Monday Reads
Posted: April 4, 2011 Filed under: Civil Rights, collective bargaining, Diplomacy Nightmares, Foreign Affairs, Hamas, Labor unions, Libya, MENA, Middle East, morning reads, Reproductive Rights, Syria, worker rights | Tags: Foreclosures, Libya, Martin Luther King, Syria 68 Comments
Good Morning!
This is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. It happened on April 4, 1968. Historian Robert Creamer remembers the day and its meaning in a post at HuffPo. It’s the 43rd anniversary of the activist’s death. He was in Memphis working for the rights of ordinary workers to organize and better their work terms and conditions.
Martin Luther King was in Memphis to support the strike of the city’s garbage collectors who were demanding the right of collective bargaining.
He was there because the right to sit across a table and negotiate wages and working conditions gave otherwise powerless workers, the right to have a say.
Then — as now — collective bargaining was, as the AFSCME banner said in the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda, about freedom.
At Duke that spring we — and the non-academic employees of the university — took up the same cause. Collective bargaining was the only thing that could systematically, permanently change the relations of power and overcome years of exploitation.
Even in 1968, their $1.15 per hour was a pathetic salary — $2,392 a year. They were exploited every day. They needed a union.
Now, 43 years later, America is relearning the lessons of April, 1968:
- How collective bargaining is an integral part of a truly democratic society.
- How the labor movement is about a lot more than wages and working conditions — that it’s about respect and dignity and hope.
- And finally, it is learning once again that you can’t have the rain without the thunder and lightning. Freedom is earned through struggle. And if you want to have a great life — a life that gives you a sense of fulfillment and meaning — it’s never too late to decide that you will dedicate yours to the struggle for social and economic justice.
The LA Times reports that over 700 Anti-union pieces of legislation have been introduced across the country as part of the Republican party’s war on working Americans. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
More than 700 bills have been introduced in virtually every state. Nearly half of the states are considering legislation to limit public employees’ collective bargaining rights. Unions are girding for a fight.
Now that the governors of Ohio and Wisconsin have signed bills to limit public workers’ collective bargaining rights, their fellow Republicans in other states are expected to gain momentum in their efforts to take on unions.
Palm Beach, Florida judges have evidently had it with the sloppy recordkeeping practices of mortgage holders and servicers. They’re starting to “routinely” dismiss foreclosure cases.
Angry and exasperated by faulty foreclosure documents, judges throughout Florida are hitting back by increasingly dismissing cases and boldly accusing lawyers of “fraud upon the court.”
A Palm Beach Post review of cases in state and appellate courts found judges are routinely dismissing cases for questionable paperwork. Although in most cases the bank is allowed to refile the case with the appropriate documents, in a growing number of cases judges are awarding homeowners their homes free and clear after finding fraud upon the court.
Still, critics say judges are not doing enough.
“The judges are the gatekeepers to jurisprudence, to the Florida Constitution, to access to the courts and to due process,” said attorney Chip Parker, a Jacksonville foreclosure defense attorney who was recently investigated by the Florida Bar for his critical comments about so-called “rocket dockets” during an interview with CNN. “It’s discouraging when it appears as if there is an exception being made for foreclosure cases.”
Dictator Bashar al-Assad of Syria is undoubtedly one of the most oppressive leaders in the world. He has been a strong supporter of both Hamas and Hezbollah. AJ has an op-ed that talks about how deluded he’s become these days as his people have finally stood up to say enough! It’s an interesting piece that talks about how just being against Israel does not translate into a blank check from your people or other leaders in the region.
The eruption of Arab revolutions has been a reaction to decades of repression and the skewed distribution of wealth; two problems that have plagued anti- and pro-Western Arab governments alike.
And Syria is one of the most repressive states in the region; hundreds, if not thousands, of people have disappeared into its infamous prisons. Some reappear after years, some after decades, many never resurface at all.
Syrians have not been the only victims. Other Arabs – Lebanese who were abducted during the decades of Syrian control over its neighbour, Jordanian members of the ruling Baath party who disagreed with its leadership and members of different Palestinian factions – have also been victimised.
Syrian critics of the regime are often arrested and charged – without due process – with serving external – often American and Israeli – agendas to undermine the country’s “steadfastness and confrontational policies”.
