The Rapidly Growing Polarization Of The US Is The Smoke Screen For The 2010 Elections

The Rapidly Growing Polarization Of The US Is The Smoke Screen For The 2010 Elections

Anger, Hatred and Bigotry Need No Facts For The Justification Of Actions And Words.

Tea Party Favorite Falls In Alabama GOP Race
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And we don`t seem to want to use the tools that are there -- impeachment is one of them -- to hold them accountable. MATTHEWS: Well, they have committed ... See all stories on this topic

Arizona's New Immigration Law Is Unconstitutional -- But This Right-Wing ...
AlterNet
Arizona's controversial SB 1070 attempts to make immigration policy that differs from federal law. Precedent suggests it will be shot down. ...See all stories on this topic »

Right-Wing Extremist Sharron Angle Thinks She's Future Of GOP ...
By jedlewison
Right-Wing Extremist Sharron Angle Thinks She's Future of GOP — Let's Hope So. Posted by jedlewison on @ 2:30 pm. Article printed from speakeasy: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy ...
SpeakEasy - http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/

VIOLENT, RIGHT WING RHETORIC REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN | LIBERAL ...
By editor
One of these videos shows the violent rhetoric so feared and reviled by the Obama administration. The other just shows some people expressing their views.
Liberal Media Bias Exposed by... - http://www.ihatethemedia.com/

Palling Around With Conspiracy Theorists | Right Wing Watch
By Rachel
First he employs a convicted domestic abuser, with nary a comment from right wing moralists; now he's lending the weight of his office to a completely unhinged conspiracy theory. At a town hall event with his Louisiana constituents, ...Right Wing Watch - http://www.rightwingwatch.org/

The Tea Party And The New Right-Wing Christian Feminism | The LA ...
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Ruth Rosen: Why are American women so active in the rightwing Tea Party? Are they drawn to the new conservative Christian feminism publicized by Sarah Palin?
The LA Progressive - http://www.laprogressive.com/

Right Wing Rallies Around Tea Party After Naacp Condemns Movement For ...
TPMDC (blog)
The reaction from the right is as you'd imagine it. Scattered incidents of bigotry at tea party rallies have been well documented over the last year, ...See all stories on this topic »

Latest Right Wing Attack: Obama Only Cares About Black Victims Of Terrorism
Washington Post (blog)
And Right Wing News proclaimed: "Obama Finally Finds A Reason To Hate Al Qaeda." But come on. The full transcript shows that Obama said this in the context ...See all stories on this topic »

Tea Party Movement Fights Perception Of Welcoming Right-Wing Fringe
NewsHour
The North Iowa Tea Party recently purchased a billboard in downtown Mason City, Iowa, that tied together the images of President Obama, Nazi leader Adolf ... See all stories on this topic »

Sharron Angle Plays Matchmaker For Tea Party, Religious Right ...
By Rachel
As we've noted before, religious right leaders are desperate to jump aboard the Tea Party bandwagon. Now Tea Party backed candidate Sharron Angle is returning the favor, networking with Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed and ... Right Wing Watch - http://www.rightwingwatch.org/

How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging 'Spiritual Warfare ...
By Rafik
”Since the run up to the Iraq War, [Massoud] Barzani and the KRG played to the Bush administration and its right-wing evangelical Christian base,” said Mike Amitay, a Middle East senior policy analyst at the Open Society Policy Center. ... The Islamic Workplace - http://makkah.wordpress.com/

No One Can Be Too Right Wing For - The Washington Monthly
By Steve Benen
NO ONE CAN BE TOO RIGHT WING FOR CABLE NEWS.... Long-time readers may recall that I was the editor of Salon's now defunct "Blog Report" a few years ago, and highlighted posts from all kinds of blogs from across the political spectrum. ... Political Animal - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

 

Whiting To Join International Criminal Court

Whiting To Join International Criminal Court

July 13, 2010

Alex Whiting, an assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School, will join the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the investigation coordinator this December. Serving as the deputy to the chief of investigations, he will be responsible for managing and providing legal guidance and direction to all of the ICC’s investigations in this new post.

