and just now had a chance to watch it. Best breakdown ever of what caused the deficit.

GWB cancels appearance at Denver summit because he doesn't want to share a stage with "a man who has willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States”.

Um, yeah.

I think I am going through another political activism phase of posting links to sites that say some things much better than I ever will such as this one promoting the Freedom From Religion Foundation bus ad campaign.

Thanks to jenwrites for the link ( Read more... )

I am not necessarily activist oriented, but this needs to be distributed as widely as possible.

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Gleefully snagged from orangebeaver.

Somebody really needs to do a bumper sticker:

Yet another victim of the Republican Insurance Death Squad

But it still wouldn't get the message across. I don't think that they will connect the bodies piling up in the street with the lack of affordable health care.

I have seen it stated by several sources that you are “concerned because they (your Downs Syndrome child and your elderly mother) will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care.” In the first place ( Read more... )

Passed on from ginmar.

On September 12, 2001, Iranians in Teheran held a moment of silence. bites_the_sun has done this video to help keep them from being silenced now. Please pass on, link to her, or make your own.

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Okay - with the vote coming up on health care reform, I have something to say to my congresscritters, but I am also posting it here for, I don't know, posterity. And maybe some feedback. I will be sending this off late tonight (and I hope the cut tag works) and will include any valid points I may have missed. It is meant to be grim. I also ( Read more... )

From talvinamarich, a very interesting and informative essay on language and metaphors WRT liberals and conservatives.

A shift in perceptions of what certain words evoke in conversation with someone of 'opposing' viewpoints might clear the air.