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Dave Riley @ Nov 20th 2006 18:24 - Category: Immigrant rights ;
With apologies to the blog owner, here’s an alternative take on this Borat business from the Christian Science Monitor:
Archive for November 20th, 2006
Saddam trial ‘flawed and unsound’
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2006 13:05 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Iran;
So says Human Rights Watch citing “serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects.” But wait, wasn’t the invasion if Iraq supposed to be about bringing them democracy, not kangaroo courts?
“The execution of [the Saddam] verdict will trigger a cascade of violence in Iraq. It will transform the streets of Iraq into pools of blood and lead to an aggravation of sectarian and ethnic conflicts” — Egyptian President Moubarak
The sequel!
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2006 11:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Brooklyn Abu Ghraib
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2006 07:03 - Category: Torture ;
9/11 torture lawsuit heads to federal court
One disturbing incident, repeated over and over, is particularly haunting  inmates head-slammed into a wall where the staff had taped a T-shirt with an American flag printed on it. The motto on the shirt proclaimed: “These colors don’t run.” In time, that spot on the wall was covered with blood.
This happened in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11. Muslims were rounded up, held for months without charges, and repeatedly beaten and tortured. The lawsuit targets “top federal prison officials and individual guards”
One detainee has already received $300,00. The torturers shoved a flashlight up his rectum. He has returned to Egypt where presumably life will be safer for him and his civil rights more respected.
Those fighting antiwar Democrats
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2006 00:23 - Category: Anti-war ;
Senior Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel wants to bring back the draft.
Why? Because the U.S. needs more troops in more places to fight all the Hideous Menaces out there. This from a ranking Democrat. Guess he didn’t get the message from the electorate this past election, and he manages to sound more belligerent and clueless than most neocons, foaming about challenging North Korea and Iran.
Were this to happen, campuses nationwide would erupt in protest.
Someone needs to tell Rangel that since the U.S. is losing in Iraq, rational folks would say that attacking more countries is not the next indicated move. U.S. imperialism is losing, and losing badly, but they can’t admit it. That would be “losing face.” So they want sacrifice more lives not their own, or of anyone close to them, in their doomed attempt to fend off the inevitable defeat. Someone else may literally lose their face (or life) so they can figuratively save their own. Sickening, aren’t they?
Villagers to sue ‘Borat’
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
They claim they were lied to, manipulated, humilated - and did not sign release forms.
Hey, stupid asshole insults people, then they are insulting him back by suing. Is funny, yes?
Butch it up, sister
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2006 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Andrew Sullivan on jokes and gossip in Italy aimed at the Pope and aides, mostly around an ‘are they closeted’ theme.
When you’re a Pope who declares that even closeted, chaste gay men cannot be priests, it’s pushing your luck to clothe yourself in Prada, bedeck your Pope-mobile with luxurious Natuzzi Italian white leather, and surround yourself with assistants who look like they strayed from the pages of “L’Uomo Vogue.”
Butch it up, sister. Or the jokes will only get louder.
Sullivan is a conservative gay Christian who is trying to redeem the meaning of genuine conservatism by taking it back from the neocons and theocrats who have despoiled and warped it. He’s also one of the best writers in blogdom.
