Bob Morris @ Jun 27th 2007 23:24 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Palestine;
Tony Blair, no longer PM of Great Britian, is now a special Middle East envoy backed by the US, EU, UN, and Russia charged with a mission to “stabilize” Palestine. I’m guessing his idea of stabilization means Palestinians will be allowed to lie on the ground in a prone, quite stable position as Israelis point guns at their heads.
BlairWatch and Lenin’s Tomb have more.
Bob Morris @ Jun 27th 2007 17:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gas stations have been burned down in Iran by mobs, all supposedly due to gas rationing and increased prices.
While the price of fuel may be the reason, it certainly seems like there’s more to the story than that. Like, Iran has a gas shortage? Maybe conditions there are so tense that the riot was just looking for a reason to happen? Especially considering that the government has been vicious towards dissenters of late. Andrew Sullivan, a conservative who supports regime change both here and in Iran, has more on both.
Bob Morris @ Jun 27th 2007 10:00 - Category: Unfiled ;
They’ll be seeing off the poodle today.
(As I don’t drink, I can not toast with a beer mug, but do raise my coffee cup in solidarity.)
Bob Morris @ Jun 27th 2007 08:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Polizeros is Featured Blog of the Week at LeftClickBlog.
Bob Morris @ Jun 27th 2007 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
The “Great Writ†of habeas corpus is a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment. Translated from Latin it means “show me the body.†It has historically been an important instrument to safeguard individual freedom against arbitrary executive power.
The neocons, aided and abetted by Democrats, have vanished Habeus Corpus, and he’s been MIA for some time now. Maybe it was another of those “extraordinary rendition” kidnappings followed by torture?
Drinking Liberally in New Milford has some leads on where he might be.
Bob Morris @ Jun 27th 2007 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
From a NYMag review of Michael Moore’s apparent new mega-blockbuster, Sicko.
Kaiser Permanente emerges as the supervillain, if only because of an astounding 1971 Oval Office recording. On the tape, John Ehrlichman convinces a dubious (or drunk) Richard Nixon to go along with Edgar Kaiser’s scheme to create a for-profit managed-care system on the grounds that hospitals would have incentives to give less care.
I’ve read multiple reviews of Sicko by people who say they can’t stand Michael Moore but the movie is brilliant, moving, and made them cry. We could be looking at a political earthquake caused by Sicko. Expect vicious retaliation by the Kaisers, insurance companies, and other assorted greedheads and slime, so let’s stand by Moore and defend him from the sickos.
Socialized medicine is coming to the US. Doctors, I’m told, in a major US hospital who were utterly opposed to socialized medicine just a few years ago now see it as inevitable.
Sicko may be the precipitating event that makes it happen.
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