July 1, 2009 archive

Honduras: Three Days To Glare At The Opposition

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A Woman Injured Monday In An Anti-Coup Demonstration

The Thursday confrontation between deposed Honduran president Manual Zelaya and the Roberto Micheletti and his Honduran military coup has been delayed until Saturday.

CNN reports:

Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya said Wednesday he will not return to his home country until at least Saturday, after a three-day international deadline to reinstate him.

Zelaya had said earlier he would return to Honduras on Thursday. Provisional Honduran President Roberto Micheletti said Tuesday that Zelaya would be arrested on multiple charges if he returns.

The Organization of American States passed a resolution early Wednesday saying that Zelaya should be returned to power within 72 hours. The United Nations unanimously passed a similar resolution Tuesday afternoon.

The refusal to reinstate Zelaya, according to the OAS, will cause it to suspend Honduras’s OAS membership.  Many OAS members have already withdrawn their ambassadors and cut off relations with the Micheletti coup government. The US has had nice words to support democracy, but has taken little if any action to restore Zelaya.

Unfortunately, and despite virtually universal condemnation, Micheletti continues to talk tough.  In an interview with AP he continued his bravado and his defiance:

A defiant Roberto Micheletti said in an interview with The Associated Press late Tuesday that “no one can make me resign,” defying the United Nations, the OAS, the Obama administration and other leaders that have condemned the military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya….snip

[The OAS’s three day] period for negotiation prompted Zelaya to announce he was putting off his plans to return home on Thursday until the weekend.

Micheletti vowed Zelaya would be arrested if he returns, even though the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador have signed on to accompany him along with the heads of the Organization of American States and the U.N. General Assembly.

Zelaya “has already committed crimes against the constitution and the law,” said Micheletti, a member of Zelaya’s Liberal Party who was named interim leader by Congress following the coup. “He can no longer return to the presidency of the republic unless a president from another Latin American country comes and imposes him using guns.”

Four at Four

  1. The LA Times brings news of an amazing survival story of a 14-year-old girl of the Yemeni plane crash: ‘Daddy, I don’t know what happened‘. Bahia Bakari is the lone survivor of the 153 people aboard Flight 626. When the jet crashed into the Indian Ocean, she was “was thrown from the plane and into the waves, where she heard voices but saw no one in the darkness”.

    “She is a very, very shy girl. I never thought she would survive like that,” Kassim Bakari said of his daughter. “I can’t say that it’s a miracle. I can say that it is God’s will… When I had her on the phone, I asked her what happened and she said, ‘Daddy, I don’t know what happened, but the plane fell into the water and I found myself in the water . . . surrounded by darkness. I could not see anyone’.”

    The NY Times adds Bahia clung to wreckage for more than 13 hours before she was rescued. ‘Officials said that the search for survivors continued in the deep waters around the crash site, about 10 miles off the coast of the island of Grand Comore, but they said that heavy winds and rough seas diminished the chances of finding anyone else alive.”

Four at Four continues with former top CIA official in Algeria charged with sexual assult, ExxonMobil funding climate change deniers, and the EPA releases list of 44 toxic coal ash sites.

Key Largo

After taking some time ‘off’ and coming back to blogging and politics with somewhat of a new perspective, I find that I do not have a new perspective. I have the same old perspective. Frustration.

Frustration that the first nation ever ostensibly founded to serve the Greater Good of The People….instead of the greater good of the King or the State itself, doesn’t.

Frustration that America has not yet grown up. As I have been walking through the corridors of my past for this last week, one oft repeated phrase from my youth resonates with my feelings for America…..”You have such potential, if only you would apply yourself!”

I now better understand the frustrations of virtually every teacher and guidance counselor I ever had in school! (Before realizing that it was actually school ityself that was cramping my true potential, and fleeing to learn from the Sacred Mountains instead!)

Now that I am old and wizened, I am frustrated that America is not living up to it’s potential. I want this very young (as countries go) to live up to its potential….to live up to the ideals and words it was founded on. And I am supremely frustrated at the assclowns that keep it from doing so.

And thus we come, in today’s rambling reentry into blogging, to the Three Pillars of Assclownism.

Republicanism.

The Media that enables it.

And the Democrats who pander to it.

