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Sept. 11

September 11th 2008 07:04
American flag





When faith alone is not enough,
To keep our heads barely above,
We look for reason and come up empty-handed.
And when our children fight our wars,
While we sit back just keeping score,
We're teaching murder not understanding now.

We're setting the fires to light the way,
We're burning it all to begin again,
With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands,
We sing for change

The lives our buried sons have laid,
Won't cancel debts we've yet to pay,
In death, we justify anything now,
As long as we blindly obey and do exactly what they say,
We'll have no one to blame, but ourselves now.

We're setting the fires to light the way,
We're burning it all to begin again,
With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands,
We sing for change.

We run on the fumes of injustice,
We'll never die with the fuel that you give us,
Keep it coming 'cause I'm prepared to burn,
Keep running, find me at every turn.

Your life around,
(into something true, into something true)

So turn your life around,
(into something true, something true)

We're setting the fires to light the way,
We're burning it all to begin again,
With hope in our hearts and bricks in our hands,
We sing for change.
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McCain on Timetables For the War

July 26th 2008 02:36
confused McCain
McCain was CNN's Situation Room talking about the war in Iraq. And as predicted he went on to say 16 months is a pretty good time table to get out of Iraq.

Wait.

Did I hear that wrong? Did McCain really just flip sides on national television and take Obama's back? Seriously? Did anyone say anything about it? Call him out? You know, the liberal media, get up on him about it? Oh wait, he's still Johnny War hero and can say and do as he pleases.

Here is the video of his comments.



But wait a good darn moment. Didn't you say bringing the troops home in a certain time table wasn't important and that Obama's plan would bring them home in defeat. You wanted them to go fighting and come home victorious and proud. No wait, give me a moment. Ah, here it is.



And then you went on to say even more recently that it's all about the ground and no timetables.



So why is suddenly a timetable good?
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Oh Noes! Teh Gays In Military!

July 25th 2008 10:18
 Elaine Donnelly
Everyone has been talking about the hilarious video of Congressman Patrick Murphy questioning Elaine Donnelly on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". You can see Murphy and others both fighting back laughter and anger at this woman trying to make her insane point.

To Donnelly every homosexual person is a sexual predator waiting to strike, an idea that is absurd to those of us living in the real world. However, I've come to conclude that most conservatives do not live in the real world so it shouldn't be a surprise that they are unfamiliar with how it works here.

There are two points of the video that strike out the most to me. First, I adore that Congressman Murphy did what so few are willing to do. Take a wingnut conservative's attempt at insulting others and shows exactly how it really insults the people they claim to protect. It seems logical. Saying that women need to dress modestly and not engage in normal dating behaviors to prevent rape and assaults really is saying that men are such horrible creatures that they will rape at the slightest sight of a woman. In the same way Murphy points out that if she is so afraid that openly gay people in the military will cause our soldiers to put down their guns and start having orgies in the barracks, she is also saying that she looks down quite a bit at our soldiers.

Screaming "Look, look at what his presence will make me do!" doesn't cover up the fact you are the one so weak as to lose all claimed values by simply being in the presence of another person.

Second, I choked up a little at Donnelly's example of how how bad gays in the military are. One woman was assaulted by a group of lesbians, therefore all lesbians are sex crazed rapists. By her logic we should not let straight men in the military either as we all know what they happen to do to fellow soldiers and to civilians. Though some how I'm sure Donnelly would take that to mean women should not be allowed in the presence of men not their fathers, brothers, or husbands. "Cause that would totally stop rape right?

While the state of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was being revisited, and likely not to be changed at the time, a recent poll showed that the majority of Americans are in favor of gay military personnel, open or not.

The change in support for openly gay service members has been striking. In 1993 fewer than half – 44 percent – believed they should be allowed to serve, rising to 62 percent in 2001 and today’s 75 percent. Support for gays who remain silent on their orientation is up
from 63 percent in 1993, though about the same now as in 2001.


Watch the video yourself and enjoy.

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More McCain Foolery

July 24th 2008 18:21
McCain
I love when McCain suporters get upset that the press is supposedly giving Obama more love than they are to him. Only in crazy land could that be true. Case in point, McCain says something stupid and CBS edits his own words to make him sound smarter. Straight talk? Watch the video and tell me.


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War
Not so much shocking news for most people, but there might still be some who seem to think bombs, guns, and invasions would actually help women and children. Luckily the AP is here to help untwist this logic. Unfortunately because the AP has decided to attack bloggers I cannot quote the article, but go ahead and click here to read it for yourself.

Of course this isn't exactly new news. The trauma that the war in Iraq has caused innocent women and children living there has been well reported. From sexual assaults and rape as war tactics to the children who just happen to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. There are crimes committed that are almost unspeakable
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