Does your tribe trust the killer-in-chief? From Gawker…go there, watch the video, and, if you please, come back. Ask the DNC: Is Romney Ready for the Kill List? John Cook As you may have heard last night, Osama bin Laden is dead, has perished from the earth, is at the bottom of the sea, and [...]
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Drone Killing Is Humanitarian Don’t Ya Know
This is the most vile thing I’ve seen attempting to legitimize drone strikes and to justify the vast expansion of “drones use”–”they’re here to stay”–by Obama. Every other sentence attempts to justify the ambiguity of the sentence prior to it. “In a time of war, civilian casualties are inevitable…relative minimization of civilian casualties.” “Let’s first [...]
Normalizing Your Terrors
I’ve posted several times (see links below) about the use of drones and how we are are almost entirely normalized to them; how our “officials” and “public servants” are already normalized to their use for things like fighting forest fires (thumbs up!) and policing crowds (thumbs down!). In other words, the drones are in the [...]
Send Lee Hamilton To Jail!
Or, Let the People’s Representative of the Cage Represent Them From the Cage. Here is a fact: Lee Hamilton of Bloomington, Indiana, former member of Congress for 34 years, former head of the Woodrow Wilson Center, former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, currently Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University, has [...]
VP Biden’s Brother Frank Shovels for Mavericks in Education
When Lisa Rab outed Joe Biden’s brother, Frank, as a major force behind a for-profit education management organization (EMO) dead set on building 100 new charter schools across Florida,* it came as no surprise to anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the corporate school reform movement, the Obama/Biden/Duncan regime, or [...]
Fronting Intervention: Using Invisible Children to Sell War to Children
You know, don’t you, that you have to invite vampires into your home or they are not capable of entering, or better, they are forbidden to enter by some kind of law that governs the undead. (It’s important to have rules in the necromantic realms as it shows that there is order in all of [...]
Managed Democracy and Stalinism: Education Reform From Russia, With Love.
Okay, because schools, I’ve been told, suck, and because Americans, it’s been said, are stupid, and because citizens, it seems, are unaware of the history that has brought us to this point, I will offer a brief lesson. You can do it yourself if you just go to the Wikipedia right now (I’m told you [...]
