This site has a really simple yet powerful illustration comparing U.S. spending on “Operation Iraqi Freedom” (OIL) to other supposed national priorities. Also he links to this excellent conversation between the peacenik and the warmonger.
Author: Ruby Sinreich
An amoeba has more backbone
Nancy Pelosi represents the most anti-war district in the country and supports the Prez. Democrats are so afraid of their own shadows, it’s amazing the party still exists. I can’t think of what practical purpose it serves at this point but to make people think we have a two-party government. Fooled ya.
Memo to elected officials:
If ever there was time to find your spine this is it. History will remember if you were a hero and fought for justice, or a coward hiding behind your pollster. Voters will remember, too
Don’t confuse us with facts, we want more war porn
Peter Arnett, who has covered both Bush v. Hussein wars, was fired by NBC and MSNBC for stating what is pretty much the conventional wisdom right now. Reuters/Yahoo reports: “American television network NBC says it has fired veteran reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed.” (Analysis at Alternet.)
Even worse, he is now apologizing for it. “Clearly by giving that interview I created a firestorm in the United States and for that I am truly sorry. My stupid misjudgement was to spend fifteen minutes in an impromptu interview with Iraqi television.” No man, your mistake was thinking that the American media had a shred of journalistic integrity left to cover it’s T&A reporting. It’s all a big porn show now.
PeaceBlogging
Mark Pilgrim says: “People who say they can’t find evidence of a peaceblogging movement should probably try harder.” Here’s a few hundred in the U.S. alone, and here’s a local article on the phenomenon.
I’m back
and tired. Here are the pictures! Happy birthday, Ethan!
Don’t discuss politics at the mall
Mall security unnecessarily restricted group’s speech
March 21, 2003TO THE EDITOR:
On Wednesday night, America began to fight a war to defend freedom and promote democracy for the Iraqi people, but at the same time I felt my own freedoms as an American citizen were taken away.
I and six of my colleagues met up at the Southpoint Mall food court to have dinner and discuss hosting a fund-raising party for the Howard Dean for president campaign. We all noticed the extra security in the mall but thought it was because the terror alert was now at orange. I later found out that the extra security was there to monitor for any anti-war protests.
Two men with black and white T-shirts that said “Stop the War” and “Bring Our Troops Back Home” had bought dinner at the food court and had overheard our discussion about Howard Dean. They came over and joined us. We were discussing how we agreed with his views on universal health care and equal rights for all American citizens. As we were discussing this, at least three police officers came over to our table and asked us what we were doing. I said discussing Howard Dean, and we were asked to leave the building. I was in total shock. I was sitting in a food court finishing my dinner and discussing politics, and I and all my colleagues were asked to leave.
My father was a career Marine man and Vietnam veteran. I also have my best friends, college school mates, former roommates and cousins currently in the military — some of them on their way to the Persian Gulf. They are doing this to protect me, an American citizen, and the freedoms we hold dear. I guess those freedoms don’t include discussing politics with friends or sitting with a person who has a “Stop the War” T-shirt on.
Jennifer D. Pender
Graduate, Public Leadership Department
Expensive & sterile, yet fun & educational
Today we’re going to the Planetarium. Let me know if you want something.
Then we’re gonna partay!
Strange & beautiful
Today I visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio in Oak Park, IL. Here’s a more stable link, but with less content.
Adios
I’m off to the Windy City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the birth of DJ Underwater Zombie! I may still blog from there, but I’m not making any promises.