UC students are occupying campus buildings, in scenes gloriously reminiscent of the 60s. Debbie Downers have been forcasting that an antiwar movement would not catch the interest of youth until there was a draft to immediately affect them. They are right. We’ve seen marches and rallies for peace, but it took a tuition hike to light a fire under these selfish tight asses. The students are right to be enraged by a 30% tuition rise, but have they a case to justify civil disobedience? They’re rebelling against the result of an economy going bust, of the middle class losing the privilege to educated its kids. Rise up, protest, but make it look like more than about your entitlement to a post-highschool social life.

I’ll admit to a disquieting feeling of topsy-turvy. Until now I would have advised war resisters to take the brig and let Bush’s Democratic successor grant them amnesty. But now a trial for the accused 9/11 conspirators approaches, worrying some that the additional protections of a civilian court might result in the accused might be found not-guilty. To which Attorney General Eric Holder says “Failure is not an option.” Hello? And did I hear President Obama correctly –suggesting the 9/11 perpetrators will get the death penalty? I’d be all for it, IF Obama’s hangmen were eyeballing the real perps! Instead this administration has taking civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart to prison, and rehiring Bush spokesperson Dana Perino. What in Hope’s name is going on?

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On the same day as the Ft Hood shooting (where the SUSPECT is a Muslim soldier) there was a “disgruntled employee” shooting at an office building in Florida and the next day a similar shoot-em-up at a clinical lab involving the first victims ex-boyfriend. We also started getting plenty of Hate comments saying amongst other things that All Terrorists should be Crucified.

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A certain former candidate for Vice President who happens to be biologically female had a book signing in a suburb of Detroit. You know Detroit, the city the Klan types refer to as “extended ghetto” and “black hole” and other stupid names.

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But it’s treated as a Legitimate Headline. “Republican Senators Oppose Health Care”. Gosh, ya reckon? After spending the past 5 months wiring up their Disciples to chant stupid shit at Tea Parties and Rigged “Town Halls”?

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Yes, it’s a live fish. The Youtube video upsetting PETA depicts Chinese diners poking at the still gasping mouth of what’s for dinner. The plate isn’t hot, but watch your fingers! The meat is blackened to a crisp, while from the neck up the fish is kept wet with towels to ensure it doesn’t expire before the last bite. My, what a playful presentation with the red sauce!

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In which case, the money you make off your War Investments will more than offset the income tax you pay, AND, it’s common knowledge that Rich People don’t have to send their own piglets off to Murder other people’s kids in the Wars of Conquest, which, surprise, benefit only the Rich. And the notion that the Military is actually fighting for “Freedom” is so blatantly false that the only people who believe it are those who are in the Terminal Stages of Denial, not willing te believe that their sons or daughters or other loved ones are killing and dying in VAIN.

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All that pink was not only for cancer awareness, advocates insisted, it was for breast cancer research. But when research finally yielded a result, which was to recommend fewer mammograms, the whole pink bandwagon wailed in defense of its major sponsor!

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I like this last picture of Shaniya Davis, taken it appears, on the ordinary occasion of a new cellphone camera. The five-year-old’s body was just recovered by North Carolina police. Her mother Antoinette Davis, 25, has been arrested on charges of selling her daughter into prostitution.

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for the Talk Radio Hate Speech about a “war on Christmas.” I don’t actually think they’re stupid, mind you, they know full well that they’re lying… and omitting a HUGE amount of data.

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Ward Churchill spoke in Tucson on Friday and Brenda Norrell has posted the footage. Watching the ex-CU professor speak, I can’t help but think about the university students’ loss. They’re missing the lamentably rarefied perspectives he offers of course, but more important, the inspiration gained from such an engaging luminary.

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Here’s an interesting exception among the photos accompanying a recent NYT article about the mass of plastic detritus, twice the size of Texas, floating in the Pacific Ocean. This barely buoyant plastic barrel, demonstrates why plastic does not qualify as flotsam.

