tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55885562011-06-07T23:24:27.350-07:00Philosopher's Stone - Vindicating Political Rationality Against the Neo-Con LeviathanDemocracy has been taken for granted at a time when it is most endangered. Neo-Conservatives are organized to replace it with oligarchy, to replace consent for the rule of law with fascistic allegiance to the executive branch disguised as "patriotism." As a team made up of a political philosopher and a writer, we consider otherwise repressed information from a critical perspective in the hope of elevating the quality of our political dialogue so that it is worthy of a truly democratic society.L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comBlogger3031100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1137741671410045952006-01-19T23:20:00.000-08:002006-01-19T23:21:11.470-08:00L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1122202881583040412005-07-24T03:43:00.000-07:002005-07-24T04:01:21.630-07:00Desperately Crawling to the SurfaceEric, i think i may have told you in an email that i have just come closer than ever before to a nervous breakdown. I am sure there are many kinds of dispositions in intelligent people - i just happen to have landed the schizo-crackhead form of brainy-ness. I've been seeing a psychiatrist for nearly four months now. We don't talk about anything meaningful, L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1118194783604420032005-06-07T18:33:00.000-07:002005-07-24T04:07:44.950-07:00Official Played Down Emissions' Links to Global WarmingBy ANDREW C. REVKINfrom today's New York Times:"A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents."In handwritten notes on drafts of several Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1113845101767159762005-04-18T10:17:00.000-07:002005-07-24T04:07:00.293-07:00A Radical in the White HouseAn excellent essay from today's New York TimesBy Bob Herbert"Last week - April 12, to be exact - was the 60th anniversary of the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 'I have a terrific headache,' he said, before collapsing at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. He died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage on the 83rd day of his fourth term as president. His hold on Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1110308885300980382005-03-08T11:00:00.000-08:002005-03-08T11:08:05.310-08:00Laurie Garrett's memo to Newsday colleagues 2/28/2005 11:47:08 AMDear Newsday Friends and Colleagues,On March 8th -- International Women's Day -- my leave of absence from Newsday ends. I will not be returning to the paper, largely because my work at the Council on Foreign Relations has proven to be the most exciting challenge of my life. But you have been through so much pain and difficulty overStourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1108973968162086572005-02-21T00:17:00.000-08:002005-02-21T09:23:48.193-08:00Hunter S. Thompson: Dead?Or just testing?Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1107799339158722722005-02-07T09:56:00.000-08:002005-02-07T10:02:19.156-08:00Hunger for Dictatorship
War to export democracy may wreck our own
by Scott McConnell of The American Conservative
[...]"One of the biggest right-wing talk-radio hosts regularly calls for the mass destruction of Arab cities. Letters that come to this magazine from the pro-war Right leave no doubt that their writers would welcome the jailing of dissidents. And of course it's not just us. When USA Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1107481253436334202005-02-03T17:36:00.000-08:002005-02-03T17:40:53.436-08:00Bill Moyers: There is No Tomorrow
Bill Moyers Published January 30, 2005
One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Theology asserts propositions Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1106518992549002082005-01-23T14:18:00.000-08:002005-01-23T14:25:46.686-08:00Johnny Carson: 1926-2005
He represented to me possibly the last time there was any class to a late night host. Nobody was better with guests from "regular America." One of few people in the celebrity world I can honestly say I admired for his work. And while the newspaper cartoons tomorrow will probably all contain the gates of heaven saying, "Heeeeeere's Johnny," eh, well, why not? Good on ye, Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1106507773315141312005-01-23T11:05:00.000-08:002005-01-23T11:16:13.316-08:00U.S. and Torture: What is it Going to Take for Americans to Act?
The American use of torture against its enemies, in amount, degree, and widespread use, has been coming to light ever so slowly, and not in the television news media. This today from The New York Times's Frank Rich:
"But a not-so-funny thing happened to the Graner case on its way to trial. Since the early bombshells from Abu Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1106345540120865892005-01-21T13:44:00.000-08:002005-01-21T20:23:47.230-08:00U.S. and Them: Sources Indicate We're Already Well Underway in Iran
In the current (24 & 31 January) issue of The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, in an engrossing and troubling article, asserts that President Bush, before his re-election, signed a series of executive orders authorizing secret groups and Special Forces units to begin (or continue, depending on who you hear) covert operations "in as Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1105246440783319852005-01-08T20:25:00.000-08:002005-01-09T12:46:03.463-08:00Whoops! Sorry About That Bombing!
Yeah, well, what can I say? We sure goofed on that one! But you can bet that the dickweed responsible for this will find the right guy we need to fire for it, I-tell-you-what! You know, you have to admit, we took the high road and owned up to our mistake right away and have, by now, paid at least a few cable-TV pundits to say, "Amen for that," on our behalf.
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1105042299436653902005-01-06T11:54:00.000-08:002005-01-06T12:11:39.436-08:00Jobless Claims Surge
From Reuters today, by Andrea Hopkins
[...] "The number of Americans filing first-time claims for state unemployment insurance aid rose 43,000 to 364,000 in the week ended Jan. 1, up from a revised 321,000 in the previous week, the Labor Department said.
"It was the largest one-week gain in nearly three years and far surpassed Wall Street expectations for a rise to 331,000Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1104271459495182942004-12-28T14:03:00.000-08:002004-12-28T14:04:19.496-08:00Susan Sontag: 1933-2004
A remarkable thinker.
