Some of the wonderful emails we get (emphasis added) …
Since Israel decided to bomb Lebanonâs Airport and Ports without warning, forcing these emergency evacuations, why donât we withhold the cost of the evacuations from our generous financial aid to Israel. Iâm sure the Israelâs would approve; they supported reparations be paid by the Swiss and Germans from their actions during WWII.
Furthermore, why not deduct reparations to innocent foreign national civilians killed as a result of their air assaults as well?
No end of sickos.
Late Update: This post occasioned some comment on what the meaning behind my comment was. My meaning is this: I don’t believe the question of ‘deductions’ from foreign aid for the cost of these evacuations or for the loss of innocent lives (though who exactly would we pay that money too, and on whose behalf?) is comparable to the reparations Germany paid for the Holocaust. Call me old-fashioned.
Rep. Bonilla (R-TX) paid big bucks to protect the discriminatory redistricting of his congressional district.
Senior DOJ officials “stunned” president whacked NSA wiretap probe.
Lieberman to Lamont: You invested in Halliburton!
Lamont to Lieberman: No, I didn’t. My money manager did it for me.
Lieberman on the GOP ticket in Connecticut if the current gambler candidate gets bounced?
I must admit to a certain ambivalence about the ignominious defeat of bible-thumping and money laundering pro-gambling consultant Ralph Reed. On the one hand there’s little doubt this a victory for fair-dealing, truth, justice, America, not being a complete knob and various other good things. But I also have to face the fact that it also means the loss of a substantial amount of quality muckraking copy for TPMmuckraker.com.
But here’s something else out of Georgia. The votes aren’t fully tallied yet. But it appears that Rep. Cynthia McKinney may face a run-off to get the Democratic nomination to run again for her seat.
About a half hour ago the AP reported that “with 80 percent of the precincts reporting, McKinney was leading with 47 percent of the vote to lawyer Hank Johnson’s 45 percent.”
Johnson is a second term DeKalb County Commissioner.
This sounds solid, doesn’t it? From The Hill …
Rep. Charles Taylor (R-N.C.) used earmarks to create an overseas study program for Russian business students coordinated by his friend and business partner, an ex-KGB generalâs wife and onetime English teacher.
The International Trade and Small Business Institute, created last year and funded through a Taylor earmark to the Small Business Administration (SBA), uses federal money to send seven Russian students to eight North Carolina schools for business courses. Two of the students hail from Ivanovo, the depressed textile city where Taylor is majority owner of the local bank and a frequent real-estate investor.
Taylor, you’ll remember, is also the guy with the Abramoff fundraiser bamboozle. And before that, he was the one who said he didn’t cast a vote on CAFTA because his voting card broke.
Katherine Harris ascends to Stage IV of the TPMmuckraker Political Scandal Process (TM).