Peace-A-Rena

I’m breaking one of my cardinal rules and pasting in a post from another site in toto. It’s a powerful rant by Greg Palast, provoked by the recent fires in California, and the government’s response to them. I have a feeling he won’t mind. ‘Course, I’m not alone, soonerthought did the same thing, […]

A number of Oklahoma legislators are knocking themselves out in rudely and publicly refusing a gift of a Quran from a group of Muslim Oklahomans. Another class act for the citizens of our state to be proud of. Not.
I was glad to see that the Speaker of the House, Lance Cargill, with whom I usually […]

Reuters photo
My friend Desiree gets right in the face of Condoleezza Rice, who is, indeed, a “war criminal.”
(Tried to embed the video, but had technical problems.
Updated, with photo from Reuters.)
Update 2: Reuters story
Update 3: This AP photo is better, due to the angle (and Rice’s expression).

Boy, I’m wiped out. It was a strange day.
I went with my friend and co-revolutionary James to promote the GI Rights Hotline outside the big hoopla send-off for the poor National Guard troops who are being deployed to Iraq. But we had to make stops for sign supplies, then got caught in bigtime traffic — […]

I didn’t make it to the SCHIP rally at the Capital today (I had to take my mother to the doctor). But Mainstream Baptist was there, and in fact Dr. Bruce Prescott, the director, was a speaker. I’m very heartened to see religious leaders and groups around the country, many of them conservative and/or “pro-life” […]

Sometime next week, the Pentagon will announce that 13,000 more Guard troops will deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan next year (7 of 8 units going to Iraq).
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The […]

I got an email from Andrew Rice’s campaign today, their “Blogger Connection” distribution, with some news updates, on the pending S-CHIP vote in DC and the campaign’s fundraising figures for the third quarter.
1) Sen. Rice today called on members of the Oklahoma House delegation to vote to override President Bush’s SCHIP veto tomorrow. The text […]

I have a hard time motivating myself to call and write Oklahoma legislators on issues, because they are so reliably hard-line awful, and I’m already depressed, so who needs the hassle…
Nonetheless, I called my Congressperson, Frank Lucas, on S-CHIP — twice.
So here’s what happened.
The first time, last week, I called the Yukon office and just […]

Come to one of these events, call your Congresscritters. Do it NOW — time is short!!
Save SCHIP Candlelight Vigil
Tuesday, Oct 16, 7:00 PM
Join us in front of the OK County Republican Headquarters, 4031 N. Lincoln, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. Children and Families especially.
Sign up for this event.
Sponsored by MoveOn, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, Americans […]

Twelve former Army captains write an editorial for the Washington Post: Republicans are always saying to listen to those on the ground, so here you go, a pretty clear status report and recommendation of what we need to do.
[…] Iraqi security forces would not be able to salvage the situation. Even if all the Iraqi […]