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I agree.

Threading has some advantages but only if there is an option for viewing chronologically. Otherwise it is too much work to check every thread for latest comments.

Just so there are no sigs after each comment!!!

Also it’s so much nicer to just find the conversation going freely among friends instead of having to jump through mechanical hoops all the time!

signed, Turndown:
politically leftist but bloggingly conservative

Now see, nobody wants to read something like that at the end of EVERY comment.

The Mail on Sunday (which is the Sunday sister paper of Britain’s Daily Mail) reports that:

The British government is sending police and intelligence officers to the West Bank to try to stop a wave of brutal torture by Palestinian security forces funded by UK taxpayers. Their mission is to set up and train a new “internal affairs” department with sweeping powers to investigate abuse and bring torturers to justice.

On Saturday a senior official from the Palestinian Authority, which runs the West Bank and its security agencies, admitted that torture, beatings and extra-judicial killings have been rife for the past two years, with hundreds of torture allegations and at least four murders in custody, the most recent in August. British detectives will also train the Palestinian police and Preventive Security forces in how to question suspects without torturing them. Britain spends £20 million a year funding the forces responsible for the abuse.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, Nasser al-Shaer, a former academic from Manchester University who was deputy prime minister in the short-lived Hamas Palestinian Authority government elected in 2006, said many of those released from detention in recent months were telling the same story – of torture, including beatings, being suspended from the ceiling, and electric shocks.

Now none of this is new. In spite of what the paper says, it has been continuing not just for the past two years, but since Yasser Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and took over most of the West Bank in 1993. What is new is that a major newspaper (The Mail On Sunday is one of Britain’s highest circulation respected newspapers) is reporting on it.

Of course, the abuse of human rights and use of torture is even worse in other “moderate” Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan, and far worse in non-moderate countries like Syria (which yesterday the European Union eagerly signed an Association Agreement with).

Meanwhile, as Palestinian detainees are being tortured to death in Palestinian Authority jails, Palestinian prisoners (including convicted terrorists) in custody in Israel are studying for Israeli university degrees (at Israeli taxpayers’ expense) and also given cable TV, IPods and dental treatment – but international human rights groups criticize Israel, whose deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to Washington Danny Ayalon narrowly escaped being arrested in Britain for “war crimes” yesterday.

And the world community that routinely and harshly condemns Israel even when Israel hasn’t done anything wrong, has failed to condemn the Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon which narrowly missed an Israeli town last night.

It is a strange world.

network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/28/tom-gross-britain-to-set-up-anti-torture-training-in-west-bank.aspx

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-10-27-obama-year_N.htm

Especially damning are the differences in “health care reform” (64% then, 46% now) and “healing political divisions” (54% then 28% now)

” October 28th, 2009
White House War Boosts FOX
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It’s no surprise. Heck, it may even have been part of the White House’s plan to galvanize its left wing base. Either way, the decision by Barack Obama and his administration to declare war on FOX News has had the inevitable effect of boosting the already dominant network’s ratings even more.

According to numbers from Nielsen Media Research, in the two weeks prior to the launch of the White House’s offensive against FOX by Communications Director Anita Dunn on October 11, FOX was averaging 1.2 million viewers per day and 323,000 viewers in the coveted Adult 25-54 demographic.

In the two weeks since Dunn’s remarks (and the subsequent comments by Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, and President Obama himself) FOX’s total average daily viewership surged 9% to over 1.3 million, while its viewership among Adults 25-54 shot up 14%.

Also not surprisingly, FOX continued its ratings dominance in October. The top 13 rated shows represent FOX’s entire lineup except the 3am show Red Eye, which is still pulling in more viewers than MSNBC’s premier morning show, Morning Joe. Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC recorded their lowest ratings of the year through the first three weeks of this month.

In particular, CNN is in the midst of what looks to be a total ratings collapse. CNN’s average daily viewership among all households through the first twenty one days of October was just over half of what it was in January. The former cable heavyweight now ranks dead last among cable news networks – behind even its sister network Headline News.”

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Wow, what a lie. It has been the exact opposite, if one thinks about Wall Street, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, etc.