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How
to keep media attention--Thanks,
McCain
by
IseFire
- Wed 03/10/04; 10:23 pm EST
Republican Senator John McCain said he'd entertain the idea
of being a Kerry VP, but then quickly scuttled the idea. Whatever.
McCain's
comments managed to grab news
cycle time at Bush's expense. The story
by its nature put focus on Kerry, too. Finally, journalists desperate
to put the story "in context," resurrected the issue of
Bush's Mafioso style deep-sixing of McCain's campaign for president
in 2000, which plenty of Republicans and Independents are still
angry about.
Also today, more
Americans
died in Iraq, U.S.
troops fired on Haitians, it was reported that Bush
sold Lincoln
bedroom and Camp David access despite having attacked
President Clinton for doing the same, and CIA head Tenet revealed
that he privately
corrected Vice
President Dick Cheney
after the VP erroneously stated that trailers seized in Iraq probably
were biological weapons labs. Of course, Cheney
never offered a correction or apology to the American people
or global community.
All around, today was another bad day for President Bush.
The
magical and the moralistic
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 9:23 pm EST
Gore Vidal once remarked that Christianity's success over other
Near Eastern religions of the first century was due to its brilliant
fusion of the magical sense with the moral sense. The believer got
miracles and ritual, but also a code of conduct, and they were balanced
just right. Mithras, the Gnostics, and the Essenes just couldn't
compete.
Well, Christianity has changed, and within conservative evangelical
Protestantism, Christianity's dominant flavor in the U.S., the moral
is ever more transforming into the moralistic; ritual was out the
door a long time ago, and wonderment increasingly takes back seat
to supposedly-righteous indignation and realpolitik.
This
essay from BuzzFlash is important. It
touches on some consequences, that we are now seeing very sharply,
of evangelicalism's evolution within our republic.
Here's
an interesting one
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 8:49 pm EST
I suspect they didn't have to worry about someone already owning
their domain name. GodlessAmericans.org.
It's
all in the numbers
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 8:49 pm EST
The U.S.needs to create 150,000 jobs a month to keep up with
population growth. How many new jobs were created last month? 21,000.
What is more: 588,000
people left the labor force last month.
The "recovery" Bush talks about is a phantom. It is not
a recovery, but merely a stock market upswing, which is caused by
buying and selling by wealthy Americans disproportionately favored
by Bush's unfair tax giveaways--giveaways that have left the government
broke, put Social Security in serious jeopardy, and done squat for
the economy.
Bush's
Sec. of Education calls American teachers terrorists
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 8:19 pm EST
Rod Paige, Bush's Sec. of Ed., accused America's teachers of
belonging to a "terrorist organization." This is contemptible.
Sign
the petition demanding Bush can Paige.
Isebrand.com
adds OurFuture.org link
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 8:10 pm EST
It's under the "Activism" links. Check
it out.
For
now Dems like the polls
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 7:55 pm EST
The political ad season has only just begun. But so far there's
no evidence of a Bush bounce from his reelection campaign's controversial
ads. Kerry leads
Bush in Florida and among voters
nationwide in an USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll.
Approx. 10,000 Iraqi civilians killed in our invasion
by
IseFire
- Mon 03/08/04; 7:45 pm EST
It's hard to believe that the anger being directed at U.S. troops
in Iraq is not in part because of these
deaths. (Are we paying reparations?) 10,000 people
means about 10,000 families touched by combat death, some of whom
will be thirsting for blood.
Not
one private sector job created last month
by
IseFire
- Sun 03/07/04; 5:19 pm EST
"Ouch!"
yelped Dubya.
Kerry
to supporters: Brace for a fight
by
IseFire
- Sun 03/07/04; 5:19 pm EST
Senator
Kerry has warned his supporters to brace
for a fight. [Excerpt] "We're going to be
tested, because they've got a lot of money and a lot of power,"
the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said at a predominantly
black church with veterans of the movement.
It's still under construction, but I'm introducing my John
Kerry portal. Check it out again near the end of
the week. It will have more robust content by then.
Welcome, CounterBias!
by
IseFire
- Sat 03/06/04; 5:49 pm EST
CounterBias.com
and Isebrand.com are now cross-linked. Check out CounterBias.com.
