June 01, 2009 07:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
In this small world, Dr. George Tiller's long-time lawyer, Dan Monnat, has been one of my closest friends for over 40 years. Tiller's murder was American Taliban terrorism, period. We already know the identities of the killer's accomplices, and it isn't only media wingmutts and Christianist frauds that encourage violence. Our own David Neiwert has been writing about these "Eliminationists" for years. Time to stand up to cowards and extremists
Prairie Weather: Oops...maybe we'd better rethink universal healthcare
BAGnewsNotes: Sunday news show roundup
Mercury Rising: Some Good News
Discourse.net: Stark foreclosure data for 2009
what's good for General Motors really is good for the USA, then destiny is dealing a harsh lesson to The Land of the Free.
Agreed. It's time the media in the U.S. accept responsibility for those in their employ who incite violence. If they won't fire or sanction people like Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Rush Limpbaugh, Ann Coulter and others, then the FCC should fine them to the hilt and/or remove their broadcast licenses.
This ain't Janet Jackson, folks. Murder based on ideology is domestic terrorism if that term ever had a meaning.
Hate speech isn't "free speech." It's ignorance, and it's a threat.
Everytime a liberal says, "oh but religion helps people do good" or some such they give cover for these more extreme versions of religion. Even your silence on these matters is tacit consent.
Wake the fuck up!! Speak the fuck out!!!
Remember religious moderation is not a bullwark against religious extremism.
GM in its chapter 11 filing showed, as of March 31, 2009 these numbers:
a. Total assets on a consolidated basis: $82,290,000,000
b. Total debts on a consolidated basis: $172,810,000,000
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It and Citigroup are out of the Dow.
The Dow is up 200 points. One pundit bases the rise on reports of industrial expansion in China.
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Oil is at $67.56 also said to be related to those China reports.
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What is real, the oil in the ground or the petrodollars in the stock markets.
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Behind it all is the reality of peak oil, the links are here.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
The first things the the "Right to Lifers" worried about, was how this would hurt their cause. Secretly they praise these acts of violence, Publicly they make very very feeble attempts to act like they don't agree with the actions and call the people who commit the crimes "Isolated cases".
Bill, Rush, Savage and the rest are all perpetrators of this kind of violence.
I despise the mainstream media. MTV is way up on my list of "worst people in the world".
BUT last night was a once in a lifetime moment. Bruno, one of Sasha
Barron Cohen's many colorful comedic characters, wound up with his ass
and nut sack in Eminems's wannabe gangta, homophobic, douchebag face.
I watched this video over and over.
For such a blatantly wannabe with "street cred" and long history of
homophobic and misogynistic and exploitive and disgusting music, to
get so utterly and powerfully humiliated is worthy of remark!
Thanks for the link!
... properly understood, begins with the assumption of collective guilt.
That's how cretinous slogan-slingers like Sean Hannity can devise a demonology connecting everyone from Osama bin Laden to the Democratic Party activist down the block, and deranged murderers likes James Adkisson and (allegedly) Dannie Baker can justify their rampages, at least in their own minds.
After 9-11, opportunists on the Right promoted a doctrine of collective guilt implicating practically everyone who had ever criticized U.S. foreign policy, spoken a sympathetic word on behalf of the Palestinians and their plight, opposed the embargo of Iraq, defended the Bill of Rights, etc.
And now in the aftermath of the brazen murder of Mr. Tiller, we're hearing that the "accomplices" in this crime include practically anyone who criticized the practice of late-term abortion or can be accused of an ideological affinity with the suspected murderer.
Either approach, pursued long enough, conduces to "elminationism," if that term is to be considered anything other than a convenient term of political abuse.
The best news I have heard in the last decade or so.
On making anyplant carry and produce the THC gene found in Marijuana.
Asked if the resulting plants could be used in ways similar to cannabis, Vale replied, "Well, you can't make twine out of a tomato plant, but if someone were to dry it and smoke it, all of the medicinal and psychotropic effects of marijuana would be present. And what's more, we have learned that tomatoes, in particular, actually produce more THC than cannabis itself."
But is it legal? "Actually, yes,"
You must watch Jesus Camp, you must read American Fascist and for a good comparison between "techniques" read god is Not Great.
Here is an excerpt of Jesus Camp from a Mike Papantonio interview on Good Morning America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtrug7gUVbM The topic is religious teaching versus brainwashing.
If you shake the bottle enough, the cork will pop.
Then, you blame the cork.
Thanks Mr. Mike! A splendid example of the wide range of human thoughts, opinions and their relative actions.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
The Tiller story is horrible, horrible, horrible. And we'll see how much the MSM whitewashes as usual that those cheering his death are typical of the far right.
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