Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Living In Teh Shadows Shadows shadows
where drugs are cheap and Life is cheaper
I see why regular people are flowing across the US Border. And I don’t blame them. I really do wonder if this is the reason the Gubbmint has left the borders open [instead of the old saw about “Rethuglicans need cheap woooorkers"] Having a pressure cooker on one’s Border would be ...problematic.
Trouble is, the more regular, decent people who leave, the less pressure there is to control such Mad Max behavior.
...The elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death.
...In the vicinity of the Mexican city of San Fernando, nearly 200 bodies were unearthed from pits, and authorities said most appeared to have died of blunt force head trauma.
Mad Max meets Fall of Rome with a sprinkling of Jihad Jonnie Comes to Town
*yikes*
Monday, April 25, 2011
For the Women
and the principled
Part 1
OR *clicky*clicky*
Part 2 [stay for the end—worth it.]
OR *clicky*clicky*
Sunday, February 27, 2011
WTF -- on track.
????!!?!?!
Having taken a week off [whaddya mean, “you were gone?” *whyIoughta...*] I’m skipping ‘round the InnerToobz trying to catch up.
Seems like the cat is out of the bag, the beanz spilled, and the obvious, well… obviouser:
The phrase “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" comes to mind every time the Obama- Rice-Hillary combo is at bat.
ayyyyup.
Smart Diplomacy™. Winning… for The Future.
The Governor having asked the WI teachers to pay a paltry contribution toward their own pension funds, [No. A phat pension is not a “right."] seems to have sent their legisKlownz into an undisclosed location a Best Western “resort" scattering across the countryside.
Way to Win The Future, guyz.
At the very least Teh iWon threw a nice concert event thingie…
And can you envision Smokey Robinson with Sheryl Crow? If your answer is no, consider yourself lucky. ...
Nick Jonas, John Legend and Jamie Foxx? Please. No pipes, no chops, no fly zone.
...If “The Motown story is really a metaphor for life,” it doesn’t look as though it ends well.
Wincing. for The Future
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Not Teh Narrative
the first casualty of revolution are the facts
I keep coming back to this.
The Arabic administrator posted on the Arabic page an open question to readers: “What do you think we should give as a gift to the brutal Egyptian police on their day?” [Jan. 25, a national holiday celebrating the country’s widely reviled police force]
“The answer came from everyone: Tunisia Tunisia
,"
...In early January, this core of planners [the Revolutionary Youth Movement] decided they would try to replicate the accomplishments of the protesters in Tunisia who ultimately ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Their immediate concern was how to foil the Ministry of Interior, whose legions of riot police had contained and quashed protests for years. The police were expert at preventing demonstrations from growing or moving through the streets, and at keeping ordinary Egyptians away.
Successful in beating back the Alexandrian Mob for thirty years, using techniques successful for centuries. Principle among those techniques is the Law No. 162 of 1958 [aka The Emergency Law, imposed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and again after the assassination of Anwar Sadat] which suspends the right to demonstrate and allows the arrest of anyone at any time for any reason at the ruler’s pleasure and allows them to be held for indeterminate time without trial.]
"We had to find a way to prevent security from making their cordon and stopping us,” said 41-year-old architect Basem Kamel, a member of Mohamed ElBaradei’s youth wing and one of the dozen or so plotters.
“Youth groups,” “Youth wings,” youth, youth, youth. Age 41.
They met daily for two weeks in the cramped living room of the mother of Ziad al-Alimi. Mr. Alimi is a leading youth organizer for Mr. ElBaradei’s campaign group. ...
Those present included representatives from six youth movements connected to opposition political parties, groups advocating labor rights and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Labor Rights…
On Jan. 25, the first day of protests, the organizers from the youth wings of Egypt’s opposition movements created what appeared to be a spontaneous massing of residents of the slum of Bulaq al-Dakrour, on Cairo’s western edge. These demonstrators weren’t, as the popular narrative has held, educated youth who learned about protests on the Internet. They were instead poor residents who filled a maze of muddy, narrow alleyways, massed in front of a neighborhood candy store and caught security forces flatfooted.
That protest was anything but spontaneous. How the organizers pulled it off, when so many past efforts had failed, has had people scratching their heads since.
...
The group publicly called for protests at those sites for Jan. 25… They announced the sites of the demonstrations on the Internet and called for protests to begin at each one after prayers at about 2 p.m.