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1104237268785955562004-12-28T04:33:00.000-08:002004-12-28T04:34:28.786-08:00Judy Miller's War
by Alexander Cockburn
Dissident Voice
August 19, 2003
Lay all Judith Miller's New York Times stories end to end, from late 2001 to June 2003 and you get a desolate picture of a reporter with an agenda, both manipulating and being manipulated by US government officials, Iraqi exiles and defectors, an entire Noah's Ark of scam-artists.
And while Miller, either under her own L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1103300023972971402004-12-17T08:08:00.000-08:002004-12-17T08:13:43.973-08:00Jailing Judith Miller – One Step Toward Liberating the Press
I made up my mind last week to seek out journalistic assessments of Judith Miller’s journalism. Knowing little about her professional career at the New York Times, I cannot understand why so many people associated with the industry see her as an heroic figure. What little I know of Judith Miller leads me to see her as one of those L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1103287085145259572004-12-17T04:37:00.000-08:002004-12-17T05:52:52.736-08:00ELECTION 2004: Bush Inauguration Heralds the Return of Savage Capitalism
The 2004 election has been a traumatic experience for those who have invested their passions in opposing the Bush administration. Curiously, it is something that I anticipated strictly intellectually as one possible outcome among many, but even at the time I knew that I wouldn’t be able to fully understand how jarring L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1102986528023442862004-12-13T17:05:00.000-08:002004-12-13T17:08:48.023-08:00A Nice Email Going Around
This has been making the rounds in various forms:
Dear President:Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from you and understand why you would propose and support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. As you said, "in the eyes of God marriage is based between a man and a woman." I try to share that Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1102790209963031792004-12-11T10:24:00.000-08:002004-12-11T10:36:49.963-08:00Period of Mourning Over
Actually, it has been more like a period of rage and disbelief (even though I didn't like Kerry/Edwards), but I am back in whatever condition. And Lisa, what are you up to? I noticed you had a script draft up here for less than a day and then it disappeared, so I know you still breathe . . .
I am not moving to Canada, I have decided. I would rather stay here and be asStourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1099530508190601372004-11-03T16:59:00.000-08:002004-11-03T17:08:28.190-08:00FUCKING FUCKER FUCK! Well, maybe this is what had to happen. If anything, I hope this is the dawn of a new era of political protest in this country. And violence. I'm sort of ready for some good old fashioned violence. Mr. Kerry was never presidential. My vote, as I assume was the case for many others, was not for Kerry but against Mr. Bush. I also think we should have elections to determine Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1099355862847277092004-11-01T16:35:00.000-08:002004-11-01T16:37:42.846-08:00SIGH
At the University of Michigan last week, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh was asked why so many Americans remain loyal to the president. He replied: “One thing you have to face up to is the fact that there are roughly 70 million people in America who do not believe in evolution — and those are Bush supporters.”
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Let's hope this doesn't portend a Bush win.
Tonight on Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1098556667483705602004-10-23T10:47:00.000-07:002004-10-23T18:29:31.320-07:00God and Sex
From today's The New York Times
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 23, 2004
"So when God made homosexuals who fall deeply, achingly in love with each other, did he goof?
"That seems implicit in the measures opposing gay marriage on the ballots of 11 states. All may pass; Oregon is the only state where the outcome seems uncertain.
"Over the last couple of months, I've been Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1097613711771382032004-10-12T13:35:00.000-07:002004-10-12T13:41:51.770-07:00ERIC!
So Derrida has passed away - i expect pretentious Continental philosophy departments all over the US to shut down for a week in honor of his death... I suppose my only resentment with Derrida himself (versus the people who merely try to SPEAK about him) concerns his book about Marx. Historical Materialism was not his bag, which is too bad because his philosophy could have used a heavy L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1097356308090931442004-10-09T14:08:00.000-07:002004-10-09T14:11:48.090-07:00Jacques Derrida: 1930-2004
I have mixed emotions about this but may write more later. In the meantime, a piece on his life and work and death from The New York Times today. (Requires a free, one time registration)
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1096527402512468572004-09-29T23:54:00.000-07:002004-09-29T23:56:42.513-07:00E.L. DOCTOROW WRITES ON BUSH
I fault this President for not knowing what death is.He does not suffer the death of our twenty one year olds who wanted to be what they could be.On the eve of D-day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die.He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1096409500282246292004-09-28T15:10:00.000-07:002004-09-28T15:15:27.853-07:00HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
I think astrology is for the willfully weak, but i have never managed to come across one of those "if today is your birthday" horoscopes. I found one, it seems to be good enough for government work. (repost from last year)
Happy Birthday, Libra! Intelligent and capable, you can become a brilliant shining star, provided you're able to get started and stay the course. L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1096059741245919362004-09-24T14:00:00.000-07:002004-09-24T14:02:21.246-07:00Yes, I Think Michael Moore is Generally a Nitwit, But He's Our Nitwit
9/22/04
Dear Mr. Bush,
I am so confused. Where exactly do you stand on the issue of Iraq? You, yourDad, Rummy, Condi, Colin, and Wolfie -- you have all changed your minds somany times, I am out of breath just trying to keep up with you!Which of these 10 positions that you, your family and your cabinet havetaken over the yearsStourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1095968360767465452004-09-23T13:28:00.000-07:002004-09-23T12:39:20.766-07:00So glad you're back, Sweetie!
