The more I read about the financial mess the more I'm reminded of Aron Kader's cousin in this piece of his comedy routine.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Calif. high court weighs gay marriage ban
By LISA LEFF and PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The mood was somber among gay rights supporters after a bruising, three-hour hearing before the justices of California's highest court, who expressed considerable skepticism at the idea of overturning the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
So the same court that ruled against mob rule is going to support it now?
The Mormon cult must feel really good right now. Those inbred fuckers better not be banging on my door any time soon. And the Jehovah's witnesses? Bring it on bitches. I can't guarantee that I will be as polite as I have been.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The mood was somber among gay rights supporters after a bruising, three-hour hearing before the justices of California's highest court, who expressed considerable skepticism at the idea of overturning the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
So the same court that ruled against mob rule is going to support it now?
The Mormon cult must feel really good right now. Those inbred fuckers better not be banging on my door any time soon. And the Jehovah's witnesses? Bring it on bitches. I can't guarantee that I will be as polite as I have been.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Taliban force a China switch
March 6 Asia Times
Because of its deep strategic and economic relationship with Pakistan, the inviolability of Chinese interests has been largely accepted by all the major political players inside Pakistan and its sphere of influence in western Afghanistan...
...After September 11, 2001, China aggressively played the Islamic terrorism card in stigmatizing the Uyghur self-determination movement and conflating it with the activities of the violently militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)...
...The Taliban, who had no qualms about claiming responsibility for the brutal concurrent massacre of five Medicien Sans Frontiers staff, quickly disclaimed responsibility and made their pro-Chinese feelings known with alacrity:
The Taliban militia has denied responsibility for the killings ... "We deny the accusation of killing the Chinese workers in Kunduz province of Afghanistan," Abdul Latif Hakimi, who claims to represent the ousted militia, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. Hakimi said the deaths "should not have happened...
The defiantly anti-foreign Hekmatyar, who counts Russia, the United States and Iran as his enemies, also denied responsibility in an interview with Sikh Spectrum:
Question: Are you behind the recent killing of the Chinese?..
Hekmatyar: It is not true. I cannot accept the responsibility if some miscreants have masterminded it at the US's behest. I believe it is the handiwork of the Americans. They have used some greedy mujahideen for this inhuman act to defame the true mujahideen. I suspect that the Americans have also masterminded the killing of Chinese in Gwador, Balochistan. The US agenda is to malign jihad and jihadis.
Hekmatyar? Oh Yeah, this guy:
During the anti-Soviet jihad, Hekmatyar was strongly favored by the ISI and received the lion's share of aid Pakistan funneled to the mujahideen - perhaps US$600 million worth.
...When the flow of secret dollars became a flood and the demand for arms and ammunition became so great that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could not satisfy it from the usual clandestine sources, China became Hekmatyar's primary supplier of everything from bullets to AK-47s to mules...
...despite his status as a declared terrorist with a $25 million price on his head, Hekmatyar has been wooed by the President Hamid Karzai government in Kabul, the Saudis, the Pakistanis, the ISI, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Kingdom, the US and, perhaps now, through its JI link, by China...
What, Adnan Kashoggi couldn't get American weapons in there?
Yeesh, Fuckin American Fuckin foreign policy.
Because of its deep strategic and economic relationship with Pakistan, the inviolability of Chinese interests has been largely accepted by all the major political players inside Pakistan and its sphere of influence in western Afghanistan...
...After September 11, 2001, China aggressively played the Islamic terrorism card in stigmatizing the Uyghur self-determination movement and conflating it with the activities of the violently militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)...
...The Taliban, who had no qualms about claiming responsibility for the brutal concurrent massacre of five Medicien Sans Frontiers staff, quickly disclaimed responsibility and made their pro-Chinese feelings known with alacrity:
The Taliban militia has denied responsibility for the killings ... "We deny the accusation of killing the Chinese workers in Kunduz province of Afghanistan," Abdul Latif Hakimi, who claims to represent the ousted militia, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. Hakimi said the deaths "should not have happened...
The defiantly anti-foreign Hekmatyar, who counts Russia, the United States and Iran as his enemies, also denied responsibility in an interview with Sikh Spectrum:
Question: Are you behind the recent killing of the Chinese?..
