What do WE tell our children?

Right on the money, as it were...

Teach Your Children
by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by.
And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well, their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they fix, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of the tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they fix,the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

nice

Silent Running
Mike + The Mechanics

Take the children and yourself And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I'm with the high command

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

There's a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(Can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you

Bush Is Now A Lame Duck
Forget November, Forget '08; President Is Done

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2006

by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer

The great impulse of the punditocracy right now is to look at President Bush's swelling problems with the public and his party in the context of the elections coming up in November and then in 2008. Big mistake.

Short of another disaster on the scale of 9/11, George Bush no longer has the power, credibility or ability to effectively govern for the rest of his term in office. Contrary to what you hear on television, governing remains more important than campaigning. Government is more important than elections – to the extent the two can be differentiated anymore.

Bush's realm of efficacy will be limited to areas where he can make unilateral decisions, mostly in war and foreign policy. The tax cuts that oozed through Congress last week may well be his last "significant" piece of domestic legislation; I put quotations around significant because they are, in fact, temporary. The entire menu of Bush tax tinkering is set to expire in 2010 on someone else's watch, an apt metaphor for this administration.

The Bush administration is now locked in a triple-hammer hold that would defeat Houdini.

-snip-

But what is apparent, is that George Bush has at his disposal none – none – of the tools presidents have used to turn bad situations around – public support, party support or skilled statecraft. He's a lame duck less than two years in to his second term. You are not being governed.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/17/opinion/meyer/main1623700.shtml

On a totally different topic:

Campaign for America's Future is offering a free trip to the Take Back America Conference to the person who comes up with the best definition of what a progressive is.

http://www.ourfuture.org/WhatIsAProgressive/

So give it a shot and help inform the campaign, and maybe you'll win!

What do we tell our children when they ask why nobody stood and demanded accountability and responsibility from our Elected Officials?
When we chose to watch the nation slide into ever deepening deficits and education gaps?
When we blamed our woes on other nations instead of our own shortsightedness?

People are angry about ATT giving telephone records to the Government, yet continue to suscribe to their service.
People are angry about gasoline prices, yet buy SUV's and hummers

This nation used to get itself involved in movements and social agenda's. We had massive marches for civil rights, protesting wars, education, etc.

We get the government we deserve. If we would get involved in a meaningfull manner again, we would get a far better government.

Toolmaker,
Come to Washington. We need you.

BY RONALD RUSSELL

Lessons From Life (1971)

A CHILD that lives with ridicule learns to be timid
A CHILD that lives with criticism learns to condemn
A CHILD that lives with distrust learns to be deceitful
A CHILD that lives with antagonism learns to be hostile
A CHILD that lives with affection learns to love
A CHILD that lives with encouragement learns confidence
A CHILD that lives with truth learns justice
A CHILD that lives with praise learns to appreciate
A CHILD that lives with sharing learns to be considerate
A CHILD that lives with knowledge learns wisdom
A CHILD that lives with patience learns to be tolerant
A CHILD that lives with happiness will find love and beauty

~If we live what we believe, our children will not ask, for they will see their questions answered by our attitudes and actions.

Great article, Madame.

In case you were thinking we hadn't quite backpedaled to the Dark Ages yet, read this:

Missouri Town May Evict Unmarried Couples with Children

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_on_re_us/unmarried_couples

Not makin this up...

Is today the Day?

On the CIA leak investigation front, the grand jury meets at 1:00 pm ET.

In regards to the town in Missouri: What's next?stoning in the streets? You aren't kidding "Truth Shall Prevail" when you said backpedaling to the Dark Ages. We have got to get back in control and drive these ignorant neanderthals back under their rocks where they belong.

Senate votes for fence on southern U.S. border
Body votes for 370 miles of fencing, clashes over citizenship

BREAKING NEWS

Updated: 3:07 p.m. ET May 17, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday, and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.

Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure.

The prospects were less favorable for their attempt to strip out portions of the legislation that could allow citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and create new guest worker programs.

more...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12838263/

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

Ah, but monkey my dear, you left out the bestest part -- the background refrain that calls-and-responses the second verse:

Can you hear and
Do you care and
Can you see we
Must be free to
Teach the children
To believe and
Make a world that
We can live in

where are the CSN's of yesteryear,
Otter

Toolmaker:

Karen's right. Won't you please come, because they/we need you ... even though it's to Washingtoon this time, and not to Chicago the way it was back when Graham Nash wrote these particular words ...

