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Saturday, March 11
Please tell me this is a bad dream.
2004 Democratic loser John Kerry looks to be getting ready to run for president again in 2008. It's bad enough that Hillary Clinton could be the Dems' candidate. Via Boston Globe. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:18 AM | Get permalink
Spreading Dubya's wisdom to the world.
While Dubya will go down in history for the many questionable and downright unsuitable people he's appointed to positions of public trust in the US, it's important to note that the prez's power to inflict his bad judgement doesn't stop at the nation's borders. Oh no. Since the prez gets to appoint each US ambassador, countries around the world get to 'enjoy' the fruits of Dubya's bad judgment. The latest example is Dubya's nominee to be the new US ambassador to Australia, Robert McCallum. McCallum is currently an associate attorney at the Justice Department, but before that he was an attorney for tobacco giant RJ Reynolds a combination that's made for interesting conflicts of interest: In a landmark civil racketeering case last year, Mr McCallum was on a US Government team seeking sanctions against the tobacco industry. We're sure McCallum will fit in happily with the ethically impaired right-wing lot surrounding Aussie PM John Howard. Via ABC News [Australia]. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:59 AM | Get permalink
Another one bites the dust.
And this one was especially nasty: Dubya's former chief domestic policy advisor Claude Allen. How nasty was Allen?, I hear you ask. Well, here's how journalist Doug Ireland described Claude Allen in a January interview on Democracy Now, shortly after Dubya appointed him to that domestic policy post: Claude Allen is a black conservative who is a darling of the religious right.... [For] many years he was a top aide to Jesse Helms, the United States senator from North Carolina, who was a notorious race-baiter in his campaigns. And Claude Allen worked for Jesse Helms and didn't quit even when Jesse Helms opposed making Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. But more important, Claude Allen has a long record of subordinating public health to the agenda of the religious right. When he was Virginia's Commissioner of Health and Human Services [he] under republican governor Jim Gilmore, a conservative governor for example -- Claude Allen opposed legislation that would provide health insurance to children because the legislation included giving state money to underage girls for abortions who had been victims of rape, incest, and other forms of sexual abuse. And when the legislation was passed despite Claude Allen's opposition to it, he pulled a deliberate slowdown in enrolling the children of Virginia into this program, and he admitted that the reason he had done so was because of the abortion issues. So Allen was perfectly prepared to sacrifice the health and well-being of underage girls who had been victims of sexual abuse to the agenda of the Christian right, which he carries out so faithfully.... Quite a piece of work, wouldn't you say? As we intimated at the beginning of the post, Allen has resigned from Dubya's administration. In fact, he resigned on Feb 9th, over a month ago, allegedly to spend more time with his family. As is so often the case with Dubya's appointees, however, the real reason for Allen's resignation was something else entirely: It seems that the upstanding citizen Claude Allen is a shoplifter: Allen has been under investigation since at least January for the alleged thefts on 25 occasions at Target and Hecht's stores, said [Montgomery County, MD] police spokesman Lt. Eric Burnett. Police reviewed his credit card records to track his purchase. It sure is interesting about how so many of Dubya's appointees can be so concerned about the moral standards of the rest of the country, but have such low standards for their own behavior. TalkLeft and digby have much more on Allen. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:14 AM | Get permalink
Tax info! Get your red hot tax info!
If the IRS gets its way, the person/company that prepares your federal tax return will be able to share your tax information with others. What a great idea, huh? Three consumer organizations on Wednesday called the proposal shocking and urged the IRS to drop it. While the preparer would have to get the taxpayer's permission first, this still seems like the first appearance in the tent of that metaphorical camel. To its credit, the IRS does propose specific rules regarding the format, content and font size of consent forms. Each consent would require a separate paper or electronic document. The consent must identify each type of product or service for which the tax preparer may solicit tax-return information. It also must specify which parts of the tax return are being disclosed. The only ones who would really benefit from the new rules are large tax preparation firms like H&R Block. And, of course, none of those big firms are commenting on the IRS' proposed rule change. From SF Chronicle via Pam's House Blend. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:02 AM | Get permalink
Friday, March 10
Sandra Day O'Connor blasts right-wing attacks on US courts.