My recent life in a nutshell version: I've been dating a nice, sort of geeky guy named Greg for a couple of months now. We're planning on taking an international trip together in February when we can both get some time off--either Egypt, Malta, or Argentina. We'll see. I was in Moscow, ID about a month ago, visiting a friend, and I got a big tattoo on my belly Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1095883142926048752004-09-22T13:57:00.000-07:002004-09-22T12:59:02.926-07:00Stourley - i am back. Needless to say, i had no internet for three months and i was working over 60 hours per week. So much for my summer. I just got access back today, which took forever because they sent me a new modem and everything was all fuckered up, so to speak. But i'm back and i'll be here regularly from now on.
kisses!
lisa
L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1095551520396131512004-09-18T16:48:00.000-07:002004-09-18T16:56:39.686-07:00http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091804X.shtml
Scamming the Media, Parlock Style By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t Perspective
Friday 17 September 2004
(Do take a look at the story link so you can view the pictures that really make this piece compelling)
Meet Phil Parlock. Parlock is a family man and a staunch Republican. Parlock has a very sad story to tell about how rotten Kerry Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1095456017909444202004-09-17T14:06:00.000-07:002004-09-17T14:20:17.910-07:00Journalism Under Fire
A speech by Bill Moyers
from TomPaine.com
Thank you for inviting me to share this occasion with you. Three months from now I will be retiring from active journalism and I cannot imagine a better turn into the home stretch than this morning with you.
My life in journalism began 54 years ago, on my 16th birthday, in the summer before my junior year in high school, when I Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1094909675488168012004-09-11T06:21:00.000-07:002004-09-15T18:22:58.063-07:00No Time for "Liberal Weenies": Formerly Interesting Filmmaker's Forthcoming Movie the Centerpiece of Frighteningly Right-Wing Night at New Film Festival
Movie Review: The Great Raid
Directed by John Dahl; starring Joseph Feinnes, Connie Nielson, Benjamin Bratt
Miramax: scheduled for release early 2005
Bozeman, MT--I must sheepishly admit I was quite looking forward to the advent of what Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1094851111656219872004-09-10T14:15:00.000-07:002004-09-10T14:18:31.656-07:00How Many Deaths Will It Take?
By BOB HERBERT
from The New York Times
Published: September 10, 2004
"It was Vietnam all over again - the heartbreaking head shots captioned with good old American names:
"Jose Casanova, Donald J. Cline Jr., Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle, Alyssa R. Peterson.
"Eventually there'll be a fine memorial to honor the young Americans whose lives were sacrificed for no good Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1094708876967537042004-09-08T22:46:00.000-07:002004-09-08T22:47:56.966-07:00L. Blasch: Wherefore? Wherefore?
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1094528908162860812004-09-06T20:41:00.000-07:002004-09-06T20:48:28.163-07:00Unmitigated Gall
by Molly Ivins
Posted on Alternet.org
"Stephen Colbert, correspondent for The Daily Show, the only news program to watch during the Republican convention, found the theme of this convention like a homing pigeon: 'Unmitigated gall.'
"This convention alone would be enough to convince me that John Edwards is right about 'two Americas,' except I don't think he's gone far enough. Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1093397208230942852004-08-24T18:20:00.000-07:002004-08-24T18:26:48.230-07:00Setting the Record Straight:
There Was No Misinterpreting Iraqi Players' Anger at Bush's Campaign
From SportsIllustrated.com
By Grant Wahl
"ATHENS, Greece -- I had a feeling SI.com might ruffle some feathers in Washington with my story last week about Iraqi soccer players' displeasure with President Bush after he used the Iraqi Olympic team in his latest re-election campaign ad.
"But I can't Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1093295601320016512004-08-23T14:07:00.000-07:002004-08-23T16:21:28.920-07:00Quotes from Iraqi Olympic Soccer Team Spur Bush Flunkies to Call Sports Illustrated Writer a Liar
Okay, now I am angry. The Bush administration is using their Iraqi team spokesman (who is hired by the Iraqi coalition) to say Sports Illustrated writer, Grant Wahl, "engineered" and fabricated the story. Folks, I have known Grant Wahl personally for years, and I know he would never in a trillion Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1093036639285447032004-08-20T14:11:00.000-07:002004-08-22T12:56:36.600-07:00From Sports Illustrated.com:
Unwilling participants:
Iraqi soccer players angered by Bush campaign ads
By Grant Wahl
"PATRAS, Greece -- Iraqi midfielder Salih Sadir scored a goal here on Wednesday night, setting off a rousing celebration among the 1,500 Iraqi soccer supporters at Pampeloponnisiako Stadium. Though Iraq -- the surprise team of the Olympics -- would lose to Morocco 2-1, it hardly Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1092707603731340242004-08-16T18:46:00.000-07:002004-08-16T18:59:07.490-07:00Suppress the Vote?
From today's New York Times
[I know it's not surpressed information as such, but so few people read anymore as it is, and this story is scary because: 1.) It is fair to say it is of earthshaking importance, 2.) It is representative of the kinds of things happening daily under the GWB regime, and 3.) It is also the sort of thing that goes unreported on network television.--Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1092354898428369052004-08-12T16:53:00.000-07:002004-08-12T16:54:58.426-07:00Oh My God! The Governor of New Jersey's Homosexuality "Has Ruined His Family and Career!"
This is, I'm certain, what the Xian nutters across the country will be screeching tomorrow.
