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Arab League Condemns “Bombardment of Civilians”, Amid Suggestions Obama Could Be Impeached

Crossposted from Antemedius

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says President Barack Obama did not have the constitutional authority to order U.S. forces to participate in an attack on Libya, reports David Edwards writing at RawStory this morning:

Rant Rip

It’s been a tough day at casa de ek with most of my energy spent on replacing a bad Cat 5 that brought down my whole network.

That problem solved I am grateful TheMomCat (no relation) brought this clip from Rachel to my attention.

Now back to tonight’s matchups.

100 Years of Hate, Beginning Today

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An American drone attack in Datta Khel, Pakistan killed 44 people, including 13 children, on March 17, 2011.

One of the elders, Malik Faridullah Wazir Khan told the BBC that “the area was completely covered in blood. There were no bodies, only body parts – hands, legs and eyes scattered around. People carried away the body parts in shopping bags and clothing or with bits of wood, whatever they could find.”

“We are a people who wait 100 years to exact revenge. We never forgive our enemy.”

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“We announce a jihad against the US and her allies sitting in our country,” said Malik Jalal Sarhadi Qat Khel, another tribal leader. “We will avenge our tribesmen at any cost, even if it takes a hundred years.”

 

Six In The Morning

Allies Target Qaddafi’s Ground Forces as Libyan Rebels Regroup



By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: March 20, 2011


TRIPOLI, Libya – American and European militaries intensified their barrage of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces by air and sea on Sunday, as the mission moved beyond taking away his ability to use Libyan airspace, to obliterating his hold on the ground as well, allied officials said.

Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before, began to regroup in the east as allied warplanes destroyed dozens of government armored vehicles near the rebel capital, Benghazi, leaving a field of burned wreckage along the coastal road to the city. By nightfall, the rebels had pressed almost 40 miles back west toward the strategic crossroads city of Ajdabiya, witnesses and rebel forces said. And they seemed to consolidate control of Benghazi despite heavy fighting there against loyalist forces on Saturday.

Six In The Morning

Allies Target Qaddafi’s Ground Forces as Libyan Rebels Regroup



By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: March 20, 2011


TRIPOLI, Libya – American and European militaries intensified their barrage of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces by air and sea on Sunday, as the mission moved beyond taking away his ability to use Libyan airspace, to obliterating his hold on the ground as well, allied officials said.

Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before, began to regroup in the east as allied warplanes destroyed dozens of government armored vehicles near the rebel capital, Benghazi, leaving a field of burned wreckage along the coastal road to the city. By nightfall, the rebels had pressed almost 40 miles back west toward the strategic crossroads city of Ajdabiya, witnesses and rebel forces said. And they seemed to consolidate control of Benghazi despite heavy fighting there against loyalist forces on Saturday.

“Why do they hate us so?” You Asked!

If the past decade plus didn’t answer that question, after 9/11, as well as the one about our ‘freedoms’, because you didn’t pay attention to what’s done in your names over the decades, maybe these very recent news reports will jog that overwhelming arrogance and total apathy embedded in the minds of this country.

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Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost…Not ’til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

–Henry David Thoreau



Splash of Color

Late Night Karaoke

On Monday Morning Philosophy, Or, Founders Tell America: “You Figure It Out”

In our efforts to form a more perfect Union we look to the Constitution for guidance for how we might shape the form and function of Government; many who seek to interpret that document try to do so by following what they believe is The Original Intent Of The Founders.

Some among us have managed to turn their certainty into something that approaches a reverential calling, and you need look no further than the Supreme Court to find such notables as Cardinals Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia providing “liturgical foundation” to the adherents of the point of view that the Constitution is like The Bible: that it’s somehow immutable, set in stone, and, if we would only listen to the right experts, easily interpreted.

But what if that absolutist point of view is absolutely wrong?

What if the Original Intent Of The Founders, that summer in Philadelphia…was simply to get something passed out of the Constitutional Convention, and the only way that could happen was to leave a lot of the really tough decisions to the future?

What if The Real Original Intent…was that we work it out for ourselves as we go along?

Primate goes apeshit.

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Dictator declines consulting with constituents.

Nincompoop does something exceedingly stupid.

Robot responds with machine-like regularity.

Sadist intentionally inflicts pain.

Insane guy incapable of judging his own mental fitness.

Yes-man says “okay” to corporate pay-masters.

Ventriloquist dummy speaks only when spoken to.

Persistent failure predicts imminent success.

Mass murderer risks compromised ethics to achieve dubious ends.

Parasite overstays welcome.

Oil-hungry military wages war for oil.

Psychopath has no regrets.

Sociopath Magnetism

Can you imagine parents evicting their own children from a family compound they spent their entire lives building?  It was built from a parcel of land given to them yet was mortaged to it’s full assesed value at every excuse to build it while her parents actually paid for it yet were evicted from it only a few years later.

Have you come to confirm as fact that your daughter’s mother in law slept with (and most of the townies know it), your wife’s favorite and community prominent uncle?

Has this mother in law witch placed her husband on psychotropic medications to alleviate his former rightous moral values.

Can I make a rational comment about globalist dweebs attacking Libya for oil or about paying $9.95 to find out if I might be on the Homeboy Security no fly list.  No it’s certainly not my father’s nor even my AfmericaVietnamistan anymore.  

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