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cobalt123 08:51h


From Talking Points by Joshua Michah Marshall, the sidebar link to a political cartoon strip, Thadeus and Weez, was most interesting. How often do you find cartoonists that provide background information for each topic of a strip? Since the link given above to the strip represents the newest cartoon, I am providing a sample strip for today, Friday April 30, with the site background information and credit below. On the Patriot Act, the xResident definitely talks out both side of his mouth - what a conundrum. To avow firm belief in a policy and concept "freedom", let's just say (!) and then do everthing possible to control freedom (the Patriot Act) well that take's a mighty big effort to partition one's belief system.

Today's political cartoon strip from Thadeaus and Weeze, link from Talking Points

Oh, I forgot! The ENDS justify the MEANS, in this case Bush MEANS that we all accept his partition of belief on what "freedom" is....

"Notes: George W. Bush said in his speech and news conference on April 13, 2004: "I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this country's gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom."

Having said this grand-sounding passage about spreading freedom -- a sort of "Manifest Destiny" and "little brown brother" redux -- Dubya went on this past week to call for passage of a permanent version of the Patriot Act. (Philosophical self-contradiction never seems to bother this guy.) The Patriot Act, of course, was passed in October, 2001, during the emotional fervor following 9/11. But, what Bush calls "key provisions" of the Act are set to expire on December 31, 2005.

Both conservatives and liberals criticize the Patriot Act as giving too much power to the federal government. The fact that John Ashcroft -- a man who is tone-deaf on civil liberties -- likes the Act is practically an endorsement for its extinction. Dubya should begin his crusade for freedom at home right here in the United States by letting the Patriot Act expire. 04.25.04"

Thanks Talking Points and thanks Thadeus and Weez.

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NOT Erased Woman
cobalt123 06:03h


Subversive Harmony's site has a gallery of photos from her participation in the March for Women's Lives! If you missed my earlier posts on this, see Resource.full article and alternatively, look at the Datacloud link in the sidebar for this week's stories about the Bush administration quietlly erasing factsheets and webpages on women's issues this very week. The extensive article on this from Salon may not be available in a complete view this many days later, but that story was titled "Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Head".

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