SocraticGadfly
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- : Suburban Dallas newspaper editor. Left-liberal (outside the Democratic party) on a number of issues; skeptical left-liberal. Scientific-minded atheist.
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- : "There is no god, and I am his profit." by Steve Snyder (SocraticGadfly)
Before the Dems and GOP meet ... the Greens
Here’s your Green Party candidates for president, 2008:1. Jesse Johnson, 2006 US Senate candidate and 2004 gubernatorial candidate for the Mountain Party in West Virginia (now affiliate state party of the Green Party of the United States); filmmaker.2. Kat Swift,...more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 5:14 PM
Thurgood Marshall -- the man who should have been Chief Justice
That's my reflection on the 100th anniversary of his birth.Thurgood Marshall is the man who could have, and should have, been named by LBJ as chief justice. There's no way the Senate would have blocked his appointment by refusal...more »
Posted on July 2, 2008 11:40 PM
Obama is NOT sympathetic to atheists/secularists
Let’s get that clear, after one or two other reader posts here on the heels of his faith-based speech Tuesday First, they’re still unconstitutional, from where this skeptical atheist sits. <b>Public trust</b>(s) as well as public offices...more »
Posted on July 2, 2008 11:56 AM
FISA vote – House turncoats detailed
Leading black Democrats who should know better from ethnic history than to give immunity from illegal wiretapping. One or two theoretically liberal Democrats who weren’t, on this. All part of the 45 percent of Democrats who caved, or,...more »
Posted on June 20, 2008 2:00 PM
FISA vote – House turncoats detailed
Leading black Democrats who should know better from ethnic history than to give immunity from illegal wiretapping. One or two theoretically liberal Democrats who weren’t, on this. All part of the 45 percent of Democrats who caved, or,...more »
Posted on June 20, 2008 1:56 PM
Telco sellout, er, quasi-immunity, deal seems done
Reportedly, Congressional and White House negotiators have agreed to the the basics of a FISA renewal bill that is, in essence, pretty much a warmed-over version of what Kit Bond proposed months ago.The only diff is that district courts involved...more »
Posted on June 13, 2008 11:33 PM
The seriousness of the case behind Judge Alex Kozinsk's fetishes
Ira Isaacs may be in the middle of the most serious obscenity trial in the U.S. in years if not decades, Judge Kozinski aside.You can read my take on it as part of my regular Friday SCATblogging series, a takeoff...more »
Posted on June 13, 2008 2:01 AM
Arianna not all she cracks herself up to be
Re the star of this week's TPM Cafe, she's a little light in the loafers for her blind support of faith-based programs, even to the point of denigrating stalwart defenders of church-state separation....more »
Posted on June 10, 2008 1:32 AM
Protesting Exxon in Dallas – pix at my blog
I wasn’t in Dallas last year, but two years ago, I joined the protest in front of ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting. Back in town, back to protest. The big item on the shareholder agenda this year is the...more »
Posted on May 28, 2008 11:55 AM
Jeremiah Wright on Bill Moyers – my analysis
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s pastor and the focus of right-wing inflamed controversy smears, including death threats, was on Bill Moyers’ Journal tonight in what will surely be Moyers’ top-rated show for some time. Wright overall was pretty good, and...more »
Posted on April 26, 2008 12:02 AM
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Thurgood Marshall is the man who could have, and should have, been named by LBJ as chief justice. SCOTUS would have been a lot different.
Posted at July 2, 2008 11:36 PM in response to Happy 100th Birthday, Thurgood Marshall
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Thurgood Marshall is the man who could have, and should have, been named by LBJ as chief justice. SCOTUS would have been a lot different.
Posted at July 2, 2008 11:36 PM in response to Happy Birthday, Thurgood
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It's too bad LBJ didn't have an eye on legacy rather than cronyism and nominate Marshall, not Abe Fortas, to be Chief Justice in 1968.
Marshall certainly didn't have Fortas' baggage, and there is no way Northern Republican Senators would have voted against cloture, or voted against Marshall's actual nomination.
