A Voice Silenced
I also know that Iran’s women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I’ve seen them urging less courageous men on. I’ve seen them get beaten and return to the fray. “Why are you sitting there?” one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. “Get up! Get up!”
Update: It appears her name was Neda Agha Soltan (1983-2009).
It is said that “Neda” means “voice” or “Call” in Farsi.
Neda Soltan’s voice will not be heard again.
It seems pretty obvious that Bank of America hasn’t learned anything at all from the credit meltdown.
They have given my little back bedroom publishing company a $35,000 line of credit.
The only problem is that after my one book sold out, I have zero sales and zero income for over two years!
How I could possibly qualify for a $35,000 credit line with zero income, and just about zero assets, is beyond me.
This is exactly how banks got into trouble in the first place and, if my case is any indicator, Bank of America is still giving credit to people with zero income.
Just swell.
Denni Parkinson Wet
Denni Parkinson Hanging out to Dry
So Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s approval ratings have taken a dive according to the Gallup poll.
“More Americans disapprove (47%) than approve (31%) of how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has handled the matter concerning the government’s use of harsh interrogation techniques.”
Pelosi is pretty much on the short end of the game, and has higher negatives than the CIA, who supposedly are the liars in this convoluted story.
So this must be a good time to hit the road and maybe visit China.
Queen Pelosi Wearing Her San Francisco Crown
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QUESTION: But Senator, Senator, it’s not that you’re not being clear when you say you don’t want them released. But could you say — would you be all right with them being transferred to an American prison?
REID: Not in the United States.
According to Think Progress, dozens of convicted terrorists are being held securely in federal prisons, and the U.S. has already prosecuted 145 terrorism cases in federal court. Reid’s position aligns him with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who also opposes “the transfer of the detainees to US soil.
We need to hear from the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Harley G. Lappin, about this alarmingly unsafe situation in his prison system.
For starters good ol’ Harley can explain about the riot and the near loss of control of the prison in 2008.
Then, Harley might want to tell us about this.
What does Harley think about transferring these people to the Federal Prison system?
Another worry is that if we put these terrorists on trial and get an O. J. type jury or a jury that wants to demonstrate their opposition to the GWOT – they could well walk, and then we really would be releasing them in the United States.
Supermax Florence Towers
What’s left of the General H. S. Vandenberg
The 523-foot-long ship that once tracked spacecraft blastoffs from Cape Canaveral as well as Russian missile launches during the Cold War is in Key West Harbor undergoing final preparations to be scuttled.
More here.
In better days:
Bethlehem installed approximately 425,000 feet of cable on each ship. Some 540 “black boxes” containing the vital relays and electronic devices comprising the ship’s radar, data handling, telemetry, meteorological, timing and communications equipment also were installed. About 40,000 wiring connections were made to these boxes by the shipyard workers alone. Thousands of other connections were made by some of the suppliers of this sophisticated equipment.
The two ships — the GENERAL ARNOLD and the GENERAL VANDENBERG — have a length of 520 feet, a beam of 71 1/2 feet, and a sea speed of more than 17 knots. Each is a complete station for its two-hundred man crew, half of whom will devote their efforts solely to the ship’s instrumentation. Each vessel has been outfitted with 636 compartments, including staterooms, storerooms, offices, a hospital, dining and recreational areas, a theater, laundries, lounges, lockers, galley, pantries — virtually everything a land-based station has.
The decking for the GENERAL VANDENBERG alone required about 50,000 square feet of composition tile or rubber materials.
Some portions of the superstructure were completely removed. Later additions to the superstructure included a new house atop the pilot house.
All of the ship’s present masts are completely new. The old stack was removed, and this system relocated farther aft with a new and higher stack to minimize the possibility of fuel gases interfering with the telemetry antenna. A complete weather station and hangar for weather balloons were built.
Link here.
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During the run up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush Administration didn’t like what it was hearing from the professionals in the intelligence community so they found people that would tell them that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda and that Iraq had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. These guys got their very own “Strategic Support Branch” within the Pentagon.
The State Department was reluctant to sign on to all of the Bush Administration’s wacky ideas about things, so the Bushies created a State Department within the Pentagon that, as the New York times put it:
“… Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, set up their own State Department within the Defense Department, designing a more grandiose and aggressive foreign policy that can be summarized: “We’re No. 1. We like it that way. And we’re going to keep it that way.”
This pattern continued when they didn’t like what they heard about constitutional and international law and torture, so they found people such as John Yoo and Jay Bybee who would crank out legal briefs that said what they wanted to hear.
At any time in any place, there are always enough people to be found to pull off whatever dirty work that needs to be done.
Larry Summers Snoozes
It appears that Larry Summers might be suffering from sleep apnea.
“Also, Summers seems to have a mild narcoleptic issue. He fell asleep during a White House economic forum this past February. The New Republic reported recently that “Summers functions on exceedingly little sleep…. To power through the day, Summers relies on a punishing Diet Coke regimen. The combination of fatigue and extreme caffeine intake can produce the occasional verbal and physical tic: Summers is a chronic foot-tapper and sometimes turns over words and clauses like an engine that won’t start.” (Huffington Post)
It’s fun to make fun of people who fall asleep at inappropriate times, but sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or whatever you call it can lead to serious health issues.
Sleep apnea is caused when the airway collapses during sleep. When this happens, your brain wakes you up so you can get air. This may happen more or less unconsciously 100’s of times a night. You really never get into deep sleep.
Sleep deprivation is in the news as a form of torture. Sleep deprivation can have serious long term consequences such as:
Only a qualified doctor cant tell for sure, but he certainly exhibits some of the classic signs of sleep apnea.
Let’s hope that Larry Summers takes some time off to get a sleep study and gets some treatment for his sleep disorder.
For more information about sleep apnea check here.
So I guess this means that she didn’t think these things up all by herself?
SPC Lyndie England
Not that she’s a great role model, but she is a pretty good example of how people on the bottom get screwed when people at the top screw up.