But that wasn’t all.
"The 21st site, no one knew about,” Mr. Kamel said.
They sent small teams to do reconnaissance on the secret 21st site. It was the Bulaq al-Dakrour neighborhood’s Hayiss Sweet Shop, whose storefront and tiled sidewalk plaza—meant to accommodate outdoor tables in warmer months—would make an easy-to-find rallying point in an otherwise tangled neighborhood no different from countless others around the city.
The plotters say they knew that the demonstrations’ success would depend on the participation of ordinary Egyptians in working-class districts like this one, where the Internet and Facebook aren’t as widely used. They distributed fliers around the city in the days leading up to the demonstration, concentrating efforts on Bulaq al-Dakrour.
Again:
They were instead poor residents who filled a maze of muddy, narrow alleyways, massed in front of a neighborhood candy store
Those were the people chosen to be the front-line troops against the “brutal police.”
...four field commanders chosen from the organizers’ committee began dispatching activists ["poor residents"] in cells of 10. To boost secrecy, only one person per cell knew their destination.
In these small groups, the protesters advanced toward the Hayiss Sweet Shop, massing into a crowd of 300 demonstrators free from police control. The lack of security prompted neighborhood residents to stream by the hundreds out of the neighborhood’s cramped alleyways, swelling the crowd into the thousands, say sweet-shop employees who watched the scene unfold.
While the police were surrounding and dispersing the other, well-publicized gatherings, these “poor residents” from “a maze of muddy, narrow alleyways” went un-noticed.
The other marches organized at mosques around the city failed to reach Tahrir Square, their efforts foiled by riot-police cordons. The Bulaq al-Dakrour marchers, the only group to reach their objective, occupied Tahrir Square for several hours until after midnight, when police attacked demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The people who evaded the police and the “Emergency Law” to occupy the square were the peasants organized by guys in their 40’s.
I’m also confident that the same ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit that the young people of Egypt have shown in recent days can be harnessed to create new opportunity—jobs and businesses that allow the extraordinary potential of this generation to take flight.
...And above all, we saw a new generation emerge—a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears; a government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations.
What is the pay-off—and to whom—of Teh Narrative of The Youth?
[esp the “well-educated ‘youth’ who 1] are literate 2] are internet/technology savvy?]
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Bone-US Question:
What would happen if a crowd of a group of actual back-woods, redneck, American peasants [real folks—not like Teh iWon Elites™ paint the TeaPartiers] gathered in DC to demand an end to government over-regulation?
What will happen when a crowd of young, tech-savvy stuuuudents gathers in DC to demand the “right” to free food/housing/clothing/medicine/iPhones?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Uhm...
collection of weird
In testimony scheduled Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper ... is expected to defend how the intelligence community tracked the revolts that have swept through two major American allies in the Arab world, toppling the leader of Tunisia and threatening the regime in Egypt...
Yeah—Helluva job, Clappy.
Here, Lady Diane Feinstein, Head of the Intelligence Committee, explains it all for you:
OR *clicky*clicky*
"It’s very real that we do not understand.”
I think that’s a fair statement, LadyDi.
Here’s another weird twist:
[Wael Ghonim, a Google executive] “Ghonim’s tears have moved millions and turned around the views of those who supported (Mubarak) staying,”
Google, again? hm…
And the Headline of The Day:
Lt. Col. Cabangbang killed an Abu Sayyaf leader, southern Philippines on Tuesday
And the “Hello, YouTube” Moment of The Day:
From the U.S. Department of State‘s Arabic Media Hub comes news that America’s top diplomatic agency will be sharing America’s foreign policy goals with the Arab world in their native language. The move comes as DOS hopes to widen its audience amid growing unrest in the Middle East and growing favor for social media outlets such as Twitter.
Tweeting under the account “USAbilAraby,“ which means ”USA in Arabic,” the State Department’s first entry announced that Washington recognizes the “historic role” of social media in the Arab world. “We want to be in your conversation,” it said.
What could go wrong?
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
ToDaZeD Feel Good Story
Don’t Mess with Texans—or ladies of a certain age
The 76-year-old ex-Fort Worth [Former Texan Mary Thornberry] nurse spent more than a week keeping intruders out of her Cairo apartment as violent protests happened outside.
