Category: Politics & Government

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Fuck You GOP

The GOP is not interested in doing the job they were hired to do = serving the American people they represent; they’re only goal is political gain for themselves.

REP Patrick McHenry (R) North Carolina quote:

“We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010. Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for Pelosi and for house Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint.” – Source

F this guy. From here on out some people will assume that nothing the republicans do can be considered constructive, rather destructive. Officials like this that play politics so overtly are why American people despise politicians.

Warren Buffet quote:
“The republicans have an obligation to regard this as an economic war and you need one leader….Job 1 is to win the economic war, job 2 is to win the economic war. Job 3… you can’ expect people to unit behind you if you’re jamming other things down their throat.”

Even many republican’s hate Patrick McHenry; see all his scandals on this site.

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Expats leaving Dubai, dumping cars and dreams at the airport

photo by cabrown01 on Flickr

I have a friend that lives in Dubai, I believe it might be his birthday this week but I’ve been reading about the crashing effect of global downturn in business, especially that of the construction capital of the world: Dubai. It seems that many expats are just junking their cars at the airport as they fly back home, unable to pay their loans or find a new job. I know one friend left his job early to return to the states and it’s clues like these people should realize that this economic recession is worldwide.

Indians flee as dreams crash [Mumbai/DUBAI – JAN 14]
Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park [The Times Online – February 5, 2009]
Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down [The NY Times February 11, 2009]

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Stirring the Pot

No this is not a reference to a Tyler Florence cook book, but I wanted to revive some discussion I’ve had prior to the inauguration with a thread of emails with friends (“Interesting…” string)

Superbowl thread? Naw, AZ is going to “upset” the Steelers…

I just watched A Few Good Men and wanted to comment on Obama’s quick signing order to close Gitmo… Did he just “weaken a country” this week as Col. Nathan R. Jessep (known in this plot line as the GOP) claims, or is this just a symbolic statement to right the “America’s Human Rights & Justice” ship which has been tipped sideways in the last 8 years. This is very telling article in the Washington Post of how BushCo administration treated the situation down there.

Reading the first three paragraphs, my take (sourced from DKos) is that detention and interrogation (“torture”) were a higher priority to the former Administration than figuring out which cases actually merited prosecution. In other words, locking up some Arabs and torturing them was more important than determining if they were actually guilty and prosecuting them for their crimes.

While no such agency is doing a great job in monitoring, collecting and merging all kinds of data on all Americans especially the press (whistleblower video and shouldn’t really be a surprise given all the stories on this over the years in this area), this administration wasn’t interested in keep comprehensive files on their detainees to build a case against detainees.

Even with the closing of Gitmo, the new administration has such a cluster to deal with, it will be a miracle of governmental process to get this resolved within his first term. The Right meanwhile, is prepared to continually call Obama a terrorist sympathizer or a failure through out his administration regardless of actual Justice he’s looking to restore to not just Americans but all people.

Galloway: Tell your friend not to get cute down there, the Marines at Gitmo are fanatical.
Lt. Weinberg: Fanatical about what?
Galloway: About being Marines.