A) problems with the spine. Solution: "chiropractors" [modern style stone age schamans] shake & rattle & twist your bones forcefully until they "crack". Then you are healed !!!
this type of shop [just like the nail-shops run by Asians] is a pop-up-fly-by-night American phenomenon.
B)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Oh, The Poor American Rich
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/opinion/20krugman.html?scp=7&sq=&st=nyt
The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent.
You see, the rich are different from you and me: they have more influence. It’s partly a matter of campaign contributions, but it’s also a matter of social pressure, since politicians spend a lot of time hanging out with the wealthy. So when the rich face the prospect of paying an extra 3 or 4 percent of their income in taxes, politicians feel their pain — feel it much more acutely, it’s clear, than they feel the pain of families who are losing their jobs, their houses, and their hopes.
And when the tax fight is over, one way or another, you can be sure that the people currently defending the incomes of the elite will go back to demanding cuts in Social Security and aid to the unemployed. America must make hard choices, they’ll say; we all have to be willing to make sacrifices.
But when they say “we,” they mean “you.” Sacrifice is for the little people.
The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent.
You see, the rich are different from you and me: they have more influence. It’s partly a matter of campaign contributions, but it’s also a matter of social pressure, since politicians spend a lot of time hanging out with the wealthy. So when the rich face the prospect of paying an extra 3 or 4 percent of their income in taxes, politicians feel their pain — feel it much more acutely, it’s clear, than they feel the pain of families who are losing their jobs, their houses, and their hopes.
And when the tax fight is over, one way or another, you can be sure that the people currently defending the incomes of the elite will go back to demanding cuts in Social Security and aid to the unemployed. America must make hard choices, they’ll say; we all have to be willing to make sacrifices.
But when they say “we,” they mean “you.” Sacrifice is for the little people.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
POL_US_O'Donnell And Her Ex-Ex-Gay Ex-Staffer
O'Donnell And Her Ex-Ex-Gay Ex-Staffer
16 Sep 2010 11:58 am
Here's a moving - and instructive - tale of a young gay man, Wade Richards, who once worked with Christine O'Donnell in the Christianist trenches until he came to terms with his identity. O'Donnell emerges as a viciously anti-gay bigot, blaming people with HIV and AIDS for their illnesses and conflating homosexuality with pedophilia. Her gay-baiting was also central to her smear campaign against Castle, something even expert gay-baiter Karl Rove found too much. (Rove usually finds some tiny shred of evidence to smear someone as gay and probably objects to the amateurism of O'Donnell's smears).
Another classic detail: O'Donnell's own sister, according to Richards, is openly lesbian. These people demonize their own family members as well (as, of course, was the case with Rove).
URL: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/09/odonnell-and-her-ex-ex-gay-ex-staffer.html
16 Sep 2010 11:58 am
Here's a moving - and instructive - tale of a young gay man, Wade Richards, who once worked with Christine O'Donnell in the Christianist trenches until he came to terms with his identity. O'Donnell emerges as a viciously anti-gay bigot, blaming people with HIV and AIDS for their illnesses and conflating homosexuality with pedophilia. Her gay-baiting was also central to her smear campaign against Castle, something even expert gay-baiter Karl Rove found too much. (Rove usually finds some tiny shred of evidence to smear someone as gay and probably objects to the amateurism of O'Donnell's smears).
Another classic detail: O'Donnell's own sister, according to Richards, is openly lesbian. These people demonize their own family members as well (as, of course, was the case with Rove).
URL: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/09/odonnell-and-her-ex-ex-gay-ex-staffer.html
Thursday, September 9, 2010
no - gerrymandering outside the U.S.A.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
http://www.fairvote.org/redistricting
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gerrymandering
http://www.fairvote.org/redistricting
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gerrymandering
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
remember, the land of the FREE ???
Originally published Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM
9th Circuit rules against alleged torture victims
Five foreign men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing subsidiary that helped spirit them away for interrogations because of the risk of secret intelligence matters being exposed at trial, a divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
By Carol J. Williams
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Five foreign men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing subsidiary that helped spirit them away for interrogations because of the risk of secret intelligence matters being exposed at trial, a divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The decision is a significant victory for the Obama administration because it recognized a president's power to protect wartime actions from judicial scrutiny by invoking the state-secrets doctrine.
The civil-rights lawyer who represented the alleged victims of the Bush administration's "extraordinary rendition" program said the ruling, if allowed to stand, means the United States has "closed its courtroom doors to torture victims."
The majority in the 6-5 ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco "reluctantly" concluded that national-security interests in the case were paramount to "even the most compelling necessity" to protect fundamental principles of liberty and justice.
The lawsuit brought by former Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prisoner Binyam Mohamed and four others sought to hold Jeppesen Dataplan, of San Jose, Calif., responsible for the alleged violations committed against them because of the company's logistical support to the CIA.
Jeppesen reportedly supplied the flight services and other assistance to CIA agents who whisked the men from Sweden, Pakistan, Jordan and Gambia to secret interrogation sites elsewhere overseas. The five were arrested as terrorism suspects shortly after 9/11 attacks.
In detail, the court majority described the men's accounts of having been snatched off the streets in their resident countries or on business trips abroad, blindfolded, shackled, stripped and transported to CIA "black sites." They said they were beaten, starved, subjected to electrical shocks to the genitals and held in darkness and isolation for months.
