President Bush's Lead Balloon

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/opinion/22wed1.html?hp

Divine retribution?

http://18minutegap.com/archives/001956.html
This is too funny. After you click the link, scroll down for the map.

THE SKY IS ALWAYS FALLING

http://www.nypress.com/17/38/news&columns/feature.cfm

The Rapture racket

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17713

Allawi barking up the wrong tree

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI22Ak01.html

The Former Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/plane_diverted
Thank God for GWB, Thank God for Tom Ridge, Thank God for Homeland Security!

No Peace Train for you, USA

Marvin Bush, just a good article to mark

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/10/273301.shtml
suspicious death

Taking Liberties: Ashcroft: 0 for 5,000

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041004&s=cole

Time For A Checkup

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/time_for_a_checkup.php

Healthcare in the USA.

Crude dudes

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1095545411401&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

Kerry in Florida: Bush failed to level with the U.N.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9722536.htm

Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-09-20

Widespread Torture of Iraqi Prisoners Feared as Reports Emerge of Prisoner Abuse By U.S. In Mosul

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/20/144204

How Tax Cuts Feed the Beast

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/opinion/21shaviro.html?ex=1253505600&

KE04: Someone's Been Reading The Art of War or Something.

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/ke04-someones-been-reading-the-art-of-war-or-something-021692.php

Wonkette may have started drinking early today. Still a interesting post.

The policy roots of Iraqi prison abuse

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0921/p15s02-bogn.html

I picked a bad day to quit drinking

http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2004/09/i-picked-bad-day-to-quit-drinking.html

Journalism Under Fire

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0917-02.htm
Bill Moyers

Embarrassing Find

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0919-01.htm

Incident on Haifa Street (Iraq)

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0920-10.htm

A Puzzling America

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0920-06.htm

The Unfeeling President

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0920-13.htm

In addition, based on the political polls, there must be a large contingent of unfeeling citizens too.

Why Americans Back the War

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0921-01.htm

words on paper (pixels on the computer screen): how many other reader's stomach's turn as they read this, absorb, and face up to the American record of murderous acts.

Makes me think about Billy Joel song: "We didn't start the fire."

If one doesn't take a biblical prospective, who did start the fire? Testosterone? Empire? Tribalism?

Makes me think about "Lord of the Flies"

Separately, another quesiton: "Is it moral to pay taxes to this Regime"?