Month: April 2007
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Call Your House Reps: Floor Vote on Cheney Impeachment Tomorrow (Wednesday)
(Update below) Put up or shut up. Do you have a whole 2 minutes of your day to express your dis-satisfaction? Hell, you can do this on your way to get your afternoon latte. Go to http://house.gov, look up your Congress rep and tell them about the impeachment vote tomorrow. In an 18-page draft resolution, […]
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Idol Gives Back: Skips Iraq
What if Simon and Seacrest had included Baghdad or Fallujah in their travels?
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Flags at Half-Staff for VTech Dead, Not For Soliders in Iraq?
Army Seargant asks: But I find it ironic that the flags were flown at half-staff for the young men and women who were killed at VT yet it is never lowered for the death of a U.S. servicemember. It is a daily occurrence these days to see X number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq […]
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A very mild birthday this year. Though we are traveling home for my dad’s birthday this weekend so I’ll get to have some family excitement. Our plans to get me a Blackjack phone were dashed when we learned that I’m not eligible for an upgrade with CIngular until September 2007. 🙁 Oh well.
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Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater USA
Scahill has done extensive coverage of Blackwater USA, one of the biggest mercenary companies in outsourcing the war (and providing a lockdown on New Orleans during Katrina)
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Chinese Translation of Couch Packaging Labels Results in Racial Slur
Furniture that oppresses: When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “N*gger-brown.” … [The furniture supplier] passed the blame to a Chinese company, but apologized for the labels. He said he would contact the furniture maker in Guangzhou and […]
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Women Who Encouraged Toddler Bumfight Escape Jail Sentences
Nice to see the UK keeping up: Four “callous” women who forced a pair of toddlers into fighting and filmed them as they punched each other today escaped jail sentences. The women, all from the same Plymouth family, goaded the boy and girl into hitting each other until they cried, and called the boy a […]