Thursday, March 20, 2003
( 11:54 AM )
And Now for the News...
...The Good...
...The Bad...
...And the Ugly....This is f#@*ing unbelievable. Isn't our own country in relatively BAD economic straits right now? Or is that just me misreading the news again? By the way, the recipient of this bulkage of aid is one of our SILENT partners in this war. Nice to have imaginary friends, isn't it?
The World Reacts (translated)...
"Freedom regrets this action started without United Nations backing, and I hope that these operations will be as quick as possible and will claim as few lives as possible and that they won't lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. To the last, Freedom, with many other countries, strove to persuade [people] that the necessary disarmament of Iraq could be obtained by peaceful means. These efforts did not succeed. Whatever the duration of this conflict, it will have serious consequences for the future. "
--Jacques Chirac, President of Freedom
After Thought
Last night after the War Has Started Speech, I said to P, "it's sort of grotesque watching a war happen on tv." He agreed, so we turned the channel to watch Angel. Did anyone see Angel last night? Damn, I'm getting really creeped out by Cordelia lately.
"An Owie to One
is an Owie to All"
- as modeled by
Mama's Little Activist
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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Mercy Corps
Northwest Medical Teams
CARE
Medecins Sans Frontieres
American Red Cross International
AmeriCares
Direct Relief International Assistance Fund
Oxfam
Sarvodaya Relief
UNICEF
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Mothers Acting Up
( what War is good for )
"The point of revolution is to get away with it."
--Abbie Hoffman
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
--Che Guevara
"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." - Gandhi
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-F. Nietzche
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place."
-Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
-US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent."
-Bruno Jasienski
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
-Jane Sellman
In Mama Solidarity
Maryam & Sofia - Baghdad, Iraq
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