Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
From Whitehouse.org, the really funny (but too painfully close to the truth) three-point policy plan from the PowerPoint President on photographing the war dead:
INTERMENT: Families remain welcome to bury or cremate their dead in whatever manner they feel is appropriate. Note however that President Bush will not stoop to emulate his forty-two inferior predecessors by [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
WHY TDH IS A MINOR DEITY
In an incredible rant on the shortcomings and lies of the press whores, Bob Somerby explains why he’s not being nice anymore:
We were raised to be polite, to trust the policeman down at the corner. But, as we’ve tried to tell you all week, the cop at the corner has [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
PASS THIS ONE ON, WILLYA?
I think I’m gonna run this every day for a week, just to make sure no one misses it:
This list footnotes some of the recent public discussion about Halliburton. On Meet the Press Sept. 14, Cheney disavowed any present connection to Halliburton: “And since I left Halliburton to become George Bush’s [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
Great interview with Miss Molly:
MI: Again, I’m not in the Jean Dixon business. It’s not so much that we need to increase taxes but to collect those already on the books. What’s extraordinary and astonishing is the exodus of corporations to offshore banks, to the Bahamas and Caymans, using post office addresses that are just [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
Shorter James Traub:
If only the Democrats would go back to taking it up the ass without vaseline, I’d feel so much better.
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
HYPOCRISY ABOUNDS
Here’s why I think the whole investigation into “pay for play” in Philadelphia is utter horseshit.
U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan, whose office is leading the probe into Mayor John Street, was the Delaware County D.A. for four years, the county I covered as a reporter. You can’t even begin to imagine the hold the GOP [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
DEAN CATCHES FIRE
More from Zogby on his latest New Hampshire poll:
Zogby called Clark “the dynamic” in the race. In August, before the general entered the race, Dean led Kerry, 38 percent to 17 percent. But in late September, soon after Clark’s entry, Dean’s lead dropped to 30 percent to 20 percent with Clark third at [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
ALL OF HIS OTHER SEQUELS SUCKED, TOO
Arnold has decided that the best way to deal with the energy problems in California caused by deregulation is - you guessed it - more deregulation.
No stranger to sequels, California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to sell the state on the virtues of electricity deregulation for a second time, despite [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
I KNEW THERE WERE SOME PRINCIPLED REPUBLICANS STILL AROUND
Former N.J. governor Tom Kean says he’ll issue subpoenas for intelligence documents related to the 9/11 commission investigation if the White House doesn’t start to cooperate - and soon.
The chairman of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks said that the White House [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
The Other Roger Ailes also addresses the Iraqi Beg-A-Thon, although in a slightly different tone:
The view of the world community re: the United States’ destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure appears to be “you broke it, you bought it.”
An international donors conference for Iraqi reconstruction ended Friday with pledges totaling “more than $33 billion,” conference officials said.
The [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
ONE NATION, UNDER GOD?
Great piece from Jesse over at Pandagon on the General Boykin uproar. Do read it.
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
‘BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS’
Finally got around to checking the Zogby poll from New Hampshire. Wow.
Pollster John Zogby: “This is stunning. Dean leads 43-20 among Democrats and 35 to 11 among Independents. He hits 40 among all age groups, union and non-union voters. His lead is 57-17 among self-described progressives, 50-20 among liberals, and 34-14 among [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
‘OOPS, MY BAD’
Kevin Drum highlights an interesting item from Sy Hersh’s New Yorker piece:
Remember those forged documents showing that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger? Well, who forged them? Hersh tells us that while no one knows for sure, the scuttlebutt around the CIA is that it was just a prank that went [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
KIND OF ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
Wait, I thought this was the point? I’m so confused…
Congressional investigators have determined that a top Bush administration air-quality regulator was warned that administration proposals to revise federal clean-air regulations could harm government lawsuits to force power plants and refineries to make upgrades that would sharply reduce the pollution they produce. [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
WHEN I GET RICH, I’LL REALLY NEED THOSE TAX CUTS
Despite the rising tide of evidence to the contrary, Americans are still mesmerized into thinking they, too, can become rich through the stock market. Suckers.
