Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
‘WHEN THE SUN SETS, WE START TO WORRY’
From the United Nations report on the humanitarian crisis in nothern Uganda:
“They take an axe and split your head with it. They don’t waste any bullets on you.”15-year-old former abductee.
The rebels’ arrival in a village or camp marks the start of a series of traumatic experiences for its […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11?
Sen. Mark Dayton on the 9/11 report:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have covered up “catastrophic failures” that left the nation vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings.
“For almost three years now, NORAD officials and FAA […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
WOLF TICKETS?
Another “imminent” terrorist attack in NYC:
N E W Y O R K, July 31, 2004 — ABC News has learned that federal and New York City officials have received credible intelligence that al Qaeda has been plotting to carry out suicide attacks on corporations based in the city.
Sources at several law enforcement agencies […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
The view from a field near my house.
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
MY SO-CALLED LIFE
Another day in paradise, another broken toe.
I seem to break toes the way other women break nails. I am forever banging into things, and every time as I crouch down in agony, muttering obscenities under my breath, I hear the echoing voice of my father in my ear: “What the hell did I […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
AND THEN HE TURNED INTO A BAT AND FLEW AWAY
Natasha from Pacific Views had a Bob Novak moment at the convention.
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
SACRIFICE
Give a thought to our troops when you read this from Chris Allbritton in Iraq:
So, I left a dozen eggs I bought in the local market in the car for day and forgot about them. Well, my driver brought them to me the next day and they were softboiled from the heat.
That’s how hot it […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
BIASED
CJR’s Campaign Desk looks for bias in the CNN convention coverage - and finds it. It’s long, this is just a small part of what they found:
CNN is so desperate for conflict that it’s willing to repeat every possible Republican-generated criticism, without making any attempt to sort through which are valid and which aren’t. This […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
POPEISMS
Sometimes you just have to wonder. I mean, a man who wears dresses is worried about feminists blurring gender distinctions?
The Pope will call on leaders of the Roman Catholic church today to attack feminist ideologies which assert that men and women are fundamentally the same. The Vatican is concerned that this belief is eroding what […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
CYBERTERRORIST GEEKS?
Yet another abuse of the PATRIOT act:
iter8 writes “The Stargate SG-1 Information Archive is reporting that the Feds filed charges against Adam McGaughey, creator of SG1Archive.com. The website is a fan site for the television show Stargate SG-1. The charges allege that Adam used the website to engage in Criminal Copyright Infringement and Trafficking […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Boy, Kinsley’s really on a roll lately. Today, he shows us Republicans just aren’t very good with other people’s money:
It turns out that Democratic presidents have a much better record than Republicans. They win in a head-to-head comparison in almost every category. Real growth averaged 4.09% in Democratic years, 2.75% in Republican years. […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
Men of their word:
When Halliburton announced in November that it would stop providing health insurance for its retirees who are eligible for Medicare, some got upset.
Three wrote the company complaining about the change that’s scheduled to take effect Jan. 1 and promptly got sued — by Halliburton.
“I was flabbergasted,” said Paul […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
WITH HER LAST BREATH
Class act:
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A South Florida woman who died this week had an unusual last request. Instead of flower or contributions in her name to a charity, she asked those who loved her to try to make sure President George W. Bush is not re-elected.
Joan Abbey, shown here before her […]
Posted in General on Jul 31st, 2004
CATCH 22
It makes perfect sense, if you think about it when you’re drunk:
WASHINGTON, July 30 - The Justice Department said in a federal court filing on Friday that prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were seeking to file petitions challenging their detentions were not entitled to access to their lawyers to do so.
The department said […]
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2004
If you’re still stuck in Cubeland, hang in there - it’s almost over.
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2004
CLEARED
Atrios/Duncan has a link to the p. A-6 Wall Street Journal story (paid subscription only) saying Sandy Berger was cleared of withholding any material from the 9/11 Commission:
Officials looking into the removal of classified documents from the National Archives by former Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel Berger say no original materials are missing and nothing […]
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2004
RUNNING IRAQI GOVERNMENT LIKE A BUSINESS, TOO
You know, like the businesses W. ran into the ground:
Washington (AP) - U.S. authorities in Baghdad spent hundreds of millions of Iraqi dollars without keeping good enough records to show whether they got some services and products they paid for, government investigators said.
Officials of the former Coalition Provisional […]
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2004
NO CHEMICAL LEFT BEHIND
I love the smell of pesticide in the morning:
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency will be free to approve pesticides without consulting wildlife agencies to determine if the chemical might harm plants and animals protected by the Endangered Species Act, according to new Bush administration rules.
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2004
VIGILANCE
And yet, Ashcroft won’t permit the Justice Department to have access to the names of people who own guns:
WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Census Bureau has provided specially tabulated population statistics on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security, including detailed information on how many people of Arab backgrounds live in certain ZIP codes.
The assistance […]
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2004
‘TRIUMPH OF THE TRIVIAL’
Krugman:
Notice the voter’s reference to “these millionaires.” A Columbia Journalism Review Web site called campaigndesk.org, says its analysis “reveals a press prone to needlessly introduce Senators Kerry and Edwards and Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, as millionaires or billionaires, without similar labels for President Bush or Vice President Cheney.”
As the site points […]
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2004
A VERITABLE GOD
If at all possible, you have to watch the Jon Stewart rerun tomorrow (10 a.m. and 7 p.m., Comedy Central). He does absolutely the best takedown of the talking heads going after Al Sharpton.
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2004
SON OF 40 ON SON OF 41
Wow.
And chances are your America and George W. Bush’s America are not the same place. If you are dead center on the earning scale in real-world twenty-first-century America, you make a bit less than $32,000 a year, and $32,000 is not a sum that Mr. Bush has ever associated […]
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2004
WHO’S WEARING THE WHITE HAT?
This is a rather intriguing story. Looks like there never was any terror threat at the convention:
BOSTON—It looks like the FBI’s Boston field office faked a threat of domestic terrorism just before the start of the Democratic National Convention by leaking “unconfirmed” reports of white supremacist groups readying an attack against […]
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2004
WHO’S WEARING THE WHITE HAT?
This is a rather intriguing story. Looks like there never was any terror threat at the convention:
BOSTON—It looks like the FBI’s Boston field office faked a threat of domestic terrorism just before the start of the Democratic National Convention by leaking “unconfirmed” reports of white supremacist groups readying an attack against […]
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2004
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