tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53713772011-04-21T15:21:43.058-04:00the highest form of patriotism is dissent. this is a free speech zone.j.noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1157974817306710012006-09-11T07:26:00.000-04:002006-09-11T07:43:00.356-04:00

Never forget I may not agree with the mainstream politcal regime, but I, too, mourn the loss of life on Americal soil on 9/11/2001. One of my views is, however, that we should have seen it coming. Shame on us for not thinking of it, being vigilent enough, and not having leaders responsible enough to actually listen to the advice they were getting from their different intelligence sources. I

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1157369898295795342006-09-04T07:26:00.000-04:002006-09-04T07:38:18.583-04:00

Me too, I wanna call... ...for Rumsfeld's resignation. Mind you, it could be a feint by centrist Republicans to distance themselves from the Decider. But Rummy revealed too much of what goes on in his brain cell when he tried to compare all those terr-ists out there to the Nazis and the Third Reich. The problem with the terrorists is that they are so whipped up into a fervor by their clergy,

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Katrina redux One year ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Southern Gulf Coast. Today, we're treated to all the major media outlets going down there, shooting video, recording interviews, posting photos and blogging about how sad the state of affairs is down there. I heard that we are spending a billion dollars a week in Iraq. Billion with a "B". You and me. Our money. We're the ones

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1097754182849203482004-10-14T07:32:00.000-04:002004-10-14T07:43:02.850-04:00

If it's all about the ratings.... ...then tell me why the candidates chose to hold their debate during the ALCS? They could have maybe held the debate as a pre-game warm-up - they certainly would have had a lot more eyeballs on them if they had. So what we're left with this morning are the soundbites of the name-calling, and all the micro-analysis and spin that go with them. Just a little

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1097585188133721052004-10-12T08:31:00.000-04:002004-10-12T08:46:28.133-04:00

Back from the brink of extinction. Call it dead heat fatigue. Call it what you will. Maybe it's the start of the school year, and my early morning exertions are now focused around getting the teenager out of bed and into the car. Anyway, please forgive my absence. I did get a twitchy feeling the other morning while listening to Nina Totenberg on NPR. She was describing the treatment

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1094038900507970992004-09-01T07:29:00.000-04:002004-09-01T07:41:40.506-04:00

Arnold and me The Terminator and I share something. Neither of us were born on U.S. soil. Neither of us can become President. Capital-P President, that is. Commander-In-Chief. In his case, he's Austrian, or was, until he married Maria. In my case, my American parents were living overseas on scholarships when I came along. That's pretty much where the similarity ends. I guess I must

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1093951753496394692004-08-31T07:06:00.000-04:002004-08-31T07:40:24.156-04:00

Newsflash: Republicans Descend on New York "They want to make Apple Pie out of the Big Apple", residents complain. I must say, I have been bracing myself for the total onslaught of pro-Bush media coverage this week. Sort of like the way I feel as I watch the dentist drill on it's way in to my mouth - painful and unavoidable. Not just painful - it raises the word "discomfort" to a new

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1093609520724716052004-08-27T08:12:00.000-04:002004-08-27T08:25:20.726-04:00

Back from vacation. Sorry for the hiatus. Spent the better part of the week in Kennebunkport, which is a place where the Bush America rubs up against the Kerry America. Poppy lives out on Walker Point, which I got a bird's eye view of from the water. In the heart of the tourist strip, the local Kerry headquarters hangs it banner proudly for all to see. And everywhere you look, it's 50-50

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1093098871160669442004-08-21T10:20:00.000-04:002004-08-21T18:51:39.310-04:00

Kerry files complaint against 527 group "Gunboats Without Scruples". Yawn yawn yawn. It's not like JK is out there telling MoveOn to go easy on GW, now, it is? Unfortunately, this just sounds like election year whining. After all, is the FEC going to do anything? Is it empowered to? Face facts: the Dems chose Kerry because they knew whoever they chose would have to endure the total

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1093002926501406932004-08-20T07:41:00.000-04:002004-08-20T08:07:36.010-04:00

Do I have to resign myself to the fact that when I was growing up, the Left had meaning and purpose, and as I age and die, the Right is in the ascendancy and the Left is in shambles? Will my final days be as desperate and filled with fear as Winston's were in 1984? These thoughts were triggered by the following new boutique trends which were called to my attention this morning, brought to

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1092915358839130442004-08-19T07:25:00.000-04:002004-08-19T07:48:52.506-04:00

NPR tells me this morning that if half the protesters anticipated to show up in Nuevo York actually show up, the protester-to-delegate ratio will be 50-to-1. 50 to 1. You want to know what the big irony is? It's this: since Amerika is not a Free Speech Zone, nobody in Duluth watching the convention on TV will know that there are any protesters in New York - or homeless people either, for that

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1092830000782775942004-08-18T07:35:00.000-04:002004-08-18T07:53:20.783-04:00

OK, so - when are we going to peek under the rug and see what we've swept under it? My bet is somewhere around or after November 12. How many more days can you wake up and listen to NPR and not see the big picture: the cost of everything is going up, yet wages are flat or even retreating, as people are willing to accept less money to do things merely because any job is better than no job

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1092224093955152732004-08-11T07:31:00.000-04:002004-08-11T07:34:53.956-04:00

Just a question or two you should ask yourself on the way to work this morning - is your home a Free Speech Zone? Is your car? How about if you ride the bus to work - is the bus a Free Speech Zone? The subway? How about the shopping mall? Where are the boundaries? I'm beginning to think that the shopping mall is off limits - which is why you should go there and speak your mind. If you speak

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1091555067024363622004-08-03T13:40:00.000-04:002004-08-03T14:05:50.563-04:00

Consider this quote, if you will: "We're living in the middle of a witch hunt and fat people are the witches," said Marilyn Wann of San Francisco, a militant member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "It's gotten markedly worse in the last few years because of the propaganda that fatness, a natural human characteristic, is somehow a form of disease." Source: http://

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-1091532204115812882004-08-03T07:16:00.000-04:002004-08-03T09:21:17.873-04:00

Time to dust off this blog, it seems. Quickly, before middle-age dementia and lack of typing skills sets in. Here's what occurred to me last night: the framers of the Constitution had a lot on the ball. They wrote a pretty good document for their day, and it worked to bring to life our system of government, that "holiest of holies" in this world of lurking threats, Democracy. Not that a

j.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371377.post-956375682003-06-13T14:25:00.000-04:002003-06-13T14:28:54.000-04:00

now the cowboys all have cell phones where their six guns oughtta be and if you don't stand on their side then you must be enemy now our heroes all have condos where our home towns used to be and it's only an illusion that our minds are truly free.

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