ThinkFast: September 19, 2006
ThinkFast: September 19, 2006
Women are “generally paid less and promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions” than men in similar high-level science, math, and engineering jobs in the United States, according to a new National Academies report.
Canada’s government has exonerated a Canadian man who was handed over to the U.S. four years ago and deported to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured. The U.S. “refused to cooperate in the inquiry” of how the innocent man ended up being “rendered” abroad for interrogation.
“The Bush administration’s faith-based initiative is reaching only a tiny percentage of the nation’s black churches.” A national survey of 750 black churches found that fewer than 3 percent are participating in the $2 billion/year program.
News Corp.’s Fox Filmed Entertainment is expected to unveil plans today to target the Christian audience under a banner called FoxFaith. “Fox might seem an unlikely studio to pioneer a religious label, given its history as a purveyor of salacious TV programming. Yet people in the Christian community say the company has gained credibility as the voice for conservative America through its Fox News Channel.”
There is a “grave danger that the Iraqi state will break down, possibly in the midst of a full-scale civil war,” U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday, urging the international community to do more. At least 43 people were killed by bombers and gunmen yesterday in Iraq.
“If you just look at how we are perceived in the world and the kind of criticism we have taken over Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and renditions, whether we believe it or not, people are now starting to question whether we’re following our own high standards,” said Colin Powell, on his opposition to President Bush’s proposed rules for the treatment of terrorism suspects.
Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) has loaded a domestic spending bill with $1.6 million in earmarks for groups that “claim members of Chabot’s inner circle of contributors and fundraisers as members of their boards of directors.”
The Wall Street Journal reports that “European opposition to any sanctions on Iran is part of an emerging ‘dual-track’ approach in which the EU talks with Iran about suspending uranium enrichment while the U.S. talks with others about sanctions.”
And finally: U.S. Postal Service executive Azeezaly Jaffer was found “drinking at a work function until he passed out; running up $8,000 in extra hotel room charges so he could qualify for a suite with a bathtub for two; and following a female colleague into her hotel room, propositioning her, then passing out.” His punishment? Four months of paid vacation.
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“If you just look at how we are perceived in the world and the kind of criticism we have taken over Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and renditions, whether we believe it or not, people are now starting to question whether we’re following our own high standards,†said Colin Powell.
Mr. Powell, too little - too late. Your chance to stand up to Pres. Bush was when he told you to tell lies to the world, and you went ahead and lied your a$$ off.
By the way, looks like some politicians are jumping ship from one party to the other.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2823/
September 19th, 2006 at 9:12 am“There is a “grave danger that the Iraqi state will break down, possibly in the midst of a full-scale civil war,†U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday, urging the international community to do more.”
But why should the rest of the world do more? Remember that the US was more than willing to do the billing when we thought it was going to be a cake walk. If the rest of the international community steps in and cleans up the mess the US made, how will the US ever learn from its mistakes?
September 19th, 2006 at 9:14 amFoxy Faith?
September 19th, 2006 at 9:25 amNews Corp.’s Fox Filmed Entertainment is expected to unveil plans today to target the Christian audience under a banner called FoxFaith.
I thought that was already being done on FoxNews. What better place to spew lies and half truths than a channel devoted to a religion. religions are just made up stories to guide people on a path that the storytellers want you to go. Fox and religion the ideal match.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:32 am“If you just look at how we are perceived in the world and the kind of criticism we have taken over Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and renditions, whether we believe it or not, people are now starting to question whether we’re following our own high standards,†said Colin Powell
Wasn’t Colin Powell Secretary of State when Gitmo was started? Colin Powell preaching about high standards. What a joke.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:36 am#2 - Yeah, you remember correctly, the rest of the world opposed this, and after the invasion, contracts to rebuild were given to whom>?????
September 19th, 2006 at 9:39 amI’m going to go on record as saying that the Family Guy will not be involved in FoxFaith. I believe that it is a pretty safe bet.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:43 amAmerica’s Least Wanted
I had listened this morning in horror on NPR involvng the Canadian man who was accused of erroneously being a terrorist and illegally sent to Syria where he was tortured for over a year. While in Syria he was never allowed to call his wife or his attorney in order to fight those bogus charges. What he went through reminds me of the classic British program of the 1960s, The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan, which involves a person who, on the day that he resigns from his government position, is whisked away to The Village and stripped of his individuality where they assign him a number. He is never allowed contact with the outside world while the authoritative rulers of The Village attempt to extract information from him. A chilling and relevant series with Orwellian and Kafkian overtones, which is so relevant to the times that we live in and closely resembles what that Canadian man had been subjected to.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:44 am#8 - And most people don’t think it could happen to them. To those I would ask, why not? All it takes is some wild ass accusation, and poof, you are disappeared. This crap must stop, now!
September 19th, 2006 at 9:49 amre: Canada’s government has exonerated a Canadian man who was handed over to the U.S. four years ago and deported to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured. The U.S. “refused to cooperate in the inquiry†of how the innocent man ended up being “rendered†abroad for interrogation.
