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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
...on the 1-10 GIHIS*.
Maybe I can safely continue reading!
*Greenwald Immediate Headache Induction Scale
typo. @ 5:57. My O day, it's a beautiful day.
Thomas Mann-not scared, but sacred. Oho!
That scale is with 1 being the most immediate and excruciating, yes?
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I love reads from Dr. Robert H. Deluty. Read him? I've had a meal with him. He has horrible memories of ancestral death-camps, told via oral history. He's been published in:`The Wall Street Journal, `The Baltimore Sun, `Welcome Home, `The Journal of Poetry Therapy, `Frog Pond, and he's a gentleman: A great 'shrink'...
`Muse of Fire, etc., There are many inspiration.
In Praise of Commonplace:` his fifteenth book.
I forgot what I was gonna say:`O well, nice day!
RE: The GIHIS*
I'm thinking it's a logarithmic scale. And today's post, unlike this one
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/18/bipartisanship/
didn't "make me go all Mukasey and [stuff]".
This is an actual quote from an official statement issued by President George W. Bush in 2001:
"The transfer of Milosevic to the Hague is an unequivocal message to those persons who brought such tragedy and brutality to the Balkans that they will be held accountable for their crimes. Milosevic’s transfer further signals the commitment of the new leadership in Belgrade to turn Yugoslavia away from its tragic past and toward a brighter future as a full member of the community of European democracies."
This is part of what Glenn linked to in his first update here, but I just had to re-print this. Maybe Obama could write this on Bush's forehead with a Sharpie and deliver him to The Hague on January 21? Can somebody work this quote into the Inaugural Address?
This quote reminds me of nothing more than the classic Far Side cartoon of two cavemen holding bows and standing by a dead mammoth that has a teeny tiny arrow sticking out of its side, and one caveman says to the other "maybe we should write that spot down".
There are things that are too important to ignore. And if "letting bygones be bygones" was a morally acceptable basis for ignoring major, intentional, planned, systematic criminal activity, why bother even having laws? Those who glibly are asserting, accepting or expecting that the illegal actions of the Bush Administration are going to be ignored as "old news" deserve themselves to be subjected to the kinds of things the Bush Administration has been doing "in our name".
And when it suggested that it's fine to "move along" and ignore Bush's depravity, could somebody PLEASE quote Bush back in their faces? Could somebody PLEASE confront Bush with this quote at a press conference before he leaves office? Confront Dana Perino with it? Get it on the nightly news for America to see and hear?
If anyone deserves an award and recognition of gallant bravery and clarity of reporting, it'd be you Glenn. You're my "go to" guy when it comes to gleaning the truth. I'm a devoted reader and follower of your philosophy. You're reporting rarely uplifts me, but that's not reporting. Take care, compadre.
Thanks for the reminder that one should remain skeptical of cable news "gotcha" clips, even when (or perhaps especially when) Rick Sanchez is stoking one's schadenfreude.
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Harpie, I hope if you wear bell bottoms and bells on the black patten leather shoes,
and no mice or moles crawl up to bite the stubby nose, while ya' hoe or rake weed.
It only takes a 'forty by sixty' foot garden plot. Where can one find more enjoyment?
Hum in friendly mood with a tune, as if when the eyes close, you no loathe humans.
Octet. I agree. It's time for confession. No fear garden moles. 'O`moan, thee groans?
O hungry.
O Justice!
Shine hoe.
Haul dung.
Grow grub.
Ay, Harpie,
O ya happy.
It's my understanding that Mukasey was arguing against the "criminalization of policy differences" (prosecution of War Criminals) in front of the Federalist Society when he was stricken. This, the same day Judge Leon issued his Order in Boumediene at al v. Bush et al.
It is not hyperbole to posit that the Bush admin is peopled with War Criminals. They are mass murderers. Apologists for, nay, advocates of, TORTURE. The lot ought to be tried in The Hague.
I would, with some degree of satisfaction, see them hanged.
... the circle of advisers that Obama seems to be surrounding himself with reminds me of a scene early in the movie Lawrence of Arabia:
Lawrence is in Egypt and while talking with a young subaltern casually puts out a match by pinching it with his fingers. The subaltern tries this and exclaims "Ouch! That hurts!" to which Lawrence replies "Of course it hurts." The subaltern then inquires "What's the secret then?" "The secret," Lawrence explains, "is not to mind that it hurts."
By the same token, the secret to enjoying the Obama electoral victory, in the face of selections like John Brennan, is not to mind that it hurts.
Where can I get my "Free BebopO" bumber sticker?
You said this,
"...I intend to wait and judge Obama on the policies he pursues, not the administrators he appoints to carry out those policies."
One can hope that what people do can be an improvement over what one can expect by who they are....I was recently chastized for trying to point out the serious fractures within the broad coalition of voters and interest groups that supported Obama. I wanted to have people now try to come up with some workable resolutions to the ones they care about. I was told that it was too soon to worry about any of that because, as they said, Obama is not yet President. However, I think it will be late for Progressives to have input let alone influence if they wait until Obama starts revealing his policies.
For example, I expect the Obama people to go for the Clinton/Bush foreign policy choices. Let's see...if there's someone in a country we don't like, don't send in the marines, think carefully, and send in a cruise missle.
I understand that Obama voted for FISA and about that I expect him to not change his mind, nor pursue any Bush era miscreants. That will all be old news.
As for the economy...trillions of dollars will be owed and spoken for by the Bush administration efforts to "help the economy" though we will find, no doubt, that all of it will be useless spending to the American people. Obama will be unable to address any of that as "criminal" or even "unwise" because his own team will pretty much agree that corporate welfare needs to be done.
I suspect Glenn is correct in saying that Obama is a centrist and always has been. It was naive to believe that he would buck the system in any major way. However, he will have to because the system has become toxic to the people. The whole idea of opposing FDR as a "traitor to his class" was that some people thought it was more important to support the rich than figure out a way to help the whole country. Hasn't Glenn pointed out Obama is now putting together a team likely to support their class?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
