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Friday, November 2, 2007 05:19 PM
Original article: Salon and Current TV

Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer too cosy with the republicans

There needs to be a major grassroots movement to not only throw the republicans out of Congress but also demrepublicans like Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer. They more often than not have voted lockstep with the republicans. Now they are going to confirm Mukasey. Who says we don't torture in America when we have outsourced this repugnant practice to countries who don't have laws to prevent the abomination. What is happening to this country? Where is the opposition? Where are lawmakers of conscience? Why are we sitting back and allowing the Third Reich to flourish in the US? Is anyone listening?

Friday, October 12, 2007 12:59 PM

Did you see how ABC is again trying to smear Gore's Nobel win?

This is how ABC announced Gore's Nobel win:

"Nobel for Al Gore, Did You Know About Factual Mistakes in His Movie?

Win some, lose some? U.K. court cites errors in "An Inconvenient Truth."

If anyone thinks that the Republican Reich has lost its fangs, think twice. The Goebbles propaganda machine has now been institutionalized in these United States of America, and is alive and well in our mainstream media.

Saturday, October 6, 2007 11:55 AM

Rudy's bully tactics with Jimmy Dobson could just pay off

Many moderate republicans have fled the GOP as the christian right has set their hateful anti-chooice, anti-gay, anti-immigration, anti-human agenda to run the grand old party.

Much like George the first took on Dan Rather and blasted the so-called misdefined "liberal" media, Rudy can pummel Dobson and his ilk and get some political mileage out of it.

There is a perceived strength that the media relentlessly promotes about the heft of yahoos like Robertson, Dobson, et al. Rudy can make that a centerpiece of his campaign and I will wager that disgruntled republicans will come out in droves to vote in the primaries. Why, even some Democrats will cross over and vote republican in the primaries just to defang and crush the head of the hateful christian right cobra.

McCain has succumbed to the right (why am I at all surprised?). Look what THAT has done for John. Come on Rudy!!! Be yourself. Take them on. Show them your true grit and your nasty self.

Thursday, October 4, 2007 07:42 PM
Original article: James Dobson's Rudy problem

It is time to defang the christian right cobra

The neo-con and the hateful christian right agenda of the Republican party has wrought havoc on the American people. The hateful anti-women, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-black, anti-environmental policies are slowly waking up doped up American people from their corporate media induced binge. Let Jimmy Dobson and his theocrats prop up a third party candidate who will be sure to lose and bring down the Republicans as well. Now all we need is some Democrats with spine to turn this country into a constitution abiding of the people, for the people and by the people.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 08:31 AM

Rebecca Traister needs to revisit feminism

Just because you are born female, does NOT make you a feminist. Why would Faludi mention Condoleeza, Harriet and Karen in her book? Aren't they but enablers of the highly toxic George who has a huge, gluttonous penchant for cowboy bravery while hiding behind the lost lives of young Americans in Iraq? And, by the way Rebecca, Bill Clinton was the President who appointed more qualified women to important positions in his cabinet and his administration than George. This is YOUR oversight that you need to rectify. Have you forgotten Donna Shalala, Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and so many more? Faludi's is a voice is extremely essential in these very difficult times, a book that needs to be promoted, not denigrated by a hatchet attempt at silencing her.

Monday, September 24, 2007 10:00 PM

Would the dean have attacked Bush in a similar fashion

The Republicans and Bush in particular have legitimized homophobia and make gay bashing a central theme for political power. Would the Dean at Columbia University have the same guts to trash Bush and his cohorts as he did Ahmedanijad? Oh, it is so heroic to show such disdain for an invited guest when you have a hall full of people who support the Israeli apartheid against the Palestinians. The Dean is no hero in my book. Were he as critical of American foreign policy and the demonization of Iran that has spawned the likes of Ahmedanijad, although I do not find him as repulsive as George Bush.

Monday, September 24, 2007 09:51 PM

Would the dean have attacked Bush in a similar fashion

The Republicans and Bush in particular have legitimized homophobia and make gay bashing a central theme for political power. Would the Dean at Columbia University have the same guts to trash Bush and his cohorts as he did Ahmedanijad? Oh, it is so heroic to show such disdain for an invited guest when you have a hall full of people who support the Israeli apartheid against the Palestinians. The Dean is no hero in my book. Were he as critical of American foreign policy and the demonization of Iran that has spawned the likes of Ahmedanijad, although I do not find him as repulsive as George Bush.

Monday, September 24, 2007 04:25 PM
Original article: Divine politics

The Koran and the Bible can both be used as weapons for good AND bad

The Bible and Christianity was central, we can argue, for the Civil Rights movement. I hasten to add that all of the Civil Rights' non-violence agenda was appropriated and skillfully used from the Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent movement for independence from brutal British colonialism. If followers are determined to argue about the literal veracity of the word of god in the Koran and the Bible, they have ample ammunition to unleash a reign of terror and violence against the non-believers. Both holey books are full of the wrath of god. Both books can also be used for good - feed the poor, do onto others and so forth. But fanatics in ALL religions have an addiction toward the rightness of their ways and a gluttony toward violence to prove their dedication to a man made deity. Shame on all the houses for damning the "others" in our societies.

Thursday, August 23, 2007 05:01 PM

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