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Emptying his pockets, even!
Don’t miss it! *
* I’m sure I’ll post the vid tomorrow, so I guess you can miss it, after all. But seriously - don’t miss it.
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Seriously. Kucinich, Brownback, Tancredo, Hunter, et. al. as potential future presidents? Too cute for words, NARAL.
Now go take the quiz - How much do you know about the future president?
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Today is Blog for Impeachment Day! Can I get a w00t w00t?!
Via AliceDem at Booman Tribute (by way of Feministe):
On July 14, 1789 a mob of French patriots stormed the Bastille prison. It was proof that power no longer resided in the King.
On July 14, 2007 a group of bloggers from all across America will be blogging for impeachment. We invite all patriots to join us.
Bruce Godfrey, who so graciously hosted the celebrated Take Back the Blog event, has once again offered his services as a host.
We hope by this action we can demonstrate the widespread support for impeachment and shift the debate. We also hope to educate our political elite on the dangers posed by failing to impeach.
It is critically important for the future of our democracy that this criminal cabal and all of their works be repudiated. We ask for your support and participation.
Though Bruce’s announcement primarily asks for
arguments and posts that make the case for impeachment proceedings, for a vote of impeachment or for a removal after trial of any impeachable federal office holder. However, this blogswarm will happily accept well-written anti-impeachment (or pro-impeachment, of course) posts from any member of the Maryland Bloggers Alliance as noted at the blogroll on the left sidebar, or from liberal/civil libertarian bloggers offering a principled, political or practical case for opposition to impeachment from that perspective. Academic scholarship on impeachment would be MOST welcome to contribute to the debate for all involved.
this featherhead’s legal expertise is nascent at best. If the whole of the Bush presidency doesn’t constitute impeachable offenses, I don’t know what does. (Sentencing 68,000 women to death annually because they had the temerity to have teh sex? Check. Slaughtering 974,000 Iraqis to stroke daddy’s ego? Check. Thumbing your nose at the Constitution? Check, check, and check.) And that’s really the bulk of my argument - call it the “WTF!?%$#” line of reasoning. If Clinton’s hummer was enough to get him nearly-impeached, then Bush (and Cheney and Rove and Gonzalez) ought to be strung up in the public square by their elephantitic nutsacks. Common sense and human decency, people.
Anyway, in lieu of an “academic” “legal” “argument”, I come bearing a big fat link roundup of impeach-the-fucker resources. Hope y’all will let me in on the party, even if all I have to offer is the warm shit beer.
On that note, do check in with Bruce to read the more, ahem, mature impeachment posts.
Crazy impeachment goodness after the flip. It’s like a librrrl’s wet dream down there.
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Crossposted from easyVegan.info.
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From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Jun 11, 2007 9:29 PM
Subject: DawnWatch Alert: Pending legislation that endangers almost all animal-friendly legislation 6/11/07
There is a saying: “One person can do almost anything. No person can do everything.” That’s why DawnWatch focuses strictly on media and almost never sends out alerts that are not media based. I make an exception today in order to tell people about a piece of legislation that could undo all of the good work so many others have done on the legislative front. There is a provision tucked into the pending Farm Bill designed to prohibit states and localities from banning activities they deem to be contrary to public health, safety, or morals. If it passes, it will nullify gains made by activists across the 50 states.
If you respond to just one alert this year, please make it this one, so that others can keep fighting.
Please read the alert below from HSUS and take five minutes to make two phone calls and send two emails. Your five minutes will enable activists to continue to devote their lives to easing animal suffering.
Here is the HSUS alert:
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Don’t Let Congress Undo State and Local Animal Laws
Dear Friend,
Some of our most important victories for animals have been state laws barring cruel practices—such as horse slaughter, confining young calves and breeding pigs in crates so small they can’t even turn around, and force-feeding of ducks and geese to make foie gras. Should Congress be able to block all such laws? Tell your federal legislators NO!
