Archive for the 'direct action' Category
In Which I Ask You to Do Nancy Pelosi’s Job For Her
…and Waxman’s job, and Conyers’ job, and Hoyer’s job, and…
Read More..>>Complicit Democrats
Glenn Greenwald confirms what I’ve been saying since 2007. he links to the same Washington Post article about Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of torture too.
It is absolutely the case that, as Mayer pointed out yesterday and as I wrote about at the time, Bush officials faced serious danger of criminal liability in the wake of [...]
Moneybomb!
Glennzilla’s got the details:
All of this highlights the central political dilemma in the U.S. The Bush-led Republican Party, marching in virtual lockstep, has been the author of the radicalism, extremism and lawlessness of the last seven years, presiding over an endlessly expanding Surveillance State and accompanying war-making machine, and the dismantling of numerous core Constitutional [...]
A Realist, Not a Cynic
“But the larger point is that you can’t bring yourself to make any distinctions between any of these groups. You’ve given up.
I actually wrote the Four Lethal Cynicisms for you.
–Booman
The Four Lethal Cynicisms:
The first lethal cynicism is the conviction that the people are too stupid, too susceptible, and too selfish to be counted upon [...]
Money Bomb
Please click the link on the top of my right sidebar, and ledge something to the August 8 moneybomb.
Let’s fuck the sonsofbitches who stole our rights like they’ve never been fucked before. Let’s fuck ‘em so hard they feel like Annabel Chong.
A Whole New Meaning
Given his outrageous vote on FISA, following his broken promise to filibuster the bill, perhaps it’s time for Obama to redefine what “Listening to America” means:
It’s sure not his base he’s listening to. I joined the anti-FISA group at Obama’s website two weeks ago. I had to switch over to the “digest” version because my [...]
Read More..>>Deluded in DC
So my question to them was — what are they going to do about this newfound sense of “fiscal responsibility” on the part of the Blue Dogs, who want to know how everything is going to be “paid for” now, despite the fact that they never met a war funding bill they wouldn’t vote for?
–Jane [...]
Good Bye to the Fourth Amendment
Want revenge? Want to help throw the bums out? See Greenwald for more, and contribute to the August 8 Money Bomb here.
This is the date for our Strangebedfellows MONEYBOMB on behalf of constitutional rights and civil liberties in America. Let’s remove from power the key enablers of the tyrannical and lawless FISA ‘compromise;’ we can [...]
Gauntlet
Tomorrow I leave to go pick up Sam, again an extended trip across the border, and then back about to Benton, PA for the Out Among the Stars Bluegrass Festival. The trip across the border adds an extra three hours round trip to the already-brutal eight hours I travel to Syracuse and back, but [...]
Read More..>>Social Networking Goes Two Ways…
Mike Stark, best known for harassing wingnut radio hosts is taking the fight on FISA right to Barack Obama’s campaign website:
Barack Obama may get what he wishes for, 7 months early.
A viral campaign is underway that seeks to enlist people in the my.BarackObama.com group, Senator Obama - Please Vote Against FISA.
Allow me to explain.
A key [...]
