today I got up mid morning and checked doonesbury, the news sites I regularly use (on the internet) and ended up after a brief listen to the BBC worldservice (via a local NPR radio station on the FM dial) where there was much about the siege ending at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and followed that with catching last night's DailyShow w/ Jon Stewart (on the internet). I get the internet thru ATT. I pay $46 /month for that, that's $552 per annum. I'd rather give all that money to NPR or my local FM stations. But that's not how the process is set up. Locally based internet services are more expensive.
Then while NPR's Morning Edition played in the background, I started watching the twitterfeed. That's an internet sytem that 'feeds'you tweets up to 140 characters long, of all the people, organizations, etc. you follow. This morning that virtual world was a-twitter with comments on TX Senator Ted Cruz' attempt to do something ineffectual, except putting himself in the spotlight. Which he succeeded doing. He says he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2009. So I watched the last bit of that on CSPAN2 this morning and sent a bunch of tweets in response to KY Sen Rand Paul who was repeating the memes that Cruz was espousing. Of course I told him to quit lying and do his job. Not likely he saw my tweet. They get plenty of responses when they are on. Immediately after the Cruz talkathon, the Senate voted unanimously to avert a USGOV shutdown.
But there are lots of actual news stories that need mention/ attention.
Noted microphone holder Chuck Todd who works on msNBC says it's not his job to refute inaccuracies that politicos opposed to the ACA repeat. Many are saying this disqualifies him from the job-title 'journalist'.
Even after lying about it, NSA warns Congress, it still knows best, so they should do what their "... " told them to do.
Brasilia is suing the US for spying after news of NSA Surveillance of office of president, top oil co's etc. revealed. Brasilian president Dilma Rousseff spoke out about it at the UN. In fact, she opened up the General Assembly about it. Yesterday, world leaders went and spoke at the UN. The US press acted like they hoped there would be a sighting of US and Iran leaders meeting, even if by chance. How the world seems so topsy-turvy. On the weekend, The Phillipine Islands, Hong Kong and southern China were rocked by typhoon Usagi. Weeks or months it will take to recover.
UPDATE: At the end of the day, Kevin Gosztola posted this article about the Yemeni lawyer that represents victims of drone strikes in Yemen who is currently barred from the US.
Somebody floats an $11 billion settlement with JP Morgan Stanley over their dealings in mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the 2008 crash. Gee, wonder what it's really worth to them? How is this guy involved?
Hundreds already reported lost in yestreday's 7.7 earthquake in Pakistan. Death toll and destruction estimates expected to rise considerably.
DailyKos comics are great this week, at least. Especially Mark Fiore in 'Concealed Carry Control'. But I still think TomTomorrow should get one of those genius grants.
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