“I had a knife, a nice sharp knife so I would make jabbing motions to them and there were times ... that I would make unladylike comments,” Mary Thornberry said in a phone interview on ABC News’ “Nightline” Thursday.”
A friend of mine on the phone suggested that I boil a kettle of hot water and so, every so often, I would threaten with a kettle of hot water. ... I also had my walking cane and my rolling pin, OK ... so I tell everyone that’s my armory.”
Thornberry said the force of the crowd involved in the pro- and anti-President Hosni Mubarak demonstrations down her street seemed to burst into her building’s foyer.
“A lot of these hoodlums got to my floor and stayed the night there,” she said. “They tried to get to my apartment where I live. They made a lot noise, voices, and pounding on my door and incessant jabbing their fingers on the doorbell.”
...Thornberry, who used to live in Forth Worth, Texas, moved to Cairo in 1996. She received her graduate degree in Egyptian history.
Ginger Butler… has a fiancé in Cairo named Hisham.
She also has friends in Seattle and Olympia, and between them they started the series of events that led to Thornberry getting the help she needed.
...Mary and Hisham were connected by phone in Cairo. He went and got her out of the apartment and escorted her to safety.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
"I Smell Mustard..."
"Quit your daydreaming, melonhead!"
Forward into the 70’s! Led by an oooold man who “hasn’t much time.”
Brown’s “small is beautiful” mantra...
Brown has tossed some of the flashier trappings of the state’s top office in part because of his age, maturity and experience in the office, experts say.
The 72-year-old Brown underscored those strengths in his 2010 gubernatorial drive launch on the Internet, when he looked directly at the camera and told Californians that “at this stage in my life” he wasn’t looking to a future political campaign but to secure California’s future, said Joe Trippi, Brown’s campaign-ad strategist.
“He’s giving you, up front, an explanation on why he needs to do it; he doesn’t have time to screw around,” said UC Irvine political scientist Mark Petracca.
...Petracca said. “He’s of a particular age where time is more precious - and I think it makes people take you more seriously."
...or not
Also gone from the governor’s office is the boardroom table, with a wooden picnic table now in its place.
..."After a while you want to leave,” [Brown] said, “depending upon the strength of your posterior."
Bet he didn’t use that particular word… but he did use these:
“When democratic ideals and calls for the right to vote are stirring the imagination of young people in Egypt and Tunisia and other parts of the world, we in California can’t say now is the time to block a vote of the people,” Brown said in his first State of the State address in nearly 30 years.
He said the budget has tough choices but that the people “have a right to vote” on the package.
Gee… Thanks
“If you are a Democrat who doesn’t want to make budget reductions in programs you fought for and deeply believe in, I understand that,” he said. “If you are a Republican who has taken a stand against taxes, I understand where you are coming from. But this time things are different. In fact, the people are telling us—in their own way—they sense something is profoundly wrong. They see that their leaders are divided when they should be decisive and acting with clear purpose.”
No matter what he says, no matter what he does, remember, Jerry Brown fully supports AB32, aka Global Warming The Final Solution, which will gut the entire CA economy, encourage producers to flee the state and leave the real estate to the Reconquistas.
ok—gut it further.
First, remember that these areas are the ground zero, so to speak, of 20 years of illegal immigration. There has been a general depression in farming — to such an extent that the 20- to-100-acre tree and vine farmer, the erstwhile backbone of the old rural California, for all practical purposes has ceased to exist.
That’s from Victor Davis Hanson’s article on CA—a must read—where I also found this:
"If a man takes no interest in public affairs, we do not commend him as quiet but condemn him as useless.”
--Thucydides, Peloponnesian Wars
Organization?
OR spontaneous street protests?
The army said on Monday [1/31/11] it would not use force against Egyptians staging protests demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down…
It said “freedom of expression” was guaranteed to all citizens using peaceful means.
Is that in Egypt’s constitution? Cuz it’s sure not in its history…
"The presence of the army in the streets is for your sake and to ensure your safety and wellbeing. The armed forces will not resort to use of force against our great people,” the army statement said.
“Your armed forces, who are aware of the legitimacy of your demands and are keen to assume their responsibility in protecting the nation and the citizens, affirms that freedom of expression through peaceful means is guaranteed to everybody."
WTH did that come from?!?