Said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow: “This is a superb appointment for the ICC, as well as an unparalleled opportunity for Alex Whiting, whose impressive track record in international and domestic prosecutions and investigations is matched only by his excellent judgment and tenacity.  As his co-teacher in the course in the International Criminal Court's prosecution efforts, I have had the privilege of working closely with Alex. We look forward to learning about his experiences and we are glad he can bring his talents to this challenging and important effort.”

Whiting will take on existing ICC investigations in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Kenya, among other countries.

“I am enormously excited and honored to have this opportunity to work at the ICC,” said Whiting. “The court faces staggering challenges in its mission to investigate and prosecute atrocities occurring around the world. I look forward to contributing to the work of this important institution as it seeks to bring perpetrators to justice.”

Since joining the HLS faculty in 2007, Whiting has led the Law School’s clinical offerings on domestic and international prosecution, teaching Government Lawyer and the War Crimes Prosecution Workshop.

Prior to coming to HLS, Whiting was a senior trial attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In 2007, he successfully prosecuted a case against Serbian rebel leader Milan Martic, who was sentenced to 35 years in jail by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague for atrocities carried out in Croatia in the early 1990s.

Whiting also served domestically as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts and as a trial attorney in the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. He holds a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale.

http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC?lan=en-GB

 

The News: Often More Like A Spider Web Than A Tree; More Often Convoluted Beyond Comprehension.

The News: Often More Like A Spider Web Than A Tree; More Often Convoluted Beyond Comprehension.

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BILL KRISTOL MUST RESIGN
July 7, 2010

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama's war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn't likely to turn out well. 

It has been idiotically claimed that Steele's statement about Afghanistan being Obama's war is "inaccurate" -- as if Steele is unaware Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. (No one can forget that -- even liberals pretended to support that war for three whole weeks.) 


Yes, Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. Within the first few months we had toppled the Taliban, killed or captured hundreds of al-Qaida fighters and arranged for democratic elections, resulting in an American-friendly government.
 
Then Bush declared success and turned his attention to Iraq, leaving minimal troops behind in Afghanistan to prevent Osama bin Laden from regrouping, swat down al-Qaida fighters and gather intelligence. 


Having some vague concept of America's national interest -- unlike liberals -- the Bush administration could see that a country of illiterate peasants living in caves ruled by "warlords" was not a primo target for "nation-building." 


By contrast, Iraq had a young, educated, pro-Western populace that was ideal for regime change. 

If Saddam Hussein had been a peach, it would still be a major victory in the war on terrorism to have a Muslim Israel in that part of the globe, and it sure wasn't going to be Afghanistan (literacy rate, 19 percent; life expectancy, 44 years; working toilets, 7). 


But Iraq also was a state sponsor of terrorism; was attempting to build nuclear weapons (according to endless bipartisan investigations in this country and in Britain -- thanks, liberals!); nurtured and gave refuge to Islamic terrorists -- including the 1993 World Trade Center bombers; was led by a mass murderer who had used weapons of mass destruction; paid bonuses to the families of suicide bombers; had vast oil reserves; and is situated at the heart of a critical region. 


Having absolutely no interest in America's national security, the entire Democratic Party (save Joe Lieberman) wailed about the war in Iraq for five years, pretending they really wanted to go great-guns in Afghanistan. What the heck: They had already voted for the war in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 when they would have been hanged as traitors had they objected. 


The obsession with Afghanistan was pure rhetoric. Democrats have no interest in fighting any war that would serve America's interests. (They're too jammed with their wars against Evangelicals, Wal-Mart, the Pledge of Allegiance, SUVs and the middle class.) Absent Iraq, they'd have been bad-mouthing Afghanistan, too. 


So for the entire course of the magnificently successful war in Iraq, all we heard from these useless Democrats was that Iraq was a "war of choice," while Afghanistan -- the good war! -- was a "war of necessity." "Bush took his eye off the ball in Afghanistan!" "He got distracted by war in Iraq!" "WHERE'S OSAMA?" and -- my favorite -- "Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11!" 


