Comments on: Result driven Injustice

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:29:24 +0000

In serious EPUville here, but it’s funny that you should bring up “Riders of the Purple Sage.” Seems like the old-style Mormons are still doing the same things Grey wrote about in this excellent novel. There’s a sequel that’s also a good read.

By: msmolly

msmolly — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:21:53 +0000

Damn, I miss EDIT!

Rain (singer)

By: msmolly

msmolly — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:21:11 +0000

OOPS, sorry. (singer) should be part of the URL

By: msmolly

msmolly — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:20:01 +0000

From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_(singer)

By: Prairie Sunshine

Prairie Sunshine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:32:31 +0000

Solid, Attaturk, really solid! Thank you for this.

By: Smgumby

Smgumby — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:07:53 +0000

Who the hell is “Rain” and why is he/she/it #1?

By: angie

angie — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:01:22 +0000

yep.

lazy, crazy and immoral. not to mention FASCIST.

(Senator Byrd warned the American people, but most were watching American Idol, not cspan.)

(glad you are feeling better)

By: Renee in Ohio

Renee in Ohio — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:00:28 +0000

Think we could bump Obama past Hillary on this Time 100 list?

By: wigwam

wigwam — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:57:38 +0000

As for the topic, the corporate media are still using denial as a coping techinique, the country as a whole can’t believe prez would committ war crimes, and we now talk about torture as an every day event.

Right on!

I’m going to make a bumper sticker:

America’s president is a war criminal.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:55:21 +0000

Juan Cole ahas an interesting way to look at what’s happened

War turns Republics into dictatorships. The logic is actually quite simple. The Constitution says that the Congress is responsible for declaring war. But in 2002 Congress turned that responsibility over to Bush, gutting the constitution and allowing the American Right to start referring to him not as president but as ‘commander in chief’ (that is a function of the civilian presidency, not a title.)

Now Bush has now turned over the decision-making about the course of the Iraq War to Gen. David Petraeus.

So Congress abdicated to Bush. Bush has abdicated to the generals in the field.

That is not a Republic. That is a military dictatorship achieved not by coup but by moral laziness.