Another Arab Blogger Jailed
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A human rights group says a 24-year-old
Syrian blogger has been convicted and sentenced to three years in
prison on charges of undermining the prestige of the state and
weakening national morale.

In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday, The
National Organization for Human Rights in Syria condemned Tuesday’s
verdict as “outrageous” and called for Tarek Bayassi’s immediate
release.

The rights group says Bayassi’s sentence was commuted to three
years after an original sentence of six years. Bayassi was arrested
last May in northwest Syria for surfing sites of Syrian opposition
groups and posting comments online.

This is just like the GOP, babysit/oppress (repress) and then abandon.

“No blogs during these hours. This one is blocked, too free. No YouTube. Write this in your own words.”

then

“PTSD is under control. Homeless veterans are not that common, it isn’t a problem. The care for our veterans is good. Depleted uranium is not a danger. A new GI bill is excessive.”

Thanks anyway, it’s frightening enough living on the same planet.

Yes, our leader is breaking a lot of records. Highest % who think nation is on wrong track, highest % of job disapproval, and longest time below 50% approval (forty months).

Whenever he is not reading from a script, it is hard to tell what he means—you have to get inside the head of a paranoid sociopath.

He thinks that Democracy (capital “D”) will flourish in the Middle East (which would involve an enormous cultural change the implications for which I doubt they are ready), and that from this, Freedom (capital “F”) will “march” through the land. (The right wing sure loves to militarize every glorious vision of the future, don’t they?) Of course, what he does not explicitly state is that Capitalism will be prevalent and making people like him and his upper-income friends very wealthy.

But I think that history will vindicate him in the sense that this country finally woke its collective sleeping ass up and started paying attention to the kind of megalo-maniacal (Cheney), duplicitous (Rumsfeld), unethical (Rove) and delusional (Bush) people to whom we’ve been handing the keys to our government. Maybe, this will be the point when we all realize that we can, and we MUST, do better than this next time. Because another four years like the eight Bush will have given us could be the last chance we get to change things. Good night and good luck.

Justin Frank, the psychoanalyst, in his book “Bush on the Couch”, concluded that Bush suffers from megalomania. In that state of fantasy, the open state of the golf course would be very scary indeed. Hell, he even had all his campaign speeches in 2004 totally closed to all but the faithful.

I know they can secure a golf course. And you know they can secure a golf course. But, does George know that? He sure seems to get a “hunted and haunted” look when he doesn’t have his back against a solid wall. Then, of course, there’s his pathetic, and often bizarre, attempts at rational speech when he’s in a, relatively, uncontrolled environment. He’s riding a fine line between anxiety and complete paranoia.

May 19th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

Actually, pete, they can control the two championship golf courses at Andrews AFB. I know. I was stationed there, and I even got to golf there a few times. (Once we got a tee time because Caspar Weinberger and his party were no-shows, but that’s a different story.) They usually closed off the courses when the president was golfing. Not a lot of fun for the people who had to sit and wait.

The simpler truth is that he was lying about why he doesn’t play golf any more. And that is evident from the many things he didn’t give up – like making a complete fool of himself in public.

And does the rest of the world know it! And boy are they becoming more open in showing it! Bush’s latest disastrous trip to the ME is classic. A war mongering speech in Israel knocking arabs and then a humiliating hat in hand trip to his “best buddy” in Saudi Arabia from which he came back empty handed. Meanwhile the Arab press mocked his visit.

Yeah, you keep thinking legacy, Georgie. I hope you live long enough to suffer its judgment.

To me it indicates the total chaos that permeates the BushCo administration these days.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

That’s what happens to a family when Daddy is a psychotic drunk, “dry” or not, who has suffered a complete mental breakdown. In a real sense there is no head of BushCo because “Georgie doesn’t live here any more”. He’s nothing but an embarrassing marionette who can’t quite seem to execute the simplest commands of his puppeteers.

BTW, that would also explain his giving up golf. Paranoid people tend to avoid uncontrolled situations. And, I don’t see how anyone could convince him that his SS agents can actually control a whole golf course.

My thought exactly!

To me it indicates the total chaos that permeates the BushCo administration these days. Too many rats trying to leave the ship and hardly enough ropes to get to them all the shore. Their “brand” is in tatters and is being rejected by voters across the country. It is almost funny to watch, as they create a slogan (in order to jump on the “change” bandwagon Obama created,) that is a close match to the advertising slogan Effexor, the anti depressant, is using.

Poor McBush is crawling around trying to pick up all the spilled marbles rolling everywhere on deck as the rats desert the ship. It is almost karma to watch this flip flopping phony say what ever it takes to try and gain the haloed and now crap encrusted crown of the neocon party that he was denied in 2000.

McCain/Lieberman in 2008! Bring it on!!!

Did I get that right? Sorry, Pentagon, these are smart men and women, not mushrooms. You can try to feed them sh*t but you cannot keep them in the dark. I, for one, would like to hear what they have to say.

PEACE

This is what the erstwhile mili-bloggers will be trained to do… I read nothing here regarding free speech….

WTF are they going to write about? How they are fighting to protect rights that are denied to them?

…well picking something anyway.Maybe even scratching his brain. ;)