Iraq inquiry: British officials heard ‘drum beats’ of war from US before 9/11 Daily Telegraph By James Kirkup and Gordon Rayner 24 Nov 2009 British officials heard the "drum beats" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, […]
It Is Only a Paper Moon [1933] Mmm, mm, mm, mm A bubble for a minute Mmm, mm, mm, mm You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it Say, it’s only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me… I didn’t say everything I […]
Alberto Gonzales Won’t Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony New York Magazine By Murray Waas 11/23/09 Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public records and interviews with federal law-enforcement officials, the Justice Department has concluded that there’s insufficient evidence to […]
It Is Only a Paper Moon [1933] Mmm, mm, mm, mm A bubble for a minute Mmm, mm, mm, mm You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it Say, it’s only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me… In the last year, we’ve […]
master-slave dialectic: the encounter between two self-conscious beings, who engage in a "struggle to the death" before one enslaves the other, only to find that this does not give him the control over the world he had sought… Obama in China highlights total failure of conservative vision – if you know how to see Open […]
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Kennedy Barred From Communion by Bishop New York Times By IAN URBINA November 22, 2009 Widening a growing rift, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, said on Sunday that the Roman Catholic bishop of Providence had instructed him to refrain from receiving communion because of the congressman’s stance on abortion. Rep. Kennedy said […]
A gray, rainy, windy day here in North Georgia – a great day for looking at the National Debt. I’ll never claim to understand all of its ins and outs [in fact, it seems deliberately obscure to me]. The National Debt is like our weather here today – driving rain, overcast, blowing dead limbs from […]