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Obama AIN'T Spock !
by Saab Lofton

"I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
--Lloyd Bentsen, from the 1988 vice presidential debate

For years, motherfuckers have gotten on my case about pop cultural metaphors -- particularly if they concern Star Trek, because out of all the franchises in fictional history, it's the most threatening to the rich (since Gene Roddenberry envisioned a future Earth devoid of poverty) and the powerful (since Starfleet/The Federation follows Amnesty International's rule book while America burns it) ...

Oh, Bomb a Country, Part II
by Saab Lofton

"The Senate approved $91 billion in funding for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan yesterday [May 21st, 2009] ... The no-strings-attached legislation comes as a deep disappointment to progressive members of Congress, as well as to anti-war voters, many of whom hoped the Obama administration would mark a significant break with Bush-style war funding."
--Maya Schenwar, truthout.org, May 22nd, 2009

Well, it's official: I hate Obama ...

June 05, 2009 CNN

Democracy Now Headlines 4/16/09

* Report: Under CIA Pressure, Obama to Withhold Parts of Torture Memos * Gitmo Prisoner: Torture Has Worsened Under Obama * Survey: More Pay Rises than Cuts for US CEOs * DHS Links Right-Wing Extremism to Recession * Iran Begins Secret Trial for Jailed Iranian American Journalist * Haiti Appeals for International Aid * Bolivian Lawmakers Approve Electoral Reform * Germany Bans Monsanto Crop * Study: Worst of Global Warming Can Be Avoided * Tax Resisters to Hold Day of Protest

1. Montezuma's Revenge in Reverse

2. California Droughting

3. Coke Crude

4. New School student beat down

5. London PoPo G20 murder

ImperialismOh, Bomb A Country
by Saab Lofton

"He was deceived by a lie, we all were. It appears that the Chancellor was behind everything, including the war."
--Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Has it been Obama's first hundred days yet? If not, oh well ...

Will George W. Bush be investigated? Here is a discussion about the subject on Hardball from 2/13/09:

Quotations on race relations in America ring true
Yael T. Abouhalkah

Today’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day has special significance because of what will happen Tuesday: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States.

It will be a magnificent step forward for this nation, although it will have come too late for some, including King, who was assassinated in 1968.

Forty years later, Obama’s campaign for the White House benefited from the leadership shown by King, other civil rights leaders, and those who have fought — often in controversial and sometimes conflicting ways — for racial equality.

Obama, Where Art Thou?
by Saab Lofton

"Obama will not fulfill that potential for change unless he is enveloped by a social movement, which is angry enough, powerful enough, insistent enough, that he fills his abstract phrases about change with some real content."
--Professor Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

"Politicians are like weather vanes; our job is to make the wind blow."
--David Brower, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee