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May 13 2008

With One Hand

Go Steve Novick!

With a little luck and a lot of support Oregon may get a great new Senator. These are the kind of people who we need to find and support for office. Born without an arm or fibula’s in either leg wasn’t tough enough but at 14 his high school was closed because the school budget didn’t pass. By the time he was 21 he had graduated from Harvard Law. He knows what it means to have to fight the vested interests and to have people underestimate him. As long as candidates like this are willing to go into government we might just have a chance.

The best part is he uses his hook as… wait for it… his hook! (ugh)

The ads are perfect!

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Oct 17 2007

The Home of the Brave

There couldn’t be a better Op/Ed to talk about with our first post than this one
“Good Germans Among Us” by Frank Rich
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Frank Rich has called us out and it’s about time. As even more details continue to become public about the Bush administration’s illegal activities to “protect us” Rich is asking – what price are we willing to pay for that protection?

Being spied on without cause?
Being denied the right to face our accusers in a court of law?
Placing some Americans above the law?

All these things have already happened using the excuse of “protecting us from terrorists” – BOO! Are you scared yet? Rich is asking what are you going to do as the rights and laws that make America what it is are given away for the false promise of “protecting us” from the boogeyman. Were you hiding under the bed crying “Please don’t let the terrorists get me!”? Were you afraid to fly on a plane? Afraid to visit a foreign country? Well stop it. Act like a real American. Stop being afraid. The United States of America is The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. If you want to be free you have to be brave. GTFU!

If I have to be a victim of the next mass murder in NYC to protect these rights – so be it. I’d rather die that way than being crushed by a decaying bridge, trapped in a sub-standard mine or from a toothache.

Sow the question is, will you be remembered as a Good American or a coward?

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