Go here, enter your your birth date, and find out what was the #1 song on the charts for that day. Alternatively, you can determine your “life’s theme song” by entering the date of your 18th birthday. My birth song? “Sherry” (The Four Seasons) My life’s theme song? “Upside Down” (Diana Ross). Ummmm . . . okay . . . … Read More
Lame Duck Bush
There’s no other way to view it—even conservative Republicans are backing away from Bush: The [Republican-controlled] House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI’s ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations. Bush has threatened to veto any measure that … Read More
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Death
Rumsfeld gave an interview to the BBC: Asked if the security situation had improved [in Iraq], he admitted: “Statistically, no.” “But clearly it has been getting better as we’ve gone along,” he added. “A lot of bad things that could have happened have not happened." Source. He’s right. All lot of bad things could have happened as a result of … Read More
ExxonMobil-Cooney Timeline
I could rant and rave about the White House’s ass-licking of the oil industry, but sometimes all it takes is to let the facts speak for themselves: Seven days ago: "President’s George Bush’s decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world’s most powerful oil … Read More
Seeing Is Believing
Epilogue to Terri Schiavo: "The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain,” he said. “This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons.” [Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon] Thogmartin said the autopsy report was based on 274 external and internal body images, and an … Read More
Roy Moore – Potential Pain in the GOP Ass?
The Boston Globe suggests an interesting future scenario. Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who refused to follow a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state’s judicial building, is pretty popular in Alabama. And he’s set to run for Governor in 2006 against a rather lackluster tax-raising incumbant governor. If … Read More
Michelle’s Odd Sense Of Humor
Perpetually-outraged internment-loving blogger Michelle Malkin recently posted this blog entry, entitled "Terrorists Heart The French", which I reprint in its entirety: Terrorist farewell gifts for a recently released French kidnapping victim: Two rings and a bottle of perfume. I guess Michelle’s point is that terrorists and the French are cut from the same cloth, peas-in-a-pod, kindred spirits, gift-giving bosom buddies, … Read More
Okay, But Can We Convict Him Of Egomania?
This deserves the raspberry-of-the-year award: The Jackson Web site mjjsource.com featured graphics declaring “Innocent” and showing a hand giving a victory sign as a fanfare plays. A scrolling calendar highlights historic events such as “Martin Luther King is born,” “The Berlin Wall falls,” “Nelson Mandela is freed,” and finally, “June 13, 2005, Remember this date for it is a part … Read More
Of Passing Note
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has published an online “Legal Guide for Bloggers".
Krazy Kristian Kookdom – Labelling Gays Edition
I found this to be interesting, even though the proponent is denying the charge: The leader of a conservative Christian lobby group appears to suggest that gays should be required to wear warning labels, although he denies that was his intention. “We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the … Read More
Atta-in-Prague Revisited
Anyone who thinks the Bush Administration was victim to flawed intelligence, take note: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PUBLIC: “Well, what we now have that’s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that–it’s been pretty well confirmed that he [9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of … Read More
“Democracy Freedom blah blah blah”
Defense officials from Russia and the United States last week helped block a new demand for an international probe into the Uzbekistan government’s shooting of hundreds of protesters last month, according to U.S. and diplomatic officials. British and other European officials had pushed to include language calling for an independent investigation in a communique issued by defense ministers of NATO … Read More
9/11 Wives
As someone who worked pro bono for several 9/11 survivors to receive compensation from the September 11 Victim’s Fund, I find these two stories (this one and this one) to be very discouraging. In the first story, the widow of the 9/11 victim stands to lose much of her husband’s pension. Her husband was a pilot of one of the … Read More
Snippets from The British Briefing Papers
As a counterpart to the Downing Street Memo, further briefing papers from Britain demonstrate, as this article trumpets, that the U.S. lacked a postwar Iraq plan, and that Blair’s advisors predicted instability in the region. They also cast light on some of the strength (or lack thereof) of the pre-war intelligence regarding Iraq. Some key quotes culled by Think Progress … Read More
Cox & Forkum Embarassment Watch
From their rant about the new Ground zero memorial complex, I’ll start with a moronic gaffe to demonstrate their ignorance: Keep in mind the context here: the “Guantanamo is a gulag” ACLU and other leftists groups are involved in the memorial. Uh, guys. That’s Amnesty International. Two entirely different bodies. But then they REALLY step in it: In fact, the … Read More