Where's the Outrage?

I haven’t done a news roundup in a while. I’ve been terribly busy. Plus the computer that I usually blog on has been sick. Now that it has a new CPU I’m up and running.

• Ursula Burns has been named the new CEO of Xerox. She is the first black female to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Congratulations to her.
• Crooks and Liars and Glenn Greenwald are just a few of the progressive bloggers that were disturbed by Barack Obama’s preemptive detention program which was unveiled yesterday. I’m not sure that Barack Obama is going as far as embracing Bush’s policies, but he is getting a little too close for my taste. This is Majority Report stuff.  I think it is important for us to push back. We need to push President Obama to the left.

• The swine flu is not dead. There are now over 6,000 cases in the US and nine deaths.  I think we will see a large outbreak during the winter months. We need to pay attention what is going on down in the Southern Hemisphere because it is the winter months down there now. The United States, trying to be preemptive, is investing $1 billion in immediate production and testing of a N1H1 vaccine.
• The “Four Terrorists Who Weren’t.” This sounds so much like the guys in Miami or the guys that wanted to attack Fort Dix. I’m not impressed.
• ESPN’s Jim Rome has never been accused of being a genius… or even tactful. He was talking with special guest Jay Mohr when Mohr went off on a tangent basically accusing Michele Obama, the First Lady, of being butch. The statement was unnecessary, over the top and uncalled for.  It wasn’t funny and, frankly, it was wrong.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Race, Rachel Maddow Show, Terrorism, War on Terror // 2 Comments »