CT & RI Demands Bush Step Down

Here are some pictures that appeared in the newsaper, courtesy of Hannah.

I’m new to this blog program and the reason your post didn’t show up Hannah was because the program thought it was spam and was waiting for someone to approve the comment. I changed the setting so it shouldn’t happen again.

About seven people signed up as members, you guys should be able to write your own posts by logging in but if not tell me and I’ll fix it.

This photo album is a good idea, I’ll put a link up on the right. Theres another link there titled upload photos that doesn’t require you to log in, you just upload and it gives you a link to use in your posts.

I hope you guys don’t mind my opinions on things, I want other people to post too!

- Will

PS Still waiting for the article in Westerly This Week.

Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Los Angeles Schools Help Kids Attend Anti-Bush Rally

Here is the press release from right-wingnut’s World Ahead Publishing

BREAKING NEWS: Public school officials bus students from L.A. high schools to join anti-Bush rally. Kid’s author decries educators’ liberal bias.

LOS ANGELES (November 3, 2005) — Public schools have long been criticized for bringing left-wing politics into the classroom, but yesterday teachers in Los Angeles high schools took their students out of their classrooms to participate in a left-wing political rally!

Ten high schools in the Los Angeles area bused over 800 students to participate in a large anti-George Bush rally organized by a group called “The World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime.” Teachers, administrators, and campus security all defended the decision, saying it gave them a chance to supervise students who would be protesting anyway, but children’s author Katharine DeBrecht decried the decision as an example of educators advancing a liberal political agenda.

DeBrecht — the author of the smash hit illustrated book “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” (Kids Ahead; hardcover $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) — said the decision by Los Angeles school officials was tantamount to encouraging kids to join Democratic causes: “It is reprehensible that public school teachers and administrators would actually encourage students to leave the classroom to attend a Bush-bashing event! Not only are these educators ignoring their duty to teach our children, but apparently they care much more about turning them into props for their political causes.”

I have a strong feeling this is a totally made up story by Katharine DeBrecht the author of “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!. All the reports seem tto indicate that across the country school systems worked hard to intimidate students from walking out of school on November 2nd, many declaring ‘intruder alerts” and locking the school down.

Reading the comments on one right wing blog that carried the story are hilarious though, here are some of my favorites:

It’s the liberal media and the liberal school officials that want to destroy this country. I wonder if you had a choice to go or not?

Oh this is just over the line, these teachers and administrators that allowed this to happen should be fired immediately. A teacher brings a cross to school and the liberals practically start climbing walls. But oh wait, it’s ok to force your sickening political ideology on children. Double standard? Of course.

And what kinda crap is this. Children need to be kept in class and taught history, math, english, etc… not be sent out to protest things they don’t even understand since their only source of information is Saturday Night Live.

And finally:

I wonder if our lefty friends would support, say, busing students to a pro troops ralley??

Of course what we did last Wednesday was Pro-Troops - I think it’s time we start asking these people why they hate the troops so much that they let 2,044 die and over 15,000 come home permanently disabled.

- Will

BBC News - US suspects ‘face torture overseas’

I’m sorry to give you guys this ugly news, but we can’t just turn a blind eye. We’re engaged in a war of ideas here as much as anything and our side has to have the facts to argue with people like Jason (see post down the page)

We’ve all seen the pictures from Abu Ghraib, we’ve all heard about torture at Guantanamo Bay, torture so terrible that the prisoners are trying to commit suicide by going on hunger strikes. Donald Rumsfeld, a man so stupid he thought America could invade Iraq and the people would line the road to Baghdad with flowers instead of IEDs, said these Afghan sheep herders who are so depressed they are trying to kill themselves are just going on a diet. Here it is straight from the war criminal’s mouth.

“Well, I suppose that what they’re trying to do is to capture press attention, obviously, and they’ve succeeded. There are a number of people who go on a diet where they don’t eat for a period and then go off of it at some point. And then they rotate and other people do that.”

Well it seems that the torture isn’t isolated to just those places, it seems the CIA has created a secret network of torture chambers “located in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Thailand, the Washington Post claims.”

Good people like us see this and recoil in horror, and besides the moral outrage we feel, we know torturing Arabs caught in huge sweeps only fuels hatred and creates more terrorists, in short it makes us less safe here in America.

That’s not the way Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration see it however.

They view America’s reputation as a country that routinesly tortures people, I’m going to emphasize that America has a reputation now as a country that routinely tortures people as a method of interrogation as an asset, a plus They look at it as a way of instilling fear in our “enemies”, as a way of making them take our threats seriously.

You and me know that before we dropped a 500 pound bomb on their house and killed their sister and six other children, our “enemies” loved rock music and blue jeans.

- Will

Republican Congress seeks to cut Medicaid, food stamps, student loans, agriculture subsidies and child support enforcement. The House measure would allow states to impose premiums and co-payments on poor Medicaid recipients for the first time.

Daily Kos: Shameless. Absolutely Shameless.

Why is it always children, the poor, the elderly, the sick that conservatives go after? It’s always the weakest amongst us they set their sights on. It makes me sick.

Why is the Bush Administration and it’s Republican Congress gutting social services? To pay for weapons, war and tax cuts for the super-wealthy, and we’re still going to be running massive budget deficits.

What’s the next item on the Republican-controlled Congress’s budget agenda? Another 70 billion dollar tax cut for the super-wealthy.

- Will