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1092339931327402492004-08-12T12:43:00.000-07:002004-08-12T12:45:31.326-07:00Michael Moore Quotes Goss on Lack of CIA Credentials
http://tinyurl.com/6qoyf
Wed Aug 11, 2004 06:40 PM ET By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Congressman Porter Goss, President Bush's nominee for CIA director, could be his own worst enemy when it comes to making the case that he deserves to lead the U.S. intelligence agency.
"I couldn't get a job with the CIA today. I am not Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1091745561913105822004-08-05T15:08:00.000-07:002004-08-05T15:55:06.246-07:00Journalist and Novelist Gloria Emerson: 1929-2004
More than anything, for me, she exists as a brusque voice on the telephone and a charmingly watchful glance over my brother in a photograph. That I was never fortunate enough to meet her face-to-face is regretable but not so bad: read her works and you shall meet her.
The stories of Vietnam in wartime are what marked the rest of her life Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1091738287265280752004-08-05T13:37:00.000-07:002004-08-05T15:02:42.173-07:00Bush Misspeak Cites U.S. Readiness to Harm U.S.
1 hour, 54 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States.
The latest installment of misspeak from a president long known for his malapropisms came during a signing ceremony for a new $417 billion defense Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1090817238741086272004-07-25T21:45:00.000-07:002004-08-05T13:35:19.036-07:00R.I.P. Ronald Sukenick, who left us on 22 July 04. Postmodernism couldn't have imploded without you.
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1089353984407041962004-07-08T22:44:00.000-07:002004-08-05T14:11:44.816-07:00Brief Rants About Cheney, Kerry/Edwards, Fag Drama, and My Inability to Travel At Will
Yeah, it's been a while since I posted, and God knows if anybody even looks at this Blog in summer, but well whatever . . . My computer died, I moved into a new place, I changed jobs, and I have been hanging out with a guy too young for me (again). This is what happens.
But first. Mr. Cheney the Charismatic: Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1088049660064529262004-06-23T20:56:00.000-07:002004-06-23T21:01:00.063-07:00RUMSFELD SHAKING THE HAND OF AN EVIL, BRUTAL DICTATOR
Again, thanks to Ed Kohler for the link.
www.mywebpages.comcast.net/atrios/rumsfeld-saddam.jpg
L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1088046343576365462004-06-23T19:49:00.000-07:002004-06-23T20:05:43.576-07:00THE WISDOM OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERS
"In wartime, there is literally no other end but war, and the objector, therefore, lives no longer with a choice of alternatives. The pacifist conscience attaches itself to no end because no end exists which connects with its desires. Plans and programs may exist which have not to do with war, but they exist only in the realm of fantasy, not in the realm ofL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1088049345360651722004-06-23T18:53:00.000-07:002004-06-23T20:55:45.360-07:00GW BUSH: FLIP-FLOPPER IN CHIEF
Thanks to Ed Kohler for the links.
President Bush: Flip-Flopper-In-Chief
June 1, 2004
From the beginning, George W. Bush has made his own credibility a central issue. On 10/11/00, then Governor Bush said: "I think credibility is important. It is going to be important for the president to be credible with Congress, important for the president to be credible with L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1088011024521645312004-06-23T09:48:00.000-07:002004-06-23T10:24:51.176-07:00REPUBLICAN ONE-DIMENSIONALITY AD NAUSEUM
Tuesday of this week, dep. Sec. of Defense Wolfowitz appeared before before the House Armed Services Committee and hypothesized that US troops could remain in Iraq "for years." Although the admission is long overdue, i found myself angrily jotting out points of response to the characterization of Iraq as an extension of the war on terrorism. I only haveL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1087955327448835892004-06-22T18:46:00.000-07:002004-06-22T18:48:47.446-07:00REAGAN'S SON REFUSES TO ALLOW DUBYA TO CLOAK HIMSELF IN RONNIE'S MANTLE
Reagan blasts Bush - "My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush," says the former president's son
by David Talbot
salon.com
"My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush," says the former president's son, in a flame-throwing conversation about the war and the Bush administration's efforts to lay claim to the Reagan L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1086807439550057912004-06-09T11:51:00.000-07:002004-06-09T12:01:46.983-07:00HONK IF YOU'RE GLAD RON IS DEAD
I'm only half kidding with that one - i've cared for alzheimer's patients and i wouldn't wish anyone to meet such an undignified end. But really, this hubbub over the death of Reagan isn't just annoying insofar as it's represents a right-wing election year coup, it's just plain wrong. We remember Reagan as though he were emblematic of the 1950's - our romantic L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1086092331462217112004-06-01T05:16:00.000-07:002004-06-01T05:18:51.463-07:00From today's New York Times:
Robin Hood in Reverse,
by Paul Krugman
[...]