Hekmatyar: It is not true. I cannot accept the responsibility if some miscreants have masterminded it at the US's behest. I believe it is the handiwork of the Americans. They have used some greedy mujahideen for this inhuman act to defame the true mujahideen. I suspect that the Americans have also masterminded the killing of Chinese in Gwador, Balochistan. The US agenda is to malign jihad and jihadis.
Hekmatyar? Oh Yeah, this guy:
During the anti-Soviet jihad, Hekmatyar was strongly favored by the ISI and received the lion's share of aid Pakistan funneled to the mujahideen - perhaps US$600 million worth.
...When the flow of secret dollars became a flood and the demand for arms and ammunition became so great that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could not satisfy it from the usual clandestine sources, China became Hekmatyar's primary supplier of everything from bullets to AK-47s to mules...
...despite his status as a declared terrorist with a $25 million price on his head, Hekmatyar has been wooed by the President Hamid Karzai government in Kabul, the Saudis, the Pakistanis, the ISI, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Kingdom, the US and, perhaps now, through its JI link, by China...
What, Adnan Kashoggi couldn't get American weapons in there?
Yeesh, Fuckin American Fuckin foreign policy.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic
Naomi Wolf
Posted March 3, 2009 05:23 PM (EST)
John Yoo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...John Choon Yoo (born 1967 in Seoul[1][2]) is an American visiting professor of Law at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, CA...
Yeesh, that in iteself is scary to me. The OC has a lot of right-wing nutjobs.
Posted March 3, 2009 05:23 PM (EST)
John Yoo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...John Choon Yoo (born 1967 in Seoul[1][2]) is an American visiting professor of Law at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, CA...
Yeesh, that in iteself is scary to me. The OC has a lot of right-wing nutjobs.
Reading now
Click on book for wikipedia entry on the author.Robert Fisk on Ratzi.
...here we go again – was this not the same ex-Cardinal Ratzinger (anti-divorce, anti-gay and anti-aircraft, as I always remind myself) who delivered a lecture at Regensburg in 2006 in which he quoted from a Byzantine text which characterised the Prophet Mohamed as evil and inhuman?...
I'm not sure I want to read this book now, but I'm sorely lacking in historical information, so I may slog through it anyway.
Gah, why does my library branch stock so much right wing shit? Nobody checks out the Ann Coulter books, and her piles of books are higher than any of the liberal's piles of books in the local bookstores. What gives?
I guess those people are around, some bitch at Starbucks gave me shit about the "Not My President" t-shirt I was wearing around election time. Even though I was startled because the country was already looking for a change from Bush's destructive policies, I just smiled and told her to have a nice day.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
Realistic people know what Obama is up against.
And how hard these fuckers are going to fight any of the changes our country needs to make.
1. Get the money out of politics.
(damn bankers)
2. Get the money out of the newz.
3. Get the military-industrial-congressional-complex monkey off of our backs. (see above also)
Then we might work towards a democracy (or back towards a democratic republic) instead of living in a Corporatocracy.
Brit Hume, pouty mouthpiece for the rich.
Why do poor people watch Fox News?
Oh, yeah only poor people with the IQ of acorn squash watch Fox News.
Santelli's rant backed by Koch (pronounced coke) money.
Update 11:32 AM 3/6/2009 Mmmmmm, jury's out on this one
1. Get the money out of politics.
(damn bankers)
2. Get the money out of the newz.
3. Get the military-industrial-congressional-complex monkey off of our backs. (see above also)
Then we might work towards a democracy (or back towards a democratic republic) instead of living in a Corporatocracy.
Brit Hume, pouty mouthpiece for the rich.
Why do poor people watch Fox News?
Oh, yeah only poor people with the IQ of acorn squash watch Fox News.
Santelli's rant backed by Koch (pronounced coke) money.
Update 11:32 AM 3/6/2009 Mmmmmm, jury's out on this one
Umm, just go read Danny's post today
click on title link
FBI saw mortgage fraud early
By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I REPORTER
..."We knew that the mortgage-brokerage industry was corrupt," the first of the retired FBI officials told the Seattle P-I. "Where we would have gotten a sense of what was really going on was the point where the mortgage was sold knowing that it was a piece of dung and it would be turned into a security. But the agents with the expertise had been diverted to counterterrorism."...
SEC alerted about Allen Stanford in 2003: report
Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:35am EST
The more I hear about the SEC, the less surprised I am that Gary Aguirre was canned.
I still believe that he and his brother got scooted out of the way because they were trying to do the right thing for the people, and it pissed off the powerful and corrupt.
