Sunday, September 23, 2012

Highlights

This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.
 
 
"I Hate The War" -- most requested highlight of the week by readers of this site.
 
 
"Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Nuland tries to smackdown Kerry" and "Iraq snapshot" -- C.I. reports on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearing on the nomination of Robert S. Beecroft to be US Ambassador to Iraq (he was confirmed Saturday) and C.I. reports on the House Armed Services Committee hearing.
 
 
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "No, I can't!" -- Isaiah offers a look at the failed promiser.
 
 
"Bitter Caesar Sald in the Kitchen" -- Trina offers a new recipe and calls out someone who could have helped US war resister Kim Rivera but didn't.
 

"Misleading the American people," "White House forced to admit it was terrorism," "Shame on The NewsHour," "White House spin dissolves: It was terrorism," "We deserve answers on Benghazi," "White House forced to admit it was terrorism," "The White House refused to be honest with the American people,"  "THIS JUST IN! THEY DON'T WANT TO GROW UP!" and "For a brief moment, they were grown ups" -- One of the most important stories of the week was the fact that the September 11, 2012 attack on the US Consulate in Libya was terrorism but most -- including PBS' The NewsHour -- ignored it.  We didn't ignore it in the community and here are the posts by Trina, Betty, Ruth, Marcia, Stan, Mike, Wally and Cedric covered it. 
 

"Deporter In Chief" and "Barack told "You didn't keep that promise."" -- another important story was Barack being confronted on Univision about his broken promises regarding immigration, Ann and Kat covered that.
 
 
"Telstar," "Gambit," "Remake and pig", "A bad movie" and "Channing" -- Stan, Kat and Elaine went to the movies.
 
 
"cancel 'up all night' already," "revenge," "Afghanistan and more on Revenge," "Revolution," and "Revenge" -- Rebecca, Mike and Marcia covered TV. 
 
 
 
 
 
"why my vote actually matters" and "Tired of the whole damned machine" -- two important posts by Rebecca and Ruth on voting and the theatrics.
 

 
"Brotherly Embarrassment" -- Isaiah dips into the archives.

 
"Harry Reid is so disgracing his office" -- Elaine notes the awful Harry Reid.
 
 
 
 
 
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