The federal government shouldn’t be able to trump the will of the states when it comes to animal welfare. Yet that’s exactly what legislation now making its way through Congress would do. A small provision—Section 123—tucked into the pending Farm Bill would prohibit states and localities from banning activities they deem to be contrary to public health, safety, or morals. It’s an outrageous power grab that would undermine the democratic process and deny citizens the right to pass state or local laws on issues of humane treatment or food safety.
If passed, this provision would nullify bans on horse slaughter in states including Illinois, Texas and California, bans on gestation crates in Florida and both gestation and veal crates in Arizona, and bans on foie gras in California and Chicago. Tell Congress not to mess with state and local animal protection laws!
TAKE ACTION
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Hey, the troll baiting seems to have driven up traffic to my significant other’s blog. Just thought I’d get in on the fun, too.
RON PAUL IS A BIBLE-BEATING, SPERM WORSHIPING, HOMOBIGOTED MISOGYNIST DOUCHEBAG.
That is all.
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MY BROTHER IS considered one of the biggest domestic terrorists in the country. You probably haven’t heard of him, and I think that’s odd. After all, he’s dangerous. He’s trying to overthrow our country. He “doesn’t like our freedoms,” or so President Bush has said of terrorists in general, so I suppose that applies to my brother too.
Let me tell you a little bit about him. He likes the History Channel. He’s a Trekkie. He cried (in secret) at the corny 1980s movie “Turtle Diary.” He’s good at fixing things. And, most important, he has devoted his life to stopping animals’ suffering. To this end, he has broken the law. He crept into animal laboratories to free dogs. He dismantled corrals to release wild mustangs. He impersonated a fur buyer to film the treatment of minks. He put himself between whales and whalers despite warnings that his boat would be impounded and that he would be jailed. And nearly 10 years ago, he burned down a horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, Ore. It is for this final act that the U.S. government considers him among the ranks of Osama bin Laden, Eric Rudolph and Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.
“This is a classic case of terrorism,” the federal prosecutor said earnestly to the judge during a hearing last week in my brother’s case. […]
Anyone who lives in Redmond will tell you how terrible the Cavel West Slaughterhouse was. The horses screamed all day. Their blood clogged the sewage system. The stench was unbearable. The killings, by many accounts, were slow and agonizing. My brother’s sentiments were far from radical, and they had nothing to do with the government. His intention was simple: save the horses.
This does not mean arson was the right thing to do. If you call my brother a lawbreaker, I won’t argue. But labeling him a terrorist dilutes the meaning of terrorism. And you demean all the Americans, and all those around the world, who have died in real terrorist acts.
Go read the whole thing. Via Green is the New Red, which should be on every activist’s blogroll. Ahem.
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare Jonathan Paul war on terra terrorism animal rights terrorist eco-terrorist first amendment aeta animal enterprise terrorism act
“My six-year-old, Catherine, she said to me ‘Father, they came for those with cooties, and I said nothing. Then they came for those with boogers, and I said nothing. And then they came for me, a poopy-pants, and there was no one left to speak.’”
- Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska, on his precocious little poopy-pants, as interpreted by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart.
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I know, I know. Your featherhead has been slagging in the blogging department lately. I’ve got a good excuse this time though, I swear. Shane & I have finally decided to - eeks! - buy a house. First the “wedding”, now this….I think this means I’m finally all grown up. Blecht. Banish the thought. Anyway, househunting has been consuming all my spare time, and this blog was the first to suffer. Sorry ’bout that. If you’re into animals or the environment, I still put a good day’s work in over at easyVegan.info. Which actually gets more traffic than this humble blog. So, you should check it out, is all I’m sayin.
Anywho, I just popped in to share this totally cool participatory democracy project, via the Center for Media and Democracy:
The Sunlight Foundation, the Center for Media and Democracy’s partner in Congresspedia, has been doing some really interesting participatory journalism lately. Their current project is to get citizens to rate the websites of their members of Congress for transparency and accountability. So far 294 members have been rated and, in the wake of members like Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) posting their daily schedules online, the bar is getting higher for what citizens expect. The best part is that when the results are all in, we’re going to post them on every member’s Congresspedia pro
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