Veterans’ Day 2009. A far cry from the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” Armistice Day was intended to celebrate the cessation of hostilities in 1918, an end to the horror that was WWI, and to honour those who had served.

Veterans’ Day 2009. Celebrated in the midst of an imperial power grab, 2 wars sucking the lifeblood out of countless young men and women. Two wars fought for those who desire power and wealth.

Bring Them Home.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh* Friedman Unit.
Party like it’s 1918.

*Actually the 17th or 14th.

The ACCCE and Bonner representing the dog shit found in the rethug grassroots.

Bring them home. Now. No more troops for Afghanistan, get out of both wars as quickly as possible. That’s the only acceptable solution to the military disasters wrought by George W. Bush. And then slash the war-mongering budget, reduce it to the point where aggressive and illegal wars are no longer possible. Defense only. Period.

Where lurks the Obama for whom I voted fifty-three weeks ago yesterday?

Yes: Quit the killing. Good Morning….Very happy Angela here.;))

Hat tip bro

You want a couple of passive wars do you?

Universal Soldier

Masters of War

I will believe that violence will overcome violence when you can convince me that darkness will overcome darkness. M K Gandhi

Hat tip back, bro.

Good morning. Love is happiness.

Thank you SD, Raven and other vets. And thank you for your efforts to make sure no soldier fights for a cause that is not just.

Peace.

Check the post: “Defense only. Period.”

Gotta go: Big news of the day = NASA love madness and Letterman sex. That’s it. That’s all, Folks. Cheers.

roger

Namaste

Travelin’ Soldier

Well Morning Joe’s concern troll chorus is out in force this ayem. Politico’s Mike Allen practically peeing his pants with excitement. Mika, too. The TEA PARTIES ARE BACK. 50 of ‘em.

Yep. and it is all very bad for the Democrats. Lose-lose.

Because from David Gregory to the aforementioned to…. it’s all about the idiocy instead of the policy and the honest debate.

Props to Jon Stewart for pointing out how Fox cut-in fake clips for its GOPer rally. Will it take Jon Stewart to save us from the 50 tea parties, too?

Public financed campaign reform ends the bribery and taxing the churches ends the theocracy, the U.S. can then move forward.

Arlo

“When a Soldier Makes it Home

“

Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier packs his memories
As he leaves Afghanistan
And back home they don’t know too much
There’s just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell

And there won’t be any victory parades
For those that’s coming back
They’ll fly them in at midnight
And unload the body sacks
And the living will be walking down
A long and lonely road
Because nobody seems to care these days
When a soldier makes it home

This was actually written about the Russians

Do you mean that grassroots Incorporated is organizing more tea parties?

Today

On any given day 156,000 homeless vets are on the street. NPR.

I switched back to Imus, Dick Gregory’s on, but yeah, evidently Michelle Bachmann and Dick Armey [now there's a pair] live to blather another day….

Marty could belt em out!

Front page of local paper reporting on programs locally for homeless vets.

Salut to all who served and the families who sustain them.

Prairie, daughter of a WW2 Marine vet.

Jon Stewart did a segment last night on Bachmann’s Teabagfest and Fox’s bogus coverage: http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/14178

I hope they do their homework, we have some serious phonies around here.

No More

One wearies of incessant Voice of war.
Across full breadth of time each nom de guerre
Inflicts upon the Human soul a scar
Which screams in mockery of hallowed prayer.
How many millions must we finally kill
Before is learned this simple quirk of fate:
That murdered dead, in valley or on hill,
Do NOT portend a Greatness in The State?
Upon this Earth of monuments and tombs
Which weep for fallen souls, it’s fair to shout
NO MORE! to darkness that forever looms
In constant threat. And let there be no doubt
Of this – War’s burdens hang upon the Cross
Of senseless death: as silent, wretched, loss.
(P.L.Nelson, 2004)

Still can. He’s doin’ live stuff for WMNF all the time now. They put on a Woodstock tribute with local bands doing songs done at Woodstock. Marty sang with the group covering the Airplane.

cool, you ever see the Cavett Rock Icons dvd where the Airplane, Crosby Stills and Nash and Joni literally came straight from Woodstock to appear? The Airplane closed the show and would stop playing so Dick was just wavinf bye in front of them. . .

Stopping the military/industrial/media/church complex is easier said than done. As Emma Goldman said “if elections actually changed anything that would be the end of elections.”

Never saw that.

So we cave in to Fox AGAIN??

If they all keep resigning, that’s only going to make Fox even more determined to go after ‘em.

FUCK FOX!

Why in the hell do Democrats have NO SPINE!!!

Icons

Actually:

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
Emma Goldman

Deep breath, she was always a temp.

Sure would be a nice day to arrest Erik Prince…

For some strange reason Democrats like to have proof before they spout off.
But just who is caving in now?

She wanted to resign in late summer but Obama convinced her to stay. When she took the job she said it was only temporary. Fox and the reichwingers may make a big deal out of it but I don’t see it as any big deal.

True enough, but if no one tries to slam the door it’ll stay open and ever more rats will wander in, a constant stream of vermin.

#40 should have shown as a response to Bluetoe2 @ 31. Wasn’t paying attention, sorry.

2,266 Veterans Died in 2008 Because They Were Uninsured

Whew!

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Irak: 4,362

US KIA Afghanistan: 918

US MBS 2009: 38,936

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Had me scratchin’ my head.

Teabaggers = chewin’, spittin’ and scratchin’ themselves in public

Thanks for the correction.

Heard on NPR this a.m. that Obama would be meeting with his “War Council” today.

New post upstairs…

Afghanistan is a tough call anyway you see it. Obama has one advantage that neither JFK nor LBJ had at a similar point in the development of the Vietnam conflict. The right wing was politically stronger in the early 1960s than it is today, in part because a big piece of wasn’t as far to the right. But the ‘who lost China’ gang were alive and kicking. JFK was barely (and possibly illegally) elected. The Cold War liberal establishment was strongly entrenched. He and his successor felt they had to cover their backs. LBJ admitted as much, and I don’t think this was special pleasing.

Obama is getting a lot of heat, but he has way more room to manoeuvre on this decision than JFK and LBJ had. Like almost all of us here, I think we should get out. But there’s a case for not abandoning the place to the people who blow up world monuments for religious reasons.

Jane is way upstairs…