How much time have you spent with people advocating for impeachment?  Granted there are quite of few shrill individuals that spout off some ignorant and non-intelligent things but not everyone is like that.

I live in the hear of the Vermont impeachment movement and it's been amazing to see the number of diverse people get involved. My favorite stoey comes from Town Meeting Day where a leading Democrat in the town of Wilmington introduced an impeachment resolution and the person who seconded it was the chair of the Wilmington Republicans. That was an amazing bipartisan effort I've seen in quite a while.

There has been support from young as nine to 88 years old, I've met evangelicals from northern Vermont who've gotten behind the effort and witnessed 200-250 Vermonters jam packed the House chamber for the House vote on impeachment. If you saw what I saw, you'd be amazed to see how many people were not wing-nuts. Many of them never even participated in politics. So it was really inspring.

I think our shot at impeachment is just as good as the Democrats trying to end the war and bring the troops home. The difference is, and history backs this up, is that impeachment can lead to a speedy withdrawl. The impeachment hearings brought to light some signifcant information on the war in Vietnam and REALLY set the ball rolling in bringing them home. I think the same could happen now.

Other than that, that latest impeachment poll by the American Research Group  was encouraging and I think as time goes on more Americans will jump onto the idea as the right and appropriate solution to the war and ESPECIALLY to our system of goverment. As John Nichols said last night on Bill Moyers

Impeachment is not a punishment but a cure .

Inge's remarks reflect the fears of serving generals that the government is so overwhelmed by Iraq that it is in danger of losing sight of the threat of failure in Afghanistan. One source, who is familiar with the fears of the senior officers, told The Observer: 'If you talk privately to the generals they are very very worried.

Sex? Gays? Terrorists? God? In BushCo's fear-drunk world, only one question really matters.
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Fear is bombing Afghanistan, right now. Fear is why we are decimating Iraq. A massive murderous budget-busting U.N.-hating war on a nonthreatening nation would have been unspeakable and intolerable had the GOP not deliberately engaged in truly world-class fearmongering beforehand, all about leveraging the sadness of 9/11 and tying it to nonexistent WMDs and biotoxins and nukes and scary bearded foreigners who are all hell bent on slaughtering American babies with rusty machetes.

REPORTER: Mr. Bin Ladin, will the end of the United States' presence in Saudi Arabia, their withdrawal, will that end your call for jihad against the United States and against the US ?

BIN LADIN: So, the driving-away jihad against the US does not stop with its withdrawal from the Arabian peninsula, but rather it must desist from aggressive intervention against Muslims in the whole world.

Regarding the school case, I don't know much about it except that the majority of the court ruled that schools cannot use race to make school diversity assignments and that the dissenters disagreed, believing that such diversity assignments pass the strict scrutiny test.

You probably wont be surprised that I tend to agree with the majority (without knowing more about the case, at least). At some point, labeling people according to their ancestry and then allocating resources, benefits, or burdens based on that label is something that governments should be getting out of the habit of. The dissenter's position is a perilous one because rather than a straightforward "racial discrimination is wrong" it champions the more easily abused "racial discrimination is wrong unless we like it" standard.

This seems to be the thing that you are talking about, Dad, when you write that there is such a thing as "good" arson: backfires. The idea that some racial discrimination is a good thing is, I think, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment and, aside from its legal status, altogether an immoral one.

I said you seemed more outraged than when you left, but your Libby statements are just what I expected them to be when I heard about the commutations. Well, not you specifically, but more generally the gang here at TalkLeft.

Finally, I'm still waiting for you to explain why parents forcing their children to join the military is a good thing, even for those parents who support the war. It seems to me that the children should have something to say about that, shouldn't they?

As ever, you are correct that I haven't joined up, attacks on my manhood notwithstanding. And my words about the Iraq war and on any other subject stand very well on their own, regardless of my personal status.

Instead we played football, er, soccer, with nine university kids from Alajuela (on the Caribbean side) who had rented a vacation house in the small town we were staying in (on the pacific side). They took one look at my buddy and me running along the beach one day, thought "soccer players," and waved us over to play with them.

It was casual beach soccer and therefore fun even though I hadn't played soccer since I was nine or ten years old. My buddy plays here in L.A. and is, of course, just sickening with fancy footwork. We ended up playing with them for the next five nights, too.

Our penultimate night there, they treated us to a banquet on the beach of beans, tortillas, sausage, and an unusual mixed drink that I wish I knew what was (something with raisins in it). Only two of them spoke English, but that was alright, because my buddy and I needed the practice in Spanish. Incidentally, I probably learned more creative ways to curse than ever before.

Our most interesting conversations involved comparisons of Costa Rica's and the U.S.'s health care systems, talking about school and deciding on careers, and talking one fellow out of idolising Derek Jeter.