http://voxd.blogsome.com Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1776-2008: The sound foundation persists. Mouthing the principles, tenets and ideals of America is a threadbare substitute for patriotism. Living them, constantly practicing them, and unfalteringly supporting and bolstering their equal application to all is truly functional patriotism. Such dutiful engagement is the glue which binds the past with the future ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/07/04/imho/ Maybe, just maybe, now that the words (emphasis added) have been spoken on the record, the spell will be broken. “After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/06/19/de-sade-was-a-piker/ Absolutely and indubitably a must-read (emphasis added): Thomas Romig, a major general who was the Army’s judge advocate general from 2001 to 2005, agreed that the JAGs were pushed to the side: “It was a disaster,” he said. [snip] “As they viewed it, due process is legal mumbo jumbo,” said Romig, who’s now ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/06/18/the-malignant-nub/ The universality of the essential toolbox of liberty today has been reiterated. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s opinion for the majority in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. U.S. (06-1196) was an almost rhapsodic review of the history of the Great Writ. The Suspension Clause, he wrote, “protects ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/06/12/sparking-hope-restoring-sanity/ Do we seek to make the future or break the future? Ye old scribe votes for the former. Let’s do it. Together. http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/05/28/say-yes-to-no/ It is our proprietary information. By dribs drabs and dollops, it is being taken from our possession and control. If you wish to give it up, realize going in that it has a value (or it wouldn’t be so eagerly sought and hoarded) and that you — more often than not ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/05/22/a-little-great-big-honking-list/ Distillation of Defense Secretary Gates’ shoulder-shrugging testimony : Like, whaddaya expect? I’m only 6th in line to the President and head a department getting one-third of the budget. It’s not like I have any authority or anything. Sheesh. Don’t get friction burns on the fingertips from passing those bucks at warp speed, ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/05/20/guantna-what/ … and 1 Giant Step For We The People If ye old scribe could be granted one boon, it would be that the very first thing on the morning following inauguration day come January, the next president would append an official signature to this executive order: All executive orders signed by President ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/05/16/12-little-words-for-america/ Compounding atrocity with inertia. It is a fetid space indeed inside that nutshell, but — in a nutshell — this snippet from a Q&A piece stands as a sage summation: Have we done something that can’t be undone in Iraq? Iraq is already undone. Remember this: There is nothing in Iraq that constitutes ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/and-thats-the-way-it-is/ Yes, yes yes. More than ever this election year, it is vital to think beyond just the next tomorrow and to recognize and choose which blueprint for the future will be validated. Commonwealth or peonage? Equality or elitism? Law or fiat? Progression or regression? Mine, mine, mine or ours? Bolstering or ... http://voxd.blogsome.com/2008/05/13/future-shock/