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Friday, May 26, 2006

Religious right using Mary Cheney's name for anti-gay fundraising  

Somehow I doubt we'll see Dick, Lynne, or Mary Cheney making any public statements rebuking the nasty fundraising tactics used by their party's base:


Religious right using Mary Cheney's name for anti-gay fundraising
Will Mary Cheney stand up to the religious right (just as she did to John Kerry and John Edwards) and defend her longtime partner Heather Poe? Will Vice President Dick Cheney, the president of the Senate, defend his daughter and tell the religious right to stop trying to make money by taking pot shots at his family? Or will Mary and Dick do what they usually do - sell out their family members for political gain?



Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State 

Something to think about:
Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State



Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Hypocrisy of Heckling 

Glenn Greenwald does a great job pointing out the hypocrisy of the right-wing when it comes to political speech:
Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: What the WSJ and Instapundit really mean by "the Angry Left"
So, to re-cap the rules: (1) When a pro-war politician gives a pro-war speech as part of a graduation ceremony, and students in the audience heckle and boo him, that shows how Deranged the Angry Left is -- because they heckled a pro-war speech. (2) When an anti-war politician gives an anti-war speech as part of a graduation ceremony, and students in the audience heckle, walk out and even riot, that also shows how Angry the Left is -- because they "provoked a near riot" by pro-war students.



Monday, May 22, 2006

WWDJ 


WWJD?

Bush also was asked to tell a sixteen year old girl how to make America a better place.

Bush: To Jasmine, listen carefully to that universal admonition," Love a neighbor like you would like to be loved yourself..

His supporters should take his advice. Do you remember what happened to Ava Lowery, a fifteen year old girl that spoke out against the war?

Daily Kos: It seems that a young woman by the name of Ava Lowery, a 15-year-old from Alabama has been getting death threats for a powerful video she produced called "WWJD" (What Would Jesus Do), a powerful animation that features a soundtrack of a child singing "Jesus loves me, this I know" while one picture after another of a wounded, bloody, or screaming Iraqi child fills the screen...read on


Here's the video.



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