Sunday, May 25, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Is Hillary Pure as Ivory Snow?
Have any of her Democratic opponents, including Obama, sought more detailed answers from her about stories such as:
- Norman Hsu and his bundling of money for her campaign?
- How "dishwashers, waiters and others" poured "$1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury?"
- Bill's trip to Kazakhstan with Canadian magnate, Frank Giustra, that netted Giustra $3 billion and Bill's foundation a $131 million contribution from Giustra?
- How powerful foreign donors to Bill's presidential library, such as the Saudis, may pose a serious conflict of interest to Hillary's foreign policy actions as president?
- How Bill's tangled ties to an investment concern of Clinton friend, Ron Burkle, and it's dealings with Dubai may yet, again, threaten to compromise Hillary Clinton's execution of foreign policy as president?
- The fact that the with all of these questionable financial dealings, the Clintons have been unwilling to release their tax returns, especially in light of Hillary Clinton claiming that the $5 million she lent the campaign was "her own money?"
- And, finally, though we, as Democrats, don't care who Bill schtupps (and, no, none of us believe he has kept his fly zipped the last seven years), you can be damn sure the Republicans will be digging hard (no pun intended) to see just what Bill has been up to since leaving office.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saudi Human Rights Official Slams Vice Cops in Yara Case
Saudi Human Rights Official Slams Vice Cops in Yara Case:
"RIYADH — The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), Saudi Arabia’s non-governmental rights body, will address the Governorate of Riyadh regarding Yara, a 36-year-old Jeddah-based businesswoman who was apprehended by the religious police and thrown in Al-Malaz Prison on Monday.
Yara said she endured a humiliating and frightening hours-long ordeal that began with her arrest by a member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice for having coffee with an unrelated man in a Starbucks cafe in Riyadh."
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Worldwide Sawdust:: U.N. says waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture
Worldwide Sawdust:: U.N. says waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Vote Dem?
I have major doubts about Senator Clinton, and yet, I am sure that if she is the nominee that I will mark an "X" for her in November. I used to think I could do more, but now just voting for her seems like a moral compromise—a dirty task that tactically must be done.
For me it would be a purely tactical vote. It would be about the thousands of Democrats that any Democratic President would bring into the bureaucracy and appointments any Democrat would make to the Courts. On the basis of these tactical points, I feel that one has an almost moral obligation to vote for the Democrat.
This would be true of Senator Clinton, but it would also be true if our Nominee was Joe Lieberman or even Zell Miller. And to me there is very little difference between them and Senator Clinton right now. All three have placed their own pursuit of power above the needs of unity, the Party and America. All three have consciously chosen division over unity and fear over hope. Yeah, I could tactically vote for such a Democrat, but I do not have to like it.