I, said O'Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O'Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. No recording was made of the speech, sadly. However, Raw Story has a transcript of Totenberg's NPR piece here, and you can listen to the piece itself here. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:32 PM | Get permalink
Baghdad 2006 is looking a whole lot like Beirut 1976.
And no one should forget that the civil war in Lebanon went on until 1990. There are significant differences between Lebanon and Iraq especially in terms of each country's history of factionalism so it's dangerous to assume that the Iraqi civil war will progress in the same way as the Lebanese war or last as long. Nonetheless, the developing situation in Iraq bears some striking resemblances to the civil war years in Lebanaon: Lack of a central government that exercises any real authority; dueling religious-based militias; and the growth of regional powers that exercise authority over parts of the country. From a LA Times op-ed by Adam Shatz: Like Lebanon, Iraq is an extraordinarily diverse country, a mosaic of religious and ethnic groups cobbled together by an imperial power almost a century ago. As in Lebanon during the civil war (which ran from 1975 to 1991), Iraq's communities, which once coexisted peacefully (although not on equal terms) have assumed an increasingly sectarian character, leaving the country without a center. From an interview with Iraq specialist Marina Ottaway: SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are we witnessing a country falling apart? From an article on Iraq's sovereignty vacuum by Michael Schwartz at TomDispatch: The American-led occupation, though it controls the military bases in which its troops are encamped and parts of the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, and can go anywhere via large military operations, can no longer aspire even to behind-the-scenes sovereignty. From the beginning of the occupation, any claims the occupying power had to legitimacy were sacrificed when most cities were left to govern themselves. In June 2004, when the Bush administration officially handed "sovereignty" (which it already didn't possess) to the Iyad Allawi government which it had put in power, it withdrew any claims it might have had to such authority; and yet it also failed to deliver any of the ingredients of sovereignty to its supposed successor. Thanks to Metafilter, from which we shamelessly stole most of the links. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:48 PM | Get permalink
Why exactly ...
... is this product needed? [Unless you have a high tolerance for especially gratuitous sexism, you might want to read this article instead of going to the product's website.] It's described as 'Authentically natural vulva flavour.' [Trust me, I couldn't possibly make that up.] This magpie suspects, however, that the taste changes may not be so 'authentically natural' after the product is applied to a rubber doll. Via Broadsheet. [Ad view or paid sub req'd] | | Posted by Magpie at 1:47 AM | Get permalink
Going down.
Dubya continues to see how low his approval ratings can go. The poll suggests that most Americans wonder whether Bush is up to the job. The survey, conducted Monday through Wednesday of 1,000 people, found that just 37 percent approve of his overall performance. That is the lowest of his presidency. Via AP. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:33 AM | Get permalink
Qualifications are so overrated.
Especially a job that puts them at the head of a committee that gathers expert advice on homeland security for Dubya and the Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff? Not content with all of the other bad appointments he's made, Dubya has named a 28-year old former White House staffer as head of the Homeland Security Advisory Committees. Doug Hoelscher's main qualifications for the job appears to be making travel arrangements for the prez and working for the Republican National Committee during the 2004 campaign. With an administration that considered managing the Arabian Horse Association made Michael Brown qualified to run FEMA, putting someone even less qualified than Brown in charge of an important part of the Homeland Security Department shouldn't be a surprise. Via GovExec.com. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:22 AM | Get permalink
US to close Abu Ghraib prison.
Of course, once Abu Ghraib is closed, all the US prisoners will be moved to another facility, yet to be named. And, after the US turns the prison over to the Iraqi government, it's entirely possible that the torture will continue under new management. This magpie notes that the Pentagon isn't saying a peep about closing its notorious Bagram prison in Afghanistan. [Who knows? Maybe some of the current Abu Ghraib prisioners will be going there.] But then I've always been so picky about things. Via NY Times and Spiegel. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:02 AM | Get permalink
Anti-Muslim sentiment on the rise in the US.
