Posts tagged ‘bush/cheny’

I’ve been thinking about, planning and drafting my posts for this 2nd semi annual Blog Against Theocracy. The problem for me is, that everything I wish to write about is covered eloquently and succinctly elsewhere, and that the topics which are of high importance directly to me and my life, I pretty much covered in the 1st BAT. Additionally, it seems that the 108 degree heat here in our High Desert of So. Cali has frightened my muse away for the nonce.
So what’s a dyke to do? If I had to shout to the rooftops, in one breath, the single best thing we as a nation could do to combat the creeping theocracy under which we are governed it would be this:

clipped from www.thenation.com No one was all that surprised when the Bush administration announced Thursday that it would not cooperate with congressional demands for documents and testimony The best way to enforce the rule of law is by issuing a Contempt of Congress citation The issuance of a Contempt of Congress citation would provoke the sort of Constitutional showdown that it now appears will be required if this administration is to be held to account for its abuses of power. In such a showdown between the legislative and executive branches, the third branch of the federal government, the judiciary, would be asked to decide whether the White House has a right to assert, as White House counsel Fred Fielding did in a letter telling the committee chairs that their demands would not be met. “Increasingly,” says Leahy, “the president and vice president feel they are above the law — in America no one is above law.”

Go, Diane. Another thoughtful blogger speaks.
In This Moment: Why Guantánamo Bay is not & never will be a model prison despite today’s claim

I had to take a picture of the back of this sign, along our Hwy 247/I-18 here in our beautiful High Desert of Southern California. I’m gonna send it to the Freeway Blogger. I know it’s a lil different than his usual signage, but this one’s remained without anyone changing or painting over it for a couple of months now. Here’s a song that I think is about America, and appropriate to “The Decider”, even if it was written before his reign

Prince of Darkness

Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls

My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark

I don’t know when i noticed life was life at my expense
The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence
The dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve
I said i have no way of feeding you, so leave
But there was a time i asked my father for a dollar
And he gave it a ten dollar raise
And when i needed my mother and i called her
She stayed with me for days
Now someone’s on the telephone, desperate in his pain
Someone’s on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine
Someone’s got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren’t gluttons for our doom
But i tried to make this place my place
I asked for providence to smile upon me with his sweet face
Yeah but i’ll tell you
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
(by grace, my sight grows stronger)
And i do not feel the romance i will not be
(and i will not be a pawn for the prince of darkness any longer)
Maybe there’s no haven in this world for tender age
My heart beat like the wings of wild birds in a cage
My greatest hope my greatest cause to grieve
And my heart flew from its cage and it bled upon my sleeve
Oh the cries of passion were like wounds that needed healing
I couldn’t hear them for the thunder
I was half the naked distance between hell and heavens ceiling
And he almost pulled me under
Now someone’s on the telephone, desperate in his pain
Someone’s on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine
Someone’s got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren’t gluttons for our doom
But i tried to make this place my place
I asked for providence to smile upon me with his sweet face
But i’ll tell you
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
(by grace, my sight grows stronger)
And i do not feel the romance i do not catch the spark
(grows stronger)
By grace
(my place is of the sun)
My sight
(and this place is of the dark)
Is growing stronger
(i do not feel the romance)
I will not be a pawn
(i will not be)
For the prince of darkness any longer

*emphasis mine