"It has long been clear that the Bush administration's claim that it can simultaneously pursue war, large tax cuts and a 'compassionate' agenda doesn't add up. Now we have direct confirmation that the White House is engaged in bait and switch, that it intends to pursue a not at all compassionate agenda after this year's Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1085263634808749422004-05-22T15:02:00.000-07:002004-05-22T15:15:10.406-07:00 The Money Trail and Your Neighbors
Check out the following website. It gets heavy traffic, but if you can catch it when it's working it is absolutely fascinating:
www.fundrace.org
On the site, you may enter your own address to learn the political contributions made by people in your area to all candidates beginning in January 2004. Names and occupations are listed in addition to amount(s) Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1085261177444282122004-05-22T14:21:00.000-07:002004-05-22T14:26:17.443-07:00Diebold planning to eliminate more physical evidence: They plan to get rid of the sign-in poll book.By Bev Harris, with the assistence of Kathleen Wynne
Source: www.blackboxvoting.org
I've been telling you for over a year that this is coming, and here it is in print: From the transcript of the May 3 2004 Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Oh) Board of Elections "Question and Answer" session with Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1083981790018235312004-05-07T19:03:00.000-07:002004-05-07T19:06:24.750-07:00A Wretched New Picture Of America
Photos From Iraq Prison Show We Are Our Own Worst Enemy
By Philip Kennicott
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 5, 2004; Page C01
"Among the corrosive lies a nation at war tells itself is that the glory -- the lofty goals announced beforehand, the victories, the liberation of the oppressed -- belongs to the country as a whole; but the failure -- the Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1083721742812662372004-05-04T18:49:00.000-07:002004-05-04T18:55:53.420-07:00100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From
(There are a ton of links in these 100 items, and I have linked to the first batch. I'll try to link to everything as I get time. Still, this is a fascinating read).
From The Democratic Newsgroup:
100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From
Center for American Progress
May 3, 2004
During a prime time press conference on April 13, President Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1083379025168215232004-04-30T19:37:00.000-07:002004-04-30T19:40:12.623-07:00Lisa:
Thanks for the viewpoint. I'm just back from a roadtrip to Seattle, Soap Lake (WA), and Moscow (ID), and I think I am moving toward better perspectives in general. In Seattle I saw one of my idols, Kristin Hersh, roaring cathartic with her new band, 50-Ft. Wave, I got to play Outerspace Uncle to my friend, Matt Sullivan's, toddler, Milo, and I spent a bizarre electricity-outage two hours Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1083230844309298322004-04-29T02:27:00.000-07:002004-04-29T21:12:22.610-07:00Eric..
My impression of the account you received of your breakup was that it was rather contrived, and such contrivance is often a cloak for more fundamental issues which may very likely be too dramatic and direct to share. Notice the disjunction between falling in love and hollow apologies - do you see as i suspect you do a lack of coherence between his behavior and his account of his decisionL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1082553763631122402004-04-21T06:22:00.000-07:002004-04-21T06:25:41.560-07:00The Real Nuclear Danger
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The New York Times
“In the summer of 2001, there was a spike in Al Qaeda ‘chatter’ and mounting evidence that a terror strike was imminent. But without precise details, it was difficult to get the attention of top policy makers or the public — until it was too late.
“Now something similar is happening in North Korea.
“North Korea is potentiallyStourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1082133606400602152004-04-16T09:40:00.000-07:002004-04-16T09:42:59.170-07:00Thank Goodness For Jack Krugman
The following quote comes from Krugman's "The Vietnam Analogy" in today's New York Times:
"On Tuesday George Bush did a meta-Nixon: he declared that anyone who draws analogies between Iraq and Vietnam undermines the soldiers and encourages the enemy."
Read the full editorial here. (Requires a free, one-time regsitration)
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1082130124750426732004-04-16T08:42:00.000-07:002004-04-16T08:44:57.483-07:00 Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel
From The Guardian:
Bush's press conference shows just how ill-informed he is about Iraq (Article link available here.)
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday April 15, 2004
The Guardian
"On April 21 1961, President Kennedy held a press conference to answer questions on the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles that he had approved. 'There's an old Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1082059478059997012004-04-15T13:04:00.000-07:002004-04-15T13:07:30.403-07:00I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED ONCE AGAIN THAT BUSH IS INCAPABLE OF PERCEIVING CONCEPTUAL DISJUNCTIONS IN HIS OWN SPEECH
From Misleader.org of course.
BUSH CONTRADICTS SELF AT HIS OWN PRESS CONFERENCE
During last night's prime time press conference, President Bush once again
claimed that "there was nobody in our government, at least, and I don't
think the prior government that could envisionL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1082059174015319542004-04-15T12:59:00.000-07:002004-04-15T13:02:25.670-07:00WOULD BUSH RESORT TO PLANTING WMD IN IRAQ TO SAVE FACE BEFORE THE 9-11 COMMISSION AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC?
I think the answer is clearly yes - he's a violently prideful individual with a sense of absolute entitlement who displays willingness to punish anyone who may make him look bad. So it's not out of the realm of possibility. The problem is that for most of the world's people, there is no L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1081946692774125332004-04-14T05:44:00.000-07:002004-04-14T06:21:42.983-07:00 Eric - hang in..