But these acts have never been adequately condemned by Arab political parties and civil society, which have supported Syria’s position on Israel while turning a blind eye to its repressive policies.
Thus while Syrian dissidents, including prominent nationalist and leftist intellectuals, are incarcerated in Syrian jails, other Arab activists and intellectuals have flocked to Damascus to praise its role in “defending Arab causes”.
This hypocrisy has reinforced the regime’s belief that it is immune from the criticisms directed at repressive pro-Western governments in the region.
As some one who studies the region–albeit mostly in economic and trade terms–I’ve found that each country has its unique set of problems and circumstances even though many of them seem to have similarities on the surface. Syria’s been one of the worst of the worst destabilizers in the region. This is one regime that could be replaced by nearly any one and it would be an immediate improvement.
Former President Clinton is on record saying that the US government shouldn’t rule out arming Libyan Rebels.
But Clinton said he wouldn’t completely rule out the idea of supplying arms to Libya’s rebels.
“Let me just say this. I sure wouldn’t shut the door to it. I think … we may need to know a little more,” he said.
Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stressed that he was speaking without “any official sanction” whatsoever.
“I’m just speaking from myself. But I certainly wouldn’t take that off the table, too,” he said.
For some reason, emissaries from Gadhafi are meeting Greek leaders to find a political solution to their civil war and to the UN resolution. Maybe Gadhafi is looking for that special retirement place on a Greek Isle.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s acting foreign minister met with Greece’s prime minister yesterday to seek a political solution to hostilities in the north African country, said Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas.
“It appears that the regime is also seeking a solution,” Droutsas said, referring to Qaddafi’s government, after Abdul Ati al-Obeidi met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, Droutsas said in a statement.
The talks followed “a series of contacts over recent days” involving Greek and Libyan officials, including the countries’ prime ministers, which led to al-Obeidi’s Athens trip, Droutsas said. Al-Obeidi also planned to visit Malta and Turkey, he said.
“It is necessary for there to be a serious attempt for peace, for stability in the region,” the Greek foreign minister said.
The Daily Mail reports that Moussa Koussa is getting asylum in the UK. I’d say that’s a pretty interesting development considering his role in the Lockabie bombing. I suppose there’s worse places to spend your retirement from “notorious henchmen”.
Libya’s feared ‘torturer-in-chief’ has been offered asylum in the UK in return for his help to topple Muammar Gaddafi and his hated regime.
The secret offer to Libya’s former foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, was made while he was still in Tripoli and helped persuade him to seek sanctuary in Britain.
But any promise of special protection for one of Gaddafi’s most notorious henchmen has provoked anger from those who want Koussa, 62, put on trial for his alleged crimes.
MP Ben Wallace, parliamentary aide to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, said: ‘This man should not be granted asylum or any other special treatment; the only proper outcome is to bring him to justice.
‘Britain needs to make up its mind quickly. There will be no shortage of courts that will readily seek his extradition. The last thing the UK wants is for Koussa to languish, at taxpayers’ expense, in legal no-man’s-land.’
MI6 officers first made contact with Koussa, who has been linked with the Lockerbie bombing and the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London, in the first few days after the UN-sanctioned attacks on Gaddafi’s military machine on March 19.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Central to the enticements was the prospect of living in safety in the UK under the protection of the asylum laws. Koussa’s greatest concern was what would happen to him once he left Gaddafi.
I’m going to end with something BB sent me last on what the radical right thinks of women. You can see this onslaught of anti women laws ooze disrespect and the opinion that women aren’t fully competent adults who are capable of making good, moral decisions without some big daddy republican government telling them what to do. Disgusting! They want to turn BP loose on the Gulf of Mexico again, but women can’t even been trusted with their own bodies.
Women sure are impulsive, lying, vulnerable and childlike creatures, aren’t they? That’s the conclusion I’d draw, if my understanding of women were based solely on anti-abortion bills.
These bills are pending and passing at a disturbing pace in multiple states. They don’t just reflect the nation’s chronic and understandable ambivalence about abortion. They also paint a shockingly negative portrait of women.
