Mt Vernon "Glenn Beck Day" signs A representative sampling of protest signs carried on 26 September 2009 in Mt Vernon, WA, as Mayor Norris awards key to city to Glenn Beck --

Check hoods at door - Meeting Starts 6:30
Deadbolt your doors!
Change the locks!!
Hate speech is not free
How Embarassing (pix of GB & Bud Norris)
Hate, Not in our town
We are the Key - Norris does not speak for me
Glenn Beck Hate Monger
Glenn Beck fans aren't all racist but all Racists are Glenn Beck Fans
Beck is a Fascist
Be Kind
Truth is a Mt Vernon Virtue
Thanks Beck 4 Fighting 4 Us
Bud's Key does NOT open my house!
Obama = Truth, Beck = Lies
I (heart) Keith Olberman
Beck Idiot
Fear Breeds Hate!
Beck Go Away
Buck Feck
Beck is a Pharisee & Hypocrite
Thank you for the new great awakening
Whatever Happened to Rational Discourse?
Glenn Beck is a bigger crybaby than me! (carried by a child)
Hate Radio (strike-thru circle)
Sasquatch, BoogieMen, who should we fear Glenn?
Republicans: The Pro-Death Party!!
Our Government is: By the People, For the People NOT by the Politician, For the Politician, Recycle ALL Politicians to a real job. Glenn shows us the truth
No Norris
No bigotry
God Bless America
I drove up from Oregon to say -- I've got not respect for Beck (or Bud Norris, for that matter!)
Republicans Have you No Shame?
Odio no es un valor de Mount Vernon
Glen Beck speaks truth!
Skagit Valley loves Glen Beck
Why Beck? Palin was busy
Glenn Beck gets Teabagged for Uncle Sam
Go Back to your "Fox"hole Beck
Glenn Beck is Racist
Beck, this Bud is 4 u
Recall Norris
Perverts the Truth - Glenn Beck Hate Monger
Hatred is not a Mt Vernon Value
We Love you Glenn!!!
Thank you Glenn for the Truth
Glenn Beck Deserves the Key
We Appreciate All You're Doing
Know Your Rights so you can Know what they've Taken
Peace - Love - Freedom
Glenn Beck = McCarthyism
Where's is Your Birth Certificate Glenn?
Don't Tread on Me (yellow flag)
Mayor Norris: Show us Beck's birth certificate!!!
NO
No Beck Haters wanted in Skagit Valley
Norris and Beck, Sitting in a Tree...(hearts)
Rectums come in all colors
Bad Move Bud
Glenn Beck D-Bag Get off my TV
I support the Prsident - Do You?
Reality: The Cure for Foxoholism
Obama Born in the USA
Dishonest Obtuse Unstable C??? Hateful Extremist Blowhard Arrogant Gullible DOUCHEBAG
Every Rise of Fascism is a Sign of a Failed Revolution
My President in NOT a Racist
Americans Stand Up Speak Boldly Defend our Constitution Save our Country
Mean People Suck
You Will be Held Accountable
I have a deep-seated hatred of white people
God, Guns & Glenn is Party Time
Because every Village needs an Idiot (pic of GB) Here's One for Mount Vernon
No Norris
Glenn Beck Cancer on America
What the Fox?
Raci$m
Throw Beck into the pot of boiling water
Ignorance is the enemy
Seattle Tips our hats to: Mt Vernon Resistors
Mad Hater - Brewing Lies Brewing Fear, not Thinking Clear
Beck Go Away
Truth is not Hate, Hate is not Truth
What part of the Truth does the Left not Understand?
It's not Hate, It's Truth
Why honor someone who dishonors us?
FauxNews is a Terrorist Organization
Liar, Liar, Pants of Fire
It's the Duty of the Patriot to Protect his Country from the Government -   ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 2:12 PM 0 comments

  Rep(rehensible) "Joe" Wilson Wilson's webpage is swamped & offline, but you can go to the "Write Your Representative" link at www.house.gov and input SC and zipcode 29212 to send him a message. I wrote this today:

I was absolutely appalled by your disrespectful behavior during President Obama's speech last night. During the past eight years of contention during the term of the previous president, (acknowledged by many as the worst president in our history), I can recall no Bush speech garnering anywhere near the level of verbal grumbling and undertone let loose last night by the Republican side of the aisle. Your exclamation took the cake -- my 91-year old mother's reaction was that you should be forced to resign your seat. The apology you attempted to deliver last night is not enough, and I would hope that saner voices in your party will act to censure you, stripping you of committee assignments and privileges you obviously don't deserve. You will NEVER live this down and everything you hope to accomplish in the House will be colored by this hateful incident. If you don't resign, I pray that voters in your district wake up to the fact the your title of "Rep." now stands for "reprehensible" and that replacing you is very necessary if they expect to have a voice that will be listened to in Washington.  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 5:49 AM 0 comments

 
Thanks to Rachel Maddow. For some reason this was deleted from her twitpic archive, and definitely deserves wider notice.  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 9:11 AM 0 comments

  Don't count SP out
Think how far Wacko Bush got.
Voters like failures!  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:10 AM 0 comments

  Now is time Barack
To act like a Roosevelt.
Bust heads and twist arms!
::
Bluedogs and repugs
Want to stop your health reform.
Stand up and fight them!  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 1:20 PM 0 comments

  Our health system sucks
Big ins rules, premiums rise
Millions aren't covered

Now is reform time
Profits out of the picture
Single payer now  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 12:59 PM 0 comments

  Great BS or TS! Great Bumper Stickers or T Shirts!

1) (On an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush

2) 1/20/09: End of an Error

3) That's OK, I Wasn't Using My Civil Liberties Anyway

4) Let's Fix Democracy in This Country First

5) If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran

6) Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.

7) You Can't Be Pro-War And Pro-Life At The Same Time

8) If You Can Read This, You're Not Our President

9) Of Course It Hurts: You're Getting Screwed by an Elephant

10) Hey, Bush Supporters: Embarrassed Yet?

11) George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have to Fight

12) Impeachment: It's Not Just for Blowjobs Anymore

14) America: One Nation, Under Surveillance

15) They Call Him "W" So He Can Spell It

16) Which God Do You Kill For?

17) Cheney/Satan '08

18) Jail to the Chief

19) Who Would Jesus Torture?

20) No, Seriously, Why Did We Invade?

21) Bush: God's Way of Proving Intelligent Design is Full Of Crap

23) Bad president! No Banana.

24) We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language

25) We're Making Enemies Faster Than We Can Kill Them

27) Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Blood

28) Is It Vietnam Yet?

29) Bush Doesn't Care About White People, Either

30) Where Are We Going? And Why Are We In This Handbasket?

31) You Elected Him. You Deserve Him.

32) Frodo Failed. Bush Has the Ring.

33) Impeach Cheney First

34) Dubya, Your Dad Shoulda Pulled Out Early, Too

35) When Bush Took Office, Gas Was $1.46

36) The Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century

37) 2004: Embarrassed 2005: Horrified 2006: Terrified

...Thanks to BSH  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 7:46 AM 0 comments

  President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Methodist Church outside Washington. Karl Rove made a visit to the Bishop and said to him, "We've been getting a lot of bad publicity among Methodists because of Bush's position on stem cell research, the War, and such. I'll gladly make a contribution to the church of $100,000 if during your sermon, you'd say the President is a saint."

The Bishop thinks it over for a few moments and says, "The Church is in desperate need of funds. I will do it."

Bush pompously shows up that following Sunday, looking especially smug, sneering for his photo ops, while strutting his way, cowboy-style, into the church. As the sermon starts, the Bishop begins his homily:

"George Bush is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite as well as a nitwit. He is a liar, a cheat, probably still a drunk, and a low-intelligence sneaky weasel. He has lied about his military record, and then had the gall to put himself in uniform on a military jet, landing on a carrier, and then posing before a banner stating 'Mission Accomplished.'

