Just a thread…. 12 October 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems, WAR!.trackback
To raise awareness of the plight of the endangered Egyptian vulture, WWF-Spain has launched a project called El Viaje del Alimoche (The Journey of the Egyptian Vulture), which allows users to track the migratory journey of four of the rare birds through a real-time online platform [Chris Hellier/Corbis]
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Well. A little more than ‘just a thread’ as it happens, I just saw this over at Angry Arab…. sums it up simply and succinctly:
War on terrorism?
“Governments and law-enforcement agencies around the world are using the war against terrorism as a pretext to clamp down on legitimate protest and free themselves from constraints on their activities, an international conference on human rights heard this weekend in Montreal.
Didier Bigo, professor of international relations at Sciences Po University in Paris, said those claiming to know who terrorists are and what their next move will be are often given additional “freedom to manoeuvre” within the system, with little clear justification. “Anti-terrorist legislation is used to block normal problems,” he said at the conference hosted by McGill University.“ (thanks Olivia)
Posted by As’ad at 9:57 AM
Blessed by Gawd, we are. Over and over.
It’s ages since I watched Charlie Rose… think the last time was that formerly somewhat lefty playwright, forget his name who is now a Big TIme Rightie… but stumbled today on Andrew Sullivan with Rose.
What utter ossification, both sides of the table. I did learn however, that Sully now has 4 wee “helpers”. Up from 2.
He refers to them as “leaf cutter ants”… he sends them out onto the netteries to hunt and bring back, he then “makes sense” … of the leaf snips I guess.
Can it all get more precious?
His name came to me: David Mamet. Or Mahmet…
I sorta expect Holder to quote Santorum in the appeal, dire warnings about unwanted sodomy in the barracks, war dogs molested … maybe Bishop Long can give him some pointers on scary positions to put into his fundie-pandering appeal.
McClurkin can consult. “How close is too close?” and 9 other pressing questions about homos in the barracks..
they can all meet on the down-low, in the Justice Department gym to discuss it.
I heard today, and it may be old news as I did not follow closely… but at least two of the Chilean miners, about to see the light of day again…. two miners have had two wives, each, show up.
Bet they come out v e r y slowly.
Gosh Golly.
Meg and Jerry are actually mixing it up, a little.
Their last debate, 3 weeks out.
ntim, but some entertaining tidbits none-the-less:
More Tea Party Hilarity
I heard a whole slew of Obama lovers … Democrats, several of them self professed to be on Soc Security, call into KGO last night to defend the second year of no annual adjustment to Soc Sec. Not the first hour spent with that sort of propaganda…
And you know, poor historic man, so put upon. A lot of commentary that people need to understand the “common good”.
Even some who claimed prices have NOT gone up or people who cannot properly live with in their means are THE PROBLEM.
Very sanctimonious they were too.
It’s not like we’re just taking the money willy-nilly, like those dreadful people in ratty army coats who shop with food stamps in the bodega downstairs!
Seems to be a catching disease.
it’s endemic to American culture, sadly.
They should have stuck the Dems in a mine shaft for 69 days and then rescued them. Then at least they’d have some hope of winning in November.
Mind you, that’s assuming someone would have actually tried to rescue them…
they’re pretty good at digging themselves into holes …
I think they would be left down there….
Rescuers would have drilled down to get them and found they’d dug the shaft 1000 feet deeper.
Soo true!
Speaking of Dems digging holes… [snicker], there is, if anyone can stand it, a NYT Mag piece up, interviews with Ob and various West Wing staffers and aides.
God help them, they are LOST. More than lost.
Luckier than the Democrats….
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
The First of 33 Chilean Miners Trapped Underground Since August Has Reached the Surface [11:11 p.m. ET]
Quite the moment.
very cool
I heard Obama’s speech today where he was praising the American made machinery (well, the company that made the machine is nominally incorporated in the U.S.)
“From the NASA team that helped design the escape vehicle to American companies that manufactured and delivered parts of the rescue drill to the American engineer who flew in from Afghanistan to operate the drill.”
Because it can’t just NOT be about us.
Just don’t think about how long the miners would be down there had this happened in West Virginia.
Well our last go round in WV saw, iirc, 29 deaths. AND the one before that, still with Manchin in the governor’s seat, saw lies to the families that all was fine. Then it was not. One dead after the other….
And as I was emailing with a friend today, not like Obby could bear to embrace a fisherman, a fishing boat deck hand. A kitchen worker, an oyster shucker. He so delicately fingered the clean sand.
And his wife and his aides and cabinet members appeared much like the BP pretzel. They all wanted THEIR lives back. Sooner rather than later.
Speaking of which, I am not a fan of Jeralyn at Talk Left, but just think if Ob had managed to say this, from her post today http://www.talkleft.com/ :
From what I’ve seen, the Chilean prez and his wife have hung in there through all of these rescues. That’s quite something.
yeah they have, still there for 31, 32 and 33……….
gah. I read too he got the name wrong, of a pol in FL he went down there to campaign for……….
stop………………………..
Stephen Fry on language
hmm from a very boring comment thread in “The Arena” at Politico, on whether Meg can make some points of the useless “whore” flap….
Not that I care what Jerry calls Meggy, or Meggy calls Jerry.
CNN’s showing the “I am not a witch” vs “Yes, you are” debate tonite, I see.
Coons kind of seems like a wienie.
Oh! He wears a flag pin every day! Well, that ends that debate.
