July 27, 2009 05:45 AM
Mike's Blog Round Up
Blue Gal filling in for Mike this week, taking this opportunity to link the international activist bloggers featured at this past weekend's BlogHer09 Conference:
Known Turf, India: Oh, you think the US has bad political sex scandal coverups?
Indigenous Bolivia, revealing and welcoming the hidden and banned indigenous peoples of Bolivia (and the only blogger I know blogging in English on this subject).
Mideast Youth People in Iraq marching on behalf of democracy in Iran.
Pilirani Semu-Banda, Malawi: Africa steps up the fight against maternal and infant mortality.
Gender and Me, Nigeria: Yes, India has Bollywood, but Nigeria has Nollywood. Interview with a Nollywood director.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHv61Sm39ug
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Whatever makes your cobra spit ys.
Those people dance like snakes.
Thanks for the mideast youth post. Bob gates is visiting the middle east this week, possibly to discuss Iran?
This "policeman" needs to be fired.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmQ3...
Yikes. "Defend your civil rights, and I'll shoot you." There's still a significant contingent in the LA police who think like this. I'm shocked, shocked that the National Review would print such a thing.
It's my world. You're living in it.
Arrogant bastard.
the exploitation of women, children and indigenous people happens in every single, stinkin' country on the globe.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S.. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary) 11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
The first lady has an arm buster working for her? The Obama's are a more brutal regime than I thought.
She's a poorly paid armbuster, for what its worth.
What was the point of the post, Evet?
Its expensive to run a first lady?
First ladies don't run themselves?
I doubt the first lady of thirty years ago had a million dollar staff. I wonder what it pays to be first lady?
I don't think it is a rip on Michelle or the Obamas so much as it is a rip on waste and bureaucracy.
Couldn't Michelle break arms herself in a recession?
Ms. Obama could bust arms herself, but she'd probably still need someone to schedule them and someone to assist the scheduler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM4Zf-JmJPc&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/gop-...
Plus another idiot:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/inho...
HEY!
I posted a comment yesterday about how Fox ran a head line about "Iran threatens to strike Israel". Well it turns out, MSNBC ran the same headline, and I am assuming the rest of the major networks did as well.
What Iran said is that they would retaliate if Israel hit first. There is nothing wrong with a country defending itself. These headlines support the notion that the mainstream media has a vested, cooperative interest in a war with Iran. You will get no unbiased reporting on Iran from the mainstream media. They are all on the same page/meme with this.
War with Iran is guaranteed now that the watch dogs and the attack dogs have the same owner.
In Fox's defense, Iran does have a lot of oil and natural gas; and it seems to be populated by uppity brown people.
I think that should read Israel threatens to attack Iran
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/m...
That's funny it reads differently in English than it does in American......
That story of the 7 year-old murdered and left in the BJP leader's car is just sad. No news on the case since July 9 on the google. The girls name was Yogita Thakre, and she deserves some police attention.
Cool!
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Instead, there's privatization and Afghanization of a war that looks more like Vietnam every day, right down to the opium poppies. And the Phoenix Program. And COINTELPRO.
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