tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59389032012-02-16T16:26:55.624-06:00You Will Anywayobservations from a window seat in the handbasket headed for hellmnoreply@blogger.comBlogger112141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-10333746266576093172011-11-17T20:26:00.000-06:002012-02-04T11:33:34.901-06:00Blogger BluesUPDATE 12/18/12: This site is rendering correctly (off and on) - and has been for a while now - but since I've already started the new blog linked below, I'm going to just continue from there. Apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this change.
ORIGINAL;
I haven't found the culprit. Something Blogger is doing to improve things.
So...I'm going to just start up another blog. I'll try to mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-86830469034453730912011-11-17T08:31:00.001-06:002011-11-17T19:21:18.938-06:00This Is Americamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-51731862136060116652011-11-17T08:21:00.001-06:002011-11-17T14:51:51.452-06:00Occupy - From Someone Who's Been Theremnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-26119439604896183592011-11-17T08:17:00.001-06:002011-11-17T14:59:53.049-06:00Blogger GlitchI don't know what's happening with Blogger. There's a glitch somewhere, and I'm not finding it. Don't have time to work on it now. Will try again tonight.mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-3515799008196363702011-11-17T08:06:00.001-06:002011-11-17T14:53:38.848-06:00Occupy Questionsmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-6943080201873883862011-11-17T08:00:00.001-06:002011-11-17T14:57:48.366-06:00Occupy Wintermnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-56740449028073439972011-11-16T19:17:00.001-06:002011-11-16T19:18:00.973-06:00The NerveAfghan President Hamid Karzai has said he wants the US and NATO to agree to stop carrying out night raids on Afghan homes as a pre-condition to Kabul signing a strategic partnership with Washington. alJazeeraGeez. Why don’t you just ask for the moon?Karzai spoke on Wednesday at the opening of a "loya jirga," or grand council, which will discuss a proposed strategic partnership with the US mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-88510818936240406392011-11-16T14:49:00.002-06:002011-11-16T14:50:24.522-06:00Discovery Channel Needs to Change Its Name The Discovery Channel has co-produced with the BBC a new David Attenborough-hosted 7-part nature series on the earth's polar regions called Frozen Planet. It's already begun airing on BBC. It's set to air on the Discovery Channel in the near future.But apparently Discovery has decided to air only the first six episodes, skipping the seventh and final installment, "On Thin Ice," which is all mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-73264487160895326122011-11-16T08:36:00.003-06:002011-11-16T08:39:12.104-06:00Occupy Seattle Police Pepper Spray 84-year-old Woman....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.Click to enlarge picture from the UK Guardianstenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-61415706262834921222011-11-16T08:25:00.003-06:002011-11-16T08:29:22.084-06:00Who's Occupying the White House?A bullet has struck the ballistic glass of an exterior window of the White House and another round has been found nearby, News4, a local NBC affiliate, reported.The news outlet said the Secret Service – the bodyguard detail charged with protecting the US president and other top officials — began investigating after an incident on Friday when gunshots were heard near the White House. Raw mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-91675595216354711622011-11-16T08:07:00.001-06:002011-11-16T08:07:38.018-06:00Occupy TogetherProtestors with Occupy D.C. just took over the D.C. headquarters of Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park (location of the Occupy Wall Street protests). TPMSo much for the rag-tag, partying, slacker, unorganized meme.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,sharemnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-1495268962633307732011-11-15T20:02:00.003-06:002011-11-15T20:05:15.565-06:00What You Suspected Is TrueThe spate of recent police crackdowns on OWS protesters was no coincidence.Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict "Occupy" protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night's move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinatedmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-33043207719040195612011-11-15T19:53:00.001-06:002011-11-15T19:54:44.476-06:00Collateral DamageFrance’s consul to the Gaza Strip, his wife and 13-year-old daughter were injured during an Israeli air strike on Sunday night, French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said.Valero told reporters the three were hit by shrapnel at their residence in Gaza, which is located 200 meters from the site of an Israeli missile attack, he added. Raw StoryPerhaps Sarkozy will think twice before he mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-848090324093515152011-11-15T19:48:00.002-06:002011-11-15T19:50:14.010-06:00Police Action in Zuccotti Park - Press Denied AccessA New York state judge this morning temporarily enjoined the city from keeping the protesters out of Zuccotti Park, but Mayor Bloomberg is simply ignoring the Order and deliberately breaking the law by refusing to allow them back in. Put another way, Bloomberg this morning has broken more laws than the hundreds of protesters who were arrested. But as we know, the law does not apply to the Michaelmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-22606975893768812192011-11-15T07:53:00.001-06:002011-11-15T07:53:33.095-06:00Oh NoFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the latest GOP presidential candidate to experience an uptick in poll numbers, on Monday attributed his success in part to running a "positive" campaign -- even as he cited the "deep discomfort" among