So You Thought You Were A Central Committee Member?

A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots
I recall the night before the First Gulf War, when we saw on TV, Saddam Hussein being broadcast with a small American boy.As he placed his hand on the child's sholder, you could see the boy shivering in terror.I looked over at my mother and my aunts who were there that night and their faces were like images carved out of stone.And I knew that this Nation was going to War.When, after the attack on Pearl Harbor Isoroku Yamamoto said, ""I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"He was speaking of a pygmy compared to the righteous

Politics As Usual
If that had been a Republican, every media outlet would have been screaming Fascism, But I bet you never saw this when it happened.

Sold Out By The Senate
Senate Blocks GOP Effort to Include Census Citizenship Question Senate Democrats on Thursday rejected a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to include a question about citizenship status -- an effort opponents called anti-immigrant.The proposal by Republican Sens. David Vitter of Louisiana and Robert Bennett of Utah was aimed at excluding non-citizens from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state.But the Vit

Dia de los Muertos
The Day of the Dead (El Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day) is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and frie

Banned Is Better
This whole Fox versus the Whitehouse has brought to my mind the story given by Billy Joel on the origin of "Only the Good Die Young." There appears to me to be some parallels and I find the dichotomy hilarious.First listen to Billy Joel.    I have this mental picture of average American's sitting in their family rooms and as Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and  Anita Dunn  spouted off about Fox News,Reacting with  What?What Can't We Hear?What Is It They Don't Want Us To Hear???While at the same time a cackle of fiendish glee aros