Right was unhappy with Giffords-Petraeus exchange

Shameless: Politico.com insinuates the right wanted Giffords dead over green stance
As I noted yesterday in response to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ8), the Mainstream Media has been nothing short of shameless in its attempts to try and insinuate - or outright declare - that it was “the right” who targeted her for Murder. Josh Trevino wrote yesterday numerous times on Twitter about how Politico had joined in on the “Right Wing vitriol” bandwagon. Today, they continue to add to it with their latest extremely irr...

Politico: Hey, Maybe Giffords Was Shot Because the Right Didnt Like a Question She Asked Gen. Petraeus?
Glenn Beck, conservative columnists and one of Giffords’ Republican primary opponents piled on after the Arizona Democrat asked Gen. David Petraeus to explain whether he had any plans to use Solar Panels and hydropower to increase Fuel Efficiency in an otherwise dangerous battle zone. Clips of the Giffords-Petraeus exchange during a House Armed Services Committee hearing quickly went viral during the summer, as critics questioned Giffords for bringing up the issue in the first place. At th...

Gabrielle Giffords a tireless advocate for solar energy
I don’t tend to think you can draw any broader conclusions from the acts of one demented, violent individual — as I’ve said before. Giffords is, however, beloved of the Solar Energy community, who sent out a note about her Sunday, and that deserves a post.  Perhaps the best thing is to reprint what the inside-the-beltway center-right mavens at Politico wrote about her today.  Let’s start with their Morning Energy update: Gabrielle Giffords - “Gabby is not only

Politics: Gabrielle Giffords Is a Green Patriot
But Giffords also took some heat from right-wing opponents over her support of carbon cap-and-trade Legislation, which passed the House in June 2009 before dying in the Senate, although Climate Change legislation has never quite reached the partisan pitch that the battle over Health Care did—in part because energy and Climate Change isn't a high priority on most voters' minds. Those issues did matter to Giffords, however, who not only voted in favor of cap-and-trade—not a popular pos...

US commander: Taliban weak in south Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO's top commander in Afghanistan said Monday that a recent pledge by a southern Afghan tribe to stand up to the Taliban shows the Military push in the region is making headway and stifling the Insurgents' "central nervous system." U.S. Gen. David Petraeus told The Associated Press in an interview that a shift in thinking by the Afghan government and NATO means that the tribe's risky move is being embraced rather than ignored. And that brings the hope that others may...

Jared Loughner Not Tied To Anti-Semetic American Renaissance Group, Either
In the aftermath of Saturday’s tragedy, the most wanted commodity in the political world seems to be a shred of recognizable political identity to attach to shooter Jared Loughner , and so far no major ideology- neither left nor right- has sufficed. The latest group to be dismissed as an influence in Loughner’s heinous acts is the previously accused group “American Renaissance,” described by the Department of Homeland Security as an “anti-semetic” ...

The Left Never Wastes a Tragedy
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left never stands so tall as when it stands upon dead bodies. Whether it is Bill Clinton blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh, Democratic mayors suing gun manufacturers after school shootings in Arkansas and Colorado, Democrats turning Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial into a campaign rally, or Cindy Sheehan vastly overstaying her 15 minutes of fame, the Left never lets a tragedy pass without blaming it on its political enemies and pushing ...

Calls for softer tone in politics gets cool reception
By Ed Stoddard DALLAS | Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:21pm EST DALLAS (Reuters) - Calls to reset the tone of politics in the aftermath of Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona got short shrift on Talk Radio and elsewhere as left and right traded blame for the massacre. From the right, Bloggers and pundits labeled suspected shooter Jared Lee Loughner a "leftist" while critics of conservative super-star Sarah Palin accused her of creating a combustible political atmosphere with her behavior and Rhetoric....

Arizona Proves That the Politics of Guns Leave Us Defenseless
It seems as though it never ends. Mass Shootings. Blood baths. Angry, disturbed killers. Innocent Victims mowed down. We go through it on a regular basis. And nothing seems to put it to a stop. The attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, by Jared Lee Loughner in which six others were killed and 14 wounded, has focused the nation’s attention on the widespread use of guns and the great obstacles we face in trying to limit gun violence. The Arizona congresswoman said in March o...

House leaders announce prayer service
House leaders have announced plans for a Bipartisan congressional prayer service on Wednesday to mark the weekend shooting that left Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six others dead. Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi say in a letter to lawmakers it is important to gather together and pray for the health of Giffords, those who died in the attack and those who were wounded. Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday when a gunman opened fire with ...

Town and Country aldermen weigh censure tonight
TOWN AND COUNTRY • Alderman David Karney admits that an e-mail telling a fellow alderman he “should be shot” came from his home computer. But he denies sending it himself. Karney says he met with about six residents in his basement on Oct. 11 last year. The residents were angry over how Alderman Fred Meyland-Smith was championing the hiring of sharpshooters to kill deer. One of them got on a nearby desktop computer and fired off an e-mail to Meyland-Smith, Karney said. The e-ma...

SINGULAR HUMAN [THIESSEN: MARC] ACTIVE-VERB WRITES [SIN=OPPOSITE/HYPOTENEUSE] ON [DEFINE FUNCTION=INSIGHT] HYPOCRISY
IS =SINGULAR-VERB, ARE = PLURAL-VERB ~10-~JANUARY-~2010-NOW-TIME >>>REMARK/NONEXECUTABLE: Since David Corn has outed my secret admiration of HUMAN-DESIGNATE DAVID-WYNN: MILLER, I will drop the pretense of the VOID-WAR of having never MIND-SPACE heard of him, and begin emulating my DEFINE FUNCTION: LIBERATE (RECURSIVE) TRUTH BRAIN-HERO [SEE UPDATES TO POST, TIME: PRIOR; REFERENT: NOW-TIME]. BEGIN: EXCERPT FROM HUMAN DESIGNATE THIESSEN: MARC. Left-wing Bloggers and commentators blamed the attack ...

