Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, General, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Nov 30th, 2004
Finally:
Ohio — Today, attorneys representing the Kerry-Edwards campaign filed papers in Delaware County, Ohio to intervene in legal proceedings in defense of Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik and their legal counsel, the National Voting Rights Institute, who are seeking a recount of all votes cast for president in the Ohio 2004 [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, General, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Nov 30th, 2004
A Vanity Fair piece about the dangers of depleted uranium, which of course we’re using in Iraq:
Dr. Durakovic suspects the military of minimizing the health and environmental consequences of D.U. weapons, and suggests two reasons it may have for doing so: “to keep them off the list of war criminals, and to avoid paying compensation [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, General, Politics As Usual, The Regime, Theocracy on Nov 30th, 2004
Big debate over at Kos on the legal future of marriage. Most of the gang seems in favor of the European arrangement - a civil ceremony, followed by a religious one.
Makes sense to me. Marriage - sacramental marriage, as it were - is a religious state, defined according to the beliefs of each church.
Now, imagine [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, General on Nov 30th, 2004
Blogger is majorly screwed today and I really have to get off my ass about setting up my own domain. In the meantime, feel free to communicate through the comments - they’re on Haloscan, which usually functions well.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Nov 30th, 2004
More of that Texas-style capitalism at work:
HOUSTON — Five former natural gas traders from three Houston-based companies have been indicted on federal charges of reporting bogus trade data to industry publications, which is used to calculate gas price indexes.
Three men named in indictments unsealed Monday worked at El Paso Corp., where five former traders [...]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2004
ZEN PARADOX
The other night, I was in bed reading this book about spiritual practices by some guy who runs a Zen retreat house.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a silverfish crawling across my quilt. I smashed it with the book. Just like that.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2004
DISASTER
From Riverbend in Iraq:
The situation in Falloojeh is worse than anyone can possibly describe. It has turned into one of those cities you see in your darkest nightmares- broken streets strewn with corpses, crumbling houses and fallen mosques… The worst part is that for the last couple of weeks we’ve been hearing about the use [...]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2004
PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN
I never got the whole “Proud to be an American” thing - or “Proud to be Irish” or “Proud to be from Philadelphia,” for that matter. I always thought, hey, I am what I am. Should I be proud of having green eyes? It’s just the luck of the draw.
However, I [...]
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2004
CHRISTMAS ON THE EDGE
Every day, I read my Freecycle emails from people either offering or asking for stuff. Since I have no room for even another book, I mostly read them for fun. With Christmas coming up, though, I’ve started to see more like this creeping onto the list:
Hi! I am a single mother of [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
WAGE SLAVES
From GovExec.com, the Bush administration takes its obsession with secrecy to the next level:
Two of the largest federal unions are threatening to sue the Homeland Security Department over a directive that prohibits employees and contractors from disclosing sensitive but unclassified information.
The American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union say [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
BOOK MAGIC
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about my readers, it’s that they love books as much as I do. This is the kind of wonderful place that, if you have a few bucks to spare, you should throw them their way:
BALTIMORE — Early one morning a couple of winters ago, a homeless man scanned [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
LUNCHTIME THREAD
What is a book that changed your life?
For me, it was the quietly subversive “Little Women,” by Louisa May Alcott. It was the first time I realized I didn’t have to live the life everyone else picked for me.
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
PRETEND IT’S THE UKRAINE
Something new on Ohio voting irregularities from Keith Olbermann:
Jackson may have also introduced a new rotting fish into the pile of evidence that suggests Ohio did a very lousy job of running an election four weeks ago. “We don’t want to be presumptuous, but these numbers in Butler, Clermont, Warren and Hamilton [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
RIGHT BACK ATCHA, PERFESSER
You see why I can’t take wingnuts seriously? Even when they claim to have caught you in an error of logic, they’re manufacturing their own twisted reality:
Remember when the wingnuts made fun of John Edwards for saying stem cell research could help people get out of their wheelchairs and walk? After three [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
GOOD CLEAN FUN
I knew my niece was bringing home her new boyfriend for Thanksgiving, but no one told me he was a Republican.
“What the hell is it with your daughters, hooking up with these people?” I said to my sister. (Because I’ve told my kids I’m behind them no matter what - unless they register [...]
