Posted on Saturday, 31 July, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
“When the United States is on the side of injustice, it harms our country, it harms our integrity, it harms our principle, it harms our standing in the world. People want to believe that we, as the world’s leading superpower, live up to our highest virtues. And when we fail to do that, it threatens, and endangers, and undermines us.”
I hear you’re stepping down from Congress soon. Sorry to hear about it, really. It seems like you’ve finally arrived to a place where I could vote for you again, and now the whole process has to start over and I have to listen to a new representative get it wrong for years upon years. Perhaps you’ve decided that your awakening has come with the unfortunate side effect of being unable to win another election while also saying what you believe. That may be true, but so what?
I think that’s the best time to run for re-election. As much as possible, we need it on the public record how many people actually vote and campaign against rationality. Elections are when these people out and say things which can be recorded. We need that. When need to know which fellow Democrats, Republicans and other parties will or won’t do so, because more importantly than serving democracy for yet another election cycle, we can measure public reaction and see exactly where your part of the United States stands.
So, put it to the test and run again. You’ve got nothing to lose.
Posted on Thursday, 13 May, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Image via Adbusters
I love an online presentation. This one by Mike Milken (yes, that Milken) , “Our Pathetic History Of Foreign Oil Dependence,” isn’t bad and is currently being traded around by a few armchair eco-warriors. Milken’s look at eight presidential lies on foreign oil dependency points out an inconvenient and “pathetic” truth, but pathetic for whom? It’s always been a hunch of mine that the operative political buzz-word in scare mongering about dependence on foreign oil is “foreign.”
Posted on Monday, 1 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Tony Blair takes a photo of himself in front of the human rights travesty he helped create.
Tony sends George a text from Iraq: “LO George. jst writiN U frm Iraq whr wer dstroiN evrtng n cite 4 oil, cash & contRL. thx putting me n yor posse.”
A while ago a mobile phone video emerged showing some Kurdish village where this horde was stoning a girl to death because she married the wrong guy. It sparked international outrage as it should have. This photo reminds of of that for some reason.
Posted on Saturday, 16 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Why I hate the luxury cruise industry: Overfed white people from a nearby Royal Caribbean Cruise Liner lounge like beached whales at a fenced and guarded coastal retreat in Haiti within easy view of survivors of a humanitarian crisis in which tens of thousands have died and many more are starving. Photograph: Daniel Morel/AP
So, perhaps this post is a little derivative to the main argument at hand: That Haiti needs donations for earthquake relief. But it seems that Haiti’s financial situation, which keeps it in dire straits, basically stems from the fact that they freed themselves from western slavery a few hundred years ago and the world is still sore about it.
The record of debt certainly can certainly be followed to the Slave Revolt and resulting battles in the early 1800s, and you could look at the ancestry of western concepts about Haiti as originally stemming from French and America’s tantrums at not being able to bring the island nation back under direct control.
Posted on Wednesday, 2 December, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Lily Allen used to pretend to be an independent pop star, made a bunch of cash and is now working with Peter Mandelson to stop others from pulling themselves up by their bootstraps by siding with stronger controls to limit what artists can do with their content and how you can use it.
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins
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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
