Which will it be: Citizen or Serf?

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 11:17 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 11:17

I keep hoping that I've been dreaming. I keep hoping that the growing spiral of bad news, wars, bank failures, collapsing economy, shrinking pay, vanishing rights and cartoon character leaders and candidates are all just a figment of my very active and detailed imagination.

I keep hoping that I'll wake up someday, and that the last 7-some-odd years have been a long-drawn-out nightmare. I'd wake up, and my money would be worth more, I would be able to afford to buy a home, no one is being killed in a pointless war, our economy would be fairly sound, and our leaders are solid, sane, and mostly reasonable.

In my dreams... No, the reality is that we do have cartoon characters for leaders and candidates, celebrate stupidity and denigrate intelligence, consume mindlessly, and have squandered our standing in the world. Now, foreign businesses are picking at the unraveling threads of our banking system, and we are no longer truly sovereign. The nightmare is real, and the decay of the last 7 years has been incredible in its swiftness. Even Rome took more time to fall.

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Monday April 23, 2007 · 11:29 AM PDT

2007/04/23 · 11:29

Americans United has won a settlement against the Bush administration after a pattern of bias against minority religions was revealed.

Ya think? That 'bias' ended my career in the USAF because I dared to poke my head out and say, "Enough".

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 4:33 PM PDT

2006/10/04 · 16:33

I am fortunate enough to have friends with a wide variety of jobs. One of them drives trucks for a living- doing long distance OTR driving for a major shipper. I asked her about how she was doing. She filled my ear with all sorts of interesting- and chilling- facts. Read More

Retired military people to be mobilized

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 7:28 AM PDT

2006/04/21 · 07:28

If you are separated or retired from the US Armed Forces, a new rule could be used to return you to active duty if you're under the age of 60- even if your inactive reserve time has expired.

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Oglala Sioux Stand up to SD abortion Law

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Wednesday March 22, 2006 · 8:12 AM PST

2006/03/22 · 08:12

Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe at Pine Ridge, SD, says that she is going to stand up to Gov. Rounds' ban of all abortion in the state of South Dakota.

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The New Blacklist

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Thursday June 09, 2005 · 8:28 AM PDT

2005/06/09 · 08:28

This LA Weekly article talks about the often successful use of boycotts by the Religious Right:

Spurred on by a biblical injunction evangelicals call "The Great Commission," and emboldened by George W. Bush's re-election, which is perceived as a "mandate from God," the Christian right has launched a series of boycotts and pressure campaigns aimed at corporate America -- and at its sponsorship of entertainment, programs and activities the Christers don't like.

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Thursday May 26, 2005 · 9:06 AM PDT

2005/05/26 · 09:06

With all the fuss lately about 'activist' judges, it sometimes helps when one gives us a free home demonstration of what would happen to religious minorities should the Christocrats actually stack our courts. The gist:

An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."
The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.
Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion Superior Court, kept the unusual provision in the couple's divorce decree last year over their fierce objections, court records show. The order does not define a mainstream religion.

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