The Canadian man was not “handed over to the U.S.” as you say. He was on a flight that had a stop over at JFK airport in New York. The U.S. detained him there and then rendered him to Syria.
This is important because Canadians, particularly those who hold dual citizenship in an Arab or Muslim country, are now fearful of traveling to or through the United States - land of the free.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:56 amIf (note the highlight) done correctly, FoxFaith could be a positive force. To be that positive force, this department would need to honestly present and debate religious issues thouroughly and critically via various programs. Doing so might actually enlighten those who profess a faith but do not really understand or practice it.
That said, it’s FOX so…
September 19th, 2006 at 10:05 am“The Bush administration’s faith-based initiative is reaching only a tiny percentage of the nation’s black churches.â€
So they should change it to what it really is. White faith-based initiative. Those repubs are so compassionate and inclusive.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:14 amU.S. Postal Service executive Azeezaly Jaffer was found “drinking at a work function until he passed out; running up $8,000 in extra hotel room charges so he could qualify for a suite with a bathtub for two; and following a female colleague into her hotel room, propositioning her, then passing out.†His punishment? Four months of paid vacation.
I’m joining the service — Postal Service, that is…
September 19th, 2006 at 10:20 am#8 - Erroll: I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I am not a number! I am a free man!
That’s what “The Prisoner” said when he resigned. He was given a number at The Village. Go figure.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:21 amThat said, it’s FOX so…
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)
….and PLC’s head snaps back into place! Whew!
Fox Faith, please…
September 19th, 2006 at 10:22 amRep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) has loaded a domestic spending bill with $1.6 million in earmarks for groups that “claim members of Chabot’s inner circle of contributors and fundraisers as members of their boards of directors.â€
Is there a gene for ethics, morals, or even having a clue about conflict of interest? Because there’s definitely something missing in these people’s basic structure.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:25 amDem Soldier,
I remember “The Prisoner” being quite the ladies man. I wonder why he wouldn’t be debriefed? :)
September 19th, 2006 at 10:27 amZooey
September 19th, 2006 at 10:31 amLOL! Hope and optimism may be eternal, but reason needs to be running right behind, trying to keep up.
Coming this summer, from Fox Faith Pictures, starring Sylvester Stallone and Scarlet Johansen, “The War On Christmas!: The Wrath of Baby Jesus”
September 19th, 2006 at 10:32 am(This film rated S for Sanctimonious)
Here’s something that’s been missed - It’s the kick off of National Bush Crimes Days according to the International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration at bushcommission.org. It’s only meant to recognize war crimes and crimes against humanity, but here at the Quadrajet household we’ll be recognizing the full spectrum of the administration’s criminal activity - from war crimes to running return scams on Target.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:33 amIf we don’t get Ohio’s political corruption and wingnut ideology changed, I’m going to have to go back to referring to myself as a “transplanted New Yorker”, rather than an Ohion, which I haven’t done for twenty years.
Go Strickland, Brown, Space.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:34 amDemocratic Soldier
Well said. I am glad to see that there are others who have not forgotten this very relevant program- The Prisoner.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:39 amAlso from FoxFaith Pictures:
“Jesus, Part II: Revenge of the Crucified”
September 19th, 2006 at 10:43 am“Blessed Are the Peacekeeper Missles”
“Bringing Them to Jesus, Dead or Alive”
#17 - Zooey, maybe he wore boxers? :-)
Thanks for the laugh!
September 19th, 2006 at 10:48 amComing up on FoxFaith…
Who Wants to Marry a Pedophile Priest?
September 19th, 2006 at 10:50 amWhen Christian Animals Attack
Temptation Altar
American Idol Worship
Melrose’s Pastor
Ararat Hills, 90210
Married… with Christian Children
Trading Spouses
More From FoxFaith:
Pimp My House of Worship
September 19th, 2006 at 11:20 amThis Old Cathedral
This Old Testament
As the World Burns
Monday Night Footsteps
Baptizing With the Stars
CSI: Heaven
Two and a Half Angels
Late Night with Paul’s Letters
The Eternity Show
Only 3% of the money is getting to the black churches??? Oh my Lord, now T.D. Fakes, Bishop Eddie Wrong and the boyz will be less inclined to kiss the cheek (um, hand) of their Roman Oppressor (um, I mean BUSH)…
Well, considering that they have the same disposition as Judas, I would say that they are getting what they deserve…
September 19th, 2006 at 11:32 amPLC…I liked your fox programs…lol, I’ll add The Darwin Hour, Freedom FROM religion, and of course….Killing for Jesus.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:44 amWar on Iran maybe just a few weeks away, so is everyone prepared for the emergency draft after the war begins?
Is everyone prepared for $10 a gallon gasoline and rationing of it too?
Are Americans ready for Bush to declare martial law and arrest his political enemies into work camps?
September 19th, 2006 at 11:50 amNEWS FLASH!
The USPS has just announced a change in postal rates. The cost of a First Class stamp will increase to $0 50 and Playboy and Hustler magazines will be delivered free.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:50 amso…why do perfectly cogent comments keep disappearing from this website? Hacker or censor?
