Something that struck me several years ago is that all this misery is compressed into an area the size of four Michigan townships, one fifth that of Washtenaw County.
One real problem with our burgeoning National Security State is that Obama replaced Bush's chief defender, Gonzalez, a borderline incompetent, with Eric Holder, who is exceptionally competent. Sad but true.
When I was young I occasionally got stuck sitting through a Sunday sermon at my upstate New York Aunt's tiny bible church. My most vivid memory is hearing the preacherman exhort the crowd, Thou shalt not kill, unless it's the Russians/Commies. She didn't leave that church until twenty years later, when the same preacherman told her he'd have to pray for her son's death because her son wouldn't rejoin his estranged wife. Manipulative ba$tard.
Right Wing Religionistas would happily undo every millimeter of scientific progress we've made in the last two centuries. In this the major godbothering religions are unwitting co conspirators.
"carbon air scrubber machines. You’d need to deploy a lot of them, in the millions."
We've already got carbon air scrubbers. They're called trees. The real solution is to stop cutting trees down to feed the exploding volume of carbon emitters, i.e., humans. That or stop breeding like rats.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate-in-Chief Obama has managed to achieve twice as many coalition deaths in Afghanistan on his 3 year watch as Bush managed to get killed in seven.
Dr. Cole, this is a great piece of journalism. Your photographs put us in the middle of the protest, the protesters, and the confluence of constituencies.
Borders was Ann Arbor's sweetest little bookstore -back when it was a little bookstore. Two short stories tall. Three novellas wide. Half a dozen coffee table editions deep. Practically the entire staff seemed comprised of otherwise unemployable PhD.s. Borders was bought because it was a step ahead in inventory control but after KMart sank its fangs into Borders' neck Borders was thereafter unaccountably, maddeningly, always a step behind.
BTW, the power budget for the NSA's new Utah surveillance center is 68 Megawatts, according to information which surfaced in the press last year. 68 megawatts makes for a lot of snooping, legal and otherwise.
"exposed" is an understatement. As a reporter on CNN explained the other day, Qaddafi's supply lines are lined up on the [only?] highway, like turkeys in what will doubtless become a shooting gallery.
Of Obama's predilections, there was plenty of evidence in advance. The man had done literally nothing truly noteworthy in his life but write an autobiography. Heck, he wrote two.
I don't know if Clinton could have done better but I do know that she would or could have fought a little harder. Her role running Tricky Dick out of Washington showed that.
Our own internet kill switch is just around the corner, courtesy of Joe Lieberman et al. Weird, because I once believed that authoritarianism was a right wing disease. Now I know that it is thoroughly bipartisan.
Did any of the attacked flights originate in the United States?
No?
That reminds me of an old joke.
One night I'm walking down a street. Ahead of me I see a man crawling around underneath a streetlight. I stop and ask him what he's doing. He tells me he's looking for his wallet. He says he dropped it.
"Ok," I said, "but I don't see a wallet. Are you sure this is where you lost it?"
"No," he said and pointed, "I lost it in that dark alley down the street."
"So... why are you looking here - instead of the alley?"
When you've been grenaded in Kandahar's lanes,
And the GIs swarm down to cut up your remains,
Just beckon your camel to kick out your brains,
And go to your gawd like Civilians.
Well, what do I know? He already works for Murdock, and has already been rewarded.
From the LATimes:
" Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary, the Tribune Washington Bureau has learned. "Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997," Ailes said in a statement, adding a jab at NPR: “He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.”
"When Bill asked her to just look at a monkey, she refuted him by asking why monkeys are not still evolving into human beings. Another guest suggests to her that ‘it takes time.’"
The irony is that she made a monkey out of herself in a few short seconds.
Informative, as always, but I would hardly base my case on the "choice" made by a child entering puberty or the "practice" of Christianity by a politician.
Something that struck me several years ago is that all this misery is compressed into an area the size of four Michigan townships, one fifth that of Washtenaw County.
Chairman Mike Rogers: a sad fate for the committee originally engendered to investigate CIA, FBI, and NSA abuses.
For further details, read Kafka.
The irony is that it's the machine operators who should really be worried. They're exposed all day long. Small revenge for the way they make us feel.
Alt Energy R&D would have been a good use of the three or four (or whatever) trillion dollars we burned blowing up Iraq and Afghanistan.
"follow your paymasters?"
- is the gold standard in politics.
One real problem with our burgeoning National Security State is that Obama replaced Bush's chief defender, Gonzalez, a borderline incompetent, with Eric Holder, who is exceptionally competent. Sad but true.
When I was young I occasionally got stuck sitting through a Sunday sermon at my upstate New York Aunt's tiny bible church. My most vivid memory is hearing the preacherman exhort the crowd, Thou shalt not kill, unless it's the Russians/Commies. She didn't leave that church until twenty years later, when the same preacherman told her he'd have to pray for her son's death because her son wouldn't rejoin his estranged wife. Manipulative ba$tard.
