Out of UC Berkeley, a university where Veritas still means something...

Suppose you're a young arab or muslim student at a university. You desperately want friends, and to be like everyone else. You see conservative groups citing articles such as that below. You seek solace with the liberals on campus, who tell you how wonderful your religion and background is, if only it weren't dominated by the types of people the conservatives are using to make you look bad. How do you react, assuming you don't want to be ostracized, and you want to eventually be rewarded for all your hard work at school with a decent job? Take a guess...

Here is the result of some recent trolling for awareness on a locally trafficked GBLT site (as a response to a scaremongering post about hate groups in Massachusetts.) You might think that the GBLT community is a bastion of open mindedness. It may well be in many ways, but sadly not when it comes to defending the victims of their own ignorance and apathy. Let this be a warning to those who would hold up a mirror before a similarly self-obsessed group of individuals--intolerance is equal opportunity these days--you've come a long way, baby, indeed...

Yeah.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2374

The truth can be an ugly thing
A March Surprise
By Bob Parks Thursday, March 27, 2008

Upon reaching what many refer to as a “milestone” when the United States military reached the 4,000 combat death number, the anti-war left continues to repeat their mantra that this is a war fought over oil and that al Qaeda had no terror ties to Iraq, thus Iraq had no ties to the 9/11 attacks.

Bush lied, people died.

I am shocked--SHOCKED! They had some kind of maintenance thing going on last night and today, while leaving some truthy comments on Obama Girl's latest, I noticed a parade of Citibank Visa cards rolling along the bottom of the screen. Blechh.

There are no words... Well, yes there are--shameless and bastard come to mind... And what's with the byline? Anenema Heartsacolon? Indeed! :)

Developer Sues to Win $12.3 Billion in 9/11 Attack

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: March 27, 2008

Larry A. Silverstein, who has won nearly $4.6 billion in insurance payments to cover his losses and help him rebuild at the World Trade Center site, is seeking $12.3 billion in damages from airlines and airport security companies for the 9/11 attack.

In the World Trade Center case, critics contend the engineering society
wrongly concluded skyscrapers cannot withstand getting hit by
airplanes. ...

Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineer and forensics expert,
contends his computer simulations disprove the society's findings that
skyscrapers could not be designed to withstand the impact of a
jetliner.

After A Nuclear 9/11 - Washington Post

Prepping the sheep to know how to bleet...

see also: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/1364/preventing_a_nuclear_911.html

[I saw this at Portland indymedia -- c455]

Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit
Written by Chris Floyd
Sunday, 23 March 2008
(NOTE: Apologies for the server problem that blocked access to this link for several hours on Monday.)

I. One Tick Closer to Midnight

Damn the liberal media and their rabid Clinton-hatred! The New York Times must be upset about all the money Larry Silverstein contributed to her campaigns...

Sure. Why, it's uh, red o'clock.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7yJXhxF1mM

Designed to protect you from suicidal, religiously-motivated terrorists, of course.

Portable DVD players with 7-8" screens can be found for under 100 FRNs these days.

ARE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS CRAZY?
http://americanjourney.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-conspiracy-theorists-are...
INTRODUCTION
Somehow I wish I'd never seen the VIDEO showing the collapse of World Trade Center building 7 (WTC7) in March 2006 because I haven't stopped thinking about it ever since.
[Neither have we.]

Sorry Paul, but you just spent your remaining credibility capital.  I was willing to forgive his inexplicable association with Counterpunch given his excellent writing, but the following is so far off the mark that it seems that PCR, like so many before him, has had a built-in timer waiting to go off as soon as he accumulated enough credibility among real truthers. 

Feeling their pain, really... how is this like the war on terror?  Anyone?

Some New York-area residents are becoming more cautious with their spending decisions.

Last month, Shai Shustik, a broker with Manhattan Residential, was helping a 27-year-old client find a $700,000 one-bedroom apartment on the East Side of Manhattan. But then the client suddenly put her search on hold. Her father, a banker, said he had lost too much money in the stock market to buy such an apartment for her.

The tactic: Condemn someone for something they say that in fact is mistaken, because you know the truth is much worse than that implied by the comments you call inflammatory. This makes any suggestion of the actual truth seem like something BEYOND inflammatory. Hmmm...

US Deaths in Iraq Approach 4,000
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080322/D8VIP3NO0.html

U.S. officials have pointed to a number of positive signs, including a 60 percent drop in violence since Bush ordered 30,000 U.S. reinforcements to Iraq early last year. Iraqis have also made some limited progress in power-sharing deals among rival Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities.

However, U.S. military commanders have been careful to point out that security gains are fragile and that major violence could erupt abruptly.