Suggestion for today: look into some of the great new links added in the sidebar! In the Blogrolling group there are several newer members to the OSP group and in the Bloglinker roll there are several new as well. In the sidebar also sports new links to Cobalt Lairs 'round the Net.

That's all folks!
From the Wheelchair,
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Just can't help but comment again from a headline story today in the NYTimes about all the woes the California folks are having with the thought that their recall vote MAY not happen. The article by CHARLIE LeDUFF and NICK MADIGAN has a title of "New Twist Brings Anger from Right" and it's pretty funny to read unless a. you are from California and b. you are a Republican from anywhere --- it's a hoot!

I liked the part best when quoting the Republican with the DEEP pockets that bought the Recall effort to begin with:

"Representative Darrell Issa, whose wallet made the recall possible, joked last week at the state Republican convention that the only thing worse than spending $1.75 million on a campaign that he was no longer involved in, was not having $1.75 million to spend.

Today Mr. Issa realized that there might be something even worse: spending $1.75 million for nothing.

"Am I annoyed just because three Democratic judges want to turn over an election before it happens?" he asked. "Sure."

Since the Republicans are all upset over the Federal Court overturning of the Recall, and now they want the US Supreme Court to hear the case ASAP, this should be interesting. Wonder when someone notices and mentions that the harder the hopeful default candidates rail against this stay (however temporary it may last) well isn't that a similar feeling much of the country had to hear that all it took was a Californian with alotta bucks to try to take away a fair election! Oh this continues to be quite the "Days of Our Woebegone Lives"...

And Blowtorch Monkey Palmer has something to remind us all of for the national dilemna - oops meant to say Election 2004 - (heh heh):

"Thursday, September 11, 2003
Lately I've been having a thought that while not outright disturbing, I can't help but shake my head when ever it pops into my thoughts. And after talking to a couple of fellow Default Dems, I know I'm not the only one who it has occurred to.

I've made mention of it many a time on this blog that Karl Rove and Bush have both said publicly that they hope to re-establish the GOP dominance that they first had back in 1894. That dominance went on for more than 30 years. And oh yeah, every time I've cited that very situation I always feel the need to remind people what happened after those 35 years of GOP rule in DC (You know, the Rate-Gay Epression-Day). "

Well, talking of "bored" left me yawning, and since it IS now Tuesay after 1am for me, 'nite all!

What do the National Geographic, NYTimes and Indy Media.org have in common?

The Matrix of Ignorance is the best description I've yet encountered in the bizarre and scarey world we've devolved from the days of 9/11.

Look to this article in IndyMedia by Gary Leupp to see:

"National Geographic reports that 85% of young Americans (18-24) cannot identify Iraq, Afghanistan or Israel on an unmarked map. 56% cannot find the Indian subcontinent, dangling there so conspicuously into none other than the Indian Ocean. Only 19% can name four countries that acknowledge having nuclear weapons. Fortunately, a whopping 70% can identify the Pacific Ocean, but that's probably just because it's the biggest thing on the planet. These numbers are not just embarrassing but dangerous, because in such a sea of ignorance swim Bush's neocons, buoyed by it, empowered by it to send U.S. troops to their deaths in a war to conquer and occupy a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11. Repeat: nothing to do with 9-11. Repeat: nothing to do with 9-11. Repeat: nothing to do with 9-11. Repeat: nothing to do with 9-11."

One article is entitled:
"Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data" and the other is:
"America Needs Indymedia because of "The Matrix of Ignorance"

Can there be more urgent signals to all good citizens of the USA that WE are in mortal danger of losing our very integrity, our souls and our freedoms just to ignorance and apathy? What does it take to wake people up from living in Neoconland? I urge you to read these articles today, lest they suddenly and unexplicably disappear as so many warnings have disappeared from our American media resources. Lost, forgotten? I think not. Doomed? Maybe. But some of us will go down with the sinking ship of state all the while declaring the wrongs!