“Democracy” is usually my code category for stuff the Bush administration does that pisses me off, usually becuase of the way they make a mockery of whatever the concept “Democarcy” has going for it
From Talking Points Memo (Josh Marshall) today: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall Brown had no experience whatsoever in emergency management. He was fired from his last job for incompetence. He was hired because he was the new director’s college roommate. And after the director — who himself got the job because he was a political fixer for the Continue Reading
James KA Smith and Steve Bush carry on quite an exchange , and I find quite a bit of hefty theological stuff here, and so off we go (with a few sometimes pithy remarks of mine interspersed, just to let you know how I’m responding to this (in case your’re intrerested) Generous Orthodoxy ThinkTank: What is Constantinianism? Hmmm…I’m wondering if Continue Reading
The article here is a scathing crtique of the lack of response by the church to this enormously unfaithful regime. I believe it to be unfaithful on many levels. First, it operates as an enemy to what I believe to be the Kingdom of God, and against what I believe are the response to which we as church are called. Continue Reading
slacktivist: August 6 Four years ago today (Aug.6th) President Bush received a daily brief warning him that terrorists planned to attack America. He spent the next three weeks on vacation. I had forgotten the anniversary of that now infamous Aug 6 PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing).
Ok, that’s about enough of the posts on “political things”. I’m trying to limit my intake of numerous samplings in the news of “things which make me shake my head”). I determined back in November that I was going to change my focus, and I do believe I have siginificantly “reversed the flow”, so that now most of my “political” Continue Reading
I consider ecological issues to be not only deeply theological issues, but also “democracy” issues (thus my categorization of this post), since this is a theological issue that holds one of the more wide reaching “public welfare” issues: that of the affect of “profit motives”* over long term ecological impact (a long term effect getting shorter and shorter every year) Continue Reading
Interesting irony: Bush wants to end lawsuits against gun companies becuase they’re frivolous. But he backs the move against peer to peer networking becuase they allow people to use them for “unlawful” reasons. Daily Kos: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. Got that? If a company makes a product that is inappropriately used to Continue Reading
Via MyDD and TPMCafe || Politics, Ideas & Lots Of Caffeine I submit this statement to the Congress in an effort to correct a malicious and disingenuous smear campaign that has been executed against a friend and former colleague, Valerie (Plame) Wilson. Neither Valerie, nor her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson has asked me to do anything on their behalf. I Continue Reading
Heh-heh Daily Kos: The Plame Floodgates Open The Plame Floodgates Open Bloomberg is reporting that Rove and Libby both gave testimony to the grand jury that flatly conflicts with the testimony given by those they said they talked to. We now know that the Top Secret memo most consistent with the talking points that Rove and Libby told reporters was Continue Reading
Upon this occasion: Notorious Christian terrorist Eric Rudolph was sentenced to two life terms on Monday. The one-time fugitive had carried out four bombings that terrorized the southeastern areas of the United States. Among his crimes were the blowing up of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed a policeman, and a bombing of the 1996 Olympic Games in Continue Reading
The New Yorker: Fact GET OUT THE VOTE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election? As always with Mr. Hersh, great writing and reporting. Wonder what will become of this one. via Mike James
The pack of lying deceivers is stonewalling and slandering again, caught in their own landslide of deceit and lies. Frank Rich here (pointed out by Mike James in his post yesterday ) has a Times piece that explains how this Rove-Plame case is just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger web of deceit and manipulation. In other Continue Reading
I saw a DVD a while back about Karl Rove and based on a book Bush’s Brain. Do the latest events portend a lobotomy for Bush?
Catch him red-handed. Love to see it! David Corn At a public meeting in the summer of 2003, Joseph Wilson, responding to a question about the leak, quipped that it would be interesting “to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.” He then had to pull back from that comment Continue Reading
This from Robert Parham on Bush’s speech Welcome to Ethics Daily.com! The president’s leadership crisis is of his own making. He misled the country into a war to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and continues to misstate the depth of the problem in Iraq. The president’s failure has profoundly negative consequences for Americans and Iraqis, especially Iraqi non-combatants who bear Continue Reading