2009
January
Healing America
At the stroke of noon on Tuesday, January 20th, America breathed a sigh of relief that echoed across the world. I say that and I am a registered Republican who understands the cost of blowing the whistle on Bush and his associates. Of the many things that George Bush destroyed the Republican Party was only one institution. The GOP, once the proud advocate of freedom, was destroyed, its mission extinguished. Our economy, our rights, the Constitution, and the respect America once held across the world are also dead.
NOW Indict George Bush, Indict Them All
American
veterans are returning from Iraq to homelessness. As the economy
melts down so do America's veterans. Tens of thousands who signed up
to serve their country are now homeless, unable to function because
of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or brain trauma Their condition was
directly caused by the Bush Administration. They were told that war
was necessary to our safety. It was a lie. Instead, it has lined the
pockets of George W. Bush's core constituency.
Stealing
Truth: The John Fund Back Story
If
the media had followed the clear rules they had written for
themselves, would we now be on the express down elevator to a
meltdown of global proportions? Likely not. We would have problems,
but we would have seen them more clearly. We needed the truth. We did
not get it, for perhaps as many reasons as there are individuals in
journalism.
February
April's Future – Renewing America
This last January a baby girl was born. Her parents named her April and hope mightily that the world she grows to know will be one of hope and prosperity. We can make it so for her and all our children.
Murdering Hope — Enacting Freedom
On
Monday America’s banks will open for business, loaning to Americans
some tiny part of the mind-bogglingly large amount of money, now
barely measurable, that has been sucked into the maw of the same
people who caused the problems originally.
Saving
Yourself As The Economy Melts
The
economy is melting; in just weeks well-to-do investors with tens of
millions have been reduced to poverty. The reality of bailouts that
further enriched those whose ‘business model’ emptied our pockets
is now hitting all of us. Every day the uncertainties rise, hitting
us like a dead fish in the face.
Karl
Rove and Bill Postmus, Soul Mates?
Why we must demand accountability, objective standards, and absolute transparency
From Revolt in 2100 by Robert Heinlein:
"When any government or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,"the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrawise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fusion bombs, not anything – you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
Revolt
in 2100 is about a revolution against an evangelical religious state
that using disinformation, coercion, and deceit took over America.
The good guys are pro-freedom and in the book you see them carry out
the restoration of real American government. The bad guys use
torture, absolute monitoring, and the force of a state that has
rewritten history to control the American people.
March
Earth Day 2009 – Be The Change
I first met Helen in 2000. The friend who introduced us warned me we would agree on nothing. I am a Republican and then was very active in the National Federation of Republican Women. Helen Garland is a Democrat and very liberal. She personally put together the people who founded Earth Day, introduced Margaret Mead to environmentalism, and has spent her life working tirelessly for peace, justice, and care of the Earth. That is the motto of the organization founded in 1968 that is the real originator of Earth Day, the Earth Society
A
Hero for Today in Tulare County
The
knight in shining amour came into my life on a wintry road as the
blades of snow descended on my four wheel drive Chevy truck. The
truck had groaned coming up the hill from our snowbound cabin to
Highway 190. The snow had been pristine, no plow had touched it,
something I had grown used to.
Our satellite had been out for nearly two weeks due to vandalism. Often times we associate vandalism with kids. No kids here. I was very sure about the guilty party. When it is a matter of ripping out the cables from an instillation located on a two-story house that was unoccupied for only a few days during a snowstorm it has to be someone local. People from ‘down in the flats,’ do not come up when it is storming because they get stuck in the snow up Highway 190.
April
We came so close to losing it all. Day to day we have been hearing the stark predictions of famine, want, civil unrest. We see the Google maps of FEMA camps and the 1984 redux of control, reflected in the simple minded fascist edicts, for instance the Missouri Directive, issued by the of small minded bureaucrats of that state. These still have the power to shock us.
