Too little, too late

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 10:09 AM PDT

2006/04/06 · 10:09

Congresswoman Pelosi:

I guess I could start this diary by listing all the occasions on which your "leadership" of the house dems has let me down, not the least of which was your failure to support Russ Feingold on his censure resolutions and your failure to speak out about the intelligence failures leading up to the war until long after everyone else did. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or the energy right now.

You make me tired, Representative Pelosi. Read More

John Kass Says Something Right!

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 6:13 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 06:13

Is everyone sitting down? I hope so, because this is the title of John Kass's Column today in the Chicago Tribune:

Mother's Remark Puts Silver Foot in Bush's Mouth

Yes, John Kass. I know, I couldn't believe it either. Actually criticizing someone on the right. But wait, it gets better:

I was all set to defend President Bush as a guy who really doesn't want poor black people in Louisiana and Mississippi to die of starvation and disease, no matter what the Democrats say.

But then Barbara Bush, the president's mom, went and dusted off the Bush family silver foot Monday. And she used it.

While touring the Houston Astrodome, where thousands of Hurricane Katrina refugees have been huddling, Barbara Bush said they didn't have it so bad because, heck, they were poor to begin with.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," she was quoted as saying in an interview on National Public Radio.

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Condolences to the British Embassy

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Thursday July 07, 2005 · 6:57 AM PDT

2005/07/07 · 06:57

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet, and, as a matter of fact, I'm a little too shell-shocked this morning to care. I sent my condolences to the UK Embassy in the US via this link

I remember how much seeing all the makeshift memorials in other countries afer 9/11 meant to me. Please let the people of Great Britain know that our thoughts are with them today.

Noah's Ark and Dinosaurs: These are the Idiots We Are Up Against

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Wednesday June 08, 2005 · 8:54 PM PDT

2005/06/08 · 20:54

I almost can't believe I actually read this. THESE are the idiots that keep kicking our asses at the polls?

Saw this today on Americablog

I don't even know where to begin telling you all about this creationist explanation of paleontology, but let me throw these gems out there for your consideration(and it helps if you hear Troy McClure's voice doing the narration).

Before you dip below the fold, take a deep breath, and, if you have a drink handy, you might want to get that now. Ready? Okay--follow me into the wonderful world of dinosaurs! Read More

Say it with me, Chicago: John Kass is an IDIOT!

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Thursday June 02, 2005 · 8:48 AM PDT

2005/06/02 · 08:48

Did you know that Linda Tripp is as much a hero as Deep Throat? NO? Well, you obviously don't read the Trib's John Kass !

With so much attention rightfully being paid to the unmasking of W. Mark Felt as "Deep Throat," the source of Watergate fame, it was time for a cultural experiment.

So I typed "W. Mark Felt" into the news bar in Google and pressed the "enter" key.

Up came stories about Felt, the former senior FBI official who leaked information to the Washington Post, and articles from that symbiotic relationship that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

But cultural experiments must be fair. Otherwise, angry Nixonians could accuse me of liberal elitism, or is that elite mainstream mediaism?

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Christian Right Opposes Cervical Cancer Vaccine

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Thursday May 26, 2005 · 7:43 AM PDT

2005/05/26 · 07:43

Most of us women probably know someone who has had, if not full-blown cervical cancer, at least "suspicious cells" that she had to have scraped out of her cervix. As a lawyer for domestic violence victims, I see young girls every week, many of them pregnant, who have had "bad" pap smears. Heck, in law school, I once had a pap smear misread and had to be re-tested. The week I had to wait for my test results was agony. Would I ever be able to have kids? Was I going to die of cancer? Had they caught the cancer in time? I didn't know. After all, 4,000 women in the U.S. die of cervical cancer every year. Read More

Fear and Loathing in Alabama

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 7:24 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 07:24

This article pretty much sums up why my husband and I no longer participate in the Catholic chuch we were raised in. I am stunned to know that this kind of thing is still going on in 2005. No wonder we didn't get any votes in the South. . .

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- A pregnant student who was banned from graduation at her Roman Catholic high school announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway at the close of the program.

Alysha Cosby's decision prompted cheers and applause Tuesday from many of her fellow seniors at St. Jude Educational Institute.

But her mother and aunt were escorted out of the church by police after Cosby headed back to her seat.

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Tuesday April 26, 2005 · 7:07 AM PDT

2005/04/26 · 07:07

Sixty percent of those responding to this MSNBC poll think not.

MSNBC Poll

I think that the responses to this poll speak volumes about the "USA, USA!" culture going on in our society right now. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead, and most of this country just shrugs and references the "horrors of war." Disgusting.

Please help by freeping the above poll.

HOORAY!!!! MSNBC.com gets something right!

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Wednesday April 13, 2005 · 9:48 AM PDT

2005/04/13 · 09:48

Check out this headline on msnbc.com:

"Delay wants GOP to blame Dems for his woes"

Hey! It doesn't get much better than that!

Once you click on the link you get this:

"Delay Asks Peers to Blame Dems" Read More

Help Save Arrested Development!

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Tuesday February 22, 2005 · 12:48 PM PST

2005/02/22 · 12:48

Sorry--I know this is a far lighter topic than usual around here, but this is the smartest, funniest show to come along in years. So of course, it's on the chopping block:

Bateman, who stars as Michael in the acerbic Fox comedy about the dysfunctional Bluth family, offers a solution: "You've got the Pax network if you want a good hug."

But he and the rest of the "Arrested Development" clan might be in need of comfort: Fox is halting production after 18 episodes, shy of the usual 22, bringing the season -- and maybe the series -- to a premature end April 17.

"American Dad" takes its 8:30 p.m. EST Sunday slot starting May 1. The animated comedy about a CIA agent and his family scored in a post-Super Bowl preview and Fox awarded it the premium real estate after "The Simpsons."

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Tuesday February 08, 2005 · 9:32 AM PST

2005/02/08 · 09:32

As you all know, the SCLM has not reported, leaked, whispered, written, or broadcast one word about the numbers of Iraqi civilians killed in the war. I, like may of you, was stunned when Johns Hopkins came out with it's estimate of 100,000 civilians killed last fall. God knows how much that number has gone up since then. We certainly don't, since no one ever tells us. I continue to be ashamed and mortified that my country has engaged in slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civlians without so much as an acknowledgment of their deaths. And, as the American people aren't clamoring for accountability, it appears that this number will go undocumented, unreported, and ignored by the media, and thus, by the American people. Read More

CIA Report Says U.S. Dominance on the Decline

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Friday January 28, 2005 · 2:41 PM PST

2005/01/28 · 14:41

"Well Duh!" was my response when I first read that sentence. Still though, the only world I've ever known is the one where we are the biggest, strongest kid on the block. The thought of us not being a dominant global force is actually kind of scary, even though I realize that, as of late, we have been using our powers for evil rather than for good. A part of me still longs for the American that I felt we were when I was growing up: you know, the good guys. Sigh.

Here's what Slate's Fed Kaplan has to say about the Report:

Who will be the first politician brave enough to declare publicly that the United States is a declining power and that America's leaders must urgently discuss what to do about it? This prognosis of decline comes not (or not only) from leftist scribes rooting for imperialism's downfall, but from the National Intelligence Council--the "center of strategic thinking" inside the U.S. intelligence community.

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