Republican voters with rival Mitt Romney. CBSYes, they are obviously loathe to see Mitt win the nomination. Cain lost to his sex scandal, and they are getting mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-67525726060047722272011-11-15T07:34:00.002-06:002011-11-15T08:22:44.604-06:00So THAT's Where the Weapons of Mass Destruction AreBritain is sending officials to Libya to help the government to investigate the scale of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's secret chemical weapons stockpile, retained by the Libyan dictator in breach of promises made to the international community.The size of the stockpile – including mustard gas – suggests Gaddafi totally misled Tony Blair when he promised to destroy weapons of mass destruction in mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-835194521724486152011-11-15T07:28:00.000-06:002011-11-15T07:29:23.025-06:00Tell Me Again......why isn't NATO liberating the Syrian people?At least 70 people have been killed in violence across Syria over the past 24 hours in one of the bloodiest days since an anti-government uprising began eight months ago, activists reported.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that 27 civilians were shot dead by security forces and 34 soldiers as well as 12 suspected army mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-5708885933949195752011-11-15T07:17:00.002-06:002011-11-15T07:58:28.666-06:00Ratcheting Down on OccupiersAnd giving fuel to anti-American politicians everywhere.The presence of squatters in an abandoned structure is not technically legal, but it generally requires the property owner to make a complaint before police take action. A main thrust of some cities’ occupations is to get homeless families to occupy foreclosed, bank-owned homes — a course of action endorsed by the general assembly at “Occupymnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-77996014710967736742011-11-15T07:07:00.001-06:002011-11-15T07:11:17.877-06:00Gary Johnson, Presidential Hopeful Wait a minute…Gary who? Running for president, you say? Don’t think I know the man.Former New Mexico governor and Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Monday expressed sympathy with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.Johnson, a libertarian, is an outspoken opponent of the drug war, is in favor of same sex marriage, and supports withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-49005832998211601942011-11-15T06:33:00.003-06:002011-11-15T06:49:12.931-06:00Chelsea Clinton, Ace ReporterAdd her to those other journalism graduates now working in the media: Sarah Palin, Jenna Bush, Meghan McCain.I really don’t understand what those angry, lazy losers in the Occupy movement are so upset about. America is a meritocracy; if you work hard and prove your skills, you get ahead. The winners deserve what they have because they have earned it. And when all else fails, we have a media mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-23556894204151317532011-11-14T16:48:00.002-06:002011-11-14T16:49:57.429-06:00And One MORE Thing(Speaking of the Trans-Pacific "Partnership")And has there ever been such a gaggle of fourth-rate poltroons, of shallow, witless, gormless goobers as the leaders of the "developed" world these days? Sarkozy, Cameron, Merkel, Berlusconi [ed:one down], Obama ....? It's like the last tribal council on Easter Island. Chris Floydstenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-12351837107698558662011-11-14T14:36:00.000-06:002011-11-14T14:38:59.154-06:00Bank of America - Coming Around for SecondsIn the recent Wall Street collapse, B of A took advantage of the crisis to bulk up its empire. Using $45 billion in bailout money from us taxpayers, the giant gobbled up two troubled financial powers, investment house Merrill Lynch and mortgage hustler Countrywide Financial. It is now choking on these mergers, as well as its own executive incompetence. Its credit rating has been downgraded, its mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-25207653559877252862011-11-14T14:33:00.001-06:002011-11-14T14:34:41.009-06:00USA! USA! We're Number ONE!Uh…number 27?A foundation in Germany has analyzed the social justice records of all 31 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, ranking each nation in such categories as health care, income inequality, pre-school education, and child poverty rate. The overall performance by the U.S. – which boasts of being an egalitarian society – outranks only Greece, Chile, Mexico,mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-41293679226224565652011-11-14T14:25:00.002-06:002011-11-14T14:27:22.073-06:00You Cannot CompeteSeriously. Cannot. Here's an interesting story about how healthy-food vendors are shut down in order to favor corporate food sellers and business interests.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-83861284690667518332011-11-14T14:21:00.002-06:002011-11-14T14:22:37.118-06:00Brave New WorldInteresting encounter near Zuccotti Park.From what I’ve seen, it’s a society in which a somewhat surly, armed man sitting 25 feet up in a little metal box spying on people, protected by a similarly armed, perhaps slightly confused, young man in a car, would be considered odd and unnecessary. The fact that New York City is now a place where you’re not supposed to notice such things, much less mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-57400407299544344442011-11-14T13:56:00.001-06:002011-11-14T13:59:22.694-06:00Supply Your Own CommentsFor years, Palestinians have complained about the use of force at roadblocks by the Israel Defense Force. This week a tragedy has highlighted those concerns for the Israeli populace after the IDF killed a 55-year-old Israeli rabbi and settler, Dan Mertzbach, after he failed to stop. [...]Soldiers opened fire after he failed to stop at a temporary checkpoint in the southern West Bank. The mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-24866454548845630122011-11-14T13:52:00.000-06:002011-11-14T13:53:40.250-06:00No Wonder Liquor Is So PopularIt was possible, once, for communities to experiment with everything from free love to an end to private property. But nowadays even the palest federalism is swiftly crushed. If your state tries to place tariffs on companies doing business with some notorious human-rights-violator state – like Massachusetts did, when it sought to bar state contracts to firms doing business with Myanmar – the mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-78971082471738593322011-11-14T10:07:00.001-06:002011-11-14T10:10:22.125-06:00We MUST Stop Iran!Israel is waging an intense campaign to drag us into war [against Iran] on their behalf, and they aren’t trying to hide it. What they are intent on hiding, however, is the way in which our Congress, our public officials, and our political culture are being bought off by their proxies. We ship billions to Tel Aviv, and they ship it back to us in the form of propaganda and relentless pressure to mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-17714711505015424482011-11-14T09:51:00.002-06:002011-11-14T09:54:16.028-06:00Coming Soon to an Occupy Near YouSo far, there have been few clashes between the Occupy forces and the police, although Oakland and New York have both seen some dramatic confrontations and the events at the UC campus in Berkeley last week were downright brutal. There have been many arrests, however, and some of the communities are starting to react unfavourably to the demonstrators, demanding that the occupations disperse. The mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-27591581416681146742011-11-14T09:29:00.002-06:002011-11-14T12:18:39.219-06:00The Latest Commercial EntertainmentOr as the networks like to call it: the debates.Ron Paul says waterboarding is torture, illegal under international law, and immoral, and uncivilized, and doesn’t work. Huntsman agrees. WIIIAISo, they’re out, then. No self-respecting GOPer would vote for a weenie.Can a president simply order the killing of an American citizen suspected of terrorism? Absolutely, says Romney. [...] And a couple mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-46718388706797677902011-11-14T08:56:00.001-06:002011-11-14T09:04:17.608-06:00And One More ThingThe United States has not explicitly ruled out China’s entrance into the TPP, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has linked the “21st century” trade agreement to fundamental values including openness and labor standards.Obama, seeking re-election next year as many heartland Americans think they lost their jobs to lower-wage China, told Hu on Saturday that Americans were “impatient” for a mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-32595726902329479652011-11-14T08:45:00.002-06:002011-11-14T08:47:11.075-06:00Speaking of the Trans-Pacific "Partnership"US President Barack Obama’s push to create the world’s largest free trade zone spanning the Pacific gained momentum on Sunday as Canada and Mexico followed Japan into accession talks.[...]“Today we have got a chance to make progress towards our ultimate goal which is a seamless regional economy,” Obama told the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, which accounts for more than half the mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-87199578572162671782011-11-14T08:37:00.004-06:002011-11-14T09:00:15.180-06:00I Don't Know Which is Less Commendable: the Crowd or the Entertainer Makana, [popular Hawaiian recording artist], was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast [hosted by President Barack Obama], Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.[...] The performance occurred at a dinner for summit participants from 21 economies around the Asia-Pacific, including mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-27284753386597066972011-11-13T13:51:00.001-06:002011-11-13T13:51:39.218-06:00Cool, But..."We are confident that in the near future we will be able to bring the first shoes, T-shirts and bags, that are either compostable or recyclable, to the market," Puma boss Franz Koch told the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. UK GuardianBut isn’t Puma aware of cotton T-shirts?....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;mnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-44914937304709044872011-11-13T13:42:00.000-06:002011-11-13T13:43:01.847-06:00In Occupation NewsTensions were rising at anti-Wall Street protests in three western U.S. cities on Friday as demonstrators in Portland, Salt Lake City and Oakland defied orders by police to dismantle their camps.In Portland, police said they had received reports that protesters were digging a reinforced hole and fashioning make-shift weapons out of wood and nails after Mayor Sam Adams gave them until midnight on mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-28834021252011254572011-11-13T08:27:00.001-06:002011-11-13T08:30:42.499-06:00Yep, This Is Where We AreSlightly more than two months after he was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama secretly ordered a cruise missile attack on Yemen, using cluster bombs, which killed 44 innocent civilians, including 14 women and 21 children, as well as 14 people alleged to be “militants.” It goes without saying that — unless you want Rick Perry to win in 2012 — this act should in no way be seen as mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-14194316246121091692011-11-13T08:00:00.000-06:002011-11-13T08:00:19.537-06:00It's SundayCan I get an amen?....