September 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pmAh…censors. Alrighty then…Think Progress obviously isn’t really progressive…or thinking.
Link removed.
Another day at detractor’s central
September 19th, 2006 at 12:29 pm#31
If the comment were “perfectly cogent” is is impossible for it to be removed. By definition, cogent means having the “power to compel or constrain.” Perfectly is described as legally valid. Hence, your comments would be legally valid with the power to constrain deletion.
The comments you claim to have been deleted must, therefore, not have been legal nor compelling which refutes your own argument. If you are reading this comment is is obviously perfectly cogent as it was not deleted.
QED
September 19th, 2006 at 12:52 pm“The Bush administration’s faith-based initiative is reaching only a tiny percentage of the nation’s black churches.†A national survey of 750 black churches found that fewer than 3 percent are participating in the $2 billion/year program.
This makes sense. Bush’s approval ratings among African-Americans is about 2%. I’d bet a dollar that 100% of that 3% is going to black churches and faith organizations that are campaigning and fundraising for the GOP in their spare time.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:14 pmMr. Fibble
September 19th, 2006 at 1:22 pmI’d not be surprised if a large portion of that 3% is going to governor candidate Kenneth Blackwell’s buddy-churches here in Ohio as payback for 2004.
If you change article 3 of the geneva convention DO NOT EXPECT TO HAVE ANY COALITION TROOPS FIGHTING ALONG SIDE YOU………never
September 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pmPLC…I liked your fox programs…Comment by wisedup
Thank you. I couldn’t let Zooey think my head had spun around like in the Exorcist!
September 19th, 2006 at 1:23 pmAmerica’s so-called faith-based community is reverting back to embracing the perverse Christianityit did in the days of Jim Crow…
…the lynch mob religion…
…after all…
…today’s “conservatives”are the children and grandchildren pictured on their father and grandfathers’ shoulders in the lynching photos of the early 20th century…
…Lincoln only started the Civil War…
…it has yet to be resolved…
September 19th, 2006 at 1:57 pmGood news from the Gallup Poll today:
For the first time since December 2005, a majority of people polled did not say the war in Iraq was a mistake. The respondents were evenly split at 49 percent to 49 percent, the report said.
September 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pmWell, I expect they will go into TV soon, where else can they produce the Simpson’s spin-off “The Okely-Dokely Show with Ned Flanders“?
September 19th, 2006 at 2:37 pmMore good news from Gallup:
“President Bush’s job approval rating has risen to 44%. Americans have become more positive about the war on terror. Voters are more likely to support a candidate who backs Bush on terrorism rather than one who opposes him. By a slight margin, Americans tend to think the country will be safer if the GOP retains control of the House.”
September 19th, 2006 at 4:13 pmWomen are “generally paid less and promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions†than men in similar high-level science, math, and engineering jobs in the United States, according to a new National Academies report.
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It is what is commonly known as “the Glass Ceiling” but it is also a sign of the more prevalent and devastating “Sticky floor” (PDF) that affects women and minorities.
September 19th, 2006 at 4:39 pmYet more good news from Gallup for Bush and GOP congressional candidates:
“It is clear that congressional candidates who support Bush on the terror issue may have an advantage over those who don’t. By a 19-point margin, registered voters say they are more likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who supports Bush on terrorism (43%), rather than a candidate who opposes him (24%).”
September 19th, 2006 at 4:55 pmStill more good news from Gallup today for the GOP:
“The poll also showed likely voters evenly divided between Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress, 48%-48%.”
September 19th, 2006 at 5:03 pm#47
Your poll is useless and completely misleading. It indicates that there will be an equal number of votes cast for each party. However, that is not the case. For example there are 400 +/- seats in the House of Representatives up for election. In the extreme there could be 399 Democrats elected by only one vote and the last race decided by the rest of the voters with one vote in favor of the Republican. So without reference to the individual districts your information is worthless–just as worthless as the right-wing trollcrap you spread about this Blog.
September 19th, 2006 at 5:18 pmZooey, you might want to rethink on joining the postal service. on the news this morning, a worker just got a jail sentence for adding his urine in the coffee pot for his co-workers. Not sure if it was the postal service though. Anyone else catch this story?
September 19th, 2006 at 6:26 pmHi Uncle Ho,
Don’t worry, no one ever asks me to make coffee twice! I don’t drink the stuff, so I have no idea how to make it.
If someone pisses me off (heh), I just tell them. I don’t get that passive/aggressive crap.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:24 pmHiya Zooey; I guess that gives the term ‘going postal’ a new dimension. Then again, when I was with the Marines, I know for a fact, the outfit I was with used (I shit you not) used a pair of boxer shorts for the coffee filter. Knowing them, it probably was NOT a clean pair either.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:08 pmToo funny, Uncle Ho.
My dad was a Marine for about 4 years, but he said he had to switch over to the Navy when the Marines found out his parents were married.
Is that true…? :)
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