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November 30, 2003From the New York Times: From Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Nation: November 29, 2003Here’s another rebuttal of the Weekly Standard article discussed here last week. From an article by Christopher Scheer, co-author of the “The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq,” in the Los Angeles Times: November 28, 2003Bush prefers to pass the buck rather than say, it stops here, so this is an exercise in fantasy. But it would be nice to have a president with the integrity to deliver a speech like this. From CBS News: From Helen Thomas: November 26, 2003Criticism of Bush’s medicare bill by Republican Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com: It seems we share a common opponent with libertarians and traditional conservatives – Bush’s neocons, with their assaults on civil liberties, their outrageous spending, and their empire building. An interesting perspective from conservative columnist William S. Lind at LewRockwell.com: More on the neocons. From an article by Eric Boehlert in Salon.com: November 25, 2003From the NCPA: The final tallies show that overall spending grew by almost 9 percent for the 2003 fiscal year ending September 30, and by 21 [...] Imagine if we had a president who thought this way. We might have peace and prosperity! Oh yeah, we did have a president who thought this way, and we did have peace and prosperity. But no more. From a forum in September with former president Bill Clinton: From Joe Conasen in Salon: Enthusiastic advocates of Medicare privatization always insist that such measures will rein in costs, improve efficiency, and apply “market discipline” to federally subsidized healthcare. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist regularly utters the same clichés, as he did again this week while seeking to end debate on the pro-privatization prescription-drug bill… November 24, 2003From the Washington Post: As Congress rushes to conclude its 2003 session, Republican leaders are trying to garner votes for controversial legislation by loading the bills with billions of dollars in added costs that analysts said would expand the budget deficit for years to come. The year-end binge has alarmed analysts in Washington and on Wall [...] November 23, 2003I doubt most Bush supporters know much about the kind of people Bush is putting forward as judicial nominees for lifetime appointments to the federal bench, and how extreme their views are. If John Ashcroft wasn’t a scary enough reflection of Bush, then check out some of his judicial nominees. Take James Holmes, [...] This story was recently profiled on NOW (my paraphrase below): Here’s another case, recently profiled on NOW: November 22, 2003Must see this CSPAN video – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes on Bush’s disastrous environmental and energy policy. November 21, 2003From Graham Joyce in Salon: November 20, 2003London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone has called Mr Bush “the most dangerous man on the planet” and said that, even if asked, he would refuse to shake hands with him. Now, today in London, from the Mirror, is a report of protests by citizens during Bush’s visit with Prime Minister Tony Blair: From Asia Times: Those of us concerned about our soldiers overseas and the mess George W. Bush and his bumbling neoconservative advisors have placed them in are aware of the tremendous difficulties they are facing. Particularly reservists, but really, such an ill-conceived occupation is something no one can ever be fully prepared for. From the Los [...] November 19, 2003Is George Bush really a Christian? Christian: one who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ. November 18, 2003November 17, 2003From the Portsmouth Herald: …Daniel Ellsberg, a former employee for the Defense Department who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times and Washington Post, spoke at Amherst College and noted the likelihood of a future draft. From Joyce McGreevy in Salon: One of America’s most intrepid illusionists, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snow… pulled a rabbit and about 126,000 jobs out of a hat. November 16, 2003From MoveOn.org: From Knight Ridder: November 15, 2003From The Hindu: From Andrew Rosenthal in the New York Times: November 13, 2003We hear about dead soldiers in Iraq, but what about the wounded? From the UK Independent, “Concern about fatalities among Western forces in Iraq tends to overlook another ghastly statistic: the spectacularly mounting toll of the severely wounded. Andrew Buncombe reports on America’s invisible army of maimed and crippled servicemen”: …Sgt Meinen, of the 43rd [...] Someone sent me this joke: November 12, 2003While Americans have to sue to protest during Bush appearances, the British are letting the people have their say. From Reuters: November 11, 2003Howard Dean released the following statement today: November 10, 2003From The New York Times: From Financial Times: November 9, 2003From the Seattle Times: From Benjamin Wallace-Wells in the Washington Monthly: …the consensus view seems to be that the military as a whole votes Republican by a margin of slightly less than 2-to-1, with enlisted men and women Republican by 3-to-2, and Republicans outnumbering Democrats among officers by 8-to-1. (Thankfully for Democratic partisans, there are 15 times as many enlisted [...] November 7, 2003From a Cato article called A Democratic Iraq? Don’t Hold Your Breath by Patrick Basham: Who is missing from the picture of Bush with his smiling cohorts signing the Roe v. Wade rollback legislation? From the November 6, 2003Pick up the latest copy of Newsweek, featuring the cover story: “Bush’s $87 Billion Mess: Waste, Chaos, Cronyism.” The issue takes on “The $87 Billion Money Pit,” about how “US taxpayers are footing most of the bill for this ill will” (“Where it Goes…How it’s Spent”) and the “waste, fraud, and abuse” among [...] Excerpts from Senator Feinstein’s statements on the Senate Floor below shows why the so-called “partial birth” ban will endanger womens’ lives and is really about banning all abortions: A Presidential Candidates Forum on Women’s Issues was held yesterday. The video is available here. November 5, 2003Bush’s strategy to not talk about the loss on Sunday of 16 young Americans reveals his lack of character. From the this Washington Post: Bush gave two speeches in Alabama and made no specific reference to the helicopter downing on Sunday that killed 16 soldiers, the single deadliest attack against U.S. troops in Iraq. A [...] From Eric Boehlert in Salon: November 3, 2003Check it out at Mother Jones. November 2, 2003Funny, Clinton managed to balance the budget AND make fair policy benefiting working people. But since Bush took office, we have seen the largest job loss since Herbert Hoover’s presidency, and hunger is on the rise in America. From MSNBC: About 12 million American families last year worried that they couldn?t afford [...] Must see article in the New York Times today, Blueprint for a Mess” by David Rieff: … Historically, it is rare that a warm welcome is extended to an occupying military force for very long, unless, that is, the postwar goes very smoothly. And in Iraq, the postwar occupation has not gone smoothly. November 1, 2003From Mother Jones: There are several great articles in the latest Mother Jones issue on the theme “Let Them Eat Cake: The Compassionate Conservativsm of George W. Bush.” |
