Letters to the Editor
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bebop-o
I don't usually go through all the posts here. But I've started reading yours whenever I see them and I want to say how much I've come to enjoy your poetry, even if I don't always understand the points you are making. Thanks.
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@ slagathor, karrsic
Just use Dodd’s speech. Here’s what I sent to my family and friends very early this morning.
Senator Chris Dodd made a speech yesterday in the senate about how the Bush Administration has flaunted the law and your civil liberties. I urge you to either read or watch his speech and I assure you it will be much clearer to you why the FISA legislation is so important to you and our country. The M$M has given the issue lip service because it is not sensational or horse racy enough. That is why you and your friends need to know more about it.
http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/4226/print
karrsic: That's a good wiki project you have going and I should have included it as a reference.
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It's bath time...
The nation rolls their eyes with glee,
to see little George on TV on Monday,
all dressed up in a monkey costume,
eating acorn nuts he stole from the Forrest bushy long tale squirrels, however the good news is this. We perk our ears...
We hear Mr. Bush chatter and inform the greater world he will stop the lies and bloodshed immediately. He will order that honest efforts at restitution will happen before he croaks or chokes.
The consumption and addiction to thievery and robbing everybody will end. Mr Cheney agrees. The world knows
the neocon GOP is all a very bad bunch of nut cases.
Bury them.
Underground.
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brainstorming
Chris Mooney at Scienceblogs has been trying to organize a 2008 presidential debate on science and technology, an idea that was inspired in part by the damage this administration has politicized science to the detriment of the country.
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=2
We've seen that the press is not going to raise issues pertaining to the functioning of democracy in the debates.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801240006?f=h_latest
http://mediamatters.org/items/200711170002?f=h_top
Through 17 debates this year, roughly 1,500 questions have been asked of the two parties' presidential candidates. But only a small handful of questions have touched on the candidates' views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other civil liberties concerns.
Is it too late to come up with something similar to the ScienceDebate08? Can we come up with a Constitution debate08? Is such a thing possible? It's certainly necessary.
Also, I think it should be suggested/urged to Edwards (and the others to whatever effect it might have) to campaign on the promise of addressing our broken gov't. To promise to restore and repair the damage that has been done to the Constitution. Towards this end, perhaps also promising to appoint the VP head of a task force to come up with ways to bring back Constitutional gov't. Clinton did something similar with Gore (i.e. putting him in charge of a task force to follow up on a campaign promise) and the results were successful reform.
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lichen.
boomerang.
I love moss
I love lichen.
The Pink Spring Lady Slipper,
in woodlot time, will soon be here.
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Tear Down This Wall !!!
It has been argued that the drop dead stance against FISA without telecom immunity allows the Republicans to paint the Democrats as "soft on national security" during the 2008 campaign.
And many who support nearly everything Bush has done up to now may fear that any cracks in support for telecom immunity will expose the White House to very serious legal jeopardy.
If left untouched or otherwise compromised, it's a battlement that could sufficiently hold to elect a Republican president this year.
To those trying to explain the more troublesome aspects of a FISA bill with immunity - the more arcane and complicated things - this "cheap shot" by Republicans, if they're allowed to use it, will be eaten like candy corn by much of the electorate in the "cheap seats."
Build on the Dodd-blogger alliance and widen it.
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Bush can whine....
...all he wants in the State of the Union address about Democratic betrayal.
Thing is, Bush is now so roundly hated, virtually nobody can stand to look at him, much less hear him speak.
Plus when he keeps pushing his extremist right wing ideology (which he will do in the address), except for a small minority of American pariahs, it just further sullies his image.
So good luck to Bush as he gives his address to .0001% of the population Monday.
It will go down in history of one of the most ignored State of the Union addresses since the invention of TV.
And even those who don't ignore it will merely use his patented fabrications & embellishments to pick him apart.
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Light One Candle
This is an extremely moving and uplifting post,Glenn.
I was reminded while reading it of a Peter, Paul, and Mary Christmas show which generally airs during the holidays on PBS. One song celebrates Hannukah and the tradition of lighting candles to remember the deeds of the Macabees and the rededication of the temple- LIGHT ONE CANDLE. It is a rousing tribute to hope and the valour of the human spirit in seeking justice and in doing what is right.
Another thing that came to mind was the first reading of Christmas at midnight mass every year, Isaiah 9:2:
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
Your own candle is burning brightly, Glenn, and bringing restored hope and faith to those who love America, its people, and its liberty.
All the best,
Tom
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I've always thought Reid's comment wasn't just about Dodd, but also about
the other Dem senators, particularly Hillary and Obama. I think he figured that, once the small fry obstructionists were safely out of the limelight, Hillary and Obama would feel safer in doing what Reid et al do as a matter of course: ignore the will of their base. Dodd was getting some traction with his stand, which forced Hillary and Obama to take notice. No Dodd, no traction, no problem for Reid & Rockefeller.