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Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing

In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help that we can bring

We can change the world
Rearrange the world
It's dying ... to get better

Politicians sit yourself down
There's nothing for you here
Won't you please come to Chicago
For a ride

Don't ask Jack to help you
'Cause he'll turn the other ear
Won't you please come to Chicago
Or else join the other side

We can change the world
Rearrange the world
It's dying ... if you believe in justice
It's dying ... and if you believe in freedom
It's dying ... let a man live his own life
It's dying ... rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door

Somehow people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won't you please come to Chicago
Show your face

From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains on the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago
No one else can take your place

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(For more background details on the news of the day, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention )

old hippies never die they just repost classic lyrics on the internets,
Otter

We post fiction too, or is that faction???...

WASHINGTON - President Bush signed a $70 billion tax-cut package Wednesday that Republicans hope will ingratiate them with voters as they head into midterm elections with worries about holding control of Congress.

“Our pro-growth policies stand in stark contrast to those in Washington who believe you grow your economy by raising taxes and centralizing power,” said Bush, who was joined at the signing ceremony by Vice President Dick Cheney. “They are wrong. Our pro-growth economic polices are working for all Americans.”

more...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12837490/

The real challenge is to separate out the one-tenth of the wheat from the nine-tenths of the chaff.

fiction faction who's got the fraction,
Otter

Update on the Rove Indictment Story
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2006/5/17/125248/099

intriguing

interesting commentary on free press

Ethics Panel OKs Abramoff-Related Probe

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
1 minute ago

WASHINGTON - With a burst of activity that ended 16 months of inaction, the House ethics committee on Wednesday opened investigations of a Republican and a Democrat who are subjects of federal bribery inquiries — including one lawmaker connected to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, who had strong ties to Abramoff and accepted favors from him, will be investigated along with Rep. William Jefferson, D-La. A former aide to Ney pleaded guilty last week, admitting he tried to corrupt his former boss. Two businessmen have pleaded guilty to bribing Jefferson.

The committee also will conduct a preliminary inquiry of whether other lawmakers were involved in a bribery scandal that led to the conviction of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif.

In another announcement, the committee said it would have investigated overseas travel by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, but it won't do so because he is soon leaving Congress. The committee does not have jurisdiction over lawmakers once they leave.

In a statement, Ney said he welcomed the investigation.

"For the last 15 months, all I have asked for is an opportunity to have the facts surrounding the Abramoff matter to be reviewed by the appropriate investigative bodies in order to have this matter addressed once and for all," said the former House Administration Committee chairman, who stepped down from his post because of an investigation by the Justice Department.

"It is for this reason that I voluntarily offered, on two separate occasions over the past year-and-a-half, to go before the Ethics Committee and to lay out the real facts of these matters, instead of having the distortions and innuendo that have been reported in the national media be taken as truth. "

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_on_go_co/ethics_abramoff

New White House press secretary alludes to 'competing network' when answering reporter's question

At the White House press briefing today, White House press secretary and former Fox News radio host Tony Snow suggested he was still a member of the Fox News team -- describing a senator's interview with ABC's "This Week" as being on a "competing network."

The story was caught by John Amato at Crooks and Liars.

Here's the exchange...

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/New_White_House_press_secretary_alludes_0517.html

This is odd. Bush is sneering so much in this picture, looking like a grumpy old man, that he looks like Cheney's twin!

OMG...they've cloned Cheney!

DiAnne,

Thanks for posting the update on the Rove indictment story.

For those who do have HBO and strong stomachs, a bit of reality from Iraq will show up on the small screen this coming Sunday. Check out this article from the Independent...

Why the Pentagon has turned on the makers of 'Baghdad ER'

When Emmy-winning filmmakers approached the US high command to make a documentary about a war zone emergency room, the generals applauded. Now they fear it will undermine public support for the war.

By Rupert Cornwell
Published: 18 May 2006

his Sunday, subscribers to the American cable channel Home Box Office will be treated to a film about the Iraq war unlike any other. Almost at the start, you see a medical orderly carrying a human arm, amputated above the elbow, which he puts into a red plastic bag.

Welcome to Baghdad ER, the unvarnished, unexpurgated truth of what war is really like.
~snip~

read the entire article here...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article485921.ece

Former NY Times reporter Judith Miller to assert she was warned of large scale attack before 9/11

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday May 18, 2006

In AN ALTERNET EXCLUSIVE THURSDAY, former New York Times reporter Judy Miller tells Rory O'Connor and William Scott Malone about the story she'll regret for the rest of her life -- the fact that an anonymous White House source told her in July 2001 that an NSA intelligence report predicted a large al Qaeda attack, possibly on the continental United States, RAW STORY has learned.