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll has found that almost half of people in the US [46%] have an unfavorable view of Islam, and well over half of them [58%] think that Muslims are more prone to violence than followers of other religions. This last figure, incidentally, is higher now that it was just after 9/11. Why the increase? It's the usual suspects: Conservative and liberal experts said Americans' attitudes about Islam are fueled in part by political statements and media reports that focus almost solely on the actions of Muslim extremists.... Of course, neither the press nor the politicians in the US seem to be much concerned with the activities [and propensity toward violence] of Christian extremists. But then, that wouldn't be as easy and rewarding a task as Muslim-bashing, would it? From Washington Post via veiled4allah. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:00 AM | Get permalink
Thursday, March 9
Making the world safe for censorship.
US web-filtering companies such as SmartFilter are doing a great job of it, says Xeni Jardin in an op-ed piece today: The [Open Net Initiative] found that SmartFilter has been used by government-controlled monopoly providers in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. It has also been used by state-controlled providers in Iran, even though American companies are banned from selling technology products there. (Secure Computing denies selling products or updates to Iran, which is probably using pirated versions.) The Open Net Initiative has much more about how governments are using internet filtering over here. Via NY Times. | | Posted by Magpie at 3:20 PM | Get permalink
Does the Pentagon pay people extra to come up with ideas this dumb?
The boys over at the Pentagon have this great new idea for some of the Trident missiles currently riding around on US submarines. According to the Washington Post, what they want to do is to remove the nuclear warheads from these missiles and replace them with conventional explosives. By doing so, the Pentagon says, the US will be capable of dropping a conventional bomb anywhere on the planet within an hour of when the order was given. And if we can't tell, what makes the Pentagon think anyone else can? Leaving aside the question of whether being able to drop 'regular' bombs within an hour is a good idea, this magpie has to question the wisdom of delivering conventional explosives on a missile that looks like a nuclear weapon system. I mean, is it really a good idea to risk having the target country think it's under nuclear attack and respond accordingly? Even some people at the Pentagon are worried: "Will it be interpreted as having a nuclear warhead and elicit . . . a nuclear response?" asked the senior defense official, acknowledging the potential "ambiguity" of the weapon if detected by early-warning systems. Such systems may not be able to determine if an incoming warhead is conventional or nuclear. This plan deserves to be tossed onto the dustheap of history. Quickly. Via The Nation. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:08 PM | Get permalink
Buddy, can you spare Earlier this year, Air America Radio's affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona was doing really well. The liberal network's programming had struck a chord in the Valley of the Sun, taking KXXT from the bottom of the AM barrel to #4 in a field of 22 AM stations. But things changed at the beginning of March when KXXT was sold to a religious broadcaster, whose first act as the new owner was to pull the plug on Air America [and indy left talker Ed Schultz as well]. The former KXXT management and staff have regrouped and have made an arrangement with another station to go back on the air on April 3. Before then, however, they need to raise US $500,000 to cover their initial operating expenses. [Although they don't say, we imagine the bulk of this expense is airtime rental and, likely, salaries for the staff.] In the recent internet tradition, Air America Phoenix is raising money from the public, going the buy-a-pixel route. Right now, their pixel map is looking pretty bare, though. Given that this mapgie spent two decades working in US community radio, I have my criticisms of what Air America puts out over the air. [Please oh please get Al Franken another co-host! And put Mike Malloy back on his medication!] But, given that Pacifica has self-destructed, Air America is our best hope for ending the right wing's domination of the radio airwaves. In an election year, and especially in a place like Arizona that's been slowly shifting to the left, we can't afford not to have a progressive on-air presence in Phoenix. So I'm choosing to ignore my differences with Air America and I'm going to buy some pixels. We suggest that you buy some pixels, too. Thanks to The Sideshow for reminding us about this. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:00 AM | Get permalink
Ooooooh, shiny!
One of the really cool things about astronomy is that it's one of the few sciences where new discoveries are still often made by amateurs. As a case in point, take a look at a photograph of a new Red Spot on Jupiter, taken by a Philippine amateur on Feb 27. The official name of this storm is "Oval BA," but "Red Jr." might be better. It's about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color. And, no, nobody is quite sure why either of the Red Spots are red. You can view a larger, full-planet image here. And if you want to see a really cool image of Jupiter's original Red Spot, look over here. Via Science@NASA. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:04 AM | Get permalink
Want to help victims of domestic violence?
