Yes, I’m absolutely delighted Dan Froomkin will move over to the Huffington Post. He’ll write his own columns twice a week, and help lead forward 4-5 other great Huffington Post contributors. I will expect you with Salon, and Dan and his folks to keep us all up to date, and that means give us some good insight. I repeat --- good new insight --- and good new thinking.

On the Washington Post, I will add or rather pile on there -- actually a pile already started by Post management. And you can’t make this stuff up. What’s up with this offer (now withdrawn) to offer access to senior WaPo mgt. for one visit with consulting insight for $25,000; but then for the bigger bucks of $250,000 -- one gets to come back with several repeat visits. I’m sure there would have been a limit before another $250,000 would have been required.

I mean you can’t make this stuff up.

But hold it ladies and gentlemen, I know we all can follow the latest news from former Mayor Marion Barry. That’s riveting.

This is great. Serious job loss numbers continue to pour in, the Obama administration says they are and were surprised as to how bad the economy is, WaPo can give us the latest news on Marion Barry, they can offer to sell (for big bucks) access to a few of the key and excellent columnists at WaPo still left, and then they can terminate one of their top and most read weekly columnists, Dan Froomkin.

I think I’ll just move my news and commentary reading on beyond WaPo as I continue my regular reading of Salon, where I have been almost a charter member, to now include Froomkin and associates at his new employer, plus the NY Times.

Oh yes, let me add in please, FT.com, Economist.com, and Guardian.UK.co --- the later for good Iran news.

Thank you.

Will you find me a fourth generation warfare expert who is all "warm and fuzzy" for us to use? I see that his being correct on coming events for nearly a decade means nothing to you, so lets get a nice liberal fellow to tell us what we want to hear, eh?

I highlighted the words "Hillary demanded, and reportedly got, a commitment to the opium dream of a "secular, democratic, peaceful" Afghanistan." because that is what the neo-con Clinton is asking for. It was in all the papers, did you miss it?

You misunderstand the question I had about the nuking of Afghanistan. He is a known opponent of American Air Power. He had claimed on several occasions that you can win a war with air power only if you are willing to kill everyone. Was the "nuke em" speech one of those?

And if it was not; do you only listen to people you already agree with?

I have read Lind take on the Republicans for 8 years and be quoted by liberals. Now he takes on Obama and he is a hate-monger.

Who knew?

'another black mark on the Obama administration’s promised transparency."

ummmmmm...

let's see i fired.

he gets my tax dolars regardless.

e is aware [c.c. busie/kerry debate and thoe lost seconds, the blank stare andwell, let's just turn the whole thing over..it's only paperwork]

darpa yesterday 'bragged' about an unmanned vechile to hit utspace, to spy [gasp!] on the world!

virgin galatic is firing off a planned space hotel [they need police i suppose way up there], then fired 600 [more of my tx dollars, when i work, and the insults to go w/ them]

parrarel universe?

follow gitmo news, now my life is only going to contunue to get fired.

am i on a timer?

i writing about, do i get one big huge jolt at aplanned date? unbeknowest to myself? more r less?

can i be close to some morphone for the big event?

no? okay...i can gaurentte i'll cuss my ass off, thru the puke on my way out.

feel better?

http://www.google.com/patents?q=darpa+neural+targeting&spell=1&scoring=1&output=rss

i dont need a 'jock strap"

a real investigation, say FBI or nsa idiot i have at a blog, or just the lcoal police, might be start. arrests, trail, pujtive and an reala island vacation. [see ya in 6 months]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/health/13iht-13psych.17789939.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

And the users of some sites have found the support of Jim Guest, a Republican state representative in Missouri, who wrote last year to his fellow legislators calling for an investigation into the claims of those who say they are being tortured by mind control.

"I've had enough calls, some from credible people — professors — being targeted by nonlethal weapons," Guest said in a telephone interview, adding that nothing came of his request for a legislative investigation. "They become psychologically affected by it. They have trouble sleeping at night."

He added: "I believe there are people who have been targeted by this. With this equipment, you have to test it on somebody to see if it works."

I stated my thoughts and opinions.

So did you.

It doesn't seem like either of us will be swayed by the other.

So, we might as well stop wasting each other's time.

Bravo! John Bolton seems to want to facilitate an insane Iraeli attack on Iran, and perhaps have the attack be via Saudi airspace which would enlarge the catastrophic results! The Washington Post should consider the apparent reality that Iran wants to be able to develop nuclear weapons, should it choose to do so, but for the time being it is not actually developing nuclear weapons and in fact wants a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.

I assume Arianna will be paying Dan to write for HuffPo, but that will be in stark contrast to the salaries of the vast stable of excellent writers posting there for free.

Ché Pasa: Whether or not the media need to be paying more attention to Honduras, it isn't really true that their interest in Xinjiang materialized out of nowhere, or was largely centered on Islam. Edward Wong, for instance, at NYTimes Beijing bureau, has been covering Chinese suppression and a series of predicted (both by the media and by the Chinese government) crackdowns last year and this, and I think they were actually expecting something to happen in Xinjiang after what happened during the Olympics. What's happening there would not be remarkable (there are hundreds of thousands of labor and ethnic dust ups in China per year these days) except for the massive loss of life. It is a particularly brutal riot, and even with all the extra police/paramilitary presence that was there before it started, it isn't under control, which is unusual for China.

My point was not about whether or not the problems in Xinjiang materialized out of nowhere, or whether they are because of Islam, or whether even whether they have been misinterpreted.

My point was that practically the entire media (including "New Media") went into hyperdrive over Xinjiang's unrest and in doing so almost totally ignored what's happening down south in Honduras, our own backyard as it were, where access is no doubt easier, and the story -- if anyone ever bothers to investigate -- probably has a whole lot more application to our own circumstance.

Because it is a MEDIA issue, I thought maybe Mr. Froomkin from his new perch at HuffPo might make mention of it, how the MEDIA turned instantly from an issue in our own backyard where the United States has immense influence to one many thousands of miles away that we can effectively do nothing about.

I thought that was self evident. I guess not.