Thursday, July 05, 2018

THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA COMES OUT IN FAVOR OF ICE!

BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE



WE DIDN’T CALL HER BUT FORMER CHILD ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO CALLED US AND EXPLAINED SHE WANTED TO WEIGH IN BECAUSE “I REALLY NEED THE PUBLICITY IF I’M EVER GOING TO HAVE A CAREER AGAIN.  SO HERE’S MY TAKE ON ABOLISH ICE: NO.  NO, DON’T DO IT.  NOT NOW, WHEN IT’S SUMMER AND PEOPLE ARE THIRSTY AND WANT A COLD DRINK.  MAYBE AFTER AWHILE WHEN WINTER’S CLOSER, WE CAN RETHINK IT BUT RIGHT NOW AMERICA NEEDS TO FILL EVERY ICE TRAY IT HAS.”

WHEN WE THANKED HER FOR CALLING, MILANO CLOSED WITH, “REMEMBER, I’M NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE. I’M WHO’S THE BOSS CLASS OF 1992.”





Returning to the topic of the drought in Iraq,  Philip Issa (AP) reports:

Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs of abating.
Citing high temperatures and insufficient rains, Dhafer Abdalla, an adviser to Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources, told The Associated Press that the country has only enough water to irrigate half its farmland this summer.

But farmers fault the government for failing to modernize how it manages water and irrigation, and they blame neighboring Turkey for stopping up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers behind dams it wants to keep building.


A water shortage in the summer?  It's been a 118 degrees Fahrenheit day for Iraq today.  And they suffer a water shortage.

The water issue is not a new one.  So why didn't Hayder al-Abadi do anything over the last four years as prime minister to address the issue?  Last February, some were sure that a hard summer would be avoidable due to some heavy rains that had fallen.  Now that notion is so outrageous that we'll be kind and not name the non-Iraqi outlets that pimped that lie.

The big lie, of course, is that voting helps Iraq.  Over and over, Iraq's prime ministers do nothing.  The problems are known.  They are identified.  Then four years fly by and nothing has been done.  Over and over this happens.  Starting to grasp why so few bothered to vote last May?

's treasured amber rice crop devastated by drought





How does this happen?

As Patrick Cockburn observes, this is a human-made drought.

It did not happen overnight.

Nor was it a surprise.


RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot"








Sunday, July 01, 2018

THIS JUST IN! SHE'S DONE RECORDING, MUSIC JUST GOT A LITTLE BETTER!

BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE



THE FORMER BEARD FOR MICHAEL JACKSON LAST HIT THE TOP 40 CHARTS BY HERSELF IN 2003 ("THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST") AND HER LAST HIT ALBUM WAS IN 2005.

FADED CHILD ACTRESS AND SOCIAL CRITIC ALYSSA MILANO OBSERVED THE SOLEMN MOMENT BY NOTING THAT HER FAVORITE SHERYL CROW "SONGS ARE 'FOOLISH GAMES,' 'AT SEVENTEEN' AND 'ELECTRIC YOUTH.'  SHERYL AND HER SONGS CHANGED MY LIFE."





An issue that's largely gone unaddressed would be the huge number of executions in Iraq since the 2003-invasion -- official government carried out executions.  Amnesty International has paid attention and they've found Iraq in the top three each year when it comes to most executions officially carried out.
Iraq PM calls for 'immediate' execution of all 'terrorists' on death row





Executions are moving even faster in Iraq.  Doubt it?  BBC NEWS reported this morning, "raq has executed at least 12 people convicted of terrorism offences."  AP had also gone with 12 but quickly had to up it to 13 and noted, "Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is facing fresh questions over gaps in security after bodies of eight policemen and members of a pro-government Shiite militia were found on the side of a highway north of Baghdad this week. The eight were believed to have been abducted by Islamic State militants earlier this month." (Picking up a thread from earlier this week, we've never claimed that ISIS was defeated, unlike various news outlets.  Donald Trump supporters are correct that if a news outlet is claiming ISIS has been defeated, that would be a victory credited to Donald Trump.  If we believe ISIS had been defeated, we would have given Donald credit.  But it's not defeated.)
Corrupted Government . Corrupted Justice Department . Fake election Results . And still have executions in this Country .




Iraq's legal system remains a joke.  Trials take mere minutes.  There are few who receive even adequate defense.  Evidence is not required for a conviction.  Women whose 'crime' consists of being married to a member of ISIS or someone suspected of being a member of ISIS can be imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Charges -- related to ISIS or otherwise -- are often based on personal grudges and not actual events.  The whole system is a mess.