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  • No Couching Message In Furniture Mogul’s New Ad Campaign
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Mitchell Gold is an openly gay, Jewish furniture magnate who is larger than life in small town America. Where most people leave New York to live unassumingly in the countryside, Gold has brought charisma and pizzazz to the sleepy hamlet of Taylorsville, North Carolina.
    Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams furniture factory is the largest employer in the area. It has offered Gold a unique opportunity to converse intimately with a wide variety of people in rural America. In many (…)

  • Off the Table: A Farce in One Act
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    Stage set: a dining room at left, an office at right
    A woman enters the office where the phone is ringing. She answers it.
    NP: Hello? Why do you ask? Yes, I’m sure. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Impeachment is off the table. Now let me tell you about some new legislative proposals that I think you’re really going to like. I’ll give you what we’re going to pass in the first hundred seconds and in the first hundred months. Which one do you want first? Let’s (…)

  • THE LIKELY HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 9, 2007
    THE LIKELY HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ
    John Chuckman
    Names like Haditha, Fallujah, Samarra, and Abu Ghraib are likely destined to become, at least in the Muslim world, iconic symbols for America’s bloody adventure in Iraq. This will not so much represent the deliberate selecting of horrors to remember and feature, for America’s entire crusade has been a horror, but the impulse to have tough summary images of complex events.
    America invaded Iraq for two main (…)

  • THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: IRAQ
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRIDE: It goeth, they say just before the fall. Bush brags that "We freed them", egad, what gall!
    ENVY: Cheney says Iraqis envy U.S., but when polls are taken, results? just guess!
    GLUTTONY: Neocon nutjobs stuff gullets each day ,but starving Iraqis don’t eat, they can’t pay.
    LUST: The monster oil companies lust for more dough, too bad Iraqis, your profits must go!
    GREED: The commonest sin of mankind is greed, and Bush/Cheney love it, results of "bad seed"
    SLOTH: Our Congress is (…)

  • The Clock Ticks For Thee
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tick ... Tick ... Tick (2007)
    "No man is an island, entire of itself," wrote John Donne. "...[A]ny man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
    http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mh...

  • Second Disaster to Strike Kansas
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The deadly tornado that struck Greensburg Kansas last Friday was but the first affliction soon will come the second. As certainly as thunder follows lightning after a disaster of this magnitude comes the Bush full Monty stump speech full of euphemisms and faux promises of assistance. Coming soon to a disaster near you! George of the bungle will set up his standard kiss and consolation photo op offering kisses kind words and consolation but not much else. The administration learned (…)

  • TYING UP LOOSE ENDS
    8 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tying up Loose Ends By Peter Fredson May 8, 2007
    After my last blog, I was asked why I oppose George W. Bush in such vehement tones. So I compiled a list of complaints about the Issues that Bush has failed to meet adequately.
    The Valerie Plame affair is still open Several hundred prisoners are still in Guantanamo. Iraqi civilians are still being killed wholesale Iraqi oil is still coveted Iranian oil is still coveted Oil anyplace in the world is coveted Attempts to destabilize nations (…)

  • “Pro Surge” Mikulski Is Paving the Way for Hillary!
    8 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The U.S. military announced the deaths of 11 more U.S. troops in Iraq.” - AP Report, May 7, 2007
    “She has literally ‘paved’ the way for me and countless other women who now serve in the Congress,” gushed the want-to-be president, Sen. Hillary “War Lite” Clinton (D-NY). Bubba Bill’s other half was referring to Sen. Barbara “Pro Surge” Mikulski (D-MD), who had just proclaimed her support last month for Clinton’s candidacy. Mikulski has, indeed, done a lot of ‘paving,’ while pretending to (…)

  • Protectionism, Patsies and Pussies
    6 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How do you explain the advantages of globalism to a seven year old while she’s burying a family pet in the back yard. “Well you see Virginia, sometimes companies let bad things get into the cat food.” Of course that answer is just so superficial, the fact is the Chinese are a raging success at capitalism not just from a monetary standpoint but from a behavioral point of view as well.
    Sometimes we watch our children play and we see aspects of ourselves reflected in them that we don’t like (…)

  • Art of War : Paul Wolfowitz
    5 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Paul Woflowitz