Usmanov and Schillings: back again
Bob Morris @ Oct 7th 2007 20:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
This time they’re targeting IndyMedia UK.
Archive for October 7th, 2007
Changing times
Bob Morris @ Oct 7th 2007 13:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
The real estate magazine in today’s Sunday Hartford Courant has a print-only cover story titled “Facing Foreclosure. What to expect when you can’t pay your mortgage and the bank reclaims your home” along with five pages of ads for foreclosed homes.
The Left quiet about Ahmadinejad. A rebuttal
Bob Morris @ Oct 7th 2007 10:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dave Riley at Left Click in Australia responds to our recent post about Ahmadinejad.
It is not our job to shore up imperialistic propaganda for the sake of beating the war drum, promoting Islamophobia and maybe invading Iran. And the core question in regard to the Soviet ‘invasion’ of Afghanistan and Iran vis a vis the US killing machine is taking sides. I know it’s not neat nor comfortable nor a simple exercise. Nor does it presume that you remain blind (or lie) to what’s happening on the ground in Iran.
Read the whole thing. This is what blogging is about. Genuine exchange of ideas, even (and especially) if you aren’t always in agreement.
Revolution in Jesusland
Bob Morris @ Oct 7th 2007 00:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s just those Bible-Fundamentalist, Anti-Enlightenment, Creationist, Republican-voting Christian Neanderthals again…Move along. Nothing to see here.Except that they’re wrestling with what Jesus meant when he said they would find Him among the poorest of the poor…And it’s leading them to think about turning the economy upside down…As they struggle desperately to find ways to rescue everyone in poverty.
Watch the video of evangelical leader Chris Seay, filmed at a baseball stadium. He talks about children dying because they don’t have clean water or medicine, and about the inequalities and disparities of income that allow this to happen. It ends with him saying, I just had a $9 drink and $8 hot dog and got a text message on my cell from one of our workers in Africa who said some children just died because of a lack of medicine. We could have bought that medicine for what I just spent here. And what do we do with this? He means, how do we, emphasis on the “we”, get the help to those who need it?
There is an incredibly large and beautiful social movement exploding among evangelicals right now that stands for nearly all of the same causes and goals that secular progressives do. Those goals include: eliminating poverty, saving the environment, promoting justice and equality along racial, gender and class lines and for immigrants–and even separation of church and state.
Sounds like secular progressives and these evangelicals have lots of common ground and that what the evangelicals are doing represents a real grassroots movement for social justice and change.
Tip: Boing Boing
Gungywamp
Bob Morris @ Oct 7th 2007 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
“Stone chambers, standing stone alignments, earthen mounds, stone piles, and concentric stone circles make up this mysterious site” called Gungywamp near Groton CT.
The photo is of another such site in Burnt Hill MA
All told, 21 stones, some weighing 300 to 500 pounds, have been jammed into the bedrock on the 1,855-foot high knoll in the state’s wild northwest corner. Another five have fallen. And interspersed among the monoliths are four glistening stacks of white quartz boulders.
The Gungywamp Society has a yearly newsletter filled with research and information about it but will brook no foolishness about paranormal or spiritual interpretations of the site. Sheesh, what a bunch of grumps. I guess they must have been built for strictly practical non-Howl at the Moon reasons then…
