Opit's LinkFest !

THE GALLOPING BEAVER
Read some satire and win a free trip to Cuba
If you're so smart how come you're not rich ( spoofing rant about lib-ruls )
Yes, why don't we say the Pledge of Allegiance in Canadian schools? ( not so worried about ridiculous cult-style conditioning of kids as some )
Gimmicks - in lieu of public p[olicy
A little something for the Monday blahs ( Muppets )
Australia is burning
Numbers don't lie unless you don't use them - unemployment stats
Harper's Senate puppet
Pretty Shaved Ape
Mr. Dithers may have saved the Canadian banks
"suddenly the so-called over-regulated Canadian banking system is the envy of the global consumer banking sector"
Headline clinic - Departure of Tory strategist - Headline Clinic
Ontario rejects call for banning Tasers on minors
14-year old mentally challenged girl in jail Tasered
drinking liberally in new milford
Why Health Care Can't Wait
Houston? We have a problem ( problems with another form of inertia )
Independent Bloggers Alliance
Reinventing America's relations with the Muslim world : an interview with former CIA analyst Emile Nakhleh
Black history : the Freedom Rides
America, it's time to say goodbye to Wall Street : an interview with author David Korten
Black history : the Greenboro sit-ins
STEPH'S BLOG
Europe : Safe Haven for Terrorists () MKO to be removed from list of terrorists )
Israel defeated
Jew hatred ( Zionist propaganda )
American Jewish Zionist
The Palestinian Right to Resist
Israel's right to exist and defend itself
Israeli assault on Gaza - Timeline
Dad 2059's Webzine
Wichita UFO and other things
The popularity of Nibiru ( is it hope, or despair? )
Week of Feb 2 ( news picks - science, etc. NASA, stimulus )

THE DAILY GALAXY
In tough times, nature favors female brains
The man who sold the world's most dangerous secrets and how the U.S. could have stopped him
Is there 'unstoppable global warming' every 1500 years ? ( Antarctic ice was how old ? Man, that's a thin premise )
3-D supercomputer solved the mystery of the great 1908 Siberian explosion
Guilt by genetics : guilt by genetic surveillance
Europa may support life
Somebody should care, maybe not you...
New year, same stuff
Blogojavich, Obama, Gaza, Lord's Resistance Army
PRUNING SHEARS
The real cost of Guantanamo
ORCINUS
More Maroons in Federal Way ( That's as in Bugs Bunny-style maroons with elevator dysfunction for top floor )
Typical Americans ( racists )
The language animus ( human nature is mistrustful of 'the other': stupidity aggravates this )
As the going gets tough, the white haters get going ( Seig Heil )
Rove and O'Reilley : torture keeps us safe
( Continuing it keeps them out of jail )
BC's FLDS patriarch arrested for polygamy
The Mudflats
Rural Alaska in crisis - the real tragedy of Troopergate
Walt Monegan's letter warning of impending problems - in July
The tangled web of the Stevens trial
Hat Tip Omblog
Flat N All That ( Carnival of the Absurd )
No Day in court for the Schloz - Hullaballoo on no trials for clear crimes
Bigger than Bush - GOP platform 'party of racial backlash'
Nine steps to peace fot Obama in the new year - Deepak Chopra
Unions and Recessions - no correlation
The Slave Next Door : child maids being exported to US from Africa
Taking Command - Wesley Clark
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Yglesias
ZIRP!Zero Liquidity Trap - Krugman
An Empire of Sentimentality
( Let's call that False Sentimentality : paid jingoism )

