Andymatic

Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

  • Canada City Repels Homeless with Bird Shit

    From Vancouver Sun: He told me that in Whalley, either the RCMP or City of Surrey, or both, had an innovative new plan to solve their homelessness problem. According to reports, city workers had allegedly spread chicken dung around a social services building and by trees in a park. There was a video of the […]

  • State by State: Same-Sex Marriage vs First-Cousin Marriage

    No word yet if the first-cousins are of the same sex: statesmarriagecousin.jpg (JPEG Image, 444×600 pixels).

  • You Have No Right Not to Be Tortured

    The Supreme Court refused to hear a case of four detainees bringing suit against Rumsfeld, et al: Obama’s Justice Department lawyers argued in this case that there is no constitutional right not to be tortured or otherwise abused in a U.S. prison abroad…. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act – a statute that applies by its […]

  • Blair on Iraq: WMD Weren't the Point

    More revelations from the UK: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he would have found a justification for invading Iraq even without the now-discredited evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to produce weapons of mass destruction. “I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean, obviously you would have had […]

  • 26 Asian Students Attacked at Philadelphia High School

    From the city of brotherly love: Tian, 19, of South Philly, and five other students who are recent immigrants are staying home today because they were among 26 Asian students who were attacked by a gang of other students throughout the day yesterday, said Xu Lin, of the Chinatown Development Corporation, who works with victimized […]

  • 20% of Americans Want Obama Impeached

    Too soon? Right now, 20 percent of Americans “support the impeachment of President Obama for his actions so far.” That number includes 35 percent of Republicans, to only 15 percent of independents and 10 percent of Democrats. via Poll: 35 Percent of Republicans Want to Impeach Obama

  • Michael Moore to President Obama RE: Afghanistan

    From HuffPo If you go to West Point tomorrow night and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president…. It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government… Your corporate backers are going to abandon […]

  • US Fundamentalist ‘Family’ Behind Ugandan Law to Execute HIV+ Men

    From Raw Story: Under current Ugandan law, homosexuality is a crime punishable by life in prison. The proposed law would not just condemn HIV positive gay men and “repeat offenders” to death, it would also jail for three years anyone who knows a gay man but refuses to report them to authorities. Further, anyone who […]

  • Obama's ‘Black Jail’ in Afghanistan

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to […]

  • US Catholic Bishops Release Document on Marriage

    Commenter: Hilarious when a bunch of men who are forbidden by their vocation to get married themselves make pronouncements about how marriage is affected by another relationship they are forbidden to enter into. Will they start making statements about tampon vs. napkin use next? I mean, they have about the same amount of experience with […]