 Systemic Sanity (because)
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| Now, with each wing of the only real political party in America having declared their respective nominees we have to endure the endless stream of baloney that follows between now and November. |
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| Posted by Rodney Owen at | | | |
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| Why, if the Iraqis have asked us to leave, or at least to present a timetable, is the president reluctant? Why, indeed. If there is anyone left out there who hasn’t figured it out yet, here’s a clue: |
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| Jesse Helms has died at 86. Oddly, he died on the fourth of July, the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and the day we celebrate as Independence Day; the day America declared its independence from monarchical rule. |
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| Posted by Rodney Owen at | | | |
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| That we might make sense of our world we use form. Form defines, describes, and gathers all the loose ends of our chaotic existence so that we can easily function within this chaos without giving up hope, or losing our minds. But still we must understand that underneath it all there is chaos. |
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| The best news of real importance so far this year is the upcoming Iron Man movie and the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Everything else is secondary and relative in importance. |
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| Posted by Rodney Owen at | | | |
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| Reading current affairs magazines, watching cable network news, or listening to the discussions on NPR talk shows can only leave you with the odd impression that we are living in some sort of Bizzaro World, where not only do the other inhabitants of this world not realize that their Emperor has no clothes, they believe what they are told regardless of how ridiculous it is. There is absolutely no doubt in any reasonable person’s mind that invading Iraq was an illegal mistake. Yet, there are still books written that seek where we went wrong. There are people who stand a very good chance of being the next executive who are sure they would do it again, only better. |
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| The conviction of Jose Padilla should be troubling to every American citizen. It is a direct vindication of the Bush Administration’s total disregard for the rule of law. Unfortunately too many of our fellows are short-sighted, preferring the emotional to the rational. It’s easy to equate Padilla with Bin Laden and 9/11, and thus to see him as something to be feared or as a perfect target for some deranged form of collective vengeance. But this country is supposed to be a nation of laws, subject to the rational and non-prejudiced rule of hard-fast law, not a monarchy subject to the whims and obsessions of the prince. |
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| Posted by Rodney Owen at | | | |
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| The fact of the matter is that we live under a dictatorship just as surely as did the citizens of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia. This empire is not overtly ruled by fear and violence. Rather, it is controlled through persuasion and planned ignorance. But don’t think that fear and violence are not a necessary ingredient, they are. Bush and Co. have the power to spy without a warrant, arrest and detain anyone indefinitely without habeas corpus, declare martial law, and wage war foreign and domestic if needed. |
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