A Time to Think Strange Thoughts and Pray Long Prayers | The Village Gate Dr. King’s long prayers were not immediately answered upon his release from the Birmingham jail. His efforts to end segregation in Alabama and across the south sometimes sputtered frustratingly and sometimes surged gloriously for the remaining five years of his life, but historical perspective allows us Continue Reading

Daveid Weinberger of JOHO has few choice words for the Bush crowd that express a lot of what I would say to the same crowd: Joho the Blog: Terms we need to re-own We’re as moral as the people who claim to have voted for Bush for moral reasons. What they really mean is that they voted for Bush for Continue Reading

More KOS pep-talk and counseling, and worthy of taking to heart. Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. The fading signs in windows and on cars says “United We Stand.” That’s true, whether in opposition or in victory. We knew the work was only starting even if Kerry won, and we knew Continue Reading

Kos wrote a great post-mortem on the big loss; on the huge, collosal , earth-threatening loss. Read this, look at the whole post from DailyKos, and then I have a couple of things after the quote: Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. Why were we in this fight in the first Continue Reading

KOS poses a challenge and congratulations, and a little remaining hope in the remaining votes to be counted in Ohio. Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. You all have much to be proud of. But please don’t think your job is done, or that your hard work was all for naught. Continue Reading

I’m surprised I can blog at this point….I don’t think it’s hit me. ABC and CBS have yet to cede Ohio to Bush. I am sitting here wondering how it can be “called”, with the number of provisional ballots involved, as well as the large number of votes yet to be counted in the heavily Democratic Cleveland area. But my Continue Reading

My previous post mentioned this case, which threw me into one of these sickened inner rages against the Facist Operations of this Criminal Regime the Bush administration has turned out to be. The Supreme Court is an arm of this regime, which is backing the “all of a sudden” interest in “protecting against voter fraud”, while they don’t seem to Continue Reading

Just before I came into the office, I heard on NPR that the Republican “challengers” are now going to be allowed in to Ohio places of voting, and that the Supreme Court refused to challenge that decision. The Supreme Court is a perfect example of what is wrong with this country right now.

Here we are , on the eve of the most important election I believe our country has EVER had. With the record turnouts expected, polls may well not shut down for hours after their “closing” , having to service all who are in line as of closing time. Even with the encouraging signs of Kerry surging, I remain on edge Continue Reading

Married women vote for Bush, single women for Kerry. They say they figure that “security” is important. Realize this, whatever percentage of married women who think we are “safer” under Bush……HELLO! The guy is CLUELESS, inept, dishonest, and doesn’t give a rip. He considers it more important to go on vacation than talk to his people about the “system that Continue Reading

The Seattle Times: Politics: FBI investigating how Halliburton got contracts The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices. The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and Continue Reading

No comments neccessary– these clips reflect exactly what scares me: CORNEL WEST–DEMOCRACY MATTERS IN OUR TIME: LOGOS SUMMER 2004 Free-market fundamentalism–just as dangerous as the religious fundamentalisms of our day—trivializes the concern for public interest. The overwhelming power and influence of plutocrats and oligarchs in the economy put fear and insecurity in the hearts of anxiety-ridden workers and render money-driven, Continue Reading

Makes my blood boil every time these incompetent , corrupt people talk about how they are the ones who will protext us, and when I see polls that show people rate the Bush administration higher on “The War on Terror”. The Bush Administration was too busy downplaying Al_Quieda because they thought it was a “Clinton thing” (since the Clinton Administration Continue Reading

David Aikman writes on Beliefnet. I don’t know who he is (but he did write a book with Bush A Man Of Faith : The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush) I am not prepared to say Bush is not a Christian, but I have grave doubts about whether it should be said that this is “clear” as Aikman puts Continue Reading

Yet more from the Gore speech, on the massive defection taking placer among arc-conservatives who are beginning to notice (or finally speaking up after having enough of it) Blog for America An increasing number of Republicans, including veterans of the Reagan White House and even the father of the conservative movement, are now openly expressing dismay over the epic failures Continue Reading