ITEM: It seems like the fix is in for Specter to switch over. Big Ed Rendell will "whack" anybody who makes a primary run against Arlen and his magic bullet theory. Thanks Ed and our Pa. DNC establishment. You know, even though Pennsylvania is the bluest of states, we get pro life Bob Casey and former republican Arlen Specter as our senate reps. Surely, we can do better. I've signed the pledge saying I'll back a progressive or even a center/left person to run against Arlen. You can sign the pledge here or join the facebook group. (We need more than five people on Facebook.)
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."