Happy Wednesday! Hope you're week is going well! Here's a couple of articles for your perusal.
CYA, Propaganda, or Honest Support?: The Obama Admin and Occupy.
Julian Assange is granted asylum!
A great review by A Siegel on a new book about using language
This had to be an interesting revelation...
So what else is out there news wise?
Comments
Nope. No Way:
From other conversation
regarding the Obama Admin article from "AddictingInfo":
Addicting Info is run by Matthew Desmond, who also administers the FB site Being Liberal. He's an active OFA operative, and Addicting Info is one of his channels.
I've been banned from his site for noting the times that he's mentioned some sort of awful facet of Republican politicians and providing links to cases where Obama has been just as bad. He tried to argue at first with a bunch of bumper sticker slogans straight off of the Obamabot Bingo card, started calling me a Republican, and then banned me. Same thing has happened to many of my Truth Trolling friends.
Truth Trolling--terrific phrase.
"Obamabot" I would prefer not to see. Not only does it trivialize, in my mind, the damage done by hypocritical support of things one claims to oppose, but it also trivializes the power of propaganda to addle the brains even of sensible humans. I'm writing a tad drily, but I do oppose the use of that polarizing term which, to me, distracts from how important it is that more people snap themselves out of their hypnotic trance.
from the dumb career move category
http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/weird/top-us-scrabble-player-caught-hidi...
dude. cheating at Scrabble? what are the kids....
learning these days? sigh....
If he had tortured or invaded a sovereign nation
He'd still be competing for the title.
conflicting information on Assange
Some reports are saying, yes, he has been granted asylum and other reports are saying not yet. I can only surmise that he was initally granted asylum and then the machinations of the 'diplomacy' vultures went to work. I'm hoping that he gets asylum but until he is safely on the ground I'm not believing anything.
Even if he gets asylum,
he won't be "safely on the ground" unless the British government grants him safe passage to the airport. If he steps one foot outside the embassy, he can be arrested.
That's true, but
are they searching cars as they leave?
He can't leave the embassy
without walking out the front door of a public building. The Ecuadorian Embassy is housed in a public building and the elevator from the embassy does not go directly into the car park. So he has to leave the public entrance of the building and get into the car without being arrested.
Once he is in a diplomatic car, he is safe. But he can't go straight from the car to the airplane. He has to go through the airport where he can be arrested.
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