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Monthly Archive for July, 2005
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turns out the NRA isn’t coming to Columbus in 2007… aww shucks. what a damn shame, what will we do without a bunch of card-toting NRA members walking around with all those pretty weapons that their “constitutional rights” allow them to own?
how will the city survive??! we’ll surely starve! all those wild turkeys and buffalo running around and no way for the poor little human to kill them! we need assault weapons! please come back NRA!
okay i’m done.
no wait, one more thing.
someone please, PLEASE tell me why anyone *needs* an assault weapon. i honestly want to know.
i mean really needs one, as if their life depends on it. not ’cause they want to feel like a bigger man or they don’t like anyone saying “no you can’t have that.” email me. i’ll give you a cookie.
go columbus city council and mayor coleman,
props to you for not whoring out our city to the NRA.
props to you for not whoring out our city to the NRA.
ironically it comes a bit too late…
Image of bombers’ deadly journey: Police have released a CCTV image of the four London bombers together as they set off on their deadly mission.
I guess I’m admittedly creeped out by this… and by the story of this woman who died on the bus explosion:
Anat Rosenberg, 29, a charity worker from Israel, was killed on the Number 30 bus in Tavistock Square. She was talking to her boyfriend over the phone when he heard the blast followed by screams before the line went dead. Boyfriend John Falding said: “The irony of all these terrible things is that she was afraid of going back to Israel because she was scared of suicide bombings on buses.”
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Just something to think about. I can’t help but think there’s no reason to not have perspective if one would just look outside their own little world where the biggest problem is fu@king gas prices rising. Over 1,761 U.S. soldiers have died in this big lie called Iraq. At least 13,000 have been wounded. Not to mention the innocent civilians who aren’t even being accounted for because we can’t count that high. Let’s put those numbers on the 6, noon and 11 o’clock news every hour on the hour before and after the 3-day weather forecast, before and after the Consumer Watch segments, before and after our Wall to Wall Sports fix, before and after the shiny faced white toothed news anchor wishes us a good day and bids us farewell… until it finally gets through.
Maybe we should start planning a party for when the number hits 1,776 the year our great country was “born”, yeah that would put a good spin on things, that’s what we like, sugar sugar sugar coat it please. Give the poor soldier’s family a pretty flag and say “thanks for your sacrifice in the name of our country, he was number 1776, don’t you feel special?”
God our government needs to get over themselves. Wake the F up.
Children die in Baghdad car bomb
At least 26 Iraqis, almost all of them children, have been killed by a suicide car bombing in south-eastern Baghdad.
A US soldier is also said to have died in the blast. Another three US soldiers are reported to have been injured. A car drove up to a US army vehicle and blew up as troops gave sweets to the children, a witness said.
Hundreds of Iraqis have died in attacks by militants opposed to the US presence and a Shia-led government that took charge in Baghdad earlier this year.
‘Pools of blood’
“Many Iraqi civilians, mostly children, were around the Humvee at the time of the blast,” US military spokesman Sgt David Abrams told the Reuters news agency.
Another witness told the AFP news agency: “Children gathered round the Americans who were handing out sweets. Suddenly a suicide car bomber drove round from a side street and blew himself up,” he said.
A television cameraman working for the Reuters agency said nearby houses had been demolished by the explosion and pools of blood collected in the street.
The blast is said to have taken place as the US patrol was passing through Baghdad’s eastern al-Jedidah district which is populated mainly be Shia Muslims.
Shocked relatives
At the nearby Kindi hospital, correspondents say hundreds of distraught relatives wandered along the blood-soaked corridors shouting and screaming as they looked for their children, many of whom were badly mutilated.
An official said the bodies of 24 children had been delivered to the mortuary.
Abu Hamed, who lost his 12-year-old son in the blast, told the AFP news agency he was at home when he heard the explosion. “I rushed outside to find my son. I only found his bicycle,” he said. He said he found his son at the Kindi hospital mortuary. “I recognised him from his head. The rest of the body was completely burnt.”
The area of eastern Baghdad where the blast took place has a mixed community of Sunnis, Shia and Christians, BBC correspondent Richard Galpin reports.
A bomb blast in Baghdad in September last year killed at least 34 children.
This attack also saw the victims gather round US troops who were handing out sweets, to mark the opening of a water treatment plant.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/4678207.stm
Published: 2005/07/13 11:05:42 GMT
© BBC MMV
The World Can’t Wait!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Mobilize for November 2, 2005
Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
Your government suppresses the science that doesn’t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.
Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
People look at all this and think of Hitler – and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance.
Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.
There is not going to be some magical “pendulum swing.” People who steal elections and believe they’re on a “mission from God” will not go without a fight.
There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into “leaders” who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.
But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn – or be forced – to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.
And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush’s outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.
To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush’s “re-election”, we will take the first major step in this by organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: “NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!”
November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the beginning – a giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so – and it will join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.
The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.
Initiating signers of this call include:
William Blum, author of Rogue State
Prof B. Robert Franza, MD, author of Control of Human Retrovirus Gene Expression
Nina Felshin, author of But Is It Art: The Spirit of Art as Activism
Margot Harry, author of Attention MOVE! This is America
C. Clark Kissinger, Revolution newspaper and initiator of Not In Our Name statement
Travis Morales, Revolutionary Communist Party, San Francisco Bay Area
Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter [Bulworth]
Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor
Ralph Poynter, community activist
Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild-NY
Lynne Stewart, criminal defense attorney
Sunsara Taylor, Revolution newspaper
Dear President Bush,
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, you spoke of the unity of purpose emanating all across America. Now, Karl Rove, your top political aide, wants us to believe that you weren’t telling the truth — that Americans were offering “therapy and understanding to the attackers.” You cannot remain silent as your most senior advisor purposely twists the truth about a great moment of American unity for political gain.
It isn’t the first time Karl Rove has crossed the line. It needs to be the last. I call on you to thoroughly reject his cheap, divisive efforts to challenge the patriotism of your political opponents. It’s time to fire Karl Rove.
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php
I cannot help but laugh in irony when I see headlines like this one from BBC News:
“Eight Arrests in U.S. Polygamy Sect.”
I love that situations like this are never brought up in arguments about the “sanctity of marriage.” Or with celebrities especially– they’re allowed to marry and divorce as many times as they want since they’re famous and pretty. Society seems to accept that it’s just naturally how they are right? Nobody’s going on E! or Access Hollywood to argue against their lifestyle.
So maybe that’s what we need to do to gain marriage rights… become rich and famous members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! Anybody wanna try it with me? Come on, how often do you get to visit Utah?
