We the people of this great nation have had to endure the insulting and - at times - criminal behavior of the Bush Administration for 8 years now. We've waited in vain for the Democrats in the House to do something (like impeach the bastards). There have been investigations and subpeonas, but the only result was Scooter Libby's indictment and subsequent pardon regarding his role in outing Valerie Plame.

As it happens, it was announced yesterday that Plame and Wilson are taking their civil lawsuit to the Supreme Court:
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107 comments (Latest Comment: 11/21/2008 00:50:21 by Random)

Now is the time to keep pushing forward. Now is the time to not give up, to not get complacent. Now is the time to be very aware of everything that is happening.

If a well organized group of people can use the Constitution to take away one group's rights , then who is next? It's a fair and valid question to ask, and not one without precident in America. We must ask this question because we are all in jeopardy of having what so many in our nation have fought for, taken away.
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128 comments (Latest Comment: 11/18/2008 04:55:07 by BobR)

The very first sentence of the first ammendment states Congress shall make no law establishing religion.

So far, in 232 years of America...Congress hasn't flatly come out and said "The Religion of the land is Christianity".

But they may as well have long ago. The United States has established many laws that attempted to legislate morality....from restricting certain medical procedures, removing the rights of certain people to marry, and indeed even our darkest sorrow, legalizing chattel slavery. Many of these things are allowed and even encouraged in certain religious texts. But in all my dealings with so-called Christians, or religious fundamentalists of any stripe, the one question none of them has been able to answer is "Why should your belief system be the law of the land?"

I won't get into an argument on abortion, or polygamy, or child marriage, or any one of the thousand or so other things religions around the world practice as a matter of course.

Today it's about stripping the rights of a particular group of people in the name of a specific interpretation of "morality".

Of course, I'm talking about California's Proposition 8, which is brutal in its simplicity:

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14 comments (Latest Comment: 11/16/2008 03:22:25 by Random)

I have to be honest. I woke up and realized, I have nothing today.

It's not that I don't have any ideas, I have so many. I want to talk about the bailout, the auto industry, the basic economic mess we still have. I can't, because I really do not understand it. Everyone seems to agree that the bailout has been a colossal failure, heck, even Hank Paulson decided to switch gears yesterday, claiming that the 'facts on the ground' had changed. What?
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243 comments (Latest Comment: 11/14/2008 11:27:09 by BobR)

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,064th day in Iraq.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualties from the warron terra, courtesy of antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4193
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4054
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3732
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3335
Since Election (1/31/05): 2756

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 314
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 626
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 379
Contractor Deaths - Iraq: 445



We find this morning's cost of war passing through: $ 570, 208, 000, 000 .00



Our friends at IAVA are celebrating veteran's day this year by launching a new ad campaign. Apparently, despite getting a new GI Bill in this last session of congress, the Pentagon is doing a terrible job publicizing it, so once again it falls to the veteran's groups to make sure the soldiers get everything they're entitled to. We all hope this will stop under President Obama.

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120 comments (Latest Comment: 11/12/2008 02:35:58 by Mondobubba)