An investigation by securities regulators has uncovered widespread improper trading of mutual fund shares at the nation’s largest fund companies and brokerage [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
The New York Times actually has a strong opinion, and here it is:
Of the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst. As an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, she has declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear. And [...]
Posted in General on Oct 25th, 2003
Shorter Nick Kristof:
They just can’t help themselves so what’s the big deal?
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
MORE OF THAT ‘TROOP SUPPORT’
Unfuckingbelievable. Via Atrios:
Army Spec. Shoshana Johnson, the African American woman who was held prisoner of war in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, was looking forward to a quiet discharge from the Army in a few days.
Battle scarred and weary, she has said not a word as her fellow POW comrade in [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
Michael Kinsley (who suffers from MS) on Bush’s “moral clarity” on stem cell research:
It’s not a complicated point. If stem cell research is morally questionable, the procedures used in fertility clinics are worse. You cannot logically outlaw the one and praise the other. And surely logical coherence is a measure of moral sincerity.
If he’s [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
IT’S JUST NOT FUNNY ANYMORE
Well, well, well. From the Progressive Populist, by way of Rush Limbaughtomy, by way of Halliburton Hell, this bit of very pertinent info:
Last week Bushist minions called on critics to issue a formal apology to the poor maligned unelected multimillionaire war profiteer (and former business partner of Saddam Hussein). It is [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
The judge has declared a mistrial in the Frank Quattrone obstruction of justice case.
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
According to Christian Aid, a top British relief agency, $4 billion in Iraqi assets are unaccounted for.
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
TERMINATOR 4 - WE KILL SMALL INSECTS
Great compare-and-contrast from Kevin Drum:
Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday on a visit to Sacramento:
“Action, action, action, action — that’s what people have voted me into this office for,” Schwarzenegger told reporters as he began a late-afternoon meeting with the top two party leaders from both houses of the Legislature. “They [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
No, silicone implants are no safer than they were 11 years ago. Here’s why they’re back on the market.
Four of the nine panelists who voted for the implants were plastic surgeons. Another ‘yes’ vote, Dr. Elizabeth Connell, serves as a senior consultant for Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA), an industry-funded front group that wants to [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
Republicans are good with money. They run government like a business, we can trust them. When times are tough, they tighten the government belt and bring fiscal sanity into the picture.
Or not.
House Republican leaders are nearing agreement on a bill to give nearly $60 billion in additional tax breaks to corporations, brushing aside Democratic complaints [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
Wonder if Walmart will use this in their touchy-feely commercials?
Federal agents raided 60 Wal-Mart stores across the nation yesterday and said they arrested more than 250 illegal immigrants who worked as janitors for outside contractors used by Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer.
As part of the 21-state raid, the largest immigration crackdown in years, federal agents [...]
Posted in Our Booming Economy, Politics As Usual on Oct 24th, 2003
Today’s Krugman:
Bear in mind that the payroll employment figure right now is down 2.6 million compared with what it was when George W. Bush took office. So Mr. Snow is predicting that his boss will be the first occupant of the White House since Herbert Hoover to end a term with fewer jobs available [...]
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
From our London correspondent, American environmental policies (or lack thereof) as seen from the relatively friendly British perspective:
“This administration has sent a signal to the polluting community, ‘You can get away with bad habits’,” says Browner. “State governments in the north-east were much tougher, so the north-eastern power stations upgraded their emissions standards in the [...]
Posted in General on Oct 23rd, 2003
Now, if you were watching the news today, I’ll bet you thought unemployment was down. Wrong! Wampum explains it for you.
For this week, change the revised figure to 390K, once again up 6,000 from last week’s rosy preliminary figure of 384K. Change the current, also preliminary, number to 386K. Everything else stays the same.
Soon, this [...]
Posted in General on Oct 23rd, 2003
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