Yes, tragedy upon tragedy, meanwhile on Friday in the Obama administration’s infinite wisdom, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution that would condemn “illegal” Israeli settlements and would demand an immediate halt to all settlement building. Let the genocide continue.

You forget, they are the Chosen People, friends of the US Empire, owners of the MIC and controllers of the banks.

They are not, as some would have it, mass murderers, torturers, terrorists, illegal occupiers, practitioners of apartheid and a danger to the world./s*

US reveals that CIA agent Raymond Davis worked for private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater

Well finally the US has caught up with the rest of the world. It is truly amazing that this asinine gummint would have tried to have continued the ridiculous fiction of Davis being a “diplomat” when anyone with even half a ounce of common sense knew otherwise. What they do not want is the Blackwater criminal (redundant?) in a court, facing years of torture and eventual hanging, ready to spill the beans on the criminality of a gummint that could not “save” his sorry ass.

Lots of fun for the rest of us.

Thank god for the humanity shown by the defecting pilots. They refused an illegal unlawful inhumane order to kill their countrymen. Wonder if any of the drone directors sitting comfortably in the US ever think of the illegality of their actions which kill innocent civilians in contravention of the Geneva Conventions.

Agreed!

So right; the military leaving their oligarchs to be with the people has been a really magnificent show of actual decency through all these uprisings.

Wonder if any of the drone directors sitting comfortably in the US ever think of the illegality of their actions

I think you can be pretty sure of two things 1/they have never heard of the Geneva convention and 2/ they have been so indoctrinated with the omnipotence of the Homeland that they are convinced of the righteousness of their actions.

raw story claims there is a poll whence americans consider reagan one of the greatest presidents who ever lived and jefferson below bush

telling you, it’s who writes the history that matters and right now the right wing is doing the writing

They could have, and should have, bombed Gaddafi’s compound rather than turning and running like rats.

Might have made it harder to claim common decency if you just bombed a bunch of fellow countrymen from the other side.

If he “spilled the beans” he would be immediately discredited by the US.

Things will all work out in the end. There’s lots of money at stake here. All the players are evil in this one, I don’t know who to root for.

And us with no leader.

Where is Alexander Haig when we need him.

Can’t have those Socialists going after bankers you know.

More than 40% of the red alerts requested of Interpol by Venezuela in the case of the fugitive bankers have been blocked over the last year, by a committee of lawyers working for the international organisation. The lawyers consider the investigations [by the Venezuelan government] to be directly linked with political persecution.

…Among the bankers favoured [by the freezing of the international warrants] are Nelson Mezerhane, owner of Federal Bank; Pedro Torres Ciliberto, father and son of Banco Real; Gonzalo Tirado Yepez of Inverunion; Eligio Cedeno, fugitive of the Caracas Justice Palace in December 2009 and under investigation for diversion of bank resources; among others.

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Herbert today. Bobo is at his most poisonous in “Make Everybody Hurt,” in which he says debt fighters everywhere, including Wisconsin, must establish a set of practices to help us cut spending effectively now and in the future. Bobo, you poisonous toad, instead of attacking the most vulnerable and lowest paid why don’t you consider rolling back Bush’s horrendous tax cuts? Oh, right — that might gore YOUR ox… Prick. Mr. Herbert has visited Bernie Sanders’ web site. In “At Grave Risk” he says some letters to an independent senator describe the erosion of America’s great promise.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got lemon poppy seed muffins this morning. Bobo has irritated me almost beyond measure. And it’s even worse when his crap is placed into juxtaposition against Mr. Herbert. I need more tea. I guess it’s too early to add a belt of bourbon, right? Damn. Have a great day.

Ahh, good old Al “I am in control” Haig.

Thanks for sparing us the pain, Marion. Bobo is no doubt wangling for a share of the pie/consultancy at whatever right wing stink tank is setting up. (let’s see, w’s Liebury in Dallas is putting together its staf…)

You see Gadafi and the unarmed people are moral equivalents.Violence to stop genecide is taboo.

