a warm sunny sunday

Crap-O-War-Machines!

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Will Pitt | How to End the Recession... Forever

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I found myself walking all over downtown Boston on Thursday to take care of some personal business. It was a beautiful day to walk the city. The sun was shining, everything was in full bloom, the air was warm with a cooling breeze, thousands of people were out and about, and the city was filled with unbelievably powerful and dangerous weapons of war. Wait, what?"
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Let's Work Together! Americans!

leaking ceiling in basement

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Crappy-O'l-Middle-East-Crap!

Noam Chomsky | A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (but Won't)

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The fact that the Israel-Palestine conflict grinds on without resolution might appear to be rather strange. For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement. In this case, it is not only possible, but there is near universal agreement on its basic contours: a two-state settlement along the internationally recognized (pre-June 1967) borders - with 'minor and mutual modifications,' to adopt official US terminology before Washington departed from the international community in the mid-1970's."
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Crap-O-Crap!!

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Marjorie Cohn | Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling

Marjorie Cohn, Jurist: "The conservative 'states' rights' mantra sweeping our country has led to one of the most egregious wrongs in recent U.S. history. New legislation in Arizona requires law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have 'reasonable suspicion' to believe is an undocumented immigrant and arrest them if they fail to produce their papers. What constitutes "reasonable suspicion"? When asked what an undocumented person looks like, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law last week, said, 'I don't know what an undocumented person looks like.'"
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Crap-O-neo-tea-party!

A Tea Party protest in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 15, 2009. (Large 800x533) (Full-Res.)

Rage and Rebellion: How Will the Left Respond?

Bernard Weiner, Truthout: "Like a lot of progressives, I've been puzzling over the Tea Party phenomenon. Many on the left choose to believe that the hundreds and sometimes thousands who attend the group's rallies are the same old extreme rightwingers who always have been around - usually content to remain isolated individuals or small groups in the shadows but this time encouraged out in the open by incitement from the Far Right media."
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A Cold April Day

A Crap-O-Crack-Justice

Alexander Cockburn | The Cover-Ups That Exploded Alexander Cockburn, Truthout:

"The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism show trigger-happy U.S. Army helicopter pilots and U.S. Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes....The World Wide Web was transfixed Monday when Wikileaks put up on YouTube a 38-minute video, along with a 17-minute edited version, taken from a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, one of two firing on a group of Iraqis in Baghdad at a street corner in July 2007. Twelve civilians died, including a Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and a Reuters driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40." (Read the Article)

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Marijuana Legalization: The Pay-Any-Price Principle David Sirota, Truthout: "When choosing between frugality and security, history shows that America almost always selects the latter. To paraphrase President Kennedy, we'll pay any price and bear any burden to protect ourselves....No doubt this was why the economic case against the Iraq invasion failed. To many, the war debate seemed to pose a binary question: debt or mushroom clouds? And when itís a scuffle between money arguments and security arguments (even dishonest security arguments), security wins every time."

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Reagan Redux Could Pay for Health Care
Sunday 28 March 2010
by: Gerald E. Scorse, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

"A fiscal Frankenstein"; so said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) about the health care bill just passed by the Congress. Soulmate Republicans echoed his warning, predicting budgetary doom.

But GOP legislators who cry fiscal wolf are twice trapped. For eight years, they aided and abetted as President Bush turned a budget surplus into a $1.2 trillion deficit. Even more, an inconvenient truth has inconveniently surfaced: a tax policy passed by right-wing icon Ronald Reagan could pay for Barack Obama's health care reform.

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The Sunday I Met B.Z. over Joe's Garlic Bread

Crap-O-Union-Labor!!

A Lesson Too Long Unlearned

Sunday 27 December 2009
by: Dick Meister, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Union workers protesting. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Grant Neufeld)

Despite the importance of unions in our lives, our schools pay only slight attention to that importance - or even to their existence.

Little is done in the classroom to overcome the negative view of organized labor held by many Americans; little is done to explain the true nature of organized labor. (Read More)


Crap-A-Regime-O-Quran !!

Anti-Government Protests Turn Deadly in Tehran
Sunday 27 December 2009
by: Thomas Erdbrink | The Washington Post

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Tehran - Security forces opened fire at crowds demonstrating against the government in the capital on Sunday, killing at least five people, including the nephew of opposition political leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, witnesses and Web sites linked to the opposition said. (Read More)

It Rains the Sun down the Sunset Boulevard

Crap-A-Crack-O-Health-Insurance-Industry!!!

Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?
by: Ellen Hodgson Brown J.D., t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: ChiBart, Tomas Fano)

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago:

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
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What Congress' Health Care Overhaul Likely Means for You
Friday 25 December 2009
by: Jordan Rau | Kaiser Health News | News Analysis

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Washington - Now that the Senate has passed a hotly debated health care bill, Congress is headed to the next step: House of Representatives-Senate negotiations in January to hammer out a final version. Given the Senate's difficulty in passing a bill, the final legislation is likely to tilt strongly toward that chamber's version. Here's where things stand and how you might be affected.

Q: What are the biggest disputes?
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Cold&Dry - Who Stopped the Rain?

Crap-O-Climate-A-Nuclear!!

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Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
by: Art Levine, t r u t h o u t | Report

Dr. Helen Caldicott, the pioneering Australian antinuclear activist and pediatrician who spearheaded the global nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has joined with left-leaning environmental groups here in an uphill fight to halt nuclear power as a "solution" to the global warming crisis. "Global warming is the greatest gift the nuclear industry has ever received," Dr. Caldicott told Truthout. (Read More)

Dr. Helen Caldicott Speaks Out:



Crap-O-Native-Roots!!

PEOPLE: Mary G. Ross blazed a trail in the sky as a woman engineer in the space race
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by americanindiannews in December 2009

Photo by Mary McCarthy Mary G. Ross, at 96, joins the 2004 opening procession for the Smithsonian's new National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C

When she was 96 years old, Mary Golda Ross asked her niece to make her something very special: the first traditional Cherokee dress that Ross, the great-great-granddaughter of renowned Chief John Ross, would ever own.

Because Ross, after a lifetime of high-flying achievement as one of the nation’s most prominent women scientists of the space age, wanted to wear her ancestral dress to the 2004 opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of the American Indian. (Read More)
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