Zainab al-Khawaja, a human rights activist in Bahrain, writes a letter from prison about why she is on a hunger strike and how Martin Luther King Jr. guides her acts of civil disobedience.
Guest blogger Seema Jilani writes about a Pakistani girl who, after being shot alongside Malala Yousafzai last year, is struggling under threats from the Taliban.
Guest blogger Shalini Kantayya writes about her own experience of sexual assault in India, and the unacceptable response she received from American and Indian institutions.
I have my winner for my annual win-a-trip contest: a journalism student at University of Wisconsin at Madison who blogs and produces videos -- and has spent a couple of years in the Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan.
Guest blogger Lisa Shannon argues that Secretary Clinton must speak up about the recent mistreatment of rape victims when she meets with Somalia's new president on Thursday.
This cracks me up: Glenn Blech has created a cult following of Helter Skelter Republicans who’ll do anything to pay homage to the Mormon wack-job. (Hint: Minnesota’s 6th Michele Bachmann (R) has proudly called for a mass suicide in order to avoid federally funded health care.)
Glenn Blech’s hometown Mt. Vernon, WA has a mayor who’s a member of that Helter Skelter group who’s drumming up a celebration to give Glenn Bleck the “Keys to the City”. A non-award of stupid homage towards a stupid person.
Glenn Beck will receive the key to his hometown of Mount Vernon, Wash. in a ceremony this Saturday.
Meanwhile, Mt. Vernon City Council voted unanimously to “change the keys to the city“, leaving the Mayor to give Glenn Blech nothing but a placebo and a chance to jack the Wack-Job off.
On Wednesday night, the City Council of this town of 32,000 distanced itself from Mayor Bud Norris, who plans to give the keys to the city to talk-show personality Glenn Blech on Saturday.
The seven-member council unanimously passed a resolution proposed by member Dale Ragan that stated,“Mount Vernon City Council is in no way sponsoring the Mayor’s event on September 26, 2009 and is not connected to the Glenn Beck event in any manner.”
Oh thank God, they cleared that up! The mayor is a wack-job and the city-council has Pawlenty-sized Veto-Pen and they’re ready and waiting!
I’m setting up my Kool Aid stand right over here and I’m going to laugh my ass off.
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This is the result of the Republican Party. They’re the moon rocks of the insane. At the 2:40 mark, you’ll observe the horrifying speaker talking about bio-medical bracelets being unloaded in Milwaukee, WI that will become permanent jewelry. (Because piercing your tongue, your nose, your sex organs and your eyebrows were simply disposable fads from your youth!)
Selling fear is a specialty of the religiously insane. Selling “dumb” is their preferred cuisine.
Oooh! Can I have two bags of Dumb, please?!!
My thanks to Patriot Boy, the Jesus General (Oh thank God he’s a Hetero!)
Dunlap explains to Jackie that on the issues between the Republicans and the Democrats, even the Kennedy’s and the Bush’s – they’re all just selling a brand-name. They’re all just a bunch of bastards in the same club! Watch for the end when they each grab a bottle of Jack Daniels and suck on it like a kid hangig off a nanny-goat.
My thanks to Monkeyfister for keeping a sharp-eyed lookout!
Assuming the account was hacked by a 13-year old techno-geek, Fox News’ Twitter account got fried with a butt-load of hilarity earlier today.
Of course, by the time you comb down to the bottom of the list, the language becomess obvious: The kid was obviously Ferris Bueller because his parents bought him a computer instead of a convertible…which is what they bought for his older-sister. Also obvious; Bill O’Reilly will have to aim his sites on all of those “Not So Fair-And-Balanced” computer hackers out there who are willing to damage their reputation for…Umm… Something or other.
In addition to those seen in the thumbnail, Media ITE (story source) included this juicy Tweet that bears mentioning:
“We want to make out with Barack Obama. That’s how much we love him.”
I haven’t laughed that hard since I fried a Novell file server in ’95 by renaming “syscon.exe” to “jerkwad.com”. (Hint: Geek Humor Alert!)
Fox News is claiming that the account didn’t belong to them (so no harm was done). Meanwhile, they went out on a limb to clarify that they had a conversation with the Twitter-Dudes about the incident and that they had the account deleted (because it didn’t belong to them anyway). It’s the power of “Fox News”: They have that kind of juice with Twitter!
