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admin @ January 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United
States was an emotionally charged event for me and the people I met
today.
I met people from all over the country since I arrived Sunday night
and they all spoke of our new President as a poltican that will engage
the country and bring us together as a people.
Today was a huge celebration of our democracy.
admin @ January 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Some moments of your life catch you by surprise. You work on Day One and the next thing you know, you are working nonstop and do not stop for seven months. Some of these moments are the culmination of a lifetime of interest. Some come because you feel like you can have an impact on something greater than yourself. A spring inside you has been flowing for most of you life and now it has been tapped. This moment introduces you to experiences and people you would have never experienced if Day One never happened. And as you look back on it, that moment, that one instance when you put one foot in front of the other and marched, was one of the greatest experiences of your life.
admin @ January 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Everything is on track for the break-slash-content relaunch and we just wanted to inform you…
admin @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The fact is, while Mr. Bush, Mr. Olmert, Ms. Livni, Mr. Netanyahu, Ms. Rice, Mr. Cheney, Mr. al-Masri and the rest orchestrate their brutal murders, we will never advance as a species until we accept that ALL WARS ARE FAILURES. When you orchestrate a war that incinerates a child, the death of that child, the blood of that child, the loss of that child, will tarnish you forever. All situations are failures when innocents are harmed. If one child injures another in a sandbox, their play date was a failure. If a police car kills innocents during a pursuit, the pursuit was a failure. If a father burns his house down while attempting to warm it, the attempt was a failure. If children die in war, the war was a failure. Of this, I have not doubt.
admin @ December 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For years since the United States invaded Iraq, I’ve witnessed countless photo and video images of innocent civilians - men, women, teens and children - being rudely and aggressively
threatened by hired uniformed militants (mostly men), wielding guns. I’ve seen these images from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Haiti, Palestine, and more. Whether they be armed American military threatening Iraqis, armed Israeli soldiers threatening Palestinians, or armed Ethiopian troops threatening Somalis, the images have always disturbed me. There’s an inherent injustice to such blatant imbalance of power. An injustice I suffered recently myself.
admin @ December 20, 2008 # 2 Comments
I’d never noticed that slavery hadn’t been abolished. I’m 68, born and raised right here in the U.S. of A., and until a few weeks ago I thought that slavery had been abolished. Except, of course, as punishment for a crime, but what’s wrong with that? I’m a law-abiding citizen, and criminals do need to be punished, right? But with slavery? Shouldn’t hard labor (involuntary servitude) or even the death penalty be sufficient?
Then I tried to imagine the death penalty being abolished except as punishment for a crime.
Doesn’t make sense does it?
admin @ December 17, 2008 # One Comment
Christiane Amanpour’s CNN special tonight “Scream Bloody Murder” on genocide was quite timely after this week’s Munk Debate on Humanitarian Intervention. Both events posed the question of whether the international community has an obligation to intervene in situations of genocide and other man-made crises when a country is unable to protect itself? The most obvious example that comes to mind is that of Rwanda in the early 1990s…
admin @ December 16, 2008 # One Comment
2012 Presidential Candidates;a Briefer Than Brief Brief
Before I go ANY further into this essay / research piece - I want YOU, fellow pol-spotters, to pass along some of your “suspects” from ANY party - whether via:
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Let’s hear the names you have milling around in the back of your head - or candidates you’d like to see - or trial balloons you’d like to float - or solid “yes I am considerings…”, whether it’s Ron Paul, former NM Gov Gary Johnson, former Gov Jesse Ventura, Loretta Null, Steve Kubby, Gov Blagojevich (lol), Newt Gingrich, Cindy Sheehan, and an a wide array of other potentialities…Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin…et al.
It should make for an interesting pre ‘year - end - list - barrage’ of “best - of - nothings” that are the stock - in - trade of every publication. (other than this spec we promise we won’t do one)
We’ll come back to THIS topid on Dec 22 and have a gander.
admin @ December 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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admin @ December 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Montreal, PQ, Canada - The Montreal rally was attended by over one thousand people. There was a mix of labor leaders who support the coalition, members of Quebec’s Union des Artistes which is the French language equivalent of SAG and Gilles Duceppe the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, the federal separatist party. Prime Minister Harper’s has used fear to suggest that the coalition is not legitimate because Canadians didn’t vote for a coalition during the last election which took place on October 14, 2008. However, since Harper’s party only won a minority and by the rules of Canadian democracy a minority government must receive the support of the majority of parliament to continue to exist, the coalition is in fact legally and democratically valid.”
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