Posted in War Stories on Nov 29th, 2004
If we don’t talk about it, we can still pretend it isn’t happening:
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon will not be asked to clarify reports that coalition forces used napalm during recent operations in the rebel Iraqi stronghold of Fallujah.
A Labour MP submitted an emergency question to Mr Hoon asking him to make a statement on the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
JUST GREAT
From Political Wire:
Matt Lauer and Tim Russert “are on a wish list of outsiders that CBS has considered as successors to Dan Rather, who announced last week that he would step down in March after 24 years in the anchor chair,” Newsweek reports.
After all, they’ve already proven adept at appearing to be journalists without [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
HOLY SHIT
Talk about a gift for stating the obvious:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 - A proposal by the federal government to create a vast new database of enrollment records on all college and university students is raising concerns that the move will erode the privacy rights of students.
Until now, universities have provided individual student information to [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
TBOGG points out just how sneaky the wingnut fundies are when they’re trying to get Creationist theory into the schools:
These donations are completely legal, and provide a very good way to provide balance in the school without formally challenging the agenda of the mainstream curriculum.
***These donations can also be tax [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
DAMN THOSE SELFISH CELEBRITIES
I thought this was interesting. It’s from Dr. Alterman’s latest in The Nation:
Paul Begala recalls that during all his time in the White House, meeting with hundreds if not thousands of powerful contributors, “Ninety-nine point five percent of them were asking me for something designed to put money in their own pockets. [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2004
LOOKING OUT FOR US
I wish someone would explain to the FDA that their job isn’t to protect the pharmaceutical industry:
Just days before a medical journal was to publish a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored study that raised concerns about the safety of the arthritis drug Vioxx, an FDA official took the unusual step of calling the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2004
A SUCCESS STORY
But wait, I thought Khaddafyi was our poster boy for the new Middle East, the man we’d convinced to turn over a new leaf. Via No Capital:
Authorities hunting traffickers in nuclear weapons technology recently uncovered an audacious plan to deliver a complete uranium enrichment plant to Libya.
The discovery provides fresh evidence of the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2004
DOMESTIC ABUSE
Great link via Atrios:
Watch Dan Rather apologize for not getting his facts straight, humiliated before the eyes of America, voluntarily undermining his credibility and career of over thirty years. Observe Donna Brazille squirm as she is ridiculed by Bay Buchanan, and pronounced irrelevant and nearly non-existent. Listen as Donna and Nancy Pelosi and Senator [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2004
WHY CAN’T THEY REPORT THE GOOD NEWS?
From Aaron Brown’s interview with Time magazine reporter Michael Ware:
BROWN: Just one final big-picture question. You’ve been in and out of there for two years. You’ll be back in there probably sooner than you want. Do you have a sense that, on the military side, progress is being made? [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2004
COCKROACHES
They really can’t stand the light of day, can they?
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland’s governor says his order that state officials stop speaking with two reporters for The (Baltimore) Sun was “meant to have a chilling effect” on two writers he believes “have no credibility.” The ban was intended to set a benchmark for the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2004
OLD TIMES THERE ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
Alabama voters have chosen to keep school segregation in their state constitution:
If Wallace could be brought back to life today to reprise his 1963 moment of infamy outside Foster Auditorium, he would still be correct. Alabama voters made sure of that Nov. 2, refusing to approve a constitutional amendment to [...]
Posted in General on Nov 28th, 2004
REALITY VS. THE WINGNUTS
Remember when the wingnuts made fun of John Edwards for saying stem cell research could help people get out of their wheelchairs and walk? After three weeks of treatment, this woman did:
SEOUL (AFP) - A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged [...]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2004
BIZARRO WORLD
My irony meter is stuck in the red zone:
KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine’s parliament on Saturday declared invalid the disputed presidential election that triggered a week of growing street protests and legal maneuvers, raising the possibility that a new vote could be held in this former Soviet republic.
Parliament’s vote came amid a flurry of [...]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2004
VOX POPULI
Here’s the clip of Amy Goodman on Hardball, via Crooks & Liars. Boy, it’s really strange to see someone who’s aggressive, articulate and liberal on cable. Watch her make mincemeat out of the wingnut columnist who’s there to “balance” Amy’s radical self.
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2004
CALLING MISS MANNERS
What’s the best way to get blood stains out of a white damask tablecloth?
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com
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