A few days ago I thought I posted a comment on gas prices, but, for some reasons I could not find it anywhere. So here is a reprise...And the election season has begun...Isn't it just amazing that after months of exceedingly high profits for the oil company's and $3.00 a…
Former Texas Governor, Activist Ann Richards, 73 - washingtonpost.com: "Former Texas governor Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Sept. 13 after cancer was diagnosed this year, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73."She was a breath of fresh air in…
You know I avoided ABC's fictional account of the lead up to the terrorist attack. Not hard to do since most evenings I turn the TV off after the Newshour if I have even turned it on at all. But for some reason I flipped on ABC to listen to…
Harold Meyerson - With No Ideas, The GOP Seeks to Scare - washingtonpost.com: "What's a party to do when its high road leads nowhere but down? The Republicans tried privatizing Social Security, but their numbers never added up. They tried spreading democracy with unilateral, preventive war but instead unleashed a…
Ok I was wrong...Bloggermann: This hole in the ground - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com: "History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but…
I was reading the morning papers (on-line of course), and Richard Cohen's column had some interesting thoughts. His contention that Bin Laden has won resonates. He lays out a very good case that everything Bin Laden set out to accomplish he has, and the Bush Administration has taken each of…
I was trying to come up with a way of expressing my feelings for this anniversary of the day America awoke to the realities of the world...This post led to same thoughts...Daily Kos: The lessons of 9-11: "The lessons of 9-11by kosMon Sep 11, 2006 at 10:53:17 AM PDTAravosis learned…
Do you want to really get mad? Review what you know happened without the years of spin from the White House. Then pass it on...It's time to take back America.Lie By Lie: "Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003The first drafts of history are…
As a followup to the previous post and a commentary on the many conservative pundants who don't understand the sour attitude of the American Public on the state of the economy I would like to point to this Washington Post Editorial:Mr. Bush and Labor DayWorkers aren't benefiting from growth.Monday, September…
Whatever: Being Poor: "Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.Being poor is seeing how few options you have.Being poor is running in place.Being poor is people wondering why you didn't…
The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » President Cheney: "President CheneyWe've all heard the jokes, some of them funny, about Dick Cheney being the real president, but over the weekend, Robert Kuttner made a compelling case that the jokes actually understate the case  Cheney really is the one 'running…
Fred at Fragments posted this link this morning. You should jump on over and check the article. I know I will be looking for the magazine at the B&N this week to read the rest. Scientific American.com: A Climate Repair Manual: "Translation of scientific consensus on climate change into a…
Bush Team Casts Foes as Defeatist: "When Bush and his allies accuse those favoring such a timetable of 'self-defeating pessimism,' as Cheney put it this week..."I guess that should make me proud to be an American, the land where name calling is the name of the game when you don't…
The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media: "It's the birthday of political humorist Molly Ivins, born in Monterey, California (1944)."Have a great birthday Molly...And many more. Your humor is appreciated and I marvel at your optimism.
I guess this pretty much explains the shenanigans in Florida in 2000...ORLANDO, Aug. 25 -- Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a 'nation of secular laws' and that the separation of church and state is a 'lie we…
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!: "From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...What the Terrorists WantI lived for 5 years in Dusseldorf, Germany inthe late 70s when I was just a li'l nipper. Terrorism was a fact of life thereand throughout Europe. The police carried machine guns, bombs went off,…
page 40...Article II of the United States Constitution provides that any citizen of appropriate birth, age and residency may be elected to the Office of President of the United States and be vested with the executive power of this nation.48The duties and powers of the Chief Executive are carefully listed,…
The War Bush Isn't Fighting:When unsmiling agents at the airport take away your contact lens solution, your toothpaste, and your cologne or after-shave, remember Osama bin Laden. Remember the real war on terrorism that the Bush administration and its allies decided not to fight, preferring cowboy-style military adventures.The revelation yesterday…
Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: "Yglesias Award Nominee10 Aug 2006 04:37 pm'And yet, much as I'm reluctant to agree with him, Weisberg has a point: aside from kvetching about Bush's policies, the liberal blogosphere has chosen to almost unanimously sit out any substantive discussion of the fight against radical…
As for the primary election in Connecticut last night, I know there's a lot of concern and interest about that. Democratic voters in Connecticut have made their choice, and they have chosen Ned Lamont over Senator Lieberman. Just a couple of observations. Key leaders in the national Democratic Party have…
War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution: "The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of…
BUSH'S BACKFIRE:As usual, Jim Hightower says it better than I can:Giving credit where credit is due, I'll concede that Bush's gang of neo-con ideological nutballs were right when they said that Bush's approach to Iraq would be held up as a model of success in the Middle East. Unfortunately, it's…
HoustonChronicle.com - Court rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballot:"Aug. 3, 2006, 4:39PMCourt rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballotBy R.G. RATCLIFFECopyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Austin BureauAUSTIN - A federal appeals court panel today in a bipartisan order ruled that former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay cannot be replaced on the…
Molly Ivins - Creators.com - Creators Syndicate: "The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy." You know, I've been reading…
It's Disproportionate. . .: "I felt better when I thought the Decider didn't have a worldview, just a set of instincts about freedom and democracy. But even if you set aside the president's embarrassing open-mike performance at the Group of Eight summit, which is hard to do, events of the…
I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors - New York Times: "The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, specifically those who are subject to gift and estate taxes when…
Bush's Tactic of Refusing Laws Is Probed: 'The President's constitutional duty is to enforce laws he has signed into being unless and until they are held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court or a subordinate tribunal,' panel members wrote. 'The Constitution is not what the President says it is.'" Just kinda…
The People's Business: "On Tuesday it (the House) took up the gay-marriage amendment. This was a meaningless exercise, except in terms of amassing political ammunition: The Senate had already defeated the amendment. Nonetheless, some members had no trouble explaining the value of the dead-end debate. 'This is probably the best…
Daily Kos: What Did You Expect, America?: "If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail. " I would normally add something here, but I don't think I can say it any better than SusanG so go read…
OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: "I note here what is to me a mystery. It is that people with lower IQs somehow tend, in our age, to have a greater apprehension of the meaning of things and the reality of life, than do our high-IQ professionals, who often seem, in areas…