The International Monetary Fund stands ready to help riot-torn Egypt rebuild its economy, the IMF chief said Tuesday as he warned governments to tackle unemployment and income inequality or risk war.
IMF = “Social Justice” Hm… Learn something every day…
Overall, according to the IMF managing director, widening imbalances across and within countries were sparking tensions that threaten to derail the fragile global economic recovery—and could even spark armed conflict.
No ideology; no cries of “Freedom!”; no calls for “God’s Law”; no blathering about “rights of the people”—just economic disparity and lack of JobsJobsJobs.
Makes about as much sense as this:
The IMF boss [shouldn’t that be “Boss”?] called anew on China to adjust its exchange rate in its own economic interest, but said he disagreed with critics in the United States and elsewhere who want a rapid revaluation to the yuan.
He said the US government itself should not have a problem financing its massive debt, and downplayed fears over Japan’s debts after a downgrade last week by Standard & Poor’s.
erm… whaaa?
"These global imbalances put the sustainability of the recovery at risk, ...
oh. ...
Egypt’s armed forces chief of staff Sami Enan could be an acceptable successor to Hosni Mubarak because he is perceived as incorruptible, a member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday.
...date and place of birth as 1948, in Cairo, and says he was trained in both Russia and France as well at a military academy in Egypt.
He held senior roles in air defence before being appointed to his current job in 2005…
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a telephone conversation with Enan on Sunday in which he urged restraint from Egypt’s military, but at the same time praised the “professionalism” of Egypt’s armed forces…
Enan and more than 20 other Egyptian officers were in Washington for long-planned talks when the unrest broke out in Cairo and other cities. They were attending the Military Cooperation Committee, an Egyptian-U.S. body that is chaired by Enan and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense Sandy Vershbow.
As a result of the situation at home, Enan cut short the mission and flew home.
Kamel El-Helbawy, a prominent overseas cleric from Egypt’s main opposition movement [has been a] member [of Islamic Brotherhood] since 1952, Helbawy has long been a prominent member of the Brotherhood’s overseas thinkers, working in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain.
In the mid-1990s he served as the Brotherhood’s spokesman in the West, and helped create the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain.
So he’s the IB spokes-imam.
["Kamel"?~? rly?]
Helbawy said new Vice President Omar Suleiman could be an interim leader but not a long-term successor to Mubarak.
So that’s IB’s timeline…
Helbawy said of the Brotherhood’s role: “The Brotherhood is now forming a part of this coalition led by ElBaradei, so they are no longer working for their own private agenda. They are working in a coalition with ElBaradei."
And then... ?
Aaaaand in other [completely unrelated, I’m sure] nooz:
King Abdullah of Jordan, a close U.S. ally, on Tuesday replaced his prime minister after protests over food prices and poor living conditions, naming a former premier with a military background to head the government.
Arsonists set fire to a synagogue in the southern Gabes region of Tunisia...
“What astonished me was that there were police not far from the synagogue,” added Perez, who is also head of the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba, the oldest synagogue in Africa.
BOUNDARIES, People! BOUNDARIES!
Get the hell offa my lawn!
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wanted to illustrate that buying a gun like the one used in the recent Arizona shootings is as easy as buying “a hamburger and fries at a McDonald’s.” So he sent out undercover investigators to help him prove it. ... to Arizona.
...Bloomberg has long campaigned for tougher federal gun regulation — after all, he argues, most illegal firearms that cause carnage on the streets of New York are bought on the streets elsewhere, usually in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Now, Bloomberg, who formed a task force of mayors against illegal guns, has seized the moment when the nation is mourning the victims in Tucson to make a point.
...In a performance straight out of Hollywood, an investigator is seen handling a semiautomatic pistol that he is thinking about buying from a dealer at a Jan. 23 Crossroads of the West gun show in Phoenix. Sounding sinister, he says, “I like the concealability, it’s the best part,” and admits he couldn’t pass the background check required to buy a gun from a licensed dealer — but not from a private dealer like the one at the gun show. He then hands over a wad of cash and walks away with the pistol.
“That sale was blatantly illegal,” said Bloomberg, explaining that private sellers are not supposed to forgo checks if they have a reason to believe buyers are felons, mentally ill or couldn’t pass federal scrutiny. “But it happens all the time."
Gee… I was under the impression that private individuals could sell their possessions to one another without gubbmint interference. Silly me.
Again.
