How To Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
From The Progress Report:
While campaigning for the White House, President Obama pledged to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which bars openly gay men and women from serving in the military. But since taking office, the Obama administration has yet to follow through on its promise and has repeatedly resisted calls to [...]
Space: Lunar probes, Hubble troubles, old moon photos
The next day after the STS-127 shuttle mission was postponed, NASA moved its focus to a different launch pad, hardly missing a beat. In a wonderfully choreographed negotiation between the two different projects, within hours two unmanned lunar probes were launched, riding on a single rocket. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is now in orbit around [...]
Random Observations On Corporate Government
The US Government is a corporatocracy. It has become a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.
Corporations are endowed with all the rights and none of the responsibilities of personhood.
The Supreme Court sanctioned corporate money donated to political campaigns as “free speech”.
Both major parties are thus primarily in the service of [...]
the more things change- the more they don’t
most of us started blogging during a time when we had no other way to fight against what we saw as the fascist takeover of our democratic republic. we signed petitions, emailed our ‘represenatatives’ in congress, and tore apart the falsehoods, lies and propaganda being perpetuated in the media. we were the truth line- tenuous [...]
It’s All About Maintaining A Cold War
The election in Iran this past Friday seemed to be a joke to most of the world. The incumbent won but even if the opposition would have gotten all of the votes I really don’t think it would have made one bit of difference. The country isn’t governed by the elected president anyway. It is [...]
Obama’s New Anti-Drug Initiative: What Will It Do? What Won’t It Do?
The Obama administration announced its new, counter-narcotics strategy for the US-Mexico border late last week. The new 65-page document, entitled “White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Document,” calls for:
1) increased coordination in anti-trafficking efforts with Mexico,
2) the employment of new surveillance technologies, and
3) more tightly prohibiting cross-border drugs (southward), and cash & guns [...]
Space News Update
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is in the midst of great change these days, and yet many of its ways are remarkable and wonderfully the same. In a very quick turnaround, the space shuttle Endeavor will launch June 13 with Mission STS-127. It was moved to a different launch pad after being readied [...]
Obamas speech to the Muslim world.
For those of us that weren’t up at 3am pacific time, here is Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt in it’s entirety. It’s a long puppy..fifty five minutes to be exact.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Detained by US Homeland Security
USA Homeland Security detained Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire in mid May as she entered the US at a Houston airport. According to information provided by the Free Gaza Movement, Maguire was returning home to Northern Ireland from a three day conference she hosted in Guatemala with three sister Nobel Peace Laureates: Rigoberta Menchu, [...]
U.S. Incarcerates Innocent Children!
Surrounded by pressing global and national crises, you may not have noticed that the U.S. under the Bush Administration began incarcerating immigrant children in family detention programs. Of course Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not admit to that terminology, nor would they agree that housing immigrant children (who accompany their parents who have, for instance, [...]
Sotomayor-Muy Bueno!!!!
What a great way to wake up this morning..to the presser that announces Sonia Sotomayor as the next Supreme Court Justice.
As Obama stated, she will be the only Justice with trial experience. She will need it to deal with the rightwing justices.From a HuffPo article:
A Puerto Rican woman with 16 years of court experience who [...]
State Dept recognizes same sex partners.
From the NYT:
The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers.
Wow wee, the federal government can recognize the rights of LGBT’s but the military can [...]
POTUS vs EX VEEP: no contest
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POTUS spoke, literally backed up to the Constitution. EX VEEP spoke and backed into the past. It was no contest; POTUS WON. Our best times are ahead of us. The ex Veep’s dark past is just that — deeply dark and past its prime. The worst time is behind us. America is turning the [...]
They are not above outright lying to us.
And that fact just totally pisses me the hell off. The obvious, blatant lies being spewed by The Big Dick CheneyTM, Boss Limbaugh, Michael Steele, Boehner, et. al. are just incredibly disingenuous..and outright fuckery. Cheney used a noun, a verb and 9/11 over 20 times this morning during his stint.
I missed The Big O’s speechifying [...]
The Advocates Agenda
A Congressional hearing Monday aired horror stories on the abuse of school kids according to ProPublica’s excellent coverage of the hearing. I watched it on C-SPAN and it was positively chilling to hear the Inspector General of the GAO give the report of his investigation. He and the parents who also testified revealed the abuse, [...]
