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Human rights group slams Israel's probe of Gaza conflict

02-08-10 4:18 A GMT-08
Excerpt: Human Rights Watch says Israel has not shown it will conduct objective probe

Pictures: Sarah Palin's Palm Crib Notes. The Real Tragedy of Stupidity

02-08-10 4:14 A GMT-08
Can't remember her core principles? Lame.

Haiti aid chopper crashes, killing 2 Americans

02-06-10 2:47 A GMT-08
Helicopter with two Americans helping the aid effort crashed into a mountain while returning to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Americans From New Life Children's Refuge (Idaho) Caught at Haitian Border with Unauthorized Orphans

01-31-10 6:58 A GMT-08
Said they were taking them to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Is this group part of New Life Church. I'd read (in The Family) that it was expanding. And why take orphans from Haiti to drop off in Dominican Republic?

President Obama Related to Scott Brown. Let the Howling Begin!

01-30-10 7:26 A GMT-08
Rushbo is gonna freak.

Video -- Rachel Maddow: Scott Roeder Who Shot Dr George Tiller Last May Loses Chance for Lesser Charges

01-29-10 6:20 A GMT-08
Life in prison seems to be his future, now. Earlier in his trial the judge said he would consider a lesser charge, causing fear that Roeder would be set free within a few years.

Newsday Paywall Fails to Make Money

01-27-10 1:14 A GMT-08
Readership up because online news is free to paper subscribers and cable users, but readership has narrowed become local. Employees not happy. It was supposed to make money, instead has reduced papers influence. Newsday.com only has 35 subscribers. Wake up NYT!

Get to Know O'Keefe's Accomplices (Via Digg bar)

01-27-10 12:57 A GMT-08
Dig bar offers you a chance to vote on article via Digg. OKeefe's friends are young republican activists with an agenda. Thanks to @thejoshuablog at Twitter.com for link

HCR bill likely to deny women the basic right to health care. Srsly Centrists, You Want to Pass This? SRSLY???

01-26-10 6:39 P GMT-08
The bill as it stands makes second class citizens of women solely based on the genetic makeup of their bodies. And yet we are told just to get in line and support it. Right.

Chart Distribution of Wealth US 2004

01-26-10 5:47 A GMT-08
Even by that time the inequality in the American economy had expanded, though the Bush administration claimed that everyone would be benefitted by the "Ownership Society" Thanks to @eversollae at Twitter.com who posted his graphic to Yfrog

Paliban Daily: Pat Roberston Voodoo Doll on Ebay with Proceeds Going to the Red Cross

01-21-10 2:30 A GMT-08
You might want to stick a few pins in it when you get it too.

Buzzflash: Hugh Conrad: Mr. President: "Yes we can -- stay home!"

01-20-10 11:13 P GMT-08
The base was taken for granted. This should not happen again.
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How Current Cold Winter in US & EU Actually Helps Prove Global Warming Theory

01-17-10 8:27 P GMT-08
I know the Christian Jihadists are trying to keep people ignorant so that they can push thieir right wing policies for the big money makers of this world, but their lies could cost lives, including those of loved ones.

The Livesay (Haiti) Weblog

01-13-10 7:22 P GMT-08
Blogger from Haiti

CNN iReport on Haiti Earthquake

01-13-10 6:52 P GMT-08
Individual reporting and pictures from Haiti. The first source I found and the rawest pictures may be found here.

Raw Stroy: Teabaggers Threaten American Cartoonist

01-11-10 6:19 P GMT-08
Much like the Muslims have threatened a Danish cartoonist over his depiction of Mohammed, the teabagger movement has recently had members threatening Mark Fiore a brilliant video hurmorist over video about how to speak like a "tea bagger". The cartoon premiered in November, but Bill O'Reilly recently used it to assert that NPR which hosts Fiores video cartoon on their site is too liberal.

