Obama sets one-year timeline for military sexual assault reforms – NBC Politics.

says something decisive, with a timeline to boot.
who the fuck is this guy and what did he do with our spineless, spoilt-brat, ineffectual president?

A former UConn hockey player who said she was kicked off the team after reporting that she was raped has joined a federal civil rights lawsuit – News | FOX Sports on MSN.

hopefully lawsuits like these will bring the schools involved to their knees financially.
there is no other way to ensure they handle these incidents with more honor and humanity.

Federal judge strikes down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage | The Salt Lake Tribune.

whoa!

Michigan Is Hardly The First State To Pass A ‘Rape Insurance’ Law | ThinkProgress.

sigh…

‘Men’s Rights’ Groups Are Spamming Occidental College With Hundreds Of False Rape Reports | ThinkProgress.

“Dr. Lisa Wade, an associate professor at Occidental who runs the Sociological Images blog, told Gawker that the flood of false reports is an example of a privileged class lashing out over losing some of that privilege. “The men targeting Occidental’s anonymous report form are mad that women are being listened to, that men’s voices are no longer given so much power that they can effectively drown out the voices of women,” Wade explained. “They’re mad because they’re not the only ones that matter anymore. I get it. To them, it really does feel unfair.”

hmmm.

A 3 year old thinks it’s unfair that they can’t ice cream and candy for every meal. Just because the toddler thinks something is unfair, doesn’t make it so.

Peter Beinart’s colonial logic: Opponents of Israel boycott make anti-democratic arguments – Salon.com.

sigh

Chobani vs. Whole Foods over GMOs – Tarini Parti – POLITICO.com.

hmmm.

Stern Words for Wall Street’s Watchdogs, From a Judge – NYTimes.com.

hmmmm

Opinion: Who broke the law, Snowden or the NSA? – CNN.com.

yup.

UN: Poverty pushing Myanmar opium output higher – Yahoo News.

grrrrreeeeaaaaat.

Shootings, other woes take political toll on Colorado governor | Reuters.

hmmmm

Pizza outlet attacked as India, U.S. fail to cool diplomat row | Reuters.

OK, yes, I may indeed be an asshole but I think this is hilarious.

An Obama rarity: 13 pardons.

so you helped under a dozen victims of the drug war, do you want a medal?
what about the hundreds of thousands of American citizens in prison right now for non-violent crimes?

N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite – NYTimes.com.

hmmm.

S.E.C. Tension as It Examined Mortgage Cases – NYTimes.com.

I don’t give a shit what internal disagreement those feckless, bought and paid for by Wall Street, corrupt, hacks had.
Clearly the S.E.C. needs to be completely cleaned out and all of them sacked for falling down on the job.

Putin critic Khodorkovsky free after pardon, heads for Germany | Reuters.

somebody has Olympic fever!

Sending Baucus to China Removes Democratic Critic of Obamacare.

this I will buy

Strip-searched Indian diplomat’s attorney: U.S. was ‘muscle-flexing’ – CNN.com.

“They were trying to humiliate her and flex their muscle, and they succeeded in doing that,”

Well, yes. That is what US law enforcement does: demean, disgrace and bully. They are so busy humiliating and people and pissing on civil rights that it doesn’t actually leave a lot of time for actual investigations, fighting crime, or protecting the innocent.

Teen marijuana use rises as risk perception wanes – CSMonitor.com.

That’s hyperbolic bullshit; there is less of a risk of arrest (i.e. DUI or possession) so teens choose weed or alcohol and they are more likely to be honest about their experimenting.

In bleak Arab hinterland, hints of Jerusalem’s partition – Yahoo News.

The Israeli government actively keeps its country’s neighbors prisoners in locked slums exactly like to the ones across Europe during the Nazi’s reign of terror.

The Israeli government systematically oppresses and imprisons some of its own citizen based on an ethical and racially based caste system.

They seek to reinforce a bigoted, racially segregated system very akin to that of apartheid and they try to justify it as national security. Pretty sure the Nazi’s used that line too.

The Israeli government treats other ethnic and religious group as if they were less than human, exactly as Jewish peoples have been discriminated against.

Not only is the Israel government bigoted they wildly hypocritical.

If they cannot bring themselves to endorse the existence of their neighbors, what right have they to cop an attitude when those sentiments are thrown back at them.

I believe in Israel’s right exist, but they need to act like they believe their Arab/Muslim neighbors have just as much right to exist as well.

AP Exclusive: Mafia waste dumps spread to Tuscany – Yahoo News.

huh

Uproar over professor’s prostitute demo.

Reactionary revisionist twerps.

BBC News – China rejects US corn on fears over genetic modification##

hmmmm.

GCHQ and NSA targeted charities, Germans, Israeli PM and EU chief | UK news | theguardian.com.

“The disclosures reflect the breadth of targets sought by the agencies, which goes far beyond the desire to intercept the communications of potential terrorists and criminals, or diplomats and officials from hostile countries. ”

Grrrrr.

 Syria ‘abducting civilians to spread terror,’ UN says

hmmm.