Of course, neither did Afghanistan. But Democrats were in a lather and couldn't be bothered with the facts. 


The above complaints about Iraq come -- nearly verbatim -- from speeches and press conferences by Obama, Joe Biden, and Obama's national security advisers Susan Rice and Richard Clarke. Also, the entire gutless Democratic Party. Some liberals began including them in their wedding vows. 


(By the way, Democrats: WHERE'S OSAMA?) 


Obama hasn't ramped up the war in Afghanistan based on a careful calculation of America's strategic objectives. He did it because he was trapped by his own rhetorical game of bashing the Iraq war while pretending to be a hawk on Afghanistan. 


At this point, Afghanistan is every bit as much Obama's war as Vietnam was Lyndon Johnson's war. True, President Kennedy was the first to send troops to Vietnam. We had 16,000 troops in Vietnam when JFK was assassinated. Within four years, LBJ had sent 400,000 troops there. 

In the entire seven-year course of the Afghanistan war under Bush, from October 2001 to January 2009, 625 American soldiers were killed. In 18 short months, Obama has nearly doubled that number to 1,124 Americans killed. 


Republicans used to think seriously about deploying the military. President Eisenhower sent aid to South Vietnam, but said he could not "conceive of a greater tragedy" for America than getting heavily involved there. 


As Michael Steele correctly noted, every great power that's tried to stage an all-out war in Afghanistan has gotten its ass handed to it. Everyone knows it's not worth the trouble and resources to take a nation of rocks and brigands. 

Based on Obama's rules of engagement for our troops in Afghanistan, we're apparently not even fighting a war. The greatest fighting force in the world is building vocational schools and distributing cheese crackers to children. 


There's even talk of giving soldiers medals for NOT shooting people, which I gather will be awarded posthumously. Naomi Campbell is rougher with her assistants than our troops are allowed to be with Taliban fighters. 


But now I hear it is the official policy of the Republican Party to be for all wars, irrespective of our national interest. 

What if Obama decides to invade England because he's still ticked off about that Churchill bust? Can Michael Steele and I object to that? Or would that demoralize the troops? 


Our troops are the most magnificent in the world, but they're not the ones setting military policy. The president is -- and he's basing his war strategy on the chants of Moveon.org cretins. 

Nonetheless, Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney have demanded that Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's war -- and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't liberals warn us that neoconservatives want permanent war?) 


I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government and a strong national defense, but I guess permanent war is on the platter now, too. 


Of course, if Kristol is writing the rules for being a Republican, we're all going to have to get on board for amnesty and a "National Greatness Project," too – other Kristol ideas for the Republican Party. Also, John McCain. Kristol was an early backer of McCain for president -- and look how great that turned out! 


Inasmuch as demanding resignations is another new Republican position, here's mine: Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney must resign immediately. 

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If You Like Fireworks And You Enjoy Photography Take A Look Here

If You Like Fireworks And You Enjoy Photography  Take A Look Here

July 4, 2010 National Harbor Fireworks Display Taken Atop Hunting Point 1202 Building
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All photographs were taken with the (FX) format Nikon D700 Camera set at: (Manual Bulb Exposure at ISO 200. The Lens utilized was a Tokina ATX 100-300mm Zoom lens set at F/22. The exposures were trigger manually using a Nikon MC-30 release.   Original 300 DPI TIFF   files have been converted to 72 DPI JPEG for posting. 

The tripod chosen was The Bogen/Manfrotto Model: 3221S equipped with spike feet to penetrate the rock covering of the rooftop. A Kirk Enterprises Ball Head equipped with a Bogen Hex Plate Quick Release Unit completed the unit.

Short story board: As the sun set a series of three National Harbor Photos sets the scene and three very long range shots of the Washington DC display were taken for simply fun as the lens does have the reach needed from my vantage point.

