Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
In case you didn’t know:
The government reported that annual unemployment during this recession peaked at only around 6 percent, compared with more than 7 percent in 1992 and more than 9 percent in 1982. But the unemployment rate has been low only because government programs, especially Social Security disability, have effectively been buying people off […]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
YES! YES! YES……….
I so love Roger Ailes:
Veteran observers of the Meet the Press host confirm that Pumpkinhead Tim Russert’s performance today is the closest he’s been to achieving orgasm since the morning of Little Russ’s conception. The bloated broadcaster reveled in the details of Bush’s deception of the press concerning his trip to Baghdad. A […]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
GET ANGRY. STAY ANGRY.
From Talk Left, via Atrios, more fuel for our righteous anger (oh, sorry, am I being an impolite liberal again?):
We’re pleased to learn that the U.S. plans to release 140 detainees from Guantanamo. On the other hand, we’re outraged by this:
According to Time, activities leading toward release of the 140 prisoners have […]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
Mickey Kaus is such an asshole. And quite possibly the biggest media whore of them all… Via Atrios.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
IT’S THE MONEY, HONEY
Via Mark Kleiman, I suppose some people still need to have it all spelled out for them:
The 1994 revolution that gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives produced a seismic shift in federal spending, moving tens of billions of dollars from Democratic to GOP districts, an Associated Press analysis shows.
Rather […]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
Well, well, well. Remember New Bridge Strategies, the company set up by the politically connected to milk Iraqi contracts? Josh Marshall has the latest:
If you’re involved in all sorts of iffy financial transactions, don’t get into a messy divorce.
Someone didn’t mention this sage advice to Neil Bush.
Now it turns out that Bush is not-too-distantly […]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
TWO THUMBS UP
I saw “Bad Santa” today. Let’s just say it’s a twisted yet heartwarming holiday flick that no parent in his or her right mind would allow a child to see.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
If this holds, this is fascinating.
A small company in London, UK, claims to have developed a technique that overturns scientific dogma and could revolutionise medicine. It says it can turn ordinary blood into cells capable of regenerating damaged or diseased tissues. This could transform the treatment of everything from heart disease to Parkinson’s.
If the company, […]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2003
Everything’s fine, don’t worry about a thing:
The dollar tumbled across the board yesterday, hitting an all-time low against the euro amid fears that Wall Street was betting against the US currency. The euro traded as high as $1.2018 - above $1.20 for the first time - as the dollar slid to new multi-year lows against […]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2003
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Don’t Let Me Down,” the Beatles, “Let It Be… Naked.” I’m in love for the first time/ Don’t you know it’s gonna last/ It’s a love that lasts forever/ It’s a love that has no past.
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2003
This ain’t Ireland, as the American bishops will soon find out.
The three Catholics in the Democratic presidential primary quickly fired off statements supporting the Massachusetts high court ruling last week that same-sex couples have the right to marry.
Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio and retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark […]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2003
Did U.S. forces block humanitarian aid in Iraq?
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2003
More “liberal media” making trouble:
Neither the Pentagon nor the news media are giving the American public an accurate picture of the situation in Iraq, which is “a nightmare,” says a soldier who is about to go back.
“It’s nothing like what the people back home have been hearing,” Army Sgt. Michael Badgley Jr. said. “They’re […]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2003
Not to state the obvious, but so far, no connection:
A top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday attacks on Iraqis are rising as strikes on coalition troops are down by 30 percent — but an al Qaeda link has not been found to any of them.
“At this time, we’ve not conclusively established an al […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
Another part of the story:
Soldiers said they were impressed to see the commander in chief in Baghdad days after a cargo plane was struck by a shoulder-fired missile.
“It was a display of confidence in our ability to protect not just us, but him,” said Pfc. Telo Monahan, 20, of Woodinville.
But other soldiers grew […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
That reminds me: Did y’all read the George Soros piece in the Atlantic?
Meanwhile, largely as a result of our preoccupation with supremacy, something has gone fundamentally wrong with the war on terrorism. Indeed, war is a false metaphor in this context. Terrorists do pose a threat to our national and personal security, and we must […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
Now, granted, this first appeared in NewsMax. But still:
Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
Elizabeth Drew has a good piece on Wesley Clark:
If one looks over his statements, one is struck by how often Clark refers to the damage caused by Bush both to civil liberties and to the American tradition of dissent. In his first major speech after he announced his candidacy, given at the Citadel in South […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
As both a natural and an unnatural blonde, I can tell you this is absolutely true:
Pitman - who had her hair dyed blonde while she was writing the book - says that she noticed a visible change in people’s reactions to her as a blonde. She got far better service from librarians, bar tenders, and […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
From David Corn:
Here was a familiar scene: the Republicans united and disciplined, the Democrats debating among themselves. It happened with Bush’s first, tilted-to-the-rich tax cuts package. That legislation passed with the support of a dozen Senate Democrats. (Baucus played an instrumental role in that debacle, too.) It happened with the war in Iraq. Twenty-nine Democrats […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
Nice piece on Howard Dean:
But on the campaign trail, Dean’s throw-down-the-gauntlet mantra is woven with another message, one strikingly different in tone, that preaches the virtue of community and the evil of corporate behemoths unconcerned, he says, with the collective good.
“Bigger and bigger corporations might mean more efficiency, but there is something about human beings […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
What the hell, a little good news won’t hurt: Krugman on the rise in living standards for the world’s poor.
Yet I keep coming back to the big good news of the past 25 years: in a world with more or less free trade, development is possible. We are not, it turns out, condemned to live […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
What do you think? Is the glass half-full - or half empty?
Iraqis may be reassured that the United States will put down the insurgency and restore order in their country. Or they may take the image of Bush landing unannounced at night without lights and not venturing from a heavily fortified military installation as confirmation […]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2003
Mother Jones has this on BDD (Budget Deficit Disorder).
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
Holy shit. I just read this Bob Novak column, and I was flabbergasted in a way in which I didn’t think I was capable anymore:
During 14 years in the Michigan Legislature and 11 years in Congress, Rep. Nick Smith had never experienced anything like it. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Health and Human Services Secretary […]
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