Clinton implicitly condemns Bush

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Monday May 22, 2006 · 3:16 AM PDT

2006/05/22 · 03:16

I was able to use a UT School of Public Affairs faculty ticket to hear former President Bill Clinton give a commencement speech on Saturday, May 20th.

Without mentioned President George Bush by name, or directly indicting his administration, Clinton clearly identified the policies and agendas of their current executive branch as fatally flawed and dangerously shortsighted and selfish.

Torquemadog posted another diary this morning documenting the similar comments of John Edwards, Kerry's VP running mate in 2004, who said,

"{Bush has} done a variety of things -- things which are going to take us forever to recover from....{Bush and Cheney are} very good at dividing the country and taking advantage of it. What they're not good at is governing, and it shows every single day in this administration. And the country is paying a huge price for that."

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Thursday May 11, 2006 · 6:58 AM PDT

2006/05/11 · 06:58

I was trying to organize my computer - anything to avoid the end of the school year jobs - and I found a link on my "Favorites" page that I had forgotten I had bookmarked.

It's from a site called Turn Left - The Home of Liberalism on the Web.

The Author says in 1997

I started Turn Left nearly 2 years ago, on January 26 1995. At the time, Newt and his buddies had just taken over Congress, and liberalism was in the dumps. The web was spilling over with conservative sites and pages, but there was no where for liberals to turn to, to call home. So I started "The Liberal Information Page" which was at first just a collection of links. Over time it has grown to be the largest site of its kind on the web.

Now, I'm not sure that it is REALLY the largest collection of links for liberals on the web, but it did have some neat stuff. The reason I linked to his site was because of his short essay about "What Liberals Stand For". Read More

Why an Atheist Joined my Church

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Monday April 10, 2006 · 4:38 AM PDT

2006/04/10 · 04:38

I belong to St Andrews Presbyterian Church. We're a liberal protestant church, and I have been a member for 12 years. We're currently involved in a controversy because we allowed an avowed atheist to become a member of our church, and did not require that he "accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior", or similar language.

Robert Jensen, a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has presented a number of topics for discussion at our church over the years, after meeting our minister Jim Rigby at a Social Justice event. Jensen is a journalism professor and has written many articles and at least 2 books. After quite a bit of interaction with our minister, our church, and the participants at lectures and classes he has directed, he chose to become a member of our church.

He was exposed to religion as a child, and while in college, he lost his faith, and lost any belief in the idea that God exists. Even though that is still true - that he does not believe in God - he still wants to be a participating member of the mission of our church, and so became a member of St Andrews. Read More

Moussaoui verdict Eligible for Death Penalty

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Monday April 03, 2006 · 1:08 PM PDT

2006/04/03 · 13:08

On Monday, April 3rd, 2006, Moussaoui was found eligible for the death penalty by a jury.

The verdict was announced at 3:05 PM CDT from the trial setting in Alexandria, VA.

This finding was ONLY if he is ELIGIBLE for the Death Penalty. They asked if an airplane could be classified as a WMD, and they were told yes. They had to make a finding that he was at least partially responsible for the deaths of even one person on 9/11.

The hearing to determine if he SHOULD be given the death penalty will happen later this week. Read More

Misconceptions about Jill Carroll

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Friday March 31, 2006 · 9:47 PM PST

2006/03/31 · 21:47

Here on DailyKos, almost without exception, there was joy when the news came out that Jill Carroll had been released. Several diaries here and here for example, spoke about our delight that she was released rather than being killed as her captors had threatened, as well as our disgust with the right wing reaction to the videotaped comments we heard her say about her time while held hostage. I even suggested in a post I made on that first diary that users here should bookmark that diary so that we could use it as rebuttal material when rightwingers baselessly accuse us of wanting bad things to happen in Iraq, and never discussing the good news.

One of the things that really pissed me off, and irritated many others too, was that the right wingers (Free Republic and others, links here and here and here) jumped all over this story and blasphemed Jill Carroll for no good reason.

Ready for Iraqi invasion in January 2003

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Monday March 27, 2006 · 4:07 PM PST

2006/03/27 · 16:07

NBC Nightly News on Monday, March 27th, 2006, exposed a British memo that they say exposes the fact that both Bush and Blair were ready to go to war in January, despite their protestations that they were trying all diplomatic avenues short of war.

Not only is this an issue because President Bush was tasked to go to Congress AFTER he invaded and assert that he in fact did everything he could to avert war, and it was only when he ran out of options that he went to war, but it is also an issue because the situation had changed from the fall of 2002, when everyone still thought Saddam Hussein still had WMD's, until March of 2003, when it was clear to many of us, and should have been clear to Bush and Blair, that the evidence that Saddam had WMD's had been mostly debunked.

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New Photos Glaciers Melting Away

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Saturday March 25, 2006 · 6:11 AM PST

2006/03/25 · 06:11

The latest news on glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana is decades old.

In 1997 the U.S. Geological Survey began the Repeat Photography Project in the Montana park to compare how glaciers have changed over the last century. Photographers returned to locations where old-timers had taken photos long before they could possibly have imagined their scientific value. Locating these vantage points was the trickiest part of the project, as some required extensive off-trail hiking.
The before-and-after pictures released this week are dramatic -- all that remains of some glaciers are big puddles. Others have simply faded away to expose bare mountainsides. The images were taken at similar times of year under similar conditions.

Please check out the photos at the link below the fold - they are amazing, and some of the "before" pictures are from as much as a century ago. Read More

Allawi's civil war comments

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 3:19 PM PST

2006/03/21 · 15:19

Most everyone has heard what former Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi told the BBC for publication in Sunday's papers - The head of the Iraqi National List, a secular nationalist alliance made up of Sunnis and Shiaa, said

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," and in an interview with Asharq al Awsat from his office in Baghdad, Allawi said, "Civil war in Iraq is a reality and the situation is very bad."

But the Bush Administration says that it is not yet a Civil War. Hmmm, whom should we believe? Could Allawi possibly know what he is talking about? I mean, what is he basing this comment upon?

White House Press Release Strawman argument

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 3:12 PM PST

2006/03/02 · 15:12

On March 1, 2006, the AP released excerpts from a videotaped conference call that discussed the threats from Hurricane Katrina. This video provided conclusive, irrefutable proof that the experts told President Bush that the experts DID fear breaching of the levees from this storm, and as a result contradicted Bush's claims on Thursday, September 1st in a conversation with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America that he didn't think that anyone "anticipated the breach of the levees".

On March 2nd, The Bush White House published a press release entitled "Setting the Record Straight: The August 28th Hurricane Katrina Videoconference" (excuse me while I laugh at the concept of the Bush Administration setting ANY record straight).

The White House attempted to construct several strawman arguments about this issue, and tried to make themselves look better than they deserve to look! Read More

Ricin found at the University of Texas campus!

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Saturday February 25, 2006 · 10:59 AM PST

2006/02/25 · 10:59

Ricin apparently has been found on the campus of the University of Texas here in Austin!

No one appears to be ill from contact with the WMD as of this point. The investigation is in its early stages.

Apparently the ricin was first found on Thursday. Preliminary tests confirmed that it was ricin on Friday, and the dorm was evacuated late Friday, and has been cleared for re-entry today. Read More

Hypocrites about American soldiers leaving Iraq

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Thursday February 23, 2006 · 12:14 AM PST

2006/02/23 · 00:14

Of course we all know that the Republicans in leadership positions across America are hypocrites in many ways.

But one of the areas where I think we will see evidence of their hypocrisy more and more between now and election day this coming November is in the removal of troops currently in Iraq. Read More

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