Gallery NO.61

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Gallery NO.60

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Could It Really Be True That Our News Is Manipulated And Edited? Are Real Answers Being Avoided? If So Why?

Could It Really Be True That Our News Is Manipulated And Edited? Are Real Answers Being Avoided? If So Why?

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Could It Really Be True That Our News Is Manipulated And Edited?

We Know “ Fox( FUX) News” Is  Right Wing Nut Fruit Cake Propaganda For The Intellectually Challenged Puppets Of Right Wing Demagogues..But…

One of the knocks you hear against solar energy is that the sun doesn't always shine. While true, that seemingly inconvenient fact didn't stop the Swiss team behind the Solar Impulse HB-SIA from attempting to fly their super-size, super-light aircraft for over 24 hours powered by only by photonic goodness. In achieving their goal, not only did they set the record for longest solar flight at 26 hours and nine minutes, they also broke the record for altitude – 8,564 meters (28,097 feet) above sea level.

Perhaps just as amazing, they managed to land with more energy in their lithium battery pack than they started with. Piloted by Andre Borschberg, the 3,500 lb. carbon fiber flying machine hit speeds of 68 knots (78.25 miles per hour), though its average speed was 23 knots (26.47 mph). It employed four motors and gathered the energy to run them from 20 percent efficient mono-crystalline solar cells along its 193-foot wings.

Just like electric cars, the team says the element limiting electric aircraft performance is the energy density limitations of modern batteries. That technical hindrance isn't stopping them from starting their next project – a plane to make a trans-Atlantic flight before attempting a circumnavigation of the planet in 2012. jump for video of the Solar Impulse in flight and on the ground with its very excited team.

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http://www.teslamotors.com/

Tesla Vehicles Offer Performance, Handling, And Comfort With No Tailpipe Emissions. Assuming Half Of All US Electricity Comes From Coal, Tesla Vehicles Cut In Half The CO2 Emissions Of Its Petroleum-Burning Rivals.

http://www.teslamotors.com/models

Powering the grid through increasingly efficient methods decreases the overall emissions of energy generation. Many Tesla owners take reducing their carbon footprint a step further - they install residential solar systems and charge completely off the grid. Their cars are truly emissions free.

Petroleum is a limited resource. The United States maintains about 2% of the world's petroleum reserves but consumes 25% of the supply. Nearly two-thirds of petroleum is used by the transportation sector and demand continues to rise. The supply will not last forever. Minimizing dependence on petroleum not only reduces emission, but also builds a stronger energy economy. The Tesla Roadster is the hottest, fastest way to declare independence.

CHARGING

Driving a Tesla becomes more about "topping-off" than refilling from empty. At the end of each day, Tesla owners simply plug in their cars. The charger is on board the car, which means no special permanently installed equipment is needed to plug in. Any outlet can be used to charge the car. After just a few hours, the car is ready for a day of driving with a full charge. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American commute is about 40 miles a day, and with a range of 245 miles (up to 300 for Model S), there is ample energy for many days of driving. But there's no reason to wait until the battery is completely empty before charging - with outlets everywhere, recharging doesn't mean going out of the way to the gas station.

Learn More About Charging

Now ladies and Gentlemen; you can’t tell me that the intelligence does not exist to develop: (1) better, super batteries, (2) more efficient electric generators, ie., solar cells, nano technology, electric producing paints, electric producing motion systems that can drive all manner of vehicles. The final step, partially realized in the electric airplane is an on board recharging (no plug-in) non-hybrid vehicle.

The Automobile whose tires hit the road with those specs will revolutionize world, and the company that produces it will have Wall Street types buying the stock like there is no tomorrow.

The only question is: “Will The United States be the nation that rules the automotive world again or will we find some hideous excuse to fail to do so. If we can take the gas guzzlers of the world off the road and stop fighting wars that make no sense; this nation would not have to import one drop of oil from abroad  and we would not have constantly find new parts of this land and our  oceans to rape for oil.

Think about it. Think about what an investment in this area of R&D could mean to this nation’s economy and job market place. Just think about it!