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Weekend Politics
Let's hear what you are doing politically this weekend.
May I suggest registering voters?
My husband and I are making a committment to register ten voters each this weekend. Since a number of states have their registration period closing, you may want to check the deadline for your state and do the same.
For all the information you need on registering voters in any state, click here to link to Project Vote-Smart.
Making Virtual Calls for Jim Webb and posting links on progressive blogs to obtain more virtual volunteers. I've made 285 virual calls this week, 715 to go and 100 new volunteers is my self imposed quota. Emailing my 85 Camp Wellstone friends about this project. Anyone here interested in helping welcome to email me offline, volunteers needed.
Casy defarge and karen have my photos from Cleveland regarding my efforts to take back Ohio. Still working the senior vote with Cleveland campaign and absentee ballots for elderly and meals on wheels seniors.
And staying up till 2 am worrying about what I haven't done that day and what needs to still be done in the next 34 days.
From previous thread:
ABC, the newtork that Hastert and the RNC is now attacking. Weren't they praising ABC just a few weeks ago when the 911 Movie was shown?
Posted by: Bubba at October 6, 2006 09:24 AM
Ah, but it was ABC that first released the story about Foley and the pages. (Genuine shock! Surprise! They bit the hand that helped them consolidate more media power and raise profits.) That's why the normally religious reich network is now under direct attack. If evening snooze intros are any indication, ABC's aired a LOT of stories with the combined themes of religion and politics in the last few months - I didn't wait around to see the stories since the connections disgust me - I still firmly believe in a total separation of church and state; I just want to hear about politics, truth in politics, in Lamestream Media for a change - along the lines of Keith Olberman; I memorized the neoCon rhetoric many years ago and they never say anything new.
As you/we know, the standard MO of this dictatorial unitary executive administration is to "attack and discredit the leakers as unpatriotic Americans" - so I'm not surprised that the neoCons are in attack mode. It detracts from their same ol' script of constant repetitive propaganda of 'fear, ter-rir, hate, remember we wuz attacked on 9/11, stay the course to victory in Iraq, the bogeyman is out to get us 'cuz they hate us for our freedoms' campaign rhetoric they were trying to use to keep the sheeple voting for the misperceived patriarchal protectors of this nation. Now neoCons have to come up with new things to say, new ways of lying, dodging, excusing themselves, and this time over a sex scandal that's been years in the making because they've been protecting Foley. (I'm convinced Bu$h is impotent, so they can't get him on a sex scandal, but they can certainly expose the others who have been shielded from scandals all these years.)
The ONLY part that surprises me is that ABC is the network that released the story, altho from one blurb I saw last week, they've been sitting on it for a few weeks or months until they could verify their sources, and once that was done, they released the story, and now other pages have come forward, so now there are additions to the original scandal....
I'd rather Lamestream Media switch to more info on the torture bill, dictatorial powers that come with it, war crimes, exemptions from war crimes, what the entire torture bill means to this nation on multiple levels if allowed to stand... etc., but if FoleyGate gets the criminals out of power at least in the House and Senate, I'll take any port in a storm at this point. If, by some miracle, in spite of e-voting machines, Dems win on Nov. 7 and we get a majority in the House and/or Senate, I'll be busy on Nov. 8 writing letters to my state's new reps and senator. encouraging them to push for impeachment, repealing the Patriot Act, repealing the Torture bill (well, it is ridiculous that it passed; it's unconstitutional and illegal on so many different levels), and seeing what they can do to restore the constitutional balance of power.... ETC.
So, while it's going to bore us as senseless as previous years of the Clinton sex scandal, if FoleyGate helps us on Nov. 7 in the long run.... I'll deal with it.
Calls for MoveOn to conservative parts of state
Calls for Darcy Burner to Republican district
- Hosting a postcard writing party for my candidate
- Organizing a "Rock the Vote" comedy/musical event with local high school talent, with special appearance by the candidate
- Voter Registration
- Canvassing
-Distributing yard signs
-Making phone calls
-Attending two fund raisers for local state rep candidate, luckily as the person who accepts the money this time
Well, since I am leaving here in two days to move back up north, I am spending this weekend with my family - not without political discussion, however.
Different viewpoints being thrown around after dinner. I just said "I am NEVER voting for another neocon as long as I live."
Pretty sure I am moving up to the city. There will be more action there and it will be closer to the Twin Cities.
Tonight after the little family dinner we all sat and watched NBC's Dateline "To Catch a Predator". They splashed Foley's picture, told a bit of the story, AND had bites of him pitching his big anti=predator bill. My dad and I clapped.
My dad said it's too bad they couldn't have one of those twice a week until the election. It was priceless!!!
NBC's Dateline "To Catch a Predator". They splashed Foley's picture, told a bit of the story, AND had bites of him pitching his big anti=predator bill. My dad and I clapped.
My dad said it's too bad they couldn't have one of those twice a week until the election. It was priceless!!!
Posted by: Truth Shall Prevail at October 7, 2006 02:39 AM
P.S.
They did it TWICE! Once at the beginning of the program, then again at the end. Ha ha.
A thought.....
by MJS at Correntwire
Of Lily Pads and Useful Lies
Newsflash: torture has been deemed a completely unreliable tactic vis a vis eliciting useful, truthful information from whomever is being tortured. So the question is: why torture? Why work so hard to change laws (or definitions of said laws) just to free up our more shadowy operations as they wreak physical and psychic havoc on detainees? Why work to permit (with legal cover) the performance of sadistic acts on anyone the President sees fit to detain sans warrant, sans habeus corpus, sans review? Juan Cole avers as to why here:
Why is the Bush administration so attached to torturing people that it would pressure a supine Congress into raping the US constitution by explicitly permitting some torture techniques and abolishing habeas corpus for certain categories of prisoners?
Boys and girls, it is because torture is what provides evidence for large important networks of terrorists where there aren't really any, or aren't very many, or aren't enough to justify 800 military bases and a $500 billion military budget.
Torture produces false information. That false information is used to justify various military actions which otherwise would not pass a smell test (would a smell test crafted from false information gained through the use of torture smell as sweet?)
more....
http://www.correntewire.com/blog/mjs