Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
VOTING WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
The New York Times sums up yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling:
It is unfortunate,” Justice Anthony Kennedy lamented yesterday, “that our legislators have reached the point of declaring that, when it comes to apportionment, `We are in the business of rigging elections.’ ” Despite that trenchant analysis of the state of our democracy, Justice Kennedy joined […]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
GOD’S OWN PRESIDENT?
“The Jesus Factor” is on Nightline tonight and should be worth a watch:
The question is not, When did George W. Bush accept Jesus as his personal savior? The “Frontline” documentary “The Jesus Factor,” on PBS tonight, raises a different issue: Do most Americans realize just how fervent the president’s evangelical faith really is?
***“The […]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU SEE THE GLASS AS HALF-FULL OR HALF-EMPTY
From Josh Marshall:
NBC has a new story out this evening which reports that members of the Iraqi National Congress in Iraq are currently being investigated by the Iraqi police for abduction, robbery, “stealing 11 Iraqi government vehicles” and “assaulting police by firing […]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
STILL FIGHTING
Kerry seems to have found his voice:
Senator John F. Kerry, whose attacks on President Bush this week have becoming increasingly personal in tone, told voters yesterday that the Iraq occupation was faltering because of Bush’s own “pride” and that the president was afraid to “look the people in the eye who have lost their […]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
GOOD CHOICE
Michael Kinsley has been named the new op-ed editor at the LA Times:
Political commentator and columnist Michael Kinsley has been named editorial and opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times, the paper said Wednesday.
Kinsley, 53, will be responsible for the paper’s daily editorial and letters page, its commentary page and its Sunday Opinion section, […]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
INVADING IRAQ TO STOP HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
This is a horrible story. The good news is, at least the press isn’t waiting 30 years to uncover these abuses:
U.S. military police stacked naked Iraqi prisoners in a human pyramid, and attached wires to one detainee to convince him he might be electrocuted, according to photographs obtained by […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
I don’t remember whether I ever posted a link to this, so here it is.
Think of the psychic energy required for the continued maintenance of the pretense so characteristic of ‘the evil’! They perhaps direct at least as much energy into their devious rationalizations and destructive compensations as the healthies do into loving […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
LOSER
Josh Marshall on the Weasel in the White House:
Let’s start with this. What’s the signature pattern of Bush’s life?
When he faces a challenge or a tough scrape, he lets his family and friends bail him out. He has always let others do his fighting for him.
You see it in his failed businesses, where […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
FIGHTING BACK
You go, Frank:
Tossing a verbal egg at Dick Cheney’s military record, Sen. Frank Lautenberg blasted the vice president Wednesday as the “lead chickenhawk,” who squawks about John Kerry’s Vietnam War record despite never serving himself.
“The chickenhawk has no idea what it means to have the courage to put your life at risk to […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
WHY ARE THE COWS MAD?
A South Jersey woman says she’s tracked 12 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to eating at the Garden State racetrack:
Authorities are studying Mahan’s case because of questions about her diagnosis. Her death certificate said CJD, and Skarbek was told it occurs in approximately one in every million people.
But Skarbek became suspicious […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
BUT HE’S ANOINTED
And then a light appeared above his head, and angels sang, and everything:
The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section is reviewing allegations that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft may have violated federal campaign finance and disclosure laws based on information developed by the Federal Election Commission.
The section is responsible for determining whether allegations […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
BET THE HOUSE
If I were a betting man…
CasinoFortune.com, one of the leading Internet casino sites announced today a poll amongst gamblers nationwide for the upcoming Presidential election. John F. Kerry has a commanding lead over the incumbent George W. Bush, in the poll in which 5,400 people have voted so far.
As of this release, John […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
LOOK HOW WELL WE CONVERTED HIM
Do-overs?
“I hope that we shall not be prompted or obliged by any evil to go back or to look backwards,” he said after defending his past support for militant third world freedom fighters.
“We do hope that we shall not be obliged or forced one day to go back to those […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
HIGH PRAISE
The best Boondocks, ever.
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
SEE NO EVIL
This shouldn’t surprise anyone:
A damning new report reveals that the Bush administration has quietly removed 25 reports from its Women’s Bureau Web site, deleting or distorting crucial information on issues from pay equity to reproductive healthcare.
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
OUTSOURCING SUCKS
No one really talks about it, but the main reason not to outsource is because the results usually suck. You end up paying twice - the first, at the bargain rate, and then at the full price as you pay some consultant to clean up the mess left by the “bargain.” So this story […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
CIVIL RIGHTS REVISITED
Bigotry is so creative:
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has moved to make sure that same-sex couples from out of state will not be eligible to marry in the US state next month, based on a 1913 statute originally designed to avoid issuing licences to interracial couples.
Romney is backing up his interpretation of the […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
STUPID OR LYING?
Is he really this stupid, or is he just cynical?
U.S. President George Bush Monday called for computerized personal health records to cut down medical errors and streamline the health care process.
Computerization of health care records would include filling out and ordering prescriptions, sending of x-rays via the Internet for quick evaluation and […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
POISON
So not only did we invade their country, wreck their economy and knock out their electricity and water, we contaminated their air.
Give them credit. I mean, it took Bush three years to do it here:
Canadian research centers have reported that during the war against Iraq the U.S. military used depleted uranium (DU) weapons which caused […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
PUNK’D
In our first “Isn’t It Ironic? Don’t You Think?” post of the morning, Karen “Man Hands” Hughes says the comparison of abortion-rights advocates with terrorists was “a gross distortion” of her remarks. Her statement:
“And I think those are the kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we’re facing […]
Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2004
SPECTER WINS WITH 51%
In an outcome that makes me happy, Specter beat back challenger Pat Toomey - but just barely - with 527,365 to 510,724. Neither Republicon faction can take much credit for the win.
You should have seen the Specter commercials that were running the last few days - Specter walking with Bush, Bush saying […]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
THE FINAL WORD
I forget where I saw it posted tonight, but I want to share this joke before I sign off.
Q: Why will Bush and Cheney spend such a short time testifying before the 9/11 commission?
A: Because the the vice-president’s knee falls asleep when the president sits on it for so long.
Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen, […]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
HANGING ON
With 64% of the votes counted, it’s Specter with 264,870 to Toomey’s 246,012.
UPDATE: Bucks County has erroneously reported extra votes for Arlen Specter… stay tuned as the numbers are adjusted. Toomey campaign manager Mark Dion, “we just gained 95,000 votes, I think that’s a little bit of a relief.”
UPDATE: With 71% in, it’s Specter […]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
WATCH THOSE MAGIC FEET BOOGIE ACROSS THE FLOOR
Flounder is such a good dancer. Isn’t he dreamy? Via Notes on the Atrocities.
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2004
CAN I GET AN AMEN?
Via the Stakeholder:
A man whose son was killed 11 years ago in a gruesome workplace accident urged Congress on Tuesday to give prosecutors the threat of felony convictions against employers whose neglect for federal safety rules causes a death.
Ron Hayes, a Fairhope, Ala., resident who in December ended his two-year term […]
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