Santa was very fannish this 12 months, introduced some Buffy stuff and likewise the DVD set of Fellowship of the Ring. Santa brought me the DVD of the second X-Men film because I couldn’t go see it when it was out in the theaters attributable to having my eye gouged out that enterprise after the surgery. Friday, 26 December 2003 Where I’ve been At Skimble, there is a bit of anger over the truth that Ashcroft hasn’t really been investigated, and a very good nutshell quote on the up to date War on Some Drugs: All roads lead again to 9-11. See TalkLeft on the administration’s help for the proposed Victory Act and its war on bogus narcoterrorism. I believe that even Breaux is aware of that Dean is known as a conservative, although he doesn’t let that stop him.Unfortunately, what I fear about is similar thing Douglas Anders was speaking about there at the highest: I’d wish to see actual liberals on the ticket. The Agora responds:Jesus, this pisses me off.I’ve been uneasy about every Democratic presidential candidate within the last 15 as a result of they ran screaming away from actual liberal positions, and by no means bothered to articulate a imaginative and prescient of a authorities that used the vast wealth of fashionable society to make life less precarious.

Kerry lost all of my remaining respect as soon as he began attacking Dean for being honest about how little good Saddam’s capture does American security.The truth is, I used to be already seeing the candidate I actually wished to vote for last year, when he made all these great speeches about Iraq, the media, and so forth. Q: Yes hi, I’m having real problems in a brand new relationship and I’m involved as I’ve very little confidence & have loads of anxiety. We want to add “DLC” to the places/organizations requiring a bit of regime change. The Daily Howler can be there to offer us the blow-by-blow as they break each single one of them.Anne Zook: Atrios says the DLC appears to want Dean to lose more than they wish to beat Bush. Humans are considered one of solely six teams of animals to cross the mirror check-which tests whether or not an animal acknowledges its reflection as a picture of itself-along with chimpanzees, orangutans, dolphins, and possibly pigeons. Savage says there are six Rotten vocals (p.

Anyway, a couple of issues I noticed earlier than I went to bed last night:More on the DLC wars from Big Media Matt.Sore Eyes says John Varley now has an official net site.Via Epicycle, a cool, super-high-res photograph of the view from Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, and X-ray posters.The Gender Genie thinks I am a boy. Wednesday, 24 December 2003 Theocracy in actionPacific Views learns about religion-based mostly parks, where books clarify geological improvement of our natural wonders by way of creationist theories.And by way of Atrios, some faithless historical past:All images of gay gatherings at nationwide sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from videotapes which have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 in response to a civil service group.Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says that the directive came from National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy. Murphy is alleged to have been involved about pictures in the video that confirmed same-intercourse couples kissing and holding hands after conservative groups complained.The Millennium March held in 2000 to convey attention to LGBT civil rights issues drew tens of thousands of gays and their supporters to the mall for one of the largest demonstrations since the civil rights and anti-battle marches of the 1960s.Also ordered reduce from the tape had been scenes of abortion rights demonstrations at the memorial, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations “because it implies that Lincoln would have supported homosexual and abortion rights as well as feminism.”In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and professional-Gulf War demonstrators although these occasions did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy calls a “extra balanced” model.”The Park Service leadership now caters completely to conservative Christian fundamentalist groups,” acknowledged PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch.

It got here in the mailUlrika O’Brien writes with some additional ideas on the aim of sex:There is an actual irony in using “naturalness” as the premise for arguing a single true reason for sex, since if one goes to go that route, examining evolutionary mechanisms is barely sound direction to seek in. Mike Palecek writes for peace.Let it Bleed. Clark truly calls himself a liberal, however he did pander a bit on the flag-burning modification (despite the fact that he believes such an modification won’t ever be handed). The Sideshow won’t be working off on vacation, subsequently.We’ve already started the film factor, with Bowling for Columbine, which is a lot better than we would been led to imagine. And in so doing, they’ve allow us to come to this place where the debate is between a “left-wing extremism” characterized by a Rockefeller Republican (Howard Dean) and a “conservatism” that’s led by raving far-proper loonies who differ solely marginally from the KKK and who seem like making an attempt very hard to comply with in Hitler’s footsteps. Someone referred to as them “a Republican nightmare”.All week I have been making an attempt to figure out why this quote is supposed to show that Dean is anti-religious: “We are not cogs in a company machine,” he preached last month in Iowa.