Month: September 2005

So We Beat On

Posted by Alice | Sep 24, 2005 |

Today is the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald. With our dear friends off in Washington fighting the good fight, I thought it appropriate to share Fitzgerald’s description of another American autumn day: Most of the...

Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 126

Posted by RubDMC | Sep 24, 2005 |

this diary is dedicated to everyone speaking out today on behalf of those who suffer because of war and other disasters cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing. image and poem below the fold...

Getting Dem Leaders to LISTEN to Low Income Voters

Posted by Parker | Sep 24, 2005 |

I started this as a comment to Chris’s Getting Low Income Voters to the Polls but then it got way toooo long… There are some good points that Chris has made particulary that when “low Income” people vote...

Pentagon: Gay Soldiers Deployed to Iraq – Discharged on Return

Posted by AZnomad | Sep 24, 2005 |

Crossposted at dKos and My Left Wing Un-fucking-believable… just when you thought the anti-gay fervor in this country, (championed by Neophyte-In-Chief George W. Scrub II and his Christio-Fascist Inquisitors), had reached...

On the dangers of candor, and why people were dying alone in New Orleans….Howard Dean’s words.

Posted by floridagal | Sep 24, 2005 |

They don’t really go together except in one way. They were both explained in full a year ago this September. Recent events reminded me that in his book last year Howard Dean addressed both issues. He...