lost socks' politics & indie music blog: lost socks' political blogmusings on current events and the polluted political environment of the our time...my indie music blog is hereThe End Of The Story...- July 29, 2004 Well...the 911 commission report came out. That must be that...Just because the thing was chaired by both Democrats and Republicans: two groups who would have to work together to make sure nothing too embarassing to either side would appear...I thought the thing might be mildly incomplete...seeing as they didn't address any of the ties the Huffman flight school had to drug trafficking or the DEA being told to stay clear of what might be going on there...that might be embarassing....http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/29.html#a167 Bush Calls You (and me) Stupid- July 21, 2004 Republicans think Americans are stupid. How else can one explain the distribution of bumper stickers in Kentucky saying "Kerry is bin Laden's Man. Bush is Mine" The sad part is that Kentucky folks are buying 'em up like crazy! Despite the FACT that Bush has ties to Osama's family and has been funded largely in part by the SAME PEOPLE who fund fucking OSAMA, BUSH somehow is the good guy and Kerry inexplicably is Bin Laden's man! Now it gets MORE insulting: "After four years more in this office I.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/21.html#a166 The State Of The Nation- July 19, 2004 The great thing about America is the freedom of speech! So here's a heartwarming story featuring Linda Ronstadt...makes ya proud to be an American! If of course, she'd been booted for anti-Arab comments (which she probably wouldn't be), people would be crying CENSORSHIP and she'd become a right-wing martyr...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/19.html#a165 The World Is Better Off Without Saddam So All MUST Be OK...- July 17, 2004 A lot of people will argue that it doesn't really matter if the war was based on faulty intelligence (or perhaps outright lies) because the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. Even if this were true, that does not justify an administration misleading the American people to justify starting a war. Is there anyone alive who thinks we felt we needed to remove Saddam because of his horrible treatment of his own people When he gassed the Kurds, did we care then Most of the.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/16.html#a164 Cheney On The Ticket- July 15, 2004 Who cares if they dump Cheney from the ticket It's not like anyone voted for Feith or Wolfowitz or Perle but these extremist dream-mongers framed Republican policy and helped push us into a war of choice that's proving disastrous for everyone. Whether Cheney's on the ticket or not, does anyone doubt he'll still be more than a little involved in running thingshttp://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/15.html#a163 Dennis Miller Still Sucks...and Gay People Are OK To Mock!- July 15, 2004 Dennis Miller is a pretty good representative for the Republicans huh...he's got that hypocrite thing down pat! Whoopi gets screwed for making a joke about "Bush" but it's okay to mockingly call Bush's opponents gay...Yeah...Kerry and Edwards are gay...hee heee...that's some funny ass shit...cause being gay is bad of course and gay people shouldn't be elected into office...luckily no Republicans are gay...not that they MIND gay people! Gay people just shouldn't be allowed to have...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/15.html#a162 Dick Cheney For President...No Elections Required...- July 12, 2004 Once again Dick Cheney's throwing out the attacks on Kerry and Edwards. He's certainly good at this as he's unencumbered by any of that "compassionate conservatism" he and his puppet President ran on... Kerry and Edwards reviewed the same prewar intelligence on Iraq that was given to President Bush, and both supported the decision to go to war, Cheney said. Last week, a Senate panel determined that intelligence was flawed. "Now it seems they've both developed a...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/12.html#a161 Hey America! Dick Cheney Thinks You're Stupid!- July 4, 2004 On this Independance Day, let's take a moment to think about why the founders of our nation broke free from the tyranny of the King. It was for the freedoms our present leaders seem to hope we take for granted. They say "freedom" a lot but they think we're stupid and hope that we'll stay afraid enough of terrorists (let's raise the terror level...there's been CHATTER but no credible threat...stay scared!) to let our ruling tories steal from us like their role models used to a little over two...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/04.html#a160 Using My Religionnnnnn...and Bill Frist's Moral Relativism (maybe he's a librul!)- July 2, 2004 Why is it that the right-wing fundamentalist nuts have such a big problem with gay people (the Bible's against it you see...) but none of these people keep kosher When did Jesus (a JEW by the way GASP) say "Thou shalt not have to keep kosher anymore...but that gay thing still stands"...and those rules forbidding mixing different fabrics together...why don't any born-agains enforce that one It's just more of the world's religions' favorite pastime: use -insert holy text here- to justify whatever.http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/07/02.html#a158 This Makes Watergate Look Like Less Than Nothing- July 1, 2004 Well, this might be the scariest thing I've read in a while...It sounds pretty legit but the gist is that the Mohammad Atta we've been given is all lies and there was pretty serious complicity in the upper reaches of our government. I guess there's a lot more in Daniel Hopsicker's book Welcome To Terrorland. Read this...http://blogs.salon.com/0002750/categories/politics/2004/06/30.html#a157 |