Here are a few key messages gleaned from the latest bills and anti-abortion advocacy:
* Women are impulsive. Half of states now require women to undergo a waiting period before obtaining an abortion. Usually the waiting period is one day. South Dakota just passed a three-day waiting period, the longest in the nation. The implication is that, without a government-mandated waiting period, women would dash into abortion clinics without first weighing the gravity of their decision.
* Women are prone to lying. Last week, the Indiana House passed a measure that would forbid most abortions after 20 weeks. A version of it is expected to pass into law. Opponents tried to carve out an exception for victims of rape or incest, as well as for women whose lives are threatened by medical complications. However, the bill’s sponsor fended off the amendment by attacking it as a “giant loophole” that women would use to get abortions by pretending they were raped.
* Women need things explained to them. A bill recently passed by the Texas House would require doctors to describe the fetus in some detail to all abortion-seeking patients, including victims of rape and incest. The bill allows women to close their eyes and cover their ears. (It doesn’t specify whether women are permitted to say, “La-la-la, I can’t hear you.”)
Well, that’s about it from me. I’m just waiting for the severe weather to fire up today and trying to heal. What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
peej
Carissa
ecocatwoman
mablue2
peggysue22
quixote
skydancingguestblogger
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
“Nearly half of the states are considering legislation to limit public employees’ collective bargaining rights.”
Thanks for this, Dak. Guess I’ll have to join a local unions protest march to our state legislator’s office this week.
And now for something lukewarm to start our day:
“President Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday…”
http://tiny.cc/636iw
President Obama formally launched his re-election campaign Monday…”
http://tiny.cc/636iw
it feels like it never stopped
I don’t think it ever did.
that’s cause it didn’t 😆
John Phillips: Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012
“…Hillary voters aren’t only jumping ship –- they’re taking their fins, snorkels and pina coladas with them.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/04/hillary-clinton-obama-john-phillips.html
LOVE THE BUTTONS!
If only. But thanks for the link to that uplifting piece!!!! I am smiling again.
Ugh…I don’t think I have the strength…
Great round up!
If Bill wants to know more about the Libyan rebels he can go over to WSWS to read about them …
http://tinyurl.com/3d8cyp4
Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels
There’s CIA “help” of a popular uprising and then there’s a CIA total install of long time , journeyman strongman who lives in Fall Church, VA….you can guess which kind we are backing. The debate to arm them is kabuki…since they are in our employ…of course
Another good article on WSWS writes about the continuing huge protests in Egypt about the rule there
Yeah, I heard about that guy. But that doesn’t mean the rank and file are CIA assets.
Even the people in Tripoli want Gaddafi gone. Unfortunately, thousands of people who were protesting in Tripoli have been disappeared and never heard from again, so everyone is terrified. Yes, I said thousands.
Right now Yemen and Syria are right on the brink too. Yemen protesters are hoping Obama will speak out supporting them, but I don’t think he’ll do it.
It’s still important to know who one is cheering on..I’m hoping this CIA install will kill less people, but who knows…
Right now Yemen and Syria are right on the brink too. Yemen protesters are hoping Obama will speak out supporting them, but I don’t think he’ll do it.
not unless he finds an old hand to pop in
to “lead” them
gotta run, seeing Mom at the retirement home!
Hi paper doll,
Of course it’s important to know about it, and I appreciate your comments. I have written about CIA involvement in a number of my posts on Libya. If anyone is suspicious of the CIA, it is me.
Have fun visting your mom!
Not just the Right rewrites history
from Obama Now
Shunning Grassroots that Propelled ’08 Election, Obama Turns to Corporate Insider, Anti-Public Option Campaign Manager Jim Messina
‘In 08 Grass roots elected Obama?? I don’t remember that. I remember the upper crust moving as one to install him.
Gag!
First, what BB said.
Second, Obama is the Right.
How true.
this is a wired observation iv made for this Libya affair that going on . people who i would normal think as more anti-war have been faster to just on the bandwagon to get involved in this war. others who i would think more likely to back a war such as this in the past have been more hesitant before .
others who i would think more likely to back a war such as this in the past have been more hesitant before
I’m guessing they just don’t want to support
a Dem in a war move. …that’s the usual M/O for hawks when a Dem does it
most of the people im talking about have leftist views im not talking about wingnuts that seem to be pro-war all the time evertime
Hi boogieman,
I wish “anti-war” people were more concerned about Iraq and Afghanistan where the real wars are taking place that are draining our lifeblood and treasure.