He invaded a country for oil and money, all the while lying to the American people about the war, with nary a care for the thousands of lives it has taken and continues to take. He is the worst example of a Methodist I've ever personally known or known of. But compared to Dick Cheney, George Bush is a saint."

---Thanks to Dan & Char, who received it from Suzie  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 12:55 PM 2 comments

  Patriot Act deal could curb some FBI powers
Pre-dawn agreement may also make provisions of expiring law permanent

Updated: 8:44 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2005http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10070691

fascism the American way...  ¶ posted by Rantsid Kid at 9:14 PM 0 comments

  Honk if you love just desserts. Fascist senator Tom Delay into the dock (that is to say, his shill lawyer) Friday 21 October. First off? A LIE! What else would you expect? LegalEagle wants the judge off the case, calls him a Democrat who's contributed to MoveOn.org. "Did you know, Mister Judge, that MoveOn.org is peddling T-shirts with the (now notorious & smiling) mug-shot of my client, Tom?" No, he didn't know that & hadn't seen one. It would have been a riot if he had, yet IMPOSSIBLE since the fabulous Al Franken later reported that a call to MoveOn revealed the charge to be a TYPICAL LIE of the Fascist senator! Of course! However, even though such a marvelous T-shirt motto had not previously been created, now that Mr. DeLay's esteemed shill-of-a-lawyer had mentioned it, what an excellent idea! Perhaps we'll soon be able to wear some so's the teevee press can pick up on it! Talk about SPIN...and the Reps do at every opportunity, inasmuch as they are past masters at that Dark Art! My current motto: "Yeah! Go! Kick 'em whilst they're down! Love it!  ¶ posted by TRUTHURTS at 2:23 PM 0 comments

  In 5 years in office, Bush has never vetoed a spending bill. While it's true that he pretty much gets the bills he wants from a Republican Congress, there's a more ominous reason. The greater the nation's debt, the less government money there is for the poor, the sick, the infirm, the jobless, the uninsured. The greater the nation's debt, the less government money there is for the control of corporations, government oversight, our voting system, social security, our health system, the environment, the nation's parklands, funded mandates. With 3 more years to go, there is little on the horizon to suggest that Bush's ultimate goal to take the US back to the pre-depression days of a bi-polar nation of the rich and the poor is not working. By the time Bush leaves office, the nation's deficit will be so large and the transfer of wealth, resources, and technological controls into the hands of the wealthy and the corporations will be so complete that recovery may prove unlikely. Jerry Politex, 09 Oct 2005  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 12:01 PM 0 comments

  President George W Bush has said he was instructed by God to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, a BBC series claims.

The remark dates from the first meeting between Mr Bush, the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas and his then foreign minister, Nabil Shaath, in June 2003.

The Palestinians say Mr Bush also revealed to them that he had been told by God to create a Palestinian state. Mr Shaath, now the information minister, describes the meeting with Mr Bush in the BBC2 programme, Elusive peace: Israel and the Arabs.

He says: "President Bush said to all of us, 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me: George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.

'And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq…and I did.

'And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me - go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I'm gonna do it'."
Daily Telegraph

When every other excuse fails, George blames God. How could the public fault him for the mess if he got his marching orders from above? If this is the kind of advice one gets from on high, perhaps we should seriously question this deity thing?

Of course, with his alcohol-pickled brain and cocaine-damaged synapses, he may have been actually listening to Satan, who presumedly would revel in an unending religious war between cultures. Nothing like a befuddled zealot to do the devil's work and then claim it's all "in the name of God."  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 9:48 AM 0 comments

  Randi-isms I was cleaning up my desk today and discovered two quotes I hastily scribbled down sometime in the past when I was listening to Randi Rhodes on her Air America radio show. I'm happy to share them, and urge you to tune in for more. Commenting about life in Bush's America...

"Faith can move mountains, or elect an idiot."

"Upward mobility means aspiring to own a mobile home."  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 1:13 PM 0 comments

  Energy independence...with environ'l stewardship I just sent this to http://www.biodiesel.org/ Being pro-active....would love to use 100% bio-fuel in my furnace downstairs!!! (http://www.laurelhurstoil.com/heating.html Might even be realistic to begin using B20 - 20% bio/80% petro - this winter. Yeah!)

