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standardRSS Roundup 6-2-08

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Politics | On June 2nd, 2008 | Be the First to Comment

Tagged with: Barack Obama • Fundamentalism • Iraq • Just For Fun • Progressive Religion

k, so it’s not really Monday morning anymore but if the pot of coffee you drank this morning hasn’t gotten you going maybe this will. However since I took a long weekend to finish up a project (almost) I want to do a super special RSS Roundup / Monday Morning Funnies combo edition. Thats double the value for the same low price of free! Lucky you.

Sleater-Kinney Song Stuck in my head

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Could do worse. Sleater-Kinney is/was an amazing band that has been broken up now for the past two years. This weekend I was listening to some of their stuff and now this song is stuck in my head. Normally listening to it over and over again gets it out but that hasn’t worked. So I’m trying to spread the joy and maybe that will help.

Everything Else You Need Know, So Sit Down and Shut Up

Obama Quits his Church. I’m disappointed that Obama would quit the church where he was married and where his daughters were baptized for political expediency.
5 Most Badass Presidents of All Time. I found this while reading 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science. Read them both their awesome. (h/t Skepchick).
Blog carnival for progressive Christians, read more at Fetch me my Axe. We wholly support progressive religions, Christian or otherwise, so looking forward to reading some good posts.
Catholicism, leading the fight for equality for women.
More “progress” in Iraq. Sunnis have withdrawn from the Iraqi government AGAIN after Maliki rejected their entire list of nominated ministers.
We all like to give Congress a hard time but Crooks and Liars points out one thing they have done perfectly right, Social Security. So I’m joining them in giving Pelosi a nice big round of applause for keeping the Republicans from killing an important program.
Really with the popular vote totals so close can we stop talking about them and focus on the only thing that actually counts, delegate count. Isn’t this like trying to argue who won the super bowl based on rushing yards and not the final score?

Video of the Day

Robert F. Kennedy: 80% of Republicans Are Just Uninformed Democrats.
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standardRSS Roundup 5-13-08

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Politics | On May 13th, 2008 | Be the First to Comment

Tagged with: Big Business • Good Science • Honesty • Iran • Iraq • John McCain • LGBTQ Rights • Republicans

Good morning everyone, this issue of our RSS Roundup is going to be really short as I have a project that is taking up all my time. As you all know this is an open thread so please feel free to comment on anything that is currently in the news. I’m also playing with a [...]

standardThe Surge is Working Flowchart

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Republicans | On April 16th, 2008 | Be the First to Comment

Tagged with: Iraq • National Security • Republicans • Terrorism

By now everyone should be sick to death of hearing how we are winning in Iraq. After 5 years, 3 trillion dollars,and around a million casualties we are no closer to achieving anything resembling lasting peace in Iraq and the Republicans know it. We should have never taken our aim off of chasing terrorists through [...]

standardEndless War on the Installment Plan

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Activism | On April 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Tagged with: George W. Bush • Iraq • John McCain

Moveon.org has composed an excellent video highlighting the moving goal posts in the Iraq war. No matter what happens we hear that the surge is working and that they only need 6 more months from the Bush/McCain crew. Very nicely done but I would have liked to see them pay attention to all the times [...]

standardMcHenry Calls Soldier a Two-Bit Security Guard

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Republicans | On April 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Tagged with: 2008 Election • Hypocrisy • Iraq • John McCain • Mainstream Media • Patrick McHenry

Seriously, what the hell do Republicans have to do before our mainstream media starts doing its job? Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) belittled a U.S. Soldier serving in Iraq for following orders and not allowing him access to a restricted area that McHenry was not authorized entry to. “I was not very happy with this two-bit [...]

standardRSS Review for March 2008

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Politics | On April 2nd, 2008 | 1 Comment

Tagged with: Barack Obama • Feminism • George W. Bush • Hillary Clinton • Iraq • John McCain

Every month more news and good stories pass through our RSS Readers than we can possibly write about. Instead of letting these stories get forgotten I have decided to resurrect the RSS Review feature as a monthly recurring event. On the first day of each month I will summarize the top stories that we missed [...]

standardHappy Anniversery Iraq War

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Republicans | On March 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Tagged with: Iraq • Satire

Dear Iraq War, Wow, has it been five years already? I mean, wow. It feels like it was just yesterday that we set out to remove the eminent threat posed by Saddam’s WMD’s bring down an ally of Al Qaeda instill democracy and free the Iraqi people invade Iraq and set up permanent occupation. On [...]

standardOne Million Dead! Pro-Lifers Where Are You?

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Politics | On February 1st, 2008 | 4 Comments

Tagged with: Anti-Choice • Feminism • Hypocrisy • Iraq • Reproductive Rights

According to a new study over One Million Iraqi’s have died as a result of the Iraq war. You would expect the pro-lifers to be up in arms over this needless loss of human life. After all, according to their propaganda, every life is sacred. So where is the outrage? Where are the protesters? What [...]

standardDems Show Hidden Costs Double Iraq Pricetag

Posted by Bill Ludwig | In Democrats | On November 13th, 2007 | Be the First to Comment

Tagged with: Diligence • Fiscal Responsibility • Iraq

According to this story on the Carpetbagger Report and backed up by BBC News the cost of the Iraq War may be almost double the official estimate! That takes the cost up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 Trillion dollars. Remember that billions of the “official” estimate are missing so we have to assume [...]

standardRedefining Iraq Part 2

Posted by Summer Ludwig | In Politics | On November 11th, 2007 | Be the First to Comment

Tagged with: General Petraeus • George W. Bush • Iraq • National Security

Yesterday we explored the ever changing justifications for the war in Iraq. We learned that every single reason given by Bush and this administration was exaggerated or just flat out lies. Just in case you are not angry enough over this let’s now look at what “success” in Iraq is according to the White House. [...]

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