The Western involvement in Libya has wound down now and is mostly focused on negotiations with Gaddafi and his sons.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/04/201143154928842116.html
Personally, I’m not on any bandwagon. I like to follow world events, and I mainly try to stay reality-based and not let preconceived notions cloud my perceptions. Because of that, I could never be surprised to learn that the CIA is involved in foreign countries. They have been interfering all over the world since the agency formed after WWII.
We all have preconceptions, but it does help if you read up on what is actually happening. I find I can get less biased news from the foreign press. I especially like the Guardian and The Independent. But there are other good sources too.
I can’t control what our government does. I can only try to inform myself. I also don’t want to become so jaded that I don’t care when thousands of people are tortured and killed by greedy, vicious dictators. I don’t think we can always help these people, but if there is an opportunity to use weapons that are already in our arsenal and paid for to help them, I think we should. We have hurt so many people all over the world–is helping a few people really that horrible?
It does look like the Libya situation can only be solved through diplomacy at this point. Both sides are now talking cease-fire, and Britain, France, the U.S., Greece, and Turkey are talking to Libyan representatives. Is diplomacy bad too in your mind?
You keep making these comments, but you don’t engage with me or others who respond to you, and you don’t seem to be reading about events as they happen.
ya me to i check out the BBC all the time
ill give a few examples 3 women pull a man into way while the American generals were a bit more hesitant to get involved.
myself i consider myself a moderate Pumacrat
and in far from someone that’s all ant-war all the time type the time i have one friend who at 1 time told me that we should not even have a military but she on board with the libya war.
That could be because it’s not actually a “war,” at least at this point. It could become a war, and that is why I’m very nervous about it.
But since the U.S. is no longer bombing, and because Obama is running for President again, I doubt that he is going to turn it into a war. It’s too unpopular with Americans.
Americans don’t seem to care that we are wasting lives and trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they don’t want to see us use our military to prevent a massacre of half-a-million people. I guess that’s because Libya doesn’t provide us with any oil and as Gates says they aren’t important to our national security.
Oil is apparently worth fighting a 10-year war over. Masscres and torture of innocent human beings, not so much.
then again i might be stereotyping the women thing. ya know the idea that been out there for while that if women ruled the world peace would reign . overall i see men as the more aggressive and women tend more passive when it come to this issue.
Boston about this in not really a war .
iv got to quote TO thats terrl owens for you girls if it talks like a rat and walks like a rat it probably a rat.
I give up, boogieman. You just won’t engage with me. I wrote a long comment that took me a lot of time and energy, and you didn’t even read it.
i read it boston
ok let me give you a little background on that quote a just posted Terrel Owens is a super star widereciver an the NFL at the time the jeff garcia was the OB of the SF 49ers he was insinuating the the Star 49er QB was gay even though he was dating a playmate of the year at the time .
You think I don’t follow football? You really are stereotyping women. But to use your analogy, it doesn’t “walk like a rat,” because the U.S. has no military involved in what you are calling a “war.” We aren’t even bombing anymore. If it’s a war, it’s a civil war. If the US hadn’t taken out some of Gaddafi’s air power and if NATO weren’t still minimally involved, it would already be a horrible massacre. Please respond to that point.
Meanwhile, in Tripoli and other cities controlled by Gaddafi, people are disappearing never to return. Thousands of people have disappeared, to be tortured and/or killed. So IMHO, it’s not really a civil war at this point. It’s a corrupt and evil dictator (and terrorist) who is systematically putting down a rebellion. He may well succeed, and when he does that massacre will take place in the western cities. Then will you cheer because the “war” is over? I can’t cheer for massacres myself.
what it means is that you call it what ever you want it a war.
What about the MASSACRE that will follow Gaddafi’s crushing of the uprising. Last chance to respond, boogieman.
Anti-union – honestly, I don’t feel the majority of folks are anti-union…however, I believe people are feeling like there is a definite lop-sidedness to these arrangements versus non-union. As I have said before, there needs to be more balance.
