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Welcome
these new links...
by
IseFire
- Wed 06/30/04; 8:41 pm EST
I've
added new links to Isebrand.com, and deleted a couple, too. (As
always, the deleted shall remain nameless.) Welcome Jack
O'Toole, Yankee
Rag, and Take
Back The Media to the blogroll.
Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count has been added as
a research site.
Operation:
Southern Preservation
by
IseFire
- Tue 06/29/04; 11:12 pm EST
Tonight
I launched "Operation:
Southern Preservation," which is your opportunity
to help protect five threatened Democratic U.S. Senate or House
seats in the South--Specifically, GA, NC, and TX.
Please check it out, and give generously and ASAP. Big money talks;
but, early money screams. Giving to a candidate early rather than
later is always better, because money draws more money.
Bad
economic news for Bush
by
IseFire
- Mon 06/28/04; 10:12 pm EST
There
was a lot of chatter today about consumer spending being up in Q1
2004. Well, read Reich in USA
Today:
[M]ore
than one in five Americans have been out of work for six months
or more
.....
Wages are stagnant.... [T]he weekly pay of the typical full-time
worker is rising no faster than inflation.... [A]s employers shift
health care costs to their employees, the price most people pay
for insurance has soared. At the same time, the prices of all
sorts of other things--including gas, milk, beef, eggs, even college
tuitions--have gone way up.
.....
What has the Bush administration done about the economy? It has
given out huge tax cuts, largely to people earning more than $200,000
and to big corporations, causing the federal budget deficit to
balloon.
.....
John
Kerry says we don't have to accept this. We can grow the economy.
We can get our fiscal house in order.
Couldn't've
said it better myself....
Demand
public hearings from FCC
by
IseFire
- Mon 06/28/04; 10:12 pm EST
On
June 24, a federal court roundly rejected the FCC's controversial
media ownership rules. But the rules aren't dead — they've
been sent back to the FCC for revision, and Big Media is trying
to prevent public hearings. Go to FreePress.net
and send a message to the FCC demanding hearings in your state.
Bremer
flees Iraq after furtive, partial hand-off
by
IseFire
- Mon 06/28/04; 9:12 pm EST
Paul
Bremer, the now-former head U.S. administrator of Iraq, left
Iraq after handing over limited authority to an Iraqi
government up for election in seven months. Yet, the US plans to
keep at least 120,000 troops in the country.
NYC
Pride March commemorates Stonewall
by
IseFire
- Sun 06/27/04; 7:21 pm EST
I
was honored to be a judge
for the 35th annual NYC Pride
March. Here are some pics.
Congressmember Barney Frank (D-MA; in green) marching with the
Kerry campaign along with his partner (blue shirt on R).
 
GOAL,
the organization of out gay and lesbian NYPD officers.
This
80something with the group
SAGE
(Senior Action in a Gay Environment) got so keyed-up by the music
in front of the reviewing stand that she rose out of her wheel chair
and started to dance!
Aid for AIDS. A non-profit improving the quality of life of people
living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The GayCollegeParty.com group had a wedding theme....
The New York City Gay Men's Chorus.
Daaa bayers!
The
NYC gay rugby team.
Parts
of the GOP plan to beat Kerry
by
IseFire
- Sat 06/26/04; 11:08 pm EST
The
founder of Workhouse
PR asserted to me in a conversation yesterday that
Kerry would crush Bush, and that the crush has begun with the cultural
forces unleashed by Fahrenheit 9/11 and President Clinton's
book tour.
I hope he's right. I'm quite skeptical, and think he misunderstands
how urban and regional (i.e. isolated) the effects of the movie
and book could be.
Kerry won't win from cultural forces alone. Here are some key GOP
campaign initiatives Kerry's team will have to actively counter:
*An unprecedented
door-to-door campaign to get out the vote. This
includes everything from block parties (organized via the Internet)
to organizing the logistical infrastructure to transport people
to voting places. (Elizabeth Drew, "Bush: The Dream Campaign."
The New York Review of Books. June 10, 2004. p. 24)
*Asking corporations
of all types to encourage their white-collar workers and shareholders
to vote. The assumption here is that at least
70% of them will vote Republican.
*Asking Evangelical
churches and Mormon temples to
encourage their members to vote.
The Left obviously lacks institutions
like the nation's evangelical churches, which provide the Right
thousands of captive audiences, assembled
weekly, ready-made for
obedience to their preacher's admonitions.
*Setting up a system by which U.S. businessmen
abroad can register and get an absentee ballot by computer.
*Ditto a registration and ballot system
for our troops, who are exposed to only one political talk-show
and, perhaps, thus more inclined to vote for Bush. Rush
Limbaugh is on Armed Forces Radio for an hour each weeknight. Limbaugh's
in the only political or news talk-show on the station. (This
is a horrible abuse of power by conservatives.)
Your
Miranda rights are going fast...
by
IseFire
- Thu 06/24/04; 11:16 pm EST
The
Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who refuse to give their
names to police can be arrested, even if they’ve done nothing
wrong. "You have the right to remain silent" is dead.
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