TEN PERCENT
Donate - Medical Aid to Palestine
Friday! Red guitars - new technology
Jonathan Cook suggests the endgame
US troops on Gaza Egypt border
Joe the fake plumber going to Israel
The benefit of work ? Poverty
Sameh A. Habeeb Day 11
Vote early Vote often
Racist spectacle, class spectacle
Atrocities, nowhere to run
PULSE
What you don't know about Gaza
"Gazans...were driven by the Israeli Army to Gaza in 1948."
Boycott, Divest, Sanction
An unnecessary war
Jimmy Carter "I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided."
Another chorister for Israel
Israeli war on Gaza continues
Dershowitz Misstates, Misrepresents, and Misapplies the Law
Pilger : Gaza under fire
U.S. weapons used to kill children in Gaza
Israel continues attacks on UN
Former Israel Air Force pilot to Obama : please stop kowtowing to Israel and the Lobby
Hamas Speaks
Nuclear Reaction
Canada's nuclear 'renaissance' postponed
Nuclear News
Nuclear comedy
THEY GAVE US A REPUBLIC
Nightowl Newswrap
Job Loss/Depression and the Republicans
I hope this bears out ( foreign policy change )
Nightowl Newswrap
Relief workers in Gaza take casualties
The Damage - W
Soapblox Update - Blue Girl Red State reactivated
Catching the revisionism Rude Pundit exposes every criminal lie
THE EXISTENTIALIST COWBOY
The GOP planned to violate federal law, use US military against civilians
Is Posse Comitatus Dead ?
Has the time come to abolish the state ?
Anarchist philosophy
Government panic could herald dollar panic
Fear factor in the workplace
BLUEBLOGGIN
Texas Progressive Alliance Roundup Jan 5
US teaches terrorism as "Irregular Warfare" : America's hidden role in Hamas' rise to power
"Taleban, Hamas and Al Qaeda are students of US training and armed with US weapons"
America's obituary or rebirth
RNC to Bush; You're a Socialist
All-out war could engulf world
BLUEDAZE
It takes a lot of water to develop shale
Wise County hosed with drilling waste ?
Letters : Inspector deficit and gas well noise

THE EXISTENTIALIST COWBOY
Sign the War Crimes Petition Already (They Gave Us a Republic is only one of other blogs presenting this.)
Tens of thousands have signed the petition for a Special Prosecutor for Bush War Crimes
The Power of One ( Crossposted at several sites ) Give Bush and Cheney a fair trial OOIBC - article
Prosecute the NIST for Obstruction of Justice
New rule kicks Patriot Act foes 'right in the teeth'
( The Land of the 'Free' [ at a price ] is checking to see if the Brave are at home )
Best Way 2 Control the Masses
Astounding Japaneses Highways, Bridges and Interchanges HT Our Descent into Madness
Rick Warren's Video Message : Saddleback Church : Misled and Misleading
( Tom and I are emphatically in disagreement in a few of our ideas : yet I fancy we respect each other's need to work out our thoughts in good conscience. That is the essence of commentary here too : the need for civil disagreement to work out problems as opposed to the destructive practice of lying about another's position; 'name-calling' labeling as opposed to insight; hatemongering promoted as social duty rather than vile and destructive satanism. )
Israel destroys American school in Gaza
distributorcap
Car 54 mpg -where are you ?
( Are you old enough to recognize the allusion to the cop comedy show ? )
Marathon Man - my favorite Honeymooners episodes
10 favorite I Love Lucy episodes
10 favorite Twilight Zone episodes
Naming conventions - origin of blog name
What's the news across the nation "Bush-lovers reinvent the news" "the words of the scumbags speak for themselves"
Idiot-in-Chief
Watch what you ask, you might get shot in the face
Give the teacher an apple ( Rice )
The murdering wife doing her best Tammy Wynette impersonation
Move over, Marie Antoinette - US on UN 'Right to Food' vote
The ass-kissing media
It must be pretty sad to be - Monica Crowley
To serve America - My Pet Goat
Junk Food for Music - Bubblegum Rock
Meltdown 2011
What U Need 2 Know - stocks, Corex, etc.
US veteran population - a mounting social catastrophe
( This slays me. The so-called 'subversive left' are ready to educate people about abuse of the young who have risked everything. The misnamed 'right' ? Sloganeering - "Support the Troops" )
ravings of a semi sane madwoman
Films that have found their way into the Twilight Zone
because its maine week here at ravings
hmmm only the canadian troops
( this is a shortie based on a news item : and I pipe up in comments. Funny who shows awareness of problems. )
more on 8 natural born us citizen and 1 legal permanent resident of us booted off plane for remarks - discrimination suit
oh I HAD to ! ( Newborn - just not what you might think )
racists pieces of scum they call 'news'
( You might have a look at the 'shock jocks' link in Overton Window. This is Media Policy )
ah wicked cool! - Right whales
we've known this for more than a year - PTDST
( That 'Articles and Answers' information cache I refer to at the top of the Links page under 'Collected Essays' leads to a bb Forum 'Today's Thoughts'. Logging in will give access to Steve Munzie's cache which refers to institutionalized government scams dedicated to screwing US vets. 1935 was a particularly interesting year.
Sparkplug of 'The Smirking Chimp' Sheila Samples - participant in the site - has many cached 'goodies' there too.
Known for more than a year ? Lots longer than that. Ask any 'Nam vet. )
tva coal is killing tennessee
thank the great goddess that there is such a thing as
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
( I wonder how many youngsters even know how it came about ? )
because i stopped to read this
( Excellent place to break for the next post. Reading this story is human interest plus. )