I haven't seen any commentary regarding the bio-fuel industry's stance on using or not using GMO (genetically modified organism) crops for its raw material. Yes, organic is more expensive, but the potential pressure (positive &/or negative) your product can/will put on the environment should be a serious consideration...all the way back to the soil & seed. Many people interested in using biofuel want to switch from petroleum-based products in order to have a lower impact on the environment. *Organic* biofuel will be a selling point for these customers...myself included!  ¶ posted by Rantsid Kid at 10:07 PM 0 comments

  The Madness of King George Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides

By DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 25, 2005, 06:19

While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him.

"I'm not meeting again with that goddamned bitch," Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. "She can go to hell as far as I'm concerned!"

Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them "motherfucking traitors." He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore "bullshit protectors" over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to "tell those VFW assholes that I'll never speak to them again is they can't keep their members under control."

White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the President's honesty.

"Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say," he screamed at a recent strategy meeting. "I'm the President and I'll do whatever I goddamned please. They don't know shit."

Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the President often "flips the bird" to show his displeasure and tells aides who disagree with him to "go to hell" or to "go fuck yourself." His habit of giving people the finger goes back to his days as Texas governor, aides admit, and videos of him doing so before press conferences were widely circulated among TV stations during those days. A recent video showing him shooting the finger to reporters while walking also recently surfaced.

Bush's behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr. Justin Frank, author of "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President," is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is ruled by fear.

To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is confront the President. "To actually directly confront him in a clear way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you would also see the fear," he says.

Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, may be drinking again.

"Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office," Dr. Frank says. "Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed in any serious assessment of his psychological state."

Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what aides called "violent mood swings." As Dr. Frank also notes: "In writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom Shales speculated that 'the president may have been ever so slightly medicated.'"

Dr. Frank explains Bush's behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic who is still in denial: "The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality; it's rarely limited to his or her drinking," he says. "The habit of placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W. Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the mildest threat."

Thanks to Dave Ward, original from Capitol Hill Blue  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 3:29 PM 0 comments

  No Place for a Poet... Laura Bush
First Lady
The White House

Dear Mrs. Bush,

I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House.

...

I tried to see my way clear to attend the festival in order to bear witness--as an American who loves her country and its principles and its writing--against this undeclared and devastating war.

But I could not face the idea of breaking bread with you. I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild, highhanded actions of the Bush Administration.

What kept coming to the fore of my mind was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its continuation, even to the extent of permitting "extraordinary rendition": flying people to other countries where they will be tortured for us.

So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it.

Sincerely,
SHARON OLDS

Olds is winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of creative writing at New York University. Full text of letter at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/olds  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 5:35 PM 0 comments

  Letter to my Senators re: John Roberts nomination I was upset to see Senators Leahy, Feingold & Kohl vote in favor of John Roberts in the Senate Judiciary Committee review. I watched the committee's hearings, and found Roberts answers and evasions glib, and bordering on "snotty." There is no denying the nominee is intelligent, cordial and verbal, but his protestations of having no agenda ring hollow. There is also no denying that an attorney speaks for and represents the views of his client (Roberts' excuse for some of the writings attributed to him), but the comments in truth betray his allegiance to regressive and undemocratic forces that erode a citizen's standing in this country in favor of corporate interests. The fact the Roberts volunteered his services to the Republican party in Bush vs Gore 2000 is a blatent signal of Roberts' personal views about how he values our plebian voting rights (and how the voice of the people should be silenced when opposing those views).

Considering that the Republican majority will in itself be sufficient to ensure a confirmation, I can see no reason why a Democrat of any persuasion would want to vote affirmatively. To do so would run the risk of alienating supporters (like me) who want to see a consistent, firm, principled, stand against the travesty, greed, and total lack of democracy with which the Bush administration operates.  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:15 AM 0 comments

    ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 12:48 PM 0 comments

  Take a Hint Bill Maher declares

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished.

"Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man? Now I know what you're saying: there's so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

"But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.

