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Hold your nose, but vote

Gentle reader - if you are liberal and against the war, then please please vote for Rick Larsen. Hold your nose, but vote for him. And, a bit easier, vote for Maria Cantwell. I am meeting frien

Gentle reader - if you are liberal and against the war, then please please vote for Rick Larsen. Hold your nose, but vote for him. And, a bit easier, vote for Maria Cantwell. I am meeting frien

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Gentle reader - if you are liberal and against the war, then please please vote for Rick Larsen. Hold your nose, but vote for him. And, a bit easier, vote for Maria Cantwell. I am meeting friends who are strongly anti-war - and they are leaving the ballot empty next to the choice for US Representative. It is only with a Democratic party control of the US Congress that we have any hope of ending our national nightmare. If you think we have a loss of rights and a confused national policy now then you might think about how worse it can get if Bush gets a Republican Congress for the next two years. Rick is ineffectual in Congress and not a leader. We can toss him out in two years. But right now we need his breathing body in the House of Representatives as a Democrat. Don't kid yourself that Roulstone cannot win and your vote does not matter. That is the most common cause of political disaster. The two things you can personally do to help end the nightmare in Iraq are to vote for Rick and Maria.

Hold your nose, but vote

By John ServaisOn Oct 22, 2006

Gentle reader - if you are liberal and against the war, then please please vote for Rick Larsen. Hold your nose, but vote for him. And, a bit easier, vote for Maria Cantwell. I am meeting frien

All fantasy

By John ServaisOn Oct 21, 2006

We started to see it yesterday and by next weekend it will be well known. Bush is setting a timetable for pullout from Iraq - and the “October” surprise may well be a plan for getting out of Iraq - “w

Continuing - suggestions on voting - Nov 7, 2006

By John ServaisOn Oct 21, 2006

State Supreme Court Justice - vote for Susan Owens. Keep her on the court. She has done a good job, respecting our rights and writing opinions supported by the other judges. Her opponent, Steph

Suggestions on voting - November 7, 2006 election

By John ServaisOn Oct 19, 2006

These are listed in general order of the importance I think they deserve. As a senior citizen now, and with a lifetime of deep involvement in politics (not deep, but I even shook hands with JFK) I hav

We prefer to conquer

By John ServaisOn Oct 16, 2006

Actually, International - but not local and that is the point. AlJazeera reports on a scholarly Islamic letter to the Pope - pointing out the factual errors in that inflammatory speech of his

I love a good library system

By John ServaisOn Oct 14, 2006

Nice little slanted piece in today’s Bellingham Herald by Sam Taylor. He says “Some in the community have clamored for (library) branches…”. Clamor. Apparently we are not requesting or petitioning o

Bellingham Grassroots & Independent Media Conference

By John ServaisOn Oct 14, 2006

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Bellingham Grassroots &

This is too rich to pass up

By John ServaisOn Oct 12, 2006

Karl Rove is being exposed as pressuring Rep. Foley - the Republican who pursued teenage Congressional pages - to run for Congress one more time. Indeed, Karl apparently told Foley that if he did not

General Election schedule posted

By John ServaisOn Oct 10, 2006

The Auditor’s Election webpage has posted the General Election schedule. Indeed, ballots will be mailed to all of us starting a week from tomorrow on Oct 18. While the corporate media like to say it i

The Internet age and our Auditor

By John ServaisOn Oct 09, 2006

Next week the Auditor will mail out our ballots to us. Catch that? Next week, we start voting. Yet - our Whatcom County Auditor web page has no information at all about the general election. No dates

Swimming upstream

By John ServaisOn Oct 07, 2006

As Republicans try to prove the Democrats sprung the Foley scandal as an ‘October Surprise’, it is fun to actually learn how it all started. Check out the website for CREW - Citizens for Responsibilit

Applying band-aids to scandal

By John ServaisOn Oct 05, 2006

Right wingnuts - Drudge, Gingrich and others - are saying the Democrats want Republican House leader Hastert to resign so as to enhance Democratic House candidates in the November election. You know,

If the facts don’t fit, then lie (National)

By John ServaisOn Oct 04, 2006

Oh, I’m sorry, that is unfair. If the facts don’t fit then make a mistake. (This post is labeled National so no conservative has to read this far and become upset - as I don’t want to hurt their relia

There will always be guys who go wrong

By John ServaisOn Oct 03, 2006

Now the right wing media theme is Rep. Foley is a homosexual - as if that explains pedophilia. So, would they say a rapist is just a heterosexual person? The Wall Street Journal and other right wingnu

“... naughty e-mails…” (National)

By John ServaisOn Oct 02, 2006

is all they are according to the White House. (Tony Snow on CNN) Yep - from the same folks who say torture is “procedures”. And this explains why the top leadership of the Republican Congress ignored

Republican Congressmen also lie about having sex

By John ServaisOn Sep 30, 2006

So - it seems top Republican Congressmen also lie about having sex with interns - er, pages. I ask you - what is worse - exploiting a person over 21 - legally impossible - or a boy of 16? Seems the to

This bill authorizes torture

By John ServaisOn Sep 28, 2006

The “Terrorist Detainee” bill passed the US House of Representatives by 253 to 168 vote yesterday. Aka the Military Commissions Act of 2006. House Resolution 6166, passed on Roll Call 491 of the secon

Branches vs main library

By John ServaisOn Sep 20, 2006

For the record, the library administration reacted to the post below by shifting the argument from branches to drive times and looking to give us crumbs from the main library bond issue in the form of

Meeting in the middle of a business day

By John ServaisOn Sep 18, 2006

The Bellingham Library Board of Trustees will meet Tue, Sep 19 at 2:30 pm in the basement meeting room of the downtown library - the room across the hall from the Children’s Library. The public

We need branch libraries - not a new main library

By John ServaisOn Sep 17, 2006

This coming Tuesday, our Bellingham Library Board of Trustees may make a decision on where to locate a new, huge, downtown library building. The plan is to ask voters to pass a bond issue of several t