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-52101018270231810172011-11-12T14:40:00.000-06:002011-11-12T14:41:16.752-06:00Managed Care for CountriesBerlusconi's fate was sealed when Italian bonds broke the 7 percent mark, thereby threatening to lower, slightly, the gargantuan profit margins of the rapacious speculators who gorge themselves on chaos and suffering. [...]Now the Italian government is to be led by a "technocrat" -- i.e., an unelected apparatchik of the global financial elite. Just as in Greece, where a regime change was imposed mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-90077592006974051422011-11-12T07:59:00.003-06:002011-11-12T08:07:33.906-06:00No One Is Safe from the Religious Violence VirusThe FBI is investigating a series of incidents in which Amish men [...] allegedly break into the homes of mainstream Amish and cut off their hair and beards, which are symbols of faith in the Amish community. So far there have been five arrests of members of the Bergholz clan.Mullet is also accused of running his clan like a cult, and in one incident reportedly forced a member of the clan to staymnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-88197035270262109952011-11-12T07:55:00.000-06:002011-11-12T07:56:20.815-06:00Complicated By Design[No] one should take too seriously Republican complaints about burdensome regulations strangling the economy. The truth is that most reformers prefer fairly simple rules. In the tax world, they'd prefer to simply tax all income. In the environmental world, they'd prefer to set firm limits for pollutants. In the financial world, they'd prefer blunt rules that cut off risky activity at its mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-37861942270368151062011-11-12T07:29:00.002-06:002011-11-12T07:30:41.198-06:00What's Going On?Not a peep on the interwebs about Obama and Sarkozy calling Netanyahu a liar and a pain in the ass since the story broke several days ago. That's kind of hard to fathom.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-69149197117809350382011-11-12T06:50:00.001-06:002011-11-12T06:50:00.074-06:00A Rare ConvictionA US army sergeant has been convicted of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers from their corpses as ringleader of a rogue platoon in Afghanistan's south.But the jury at a court-martial hearing on Thursday decided against the automatic life sentence for Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 26, saying he would be eligible for parole after serving eight and a half years.[...]The verdict and mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-41673112678723910702011-11-11T00:12:00.021-06:002011-11-15T21:04:51.722-06:00A Tribute to Sandy11/11/11 End the wars.Marion Lee “Sandy” Kempner(April 16, 1942 - November 11, 1966)There is a room on the third floor of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston, Texas, labeled “Sandy’s Room.” The furnishing of it was funded by one of Galveston's "upper crust" families, and is dedicated to the memory of Marion Lee “Sandy” Kempner, who was killed in the Viet Nam war. Sandy Kempner was, by all mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-9095592272030119692011-11-10T20:01:00.001-06:002011-11-10T20:01:33.997-06:00Something NiceRebecca by Chris Floydstenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-67415218067036177292011-11-10T19:44:00.000-06:002011-11-10T19:45:44.909-06:00Jesus ChristPolice attack Berkeley protesters.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-69609863807295979912011-11-10T19:39:00.001-06:002011-11-10T19:40:58.275-06:00Surely, They Didn't Really Think They Were Coming HomeThe United States is negotiating with Kuwait to allow several thousand US combat troops now in Iraq to redeploy to the Gulf emirate to counter Iran’s influence in the region, US defense officials said Thursday. Raw Storystenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-75571185357267123792011-11-10T19:35:00.000-06:002011-11-10T19:36:16.606-06:00Let's Rethink SecessionAccusing President Barack Obama of naivete on Iran, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney promised Thursday that if elected president he would “prepare for war” with the Islamic republic.In a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal, Romney said he would back up US diplomacy “with a very real and very credible military option,” deploying carrier battle groups to the Gulf and mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-83806761624103569682011-11-10T19:12:00.001-06:002011-11-10T19:13:53.782-06:00Fine Piece of Legislation. Fine Piece.The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass [a piece of “Obama’s job plan.”][...]The legislation, which is expected to pass in the House, will provide tax credits to businesses who hire unemployed veterans.[...]Thursday’s legislation is paid for by delaying scheduled fee reductions on mortgage loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. TPMSay what? Oh, I get it. We’ll give mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-36418293543358060072011-11-10T18:57:00.000-06:002011-11-10T18:58:29.055-06:00Yes They DidIt must be campaign season.Liberals and environmentalists are rejoicing tonight over the Obama administration’s decision to delay — or in bureaucratese, “seek further review of” — a proposal to build a massive pipeline from the Canadian Tar Sands to the gulf coast. But their celebration could be short lived. TPMOh, it WILL be short lived. It won’t last much longer than election day.....but hey,mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-52538959863606423132011-11-10T08:43:00.001-06:002011-11-10T08:44:56.915-06:00Well, I Certainly Can't Watch These NumbskullsWhich is why I am always grateful for the parsing of WIIIAI. Republican "debate."....