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Stateside: Somewhere, Someone, Some Time
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 2:29 pm | Rosalea Barker
Oh, Lord! Let this farce that's called party conventions be over soon. I've just seen Rudy Giuliani addressing a hall full of thousands of Republicans use his speech to enunciate why people should vote for Bush instead of Kerry -- as if anyone in ... More >>
Convention Watch: Republican Party Convention
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 11:37 am | Rosalea Barker
The Republicans have to be glad that John McCain isn't running as vice president for the Democrats. He was on the CBS Sunday morning political talking head show, Face the Nation, this morning and, based on this morning's performance, I'd vote ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Yo, Semite!
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 11:35 am | Rosalea Barker
This is an account of a conference on Anti-Semitism and the Left that was held in Oakland, California, from 21-23 August, 2004. (And you thought it was about my visit to Sammy Davis Jr National Park!) More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Political Allsorts
Monday, 23 August 2004, 10:49 am | Rosalea Barker
The last week has seen the airwaves being bombarded with the most wonderful argument for third party politics that any electoral reformer could have hoped for. Hours and hours of news time have been devoted to the pathetic he said/he said politics ... More >>
Staeside with Rosalea: C'mon Honey, Light My Fire
Monday, 16 August 2004, 2:51 pm | Rosalea Barker
Wow! What other word can be used to describe the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens? Is it just me, or was the final part of the ceremony very sort of clitoral-vulvic, if not downright G-spot? More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: What I'm Looking At
Monday, 9 August 2004, 2:33 pm | Rosalea Barker
Now that I have joined the modern world and have at least basic cable, I can choose from 82 channels of television instead of about a dozen free-to-air. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Let Me Explain
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 12:50 am | Rosalea Barker
At three o'clock last Sunday morning I sprang awake from a grumpy-making dream with a fully fledged idea in mind for Stateside. It had bubbled up from my astonishment the evening before as I watched an item in a primetime national network news bulletin, ... More >>
Sleeper Cells Awake And Their Name Is John Kerry!
Monday, 2 August 2004, 3:34 pm | Rosalea Barker
So. There was a reason John Kerry's jawline made me think of a village in Transylvania - his grandfather changed the family name from Kohn to Kerry, and converted from the Jewish faith to Catholicism before leaving Eastern Europe for the United States ... More >>
Stateside Convention Watch: Churl Or Hurl?
Friday, 30 July 2004, 1:43 pm | Rosalea Barker
That's the choice confronting anyone watching the Democratic National Convention this week. And in the hurl department, there's always the choice of your boot or your undigested dinner. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Taking My Brain For A Spin
Monday, 26 July 2004, 12:31 am | Rosalea Barker
I don't know why people got their thongs in a knot when the governor of California called the Democratic legislators in Sacramento girlie-men for not standing up to special interest groups. More >>
Nader-Camejo Kickoff Campaign Rally, San Francisco
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 4:15 pm | Rosalea Barker
What a difference four years makes. In 2000, I went to a couple of Nader rallies, and they were big affairs, held in large venues, with people like Patti Smith supporting him. More >>
How To Have A No War Voice Heard In This Election
Monday, 19 July 2004, 12:10 am | Rosalea Barker
There is one simple thing that all the millions of people in the United States who oppose the war in Iraq can do to express their sentiments this election: they can work to get Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo on the ballot in their state. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Men And Men
Monday, 12 July 2004, 1:23 pm | Rosalea Barker
Sorry, porn-trollers who've gotten here by mistake. This is about the other p-word: politics. Specifically the Kerry-Edwards combo that doesn't seem to be able to keep its hands off each other. It's so embarrassingly awful that the late-night talk shows ... More >>
Stateside: In Transit On The Fourth Of July
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 12:21 am | Rosalea Barker
I've moved to the land where Jesus es el senor, and the brother at the diner yesterday morning wished me a blessed day. Well, I'm not quite moved -- there's still a bunch of stuff back at the old place, but it's getting near dark and I'm waiting to be ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Michael Moore Party Talk
Wednesday, 30 June 2004, 9:38 am | Rosalea Barker
So. Now I've been to my first political therapy group session, a house party organized by a political action committee around the audio link-up with Michael Moore on Monday night. The audio from this link-up is available at the MoveOnPAC.org website. More >>
Stateside: Film Review - Fahrenheit 9/11
Tuesday, 29 June 2004, 11:57 am | Rosalea Barker
There's a point during Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 when I felt like I was watching a BBC costume drama. You know the type - with the rich and powerful family entertaining their rich and powerful friends amid the glitter of candlelight reflecting off crystal. ... More >>
Stateside: Rosalea Goes To Washington (Part 2)
Monday, 28 June 2004, 12:47 am | Rosalea Barker
Now, where was I? That's right, in Chicago's Union Station waiting for the train to DC, having just arrived on the Southwest Chief from Albuquerque. Since starting on my Amtreks, so to speak, in 2000, I have been on all four national routes that ... More >>
Stateside Images: Rosalea Goes To Washington
Monday, 28 June 2004, 12:45 am | Rosalea Barker
Flying from California to New Mexico you cross the deserts east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Click for big version Bus shop at the Albuquerque Amtrak depot. The Southwest Chief is in the background. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Convention Watch
Monday, 28 June 2004, 12:43 am | Rosalea Barker
Two national presidential nominating conventions are taking place this weekend, but before I get on to them, I should update my earlier report about the Libertarian Convention. Delegates there chose Michael Badnarik as their presidential candidate. More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Yosemite Photos
Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 11:42 am | Rosalea Barker
IMAGES TO GO WITH THE LATEST STATESIDE WITH ROSALEA….. We interrupt the previously scheduled travelog to bring you the Nightmare that is Yosemite National Park on a summer's day. More >>
