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Sign the Petition for a Special Prosecutor for Bush and Cheney

Bush and Cheney deserve a fair trial their role in approving US torture policy. Cheney acknowledges he authorized torture techniques, including waterboarding. In Dick Cheney's lifetime, the US sentenced to people to death for waterboarding. Watch Rachel Maddow's clip from her show:  

 

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MacDonald's Now Hiring Losers

Facebook Banning Breastfeeding Photos

 I just joined a Facebook group to protest their failure to allow people to post photos of babies nursing. These pictures have been reported as "obscene" and removed and their posters warned not to repost or they will be kicked off Facebook. 

It is this censorship of a natural and beautiful function which is obscene! 

Over 10,000 people have signed a petitition and the group has 50,000 members, organized very suddenly. Facebook is refusing to play along.

 "Events" will follow, to try to intercede in this stupidity. The first is M.I.L.C. (Mothers Interntional Lactation Campaign) and real-life "nurse-ins" and other events will take place around the globe. 

I did invite many friends.

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Iraqi Narco-Terrorism Developing: Drugs Smuggled in Camel Humps

Before the war, Iraq had better border control. Now drugs are coming from Afghanistan via Iran through Iraq into Turkey and eventually Europe. This "openness" has occurred thanks to the Iraq war, and if Iraqi soldiers develop addiction to opiates, they will have even more trouble maintaining security there.

Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza Kill and Injure Civilians

Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, said today on Fox News Sunday that Israel's air strikes on Gaza are intended to "change realities on the ground."

Are they having their desired effect?

Dailykos, the liberal blog site, usually remains clear of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, but this attack has crossed a threshold.  Several recommended diaries are condemning Israel for this disproportionate response to rockets fired into Israeli neighborhoods.  Persons commenting in the diaries are angry at US taxpayer support for the F16s that are used for these attacks and the US Government failing to urge restraint.  They also document the criticism in Israel about the strikes (which isn't permitted in the US without being accused of being anti-Semitic) and Israel's atypical occupation of Gaza which has resulted in health problems, malnutrition and the death of Gaza residents. 

"The Shoe," Leather, and Shopping in Turkey

Leather is a huge industry in turkey. I was there in 2003 and we attended leather fashion shows. There were shoes sold everywhere, in stores and markets. It was kind of like Spain, Italy or Mexico in terms of the predominance of l eather.

Here is the guy who sells the shoe that was made famous by being thrown at Bush.

Below are some Turkish shopping photos that I took.  We've been talking about shopping (Mall of America, Pike Market) and Istanbul is a great place for it!  Food was great too.

The mannekins were at the hotel.  They wore furs and leather and at night the items were removed so no one would break in and steal them.  So at night the mannekins were naked.

The boy mannekins wore alot of military-influenced western-style clothes, but the more traditional costumes are for the ceremony of being circumcised.  They were taken in the Grand Bazaar, the markets along side it, and the Spice Market.

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Clintonistas Ok but not "That Woman"

Thanks James! 

We Missed this One: Holiday in Handcuffs

Paris Gets $100,000 Just For Showing Up

... as for New Year festivities in Sydney.  It helps to look good in a costume (here, she is a judge at an Istanbul fashion show, then appears at a casino at Halloween.)

In this economy, both Paris and her uncle have been victims of break-in robberies recently. 

 There is a significant increase in shoplifting at American stores, with many items then being sold on Craig's List or eBay.  These outlets thus become unwitting participants in a criminal underground.

People are starting to try to bargain even at corporate big box stores and some managers are playing along with them. Then there is the trampling to get bargains at store opening time, like in poorer countries.  Tempers are flaring.  One man shot a guy who was talking in a movie, and then there was the murderous Santa who had recently lost his engineering job.