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-64893444339943576722011-11-10T08:31:00.002-06:002011-11-10T08:34:49.912-06:00It Ain't NaturalThe Toronto Zoo plans to separate two male African penguins, named Buddy and Pedro, that have shown signs of same sex courtship and mating behaviors, according to the Toronto Star. The two lovers are being separated because they were intended to be part of a breeding program for the endangered species. They will each be paired up with a female. Raw StoryOuted from Africa.The old “ we can make mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-8833377883601158762011-11-09T08:32:00.002-06:002011-11-09T08:35:09.338-06:00You Won't Have Silvio to Kick Around Any MoreSilvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has confirmed he will resign after implementing urgent economic reforms demanded by the European Union, saying Italy must then hold an election, in which he will not stand. alJazeeraHe does, however, have a suggestion as to who should stand.Silvio Berlusconi has anointed as his likely successor a 41-year-old Sicilian lawyer, Angelino Alfano, best mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-53654255201827136002011-11-09T08:27:00.001-06:002011-11-09T08:27:58.966-06:00Has Ms. LaGarde Just Come Out of a Coma?Where has she been this past decade?International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Wednesday warned the world risked plunging into a “downward spiral” of financial instability and urged Asian economies to be on their guard. Raw Story....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-80002957269372024572011-11-09T08:01:00.002-06:002011-11-09T08:09:26.304-06:00Making Our Way to IranJustin Raimondo takes on the IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear weapon possibilities, which he calls a “farrago of half-truths and insinuations.” Although there is no smoking gun, the injection of the A.Q. Khan network into the propaganda mix at this level is a relatively new development, one that links the latest Enemy of the Moment (Pakistan) with longtime-favorite Iran. Why not kill two birds withmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-29872144265946311282011-11-09T07:10:00.002-06:002011-11-09T07:13:43.785-06:00Party of Putin Campaign Video"Let's Do This Together"Apparently, this is very controversial in Russia. If not for the sexiness, for the possibility that it flaunts the idea that voting is a personal secret thing. Hey, at least there’s not mud slinging.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-48250305476046824402011-11-09T06:52:00.001-06:002011-11-09T06:55:00.789-06:00American Taliban Not As Powerful As They Thought - Part 2Which is not to say they won’t keep working at it.[Mississippi V] oters on Tuesday rejected ballot Initiative 26, which would have defined personhood as beginning at fertilization. With 63% of the vote reporting, the ‘No’ position is leading by a margin of 57%-43%, and has been projected as the winner by the Associated Press.The proposal, initiated through petitions by pro-life activists, would mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-76863445619637782452011-11-08T14:38:00.001-06:002011-11-08T14:39:57.506-06:00American Taliban Not As Powerful As They ThoughtUpdate on that outrageous Michigan GOP attempt to codify religious bullying of gays kids.The Michigan Senate passed an anti-bullying bill last week that includes a “moral convictions” loophole, but the Republican Speaker of the House says the final legislation will probably not go that far.Ari Adler, spokesperson for Michigan Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R), told the Michigan Messenger that mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-85424418491611411132011-11-08T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-08T14:34:58.196-06:00Uh-Oh, You've Got the Old Folks Mad NowChicago police on Monday issued citations to 43 senior citizens and their supporters who linked arms to block an intersection near the city’s financial district.The action was part of a protest against proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other benefits. Raw StoryAnd we’ll be wheeling our chairs up to the Hill and swinging our canes at the “Super Committeed,” if we have to.stenium_urlmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-89264115183657658892011-11-08T07:12:00.001-06:002011-11-08T07:14:11.372-06:00Why Don't They Just Die?“Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say,” blared the Friday headline in the New York Times. The traditional strategy for measuring poverty, we were told, did not include the benefits of federal programs like food stamps and tax credits that were helping to keep Americans above the poverty line.[...]But on Monday the census unveiled its report, and a first look at the numbers mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-56396234939091072962011-11-08T06:57:00.006-06:002011-11-08T07:42:21.273-06:00OK, Rednecks, You're Not Really Buying This, Are You?National Rifle Association Director Wayne LaPierre — who has also suggested that the fact that Obama has not cracked down on guns is just part of a long term scheme to actually crack down on guns — has been recently floating the conspiracy theory that Fast and Furious was a way to impose stricter guns laws.[...]“It’s the only thing that makes any sense,” LaPierre told Newsmax. TPMWhat is he mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-56751243949735984452011-11-08T06:53:00.002-06:002011-11-08T06:56:09.799-06:00Yes They CanUmm...maybe they can.Tar Sands pipeline protesters in DC....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-74287216974569531292011-11-08T06:33:00.006-06:002011-11-08T07:06:52.168-06:00It's Truly Brutal in OaklandPepper spraying, tear-gassing, shooting and fracturing the skull of a veteran, severely beating a veteran who was walking home*, allowing an intentional hit and run motorist to go free, now they're shooting the filmers. I'm surprised that wasn't one of their first moves.Oakland's cops should be traded in place for our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. They're obviously hungry for battle.In a mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-4758024288374660122011-11-08T06:29:00.004-06:002011-11-08T07:29:00.226-06:00You Can't Be TOO CarefulThe French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a "liar" in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week's G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists."I cannot stand