It is grim: when Zogby, a Utica New Yorker... and Republican pollster...
says its so...
Gerald S.
> Apparently a Zogby (sp?) poll is showing that around 60% of Americans want
> Bush to be subjected to an Impeachment proceeding (on account of the
> unrestricted, unauthorized spying on USA citizens).
>
> Re Alito - I find it pretty upsetting that this President -given his legal
> vulnerability (present and future) - can continue to nominate justices to
> the Supreme, let alone all the other Federal Courts and that the Senate
> does
> not stop these processes until Bush is either cleared or impeached.
>
> Yet, the Republicans do control both houses of Congress and continue to
> give
> Bush the shield he needs.
>
> Yuck and suffer. Now the need to pull deep and variously organize to push
> against all of this. The Passion and following of King and others, indeed,
> remains an example. The moral exhaustion created by this Administration
> remains an enemy, as well.
>
> Elect an Apocalyptic minded evangelical as President, we apparently get
> Apocalyptic results, mind-set, etc. Fox News Actors our ministers of hell,
> fire and destruction. "Bring 'em on," etc.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
>
>
>> is Alito as terrifying as he seems? From the NY Times
>>
>> "In interpreting the Constitution," Judge Alito said Wednesday, "I
>> think we should look to the text of the Constitution, and we should
>> look to the meaning that someone would have taken from the text of the
>> Constitution at the time of its adoption."
>>
>> which to me means interpreting the US Constitution through the eyes of
>> an 18th Century be-wigged White Gentleman. Is it me or does this seem
>> barmy?
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On 1/17/06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> I was going to mention this in response to your last, Stephen.
>>>
>>> But then. about King, see this, on Alito as an attack on his example:
>>>
>>> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011606I.shtml
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 16-Jan-06, at 4:04 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece
>>>>
>>>> Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
>>>> Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the
>>>> Earth
>>>> possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment
>>>> fit
>>>> for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely
>>>> accepted. Now,
>>>> he believes mankind's abuse of the environment is making that
>>>> mechanism work
>>>> against us. His astonishing conclusion - that climate change is already
>>>> insoluble, and life on Earth will never be the same again.
>>>>
>>>> Read on at:
>>>> http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, at least we can say, Happy Birthday to/for Martin Luther King -
>>>> his
>>>> example and the way his power and vision got people to the front, and
>>>> to the
>>>> table.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen V
>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
>>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>>> (780) 436 3320
>>>
>>> the words come down on
>>> the white page a dream of snow
>>>
>>> at mid-Atlantic.
>>>
>>> Wayne Clifford
>>>
>>
>>
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