Seven die during protest over Koran burning

The Afghan Interior Ministry says seven people have died in the turmoil related to the Muslim holy books.

The ministry says in a statement the deaths occurred Wednesday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, in the eastern city of Jalalabad, and in the provinces of Logar and Parwan. Four of the dead were killed during a protest in Parwan. The ministry said security guards at a U.S. base outside Kabul killed one man, and another isolated shooting occurred at Jalalabad and at Logar.

"The Embassy is on lockdown; all travel suspended," the embassy announced on its Twitter page Wednesday. "Please, everyone, be safe out there."

Is this all?

With Betty Friedan, with the Feminine Mystique, which begins: "The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — 'Is this all?'"

Half empty

You're worried your house is under water?

Boston Power

Side by side comparison of heat loss.

Enjoy yourself

It's later than you think.

We are down with the coup

in the Maldives.
We support the drive for climate change.
We are developing plans for a strategic submarine base.

Democracy

falling from the sky *

The fox's teeth are in the bunny

and nothing can remove them, honey.
Gavin Ewart

Bomb size

"atomic" bombs are in the range of 15 KT.
Hydrogen bombs are in the range of 15 MT, 1000 times bigger.

Markets will eliminate world hunger

The mechanism: starvation.

What does this flag mean?

It means the Congressman has a lot of veterans in his district.

New Rules

Glenn Greenwald
(1) If you are a high-ranking government official who commits war crimes, you will receive full-scale immunity, both civil and criminal, and will have the American President demand that all citizens Look Forward, Not Backward.
(2) If you are a low-ranking member of the military, you will receive relatively trivial punishments in order to protect higher-ranking officials and cast the appearance of accountability.
(3) If you are a victim of American war crimes, you are a non-person with no legal rights or even any entitlement to see the inside of a courtroom.
(4) If you talk publicly about any of these war crimes, you have committed the Gravest Crime — you are guilty of espionage – and will have the full weight of the American criminal justice system come crashing down upon you.

Kabul

Afghanistan

Houston, we have a problem...

That is what House Resolution 3131 is all about. It is titled, in part, “To direct the secretary of state to submit a report on whether any support organization that participated in the planning or execution of the recent Gaza flotilla attempt should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization….”

Looks like war was not the last resort

Looks like negotiated settlement was the last resort.

You and who else

Possibly to be replaced by George Washington Harkins.
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall said "I order you to leave the Cherokee in possession of their traditional tribal lands".
To which Jackson replied "You, and who else ..."

Let's get this criminal off the $20.

Black Bush

we don't need no
checks and balances.
we it, mofo

Bethany Matta

in front of the destroyed Presidential Palace in Kabul

Two Tablets

Separation of Church and State

Three generations of imbeciles are enough

George Jr wanted to drill in the Caribou calving grounds.
Buck v. Bell(1927)

Funny

Quick Memes

Today's Geography

Iran is close to many US military outposts.
We have a base in Herat? Ahh, Shindad Airbase.
I see the base in Kandahar

Popular Memes

Check it out.

In Dog We Trust

Georgia adds a motto to its license plate.
It's not "Mmmm, peaches".

There comes a time when

the opposition is not to be reasoned with,
but to be reckoned with.
That time is a bleak time.

MF - radical fundamentalist

Everybody has a price.

The Pipeline

will create thousands of jobs,
good paying jobs.

Me and the Hancock 38

December 1st in DeWitt town court

Another world is possible

Another US is necessary
EastBay Social Forum 2012

Intelligence failure

PDB: Bin Laden determined to strike in the US
OK. You've covered your ass.

Garrison Keilor, William Blake

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among those dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold,
Bring me my Arrows of desire,
Bring me my Spear; O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have build Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land.

Elizabeth Warren

on healthcare
You think if you have health insurance, you are safe.
No.

Truth, Justice, theAmericanWay

Status update on the never ending battle.