him. He's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama. The US president responded by saying: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day." UK mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-77125672593925070892011-11-08T06:22:00.002-06:002011-11-08T14:40:53.320-06:00The American Taliban Strikes Again Michigan Republicans turned what was supposed to be a new law protecting victims of bullying into a law pretty much declaring open season on them, thanks to a last-minute clause exempting anyone who can provide a moral or religious reason for their harassment. "Matt's School Safe Law," which just passed in the state Senate and is now moving on to the House of Representatives, is named after Mattmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-41104936018052079632011-11-07T16:43:00.001-06:002011-11-07T16:43:43.885-06:00Let Them Eat CakeAccording to new figures released by U.S. Census Bureau, 49.1 million — or 16 percent — of Americans are now living below the poverty line. The numbers are an increase from 2010, when the previous record was at 46.2 million (16 percent). Raw StoryI’m assuming this is an underestimate simply because of the group of people who are outside the census bureau’s grasp – those people who live on the mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-85606811219483012212011-11-07T12:39:00.001-06:002011-11-07T12:39:34.051-06:00Must Be Campaign TimePresident Obama is speaking at the White House about actions to help veterans find work. According to Reuters, Obama will urge Congress to approve tax credits to encourage hiring veterans. TPMstenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-54501677989504056022011-11-07T12:34:00.002-06:002011-11-07T12:37:11.943-06:00LoooozersSenate Democrats’ top messaging strategist predicted Monday that the deficit Super Committee will fail to meet its required minimum target of $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction.“I don’t think the Super Committee is going to succeed because our Republican colleagues have said ‘no net revenues,’” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on MSNBC. “When Democrats move too far left, we lose. We’re now — the mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-37440605853452043432011-11-07T08:12:00.002-06:002011-11-07T08:12:55.967-06:00Can You Believe Fox News Is Running This Commercial?That's what they tell me.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-40685288607575369422011-11-07T08:08:00.000-06:002011-11-07T08:10:30.940-06:00Abramoff Is Out of Jail - and Talking[Jack] Abramoff, who readily admits to his former corrupt activities, told Stahl, “I was actually thinking of writing a book — The Idiot’s Guide to Buying a Congressman — as a way to put this all down. First, I think most congressmen don’t feel they’re being bought. Most congressmen, I think, can in their own mind justify the system — rationalize it — and, by the way, we wanted as lobbyists for mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-67774359242687685332011-11-07T07:55:00.001-06:002011-11-07T08:08:25.470-06:00Mushroom Cloud!An alleged “nuclear weapons” site in Syria has been revealed to be a textile factory – and another of the War Party’s tall tales is debunked. To those of a skeptical mindset – i.e., nearly anyone outside of Washington – this throws fresh doubt on the claim that the Israeli raid on a supposed Syrian nuclear weapons facility at Deir ez Zour, in 2007, destroyed anything more dangerous than an empty mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-65052398777638902312011-11-07T07:27:00.003-06:002011-11-07T07:35:20.304-06:00Ron Paul Wins AgainIn a column at the Weekly Standard website, former New York Times columnist Bill Kristol opines that “assuming that presidential field remains as it is” for the GOP, “2012 won’t be a repeat of 1980″. He is referring to the election of Ronald Reagan after Jimmy Carter’s single term in the White House.[...]Many on the right are dreaming that the next presidential election will return the country tomnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-65099742148768984142011-11-06T07:57:00.000-06:002011-11-06T07:58:21.783-06:00Let God Sort Them OutA Wall Street Journal article yesterday described internal dissension in the administration to Obama’s broad standards for when drone strikes are permitted, and noted that the “bulk” of the drone attacks — the bulk of them – “target groups of men believed to be militants associated with terrorist groups, but whose identities aren’t always known.” As Spencer Ackerman put it: “The CIA is now mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-9357725260143188982011-11-06T06:07:00.000-06:002011-11-06T06:07:00.243-06:00It's Sundaystenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-12854446365080869992011-11-06T05:33:00.000-06:002011-11-06T05:33:00.554-06:00It's SundaySome members of a bankrupt Orange County, Calif. megachurch are expressing outrage after fielding an email request for congregants to deliver food to waiting limos so that it can ferried to the founder's sick wife. The appeal comes weeks after a lawsuit charged that the founder of the Crystal Cathedral house of worship, Rev. Robert Schuller, and his family had been paying themselves lavish mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-86800272177104680012011-11-05T18:49:00.001-05:002011-11-05T18:51:58.766-05:00About "Free Market" Economics The invisible hand just gave you the finger, son. – Clyde “the possum” Ridenourstenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-10212785517758006282011-11-05T08:46:00.001-05:002011-11-05T08:48:20.429-05:00The Latest Attempt to Reach Gaza with Relief SuppliesFoiled, as you might have guessed.Israeli authorities have detained pro-Palestinian activists on board two "Freedom Waves to Gaza" vessels, foiling the latest attempt to break the four-year Israeli blockade of the territory.The ships were forced to sail into the Israeli