"So, yes, God does speak to you. What he is saying is: 'Take a hint.' "  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 9:08 AM 0 comments

  Perhaps these nincompresidents are fishing for catfish, dogfish and other household pets lost and orphaned in the floodwaters of the New Orleans disaster zone?  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 5:00 AM 0 comments

 

Quotes: The New Orleans Disaster: We're Killing Ourselves
"For half a century, free-market purists have to great effect denigrated the essential role that modern government performs as some terrible liberal plot. Thus, the symbolism of New Orleans' flooding is tragically apt: Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Louisiana Gov. Huey Long's ambitious populist reforms in the 1930s eased Louisiana out of feudalism and toward modernity; the Reagan Revolution and the callousness of both Bush administrations have sent them back toward the abyss. Now we have a president who wastes tax revenues in Iraq instead of protecting us at home. Levee improvements were deferred in recent years even after congressional approval, reportedly prompting EPA staffers to dub flooded New Orleans "Lake George."

None of this is an oversight, or simple incompetence. It is the result of a campaign by most Republicans and too many Democrats to systematically vilify the role of government in American life. Manipulative politicians have convinced lower- and middle-class whites that their own economic pains were caused by "quasi-socialist" government policies that aid only poor brown and black people -- even as corporate profits and CEO salaries soared. For decades we have seen social services that benefit everyone -- education, community policing, public health, environmental protections and infrastructure repair, emergency services -- in steady, steep decline in the face of tax cuts and rising military spending. But it is a false savings; it will certainly cost exponentially more to save New Orleans than it would have to protect it in the first place." --Robert Scheer

  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:07 AM 0 comments

  memo to the "President" RE: Katrina response   ¶ posted by Rantsid Kid at 8:43 PM 0 comments

  Notice to Pat Robertson... I just sent this to Democracy For America to forward to Pat Robertson’s local newspaper http://www.democracyforamerica.com/robertson in response to his public announcement that the President of Venezuela should be assassinated,http://mediamatters.org/items/200508220006. Thought you might like to see it…

Killing is wrong by *any* standard of ethics including the Christianity you claim as yours. However, your words & actions tell the world that you are *NOT* any sort of Christian that anyone who's read the Bible would be able to identify as such. You are a greedy & hate-filled hypocrite. You and your so-called "Moral Majority" are anything but!!! If, God forbid, the President of Venezuela ends up dead from anything other than old age you should go to prison as an accessory to murder. In the meantime, shut your hate-spewing mouth!  ¶ posted by MagnoliaMom at 3:07 PM 0 comments

    ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 1:49 PM 2 comments

  So you're stuck in rush hour traffic heading out of San Francisco on Highway 101. Then you look up and see a large man with unruly hair and dark glasses running across a pedestrian overpass. He fights the wind for possession of a 6-by-10-foot cardboard sign. You try to read the letters but can't. As he stops above you and fastens the sign to the fence, the big black letters pop into focus: "Halliburton: Thanks for All the Money! Sorry About Your Kids." For each minute this sign remains up, a hundred commuters like you will be exposed to the viral message of a man who calls himself Freeway Blogger.

Today I'm tagging along with Freeway Blogger, who also writes under the pseudonym Patrick Randall, on a recent foray to plant messages in the minds of area drivers. He has just posted San Francisco's overpasses with signs that read, "Osama Bin Forgotten," "The War Is A Lie," and "Nobody Died When Clinton Lied."

In the past four years, he says, he's planted more than 2,500 of these brain-mines along California's freeways. He estimates that today's propaganda campaign could reach up to a quarter of a million people. Not bad for a few dollars in supplies and a couple hours of work.

Since the 2000 election, 9/11, and the U.S. military's invasion of two countries, Freeway Blogger has refined the approach to a choreographed dance of message transmission using recycled cardboard, paint, and reconnaissance. "Freeway blogging requires a sense of rhetoric, art, science, demographics, and sneakiness," he tells me. "And it's so much fun! One person can have a hell of an influence if they are willing to break the rules a little."

