Monday, April 22, 2013

Monuments to the movement

The state of the Earth this Earth Day is not strong, but the calendar date is cause for celebration. There are places just in the United States that can be considered environmental success stories, and activists made them happen.


(Pictured: the Earth, in her Sunday best)

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Billions of dollars went down the hole of “Homeland Security”/TSA/Patriot Act/“War on Terror” preemptive paramilitary policing bullshit, and still we had nada on the Tsarnaevs. Even the video of the two suspects that aided in their capture came courtesy of the citizenry, and the missing suspect was discovered by a boatman out for a smoke. We have traded our rights for our security and received neither. Yet somehow you get that sick feeling that we’re going to be throwing even more money at our newest government agency, and several of the bureaucratic stooges will even get promotions over this episode.

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Is there any doubt that violence only begets more violence? How can you look closely at these people from Chechnya, Dagestan, or any of the Caucasus states and not see the scarred survivors of Stalin's terror?

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Quote of the day: "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."-- Ambrose Bierce, long ago


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