Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
CORPORATE NEWS
I was too sick to get up and look for the remote, so I ended up watching the NBC/General Electric evening news.
Mrs. Alan Greenspan did a piece about Barbara Boxer attacking Condi Rice today, and then noted accusingly that she had a link on her website through which you can contribute to her campaign.
WTF?
With [...]
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
INSULT TO INJURY
My apartment house’s heater is broken again; it’s actually blowing cold air.
It’s going down to 24 degrees tonight, and I still have a fever of 101. I’m curled up in the fetal position on the futon with a heating pad on my back.
Thank God I have an electric blanket, or tonight would [...]
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
WORDS VS. DEEDS
Go read TBogg.
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
You might have missed this yesterday:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities routinely torture prisoners, a leading human rights group said on Tuesday, citing examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those who suffered under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). Prisoners have been beaten with [...]
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
THEY’RE CRAZY AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE
A email posted at David Corn’s site:
Here’s a personal email from a friend that I’m sharing with the blog, without attribution, but the point is so depressing it gives me pause and perhaps will give others call to action to oppose the Manichean nightmare that continues hell-bent and [...]
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
UNHAPPY
The fundies are threatening to stop Bush’s plans to privatize Social Security unless he supports the anti-gay marriage amendment:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 - A coalition of major conservative Christian groups is threatening to withhold support for President Bush’s plans to remake Social Security unless Mr. Bush vigorously champions a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The move [...]
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2005
THE RULE OF LAW
Let’s see. We’re holding people in indefinite detention… doesn’t that sound just like a dictatorship?
Los Angeles — Four Iranian brothers have spent the past 40 months locked up in federal detention despite a court ruling last summer clearing them of terrorism-related charges leveled by the Department of Homeland Security.
The men, real [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
LOOK WHAT A GOOD JOB WE’RE DOING
See, they were just kidding. They weren’t really trying to kill themselves. (Thanks, R.M.)
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
GRACE
Fred over at Slacktivist steers us toward this NY Times Magazine piece on punk Christian Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye:
Bethra Szumski, 33, a tattoo artist, said she came to Revolution in 2002 with a low opinion of Christians, whom she found judgmental. She told me she believed in God, not in church [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION
Dr. Alterman says it best:
One weakness of liberals is our inability to credit right-wingers with a sufficient degree of malevolence. During the Reagan administration, for instance, no liberal would ever have gone so far as accuse the president of selling arms to terrorists and using the profits to fund an illegal [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
WHERE’S THE MONEY?
Where’s the money if you never ever give me nothin’ else?Where’s the money, you just put it here and let me help myselfA boxer’s in a ring, he hears that bell go “ding!”He wins the fight with all his might for some dough.- “Where’s the Money,” Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
Bush is [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
NEW COKE VS. CLASSIC
Nice essay over at Kos that pretty much sums up my thinking on Howard Dean’s race for DNC chair:
Coke dominated the cola market for so many years that it got complacent. In the meantime, Pepsi came forward and stole the mo’. The Coca-Cola corporation responded to this threat by tossing out its [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
“Someone has to be the next Katie Couric.”
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
BEHIND ENEMY LINES
Still feeling like shit today, still running a fever and pissed off at missing a day’s work. I went back to the doctor’s and he was a lot nicer this time. He said I don’t have the actual flu, just an upper respiratory virus.
Now I have to see a cardiologist, a neurologist, an [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, General on Jan 24th, 2005
From that anonymous staffer, the Voice of the White House (usual caveats apply):
This month in the Monkey Palace there has been much discussion of the article in the New York Times by Paul Krugman in which he says: “There are only two things that could endanger Social Security’s ability to pay benefits before the trust [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
HEY, IT WORKS FOR HIM
Via Kos, Bush is up to his old tricks in Canada:
When President Bush flew to Canada in his first international trip following his reelection, the White House portrayed it as the beginning of a fence-mending tour to bring allies back into the fold after a tense first term. But after Bush [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS RESERVED FOR HE WHO OWNS THE PRESS
Julia has the tale of a full-page New York Times ad, bought, paid for and scheduled to run.
Except it didn’t.
We had planned for the new Not In Our Name statement of conscience to run on Friday, January 21, in the New York Times. We had [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
BUT I THOUGHT INVESTORS WERE NOBLE
Hmm:
Investors, entrepreneurs and landlords annually avoid paying at least $29 billion in taxes by overstating the price of stocks, businesses and real estate, two professors say in an article being published today in Tax Notes, an influential tax policy journal.
Claiming to have paid more than the actual price for a [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
TODAY, THE WORLD IS EAGLES GREEN
Losing is a way of life in Philadelphia.
Don’t get me wrong, it has its upside. (For one thing, our real estate’s much cheaper than New York or Washington.) It’s one of those “hidden treasure” towns with plenty to do, yet walkable and liveable. Years ago, I remember reading an article [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
THE WEARING OF THE GREEN
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
GOOD FOR BUSINESS
Everyone knows Republicans are good with money:
Many of the world’s central banks are starting to look to the euro to fill their currency reserves instead of the dollar, a survey suggests.
The poll carried out by Central Banking Publications found 39 nations of the 65 surveyed raising their euro holdings, with 29 cutting [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, General, War Crimes on Jan 24th, 2005
The American Prospect on what happened to women in Abu Ghraib:
Forty-two women have been held at Abu Ghraib, according to a U.S. Department of Defense statement provided at the request of a U.S. senator and forwarded to me, though none are interned there now. (Many of the women were released in May, shortly after the [...]
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2005
DENIAL
Well, they’ve been so truthful about everything else. What say we give them the benefit of the doubt?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker said on Sunday his U.S. Senate committee would look into a reported move by the Pentagon to reinterpret U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld broad authority over spy operations abroad.
Responding [...]
Posted in General on Jan 23rd, 2005
NIT PICKING
I was watching American Dreams tonight through a fevered haze.) (It looks like I might have the flu. Oh, joy.)
It’s 1966 and J.J. and Beth are getting married; they’re buying a house in Yeadon. He needs four grand for the down payment but also promised to send money to someone in Vietnam. He sends [...]
Posted in General on Jan 23rd, 2005
THE REAL REASON
Via Reading A1, David Broder points out the real Republican agenda in PRIVATIZING public pensions in California:
Some opponents of privatization also detect a subtler agenda among those pushing private accounts - to silence the voice of workers and their pension fund managers, who oversee some of the largest institutional investment accounts in the [...]
Posted in General on Jan 23rd, 2005
IF HE ONLY HAD A BRAIN
Of course, some folks say this way is very nice, too:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Biden, a senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said Sunday he was leaning against confirmation of Alberto Gonzales, President Bush’s choice to be the next attorney general.
Bush’s choice of his White House counsel to be [...]
Posted in General on Jan 23rd, 2005
FIGHT SONG
Because we just can’t hear this enough:
Fly Eagles flyOn the road to victory Fight, Eagles, fightScore a touchdown 1,2,3 Hit em’ lowHit em’ highAnd watch our Eagles flyFly, Eagles flyOn the road to victory
E - A - G - L - E - S - Eagles!
Our office manager is always complaining about how cold [...]
Posted in General on Jan 23rd, 2005
JOKE’S ON HIM
Found this in one of the comments sections:
It seems that God was just about done creating the universe. The Lord had a couple of leftovers in his bag of creations, so he stopped by to visit Adam and Eve in the Garden. He told the couple that one of the things he had [...]
Posted in General on Jan 23rd, 2005
IMAGINE
Jerry Falwell, you’ll be shocked to know, is a hypocrite.
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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