What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Op-Ed Columnist – When Greatness Slips Away – NYTimes.com
“The oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, as horrible as it has been, was yet another opportunity. In his address to the nation from the Oval Office last week, President Obama could have laid out a dramatic new energy policy for the U.S., calling on every American to do his or her part to help us escape the insidious, nonstop destruction that is the result of our obsessive reliance on fossil fuels.
He chose not to.”
Thank you.
Ex-Aide to Gov. David A. Paterson Takes Fifth Amendment – NYTimes.com
waaaa…
clearly I’ve been ignoring NY politics too long.
BBC News – Barack Obama 'angry' over McChrystal claims
Words can not describe how sick I am of hearing about how things make this guys feel.
When the fuck is going to translate anything into action?
BBC News – Jamaican 'drugs lord' Christopher "Dudus" Coke arrested
How many people did we kill in an impoverished neighboring nation to get one guy who couldn’t have operated without high up cooperation from inside this country any ways?
sheesh…
Where the fuck are our priorities???
Even mag editor says McChrystal used poor judgment – Yahoo! News
I think this guy wanted out and he wanted people to know why.
There isn’t another reasonable explanation.
First Glenn Beck, now George Will – Liberalism, Liberals, Liberal Politics – Salon.com
Of course. They are in the news media. Why would they care about facts????
White House summons McChrystal | Reuters
The points he makes get lost in the office gossip sniping. They really, really should have just stuck with the facts and left the editorializing to the media. It’s all the media does these days anyways.
McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks – NYTimes.com
“Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was,” the aide said. “Here’s the guy who’s going to run his [expletive] war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The boss was pretty disappointed.”
General, I feel you. There are lot of us who wish the POTUS was a wee bit more informed and engaged. On a lot of subjects.
Cable News likes to characterize Obama as having too much or too little emotions. They’re missing the point. Who the hell cares what Obama thinks or feels? What matters is how he does his job and quite frankly he doesn’t seem to be too into doing the actual “work” part of the job.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal coming to Washington to explain anti-administration comments
Not only can he not accomplish anything, he can’t even keep his own people under control. Seriously, military people are pretty used to taking orders and following them even when they don’t agree. When they go rogue you pretty much suck at leading.
Israel Eases Gaza Blockade: Gains for Hamas and Turkey? – TIME
“Giving up on the political strategy of systemically depriving Gaza’s civilian population so that they would turn against Hamas… …was, in fact, part of an anti-Hamas strategy shared by the Western powers. While the Obama Administration had expressed misgivings about the strategy of collective punishment in Gaza, it never demanded a change in the Gaza blockade in the same way that it insisted, for example, that Israel halt settlement construction.”
So sad but so very true that there is a lot of blame to go around.
Israel’s easing of Gaza blockade doesn’t address banking, travel rules – CSMonitor.com
A good start but I hope the push for an investigation into the attack on the Turkish flotilla doesn’t diminish on iota in the light of this.
One of the things that bugs me so much about the Israeli government’s treatment of the Palestinian population is that it is so counterproductive.
Their tactics serve only to remove all peaceful opportunities for the residents of Gaza to improve the quality of their lives. Without the ability to properly care for and educate their young people, without any economic opportunities, what exactly does the Israeli government think the Palestinians are going to spend their time doing? Sit around and get very angry perhaps? What avenues are left for them to express their dissatisfaction with the completely racist and unfair treatment they receive at the hands of their neighbor other than violence?
It’s just so self-defeating on the part of the government of Israel.
Unless, of course, the plan is to push the Palestinians into open violent revolt so that Israeli government finally has an excuse to exterminate the entire population…
…Which sounds a little familiar if you think about it.
Mark Kirk is crazy, crazy person says – War Room – Salon.com
I wish I had followed this Primary more. It sounds like fun.
Why Russia is cutting off gas supplies to Belarus – CSMonitor.com
Russia: once a bully, always a bully.
U.S. indirectly paying Afghan warlords as part of security contract
Um, so what?
We’re also funding and cooperating with one of the largest heroin dealers in the world in the form of Karzhai’s brother.
If we’re OK with opium cultivation and heroin distribution what’s a little graft between warlords?
House agrees to put consumer watchdog in Fed | Reuters
Almost sounds like progress.
Proposed immigration measure stirs up Nebraska city – CNN.com
the town has 1-2% illegal immigrants and a much high percentage than that of Hispanics. It’s purely a racist move and I hope they get sued into bankruptcy.
