Walk Softly Live Gently

If you wander don’t worry you’re not lost

Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup tapes

Still in love with the Bush crowd? Check out this post:
How do we spell cover up?

Quote….

This is another gem from David Ziegler, (I hope he doesn’t mind my quoting him):
“I sat in a parking lot today watching a giant American flag moving in the wind. The way the wind curled it back and forth was beautiful.
There are two attitudes toward that symbol I’ve never understood. One involves combining jingoism [...]

Yesterday….

in the naivete of boldness I expressed my growing convictions concerning the absurdity of war in general and the current one in particular which I instinctively knew would get me in trouble and certainly will in the future given the blind affection for Mr. Bush (his affectations notwithstanding) and some ephemeral sense of patriotism.
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Just a reminder….

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

weapons of math instruction….

A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the [...]

Save the Internet….

The CEO of AT&T said: "The internet can't be free". I don't know the context in which the comment was made but on the face of it, it's just a little scary coming from one who wants to profit from it in ways that would take control of the whole structure of what makes the [...]

Unfathomed Dangers….

Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
By Paul Craig Roberts
A provision in the “PATRIOT Act??? creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
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