My university's graduation is going on literally at this hour. I'm sitting in my apartment room instead of attending. My roommates' families are there with them.

So why?

Quick background history on Lind: Dartmouth and Princeton are in his C.V. He has worked as an LA (legislator assistant) to both senators Taft and Hart. He is author of over a quarter-dozen books on military history and tactics.

Yesterday, at a conference urging residents to flee the recently-hit area again, Gov. Blanco had this to cryptic quip to say1:

"Gov. Kathleen Blanco has urged residents in Louisiana's coastal parishes to evacuate northward immediately. For those who refused to leave, she alluded to their identification after their possible deaths: "Perhaps they should write their Social Security numbers on their arms with indelible ink."

1)http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/nola.levees/index.html

This is a very self-serving martyristic attitude. In denying money and clothing herself metaphorically in literary allusions to biblical texts, Day is denying the true nature of poverty. She is romanticizing this squalid human condition through symbolic and literal martyrdom: willful suffering on behalf of an ideal.

check flipside...

Driver: 'Free speech is definitely not free'
Thursday, December 2, 2004 Posted: 7:49 PM EST (0049 GMT)

GRAND ISLAND, New York (AP) -- An elementary school bus driver was fired after sharing a statistic she had read about embryonic stem cell research with students, then encouraging them to tell their parents about it.

Lockheed and the Future of Warfare

 In-Depth Coverage  
By Tim Weiner

LOCKHEED MARTIN doesn't run the United States. But it does help run a breathtakingly big part of it.

I know many kossians are non-religious, but please, read on through before denegrading and bashing. Be openminded!
I don't understand why conservatives insist that Jesus wanted certain things in society to be the way they are, and to be so bigoted and casting out in regards to others.

Forget all the fluff and stories in the bible: the true central tenant is this: He. Was. A. Liberal.

Back in agrarian days of mankind, when we were still pounding rocks together and recently descended from the Apes (as heston would say, the DAMN DIRTY APES :P), we were a religious species.
We thought at first that there was an overall spirit everywhere: in rocks, trees, an intertwining magical force.

This philosophy can still be found in the few hunting and gathering aboriginal socities around the planet today. Everything was connected and had a spirit: things became sectionalized: there became a god of everything instead of a meshed spirit for everything. A god of rocks, a god of trees, a god of a certain river.

I don't understand why conservatives insist that Jesus wanted certain things in society to be the way they are, and to be so bigoted and casting out in regards to others.

Jesus, for his time, was an ultra-raging liberal. The Roman empire decided to eradicate him because he was stirring up Judea and inciting revolt in the area with his ideas of social equality, and love and brotherhood.

Forget all the fluff and stories in the bible: the true central tenant is this: He. Was. A. Liberal.

He stood for social equality at a time when there were slaves. He preached brotherhood between rival tribes of Israel and in the region (Pharasies, Samaritains and the like). He spent his time with the poor and needy, healing the sick. Jesus, if he practiced what he had today, would probably not even been seen by many of the very Christian people who proclaim to be his followers today.

Two-member observer teams have fanned out across 11 states and include citizens of 36 countries, ranging from Canada and Switzerland to Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Slovenia and Belarus.

Formation of the U.S. election mission came after the State Department issued a standard letter on June 9 inviting the group to monitor the election.

The Vienna-based OSCE, a 55-nation body that encourages all member countries to observe each others' elections. Another group, invited by the San Francisco activist group "Global Exchange," is deployed in five states watching for evidence of "disenfranchisement."

Nothing from CNN or other news outlets.

The only one I took liberty with was CA.

Comments?

KOS:
  Kerry Bush

PA 53   46
FL 51   49
NC 48   52
OH 51   49
MO 46   54
AR 47   53
MI 51   47
NM 50   49
LA 43   56
CO 48   51
AZ 45   55
MN 54   44
WI 52   47
IA 49   49

    NV  CO  NC  PA  OH  FL  MI  NM  WI
Kerry     48  46  49  54  50  50  51  50  51
Bush      50  53  51  45  49  49  47  48  46

Kerry: 268 EV

CA
NM
MN
IA
WI
IL
MI
OH
PA
NY
VT
NH
MA
CT
NJ
DC
FL

Bush: 143 EV
NV
CO
NE
TX
GA
NC
WV
KY
IN
MO
AR
NE
LA

See the floppy hat? Helmets get in the way. Same with bulletproof vests. They must take them off to work and then put them back on when needing to move.

Generals, dripping with tin, tell us from podiums that all is well.

From the nightly news, it seems we have a montonous series of wins.

But what are our troops saying? Those who are on the front line being shot at have the best idea of where the war is going.

Without further ado or commentary, I will post below comments found in the New York Times International section, N15, of Sunday Oct 24, 2004.