Nader accepting GOP help.

Contrast and compare to McCain saying no to joining Bush.

Change for America has details and a discussion thread.

Question: If those who have access to the media and a ready made audience are punished for speaking up, then how should a normal Joe like me feel?

slacktivist talks about the Abominable Shellfish answering the question, “Why some Christians hate gays but love bacon?”.

Read it and then think about President Bush saying, “I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn?t do my job.”.

Despotism (Archive.org): A movie shown to school children soon after WWII to explain what is Despotism and how to judge any society on a scale between Democracy and it. Simple, short (11 minutes) and frightening. After seeing, ask yourself, where do you think we are?

my former battery-mate (Tony Pierce): One of the most in your face weblogs you can find, Tony hits Mr. Bush on what it means to be a Christian.

Bill Moyers on democracy excrutiate (Metafilter): Great discussion on democracy, faith and the real threats to both. Your average fundamentalist’s head will explode.

A Cloud Over Civilisation (Guardian): on Corporate power and it’s force in policy: via rc3.org.

Damn straight. McCain lays it down (CNN).

The Republican party of today is not the Republican party as I understood it to be: The party to keep the government off our backs and that attempts to govern the least. No, the Republican party of today is not only on our backs, but in our libraries, schools, credit card statements, and bedrooms.