting phenomenon in Missouri -- since the race is neck in neck, since stem cell research is the pivot issue, it appears that Rush Jerkface actually may have been successful strategically -- swiftboating the disabled. Smells like Rove to me. If control of the senate swings on this race -- how disgusting. Notice how they are all trying to confuse the issue. That's the formula, swiftboating and obsfication.
Onward
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