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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Just came across this tidbit from Fox:
Methodist Bishops Repent Iraq War ‘Complicity’
I wonder if he is feeling rapture insured and hell proof today???
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Posted yesterday in a diary :: Poll Bush Honesty – 57% Say NO!
Fri Nov 11th, 2005 at 06:55:23 AM PST
WASHINGTON (1 hour ago) – Most Americans say they aren’t impressed by the ethics and honesty of the Bush administration, already under scrutiny for its justifications for an unpopular war in Iraq and its role in the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity.
Almost six in 10 — 57 percent — said they do not think the Bush administration has high ethical standards and the same portion says President Bush is not honest, an AP-Ipsos poll found. Just over four in 10 say the administration has high ethical standards and that Bush is honest. Whites, Southerners and white evangelicals were most likely to believe Bush is honest.
United Methodists Repent Their Sins for Iraq War
Horror link to Fox News!
WASHINGTON Nov. 10 — Ninety-five bishops from President Bush’s church said they repent their “complicity” in the “unjust and immoral” invasion and occupation of Iraq.
“In the face of the United States administration’s rush toward military action based on misleading information, too many of us were silent,” said a statement of conscience signed by more than half of the 164 retired and active United Methodist bishops worldwide.
The signatures were also an instrument for retired bishops to make their views known, said bishop Joseph H. Yeakel, who served in the Baltimore-Washington area from 1984 to 1996. The current bishop for the Baltimore-Washington area, John R. Schol, also signed the statement.
The statement avoids making accusations, said retired Bishop Kenneth L. Carder, instructor at Duke University’s divinity school and an author of the document.
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Methodist Judicial Court Homosexuality Ruling Fuels Revolt
The 65 active Methodist bishops in the nation, meeting in Lake Junaluska, N.C., unanimously voted to issue a pastoral letter contesting a 5-3 ruling in Houston by the eight-member Judicial Council. The council’s rulings are the final word on Methodist doctrine.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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For the love of God and all that is holy… how much does Kos get paid to spew this shit…
Realignment, not impeachment
This is the same twit who supposedly values so called “partisanship” above all… who is now engaged in propping up the most corrupt administration ever…
Geez… this boy drops to his knees for blogads …faster than a nickel bag crack whore
Well I broke one of my self imposed rules and followed the link to Kos’s diary. To say I disagree is a gd understatement. I can’t begin to state all the reasons why I think he’s batshit loopy wrong but mainly he seems to think leaving these fuckers in office will be to the dems advantage-well excuse me when people are corrupt treasonous fuckers you try and work toward getting rid of them as soon as possible and not think how that might benefit you in the long run-how very republican of him.
I don’t want to say anymore right now cause I’m very angry and that’s when you tend to start making personal attacks instead of reasoned arguments.
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are dropping faster than you can utter horseshit.
Every prince has his followers, in France history the courtisans at Versailles led to their Abu Ghraib – Bastille – and to the French revolution led by the populace of the inner city suburbs.
I forgot the intent of the comment I’m writing, much the same as the purpose of Kos’ diary is completely beyond my comprehension.
Vive Le Roi! Le Roi est Mort.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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Hi Oui, I agree that his reasoning-if you can call it that was pretty crappy for lack of a more eloquent denouement…power really does seem to corrupt thinking doesn’t it.
Sterling Newberry has done a good job of sticking Kos’s arguments into the round fixture of your choice.
Thanks for the link. So I guess that Markos is thinking that impeachment would not cause realignment, only the status quo would do it. What has he been smoking?
“boy” is the operative term there. Hate to diss the Kos, but seriously, what comes to my mind 90% of the time is: young. He’s young. Very young. Guy needs to grow up a bit, I’d say. Still caught in the old mindset and rather blind to the truth: sorry, but anyone who thinks we can survive another 3 yrs of this shit is just kidding himself.
And no, it’s not enough to take out Bush. The whole gd barrel of goons has to go.
It’s why I think it’s still so important to stress the election fraud: as the numbers drop, drop, drop–as the scope of their deceptions become clearer and clearer to ever more formerly “unaware” people, so too does it become more and more plausible/probable that YES, yes, they did rig the fucking election.
So let’s have a new one. That’s what other democracies do when the elections are uh, “questionable”.
We have become the “masters of low expectations”, people.
I say go for the gusto: demand resignations and re-call the rigged election.
That’s interesting and I know it drove me crazy at the time. I had the chance to speak with clergy and regular church-folk from the start. I could never get them to budge on the stance that the war and Bush were right.
At the same time they were discrediting my claims that the war should be avoided due to allegations of false information, they kept mentioning the gift of discernment.
Paul Craig Roberts, a conservative, speaking about the Senate’s vote restricting habeas corpus review:
Those democrats who voted for this atrocity should have the paragraph I highlighted read back to them for all eternity.
have provided a very real opportunity to beat them in well-run, well-financed primary campaigns. Two of them, I think are up next year. This should be the number one priority of our side. I hope the libertarian side of the GOP will make similar efforts.
Well, I’m gd embarrassed to admit we now have a Sen Conrad-Lieberman here in ND.
Besides embarrassed, I’m gd furious. I’ve been foaming at the mouth since the first news of it hit Booman. So far I have one email to Conrad’s official website.
Tonight, I’ll email the guy who runs the Fargo office. And tonight I’ll be contacting a number of progressive activists. Monday morning I will call W DC office.
It would be pointless to seek to remove Sen Conrad in ’06. We were all so happy when our Republican gov decided not to run, as then Conrad had no viable challenge.
It’s getting to the point that the guy seems like some sort of hybrid, half R/half D. I have no fkg clue as to the logic involved here, but somebody is going to have to explain this one to me…
We, the progressives here in ND, need to pull Conrad back from the precipice before he falls into the abyss of the darkside.
See this at Buzzflash-Why Are Senators Afraid of the Law?
back from the darkside except by scaring him in the primaries? He’s apparently already decided that his constituency is pro-torture and pro-gulag. Personally, I’d rather see a Republican replace him than let him drag down the rest of the Dem party by letting the GOP use him to say, “see? Even Democrats see the rightness of our cause”. Who is going to care about the party at that point, when we can’t seem to count on it even to come out unanimously against torture and the state’s right to disappear dissidents with impunity?
Maybe I’m done with Dems for real this time. Maybe the only good cause left is to work for the annihilation of both parties.
A family member hugging two little “burritos” during a vacation recently. So sweet.
Ah . . . what cute little burros!
ago and then I stopped watching the fucking news for awhile. Some idiot commander commented on the children who were killed in Steel Curtain by saying that they are of course sorry but this is war and war is ugly. What of bunch of fuckwits! We brought you this war for your own good! We killed your children with this war that we brought you for your own good and of course we are sorry but it was for your own good. No wonder they blow our asses to kingdom come over there, if some fuckwit told me such a thing after he had just killed my children he would be just as dead as I could get him as soon as I could him that way! Would that make me Al Qaeda then….avenging the murder of my children upon some arrogant fuckers who tell me that my children are dead for my own good? It’s so fucking ignorant and arrogant I can’t stand it!
And some more news from the religious world:
Pope tell US ambassador to keep ethics in politics
Well, I guess this is not the best source to talk about ethics – more like the kettle calling… you know what I mean.
So sweet. Outside the cabin waiting for attention.
friendly wild creature blogging.
I can just imagine all three of them thinking, “Is it chow time yet? Huh? We’ve been so good. Aren’t we cute? Where’s the chow?”
They are VERY cute.
It’s not about the sex, but the lies.
Go check out Arthur Silber’s rant on Senator Brownback’s porn fixation… yep, your tax dollars at work, folks. Didn’t you realize how harmful porn is to users and their families? ::head shaky::
The New Puritans: Inverted Priorities, and Punishing Pleasure
Nice to know the good Senator has our best interests at heart…. either that or just maybe he’s overcompensating for something.
Current polling on Bush has him at around 37 approve, 61 disapprove of his performance as president. That’s cause for celebration among patriots and despair among plutocrats and their delusional zombies. But the intensity of disapproval of Bush has been overlooked. It’s very significant.
The latest Ipsos/AP poll reports that 43 percent of respondents strongly disapprove, while only 18 percent strongly approve. The rest approve/disapprove somewhat or lean toward approval/disapproval. In other words, those who disapprove of Bush are stable in their opinions, while more than half of those who approve are wavering.
So this regime still has plenty of room to sink further in the public’s regard and scant prospects for significant improvement. If Dems acquire the guts and savvy to tag every GOP candidate next year with the Bush label, and make a factual case for why we need drastic change, 2006 could be a Dem rampage. Will they step up and sell their party’s liberal, reason-based alternative this time, or will they again try to pander to the nutcase 18 percent? It’s up to us to make sure they do, on pain of joblessness.
PS–The link works now, but I don’t know for how long. It’s PDF, but the details are worth a long download. If anybody has it as HTML, feel free to let us know.
That calls for a beer! It is 12:50 here! That is 1000 percent the best news that I have heard since Libby got a pink slip for being naughty!
From the needs-more-reaction file [Un Press/VOA]:
The mandate was contained in UNSCR 1546 and expired on 31 Dec this year absent an Iraqi government request for an extension. [Also covered by WaPo on 11/07].
Condi’s “surprise” visit?