Posted at July 2, 2008 8:28 PM in response to Happy Birthday, Thurgood
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There's an actual progressive alternative.
Vote Green. (And no, Nader is not a Green Party candidate; the party's nominee will be chosen July 12 from four candidates NOT named Ralph Nader.)
Stop enabling rightward moving Dems in particular and the two-party duopoly in general.
Posted at July 2, 2008 12:12 PM in response to Why did I support Obama?? Oh yeah, I remember...
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That's one answer.
Another is: Get off the materialist rat race hamster wheel.
Wal-Mart stockers, or others, stop buying so much materialist crap, and cheaply made materialist crap at that, at Wal-Mart, let alone Best Buy, etc.
Posted at July 2, 2008 12:07 PM in response to A Warning For Young Workers: The Up-Escalator May Be Broken
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There's a progressive alternative.
Vote Green. (And, no, Ralph Nader is NOT a Green Party candidate. He may continue to run as an independent, but he is NOT a GP candidate; the Green nominee will be chosen July 12.)
Or vote Socialist or Social Democratic, if that's an option where you live.
Posted at July 2, 2008 12:05 PM in response to Left-Right Reconciliation: Obama's Bittersweet Pill for us All
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Feh on Obama’s faith-based ideas.
First, they’re still unconstitutional, from where this skeptical atheist sits.
Public trust(s) as well as public offices are barred from religious tests.
And, does Obama even know, for example about Secular Organizations for Sobriety or Lifering Secular Recovery, among the alternatives to AA and NA?
Does Obama believe, as does Arianna Huffington that AA works better, in part because it’s faith-based, than do non “spiritual” treatments?
The answer is, Yes, Obama does believe that:
Barack Obama depicted faith-based programs as a “uniquely powerful way of solving problems,” especially for substance abusers.
And, if Obama is so “inclusive,” then why does he set up straw men like this:
Barack Obama claims to be “a devout Christian” and asserts that “secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square.”
Finally, I’m not alone, even among people who are not avowed atheists. There’s plenty of skepticism out there:
National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy complained, “I don’t want a progressive evangelical movement any more than I want the conservative one we have right now.”
Quotes via Free Inquiry.(And, no, AA doesn’t work better.)
Would you like to try being more skeptical, and stop giving atheism a bad name?
Posted at July 2, 2008 12:03 PM in response to Obama's Consistent Position on Faith
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Your snark aside, the real answer is:
Vote Green (and no, Ralph Nader is NOT a Green Party candidate).
Vote Socialist.
Vote Social Democratic.
There's real progressive solutions, for people who will stop being enablers of barely neolib/DLC Democrats in particular and the two-party duopoly in general.
Posted at July 2, 2008 11:58 AM in response to The REAL Barack Obama--Unmasking the Beast
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It's still unconstitutional, from where this more skeptical atheist sits.
Public trust as well as public office are barred from religious tests.
And, does Obama even know, for example about Secular Organizations for Sobriety or Lifering Secular Recovery, among the alternatives to AA and NA?
Does Obama believe, as does Arianna Huffington that AA works better, in part because it’s faith-based, than do non “spiritual” treatments?
The answer is, Yes, Obama does believe that:
Barack Obama depicted faith-based programs as a “uniquely powerful way of solving problems,” especially for substance abusers.
And, if Obama is so “inclusive,” then why does he set up straw men like this:
Barack Obama claims to be “a devout Christian” and asserts that “secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square.”
Quotes via Free Inquiry.
(And, no, AA doesn’t work better.)Would you like to try being more skeptical, and stop giving atheism a bad name?
Posted at July 2, 2008 11:49 AM in response to Atheists Rejoice
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Be an idealist.
Vote Green.
Vote Socialist.
Vote Social Democratic.
If you have an option in your area, you know what to do.
Posted at July 2, 2008 11:27 AM in response to Goodbye TPM, Daily Kos, Huffington Post