His approach is Thoreauvian simple. From dumpsters behind appliance stores he scavenges cardboard. He then paints his black-lettered barbs in a rented basement studio. Where his slogans emerge from, who knows – maybe that sordid steam room of the brain where propaganda, poetry, and bumper stickers go to hook up?

Initially, he'd post signs between the witching hour and the stirring of the first commuters. But emboldened by success – and maybe the need to raise the thrill factor – he now goes out at high noon. That's when he picks me up to tag along.

At the first overpass, he pulls off, parks illegally, checks out which way the wind blows, and makes sure no cops or nosy neighbors are watching. Then, with large sunglasses obscuring his face, he grabs "Osama Who?" and a few bungee cords, runs up the overpass ramp, unfolds the sign, clips bungees to keep it in place, and bolts back to the truck. As sweat sparkles on his nose, he grins like a kid who just pulled one on the teacher. "This still has just enough of an adrenaline rush to keep it exciting," he says, and drives back onto the freeway to check out his handiwork. "Isn't she a beauty?" he says with admiration, and cranes his neck for a better look.

"The CHP must have thought there was a whole army of us posting the overpasses," he says with a chuckle. "The reason our founding fathers insisted on free speech is that when the country is threatened from within, citizens can sound the alarm. Now we have a big fucking problem: thanks to one man, the whole world hates us. What better job for an American than to try to salvage just a little bit of his country's reputation?"

And in a country where control of the billboards and airwaves has been consolidated into fewer and fewer hands, Freeway Blogger feels like he's breaking through the relentless propaganda aimed at commuters. "I want more people to realize that this form of free speech is a vulnerable chink in the armor of the corporate-controlled mass media. For the cost of paint and a little gas, I can transmit a message to a million people," he says as we drive to the next target.

I ask him, "Isn't what you do illegal?"

"Technically, yes," he says. "And eventually they will catch me and charge me for creating a visual distraction. Which is ludicrous when huge billboards like this one" – he points to a naked Abercrombie and Fitch hunk draped across the highway – "distract drivers far more than my modest signs ever will."

For more information, see www.freewayblogger.com.

Extracted from: San Francisco Bay Guardian, "Signs of the times:
Freeway Blogger gives Bay Area drivers something to think about,
By Jan Stürmann" 2005 June 08 issue  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:53 AM 0 comments

  http://www.johnconyers.com/index.asp?Type=SUPERFORMS&SEC={3CE9FF9D-E981-4DAE-BFDB-7EDB1E28229C

to sign the Rep John Conyers Jr's (MI) petition requesting the "Shrub" answer for the Downing Street memo...PROOF OF THE LIES, (Shrubby & Blair's plan to attack Iraq well before Congressional or UN approval was sought *&* their intent to lie about WMDs in order to scare the public & Congress into approving this ILLEGAL & EX$PEN$IVE war).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.pcactionfund.org/delayspocket/

to see whether your Congressperson has taken $ from or given $ to the lying, thieving House Majority Cheater...oops, Leader, Tom DeLay. "In America, you're not allowed to buy the jury. Not even if you're Tom DeLay." Go here, http://ga3.org/campaign/specialcounsel, to petition for a special investigation of DeLay, (apart from the bribed members of the House Ethics Committee).

All 3 WA state Repug Reps took money...Dave Reichert, 8th Dist, topped the list w/ $10,000 (in the top 100 bribes...#72 out of 434). "Voted with DeLay 95.24% of the time (80 votes with, 4 against)
is a member of the Retain Our Majority Program run by DeLay."  ¶ posted by MagnoliaMom at 10:18 AM 0 comments

  .
It's good the president mentioned this—Al Qaeda has poured millions into training people who hate America to disassemble. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to mention all the OTHER things people who hate America have been trained to do. So as a public service, I will here list just a few:

• lee
• be untrothful
• deceeb
• distorp
• misinfarm
• run a com
• run a reverse com
• prevaricake

and worst of all:

• commit perjappy

...thanks to Tiny Revolution

The only disassembly we've seen going on has been the departure of "coalition" nations from the forces occupying Iraq...  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 10:28 AM 0 comments

  If a religious group who demanded a theocracy based on Jesus' teachings of: "love your neighbor as yourself, love your enemy, feed the hungry, care for the sick, and visit the imprisoned, do not concern yourselves with wealth, he who lives by the sword dies by the sword," became a threat, then you would see a religious war, because none of our politicians want a country dedicated to those principles.

