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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Give a Gift to Earth this Xmas
First, go to arborday.org/your tree and learn more about the importance of replanting our National Forests.
Then, honor someone you love with the gift of a tree planted in their name in one of our National Forests. Let them know how much you care by helping restore our forests to their full grandeur in their name- an inspiration for all who pass through them and a refuge for the wild things of rare beauty and grace that inhabit them! You will send them a beautiful card from the Arbor Day Foundation letting your loved ones know of their important contribution to our environment by having a tree planted in their name. Do It Today, please!
Our National Forests are in great need of your help, especially after the years of neglect by the despicable anti-environmental policies of the Bush administration. . .
The Arbor Day Foundation does more than their share to make it happen. Help them and all of us to boot!
Now this is a Christmas present of LOVE!!!
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Then, honor someone you love with the gift of a tree planted in their name in one of our National Forests. Let them know how much you care by helping restore our forests to their full grandeur in their name- an inspiration for all who pass through them and a refuge for the wild things of rare beauty and grace that inhabit them! You will send them a beautiful card from the Arbor Day Foundation letting your loved ones know of their important contribution to our environment by having a tree planted in their name. Do It Today, please!
Our National Forests are in great need of your help, especially after the years of neglect by the despicable anti-environmental policies of the Bush administration. . .
The Arbor Day Foundation does more than their share to make it happen. Help them and all of us to boot!
Now this is a Christmas present of LOVE!!!
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
More Wonderful Bush Holiday News
Check Out the NEWEST Mark Fiore animation on the PLANET REVOLUTION Blog Sidebar's 'L I B E R A L Media' section.
Another Bush gift to America, just in time for the holidays. . .
Hate to say it again, but Sad, Sad, Sad!
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Another Bush gift to America, just in time for the holidays. . .
Hate to say it again, but Sad, Sad, Sad!
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
American Original- THANKSGIVING
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation:
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State
Note: It is so apparent to the modern reader that the constant perfunctory references to 'God' in the various forms found in this document was a purely rhetorical device and offered in deference to a common sentiment of the times, and thus forgiven. Still, the declaration is well written and to the point. It is a heartfelt attempt at some national amelioration of the unprecendented social disruption of a terrible war. . .
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A Proclamation:
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State
Note: It is so apparent to the modern reader that the constant perfunctory references to 'God' in the various forms found in this document was a purely rhetorical device and offered in deference to a common sentiment of the times, and thus forgiven. Still, the declaration is well written and to the point. It is a heartfelt attempt at some national amelioration of the unprecendented social disruption of a terrible war. . .
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
New Liberal Media. . .
The scarey season of the Bush administration continues here with the new Fiore animation on the Sidebar LIBERAL MEDIA PLAYER:
FRIGHT HOUSE
---be fucking scared, seriously!!!
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Friday, October 05, 2007
Relevant Thought. . .
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." -- Bertrand Russell (British philosopher and mathematician, 1872-1970)
-if Bush understands anything, he understands this to our great undoing!
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-if Bush understands anything, he understands this to our great undoing!
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
War for Profit
-Check out the NEW Mark Fiore animation in the Liberal Media Player on the Sidebar:
The War for Profit
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Geppetto Administration?
Unbeknowst to him, this pathetic Bushy ain't in Disneyland anymore!
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
Ah, Politics
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-tis the season???
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-tis the season???
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Quote for Thought
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Kudos to Fitzpatrick
Just a note of thanks to a prosecutor who has successfully taken out one of the legs that the thoroughly corrupt White House has stood on in its cynical duping of the American people. Mr. Libby, former top aid to VP Cheney, was convicted today of obstruction of justice, perjury, and lying to the FBI in a trial that went to the heart of the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq. It was all a lie folks, and the proof is in the great lengths that in particular the VP's office went to discredit factual evidence that the case for war was nonsense.