12,000 students, and it doesn't make any of the mainstream media?
Of course not, CNN is powered by big coal.
FBI saw mortgage fraud early
By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I REPORTER
..."We knew that the mortgage-brokerage industry was corrupt," the first of the retired FBI officials told the Seattle P-I. "Where we would have gotten a sense of what was really going on was the point where the mortgage was sold knowing that it was a piece of dung and it would be turned into a security. But the agents with the expertise had been diverted to counterterrorism."...
SEC alerted about Allen Stanford in 2003: report
Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:35am EST
The more I hear about the SEC, the less surprised I am that Gary Aguirre was canned.
I still believe that he and his brother got scooted out of the way because they were trying to do the right thing for the people, and it pissed off the powerful and corrupt.
12,000 students, and it doesn't make any of the mainstream media?
Of course not, CNN is powered by big coal.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Sunday morning musing
I woke up three times this morning with a headache. I didn't drink any alcohol and I'm drinking water like crazy. What is this? I rarely suffer headaches or aches and pains of any kind, really.
Anyway, the third time I woke up I was thinking of this article:
Friday, February 27, 2009
Denmark: Higher risk for infant mortality among Pakistanis, Somalis, Turks
...Pakistani, Somali and Turkish immigrant women in Denmark have a higher risk for stillborn children than Danish women, according to a new study by the University of Southern Denmark...
When I read this, I thought of the usual suspects, lousy prenatal care, lousy diet, poverty, ignorance, but this I did not expect:
...In Denmark, 40% of Pakistani couples are relatives....
So my head aches and my stomach is roiling. That is disgusting.
This is completely unrelated, and I don't know what search term brought it up, because I was looking for more than one source in English of the previously linked article. I didn't find it, but I'm completely fascinated by the following essay because I don't get the whole Jew hatred thing. People are people.
Editor’s note:
The following essay was originally published in the Hebrew journal Alpayim in 2005 and provoked an intense public debate. Its author, the renowned Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua, undertook a demanding task: to decipher the most disturbing riddle of Jewish history, to analyze and describe the quintessence of antisemitism in its various historical and cultural incarnations. Yehoshua’s thesis disputes the general intellectual consensus on antisemitism, which denies that there is any single or unique root to the phenomenon. He asserts that it is the unique structure of Jewish identity which has given birth to the venomous reaction of antisemitism—and he offers a way out of this impasse. Yehoshua’s position has outraged many but also given them much to think about. AZURE is proud to present an English translation of this essay, which embodies Zionist thought in its most daring form.
Azure no. 32, Spring 5768 / 2008
An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism
By A. B. Yehoshua
A prominent Israeli author gets to the bottom of the world`s oldest hatred.
Anyway, the third time I woke up I was thinking of this article:
Friday, February 27, 2009
Denmark: Higher risk for infant mortality among Pakistanis, Somalis, Turks
...Pakistani, Somali and Turkish immigrant women in Denmark have a higher risk for stillborn children than Danish women, according to a new study by the University of Southern Denmark...
When I read this, I thought of the usual suspects, lousy prenatal care, lousy diet, poverty, ignorance, but this I did not expect:
...In Denmark, 40% of Pakistani couples are relatives....
So my head aches and my stomach is roiling. That is disgusting.
This is completely unrelated, and I don't know what search term brought it up, because I was looking for more than one source in English of the previously linked article. I didn't find it, but I'm completely fascinated by the following essay because I don't get the whole Jew hatred thing. People are people.
Editor’s note:
The following essay was originally published in the Hebrew journal Alpayim in 2005 and provoked an intense public debate. Its author, the renowned Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua, undertook a demanding task: to decipher the most disturbing riddle of Jewish history, to analyze and describe the quintessence of antisemitism in its various historical and cultural incarnations. Yehoshua’s thesis disputes the general intellectual consensus on antisemitism, which denies that there is any single or unique root to the phenomenon. He asserts that it is the unique structure of Jewish identity which has given birth to the venomous reaction of antisemitism—and he offers a way out of this impasse. Yehoshua’s position has outraged many but also given them much to think about. AZURE is proud to present an English translation of this essay, which embodies Zionist thought in its most daring form.
Azure no. 32, Spring 5768 / 2008
An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism
By A. B. Yehoshua
A prominent Israeli author gets to the bottom of the world`s oldest hatred.
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