"This case requires us to address the difficult balance the state-secrets doctrine strikes between fundamental principles of our liberty, including justice, transparency, accountability and national security," began the majority opinion written by Judge Raymond Fisher, appointed to the San Francisco-based appeals court by President Clinton. "Although as judges we strive to honor all of these principles, there are times when exceptional circumstances create an irreconcilable conflict between them."
The majority said the case couldn't go forward even on the basis of unclassified evidence already disclosed because those facts were part of a "mosaic" and the court cannot order the government to "disentangle" innocuous information from what is secret.
A federal district-court judge in San Francisco in 2008 granted the U.S. government's motion to dismiss the lawsuit after President George W. Bush asserted his state-secrets privilege.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit last year reversed the district court, saying the men should be allowed to prove their case on the unclassified evidence they claimed would be sufficient for a trial court to reach a judgment on their behalf.
The five judges who dissented in Wednesday's ruling deemed arbitrary imprisonment and torture "a gross and notorious act of despotism." They called the majority decision to dismiss the lawsuit "premature."
"To date, not a single victim of the Bush administration torture programs has had a day in court," said Ben Wizner, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) representing Mohamed and the other four men. The ACLU vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
In an unusual move, the court ordered the U.S. government to pay all parties' costs. "Maybe that's their way of doing rough justice," Allen Weiner, a Stanford University national-security law professor, said of the award of attorney fees to a losing party.
Material from The Associated Press and The Washington Post
9th Circuit rules against alleged torture victims
Five foreign men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing subsidiary that helped spirit them away for interrogations because of the risk of secret intelligence matters being exposed at trial, a divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
By Carol J. Williams
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Five foreign men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing subsidiary that helped spirit them away for interrogations because of the risk of secret intelligence matters being exposed at trial, a divided federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The decision is a significant victory for the Obama administration because it recognized a president's power to protect wartime actions from judicial scrutiny by invoking the state-secrets doctrine.
The civil-rights lawyer who represented the alleged victims of the Bush administration's "extraordinary rendition" program said the ruling, if allowed to stand, means the United States has "closed its courtroom doors to torture victims."
The majority in the 6-5 ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco "reluctantly" concluded that national-security interests in the case were paramount to "even the most compelling necessity" to protect fundamental principles of liberty and justice.
The lawsuit brought by former Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prisoner Binyam Mohamed and four others sought to hold Jeppesen Dataplan, of San Jose, Calif., responsible for the alleged violations committed against them because of the company's logistical support to the CIA.
Jeppesen reportedly supplied the flight services and other assistance to CIA agents who whisked the men from Sweden, Pakistan, Jordan and Gambia to secret interrogation sites elsewhere overseas. The five were arrested as terrorism suspects shortly after 9/11 attacks.
In detail, the court majority described the men's accounts of having been snatched off the streets in their resident countries or on business trips abroad, blindfolded, shackled, stripped and transported to CIA "black sites." They said they were beaten, starved, subjected to electrical shocks to the genitals and held in darkness and isolation for months.
"This case requires us to address the difficult balance the state-secrets doctrine strikes between fundamental principles of our liberty, including justice, transparency, accountability and national security," began the majority opinion written by Judge Raymond Fisher, appointed to the San Francisco-based appeals court by President Clinton. "Although as judges we strive to honor all of these principles, there are times when exceptional circumstances create an irreconcilable conflict between them."
The majority said the case couldn't go forward even on the basis of unclassified evidence already disclosed because those facts were part of a "mosaic" and the court cannot order the government to "disentangle" innocuous information from what is secret.
A federal district-court judge in San Francisco in 2008 granted the U.S. government's motion to dismiss the lawsuit after President George W. Bush asserted his state-secrets privilege.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit last year reversed the district court, saying the men should be allowed to prove their case on the unclassified evidence they claimed would be sufficient for a trial court to reach a judgment on their behalf.
The five judges who dissented in Wednesday's ruling deemed arbitrary imprisonment and torture "a gross and notorious act of despotism." They called the majority decision to dismiss the lawsuit "premature."
"To date, not a single victim of the Bush administration torture programs has had a day in court," said Ben Wizner, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) representing Mohamed and the other four men. The ACLU vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
In an unusual move, the court ordered the U.S. government to pay all parties' costs. "Maybe that's their way of doing rough justice," Allen Weiner, a Stanford University national-security law professor, said of the award of attorney fees to a losing party.
Material from The Associated Press and The Washington Post
everything American
is best
-all the time
-everywhere
I won't fight you
just believe what you need to believe
-all the time
-everywhere
I won't fight you
just believe what you need to believe
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
that' the attitude !!!
or:
how to finish of the country !!!
finish with shoveling people's money into the pockets of the rich, a task GWBush couldn't finish himself.
quote:
"valerie"
I cannot wait until November elections. We will put this country back on track by voting out those who support our current president's policies!!!
Yahoo news:
Tue Sep 7, 12:10 pm ET
Obama channels Hendrix on critics: ‘They talk about me like a dog’
how to finish of the country !!!
finish with shoveling people's money into the pockets of the rich, a task GWBush couldn't finish himself.
quote:
"valerie"
I cannot wait until November elections. We will put this country back on track by voting out those who support our current president's policies!!!
Yahoo news:
Tue Sep 7, 12:10 pm ET
Obama channels Hendrix on critics: ‘They talk about me like a dog’
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