Becuase Everything Else Sucks

The Daily Connect: 05/07/07

By Manila Ryce
Published Monday, May 7th, 2007, 8:06 am
Filed under: The Daily Connect

  • While they may be skilled with a yardstick, most people wouldn’t consider a nun to be a security threat. Our friends over at Monkey Muck report that the Benedictine Sisters, who belong to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, have been labeled a threat to security by Wal-Mart for questioning the corporation’s business practices. The nuns have raised questions over wages, human rights, health care, and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers for about 17 years. Wal-Mart has also been doing surveillance on the group.
  • Over a hundred journalists have been killed in Iraq, with a large part of that number killed by American troops. Meanwhile, legitimate foreign press organizations, such as al-Jazeera, have been intentionally targeted by the US and British government. Thousands of journalists have been arrested by US forces, and reports of physical abuse are common. h/t Make them Accountable
  • To show disapproval of their school’s decision to show surveillance camera footage of two girls kissing to one of the girl’s parents, students at Gig Harbor High School in Washington staged a protest. The principal maintains that the school doesn’t target homosexual students and admits that it made the wrong decision in releasing the footage. They had received a request from the parents to report “anything unusual”. Maybe it’s just me, but two teenagers kissing hardly seems unusual. I wonder if the school spends half the time monitoring students for heavy drug abuse, signs of depression, or violent tendencies.
  • Conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected the new President of France. Sarkozy scored a clear majority, with 53% of the vote. So are Republicans allowed to start calling their freedom fries French fries again, or is this new conservative president not Nazi enough? Protesters in support of Royal took to the streets of Paris and numerous other cities to voice their displeasure. There were small riots and clashes with police. You know this election had to be a huge deal if it drove French people to fight.
  • President Hugo Chavez has threatened to seize Venezuela’s private banks and largest steel maker unless they begin to operate in the “national interest” of the country. Chavez said, “Private Banks have to give priority to financing the industrial sectors of Venezuela at low cost.” He added that failure to do so would result in being nationalized so as to “work for the development of the country and not to speculate and produce huge profits”. Call me crazy, but I almost think Chavez enjoys pissing off the rich as much as he enjoys helping the poor. Can we create a show called President Swap?
  • Israeli citizen Benny Medvediev says he was “scared to death” when the Turkish airliner he was flying in to India had mechanical problems which forced it to land in Tehran. His laptop computer even contained pictures of him in his army reserve uniform standing at a West Bank roadblock. Iranian security personnel informed him that he had nothing to worry about even though they knew he was Israeli. He had to spend a night in the capital, but the Iranians supplied him with a bodyguard. “For the first hour I was scared to death,” Medvediev said. “But soon enough I realized that Iranians do not have horns. They were really wonderful to me and even invited me to return to Tehran. I told them, come on, let’s make peace and I’ll invite you to Jerusalem.” Iranian officials also gave him a carved wooden music box as a souvenir of his visit. A music box? You mean those anti-Semitic bastards wouldn’t even give him an mp3 player? This is the greatest outrage since British sailors were forced to wear pajamas! Fire up the nukes.

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