May 29, 2006
· Filed under Honestly, Images
A beautiful but sad post. Everyone will want to read this and then take a look at the photo essay. JC is usually funny and sarcastic - not this time…
War is a horrible thing. It destroys generations. It puts soldiers into terrible situations where they are forced to mortgage their souls. It is not something that should be entered into unless no other option is available. That’s Bush’s crime. War with Iraq wasn’t his last option. It was the only one he pursued.
So on this Memorial Day, please take a few moments to remember all of the casualties of this war and take a vow that those responsible will not go unpunished. It’s the only right way to truly honor the dead, the disabled, and the damned.
May 29, 2006
· Filed under Z Salad
| Your Luck Quotient: 54% |
 You have an average luck quotient.
There's been times when you've been extremely lucky… but also times when you've been very unlucky.
You probably know that you can make your own luck in life, if you're open to it.
So listen to your intuition as much as you can. It's right more often than you might expect. |
How Lucky Are You?
May 27, 2006
· Filed under Pass it On
May 16, 2006
· Filed under Honestly, Pass it On, Tech Stuff
Picking a lie to talk about, among the host of lies we citizens have been fed lately, is a difficult challenge. However, saving the internest is probably one of the top issues we internet users must pay attention to. Not only so that average citizen political voices are able to be heard, but also that small businesses are able to not be shut out of making a living online because they haven't paid millions to have consumers land on their website…or to have their website or domain name filtered or banned. Can you say AOL?
Frankly, the telcos are just being dishonest with their current AD. Take a surf over to Media Citizen for the full scoop.
The Lie of the Week: MediaCitizenDon't be fooled. Web sites like "Hands Off The Internet" are industry front groups — the products of high-priced consultants bought and paid for by the cable and telephone industry. Companies like AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth and their trade associations are spending millions every week to mislead and misinform the American public.
Their latest attempt to hoodwink Internet users is a cutesy cartoon at www.dontregulate.org — a clever piece of industry propaganda that is riddled with half-truths and outright lies.
The animation is an example of Stephen Colbert's "truthiness" in action. Telco giants cloak their real interests behind a populist message that sounds plausible, while undermining the work of genuine public and consumer advocates…
…Here's a quick guide to help you cut through the industry spin:
May 12, 2006
· Filed under Pass it On
Get involved with the future of the internet.
How gutting Net Neutrality affects regular people (Ipod users, Google users), and proof that telecom companies abuse their power.
Sign the MoveOn.org petition right now!
May 11, 2006
· Filed under Goosing Power, Honestly
Arianna wraps up the Colbert performance at the White House Corrospondents Dinner perfectly in her blog today. I am glad she is keeping the topic alive.
Everytime I see Colbert on TV I just want to give him some hugs and pats on the back. While I believe the word "hero" has been overused to the point that the term is almost meaningless today - I submit that Steven Colbert is an American Hero - however reluctantly he wears that title.
May 11, 2006
· Filed under 2008 Election
Hillary Clinton likes Bush. So what? The fact that she can like
a political opponent personally -and- give him the credit due for responding well to New York in the aftermath of 9/11 is not big news and doesn't mean anything sinister. It might mean she is a fun person and likes other fun people. It might even mean that she can put partisanship aside and answer a question honestly.
I haven't read or heard anyone say that Bush is an unlikeable guy on a personal level. (Isn't that Cheney's job?) In fact, when Bush was running for office (both times), the conventional wisdom was that he won the beer contest - as in - more people would like to have a beer with him rather than his opponents. The only problem with the likeable Mr. Bush is that he wasn't in a beer contest; he was running for president and that likeable persona won.
Hillary, or any other candidate can personally like whoever they wish. What really matters is that the Democrats kick some political ass this fall and regain control of congress. Then keep kicking ass with progressive policy that works. If that happens the White House goes to the Dems in 2008.
May 10, 2006
· Filed under Imagry, Pass it On, Tech Stuff
mcjoan over at Kos posted this today. It is a very cool project and so very interesting. Nice Flash work for those of you who care.
What if images could do more, though? What if by changing your perception, your attitude, your mood, an image could change a life? If you found a photo you liked, wrote a little bit about why it spoke to you, and then sent that photo to someone or submitted to a Web site where the world could see it. And every time you did that, a donation was made in your name to a worthy cause. That would be a pretty powerful thing. And it's precisely the idea behind a new interactive Web site, Change Me, created by Getty Images. Everytime someone visits their site and submits a photo essay, Getty donates $10 to Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria.
