Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2004
“ARGHHHHH….” OR, THE INARTICULATE MOAN OF THE POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS IN PAIN
Salon advice columnist Cary Tennis devotes today to a timely topic: “Politics is freaking me out!”:
Dear Cary,
As the election draws near, I am finding myself growing more and more anxious. I believe our democracy is in serious trouble, that we are headed toward an [...]
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2004
SAFER
Via Laura Rozen, this from Peter Galbraith in the Boston Globe:
IN 2003 I went to tell Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz what I had seen in Baghdad in the days following Saddam Hussein’s overthrow. For nearly an hour, I described the catastrophic aftermath of the invasion — the unchecked looting of every public institution [...]
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2004
LOOKS LIKE THE VACATION REALLY HELPED HIS WRITING
Ezra takes the perfect shot at Tom Friedman:
You can also discuss exactly when Tom Friedman stopped writing important books and began writing columns that read like an emotional high schooler’s Livejournal.
Ooooo. Good one. Friedman today:
When you read polls showing a significant number of Americans feel our country is [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Oct 28th, 2004
Margaret Carlson really slams it to the Catholic Church:
Following a decade during which the bishops squandered much of their authority mishandling their own moral crisis, this would seem the wrong moment for them to go into politics. Their lawyers must have figured out that you can lose your tax-exempt status for endorsing a candidate, but [...]
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2004
DOWNWARD SPIRAL
Another “success story” from Iraq:
RAMADI, Iraq, Oct. 21 - The American military and the interim Iraqi government are quickly losing control of this provincial capital, which is larger and strategically more important than its sister city of Falluja, say local officials, clerics, tribal sheiks and officers with the United States Marines.
“The city is chaotic,” [...]
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2004
TWO THUMBS DOWN
Frank Rich critiques the Bush era as a bad movie:
If the cliché of 2000 remains true, that entertainment-addicted Americans will never let a tedious president into their living rooms for four long years, then Mr. Kerry, like Al Gore, is toast. But now that Mr. Kerry enters the final stretch of 2004 with [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
WORLD CHAMPIONS
The Red Sox did sweepThe Cardinals did weepSo much for the curseNow let’s all get some sleep.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
BASTARDS
They’re so concerned about the integrity of our process:
Republicans said they have not found a way to legally file pre-election day challenges in Florida. That’s why they are considering the provision allowing Election Day challenges, a statute that appears more suited to isolated issues than coordinated sweeps of the voter rolls.
***Tucker Fletcher said the [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
COVERING UP
Will Bunch has some news we haven’t heard anywhere else:
Two men who worked extensively in the wreckage of the World Trade Center claim they helped federal agents find three of the four “black boxes” from the jetliners that struck the towers on 9/11 - contradicting the official account.
Both the independent 9/11 Commission and federal [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
CLEANSING THE BEACHES
The clouds have parted just enough that I can see the moon melting from my window. The eclipse is starting, and it will be total soon.
Eclipses are a big deal to astrologers:
The eclipse of the Moon has traditionally been viewed as a bad omen, for it can awaken irrational responses. Since the Moon [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
Finger Lakes, August 2002.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
LYING, OF COURSE
You knew it sounded familiar:
Friday, April 04, 2003- As the military advances closer to Baghdad, signs of Iraqi chemical preparedness are multiplying, although there is still no conclusive evidence Saddam Hussein’s regime possesses weapons of mass destruction.
***Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq’s largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
MY NEW HAIR
Due to popular demand, an approximation of my new haircut. It looks kind of like Kim Novak in “Bell Book and Candle.” And I’m actually starting to like the butterscotch.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
SAVE THESE
A couple of useful links:My Polling Place, which tells you where you go to vote;
Pocket-sized list of voter rights from Moveon.org.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
SIGNS
When even Paula Zahn is getting snippy with them, you know they’re going down:
You’ve heard Kerry blasting the president all day long, accusing him of trying to hide this story about these missing explosives. The president asked repeatedly on the campaign trail about this, refusing to answer questions. Isn’t the American public entitled to hear [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
WOOF! WOOF!
More on the CBS Florida poll from Jerome at MyDD. Apparently they’re suppressing the results because the results look too good for Kerry:
Here’s a email note I got from an insider pollster:
The word I hear is that NYT/CBS are not going to release their latest FL survey, because it shows Kerry up by 4 [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
ASIDE
Kind of funny, to hear so many people expressing such confidence in the old-style voting machines. There’s a long history of voting machine fraud, too. The only difference is, they had to be rigged one machine at a time (which is why only the most trusted hacks got patronage jobs “guarding” the machines at the [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
NATIONAL VOTER ALERT HOTLINE 1-866-698-6831 (1-866-MYVOTE1)
This number is up and running, so if you’re in an early-voting state, keep it handy. You can call about any voting irregularities.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
EEK
The big story right now is Hawaii. Always solidly Democratic, a poll done by the Honolulu Advertiser shows a dead heat.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
MOVIN’ ON UP
Congressional Hotline on C-SPAN just pronounced Kerry ahead in the electoral vote, seven states moved from red into the undecided category.
Yep.
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
STILL GIVING THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT?
You can stop now:
Secret plans for the war in Iraq were passed to British Army chiefs by US defence planners five months before the invasion was launched, a court martial heard yesterday.
***Lt Col Warren said US planners had passed on dates for which the invasion was planned. The [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
A FLY ON THE WHITE HOUSE WALL
Via Kevin Drum:
Justin Logan excerpts an interesting piece today by Philip Giraldi in the print edition of The American Conservative. Giraldi claims that when the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center provided Dick Cheney with a special briefing on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s prewar ties with Saddam Hussein last month, Cheney was [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
EYE ON THE PRIZE
More polls, more good news:
“Today was a big day for Kerry,” pollster John Zogby said.Kerry has consolidated his base support just as Bush did early in the race, taking a 2-to-1 lead among Hispanics, 90 percent of blacks, 84 percent of Democrats, 55 percent of union voters and 65 percent of singles.
Only [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Hmm. Mike Rogers at BlogACTIVE (the guy who’s been outing gay Republicans) apparently has a big fish on the line:
Over the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, blogACTIVE will be releasing two cases on the site. One of them promises to be one of the biggest GLBT news stories of the decade.
***This candidate is running [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
TRENDING
Chris Bowers over at MyDD has the latest polls (still waiting for the CBS Florida poll but rumor has it Florida’s in the bag):
Survey USA has new polls from the big three that make ARG look pessimistic: Kerry BushFL 50 48OH 50 47PA 53 45Yeah baby. Kerry at 50 in all three.
Zogby is slightly [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
PICKING NITS
I’m happy for the Sox, but I wish it were a better Series.
On the other hand, maybe it’s an omen. Boston and all that…
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
RIPPLE EFFECT
This investigation will be interesting as it unwinds, because insurance may be the single most corrupt (and corrupting) industry, with huge financial ramifications for everyone.
Herbert Hovenkamp, a law professor at the University of Iowa, said: “Bias in brokerage where people are purportedly acting as neutrals but steering customers toward suppliers with whom they have [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
COVERING UP
More on the CIA report they’re trying to block:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - The Central Intelligence Agency has blocked, at least temporarily, the distribution of a draft internal report that identifies individual officers by name in discussing whether anyone should be held accountable for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, members [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2004
LOOT AND RUN
Do you have any idea how long it’s going to take to straighten out this mess?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - With no sign of a letup in the war in Iraq, the Bush administration is preparing another emergency request for tens of billions of dollars to cover military and civilian costs there through the [...]
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