"Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginny Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day."
Thomas recently founded a right-wing activist group called Liberty Central, and there has been chatter about the impropriety of her activities with that organization given that the tea party-like group's funding sources are unclear and there may be conflicts of interests with cases that come before her husband.
I prefer to err on the side of caution, but who, as a layman, can judge how much caution is really adequate? On the one hand there's this:
On the other hand there's that:
I do take issue with this paragraph;
I'm going to see if I can find out if the businesses get to choose who does the testing; that'd be a pretty big conflict of interest right there. |
Has the U.S. supreme court stepped into the limelight as the new power in American "democracy"?
How can fascism be stopped? How can we get the right wing masses to unify with the progressives so we have the footsoldiers on the side of the people? Anyway... I will keep dreaming.
Here's an interesting article with the headline Bin Laden claims airline bomb attempt on Christmas; funny how they even bother to mention "There was no way to verify the voice on the audio message was actually bin Laden"
Open thread, welcome to it.
Just a few questions I have about this one. It'd be great to read WP's take on this...
Zazi and his father, Muhammad Zazi, were handcuffed without incident as authorities raided Zazi's home in the Denver suburb of Aurora, CNN's Jim Spellman reported from the scene. There is no word on what charges both men face.
Why not? Were they even charged?
Two more arrests are expected in New York City, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
One of the individuals interviewed several times by authorities is cooperating, the source said.
Did the "interviews" happen to consist of any "enhanced" interrogation?
Zazi's arrest comes after three days of questioning by the FBI. Zazi declined to attend a fourth day of interviews, his attorney's publicist said.
Could this be the reason he was hauled away in cuffs?
Zazi has admitted to having ties to al Qaeda, an administration official familiar with the matter told CNN on Friday.
Exactly what this means we are left to guess. Was he acquainted with an alleged Al Qaeda member? Could this be an outright lie? Does Al Qaeda even exist, other than as a construct of western media?
The alleged terrorist plot, which came to light this week after raids in New York, may have been targeting a major transportation center, like a large railroad or subway station, sources close to the investigation told CNN on Thursday.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
There were plans for an attack, presumably in the New York area, where crowds are large and security screening for nonairport travelers is lax, the sources said.
As we've seen so often in the recent past, might the plans have been proposed by an informant?
On Wednesday, federal agents searched Zazi's apartment in Denver and another home in a Denver suburb in connection with the investigation.
A law enforcement official told CNN that diagrams showing how to make bombs were found on the computer that Zazi had with him when he was stopped in New York during a recent visit, but his lawyer, Arthur Folsom, denied that was true.
who to believe...?
update 6/25: OK I've moved the whole site to a different server where it has a longer life expectancy. so if you are into such things, please post / comment / repeat / enjoy!
<--- I was informed today that this blog has only about a week to live, if that. Apparently the server space is needed for something newer, shinier, and more important. I doubt anyone will miss it, although I've been enjoying the convenience of the blogroll links. Ah well, such is life... --->
Trouble to the south... another copy / paste; but hey, i'm trying and it's a start! Boston.com
Billions of dollars? With the United States deep in debt and deficit, its citizens (and so-called elected representatives?) might question the wisdom of such "aid"
How does Frechette know Uribe got himself into the pickle; isn't he contradicting Correa's statement re: collaboration with foreign powers? Maybe the newspaper doesn't provide enough space to delve into such topics... |