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." ~ Zora Neale Hurston "Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got to not forget to laugh." ~ Katharine Hepburn "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ~ Maya Angelou "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." ~ Edith Wharton "Mistakes are the dues one pays for a full life." ~ Sophia Loren "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." ~ Virginia Woolf "Woman must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression." ~ Margaret Sanger "Probably, hanging onto the past brings more destruction than any other single cause. ...It's the Muslim fundamentalists who worship the past and ignore the reformist spirit with which Muhammad viewed women. It's the backward-looking Christian literalists who interpret religious teachings in a way that consolidates their power..." ~ Gloria Steinem "'Inherent differences' between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity." ~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg "Feminism is and always has been about women acting in the world as full-fledged citizens, as real participants in the world of ideas and policy and history." ~ Susan Faludi "As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the world." ~ Virginia Woolf "...remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors... If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." ~ Abigail Adams "Bloody treason, murderous act Not by women were designed. Bells o'erthrown nor churches sacked Speak not ill of womenkind." ~ Gearoid Iarla Fitzgerald "We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it." ~ Bella Abzug "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt "There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives." ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place." ~ Margaret Mead "Of my two 'handicaps' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black." ~ Shirley Chisholm "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?" ~ Zora Neale Hurston Nature "Eventually, all things merge into one; and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs..." ~ Norman Maclean "There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example - where had they gone?... It was a spring without voices." ~ Rachel Carson "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ~ St. Francis of Assisi "I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but He cannot save them from fools." ~ John Muir "The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders." ~ Edward Abbey "We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it... Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass to-day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far-off years which still live in us, and transform our perception into love." ~ George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) "Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." ~ Rachel Carson "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~ John Muir Freedom "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." ~ Thomas Jefferson "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood of ideas in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." ~ John F. Kennedy "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ~ James Madison "When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." ~ C. P. Snow "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." ~ Albert Einstein "Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~ William Pitt "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin "No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise." ~ Marian Anderson Truth "Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt "If somebody tells you you ought to quit, it's because they're afraid you won't." ~ Bill Clinton "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ~ Robert F. Kennedy "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Find things that shine and move toward them." ~ Mia Farrow "The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But the good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Abuse of Power "We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth in a few hands, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." ~ Russell Baker "O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." ~ William Shakespeare "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson Violence "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think." ~ Patricia Schroeder "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower "What difference does it make to the dead whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" ~ Mohandas Gandhi "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." ~ John F. Kennedy "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." ~ Jesus "Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." ~ Mohandas Gandhi "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Hypocrisy "And thus I clothe my naked villany with odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil." ~ William Shakespeare "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing... in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men... But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret..." ~ Jesus "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, ... legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state." ~ Thomas Jefferson "Persecution is not an original feature in any religion, but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law." ~ Thomas Paine "I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.... There is no place in this country for practicing religion in politics." ~ Barry Goldwater "Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard." ~ Hllary Rodham Clinton Politics "I never was surer of my position that no self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her political rights." ~ Susan B. Anthony "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." ~ Adlai Stevenson "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~ H.L. Mencken "All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility." ~ Doris Lessing Pretended Patriotism "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~ George Washington "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!" ~ Albert Einstein "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." ~ Clarence Darrow "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell "To (say) that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it's morally treasonable to the American public." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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