In the ongoing concatenation of news causing one's face to make an almost permanent acquaintance with one's palm, surely the brutal work schedule of our 538 Washington DC employees (aka Congress) ranks high on the list.
After wisely exiting DC throughout the dog days of August (the invention of air conditioning notwithstanding...) these schtarkers have exhausted themselves with two back to back 4 day work weeks.
ENOUGH! We're outta here.
It's true, congress has gone back on vacation until mid November.
After 160+ air sorties against ISIS positions, we are able to deduce at least one guiding principal of American policy.
While we "sit shiva" for hostages, and refuse to negotiate for their release, ostensibly to prevent the ongoing funding of the terrorist enterprise, when it comes to bombing oil wells (let alone the trucks that carry the fruits thereof across the Turkish border) we stay our hand.
The second journalist who fell victim to Islamic State "execution" was set up by members of the Free Syrian Army (that'd be John McCain's "good rebels") per his surviving family,
It took only the deaths of two American reporters to send our government (particularly in the person of the President) scrambling to cobble together a manifestation of bellicosity.
Oddly, the prior deaths by way of bullet, bomb, or building collapse of far more American reporters more or less at the hands of the same cast of characters produced only weasel words, a dance around the subject, and gauzy platitudes.
The difference, of course, lay in high production values.
Assuming, for the moment, that using bombs as exclamation points to polite debate is not a family trait, this has to be the worlds' worst choice of frivolous threat to make.
"I have people who can go over there and put a bomb on you,"
Maybe just a simple promise to wrap your house in toilet paper would be a better choice of threat, jus' sayin'.
NYC Daggers will want to meet Zephyr at the Eleanor Roosevelt Statue at 2PM today (Tuesday) at 72nd and Riverside, or at 7:30 PM at the 4th Avenue Pub in Brooklyn
Among the quaint vestiges of medieval criminal law that persist in modern jurisprudence, is the doctrine of "Felony Murder"
It creates liability for murder whenever a death occurs in the course of the commission of an unlawful act (curiously, even when the deceased is an accomplice of the charged individual)
It's hard out here for a voter in Florida's 19th Congressional District (Tampa/Ft. Meyers)
First they awoke one morning last year to learn that their landslide elected (62%) first term representative, Trey Radel (late of talk radio--are you listening, Rush?) had been caught buying coke from a snitch in a Washington D.C. sting operation.
Then they had to put up with months of bullshit, including a month of residential rehab for alcoholism (wtf?) while he squirmed to avoid resigning.
Mexican children, unlike their unfortunate neighbors from slightly to the south, are apparently to be envied for the secure and loving bosom in which their enlightened country envelops them.
Notwithstanding the depravity of Mexican narco traffickers, who will not hesitate to decorate the public square with the heads of those who discomfort them, no Mexican children are forcibly recruited as drug couriers, sellers, or lookouts, unlike those unfortunates in Honduras, El Salvador, or Guatemala.
It has become a commonplace observation amongst historians of the interface between politics and jurisprudence that the enunciation of Roe v Wade, as much as it brought immediate relief from unwanted pregnancy to hundreds of thousands of women, had the perverse effect of truncating the slow but inexorable progress of democratic reform of patriarchal anti-choice law.
Those who BURNED A RANDOM 16 YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN ALIVE enjoy our protection and live under our military umbrella. The very least we can do is boycott, divest, and sanction. May we not, now, in the fullness of this horror which is enabled and abetted by an illegal occupation, say without quallification, Israel is a Nazi State? (Apartheid is too polite a word.)
