Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Tuesday Dec 09, 2008 8:00amJ.M. Bell: Indicted for war crimes? Visit beautiful Utah, this century's Buenos Aires
The Daily Banter: Dead babies can take care of themselves. Faith based, incompetent ideologues are killing American civilians as fast they're killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan
ginandtacos: Obama has noticed, since his election, the stampede for guns, and in a statement Sunday, tried to reassure the panicked weapon stockpilers that he has no designs on their arsenals. But if you think that this hysteria is all about the fear of impending legislation, well, let me disabuse you of that stupid, potentially treasonous assumption.
Making Light: How to read an American newspaper
The Brad Blog: Humboldt County, California's first-of-its-kind citizen oversight program found 197 ballots not counted by the Diebold system in one precinct. The company has known about the flaw since 2004 but failed to notify Humboldt officials or the California Secretary of State. How many other states/counties know about this problem?
Senate Guru: Retirement/Resignation Watch
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I'm buying more guns and ammo to protect myself from the trogs who think there's gonna be a race war.
mmmmmmmmmmmm...... humboldt kind
anyhoo, the "citizen oversight program" is both inspiring and depressing.
inspiring that people are getting that active in their community; depressing that, sadly, it has become vital and necessary.
but, really, democracy itself was intended to be a citizen oversight program.
Might call her up and get the skinny on this.
Didn't hear anything about it. But it supports my decision not to vote. Elections are fixed and my vote really wouldn't have counted.
Whodathunkit, another Il. Governor gets arrested for corruption.
Seems par for the coarse really, Chicago politics, go figure.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_...
he floats like small pieces of bread and weighs as much as a duck. thus: a witch!
my point: yesterday's decision to suspend business with BoA, due to their asshole-ness, makes this arrest all the more interesting... and troubling.
(note: i am not saying he's not guilty of the charges [due process, and all], just that the timing, the severity, the media coverage, etc all smell rather fishy. stink, stank, stunk.)
"What is we? Some flotsam? Some jetsam? That floats by the will of the stream?"
Can it be that all the prisons that Blago and his ilk said we needed to keep our streets safe will FINALLY be put to useful purpose?
Missing ballots in Humboldt.
Transparency Project
http://www.daywithoutagay.org/
Wednesday 12/10/08
Can Day Without Workers be far behind?
Are "we" finally going to take an organized approach to
harnessing our powers for good?
The protagonist says Obama is a 'Communist'.
One of the commentators points out that Obama is not a 'Communist' but rather a 'Nazi'!.
Fascinating, and truly terrifying at the same time.
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Meanwhile, as I always point out, the Fat Cats are making off with their
Bailoutheist.for McCain's senate in an AZ Repig primary!
Hayworth was a House representative and won the "Not Exactly a Rocket Scientist" award from a bipartisan committee.
Hayworth's experience prior to politics?
He was a SPORTSCASTER!
Just like Sarah "I'm as dumb as this bag of rocks" Palin.
We are so "blessed" here in AZ!
I hope those Blackwater scumbags get everything they deserve.
although, instead of being able to celebrate a victory for justice, we are going to watch again as the mercenary company itself walk away without charge.
eugene robinson said it best:
"The federal manslaughter indictment of five Blackwater Worldwide security guards in the horrific massacre of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad may look like an exercise in accountability, but it's probably the exact opposite -- a whitewash that absolves the government and corporate officials who should bear ultimate responsibility."
Nothing at Firedoglake, Huffington Post, Raw Story Daily Kos over the last couple of weeks about what is taking place with Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Not sure if Crooks and Liars has touched this critical story? This topic is where the MSM and the progressive blogosphere merge
What else is new? NPR's programming, Talk of the Nation, Diane Rehm, Terri Gross not touching this story.
Unchecked settler violence prompts fears of intifada
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/i...
Jewish settlers illegally occupying (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28049089/ another Palestinians home pushed back
By Leslie Susser · December 8, 2008
Settlers sit near a Muslim grave in Hebron defaced with a Magen David near the house evicted by Israeli security forces on Dec. 4, 2008. A Palestinian man stands at the entrance to his home defaced with Magen Davids and the word revenge on Dec. 4, 2008 near the house from which settlers were evicted.
http://jta.org/news/article/2008/12/08/100140...
Settlers sit near a Muslim grave in Hebron defaced with a Magen David near the house evicted by Israeli security forces on Dec. 4, 2008.
NEWS ANALYSIS
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Concerned by settler violence against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered Israeli security forces to apply a zero-tolerance policy toward extremist settlers.
Olmert and the country's top security officials fear that unchecked settler violence could spark a new Palestinian intifada, enrage the Muslim world and compromise Israel's international standing.
http://jta.org/news/article/2008/12/08/100140...
Hebron evictions: Jewish settlers shoot Palestinians
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has released graphic footage of a shooting incident that took place after yesterday's forced evictions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/de...
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/...
UN condemns Israeli settler clashes
Israeli riot police evicted settlers from the disputed building after days of clashes with Palestinians
The UN Security Council has condemned a rampage by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Hebron, which came after they were evicted from a disputed building in the West Bank city.
December 5, 2008
Israeli Settler Pogrom Against Palestinians; CFR/Brookings Report Suggests Linking U.S. Aid to Settlement Freeze
http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2008/12/
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