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Because he was having a Baaaaaaaad day.  That’s the “Humorous” anecdote related to me by two Air Force sergeants who were laughing it up over the Air Force murdering at least one Kurdish civilian in 2000. Ha ha, really damn funny. This goes along with the claims made by the Air Force Murderers who unleash the Predator drones that their weapons don’t actually target Civilians. They LIE as well as murder.

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Since Safeway and Kroger have had at their count 3700 workers standing ready to take the jobs of the union workers, (the Union workers who actually BUILT the company) that means they haven’t been working or finding work anywhere else. That means, ergo, they’ve been collecting Food Stamps and AFDC benefits. Ordinarily, that would involve having to actually work doing public service, AND be looking for regular jobs. For the past 7 months.

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Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature
– not his Father but his Mother stirs
within him, and he becomes immortal with her
immortality. From time to time she claims
kindredship with us, and some globule
from her veins steals up into our own.

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Whatsa matter Mayor Giuliani? Are you afraid if the 9/11 suspects come to trial in NYC, that these 9/11 TRUTH fellows might turn up? It was your Ground Zero hero’s launchpad, this time it may be theirs.

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.. “information” on their affiliated website Colorado Connections. Fox News who have fought (other people’s) tooth and (other people’s) nail against not just Health Care Reform, but Health Care In The First Damned Place.

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The Very Rich have always found some way to make the Poor eat their own chances of upgrading their lives through infighting, Black v White was and still is typical of the division they exploit. Sans-culottes = without underwear. An earlier configuration of the Duopoly had it as “pressing the flesh of the Great Unwashed”

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She’s got a book tour, so what? But Oprah is willing to suffer her for two couch sessions, now Hillary Clinton wants to grant her a beer summit. Foreign leaders can’t get an audience without preconditions. Why is Sarah Palin accorded such stature?

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The Palestinian Authority has declared the people of Palestine want statehood on what’s left of their land. Mahmoud Abbas plans to seek the support of the UN. Why is the media calling this decision unilateral? I need a bath –the media needn’t report if the verdict was or wasn’t unilateral.

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Do you recognize the cat at right? It might be a child’s zoo animal rubber stamp if it didn’t look so angry. This is a stencil that dates to the Wobblies, when working men were angry. When labor organizers had to fend off union busters and Pinkerton goons, actions had to be called in defiance of the bad contracts and entrenched company-union bosses. Something for UFCW Local 7 to think about. The hasty stencils painted on factory walls announced: Wildcat Strike!

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I know, right? Why won’t her boyfriend take his new Playstation online, where obviously all the fun is? “What’s wrong with him?!” The Sony PS3 spokesman commiserates, but he’s an interested party. So what’s up? Well, we have a clue this week with the Xbox.

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As in, not something like “leave or we’ll fire you”. Of course he also said Mexicans shot up his house which lowers any credibility he might have built up over the years. One bullet means only one person, thus plural= NO. Nobody heard a shot, nobody saw any shooting, credibility drops considerably. A person who CLAIMS he constantly gets threatening calls from “Mexicans” and provides tapes, but also has access to people who would cheerfully for a hundred bucks put on a Speedy Gonzalez accent…. and then doesn’t even have that much, and in fact no recordings of any of the “threats he’s constantly receiving”=No Sale.

NYC 9/11 trial upsetting to Republicans, why? If the guys are guilty or even if they’re not they’ll be convicted. Do they really believe that a New York jury would be “liberal” in any way? Or the NYPD or the courts?

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Bill and Genie Durland, Colorado Springs’ most vocal champions for Palestine, will be among a tidal wave of peace activists converging on Palestine on the first anniversary of Israel’s unrestrained attack of Gaza. With a Mile Long March to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the UN Goldstone Report pushing Israeli IDF commanders inexorably to The Hague, the snowballing Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign supported by Israel’s own peace activists, and Israeli professor Shlomo Sand unmasking the Zionist’s defrauding of Judaism, the self-righteous death grip on Palestinians will lose its cheerleaders.