I just got through watching a traditional Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. If you have not seen the film, you should make the effort. It is perhaps one of the greatest pieces of Americana Progressivism that ever did exist. It simplifies the struggle between good versus evil as any film does of course, only this film sides with the working and middle classes (especially in those days when the middle class was very small). Oh yes, as the above image shows, the Mr. Potter of modern times is good old Dick Cheney, and his little lackey (that goes for you too!) is our naive El Presidente, who preside over a party that cuts taxes for the rich, then cut education, Medicare and student loan funding. They even tried to destroy Social Security!

It is quite ironic, because Frank Capra’s incredible film It’s a Wonderful Life was a classic Progressive tale, and is now whored out by the Universal-NBC network (who purchased the rights to the film) to sell crap. On this celebration of Jesus’ birth, we make the even more powerful Mr. Potters even richer!

As I watched that film again …

Well the calm before the storm has now been broken, and the wild first wave has rolled in. Our poor beleaguered president has been taken down a few pegs and those of us who had to sit there and take it for so many years while the right wing attacked every thing that was near and dear to us are expected to not rejoice in the streets and pop open bottles of champagne. Sadly, the fact that justice is finally being dealt to a bunch of “alleged” crooks who ran the White House with such impunity, that they would use evidence they knew to be faulty, and attack those that would expose them, just so they could go to war. This truly is nothing to celebrate.

In case you don’t follow the news at all, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of Staff, has been indicted on 5 criminal charges and could possibly face up to 30 years in jail and over a million dollar fine (although maximum sentences are worst case scenarios) for perjury and obstruction of justice involving the outing (blowing ones cover) of a …

I just wanted to take a brief moment to honor the 2002 fallen men & women in Iraq who made the ultimate sacrifice. Their death in a foreign country may go largely unnoticed by most people here in America (even those that talked so loudly about nuking the Arabs after 9-11); I hope every day that I am not one of those people. I deeply respect the courage it takes to go out on the front lines in the first place, and I am very troubled by the loss of even one of our fighters. When I see their faces on the news each night, or hear their names, or read or see about their losses, a sense of grief washes over me. I know that with each name and face a family is destroyed emotionally by the initial loss, and then later by the economic loss and finally by the missing loved one who should have been there, robbed by some politician’s plans (enemy or allied).

I would also like to honor the 15,000 + wounded casualties, a large portion of whom would normally be deaths. The miracles of modern science have given many a second …

The following is a letter to my congressmen (Henry Waxmen) to support a House resolution that would reduce troop strength in Iraq, at the bottom of this letter, you will find the opportunity to write a similar letter, or you can use the one they provide for you. Also please feel free to copy and paste this one in there too:

While it is never a pleasant situation to admit defeat, it is a common fact of life. Hardworking people lose jobs, political parties lose elections and we all make decisions from time to time that can cause a lifetime of regret. As much as we try to avoid these failures, they are situations that will occur, and then we move on. The idea is to keep these mistakes to a minimum. When speaking of war, you’re talking about the worst kind of failure. War in itself reflects a failure, a failure for human beings to sit down and work things out without having to resort to killing one another. Once a war is in place however, things can escalate very quickly out of control. In the Modern U.S. that war had better be …

America’s wannabe holy man on Pennsylvania Avenue is increasingly coming under fire as close friend and advisor Karl Rove’s involvement in serious allegations of playing politics with CIA agent’s lives, lying under oath and obstructing a special prosecutor increasingly fingers the White House. Is Rove the sole man to blame for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame? Or is perhaps Rove innocent? Or perhaps Rove is the first big fish to fry in what is becoming a scandal so big, so bad, it implicates the President himself in guilt for falsely starting the Iraq invasion.

America, for the first time in recent memory, agreed on something! 75% of all Americans, want to see the portly brainchild of Bush’s shady re-election thrown out of office if he leaked information that exposed an undercover CIA agent. I know the Republicans are all over this, trying to spin it in their direction. Claiming it’s all a smear campaign. I must say, that is truly remarkable that there are rational human beings out there that would buy that load of bull. And yet human beings manage to impress me …