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Tuesday November 08, 2005 · 6:25 PM PST

2005/11/08 · 18:25

Liberal Street Fighter

We've grown up on dramatic presentations of debates, all of us. The Lincoln/Douglas debates are re-enacted every year, with CSPAN providing "coverage". Debate in Congress is very dramatically portrayed in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and now a live scripted debate just scored in the ratings for NBC's West Wing.

No, this isn't another review of that hour (though how thrilling to hear a Presidential candidate proudly proclaim himself a liberal). No, I was reminded more of what is missing from Democrats when they debate, not just in campaigns but on the floor of the House, the Senate and even when appearing on TV shoutfests ... the majority of Democrats are completely unable to express positions with conviction. Read More

Johnnies Come Lately

Madman in the marketplace

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Saturday November 05, 2005 · 7:27 PM PST

2005/11/05 · 19:27

Liberal Street Fighter

NOW, after so much damage has been done: many thousands dead, injured and maimed in a needless war; an American city left in ruins; expanding numbers of Americans sinking into poverty and going without access to healthcare, NOW suddenly these scions of the elite, of entrenched wealth and permagov "public service" are speaking out against the perfidy of the Bush Administration. As Rich Miles puts it:

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 6:24 PM PST

2005/11/04 · 18:24

Drinking in the ruins - Liberal Street Fighter

We could argue forever about when it happened: about whether it was the threat of communism; the rapid growth of Evangelical Corpo-Fundamentalism; the courts insisting to white America that it should actually share this country equally with ALL Americans (at which point we started to tear apart everything we were supposed to share), but plainly the shambling horror that stalks the world now is only the re-animated corpse of the nation born of a dream that was the United States of America.

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 4:46 PM PST

2005/11/03 · 16:46

Liberal Street Fighter

Oh, what fragile and delicate paper-thin epidermis the Bully Right has:

IS THERE NO LEARNING CURVE IN POLITICS? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I'm catching a little more of the Rosa Parks funeral on CSPAN right now while I am supposed to be meeting deadlines. I'm trying to get beyond Louis Farakhan prominently in the audience, sitting next to Al Sharpton (his name always should be followed by "Remember Freddie's Fashion Mart?"). I'm trying to get beyond Nancy Pelosi. Hillary Clinton. John Kerry. But then I hear John Kerry do a commercial for affirmative action, tying a current unjust public policy to her quite just bus action. A veiled reference to women having underclass issues here. A veiled reference to blacks who were shut out from voting (OR I MIGHT BE PRESIDENT!--I'm adding this) there. Bill Clinton had to cut out early to make sure New Yorkers get health care....maybe I need to watch the whole thing, but what I have seen has felt a little....Wellstone funeral-like.

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Tuesday November 01, 2005 · 7:49 PM PST

2005/11/01 · 19:49

In music, the Liberal Street Fighters enjoy themselves

I had a good day on Saturday.

It was a beautiful fall day, and I'd had my fill of "Fitzmas", of disappointment, of the howling void that is political discourse in this country right now. I'd had enough of blogging; reading and writing. I knew, like the sun rises and the moon sets, that the Bush Administration would nominate some troglodyte to the bench on Monday, and I knew that the poodle press would follow the new bright shiny ball, press releases fluttering out ahead of their cold-to-the-touch noses like that mechanical rabbit at a Greyhound track.

I couldn't take it anymore, so I ventured out to spend a bright sunny fall day wandering around Milwaukee after getting some long-neglected chores out of the way.

Oh, by the way, this is a record review, but bear with me, because it will take me a little while to get to it, but the music I picked up that day at Exclusive Company near Brady Street was chosen because of the day I had, and the way the world is going. Indulge me while I meander a bit.
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A Fight Across Generations

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Saturday October 29, 2005 · 8:25 PM PDT

2005/10/29 · 20:25

"Birds do it, bees do it, Liberal Street Fighters do it, let's do it, lets fall in love!"