They have a great collection of links--including ones of special
interest to our friends to the north. Their tag line: Fighting
the Biased Media Machine...Fully Armed With The Truth!
If Lincoln had followed Dubya's
political ad strategy
by
IseFire
- Sat 03/06/04; 2:09 pm EST
(From: IsThatLegal.org)
Where's
this story now?
by
IseFire
- Sat 03/06/04; 12:59 pm EST
Coverage
about Bush
being AWOL from Alabama Air Force obligations is
itself AWOL. Here are some other AWOL topics.
White
House betrayed one of our own spies ...cuz
her hubby exposed a Bush lie
Hundreds
of economists,
including 10 Nobel laureates, warned us and Bush that his tax cuts
would fail to do anything but give us a deficit (Small
PDF file)
Bush
trying to halt 9/11 commission
GOP
staff snooped Dem e-mails
Enron
Bush,
Rice, et al ignored Clinton plan to deal with al-Qaeda
Bush,
Rice, et al ignored
warnings about al-Qaeda
Only
in New York :)
by
IseFire
- Sat 03/06/04; 11:09 am EST
Pandas!
:)
Could
you pass me Shays' rifle, please?
by
IseFire
- Sat 03/06/04; 9:13 am EST
Progressives
had better fix bayonets yesterday to form ranks today. "This
is a war," declares Geov
Parrish. Seemingly extreme. But far more is at stake
in the November 2004 election than when Daniel
Shays brandished arms against the government in 1786.
(Thanks to Marilyn for bringing Parrish to my attention.)
As if our jobs crisis, debt crisis, and security crisis (no protection
of ports, a gov't who won't give money to hospitals and first responders
for attack-preparedness training, etc.) weren't enough, we have
Bush's continuing hypocrisy:
President Bush "clamped down" on the media, extending
and expanding a controversial policy that banned reporters from
photographing flag-draped caskets of soldiers killed in combat.
The White House said the policy was enforced to "spare the
feelings of military families." Yet, in the very first television
advertisement of his 2004 campaign, the president has blanketed
the nation's airwaves with an image of "firefighters carrying
a flag-draped body" from the 9/11 wreckage at Ground Zero.
The
hypocrisy of preventing Americans from receiving a "reminder
of the toll of war" at the very same time the president exploits
an image of a dead body for his own political gain has caused an
outrage among victims' families. Chris Burke, whose brother Tom
died in the attacks, said, "Using my dead friends and my dead
brother for political expediency is dead wrong. It's wrong, it's
bad taste and an insult to the 3,000 people who died on Sept. 11."
The
president's actions have also raised new credibility questions because
he previously promised not to exploit the 9/11 attacks. Speaking
of 9/11 in January 2003, President Bush told the Associated Press
that he had "no ambition whatsoever to use this as a political
issue." - Misleader.org
Diebold
absorbing electronic voting machine market
by
IseFire
- Thur 03/04/04; 10:00 am EST
Diebold,
Inc. has
completed acquisition of Global Election Systems.
This
might not be a huge problem if it weren't for the facts that:
1) CEO, Walden O'Dell, has openly declared that he is "committed
to helping Ohio deliver
its electoral votes to the president.""
2) the Bush cabal has demonstrating its willingness to manipulate
voting to "win," and
3)
Diebold makes Accu-Vote electronic touch-screen voting machines
that are already used to count votes in 37
states.
Super
Tuesday's other winner: The Democratic
Party
by
IseFire
- Wed 03/03/04; 12:00 am EST
For several months Democratic
presidential candidates have demonstrated
to America the genuine diversity, inspiring creativity, honorable
legacy, and promising future of a Democratic Party re-energized
and unified. Through the efforts of all the candidates the Democratic
Party has found hope for victory in November.
To
paraphrase an e-mail from MoveOn.org sent to members today: Howard
Dean reminded Democrats that they can fight President Bush,
and revolutionized campaigning. Dennis Kucinich, Carol
Moseley Braun, and Al Sharpton reminded Democrats that
progressive values are something to be proud of. Wes Clark
and Bob Graham took Bush to task on national security. Joe
Lieberman demonstrated that personal faith is a Democratic value.
Dick Gephardt spoke powerfully for working people and jobs.
And John Edwards demonstrated the power of a positive vision
for our country.
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