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A few weeks ago I signed up over at del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is a community tags forum that allows you to save your internet bookmarks on their server, and tag them with the keywords of your choosing....
View ArticleGo Gitmo, and leave the cooking to us
cross-posted at progprogClub Gitmo Enjoy fantastic meals a couple of times/week, including, but not limited to:Oven Fried Chicken Platterbroccolipeasmushroomsricepita breadfruit of day 1fruit of day 2...
View ArticleOperation Stop-Looking-At-Rove is Under Way
Bush has just asked for civility as he announced his nominee for the Supreme Court. Was supposed to be weeks from now, but there's another scandal to try to quash, dammit! I don't know crap about this...
View ArticleOlbermann, Limbaugh, Sharpton and the GOP Mindset
Keith Olbermann just had an extraordinary exchange between himself and Al Sharpton. The subject was the conditions in New Orleans, looting, and the question of where support is. Olbermann remarked that...
View ArticleA New Orleans Convention Experience
In mid-April or so of this year, my manager came into my office and announced that the software conference we had requested permission to attend had been approved. This came as a big surprise....
View ArticleGOP: Bastardizing America, one disaster at a time
The GOP has priorities I cannot understand. W. stayed on vacation a few days after Katrina hit. What's a few more days out of five weeks, anyways? Couldn't hurt. As I've stated, just some black folk...
View ArticleLabor Day - GOP celebrates by stomping on it
Labor Day was not intended for this. It was intended to appease labor. It was intended to help get Grover Cleveland reelected (it failed). But over time, it was looked at as a reminder, that just as...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush's Katrina Thought-Process Flowchart
As I look back on that last 10 days, I continue to wonder, "What the hell was W. thinking?" I give you my thoughts on that matter. Available in both jpg and png for your viewing disgust.[Update --...
View Article'ism's, in my opinion, are not good
I did have a test today. That wasn't bullshit. It was on European Socialism. After all, I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be...
View ArticleBush inspires new word - Schmuckountability!
Now is not the time for the blame game. We keep hearing those words from Republicans of every stripe with regards to Katrina's aftermath. I argued several days ago, that Brown and Chertoff should be...
View ArticleSchmuckountability - Deficit Spending
Schmuckountability Bush, and republican Presidents in general (during my lifetime) are very fond of spending other people's money, especially when it tends to end up lining the pockets of their...
View ArticleWee Wee Gate? (w/ poll)
Pee Pee-Gate? Mother-May-I-Gate? WhizGate? Man-About-A-Mule-Gate? PottyGate? I don't know what to call it, but I'm laughing. Apparently a lot of other countries think this is more than a joke.
View ArticleThe Next Ann Coulter
Um. Wow. UNC--A school not far from my adopted home state--has a winner of an article on their hands.I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an...
View ArticleMediata Americanata and Limbaughanus Hannitidiotus
Beasts thought extinct for the last 4 years are being spotted on a regular basis. I'm speaking, of course, of Mediata Americanata. These once vicious beasts are known to dine most heartily on...
View ArticleArmy: Peddling Snuff Pics for Porn is A-OK
AMERICAblog notes that the Army Criminal Investigation Command in Iraq can't determine a few basic facts.Schmuckountability is spreading from the Administration to our Armed Services like wildfire....
View ArticleRuining Country for Political Cover Fascinating Stuff.
Tim Russert worries me these days. It's ok with me if politics is interesting to him--it must be or he wouldn't have the job he has, which is to act non-partisan while questioning a panel that is...
View ArticleSo many scandals, So little time
George Stephanopoulos says he has a source that has said Bush & Cheney themselves are involved in the Plame leak. Is anyone surprised? But I disagree with the ThinkProgress statement that this...
View ArticleReality and News should be unrelated, or ELSE
Early in 2005, Eason Jordan was rushed into resignation after questioning whether the USA was actively targeting journalists? Here is his letter of resignationAfter 23 years at CNN, I have decided to...
View ArticleThe problem, clearly, is the Democrats
Is Chris Matthews on the take? No amount of dem-bashing is enough for him these days.It's not : President Bush broke the law when he eavesdropped on Americans without getting a FISA warrant either...
View ArticleOf Sheep and Men
SheepJohn GibsonDemocrats and Republicans, I'm sure, will be united on this point. No bargaining with bin Laden, and he's still got to answer for killing 3,000 Americans in New York. But the far...
