How are mainstream Americans reacting to a nausiating electoral outcome? I share the "battle cry" from my sister, a 47 year-old mother of two, who has evangelical christian leanings. I share my sobering assessment, and call for building lasting institutions to roll back the take-over of the extreme right.

...End U.S.-Iraq Occupation~Interview with Between the Lines' Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United of Peace and Justice, conducted by Scott Harris

The train taking 12 Castor caskets of nuclear waste to Gorleben in north Germany left Valognes, northern France, at 9.05 pm. Saturday.
It consists of two diesel locomotives (green), two passenger carriages, 12 Castor waggons, another passenger carriage, another diesel locomotive (green).
Protests have begun.

Whither Democracy In The United States?

Very brief "tid bit" on Fallujah during First Gulf War.

A proposed script is submitted for a CSI TV show based in Washington, D.C. It begins with the discovery, in Neocon Park, of the body of a murdered woman, Amerigo Vespucci. An investigation indicates that there were 38 witnesses to the homicidal attack, who did nothing! The Kitty Genovese case of the 60s, in NYC, is recalled. CSI’s Dave Marshall says, “Just because 38 b....... lost their humanity doesn’t mean with have to lose ours, too.”

By 8:00 PM on Election Day, I was convinced that I was watching the slickest damn con job ever put over on the American people. The TV coverage was pitiful. By now its becoming increasingly clear that Bush stole another election. Once the results in western states could be predicted the vote tally in Florida could be juggled in favor of Bush. Once the outcome in the west was known the vote tally in Ohio could be juggled similarly.

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle.