Recall machinations

“Both Feinstein and Bustamante have publicly stated they have no desire to run in the recall election, but the election is almost guaranteed at this point, and the Democrats need a popular moderate that can beat Schwarzeneggar. Feinstein is widely regarded as the Democrats’ only hope. By cutting a deal with Bustamante, she can keep him out of the race, preventing a split vote.

This has the added advantage of getting a Hispanic into the Senate, even though he isn’t the brightest bulb on the tree.”

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Britain condemns US terror trials

Even Tony Blair, it appears, can no longer stomach the excesses of the Bush Administration.

“The UK Government has expressed its concern at the possibility that British citizens held in Guantanamo Bay may have to face trial by military tribunals.

There are at least 680 suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban members at the US naval base in Cuba.

US President George W Bush decided on Thursday that six of them, including Britons Moazzam Begg and Feroz Abbasi and Australian David Hicks, should face trial in a military tribunal rather than in a regular court.

The announcement sparked a wave of protest from human rights groups who said the tribunals would be a “legal black hole”.

The UK’s Foreign Office Minister Baroness Symons said the government was concerned about the men’s access to lawyers, the standards of evidence and their rights to appeal in the case of any guilty verdicts”

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The Cost of War

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

The Cost Of War.com precisely details those thefts.

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CheeseNet

According to this informative, fascinating site, Brie is the Queen of Cheeses, and Roquefort is the King.

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