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JOHN L. DICKERSON

Location: ATLANTA SUBURBS
Age: 47
Politics: PROGRESSIVE / LIBERAL
Party: DEMOCRATIC
Biography: GEORGIA TECH - BS MERCER U. LAW - JD
Favorite Quotes: I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. - Friedrich Nietzsche It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. – Murray Rothbard "For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more-always more-even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of the 'haves.'" - Paulo Freire The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce In reply to a reporter who asked "What do you think of Western Civilization?" Ghandi answered - "I think it would be a good idea!" LOUIS BRANDEIS: "Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent." "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears." "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." "Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." "The most important political office is that of the private citizen." "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. – Lord Acton Famous anarchist Emma Goldman once said, "If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal." "The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." ~ Herbert Agar "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." — George Orwell, "Notes on Nationalism," 1945 Kant, in his essay "Perpetual Peace," lays out the maxims of cynical despotism and misjudged realism by which the leaders of great powers and colossi have generally accommodated their hunger for power to the need for an explanation. The maxims are: (1) Fac et excusa. (2) Si fecisti, nega. (3) Divide et impera. Roughly translated: (1) Act now, justify later. (2) If you committed the crime, deny it. (3) Divide and conquer. “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor--the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the right of others.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 “Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK Jr. The bland observation of Nazi Hermann Goering, made during the Nuremburg trials, bears frequent repeating. "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." "In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him." - George Orwell, 1984 "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

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SERIAL ADULTERER!!!!!!!!!

Posted at October 6, 2008 8:50 PM in response to McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" McCain Supporter: "Terrorist!"
Susan Eisenhower - Why I'm Backing Obama - washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102621.html

Posted at September 25, 2008 2:52 PM in response to Obama Has Narrow Lead In Today's Tracking Polls
From antiwar.com:

Neocons, Ex-Israeli Diplomats Push Islamophobic Video

by Ali Gharib
with Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe

A group of hard-line US neoconservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November US presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic.

The group, the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), is working with another organization called the Clarion Fund, which produced the 60-minute video and is itself tied closely to an Israeli organization called Aish Hatorah.......

.....But CAIR has filed a complaint asking the Federal Election Commission to review the actions of the Clarion Fund both as a foreign entity and as a nonprofit....

ENTIRE ARTICLE- http://www.antiwar.com/ips/gharib.php?articleid=13503

Posted at September 25, 2008 2:44 PM in response to Obsession DVD Distributors: Would We Try To Influence Election? Never!
"Key West resident Joelna Marcus received a phone call today. She was asked if she is Jewish, and she replied in the affirmative.

She was asked if she was religious.

She was then asked if her opinion of Barack Obama would change if she knew that Obama had given lots and lots of money to the PLO."

SOURCE- http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/15/rovian-push-polling-in-florida-links-obama-to-plo

Posted at September 15, 2008 6:52 PM in response to Obama's Jews
I Wanna Be a Cowboy Lyrics (Boys Dont Cry)

Riding on the range,
I've got my hat - on,
I've got my boots - dusty.

I've got my saddle
On my horse.
He's called....T-t-t-t-t-trigger
Of course.

I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

(woman's voice)
Riding on the chuck wagon,
Following my man.
His name is McCain,
Can you believe that?
Camping on the prairie
Plays havoc with my hair.
Makes me feel quite dirty,
Though we all do sometimes

I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

Looking like a hero,
Six-gun at my side,
Chewing my tobacco.
Out on the horizon,
I see a puff of smoke.
Indians on the warpath,
(Indian voice) White man speak-em with forked tongue.
Or not.
I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

Posted at August 20, 2008 10:56 PM in response to Dressing Up the Ranch
“Curiouser and curiouser!”

Posted at August 3, 2008 5:40 PM in response to The Anthrax Panic, ABC, Glenn Greenwald, and the End Times
"What if Joe was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone...."

Posted at July 17, 2008 7:17 PM in response to Frieeeend-ship.... Friendship.
MORE ON BUSH AND OSWALD CHAMBERS-

[T]here is a way to get a clearer picture of religion's role in this White House. Every morning President Bush reads a devotional from "My Utmost for His Highest," a collection of homilies by a Protestant minister named Oswald Chambers, who lived a century ago. As Mr. Bush explained in an interview broadcast on Tuesday on Fox News, reading Chambers is a way for him "on a daily basis to be in the Word." [...]

There's a kind of optimism in Chambers, but it's not exactly sunny. To understand it you have to understand the theme that dominates "My Utmost": committing your life to Jesus Christ - "absolute and irrevocable surrender of the will" - and staying committed. "If we turn away from obedience for even one second, darkness and death are immediately at work again." In all things and at all times, you must do God's will.

