ImperialismOh, Bomb A Country
by Saab Lofton

"He was deceived by a lie, we all were. It appears that the Chancellor was behind everything, including the war."
--Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Has it been Obama's first hundred days yet? If not, oh well ...

Will George W. Bush be investigated? Here is a discussion about the subject on Hardball from 2/13/09:

This week:

1. Worldwide economic revolts
2. Bailout Blues
3. Wall 7 are Free!
4. Gore’s dire warning

Quotations on race relations in America ring true
Yael T. Abouhalkah

Today’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day has special significance because of what will happen Tuesday: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States.

It will be a magnificent step forward for this nation, although it will have come too late for some, including King, who was assassinated in 1968.

Forty years later, Obama’s campaign for the White House benefited from the leadership shown by King, other civil rights leaders, and those who have fought — often in controversial and sometimes conflicting ways — for racial equality.

No Mansions, No Homeless!
by Saab Lofton

"It is much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to eradicate a slum. It is much easier to guarantee the right to vote than to create jobs or guarantee an annual income. These things cannot be done without a radical redistribution of political and economic power."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Likewise, it's easier to elect an overrated pretty boy like Obama than it is to tell Halliburton to eschew blood money ...

God Loves Gays (Because I Said So)!
by Saab Lofton

"There's a cultural war going on. The religious right is winning. We're losing."
--radio talk show host Howard Stern

God created homosexuality for the express purpose of keeping our population down since Humans ain't bound by mating cycles like animals are. Remember Soylent Green -- the 1973 Charlton Heston movie about an overpopulated dystopia in which there's forty million in New York City alone (and resources are so scarce a jar of strawberry jam cost $150)? Well, that's exactly what The Lord Almighty is trying to prevent by having a certain percentage of Humanity be born gay.

Christianity: Deeds, Not Words
by Saab Lofton

"It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage. But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse. The living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth."
--Barbara Ehrenreich, from her book Nickel and Dimed

Fugees Producer And Rapper John Forte Granted Pardon By President Bush

Halfway through a 14-year conviction for drug trafficking, musician is one of 14 people to receive pardons.

by Gil Kaufman

Obama, Where Art Thou?
by Saab Lofton

"Obama will not fulfill that potential for change unless he is enveloped by a social movement, which is angry enough, powerful enough, insistent enough, that he fills his abstract phrases about change with some real content."
--Professor Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

"Politicians are like weather vanes; our job is to make the wind blow."
--David Brower, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee

ObamaAmerica's Struggle in Context
Wednesday 05 November 2008

by: Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
http://www.truthout.org/110508S

With the election of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States, Americans have taken a giant leap forward. It has taken this country 219 years to elect its first African-American president (George Washington was elected in 1789). It is imperative that this historic moment always be viewed within its proper historic context.