July 08, 2008
Don't Be a Purple Petunia
Senator Jesse Helms has done this nation a favor by kicking the bucket in the first place, and, in the second place, by having his funeral land precisely on July 8, thereby postponing the FISA vote in the senate until tomorrow, so that his colleagues will be free to attend thus showing him the respect that he doesn't deserve.
This gives you an extra day to email the traitorous Barack at My Barack Obama and register your protest, as well as contact your own senators - find them, and what to say at The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Finished? Now you get to watch the movie. Daniel Ellsberg--- remember him from the Pentagon Papers, no? well you should -- speaks eloquently to the issue of FISA and telecom immunity. If you're interested in continuing to live in a democracy it would behove you to devote a few minutes to preserving it.
As Thomas Jefferson once said "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Photo note: Twisted bunting and pansies - oops they're petunias, but if they were pansies, this would be a metaphorophoto
Posted by Dakota at July 8, 2008 03:31 PM