He’s firmly on the “unions are unreasonable and overpaid” bandwagon. The thing that really makes me gnash my teeth is that the sonofabitch is probably a union member his own damn self. The prick.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/146183/Americans-Say-Reagan-Greatest-President.aspx

Here is the poll.

Reagan, Lincoln, Clinton, Kennedy, Washington, F. Roosevelt, Obama, T. Roosevelt, Truman, Bush II; in that order.

Aren’t all Xe/CIA employees masters of the universe and immune from any accountability. They are the imperial storm troopers above any accusation.

The U.S. public being largely ignorant of history and nearly illiterate it’s not surprising they would rank Raygun as number 1. USA! USA! USA!

Republicons want to “spread the pain” while progressives want to “spread the wealth”. Makes one realize that Republicons are sadists and the people that buy their political swill are masochists.

Or: Republicans are grownups, and progressives are baby birds with their beaks perpetually open.

Good morning all.

Libyan ambassador to the U.S. just defected.

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snigger, the inevitable wingnut email now up on WashJournal, it’s the environmentalists fault, we are too dependent on foreign sources because … the baddies at EPA/WH keep failing to roll over for Big Oil. these fact-free types are dependable.

It’s interesting as popular mythology.

Of the men who were actually inaugurated, Kennedy served less time than anybody except William Henry Harrison, Warren Harding, Gerald Ford, and Obama. Correct?

Clinton will be remembered for having been impeached. Correct? I mean a century after his term ended and basically everybody alive during his administration is dead.

Tragedy is the new normal.

Al Jazeera interviewed a doctor who said that a group of soldiers had been shot execution style because they refused to fight the protestors. I think that his was on the East side of Libya. It looks like there is no possibility of an intervening army to take over. That would indicate that the United Nations should intervene and allow blue hats to reconstitute the armed forces and police under ‘new’ rules.

If you throw away those who have been out of office for less than a century, the poll shows:

Lincoln, Washington, T. Roosevelt, Jefferson, Jackson

which is not particularly unreasonable.

“All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing” Edmund Burke. Since the U.N stood by in Bosnia and Rawanda while genocides were taking place I seriously doubt they would intervene in Libya.

Not illiterate, just very sadly misinformed.
The Faux Noise machine is winning the messaging war, more people believe the faux narrative than the actual truth.

AJ doing story on reopening of Raffa crossing for first time since Egyptian revolution.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-hillary-clinton/story?id=12959396

Here’s the transcript for “This Week.” I can read this in a lot less than an hour and so can you. There are no commercials. Of course, I can’t do anything else at the same time I read it.

Commercials are debilitating.

You gotta love the karma though. England let the Lockerbie bomber go to get Libya’s oil. Now the deal may go up in smoke.

Here’s an interesting bit of history about Libya from Juan Cole this morning

In 1930, under Mussolini’s governor of Libya, Rodolfo Graziani, some 80,000 Libyans were removed to concentration camps, where 55% of the inmates perished. In 1933-1940, Italo Balbo championed aerial warfare as the best means to deal with uppity colonial populations. Between 1912 and 1943, half of all Libyans were killed, starved or chased from the country by the Italian colonial regime.

The UN was designed to do nothing. It was the earliest version of kabuki invented in modern day politics. Matters not what any nation wants/needs, if a few nations can veto everything.

Earthquake in New Zealand hits a church. For insurance purposes, this would be classified as an act of God. Does that mean God hates churches?

Actually the U.S. public scores very poorly on literacy tests. Most magazines, newspapers etc. are geared to an 8th grade reading level.

lol

btw, Jane H. took on a moron from the right blaming the poor for the financial disaster, last night, here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL2xr1g4cJM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thank you for mentioning Christchurch, Attaturk. This is a major catastrophic event with aftershocks ongoing since the last earthquake there. And this time it struck in Lyttleton Harbour around one pm with a shallower epicenter, so the damage to the city and surrounds is huge. You can go to nzherald.co.nz to read about it.

Clinton will also be remembered for that giant sucking sound…(NOT what you’re thinking, please remove minds from the gutter, hee hee)

NAFTA… the first nail in the coffin of the American middle class.