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Gerry Storm on Obama and McCain’s Sun Signs; Alaskan Rednecks; and the Finer Points of Slaughtering a Moose
Getting your moose cooked in Alaska…‘It is hard to maintain a red neck in Alaskasince there is no sun in winter’ By Gerry Storm / The Rag Blog / September 12, 2008 Obama is a Leo, thus during the time … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Campaign Tactics, Environment, McCain, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin
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Towers of Light : 9/11 / 2008
Photos by Jenny Ross / Fourthway Photography / The Rag Blog. Since the first anniversary of 9/11, the “towers of light” have marked the occasion, beaming skyward from the actual footprints where the World Trade towers stood. Almost unheralded among … Continue reading
Remembering This Day Only with a Smile for Bella
On a day when most people will be watching heart-wrenching MEMORIALS, I chose this……..By Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2008 Today my great grand-daughter turns 1; that is the ‘good memory’ Bella has brought to this … Continue reading
Wal-Mart and the Loss of U.S. Jobs
‘Report shows Wal-Mart has played a major role in creating a record trade deficit with China’By S.M. Willhelm / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2008 Wal-Mart claims it creates jobs across America, but a new report shows a much … Continue reading
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Tagged AFL-CIO, China, Economy, Labor, Labor Unions, Trade Deficit, Wal-Mart
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9/11 : The Politics of Fear, Religious Fanaticism and Checks & Balances
‘They’ve attacked us! Turn on your TV!!’By Thomas Cleaver / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2008 I remember seven years ago today like it was yesterday: the phone call at 0545 pulling me from sleep to hear a friend … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, al-Qaida, Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Religious Fanaticism, Terrorism, War on Terror
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ECONOMY : Size Matters When You’re Bailing Out!
1943 photo of Merchant Marines bailing out of a lifeboat.What good is money if you can’t spend it on stuff like oil, right?By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 10, 2008 Since Lehman Brothers investment bank (the type … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Bailouts, Economic Collapse, Economy, Federal Reserve, Finance
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Honoring the Dead : ‘Eyes Wide Open’
Photo of Eyes Wide Open on the Mall in Washington DC by AFSC.Boots on the ground in Austin this weekendBy Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / September 10, 2008 In February 2005, the display of combat boots and … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Exhibitions, GI's, Iraq Veterans, Iraq War, Peace Movement, Texas, War Fatalities
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Thomas Cleaver Goes Hollyweird : Who Would Play Sarah Palin?
Tina Fey could play Sarah Palin. Not.‘Reese Witherspoon, reprising her role as Tracy Flick in Election, who despite her angelic face is vindictive, manipulative…?’By Thomas Cleaver / The Rag Blog / September 10, 2008 OK, I am sure all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Actresses, Film, Filmmakers, Hollywood, Popular Culture, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin
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Alice Embree : Lipstick on a Capitalist Pig!!
Long Live the Capitalist Pig / Tattoo art by Eduardo Lecleres / Pure Body Arts, Brooklyn‘It’s not about the lipstick, friends. It’s about the pig’By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 10, 2008 OK. So maybe people in … Continue reading
Mariann Wizard : ‘Palin Will Go Down in Flames’
Yeah. Yeah. We know this image is probably photoshopped. And?Palin Implosion InevitableBy Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / September 9, 2008 As even more evidence comes to light of Gov. Sarah Palin’s anti-scientific, anti-feminist, and anti-democratic views, I am … Continue reading
FILM : ‘WHY WE FIGHT’ — The Dominant Role of the Military in American Life
WHY WE FIGHT: ‘We must understand the underlying disease itself’By William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog / September 5, 2008 One may scarcely witness the cascading events of the last decade without feeling a sense that something is going … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Film, Imperialism, Independent Film, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, Military Industrial Complex, U.S. Military
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Flyboy McCain : Hero or Fraud?
Updated September 5, 2008 This provocative article by Thomas Cleaver, written for The Rag Blog, was originally posted on August 30, 2008. We are publishing it again today with some very interesting discussion added. Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged History, McCain, Military History, PresidentialCampaign, U.S. Military, U.S. Navy, Vietnam
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