Member of Philadlephia Regional Anti-War Network (PRAWN), Delaware Valley Veterans for America (DelValVets) and First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG).

Retired (Medical discharge) PN3, USN, 1991-2001.  Five years in Norfolk, VA; two years in Gaeta Italy and a year and a half in Pensacola, FL.

History major back in college, still read history stuff for the fun of it. Very highly useful major for parsing propaganda.

Affiliations

Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network, Delaware Valley Veterans for America

Member Since

Dec 6, 2007

Recent Posts

Torture and the meanings of words

Did President G.W. Bush "authorize torture"? Perhaps not, but the assertion by Karl Rove that Bush didn't reminds me of the famous Clinton statement "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I don't think Rove is precisely lying in his sentence. Not precisely, anyway.

Karl Rove writes in his memoir:

"[T]he president never authorized torture. He did just the opposite by making sure the EITs [enhanced interrogation techniques on high-value terrorist detainees] ...

Obama Administration facing crisis

And it looks an awful lot like that problem's name is the President's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Not that Emanuel is any sort of Rasputin-like figure, wielding inappropriate behind-the-scenes power. Obama's a grown-up and is entirely responsible for the fact that Emanuel has that job. But a decision has to be made soon.

The WaPo puts out a truly subservient, hero-worshiping, fanboy-type piece on President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel is clearly meant to be viewed as having a halo around his head, he's ...

Democratic leadership and primaries

The leadership of the Democratic Party, the White House, the Democratic National Committee, the two Campaign Committees, need to stay out of primaries!!!

Y'know, I've felt this way for a long time anyway, but I think it needs to be re-stated upon the President's endorsement of Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) to be re-elected. The Democratic National Committee (DNC), ...

Fluff vs substance

Well, SOME news sources are worth checking out for political news. Others, not so much. My roommate back in college admitted once that he spent an awful lot of time complaining about things (Usually justifiably, I thought) but felt he really had to make an exception once and to declare that the meal we were eating at a usually not-so-great cafeteria was really first-class. In the same light, I'd really like to commend the front-page piece in the Inky today summing up the health care summit yesterday. It's a solid, substantve piece that lets one know where all the players in the health care game are standing and where they're headed.

For the record, Democrats from the President on down appear to have really lost patience with Republican delaying and filibustering and offering "deals" that Democrats simply can't accept, primarily the "deal" of starting from scratch with a blank piece of paper and then building up a brand new health ...

PRAWN party on the 20th of February

The Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network had an enjoyable and successful party with talks and a slideshow in February.

In the picture: Radwan Chehab, Rajai Dias, Bill Perry, Terry Perry & Ali El.

The Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network (PRAWN) threw a party on Saturday, 20 February. We had a member of the Poor ...