Friday, August 04, 2006

Billy Shore Tells His Story Beautifully



Billy Shore Tells
His Story Beautifully




This true story, as told by Billy Shore [of the anti-hunger nonprofit Share Our Strength], is a moving narrative stemming from a unique experience. Through his accounting - from a fallen soldier to the simple falling of a tie, you are bound to the personal details as if you were actually living them.

This is what democracy looks like. Now what?



This is what democracy looks like. Now what?


photo credit: AP/NYT

What do you think about when you hear or see the mobs on the Iraq street chanting "Death to Israel"? How do you reconcile that with the Bush administration's stubborn defense that their foreign policy and the Pentagon's military embodiment and prosecution of that policy is "successful"?

To whom has success traveled?

In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, these Islamic fundamentalists may have been sent to prison and tortured. That would have been morally wrong.

So now they're free.

And they want death for Israel.

Think about where the Bush policy has led us.

He Just Wanted to Eat Elvis' Teddy Bear



He Just Wanted to Eat Elvis' Teddy Bear


I'm all shook up - a- huh- hmm- oo- yeah


Dog Destroys Elvis' Teddy Bear at Museum

He ain't nothin' but a hound dog.

You ain't never caught a rabbit. But you've caught a Teddy bear. You ain't no friend of mine. Don't be cruel.