Journalist Kevin Sites checks in with a blog post addressed to the guys in the Marine division he’s been traveling with. He’s been getting flack from certain quarters over the video footage he shot during an incident in Fallujah and wants to set the record straight for the guys. So here, ultimately, is how it all plays out: when the Iraqi man in the mosque posed a threat, he was your enemy; when he was subdued he was your responsibility; when he was killed in front of my eyes and my camera — the story of his death became my…
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Over at clagnut a nifty feature called “Gravatars” has been enabled. These are globally recognized avatars – you sign up for one for free, and any time you comment on a blog that has enabled them, your image pops up next to your comment. They have a rating system, and you can choose whether or not to allow them using the familiar movie rating codes. my husband David might like this for his WordPress blog, I think it would be fun for mine only if I did some tweaking to have inline comments (instead of the current pop-up window) and…
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Kevin Sites is the reporter who shot the video footage in Fallujah of the Marine who allegedly shot a wounded, unarmed insurgent in a mosque. He also has a photoblog full of amazing, wonderful, and disturbing images. Previously, he was working for CNN, who shut his blog down for a while in 2003. The blog is shut down again, along with the commentary forum, which had predictably enough filled up with screaming ranters of the “Support Our Troops!!! Or Else You Hate Amerikkka!!!!” flavor. I hope he’s able to start it up again. In the meantime, what a mess: The…
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Apparently, that young man that gets such a kick out of politics was an elections official at a Pennsylvania polling place. While there he apparently intimidated a female Democratic poll watcher into keeping silent, successfully challenged a homeless man who attempted to vote but left in frustration, and harangued a woman who asked for information about her ballot. The future of the Republican Party. Believe it. Via Jesus’ General
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Via Clack: Don’t think for one minute that it’ll stop with just abortion. Some pharmacists refuse to dispense birth-control pills on moral grounds. There are legal protections for pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control, too. They’re supposed to make arrangements for another pharmacist to fill the scrip, but some even refuse to do that. Which makes me wonder if the RTL movement has been quietly working to get a lot of pharmacists into their tent… if you object to birth control on moral grounds, one way to stop it is to cut off the supply at a convenient choke…
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John Perry Barlow’s post election essay helps to put things into perspecitive, post-electionwise: Magnanimous Defeat Meanwhile, Jesus’ General helpfullly passes along a link to the Theocracy Mentorship Program, which puts US Blue bloggers together with Iranian bloggers to get survival tips for living mostly free under a theocracy. For those that feel that living in a theocracy is not worth the trouble, Jahiri has some advice. “The key to self-immolation is location, location, location. I recommend shopping centers or busy open parks. If you intend to go out in flames, make sure people see it.” As for me, I’ve been…
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Thanks to Jeff at Clack, I’m now thoroughly creeped out on the subject of this season’s Scary Word, “Dominionism.” I got here via Theocracy Watch. Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical “warfare” is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, “sodomy or homosexuality,” incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the…
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my husband David was wondering at the bandwidth usage around here. I took a look at my stats page (he’s the text-based log guy, I’m the GUI-fied stats girl) and did a little Googling around: Lost in Technophilia : Bye bye news.allresearch.com You Are So Banned! Corporate America Is Reading Your Blog I’m thinking I want them banned, too: news.allresearch.com ? 614 614 2.48 MB 30 Sep 2004 – 23:11 sp1.allresearch.com ? 26 26 60.54 KB 14 Sep 2004 – 14:08 news.allresearch.com ? 1224 1224 5.06 MB 31 Oct 2004 – 23:04 news.allresearch.com ? 247 247 1.43 MB 04 Nov…
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I don’t happen to think our leaders’ ideal republic has a lot of room for overeducated lefty feminist childfree gay-friendly non-religious Spanish-speaking ex-Jewish librarians, either. I’m with you, Dorothea – right up to the Spanish-speaking part, and I’m quite friendly with the final two constituencies, too. And I’m definitely in the “It’s a womb, not a clown car” club. I saw a Discovery/Health show on the Duggars brood the other night – the combination of fundamentalism with fecundity gave me the heebie geebies just before the election, so it was just great timing. Oddly enough, I have some rooibos tea…