How do you respond to some idiot saying you shouldn’t swear your oath of office on a Koran? Why, swear it on Thomas Jefferson’s Koran, of course!
“Keith is paying respect not only to the founding fathers’ belief in religious freedom but the Constitution itself,” said Ellison spokesman Rick Jauert.
Snap!
My brother Carl sent me this update. Go, Pagosa Springs!
Here’s a quote from the above article that made me happy: “In any case, there are now more peace symbols in Pagosa Springs, a town of 1,700 people 200 miles southwest of Denver, than probably ever in its history.
On Tuesday morning, 20 people marched through the center carrying peace signs and then stomped a giant peace sign in the snow perhaps 300 feet across on a soccer field, where it could be easily seen.”
If you can’t use a NY Times link, here’s another.
I was originally going to write another post about the cost of the ongoing occupation of Iraq, but two people far more important than I am have written things you should read instead.
First, bask in the calm brilliance that is Keith Olbermann’s response to the president’s recent comments on Vietnam. If you didn’t catch it, Mr. Bush went to Vietnam and told the American public the lesson he thinks he’s learned from that long, bloody mess: “We’ll succeed unless we quit.” (No, I’m not making this up.)
Second, take part in what might prove to be the antidote to such bloody-minded idiocy. Senator Barbara Boxer has created an online petition calling for the president to begin redeploying U.S. troops out of Iraq now. (Emphasis hers.) I usually advise against Internet petitions because they don’t have any teeth, but this one is different. It’s being sponsored by an official representative with some real power (especially now), so it has at least some chance of being heard. There’s more information in her press release about the petition, which makes some compelling arguments itself.
So read Keith to get fired up, then go do something about it.
This is the coolest 90 seconds I’ve spent on world history.
Just in case you had any misconceptions about where this country is headed. This site is called The Project for the Old American Century — created in response to The Project for the New American Century. Not that the ol’ American century was that great, but it’s better than the alternative “new” one.