It seems to me that the Bush administration’s response to the disaster in Myanmar is rather...eh...two faced. Maybe Dubya should send Michael Brown to Yangon.

Bush says "world should condemn Myanmar".

AP says "bloated corpses pile up".

We've been here before.  Heck of a job.

Not that anyone cares, since I'm "persona non grata" at DKos and I did my GBCW a few months back, but this one is important enough to me to come back out of the shadows.

10,000+ dead in Myanmar / Burma, a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions, and the Bush administration offers $250,000 - because Laura Bush has her panties in a knot.

I guess Jenna's wedding this weekend is more important.

To Mr. and Ms. UID 125,000+ who needed a nice belly laugh, and were shouting "jump, jump, jump" Tuesday night into Wednesday morning...watch the 3 point butterfly, baby...

About six months ago, I was contemplating writing a GBCW diary.  The signal-to-noise level at Daily Kos had grown tiresome.

Meteor Blades was kind enough to talk me off the ledge at the time, but reading some of the truly venomous crap on this supposed bastion of Democratic Party, progressive political discourse has pushed me perilously close to the edge.

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Last Friday, in a story that got buried amid the political primary wars, the U.S. Air Force announced that it had awarded a $35 billion contract for refueling planes to a European consortium, based on an Airbus design.

Today, Nancy Pelosi said (and I paraphrase): "Wait just a damn minute. Come tell congress why you can't have Americans build them in Seattle."

Good jobs for Americans.  What a concept - something the Bush administration has never understood. (more...)

Change.  That's what the upcoming election is supposed to be all about, right?  Then why would anyone chasing the Democratic Party nomination even consider appointing Republicans to key positions in a possible cabinet?

Lugar?  Hagel?  The Governator??  Please...

Let me state right up front that I don't have a dog in the Dem candidate fight, and will gladly support whoever is the nominee.  But this gives me cause for concern. Discussion below the flip.

The "big story" in the media over the past 24 hours has been the discovery of ricin vials in a Las Vegas hotel room.  While the basic narrative itself is very strange, there's also some real weirdness in the way that the story is being reported, and catapulted into the mainstream consciousness by the legacy media.  Hmmm.  Remember the anthrax attacks in 2001?  Whatever happened with that?

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So, you think you work for a crappy company?

A motivational coaching company in Utah is being sued by a former employee for using waterboarding as a performance improvement technique.  No word yet on whether snarling dogs, loud music, or pictures of Dick Cheney were also being used to properly inspire the employees.

More...

How is it that miscreants from the Bush administration can ignore legally issued congressional subpoenas, be cited for contempt of congress, yet still walk the streets with apparent immunity from prosecution (or arrest or detention) by the U.S. Justice Department? It goes without saying that you or I couldn't do this for a simple traffic ticket...

The House may be taking up the issue of telecom immunity by voting on the the fatally flawed Senate version of the PAA / FISA bill later this week. Interestingly enough, House members have actually grown some cajones in recent weeks - and a PFAW / EFF petition may tip the balance in defeating the bill. Your help is needed...

Progressives are at risk of losing sight of the fact that, no matter how passionate supporters of either Obama or Clinton are, our real motivation needs to be focused a tidal wave election in November. The stupid pissing contest between the Obama and Clinton camps has gone beyond mere stupidity - the concept of "stupid" is being taken to a new level...

Against all odds, Mike Huckabee is still in the GOP race. What’s his motivation? A Veep spot on the McCain ticket? That’ll never happen. No, Huck’s still reaching for the brass ring, but via a different route.

I know it's late on Friday, and no one's going to read this diary, but here it is...

There's a Category 5 shitstorm slicing through the blogosphere and legacy media today about John McCain's alleged dealings with a pretty, young telecommunications industry lobbyist.

In my own head, though, that's not really the story.  After the jump, a short discussion on what I don't think the Democratic Party wants to ingnore in this whole kerfluffle...

In an interesting election year revelation on Saturday, Hillary Clinton affirmed her support for gun ownership by trotting out her own past hunting experiences.  

What is it with politicians who feel that they have to prove they have the ability to kill something with a weapon?

After the jump, let's explore why politicians feel they have to be able to prove they have what it takes to kill.

Apparently, dog fighting is enough of a spectator sport in Afghanistan that 80 people can be killed, and scores injured, when a suicide bomber blows his/herself up at a dogfight in the BushCo Democratized City™ of Kandahar...no comment yet from Michael Vick.

A short, late night, heart felt lament follows the jump...

Why is it that the Roman Catholic Church would rather have a single mother become unemployed and/or on welfare than to either have an abortion or a job to provide for her child? When a diocese fires a single woman for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, that’s the message they’re sending.

No comment yet from the Huckabee campaign.

Lots more after the jump...

According to Mitt ’s bailout speech today, a vote for Hillary or Barack is surrendering to the terrorists. Message to Mitt: STFU and get the hell out of my country, you whiney, scared little man. You failed to mention that George Bush's GOP is the greatest terrorist enabling organization in the history of the planet. BTW, where's OSAMA?

...the analysis.

Two more GOP presidential beauty contests were dispensed with this past weekend, so in an acronym-laden diary, it's time to examine the results and tally the official Republican delegate count to date.  Bonus: a dose of Cranium's conventional wisdom has been added to each analysis, at no charge to you, the reader!  What a deal! There's even a neat graphic below the flip. So without futher ado...

Wait.  You'd rather tear each other up in candidate diaries?  What is it with you people? ...  (Just kidding...I promise you'll like the graphic below the flip.)