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As featured on p. 218 of "Bloggers on the Bus," under the name "a MyDD blogger."

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Quick Hits

• It really is all about Israel on the cable news nets, isn't it? CNN just gave a news report that was dangerously close to announcing troop movements. Obviously it's an important issue, but when's the last time you heard about Iraq? It's amazing how quickly the media has turned away from the forgotten war.

• Those troop movements put Israel way into the north and perilously close to the Syrian border. Here comes that wider war the US appears to be asking for. God help us that Chuck Hagel is the only one asking for some sanity.

There's a lot of rejoicing as Fidel Castro gives away the Presidency to his brother Raul. Our policy toward Cuba is one of complete isolation, and when a development like this presents itself, we're in little position to affect any kind of change. Raul Castro is not likely to change much in the country, but he's 75 himself. There will be a power vaccuum, and we're too far away to do anything about it.

• I support any campaign that suggests Americans need to Do More Than Vote. We need to understand that democracy requires participation.

• Ha ha, those black wymmyns sure is funny! Seriously, what the fuck is that? The more time I spend in media, the more I realize that the people in it are far more culturally backwards than anyone would realize.

• According to Rush, civilians need to learn that they're on the front line and deserve death for their government's policies. Pretty much exactly what bin Laden says.

• The Swift Boaters are coming after John Murtha. That won't work in Johnstown. I have family there. Murtha's been around for a long time, and unlike Lieberman, he stays in touch with the district. He's at Windber Hospital (my aunt works there) all the time. Plus, his opponent is the wife of a war profiteer whose company got a $300 million dollar contract with the Iraqi Defense Ministry through a corrupt arms dealer with ties to Ahmad Chalabi who ended up getting murdered in a mysterious drive-by shooting in Baghdad.

• Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is not giving up in seeking electoral justice in Mexico, bringing the capital city to a standstill. That election is not over by a longshot. The Federal Electoral Court had better step in with a ruling soon, because that's going to spill over into confrontation. It's inevitable.

• Bush is creating the Axis of Evil he labeled a few years ago.

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