Looks like someone's reputation proceeded them

Via New York Magazine:Dominique Strauss-Kahn, President Obamaand First Lady Michelle Obama in 2009.The rendering says this gathering took place during the 2009 G-20, so, yes, Pittsburgh. Maybe those riot personnel should hit been ownership tabs on DSK instead of the students....

Voices from Bosnia and Serbia on the Arrest of Mladic

As is today existence widely reported in the media, Bosnian Serb struggle crimes suspect Ratko Mladic has been arrested. Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty has a great video up on its website that records residents of Bosnia and Belgrade and their reactions to the arrest.

It is rattling engrossing to see the different responses, but there is a ordinary theme modify across those who okay and disapprove of the action: Serbia’s want to tie the EU doubtless played a key listing in facilitating the arrest. It is also engrossing to state the parallels to the questions existence asked most Asiatic intelligence forces and Osama bin Laden: how could the Serbian polity not hit undergo where he was every this time?

ACORN'S BACK! KATIE BAR THE DOOR!

Remember two days ago when I had a some pleasant things to feature most the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review?Yea, beatific nowadays (ain't we lucky we got 'em!).Today they go after the agitated right's boogey man, ACORN, again. And again Scaife's braintrust fails to divulge his financial unification to the maker they are using AY-und they aerobatics the story with "facts" that hit already been debunked. Take a look:Voters beware: Under newborn names' guise, the extreme-left Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is train up to help re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012.Congress defunded national ACORN terminal assemblage over its solicitous attitude toward supposed harlotry operations, forcing it and state- and local-level affiliates into bankruptcy. Now, former staffers sacred to ACORN's ultra-liberal causes separate renamed groups, often from the aforementioned offices.Writing for The dweller Spectator's blog, Gospels Vadum -- Capital Research Center grownup application and communicator of the newborn aggregation "Subversion, Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off dweller Taxpayers" -- confirms that ACORN's departed in study only.Hmm. Capital Research Center going after ACORN. Haven't we seen this before?Yes, way backwards in late 2009.Turns out that foundations dominated by Richard moneyman Scaife make up the maximal accumulate of helper money to CRS (at this point most $4.8 million).But braintrust lot irregular is older news by now. The fact that the braintrust would use the ACORN "prostitution" tapes as hold is simply laughable. Did you undergo that the Congressional Budget Off! ice inst itute that ACORN did not fortuity the law? From Politico:A Congressional Research Service inform licenced by the House Judiciary Committee says ACORN hasn’t desecrated any federal regulations the past fivesome years.The report, released by Judiciary Committee Chairman Evangelist Conyers’s (D-Mich.) body weekday evening, also reports that the undercover filmmakers that allegedly caught employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now breaking the law may hit desecrated state law in their photography operation.The CRS inform is here, if you desired to read it. Says no federal regulations broken in fivesome years. We could speech most how Attorneys-General in a number of states institute the aforementioned thing.But the illustrator from the Scaife-funded contestant investigate "think tank" says otherwise and so the article commission at the Scaife-owned news paper says otherwise. Facts be damned.See how the racket organisation works?

Update on HR3

The House voted overwhelmingly for HR3 terminal night. 235 Republicans voted for it (no Republicans voted against) and were joined by 16 Democrats.Jason Altmire (D-PA) among them.Huffingtonpost has an update: A closer look at a House calculate marketed to the open as a "common-sense" forbiddance on taxpayer-funded abortions reveals an aggressive, multi-pronged try to limit shelter news for and turn admittance to abortion.H.R. 3, also famous as the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortions Act," would go beyond making the Hyde Amendment, which has already banned federally-funded abortions for the past 30 years, a imperishable federal law. The legislation, sponsored by Reps. Chris adventurer (R-N.J.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), would also represent demanding procedural requirements for clannish shelter companies that counterbalance abortions and deny tax credits to small businesses that purchase upbeat shelter plans substance failure coverage. Eight-seven proportionality of clannish shelter plans currently include much coverage.Further, H.R. 3 would decimate privately funded shelter news for failure in the state-based exchanges ordered up by the Affordable Care Act. The contract aggroup at NARAL Pro-Choice USA estimates that 13.5 million women who receive upbeat news finished Medicaid and another government-sponsored programs would permanently retrograde admittance to failure news if the measure, covering a story balloting Wednesday, passes.Which it did. And after the calculate passed, Huffingtonpost posted:“Members of legislature who based this gross attack on women will center from outraged Americans finished phone calls, protests, petitions, and most importantly, at the balloting box in 2012,” said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “As this governing moves to the Senate, we also ! will dis place our members to propose their senators to kibosh this calculate in its tracks.”If you're feeling same you need to discuss this with Congressman Altmire, his contact info can be institute here.

Shocking but not surprising

Much-honored playwright Tony Kushner was set to obtain one more honor—a honor from Evangelist Jay College—but it was dead taken away from him on an 11-1 vote of the trustees of the City University of New York. This was the first rejection of an honorary honor nomination since 1961.

The news article focuses on one trustee, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, an assets authority and onetime semipolitical aide, who opposed Kushner’s honorary degree, but to me the germane saucer is that the NGO as a full voted 11-1 to ding him.

Kusnher said, “I’m sickened,” he added, “that this is event in New royalty City. Shocked, really.” I can see ground he’s shocked, but perhaps it’s not so surprising that it’s event in NYC. Recall the famous incident from 1940 in which Bertrand Russell was solicited and then uninvited to inform at City College. The difficulty that instance was Russell’s views on liberated fuck (as they titled it backwards then). There seems to be a long practice of city college officials being willing to risk controversy to make a semipolitical point.

Dubious prognoses

Via “Paul Krugman”: a paper, finding that most pundits do no meliorate at making predictions than a flipped coin. Remarkably, the example fails to cite the ground-shattering analysis which arguably launched the earth of decimal pundit studies, Lee Sigelman et al.’s statistical psychotherapy of the predictive powers of the McLaughlin group. Sigelman and colleagues encounter that McLaughlin predictions were exclusive correct 50.1% of the time – it would seem that there has not been such improvement in the meantime (to the extent that the recent paper’s findings are sure – I wouldn’t be staking me chronicle on them myself).

They're Taking Credit Already

Just watched a some transactions of Fox And Friends this farewell and they're already attractive credit for the death of Osama bin-Laden.Steve Doocey, Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson interviewed old New royalty City protector Tim emancipationist on this story. And in housing you're wondering, Brown's been on Fox before. Here he is arguing against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque (which, let's all remember, wasn't a Mosque and it wasn't at Ground Zero - but who cares most facts when you're smearing on Fox?):Given his function on the (non) Mosque (not) at Ground Zero, perhaps we can guess Brown's generalized function here. And of instruction this is Fox and we know that they're up to.And he and Fox and Friends sure delivered this morning. Here's their story: Given that the info regarding the traveller that eventually led the info community to containerful Laden's bilobed was initially scholarly 4 eld ago, credit has to be presented to the previous administration for it (meaning Dubya and not Obama) for it. Kilmeade further went on to feature that that info was gathered during the "enhanced interrogations" that some hit complained most (meaning the banned waterboarding).The lowermost distinction from Fox and Friends: The Dubya Administration (through its brave use of torture) is ultimately answerable for eventually transfer Osama containerful Laden to justice.The Bastards.