I am sending out warm thoughts for you, and i'll get with you right quick re: all these developments. i am swamped for the next day or so, and then bill and i are going to portland for the weekend. i am still upset with him somewhat, but unfortunately i am hopelessly in love and thus fully vulnerable in the face of this thing that i am part of but which is so much bigger than L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1080612698257792102004-03-29T18:11:00.000-08:002004-04-18T13:02:43.076-07:00 Personal note for my far-flung friends:
Tomorrow my life will change, and I will find out one of two things: that I am terminated from my job, or that I will not be offered a contract for next school year. Don't worry about me just yet. I have had this whole school year (and all of last school year!) to get used to what is surely an inevitability, and it was never a good fit anyway. I'm a Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1080428720370870572004-03-27T15:05:00.000-08:002004-03-27T15:10:01.153-08:00Mayor With a Mission
From The New York Times
By ROBERT SULLIVAN
Published: March 28, 2004
"Jason West, the mayor of the little Hudson Valley village of New Paltz who married 25 gay couples last month before receiving a court injunction to stop, has been thinking about gay marriage for a long time. In fact, immediately after taking office last summer, the two things the 27-year-old asked his Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078257675918475932004-03-02T12:01:00.000-08:002004-03-02T12:03:24.340-08:00INTERNATIONAL LAWYER FRANCIS BOYLE WEIGHS IN ON THE CASE BEFORE THE HAGUE
I have been paying attention to Boyle's commentary for several years now, and find his arguments clear and powerful. The following interview explains the judicial review of the Israeli wall as legal problem, which i must say is a fresh alternative to all the religious covenant claptrap that is so carelessly spewed by L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078155987341817482004-03-01T07:46:00.000-08:002004-03-01T07:48:34.153-08:00NEW LEGAL CHALLENGES TO BLAIR REVEAL MISUSE OF 1990 UN RESOLUTION AGAINST INVASION OF KUWAIT TO SUPPORT 2003 PROGRAM OF PRE-EMPTION AND REGIME CHANGE
Two excerpts here which should be taken together. The first article was published today on the Guardian website and discusses the possibility that the British government may not have legal immunity from wrongful death suits in the event of an L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078129086104867712004-03-01T00:18:00.000-08:002004-03-01T06:54:01.733-08:00MONEY REQUESTED FOR IRAQ WAR USED TO GEAR UP FOR MARTIAL LAW IN MIAMI
The documented accounts of police brutality, civil rights repression and FBI surveillance at the latest FTAA summit in Miami can be found in droves on the net, so i'm not going to bog down our forum with them. However, what you may not know is that the $87 billion that the Bush administration requested as supplemental fundingL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078128024600823972004-03-01T00:10:00.000-08:002004-03-01T06:58:25.983-08:00IN LIEU OF JOB GROWTH, MCJOBS CAN BE RECLASSIFIED AS "MANUFACTURING" POSITIONS
The pliable distinction between the production and service sectors
THis is not a joke - as ridiculous as it sounds, it's just another in a long line of examples of pseudo-scientific manipulation of socio-economic data a la George W. Bush and his team of Capitalist cronies. As we know, their most recent predicitions L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078128243433452572004-03-01T00:01:00.000-08:002004-03-01T07:01:53.200-08:00UK'S "GUARDIAN" DESCRIBES TWO WARS OVER IRAQ, VOWS WE WILL HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY FROM OUR LEADERS
This is a nice little article in which the author tells a story of a second war over the Iraq question, between the political leaders who acted desperately and illegally on behalf of pre-emption, and those who will use the laws to oust them. Remember, there is not yet any legal basis for any party toL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078125209936187092004-02-29T23:13:00.000-08:002004-03-01T07:20:19.216-08:00BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND THEIR CRONIES VIEW OPPOSITION GROUPS AS TERRORISTS
This story is interesting to me because it reminds us of the significance of using the word 'terrorism' in political and economic contexts to refer to groups or views legitimately opposed to your own. Clearly, the danger is that democratic protections for organizing citizen opposition to state and corporate institutions L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078124129336586022004-02-29T22:55:00.000-08:002004-02-29T22:58:05.403-08:00PENTAGON "WAR GAME" SUGGESTS the U.S. PREPARE FOR THE WORST
In a report that was leaked from the nation's innermost military sanctum, the Pentagon welcomes us to a grim view of the 21st century where the rich will hoard resources at the expense of the lives of the poor and the international community will disintegrate to barbaric wars of survival.
The official Pentagon response to the L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1078107617777572642004-02-29T18:10:00.000-08:002004-02-29T23:02:56.763-08:00US AND BRITAIN EMBROILED IN ESPIONAGE ACCUSATIONS
For those of you who have been under a rock for the last year or so, we now know that the British and American intelligence agencies were used to spy on Kofi Annan, Hans Blix and other diplomats in an effort to forestall the UN's attempts to spare Iraq from war through diplomacy. Because of brave individuals such as Catherine Gunn and others, weL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077886245909340402004-02-27T04:50:00.000-08:002004-02-27T04:52:49.356-08:00From Bob Herbert in today's New York Times:
"The opponents of gay marriage are on the wrong side of history. The interests of civilization are not served by driving mature love underground. And the interests of the United States, which is supposed to be the quintessence of a free society, are not served by enshrining bigotry in law."
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077824235859017182004-02-26T11:37:00.000-08:002004-02-26T11:39:18.780-08:00From The Advocate Online:
Kerry backs Mass. amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage
"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday he supports amending the Massachusetts constitution to ban gay marriage as long as such an amendment would provide for civil unions for same-sex couples. He stressed that he was referring only to the state, and not the federal, constitution. The Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077754665375174332004-02-25T16:17:00.000-08:002004-02-25T16:19:47.826-08:00Gay Democrats ask for marital history of GOP legislators
By Tim Evans
tim.evans@indystar.com
February 24, 2004
"Claiming divorce -- not same-sex unions -- is undermining the
sanctity of marriage, a group of gay Democrats on Monday asked state
GOP Chairman Jim Kittle to identify Republican legislators who have
been divorced.
