Commenting on ThingsComeUndone’s diary, How much worse will the Oil Spill be if we have a Hurricane?, geoschmoe raises an interesting point: are we seeing a ‘life’ vs. ‘anti-life’ war, in the way we relate with nature? Oh yeah! I combine two of my own recent diaries in reply.

Rachel Maddow, following-up the Thursday (April 29) interview with FAIR President Dan Stein, goes to the heart of what ails Arizona today. As is true of every cell in our bodies, some degree of separation from others, of course, is necessary. Far too often, malicious divides result deliberately from the type of malevolent myth-making undertaken by FAIR.

Absolute divisions, of the type imagined by proponents of the Arizona law, simply do not exist in nature. You’re asking for trouble by trying to achieve an impossibility. Just as all cells have semi-permeable membranes, we share our borders with our neighbors. implying a relationship based on compassionate cooperation, not belligerent competition. What is this, some kind of nationalist tantrum?

At least Bill Moyers still pays attention to single payer.

America’s Voice has taken ads out against Representative Patrick Murphy for his support of the “Bridge Resolution” — a resolution that focuses on enforcement and provides no real answers to our immigration crisis, making it the “Bridge to Nowhere.”

The real question is, what else does Dobbs have to do to get fired? He called Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst a “public service,” perpetuated the birther conspiracy, has congratulated the Minutemen, and just last week was honored by the anti-immigrant group FAIR – designated a Hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Having one single-payer advocate out of 17 witnesses will probably prevent having protesters dragged out in handcuffs. Maybe it shouldn’t.

On May 30, 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter Brisenia Flores were shot to death, purportedly by a group of far-right anti-immigrant activists who broke into the Flores home by posing as police officers. On Friday, Shawna Forde, anti-immigrant activist and Executive Director of the Minutemen American Defense, (MAD) along with accomplices Jason Eugene Bush and Albert Robert Gaxiola were arrested on two counts of first-degree murder and burglary charges related to the Flores murders.