Do you know where your next drink of water is coming from?
Severe Drought Drying Up The Southeast
A couple of weeks ago, I flew to Atlanta on business and hung out with a friend of mine while I was down there. Among other topics (e.g. Bush sucks, Congress sucks, etc), she brought up how bad the drought has been down there. Right now, restrictions are voluntary, but mandatory restrictions could be just around the corner, which would affect regular water usage in the home. Without any significant rainfall, Lake Lanier, the city’s reservoir, is down to [...]
Categories: Drought · Weather
It did, for a time today, actually look like it could happen…his AG nomination could be going off the tracks.
Breaking: Leahy to oppose Mukasey.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today announced that he will vote against Michael Mukasey’s attorney general nomination, “potentially derailing his confirmation.” “No American should need a classified briefing to determine whether waterboarding is torture,” said Leahy, who will hold a press conference later in the day. Four other Democrats on the panel have also [...]
However, Feingold isn’t sure..
Feingold Still Undecided
The Wisconsin Democrat who sits on the Judiciary Committee has issued a statement in which he concedes he has not yet made a decision on Mukasey: He may be the best nominee we can get from this administration in this [...]
Carpetbagger wraps up the story this way:
Bush to Congress: Mukasey or no one
There’s been some grumbling of late that if Senate Dems successfully defeat Michael Mukasey’s Attorney General nomination, the Bush White House may just turn around and offer someone even worse. Mukasey’s future remains in doubt, but that’s one scenario Dems need not fear. President Bush yesterday warned Democrats that if they do not confirm his attorney general [...]
Late this afternoon, Senators Feinstein and Schumer said they’ll vote to OK Mulkasey. Forget derailing.
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If you’re still up and around (it’s late Friday around here), this is a great piece to read just before bed. It’ll give you much to think about as you drift off to sleep. The author is clammyc, writing for Booman Tribune…
An Apology and a Promise to My Unborn Child
As some of you already know, the missus and I are expecting a clammyc junior (or juniorette) in a few months, and I have been excited as can be about this. Of course, with the complete immersion in the events of the world and this country that I am involved in, it is also a bit scary and disconcerting to think of the world that he/she will be entering in a few short months. Over the past few days, I have been thinking of a diary around the theme of [...]
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Do you think this ABC News reporter is just a tad bit upset? I sure as heck would be!
White House Edits ABC News Then Takes it Back
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl Reports: News flash — The White House has selectively edited a report on Iraq, taking out negative information and distorting the report’s meaning. This isn’t about intelligence or weapons of mass destruction. It’s my report on Thursday’s evening [...]
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Categories: Bush Administration
Not. Saying. Nothing.
Why is the Administration going to keep NIEs secret in the future?
I have to say, I’m a little bit troubled by this: "U.S. intelligence agencies will release summaries of national intelligence estimates only if Americans are in direct and immediate danger, or if police and fire departments need the information, the top intelligence official says. […] McConnell is reversing the recent trend of releasing key judgments from NIEs, the [...]
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Categories: National Security
What approval? It’s now official: the country doesn’t think much of GWB…
Approval Maps: No More Red States!
We have at long last a poll from Utah clocking in at 47%! With the poll of Idaho in August, this means every single state has had a poll with approval of Bush under 50% at [...]
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The huge debate this week has been whether waterboarding is torture. I’m looking for a clip from Dan Abram’s show last night, the one with the ex-military guy who let himself be waterboarded to demonstrate what really happens. He did it twice and said he thought he was going to die both times. Consider that description as you watch someone from the other side..
Conservative dismisses waterboarding as a ’swim lesson.’
On Wednesday night on CNN’s The Situation Room, conservative columnist and “Republican strategist” Rachel Marsden dismissed worries over Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s refusal to say waterboarding is torture, saying “One man’s torture is another man’s CIA’s sponsored swim lesson.” Watch it: As Steve Benen notes, earlier in the interview, Marsden claimed that history would look kindly [...]
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Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Wish them good luck. This sounds tricky.
During an unprecedented procedure, one astronaut will be on the end of a 50-foot-long boom gripped by the space station’s robotic arm [...]
Categories: Outer Space
Since we do try to keep an eye on media for you, not just politics, you probably should be aware of a problematic situtation in the television industry. The TV writers are going on strike (unless something amazing happens) and that’s gonna throw everything into an uproar and will probably chase a lot of us away from the tube for a while.
Writers Strike Incoming, 1988-like Ratings Drop Too?
With news that television and movie writers have declared they would strike, it’s only a matter of when (we should know sometime today). It’s interesting to look at the viewership trends in primetime broadcast television since the last writers strike in 1988 [...]
More detail on the issues and predictions here:
Writers Guild to Strike
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Categories: Entertainment · Television
Time to lawyer-up! Wonder how many times we’ll hear "I don’t recall"…
The Greymail Defense Rides Again
Looks like Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, and Elliott Abrams might have a bit of ’splainin’ to do early next year. Under oath. In a courtroom. Before a judge. Lawyers for two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists facing espionage charges have subpoenaed Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Deputy National Security Adviser [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Allow me to introduce you to another Arkansas blogger. Mark Elrod is a poly-sci professor at the college level. He knows his international politics. He’s not a homer, not an automatic Hillary supporter. In fact, he has nice things to say about Obama today.
Barack Obama on Iran
I’m not the first person to suggest that the road to Middle East peace has to go through Tehran and Tel Aviv.Nor am I the first to say that the Bush administration has so far failed to deal with either end of that spectrum effectively. But with only a few months left in [...]
As long as we’re looking at what Obama is saying, here’s a not about his Today Show appearance:
Obama Suggests Hillary Clinton Hiding Behind Gender In Campaign
Senator Barack Obama really took the gloves off this morning on NBC: "Amid some buzz, newspaper and blog reporting that noted that in the most recent Democratic debate it was all the guys gang-blasting Hillary Clinton, Obama has raised the issue of whether Ms. Clinton is now using that “high concept” media and blog perception to [...]
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Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Looks like we’ve all been making too much ado about Hillary Clinton’s "stumble" in Tuesday’s debate. It might have made for great political chatter among pundits, but it doesn’t seem to have hit home with the public…
Clinton Sees Jump In Poll After Tuesday Debate
Tuesday night’s debate was not Hillary Clinton’s finest moment of the campaign season, but there has been little or no immediate damage to her standing in the national polls. In fact, if anything, support for Clinton has ticked up a bit since she stumbled on an answer to questions about drivers licenses for illegal aliens. Data from the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows [...]
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Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Thursday’s speech and reporter briefing by the President was just so amazing, it deserves one more look. Study it, my friends, and read the analysis. Textbook study in politics and how some believe if they simply say it, it becomes a truism.
President Temper Tantrum
Our spoiled, adolescent President threw a temper tantrum yesterday, because, he claimed, Congress is not giving him everything he wants. He charged that anyone who disagrees with his policies is the same as those who sought to appease Hitler and coddle Stalin. But not one of his extremist statements is true. In [...]
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We’ll pop that balloon, right now.
America, Open For Business, Closed To Freedom
Is there any area of our government, over the span of the last seven years, any area, in domestic or foreign policy, national defense, public welfare, the economy, name it, where the average, reasonably informed American might point to success, to signs of progress, of improvement, something, anything, to point to with satisfaction, with pride? Yesterday [...]
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Categories: Bush Administration · Economy
Hey, did you hear the news? The Iraq War is over! Seriously, I’m not kidding. At least one guy thinks that’s true…
Aussie hawk argues: ‘The battle is actually over; Iraq has been won’
Apparently, you reality-huggers have been so focused on facts and veracity that you missed the big news: we won the war in Iraq. In fact, the whole conflict is over. We know this, of course, because Andrew Bolt, a conservative columnist in Australia, says so. In a piece today, Bolt proclaims, “The battle is actually over. [...]
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Categories: Iraq War
It is the first Friday here on the bright, shiney, new site! I hope you find it less cluttered (Notice that the ads are gone. They weren’t doing much good, anyway. Maybe, someday, there will be a good way for niche bloggers to make a little lunch money.) Until then, just enjoy the reading. Hopefully, the new, scheduled posting, system will let me spread the posts out a bit and keep some fresh content online over the weekends and during the work day. There may be one more move down the road, if I decide ads could work, but it won’t be for a while.
We’ll being on this Friday evening with the WAPO’s blistering attack on the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
There is no consumer product safety in the Bush administration. You’re on your own.
Okay, after almost seven years of the Bush administration’s contempt for the American people, nothing should really surprise us. The Bush posse not only thrown away the concept of consumer safety, they handed it to the industries they’re supposed to regulate. Lead in toys and all those other consumer safety scandals start to actually make sense after you read the Washington Post’s article about the leaders of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Under Bush, you’re not safer in any aspect of your life: "The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children’s furniture industries and others they regulate, according to [...]
As long as we’re looking at the Bush Administration, let’s talk about how it’s looking into campaign financing. Seems some of those people the critics thought never could have contributed to Democratic campaigns really DID!
Perverting Justice
Surprise! "On the wall of Hsiao Yen Wang’s apartment, a cramped, 17th-floor public housing unit on the city’s Lower East Side, are photographs of her husband, David Guo, a cook who specializes in Fujian cuisine. One photo stands out: Guo shaking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s hand, a memento from a $1,000-a-person fundraiser for the New York [...]
And, just because you need a little fun on a Friday evening, check out how "Blogs For Bush" gushes all over the Bush Presidency. It provokes some interesting comments. Dig in!
President Bush Shows What it Takes to be President of the United States of America
We’re really going to miss him, once he’s out of office: "History teaches that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake. In the early 1900s, the world ignored the words of Lenin, as he laid out [...]
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You’re here! New site. New Day. New Content on the way. Everything from the old site made the move, so feel free to dig in.
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