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January 20 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Watch The Bandits - The Republicans Try To Repeal 'ObamaCare' A LAW That Was Passed And Signed
In The News: Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying the news and commentary audio files.
They bring a gift (but that doesn't mean they're pushovers)... The Chinese have brought $45 Billion dollars worth of trade deals to the US financial table. Motorola and Boeing are two major companies that will stand to gain. Chinese President Hu will meet with Congressional leaders and business leaders today.
The OTHER Border Gang, I.C.E. is changing their policies across country and will be looking to "Tax" the companies and bosses for immigration law violations. Only $7 million in fines were levied against US employers last year.
President for Life Baby Doc Duvalier decides he's not going to stay in Haiti after all and claims he will be leaving shortly for... wherever it is failed dictators go. (Hunter S. Thompson suggested some Bahamanian island where he'd drink Mai Tais endlessly in the warm evening breeze and rub elbows with high profile global financial swindlers, and friends of Richard Nixon... But I digress.)
The House HAS PASSED the repeal of ObamaCare, 245-189 with 3 Democrats defecting(why do my fingers keep typing 'defective'?). Committees will now attempt to form some alternative, but it's all a waste of time... and at least the first month of Republican majority will go down the legislative law-making dumper, because the repeal will never be signed by the president.
It would be a medical headline no matter who... Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head at close range with a 9mm Glock pistol by a disturbed young man at a Tucson shopping mall less than 3 weeks ago, stood up and looked out the window of her hospital room yesterday and will soon move to a rehab center near home.
Stan Goff, Feral Scholar (and in a previous incarnation as a US Army Special Forces Operator, a "Killer") on Jared Loughner, the shooter:
Killer 15th January 2011
by Stan
[...]"Jared Loughner may have some problems with dissociation, however that is being defined, but he didn’t learn to load and fire a Glock 19 via some synaptic disruption in his cerebral cortex; he learned it from a culture. Last I checked, there is no evidence of a Glock 19 gene, though I expect the DSM-IV people to come up with a Glock 19 Disorder soon enough, and Searle will invent a drug to control it... • • • Let’s start with the premise that Jared Loughner is crazy, not coherently political. His reading list was all over the map, everything from The Communist Manifesto to Ayn Rand. He was very attracted to conspiracy theories, and was reportedly a devotee of David Winn Miller, a bizarre internet guru that claims to be a judge and the King of Hawaii. Loughner capered in front of a camera in a g-string with his gun, ate a lot of acid, and attacked street signs..." [In Full]
An American-led military unit pulverized an Afghan village in Kandahar's Arghandab River Valley in October, after it became overrun with Taliban insurgents. It's hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits into America's counterinsurgency strategy - which supposedly prizes the local people's loyalty above all else.
But it's the latest indication that Gen. David Petraeus, the counterinsurgency icon, is prosecuting a frustrating war with surprising levels of violence. Some observers already fear a backlash brewing in the area.
Paula Broadwell, a West Point graduate and Petraeus biographer, described the destruction of Tarok Kolache in a guest post for Tom Ricks' Foreign Policy blog... [More @ Wired with links to all cites]
Woodrow Wilson, on Americans, and war:
[Click the image for source]
The image above originated from a skeptical article by Jerold S. Auerbach in a 1967 volume of The Journal of American History appears to be almost a plagiarism of Hofstadter's "American Political Tradition" where I first read it. I side with the quote's veracity, and Hofstadter.
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