6.5 Earthquake Off Northern CA Hit Sensitive Junction on San Andreas Fault

01-10-10 8:05 A GMT-08
I tweeted earlier a suspicion that Saturday's earthquake off Eureka might be on the San Andreas Fault which goes offshore at San Francisco and runs under the ocean as it goes north past Eureka.

Frank Rich: The Other Plot to Wreck America

01-10-10 7:23 A GMT-08
Another group works to gain advantage over Americans. They have the power to do more damage to our nation than Al Qaeda and other terrorists. And surprise they are not a political party, but they do seem to own them. Frank Rich explains.

Mitt Romney Vote Fraud

01-09-10 6:19 P GMT-08
Mitt Romney voted in recent MA election despite having sold his last home in the state by using his son's address and has sent mai-in ballot for January's special election for senator. I doubt that qualifies as legal in anyway but mainstream news media's eyes. I'm evem betting. That's more voterfraud than ever proven against ACORN or it's associates or employees (which BTW was nil)

Gumby Creator Dies

01-09-10 5:21 P GMT-08
Oh Noes! Does that mean no more new Gumby Cartoons? LOL

The Marriage Revolution Struggle Will Be Televised! Proposition 8 Trial will be shown on YouTube

01-08-10 6:17 P GMT-08
The right screams that their witnesses will be intimidated. People might also see that Ken Starr (Yes, that Ken Starr who often goes by the name Kenneth these days) is one of their main lawyers too. The judge will be able to decide if witness faces and voices should be changed. But what about their names? Ted+Olson (Argued the Bush side in Bush v Gore) is part of the team. Some wonder if the suit is just to nationally outlaw SSM before the coinservatives lose their majority. (The word is that Justice Kennedy is looking towards retirement.) But will the closet cases among conservatives turn the tables?

Juan Cole Offers Reality on The Latest Iran News

01-08-10 10:10 A GMT-08
Another great piece from Cole This one is explaining how we should deal with Iran and why you should believe little of what you read in the papers and nothing from Murdoch's rags. (Actually he passes you on to arms control specialist Gareth Porter for rebuttal to Murdoch's London Times assertions about nuclear trigger plans found in Iran.)
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The Ady Gil Sinks. And the LA Times Tells Us Who the Heck Ady Gil Is

01-08-10 9:22 A GMT-08
I heard the Ady Gil was provided to Sea Shepherd by someone connected to Hollywood, and today's LA Times report on the final sinking of the former "Earthrace" tells us that the benefactor is one Ady Gil. Details at link. I'm sure the Japanese already know this and will try to attack both Ady Gil proper and Bob Barker in the usual personal attack style of right wingers, neocons, and corporatists world wide.

Juan Cole: The Stupidity of Profiling Nations and What We Should Do (Title paraphrased)

01-08-10 8:39 A GMT-08
We will lose money and power by discriminating against Middle East and African nations and the selection of countries for invasive inspections before travel recall pre Martin Luther King policies is what I read in Mr. Cole's piece. He also thinks that patting everyone down from the watch list countriies wouldn't work and other methods will.

Egyptian Soldier Killed at Gaza Border During Dispute

01-06-10 6:45 P GMT-08
Soldier shot twice in back. Egyptians claim from Palestinian fire. So Egyptian soldiers stand with their back to the fight? oR Are they saying their soldier was running away? It sounds like friendly fire to me.

Sea Sheperd's Anti-Whaler superboat, Ady Gill, Heavily Damaged by Japanese Whalers

01-06-10 8:30 A GMT-08
I received a report from SS on my phone, but couldn't open up the original, nor can I find it now. This link goes to the AFP which copies the SS report mostly. Sad news.

FDL: Casual Observer: Was Pants Bomber Motivated by Israeli Attack on Gaza Last Year?

01-06-10 5:33 A GMT-08
Abdulmutallab seems more likely to be inspired by attack on Gaza. Tickets were bought before December's attack on Yemen al Qaeda accompliiss compound, AAP claims for that motivation falls flat.