Alexander Sanger was in town recently for a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the WI Chapter of Planned Parenthood, and is interviewed by Lisa Kaiser in the latest issue of Milwaukee's independent paper, the Shepherd Express:

Shepherd: What aspects of your grandmother’s legacy are still alive in Planned Parenthood today?
Sanger: Her legacy is everywhere. She was a fighter who had to face down fundamentalist Protestants and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. She was intrepid and fearless and an advocate for those who were in desperate need of her services, who were disenfranchised, poor, girls who weren’t part of the system, who were immigrants, uninsured. These women’s needs are as great today as they were in my grandmother’s time. The services provided by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin as well as in the rest of the country are vital to the well-being of women.

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Thursday October 27, 2005 · 5:55 PM PDT

2005/10/27 · 17:55

he wrote. "I shall be looking over you. And you will hear me from time to time on the gentle breeze that sounds at night, and in the rustle of leaves."

Bob Herbert highlights this final goodbye from Sgt. Anthony G. Jones, a soldier fallen in Iraq, to his wife, the mother of his newborn child, in his stinging rebuke of the criminals responsible for the senseless slaughter ongoing in Iraq: Read More

Inverse Learning Curve

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 7:53 PM PDT

2005/10/26 · 19:53

Light a candle - Liberal Street Fighter

Bigger, Stronger Homemade Bombs Now to Blame for Half of U.S. Deaths
By John Ward Anderson, Steve Fainaru and Jonathan Finer

Washington Post Foreign Service

Wednesday, October 26, 2005; A01
BAGHDAD, Oct. 25 -- After 31 months of fighting in Iraq, more than half of all American fatalities are now being caused by powerful roadside bombs that blast fiery, lethal shrapnel into the cabins of armored vehicles, confronting every patrol with an unseen, menacing adversary that is accelerating the U.S. death toll.
U.S. military officials, analysts and militants themselves say insurgents have learned to adapt to U.S. defensive measures by using bigger, more sophisticated and better-concealed bombs known officially as improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. They are sometimes made with multiple artillery shells and Iranian TNT, sometimes disguised as bricks, boosted with rocket propellant, and detonated by a cell phone or a garage door opener.

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Tuesday October 25, 2005 · 6:25 PM PDT

2005/10/25 · 18:25

chillin' - Liberal Street Fighter

A sobering piece in the NY Times highlights the snowballing (sorry, couldn't resist) damage being caused in the artic by global warming:

At age 73, Dr. Koerner, known as Fritz, still regularly hikes high on the ancient glaciers abutting the warming ocean to extract cores showing past climate trends. And every one, he said, indicates that the Arctic warming under way over the last century is different from that seen in past warm eras.

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Monday October 24, 2005 · 6:50 PM PDT

2005/10/24 · 18:50

foreboding tales from Liberal Street Fighter

... and I have no power to stop it."

Torture in Iraq - By Human Rights Watch
Residents of Fallujah called them "the Murderous Maniacs" because of how they treated Iraqis in detention. They were soldiers of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, stationed at Forward Operating Base Mercury (FOB Mercury) in Iraq. The soldiers considered this name a badge of honor.(2)

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Sunday October 23, 2005 · 5:45 PM PDT

2005/10/23 · 17:45

Imagine a better future - Liberal Street Fighter

... is naught but a failure of imagination.
The Four Horsemen don't cause the Apocalypse. After all, they've been riding for centuries, hanging over our heads. They merely symbolize what life on Earth is already like. [...]
There are some people with a vested interest in keeping the world as it is, because that is the world they have power over." -- Promethea - Alan Moore

These people own our entire political system, our economic system and much of our media. BOTH political parties are war parties. Those identified as "leaders" of the party of opposition, Democrats like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden and so many others, enable our aggressive stance toward the world, CELEBRATE our aggressive stance against the world, honestly believing that there is no other way to win elections OTHER than to out-sabre-rattle the Republicans. As Scott Ritter told Raw Story this past spring: Read More

Get Ready for the French Bashing

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Thursday October 20, 2005 · 5:53 PM PDT

2005/10/20 · 17:53

been caught web surfin, once ... Liberal Street Fighter

I stumbled across a couple of interesting tidbits today in my link hopping. Pat Robertson's bete' noire, President Hugo Chavez, made another provocative statement in a BBC interview:

Asked why he thought the US was trying to invade Venezuela, Mr Chavez said: "We have denounced intentions.
"A coup happened in Venezuela that was prepared by the US. What do they want? Our oil, as they did in Iraq.
"We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it," Mr Chavez said.

So what does this have to do with France?

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