A final thought on Memorial Day (& links, of course)
Too much posting I know, but I had to upload another one so I could share today’s Mr. Fish in real time.
Best Memorial Day cartoon ever. Smedley Butler would have approved.
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More on Israel’s murderous attack on the humanitarian aid ships from :
Glenn Greenwald (heavily updated including Turkey’s decision to send armed escorts with their next ship to Gaza)(beating up Egypt’s one thing but Turkey is not a country you want to fuck with, not to mention their NATO status)
U.S. activist blinded by direct hit from a tear gas canister
Debka with “pro-Israel” analysis
Mick asks if BP’s dragging its feet trying to save the well
The civilized world is turning their back on Israel, just as they did with Apartheid era South Africa. And, as with South Africa, the United States stands tall for countries that deny others their freedoms.
The Confederacy won the Civil War but no one ever got around to telling the rest of us.
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BP says cleanup workers not sick, just suffering from food poisoning
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Other news:
Pizzigati on Congress caving at crunch time
Truth (sometimes) has consequences: Germany fires their President
Saturday’s anti-SB1070 protest in Phoenix drew 50,000 marchers (I sure didn’t hear that number bandied around)
Gov. BridgeFail’s economic track record
By the time the Mississippi gets to Louisiana, sewage is the polite word for it
Minnesotans brave enough to brag about their DADT vote (politically, it’s a slam dunk — the anti-gay right needs to stfu very quickly or they’ll lose 3/4s of the independent vote this fall)(and yes, it will rain horses in hell before Amy Klobuchar gets out front on this issue)
More on how Inouye kicked the DCCC’s and Ed Case’s asses
BridgeFail’s MTP appearance panned by the Washington Monthly
Sarah plagiarizes a poem written by a veteran/poet
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Etc.:
Roy Edroso reviews Sex and the City 2
Shirky and Pink on cognitive surplus
I’m no Tild, but my graphics do have some fans
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness
Vatican trying to recruit atheists (they don’t seem to like the ones we’ve got now)
Like the Vatican, the Boy Scouts didn’t go bad until the conservatives took over
Publishers seem to have skipped by several stages of grieving and are now trying to find an e-format not owned by Amazon, Apple or Google
Sleep tips (includes cute picture of gray cat)
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That’s it until tomorrow, even if Turkey nukes Israel before then.
And don’t think I won’t be checking the stats tomorrow to see how many of you clicked to see the cat.
