Honorary W.E.E. Peeps Wednesday Link Sweep
WEE gots to give a shout out to Carolinagirl, our Resident W.E.E. Peeps Link Sweep Queen!
Blessings to you and hubby as he recoups from his surgery. And WEE know you’re going to take real good care of him too! ”Take two aspirin and call me by your bedside Mr. CG, cause Imma still help to make your season birght.”
Thank God for good health care insurance! Sure you right.
WEE got your Wordsmith Senator right chere News. And so it seems, Blago’s not the only Illinois poet. Roland Burris reads his health care-themed Christmas poem on the floor of the Senate. You can be regaled by Senator Burris’ video recitation here.
Ho Sit Your Ass Down and STFU, It’s Hard Out Here For A Ho News. Screw Jane Hamsher: Pass the Healthcare Reform Bill. Healthcare reform finally looks like a reality now that Harry Reid has actually lined up 60 votes in the Senate. And for anyone who really cares about fixing the mess that is the healthcare system we actually have in the U.S., here’s a simple message: Pass the bill. (Apologies, sort of, to Jane Hamsher, who takes exactly the opposite tack from a more-lefty-than-thou perspective. For a cogent point-by-point rebuttal, see Ezra Klein.) if you can stomach it, read more here.
Jamaican Me CRAZY ‘Mon’ and Jesus Take the Wheel News : Jamaica plane crash Photos: American Airlines Miami Flight AA331 overshoots runway. 40 passengers injured and no fatalities. Thank you Jesus! More than 40 passengers were injured on Flight 331, some in serious condition, when a flight originating from Washington D.C. landed in bad weather and heavy rain. The Kingston bound plane had 154 people on board when it overshot the runway. The Boeing 737-800 had a cracked fuselage and its right engine broke off from the impact and the left main landing gear collapsed said American Airlines spokesman, Tim Smith. Read more here.
TV One’s Gonna Rip us a Heart-warming Tale of a Legendary Singer News. Peep “Unsung Minnie Riperton” Sunday 12-27@ 8PM EST. La, La, La! RIP Minnie. Check out the trailer here.
Shameless Shout Out to Family Repost News. My future son-in-law did an interview with the Great Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
Snippet:
“To say I was nervous would be an understatement.
It was 11:30 a.m., nearly two hours before my scheduled interview with Hall-of-Famer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and I was already nervous and sweating. I had only gotten two hours of sleep the night before, and the four or five hours I was awake involved me quietly reciting possible questions in my head and trying to anticipate every single answer he could throw back at me. By the time I left the hotel, I was sweaty and repeating questions and answers in my head like Rain Man.” Check out the entire article and audio version of “My Interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabar by Rashad Mobley here. It will truly warm you heart.
You Want a Piece of Peace News? A Christmas Sermon on Peace-1967 by The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, the fifth of six programs honouring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s the final lecture of Dr. King’s Massey lectures- a series that aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in late 1967. This one is more a sermon than a lecture- it aired on Christmas Eve 1967. Dr. King used the opportunity to spread his message of non- violence and reconciliation to a wider audience. His message is as relevant today as it was 42 years ago. Listen to the broadcast here:
Here’s your Holiday Hump Day music selection. WEESeeyou, SG2 & Snoop!
Snoop Dogg – Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
Eartha Kitt with Friends Santa Baby- For you carolinagirl: Who gon check your friends, Boo? LOL!
Now get out there and make it a Great Day!
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December 23rd, 2009
Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011
By LARRY MARGASAK (AP) – 24 minutes ago
WASHINGTON — The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the federal government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists.
Congress must first appropriate money for the takeover of the Thomson Correctional Center and the necessary construction. Lawmakers wary of moving detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military base into the United States could balk at approving the funds. In the Senate, there's always the chance of delaying tactics that could hold up the money for months.
Congress also needs to change a law prohibiting detention in the U.S. of detainees who are not awaiting trial.
The prison in rural western Illinois may not be purchased from the state until March and will need up to 10 months of construction said Joe Shoemaker, spokesman for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
President Barack Obama originally said Guantanamo would close next Jan. 22. While that date proved unrealistic, the president has directed administration officials to move quickly to acquire the maximum-security prison in Illinois.
