Mike's Blog Round Up
Hey everyone, I'm Bill Wolfrum. You know, after a tough week like this, I like to sit back with a bottle of H2Om, get super-hydrated and get my zazen on like there's no Mahāyāna.
Corrente: Mitt Romney likes Mel Sembler. Because anyone willing to have a girl beaten, raped, starved and imprisoned to scare her straight is good enough to raise money for Mitt.
The Strange Death of Liberal America: If the military wasn't bad enough, the Pentagon's briefing on it was truly disturbing.
Thoughts from an Empty Head: Luckily, when the re-education centers open, you won't need a passport to enter.
Excuse the mess ... that was just my head: Dear Democratic Congress, explain to me why I voted for you again?
The Gypsy's Caravan: When Dick Cheney is being protested in Wyoming, it's safe to say his popularity is next to nil.
Angry Brown Butch: The latest on the Mariah Lopez case in New York.
I'd like to thank John, Mike and Blue Gal for the opportunity and thank you all for having me here at the Round up. Keep up the great work everybody.
Next up is Mark Hoback of The Aristocrats.
The Bleeding continues
TUCSON, Ariz. - First Magnus Financial Corp., a national mortgage lender that is suspending operations, says it has laid off 99 percent of its nearly 6,000 employees nationwide and closed all of its more than 300 offices.
And the heads up last week on being ready for bank runs. The first came with the Californians rushing to pull money out of Countrywide Bank.
Californians rush to pull money from Countrywide Bank
Parent of home loan company assures that bank is stable
LA Times
Published on: 08/17/07
LOS ANGELES — Anxious customers jammed the phone lines and Web site of Countrywide Bank and crowded its branch offices to pull out their savings because of concerns about the financial problems of the mortgage lender that owns the bank.
Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest home-loan company in the United States, sought Thursday to assure depositors and the financial industry that both it and its bank were fiscally stable. And federal regulators said they weren't alarmed by the volume of withdrawals from the bank.
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2007/08/17/countryw...
Just an FYI Om = yoga, not Buddhism.
New York Post goes after Edwards. Today's front page under bold glaring tabloid headline "Robbin Hoods" http://www.nypost.com/seven/08182007/news/nationalnews/edwards_hedge_fun...
Funny, in 6 years I have never once seen a picture of Cheney or Bush on the front page of Rupert Murdoch's reich wing propaganda rag with any of the following bold glaring headlines "LIAR" "WAR CRIMINAL" "BUDGET BUSTER" "FEAR MONGER" "WAR MONGER" "WAR PROFITEER" "GROSS INCOMPENTENT" "DUMBASS".
If Murdoch's going after you then you must be doing something right.
Today's NY Post front page http://www.nypost.com/
Re-education center linkee no workee.
Re: The Strange Death of Liberal America
The report, and Col Ritchies' seeming blasé reaction to events, do not address another issue: How this war is gradually degrading our warriors' conformance to long-standing American values. Genuine morality, if you want to call it that. The duties we are laying upon many requires that they become thugs and monsters if they are to succeed at those duties. Success creates an unbearable trauma upon conscience, a pain which some seek to escape through suicide. As an example:
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE SHATTERED
It is the middle of a winter's night in 2005 when a Marine corporal named Cloy Richards, working guard duty on the graveyard shift at Camp Pendleton, wakes his mother with an anguished phone call. "Mom, I've got a gun in my mouth, and I'm gonna pull the trigger," Tina Richards recalls her 21-year-old son saying. "I killed too many women and children. I don't deserve a mom and a sister??
http://democracyrising.us/content/view/1022/164/
I am sure that many of the neocons, the ones who have never risk anything but who fomented this war, who are intent upon turning America into a tightly controlled police state, considered that the wars-without-end would make for a useful kind of OJT. The habituation to atrocity and horror would come in handy should the time come when it was necessary to apply the methods of war to the streets of American. If the neocons and totalitarians are expecting to have a cadre of conscience-anesthetized troops available and eager to do their bidding on the home front(should they, say, declare martial law), things may not work out quite the way they expected.
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