Monthly Archives: October 2006

Michael J. Fox on Limbaugh and stem cells

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Like pretty well everyone who went to high school in the 1980s, I liked Michael J. Fox. Not in a screamy, crushy, posters-all-over-my-wall, die-for-him way (uh, that would have been the guys in Duran Duran), but in a he’s-cute, he’s-funny, … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Redemption for the cowboy hat

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And this head is entitled to the gear. Chavecito is, unlike Dubya, actually from a state where real cowboys ride the range. In fact, his own grandfather, Jorge Rafael Saavedra, was a rodeo worker, a coleador. The spirit of the … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with YouTubes…

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

If you can see a CBC/The Fifth Estate video clip on Dick Cheney when you press Play, I’ve succeeded.Enjoy!

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One more illicit Colombian export…

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…shared by, of all places, North Korea: Colombia and North Korea are the largest producers of fake US banknotes, a report suggests. The study by the US Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Secret Service said that one in every 10,000 … Continue reading →

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The anti-woman, pro-death movement wins one in Nicaragua

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

This is absolutely disgusting. Not to mention unenforceable, unless the state becomes a willingly complicit murderer of women: Nicaragua has approved a sweeping new law banning abortions, even in cases where the mother’s life is at risk. The national assembly … Continue reading →

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A tortured silence

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Two items on something we’re not supposed to talk about. Shhhhh…shhh, the word of the day is TORTURE. First, from the UK Guardian: According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to let Germany have access to one of … Continue reading →

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It’s even more disgusting than I thought…

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Crooks and Liars has a video of Keith Olbermann and Sam Seder discussing the Rush Limbaugh’s nasty, crass, baseless attack on Michael J. Fox. Man, is it something. Olbermann and Seder are their usual awe-inspiring, bang-on selves. But the Pigman? … Continue reading →

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Minutemen make monkeys of themselves

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A couple of days ago I blogged on a certain noteworthy Zapatista demonstrating just how easy it is to get past a Minuteman (pronounced “myNOOTman”, as in very small and not well endowed) patrol. Well, today, Raw Story has revealed … Continue reading →

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One sick Pigman

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Sabina Becker

This bit of blather is exactly what we’d expect of the drug-addled Rush Limbaugh. The Pigman went over the top again, attacking Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s Disease rather severely, as “either off [his] medication or acting” when he … Continue reading →

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Making monkeys of the Minutemen

Posted on October 23, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Not that they needed much help, since they are all flying monkeys already. But the ever obliging Zapatista, Subcomandante Marcos, recently demonstrated just how stupid they are…and how futile it is to try to fence off the US/Mexico border:Narco News … Continue reading →

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