Wednesday, July 01, 2009
At Long Last....
Hear ye, hear ye...
The Minnesota Supreme Court has finally declared Al Franken the winner. Seven months after he won the election, Al Franken of Minnesota will at long last take his rightful spot in the US Senate.
In the meantime, USA Today reports that Democrats have been keeping a seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee warm for Al. And Norm Coleman has accepted the obvious and called it day.
Sixty votes -- and away we go!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
RIP - Farrah Fawcett
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Froomkin's Firing
By now everyone knows that Dan Froomkin was summarily fired by the Washington Post. In the meantime stellar voices like gasbag George Will, David Broder, Charles Krauthammer, David Ignatius and Michael Gerson continue to write for the fading paper at death's door.
But dear readers; there's a sure-fire logical reason why Froomkin had to go. And Nobel Memorial Prize winner Paul Krugman is more than happy to explain to you why it was so.
But dear readers; there's a sure-fire logical reason why Froomkin had to go. And Nobel Memorial Prize winner Paul Krugman is more than happy to explain to you why it was so.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
He's Barack Obama
Waiting on a Breakthrough...
We are destroying the world as we know it; and betting our very existence on a so-far evasive scientific breakthrough that will change the composition of carbon dioxide to something the planet can handle.
In paraphrasing this afternoon's panel on Gordon Peterson's show from the nation's capital, the seas will rise unless humans can figure out what to do with all the carbon dioxide we're emitting.
In the meantime, governments refuse to reduce carbon emmissions since China has already told them, hey folks, keep China out of your grand plans; we've got two centuries to catch up on.
That's right, boys and girls. China has told the West they have 150 years to come up with a scientific breakthrough before it's irreversible; in the meantime, they're off to the races and will see us in 2200 or before, depending on their luck.
In paraphrasing this afternoon's panel on Gordon Peterson's show from the nation's capital, the seas will rise unless humans can figure out what to do with all the carbon dioxide we're emitting.
In the meantime, governments refuse to reduce carbon emmissions since China has already told them, hey folks, keep China out of your grand plans; we've got two centuries to catch up on.
That's right, boys and girls. China has told the West they have 150 years to come up with a scientific breakthrough before it's irreversible; in the meantime, they're off to the races and will see us in 2200 or before, depending on their luck.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Ronald Reagan Intimate Speaks Truth to Batwings
In an amazing opinion piece, a Reagan intimate excoriates the current crop of leaders in the Republican Party.
Here's a sample, as published by Los Angeles Times:
Read the rest and be enlightened; it explains why p
eople are leaving the Republican Party in droves.
Here's a sample, as published by Los Angeles Times:
The Republican Party that is in such disrepute today is not the party of Reagan. It is the party of Rush Limbaugh, of Ann Coulter, of Newt Gingrich, of George W. Bush, of Karl Rove. It is not a conservative party, it is a party built on the blind and narrow pursuit of power.The author is no RINO; he is former Congressman Mickey Edwards from Oklahoma, one of the most conservative states in the Union. Edwards was "one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of the American Conservative Union." He also served as an adviser to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign and once held the "fourth-ranking leadership position" in the House.
Read the rest and be enlightened; it explains why p
eople are leaving the Republican Party in droves.Saturday, June 06, 2009
Post Speech Polling
From Politico:
Oh well...so much for should'ves and missed opportunities.What should President Obama have talked more about during his speech in Cairo?
Iran 4 %
Israel-Palestine 5 %
Terrorism 26 %
U.S. Muslims 1 %
Something else 9 %
Nothing, I liked the speech as is. 55 %Results are based on 16654 votes
Monday, June 01, 2009
Out of the Mouths of Home-Grown Terrorists
Scott Roeder faithfully believes that "lethal force is not a criminal offense if it protects the lives of unborn children." After all, George Tiller wasn't really human; he was a mass murderer and had to be stopped by any means necessary.
Be afraid, folks, very afraid. Scott is not the only Christian Taliban running around the countryside; it's just a matter of time and there will be more blood. Death to the infidels!
Who us??
