Voice of North America Articles

EXCERPT: How Big a Clothespin? It has been several months since I have posted in this blog.  One reason has been the work that has been required getting the over 58,000 names posted in my Namnesia Antidote blog.  The names on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall have been posted at least in triplicate there.  Work continues and those postings and indices will continue to expand. While the other blog has taken the majority of my time, I studiously avoided making any...

EXCERPT: How Many More Scandals in Reserve?
Last week's events seemed at first blush a very good thing that were long overdue. George W. "War Criminal" Bush had been PROVEN and EXPOSED as the liar he is. His talk of World War III being at hand and that we have Iran to blame was shown to be pure fabrication. We appeared to have the smoking gun of his duplicitous actions. He knowingly lied in an attempt to start another pre-emptive war. This remained the top news story for no more...

EXCERPT: JFK and Thanksgiving: 34 Years Later
Thanksgiving this year falls on the anniversary of the assassination John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was thirty-four years ago in Dallas that the direction of this country was irrevocably changed. Changed for the worse. There have been brief periods of hope only to have the downward spiral continue in even steeper rushes to oblivion.
The details of those intervening years matter little. Discussions about those details only serve as a distraction about...

EXCERPT: (They're Still) Running the World (on the) Eve of Destruction For What It's Worth
When I thought about writing this piece based on three protest songs (1. Running the World, Written and Recorded by Jarvis Cocker; 2. Eve of Destruction, Written by P. F. Sloan, Recorded by Barry McGuire; 3. For What It's Worth, Written by Stephen Stills, Recorded by Buffalo Springfield;) I had no doubt that the three songs were on target for what I wanted to express. I did have some...

EXCERPT: Living Blue in a Red State Part 2
I saw the following bumper sticker the other day that brought on an instant headache:
I Support President Bush and Our Troops
It is only in a state like Arizona where I live that this bumper sticker would be displayed. The person driving the SUV with the sticker is blind to the impossibility of the statement. Shrub with his veto of the spending bill has proven that he only supports a continuation of the immoral and illegal Iraqi War. He seems to...

EXCERPT: IN PLAIN SIGHT The House of Representatives passed a funding bill for the Iraqi War that included a timetable for withdrawal yesterday.  Bush announced that any such legislation would be vetoed because he felt including a timetable is anti troop.  He still suffers from the delusion that being against the war is being against the troops.  He and his minions have repeatedly stated that refusing to provide the additional funding for the war is tantamount to refusing to...

EXCERPT: There is But One Top Priority If I were to list the top 100 things that need doing in America, numbers 1 to 90 would all be the same: GET US OUT OF IRAQ  Anything beyond this pales in comparison.  The continued loss of life and the extreme human suffering is intolerable.  No amount of "surge" will lessen the loss of life or human suffering.  We as a country need to have the courage to admit that we are the cause not the solution to the...

EXCERPT: Still Insane After All These Years "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."  I have seen this quote attributed to both Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin.  No matter its true source, it is very true.  It’s time we stand up as a country and say, “STOP, THIS INSANITY!”  The President has retired with his “war cabinet” to try to determine a new course in Iraq.  This same...

EXCERPT: I have waited the past ten days for the outcry from rational conservatives, very much in vain.  George W. Bush has finally lost it with, “Listen, we've never been stay the course, George (referring to George I keep waiting for the mass of rational people to stand up and scream, “Mr. President, we are not that stupid!”  Even his political opponents seemed overwhelmed by the pure doublespeak. It is very much like we have become a country of Winston...

EXCERPT: I saw the following bumper sticker the other day that brought a smile to my lips:
I Never Thought I Would Miss Nixon
What brought the smile was the shear amount of truth in those seven words. Yes, George W. Bush has done what I would have thought impossible. He made me miss Tricky Dick in all his ugly glory. When Nixon was in power, I was firmly convinced that there could never be another President as bad. With Georgie, I have discovered there not only could be as bad but there is...