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Canadian Olympic Ski Stadium Seized for Debt

01-20-10 11:53 P GMT-08

Yeah, one of those which was supposed to be hosting next month's event.

See CP report ""

Human Hot Dog and his Pimp and Ho Thoroughly Discredited?

posted 11-17-09
Picture hotogs on a plate
Two Hotdogs looking for their Sugar Daddy Pickles
Still unclear who represents the ketchup.
I know the purists will be hurt by the red stuff and lack of pickles or onion, and hey where's the kraut, cheese, bacon the things that make a hotdog delicious heartattack in a bun?
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Okay I can't resist just one more.  Maybe I  should go to the desktop.  I can't open may laptop cover more than 30% right now without it blanking, so typing mistakes may be numerous.

The Human Hot Dog and his crew who between the three produced and promoted sometimes dishonest anti ACORN tapes appear to have thoroughly trashed their own credibility, or would have except for the miracle of modern journalism in which anything that helps big business control American minds is great.

They claim to have proven that ACORN officials are lying about them being thrown out of the Philly ACORN rapidly, but people are sceptical that a video that has no video and omits half a conversation represents reality.

Say you wanted to keep a conversation going, but a second party doesn't cooperate?  What could you do?   Why omit the second party's conversation altogether.

And to seemingly continue a conversation (in a videoless video) in an office from which you have been ejected?   Just don't show the video. Continue the discussion in your own undisclosed location with the walls.  Since you have cut out the ACORN worker's conversation, who's to know?  You could be talking to a squrirrel in the park!  

The length of time the conversation went on in the Philly office is important because the staff there claiim they threw the assumed pimp and ho out quickly and called the police.  That's probably why Breitbart and his crew are trying to destroy the people who stood up to them.

The Washington Post shows very subtle skepticism.  Okay, invisiible skepticism.

But you'd think the tape released in October would teach mainstream to stay 100 yards away from "journalism" that Andrew Beitbart is pushing.  He's got worse stuff that Bush's TANG record to bring down a fine media star's career.

See Washington Post report: 

If you can't get into that report see .

So OKeefe, and Giles and Breitbart won't be promoted anymore by mainstream since they've shown they can't be trusted, right?

Ha! The just wrote a report on Miss Giles the other day.   The adoring piece tells us how the young Surfer/slacker discovered that phony reporting for the far right is the new "Get Rich Quick" scheme.  All those chamber businesses are ready to throw money and "journo" awards at you if one of your scams hits the big time.   Now they need to show her what sleazy scheme she needs to pull to finish her inevitable slide into becoming the new Ann Coulter/Michelle Malkin.  I think for those followers she'll need to get a skimpy skirt. Oh wait, she already has one. 

(Andrew Breitbart earned the name Human Hotdog the day after Edward Kennedy died when he trashed the late  senator's memory.   Trying to scope out the measure of such an asshole I came across a picture of a pudgy guy in a mustard yellow shirt.  Breitbart also made, about that time, personal statements to other Twitterers that went beyond political discussion and appeared to border on a threat.  I won't talk about the details or the seriousness, but I found it deeply disturbing and will continue to call this vicious character a Human Hotdog.)

The LA Times has featured right wing attack journos before.  Funny, I never read about Media Matters or other such liberal media wonders from their pages.  Promotion from mainstream news is essential to getting more funding for politically inclined journalists.  But I don't see the Tribune Company promoting any liberal journalists.  

Poor Sam Zell and His lacky publisher at the Times (who formerly headed Direct TV despite Zell's promise to keep Tribune's authority under the scope of "journalists" he also put a Clear Channel alumni in as COO of the Tribune Company.

I wonder if the old guy (who has spoken glowingly of Rupert Murdoch and has even sought a partnership with the right wing news hack over a NY paper he later sold to a third party and seems to want to follow in the footsteps of the king of propaganda) has a pickle green shirt. Then Miss Giles and James Okeefe can be the two sides of the buns and the picture is complete  But beware of ptomaine poisoning.

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