Yesterday I had a bad air day, with my COPD making it difficult to breathe, and my still-ailing rear end making it impossible to sleep with the severe coughing. Therefore, this is today’s only article, posted early and set to release just after midnight, so I can return to bed. I am not current with replies and will catch up when I can. Tomorrow is a paperwork day, but we’ll see what the day brings.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
It’s not out yet. I’ll post two tomorrow.
Short Takes:
From USA Today: President Obama is hosting a White House dinner tonight for the nation’s governors, but one prominent state executive won’t be there.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.
Brewer, whose finger-pointing confrontation with Obama last month has become a symbol for political polarization, told NBC’s Meet The Press that she has prior engagements.
Bull! Such discourteous behavior is not at all surprising from the Death Angel of Brewerstan, formerly Arizona.
From Common Dreams: The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute and a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against the responsible individuals.
Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can sue multinational companies in American courts.
The just outcome is a no brainer here. However I have no confidence in SCOTUS to arrive at it.
From TPM: Rick Santorum’s contention here Saturday that President Obama’s plan to make college more accesible is really a scheme to brainwash people into becoming liberals may have struck some outside observers as a little odd.
But for the tea party crowd gathered here as part of an Americans For Prosperity rally, Santorum’s words about higher education were right on point.
“President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college,” Santorum said. “What a snob!”
Educating people teaches them to think critically for themselves, making them less vulnerable to brainwashing. To brainwash them, keep people ignorant, the way Santorum and the Republican Party prefer. Santorum’s contention is pure projection.
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Rest well, TomCat! Man, is that Jan Brewer ever a petty little bitch! I guess ANY no-mind can be the governor of Arizona. Sure am glad I don’t live there, and now it’s a certainty I will never visit or trade there either!
Take it easy, TC. Rest up ’cause it’s going to be a bumpy ride until November.
Interesting on the torture case. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit just aired a show about a woman gang-raped in Iraq by the employees of a multi-national defense contractor (read Blackwater), held prisoner without medical care, then everybody from the participants on up get arrested. Ah, that’d be so sweet.
Thanks everyone.