Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Aug 29th, 2003
Well, what can one say? Doesn’t this truly sum up the Grand Hypocrisy Party?
The Republican Party is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush.Young people at the call centres are helping robots to phone American citizens to enlist their support and […]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
I so love Miss Molly.
One problem I have with Arnold Schwarzenegger is that he looks like a condom stuffed with walnuts. I realize that is superficial, shallow and unbecoming to a semi-serious-minded liberal like myself, but there it is. The other is that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to public […]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
Oops.
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
Check out this post from Confined Space which deconstructs the NASA report and the NY Times analysis:
The footnote accompanying this paragraph states:
Changing personnel is a typical response after an organization has some kind of harmful outcome. It has great symbolic value. A change in personnel points to individuals as the cause and removing them gives […]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
Bob Herbert points out the obvious: Bush doesn’t really give a shit about kids, except as props for photo ops.
Senator Kennedy also plans to stress that the president is prone to making promises that are never kept: “A pattern is emerging. Each year the president picks a large area to work in a bipartisan fashion […]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
‘BETTER LATE THAN NEVER’ DOESN’T REALLY CUT IT ANYMORE
Apparently the New York Times editorial board is upset with the actions of the man whose cause they so relentlessly championed for so long - because he did exactly what opponents predicted.
President Bush’s critics have watched with mounting frustration as his administration has compiled one of the […]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
No wonder they love us.
During Yassen’s shift the day before yesterday at Alwiya, two newborns died because he lacked the right supplies to treat them. One had septicemia; the other died of respiratory failure. Yassen had no luminal to treat the septicemia patient — its seizures worsened and it died. He had no ventilator machine […]
Posted in General on Aug 28th, 2003
WELCOME TO WALMART WORLD
This is why I feel guilty buying anything at Wal-Mart - and go out of my way to avoid shopping there:
You won’t find any housing development radiating outward from the center of the new service and retail economy, either. Ford and General Motors are yesterday’s news; the employer that now sets the […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
Ha ha ha ha ha…………. They just don’t understand. People write viruses for Windows because they hate it. Because it’s buggy, complicated and full of holes. When it works, fine. When it doesn’t, it’s likely to cost you much time, money and aggravation.
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
Salon interviews Al Franken:
So this is the mindset of the right, that they have to punish you. Joe Wilson, the former Gabon ambassador, was sent to Niger by the CIA and came back and said the uranium claims weren’t true. And when the controversy started broiling again about the 16 words in the State of […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
Yes, he did it with his patented Gubernatorial Mind Control Techique (c) (also via Atrios):
A statewide group of activists and conservatives angered by Nevada’s record tax increases will notify the Secretary of State’s office Wednesday of their intent to recall Gov. Kenny Guinn.
Members of the Committee to Recall Governor Guinn said Monday they have […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
Here’s a few Hall of Famers from Atrios today:
More Fair and Balanced
300 bigots and lunatics protesting around a carved rock, worthy of nonstop coverage. 100,000 people protesting a war, worthy of brief snide commentary.
And then there’s this one on our intentions in North Korea:
Would someone please just send a case of viagra and a […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
I watched Dean’s “Sleepless Summer” appearance in New York’s Bryant Park last night on C-SPAN2. I held the phone up so my friend Leigh, who doesn’t have cable, could listen. (You have to love this advanced technology, huh?)
“You know, it looks like there’s at least 10,000 people there,” I said when the camera panned the […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
Informed by a Republican colleague of plans to arrest them, the Texas Killer D’s cancelled plans to attend their federal court hearing today.
As many as seven of the 11 Democrats who killed congressional redistricting by fleeing the state had planned on attending a hearing today on their lawsuit in federal court.
But Democratic consultant Harold Cook […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
So I felt this earthquake yesterday afternoon. I thought it was thunder (they’d predicted passing storms) but it wasn’t. Weird, huh.
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
THAT’S $5 TRILLION, PEOPLE
See, here’s the part that gets me. In a democracy, you’re voting for people who represent your views, right? So what do you call it when someone runs under completely false colors?
People who voted for Bush mostly believed him. They thought he was a fiscal and social moderate, a “compassionate conservative.”
How many […]
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
Was this yet another military suicide? It’s shameful, the conditions over there. Thanks, Halliburton et al!
Posted in General on Aug 27th, 2003
MEDIA STRICKEN YET AGAIN WITH ACUTE AMNESIA
So the government is looking for more Arabic speakers, huh? Even sending out press releases and all… Guess they forgot about those Arabic-speaking analysts who were fired from the military last year for being gay. There’s that liberal media for you.
Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, […]
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
TREASON IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson has dropped a very broad hint as to whom he thinks illegally fingered Valerie Pflame, his wife, as a CIA operative. (Spoiler: initials are K.R.) From Mark Kleiman, via Atrios:
Wilson was asked whether he trusted the FBI to investigate the case. He started by saying that he […]
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
Great piece on political activist Danny Goldberg, the record industry leader who discovered Nirvana - and who also happens to get the political scene in a way few others do (check out his blog here):
Some people are listening: Goldberg has been flogging his book all summer, jousting with Bill O’Reilly and Tim […]
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
Now. pretend his name is Clinton. Or Gore. Now imagine the press taking this jovial, winking tone toward his having campaign speeches posted on the official White House website.
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
Need a laugh? Here’s Art Buchwald’s take on how Bush really responded to the blackout.
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
From the heroic Sen. Robert Byrd in today’s WashPo:
What has become tragically clear is that the United States has no strong plan for turning Iraq over to the Iraqi people and is quickly losing even its ability to maintain order. The administration is stumbling through the dark, hoping by luck to find the lighted path […]
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
Apparently we never secured the Iraqi army munitions - and now there are large bombs scattered around. Lovely.
While U.S. forces hunted for weapons of mass destruction, Iraqis say, criminals made off with bombs, explosives and sophisticated weapons like rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
“Anyone with any military experience could have taken these munitions and made them into […]
Posted in General on Aug 26th, 2003
Excellent piece in Salon drawing parallels between the persecution of Lenny Bruce and Ashcroft’s war on obscenity. Just read it.
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