Friday April 8, 2009 By Jene Galvin
Republican leaders seem to have embraced a theme for George
Bush's second term: arrogance.
By nominating John Bolton for ambassador to the United Nations,
someone known by the world to abhor the U.N., President Bush is
continuing to flaunt a "my way or highway" approach to foreign
policy. One that says, who cares about the views of world leaders?
Although Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may
have the votes to block Bolton's confirmation. We'll talk about it.
Then yesterday, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay escalated his
attack on America's judicial branch by telling a conservative
advocacy group that it's time to "reassert our constitutional
authority over the courts." All because, in his view, too few judges
are reshaping the country into a theocracy.
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AlterNet: Bush's Media Co-Conspirators
Rated 4 in
Outrage of the Day on
Apr 6, 2005 at 00:03:15 GMT.
Propaganda anyone. Is this how democracy is supposed to work?
--loyal_risistance--
George W recently declared: "There needs to be a nice independent
relationship between the White House and the press." Lovely
sentiment... except that even as he mouthed the words, he knew
that his administration is stomping on press independence every
chance it gets. The latest revelation is that various agencies
under Bush are sending out hundreds of government-made "news
videos" to local television stations. The videos use fake
reporters, extol the virtue of Bush policies, and are aired with
no mention that this "news" is Bushite propaganda.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/21636
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Sometimes it's hard to believe the country is having this
discussion.
--loyal_resistance--
April 5, 2005
In its April Fools' Day issue, Scientific American published a spoof
editorial in which it apologized for endorsing the theory of evolution
just because it's "the unifying concept for all of biology and one of
the greatest scientific ideas of all time," saying that "as editors,
we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence." And it
conceded that it had succumbed "to the easy mistake of thinking that
scientists understand their fields better than, say, U.S. senators or
best-selling novelists do." Scientific American may think that
evolution is supported by mountains of evidence, but President Bush
declares that "the jury is still out." Senator James Inhofe dismisses
the vast body of research supporting the scientific consensus on
climate change as a "gigantic hoax." And conservative pundits like
George Will write approvingly about Michael Crichton's
anti-environmentalist fantasies. Think of the message this sends:
today's Republican Party - increasingly dominated by people who
believe truth should be determined by revelation, not research -
doesn't respect science, or scholarship in general. It shouldn't be
surprising that scholars have returned the favor by losing respect for
the Republican Party.
From This N Y Times Article
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Power hungry, ain't they.....I
guess we are going to just have to adjust to a one party system. They
will be telling us all exactly what to do in all aspects of life....
oh well, this democracy thing was just an experiment anyway.
--loyal_resistance--
Apr 5, 2005
Imagine a world in which every appointment to the federal judiciary is
tightly controlled by an extreme element within one party. Imagine the
kinds of judges that will sit on the federal bench - even on the
Supreme Court -- if George W. Bush never needs a single Democratic
vote. Imagine the kind of decisions those judges will make on
everything from civil rights to civil liberties to a woman's right to
choose and family privacy. Republican leaders in the Senate have done
more than imagine. They're getting ready to force a Senate vote that
would take a giant step towards creating that kind of America. --John
Kerry--
http://www.johnkerry.com/email/0401.html
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The
New York Times > Magazine > It's a Flat World, After All
Rated 3 in
Technology
Apr 5, 2005 at 04:13:24 GMT.
Interesting Article
--loyal_resistance--
In math and science, our fourth graders are among the top
students in the world. By eighth grade, they're in the middle of the
pack. By 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all
industrialized nations. . . . The percentage of a population with a
college degree is important, but so are sheer numbers. In 2001, India
graduated almost a million more students from college than the United
States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor's
degrees as the U.S., and they have six times as many graduates
majoring in engineering. In the international competition to have the
biggest and best supply of knowledge workers, America is falling
behind.'' We need to get going immediately. It takes 15 years to train
a good engineer, because, ladies and gentlemen, this really is rocket
science. So parents, throw away the Game Boy, turn off the television
and get your kids to work. There is no sugar-coating this: in a flat
world, every individual is going to have to run a little faster if he
or she wants to advance his or her standard of living. When I was
growing up, my parents used to say to me, ''Tom, finish your dinner --
people in China are starving.'' But after sailing to the edges of the
flat world for a year, I am now telling my own daughters, ''Girls,
finish your homework -- people in China and India are starving for
your jobs.'' I repeat, this is not a test. This is the beginning of a
crisis that won't remain quiet for long. And as the Stanford economist
Paul Romer so rightly says, ''A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.''
Thomas L. Friedman is the author of ''The World Is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-First Century,'' to be published this week by
Farrar, Straus & Giroux and from which this article is adapted. His
column appears on the Op-Ed page of The Times, and his television
documentary ''Does Europe Hate Us?'' will be shown on the Discovery
Channel on April 7 at 8 p.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/
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All they want is more and more power. The current Repub leadership are
ready to use any method necessary to simply get their own way, and in
the process, will put at risk our American Democracy.
--loyal_resistance--
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