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Porn with a bite   Robert Englund and Jenna Jameson in Zombie Strippers They'll dance for a fee They'll devour you for free http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/zombiestrippers/ Tis the season!   **********************   I am still a Nader fan. He acts for the greater good. He doesn't buy big houses or cars. He won't be found on the front of a cereal box. He just says what he sees as right for the nation. How cool is that? P.S. I am not writing him in on the ballot. This election is too important. from: thenation.com   Nader's Stubborn Idealism William Greider : Presidential Election 2008 Ralph Nader is a man of political substance, trapped in an era of easy lies.   **********************   More from thenation.com Rocking the Black Vote Amy Alexander : Media Dallas DJ Tom Joyner is encouraging African-American listeners to engage in electoral politics. Read More   *********************   Let's not forget the Supremes!!!!   Please! http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081103/schwartz The Supreme Court and the Election: What's at Stake By Herman Schwartz This article appeared in the November 3, 2008 edition of The Nation.   ********************************   Military officers that are willing to face the consequences of honesty about Gitmo. Hurrah! Thanks, Jay    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22035?email Volume 55, Number 17 · November 6, 2008 'Official American Sadism' By David J.R. Frakt, Reply by Anthony Lewis In response to Official American Sadism (September 25, 2008) To the Editors:   I am prominently mentioned in a quite flattering light by Anthony Lewis in his article "Official American Sadism" [ NYR, September 25]. Please convey my appreciation to Mr. Lewis for his kind words. However, there are a couple of minor factual inaccuracies in his story regarding my client's case that I wanted to try to get corrected. I know that Mr. Lewis as a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist would want to get his facts right even if they are not central to the point of his story.   The story says: Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan accused of throwing a grenade at a convoy of American soldiers in Kabul in late 2002, wounding two, was brought to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in February 2003. He was then seventeen years old. In December 2003 he attempted suicide. The following May he was subjected to what Guantánamo officials called the "frequent flyer program." Every three hours, day and night, he was shackled and moved to another cell—112 times over fourteen days.   We know about what was done to Mr. Jawad because the military lawyer assigned as his defense counsel, Major David J.R. Frakt (Air Force Reserve), sought and won from a military judge an order for his jailers to produce the records of his captivity. Major Frakt brought out the realities of Jawad's treatment in his closing argument at a pre-trial hearing on June 19, 2008—an argument that was a remarkable display of legal and moral courage. Two points: 1. Jawad is accused of throwing a grenade at a vehicle with American soldiers in it, but it was not part of a convoy. It was a vehicle traveling alone through a crowded bazaar in the streets of Kabul. The Russian-made jeep-like vehicle known as a Gaz had two American special forces members and one Afghan interpreter inside. All three were injured. The incident occurred on December 17, 2002, and there are a number of press accounts about the incident available on the Internet. Google "Kabul hand grenade attack" and the date and you will find the stories. You will note that others were arrested for the incident as well, but Jawad, the minor, is the only one in US custody and the only one being tried for this offense. This is an interesting story as well.   2. The judge did not order the jailers to produce the records of Jawad's captivity. I have submitted a number of motions to compel evidence, but the judge has never ruled on any of them. The records were voluntarily turned over by the prosecutor, Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld, a US Army Reserve JAG. Lieutenant Colonel Vandeveld also acted with moral courage in producing a number of exculpatory records relating to the mistreatment of Jawad, knowing well that it could doom the case.   Incidentally, Lieutenant Colonel Vandeveld recently submitted his resignation because he felt he could not ethically continue to work as a prosecutor for the military commissions. I would like to see Lieutenant Colonel Vandeveld get some credit for his moral courage because he is currently facing serious threats of reprisal and retaliation for acting with integrity. David J.R. Frakt   *******************************   Mother Earth News online The Presidential Candidates on Energy Issues Gas prices, the economy, foreign policy and climate change are all directly or indirectly tied to energy. With the election less than two weeks away, all of these issues on the table and on voters' minds. So before you head out to vote, find out where Senators John McCain and Barack Obama stand on matters from oil to global warming.   **********************     theonion.com Microsoft Ad Campaign Crashing Nation's Televisions WASHINGTON—Many television owners were left with no other option than to manually restart their devices by unplugging and then plugging them back in. READ MORE   *********************************   jay <cataloger@stillwater.org> thought you would be interested in the following article from The New York Review of Books. -- The New York Review of Books November 6, 2008 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22027?email Green Fantasia By Bill McKibben Thomas Friedman is the prime leading indicator of the conventional wisdom, always positioned just far enough ahead of the curve to give readers the sense that they're in-the-know, but never far enough to cause deep mental unease. He performs a useful service as a kind of political GPS unit, telling us where the country is, and could reasonably be expected to go. And this is his best book, more nuanced than his last, the best-selling The Earth Is Flat. But it needs to be viewed as a snapshot of the current dilemmas of policy, not as the oracle that it often aspires to be......   ******************************   More Mother goodies: http://ipost.com/archive/9z1zn9pstojmgah28c674l66gt0ebs4bud3k65hskpo   Canning:   White Chocolate Raspberry Jam with Coffee Liqueur Don't send those leaves to the landfill:   Put 'Em to Work! Title says it all:   Cooking Greens for Greens Haters The relatively routine root crop raised to respectable repast:   Garden Crops to Dig: It's what's going on underground that counts.   *********************************