Robert Templeton, president of Crossroads of the West, issued a statement ... “Mayor Bloomberg and his ‘task force’ have no legal authority in the state of Arizona, or in any other place in America except New York City,” Templeton said. “These forays into America’s heartland committing blatant acts to entrap otherwise innocent gun owners is an unlawful scheme."
And just plain rude.
But Bloomberg made it clear there were no borders in his campaign to plug “dangerous gaps” in federal gun laws.
No Borders. No Boundaries. Ev’rybuddy all up in yer shiite.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Assumptions and Presuppositions
and Views
Wandering around in the British Press, I found another of those social commentary articles and, as one does, indulged in the guilty peek into how those people think view the world. NB: Teh Snark is strong in this article.
This is a follow up article on the deluge of abuse being suffered by a couple who runs a little [seven bedroom] B&B in Cornish village of Marazion. The problem occurs because Hazelmary (66) and Peter (71) Bull belong to a particular religious group and have Views about unmarried people sleeping together in “their” home.
“I’m not anti-gay. I’m not anti-sex – I’m as fond of it as the next person! – I just believe it should be contained within marriage,” she says firmly. “To me, a civil partnership is not the same as a marriage. And you know it’s not just gay people I won’t allow to share a bed, it’s unmarried heterosexuals, too. I’ve turned away dozens of couples down the years,”
So it’s not the person, it’s the behavior that troubles her?
The rooms are kitted out with family furniture, lending a homely feel, and the Bulls like to spend time with their guests in the public areas, all of which appears to have lulled them into a false sense of their own dominion.
“A false sense of their own dominion” over their own home and business. Silly twits and their arcane, ancient Views, thinking they own their own home or business.
Despite being fully aware of new anti-discriminatory legislation, they have continued to enforce their bizarre Fifties house rules, because the Lord is on their side even if, as now transpires, the law isn’t.
“Most people think it’s all terribly quaint, and simply go elsewhere,” [Hazelmary] says.
You mean, like free adults?!? Quaint, indeed.
In the sitting room there’s a framed snippet from the Gaelic Rune of Hospitality, as translated by W B Yeats: “Often, often, often / Goes the Christ / In the Stranger’s Guise”.
The irony of the sentiment is evidently lost on the Bulls, but then they do stoutly maintain that gay people are welcome, so long as they don’t share a room, which would place their souls in grave moral danger.
Concern for the soul of another? Refusing to participate in something they believe will harm another??! How .... vicious.
But wait: the Plot thickens…
Even without the book of Psalms, St Michael’s Mount isn’t Fire Island and Chymorvah is more Last of the Summer Wine than La Cage aux Folles. No wonder the Bulls suspect they were set up – not least because they had received letters from the gay campaigning charity Stonewall some time before the booking was made, by telephone.
When Preddy and Hall turned up, the house rules were explained to them, whereupon they allegedly announced that they were going to report them to the police and sue them. They were, of course, entirely within their rights to do so, and their case against the Bulls was upheld by law. Interestingly however, the judge gave the couple leave to appeal and, given they are being supported by the Christian Initiative, this almost certainly isn’t the end of the matter.
Set up, you say? hm…
“We’re not telling gay people to change their lives, just not to sleep in the same bed while they’re under our roof. ...”
...“Christians have a history of tolerance, but why do exceptions and allowances get made for other religions and not ours?” asks Bull...
Even the ‘author’ of this snark-fest is forced to ask questions.
But it’s hard to escape the uncomfortable feeling that this elderly couple – narrow-minded, eccentric, singularly lacking in business nous in their batty rejection of modern mores, gay and straight – have been miscast as both persecuted and persecutors and will come off badly whatever happens.
Strikes me that nothing is so batty as the narrow-minded rejection of any worldview even slightly different from your own whilst—in the same breath—touting your toooolerance and ‘open-mindedness.’ Shockingly, a few of the comments on this article reflect my puzzlement…
Previews
You get the lovely engraved stationery; I’ll get the ponies
Mojo in comments
From Phantom SoapBox: Here’s what a “Presidential Internet Switch" looks like in the wild, my friends.
22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet’s global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt’s service providers. Virtually all of Egypt’s Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.
The Phantom also notes:
CNN had this to say on the subject:
Hours ahead of what are expected to be massive displays of anti-government ferment across the world’s most populous Arab nation, the internet went dark in parts of Egypt early Friday, and text messaging appeared to be blocked.