Click through here to have Allstate contribute US $1 to the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund. Allstate is giving the buck for each of the first 75,000 unique visitors to the web page. For more info on the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund, go here. Thanks to Alas, a Blog for the heads-up. | | Posted by Magpie at 12:01 AM | Get permalink
Yes, the official figures are lying.
On Feb 28, the Washington Post ran a story about how far more people had died in the aftermath of the Golden Mosque bombing than anyone in the US or Iraqi governments was admitting. According to the Post, over 1300 people were killed in the post-bombing violence. The Iraqi government put the figure at 379, and the US backed them up. In addition, other US media outlets ran stories saying that the death figures were much lower than what the Post had claimed. I'm sure you've figured out where all of this backstory is going: Today, the Post is publishing a story from Ellen Knickmeyer, in which she reports that a Shi'a party in the Iraqi government has ordered government hospitals and morgues not to report execution-style killings, which drastically cut the 'official' death toll in the days after the mosque bombing. According to the Post, the post-bombing deaths exceeded 1,000 putting the figure much closer to the newspaper's much-criticized earlier figure than to the 'official' numbers. So the Iraqi government, Dubya's administration, and the Pentagon all used the Washington Post's earlier story as an excuse to beat up on the US press for impeding the war effort, even though all these parties undboubtedly knew that the Post's report was essentially accurate. What a huge surprise, eh? | | Posted by Magpie at 12:00 AM | Get permalink
Wednesday, March 8
What's at stake with South Dakota's abortion ban.
Yes, South Dakota's draconian new abortion law is undboubtedly heading for the US Supreme Court, where the presence of two new right-wing justices make is very possible that the Court could finally strike down Roe v. Wade. But, says Molly Ivins, the threat to women's right to choose goes far beyond abortion. Look at some of the incompetent women we have running around in this country -- Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright, now there are a couple of girls in need of guidance from the South Dakota legislature. Female doctors, lawyers, airplane pilots, engineers and, for that matter, female members of the South Dakota Legislature -- who could ever trust them with an important decision? Make sure that you read the whole column. Via Working for Change. | | Posted by Magpie at 6:07 PM | Get permalink
We learn something new every day.
For example, this magpie always thought that forcing a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term was way different than making a man pay child support for a child he fathered. Obviously, we just didn't see how unfair child support is to men. Seriously, not only are these guys making the 'You broke it, you own it' argument, but they're adding on 'Don't look at me for help it won't be my fault if the kid starves.' And I really have to love how they made sure that the news of the lawsuit would hit the press on Intenational Women's Day. Assholes. And so is the AP for taking this 'Roe v. Wade for Men' lawsuit seriously. | | Posted by Magpie at 3:19 PM | Get permalink
Ignorant troops are happy troops.
A few days ago, I posted about how the US Marines are censoring the websites and news sources that troops fighting in Iraq are allowed to access. The source of that info, Wonkette, has gotten more details on what's being blocked: I had a few minutes today and thought I'd look and see what else was banned on the Marine web here. I think the results speak for themselves: As we said the other day, Magpie readers in the US should pass this info onto their members of Congress, and ask them to find out what the hell is going on. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:47 PM | Get permalink
Who's to blame for the Iraqi civil war?
According to Dubya's administration and the right-wing echo chamber, the culprits are usually 'sectarianism' and 'ethnic rivalries.' Occasionally, one of the brighter bulbs on the right will acknowledge that some of the problems might be due to the arbitrary boundaries drawn around the new nation of Iraq by European colonialists at the end of the First World War. But all of this, says Mideast expert Stephen Zunes, misses one of the biggest reasons for the spiraling violence in Iraq: Bad decsions made by the US right after the defeat of Saddam Hussein. We were particularly struck by this part of Zunes' argument: Much of Iraq's current divisions can be traced to the decision of US occupation authorities immediately following the conquest to abolish the Iraqi army and purge the government bureaucracy both bastions of secularism thereby creating a vacuum which was soon filled by sectarian parties and militias. Via Asia Times. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:31 PM | Get permalink
Carnival of Feminists 10.
