The museum is really, really scary. brrrr.

And those freed prisoners were tortured with a capital "T": http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,1783,00.html

I think I could be the only person who seems to be going on and on about this but have you all written to Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell ripping them a new one for voting for the Iraq Occupation funding bill?

That's a stupid question. An effective strategy to affect change is to attack the powers of The Stranger, considering that they have more privy to the government. What are Josh and Erica DOING besides cheerleading a pithy typeclicking revolution?

@ Gene,

You may have a point. On Friday Josh had no clue who Greg Palast was (but then I did not remember who he was until I plugged around on the internet) I remembered that BBC uncovered the GOP's caging of voters in the past couple of elections and Palast was breaking that to the BBC. It was totally ignored by the US Media (corporate interests) and Josh thought that Palast was pretty close to being a tin-hat conspiracy theorist.

I am going to stop by Maria Cantwell's office on Tuesday to express my concern about her voting Bush more money for his occupation without any sort of accountability. What are the rest of you doing?

The park service wouldn't have a problem filling these positions if they paid more. There's no such thing as a shortage of workers. Ever. (Nor is there such a thing as too many.) It's all a matter of price.

That was a nice rescue for Iraqi citizens from Al-Queda by the troops. much respect. Now if we can get your asses back home safe so we don't have to memorialize you by looking upon your grave. We can say how do ya do on the street.
troops home now. Asap.

Great Op-ed in the Washington Post this morning about the war. Here is a link to it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502032.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

The best thing we can do on Memorial Day is to stop letting our Government make more dead bodies to have to remember.

Here's some news:
Bush Makes Power Grab
May 24, 2007

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_107907.asp

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9
signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of
the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the
president.

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive,"
with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security
Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential
Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National
Continuity Coordinator.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National
Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and
tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue
functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national
emergency.

The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident,
regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass
casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S.
population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."
[cont]

@8 &5
Somebody had mentioned the Palast name last week, but I couldn't quite understand. Thanks for the follow-up.

And great Washington Post article. I will begin drafting a letter to Mr. Bacevich this evening, a true Patriot. I see he lives the Patriot dream teaching in New England (I was a Sam "Bam" Cunningham fan in my younger days). I will include in the letter the SLOG address so he can learn from Josh and Bradley about revolutionary warfare and tea parties. And yes people, take more than a moment tomorrow to keep in mind the dead.

I would like to buy Dr. Kevorkian a beer. If he wasn't in prison during the Schiavo case I wonder what he would have to say about it.

@9

YEAH!!!!! I posted that same item on the Slog yesterday! I am really shocked that the Stranger's "crack" politicos have not said a word about it. (if they have made a big deal about it and I missed it then I appoligize and retract that statement)

This Presidential Directive is taking something that we have had for over 50 years and putting those powers in steriods. Keep in mind when you read it ANY disaster, attack or anything else that happens that Bush says is a threat to the US will give him the authority to become nothing less than a dictator.

And to those who think this President would never do such a thing I really want you to examine that thinking. The GOP has been gaining massive power for the executive branch that has exceded anything authorized by the US Constitution and has actually accumulated into the very nightmares the founding fathers had about the executive branch.

And this last week we all learned that the Democrats are not that willing to fight Bush on much of anything. (They caved to a president with less than 30% approval ratings about a war that 70% of Americans want out of)

We should be very vigilant and concerned about this. And most importantly we need to take action or start to push for a Constitutional Convention to reexamine the very basis of the executive branch of our government.

Well here are some fun quotes for the day:

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny" FDR 1936

And my personal favorite "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike." FDR 1936

The last one is very appropo for the current administration of money grubbers don't you think?

#12 it seems most Democrats in house and Senate and any other committee has republican bosses that they like and want to keep their jobs. Until they stand up to their 'bosses' like the historic pricipals of the Constitution and the peoples government governed by the people will simply be owned like a CEO owns a company. For profit only in blind,highly overtoned religous 'virtues' and that thing they like to call 'Vision for America' in politics. Change is cool but not from fools like the GOP and their future agenda to capitalize on everyones rights for freedom. They would sell it if they had to for Gods way.

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