Dogma Atoll I

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Obama has vowed to close Guantanamo and end torture. From Amy Goodman, Truthdig , November 17, 2008: When Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, was young, he was enslaved on a plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore, called Mount Misery, owned by Edward Covey, a notorious "slave breaker." There, physical and psychological torture were standard. That property, today, is owned by Donald Rumsfeld, the former secretary of defense who was one of the key architects of the U.S. military's program of torture and detention.

I was checking out Dick Cavett's Blog , which is wonderful if you love Dick like I do, and jumped to an interesting article written by George Orwell about language and politics. (Thanks to Upper Left blog for the head's up.) George says: A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. If you've seen transcriptions of Sarah's spoken words, you know what I'm talking about. She's a cat chasing her tail. My cat does this frequently although I try to refrain. Governor Palin of Alaska will never be able to lead anything ever. I can't really see her house from mine but I worry about my proximity to her state, and the influence that she could have on my existence. I do lik...

The imperial presidency would not exist were it not for the Congress, which has willingly ceded authority to the executive branch, especially on matters touching, however remotely, on national security. As the chief executive achieved supremacy, the legislative branch not only lost clout but gradually made itself the object of ridicule. . . . the problem with the first lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan - that the Pentagon needs to get better at waging "small wars" - is that it overlooks far more fundamental matters. Rather than transforming the armed forces of the United States into a imperial constabulary, the imperative of the moment is to examine the possibility of devising a nonimperial foreign policy. We, the people, who have elected an intelligent president for our country, can push for this by learning everything we can, and participating in our democracy. Everyone should read The Limits of Power: The end of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich You can see him ...

Taste of Winter In a highball glass with plenty of ice cubes, add: 4 cl Absolut Citron vodka 1 cl Heering cherry liqueur 1 cl Galliano herbal liqueur fill with Schweppes Russian tonic water And one of my all-time favorites: Winter Tropic In a hurricane glass, add: 1 1/2 oz vodka or tequila 1 1/2 oz cranberry juice 1 1/2 oz strawberry margarita mix

"What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'" - Barack Obama

Read this oldie but goodie from Rude Pundit - 2006. Then read " No Currency Left to Buy the Big Lies ." And if on Wednesday morning it turns out they've dicked us over one more time by hacking the vote, by screwing with the polls, then maybe we've reached a point in this America where it's time to fight or flee.

This from UK Telegraph : An Islamist rebel administration in Somalia had a 13-year-old girl stoned to death for adultery after the child's father reported that three men had raped her. Amnesty International said the al-Shabab militia, which controls the southern port city of Kismayo, arranged for a group of 50 men to stone Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow in front of a crowd of about 1,000 spectators. A lorryload of stones was brought to the stadium for the killing. Amnesty said that Duhulow struggled with her captors and had to be forcibly carried into the stadium. "At one point during the stoning, Amnesty International has been told by numerous eyewitnesses that nurses were instructed to check whether Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was still alive when buried in the ground. They removed her from the ground, declared that she was, and she was replaced in the hole where she had been buried for the stoning to continue," the human rights group said. "Inside the stadium, militia members o...

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