my birthday weekend sorrow

War & Peace Craps !!! LooK! The War Hawk Stays Behind! 

Obama Sets Qaeda Defeat as Top Goal in Afghanistan
Friday 27 March 2009
by: Ross Colvin | Visit article original @ Reuters

Washington - President Barack Obama unveiled a new war strategy for Afghanistan on Friday with a key goal -- to crush al Qaeda militants there and in Pakistan who he said were plotting new attacks on the United States.

when the love comes to town, you'd better catch that train.
- B. B. King

Tyler E. Boudreau: "The Unmaking of A Marine"
Sunday 29 March 2009
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

Packing Inferno is one of the most important historical documents to come out of the Iraq war if for no other reason than it shows what the true face of the Iraq war looks like. It's a remarkable achievement in war reportage and it deserves to be shelved next to the Great War Books and should be required reading for every lawmaker and students of American history.

Eye-Photo-genics

Blue-Eyed Craps

Health
One Common Ancestor Behind Blue Eyes
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 31 January 2008 08:34 am ET



Jane Elliott

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Corina Knoll | Thanking Her for Opening My Eyes

Corina Knoll, The Los Angeles Times: "Jane Elliott has blue eyes. The years have turned her once-brown hair a bright snowy white, and at 75 years old she's rounder, maybe shorter, than she used to be. But eye color doesn't change. Elliott, an Iowa teacher, made deliberate use of that in 1968 when she created a now-famous exercise for her classroom of white third-graders. It was the day after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and she was struggling to explain the concept of racism."

post-happy st. patrick's day party

Originally posted on Myspace by my friend Christina of Sweden


Morning Beauty
© By Eric J. Denten

Calm waters float ashore,
to wake the sleeping shells.
Awakened by the cold hand of water,
they rise to invite others.

Soaring through the dead sky,
escaping the dark pits,
the sky illuminates life,
brightening the world.

The forest quietly unrolls its vines,
wrapping softly to small peaceful waterfalls.
Ferns reaching with their long arms,
to grasp the warm feeling of life.

Inhaling air and dead sediments,
flushing out to all.
Fresh air kissing while it passes by.

Forgotten pasts,
new day,
starting over,
good morning. . .

happy st. patrick's day party

The Day The Shamrock Rocks!

Change Has Come...

not-so-funny craps

Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
Monday 16 March 2009
by: Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith

In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world's labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It's a little-known historical might-have-been that could have helped halt the Great Depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, and the Second World War. And, as the efforts of world leaders to address today's "Great Recession" threaten to break down in nationalist rivalry and petty political bickering, it bears lessons - and perhaps an alternative vision - for today. (More)

sunsets' prettier while days' longer

humans craps! craps! and craps!!!

UN Report Says US Rendition Policy Broke International Law
Tuesday 10 March 2009
by: Julie Sell | Visit article original @ McClatchy Newspapers

A U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international law for the so-called extraordinary renditions and subsequent alleged torture of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration's global war on terrorism, and is launching a probe into the detention of suspects.

Crowds Protest Around World for Freedom in Tibet

The Associated Press: "Tibetans and their supporters marched through the city and elsewhere Tuesday, saying they wanted to speak up for a silenced people on the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that forced the Dalai Lama into exile. Carrying a portrait of the Tibetan spiritual leader and chanting such slogans as 'we want free Tibet,' more than 1,000 protesters followed a more than eight-mile route and rallied near the United Nations and the Chinese Consulate."


Robert Naiman | Can Congress Save Obama From Afghan Quagmire?

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "A progressive presidency is a terrible thing to waste. It only comes around once every so often. Wouldn't it be a shame if Americans' hopes for the Obama administration were squandered in Afghanistan?"


Amy Goodman | Put Single-Payer on the Table

Amy Goodman, Truthdig: "President Barack Obama promises health-care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. Single-payer is the system that removes private insurance companies from the picture; the government pays all the bills, but health-care delivery remains private. People still get their choice of what doctor to go to and what hospital to use. Single-payer reduces the administrative costs and removes the profit that insurance companies add to health-care delivery. Single-payer solutions, however, get almost no space in the debate."

50 years of hell on earth

holy crap!


The Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama: on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
Dalai Lama: ... Having occupied Tibet, the Chinese Communist government carried out a series of repressive and violent campaigns.... These thrust Tibetans into such depths of... hell on earth. ... More

Tibetans Rally 50 Years After Uprising
By Shaun Tandon
Agence France-Presse
Monday, March 9, 2009; 5:48 PM

Tibetan exiles kicked off worldwide rallies Monday outside of the White House with two minutes of silence and cries of 'Free Tibet!' 50 years after an uprising forced the Dalai Lama into exile. As China poured troops into Tibet for the sensitive anniversary, a US lawmaker introduced a non-binding resolution before Congress that would urge China to end its 'repression' of the Himalayan region... More

The Missing Prison

Obamanism Craps !

Afghan men are released from the United States prison at Bagram. 

(Photo: Syed Jan Sabawoon / European Pressphoto Agency)

Obama's Guantanamo? by: Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch.com
Just when you think you've woken up from a bad dream…

When it comes to offshore injustice and secret prisons, especially our notorious but little known prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, let's hope the Obama years mean never having to complete that sentence... <more>

A Rainy & Windy Sunday

Holy Politico Crap

Tibet: Tibetan monks stage peaceful protest march; one sets himself on fire
Dharamshala: More than one hundred Tibetan monks from Lutsang monastery in Mangra county in the Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture held a protest march on 25 February, the first day ...

Monks from Lutsang monastery in Mangra in Tsolho Tibet Autonomous Prefecture (parts of which are incoporated into China's Qinghai Province) march towards Mangra county government building in the early morning hours of 25 February 2009/Photo: VOT

Monks from Lutsang monastery hold candle-light vigil at Mangra county government building, on 25 February 2009

Humane Crap

So Much Depends ...
Sunday 01 March 2009
by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

Beyond its bucolic and haiku-like simplicity, ... MOre