"The request comes as House Republicans are attempting to force a
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077715846983650192004-02-25T05:30:00.000-08:002004-02-25T05:48:42.496-08:00THE FALLACIOUS "STABILITY" ARGUMENT AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THE GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF HETEROSEXUALS
Attention Fundamentalists: We Heteros are Doing a Perfectly Good Job of Undermining Marriage All On Our Own, Thank You Very Much! How about giving a little credit where it's due?
I am depressed to watch the punditocracy reduce the intellectual sophistication of the debate L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077695789727583822004-02-24T23:56:00.000-08:002004-02-25T05:04:11.060-08:00CHENEY CLAIMS IN 2000 THAT MARRIAGE IN A FREE SOCIETY IS OPEN TO EVERYONE
(if you're totally daft, this implies that we are less than free...)
Here is an article from www.Chicagopride.com that takes us back to the good old days when social conservatism actually meant keeping government OUT of the privacy of your home. However, as we all know, the war on terror and the terroristic gays changed L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077676711963806812004-02-24T18:38:00.000-08:002004-02-24T18:44:35.983-08:00Homos Gone Berserk!
I think I freaked out my mom this past weekend when I told her that LesBiGayTrans rights was the one issue for which I was willing to die (I also added, "But I shouldn't have to, you know?"). But the more I think about it, the more I feel it, not the least of which is because of my pathetic geographic location (Case in point: my boss said to me not too long ago, "You're not Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077653808805452082004-02-24T12:16:00.000-08:002004-02-24T13:39:51.436-08:00SO, YOU WANT A CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE?
The Bush administration's willingness to sack the constitution to appeal to the bible-thumping Right has everything to do with rallying their fundamentalist base, but the issue is more significant than the mere fact of the November election.
Bush's decision to support the House proposal to amend the US Constitution to define marriage as a unionL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077655163701939412004-02-24T10:10:00.000-08:002004-02-24T12:42:46.546-08:00THE ARCHITECT OF OUTSOURCING CANNOT SUPPORT RECOMMENDATIONS WITH EMPIRICAL DATA
Or, How Lou Dobbs Redeemed His Conservativism in One Fell Swoop
The following is a transcript from Lou Dobbs' Moneyline, in which he flays Conservative ideologue Catherine Mann for her role as the heroine of outsourcing, and shows that she cannot specifiy any way in which outsourcing is ultimately a long term benefitL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077637255054063012004-02-24T07:40:00.000-08:002004-02-24T10:48:04.390-08:00REMEMBERING MLK jr.: THE MAN, NOT THE MYTH
Or, "Congress is Sick" and Other Marxist Observations by America's Most Beloved Civil Rights Leader
Why was it such a big deal that Bush laid a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. at the same time he was waging an aggressive, illegal war on behalf of the American military industrial complex? Most folks can't really explain why, and often L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077620584530732732004-02-24T03:03:00.000-08:002004-02-24T05:06:10.263-08:00BUSH ADMITS HE HAD HIS EYE ON DETHRONING SADDAM BEFORE SEPT. 11
Terrorism was a convenient pretext, wasn't it?
Bush admits wanting new Iraqi regime before 9/11
Invasion plot not addressed
By PATTY REINERT Jan. 13, 2004, 6:13AM
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
MONTERREY, Mexico -- President Bush acknowledged Monday that he has been in favor of regime change in Iraq since entering the White L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077616733897260532004-02-24T01:58:00.000-08:002004-02-24T02:07:59.420-08:00BUSH ADMINISTRATION PREFERS DECEPTIVE METHOD FOR MEASURING JOB GROWTH
Or, Why The Bush Economy is Trickling Down W's Leg
In the last month i have seen everyone from Bush administration officials, their pundits and spokesmen and even Steve Fucking Forbes defend the "hot new trend" in measuring job growth. Instead of looking at jobs created/terminated, they propose to interview households and L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077615283795171992004-02-24T01:34:00.000-08:002004-02-24T01:36:44.340-08:00BUSH ADMINISTRATION REFUSED TO GIVE UN INSPECTORS INFORMATION ON "SUSPECTED" WMD SITES, AND LIED AND SAID THEY DID
Their claim of course is that war was the last option. When all the evidence is added up, it appears that it was the first. As it has been infamously put: patriotism is the first, last and perennial refuge of scoundrels. If the world could not wait for the UN inspection team to L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077614324784849692004-02-24T01:18:00.000-08:002004-02-24T01:23:47.640-08:00CHALABI DISMISSES QUESTIONS ABOUT FALSE INTELLIGENCE STATEMENTS AS "HEROISM"
(while Garner admits an opportunistic bid to expand American military presence in the Middle East)
(full text here at www.AlterNet.org)
One piece in the puzzle of "inconsistencies" is becoming clearer - the relationship between US intelligence and the Iraqi National Congress, a group of exiled nationalists who told L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077611272750802062004-02-24T00:27:00.000-08:002004-02-24T00:31:42.233-08:00WILLIAM GREIDER ON THE DEAN LEGACY
(published in The Nation - full text here)
William Greider is a critical voice that I trust - he has been a faithful critic of NAFTA and the whole process of economic globalization. His book "One World - Ready or Not" is always nearby in my library. Here is the bulk of his February 19th essay on Dean from The Nation, in which he explains why Dean was too L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077610639939295852004-02-24T00:17:00.000-08:002004-02-24T00:20:45.326-08:00THE "FAMILY STEERING COMMITTEE" FOR THE 9-11 COMMISSION POINTS OUT INCONSISTENCIES IGNORED BY MEDIA
