tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50494922007-04-06T10:53:03.774-04:00tristeronoreply@blogger.comBlogger2641125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049492.post-72735072669639695122007-04-06T09:31:00.000-04:002007-04-06T10:53:04.239-04:00

by tristero This Easter weekend, there is a blogswarm going on called Blog Against Theocracy. My contribution is a bit idiocsyncratic, namely a series of posts consisting of numerous excerpts from a book advocating theocracy entitled With Liberty & Justice for All: Christian Politics Made Simple by Joe Morecraft III. There will be a lot of material but if you are worried about the “religious

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Via Digby comes an article on the strange death, from friendly fire, of sports star and soldier Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. Bottom line: the article implies and Digby explicitly conjectures that Tillman, a vocal opponent of both the Iraq war and Bush, could have been fragged because his fame made him too dangerous to the powers that be. Personally, I doubt it. I seriously doubt Tillman was

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Surprise, surprise. U.S. BARS ROBERT FISK FROM ENTERING COUNTRY

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(Links added, content slightly revised.) Michael Totten is, to be sure, not a man I either like or whose judgment I respect. But now, he is about to do something incredibly stupid and his clueless supporters are more than prepared to let him go ahead and do it. According to his blog, Michael intends to move to Beirut soon, ignore State Department warnings, see what he can see amongst the

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What now? Is he going to pray to God to come and part the waters? Declare a Global War On Nature and pre-emptively attack the Atlantic winds in order to end all natural disasters in our lifetime? Why not? It makes as much sense as the End of Evil his advisers talked about for some four years. And so finally, the scales are starting to fall. Unfortunately many of us were right: it took the tragic

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Jeralyn over at Talk Left urges all liberal bloggers to speak out against a compromise that would permit the likes of Patricia Owen to get confirmed by the Congress. So I am breaking my blog silence to say that I fully agree that no compromise is possible on this issue. The Republicans have framed this in the typically fascistic manner that they've used since Bush entered the White House. They

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In a spirited discussion of my previous post at Majikthise's terrific blog, Robert M. Jeffers recognized the serious nature of the Schiavo ruling but urged a retreat from hyperbole, "It's not judicial Armageddon, but it is as poor a law as can be imagined." While today's ruling by Judge Whittemore might lend support to Jeffers' point, I must note that this disgusting circus is far from over.

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Well, it happened. On March 21, 2005 12:44 am, the extremists in charge of the US Government showed the world that when they don't like a law or a legally valid court decision - ANY law, ANY court decision, for ANY reason, no matter how carefully adjudicated - they are prepared to rip it up. There is a word for this. The word is fascism. As of early this morning, America can no longer

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Thus the title of a famous motet by Guillaume Machaut, the great late medieval/early Renaissance composer. And thus, this blog ends. Longer explanation follows (along with an irresistible link!). It's become much too hard to be an American. In my case, I took a break from the middle of a pretty decent career, to add my dissenting voice during what was -and remains- a national emergency.

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A catastrophic catastrophe. Losses in the House, losses in the Senate, and Bush will almost certainly win. That he is ahead in the popular vote by 3 1/2 million is frightening enough. For those who expect more of the same over the past four years, I strongly urge you to stop kidding yourselves. It is about to get worse. Much, much worse. For those who say, well, the bright side is that Bush

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No excuses, my friends. Got the flu? Drag your sorry tuchus out of bed and vote. Got a bad deadline? It can wait an hour or 7: Vote. Lines too long? Bring a book or better yet, gather up your slacker friends, throw a queue party and vote. Think your vote doesn't matter? You gotta be kidding. Think you're above the unseemly farce? If you don't vote, you're the joke. Think the election's fixed? It

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2 Federal Judges Bar Challengers at Polling Places in Ohio Tuesday's election. United States District Judge Susan J. Dlott in Cincinnati found that the application of Ohio's statute allowing challengers at polling places was unconstitutional and that allowing any candidates other than election judges and other electors into the polling place would place "an undue burden upon voters" and impede

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Dear Mr. Hiatt, Considering how important this election is (I'm 52 and I can't remember a more important one, not even '68), I find it rather astonishing that the topic of your column today focused upon the woebegone appearance of the Capital. What story could you have told instead? There are many, but here's one that's vital: Voters, millions of them, have focused on the substantive

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10:00 am

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Peter Bergen, an expert on terrorism and one of the few western journalists to have met bin Laden:So: Was al Qeada's leader at Tora Bora? According to a widely-reported background briefing by Pentagon officials in mid-December 2001 there was "reasonable certainty" that bin Laden was indeed at Tora Bora, a judgment based on intercepted radio transmissions. In his autobiography, American Soldier,

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Sleazebags:We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything that raises the issue in people's minds is good for us." A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush." He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection.Oh, and

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via my friend JV:With only one close US presidential election per century it is a very safe prediction that it will not be close this year. To be precise, historically there is one chance in 25 that this election will be close. My "Landslide to Kerry" prediction was met with jeers at the time. And readers may well ask once again how I can predict landslides when almost all US experts are

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We cried when we saw the tape on Friday of Osama Bin Laden. He's tanned and healthy. He does not look desperate or scared. He does not look like a man on the run. Three years ago, President Bush promised us he would capture Osama Bin Laden--Dead or Alive. He didn't do that. The man that murdered our husbands, is back terrorizing our country again. The videotape of him has brought us back to

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Near Falluja:Eight U.S. Marines were killed and nine wounded Saturday in al Anbar province west of Baghdad, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said. The casualties came amid heavy air and artillery assaults in the province, where the restive city of Falluja is located. A Marines spokesman said those casualties were outside Falluja in a single incident. No further details were immediately

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It is always a pleasure when someone whose art you love receives wider recognition. When you actually know the artist (a rare thing) and like them enormously (much, much rarer), the pleasure is doubled, tripled, exponentialed. So I was thrilled when my wife told me that our friend Catherine Barnett had won the prestigious Whiting Award for her first collection of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such

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What a week you've had, George Bush. Missing explosives, the outing of massive voter fraud by your party, your VP's company gets investigated by the FBI, the Red Sox hero cancels on you, Caroline Kennedy disses you, songwriters complain when you use their song. And thenguess who pops up to remind everyone that he's still out there and you failed to catch him?

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Could this be the October Surprise? A rapid, major victory in Fallujah?.S. marines prepared on Friday to storm the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi to crush Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab fighters. "We are gearing up for a major operation," Brigadier General Denis Hajlik told reporters at a base near Falluja. "If we do so, it will be decisive and we will whack them." Hajlik, deputy

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Shameful:With just four days to go, President Bush sought today to turn the campaign's focus back to the 9/11 attacks, appearing at a political rally with several relatives of prominent victims of the terrorist strike and highlighting their heroic sacrifice.The question, my friends, is how will Kerry deal with this? It may not even be necessary for Kerry to mention the 9 months of willful

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via talkleft who got it from others.

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