The Liberal Avenger

I haven’t done an MP3 post in a long time!

I stumbled across this one the other day:

A wacky rapper calling himself Thirstin Howl III - after the character on Gilligan’s island - recorded Brooklyn Hard Rock with another MC called Unique London (London Unique?) and it is crazy/sexy/cool - or at least interesting.

Best line:

“Even my bible is stolen.”

Der her her.

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The Rude Pundit, Rude One

Hamdan, Democrats, and the Potential Constitutional Monarchy:
Here's yer summertime campaign issue, Democrats. Road test this fucker and see how it flies (and trust the Rude Pundit: he knows more than Bob Shrum and Donna Brazile genetically merged into one losing machine). Ya ready? Follow the bouncin' ball motherfuckers, and, fer fuck's sake, sing it in tune:

Yesterday's Hamdan decision at the Supreme Court basically said that Congress and the courts still have some power, despite the sick orgy of centralizing power in the hands of a rank amateur monarch-wannabe so head-thickend and brow-lowered ...   more »

The Liberal Avenger

The Adventures of Chester: The Geneva Convention for a Non-State Entity

Look what I found in the wingnutosphere:

• The Supreme Court ruling on Rumsfeld v. Hamdi gives Geneva Convention protection to non-state actors (i.e. al-Qaeda).
• Only legitimate states’ wartime behavior is restrained and “fair.”
• The non-state actor’s non-accountability gives them a distinct advantage over the legitimate state.
• Therefore the only way for a legitimate state to fight al-Qaeda is to create and fund a private, non-state military force that is also unaccountable.

My first reaction is to say that any non-state force is still accountable to its ...   more »

The Liberal Avenger

Mexico goes to the polls July 2

Mexicans will elect a new president on July 2, and polls are showing a dead heat between Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Felipe Calderon. The outcome of the election is likely to have a profound impact on Mexican immigration to the US, but few American media outlets have succeeded in communicating the importance of the contest to the American public.

Obrador is the populist former mayor of Mexico City, and he is running under the banner of the center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). He squares off against Felipe Calderon, former ...   more »

Daily New Yorker cartoon

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whitehouse.org

06.27.2006: Transcript of President's Chat With Double Amputee WMD Hunter During Totally Non-Grotesquely Exploitative South Lawn Photo Op

URL: whitehouse.org

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