HEY BUSH. Quit exploiting SEPTEMBER 11 2001. Quit saying "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" Guess what. Um, W?
We haven't forgotten what you didn't do leading up to that day. That day we watched people dying out of our windows and on our TV sets while you sat stunned with your upside-down copy of
MY PET GOAT, while
real heros worked to save lives — Too late, Bush. We wish you hand instead chosen to read your memo:
BIN LADEN SET TO ATTACK IN THE UNITED STATES.
You have no sense. One who believes in heaven and hell such as yourself might oughta be more careful.
NYTimes reported on Oct. 12 that states' homeland security, anti-terrorism funds are still being allocated in a pre 9-11 way,
A SeptemberThe 11th Way, one might say.
Alaska gets over $90 per person in anti-terror funds. NYC gets about $23/person. Good work Tom Ridge.
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to FUR or not to Fur: (UTILITY WITHOUT PROPOGANDA:) OR, SOME NON-ELECTION CONTENT FOR THE KIDS:
The Ethicist Randy Cohen provides guidance to the dillemma we've been agonzing over since last winter:
Is it OK to wear beautiful vintage Gucci coats which have fur collars, even when we find it cruel and misguided when folks buy or wear new fur coats?
The handy argument for wearing the used coat with fur is this: It's old... The animal died
long ago, and it was bought 2nd- or 3rd-hand. Shouldn't the animal not die in vain? Plus it's warm and did we mention the pockets are lined with velvet? And we didn't know that the material the rest of the coat was made out of was basically calf fetus. WE DIDN'T KNOW!
The Ethicis's advice: if you
want to harm an animal, kick a poodle or something. However, if you don't feel that animal's death for 'fashion' is ethically OK, then you can't really wear the coat out in public (unless you shave into the fur: "VINTAGE, GIFT". He suggests if you can't part with the gift, or the object of beauty, find utility for it inside your home, but don't make a public statement that it is OK to kill animals for 'fashion'— not even if it's
warm.
And the argument that taking this stance means you would have to give up leather and become a vegetarian also??
He covers that, too. Listen online: + http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4113413(npr)
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+ Paul Shabroom: Meetings.
To coincide with the publication of his new book,
Meetings, Shambroom will convene a Virtual Town Meeting at the
Apple Store in SoHo, Wednesday, October 20. Political bloggers and photobloggers will share their photographs and postings of democracy at work in the virtual community—an exercise of civil liberties during this politically charged time. Photobloggers presenting will include:
Jake,
Mike Epstein,
Rion, and
Shepard.
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While it's true that if you watch Alexandra Pelosi's Washington-insider documentaries, he seems actually like a sweetheart, the truth is much darker:
HOW CARL ROVE DOES IT: HIS SIGNATURE WHISPER-CAMPAIGN OF LIES:
....la la la, a long article, you might choose to read it ... basically: "What Rove does," says Joe Perkins, [he worked for Rove] "is try to make something so bad for a family that the candidate will not subject his family to the hardship..." [by running in any further elections] [ie:] "Mark is not your typical Alabama macho, beer-drinkin', tobacco-chewin', pickup-drivin' kind of guy. He is a small, well-groomed, well-educated family man running for Judge, and what [Rove] tried to do was make him look like a homosexual pedophile. That was really, really hard to take."
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go red sox
go kerry
i don't even really like boston
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+ Kerry vs Bush on the Environment
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