Thanks to  MinistryOfTruth for the story and GOGB for compiling the video, we now have a record of the Acme of Assclownism

why it sucks

water crackles in sunlight

tips of waves are cut like diamonds

gleaming. glinting. pulsing.

ducks and loons bobbing

their babies crying

cheep cheep cheep

i push pedals.

riding alongside the vliet.

i love it.

cross posted at Daily Kos

Colors and Time

(Crossposted from The Wild Wild Left

(a natural follow up to my future shock essay)

I remember a line from a book or movie, having no recollection of the source material itself, where someone asked this genius what he thought about most of the day. They were sitting outside, and the genius had this far off look of wonder on his face, staring out into the world. He answered his curious friend, who was sitting there, palpably concentrating, trying to “figure out” the workings of his mind,”Colors, mostly.”

“Colors?”

“Yeah, I like all the greens a lot.”

I really liked that line a lot. I loved the bafflement of the listner, who was so busy trying to figure out the answers to everything, he totally forgot how to live in “time.”

To be fully aware, you have to live in the now, the scents, the colors, the sounds, the tastes, right in your skin, and appreciate the full wonder of the moments that pass before you.

I’m acutely aware of time, I live in time more than space. History is cool and all, but the greatest of philosophies happened because the people living them wrote to their times unheeding of those before them, and only paying minor attention to the future.  

NWO News

Before all the electronic cage media in this country I check

http://www.wearechange.org/

at least twice daily.  Anything else is programming aimed at dividing people so that they won’t co-operate with each other once shit hits fan big time.

It is also perfectly OK for most of you to discount links you have been told have obvious political biases.  I want to hear all sides.

Muse in the Morning

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Like a cowherd

driving cows off to the fields,

so old age and death

take away the years from the living.

–Dhammapada, verse 135

Phenomena XXXIII:  aging


Spectacle

Speculation

One day

maybe

the world will be

as I envision it

But that will be

in some far distant

day to come

and this is now

It is improbable

that I will see

and experience

my vision

Change occurs

too slowly

or perhaps

aging occurs

too fast

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–March 9, 2008

GBCFOX (Updated: Official Sheuer Bullsh!t Faux apology + ACTION!)

Crossposted at dailykos.com

I am fucking stunned as I write this.


At :24 seconds into this video

Scheuer:     ” The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. “

mediamatters.org

    Yes. It has come to this.

Who will the Senate Finance Committee Listen to?

Have you met your Senate Finance Committee?

Give em a call because your Future Health Care, or lack thereof, is in their hands.

Senate Committee on Finance

Members

REPUBLICANS

CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA

ORRIN G. HATCH, UT

OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME

JON KYL, AZ

JIM BUNNING, KY

MIKE CRAPO, ID

PAT ROBERTS, KS

JOHN ENSIGN, NV

MIKE ENZI, WY

JOHN CORNYN, TX

DEMOCRATS

MAX BAUCUS, MT

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV

KENT CONRAD, ND

JEFF BINGAMAN, NM

JOHN F. KERRY, MA

BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR

RON WYDEN, OR

CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY

DEBBIE STABENOW, MI

MARIA CANTWELL, WA

BILL NELSON, FL

ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ

THOMAS CARPER, DE

http://finance.senate.gov/site…

Chances are, these good Senators, while they hear us, have some other Constituents, always on their minds.

Late Night Karaoke





The Haters win a Case, and I am Glad 20090630

The Supreme Court found in favor of the nutcase haters from the Westboro Baptist Church and its fundamentalist (and fundamentally unhinged) founder, Fred Phelps.  This is a difficult post to write, but we that love the First Amendment must honor this proper decision.

These folks are, in my opinion, fundamentally hatred filled and also love the spotlight.  But, as much as it grieves me, they have their right to spew their toxic bile.

Climate War: the United States and China

 

“Climate change is happening now. It’s not just happening in the Arctic regions, but it’s beginning to show up in our own backyards.”

Americans are now seeing a changing climate across the country, according to Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a principal author of “The United States Global Change Research Report“.

The question now is not if climate change will happen, but how much of a change do we want to allow and how quickly will those changes come?  “Our destiny is really in our hands,” Karl explained. “The size of those impacts is significantly smaller with appropriate controls.”

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