So many questions. Sadly, many of these questions have obvious answers making them rhetorical. First, what is the most accurate way to categorize such incidents: War crime? Terrorism? Genocide? I don't buy any "fog of war" or "we're … [Read more...]
The Politics of Xenophobia: Meet the Old Boss…
The same brand of fear that propels a young man to spear another man with an American flag and prompts High School students to hang nooses from a "Whites Only" shade tree is exploited to advance Bush's "War of Terror" and propagate the … [Read more...]
Memories of Bizarro Mitt
Found while browsing through reddit.com."Every time you close your eyes: Lies! Lies!" … [Read more...]
Kanye West was right about Geroge W. Bush – he doesn’t care about Black people
Bill Maher hosted Bush biographer Robert Draper, author of the recently released Dead Certain, on Real Time Friday night. In this clip* Maher points out this item from Draper's book :After Bush won the Texas governorship, he said to an aide … [Read more...]
Iraq Quick Fact: Insurgency 73% Shia
Gleaned from an excellent, succinct, and even-handed thumbnail sketch of General Petreus, his upcoming report, and the Democrats' expected appeasement from a Sunday Observer article: By last July, according to US officials, Shia fighters … [Read more...]
WaPo: US Lawmakers Politically ‘Slimed’ in Iraq, Snubbed for Cartoons
...The bio of Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.) -- "TAU (rhymes with 'now')-sher," the bio helpfully relates -- was no less pointed, even if she once supported the war and has taken heat from liberal Bay Area constituents who remain wary of … [Read more...]
Romney falsifies archived press releases deleting Larry Craig’s name
First, Mitt linked his former Senate liason, Republican Senator Larry Craig, to Bill Clinton and Mark Foley. Now, as Time editor Ana Marie Cox reports on last night's Countdown, Romney's campaign not only removed from Romney's website the … [Read more...]
“Traditional” Same-Sex Unions in Medieval Europe
Live Science reports:Civil unions between male couples existed around 600 years ago in medieval Europe....[Professor Allan Tulchin] found legal contracts from late medieval France that referred to the term "affrèrement," roughly translated … [Read more...]
China bans reincarnation; Dali Lama refuses to be reincarnated in Tibet! (*Poll*)
No, as Newsweek explains, this is not an Onion headline:In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission....At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has … [Read more...]
So, how tied is our foreign policy to the Biblical “Rapture”?
I've wanted to post about this recent Max Blumenthal video blog called Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour.Scarry stuff. But CUFI has an ulterior agenda: its support for Israel derives from the belief of … [Read more...]
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