nobody's business but the Turks

The president and secretary of state are freaking the fuck out trying to rebuke the house for attempting to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide because it could possibly piss off Turkey enough to deny us access to staging bases for the Iraq war, pull troops from Afghanistan, generally fuck us in the mid-east. I think that even if the resolution gets passed they won't follow through on their threats but I want to go on record as saying I wish they would. It might hurt their economy a little but at least they wouldn't be helping us stage pointlessly amoral and disastrous wars in their own backyard.

also: Barack Obama's reticence to use the word 'genocide' post-inauguration is kind of low on my list of broken campaign pledges but still disturbingly auspicious.

criminal miscarriage!?

So I'm sure most people that read this blog know about this already but I thought I'd put it up just in case. Really pretty speechless... among other things, this bill would leave women who stay with an abusive partner and lose a pregnancy as a result of the abuse vulnerable to a homicide prosecution.

Fuck you, Utah.

Cheney endorses DADT repeal

What is this, reverse psychology?

I suppose it's like when Grandpa grudgingly says, " I guess black people are ok..." on his deathbed, to his black nurse. WAY TO GO GRANDPA!

As you can see, I've added SCOTUS and VBS.TV to our links. SCOTUS is more a reminder to myself to try and get to a place where I can better understand judicial jargon and basically not put my foot in my mouth while bemoaning Thursday's supreme court travesty. VBS.TV is another new one for me and I have to caution sensitive patrons that it's recent series of video reports from Liberia are nothing less than soul shattering, but it's stuff people should be aware of none-the-less. Thank you to Zach S and John-Paul for making me aware of these resources.

the King of love is dead

Here's a an article from the missouri record presenting gay marriage as a potential boon to state economies.

" Although many conservatives and independents espouse a libertarian perspective on fiscal matters, when it comes to social issues, the opposite appears to be occurring. "

so what turns a doctor into a suicide bomber

Is it the moral outrage that comes with witnessing a foreign power kill civilians when they happen to be at the same funeral or marketplace as a high ranking Taliban leader mixed with a mandatory dose of religious fanaticism?

I find it hard to believe it coincidence that this attack took place at a major staging ground for illegal US drone attacks and I'm sure jsoc, the cia, and "blackwater select"( What is it? Fried Chicken?)agree. EDIT , DOUBLE EDIT

It's very easy to call a suicide bomber a coward because of course almost everyone that chooses to take a life is a coward, but can't the concept of scale be applied to cowardice? Is remote control mass murder nobler than mass murder/suicide?