Anti-abortion – having worked at a clinic that performed late term procedures, I can honestly say the number of repeat patients was disgusting. While I will always firmly believe in a woman’s right to choose, there is clearly a need for some middle ground. More emphasis on prevention, education, responsibility and adoption…it baffles this “old” lady how this generation who has so much birth control/education/information at their fingertips can still find themselves in this predicament.
If unions are completely eliminated the “lopsidedness” will go away for sure. We’ll all be working for Walmart wages or worse. None of the things we take for granted in our working lives–the 8-hour day, the 40-hour week, weekends, workplace safety–none of it would ever have happened without unions. When the unions are gone, we’ll all be serfs.
As for a “middle-ground” on abortion, the right is making sure prevention is nearly impossible by defunding Planned Parenthood, etc. They are also defunding prenatal care programs and programs to help feed babies after they are born.
I don’t think you need to worry, because after unions are eliminated, one of the main sources of support for the Democratic Party goes away. There will finally be just one party–the Wall Street party. That is very close to happening already. So we are well on our way to abortion AND birth control becoming illegal again.
Let’s also not forget how they took the funding for low cost birth control out of stimulus package, as well as left open a loophole that increased the cost of birth control on campuses by large amounts and the fact that the health care legislation doesn’t cover birth control because they are still “studying” it. There is no doubt about it, there’s been a war on women’s reproduction and far too many people are pinning things on women when it’s pretty clear that legislation has been the irresponsible party.
Middle ground my backside.
Absolutely. And the only thing that is keeping Democrats from surrendering completely is whatever pressure we can put on them. Once the unions are gone, once Planned Parenthood is gone, we will have almost no leverage at all except open rebellion in the streets.
@ BB and cwaltz
Hells yeah!
I wish the patriarchy that is “looking out for us women and our ovaries” would put as much attention to the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe.
What a novel idea!
Can’t say it enough: I loathe these people!
Yeah, wouldn’t that be refreshing? But instead they are busy covering up a nuclear meltdown and allowing BP back into the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaking of cover ups, I did not even know this happened, did you?
TVA nuclear plant tells why valve stuck | ajc.com
Great post by Hugh at Corrente on the fake unemployment numbers.
Also see Lambert’s follow-up post:
When will all those discouraged and unemployed workers rise up? It needs to happen soon.
I’m not sure how anyone can buy into this recent 8.8% unemployment number when we’ve been lied to all along on the magnitude of underemployment, discouraged/fall-off-the-ranks workers and the shrinking size of the workforce. We’re being fed ‘happy news,’ numbers that don’t add up. The current breast beating is preelection spin because even the Obamacrats know that if the real numbers of 17-20% unemployment were released, the “O” would be unelectable.
The Republicans aren’t offering any solutions [they never do], merely muddying the waters with a gazillion social issues–assaults on women, unions, working class/middle class and the down and outers. As is their habit.
This is just a continuation of the Big Lie. And sadly, I don’t see the electoral process solving anything. Dem or Repug, the end game is the same: for and by the top 1% and not for thee.
They don’t care about the country or its people. It is all about power and winning their elections. The republicans are deliberately trying to tank the economy to get absolute control. Democratic administration is fine as long as the donor class is done.
Can’t say how “underwhelmed” I am by President Irrelevant’s announcement in seeking a second term. Whoop dee do! Judging from the slate of losers being put forth by the Right his chances look better than every. Try rolling “President Bachmann” around your tongue for awhile and I have a pretty good idea that he won’t lose much sleep.
I am more concerned about making a change in both House and Senate after two years of fundies, Tea Partiers, and those who rose to leadership in 2010 who reflect my views and will fight for the middle rather than the fringe.
My hope is that Scott Brown in MA faces a “true liberal” in the next campaign since he voted with the GOP in Dec to withhold the extention of unemployment benefits in place of tax increases on the wealthy. That sealed the deal for me.
This guy wants to be president in 2016 and is “shifting” just enough to gain the support of disaffected voters in order to gain that platform. No way!
President Brown? Good grief!
Read Pat’s post here.
(She’s too modest to link to it, so I will).
Yeah, awesome post Pat!
It looks like Saleh is in big trouble in Yemen. US support is waning for him, according to the CSM.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0404/US-officials-weigh-how-to-fight-terrorism-in-a-post-Saleh-Yemen
From Dak’s post: “The LA Times reports that over 700 Anti-union pieces of legislation have been introduced across the country as part of the Republican party’s war on working Americans. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.”