March 8th is International Women's Day, which makes it an especially auspicious time for the newest Carnival of Feminists the 10th! to appear. You can read all of its feminist bloggy goodness over here at indianwriting. If you haven't caught the Carnival before, it's a roundup of the best feminist posts from around the web, appearing twice a month. Like the preceding carnivals, the posts in the 10th edition go all over the place. This time, I've chosen to sample the section on 'The Struggle': Redneck Mother on Rwandan widows."One woman interviewed had two small children to raise alone after her husband killed himself. I think of J raising seven, and the only less-than-enthusiastic phrase in her short note to me: "I live a hard life, but I am patient." I hope her patience and hard work are rewarded with social stability and justice. I wonder what it will take for her country to get there." You can read the rest of the 10th Carnival if you go here. The 11th Carnival is coming up on Wednesday, March 22nd, and it will be hosted by Angry for a Reason. The themes are international feminism and radical feminism. If you want to nominate a post and it's definitely okay to nominate one of your own send the nomination to union_clown AT yahoo DOT com. Or, if you prefer, you can use this submission form at the Blog Carnival home page. And if you want to keep posted on what's up with the Carnival of Feminists, bookmark the home page. | | Posted by Magpie at 1:01 PM | Get permalink
Monday, March 6
No, I haven't forgotten Mapgie.
I've just been really busy in that real world today: visiting a friend in the hospital, learning those tunes I'm supposed to know for a class tonight, doing the monthly Costco run that sort of stuff. Expect some new posts later this evening [West Coast US time]. In the meantime, visit some of those fine blogs listed over there on the left. | | Posted by Magpie at 5:06 PM | Get permalink
Sunday, March 5
Forget the Oscars.
And say hello to the Sayid Awards Iraq's new answer to those awards getting handed out in Hollywood tonight. We'll leave it to Riverbend to list the nominees; we'll just tell you about the honorable mentions: First and foremost, an honorable mention to Bush?s speech writers. It must be the most difficult job in the world writing scripts to make George W. Bush sound/look not great, not even good- but passable. It must also be challenging having to write speeches using words with a maximum of two syllables. Via Baghdad Burning. | | Posted by Magpie at 5:02 PM | Get permalink
Spreading freedom around the world.
For everybody except the US Marines ostensibly fighting for that freedom. It appears that the dim bulbs at Marine HQ have decided to 'protect' their rank and file from those nasty new organizations and websites that don't toe the current government line. Read it and [if you're in the US] pass the info on to your member of Congress and demand to know what the hell is going on. Via Wonkette. | | Posted by Magpie at 4:33 PM | Get permalink
Wow.
When this magpie lived in Minnesota, I'd always meant to toss a bucket of boiling water up into the air on a way-below-zero day. From the look of this video taken a bit farther north [in Saskatchewan], it looks like the results are even better than I'd imagined. Via Boing Boing. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:56 PM | Get permalink
The word 'hyprocrisy' doesn't even begin to cover this.
The same administration that's made leaking information to the press a huge part of its process of spinning the news is now threatening to prosecute journalists for espionage if they leak stuff that Dubya would rather have remain secret. The administration is going after the leakers, too. At Langley, the CIA's security office has been conducting numerous interviews and polygraph examinations of employees in an effort to discover whether any of them have had unauthorized contact with journalists. CIA Director Porter J. Goss has spoken about the issue at an "all hands" meeting of employees, and sent a recent cable to the field aimed at discouraging media contacts and reminding employees of the penalties for disclosing classified information, according to intelligence sources and people in touch with agency officials. At least one media expert says that 'you haven't seen this kind of crackdown on leaks since the Nixon administration.' Which doesn't surprise this magpie at all, given that the stakes now are about the same as during Nixon's time. And no, we don't mean protecting the nation against domestica and foreign enemies; we mean the political survival of a sitting president. Via Washington Post. | | Posted by Magpie at 2:11 PM | Get permalink |
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