View ArticleMr. President, we must not allow a gay-bashing gap!
The culture of life is really the culture of White Christian Heterosexual Males who hate or fear those not like them and deeply adore the unborn and braindead that are incapable of telling the...
View ArticleThat's why they play the games
I'm on my way to lunch this afternoon in NC, and the sometimes-political, sometimes-apolitical AM talk show (Brad and Britt) runs a brief advertising clip from the morning's broadcast:Host A - I wonder...
View ArticleThree Rolls of Fear (duct tape for the ages)
On February 10, 2003, then US Fire Administrator, David Paulison, and then Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, advised me to purchase enough duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal all the windows...
View ArticleWhat's so civil about war, anyway?
A co-worker of mine and I often chat about politics. We don't work directly with each other, and don't even work in the same building anymore, but since long before the Iraq war, we have talked via...
View ArticleThese aren't the droids you're looking for
Atrios points us to Digby's riff on the punditocracy's unwavering belief in Democratic Eunuchs somehow being the path to Democratic glory. But it is really the path to Democratic defeat. The path that...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely batty
We are a Nation at War. In this Time of War, one cannot risk staying on the sidelines, just hoping for a just outcome. Instead, you have to dive in on all fronts and fight for what's right. You...
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Chocolates, Flowers, and Kimmy Gone Wild
Kim Jong Il was apparently of the mind that he wouldn't need to keep testing his Taepodong I missiles back in 2000. This may or may not have had to do with the chocolates and flowers Clinton and...
View ArticleWill any Iraqis be left to vote?
Holy shit. I swear a lot. Too often, really. But believe me when I tell you that the article I just finished reading deserves more. Baghdad. Ancient capital city of Iraq. Home of the fortified...
View ArticleBush Thumbs His Nose in Veto
I know Bush feels strongly about this issue. I know it's his first veto. And that he must know his veto goes against the wishes of the majority of Americans. But even given the circumstances I don't...
View ArticleThe Theory of Relativity
Everything is relative. How two people or entities, businesses or peoples receive and process the exact same event, news, or experience is always dependent on, or relative to, their perspective....
View ArticlePat Roberts Knows Iraq is a Lie
There is simply no other way to explain the two year delay in producing Phase 2 of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Iraq Prewar Intelligence Report. Phase I has been out for 24 and a half months....
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Red Alert! -- Cue thunder, CUE THUNDER!
We can all be certain that the latest terror alert news has nothing whatsoever to do with the upcoming election, Halloween, or the fact that the Lieberman loss on Tuesday was seen by the GOP as a very...
View ArticleThe Path to Lies About 9/11
Ok. So unless you're NOT the type that reads blogs every day (which is doubtful if you're seeing this) you may not have heard about the pack of lies Disney/ABC are pawning off on the American people...
View ArticleSelective Cognitive Dissonance
So, lemme get this straight.Selectively choosing facts to prove the argument that the Bush Administration was warned about likely horrors in post-invasion Iraq is bad, because it lends too much...
View ArticleCould the DNC have screwed everyone by denying MI?
Kos is on the front page right now telling Michigan Democrats to go vote for Romney in Michigan's half-sanctioned primary next Tuesday in an attempt to get Romney a win in order to keep the GOP...
View ArticleDaschle: Starr as bad as 'monster' and Wolfson should resign
Some would say worse. Daschle:"It's comments like [Wolfson's] that make me question whether we do have the same standards," said the former Senate Majority Leader. "I don't think that you can make a...
View ArticleWill Clinton Run as an Independent?
Hillary Clinton doesn't have to worry about whether she destroys Obama's chances in the general between now and the Democratic Convention because she doesn't care whether she is on the ballot as a...
View ArticleBarack Obama vs The Black Knight
You know the scene. Arthur confronts The Black Knight in the woods. Cuts of his arm, his leg. His other arm. His other leg. And the Knight keeps insisting that he can win. "Merely a flesh wound" he says.
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Windshield Wiper Wars
My wife walks out of the mall with our two kids and our nephew and goes to get in her car and she notices something that wasn't there when she went in:Hmmph. Obama is not a Communist, and to say that...
View ArticleThe 2008 conventions through the simple math of 2 plus 2
What if the future of the country were always described by answering the question, 'What is 2+2?' Democrats know the answer is 4. Republicans know the answer is 4 but always lie and answer 5 so they...
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