But what exactly does God want? Chambers gives little substantive advice. There is no great stress on Jesus' ethical teaching - not much about loving your neighbor or loving your enemy. (And Chambers doesn't seem to share Isaiah's hope of beating swords into plowshares. "Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm.") But the basic idea is that, once you surrender to God, divine guidance is palpable. "If you obey God in the first thing he shows you, then he instantly opens up the next truth to you," Chambers writes.

And you shouldn't let your powers of reflection get in the way. Chambers lauds Abraham for preparing to slay his son at God's command without, as the Bible put it, conferring "with flesh and blood." Chambers warns: "Beware when you want to 'confer with flesh and blood' or even your own thoughts, insights, or understandings - anything that is not based on your personal relationship with God. These are all things that compete with and hinder obedience to God."

Once you're on the right path, setbacks that might give others pause needn't phase you. As Chambers noted, "Paul said, in essence, 'I am in the procession of a conqueror, and it doesn't matter what the difficulties are, for I am always led in triumph.' " Indeed, setbacks may have a purpose, Chambers will tell Mr. Bush: "God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as his saint to get you in direct contact with himself." Faith "by its very nature must be tested and tried."

Some have marveled at Mr. Bush's refusal to admit any mistakes in Iraq other than "catastrophic success." But what looks like negative feedback to some of us - more than 4,000 dead Americans, more than 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians and the biggest incubator of anti-American terrorists in history - is, through Chambers's eyes, not cause for doubt. Indeed, seemingly negative feedback may be positive feedback, proof that God is there, testing your faith, strengthening your resolve.

Posted at July 4, 2008 4:48 PM in response to Richard Perle is Back (IRAN!!!) and Joe Klein Skewers Neo-Idiots. The Iraq War Gang is Back!
FROM RAHM EMMANUEL:

"Madam Speaker, in 1993, when professional-baseball owners were deciding how to rehabilitate the reputation of baseball, after the player's strike, they debated whether to enact a wild-card rule to allow a second-place team into the playoffs. Only one owner at the time voted against this: Texas Rangers general partner George Bush.

When the rule passed 27-1, at the time the President said, "I made my arguments and went down in flames...History will prove me right." [Associated Press, 9/9/93]

Since then, nearly a third of World Series champions have been wild-card teams, including the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox.

The rule helped saved baseball as history has shown.

And just like his baseball predictions, President Bush sings a very similar tune about Iraq, he says, "History will prove whether I'm right. I think I'll be right..."[Whitehouse.gov, March 29, 2006]

Really?

Five years today since his speech on "Mission Accomplished," and let's take stock.

More than 4,000 lives have been lost.

Tens of thousands of American men and women have been injured.

We've spent over $475 billion in taxpayer dollars, with the price tag continually going up.

History will be the judge of whether once again George Bush's record and America's reputation will go down in flames.

At this rate he's going to be 0 for 2."

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WILL BUSH MAKE IT 0 FOR 3??????

Before dawn on most days, Newsweek recently reported, President George W. Bush gets up to read his Bible and to pray. His devotional guide, as it is for many evangelicals, is "My Utmost for His Highest", by Scottish preacher Oswald Chambers (1874-1917).

Most Americans already believe that George Bush is not much influenced by facts, but rather by his ideology. Already he is reportedly thinking of his legacy and dreaming that history will prove him "right." More disturbing are his religious beliefs, in particular his daily readings of Scottish preacher Oswald Chambers, who argues that if plans and events go wrong, it just means that God is testing believers' faith, not that strategies should be changed. This may also explain Bush's aversion to diplomacy. After all, God does not "negotiate" with evil."

In the longest run, divinely guided decisions will be vindicated, and any gathering mountains of evidence to the contrary may themselves be signs of God's continuing involvement. God is testing us. He is purifying the Church.

Posted at July 4, 2008 3:39 PM in response to Richard Perle is Back (IRAN!!!) and Joe Klein Skewers Neo-Idiots. The Iraq War Gang is Back!
DON'T MISS THIS ONE BY AttAckerman -

Reputation Gained Through Intimidation, Pacifism No Longer Tradition

By: Spencer Ackerman

Oh look. It's the Yid Gestapo.

Joe Klein, in a column supporting the surge, mentioned......

ARTICLE- http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/theyhavecomeforyouruncoolneice/

Posted at July 4, 2008 2:10 PM in response to Time's Joe Klein versus Foxman's Anti-Defamation League on THE NEOCONS! (Plus Clifford May Weighs In)