While I was working

This busy week is wrapping up, so it’s time to catch up on some things I missed during the week. And stuff has happened this week…

Why does Joe Liebermann hate America?

Or Scott “Centrefold” Brown. The two propose to push a law that would give the US State Department the power to strip US citizens of their citizenship if they are deemed to associate with “terrorists”. No need to be accused of a crime, no need to stand trial, no need for presumption of innocence until guilt is proven. Nope: Joe and Scott think one should lose citizenship on mere accusation.

This is the looniest of the looniest things I’ve ever heard US Senators propose, and that’s a high hurdle to leap. It is blatantly unconstitutional, utterly, completely and irredeemably beneath contempt. Why do Joe and Scott hate America and the US Constitution?

By the way, did you hear that one of the first people to raise the alarm in Times Square was a Muslim immigrant? Yeah, not something the US news media wants people to know. Kinda makes Brown and Liebermann’s actions look even more stupid, and that would hardly seem possible.

Greece bleeds, the markets panic

Greece is in an economic disaster, that’s obvious. But doesn’t it seem a little fishy that ordinary people revolt against imposed austerity measures and the capital markets panic? Most of the measures being imposed on Greece are at the behest of banks, German banks in particular, whose interest is merely in protecting investors’ money, not in helping Greece out of its mess. What if the people of Greece—whose lives and livelihoods are at stake—reject the demands of international corporations and investment banks and instead chart a third course, one that adds the peoples’ needs onto the balance sheet, what then? I’d love to see the mainstream newsmedia answer that, but they’d need to be able to take a wider view first, and that’s unlikely to happen.

Arizona is still racist

Just in case you forgot.