Bloody Pullman StrikeDoes that headline sound overly harsh? Well, it needs to sound that way.
In recent years Republicans around the country have almost made a fetish out of appropriating progressive heroes, martyrs and symbols, using them for their own snively purposes. Newt Gingrich insisted that FDR was really espousing Republican ideals. Later, some Republicans quite baldly insisted that Martin Luther King Jr. was functionally one of their own (he was, actually, pro-labor union). GOP partisans even have claimed John F. Kennedy as kindred, because he once cut taxes (as if Democrats up to and including Obama have never done that before or since).
Francis Schaeffer's Article "Subversives From Within" Reposted
A friend of mine sent this article to me. Francis Schaeffer is the son of Frank Schaeffer and wrote the book, "Crazy for God". He was heavily involved, along with his father, in the far Christian right's anti abortion movement. I am currently reading this book, and I felt the need to share this piece with other readers on this site.
Glenn Beck and the 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within
Who are these people?! Where do they come from?! Ordinary Americans might wonder why anyone would stoop so low as to follow Glenn Beck, Fox News and Dick Armey (and their corporate sponsors masquerading as "FreedomWorks") as they organize their "9/12 March On Washington" to cynically exploit the 9/11 attack.
Patriotic Americans might question the organizer's aim to provide a media forum for dimwitted right wingers to scream "Liar!" "Socialist!" "Antichrist!" "Muslim!" "Death Panels!" "He's not an American!" and so on and on and on about the commander in chief charged with defending us from further attacks. And some people might even cry "shame on you!" to the more mainstream Republicans participating that include Dick Armey of FreedomWorks, as well as GOP Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Pence of Indiana, Tom Price of Georgia, and South Carolina GOP Sen.
Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 5.31
In Orange
Good morning, and we will now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Denver is completing the turn into fall weather: our highs have settled into the 70s and low 80s, and lows are regularly dropping into the 40s.
It's an extremely pleasant time of year - nights cool enough for comfortable sleeping, but not so cool as to require turning on the furnace. Days warm enough to shed jackets by late morning, with radiant heat and a cool brush of autumn simultaneously on one's skin.
I would really love fall - if it didn't lead into winter. This week we're forecast to have the first nip of what's to come, as overnight lows start hitting the 30s - not freezing, not yet, but it can come any time. I hope it holds off, as a few of the dahlias have yet to pop open their buds.
"The Great Unfinished Business of Our Time": Health Care Reform
In the closing passages of his speech to the joint session of Congress, President Obama urged members of the House and Senate to rise to the finest in our national character and finally provide a humane way to address the health needs of all of America's citizens. We know the status quo is broken. What'll we do about it?
Woven into the soaring rhetoric of President Obama's speech were specific calls to three prominent Republican senators: Senator John McCain, Senator Orrin Hatch, and Senator Chuck Grassley.
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