In the Multiverse
in the humming strings
is the being
of you and me.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Perfect Me Ann Coulter
Again, this is great...very funny, and in my Happy Hanukkah video theme...
Satirist/singer/guitar player Leah Kauffman sings and asks Ann Coulter to perfect her. I think she (Leah) really puts things in the right perspective.
Rock On!
Happy Hanukkah!
We were laughing out loud watching this. I thought it was appropriate being Hanukkah and all.
Crank That Kosha Boy
Monday, December 10, 2007
Holy Crap!
6,000 soldiers claim persecution by "Christian" evangelicals
This is so frightening...
Links from the article:
-Harry
This is so frightening...
"They are proselytizing not on behalf of the Constitution of the United States and the national security interests of our country but rather on behalf of some sort of fanatical view of end times. And they are using our army to affect that."And follow the link to read on, it gets better, I mean worse.
-- Ambassador Joe Wilson
Links from the article:
- The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism
- Theocracy Watch: The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party - a public information project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy
at Cornell University - ideological insanity behind Erik Prince and Blackwater Inc.
- Military Religious Freedom Foundation
-Harry
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Who should I vote for?
Who should I vote for? I'll vote for the person who understands that the checks and balances on the three separate branches of government are crucial to keep our democracy functioning. The founding fathers knew that power makes even the best people turn absolutely corrupt. They cleverly devised the only way to stop inevitable corruption through healthy checks and balances with real teeth.
I'll vote for someone who will give the people back their constitutional rights, rights such as freedom from being spied on and thrown in jail without due process. I'll vote for someone who upholds the constitution regarding torture. I'll support the person who understands that our country was founded on the basis of the separation of church and state. I'll vote for the person strong enough to stop lobbyists from buying laws and lawmakers.
Who is this hero? Who is the person, when tempted with the now increased powers in the executive branch to make his/her decisions law, who would give up these imperial prerogatives in favor of rule as the founding fathers intended? i.e., no more kings!
I'll vote for someone who will give the people back their constitutional rights, rights such as freedom from being spied on and thrown in jail without due process. I'll vote for someone who upholds the constitution regarding torture. I'll support the person who understands that our country was founded on the basis of the separation of church and state. I'll vote for the person strong enough to stop lobbyists from buying laws and lawmakers.
Who is this hero? Who is the person, when tempted with the now increased powers in the executive branch to make his/her decisions law, who would give up these imperial prerogatives in favor of rule as the founding fathers intended? i.e., no more kings!
Monday, December 03, 2007
Classic warning signs...
How to shut down democracy and begin fascism: Step 1, invoke threat; Step 2, establish secret prisons, Step 3, develop paramilitary (contractor killers), Step 4, surveil citizens... etc. Classic warning signs...video with Naomi Wolf:
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8653&SectionName=After+Words&PlayMedia=No
Put $ where mouth is by actually being a beacon of democratic values for the world. Anyone of us can be yanked off to a secret prison with no recourse, mistakes or no. Thought we covered this in 1215 with the Magna Carta. We've rewound western civilization by 700 years: we're pre-Enlightenment, baby. Feel like a "patriot" now?
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8653&SectionName=After+Words&PlayMedia=No
Put $ where mouth is by actually being a beacon of democratic values for the world. Anyone of us can be yanked off to a secret prison with no recourse, mistakes or no. Thought we covered this in 1215 with the Magna Carta. We've rewound western civilization by 700 years: we're pre-Enlightenment, baby. Feel like a "patriot" now?
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Letter to the FCC
Dear FCC,
I’m so glad we have people in the FCC that have had a Communication class. You know then, about the FCC’s sacred calling to protect the public interest from monopolies and the long-fought history of this protection. Of course you are familiar with this history, as it is the very history of the FCC itself. God bless you for making the right decisions on protecting local interests from monopolies.
I’m sure you would do your historic duty to the people by not allowing ownership of the newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same market. Otherwise, that would break the entire reason for the FCC’s being, wouldn’t it?
However, I must warn you, that some influential leaders and thinkers are loudly espousing their beliefs that your FCC is “making information safe for monopolies” (Al Gore, The Assault on Reason). Bill Moyers said on his show the other week: “Kevin Martin isn’t letting up in his relentless push to allow a handful of media giants swallow up more of your local media.” Other communication scientists have shown relationships between the media’s conglomerates hiring of FCC officials and making favorable decisions for those media conglomerates who hire you (the revolving door theory). Maybe you ought to give these influential leaders a call to reassure them that you are on the side of the people who value diversity of information over supposed cost-saving consolidations and not on the side of media conglomerates.
Best of luck in your decision to roll back putting concentrated information power in the hands of the few. That is a hard fight today with all of the consolidation. Yet, it is an heroic struggle for the survival of our precious democracy. As you stand up to these media conglomerates, just remember you are standing up for democracy itself.
It is so great to live in a country where freedom of information and opposing viewpoints is honored for the very existence of our democracy. Can you imagine what it is like in China, where all of the information is owned by one monopoly – the state?
Happy Holidays.
I’m so glad we have people in the FCC that have had a Communication class. You know then, about the FCC’s sacred calling to protect the public interest from monopolies and the long-fought history of this protection. Of course you are familiar with this history, as it is the very history of the FCC itself. God bless you for making the right decisions on protecting local interests from monopolies.
I’m sure you would do your historic duty to the people by not allowing ownership of the newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same market. Otherwise, that would break the entire reason for the FCC’s being, wouldn’t it?
However, I must warn you, that some influential leaders and thinkers are loudly espousing their beliefs that your FCC is “making information safe for monopolies” (Al Gore, The Assault on Reason). Bill Moyers said on his show the other week: “Kevin Martin isn’t letting up in his relentless push to allow a handful of media giants swallow up more of your local media.” Other communication scientists have shown relationships between the media’s conglomerates hiring of FCC officials and making favorable decisions for those media conglomerates who hire you (the revolving door theory). Maybe you ought to give these influential leaders a call to reassure them that you are on the side of the people who value diversity of information over supposed cost-saving consolidations and not on the side of media conglomerates.
Best of luck in your decision to roll back putting concentrated information power in the hands of the few. That is a hard fight today with all of the consolidation. Yet, it is an heroic struggle for the survival of our precious democracy. As you stand up to these media conglomerates, just remember you are standing up for democracy itself.
It is so great to live in a country where freedom of information and opposing viewpoints is honored for the very existence of our democracy. Can you imagine what it is like in China, where all of the information is owned by one monopoly – the state?
Happy Holidays.
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