Archive for the 'direct action' Category

In Which I Ask You to Do Nancy Pelosi’s Job For Her

Posted by Brendan on July 18th, 2008 filed in direct action, politics, youtube

…and Waxman’s job, and Conyers’ job, and Hoyer’s job, and…

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Complicit Democrats

Posted by Brendan on July 15th, 2008 filed in DemocRAT, civil rights, crime, direct action, fascism, gop crime, torture

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 [...]

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Moneybomb!

Posted by Brendan on July 14th, 2008 filed in DemocRAT, direct action, fascism, gop crime

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 [...]

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A Realist, Not a Cynic

Posted by Brendan on July 12th, 2008 filed in big business as usual, blogs, criticism, direct action, elections, politics

“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 [...]

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Money Bomb

Posted by Brendan on July 11th, 2008 filed in DemocRAT, direct action, fascism, gop crime

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.

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A Whole New Meaning

Posted by Brendan on July 10th, 2008 filed in DemocRAT, big business as usual, calling bullshit, civil rights, direct action

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 [...]

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Deluded in DC

Posted by Brendan on July 9th, 2008 filed in DemocRAT, Democratic Idiocy, calling bullshit, civil rights, crime, direct action, fascism

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 [...]

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Good Bye to the Fourth Amendment

Posted by Brendan on July 8th, 2008 filed in Democratic Idiocy, crime, direct action, fascism

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 [...]

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Gauntlet

Posted by Brendan on July 2nd, 2008 filed in blogs, bluegrass, bluegrass festival, direct action, family, friends

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 [...]

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Social Networking Goes Two Ways…

Posted by Brendan on June 26th, 2008 filed in calling bullshit, direct action

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 [...]

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