Once again, for Veterans Day I wish there weren't any

I'm sick of the lie of war. The reason is always the same. The result is always the same. For all our sakes, but especially for theirs, I wish there were no war veterans.

I grew up with Disney...

and loved it, but this was happening in the world beyond Fantasyland..

This sexist crap wasn't exclusive to Disney, but it's really disgusting to see it so clearly spelled out!

An apology

" 'Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.' "
— Doris Lessing (The Golden Notebook)

Is it working yet?

On this day we again honor all the (mostly) men who fought in US military actions. But shouldn't we thank everyone who has fought to advance all just causes? Here's a wonderful, educational website to put it in perspective...

http://www.warscholar.com/Timeline.html
(Updated to 2009)

I'm so glad the next war, like the last war, will be the last one. I'm fresh out of thanks.

Good question

Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:

“Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?

“The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer’s money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive.

“People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street.

“Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US.

“The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a Republican version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies... When we were promised change, we weren’t thinking that we give a dollar and get back two cents.”

Euthanasia?! I don't think so.

Worried about what else is planned (hoped for, necessary)? Get another dose of (free) reality meds here.

President! Yes.

Oh. And George...

Do let the door hit you in the ass on your way OUT.

Thursday 13

GW Bush, the absolute worst president who ever defiled a rose garden, is about to leave office. Nearly everyone has something to say about our 8-year journey into the small mind of this malevolent little man. In case you need inspiration, here are..

13 Photos Worth 13,000 Words

Introducing the Newest Representative from Crazy and Off-base: Paul Broun

My thanks to Keith Olbermann.



What a pinhead. Of course, he's sorry. But he's likely always been a sorry pinhead.
Wait! He's sorry, but it isn't an actual apology.
And there's more! The other Georgia Republicans say what??

I hear that Rachel Maddox had a few words to say about the paranoid and sour-grapey Mr. Broun, too. Sorry to have missed that.

Nothing in the Verse Can Stop Us!!

Dear Dairy Diary: Nobody wants to talk to me

It's Super Fat Tuesday!

Never Prosper

A card for all seasons

This was my favorite Christmas card. It's also my favorite January 28th card.