Contact the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee!
Fri May 23, 2008 at 07:05:53 PM PDT
Or go to the May 31 meeting if you can.
What: DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting
When: May 31, 2008 - 9:30 AM
Morning Session: Oral Arguments
Afternoon Session: Consideration and Debate
Where: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel - Salon I
2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC
(Thanks, venatrix!)
Members of the public wishing to attend are being required to register on-line starting at 10 a.m. next Tuesday. Here. Those lacking Internet access who would like to pre-register can do so by calling 202-479-5137.
(Committee members below the fold.)
Please remind the committee, regarding Hillary's claim that she "won Michigan": Obama was NOT EVEN ON THE BALLOT, because HE HONORED HIS PLEDGE TO THE DNC, HILLARY DIDN'T. And any write-in votes for Obama were automatically discarded. Details Hillary somehow neglects to mention when she crows that she "won Michigan" and that she has garnered more popular votes--both claims are absolute baldfaced lies.
And, in Michigan polls, Obama beats McCain, but McCain beats Clinton.
The Self-Immolation of Malachi Ritscher: Insanity?
Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 11:41:30 PM PDT
I just now heard about Malachi Ritscher today on the Randi Rhodes show.
If this has already been diaried, I'm sorry--sue me.
What do you think? Was Ritscher insane to do what he did?
(I won't belittle his death with a fucking poll.)
On June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a 67-year-old Buddhist monk, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon to protest the Vietnam war.
Was he insane? Could Ritscher have done more to stop the war while being alive? Or was suicide the most powerful statement available to him?
Or are we insane to sit at our keyboards tippy-tapping while a hundred men, women and children are dying every day in Iraq?
Are the sane people the ones who trample others to get a Play Station 3 at Wal-Mart?
Are the sane people the ones who drove past Ritscher's self-immolation and thought only about being late to work?
Are the sane people the editors who chose not to cover his story, or the ones who confiscated and suppressed the video tape of Ritscher's suicide?
Invading Iraq was not the biggest screw-up in history!
Tue Nov 29, 2005 at 09:43:53 AM PDT
This expert really cuts Bush some slack. One of the world's foremost military historians says that invading Iraq was not the greatest strategic blunder in recorded history; Roman Emperor Augustus screwed up just as badly only 2,014 years ago.
So this puts Bush in comparatively good company--I mean, they named a month after this guy.
(Actually I think Augustus named it after himself.)
Will this be the right-wing pundits' new talking point?
"Hey, it's happened before, just look at Augustus. Nothing new here."
Twit happens!
German TV exposes Bush's disgusting staged photo op
Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 10:36:02 AM PDT
Here's the original feed on
German TV and here's the translation:
On the latest state of things here's Christine Adelhardt live from Biloxi:
Two minutes ago the President drove past in his convoy. But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't been seen here all the days before, and this in an area, in which it really wouldn't be necessary to do a big clean up, because far and wide nobody lives here anymore, the people are more inland in the city. The President travels with a press baggage [big crew]. This press baggage got very beautiful pictures which are supposed to say, that the President was here and help is on the way, too. The extent of the natural disaster shocked me, but the extent of the staging is shocking me at least the same way. With that back to Hamburg.
Megan's Law, and now The Casey (Sheehan) Doctrine - Poll!
Mon Aug 22, 2005 at 11:49:41 AM PDT
Cindy's cause inspired my letter to the editor:
When Cindy Sheehan lost her son Casey to an unnecessary war, she turned grief into action to help prevent other needless deaths--a truly noble cause.
We have Megan's Law and the Amber Alert to protect our children; I propose a Casey Doctrine, requiring a national vote and a mandatory draft before U.S. troops can be ordered into combat. This law might help insure that our young men and women are never sent to kill and be killed unless we are directly threatened and all nonmilitary options have been exhausted.
Casey Sheehan was willing to die to defend America, but he died for a pack of lies. Invading Iraq may turn out to be the worst foreign policy tragedy in our history; we must do everything possible to see that such a nightmarish blunder is never committed again.
We owe it to Casey.
