Dear Mr. President: now that you’ve given us the Levin-McCain jackboot for Christmas how about a card to go with it? It could say something like: “laws are like cobwebs, detaining only the weak, but never the strong.”
On this Xmas without civil liberties I’m going to do what the peasants always do and go feed the horse.
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Mr. President, you have decided to support the Levin-McCain act, changing your initial disinclination to sign it. In so doing you have given away the human rights and civil liberties for which this country stands. I have no more use for you. Who am I? I'm just a visually impaired academic who believes in posse comitatis but hell, I studied poetry in grad school, not constitutional law. Did you sleep through the class on due process? Well here's a quote from one of the classes I took:
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever." (George Orwell)
Here's another Mr. President:
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
How's Hawaii sir? Are there enough sycophants around?
New York City’s fleet of taxi cabs violates part of the Americans With Disabilities Act by not sufficiently providing for customers who use wheelchairs, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
The Bloomberg administration must now present an extensive report to the judge that describes a plan for expanding the availability of wheelchair-accessible taxis, which make up less than 2 percent of the city’s fleet of 13,000 yellow cabs.
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Boycott “normal”:
Occupy Normal! MindFreedom International calls on you to join our campaign to “Boycott Normal.” This is a peaceful public education effort, in response to the DSM-V. We aim to help humanity get beyond behavior that is mistakenly called “normal,” a disorder that is even causing a climate crisis. MFI calls on you to be creative, embrace diversity, and boycott normal!
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Stephen Kuusisto
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Syracuse University
As in “who stole it”?–the conventional wisdom’s question, with the predictable answer, “the Frosh Tea Partiers”. Yet few in broadcast or print journalism have bothered to ask precisely what kind of cheese Boehner is reputed to have possessed in the first place. It helps to know what’s supposedly missing. The man’s former fromage is a slogan, one that the people of Cincinnati have heard for years: “I’ve always believed, the bigger government, the smaller the people.” We know that Boehner’s cheese has been laced with tea for over twenty years.
In the Buckeye state Boehner’s cheese is regional. The speaker couldn’t get elected if he lived in Columbus (Ohio’s largest city, look it up) or Cleveland (the state’s poorest city). Boehner’s electorate is an evangelical, neo-Babbitt crowd that looks up the road at prosperous, liberal Columbus with it’s big Commie state U and gets so enraged they don’t notice Boehner is calling them Lilliputians. That’s the dramatic irony of the tea party and it’s the tragic irony of John Boehner, for he’s utterly lazy, he’s read even fewer books than George W. Bush, and over time he allowed himself to believe his locally expeditious campaign slogan.
Boehner couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Columbus. But there he was, two years ago, in ascendancy like Caesar Augustus (who, by the way, also read more books than Boehner) and La! the Frosh was eager to eat Boehner’s cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Washington is a scotch and sirloin kind of town, a matter that the speaker knows all too well.
Boehner was always a small fry regionalist pettifogging hypocrite and suddenly he had to share his entirely ersatz cheddar with rabid people who thought he was the real Wizard of Fromage.
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The real Ron Paul:
Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY’s iPhone application.
Paul’s story changes on racial comments
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“Where,” Sherlock Holmes is fond of asking Dr Watson, when inviting him along on a case, “would I be without my Boswell?” It’s a question Anthony Horowitz doesn’t answer, or even ask, in his new Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk. (Illustration by Sidney Paget from The Blue Carbuncle.)
Lance Mannion's review of the Anthony Horowitz version of Sherlock Holmes is first rate. Even if you're not a Baker Street urchin it's worth a read…
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