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talk is cheap when it’s nothing more than a prime-time positional soundbite.
for the past two hours, plainclothes egyptian police (not in uniform, but still carrying their police IDs) have been attacking the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square. the revolutionaries — peaceful protestors, hundreds of thousands of people protesting PEACEFULLY for a week — are calling for international help, begging for help.
the police have now taken over some army carriers and are firing into the square. mowing down the doctors, lawyers, carpenters, students, housewives and shopkeepers of the protest. the egyptian army is standing by doing nothing more than mouthing the words “calm down”.
PRESIDENT OBAMA, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND OUT OF YOUR OFFICE AND ONTO CNN AND MAKE IT CLEAR TO MUBARAK WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW.
police OUT of the square. egyptian army STOP the rock-throwing, STOP the violence — on either side, though it’s coming almost entirely from the undercover police.
NOW. RIGHT NOW.
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Tahrir Square (courtesy of The Guardian, UK)
“We don’t want to micromanage” politics in egypt.
did our secretary of state actually say that? maybe nobody told her we’ve been bankrolling the current regime for more than a quarter of a century. what is that, if it’s not micromanaging egyptian politics?
listen up: IF IT WASN’T FOR THE UNITED STATES AND THE LUNACY OF ITS ISRAELI PROTECTIONISM PROGRAM, MUBARAK WOULD NOT BE IN POWER RIGHT NOW, THE TRADE CENTER WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ATTACKED, WE WOULDN’T BE AT WAR IN IRAQ AND LIKELY NOT EVEN AFGHANISTAN.
pardon me for hollering.
i am sick to death of the lies and the bullshit and the let’s-make-nice-kissy faces crap that emanates from this government.
anybody remember reagan saying “i’m a contra”? same fucking thing here. it made me sick then, and it makes me sick now.
obama: grow a pair and tell — TELL, don’t ask, we’ve already paid handsomely for the right to do it — mubarak to step aside. and do NOT give him asylum in this country.
hillary: grow a pair and start telling some semblance of the truth. the prime-time soundbites are really getting old.
CNN, NYT, MSNBC: how about some NEWS? why am i watching al-jazeera for updates on the egyptian revolution?
al-jazeera is running a live feed. if you don’t have realplayer, you can get a smaller version of their feed on firedoglake.
and hats off to the brave correspondents of al-jazeera, which has been shut down by the dictatorship but which has gone underground and continued reporting live.
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they already KNOW there’s a better way — i get as much email from the orgs that send me these kinds of packages as i do from those that don’t.
guess which orgs get my donations? right. even ones i love as much as amnesty international.
get WITH it, people!
and yes, i know 7 minutes is too long for a video. but hey, i got a lot to say. and i didn’t curse much at all. for me.
so.
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hint: it’s not blue.
and it’s the taproot of every one of our problems. social, environmental, political.
ask the wrong question and, whatever the answer is, it’s meaningless. start (or continue) asking the right questions. try to inspire the people in your life to do the same.
we’ve gotta start somewhere…
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it’s satire Saturday but sadly this isn’t satire.
apparently they haven’t heard that you have to take the #1 train – and ONLY that train – to get to Columbia. or they just don’t bother to tell people this when making an appointment. at least 10 people today have asked me, here on the east side of morningside park, how to get to a Columbia University address on morningside drive..
you pretty much can’t get there from here. does Columbia give a shit?
no. and I bet they’ll still give a black mark to all the people who showed up late because of their faulty directions.
is it too much to expect, that an ivy-league U get this simple thing done right?
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scented ocean-shaped rubber bands? you’re kidding me, right? nope. check it out:
the manufacturer is a company called Bandyz. they did not reply to my email asking what is the environmental impact of this product.
take a moment, would you, and email them the same question. let me know in the comments if you did, and if they bothered to reply. you can write them here,
maybe, if enough of us ask, someone will answer.
maybe they have no idea, and couldn’t give a damn about it anyway.
you can guess which i think it is… what do YOU think?
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this is the first time i can remember recommending a product on this site. it’s THAT good:
here’s a link to the actual bulbs i bought on the company website: http://www.sunshinelighting.com/Products/00627-SU/Default.aspx
not only that, but they provide some quite useful information on the site, such as how (and why) to recycle old bulbs.
the only thing they DON’T seem to have is a way to buy these bulbs, as they only do wholesale. i wish there was a link for online retail purchasing. maybe they can’t because they’d be playing favorites with their customers? i did a search and found some for sale on amazon and a couple of other sites, though the price (about $5/bulb) is the same as what i paid at the hardware store.
just make sure you’re getting the sunlite brand. there is REALLY a difference. really!
from one light-lover to another…
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did i just hear what i think i just heard? obama condemning the filbustering republicans for their bullshit?
in brooklyn, the style is called “kicking ass and taking names” — he did it, and he did it well.
and it’s about time! bipartisan politics? our system ain’t ready for it yet. (and the two-party electoral-college system is SO frigging broken it may never be ready for something as radical as consensus for the sake of the common good. but that’s another post.)
so i watched Prez O’s weekly address today (something i don’t do very often; it’s been too depressing) and fell out of my chair.
was i hallucinating the goodness and rightness of this address? take a minute (OK, three minutes) to watch it, and let me know what you think:
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eric smith is the long island man who blew his left arm off lighting some heavy-duty fireworks.
police are “considering criminal charges“. what useful purpose would that serve? haven’t been able to find any updates on these weighty police “considerations”, though i’ve got some better ideas on how they might address the situation.
if he survives, of course. the arm — or what was left of it — could not be reattached, and smith remains in critical condition.
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