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt on Wednesday would not say when Guantanamo would close.
“The president remains as committed today to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo as he was when he entered office, and substantial progress has been made in recent weeks,” LaBolt told The Associated Press. “The detainee population at Guantanamo is now smaller than it has been at any time since 2002.
“We will work with Congress to ensure that we secure the necessary funds to purchase and upgrade the Thomson prison — which will operate at a substantially lower cost to taxpayers — next year,” he said.
Shoemaker said, “The end of 2010 or the start of 2011 has always been the mark the administration talked to us about.”
In addition to any appropriations struggles, current federal law requires that detainees can only be housed in the United States while their trials are pending. That law would have to be changed to cover detainees who have not yet been charged and will not be sent abroad. The change would have to specify that detainees could be kept on U.S. soil for any purpose.
The Justice Department said last weekend that since 2002, more than 560 detainees have departed the military prison in Cuba and 198 remain.
“We're hitting the anticipated bumps” in the timetable for using the Illinois facility, Shoemaker said.
He added that many lawmakers would not vote to change the law or provide the funds until the administration submits a comprehensive plan on the handling of the remaining prisoners.
Federal officials tried on Tuesday to allay fears that moving terror suspects from Guantanamo to Illinois could make the state a terrorist target.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Harley Lappin, told a state legislative panel that a new perimeter fence and other measures would make Thomson Correctional Center “the most secure of all federal prisons in the country.”
The 12-member Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability could vote on a recommendation to sell the prison that skirts the Mississippi River, but Gov. Pat Quinn does not have to follow the recommendation.
The commission said it would not vote on the proposal before Jan. 14.
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December 23rd, 2009
Rock on Shanti!
Love your Honorary Link Sweeps! I'm so loving Snoop Dogg!
Snoop is the bomb-diggety! BAM!
Santa Claus … Is Coming Straight To The Ghetto …
**dancing**
We Wish….Youuu…A Happy New Year…..We Wish…Youuu…A Happy New Year!
December 23rd, 2009
My future son-in-law did an interview with the Great Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
Your future son-in-law, Shanti? Too cool!
December 23rd, 2009
I wish you'd go play in traffic!
December 23rd, 2009
CAPD, please posts this on the open thread. Thank you.
December 23rd, 2009
Hi Shanti. Do you mean post it again now, or just in the future refrain from posting 'new news' in the links sweep?
December 23rd, 2009
Have you read any of the thread, CAPD? Perhaps I wasn't clear on WEE Peeps Link Sweeps. Read the links and come back and discuss.
December 23rd, 2009
Yes, Rashad did a wonderful job with the interview. He was nervous, but he pulled it off beautifully. I was touched by Rashad's personal story about why he wanted to get his book autographed by Kareem.
December 23rd, 2009
Oh, that is too exciting getting to interview Kareem Abdul-Jabar–Mr Basketball! The interview was excellent. Great photos too! I am happy your son-in-law got to do this story and it was definitely brilliant!
Big Up to Rashad! Whoo Hoo!
December 23rd, 2009
Eartha Kitt, yay! I wish Madonna, Taylor Swift, etc. would stop murdering Santa Baby every year. Ms. Kitt's is the definitive version not subject to debate, the end.
December 23rd, 2009
So true, MsKitty!
No one can touch it!
December 23rd, 2009
Wow Shanti, this is an excellent “honorary” link sweep! I'm sure that CG would be (is) proud!
December 23rd, 2009
Webb, I'm glad you are still up because I'm down for the night. Aleth posed a very pointed question about the relationship between JJP and Jane Hamsher on the afternoon open thread at JJP. ***crickets****.
December 24th, 2009
LoL, the answer to the question is in the suffix “csmads.com” in that site's sidebar. As long as “csmads.com” is subsidizing JJP, JJP is serving Common Sense Media…serving Mistress Jane Hamsher.
December 24th, 2009
Really…
December 24th, 2009
Yes! Really!
December 24th, 2009
Thanks, Webb. Carolinagirl deserves it!