Parts :: Whole ... Ferment :: Foment ... Tomato :: Toyota ...
But Wait! There’s moooore…
Here is the secret document sent from the US Embassy in Cairo to Washington disclosing the extent of American support for the protesters behind the Egypt uprising.
... [xxxxxxxxxxxx Egyptian activist, name redacted] said he wants to convince the USG that Mubarak is worse than Mugabe and that the GOE will never accept democratic reform. xxxxxxxxxxxx asserted that Mubarak derives his legitimacy from U.S. support, and therefore charged the U.S. with \"being responsible\” for Mubarak’s \"crimes.\"
He accused NGOs working on political and economic reform of living in a \"fantasy world,\” and not recognizing that Mubarak—\"the head of the snake\”—must step aside to enable democracy to take root. 6.(C) xxxxxxxxxxxx claimed that several opposition forces—including the Wafd, Nasserite, Karama and Tagammu parties, and the Muslim Brotherhood, Kifaya, and Revolutionary Socialist movements—have agreed to support an unwritten plan for a transition to a parliamentary democracy, involving a weakened presidency and an empowered prime minister and parliament, before the scheduled 2011 presidential elections (ref C). According to xxxxxxxxxxxx, the opposition is interested in receiving support from the army and the police for a transitional government prior to the 2011 elections.
xxxxxxxxxxxx asserted that this plan is so sensitive it cannot be written down.
...
One messy kettle o’ fish…
Friday, January 28, 2011
Egypt
Teh Alexandrian Mob
President Hosni Mubarak imposed a curfew and ordered troops to back up police as they struggled to control crowds who flooded the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities on Friday to demand that he step down.
Here’s the help from The Progs:
From the Daily Beast, we have this helpful article: Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood [Yahoo link]
...what [Seymour
Butts] Hersh told an audience in Doha, Qatar…“how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government.” ...
...That’s the attitude. We’re gonna change mosques into cathedrals. That’s an attitude that pervades, I’m here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command [JSOC].”
He further claimed that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Vice Admiral William McRaven and others in the JSOC were members of the “Knights of Malta” and “Opus Dei,” two little known Catholic orders.
“They do see what they’re doing—and this is not an atypical attitude among some military—it’s a crusade, literally,”
All right—back to the world of Smart Diplomacy™:
“We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against protesters,” Clinton said at the State Department, adding that the protesters also should avoid violence.
“We urge the Egyptian government to allow peaceful protests, and to reverse the unprecedented steps it has taken to cut off communications,” she said. Internet service in Egypt has been blocked almost completely, according to reports from the country.
Describing the United States as “a partner” with Egypt, Clinton urged Mubarak’s government “to engage immediately” with the Egyptian people on economic, political and social reforms.
Do I remember some other administration that waffled on a revolution in the M-East? That turned out well, right?
Thursday, January 27, 2011
mmmmmyyyeah
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Where's The Beef?
and other anachronisms...
Some dork moron person who needs something to do is suing Taco Bell for not having enough beef in their beef tacos.
“[The lawsuit] says Taco Bell’s ground beef is made of such components as water, dihydrogenmonoxide!!!!! isolated oat product is it lonely?, wheat oats oh, pick one, Mack, soy lecithin soy is tofu!, maltodextrin Mmmm… malteds..., anti-dusting agent ya wanna eat dust?!?, autolyzed yeast extract like brewers yeast, right?, modified corn starch left-over bio-fuel and sodium phosphate, as well as some beef and seasonings."
Butt… butt… According to MOTUS, we are supposed to eat less beef and more corn, soy, etc. So this is a Good Thing, right? We all wanna look Good, right? Like this, right?
Monday, January 24, 2011
[/Rahm]
...maybe
Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an appellate court panel, a stunning blow to the fund-raising leader in the race…
“It’s a surprise,” said Kevin Forde, the attorney who argued on Emanuel’s behalf.
...Emanuel had won two previous rulings — by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and a Cook County judge.
...Opponents have argued Emanuel is not a resident of Chicago because he rented out his North Side home while serving as chief of staff to Obama. The renter —Rob Halpin — refused to allow Emanuel to move back in after Mayor Daley’s announcement last year that he would not seek re-election. Halpin briefly ran for mayor himself.
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