I thought I'd review some of my oldest 'finds' logged into Del.icio.us
A FAMILY IN BAGHDAD
Nov 12 Obama and many hopes...
"The budget was depleted for a war that didn't show a positive side to the Iraqis and Americans alike, even after five years, during which billions on billions of dollars were spent and the result was : dead and wounded Iraqis, prisoners, widows, orphans and bereaved people, the destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, a country that didn't gain back health until now, in spite of all the illusionary stories about signing contracts and the reconstruction. The Iraqi still suffers the lack of electricity and clean water and Cholera spread during the last few months also, while the job opportunities decreased, even thought some areas saw an improvement in security conditions, but people are still suffering poverty and the spread of unemployment largely."
"The American people lived in a closed shell, they do not know what has been happening in Iraq since 2003, Bush and his administration closed all outlets for the truth to reach people about what is happening in Iraq..."
DRIFTGLASS
Dec 27 Dear Bob Herbert
"Stop being Stupid"
I've got a new year's resolution and a slogan for the country.
The resolution may be difficult but it's essential.
Americans must resolve to be smarter...
We have behaved in ways that were incredibly, astonishingly and embarassingly stupid for far too long.
We've wrecked the economy and mortgaged the future ( more )
"I could not help but notice that the technical term for people who tried to suggest any of this at any point was 'Dirty America-hating Liberal'
A group roundly hated, ignored and demonized by the Real Murricans on the Right, and their enablers in the press."
The Age of Bush ( Picture of Arlington Cemetery )
22 Dec George Walker Bush
Last in War : The Grand Iraq failure
Last in Peace : America loses its dominant economic role
And last in the hearts of his countrymen
Security turns inaugural sites into the land of NO
which segues into Franklin Roosevelt's "All Nude"
Schwarzenegger orders mass layoffs, unpaid furloughs
( Wow. 'Jonestown' and 'Sex, Lies and Third-Wheel Politics' should turn green over this blog. )
CROOKED TIMBER
Asleep at the Wheel OSHA's chief
We will kill you if you go to school
( The nasty thought intrudes that this is one way to deal with the 'programming' of students with synthetic reality. )
Creationism recreates Kirbyism
( A reminder there was a part of the anatomy referred to as the Fundament. One sits on it. )
OBSIDIAN WINGS
Just say No to 'Just Say No' evidence of futility
Dear Web Advertising People ( where geeks outdo their inventiveness and drive away trade )
What do you mean, 'We'. white man ? All these beliefs and not a believer in sight.
The old flim-flam flummox : expulsion of MEK from Iraq
"You might get better results from your bargaining chips if you actually attempt to bargain when in possession of those chips."
You're an Idea Man not a Yes Man - Daniel Levy on Israel/Palestine
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
WaMu - re NYT article - Principal-Agent Problem
Factcheck : Mexican laws against incest
The Disaster in Tennessee
( KeyPad locked me out again. What fun. http://levees.org/ is an infrastructure awareness site that brings together a lot of 'water control' information. They note government employees are targeting them. They've arrived !)
Corps of Engineers caught harassing citizens on the internet