“I think everybody knew that an attack was coming -- everyone who followed this. But you know you can only 'cry wolf' within a newspaper... before people start saying there he goes -- or there she goes -- again!" Miller says in an interview.

"I remember the weekend before July 4, 2001 in particular, because for some reason the people who were worried about Al Qaeda believed that was the weekend that there was going to be an attack on the US or on major American target somewhere," Miller recounts. "It was going to be a large, well-coordinated attack."

Two months later -- on September 11 -- ALTERNET.ORG says Miller and her editor at the Times, Stephen Engelberg, both remembered and regretted the story they "didn't do."

"There was always a lot going on at the White House, so to a certain extent, there was that kind of 'Cry wolf' problem," Miller says. "But I got the sense that part of the reason that I was being told of what was going on was that the people in counter terrorism were trying to get the word to the President or the senior officials through the press, because they were not able to get listened to themselves."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Former_NY_Times_reporter_Judith_Miller_0518.html

No wonder they tossed her into gaol.

Money well spent? Like all those ads & junkets that spin the bad news from this regime? We're paying for it...all $1.4 billion of it in the last 2 1/2 years...

DALLAS The Bush Administration spent $1.4 billion in taxpayer dollars on 137 contracts with advertising agencies over the past two-and-a-half years, according to a Government Accountability Office report released by House Democrats today.

With spending on public relations and other media included, federal agencies spent $1.6 billion on what some Democrats called "spin."

The six largest recipients of ad and PR dollars were Leo Burnett USA, $536 million; Campbell-Ewald, $194 million; GSD&M, $179 million; JWT, $148 million; Frankel, $133 million; and Ketchum, $78 million. The agencies received more than $1.2 billion in media contracts, according to the report.

--snip--

Trends in spending on PR and ad contracts were not documented, but a prior study by the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee found that spending on public relations contracts rose rapidly under the Bush administration. That report found that spending on contracts with public relations firms had increased to $88 million in 2004 from $39 million in 2000, an increase of 128 percent.

The Department of Defense spent the most on media contracts, with pacts worth $1.1 billion, according to the study. The Department of Health and Human Services spent more than $300 million, the Department of Treasury spent $152 million, and the Department of Homeland Security spent $24 million during the period.
http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001996193

Boy, talk about spin.... didn't know that when we say they twist the truth, that we were paying so much for them to do so.

madame,
Some of those dollars were spent on PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS that turned out to be ads for the administration, and some were spent on "documentaries" for school kids.

The sheer amount of brainwashing that has been attempted over the past few years---and WE PAID FOR IT.

Today I will march with Cindy Sheehan and Ray McGovern--bringing attention to the NEXT piece of spin coming our way--Iran.

I am weary and disgusted, but I cannot stand by.

I will do whatever I can.

Posted by: karen at May 18, 2006 08:09 AM

You'll be in the company of the right people today to help re-engergize you. It goes without saying how much I admire Cindy Sheehan for taking a stand as a mother. And Ray McGovern...the word "respect" doesn't seem adequate. He is a man of truth, dignity, & honor. No wonder he's not working in this government now...

Well, this article is bound to piss off the RW, not to mention that it explains some things about the Chimp-in-Chief...

Human Ancestors May Have Interbred With Chimpanzees

When the ancestors of human beings and the ancestors of chimpanzees parted ways 6.3 million years ago, it was probably a very long goodbye. Some of their descendants may even have gone back for a final tryst.

That is the conclusion a group of scientists has reached, using a comparison of the genes of humans and their closest animal relatives to sketch a picture of human origins far more detailed than what fossil bones have revealed.
According to the new theory, chimps and humans shared a common apelike ancestor much more recently than was thought. Furthermore, when the two emerging species split from each other, it was not a clean break. Some members of the two groups seem to have interbred about 1.2 million years after they first diverged -- before going their separate ways for good.

If this theory proves correct, it will mean modern people are descended from something akin to chimp-human hybrids. That is a new idea, and it challenges the prevailing view that hybrids tend to die out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/17/AR2006051702158.html

Posted by: madame defarge at May 18, 2006 08:21 AM

I resemble that remarc.

For those who have been following the "drama" on the blogosphere about whether Jason Leopold knows what's going on with Rove, Wayne Madsen now chimes in. There are those who don't trust either one of them. On the other hand, they may scoop MSM reporters. We don't know.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

madame defarge

There are some among us who retain atavistic characteristics of the last human-chimp breedings, yet somehow, despite their genetic frailty, they manage to rise to the top. It's astounding.