The rightwing scream machine has on cue gone into full attack mode. Repug apologists have saturated the airways with their vitriol against the prosecutor and the jury in the Libby case. Refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence against Libby (and the VP) that a sympathetic jury has said they could not ignore, they instead have invented a vendetta conspiracy of liberals and an ignorant selfserving Fitzpatrick and jurors who 'just don't know the law', as the Mdm. De Farge of rightwing loyalists- former federal prosecutor and Democratic Party, Clinton hater Ms. Toensing said today on CNN. Funny, did these right wing cronies of the VP and Libby forget that Fitzpatrick is a longtime repug party hack and that the jurors were a group of highly educated, mostly non minority persons- hardly the makings of a liberal conspiracy.
As Fitzpatrick said today, a cloud hangs over the White House and the VP, but he remarked that it was hardly of his making but of their own. The implication being that there is much more there there, but that there was probably not a case that could be brought successfully against others high up in the White House, due no doubt to the utter secrecy and surround the wagons mentality of the Bush folks. As one juror in an interview soon after the verdict reflected about the jury's sentiments in the matter, that Libby was a likely 'fall guy' for the White House, and thus that many in the jury wondered why was not a case made against Karl Rove and others in the administration. It seems Fitzpatrick got what he could get, for now. . .
Anyway, it seems the anti-war political climate on Capitol Hill (and the country at large) will only intensify. There will be more hearings and investigations, and no doubt new impetus to bring the disasterous war in Iraq to and end. The times they are a changin' and blowin' in the wind is a newly emboldened anti-Bush administration disgust, and not a moment too soon!
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The rightwing scream machine has on cue gone into full attack mode. Repug apologists have saturated the airways with their vitriol against the prosecutor and the jury in the Libby case. Refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence against Libby (and the VP) that a sympathetic jury has said they could not ignore, they instead have invented a vendetta conspiracy of liberals and an ignorant selfserving Fitzpatrick and jurors who 'just don't know the law', as the Mdm. De Farge of rightwing loyalists- former federal prosecutor and Democratic Party, Clinton hater Ms. Toensing said today on CNN. Funny, did these right wing cronies of the VP and Libby forget that Fitzpatrick is a longtime repug party hack and that the jurors were a group of highly educated, mostly non minority persons- hardly the makings of a liberal conspiracy.
As Fitzpatrick said today, a cloud hangs over the White House and the VP, but he remarked that it was hardly of his making but of their own. The implication being that there is much more there there, but that there was probably not a case that could be brought successfully against others high up in the White House, due no doubt to the utter secrecy and surround the wagons mentality of the Bush folks. As one juror in an interview soon after the verdict reflected about the jury's sentiments in the matter, that Libby was a likely 'fall guy' for the White House, and thus that many in the jury wondered why was not a case made against Karl Rove and others in the administration. It seems Fitzpatrick got what he could get, for now. . .
Anyway, it seems the anti-war political climate on Capitol Hill (and the country at large) will only intensify. There will be more hearings and investigations, and no doubt new impetus to bring the disasterous war in Iraq to and end. The times they are a changin' and blowin' in the wind is a newly emboldened anti-Bush administration disgust, and not a moment too soon!
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Disproportionately Dead
An important study from New Hampshire's Carsey Institute, which specializes in studying rural America shows that our dead in Iraq are disproportionately from rural America. The death rate for soldiers from rural areas (only 24 per million adults aged 18 to 59) is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs. Vermont has the highest rate of casualties, followed by Delaware, South Dakota, and Arizona.
Evidence shows that the utter lack of opportunity in rural areas simply leaves more young people there with fewer alternatives to the military because of repug social policies. The opportunity differential between rural and urban America is higher now than at any time in the past. Also, only 1/10th of one percent (again overwhelmingly disproportionately rural!) of the population have served. No wonder it's been easy for so many Americans to ignore such a catastrophic war.
This illegal, ugly, deadly, incompetently run war has to end immediately!
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Evidence shows that the utter lack of opportunity in rural areas simply leaves more young people there with fewer alternatives to the military because of repug social policies. The opportunity differential between rural and urban America is higher now than at any time in the past. Also, only 1/10th of one percent (again overwhelmingly disproportionately rural!) of the population have served. No wonder it's been easy for so many Americans to ignore such a catastrophic war.
This illegal, ugly, deadly, incompetently run war has to end immediately!
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
A Quote for Thought
"It is against Stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?" --William Booth (1829–1912; a British evangelist and founder of the Salvation Army.)
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