Right Wing Religionistas would happily undo every millimeter of scientific progress we've made in the last two centuries. In this the major godbothering religions are unwitting co conspirators.
Not much chance of a repeat, methinks.
"carbon air scrubber machines. You’d need to deploy a lot of them, in the millions."
We've already got carbon air scrubbers. They're called trees. The real solution is to stop cutting trees down to feed the exploding volume of carbon emitters, i.e., humans. That or stop breeding like rats.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate-in-Chief Obama has managed to achieve twice as many coalition deaths in Afghanistan on his 3 year watch as Bush managed to get killed in seven.
Freedom's just another word... for no one left to screw...
Dr. Cole, this is a great piece of journalism. Your photographs put us in the middle of the protest, the protesters, and the confluence of constituencies.
"Who could ever imagine such a massive redistribution of wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy?"
Kevin Phillips, for one. He has written half a dozen books on the subject, beginning with "The Politics of Rich and Poor."
Oman paid the ransom, er, bail, probably acting as the middleman. If the three weren't actually spies, they were certainly idiots.
The role of peacemaker is a tough one. A lot of people, Afghans as well as American, stand to lose a lot of profits if peace breaks out.
Borders was Ann Arbor's sweetest little bookstore -back when it was a little bookstore. Two short stories tall. Three novellas wide. Half a dozen coffee table editions deep. Practically the entire staff seemed comprised of otherwise unemployable PhD.s. Borders was bought because it was a step ahead in inventory control but after KMart sank its fangs into Borders' neck Borders was thereafter unaccountably, maddeningly, always a step behind.
BTW, the power budget for the NSA's new Utah surveillance center is 68 Megawatts, according to information which surfaced in the press last year. 68 megawatts makes for a lot of snooping, legal and otherwise.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705363940/Utahs-15-billion-cyber-security-center-under-way.html
You may well be dismayed, Professor Cole, but I doubt if you're surprised.
"exposed" is an understatement. As a reporter on CNN explained the other day, Qaddafi's supply lines are lined up on the [only?] highway, like turkeys in what will doubtless become a shooting gallery.
Of Obama's predilections, there was plenty of evidence in advance. The man had done literally nothing truly noteworthy in his life but write an autobiography. Heck, he wrote two.
I don't know if Clinton could have done better but I do know that she would or could have fought a little harder. Her role running Tricky Dick out of Washington showed that.
Tin soldiers and Hosni coming...
... More dead in old Cairo
Our own internet kill switch is just around the corner, courtesy of Joe Lieberman et al. Weird, because I once believed that authoritarianism was a right wing disease. Now I know that it is thoroughly bipartisan.
Fortunately, as shown by our unemployment statistics, we have an excess of population.
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous..." - U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, Tea Party anointed Republican, Minnesota's 6th District,
Man oh man... We have learned nothing.
So which came first, religion or its oppression?
Defeat is not Victory? Humbug! I don't believe anything until it's been verified by the Ministry of Truth.
When you're done chuckling over the latest Afghan follies, take a look at this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/afghanistan/
This isn't the first time we've bungled Afghanistan.
Did any of the attacked flights originate in the United States?
No?
That reminds me of an old joke.
One night I'm walking down a street. Ahead of me I see a man crawling around underneath a streetlight. I stop and ask him what he's doing. He tells me he's looking for his wallet. He says he dropped it.
"Ok," I said, "but I don't see a wallet. Are you sure this is where you lost it?"
"No," he said and pointed, "I lost it in that dark alley down the street."
"So... why are you looking here - instead of the alley?"
"Why? Because the light's better."
with apologies to Kipling
When you've been grenaded in Kandahar's lanes,
And the GIs swarm down to cut up your remains,
Just beckon your camel to kick out your brains,
And go to your gawd like Civilians.
You are correct. Words are for the credulous.
"Defense?"
The word you're looking for - is Offense.
Corruption? Well, we wanted to install American style government...
Well, what do I know? He already works for Murdock, and has already been rewarded.
From the LATimes:
" Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary, the Tribune Washington Bureau has learned. "Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997," Ailes said in a statement, adding a jab at NPR: “He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.”
No need for tears; Juan Williams has catapulted himself into a cushy gig at FOX.
That Congress is now openly taking advice from comedians tells us more than I want to think about.
"When Bill asked her to just look at a monkey, she refuted him by asking why monkeys are not still evolving into human beings. Another guest suggests to her that ‘it takes time.’"
The irony is that she made a monkey out of herself in a few short seconds.
"It is more noticeable if the person who snaps is heavily armed."
groan.
Informative, as always, but I would hardly base my case on the "choice" made by a child entering puberty or the "practice" of Christianity by a politician.