Archive for the 'fascism' Category
Collateral Murder
read Greenwald, now please:
As the video demonstrates, the soldiers in the Apache did not take a single step — including killing those unarmed men who tried to rescue the wounded — without first receiving formal permission from their superiors. Beyond that, the Pentagon yesterday — once the video was released — suddenly embraced the [...]
“You Made Me Do It”
For about four years, I worked in an agency that provided shelter, counseling, police protection, and legal services to victim of domestic violence, and so I’m more than acquainted with many of the excuses batterers employ to deflect blame after they’ve given their partner another black eye or broken wrist.
One of them is “you made [...]
health care aftermath
I’ve been pretty busy with work, getting my FAFSA together, and prepping the house for spring/summer, so I haven’t done a lot of blogging recently. in the wake of health insurance reform, however, I wanted to make a few observations.
Although I have some extremely serious problems with the new law, there is one clear [...]
Funny Jokes
While you consider the health care bill, with its restrictions on abortion access, I’d like you to consider the following funny jokes embedded in the Democratic Party Platform(pardon the pdf):
“We will never put ideology above women’s health.” (p. 15)
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a [...]
Barack Obama: Fascist
there is no other way to describe someone who believes in “post-acquittal detention:
Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD’s General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, [...]
Dear Ayatollah Khatami…
there seemed little likelihood that the Iranian authorities would be swayed by the harsh words, as a senior cleric called for demonstrators to be punished “ruthlessly and savagely.”
At Friday prayers at Tehran University, a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, referred to the demonstrators as rioters and declared, “I want the judiciary to punish leading rioters [...]
Get the Hook!
Your fifteen minutes are up, mr. Cheney
I was busy at work yesterday, and didn’t get a chance to actually hear excerpts of Obama’s speech (which had some good points and some incredibly BAD points) until around 5:30 when I was stuck in the car on the expressway.
i also got a chance to hear excerpts of [...]
Oh the Things I Learn
crossposted at Oxdown gazette and booman tribune
NYT:
Mr. Obama’s statement on Friday said that “the use of hearsay will be limited.”
But the filing showed that military prosecutors would continue to rely extensively on hearsay evidence that might be barred in federal court. A memorandum describing the administration’s changes that was filed with the military judges [...]
Spying: I Told You So, Senator. I Told You So, Congressman
Looks like there will be QUITE A FEW angry phone calls today. I’m looking at YOU Patsy and Boob, two of the most fitting nicknames ever.
The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last [...]
More Proof the Right Wingers Are Short-Sighted and Not Very Bright
Back when the Bush Adminsitration was setting up its no fly lists and terrorist watch lists and warrantless wiretaps and habeas corpus-free judicial proceedings and all of its other activities, people like me were sounding the alarm that anyone could end up on these lists. Conservatives typically responded with a glib “if you haven’t [...]
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