BBC To Screen 'Path To 9/11' - Tonight!
Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 05:58:15 AM PDT
I just discovered, to my horror, that the BBC here in the UK is showing 'The Path To 9/11' - at primetime, no less. I have filed an official complaint, the text of which I provide below, to express my disappointment and anger at the spreading of such inane propaganda.
Brown to FEMA deputy: "Can I quit now?"
Thu Nov 03, 2005 at 03:15:40 PM PDT
This is absolutely disgusting.
CNN has a story up detailing several emails published by Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA 5). This stuff is beyond callous, even for the Bush White House; just two days after Katrina hit, Marty Bahamonde - one of the few FEMA employee in New Orleans - contacted Brown, telling him that "the situation is past critical" and related those near death and that food an water at the Superdome were running out. I shit you not, what follows is
the entirety of Brown's response:
Thanks for the update. Anything specific I need to tweak?
Does it get worse? Need you ask? What follows is an email from Brown to Cindy Taylor, FEMA's Deputy Director of Public Affairs;
Can I quit now? Can I come home?
It gets worse...
Rush Limbaugh's Inevitable Talking Points Revealed...
Wed Sep 28, 2005 at 10:55:50 AM PDT
Blame the Liberal Media
Everybody Does It
Prosecutor is a Democrat
An Indictment Is Not A Conviction
Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster
Ted Kennedy
They hate Tom Delay for his freedom.
This only emboldens the Iraqi insurgency
The Grand Jury is in its last throes
All we need now is an indictment against Rove and Cheney in time for christmas! :D
Looking Back; Iraq & Rumsfeld
Sun Jun 26, 2005 at 10:16:51 AM PDT
Q: Mr Rumsfeld, does the stepping up of attacks on Iraqi positions in the no-fly zone mean, in your view, that war is now pretty much inevitable?
Rumsfeld: No, I don't see the connection really. In fact, I'm not even positive that there has been a particular step-up in the number of attacks.
This interview took place early in March 2003. The now-infamous "spikes of activity" revealed in the Downing Street minutes began in May 2002 - a joint US Air Force and RAF operation under which the number of bombs dropped on Iraq doubled, in what has now been acknowledged as an attempt to goad Hussein into a response which would mean war. Surely this outright deception demands explanation, or is the Defence Secretary unaware of what his forces are up to?
Overturn Roe vs. Wade Now!
Thu Feb 24, 2005 at 04:49:55 AM PDT
I am eagerly awaiting the day when the Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, opines that the Burger Court was on drugs (I mean, consider the decade) when it held that the penumbra of privacy that the Court had recognized in Griswold v. Connecticut (birth control info for married folks, for those of us who may not remember the days when telling married couples how to prevent conception was a criminal offence--Chee-rist, would I have been out of a job then!) applied via the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection, look it up, you should know this) to a women's right to terminate her pregnancy for any reason she damn well pleased (up to then, most states had allowed abortion only to save the life of the mother).
BBC News: CIA leak reporters 'must testify'
Tue Feb 15, 2005 at 03:47:16 PM PDT
Bush Threatens to Veto Medicare Changes
Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 10:10:01 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Friday threatened to veto any changes Congress tries to make to Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, which takes effect in January 2006.
Here's the question; could we get enough Republicans to defect to override? I think it's not entirely out of the question - with the Midterms coming up, Republicans in tight races could be bitten on the ass with this. As I remember, it was pretty tight last time, and Bush needed a Democrat's defection. The name, however, escapes me. Any thoughts?
BREAKING: CNN Reports on Gannongate
Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 10:19:57 AM PDT
Sweet zombie jesus, the SCLM is questioning the President? Could it be? It is!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A New York congresswoman asked the White House to explain Wednesday why a man who worked for a news Web site owned by a GOP activist was able to obtain White House press credentials under an assumed name.
I can just about comprehend the fact that Bush, Rove and co despise anyone who is not on their side, but I cannot stomach the hypocrisy and moral bankruptness present when stuff like this happens. For crying out loud, the White House credentialed a plant and used him to give loaded questions to the President! If they can get away with this, what's to say there aren't other potatoes out there? If Clinton did this, Limbaugh, Hannity and the like would have a field day. As it is, they'll drone on that Bush gets an easy ride and it's only fair to level the playing field. Remember, in the world of Karl Rove, EVERYTHING is spinnable.
Reuters: Rove Gets Bigger Role at White House
Tue Feb 08, 2005 at 12:02:35 PM PDT
Uh-oh:
DETROIT (Reuters) - President Bush's senior adviser, Karl Rove, will take on a wider role in developing and coordinating policy in the president's second term, the White House announced on Tuesday.
NYT: States See Growing Campaign to Change Redistricting Laws
Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 12:23:08 PM PDT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - The politically charged methods that states use to draw Congressional districts are under attack by citizens groups, state legislators and the governor of California, all of whom are concerned that increasingly sophisticated map-drawing has created a class of entrenched incumbents, stifled electoral competition and caused governmental gridlock.
Bill Gross Critizes Bush's SS Plans
Sat Feb 05, 2005 at 05:08:03 AM PDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund, is criticizing President Bush's plan to privatize part of Social Security.
"New York State"?
Sat Jan 22, 2005 at 04:25:35 AM PDT
From the New York Post:
A bill that would create a commission to study whether the city should secede from New York state will get another hearing soon -- after sitting in the City Council for nearly two years
The bill was introduced on Feb. 26, 2003. A hearing was held shortly after, but no action has been taken on the bill since then.
Hmm...
The Constitution of the United States of America
Article IV, Section 3
Section 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38867.htm
"A Child Held Behind"
Sat Jan 15, 2005 at 05:10:12 PM PDT
"A Child Held Behind"
by Monica Davey, New York Times
At 12 years old, Paige Bonds is 5-foot-5, almost as tall as her mother. She already weighs more, a fact she acknowledges with an edge of pride, the pride of growing up. Paige likes doing the same things that other girls who are about to be teenagers like to do: listening to the radio in her bedroom, playing video games, practicing with the school pompom squad.
A year ago, she was the oldest in her class at the public elementary school she attended near her family's apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Then 11, she was in the third grade -- for the third year in a row.
"A Child Held Behind"
Major Dean Speech This Wednesday!
Mon Dec 06, 2004 at 12:05:34 PM PDT
Hello to everyone. I thought I'd better rush this up quick, seeing as it's not on the net at large yet;
I just received an email from Tom McMahon of Democracy for America, announcing what he terms a "major speech" from Howard Dean this Wednesday...
CNN - "Frist: Judicial filibusters must stop"
Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 10:59:46 AM PDT
Just read this on CNN, and quite frankly I'm more than a little worried;
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday urged Democrats to stop blocking President Bush's federal court nominees and hinted that he may try to change Senate rules to thwart their delaying tactics.
"One way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominees must end," Frist, R-Tennessee, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.
Would he be saying this if the Democrats held the Senate? I think not... read the full story here.
