Category: war

Return to Sender

This past sunday, Daily Kos (any many other news outlets 1, 2) reported on a “chemical irritant” attack on a mosque in Dayton, Ohio just a few days after a fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary was distributed via newspaper inserts and US mail by the shady non-profit “The Clarion Fund”.

This past sunday, Daily Kos (any many other news outlets 1, 2) reported on a “chemical irritant” attack on a mosque in Dayton, Ohio just a few days after a fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary was distributed via newspaper inserts and US mail by the shady non-profit “The Clarion Fund”. Now, I don’t know about you, but I am disgusted (yet unfortunately not surprised) that people would respond the way they did to this kind of racist propaganda.

Well, today I received a copy of this hate-speech DVD in the mail (as did my mom) and was ready to set it on fire and get rid of it. But then I thought, why not take a different response to the mailing and just

    RETURN TO SENDER

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If you are as appalled as me about receiving this in them mail, don’t open the mailing. Tell the Clarion Fund that you won’t be swayed by their hateful and fear-mongering propaganda. Write RETURN TO SENDER on the address area and drop it back in your mailbox. Tell your friends too!

This is what the mailer looks like:

JOIN ME AND SEND IT BACK

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

Remember, remember the fifth of November, The gunpowder, treason and plot, I know of no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent To blow up the King and Parliament.

Guy Fawkes

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent
To blow up the King and Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!

A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o’ cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!

Wait Until September?

Everyday I read another article about a senior white house official claiming September of this year will be the magic month that will allow the Bush administration to “make a coherent judgement of where we are”.

Everyday I read another article about a senior white house official claiming September of this year will be the magic month that will allow the Bush administration to “make a coherent judgement of where we are“. What I want to know is why September is the magic month? Is Iraq going to suddenly turn into a peaceful state? Will there be another terrorist attack on American soil? Those of you who know me know I don’t buy the bin Laden/al Qaeda story about 9/11 and find it much more plausible that neocons (Dick Cheny, et al)  planned and executed the attack to gain the vise grip on the government they now hold. So what will it be. I guess we have to wait until September to find out. =/