I really like this Op-Ed in the NYT by the Dalai Lama, link here.
My favorite paras, the nub of his view,IMHO.
I’ve long thought our Western civilization has suffered from a lack of philosophical perspective, relying as we have on religious-based, authoritarian moral judgementalism as our guide to what’s presumed to be proper behavior.
I prefer the secular ethical idea presented by the Dalai Lama in this piece as a foundation for exploration of and guidance for living.
Puritan psychos!
Unfortunately, the Grey Lady’s bean-counters have chosen to put His Holiness behind their subscription wall. Perhaps he’ll show up at something like Common Dreams?
Actually not. This op-ed is accessible from the regular free page. He’s written it using his regular name, Tenzin Gyatso, and the title is “Our Faith in Science”. (I just clicked on the link I included above and went right to it.)
Here’s the link again.
Just tried your new link, and it, as the previous one, led me to Times Select. ???
Not to worry. It’s bound to turn up elsewhere in the accessible world.
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Carbon dioxide, one of the most troublesome greenhouse gases, isn’t just a huge environmental problem; it’s also good for plants. When the gas is distributed in greenhouses, it makes crops grow faster and improves their quality.
This means farmers can get a better price for them on the market. Cultivators have known this for years and spend a lot of money to produce CO2 for distribution in their greenhouses.
OCAP distributes pure CO2 via a network of pipelines. As a result, Dutch horticulturists burn up 95 million cubic metres of natural gas less per annum. CO2 emissions are reduced by 170,000 tonnes per year.OCAP is a joint venture between construction company Volker Wessels and gas distributor Hoek Loos. The enterprise buys the CO2 gas that Shell emits as a by-product of hydrogen production. Coincidentally, the Dutch Shell refinery at Pernis is a mere 20 kilometres away from the ‘Westland’, the region where greenhouse cultivation is concentrated in the Netherlands.
OCAP now distributes this CO2 throughout the Westland via a network of pipelines and sells it to the cultivators. The project has both environmental and economic advantages, explains its initiator Dr Jacob Limbeek:
“By transporting CO2 by pipeline from the Shell refineries in Pernis to the cultivators in the Westland, the emission of greenhouse gas can be greatly reduced. At the same time, the farmers can save a lot of money; there is no more need for them to produce their CO2 themselves”.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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Privatization isn’t just for the third world. CA representative Dick Pombo wants to sell off public lands in the US.
From Environmental Working Group:
A little-known provision in the current House budget reconciliation could precipitate one of the largest land giveaways in American history. The provision, spearheaded by Congressman Richard Pombo of California, would put millions of acres of mining claims in the American West up for sale, including land inside or adjacent to National Parks, wilderness areas and other natural treasures. Real estate speculators, oil and gas companies, foreign mining corporations or anyone who is willing to pay as little as $1,000 per acre could buy the land and develop it in any way they wanted.
The impact of the Pombo proposal would be staggering. It would:
–Put 5.7 million acres of public lands with existing mining claims up for sale immediately upon passage, including more than 2 million acres of claims inside or with 5 miles of national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, national forests and prized public assets.
–Open up as many as 350 million acres of public lands for sale to the highest bidder.
–Eliminate the current requirement that mining claim holders demonstrate valuable mineral deposits under the land.
Since 1994, Congress has imposed a moratorium on the sale of land with mining claims in an effort to end years of multibillion-dollar taxpayer rip-offs. Pombo’s legislation, approved by the House Resources Committee and expected to reach the House floor next week, reverses that policy, but it doesn’t stop there. The bill would also remove the requirement that mining claim holders substantiate the presence of valuable mineral deposits under the claim. Under the Pombo bill, anyone can stake a mining claim to any piece of public land open to mining and then simply buy it. Foreign mining corporations, real estate developers, or oil and gas companies rolling in record profits could simply stake claims and take title to millions of acres of land that for more than 100 years have been owned by the citizens of the United States.
This is a give-away, pure & simple.
Guardian’s got it:
BushCo. Still making millions off regular Americans.
Disgusting.
But then everything about this “regime” disgusts me.
Bill O’Reilly’s an idiot. We all know that. Recently, he’s said he wouldn’t mind if al Qaeda attacked San Francisco because they won’t allow military recruiting.
Help me out here, but wasn’t the proposition a ban on military recruiting on school campuses? Wasn’t it high school and college? That’s a far cry from an outright ban, but he probably knows that. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, as the saying goes.
Obviously, recruiters aren’t modern-day press gangs, but I’m sure a lot of parents and students would prefer that kids can go to school without being approached by persistent recruiters all the time and having to argue with them about why they don’t want to join the armed forces.
Guess I found the answer to my own question in this article from the San Jose Mercury News.
It says that:
I am very interested in this
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