Onward, Christian Soldiers

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/18/gardiner-iran/

I wonder where the troops would come from.

Also:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone62.html

I like the pope, the pope smokes dope.

Patriotic

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060914-7751.html

Isn’t a patriot someone who is willing to die for their freedom? When did patriot start to mean so afraid that they’ll give their government any power to feel a little bit safer? I’d rather be afraid of terrorists than my own government. I’ve never met a terrorist, but I’ve broken the law before. I’ve never seen a car bomb, but I’ve been inside a police car. I hope they hear me when I drop the f-bomb all over their wiretaps.

Modern Ghost Town

http://englishrussia.com/?p=293

Chernobyl. Nature takes her revenge.

ROCK MUSIC IN THE HOUSE

Marla’s Slippery and Sexy:
https://www.slashtmp.iu.edu/public/download.php?FILE=cwestnea/41583P5aJjO

Pat’s drum solo recording got messed up, so me and Ryan just fucked with it for a while. The actual drum solo will be less insane and more awesome. Appart for that and a few tweaks (Saxes are a little loud in the verses and the bass drum is a little low), this is the final mix. Exciting!

Indiana Politics

http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.htm

A huge amount of data on Iraq, found via Dick Lugar’s website.

So I was at Dick Lugar’s website because I wanted to find out what his position on the military tribunals is. It’s interesting that Lugar has been working with Obama on both energy independence and the reduction of unsecured weapons in former Soviet countries. Indiana’s an odd state in that we are strongly Republican, yet we have a tradition of moderate senators. Also a surprisingly internationally focused group of Congressmen. Lugar is chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, Bayh is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, and Lee Hamilton, the former Rep., was chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in addition to being the vice-chair on the 9/11 commission. Also Dan Burton is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee, in which Burton currently serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and as Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

And then of course there is Hostettler. It’s pretty interesting, however, that he was opposed to the opposed to the war.