Tag: social studies

CNN video on bloggers keeping the Downing Street Memo alive. Big Brass Alliance was mentioned. Awaken the Mainstream Media’s suggested targets for the day. And then this. Via the comments area at an Americablog posting on the Downing Street Memo beginning to be covered by the US media, is the following article from The Nation.…

Grabbed this from over at Dkos. It’s a poster placed by MARC, the metro rail between Baltimore and DC. As is pointed out, the “Watch, Ride, Report” poster, requesting all to keep look-out for suspicious objects, overwhelmingly recalls Socialist Realism or what many retain in their memory as Socialist Realism. On the web we tend…

Reading Heretik’s reference to the 57-year-old “grandmother” who was put on a terrorist suspect list when found at the airport to be packing a butter knife, it occurs to me this will be how it ends. First, don’t you love it how the press always pulls the “She’s a grandmother!” shtick. Would they have the…

AfterDowningStreet.org gets one million hits! That’s news. Read more at the Heretik. Downing Street link for watching: Crooks and Liars Downing Street Memo on C-Span link in which Steve Cobble of After Downing Street debates with Kevin Aylward of Wizbang on the memo’s merits. The Awaken the Media news targets for June 6 …can be…

Check out this video of a cop tasering a woman via Stone Bridge. Stone Bridge notes that the cop remarks, likely for benefit of the camera (a) that it didn’t hurt, and (b) that she took a swing at the second officer and thus the taser. She didn’t take a swing. Stone Bridge didn’t observe…

The ACLU has prevailed and a judge has ordered the government to release more Abu Ghraib photos and videos showing abuse of prisoners. But get a load of the brilliant argument Bush Co. used against releasing them. Government lawyer Sean Lane had argued that releasing pictures, even in redacted form, would violate Geneva Convention rules…