May 23, 2006
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TUESDAY POLITICSEd Garvey is a Madison lawyer, political activist and the editor of the fightingbob.com web site. In an article for the Madison Capital Times today he
listed some reasons for optimism. Here’s the short version:1. Class members at Liberty University in Virginia and
New School in New York opposed Senator John McCain’s speeches
due to his support of the war in Iraq.
2. Senator Russ Feinfold walked out in protest from a session of
the Judiciary Committee voting to ban gay and lesbian partnerships.
3. People in Wisconsin started going door-to-door to urge voting against the ban in #2.
4. Judge Paul Beibel in Illinois ruled that the results of a report on police torture in Chicago be released to the public.
5. The UN Anti-Torture Commission and the attorney general of Great
Britain told the US to close Guantanamo Bay prison, stop torturing
detainees, and close secret CIA prisons.
6. Italy got rid of Prime Minister Berlusconi, and his successor announced that Italy will withdraw its troops from Iraq.
7. At least six Latin American countries are getting rid of
multinational corporations and starting to share oil revenues with
their poorest citizens.
8. Two million Latinos marched to shed light on the attempt to make them criminals.
9. An invasion of Iran is unlikely without a draft, which would really freak the freak.
10. Rumsfeld is being attacked by his own retired generals.
11. In Wisconsin, former Speaker Scott Jensen will go to jail for corruption.
12. Support for the war in Iraq (as an average two soldiers a day are still dying there) continues to drop.
And here is the long version. Onward and upward!
Deep Thought:
“Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night,
with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no
civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I
think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this
highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window
into the driving rain – unless there’s lightning, because I could get
struck on the head by a bolt.”
Today I am grateful for: My jaw.
Guess the Movie: “I was
12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in
the summer of 1959 – a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms
of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock;
there were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people, but to me it was
the whole world. “ Answer: Stand By Me, 1986.
Winner: RnBoW_SPOT
Report: Bin Laden says Moussaoui had nothing to do with 9/11
New audiotape released
(Cairo, Egypt -AP, May 23, 2006) – Osama bin Laden purportedly said in
an audio tape Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person
convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks, had nothing to do with
the operation. (Rest of article here.)
Comments (22)
Yeah…those are pretty good reasons…the movie Stand By Me
Thank you
Well, I got “Stand By Me” after “Fall from Innocence: The Body” popped into my mind. Then I realized that was the title from the book Different Seasons. ~~~ But I am surely surprised at Liberty University students. I thought they were all Falwell robots, thus I would have imagined them supporting the war in Iraq, or at least anything the religious leader of the free world goes for. Learn something new everyday, and trying to keep an open mind. ~lea
i am grateful for your jaw as well. you cut a fine jib.
Stand By Me gets the blue ribbon!
Howdy.
No civilization out there. hmmmm
I don’t have the skills or youth to deal with that any more.
At least the tide is turning.
Thanks for the comment you sent me. I like what you had written, on your xanga. pretty cool.
Feww things are as surreal as driving through the desert at night. But if the tables begin to turn in the US, that might come close.
Or you could always have a bird bounce off your helmet as your cruising at 90 MPH… scary stuff.
Oh oh i visted your site
“…What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused…”
One thought always leads to another and another and…..confusion sets in… you’re right, it’s at that point one needs a bit of a slap in the face
That IS encouraging. I am so movie illiterate.
A very good list.
Great information at your site. I’m subscribing.
I have no idea about what movie that is…although it does sound very familiar.
I don’t think we can believe anything Osama Bin Laden has to say. He’s a friggin’ mass-murderer.
I sure like the way you have designed your site…very well done!
John
Wow, your pretty liberal.
ryc: Ah yes! The Serenity Prayer. It sums it up quite nicely!
Great post! Perhaps there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
Thanks for the optimistic fuel. I needed it.
RYC: My dad will love being called adorable. As for his age, today is his 57th birthday.
RYC: It is scary how Hospice can let mom slip away, but that is the choice my mom made in order NOT to go to the hospital, but on our part very frustrating for sure. They won’t encourage her to drink, pee, sleep, anything. It’s her world and if she wants to dehydrate herself to death, it’s her privelege, even if she isn’t in her right mind now…she signed up and that’s that. My sister raised holy hell this evening, seems they increased mom’s medication for pain, even though we haven’t needed to increase it for over 11 weeks. She said she wasn’t very popular when she left there!!! marilyn
INCORRECT REPORTING—1. Class members at Liberty University in Virginia and New York University in New York opposed Senator John McCain’s speeches due to his support of the war in Iraq.
McCain was challenged @ the New School in NYC, an alternate university that makes NYU look like limbaughnista central
stand by me…and the “castle rock” name is now a production company…