Karen,

Wish I could be there with you marching against the probable Iran war.

Madame,

Last year, I asked my Representative about the money for the Social Security Bamboozala Tour and was that in the budget. I was told it wasn't and he 'didn't know about how it was being paid."

Of course he said he would look and get back to me. I guess he never did find out. Of course I informed him of the backdoor in the treasury department but I'll have to look for that link.

The students are on top of things.

http://www.progressiveu.org/094318-holy-smokes-is-it-real-this-time-karl-rove-was-indicted

Something I need to do on Saturday:

WALK FOR PEACE AND HEALING Greenlake Park - Staggered starts at a canopy near each of the three parking areas.

-Walk to raise money for specialized medical care for a war-injured Iraqi child.

-Walk to put a human face on war.

-Walk to reflect our own share of responsibility for healing the devastating effects of war on the most innocent.

-Walk to be part of a community taking positive action.

-Begin your walk anytime between 1 PM and 3:30 PM.

-Register at any one of the three canopies - hear the parking lots at the Community Center, the Bathhouse or Boat House.

-Listen to the Raging Grannies, Seattle Children's Chorus and other entertainers ringing the lake.

Isn't it a cool idea?

Republican-to-English Dictionary

In case you've been having trouble recently in deciphering speeches and news reports:

alternative energy sources /n./ New locations to drill for gas and oil.

bankruptcy /n./ A means of escaping debt available to corporations but not to poor people.

"burning bush" /n./ A biblical allusion to the response of the President of the United States, when asked a question by a journalist who has not been paid to inquire about non-issues.

Cheney, Dick /n./ The greater of 2 evils.

class warfare /n./ Any attempt to raise the minimum wage.

climate change /n./ Progress toward the blessed day when the blue states are swallowed by the oceans.

compassionate conservatism /n./ Poignant concern for the very wealthy.

creation science /n./ Pseudo-science that claims George W. Bush's resemblance to a chimpanzee is totally coincidental.

DeLay, Tom /n./ Past tense of De Lie.

extraordinary rendition /n./ Outsourcing torture.

faith /n./ The belief that the Beatitudes (statements made by JC) include "Blessed are the rich" and "Blessed are the warmakers."

free markets /n./ Halliburton no-bid contracts at taxpayer expense.

girly-men /n./ Males who neglect opportunities to grope unwilling women.

God /n./ Senior presidential adviser.

growth /n./ 1. The justification for tax cuts for the rich. 2. What happens to the national debt when policy is made according to Definition 1.

healthy forest /n./ No tree left behind.

honesty /n./ Lies told in simple declarative sentences (e.g., "Freedom is on the march.").

House of Representatives /n./ Exclusive club; entry fee: $1 million to $5 million (See: Senate).

insanity /n./ See: staying the course.

laziness /n./ When the poor are not working.

leisure time /n./ When the wealthy are not working.

liberal(s) /n./ Followers of the Antichrist.

No Child Left Behind /riff./. There are always jobs in the military.

ownership society /n./ 1. A civilization where 1% of the population controls 90% of the wealth. 2. A political system in which all power is in the hands of the owners.

Patriot Act /n./ 1. Pre-emptive strike on American freedoms to prevent the terrorists from destroying them first. 2. The elimination of one of the reasons why they hate us.

pro-life /adj./ Valuing human life up until birth.

Senate /n./ Exclusive club; entry fee: $10 million to $30 million.

simplify /v./ To cut the taxes of Republican donors.

staying the course /interj./slang./ Continuing to perform the same actions and expecting different results (See: insanity).

stuff happens /interj./slang./ I don't have to live in Baghdad.

voter fraud /n./ A significant minority turnout.

woman /n./ 1. Person who can be trusted to raise a child but can't betrusted to decide whether or not she wishes to have a child. 2. Person who must have all decisions regarding her reproductive functions made by men with whom she wouldn't want to have sex in the first place.

mdf:

Attribution & lynx plz.

tanks in advance,
Otter

Posted by: Otter at May 18, 2006 12:45 PM

I received it in an email with no attribution or link. However, my friend Google says these links will work...

http://ladybunny.net/blog/2006/05/republican-into-english-translation.html

http://polizeros.com/2006/03/24/republican-to-english-dictionary/

These links are slight variations on the theme, but are also relevant & good...

http://www.republicandictionary.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/06/06_dictionary.html