AFP interviews with MB protestors leading up to the Wednesday bloodbath seemed to show a nearly even split between those supporting nonviolent protest and those advocating violent action against the illegitimate government and military.
And there are more than a few inside the beltway that talk about Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City in heroic terms.
I wonder how the percentage of civilian casualties attributed to drone strikes compares to the civilian casualty rate for non drone police actions by the US or other governments?
Has anyone compared the drone statistics to those collected in Gaza for example?
It is telling that after the announcement of the closures that the initial press interviews on NPR were with senior Republican members of the Inteligence Committees.
I thought the President struck the right tone in acknowledging the difficulties faced by the justice system, the marking of Blacks in society, and the inherent problem with Stand Your Ground. Then I heard David Brooks praise the President and concluded that I really missed what Obama said.
Will we correct the laws that allow a white person to shoot anyone out of fear or will the reactionary right win out?
I read somewhere that the initial impetus for the protest was to stop the destruction of a park to make way for a shopping mall. Since then, it seems that the protest had broadened but I have seem little in the press about what the protestors are saying, as most of the analysis focuses on the prime minister and his thinking. What are the current slogans on signs, etc.?
If Senators Inhofe and Coburn believed what they say so often in Congress, we might have seen them standing on the state line waiting to tell FEMA to turn around, as pulling yourself up by your bootstraps builds character.
The US obsessing over North Korea and Cuba for more than a half century didn't exactly move anything forward. And goading by the US during the Days of W pushed the North Koreans to join our nuclear family.
I hope our attention to Iran does no more than keep Israel from starting a war that no one should want.
There are many reasons Democrats, liberals, and progressives wanted to protest the Brennan nomination. However, there was one unstated but overriding reason for the Republicans who filibustered Brennan's confirmation: President Obama is a Democrat.
Do recall that we heard none of this from the right during the Bush presidency.
Australian coal exports were project to be 162 million tonnes in 2012, an increase of roughly 10% over 2011.
I am encouraged that Detroit Edision, its Monroe coal-fired power plant was where George W Bush announced his Clear Skies initiative, just installed a 2.6 acre solar array on the University of Michigan North Campus with a second one on the way.
It seems that the radical right want to undo the New Deal and all of the programs that built on it for next fifty years.
Before the current generation gives up on the idea of Social Security, we need to guarantee its soundess without cutting benefits. Small funding changes can assure its solvency for the next fifty years.
I am still waiting for a historian to write about the reason(s) the Bush administration rushed to war in Iraq. We already know that WMB was not on the short list; except in the marketing department.
Likud Zionism creates odd bedfellows in American policy circles.
Mitch McConnel hasn't devoted four years to getting rid of President Obama because of his center left and center right policies.
It seems strange that we want to stigmatize the Islamic World for the violent actions of a few while ignoring the reaction of China and a few Chinese protesters demonstrating with the same level of violence over the sale of a few unoccupied islands to Japan.
If you include employer and employee portions of Social Security and Medicare, those in the 47% who have jobs pay a higher percentage of income to the federal government than Romney and his friends.
Some years ago PBS aired three documentaries on fundamentalism in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism highlighting their glaring similarities. We can find horrible acts by religious extremists all over the world.
The idea of Romney being an isolated, pampered child has some appeal but I think of him as 2008 John McCain on steroids. McCain abandoned any principles he had to get the Republican nomination and make a run at the presidency. Romney has demonstrated that he will say and do anything to win.
My freshman year at Michigan (1969-1970) cost $1,800 for tuition, room & board (20 meals and clean sheets each week), books, and spending money.
The State of Michigan has nearly ten times as many people incarcerated in 2012 than in 1970.
Changing the distribution of wealth in the USA requires more than changing tax laws. We need to spend our money at businesses that value (and pay) their employees.
I am confused why anyone is writing about WMD in Iraq, as Paul Wolfowitz has already told us that WMD was a marketing ploy to garner support for the invasion of Iraq.
Further, Paul O,Neil told us that the invasion of Iraq was the primary issue discussed at Bush II's first National Security Council meeting in March (?) 2001.
As for Iraqi deaths, I still think that the Johns Hopkins epidemiologists got it right with their estimate of 400,000 to 900,000+ as of 2006.
I find it interesting some are quick to indict many (all) US presidents without mentioning Putin and a Chinese president or premier or two.
I admit to not having read every word of every comment on the theatrics of Dirty Harry in Tampa but I am surprised that the immediate reaction wasn't to talk about the empty seat I might have sat in for Mr. Eastwood's next film. I, for one, will take a pass.
I wonder what the Tea Party will think if they realize that Paul Ryan supported upwards of $30 trillion in US debt and liabilities with his unbridled enthusiasm for an unfunded Medicare Part D, a doubling of the defense budget and two wars, and the Bush tax cuts.
And I doubt his let's spend money will extend to the trillions required to provide medical care to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.
AFP interviews with MB protestors leading up to the Wednesday bloodbath seemed to show a nearly even split between those supporting nonviolent protest and those advocating violent action against the illegitimate government and military.
And there are more than a few inside the beltway that talk about Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City in heroic terms.
The anti-Iran hawks in Congress are the anti-Cuba hawks wearing different hats.
Secretary Kerry does not seem one to play charades in foreign policy. It will take time to unwind thirty years of US Middle East policy.
I wonder how the percentage of civilian casualties attributed to drone strikes compares to the civilian casualty rate for non drone police actions by the US or other governments?
