Month: August 2006

Wednesday News Bucket

“We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the...

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Joe Lieberman: The GOP’s Fair-Haired Boy

Also Main-Headlined at Op-Ed News Last week Joe Lieberman, Connecticut’s Junior Senator currently defending his seat against a primary challenge from insurgent candidate Ned Lamont, reacted testily to charges that he is...

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Flipteen Flippity Nine

1559! 1559! 1559! Yes… the Resolution that Israelis and the U.S. can’t stop referring to.  I’ll leave aside the irony that Israel is one of the all-time violaters of UN Security Council Resolutions,...

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Froggy Bottom Cafe — closed.

This is an Unhosted Cafe. Coffee & Tea under the window.Goodies on the platters. Saturday cafes are unhosted until November. If interested in hosting, leave a comment Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from...

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How the Federal Reserve Runs the US – V

…History proves a better world is possible when committed people work hard enough for it. It’s how slavery was ended; workers won the right to organize and bargain collectively; women gained equal suffrage to men,...

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