Are you in need of a serious depression?
Has your urge to kick some ass slacked?
Is your outrage temperature below boiling?
Just read some news:
Seymour Hersh narrated in Berkley last Friday. Here is the webcast (RealPlayer).
And as he told the story, another platoon from his company came and executed all the guards, as his people were screaming, stop. And he said they just shot them one by one. He went nuts, and his soldiers went nuts. And he’s hysterical. He’s totally hysterical. And he went to the captain. He was a lieutenant, he went to the company captain. And the company captain said, “No, you don’t understand. That’s a kill. We got thirty-six insurgents.”
Consigliere James Baker is travelling the world to reduce Iraqs debt, while his company, the Carlyle Group, works for Kuweit to maximize their share in debt collection from Iraq.
“Baker is on two sides of this transaction: he is supposed to be representing the interests of the US, but he is also a senior counsellor at Carlyle, and Carlyle wants to get paid to help Kuwait recover its debts from Iraq.”
Charles County May Change School Reading Lists. WaPo adds:
Board [of education] members would also invite Gideons International to provide Bibles to students, and cull school reading lists to ban books offering “a neutral or positive view of immorality or foul language.”
As it happens, one of the board members, Collins A. Bailey, is a member of Gideons International. A second, Mark Crawford, is host of a weekly religious radio show whose producer favors the abolition of public schools and opposes women holding elected offices that exert authority over men.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde