Bush On Vetoed Water Bill: Fiscal Irresponsibility!

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Saturday November 03, 2007 · 8:17 AM PDT

2007/11/03 · 08:17

In a statement accompanying his veto, Bush said, "This bill lacks fiscal discipline."

-La Times

Who wants to laugh with me? I'm in a riotous mood... right now, my coworkers don't know what to think. I've just been rolling on the floor for hours.

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Sunday September 02, 2007 · 6:48 PM PDT

2007/09/02 · 18:48

Ingrid Newkirk.... Bill, really?

"Thank you for everything you do..."
Bill Maher to Ingrid Newkirk, leader of PETA (Real Time with Bill Maher, Last Friday Night.)

I tend to agree with Bill Maher a lot... in fact, it's a very rare occasion that we stand on opposite ends. When I saw that she was on I hoped that Bill might get a little critical about PETA, for instance... starting with how their ideology is completely irrational.

So let's talk about why PETA is not a respectable organization, and why it's essential that no democratic candidate treat them as if they are.

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 12:09 PM PDT

2007/07/12 · 12:09

These people should not be treated with respect, because they are the REASON that we are in such a seriously bad situation right now. If we could get at least some of these people to realize the importance of not being a complete tool, we can get the country back on track.

A Newsweek poll released last week found 41 percent of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the September 11 attacks, though no such connection has been found.
--reuters

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Tuesday May 22, 2007 · 10:20 PM PDT

2007/05/22 · 22:20

Not that the "American Dream" was ever as Horatio Alger wanted us to believe, but there still is, at least, something. It never goes away, because it is essentially what we have pursued from the start - we just sometimes lose track and allow it to be defined incorrectly. That something has struggled to find its voice especially since this administration took the reigns.

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Tuesday April 17, 2007 · 10:59 PM PDT

2007/04/17 · 22:59

Howard Zinn, in an essay entitled "Respecting the Holocaust," wrote that to remember what happened to the 6 million Jews served no important purpose unless it aroused indignation, anger, and action against all atrocities, anywhere in the world.

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 9:20 PM PDT

2007/04/10 · 21:20

I'm tired of hearing it more than i'm tired of listening to Jesse Jackson's incoherent slurring and Al Sharpton's feigned "immense" out-rage.

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Tuesday March 27, 2007 · 3:56 AM PDT

2007/03/27 · 03:56

While reading the Huffington Post I noticed a blog entry titled Obama's Poetry by Steven Barrie-Anthony.

In it are two poems written by Barack Obama while in Occidental College in LA when he was 19 years old. Steven mentions that he would like to go back in time and talk to the candidates when they were young teenagers to get a feel for the type of person they were before the political machine filed down their rough edges.

Anyway, I thought people here might find it interesting to read these poems. They were Published in 1982. I have real trouble understanding the one titled Underground, so maybe we can get everyone's perspective on them. "Pop" is apparently about his grandfather.

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Saturday March 24, 2007 · 3:59 AM PDT

2007/03/24 · 03:59

I've plowed through quite a bit of material recently here on Daily Kos and even a couple books, including "War and Peace" that has dominated my consciousness over the past month due to Tolstoy's writing of the absurdity of writing history from the perspective of the "leaders" or the "heroes."

Understanding what happens in a society, and why a nation turns out the way that it does - and ultimately, what brings men to kill their fellow creatures, is an extremely complex issue.

So why did America go to war? Surely... we can't just blame it all on Bush...

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Monday March 19, 2007 · 2:06 AM PDT

2007/03/19 · 02:06

What should be the number one issue - you know, the one issue at the very top of the national agenda? My guess "national security" is always the answer.

Right now the Bush administrations argument as to how this is best accomplished is obviously "Combating Terrorism To Protect US Citizens." Because of the nature of terrorism itself this is an extremely difficult process... Although people can argue about whether or not the policies instituted as a result of this are actually working until we are blue in the face, I think the most important question we should be asking is whether or not "fighting terrorism" around the world should even be accepted as the means by which, at least at this point in time, is the most conducive to strengthening our security.

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Saturday March 17, 2007 · 4:10 AM PDT

2007/03/17 · 04:10

We all know that the Plame-Gate "situation" is absurd. Novak's article was absurd, the media was and still is being absurdly absurd, Bush's declaration that he takes leaks seriously and would ensure an "investigation" would take place was absurd. The White-House's "Process" was absurd, as BarbinMD made very clear in her diary entry titled "The White House Has A Process." The prosecution of Scooter Libby is even absurd, although he does deserve to be in jail...

Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent. According to GOP officials she may not have even been officially "classified," so there appears to be some "ambiguity" regarding her "undercover" status. But even if that's true what does it matter? She still worked at the CIA, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. If you work at the CIA, even if you are not classified as "undercover," why does that suddenly mean she's a person whose name can be used for political reasons?

I don't see the names of many other active agents of the CIA, "undercover" classification or not, being mentioned in the news.

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