Quote of the day -- on the Judeo-Christian tradition

Freedom From Religion Foundation

"As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised as the source of our concern for human rights. In fact, the great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights in the contemporary sense. They were notorious not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression but for enthusiastic justifications of slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, genocide."

—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author, "The Opening of the American Mind," The New York Times, 1989.

See more at: http://ffrf.org/news/day#sthash.vvxGNPNl.dpuf

UMKC, knocking 'em out of the ballpark

UMKC Conservatory's Zhou Long wins Pulitzer Prize

UMKC alum and cartoonist, Mike Keefe, wins Pulitzer Prize

I mentioned earlier today UMKC had gotten 2 Guggenheim Fellowships and didn't want to overlook these.


UMKC is so much more of an asset than we keep in mind or seem to give it credit for.




Enjoy that beautiful weather, y'all.

You want something to do this long, boring weekend anyway, right?

Okay, get off yer butts and go to the Truman Library and see the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs.

Kwitcher' bitchin'.

Oh, yeah, and happy new year.


You may thank me later.

(A tip of the hat to The Pitch for pointing this one out, too).

More proof they lied

Okay, before we had the Downing Street memo, remember? It proved that the Bush White House was "cooking the books" about intelligence in and about Iraq, so they could take us all to war.

Now, here comes a book from Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Suskind, saying that the Bushies lied to us further and that he has proof.

In his new book, '“The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday,' Mr. Suskind 'claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.'

See the entire, original story here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080805/pl_politico/12308

But wait, there's more!

Indications are that Mr. Suskind's information may, in fact be valid and not dreamed up, as the White House, Republicans, the neocons and Fox "News" would have us believe:

'The letter’s existence has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.’”'

The original article has a great deal more information to it, too, than I will relate here. Suffice it to say, it's pretty condemning and indicting of this administration.

So bury your head in the sand if you wish, but this seems to be further, strong proof that y'all were duped into this high human and financial cost war. Check it out, by all means.

If anything, this should embolden Senator Kucinich, in his quest to impeach the current occupant.

Stay tuned.