* Iran's efforts to censor and control its citizens' access to the Internet is remarkable, and makes China look almost liberal by comparison.
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The only people any government has to fear are the People themselves.
And the differnece between Iran,. China, Britain and us is...?

That banner was hilarious. Perhaps it is they who need to learn English.

Aw, how very, very brave of Chris Dodd, supporting marriage equality only after the CT State Supreme Court already did the hard work for him back home. I'm so touched by his bravery. **snort** Maybe when he publicly, vocally condemns the DOJ brief calling me a pedophile and a sisterfucker, and introduces legislation in the Senate for the repeal of DADT and DOMA, I might be persuaded to buy him a cookie. Until then, well, forgive me for being unimpressed.

Congrats to Sarkozy for rejecting that potato sack that Muslim extremists make their women wear. Here in Canada, politicians are diving into their holes as I write so they don't have to go on record, the cowardly scum.

France is pretty neat at times.

***"Bolstering an argument from the weekend, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough took issue with John McCain's and Lindsey Graham's criticism of the White House policy on Iran, calling their attacks "outrageous"***

Yeah--that was welcome. It sort of put it on the front page.

Joe shot a hole in the war-mongering neocon talking point--this time free of Pat Buchanan's potential interruption to blunt Joe's point.
It reminded me of when Gore Vidal spoke about Bush, saying but for a people that knows no history, does not want to know history, with a corrupt media that will not tell you the truth about anything going on in the world, what else could we have, but a dumb, cheerleader president (Bush)

It was as if Joe Scarborough intervened with the current cheerleaders McCain and Graham--
in calling their views stunning.
I'll take it.

Where's Seymour Hersh been? I would like to know what he is finding out.

"It was an 8-1 ruling, with only Clarence Thomas dissenting."

Say what? -Thomas- is the lone dissenter on something?

Either that is one of the signs of the apocolypse, or Scalia scratched his nose and Thomas mistook it as a signal.

Over a couple/three centuries the British Empire managed to pretty much fuck up the known world. (Colonial America, Chinese Opium Wars, splitting Pakistan and Afganistan into separate countries, 'creating' Iraq with a pen and a map, Aboriginal Australia, the Dark Continent- I could go on, but the historians among us get the point.)

Over the past eight short years Bush's America managed to hold its own against the English record.

Now that a true Man of the World has come to office, it's amusing to observe the death rattles of the Old Guard.

Are you listening, Pat Buchanan?

Washington D.C.: Two Metro Trains collide around 5:00pm EST--at least two have died thus far and many injured. Apparently one jumped the rail and hit the the other head on with great force. At Fort Totten/ Takoma Park lines near MD/D.C. border.

Not sure if Metro accident was a head on collision, but appears nearly so.

A doctor in the field for 24 years had this right-on comment to Paul Krugman's NY Times article, when you think of meddlesome Republicans back in the Clinton administration:

The Republican line that "you don't want your government standing between you and your doctor", just doesn't resonate. The point is we have had the insurance industry standing between us and our doctors since 1993, and it hasn't been a pleasant experience. After the insurance industry killed health reform in 1993, we got their vision of the ideal system: HMOs, PPOs, high deductibles, limited choice of doctors, hospitals, and services, ever increasing premiums and low quality. The insurance industry has done nothing to earn the trust of the American people. As you said in your previous column: #1 Don't trust the insurance companies #2 Don't trust the insurance companies.

Say what? -Thomas- is the lone dissenter on something?

Either that is one of the signs of the apocolypse, or Scalia scratched his nose and Thomas mistook it as a signal. -- David Langdon, @18:37

Neither; you think about it, and Thomas was bound to be the one. At least, when I read about that 8:1 decision where the site didn't say who the hold-out was, I thought it must be him. Consider:
1) the Voting Rights Act was put in place to stop the -- mostly Southern -- states from disenfranchising voters.
2) The most disenfranchised group has been -- and still is -- blacks.
3) Thomas is *viciously* against any sign of affirmative action, or any action from the government that would better the situation for blacks.

"He's more Catholic than the Pope", as the saying goes. It had to have been him. Prick.

I have to ask when is the MSM going to verify with whom John Ensign had an affair with? His statement was so ambiguous about the gender of his lover it should have sent red flags up for the media, but of course they assumed it must be the wife.

Are you sure you want to call the Supreme Court, The SUPREME Court? Sometimes litigants have to plea with their bodies.

Who knew Thomas could think for himself. I thought he got his martching orders from Scalia.

"As part of a scary, right-wing conference over the weekend, Pat Buchanan talked up English-only initiatives..."

Because these people apparently don't know that Spanish is also one of the country's DOMESTIC languages, and has been since the mid-19th century when the U.S. acquired the largely Spanish speaking Southwestern territories.

If interested, there's a slide show, and the video of "Neda" @ http://worldfocus.org

click on Iranian Police Use Gunfire, Teargas to Break up Protest.

So much for the claimed division among the Guardian Council. Iran state media reports:

Iran's Guardian Council rules out the possibility of nullifying the country's June 12 Presidential election, saying there has been no record of any major irregularity.

Steve, you mention two Supreme decisions, but, you failed to write about their gift to St Sarah. They voted 6-3 to overturn a 9th Court of Appeals ruling which blocked a Corps of Engineers backed plan to allow dumping of tailings in a pristine lake north of Juneau, Alaska. The Kellogg, ID based mining company, with Palin's rah-rah approval, wants to dump polluted tailings 3 miles north of their new mine. The tailings will kill the fish in the lake, but, their spokesperson raves that all will be simply peachy afterwards and newly stocked fish will frolic in an "even better" environment. The Clean Water Act was smashed due to a Bush administration revision of the word "fill". So, "fill" trumps clean water. Big win for polluters and St Sarah and corporate friends.

a people that knows no history

splitting Pakistan and Afganistan into separate countries

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