just like Dennis Kucinich stood out in MoveOn's poll in 2004-- only to be ignored and rejected by the MSM every day after that, Ron Paul-- another politician with a lot of common sense, seems to have won the MSNBC poll.
To me, he's almost like the "Democrat's Democrat."
and let me know what you think!
I found this innuendo to be quite disturbing:
The study found that soldiers who had high levels of anger, experienced high levels of combat or screened positive for a mental health symptom were nearly twice as likely to mistreat non-combatants as those who reported low levels of anger, said Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, the acting Army surgeon general.
in my mind, why should the media blame the emotional state of our troops for the chaos in Iraq? because, after all, aren't our troops, first and foremost, trained to dispose of the enemy efficiently and without regret?
to absolve "higher ups" from war crimes by blaming the mental state of their subordinates seems totally disingenuous.
what's even more surprising is that, asides from linking mental illness and stress to inhumane acts, instead of a war plan, the article also refuses to defend or discuss the right of every soldier to decline the order to redeploy!
because, after all, if mental illess and stress cause our soldiers to act inhumanely, then shouldn't our military's redeployment policy, which redeploys soldiers as quickly as possible, before they have any regrets, be addressed as well?
in my mind, if the "higher ups" in the military know that they can reduce the scope of inhumane acts simply by allowing soldiers to refuse redeployment, then shouldn't top brass change current policy or take the moral responsibility for what happens?
"WASHINGTON — Government and community leaders aren't doing enough to counter multimedia-savvy terrorists from using flashy websites, provocative video games, hip-hop music and gruesome images of bloodied Muslim children to recruit young people online, according to a new report that says the Internet may be extremists' most powerful frontier."
"There's only one side on the battlefield, and it isn't us," says Frank Cilluffo, director of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute, who will testify Thursday on the Internet-Facilitated Radicalization report in the Senate. "We've created this global village — the Internet — without a police department."
this made me laugh since every US written story, about people dying in bagdahd, seems to say: "heads cut off and body tortured."
and what does our good friend Joe say?
"The Internet is a weapon in the hands of our extremist enemies," says Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee
what a hoot. i'd love it if Joe started talking about what happens when the wrong people become president and what that does to a country.
source: usatoday, Report says Internet a key tool for extremists
The creaks of economic globalization were loud yesterday:
"IBM fires 1315 Employees and an unknown number of contractors, across the country today in IBM Global Services ITD." source: Alliance IBM
now, a "spanish professor" told me during a hike this weekend that his job couldn't be outsourced. I thought, "this guy hasn't used skype" or looked at the foreign language offerings on the web...
And, this moring, I wondered what he'd think about the posts in IBM Alliance's job cuts comments.
Specifically, I saw a repeated reference to something called "competency centers."
perhaps the public schools will ultimately revolve around "competency centers" that regulate the entire educational process? and who knows what else?
If you read the "postings on job cuts," I'd love to hear your reaction about it here...
Where's our culture headed?
