Letter to Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter

Greetings and good wishes for a safe and productive New Year.

I am writing today greatly saddened by the news that Israel has once again attacked a UN installation in the Gaza territory. This marks the fourth time that Israeli forces on the ground in sight of the target elected to train their arms on a humanitarian mission.

I would call your attention to the excellent radio program broadcast on NH Public Radio evenings at 9:00 PM, 'As It Happens.' Written by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, the international news is very different from domestic news sources. In particular, I call your attention to the first portion of the program from January 9th, in which both a journalist in Gaza and a former Israeli Air Force Captain. You can hear this program through the link on CBC radio's web site, http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/AS_IT_HAPPENS/20090109.shtml

It is becoming clear that US support of Israel is encouraging that country to disregard the conventions of Geneva, disrespect the International community in its agressions, and perhaps most importantly, to disrespect human life. All of this, in the name of 'making our people safe,' is too much to bear.

I think that Israel's thought processes are erroneous and dangerous. America's support of Israel weakens the safety of Americans at home and abroad, much the same way as America's incursion in Iraq made the world less safe for Americans. And America cannot continue supporting a position that kills people in foreign lands and makes our peoples less safe from the combatants.

I therefore ask you to please enter a resolution condemning Israel's actions in Gaza, and propose banning delivery of additional military hardware and technical assistance to Israel until all aggressions are ended.

Remember when you got drunk in your brother's house?

So, here's W.  stopping by someone's house.  The owner NEVER THOUGHT he could own a house.  But W thought everyone should have one.  So W made it happen.

That was 2001-2002, when W was looking for ways to stay popular (read: BEFORE  "911" became part of the excuse vernacular)

A clip from the past:

Darrin West could not believe it. The president of the United States was standing in his living room.

It was June 17, 2002, a day Mr. West recalls as “the highlight of my life.” Mr. Bush, in Atlanta to unveil a plan to increase the number of minority homeowners by 5.5 million, was touring Park Place South, a development of starter homes in a neighborhood once marked by blight and crime.

Mr. West had patrolled there as a police officer, and now he was the proud owner of a $130,000 town house, bought with an adjustable-rate mortgage and a $20,000 government loan as his down payment — just the sort of creative public-private financing Mr. Bush was promoting.

“Part of economic security,” Mr. Bush declared that day, “is owning your own home.”

A lot has changed since then. Mr. West, beset by personal problems, left Atlanta. Unable to sell his home for what he owed, he said, he gave it back to the bank last year. Like other communities across America, Park Place South has been hit with a foreclosure crisis affecting at least 10 percent of its 232 homes, according to Masharn Wilson, a developer who led Mr. Bush’s tour.

“I just don’t think what he envisioned was actually carried out,” she said.

Who knows what that mofo envisioned?  Not me.  Holy FuShizzle.

Sorry....I got caught

I try never (honestly) to judge people. And I hope I'm not doing that right now. But I just can't feel this plea is a little insincere.

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I couldn't watch...after she started talking about what she's grateful for. Bet she's grateful she's not a turkey being mishandled in front of a tv camera.... hey, wait a minute....

As for grateful, I am. That she's back in Aye-Kay.

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A source close to the New Yorker reported the President-elect's approach to the English Language in the verbal form may cause some confusion and perhaps raise question of his elitism:

In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.

But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.

According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

Israelis Destroying Agricultural assets in Gaza

The BBC is reporting today that the Israeli army has entered the Gaza strip with tanks and bulldozers:

The Israeli military has launched an incursion into the Gaza Strip and clashed with Palestinian gunmen there.

Witnesses say the Israeli troops were accompanied by bulldozers which have been destroying agricultural land east of the town of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

There was no immediate reports of any injuries or deaths.

What can an attack on a peoples' food supply be interpreted as, other than terrorism?  The food grown does not act politically.  Israeli spokespeople said they were looking to disable landmines, but who plants mines with their tomatoes?

The US needs to re-think the support of this administration, or at least conditionalize it's support on more humanitarian practices.

Palin Calls Her Critics "Jerks," "Cowardly"

Interesting she waited to get back outside America's borders to make these comments.  Oh wait, I mean.... never mind.

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Joe Lieberman To Be Stripped Of Committee Chair?

CT still seems to love this guy. I just don't understand it. If you're blue, and watched Joe, you should not have a lot of love for him, except if you think he hurt McGrumpy's chances by running around with his nose (heck, whole head) up McGrumpy's butt. And if you're red, well, watching this weasel try to reel back to the winning party ought to draw a fair amount of disgust.

Ostracism, after bankrupting him of any status of position held for the Democrats, is entirely appropriate. "Hangin's too good fer 'em."
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This just in: Obama is is own Grampa.
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It is sad that people are so unforgiving of older err atic Americans who so desperately need psy cho logical.... hey wait a minute.... isn't that guy running for ... oh man.
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Fox News Manufactures Outrage Over Fox Network Show

Didn't little Stewie sound kind of like Ringo Starr in HELP! ??

Talk about confused little kids.... anyway.

Ya gotta walk a fine line between earning the huge bucks for low humor, and complaining about it.
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Darn, I knew I shoulda stayed up to watch last night.
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Warren's written an interesting op-ed about the market in the NYT. Have a read on me.

White House Ordered Waterboarding by CIA

The Washington Post reports today that the Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

Does it take the CIA off the hook for carrying out torture?

The classified memos, which have not been previously disclosed, were requested by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the agency's interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.

Perhaps, but given the fact the CIA already knew that waterboarding wasn't an effective way to get valuable information - a water-boarded detainee will say literally anything to get the torture to stop - the point is moot. They should have pushed back, and said, 'listen, we know how to get information out of people, and it's by respecting their humanity.  We don't need to be in the torture game.  It is ineffective and demeans us a a country.'

Man behind "Obama is a Terrorist" Line Identified By NY Times

Until this month, the man who is widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign that still dogs Mr. Obama was a secondary character in news reports, with deep explorations of his background largely confined to liberal blogs.

Now we find out he's basically a pimp-for-attention scoundrel with a history of unstable acts.

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Last night, Bob Schrum wrote a piece which began:

The McCain campaign crossed the line today from negative character attacks to the kind of character assassination that plays to the basest impulses and incites the most dangerous reaction. We've seen the prelude this week in the McCain crowds and in Sarah Palin's well-rehearsed, carefully telepromptered and increasingly ugly diatribes.

To which one reader responded:

' What a laugh, he doesn't even have control over his own rallies.'

What a laugh, the reader's silly enough to think McGrumpy doesn't know EXACTLY what he's doing!  Politics, like growing old, ain't for sissies. And McGrumpy is versed well in both.

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"I think there are some problems in this report," said Republican state Sen. Gary Stevens, a member of the panel. "I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at this with a jaundiced eye."

Yes sir, you are indeed correct. In this report there are problems for the G.O.P.

No wonder he would recommend viewing it with sick, rather than clear, eyes. They're gonna spin this one large and long.

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