This is actually a great site, i recommend you take a look. The families of the victims of Sept. 11 are furious with the unwillingness of the commission and the Bush administration to pursue a wider inquiry into inconsistencies in the official story. Here are several questions they demand L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077604954726925612004-02-23T22:42:00.000-08:002004-02-23T23:05:31.500-08:00ATTENTION DEMOCRATS: YOU'VE DUMPED A GRASSROOTS COALITION
Or, "How Howard Dean is to MLK jr. as Ralph Nader is to Malcolm X"
We all know what the story is by now, and we've heard too many interviews not to know the arguments pro and con for a Nader candidacy in an era when we must focus on getting rid of the most radical, corporate-driven regime in U.S. history. I won't review that, but let me L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077608175023269802004-02-23T22:36:00.000-08:002004-02-23T23:39:03.170-08:00Institute for Social Research Determines Impact of Bush Deficits for Social Programs
(text of full report from The Center for Impact Research can be found here)
Remember as you read this that successful GDP growth is ultimately connected to a strong production and consumer base at home. Exporting jobs and eroding social protections artificially elevates the profit margin in the short term, but L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077608753074838412004-02-23T22:10:00.000-08:002004-02-23T23:49:26.686-08:00Republicans Dig the Deficit Deeper:
Summary and Analysis of the
2004 Conference Agreement on the Budget Resolution
(full text here at the website of the House Budget Committee Democrats)
Working Families and the Safety Net
Republican Conference Agreement Cuts $2.7 Billion from Appropriated Low-Income Programs -- The Republican conference agreement cuts funding for housing and other annually L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077602818419216602004-02-23T22:06:00.000-08:002004-02-23T22:08:59.200-08:00"CONVERSTAION" From "GET YOUR WAR ON"
(comic strip which can be viewed here)
Here is a conversation from a comic strip celebrating the enduring spirit of warfare as it is being practiced in the War on Terror, between individual A and individual B:
A: Oh Yeah! Operation "Enduring Freedom" is in the house!
B: Oh Yeah! Operation "Enduring Freedom" is in the motherfucking house!
A: Yes! L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1077482312631151212004-02-22T12:38:00.000-08:002004-02-24T18:02:34.810-08:00The Nader Question
For all you "good democrats" out there who think Ralph Nader should not run for the presidency nor should anyone vote for him if he does run, I have a few things to say to you.
Let me be as brief but clear as I can on this topic. I am damn glad there is another choice. I am damn glad I am still able to cast my vote according to my beliefs. If democrats who think my abilityStourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1076893847269294932004-02-15T17:03:00.000-08:002004-02-15T17:12:39.860-08:00TEMPORARY NOTES ON FA von HAYEK
I am working out of town on a Mac with no A drive, and so i am temporarily putting the notes i have been taking on a book I am reading here. When i get home and get my internet connection back this week i'll put them on my own computer (a PC) and delete this entry. Skip it unless you're a hardcore devotee of the philosophy of political liberalism.
FA von HayekL. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1076781009433820372004-02-14T09:50:00.000-08:002004-02-14T10:05:43.996-08:00Lisa: Lives can change in a snap or a stretch, but they can change in some wonderful ways [They can also sink into endless suckitude, but I just don't see that happening to you!]. As February is African-American history month (why they get the shortest month of the year seems yet another indiginity), I'll throw in something from Dr. King--that unearned suffering is redemptive. Let us hope so.
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1076573314647371262004-02-12T00:08:00.000-08:002004-02-12T00:10:23.483-08:00TRUE MAJORITY SEEKS CENSURE OF PRESIDENT IN LIEU OF IMPEACHMENT
I received the following email and thought we should pass it on.
Truth Is the Oxygen of Democracy
Tell Congress to Censure Bush for Misleading Us about the Iraq War
President Bush talks a lot about how America should defend democracy. But his own actions at home have been inconsistent with the basic requirement of a functional L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1076571374839815322004-02-11T23:36:00.000-08:002004-02-11T23:38:03.936-08:00Well, things are all screwed up for me re: my internet connection. My ex doesn't bother to pay the phone bill as per our agreement, and everytime something happens to the phone line, i lose the internet. When i have the internet, i have no fucking phone. Hopefully this will get cleared up soon, as i work 40 hrs per week plus spend all day at school, not to mention grading, studying and doing L. Blaschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13810974895150248098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1076038906689912412004-02-05T19:41:00.000-08:002004-02-05T19:43:28.780-08:00And an email I just received:
Dear MoveOn member,
We didn't think the hypocrisy at CBS headquarters could get any worse. But it just did.
As you know, CBS refused to run MoveOn Voter Fund's "Child's Pay" ad -- perhaps the most tasteful and uncontroversial advocacy ad in history -- during the Super Bowl. CBS executives claimed they had a blanket policy against all so-called "issue" ads.
Stourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588556.post-1076030747063436882004-02-05T17:25:00.000-08:002004-02-05T17:27:29.280-08:00From today's New York Times:
Sex, Lies and Bush Tapes
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
"Using this week's White House budget methodology, I can project that if you just keep reading this column, your assets will increase by $28,581 and you will lose 12.42 pounds. And this column is projected to end after just one paragraph.
"Well, so much for White House projections.
"If we're serious about confrontingStourley Kracklitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06148449952857879458noreply@blogger.com