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Showing posts with label Occupy Oakland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Occupy Oakland. Show all posts

Monday, November 14, 2011

Stories to Watch: 11/14/11

Short one today. Having some trouble with my social widgets on my blogspot blogs, which is why they look different right now. Hope to get the both back to normal, so I can have them match again. Now here's the news...


Hey, remember how we couldn't possibly elect Barack Obama president because he didn't have any foreign policy experience? Seems foreign policy experience (or even the lack of any evidence of basic competence) isn't such a big deal when the candidate's a Republican.


The Supreme Court has scheduled 5 1/2 hours of oral arguments for and against the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In high school, I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer. Glad I didn't follow through.


60 Minutes drops the ball in their exposé of the legal insider trading by members of congress.


Oakland Mayor Jean Quan loses her top legal adviser over her city's handling of the Occupy Oakland protest. "The city sent police to evict this camp, arrest people and potentially hurt them," said mayoral legal adviser Dan Siegel, who handed in his resignation. "Obviously, we're not on the same page. It's an amazing show of force to move tents from a public place... I am really disappointed [with Oakland, which has become] the most hostile city to the Occupy movement. Where else are they having 600 police officers take down some tents?"


Finally, what are these big public works projects out in the desert in China? One of them sort of looks like a solar farm, until you look at it up close and see big freakin' jets parked out there. Weird.
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Saturday, November 05, 2011

Stories to Watch: 11/5/11

Going to go out and deal with fallen leaves today. I'm not going to rake though; I've got a mulching mower, so I'm just going to run them all over and chop them up into tiny pieces. Way easier. If I could only clean house as easily. Now here's the news...


RIP Andy Rooney.


As Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal shows some staying power, rightwing blogs begin shooting the messenger.

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It's now illegal to even be in the vicinity of Occupy Oakland protesters, as Army vet Kayvan Sabeghi found out. According to Sabeghi, he was "walking to his home near Frank Ogawa Plaza when he was stopped by police." The police handed down a harsh street sentence for his proximity violation, as he was "hit in the abdomen four times and then arrested and taken to jail where he could not receive medical treatment." He suffered a ruptured spleen and had to undergo two hours of surgery. All for not participating in a protest, but for just passing by. "Sabeghi is out of surgery and is recovering in the intensive care unit," we're told.

"At one point he asked for assistance and they told him to stop taking heroin," his sister says. "Another time they told him he was an alcholic and a diabetic, neither of which are true."

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Newt Gingrich threatens to act like a desperate fool.


Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer displays rank incompetence. And not for the first time.


Both McConnell and Boehner are getting a little weak at the knees when it comes to tax increases on the wealthy.


Finally, we're in for a near-miss from a giant asteroid, which allows us to ponder the inevitable -- one of these days, one won't miss.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Stories to Watch: 10/26/11

Geez, it's getting cold. I'm calling an early snow this year. Wait and see. Now here's the news...


After police riot in response to Occupy Oakland, an Iraq war vet is in critical condition after being shot in the head with a "police projectile."


In the aftermath of the widely and thoroughly documented police brutality, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan issues a statement commending Police Chief Howard Jordan "for a generally peaceful resolution to a situation that deteriorated and concerned our community." The gall it takes to release such a statement is, quite frankly, astonishing.


The shifting sands of Rick Perry's birtherism shift yet again.


Fox News blames the non-existent ACORN for the Occupy movement. Seriously, that's just lazy. It's time to cook up a new batch of Fifth Columnists who have the advantage of actually existing, guys.


Rep. Chelsea Clinton?


The Obama administration pushes student loan reform, addressing a common complaint among the 99-percenters.


Hold onto your hat, because things are going to get stupid. The Supreme Court will begin hearing challenges to the Affordable Care Act as soon as Nov. 10. Expect the wingnuts to take to twitter shrieking about "death panels" again.


Finally, Rick Perry actually buys an ad promising a pretty disappointing rate of job growth.
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