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2005 August 21 — Why Now?
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A New Term


I’ve decided while making a comment over at NTodd’s place that I will henceforth refer to the so-called DLC and their followers as the DC-Rats, in reference to their predecessors: the Dixiecrats.

Hopefully they will take less time than the earlier group to transfer their party registration so that real Democrats might win a national election or two.


August 21, 2005   Comments Off on A New Term

Random Thoughts


When they said democracy in relation to Iraq we forgot who they were. What do Dobson, Falwell and the rest of the Shrubbery’s base want American democracy to look like?

Isn’t that what they’re getting in Iraq?

[Update: Pudentilla at skippy wondered about this earlier today.]


Via Quiddity at Uggabugga: the reDiscovery Institute.


It’s too bad about some of the oldest Christian communities in the world (they speak a form of Aramaic), the Jewish communities in the birthplace of Abraham, and the Yezidi.

What’s a few ancient religions compared to “bringing democracy to the Middle East”?


An anti-war group is running ads on all but one Salt Lake City television station prior to the Shrubbery’s speech at the VFW convention. So who was the hold out? Fox? No. The NBC station owned by the Mormon Church? No.

How about the station owned by Clear Channel? Bingo!


Flashback time: Joan Baez arrives to sing at Camp Casey in Crawford.


August 21, 2005   Comments Off on Random Thoughts