port of Ashdod, where all 27 passengers were handed over to the authorities and taken to an Israeli detention facility near Tel mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-11253355418250535052011-11-05T08:35:00.002-05:002011-11-05T08:40:08.183-05:00Another Slip of the Military LipMajor General Peter Fuller, a top US commander in Afghanistan, has been relieved of his duties after making comments critical of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a senior US defence official has said.US General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force [ISAF], relieved Fuller as deputy commander of the effort to train Afghan security forces after Fuller told the Politico mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-79284788768477540032011-11-05T08:25:00.001-05:002011-11-05T08:26:25.210-05:00A Real Knee Slapper, That IsAsked how all this would affect his re-election prospects, Obama lied, “Jim, I have to tell you the least of my concerns at the moment is the politics of a year from now.” WIIIAIDid Jim laugh? I THINK YOU MEANT TO SAY “REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS” RATHER THAN SIMPLY “CONGRESS.” “And as soon as I get some signal from Congress that they’re willing to take their responsibilities seriously, I mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-48743386254972056212011-11-05T08:19:00.001-05:002011-11-05T08:19:52.260-05:00He Started Out on the Right FootElusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar called on his fighters to avoid killing civilians in a statement posted Friday on the Afghanistan hardline Islamists’ website, SITE Intelligence reported.The US monitoring group said Omar “stressed that his fighters must maintain good relations with civilians and to avoid any action that may possibly harm them, and in turn, the people must also take measures to mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-30065346302162143922011-11-05T08:12:00.002-05:002011-11-05T08:16:54.989-05:00Update on Oakland Occupiers Hit by DriverIt's worse than I thought.Because he had a green light??? Boy, that could set a precedent not favorable to pedestrians in any city.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-45590538046560907142011-11-05T08:08:00.001-05:002011-11-05T08:10:19.748-05:00When Hell Freezes OverGuardian headline: Libyans try to get back property seized by GaddafiGood luck with that. It's going to be divvied up between the "new and improved" government and the corporate vultures about to swoop in.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-71814269692653053622011-11-04T07:42:00.001-05:002011-11-04T07:42:38.398-05:00There's More Than One Way to Destroy OurselvesThe global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the US department of energy has calculated, in a sign of how weak the world's efforts have been at slowing man-made global warming.The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago."The more we talk about the mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-20908153826318954522011-11-04T07:35:00.000-05:002011-11-04T07:37:28.174-05:00Marie Antoinette's Traders Are Still At ItSomeone at the Chicago Board of Trade issued another message to the Occupy Chicago protesters by blanketing them with [...] McDonald's job applications. The protesters are understandably offended by both the message and by the hundreds of pieces of new litter around them. Chicagoist And previously, they floated flyers that arrogantly taunted the protesters on two separate occasions. These mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-70734024928621180132011-11-04T07:14:00.000-05:002011-11-04T07:15:12.544-05:00Occupy Oakland in DangerOfficials said eight people — five civilians and three police officers — were injured in violence that left Oakland streets littered with graffiti, smashed glass and debris. But the nature or severity of those injuries was not disclosed.[...]Activists from the Occupy Oakland movement, who are aligned with anti-Wall Street protests in New York and other U.S. cities against corporate excesses, highmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-40619914043458778652011-11-03T19:52:00.000-05:002011-11-03T19:53:00.118-05:00Seriously?A man in a BMW stuck in a traffic jam because of an Occupy Oakland march decided to just hit the gas and run over protestors. According to a witness, the driver “got frustrated and hit the gas. He was getting pissed.” Oakland police “investigated,” but decided to just let him go. BuzzfeedThere are pictures at the link. But I'm still having a hard time believing it.....but hey, do what you wantmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-43215901182611258122011-11-03T19:48:00.000-05:002011-11-03T19:49:03.441-05:00Who Would Have Ever Imagined?Ireland is to close its embassies to the Vatican and Iran as part of a shake-up of its missions abroad, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.“It is with the greatest regret and reluctance that the government has decided to close Ireland’s embassies to the Holy See and Iran,” said a statement from the ministry. Raw StoryNo Irish ambassador to the Vatican! Seriously, folks, the end really is mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-67806944835733138832011-11-03T19:38:00.001-05:002011-11-03T19:40:01.818-05:00Perspective EuropeThere's a whole set of pictures, here, if you want to look.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-28155315171414410402011-11-03T19:31:00.001-05:002011-11-03T19:32:22.335-05:00Speaking of Studies....