20 percent of scientists polled by Nature Magazine use either ritalin (66 percent of users), provigil or beta blockers (this was just an April Fool’s Day joke)
- Republicans boo latest addition to the U.S. Congress - Jackie Speier (D-CA).
“The process to bring the troops home must begin immediately,” she told Pelosi. “The president wants to stay the course and a man who wants to replace him suggests we could be in Iraq for 100 years. But Madam Speaker, history will not judge us kindly if we sacrifice four generations of Americans because of the folly of one.”
She’s not particularly different from other democrats, so why the hostile reception? If anything, her life is just tragic.
No, not for the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqis killed by his stupid war but during a ceremony honoring a Navy SEAL.
including parts for F-14 fighter jets, unused chemical-biological canister and a used Nuclear Biological Chemical protective suit, all stolen from the Department of Defense, of course.
Categories: capitalism · drugs · power · science · sex · war
Tagged: boo, bush, congress, cry, department of defense, drugs, george bush, iraq, jackie speier, military weapons, provigil, republicans, ritalin, science, scientists, stolen weapons
Obama is a friend of Palestine? So says an article on the front page of the L.A. Times.
The Nation implies it is poor and misleading reporting on the LA Times part, and I agree. By hyping up the article and catering to Anti-Palestinian groups, the author confounds the facts and obscures the truth.
The author apparently just ripped off an article by Debbi Schlussel, an ultra-conservative blogger known for “racist hate speech.”
The evidence that Obama supports Palestine? He attended events with prominent literature professors and scholars of Arab history - Edward Said [an influential critical theorist and major contributer to the founding of postcolonial theory] and Rashid Khalidi [the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University].
From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 [TEN YEARS AGO] Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. Electronic Intifada
I think it’s great that Obama heard lectures from the late Edward Said - I wish I could have! Said as “a Palestinian and a leading American intellectual” wrote one of the most important critiques of Western constructions of the East - Orientalism.
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Categories: capitalism · culture · palestine · power · race · war
Tagged: Anti-Defamation League, barack obama, Columbia University, Debbi Schlussel, Edward Said, hate, LA Times, palestine, racism, Rashid Khalidi, the nation, UNC
