My Blind Date With Rita, Part 2

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Friday September 23, 2005 · 3:45 PM PDT

2005/09/23 · 15:45

My family tried to get out last night via I-45 but failed to do so. We are now sheltering in place because there is no other choice left. Read More

My Blind Date With Rita

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 11:11 AM PDT

2005/09/22 · 11:11

Update [2005-9-22 18:55:54 by bigdaddyTX]: Thank you all for your advice, concerns and prayers. We very much appreciate it. It's looking like the I-45 contra-laning is starting to work, so we are now planning to make a go for it at around 9 PM tonight. We have two vehicles on 3/4ths of a tank, so if the traffic will at least move at like 30 mph or better, we should have a better than even chance of getting to Huntsville and maybe find more fuel in that region. It's our best hope to leave, and we're willing to try. If we hit half a tank w/o meaningful results, we'll turn back. Again, thanks for the kind words and advice. - BD Read More

MS Gov Doesn't Get It Either

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Sunday September 04, 2005 · 9:52 PM PDT

2005/09/04 · 21:52

Reality impairment isn't just for FEMA directors. MS Governor Haley Barbour is suffering from it as well, and needs to be called on it more directly by the press. (For that matter, so does Sen. Trent Lott.

See why after the jump... Read More

Just Say No To "Terri's Law"

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 · 6:53 AM PST

2005/03/23 · 06:53

Don't get me wrong, I mostly like Bullmoose Blog, and Marshall Wittman is especially at the top of his game when he writes about official corruption within GOP ranks, which is reason enough to read it.

But he's dead wrong on the Schiavo story and how to legislate it. Favorably quoting anything Charles Farthammer - er, Krauthammer, has to say about anything is a risky thing, but especially in this case, where Chucky proposes reversing about 1000 years of Anlgo-American common law:

There is no good outcome to this case. Except perhaps if Florida and the other states were to amend their laws and resolve conflicts among loved ones differently -- by granting authority not necessarily to the spouse but to whatever first-degree relative (even if in the minority) chooses life and is committed to support it. Call it Terri's law. It would help prevent our having to choose in the future between travesty and tragedy.

No Moose and Chucky, we really don't need "Terri's law". More after the jump... Read More

WTF??!!! Chalabi to be next Iraqi PM???!!!

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Wednesday February 16, 2005 · 8:32 PM PST

2005/02/16 · 20:32

WTF??!!!

Read it for yourself....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

It's Chalabi vs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari on a "secret" ballot to see who gets to be the next Prime Minister of Iraq!

Gee, I just can't imagine which person will win this match! Looks like Judith Miller knew what she was talking about the other day when she mentioned Chalabi was getting rehabbed back into the Iraqi political scene, courtesy of DubyaCo.

J Goldberg: No Excuse Not To Serve Now!

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Saturday February 12, 2005 · 6:50 PM PST

2005/02/12 · 18:50

As Kos noted back on 02.06.2005, Jonah Goldberg thinks he can't put his beliefs into action and actually join the military and serve in Iraq. His excuse? He's 35 and has kids to support.

Sorry Jonah, that's not an excuse.

Meet Johnnie Chennault, age 29 and father of 11 kids, from Springfield, TN. He signed up to serve in the Navy Reserve 2 years ago, and later this month he's going to Iraq. Chennault believes he should serve, and he's putting his beliefs into action.

If anyone should be given a pass not to go to Iraq it would be this guy (sweet jeebus, I can't imagine having 3 kids much less 11! Mama must be worn out already...), this guy should be. While I don't think this war is worth his trouble, at least he's willing to serve; since he's in the Seabees he's definitely going to be on the ground just like my brother (a Seabee since 1980) is now.

So Jonah: quit making excuses, get your ass down to the recruiter's office and get your war on! Let's draft all young Republicans and GOP pundits first...

Prosecute DeLay Under the RICO Statute

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Monday November 22, 2004 · 6:35 PM PST

2004/11/22 · 18:35

So it's starting to look like Tom DeLay might have used the power of his office to intimidate Ronnie Earle into not indicting DeLay on corruption charges.

And DeLay has managed to get the rules changed requiring House leaders to step down if they're indicted for a crime - and the Repugs did it just for him.

But that's OK, because DeLay may now eligble to be prosecuted under the federal RICO statute!

More after the jump.... Read More

Fox News Tonight Asks: Why Do They Hate America?

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Sunday November 21, 2004 · 11:13 AM PST

2004/11/21 · 11:13

Sunday night @ 9 PM ET Fox News will broadcast a special called Breaking Point - Hating America, in which the red staters will try to pin all the hatred for America on, you guessed it, France and everybody else in the world except the United States.

Which may also mean, given the brazenly thuggish behavior of the GOoPers in DC since Election Day, anyone who is an internationalist and hasn't sworn fealty to G W is going to have their allegiance questioned big time.

Smacks of fascism doesn't it? Read on for (slightly) more.... Read More

Rumsfeld Says El Salvador Can Be Model For Iraq

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Monday November 15, 2004 · 10:16 PM PST

2004/11/15 · 22:16

You read the title correctly - it's not your imagination. I'm surprised this hasn't come up on DKos, given Kos' own ties to El Salvador...

Iraq can learn from the recent history of El Salvador, a country wracked by civil war that has developed into a stable democracy and close U.S. ally, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. [...]
From 1979 to 1992, El Salvador suffered a bloody civil war with leftist guerillas that left 75,000 dead in this nation of 6.5 million, where half live in poverty.

El Salvador's wartime experience may be lost on most Americans who only remember that El Salvador was that thing where Oliver North got into trouble. But it's not lost on me - I served in Central America back then, and I'll just say for my part that my memories of the experience are much less fond than Secretary Rumsfeld's.

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E-Voting: Is the Fix In?

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Saturday August 07, 2004 · 6:51 PM PDT

2004/08/07 · 18:51

Good article @ CBS News' website about the problems and risks associated with electronic voting...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

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