Godspeed You Black Emperor

lift your skinny fist

Too big to jail

Glenn Greenwald
and the rule of lawlessness.
Nader remembers 9/11.

Bill of Attainder

Why are the laws that restrict the releasing of the Guantanamo prisoners who are cleared for release not unconstitutional as bills of attainder?

People Are Prisoners

remember Troy Davis

Bloomberg shuts down OWS

but the cat is out of the bag.

The Levellers at the Putney Debates: 1647

Thus Thomas Rainsborough argued:
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, Sr, I think it clear, that every Man that is to live under a Government ought first by his own Consent to put himself under that Government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put Himself under.

The Last Refuge of Scoundrels - the flag

Too Big To Fail is Too Big.
Q: What did Wall Street get for donating to Obama in 2008?
A: Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury rather than Stiglitz,
and Larry Summers, and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's bonus.

The Reign of Terror - 21st century style

Original Guy

a penny for the guy?

Bev Rice

Arrested and jailed for demonstrating in front of the White House.

Drinking in public

If the boys hadn't come, there would have been plenty of wine.
Pastor: "John's followers fast, but you guys party."
Mary: "Why do You hang around with those people."
Assistant Manager: "Shows frequent lapses of judgement."

Entitlement reform

French Revolution style

If crucifixion is so bad for you

why did Christ do it?
blood on the tracks

Pride

Is a sin.
Pride says, you're exceptional.

Original Sin

Was it thinking "Am I not God?"
Original and still popular.

Super committee

Q: Will the super committee's plan differ from the default?
A: Huh?

Tax the rich.
Bring the weapons home.

Boo

You should be afraid.

The notion that anyone will not be welcome in heaven

is insane

Tom Perez to speak in Buffalo Oct 27th

Buffalo Club (388 Delaware at Edward) at noon.
Register in advance at bit.ly/PerezBuffaloClub
$25 in advance, $30 at the door.
See Ray McGovern's report of a previous Perez appearance at bit.ly/q15f7y (War is a Crime)

They Got Bailed Out - Day 13

We got sold out.
September 29: www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/6196095827
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Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Clean up. Wall Street.

Is the Constitution quaint?

Glenn Greenwald asks.

The lesson of slavery

What is the lesson of slavery?
That southerners were blinded by self interest?
Or that people can be blinded by self-interest?
-or-
People who are making money
will defend the methods
no matter how vile.

Senior coffee

Age discrimination.

No middle class

No Las Vegas

He has guts, has backbone

Unfortunately, other parts were missing.

Has anyone forgotten

That on this day, ten years ago, nineteen young male muslims, mostly from Saudi Arabia, and educated in the USA, organized out of Germany, crashed four jetliners into targets in the USA,
and began all the trouble, so they say.

Since that time, the assholes have largely won.

BoA

The gold standard of white collar crime.

The new middle east

The old middle east, the second world, is falling.
The corruption has gone too far for too long.
The land is being split between Iran and the USA.
i think

Baths for the homeless

in Paris. Bains*Douches

Jobless recovery

If you need a job,
a jobless recovery is not a recovery;
it is the same ol' same old.

If you have a job,
it is still not a recovery,
just you might not be let go.

A jobless recovery is a recovery for business;
for the owners of the means of production.

If you have two coats, give one to him who has none

I hear many churches are pressing the government
to enact this moral legislation.
Similar law in the works for houses.
KJV Luke 3:11

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

If you own a boat, you are probably ok.
If you live in a low-lying area, you might be swept away.

For workers, the union is their boat.
The others, ...

The future of America

Flint, Michigan.
Or Detroit, says Dmitri.

Six Trillion Dollars worth

30,000 of them, in 1967, at $200,000,000 per.
Yup.
That's less than an F-22 at 3 for a billion

Protecting Missouri

Stealth technology.
Another great idea
whose time will never come.

Asymmetric Warfare: War 4.0

This is what is has come down to.

Antarctica - Mostly Dead Continent

But inside the limestone, green.