I think O’Donnell would just whine everybody to death if she was in the senate. My Dog, she’s annoying.
they sent Ob in to save him. Why not Biden, I wonder.
Good luck to them all!
Whatever hurts more………………..
Glad they cut that off to show the last couple of miners coming up. This will be the most viewers Parker/Spitzer ever gets before it’s canned for poor ratings eventually.
rat feces?
EPIC Launches Privacy 2010 Campaign, …. and then, EPIC, refers anyone interested, …..to joining a facebook page, or reading the archives of what EPIC acknowledges are creepy uses of technology (though, it appears to my eyes, they’ve yet to include the embedded RFID Tee shirt chips required for certain Richmond CA children, or, done anything to staunch privacy violations (at least in any visible manner)).
Pertaing to the above link, if you’re interested in their campaign (though EPIC has apparently been around, in one non profit form, or another, since 1994, I’ve seen no proof that they have done anything to staunch the exponentially increasing privacy violations, ….despite their alumni …..), it appears that you have the link option of (a.): joining up on a ”Facebook” (can’t we say immediate privacy violation right there, at this point?) “cause page,” (1), or, (b): clicking: http://www.privacy2010.org/ this link, (2) to find out more!
(1) A sampling of “causes dotcom,” the “root” URL of the link provided for the Facebook Cause page… (after you scroll pass the, meant to be heart tweeking, piccies, none of which pertain to the US (because those fallen, and falling, through the cracks in the US need to understand the misery wrought on Third World Countries by their masters in the US, and then, FEEL MUCH BETTER ABOUT THEIR OWN DICKING AT THE HANDS OF THOSE ROBBER BARONS?)):
No “about” page, nor, “501” info page , not to mention how much a dot com page simply titled “causes” might cost, couldn’t begin to count how many would almost die for that dot com page.
(2) The Privacy 2010dot org link is guaranteed to remind you, at a gut level, of many (though certainly not all) of the proliferating privacy violations going on, referring to their own ancient archives, yet not referring to any progress, whatsoever, EPIC has made, on those grounds, in their 16 year Ivy League existence.
This line, was priceless, referring to themselves, in their own presser, as a third party, who might (yet might not,…. (please refer to the keyword, “said,” below)), “release a “Privacy Report Card” for the Obama administration.
sorry, link correction for:
or, (b): clicking …….this link
corrected link
(I should add that many of the EPIC website writings are quite interesting, but I don’t see that they are really doing anything about the problems they elucidate, or, that they really want to.)
EPIC said that it will release a Privacy Report Card for the Obama administration with grades on medical privacy, cyber security, consumer privacy, and civil liberties.
can’t wait….
truly, and what will EPIC have done as punishment for a bad report card?,… give the Obama admin a “hall detention,” …make them write 100 times on their iphone/android,: “We will not sodamize the privacy legisation/reasonable “civil” privacy expectation of the populace against their will” ….?
The Obama administration will have to raise their hand and ask for a hall pass. And a pass to the bathrooms. For half a day.
hmm I do think Obby was charged with EMOTING more. Keeping the ever ruminate electorate in a spin dizzy game of telling him they love him, etc.
Didn’t quite work out.
shit, sorry again,
hopefully, a “corrected link,” this time :
corrected link
If I was the billionaire Chilean prez, I’d make sure those miners were set for life courtesy of my personal bank account.
apparently they don’t need to work for life… a “wealthy miner” has gifted each with 20K… and apparently the Chilean government made sure the men already, while they were down in the mine, have been counseled by an atty, so there is no splits fights double dealing etc in book and movie deals.
Over all, quite wise, I think.
One, an older miner, Gomez was his name, think he is 61, I read he nd his wife are activists for mine reform… so let’s see if Chile comes thru on that.
Otherwise, all very amazing.
That’s good to hear. They need to be well taken care of.
I also heard they’ve agreed not to talk about the first 17 days before they were discovered to have survived. That must have been extremely traumatizing.
oh that is very wise….
Remember Baby Fat Hunter in your prayers.
Geesh. Tho I am guessing she’d really rather you tilled and smoothed the beach sand for her.
I laugh that they don’t seem to understand there are plenty of people praying to Jeebus that her hubby loses.
yeah, I thiought it was pretty damned funny.
Honestly I think we hear about religion a LOT under the Obama Admin. More than with Bush.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43559.html
uncommon my ass …
“keep the spirits clean”?
WTF?
religious gibber drool. my best guess.
should have stayed at the palace?
De peasants, dey so DURTY.
oh god. maybe he touched an ARAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL … could be, and no way to call in the IDF to protect him.
ooops, take two:
Hungary’s river of death, as seen from space
in other words, lucky for us that we suck?
The US electrical grid is too crappy to be vulnerable to terrorist attack, say physicists
I know that should be depressing but it just feels like one more smack.
If You Turn Down Airport Nudie Scans After Oct. 31, You Will Get Groped Very Hard
Yeah, I simply could not fly any more. I read that, waiting for the comments to load.
It is totally disgusting.
I like this comment:
New
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POLITICO Breaking News
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The Obama administration has asked for an emergency stay of a judge’s order banning worldwide enforcement of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law banning gays in the military. The Justice Department vows to appeal the ruling, and argues that President Barack Obama favors an ‘orderly’ legislative repeal of the 1993 law.
‘orderly’ = damn those activist judges!
Heckuva job, Obama.
Govt. Appeals DADT Injunction
hi dear… I will move these two comments forward…
