Yay, Canada!  I wonder if American Post Office workers would protest the same.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1029canada-mail1029.html

Time: 2 min.

The print with allofmp3.com is so fine, they seem unstoppable.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1029russiaTunes1029.html

Time: 1 min. 33 sec.

Good for them.
They know the "war" in Iraq is wrong, and they have the experience to back it up.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15839367.htm

(sorry about the crappy quality on this one.)

I certainly agree that a flu shot is necessary if you are in a high-risk group, but is not getting one actually endangering others?

*Who should be vaccinated?

This is one of the best reason's I can think of.  This goes beyond dirty politics, it's offensive and insulting.

It's sad when you have nothing to run a campaign on.

(Can you tell this has pissed me off?)

Slow the dumbing-down process- eat more vegetables!
Just watch out for that spinach. ;-)

Someone pass this info on to the White House, please... oh Hell Congress too.

Pat Tillman's brother Kevin's amazing letter to the public- and is worth putting the entire text of here.  Also, third party candidates are not allowed to participate in congressional debates.  Bad form Hillary, really bad form.

After Pat's Birthday

Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Pat and Kevin Tillman
Courtesy the Tillman Family

By Kevin Tillman


It is Pat's birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice� until we get out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:

Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few bad apples in the military.

Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.

Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.

Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.

Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.

Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.

Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.

Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.

Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.

Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.

Somehow torture is tolerated.

Somehow lying is tolerated.

Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.

Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.

Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.

Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.

Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.

Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that somehow was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.

Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday.

Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,

Kevin Tillman

*Truthdig.org
*Howie Hawkins Protest Video

Also from Tuesday's show.
A current lawsuit is put on hold for the November 7th election.

*Thank you, Washington Post

Some quickies from Tuesday night- the Democrats really could win Congress back on November 7th, and what is UP with that Obama guy?

*Thank you, Democracy Now!

Episode #15
Trying very hard to get that vacation to Cuba.

Shout outs:
*Just Not Right Podcast
*Smart Bomb Radio

*Yay!  I have an actual URL!  http://www.truthseekerscast.com
*What the heck is a Sherpa anyway?
*Feedback from Jesse and Jack.
*Your deep thought for the day.
*3,000 strong
*We want the troops to come home!
*Pickle me!
*Andrew needed to rant.  No better place than the spiderhole.
*This whole episode says what I think- FCCFU

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