micah holmquist's irregular thoughts and links

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Please Watch Football this Sunday

My artistic talents have finally been recognized.

Bomb Libya or Lose the World!

U.S. troops out of Iraq

Get your stories straight

People who support the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq do not get to say that Israel is the "only democracy" in the region.

This is an excuse to show a graphic I created

"The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there is no evidence of involvement in any specific terrorist plot, according to a report disclosed Friday," writes Charlie Savage in a May 28 New York Times story.

Over at the excellent Dead Horse blog, you can read "How President Obama holds himself accountable" by the very same micah holmquist who crafts this journal with love.

On his trip to Bagram...

Does anybody know if Obama took time to not torture detainees being held there?

A quick programming note...

I will be appearing on NBC News tonight after Obama’s “robot soldiers can’t sufficiently kill those Afghans” speech tonight. I am expected to speak about how I foresaw a hawkish foreign policy from Obama.

While I do not know for certain, I have to believe that people such as Dennis Perrin and the gang from Dead Horse will be making similar comments on other channels tonight.