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-9288234814769534182011-11-03T19:28:00.001-05:002011-11-03T19:28:48.798-05:00Oh, Yeah, They Pay TaxesDozens of US corporations paid no federal taxes in recent years, and many received government subsidies despite earning healthy profits, a new study showed Thursday.The report by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which examined 280 US firms, found 78 of them paid no federal income tax in at least one of the last three years.It found 30 companies enjoyed amnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-72246557994622659832011-11-03T19:22:00.001-05:002011-11-03T19:24:44.051-05:00This I LoveAbout 20 unemployed and underemployed D.C. residents occupied the office of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY) on Thursday, pledging to remain until the senator met with them about the Rebuild America Act. Raw StoryAnd he has just the face to go with what I’m sure he’s feeling about it.....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.stenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-91177951329569821262011-11-03T19:16:00.001-05:002011-11-03T19:18:11.820-05:00Calling Orson WellesIt’s only a test, but nerves are somewhat frayed over the first nationwide exercise of the system designed to alert Americans of national emergencies. [...]The test message on TV might not indicate that it is just a test,” according to one email being circulated by a Washington area school district.[...]“We’re asking everyone to join us by spreading the word to your neighbors, co-workers, friendsmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-41326538476823328912011-11-03T07:04:00.001-05:002011-11-03T07:06:28.022-05:00Occupy Your Home[Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) ] has been one of the leading homeless advocates in Congress, going so far as to call for people facing foreclosure to squat in their own homes and demand their bank produce the home’s title before kicking them out.She’s advocated a strategy known as “produce the note,” which challenges foreclosing banks to prove that they own the mortgage. During the years mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-15309774574091860932011-11-03T06:46:00.002-05:002011-11-03T06:48:41.054-05:00Support Your Local SheriffWalter Monroe Lance, 46, of 14 Front St., Spartanburg, [South Carolina] was charged Monday by the sheriff's office with kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct and grand larceny in connection with the assault on a woman at Milliken Park.[Sheriff Chuck ] Wright said Lance was fortunate someone with a concealed weapons permit didn't hear the victim's screams Sunday and put the "animal" mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-16091433546927606912011-11-03T06:16:00.000-05:002011-11-03T06:17:01.948-05:00Domestic Terrorists Sprouting Like Weeds Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested four Georgia senior citizens for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. citizens and government officials with the deadly toxin ricin. Lets meet the players... TPMstenium_url = location.href;stenium_title = document.title;stenium_style = 'tiny_blue';stenium_widgets = 'email,share';stenium_layout = '0';mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-42019546224895674792011-11-02T21:37:00.001-05:002011-11-02T21:40:30.238-05:00What They're Not Telling Us HereBritain's armed forces are stepping up their contingency planning for potential military action against Iran amid mounting concern about Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme, the Guardian has learned.The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-62886182126230886022011-11-02T21:34:00.001-05:002011-11-02T21:36:11.786-05:00Occupy OaklandThe protest fell short of paralyzing the Northern California city that was catapulted to the forefront of national anti-Wall Street protests after a former Marine was badly wounded during a march and rally last week.But as evening fell, an official said maritime operations at the Oakland port, which handles some $39 billion a year in imports and exports, had been "effectively shut down" by the mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-19706170315115683352011-11-02T20:59:00.001-05:002011-11-02T21:41:16.670-05:00Don't Blame Me"I think that the concerns about the Fed are based on misconceptions,” [Fed Chairman Ben] Bernanke continued. “The Federal Reserve was involved, obviously, in trying to stabilize the financial system in 2008 and 2009, a very simplistic interpretation of that was that we were doing that because we wanted to preserve, you know, banker salaries. That is obviously not the case.”“What we were doing mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-80460805859263223682011-11-02T20:43:00.001-05:002011-11-02T20:43:38.180-05:00What, No Gitmo?No extraordinary rendition?Joshua Clough, one of nine members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan arrested by federal authorities in the spring of 2010, will be the first militia member to plead guilty.[...]Hutaree members allegedly “planned to kill an unidentified member of local law enforcement and then attack the law enforcement officers who gather in Michigan for the funeral.” An undercover mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-27366912832637384672011-11-02T08:01:00.002-05:002011-11-02T08:03:47.452-05:00OWS - PhillyNice work. Keep it together. And here's a little note I did not know about, in addition to the general strike called for today in Oakland.A 99-minute general strike is planned for November 2nd in honor of Scott Olsen, the Iraq veteran wounded in the Oakland melee. In Philadelphia, it will be from noon to 1:39 pm — 99 minutes for Americans to stop what they’re doing and consider the fate of mnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-27042378141907069632011-11-02T07:52:00.001-05:002011-11-02T07:54:26.558-05:00Meanwhile in Zuccotti Park“There’s sexual assault going on,” a woman who works on the “Occupy Wall Street” community affairs group told Lee Stranahan, a BigGovernment.com contributor. “We’re trying to deal with that, mostly drunk guys going and groping girls.” There was also a young deaf man who was allegedly raped. [...]“People have been trying to tell the cops, ‘We don’t want people here who are causing these problems, mnoreply@blogger.com0