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I got an email from a good friend today that Kucinich has introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush. As much as I like to hear this, it couldn’t have come at a worse time. Problem is impeachment is less about righting a wrong nowadays. It’s more about political witchhunts.

So Dems will never do this right now while they have the upper hand in this election. They can smell victory and Impeaching Bush would make the Dems look bad. I know it’s the right thing to do and should be done to show the decider-in-cheif we mean business. But the fallout of such a move would be bad…

Still we can dream.

How do you heal a wounded party and a shrinking voter base that wanted Hilary all in one swoop. You say this at the end or your speech in Raleigh North Carolina:

“By the way, I’m going to be partnering with Elizabeth Edwards, we’re going to be figuring all this out.”

WOW!

Found via Blog Around the Clock

Click the link below to see the full interview of Bill Moyers with Jeremiah Wright. It’s a two part series, the link should take you to the first video, and the second is listed right above the video you are currently watching.

Bill Moyers with Jeremiah Wright.

I haven’t seen it yet, but plan to watch next chance. If you missed it, here it is below…

So what’s Scott deal?

As I’m sure you’ve all heard, Scott came out this last week with a book, What Happened. And he’s on the Daily Show tonight with Jon Stewart. So my question above?

Well he was on the show and he wouldn’t admit that the Bush Administration did their thing with intent. He kept saying it was the culture of Washington DC. What a bunch a BS! The Bush Administration sat around a table and decided to go to war under false pretenses. Jon Stewart asks, “Where is the evidence that the culture affected these decisions?”

Scott has no answer and he couldn’t concede. To Scott the Bush Administration just can’t do anything wrong it seems. “It’s not their fault, these are good people. The culture affected them.” As Jon asked, show me the evidence. Richard Clarke mentioned in his book how since day one for Bush it was Iraq and how they can get to war.

It wasn’t an ideology developed by evidence. It was evidence that only support the ideology. A dangerous mixutre.

For all the things bad you can say about Scott, he did admit some wrongs on the show, and likely his book (I haven’t read it yet). He did state how he said things about Richard Clarke that weren’t true when he hadn’t even read Richard’s book. He seemed like it was possible he felt remorse, but he did work for Bush.

Let’s just say the jury aint out yet for me. But I do plan to read that book.

Video of Interview:

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So what the hell does electability mean? I still have no idea. Hey Stephen Colbert, can you help us out?

I’ve written about this topic before but I wish to mention again after reading this post on one of Greta Christina’s blogs.

The usual answers are practical ones. And I’ll certainly second them. Marriage is recognized around the country and around the world, and all its practical and legal rights and responsibilities get carried with you everywhere you go . . . in a way that is most emphatically not true for civil unions and domestic partnerships. Besides, it’s a well- established principle that “separate but equal” is inherently not equal. The very act of saying, “No, you can’t have this thing that everyone else can have, but you can have that other thing we created just for you that’s almost exactly like it — isn’t that special?” It’s the creation of second-class status, pretty much by definition.

It’s true. At the base of every argument against gay marriage is the creation of a second class citizen. Rather than acceptance we have mere avoidance of the issue. Rather than learn about the feelings and get to understand someone that’s gay, we shun them into a world with separate but equal status.

But I want to talk about something else today. I don’t want to talk about the legal and practical benefits of marriage. I don’t want to talk about hospital visitation rights, child custody rights, inheritance rights, tax benefits, all that good stuff. That’s all important, but it’s also well-covered ground.

I want to talk about something more intangible. I want to talk about why we’re getting married . . . apart from all that.

Those are some damn good reasons mentioned previously though…

When we get married in June, the State of California will officially recognize that our relationship has the same weight as our parents’ did, and their parents’, and theirs. It will officially drop this “separate but equal” bullshit. It will officially stop seeing us as kids at the little table, poor relatives who should be content with leavings and scraps, second-class citizens. It will officially see us as actual, complete, honest- to- gosh citizens.

At the heart of it all it’s about treating other human beings as, well, human beings. Despite all the BS that is floating around and despite what you may have heard, gay people are people too. And beyond everything they just want to be treated that way.

This brings to mind the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I heard that message at a young age and it had a surprisingly strong effect on me. Strong enough to where I always tried to look at other people as equal and judged them solely on their character.

Race, religion, skin color, class status, etc they never made a difference to me and still don’t today. I just wish more people could see things in a similar fashion as I do. Gay marriage is just another step towards creating a society where people are truly free.

This was too good to pass up:

(ring, ring) “Hello?”

“Uh, hi Honey, it’s me.”

“Oh hi Sweetheart. What’s up?”

“Well, I just wanted to check to be sure, uh, are we okay with each other?”

“What are you talking about?”

“I mean in our marriage. Is our marriage okay?”

“Of course it is. What’s going on?”

“Well I just heard that the California Supreme Court ruled that no one can be discriminated against in their right to marry whomever they love, and that includes same-sex couples.”

“Wow! That’s great. What’s that have to do with our marriage?”

“Well, some people are saying that this is going to destroy marriage, and because our marriage is so important to me I just wanted to be sure it hasn’t been destroyed.”

Go read the rest at Friendly Atheist…

My thoughts below…

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The following video uses scenes from a porn to explain the War on Terror. There is no naughty language or nudity at all in the video, but for some reason the student that created it used a porn. Link for website and video are below the fold…

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