Tag archive for ‘war on terror’
The weekend roundup: habeas schmabeas
Last Friday, hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to challenge their imprisonment in the US Court System, Sen. John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
Really, John? Was that hyperbole, like when your mom orders the Monte [...]
More bad experience
In the last hours before the crucial mini-SuperTuesday Democrartic primary voting, the “experience” candidate stoops to War on Terror messaging: “Vote Hillary to protect the poor cuddly kids!” Sorry, but no. This ad demonstrates everything that’s wrong with the kind of experience Hillary is so proud of acquiring. As Slate points out, she didn’t keep [...]
run for your life!
After a 5-year study in 11 countries, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Organization for Standardization have concluded that the above sign has the ability to scare the sh*t out of anybody, regardless of linguistic, cultural, religious, international or planetary differences.
Admittedly, a major improvement on the three-cornered trefoil.
Still, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unphased. [...]
‘we’re in jail, dude’
Via BBC via Murdoch’s Sun, a British tabloid. Surprising how long it took for this to break, but ol’ Rupes is just that kind of player.
The Sun newspaper says it has obtained the cockpit video at the centre of a row over the “friendly-fire” death of a British soldier in Iraq.
An inquest into the [...]
The Mundy Round Up
After a week-long layoff, it’s time to get back on my cyber-grind, so to speak. So here it is - a melange of news stories that I have found interesting, illuminating, or most expedient when assembling my blog entry. I also saw Children of Men (for a second time), and would highly recommend it to [...]
Merry Xmas, You Satanic Hippie!
The last turkey sandwiches have been choked down, and Christmas is all around. Snow on the ground, holiday music in the air, mistletoe-flavored coffee at Starbucks … and neighbors at each other’s throats. Break out the eggnogg!
Woman faces fines for wreath peace sign
Some neighbors in Colorado are up in arms over one resident’s [...]
no freedom for Freedom
The FBI has a new target — the Filipino Community. There are Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cells in the Philippines, which isn’t news, but the feds are now targeting Filipino activists in northwestern US as supspected terrorists.
On October 4, Freedom Allah Siyam, a Seattle Filipino activist changed his name from Gotcho Cupp in 1998, had feds come [...]
american twinks
So, hey, why isn’t President Pervez “Mushy” Musharraf of Pakistan afraid of the Big Bad Wolf (ie, terrorism generally and al Qaeda in particular)? Is it maybe because he’s secretly on the side of Osama in the War on Terror? Or maybe because he’s a Muslim living among Muslims in a combative part of the [...]
our CEO president
What comes of government streamlining? Private firms get hired to act in the government’s place. That arrangement has a nice ring in the mouths of small government “let the market decide” advocates, but it doesn’t always work out so smoothly in practice. Our tax-payer billions have bought us an inefficient mess of a War on [...]
Watada won’t go!
WireTap Magazine posted a piece today on Lt. Ehren Watada, 28, who is facing indictment and imprisonment for refusing to deploy to Iraq. He faces a pretrial hearing this week.
Watada is the first military officer to face charges for opposing the war and the government seems to be pursuing his prosecution to deter further objection [...]
american blackout
Georgia Democrat, black congresswoman and outspoken critic of the Bush administration and the War on Terror Cynthia McKinney is facing heated Republican-orchestrated opposition in the primaries this week, which is no surprise. The details of the campaign against her are included in a New York Times article/review of American Blackout, the recently released documentary about [...]
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