Monday, January 26, 2009

Guess who's blogging at Suicide Girls?

Why Greg Palast, that's who! And does he have a hot one this week: ["Why An Asshole Is Always In Charge"]. FTR, I just didn't find this because I was looking at the site ... it popped up in my email this morning, since I'm on Palast's list!
For those of you who don't know, Suicide Girls is this pseudo porn site featuring pretty hot looking goth chicks. I say "pseudo," cause it is more like a Page 3 girl than full-on porn.
That said, what the hell is Palast doing there? Who knows. But I will say that if this is the future of columns and news, bring it on: Hot goth chicks and revolutionary opinion columns. That's a sweet mix.

As well ...

For those of you who weren't paying attention, Politico got some good stuff over at the White House press room last week. It seems that folks in the Obama admin are a tad testy that they got caught breaking promises so early in the process ... ["Media frustration spills into briefing"] ["Obama flashes irritation in press room"] ... Ah shucks, I can't come down here and answer questions, I only wanted to say "Hi" ... Hey Obama, who do you think you are, Bill Clinton? And boo hoo for you ... what, did you think the piranhas were just going to stay asleep? Not!

Here's reason number whatever why we should stay out of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians ... check out this video:



So, let me get this straight, it's OK for Jews and Israelis to want to eliminate their enemies, but it isn't OK for Palestinians and Muslims to want to eliminate their enemies? This is ridiculous. How can you obtain peace this way? You can't. There is no peace and there will be no peace. The place has been a mess for thousands of years. They will probably continue to kill each for centuries to come. The only way to remove the pain and heartache from this situation is with the individual. Individuals, both Jews and Palestinians, need to realize that their lives are more important than infinite war and bloodshed. How can the international powers do that? I don't know. But this I do know: The United States has wasted enough money in this region. How much more of our money has to be wasted before we realize that this is a lost cause? We've given Israel billions. We've given Arabs more, via aid and for oil. Enough already. A pox on both their houses. We have people to feed and we need to become energy efficient and self reliant ... now.

Jim Hightower has a short but good column here: ["OBAMA MUST BE EVEN BOLDER THAN FDR"].

And lastly, congrats to Common Dreams on their redesign: ["Common Dreams"]. It looks fab!

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