Politics

I wish more of our allies would speak the truth about our duly-selected president.

Yes, the picture is real.

Yes, that’s an actual quote from a new media campaign linking conservation with godliness.

“We are under a commandment to be faithful stewards of God’s creation,” said Paul Gorman, executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, an umbrella organization of Christian and Jewish groups. “This is a crisis in God’s creation at the hands of God’s children.”

Leaders of many groups within the partnership have signed a letter to the Big Three’s chief executives asking for improvements in fuel economy. They say they have a biblical mandate to be good stewards of God’s creation and a responsibility to the poor who are especially harmed by pollution. And they decry supporting “autocratic, corrupt and violent” governments that produce oil.

I think the more likely outcome, if there a lot of such ads, is that it will lower the power of religion, but not oil. This country manages to combine one of the highest rates of believers in God in the rich world with a depressing lack of concern for anyone less fortunate.

Another good thing from the world of religion this week: Nuns arrested during protests against the formerly-named School of the Americas.

See Mattitude, I do show this side too.

If I see one more member of the Liberal (ha) Media talk about whether Nancy Pelosi is too far left for America, I’m going to scream. Who is the House GOP Leader? It’s Tom DeLay, a man who attacked my alma mater (Texas A&M) for failing to teach creationism.

Good write-ups on this may be found from Joe Conason and No More Mr. Nice Blog.

It’s not on the front page of any newspapers here, but there was a huge demonstration in Florence yesterday protesting war with Iraq.

Good pictures: 1  2

His latest column.

All these years later, I didn’t realize there was an election this week until the Sunday before. On election day, I was in neighborhoods where they should have been calling out Carl McCall’s name. There was no sound. Then I realized that this silence was right, that there was no election. McCall was the candidate, but he did not ruin the politics here. It was shameless Bill Clinton who used the Democratic Party and left it with a hyphen. Not because of his trailer camp sex, nor his lying under oath to a grand jury. Rather, he merged the Democratic Party with the Republican Party. The Democratic-Republican Party. He left the Democrats with no issues, no purpose, no aim, no desire for anything except keeping the job. Do whatever the Republicans do. They want a tax cut that can break us? Good. Vote for it. They want a war? Of course. Let’s kill.

Me bomb you long time!

This is an interesting page from the Media Reform Information Center.

Number of corporations controlling the vast majority of all news media:

I guess the Republicans are waiting until the number is one — and it’s Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News — to stop whining about the “liberal media”.

From the NY Times:

New York City registered what may be a record low in voter turnout on Tuesday, with an estimated 34.2 percent of registered voters casting their ballots. The last time city voters came out in similarly low numbers was in 1990, when 38 percent of registered voters voted. New York State may also have reached a new low with an estimated 40 percent of voters casting their ballots.

I’m not sure if I’m even a big-D Democrat anymore, but I just signed the world’s shortest petition — “Terry, you’re fired!” — at AngryDems.com.