“Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” he said in a speech at the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, N.C. “As we carry out this drawdown, my highest priority will be the safety and security of our troops and civilians in Iraq.”
It’s about time. We, the people, matter.
Obama Aides Rip Cable News, D.C. Media And Political Elite | The Plum Line
It’s a good start. There’s no bursting the bubble they live in, it will have to be a slow painful extraction…
I Haven’t posted Ms. Dowd in a long time, but it’s nice to see - in big black NY Times ink - that this imaginary blanket of acceptance of the perverse culture that exists at the upper echelons of our financial institutions, is being pulled back. I wonder why it has to get to these extreme excesses of pure, base, greed? I wonder why I’m surprised?
Op-Ed Columnist - Maureen Dowd - Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters - NYTimes.com
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“Do you have to be a Medici or a Rockefeller to collect art?
Not according to Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. This documentary film tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a postal clerk, and Dorothy, a librarian - an ordinary couple of modest means who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history.”
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A Spike Lee (epic) Joint
“A film buff tells a friend that he’s finally broken “the code” - the mystery behind the character & story threads that bleed from one Quentin Tarantino movie or screenplay into the next. His friend is less than impressed. Starring Seu Jorge (The Life Aquatic) and Selton Mello (Tarja Preta). A short film by Brazilian directing duo 300ml.”
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