I have been working with the Save Darfur Coalition for almost two years and am happy that today we are taking the campaign to stop this genocide to a whole new level.

Save Darfur is joining the divestment movement and is calling on Fidelity Investments to divest from PetroChina- a company whose parent, the China National Petroleum Corporation, provides 70-80% of the funds that the Sudanese Government uses to carryout the genocide in Darfur.

It’s time for Fidelity, Berkshire Hathaway and other mutual fund managers to do the right thing and immediately take their money out of PetroChina stocks.

Take a look at this new national television spot which will run on CNN and in print in major publications including USAToday, The Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek and Business Week and others.

Also, you can read the FAQ from the Save Darfur Coalition website which outlines in more detail how Fidelity and other companies are at fault and what they can do to take their money out of Darfur.

All of these companies have attempted to spin the media and use technicalities to remove themselves from their moral responsibility to divest. Money is important, yes. But, Sudan has historically responded to economic pressure and the time has come to divest.

Thank you Sen. Harry Reid for kicking this war criminal’s ass.

“I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.”

-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on tricky Dick Cheney’s name calling.

“I find it ironic that the flags were flown at half-staff for the young men and women who were killed at VT, yet it is never lowered for the death of a U.S. service member…”

-Sergeant Jim Wilt stationed at Bagram military base north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Today is truly a sad day in America.

More coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings:

New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Associated Press
Washington Post

What do you do when you’re losing an argument to Geraldo? GO CRAZY!

Charlie Rose should not be laughing. This is pretty offensive.

For the past couple years, I have opened my eyes every morning to one of the most beautiful faces in the world. No, alas, not my own, but that of CNN’s American Morning host, Soledad O’Brien.

The Washington Post reports this morning that the O’Brien/O’Brien team (Miles, being the other one) are no more. They will be replaced by CNN’s John Roberts and the very attractive and talented Kiran Chetry, formerly of Fox News fame.

Miles always kind of got on my nerves. Towards the end of his run, he spent more time tracking commercial airlines on his laptop than he did reporting the news. But Soledad, sweet sweet Soledad, I never got tired of her. She will be deeply missed.

CNN sources indicate that both Soledad and Miles O’Brien have been offered correspondent positions at the network and are expected to stay at CNN.

God speed, sweet princess.

H/t to Political Wire on this one…

“He can swagger all he wants but we have 3,241 dead Americans.”

– Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), quoted by the New York Times.

A loyal DoubleSpeak reader emailed me this morning with a great idea. Since the Bush Administration and the GOP can’t seem to get it right at Walter Reed Medical Center, why don’t we, the American people send in the experts to fix up the aging veterans hospital. We’ll call the show: Extreme Makeover Hospital Edition.

No, I’m not talking about another lazy government contractor. I’m talking about…

I have a good friend who is a producer for the show. I am going to email her this idea stat.

Rep. “Mean” Jean Schmidt (R-OH) is one of the most horrible politicians in America. Based on this statement, it doesn’t seem that she respects our brave troops and our veterans at all. She needs to be defeated in 2008!

Check out her latest tirade on the scandal at Walter Reed Medical Scandal. Sick.

From Political Wire:

“I found the situation at Walter Reed to be overblown by both politicians and the media.”

– Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH), quoted by the Cincinnati Enquirer, on the living conditions at one of the nation’s main facilities for treating veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.