[From Voltaire ] The 2009 annual report put together by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reveals that Germany has made a major breakthrough on the world market of conventional weapons [see downloadable document below]. German arms exports more than doubled during the last five years, climbing into third place on the list of [...]
Archive For March, 2010
The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed
[From Truthdig] By Chris Hedges Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s decision to vote “yes” in Sunday’s House action on the health care bill, although he had sworn to oppose the legislation unless there was a public option, is a perfect example of why I would never be a politician. I respect Kucinich. As politicians go, he is [...]
Lt. Dan Choi Chains Himself To The White House Fence
[From WCBSTV] Lt. Dan Choi Chains Himself To The White House Fence To Protest ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Lt. Dan Choi, who purposely came out of the closet in protest of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, was arrested Thursday after chaining himself to the White House fence Thursday afternoon, CBS station WFOR-TV reports. Outside the White [...]
Vegetable Protein: Culprit of the Moment
From: The Atlantic. stevendepolo/flickr A day hasn’t gone by recently without my getting another recall notice. I didn’t pay much attention at first because I know our chefs make salad dressings rather than purchase them, and they prepare their own stocks for soup. (Many of the recall items have been soup bases, including several for [...]
Lesbian panic shuts down Mississippi high-school prom
Well it is starting again, the same as last year at this time. From BoingBoing Mississippi’s Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring her girlfriend as her date. The student planned to wear a tux. The school district’s bureaucratic non-excuse for the cancellation is [...]
Meatout
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How Buttsecks Works, by gay marriage opponent Rep. Nancy Elliott (R-NH)
[Via Boing Boing] Rep. Nancy Elliott (R-NH), in the video embedded above, explains why she opposes marriage between partners of the same sex. Snip: I started thinking, and We’re talking about taking the penis of one man and putting it in the rectum of another man, and wiggling it around in excrement, and you have [...]
Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer
By Matthew Rothschild, March 3, 2010, The Progressive When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer system. He said: “On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our [...]
Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama
[From Truthdig] By Chris Hedges, Mar 1, 2010 We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. Obama lies as cravenly, if [...]
This is What A Feminist Looks Like
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