There is a lot to be worried about…

Today has been dismal.  On the news, the four missing miners are still unable to be searched for due to methane buildup… The President has the ability to pick enemies to be killed without trial of any kind… one out of every four work-aged people seem to be unemployed, like me, and most of them are beyond the ability to collect unemployment insurance… My broken ribs are still painful in m second week of recovery, meaning I can’t really get out and look for work (although I have an interview on Friday morning)…

Life is getting less fulfilling all the time, but I still have some confidence that things will get better. In a little over a month I’ll be 64… and if that isn’t depressing, nothing is.

I can support Obama in a great many things…but not in this…

Glen Greenwald has a major piece in Salon this morning on Obama’s “sentencing” of an American as a Muslim Terrorist and authorizing his murder without trial… This is unacceptable policy to me and, I hope, to the rest of America.

We need to call on Obama to reject this idea… now.

Read all of Glen’s article after this clip:

clipped from www.salon.com Today, both The New York Times and The Washington Post confirm that the Obama White House has now expressly authorized the CIA to kill al-Alwaki no matter where he is found, no matter his distance from a battlefield.  I wrote at length about the extreme dangers and lawlessness of allowing the Executive Branch the power to murder U.S. citizens far away from a battlefield (i.e., while they’re sleeping, at home, with their children, etc.) and with no due process of any kind.  I won’t repeat those arguments — they’re here and here — but I do want to highlight how unbelievably Orwellian and tyrannical this is in light of these new articles today. No due process is accorded.  No charges or trials are necessary.  No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family).  None of that.