IMUS HATE-SPEAK YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
by Lydia Cornell @ 10:55 AM PDT
Got this from our other site from my co-host Doug Basham, at BASHAM AND CORNELL PROGRESSIVE TALK
Doug says: And these “values” were only violated last week with the nappy headed ho’s comment? How about when Imus said…
On the New York Knicks: “chest-bumping pimps” the New York Crips.”
On superstar Gloria Estefan: “this little Chihuahua-looking ‘ho.”
On serial gay-killer Andrew Cunannan: “Why are they bothering to catch this guy? He’s just whacking off freaks!”
On Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Native American: “The guy from F Troop.”
On CNN’s female anchors: “dyke-ie broads.”
On media critic Howard Kurtz: “boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jew boy.”
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Congressman Charles Rangel will be our guest April 14. He will discuss his 30-year Congressional career and his new book, “And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress.”
Recent guests: Lt. Eric Shine, whistleblower whose life was interrupted by the Dept. of Homeland Security; Mark Green, one of the new owners of Air America, founder of New Democracy Project and author of “Losing Our Democracy.” We’ve had some amazing guests the past 3 weeks: former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, author of “U.S. vs BUSH” which is going to be a movie, a courtroom drama on the Bush Impeachment. We also had Media Matters’ Paul Waldman, author of “Being Right is Not Enough”. Last week we interview Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert on his report “If it’s Sunday it Must be Conservative.” Boehlert is the author of LAPDOGS: “How the Press Rolled Over for Bush.” A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time.
An hour after I left it, the Iraqi Parliament was attacked by a suicide bomber!
by anthony @ 18:15 BST
by Jane Stillwater
OpEdNews
April 12, 2007 at 08:26:54
Yesterday I went down to the Iraqi Parliament and interviewed two female Parliament members regarding their views on the current situation in Iraq. The Parliament was meeting in what formerly used to be Baghdad’s most prestigious convention center. I sat in the Center’s restaurant for over an hour, interviewing the Parliamentarians and observing various delegates come and go.
After I had written and filed my story this morning, I returned to the convention center in order to see if I could give a copy of it to my two female Parliamentarian interviewees. I entered the front of the building and climbed the stairs to the second floor but after a visual search of the many delegates gathered there to caucus between sessions, I was unable to find who I was looking for and so I left.
An hour later an apparent suicide bomber somehow managed to enter the restaurant and set off an incendiary device which, according to Reuters, injured over a dozen delegates, some of them seriously. Two delegates were allegedly killed.
My heart goes out to the injured delegates and their families – and to all of Iraq. Am I relieved that I missed being injured by flying shrapnel or burned? Of course. But more than that, I am deeply grieved by this tragic horror that happened to people who were well and whole just mintues before.
Banana Republic USA: Mexican Truckers to Stampede America; "Bush outta Control!"
by Global Evildoer Fighter @ 11:50 AM EDT
Mexican truck stampede to hit U.S.!
Bush administration moving ahead despite congressional opposition
April 12, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi
Despite congressional opposition, the Bush administration is fully committed to beginning within weeks a pilot test that will allow Mexican trucks to operate freely across the U.S.
(TTNews.com)
Worldnetdaily
AMERICAN TRUCKERS A DYING BREED!
McCains Paradise Met Reality!
by Global Evildoer Fighter @ 11:40 AM EDT BAGHDAD Apr 12, 2007 (AP)— A bomb rocked Iraq’s parliament building in the heavily fortified Green Zone Thursday, killing at least two lawmakers in a stunning security breach in the third month of a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown on violence in the capital, officials said.
AN EXPLOSION HAS ROCKED THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT, IN BAGHDAD, OFFICIALS SAY AT LEAST TWO IRAQI LAWMAKERS HAVE BEEN KILLED
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
The Dog Ate It!
by anthony @ 16:37 BST
Tom Hamburger
The Los Angeles Times
April 11, 2007 at 05:55 PM
White House Email Controversy Grows: Thousands Of Messages May Be “Lost”
The White House said today that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through a private e-mail system used by political guru Karl Rove and at least 50 other top officials, an admission that stirred anger and dismay among congressional investigators.
The e-mails were considered potentially critical evidence in congressional inquiries launched by Democrats into the role partisan politics may have played in such policy decisions as the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
Senators Expand Inquiry of Political Prosecutions
by Anthony
Amanda Lang
OpEdNews
Posted 04/11/2007 @ 01:04am
The question of whether any of the 85 U.S. Attorneys who were not fired by the Bush administration may have engaged in political prosecutions blew open Tuesday, when key members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded files pertaining to a botched prosecution in Wisconsin.
Ultimately, the big story of the scandal at the Department of Justice will not be that of the eight fired prosecutors. It will be that of the 85 who were not fired, and of what they did or did not do to keep their jobs.
Committee chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and five other senators have asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for documents dealing with the case of a Wisconsin state employee who was tried in a case that played out during the course of the 2006 gubernatorial race in that state. Republicans used the prosecution as part of a television attack campaign aimed at defeating Democratic Governor James Doyle.
U.S. Attorney Stephen Biskupic obtained an election-season conviction of the state employee, Georgia Thompson, on charges that she steered a state contract to a Doyle donor. But a federal appeals court last week overturned that conviction with a stinging decision that complained about a lack of evidence. One of the appeals court judges said Biskupic’s case was “beyond thin.”
Biskupic, who also investigated Republican-pushed charges of “voter fraud,” which proved to be without validity, was not one of the eight U.S. Attorneys fired by Gonzales in what appears to have been an attempt to purge prosecutors who refused to use their positions to advance the agenda of White House political czar Karl Rove and other GOP operative.
Rather, Biskupic was one of the 85 U.S. Attorneys who met the standards applied by Gonzales and the Bush White House.
At issue, of course, is what those standards required of the federal prosecutors who retained their jobs. Were they expected to conduct politicized prosecutions? More importantly, did any of them conduct prosecutions on a schedule designed to benefit Republican electoral prospects?