To me too. Led by:
http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Model_Legislation1
Here’s an even happier ending to one of our feel good stories covered within the last few days. Japan tsumani dog reunited with owner.
Ah, that’s so nice.
Oh, that’s wonderful! Thanks for that link!
made my day..:)
We’ve been talking about women under going the knife for a long time, here’s another article to go with:
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/135108763/the-nation-women-under-the-budget-knife
I posted this yesterday, but thought I would bring it up again:
Georgia set to eliminate all state funds to fight domestic violence | Political Insider
It’s completely back to women and children as chattel with these Republicans. Couple that with elimination of child labor laws and both women and children might as well return to slave status. They believe that men should be able to do whatever they want to women and children because we’re some kind of subhuman and they are demi-gods. I hate them all!
Me too!
We have to get these assholes back under control.
Yup, and some states are changing DV to Disorderly Conduct…………..no more domestic violence on the books.
It’s war on women. I despise these people.
Palin is now attacking planned parenthood with lies. From an email she sent:
“Governor Palin’s statement:
The greatest fiscal challenge facing our country today is our government’s dangerously unsustainable debt and its practice of deficit spending. Whatever side you’re on in the abortion debate, surely you can see that our taxpayer dollars should not be used to fund abortion at any time, let alone these hard economic times. And yet that is what has been happening with the taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider, which is awash in scandal after revelations of its dishonesty with the American public. They receive an average of $1 million taxpayer dollars per day; and regardless of what they had promised the public in their campaign ads, new investigative reporting shows that they are not really using our tax dollars to provide women with mammograms and other real health care services. It’s simply freeing up funds that they can then invest in their primary money-making endeavor: abortion. Planned Parenthood doesn’t really offer women who find themselves in less-than-ideal circumstances any real choice. They don’t show women that they have the power, capability, strength, and love within themselves to choose the blessing that is life. They don’t explain the resources that are available to parents who want to give their child life. They don’t show them that adoption is a beautiful choice too. What they offer is not true empowerment or “choice” or women’s health care. I join Rep. Mike Pence and others of conscience and common sense who are leading the charge to end the taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider. We recognize that not only is our country buried under Mt. McKinley-sized debt, but that the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. Surely the individual resources of a generous country can come to the aid of women in need without the taxpayer funding of abortion.”
I really can’t stand this woman…
I’ve had it with her.
She’s just about self promotion. She probably feels the heat from Bachmann and Huckabee and wants back on the front page. I’m just glad we disassociated from those people that seem to think she’s anything like Hillary Clinton and that she’s even remotely interested in Women’s and children’s issues.
I swear these republicans are crazy. Thd seem completely disconnected from reality. What they never look at is the corporate welfare state they’ve set up and what it costs us. They just pander to religious nuts with complete abandon and lies.
Oh, I forgot most of them, including the P women are Religious nuts. Silly me!!
Here are a few new links that I found:
‘No safe levels’ of radiation in Japan – Features – Al Jazeera English
And protest in Bangladesh against women’s rights to own property:
BBC News – Police disperse Bangladesh protests against women’s rights
Kat, check this out…
UPDATE 2-U.S. emphatic: no deal to let BP resume drilling | Reuters
and one more:
Andy Ostroy: Leaving Obama
I don’t have to comment on that one…y’all know where I stand.
Oh and on that BP thing…he did not say that BP was “not” going to begin deepwater drilling again, he said they have to go through the same permit request like all the other companies….meaning they are sure to pass that with flying colors. These people make me ill…all of them just don’t get it.
Eric Holder is going to be holding a presser any time now to announce that ‘terrorists’ will now be tried in Military Tribunals which is exactly what candidate Obama said he wouldn’t do … this includes Khalid Sheik Mohammad
Just more change you can believe in!!! Yup, big Change from the Dubya regime!
I think he just closed the conversation with ‘lessons of 9/11″
Palin is a hypocrite. Her husband is 0.0001% Native American so all his children get free government medical care is Alaska. But you will not see her mention that little fact.
Susie Madrak put this up on her facebook: