Bush Defended "Torture" At Yale

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Saturday December 10, 2005 · 8:30 PM PST

2005/12/10 · 20:30

From MyLeftNutmeg.com

A recent article in the Yale Daily News contained this tidbit:

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau '70 said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush '68's past -- that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger -- deserves more national attention. ...
In a News story the next day, Bush is quoted calling the branding "insignificant." He said he did not understand how the News "can assume Yale has to be so haughty not to allow this type of pledging to go on."

Also a proponent of and apologist for torturing DKE pledges was Collister Johnson '68, who was Bush's "Ohio campaign manager and national field director during the 2004 presidential election."

Ah, bright college years, with pleasures rife!

CT-Gov. Blumenthal Takes A Pass

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 7:39 PM PDT

2005/10/11 · 19:39

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has made it official, according to a number of sources picking up an AP story.

``I love this job,'' Blumenthal said. ``It affords endless challenges and opportunities to help people.
``This job is also right for my family,'' he said. ``My children are still at ages where they are counting on me to be there. I have always put family first, and I have decided to do it again now.''

Apparently, the AP reporter wasn't smart enough to nail him down on any plans to mount a primary challenge for Lieberman's seat, something a lot of progressive Dems would like to see happen.

NY Times Gives Joe and Hadassah Lieberman a Pass

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Sunday October 09, 2005 · 12:44 PM PDT

2005/10/09 · 12:44

From MyLeftNutmeg:

by: BranfordBoy
October 09, 2005 at 15:28:14 EST
The New York Times' Glen Justice exposes Washington's dirty little secret of cohabiting lobbyists and legislators.

PERHAPS it was inevitable in a city where passion and power live side by side: people who start as colleagues or contemporaries often wind up cohabitating. Journalists marry spokespeople. Government workers marry activists. Lawmakers marry lobbyists.
It's the last category that often leads government watchdogs to grind their teeth. How can a member of Congress possibly share a bed and a bank account with a member of the persuasion industry without a life laced by conflicts of interest?
"This is way up there on the unseemly scale," said Frank Clemente, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch.

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 8:53 AM PDT

2005/10/06 · 08:53

MyLeftNutmeg.com is up and running and looking for a few good bloggers.

Dedicated to progressive Democratic politics in the Nutmeg State, we want to be a meeting place where progressives from across the state can promote local activism and discuss local and statewide issues.

Newly registered site members can begin posting Diaries immediately. No one week waiting period. And any registered user can post to our interactive Events Calendar. (This may change in the future but, for now, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to get involved.)

We will be promoting the best Diaries to the front-page. Eventually we will select the best Diarists to be a team of front-page bloggers.

This is a chance for Connecticut commentators and activists to become the next Armando, Plutonium Page, or (dare I say it?) Kos.

Drudge: It's All Nagin's Fault

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Saturday September 03, 2005 · 12:22 PM PDT

2005/09/03 · 12:22

The Drudge Report is running an aerial photo of school buses in a flooded NO lot with the caption: WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES DURING THE MANDATORY EVACUATION, MAYOR?... [Note the lack of an honorific. This is a black mayor after all.]

So in Matt Drudge's pathetic, shit-stained little mind Mayor Nagin's apparent failure to deploy buses during the mandatory evacuation somehow makes it okay that the federal government sat around with its thumb up its butt for four days while tens of thousands of people suffered, starved, become dehydrated, and died?

Unbelievable!

Kos Is Rich: Block That Meme!

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Monday April 18, 2005 · 10:16 AM PDT

2005/04/18 · 10:16

Two random examples of what may be a new meme (to use that much abused word) have struck me in recent days.
The first was Kos's appearance on C-Span with Brain Lamb (of which I caught just a portion), in which Lamb brought up -- what? an accusation? -- that Kos was raking in the dough on his blog. Kos gave a mildly self-deprecating response that allowed as how, yes, he was making a living.
Then in today's New York Times Business section, an article by Daniel Terdiman about Kos' sports blogs contains this line: "After achieving enough success with Kos that he says he is able to live in costly Berkeley, Calif., entirely off its ad revenue...."
Is a new meme making its way through the MSM? To me, Lamb's question and Terdiman's editorializing seem to make a number of interrelated (not to mention irrelevant and unsubstantiated) points. Read More

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Bush Defended "Torture" At Yale

CT-Gov. Blumenthal Takes A Pass

NY Times Gives Joe and Hadassah Lieberman a Pass

Calling Connecticut Bloggers

Drudge: It's All Nagin's Fault

Kos Is Rich: Block That Meme!