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    Obama's student address - 'not indoctrination'

    Obama’s speech is over here.

    How come few complain about this which IS indoctrination?

    Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens

    Transcript of the above is here.



    Proof that Accounting is Not an Exact Science and the Fall of Rome

    Krugman has an article today, Alice in financeland, that shows how sometimes following accounting rules leads to apparent absurdities.  Because of market to market accounting rules and credit default swaps he says:

    …Citigroup is profitable because investors think it’s failing, while Morgan Stanley is losing money because investors think it will survive. I am not making this up.

    This is part of the [...]



    so hamas would be justified in assassinating israel’s top scientists?

    Another example of Israeli exceptionalism:

    Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of its efforts to disrupt the Islamist regime’s illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence sources as saying. … The paper also quoted United States intelligence sources as saying Israel is using sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the Islamist republic’s illicit weapons program [...]



    Sign the Public Letter to President Obama

    GAZA, GAZA STRIP – NOVEMBER 25:

    Dear Mr. President,

    Last year, you were swept into office on the hopeful promise of redemptive change.  You inspired the nation by repeating the phrase, “together, we will change the world.”  For many Americans, your words were not merely the final lines of a campaign speech, but a call to action for a new [...]



    human rights day

    Let’s all hope that by next year’s Human Rights Day, Guantanamo is closed, and torture and warrantless eavesdropping are no longer S.O.P. for the U.S. Government.

    Because regardless of how Condi Rice might object, the U.S. is guilty of civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, and torture:

    The International Committee of the Red Cross found “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment of detainees at [...]



    my obama-topia

    I just heard on the radio that that DLC quisling Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s likely choice for Chief of Staff. Crap.

    While my opinion doesn’t mean squat, here’s my dream cabinet, which includes promoting FEMA back to cabinet level (and taking it out of Dept. of Homeland Security):

    Department of Agriculture: Senator Tom Harkin Department of Commerce: Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon Department of [...]



    what we’re not being told about afghanistan

    Yes, we hear that the rate of casualties among coalition forces has now exceeded those in Iraq, but we have heard nothing like this from the MSM. We have to get it from Rolling Stone:

    By the time we reach the town of Salar, only 50 miles south of Kabul, we have already passed five tractor-trailers from military convoys that have been destroyed [...]

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