Don’t believe me? Check it out…”jerkwad“! h/t to mparent! Good Eye, Dude!
We have to vote yes on health care for Ted! For Ted! For Ted! Once again the Democrats will attempt to use their dead for political power. What a shame.
JIM WEIDT, Holyoke, Minn.
Awww, Now isn’t that a slice of American apple-pie laced with GOP hypocrisy?
…Because it isn’t like the GOP has been carrying around that moth-ridden corpse of Ronald Reagan’s for the past five years. Even before that Old Goat finished eating his last tin-can, the GOP was screaming to get his mug on Mount Rushmore for God’s sakes!
Check this out, and watch to see Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) yank his WWJD bracelet off his wrist…
So, you heard the Senator, didn’t you?! He promises that his office (The United States Government) will happily help this poor wretch of a woman, but he chastizes the audience and explains that the entire community should chip in and help her. Quite clearly, he admonishes the woman and the audience that nobody should regard the government as an agent for help…for anything. (Hint: I’ll assume that includes war, invasions and getting mugged; “The government should never be considered as a help-agent!”)
His advice directed at the rest of the audience is disengenuous by saying that the entire community should help her.
That’s a tragic-logic: “Pay your taxes so that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) can continue to receive federally subsidized health care, but the rest of you should pony-up some extra-cash to help out those of us who are the most unfortunate.”
It’s becoming high-time the modern-day Marie Antoinette face the guillotine and we’ll happily enjoy our cake.
By the way! Before you run-off: Senator Coburn went on Fox Snot the next day with Greta Van Sustren and he explained that he and his staff was indeed – working with the woman and finding resources to offer her some help. Sarcastically speaking: “It’s obvious – if you’re extra-super pathetic…Well, then of course a Republican will stoop down and help you out. But the rest of you?!?!? Get back to work!”
Senator Tom Coburn’s follow-up:
Well, sure, we can help her. But remember, the first obligation is for her neighbors and us to help her here in Oklahoma. And we need reforms and we’re going to get reforms, but the answer is not having the government in control of those reforms.
And so she immediately — I invited her up to my office, and my case worker started working with her, and we’ll help her and her husband. But the fact is, is one of the things that makes our country great is that we, as individuals, should be helping everybody around us, rather than transferring that to the responsibility of the government. And the government’s never compassionate.
Well played Senator! Making your office a welfare state is exactly what the GOP needs!
If your clue-phone is ringing… Please don’t answer it.
I’m anti-Governmant regulating my marriage, too Representative Bachmann! You’re finally getting it! Get your government-moralit out of our bedrooms!! What’s it gonna-tae?!
On the same day that the Justice Department softened its position in a gay-marriage lawsuit, word is emerging that the department has hired a liaison to the gay community.
Matt Nosanchuk, a former adviser to Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), will join the department as a senior counselor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, according to an e-mail University of Pennsylvania Professor Tobias Wolff sent to associates Monday night. Wolff was a top LGBT adviser on the Obama campaign. In the e-mail, obtained by POLITICO, Wolff said Nosanchuk “will be the front office point person on LGBT issues for the DOJ Civil Rights Division” among other duties.
A Justice Department spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the reported hire.
Yellow-highlights are mine – because the attempt is pathetically obvious. That “controversial brief” filed by Obama’s DOJ compared gay-relationships to incest with uncles sleeping with nephews and other disgusting perversions.
I’m still offended. Mr. Nosanchuk’s service to Mr. Obama is a patronizing puppet show. Typical for a Democrat to whip out a dummy in order to perform a thesis for a Ph.D. in Vantriloquism.
Blurring the lines between racism and sexual orientation is a chemistry set. Obama is simply clueless on what to do with his bunson burners.
Bite me, Barack! You hate us – we get it. We were dumb.
Julian Bond of the NAACP supports the GLBT community better than setting up a skinny-white guy to represent us. Thanks for the patsy, Dude-in-Chief. I’m totally convinced that Mr. Nosanchuk will play any role in your adminstration beyond yuk-yuk-jokes, Uranus-laffs and Faggot-gaffs.
If gay people were in charge of FEMA; all of those people in New Orleans would not only have bottled water, but they'd also have sun-screen and ponchos in three different colors!
-The Agenda with Joe Solmonese on XM Radio