Islamic honor killing takes the life of 20-year-old Michigan woman
A Twin Cities man is accused of killing his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam, police said Tuesday. Rahim Alfetlawi, 45, of Coon Rapids, was being...
View ArticleTerrorism = Wrong in so many ways.
It's not nice to induce terror in little children, or anyone else, for that matter. It's not nice to manipulate people's emotions, though that's what we pay Hollywood to do all the time, in movie...
View ArticleWhat are you reading? May 4, 2011
For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm reading, and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes, on Sundays, I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic. If...
View ArticleMark Halperin Is ONCE AGAIN a Typical Villager Asshat
This is not going to be a long diary. I just need to put my two cents in here and express my disgust with the gutless lemmings of the D.C. Media Village, who need to follow the same formula when it...
View ArticleNo Mercy Shown, No Mercy Given
It didn’t take long before the verbal snipers came out to play in the wake of Bin Laden’s death. It wasn’t enough that most of the Republicans, with few exceptions, were crediting the abysmal George W...
View ArticleWorld War Forever
World War Forever Angeliad of Surazeus 2011 05 03 Warning: The following ballad is a satire intended to elicit laughter and delight from discerning minds who appreciate the subtle ironies in the...
View ArticleReactions to shooting unarmed bin Laden...
http://www.reuters.com/... Some are stating the US is promoting "jungle justice" and acting as "judge, jury and executioner", and that the entire operation violates international law...and that bin...
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DK Elections Daily Digest: 5/4
Senate: • ND-Sen, ND-AL: Interesting: PSC Commissioner Brian Kalk says he won't drop down to run for the House seat of likely Senate candidate Rep. Rick Berg. That means he'd face Berg in the GOP...
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Jon Stewart questions Pakistan's role
Jon Stewart quickly turned last night from celebrating Osama bin Laden's death, to asking some hard questions about how much the Pakistani government knew of the whereabouts of bin Laden. You want us...
View ArticleNJ Governor Christie, "I ain't payin' it..."
New Jersey's republican Governor Chris Christie ended state funding for a partially completedrail tunnel connecting NJ and NY in order to "save money", and ending thousands of jobs ...now the federal...
View ArticleFour dead in Ohio
41 years ago today, on my 22nd birthday, member of the Ohio National guard opened fire on student at Kent State. Another date that will live in infamy. Look for lao hong han to do a more in depth...
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lovely legs
Hello lovely people! How are you today? We are having a bit of a cold spell here in northern Illinois. Temps at night have been in the 30s, daytime temps in the upper 50s. Last night we had a frost...
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No peak oil quite yet... but it still hurts
World oil production. Source: Graphoilogy using US EIA data Near record oil prices (at $110-115/bl, WTI is at its highest ever except for a few weeks in July 2008) suggest that markets continue to be...
View ArticleBlackwater In-Law DeVos outlines "stealth" plot against Public Education
"The DeVos family crusade to eradicate public education... [is] being marketed as a solution to save public schools, but the big donors are tied to right-wing think tanks that openly advocate, and...
View ArticleVideo : President Obama Polls Up , Bush declines Obama's Invitation to Ground...
Former U.S. officials revealed that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the...
View ArticleThe Bullhorn Man is Afraid of New Yorkers [updated]
UPDATE From memory lane: Bush closed the CIA unit on Osama bin Laden in 2005. Published: July 4, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the...
View ArticleThe Floods of 2011: The Battle for Memphis Begins
Blasting the Bird's Point levees on the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois was necessary to save the town of Cairo and large areas of Memphis, Tennessee downstream. Record high water levels at the...
View ArticleFL GOP Attempt to Dismantle Judiciary FAILS
This is Part XXV of MY STUPID STATE where I document what happens when a state full of Democrats elect a veto-proof, right-wing legislature along with a teabag, CRIMINAL governor to lead us. (Once...
View ArticleCreating a Market for the Taste of Home
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute'sNourishing the Planet. In this week’s episode, research fellow Molly Theobald, discusses how one farmer from Togo, Yao Afantchao, is bringing the vegetables...
View ArticleTorture Does Not Work
The usually clear headed Glenn Greenwald misses the boat in his argument on the question of whether torture "works:" It is sometimes the case that if you torture someone long and mercilessly enough,...
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