A Bag of Cool Stuff

The Chicago Tribune is relentless in its pursuit of the evils of public schools. It must be very proud.
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Give us your tired, your weak, and your hungry. We will put them on the fast track to nowhere. Give us your wealthiest losers. We will kiss the back of their hands and roll over. Sure, play dead?
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There are starving people in Israel, yet the US government gives Israel's military 6 billion dollars a year. There are starving people in Egypt, while the US government gives Egypt's military 6 billion dollars a year. Does any of that make any sense at all, especially when it is OUR money?
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Santorum and Perry and the fetus make 3
With that campaign slogan, pay them a fee
Waddle in ponds
Wattle their wands
Hey boys, is it porn when you feel our knee?
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Don't get caught up in the ignorance of improper labeling. In the cold political world of bribery, watch those labels. You don't want to call bribery something like "selling jobs" because that can get you a severe punishment of 14 years behind bars. Conversely, naming your bribery "lobby money" can get you 14 virgins, some jewelry, and a bag of cool stuff.

"Egypt's revolution has just begun"

by Adrian Crewe -Here is one paragraph and the link to the entire article.
It is perfectly well understood that these very forces - and those that stand behind them - will be out for massive revenge if the democratic people meekly surrender the squares, streets and neighborhoods so heroically protected for 18 days in the name of restoration of "order and normality."
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011213134458448460.html

Endurance

Under over par lament
One small change from cold cement
Talking plans
Walking plans
Growing plans to implement.
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The last paragraph from David Africa's
Egypt: Negotiation as warfare -
Negotiation is a tactic of political warfare and the Egyptian resistance movement must realize that the Mubarak regime is using it as such. The regime seeks to use its Suleiman-led negotiations as a back door to retaining power. In doing so, to use a metaphor by South African anti-apartheid leader Joe Slovo, it is trying to prevent the resistance snowball from becoming an avalanche and sweeping it away.
To read the entire article -
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112712938688835.html#
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Robert Grenier, CIA, retired, wrote this article: Obama and Egypt: Fear and Loathing
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112893158270657.html

One Page Overview of the Middle East

by Adam Zoll and Max Rust, and it is downloadable -

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0205-middle-east-html,0,2387237.htmlpage

Ayman Mohyeldin, an Al Jazeera correspondent, has just been detained by the
Egyptian military. The "freedom of the press" talk was merely talk.

An indepth opinion re: "Egypt and the Palestinian Question"
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112512042978473.html#

"New Day at Cook"

An editorial in today's Chicago Tribune -

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-cook-20110127,0,3011285.story

Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board President, has some budget proposals
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also
"5 Things Progressives Should Do and Not Do" by Barbara Ehrenreich

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6841/5_things_progressives_should_do--and_not_do/
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Live stream from al Jazeera in Egypt (English) -
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/