Category Archives: If You REALLY Care

When whiter isn’t cleaner

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Despite the fact that it’s now a white-chocolate city, New Orleans just called in the army…for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. Did another hurricane hit? Yes…but not the meteorological kind. Read on: The Louisiana governor asked for the National … Continue reading →

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Here come the heroes, just in time for May Day!

Posted on May 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

You want cojones? You got ’em… Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has signed a decree placing his country’s energy industry under state control. In a May Day speech, he said foreign energy firms must agree to channel all their sales through … Continue reading →

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Too true to be truly funny

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Sabina Becker

This would be a good time to start rethinking all that, yes?

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Another unsexy post on de-privatized Argentinian water…

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…which, if you’re smart, you’ll read anyway, because one day it could concern YOU. (I’ll tell you why shortly…) Bob Chapman, of the International Forecaster, writes: Water is contaminated in some suburbs of Buenos Aires and has been since 1993, … Continue reading →

Posted in Don't Cry For Argentina, If You REALLY Care, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, She Blinded Me With Science, Socialism is Good for Capitalism! | Comments Off

Jill Carroll: “I did not speak freely”

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Remember how all the asshats on the right got up in arms about the last video her captors made of Jill Carroll, the freelancer writing for the Christian Science Monitor? Apparently they really believed her when she said capitivity was … Continue reading →

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Hell’s maw is a-gapin’…

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Mike Malloy has a wonderful turn of phrase that I sometimes hear him use on his radio show (which, by the way, you shouldn’t miss–it’s on Air America Radio, weeknights, 10 pm-1 am Eastern. Webcast available here.) Whenever someone particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, If You REALLY Care, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Pissing Jesus Off, Sick Frickin' Bastards, The War on Terra, W is for Weak (and Stupid) | Comments Off

How the Christian Peacemakers were freed

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

The Beeb has the details… Briton Norman Kember and his Canadian colleagues James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were freed after a multinational military raid acting on information provided by a detainee, the US military says. The rescue was completed … Continue reading →

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Sean Hannity can shut the fuck up now

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

The weeniest of all the wingnuts (with the possible exception of Tucker Carlson, about whom more later) can now stop asking his annoying “gotcha” question: Is the world better off with or without Saddam? Because at last there is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, Crapagandarati, If You REALLY Care, Newspeak is Nospeak, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, The War on Terra | Comments Off

More hopeful news from Argentina

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sabina Becker

More proof that things in Argentina are changing for the better, especially on the human-rights front: Argentina has decided to make public all secret archives of the armed forces to help uncover human rights violations committed under military rule. The … Continue reading →

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Argentina de-privatizes its water