tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52249452011-04-21T17:29:43.948-07:00Public AnnoyanceComplaints, critiques and questions about politics and other current events.Jonoreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-1104185851555942972004-12-27T14:16:00.000-08:002004-12-27T15:03:04.273-08:00What a Friend we Have in George Bush
by JoAnna Woodruff
Regular churchgoers, the people pollsters tell us tend to vote republican, want to view the president as God-like, a stand-in for the Holy One. This may also explain why we have never had a female president. From here on in, this essay will refer to the “Higher Power/ President worshippers” as the politically accepted term “Religious RightJonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-1102347209298872672004-12-06T07:32:00.000-08:002004-12-06T07:33:29.296-08:00I am reforming this blog-- it is now formatted to be my public forum. Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-925617052003-04-13T21:03:00.000-07:002003-04-13T21:03:55.606-07:00I had the chance to talk to some Marines today. My biggest observation...they were as dumb as rocks. As dumb as my seventh grade kids. I'm not sure I would want to give weapons to guys who are that stupid. Honestly, this is something our government should seriously consider.Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-924931322003-04-12T11:09:00.000-07:002003-04-12T11:09:28.373-07:00"Another difference between television in the US and elsewhere has been coverage of Iraqi casualties.
Despite constant discussion of "precision bombing," the US invasion has produced so many dead and
wounded that Iraqi hospitals stopped trying to count. Red Cross officials have labeled the level of
casualties "incredible," describing "dozens of totally dismembered dead bodies of women and Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-924928812003-04-12T11:03:00.000-07:002003-04-12T11:06:31.000-07:00"We don't hate America. We just think your president is an asshole."
-- unidentified Frenchman, who still enjoys free speech
All credit goes to Bartcop.com for this...interesting quote.
Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-924927262003-04-12T10:59:00.000-07:002003-04-12T10:59:38.733-07:00I've been reading a lot of criticism about the peaceniks written by the war hawks. Click here for an example.They are extremely haughty now that the war seems to be over. They still don't understand. They still are missing the point.
Last night I finished reading a YA book entitled "Fallen Angels". It was about the Vietnam war, from the perspective of a black teenager fom Harlem named Perry. He Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-924913392003-04-12T10:25:00.000-07:002003-04-12T10:25:48.076-07:00"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920548662003-04-05T12:36:00.000-08:002003-04-12T11:01:00.000-07:00An interesting email I found on Bartcop.com
Subject: Fundamentalist Christians Support This War?
It seems strange that the only Christian organization opposing this war is
The Roman Catholic Church. Why are Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and
Jerry Falwell supporting this war? Is it OK to kill as long as the ones you
are killing are not Christian? We would be outraged to witness the Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920548242003-04-05T12:35:00.000-08:002003-04-05T12:35:08.390-08:00Shocked at the deaths,
Awed by the arroganceJonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920548032003-04-05T12:34:00.001-08:002003-04-06T13:30:54.000-07:00This Modern World
By Tom Tomorrow
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2003/01/06/tomo/index.htmlJonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920547822003-04-05T12:34:00.000-08:002003-04-05T12:34:04.110-08:00Quote of the day
We still have a choice today:
nonviolent coexistence or
violent coannihilation…. If we
do not act, we shall surely be
dragged down the Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920547512003-04-05T12:33:00.000-08:002003-04-05T12:33:17.670-08:00Dissension in the ranks--music artists speak their mind!
Fans Scram on Pearl Jam
Apr 4, 9:35 AM EST
DENVER (AP) -- Dozens of fans walked out of a
Pearl Jam concert after lead singer Eddie Vedder
took a mask of President Bush and impaled it on a microphone stand.
Several concertgoers booed and shouted Tuesday
night for Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920456582003-04-05T08:45:00.000-08:002003-04-05T08:45:07.750-08:00Below I posted a lot of good articles and information links and other quotes of interest. Scan through them and take some time to really look at them. I hope that they better inform alll of you out there of the third way!Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920455652003-04-05T08:42:00.000-08:002003-04-06T13:33:12.000-07:00An exciting opportunity!
Friends:
A reminder that Howard Zinn, the world-famous public intellectual (and
neighbor to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck when they were growing up) is coming
to Manchester College on October 8, 2003. He will be speaking in Cordier
auditorium.
This is a ways off, but we need help publicizing this event NOW. Tell your
friends! Esp. ones in Chicago and other Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920454762003-04-05T08:40:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:52:21.000-07:00Below are some links to articles in the Indy Star about Scott Kerr's work with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT).
Scott Kerr in the News
http://www.indystar.com/print/articles/9/030147-1199-009.html Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920452932003-04-05T08:35:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:52:50.000-07:00Anti-war movement guide
Valuable links to anti-war Web sites in the United Kingdom, North America, and elsewhere in the world are available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/subsection/0,12809,884056,00.html
Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920452822003-04-05T08:34:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:53:22.000-07:00Iraqi civilian body count
An update on civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military actions by the U.S. and its allies in 2003. Link to:
http://www.iraqbodycount.net Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920452362003-04-05T08:33:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:54:12.000-07:00Bumperstickers currently on my car:
* Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?
* Wage Peace
* Visualize whirled peas (world peace)
* Practice Nonviolence
* "When Jesus said 'Love your enemies' I think he probably meant don't kill them."
* Seek Peace and Pursue it
* Don't kill for me
Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920450882003-04-05T08:30:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:54:48.000-07:00Not in my name
by Garth Hewitt, U.K.-based singer/songwriter
Not in my name, not in my name When you go to war - it's not in my name When the bombers are bombing, and the innocent slain I want you to know it's not in my name
1.
World leaders are thinking the answers can come In the power of violence from the tank and the gun In bombing the people with rockets and planes But I want them Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920450492003-04-05T08:29:00.000-08:002003-04-05T08:47:54.000-08:00Some good stuff:
The lessons of war
by Jim Wallis
The American-led war with Iraq has begun. Over the past six months, tens of millions of people, including church bodies and leaders from all over the world, undertook a powerful campaign to stop this war and offered serious alternatives to confront the real threats posed by Saddam Hussein. But now the fighting and killing has begun. As I write, Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920449412003-04-05T08:26:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:55:48.000-07:00Military families: Bring my children home
Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military.
http://www.mfso.org/
Jonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-920448652003-04-05T08:25:00.000-08:002003-04-05T08:25:09.200-08:00Here is an interesting quote from Mark Twain. Isn't it amazing how things from our past still apply today? Maybe appalling is the proper word there.
"Oh Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing inJonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224945.post-916719342003-03-30T15:42:00.000-08:002003-04-12T10:56:16.000-07:00I just need to go on record as saying this war is completely wrong! And also, I am glad that so many people are becoming aware of peace...we need to get the message out that there is a THIRD option! Kudos to Micheal Moore at the Acadamy awards....
Check him out at
http://michealmoore.comJonoreply@blogger.com