we honor courage in all its forms
posted today because our leaders don’t lead
with special love today for a righteous mom
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
From bottom to top, President George Bush, first lady Laura Bush, former President Bill Clinton, his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), former President George H.W. Bush, former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn attend funeral services for Coretta Scott King at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, February 7, 2006.
(Jason Reed/Reuters)
The Times They Are a-Changin’
by Bob Dylan
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside
And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.
We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there,
but Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here.
Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds.
For war billions more
but no more for the poor.Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery
at the Coretta Scott King funeral, in front of 4 presidents
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” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
from Dirge Without Music
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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TRABZON (ABC Australian News) Feb. 7 — An Italian Catholic priest Andrea Santoro, 61, was shot and killed at the Santa Maria Church in Trabzon on Sunday, raising fears that the murder may be linked to the Muslim uproar over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers.
The Turkish government said the murder appeared to be the work of a lone gunman with no links to illegal organisations. Local officials and Catholic authorities in Turkey suggested that the cartoon row, which has so far triggered no more than peaceful demonstrations in Turkey, could have led to the killing.
VATICAN NEWSPAPER OSSERVATORE ROMANO
The killing of Don Santoro by all means fits into the climate of tension of recent days. Faced with such acts, we are shocked and saddened, but we must also recognise a sign of irrepressible hope: some of our brothers are willing to spend their lives trying to build bridges between two shores which are still far apart. Father Santoro was one of them.
A vigil was held in Rome'sSt Mary in Trastevere church.
BBC News just reported, the first interrogation indicates the Danish caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, was given as motive for the murder.
● Priest’s Murder Sparks Press Anguish
● Turkish MP urges govt to review Novo Nordisk contracts after Danish cartoons
Dems’ Template for Success: Follow Jack Murtha …
LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
Iraqi city draped in black as Shi’ites mourn saint
Mrs. King.
Peace
those eulogies were energizing.
I think Bush and Papa Bush should be slapped for their remaks.
I can only hope Bush crapped his “W” panties while hearing the TRUTH spoken at him.
more photos of Iraq from a Portland Indy site
http://www.sunflower.com/~420/feb6/feb1kab.jpg – these are “freed” children???
The Army is charging 1st Lieutenant Eddie Rebrook $700 for the body armor that was cut from his wounded body.
Now we know why they didn’t want them purchasing their own body armor. This way – they can CHARGE them for it being ruined.
…
If you are not outraged,
you are not paying attention.
Lies, lies and more lies. Beware, the march to Iran is on.
Who will stop them?
where is Barbara Bush? Each President has their Former First Lady there next to them.
Or couldn’t Babs be bothered to “worry her pretty little head over it”.
And.. how embarrasing that Bush’s daddy had to come to his aid. Can’t George speak for himself?
DJ,
did you see the video of the Reverand who layed a big one on Bush with the WMD statement? At the end of his speech, with the whole place on their feet, Laura Bush remained seated. I thought it a slap back at the Reverand for having the gall to call out poor Georgie in public. Very telling.
SuperSoling, it’s been energizing to hear it all š
Weapons of MisDirection!! Whoooooooooooooot
Daddy had to defend Bushbrat… puke.
I enjoyed the “My fellow Combatants” most of all š
For Really Practising Their ‘Faith’!!!
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For The Children – Innocence Lost!
U.S. Initiates Legal Processes Against Christian Group that Marched to Guantánamo
CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict) is a Washington-based nonprofit organization founded by Marla Ruzicka, who was killed on April 16, 2005 by a suicide bomb in Baghdad while advocating for the families of Iraqi civilians killed and injured in the conflict. CIVIC believes that civilian casualties should be counted and their families assisted by the governments responsible, and is working to identify victims and help their families.