Democrats blame Moore

Some Democrats were on C-SPAN recently actually blaming Michael Moore for the loss in this election, a sign they have learned absolutely nothing. So I posted the following on the DNC blog, you can post something too it's at

http://www.democrats.org/blog/index.html

"Just wanted to protest the Democrats who were on C-SPAN actually blaming Michael Moore for their loss. These are the kind of unreflective centrist losers who are have given us 4 more years of GWB, the Terry McAuliffes, etc., and I hope that they are purged from the party leadership. It is the job of an "opposition" party to bring up inconvenient facts like Moore does and to respond to them with outrage and passion. Go Howard Dean! I worked for the Dems this time around because I so badly wanted to get rid of Bush, and as a grassroots worker I would like to stay involved. But if these corporate robots who have learned nothing keep control, I'll be out on the streets organizing for the Greens."

Air America progressive talk radio hits Boston

The Al Franken station at 1430 AM, all day and all night. You are in for a pleasant surprise, real debate! Real issues! Funny! I haven't listened to AM radio in decades but I'm hooked again, finding myself running home from work to listen to Air America.

Set compassionate soldier free

On that soldier who shot the wounded Iraqi teenager out of compassion, these "human rights" organizations ought to be ashamed of themselves for calling for his punishment. The minute I read about it one thing fled through my mind, yesterday sure enough, another article confirms what I was thinking. From the Boston Herald, the 16 year-old male was "found in a burning truck with severe abdominal wounds sustained during clashes in Sadr City." Forensic science is full of such euphemisms to mask the unspeakable. You don't want to know what "massive head trauma" means. In this case "severe" means the poor kid was gut-shot, most likely disemboweled. It's the wound every soldier dreads most. The problem is your guts are all dirty from laying on the ground so you're going to die a slow, horrible death from infection anyway, even if they can stuff them back in, which they probably can't. You'd better hope there's someone around nice enough to shoot you. The rest of your nervous system could be working just fine and you can be fully conscious for a while. The larger point is that CNN-Fox News never come close to showing how ugly war is. This is the single most important factor in keeping Bush's war afloat, otherwise most people would be against it.

I call on politicians to intervene for the release of this compassionate young man, Staff Sgt. Johnny M. Horne, who probably knew he'd be going to jail for it but was too kind to care.