If that doesn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will.
We get tunnel vision on superdelegates and stump speeches and credentials committees, all of which have their own level of importance. When I see a headline that millions are in danger of starvation I stop thinking about all that and pay attention. “Meteoric food and fuel prices, a slumping dollar, the demand for biofuels and a string of [...]
Categories: Economy · Oil Prices
It’s going to take more than these huge, economic, bandages to get the American economy back on track. It’s going to take a wholesale change in monetary philosophy. I’m no economist, but I do put gas in my car and I do shop for groceries. What we’re doing now is NOT working.
Bear Stearns has been rescued, and its shareholders have been placated. Wall Street has several invigorating injections of billions of tax-payer dollars. Now that a great deal of public wealth has gone to prop up private wealth, maybe some of that public wealth can be used to help, well, the public. But only if the free market fundamentalists in the Bush administration stay out of the way, or trip over themselves while hurrying to offer their idea of a remedy. Clearly something’s up, because both the White House and Congress [...]
That must be the excuse. Although, there really is NO excuse for stupidity.
From the Detroit News … “The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes, according to a police report [....]
Categories: Sex
Plain and simple. Do your own research…
Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its annual “Congressional Pig Book” today. Here’s the lowdown on this past year’s pork: “In fiscal year 2008, Congress stuffed 11,610 projects (the second highest total ever) worth [...]
Categories: Congress
Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.
About that military budget George…
Our government uses the War On Terror as an excuse for any and everything military. As Robert Scheer notes in his writeup at TruthDig, the newest GAO report is a horrendous bit of reading that will chafe you hide or at the very least cause you to grind your teeth and mutter under your breath: “This [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Military
Another week. Another airline grounds planes over safety concerns.
United Grounds 777s for Inspections
United Airlines temporarily grounded 11 percent of its fleet Wednesday, while it tested dozens of Boeing 777s to make sure components of a cargo fire suppression system were operating effectively, the carrier said. The Chicago-based airline said testing will be done on [...]
He claims he tried. Really?
McConnell: Iraq NIE To Remain Classified
In a speech on March 12, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said: “All future NIEs will not have unclassified key judgments if I’m persuasive enough among the decision makers.” It seems now that McConnell was indeed persuasive. Yesterday, Congress received the latest updates to the National Intelligence Estimate on the situation in Iraq, [...]
Categories: Congress · FEMA · National Security
Always with our best interests in mind, obviously.
Cheney Opposed Chemical Weapons Convention
Vice President Dick Cheney opposed the signing of a treaty banning the use chemical weapons, a recently unearthed letter shows. 183 countries pledged never to “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons, or transfer, directly or indirectly, chemical [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Cheney Impeachment
Or, maybe not.
Is Anybody Tracking Health of FEMA Trailer Residents? Well, ‘Yes and No’
Participants in a hearing on FEMA’s Gulf Coast trailers emphasized the importance of tracking residents of the units for potential long-term health effects, but didn’t get a clear answer about whether it was happening [...]
Categories: FEMA · Hurricanes · Weather
The push is on, for something quite unprecedented.
Mortgage Crisis Bailout Gains Momentum
With home prices spiraling down, the foreclosure crisis spreading and Wall Street paralyzed by a credit crunch, the once-unthinkable notion of a big government bailout of the subprime mortgage market is gaining momentum. The housing mess has gotten so bad that even [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
Still looking pretty much like BFF.
McCain bows to right wing, keeps GOP platform on same-sex marriage untouched.
Two weeks ago, the conservative Family Research Council called on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to “clarify his stance on marriage and life as it relates to his party’s existing platform.” McCain has remained silent on the issue, but today, the Washington Times reports that “advisers” to his presidential campaign “say he will not try to [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
It’s back in the latest Clinton campaign ad, but the target is new.
CLINTON GOES AFTER MCCAIN ON ECONOMY — WITH 3 AM RINGING PHONE
New ad: “John McCain just said the government shouldn’t take any real action on the housing crisis, he’d let the phone keep ringing.” Watch it above. Read script here. On media call, Clinton adviser Mark Penn says ad is airing in Pennsylvania, will “sharpen the debate” on who is best to reshape the economy. Clinton spokesman [...]
I’m wondering how the Clinton camp is going to spin this. Not that it’s gotten much (if any) mainstream attention. It seems, to me, to be a fairly significant comment about Clinton’s past.
The smartest woman in America. The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – [...]
A bit of a smackdown for hubby, too:
Bill’s Tirade In Private Meeting Stuns Superdelegates
“The Bill Clinton who met privately with California’s superdelegates at last weekend’s state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
But, McCain will still contend that things are going well in Iraq. Because the Iraqi deaths haven’t hit a million?
McCain admits “hundreds of thousands” Iraqi deaths
During the last two minutes or so of his interview with David Letterman Tuesday night, John McCain got asked some tough questions, including one about the grotesque number of Iraqis killed or displaced because of his Bush’s War. Letterman: 4,000 American men and women soldiers dead since we went into Iraq. Another 30,000 [...]
Categories: Iraq War · McCain · Television
For those of us who lived through the Vietnam War draft, it can be a frightening thought that it may return. Darn frightening. I believe there would be a massive uprising on the part of the American people, if the administration tried to go down the draft road for the Iraq War. How about you?
Joint Chiefs: Change Course, Start Draft Or Lose Army
You knew it couldn’t last much longer. VetVoice: “In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, Army Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody sternly rebuked all those who’ve been blowing sunshine and spreading baseless happy talk for five years with regard to the war in Iraq. And he [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War · Military
I know not what it is, but something continues to stomp on me. It may be all of the crud in the air this time of year, or it may just be that I’m about to become another year older. Whatever it is, it made it difficult to keep my eyes open all day, even with the assistance of several cups of caffeine. My stomach didn’t like being subjected to that, so it (in turn) rebelled, as well. All in all, not a pleasant day.
Let’s kick it off tonight with an appropriate topic: torture.
The big story this morning is the release of one John Yoo’s memos about how legal it is to torture people if the president says so. The lawyers among you will no doubt be appalled. Egads!! Sloppy legal reasoning. Actually, it was just a power-play. They defined themselves as above the law and above international standards of morality. They were wrong [....]
Dept. of Justice: Bush is above the law and torture laws don’t apply
…From the ACLU, to whom we all owe thanks and gratitude for having the letter made public: “A secret memo authored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserting that President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations to extract information from [...]
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
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