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Bush is trying to sneak a bill through congress that would pardon himself for war crimes committed against detainees (torture and treatment). Such crimes are possibly punishable by death.

Mike wonders if we should support Hillary Clinton because she is the only candidate who would execute Bush–in order to prove her masculinity as President.

From the Washington Post:

Dow Jones has launched “dharma indexes” to track the stocks of companies that observe the values of dharma-based religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. …
Advisory committees of religious leaders and scholars will screen and monitor companies’ policies on the environment, corporate governance, labor relations and human rights, among other criteria. Companies from business sectors deemed un-dharmic, such as weapons manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, casinos and alcohol, are barred from the index.

Socially responsible investing now encompasses about 10 percent of the $24 trillion U.S. investment marketplace, according to the Washington-based Social Investment Forum.

Well, there goes the stock market: “Stocks Plunge Worldwide on Fears of a U.S. Recession”

But isn’t that Kharma?

Mitt Romney celebrates MLK day by briefly posing with black people and asking, “Who let the dogs out?”

The song, by the way, is a best selling single by the Baha Men from 2000. Romney is probably familiar with it from the Rugrats.

Does it make it all the more bizarre? Mike explains to me, “He was trying to relate to black people.”

“George W. Bush to Get Stoned”. Meaning that Oliver Stone wants to make a film “Bush”

Josh Brolin gets the lead role.

I can see the similarities.
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The new anti-choice movement attempts to revive an earlier time when men made all the decisions for women:

“As a sidewalk counselor, I wait outside abortion clinics until the men come out to use their cellphones. I tell them I’m not there to judge them. I’m there to help,” said Valentine, 20, one of about 800 participants in the District yesterday for the annual conference of Students for Life of America. “Sometimes they break down and cry and go back and bring out their girlfriends to reconsider.”

Jan 18, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released a statement on Israel’s closing of the Gaza borders: “Such action cuts off the population from much-needed fuel supplies used to pump water and generate electricity to homes and hospitals. If this situation endures, the closure will also cause further shortages of food, medical and relief items in the Gaza Strip.”

Food will run out by midweek.

Palestinians queue to buy bread from a bakery in Gaza City,Monday, Jan. 21, 2008.

Hospitals cannot function.

“We have the choice to either cut electricity on babies in the maternity ward or heart surgery patients or stop operating rooms,” said Health Ministry official Moaiya Hassanain.

After international outcry, Israel is allowing a one-time shipment of fuel and medical supplies, but not without Olmert making a stupid assertion: “As far as I’m concerned, Gaza residents will walk, without gas for their cars, because they have a murderous, terrorist regime that doesn’t let people in southern Israel live in peace.” Walk without cars, he says. Or is it: die without medicine, starve without bread, become ill without sanitation…

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