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- 07 Jul 09
- 7:33 pm
Excellent article. It captures the psychology of the current Republican party masters to a tee. I am still amazed at how so many of our fellow citizens are enraptured by the likes of empty hulls such as Palin, Bush, Sanford, Mc Connell, Boehner, King, etc, etc.ad nauseum through the Senate. Not to mention the blowhards on cable, talk radio, and unfortunately, primetime news channels. It can only be a reflection of our intelligence as a nation. We have become so dumbed down nationally that it will take a huge transformation to ever get back to our prior self as a nation …

Posted to Republicans: A Threat to the Republic?
- 29 Jun 08
- 8:06 pm
When this nation started to debate the issue of using torture, we lost any kind of status of being above it. What a sad national commentary to bequeath to my children and their children. We have been brought low by those within our own society. Bin Laden didn't even have to try.

Posted to Avoiding the Torture Taint: Advice from Military Lawyers
- 30 May 06
- 5:09 pm
Yeah, jeffc, I suppose it's kind of like when you drive down the road and everyone in the car is overcome by a gagging stench that smells remarkably like a skunk. Most will quickly look around for the offending source, but if no squashed little black and white creature is readily seen in the road, there is one reluctant passenger with a clothespin on his nose who will insist on passing off everyone else's certainty of skunk origin as being merely "circumstantial evidence, speculation and insinuation." Sometimes, the stench is so obvious and overpowering that the probability of a skunk being …

Posted to GOP Jams Democracy
- 16 May 06
- 11:10 am
Excellent piece. Another avenue that absolutely needs to be advocated and pursued by those of us who profess to be "main-stream" traditional Christians is to challenge the beginnings of extreme fundamentalism in our own churches when it rears its ugly head. Don't let your own church be hijacked by the fanatics. If you believe in true Christian values, respect the beliefs of others,and advocate the necessity of separation of church and state in a healthy democracy, volunteer to serve on your church's boards, and help to steer policies away from the fanatics. Challenge those who would advocate bigoted, narrow views of …

Posted to Saving Secular Society
- 17 May 06
- 7:26 am
Tina1, I'd say that responses such as yours only prove that you, and others of your ilk, suffer from a condition known as premature cognitive commitment. That is, no matter how many facts are presented to the contrary that dispel the validity of your idol worship of all things Bush and the extreme far right wing hate-mongers, you refuse to see that your emperor simply has no clothes. Thank God much of the rest of the country is finally beginning to emerge from their stupor, as reflected in the recent polls and the almost daily revelations of illegal, fascist, dirty tricks …

Posted to Saving Secular Society
- 12 May 06
- 9:25 am
Excellent post, Jon B. Nicely capsulizes their troll tactics and brings the issue back to the basic argument - the fact that our Constitution and the Bill of Rights are under seige by this administration and that they must be stopped before we morph into a totalitarian society.

Posted to Undercover Cover-Up
- 12 May 06
- 9:35 am
Hyjinx22 said, "There is a fine line between security and freedom/privacy, but sometimes one has to trust that the appropriate officials are making sound judgements." Sorry, Hyjinx22, but misplaced trust is what got us into an unnecessary war hyped on false and/or cherry-picked misleading information, and why we took our eye off the real terrorists in Afghanistan. And now that country is rapidly devolving back to the Taliban while Osama continues to roam free. Yeah, based on this fine record, I suppose we can also trust these "appropriate officials" to make sound judgements about warrantless wiretapping and illegal break-ins.

Posted to Undercover Cover-Up
- 20 Apr 06
- 2:50 pm
Actually, a viable third party could emerge, but not unless a visble, respected political leader promoted it. Ariel Sharon managed to do it in his very politically fractious country, and within a few short months, that party now runs the country. It takes a leader who knows when his party no longer represents his ideals, and who has the chutzpah to actually say enough is enough. Do the Dems have any such leaders? I think so, but they will need the courage of their convictions and a willingness to lay it all on the line.

Posted to The Seinfeld Strategy