Ralou, Post #2 at AmericasDebate: American Theocracy, Are we headed there?  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:45 AM 0 comments

  "They're taking our jobs! They're taking our jobs! Darn immigrants! Let's patrol the borders!" say the angry Americans. But it's not the borders they need to patrol if they want to keep their jobs. It's the boardrooms. Because it's the outsourcing of labor, not the insourcing of laborors, that is killing American workers. Scapegoat. And how easy it is, for these workers, who look at the government and see a big, scary tangle, to turn on the poor immigrants, defenseless and tangible, and to take their fury out on them, and not out on Wal-Marts and politicians!

Ralou, posting on AmericasDebate on 14 May 2005  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:24 AM 0 comments

 
Thanks to www.bushwatch.com for the bushlexic quote  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 5:56 PM 0 comments

  We *will* fight the Radical Right! I swing from spitting mad to tears of grief every day I hear what & how the Radical Right is trying to destroy this great country.

The ideals that the USA is founded upon, & for which so many brave & idealistic people have fought & died throughout our history (& which are the reasons that I'm proud to be an American) are under the most vicious attacks ever faced! And these attacks are *not* from some external bogeyman who looks different, prays to God by another name, nor speaks a different language. These attacks, coming fast & heavy, on nearly a daily basis, are coming from an organized internal group of people who, themselves count on & use the freedoms they are trying to destroy, (for everyone except themselves???).

This greedy, hateful & dare I say, stupid cohort calls itself the "Moral Majority". Well, they are anything but!!! They are the Radical Right.

They are actively taking away your freedom to think & speak & work & pray & play as you wish. (Read the Patriot Act...then read about how the German Nazis locked down their country in the 1930s! Truly a terrifying resemblance!!! Threatening judges...behave or we'll get you. A national citizenship ID card...'Papers, please.' Secret lists for airport security...they won't tell you that you're on it or why, but if you are, you can't fly without severe harrassment.)

DO NOT GIVE AN INCH! Yell & scream & march in the streets! Read! (Turn off your TV.) Talk! Question what you see & hear, (ask 'but what about...?') Call your Senators & House Representatives today & tomorrow & the day after & the day after that! Don't let these megalomaniacs steal your freedoms in the name of 'security' & 'being a good Christian'. Security is based on knowledge, diligence & trust, not fear, hate & secrecy. A true Christian extends love & care beyond self, *especially* toward those that are different, (re-read the Bible story of the Good Samaritan). S/he does not turn others into enemies & non-people so those others can be more easily hated & killed (e.g. 'insurgents' turns humans in to nightmare monsters). A true Christian is generous, sharing even when s/he has very little, rather than saying 'I have mine. I want more. You, poor, go struggle & starve where I can't see.' (Check out the recently passed 'bankruptcy bill', any of the 'free trade' agreements.)  ¶ posted by MagnoliaMom at 9:23 AM 0 comments

    ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 9:50 PM 0 comments

  President Bush was invited to address a major gathering of the American Indian Nation last weekend in Arizona. He spoke for almost an hour on his future plans for increasing every Native American's present standard of living. He referred to his career as Governor of Texas, how he had signed "YES" 1,237 times - for every Indian issue that came to his desk for approval.

Although the President was vague on the details of his plan, he seemed most enthusiastic about his future ideas for helping his "red brothers".

At the conclusion of his speech, the Tribes presented the President with a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name -- Walking Eagle. The proud President then departed in his motorcade, waving to the crowds.

A news reporter later inquired of the group of chiefs how they came to select the new name given to the President.

They explained that Walking Eagle is "the name given to a bird so full of shit it can no longer fly".

--Thanks to Ron S  ¶ posted by Rantsome Dan at 11:23 AM 0 comments