HILLARY'S SEX APPEAL
Clinton is winning overwhelming support from women voters. The reason? The fact is that we’ve never had a female president. And for many women across the country—especially those of the boomer generation who have seen the role of women in American society change so dramatically—Clinton’s election would be a historic milestone and a source of great pride.
(TRUTHDIG)
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
HISTORICAL VIGNETTE
Forty seven years ago Saul Landau left Cuba on the last scheduled ferry from Havana to Key West -- just as the government passed the 1960 Urban Reform Law that nationalized commercially owned real estate and eliminated landlords. During the eight hour ride he chatted with middle class Cubans who decided to abandon their homes and leave the island after losing their businesses.
Forty seven years ago Saul Landau left Cuba on the last scheduled ferry from Havana to Key West -- just as the government passed the 1960 Urban Reform Law that nationalized commercially owned real estate and eliminated landlords. During the eight hour ride he chatted with middle class Cubans who decided to abandon their homes and leave the island after losing their businesses.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us - New York Times
BLIND I
By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago. As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader, observed last weekend in The Sunday Times of London, America’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques have a grotesque provenance: “Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the ‘third degree.’ It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.”
(Suggested by Michael Smith)
By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago. As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader, observed last weekend in The Sunday Times of London, America’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques have a grotesque provenance: “Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the ‘third degree.’ It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.”
(Suggested by Michael Smith)
Monday, October 15, 2007
ARTS SHOW SLATED
The Watercolor & Graphic Arts Society of Mobile announces its fall juried exhibition at the Bay Rivers Art Guild, 1704 6th Street, Daphne, Alabama, October 20 through November 19, 2007. The awards ceremony and Block Party is scheduled for October 20, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Call (251) 621-0659 for information.
(Suggested by Lynda Touart)
The Watercolor & Graphic Arts Society of Mobile announces its fall juried exhibition at the Bay Rivers Art Guild, 1704 6th Street, Daphne, Alabama, October 20 through November 19, 2007. The awards ceremony and Block Party is scheduled for October 20, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Call (251) 621-0659 for information.
(Suggested by Lynda Touart)
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