Has anyone compared the drone statistics to those collected in Gaza for example?
It is telling that after the announcement of the closures that the initial press interviews on NPR were with senior Republican members of the Inteligence Committees.
Can we sell Florida to Cuba first?
I thought the President struck the right tone in acknowledging the difficulties faced by the justice system, the marking of Blacks in society, and the inherent problem with Stand Your Ground. Then I heard David Brooks praise the President and concluded that I really missed what Obama said.
Will we correct the laws that allow a white person to shoot anyone out of fear or will the reactionary right win out?
I read somewhere that the initial impetus for the protest was to stop the destruction of a park to make way for a shopping mall. Since then, it seems that the protest had broadened but I have seem little in the press about what the protestors are saying, as most of the analysis focuses on the prime minister and his thinking. What are the current slogans on signs, etc.?
If Senators Inhofe and Coburn believed what they say so often in Congress, we might have seen them standing on the state line waiting to tell FEMA to turn around, as pulling yourself up by your bootstraps builds character.
The US obsessing over North Korea and Cuba for more than a half century didn't exactly move anything forward. And goading by the US during the Days of W pushed the North Koreans to join our nuclear family.
I hope our attention to Iran does no more than keep Israel from starting a war that no one should want.
Humor and irony aside, this might be the place to suggest everyone go see 'The Gatekeepers' to get another look at The Neighborhood.
The IAEA was spot on in Iraq but the Pakistani government, military, and ISI seem opaque compared to pre invasion Iraq.
There are many reasons Democrats, liberals, and progressives wanted to protest the Brennan nomination. However, there was one unstated but overriding reason for the Republicans who filibustered Brennan's confirmation: President Obama is a Democrat.
Do recall that we heard none of this from the right during the Bush presidency.
The rhetoric sounds like an echo of the 1960s or the Days of George W. Bush.
Australian coal exports were project to be 162 million tonnes in 2012, an increase of roughly 10% over 2011.
I am encouraged that Detroit Edision, its Monroe coal-fired power plant was where George W Bush announced his Clear Skies initiative, just installed a 2.6 acre solar array on the University of Michigan North Campus with a second one on the way.
Hartman wouldn't show up on any list from Minority Leader Pelosi.
It seems that the radical right want to undo the New Deal and all of the programs that built on it for next fifty years.
Before the current generation gives up on the idea of Social Security, we need to guarantee its soundess without cutting benefits. Small funding changes can assure its solvency for the next fifty years.
It is curious that of the millions of white Republicans that only the strategists understand that voter ID laws are racist.
I am still waiting for a historian to write about the reason(s) the Bush administration rushed to war in Iraq. We already know that WMB was not on the short list; except in the marketing department.
Likud Zionism creates odd bedfellows in American policy circles.
Mitch McConnel hasn't devoted four years to getting rid of President Obama because of his center left and center right policies.
What you refer to as corporate democracy was called corporate fascism by my Econ 201 TA in the early 1970s.
Maybe food would have been on the political agenda if Bloomberg had decided to spend one of his billions on a run at the presidency.
It seems strange that we want to stigmatize the Islamic World for the violent actions of a few while ignoring the reaction of China and a few Chinese protesters demonstrating with the same level of violence over the sale of a few unoccupied islands to Japan.
If you include employer and employee portions of Social Security and Medicare, those in the 47% who have jobs pay a higher percentage of income to the federal government than Romney and his friends.
Some years ago PBS aired three documentaries on fundamentalism in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism highlighting their glaring similarities. We can find horrible acts by religious extremists all over the world.
The idea of Romney being an isolated, pampered child has some appeal but I think of him as 2008 John McCain on steroids. McCain abandoned any principles he had to get the Republican nomination and make a run at the presidency. Romney has demonstrated that he will say and do anything to win.
Thanks for the perspective on recent events.
My freshman year at Michigan (1969-1970) cost $1,800 for tuition, room & board (20 meals and clean sheets each week), books, and spending money.
The State of Michigan has nearly ten times as many people incarcerated in 2012 than in 1970.
Changing the distribution of wealth in the USA requires more than changing tax laws. We need to spend our money at businesses that value (and pay) their employees.
I am confused why anyone is writing about WMD in Iraq, as Paul Wolfowitz has already told us that WMD was a marketing ploy to garner support for the invasion of Iraq.
Further, Paul O,Neil told us that the invasion of Iraq was the primary issue discussed at Bush II's first National Security Council meeting in March (?) 2001.
As for Iraqi deaths, I still think that the Johns Hopkins epidemiologists got it right with their estimate of 400,000 to 900,000+ as of 2006.
I find it interesting some are quick to indict many (all) US presidents without mentioning Putin and a Chinese president or premier or two.
I admit to not having read every word of every comment on the theatrics of Dirty Harry in Tampa but I am surprised that the immediate reaction wasn't to talk about the empty seat I might have sat in for Mr. Eastwood's next film. I, for one, will take a pass.
Romney's about 13% is less than the employee and employer FICA and Medicare taxes paid by working Americans.
I wonder what the Tea Party will think if they realize that Paul Ryan supported upwards of $30 trillion in US debt and liabilities with his unbridled enthusiasm for an unfunded Medicare Part D, a doubling of the defense budget and two wars, and the Bush tax cuts.
And I doubt his let's spend money will extend to the trillions required to provide medical care to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.