May 10, 2006
· Filed under Honestly
Once Upon a Time…A Lunatic World
We should not be surprised, whatever may happen now. A lunatic ideology rules us, and almost everyone takes it for granted. And practically no one is protesting against it in any serious manner at all.
~Arthur Silber
May 9, 2006
· Filed under Salvation Show
I was just over at the Family Research Council and boy is that place depressing. Nothing is good, nothing is right in their world. And, if they had their way, they would have us all believing it.
It should never be forgotten that salvation sells and preaching hell and damnation is an old-time money maker.
Hopefully, the religious zealots are in the last minute of their alloted 15 and they will return to their mega-churches and their mega-buck old-time salvation show.
May 6, 2006
· Filed under Marriage -Honestly, Salvation Show
StevenG writes:
…the contemporary debate over gay marriage is deeply flawed. The question at hand is purely one of assigning rights. The only version of marriage at issue is legal marriage. Put clearly, this is a question of rights, and anyone who opposes gay marriage is saying that there is a group of honest, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of this nation who should be deprived of rights, privileges, and responsibilities under the laws of the land simply because they do not like who those people have chosen to make their lives with.
Read the whole article:
Marriage For (and Against) Dummies over at Daily Kos
May 6, 2006
· Filed under Salvation Show
Honestly, I was out surfing on another topic entirely and landed on this site selling a cure DVD antidote for the Da Vinci code. Are the faithful really being persecuted or are they conjuring-up their own conspiracy theory that they can star in?
The Da Vinci Delusion
Get your copy of “The Da Vinci Delusion,” today so you will have the knowledge to counter the misinformation about Jesus in “The Da Vinci Code” book and film.
It seems to me that these people freaking out over the Da Vinci Code (the novel) are cashing-in on the success of Dan Brown and his novel. Yes, for only $25.00 you can save yourself and your friends and family from reading a novel.
Dan Brown makes numerous false and historically unsupportable claims about Jesus and about the Bible as God’s Word. He claims that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had a daughter. He claims that the Roman Emperor Constantine promoted the idea that Jesus was God’s Son and that Constantine considered more than 80 different gospel books before settling on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Brown also claims that these facts have been suppressed by the Catholic Church, but that Da Vinci hid this hidden history in his paintings of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Maybe I missed something when I was reading all those romance novels set in historical times ( I believe they were called Gothic Romance) when I was a kid, but I seem to remember knowing I was reading fiction. Many years later I continue to be able to recognize fiction when I read it.
Hmmm, maybe it's because I'm not Canadian.
Many people who have read The Da Vinci Code think it is actually a fact-based history. A survey of Canadians conducted by National Geographic in 2005 found that one-third of those polled who read Brown’s book think Jesus has descendants who are alive today!
Not very many bright people who have actually read novels before.
This book could shake the faith of new Christians and even long-time Christians and make them think the Bible is not true.
Buy a copy of “The Da Vinci Delusion” today! Purchase copies for your friends as well to help them effectively counter the lies about the Lord Jesus Christ in Dan Brown’s book and film.
May 5, 2006
· Filed under Goosing Power, Talking Heads
Think Progress:
Former 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern courageously challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday afternoon in Atlanta about his lies about Iraq’s WMD program. He was interviewed last night by CNN’s Paula Zahn. Watch it:
I was really glad to see that Paula had the guy on and let him give some context to the Q&A with Rumsfield. Is it just me seeing this, or is becomming an amost daily event to have someone stand up and question what is going on around here? The word revolt comes to mind…or is it that most of us are just revolted by this admin?
May 4, 2006
· Filed under Pass it On
Ed Markey - Huffington Post Blog
These telephone company executives are telling us that they intend to discriminate in the prioritization of bits and to discriminate in the offering of “quality of service” functions - for a new fee, a new broadband bottleneck toll - to access high bandwidth customers. We cannot afford to wait until they actually start doing that before we step in to stop it.Yesterday, I introduced the
Network Neutrality Act of 2006 (HR 5273) as a standalone bill. The Network Neutrality Act of 2006 offers Members a clear choice. It is a choice between broadband barons and average-joe cyber-surfers, between the pre-chosen voices favored by those in the executive suite and the wonderfully chaotic nature of the net, where a chorus or a cacophony of voices can emerge on any and every issue. At its heart, this issue is about safeguarding the Internet as a low-barrier-to-entry platform for innovation.
In short, this legislation is designed to save the Internet and thwart those who seek to fundamentally and detrimentally alter the Internet as we know it, and it is my belief that the unbelievable grassroots uprising that we have seen on this issue over the past few weeks will help propel us to victory and secure the future of the Internet for all of us.
May 2, 2006
· Filed under Goosing Power