Loughner Mug Shot and Registered Independent
Does he look scary or deranged looking or anything like that to you, one side of his face looks rather sinister? UPDATE: From WashingtonPost Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an independent voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters. Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent. Records show he voted in the 2006 and 2008 Elections but is current listed as “inactive” on the st...

Inside the Beltway
PRAY, HE SAYS The hypersensitive public discourse on violence, Rhetoric, civility, guns, politics and the press barrels on, 72 hours after the Arizona shootings. With irony intact. Take, for instance, Fox News host Glenn Beck , vilified by partisan critics as an arbiter of hatemongering and aggressive culture, right along with Rush Limbaugh , the Tea Party and Sarah Palin . Mr. Beck - like his accused peers - seems mighty peaceful at this juncture, however. He has issued a challenge to "all Am...

The Pentagon's Planet of Bases
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Check out MoJo's past coverage of America's baseworld. The United States has 460 bases overseas! It has 507 permanent bases! What is the U.S doing with more than 560 foreign bases? Why does it have 662 bases abroad? Does the United States really have more than 1,000 Military bases across the globe? In a world of statistics and precision, a world in which "accountability" is now a Washington buzzword, a world where all information i...

Energy and global warming news for January 10, 2011: GOP plans to kill EPA carbon regs with Congressional Review Act may not fly
Congressional Review Act might not be an option to fight EPA regs (subs. req’d) Asked last weekend in a televised interview how he planned to stop U.S. EPA regulation of carbon — rules he says have the potential to inflict serious harm on the economy — House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton mentioned only one specific strategy: using the Congressional Review Act. What the Michigan Republican did not mention is that the core EPA findings and rules related to carbon miti...

No foreign solar panels for U.S. military
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Military is now required to buy only American-made Solar Panels, precluding Chinese products just before Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington. The appropriations bill signed Friday contains a "Buy American" clause for Pentagon purchases of Solar Panels, The New York Times reports. Green-energy technologies are likely to be an issue in Hu's talks with President Barack Obama. China produced at least half of the world's solar panels last year, and its ...

Military blocked from importing Chinese solar panels
Image via Wikipedia NY Times: The Military appropriations law signed by President Obama on Friday contains a little-noticed “Buy American” provision for the Defense Department purchases of Solar Panels — a provision that is likely to dismay Chinese officials as President Hu Jintao prepares to visit the United States next week. Although there are many big issues to discuss, including concerns about North Korea, trade and economic matters are certain to be high on the agenda. ...

Giffords environmental advocacy
By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson. The shooting killed six, among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be responding to stimuli despite being gravely injured. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody, and while we don't know anything definitive about his motives, many Democrats are pointing out that Giffords -- a Blue Dog in a re...

US commander: Taliban weak in south Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan said Monday that a recent pledge by a southern Afghan tribe to stand up to the Taliban shows the Military push in the region is making headway and stifling the Insurgents’ “central nervous system.” U.S. Gen. David Petraeus told The Associated Press in an interview that a shift in thinking by the Afghan government and NATO means that the tribe’s risky move is being embraced rather than ignored. And t...

US vice president in Afghanistan
Can Afghan forces step up? Who are the Taliban? US Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Afghanistan on an unexpected visit which will see him hold talks with President Karzai and meet US Troops. White House Officials say that Mr Biden will assess progress in the key issue of handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces. The US aims to begin withdrawing its troops in July. But that timetable has drawn criticism from Republicans in the US Congress who caution against abandoning a key a...

David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 3
This is the third of five excerpts from Law Professor Laura Dickinson's book, Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Find first part one here and part two here. It seems from what Prof. Dickinson writes in the following that even without hiring and training more auditors and contracting officers, a recommendation that virtually every analyst and group which has studies private Military contracting, has been making for years, the government...

Eagles' owner gets a high rating from Obama on environmentally friendly stadium
PHILADELPHIA -- Regardless of how the Philadelphia Eagles fare in the National Football League Playoffs, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie already got a congratulatory phone call from the president. President Barack Obama's comments a few weeks ago commending the team for giving a "second chance" to Quarterback Michael Vick drew more attention, but the president actually phoned Lurie to praise the Eagles for their pursuit of an Environmentally Friendly stadium. Lurie and his wife, Christina Weiss Luri...

District halts plan to install wind turbine
CLAYTON — The Thousand Islands Central School District's plan to install a Wind Turbine on school grounds is a no-go. Instead, the district will spend the Federal Grant money it received last year to install a photovoltaic system. The district was set to buy a 20-kilowatt turbine from a Canadian firm, but the project came to a halt because the structure did not meet one of the stimulus grant's requirements: the product must be made in the United States. "Because of issues with t...

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Addressing Climate Change: Push the Big Push!
What if there was an affordable plan to improve America's health, wealth, and National Security? Not only America's, but the world's. A dream, you say? You bet -- an attainable one. The United Nations Division of Sustainable Development developed one in 2009, nicknamed the Big Push. It's a global and American Dream worth fighting for, not just despite but because of the increasing numbers of new Republicans in Congress determined to do little about Energy Independence or Climate Change, beyond...