These seven deadly virtues ran headlong into the seven deadly sins as The Straight Talk Express and Smug Religious Right collided head on in New Orleans and Minneapolis yesterday. Dozens were wounded in separate incidents as riot police and troops stood at the ready to bring everyone forcibly on message.
Facing no choice, the same Conservative [...]
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Abstinence, Chastity, Hypocrisy, Control, Belief, Recovery, Redemption… Reality
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Placid Lake Woebegon Begets A Nasty Police State
Posted on 31 August 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 1st Amendment right to protest during the Republican Na, 25 officers barge into a house wearing masks and black, aided by local police goon squads dressed in riot gear, arresting nine people, cell phone number of the St. Paul convention office of, chilling accounts of police conducting wholesale warran, civil liberties, clubs, congenital sense of justice and equality, cronies, cultural cons, Dept. of Homeland (In)Security, directed to the police (651.291.1111), Edina, Garrison Keillor, George Bush, Guthrie Theatre, Homeland Security (202.282.8000), in town to protest at the convention, Lake Woebegon stories, large semi-automatic rifles, mansions, Midwestern kind of mild social democracy, Minneapolis, Mississippi, Nasty Police State, old money, only crime, Placid Lake Woebegon, police just burst into a house looking for ‘photographs, PR woman for the cops said I had to talk to the Secret, refused to answer any questions but asked for the spell, repeated calls were not returned, St. Paul, St. Paul Mayor’s Office, Summit Avenue, the Bill of Rights, the Buttermilk Biscuit Co, the Secret Service, they were charged with having too many people live in a, three Norwegian bachelor farmers, tossed into the Mississippi mud, Twin Cities, University of Minnesota, unmarked cop cars with sirens screaming are chasing all, Walker Art Centre
By Charley James
I grew up in the Twin Cities, a prosperous and bucolic community hard on the banks of the Mississippi, the last major metropolitan area until you Lewis-and-Clark yourself over the Rockies.
Minneapolis and St. Paul are filled with wide, tree-lined streets, good schools, close-knit families, a welcoming spirit, pride in a deep civic commitment, home [...]
The Radioactive City Convention Hall
Posted on 14 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1 in 5, 80 lies in the first 36 pages, Broward County Florida, Bush, Bush/Cheney, Cheney, Chuck Hagel from Nebraska, clinton, democrats, Denver, Dr. John Corsi, eight Republican US Senators, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, Georgia, Gordon Smith of Oregon, John Kerry, Kansas City, Kansas side, key foreign policy advisor, Larry Craig of Idaho, lobbyed by the government of Georgia, Maine’s Susan Collins, McCain, meddling, MediaMatters.org, Minneapolis, Missouri, not attending their party’s convention, not understanding the conflict, politics of destruction, President Saakashvili, Radioactive Convention Hall, Randy Scheunemann, Republican, Republican Convention, Rocky Mountain high, Russia, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, skip the festivities, smear book, St. Paul, support of US troops, Swift Boat, Ted Stevens of Arkansas, UN Security Council, Wayne Allard of Colorado, Welcome to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International A, Welcome to Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airpo
While the Democrats have planned a Rocky Mountain high for Denver (that is if the Clinton’s stop thinking everything is always about them and come back to the reality of planet earth), those heading to the Republican convention in Minneapolis (or is it St. Paul?) have been jumping ship like proverbial rats.
Senator Pat Roberts of [...]
“The Fierce Urgency of Now,” 45 Years Later
Posted on 05 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bobby Kennedy, Chicago, clinton, I Have a Dream, John McCain, Kenya, Martin Luther King, Minneapolis, obama, President, Senate, Xcel Energy Center
The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a [...]
Is it over?
Posted on 04 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Chicago, clinton, CNN, Court TV, delegate count, Excel Center, FOX, John McCain, Louisiana, Minneapolis, Montana, Mr. Rogers, New York, obama, OJ Simpson trial, South Dakota
Can we come out now and go back to our lives? No? Barack has won but Hillary has not conceded? Aaaaargh! I feel like I did living in LA during the OJ Simpson trial. Will the government offer any counselling or addiction relief therapy to political junkies who will have scant little to do between [...]
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