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

Heartening news

Very heartening to see the Obama Administration apparently learning from its mistakes. I wrote the following to be posted on the Organizing For America/MyBarackObama website.

I was extremely heartened to see this in Daily Kos:

Charles Blow:

Since the State of the Union address, the president has been bounding ...

Political information and how to judge it

How does one best judge political information? Does the partisanship or lack of same constitute an important factor?

Due to the letter I had posted in the letters column of the Inky, a right-winger I had been communicating with plus two other right-wingers all sent me emails to comment on what I was saying. The conversation ...

Photos of rally for Mumia Abu Jamal

The pictures here are from Philadelphia, the demonstration was on Wednesday, Jan 20 at 4pm at the SE corner of City Hall (Juniper St).

The Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court ruling which had stated that if the Philly DA ...

Special election in Massachusetts lost

Why did the Democratic Party lose what seemed a sure thing? Simple. President Obama was too far off to the right-wing side of the national debate. He needed to run things closer to the way his base thought about things.

Well, Al Franken was sworn in as the Democrats' 60th Senator on the 7th of July 2009 and a bit less than 200 days later, on the 19th of January 2010, Democrats lost the special election held in Massachusetts in which the late Senator Ted Kennedy was replaced.  As the fake-news comedian Jon Stewart ...

Rush Limbaugh: "The White House is politicizing 9-11!"

The Obama Administration "politicizing 9-11?" Isn't that kind of like the old phrase "Bringing coals to Newcastle"? 9-11 was ALREADY very politicized.

Rush Limbaugh claimed on his radio show that the White House, by calling for the date of September 11th to be observed as a day or service to the community, was "politicizing 9-11." Erm, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said:

With ...