Be afraid, folks, very afraid. Scott is not the only Christian Taliban running around the countryside; it's just a matter of time and there will be more blood. Death to the infidels!
Kansas City activist Regina Dinwiddie...said she does not consider death of Tiller, the nation's most prominent provider of controversial late-term abortions, to be a homicide.But don't trust your ears and eyes, right-wing extremists screech. Contrary to every piece of evidence, there's no link to them and violence; and no need to keep a watchful eyeball on their goings-on. That would be an outrage. Just ask the agin' cheerleader, Michelle Maulkin. or James Young of SkepticalObservor."I don't think he was murdered. I believe he was absolutely stopped in his tracks and it was long overdue," Dinwiddie said. She declined to say when she last spoke with Roeder.
Who us??
Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, whose group is based in Wichita and whose Web site carries a "Tiller Watch" feature, said he waYes, yes; everyone is absolutely shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on.s "shocked" by the killing.
Pro-life Terrorist Opens Fire in Church, Kills Doctor
With his headline and a few words, John Aravosis of Americablog pins the tail on the terrorist.
Thank God that the Obama administration caved last month to religious right and GOP demands that it withdraw a new domestic terrorism report that indicated, among other things, that radicals might use abortion as a justification for committing acts of domestic terrorism. Now a man is dead, and an American church has been shot up during services.That's right. Earlier this morning, a prominent late-term abortion doctor was shot and killed by some right-to-life terrorist. Let the Washington Post fully explain:
Tiller, 67, had performed abortions since the 1970s and ran the Women's Health Care Services clinic, one of just three in the nation to perform abortions after the point when a fetus is considered able to survive outside the womb.Of course, fundies will say this was just an aberration -- a few bad apples of the Abu Ghraib type. But...don't you believe it; as usual, they're lying. Huffington Post has all the gory details.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The Smoking Gun
No more hushed whispers and pussy-footing around. America tortures; and it's not because of some imminent danger to the homeland that lurks behind every shadow. Nope. The pure and simple reason America tortures or at least the reason why it did is because Cheney wanted to link Saddam to 9/11 so he could justify going to war with Iraq, and any living sap who could corroborate this delusional madness had to be waterboarded or worse.
Don't believe...? Here's the smoking gun from Richard A. Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council under President George W. Bush as explained in yesterday's Washington Post.
Don't believe...? Here's the smoking gun from Richard A. Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council under President George W. Bush as explained in yesterday's Washington Post.
Despite being told repeatedly that Iraq was not involved in 9/11, some, like Cheney, could not abandon the idea. Charles Duelfer of the CIA's Iraq Survey Group recently revealed in his book, "Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq," that high-level U.S. officials urged him to consider waterboarding specific Iraqi prisoners of war so that they could provide evidence of an Iraqi role in the terrorist attacks -- a request Duelfer refused. (A recent report indicates that the suggestion came from the vice president's office.)
Finally, an authoritative voice utters the inconceivable truth. Looks like during the Bush administration, The Decider was actually Cheney; and what Cheney wanted, Cheney got.
Well, there's only one way out of the moral decrepitude that was once boldly called the 'war on terror.' The naked-truth must now be revealed in some form of Nuremberg-like trials with every miscreant from the Bush administration under oath; and if we can't get the truth out of them, well, there's always enhanced interrogation techniques. After all, it's not as if we're not already on the list of nations who torture. Hell, even Abu Sanchez thinks that at minimum we should have a "a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture" by loyal patriots under Bush & Company.
Well, there's only one way out of the moral decrepitude that was once boldly called the 'war on terror.' The naked-truth must now be revealed in some form of Nuremberg-like trials with every miscreant from the Bush administration under oath; and if we can't get the truth out of them, well, there's always enhanced interrogation techniques. After all, it's not as if we're not already on the list of nations who torture. Hell, even Abu Sanchez thinks that at minimum we should have a "a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture" by loyal patriots under Bush & Company.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Mancow Waterboard
Monday, May 18, 2009
Barry White - Playing Your Game Baby
Barry White-Don´t play games
