Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 18:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Press Action has chosen Lefti on the News as the best media blog of the year.
They said:
Eli Stephens’s Left I on the News delivers far and away the best media analysis anywhere in the blogosphere.
Congrats, pal!
Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 18:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 09:47 - Category: Government spying ;
Barron’s editorial: Congress should consider impeaching Bush.
Barron’s is a Wall Street magazine about finance and investing. For them to say this is quite extraordinary.
Powerful segments of the ruling class are now turning against Bush. He can not last.
Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 09:41 - Category: Government spying ;
Spy agency mined vast data trove,
The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001.The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged.
Wow, you mean BushCo has lied and misled us yet again?. What a surprise.
As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications.
Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 00:55 - Category: Government spying ;
From AmericaBlog
Newsweek: Bush’s illegal domestic spying has echoes of "apartheid"Hey, cool, we’re now being compared to one of the most loathed, oppressive, vile governments in the history of mankind. You gotta admit, it takes a real special gift to take us from a shining city on the hill to apartheid in only 5 years.
"For anyone who has lived under an authoritarian regime, phone tapping—or at least the threat of it—is always a given. But U.S. citizens have always been lucky enough to believe themselves protected from such government intrusion. So why have they reacted so insipidly to yet another post-9/11 erosion of U.S. civil liberties?
I’m sure there are many well-meaning Americans who agree with their president’s explanation that it’s all a necessary evil (and that patriotic citizens will not be spied on unless they dial up Osama bin Laden). But the nasty echoes of apartheid South Africa should at least give them pause."
They have more. Read on.
Bush will not survive. When mainstream media shifts this hard and this fast against someone, they are doomed. Yes, the fall of Dubya may get messy. But he is falling, and nothing can stop him from cratering. He’s lied too often to too many people, and made far too many enemies.
I lived through this same process when Nixon fell. For months there was no mainstream criticism, then finally, a tiny bit, then the dam cracked. It was the NSA spying that finally did Dubya in. Americans of all political persuasions are geniunely revolted by it and by the government and president that ordered it.
Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 00:53 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Maui;
Bob Morris @ Dec 24th 2005 00:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Hapa, who I discovered last year here in Maui, have a brand new CD out called, appropriately, "Maui." The liner notes say"…a soundtrack for 21st century Polynesia where native art, history, and music are pulled together by the powerful force of Maui."
Maui was a god who lassoed the sun and said he would let it go if it promised to circle the islands more often so as to make them bountiful. The sun obliged. Maui also dove into the sea to battle the shark dieties who controlled the oceans and after a fearsome battle emerged victorious and in command of the seas, wearing a shark tooth on a necklace, which has become a good luck talisman, especially while at sea.
I also picked up Jake Shimabukuro’s dazzling non-traditional ukelele-based ‘Dragon.’ It’s quite amazing.
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