FEMA is calling Katrina the worst disaster to hit America . . . ever. Parts of New Orleans are on fire, even though most of the city is underwater. There are fears that the entire city could turn into a "toxic lake", as the flood waters continue to pour in. Over sixty people are known dead (so far) in Mississippi. … Read More
Stupid Neo-Con Logic
This is the mind-numbingly stupid thing that columnist Lorie Byrd actually wrote (apparently, in earnest), at Townhall: What is rarely, if ever, addressed by the opponents of President Bush and the current war is whether or not the decision he made was a correct one if everything we thought about the status of Saddam’s WMD capability had been correct. In … Read More
Bush’s AIDS/Africa Policy
Bush likes to talk about how he is helping fight AIDS in Africa by, among other things, "build[ing] the health system capacity" there. Yeah, right. Bush’s war against AIDS in Africa has a strong enemy: Bush himself. Like his approach to terrorism, Bush’s unreality-based views of the world are merely prolonging the problem he seeks to prevent: A senior United … Read More
Pro-Bush Supporters Attack Themselves
Protest Warriors is a conservative activist group. Their tradmark is to show up at progressive rallies posing as liberals and carrying signs that say things like: "Communism has killed only 100 million people; let’s give it another chance!" and "The ACLU – we don’t hate religions – we just hate Christianity!" Get it? Because people will read the signs and … Read More
An Anti-Sheehan Pro-Bush Protester
From this week’s list of Top Ten Conservative Idiots at Democratic Underground:
Taking Powerline Seriously
Paul Mirengoff makes it clear why the other guys at Powerline don’t let him post so much. Today he writes about "Taking The President Seriously": The subject on yesterday’s edition of the O’Reilly Factor was how long we have to turn things around in Iraq. O’Reilly thought that President Bush has about six months to show the American people that … Read More
Center For American Progress’s Memo To Bush
He won’t read it, but you should (PDF format).
Stay And Leave
I’m glad I’m not the only one confused. Bush gave another "stay the course in Iraq" speech yesterday. Which I would expect him to do. But then there’s this story from today’s Financial Times: The US is expected to pull significant numbers of troops out of Iraq in the next 12 months in spite of the continuing violence, according to … Read More
Bible Lesson
Read this.
With Friends Like That…
From The Left Coaster: I hate for facts to get in the way of a Bush rant about the Axis of Evil, but guess which Bush ally in the war on terror admitted today for the first time that it was their country that actually gave Pyongyang uranium hexafluoride and centrifuges? It’s the same ally that is harboring Osama Bin … Read More
The Other Crazy Pat
WorldNutDaily has an exclusive. The old headline, as reported here, was "Rock Legend Shreds Cindy Sheehan ‘Peaceniks’" but apparently the editors at WND had second thoughts about being on the side of someone involved with rock (aka "the devil’s music"). And who is that "rock legend"? Why, Pat Boone, of course, who became famous for taking songs from black musicians … Read More
Thank God I Was Raised In New Hampshire
Oh, and thanks, Mom.
Circle Of Death
Commenting on Bush’s speech, in which he says that "we owe something" to our fallen soldiers — which is why we need to keep fighting in Iraq — I wrote (yesterday): You gotta love that logic: we should continue to allow our soldiers to die, so that those who have already died will not have died in vain. Mr. President, … Read More
Bush’s Propaganda Offensive Fails To Inspire
Bush took some time off from his record-breaking vacation to give a "major address" intended to shore up support for the Iraq War, which is going badly and causing even conservatives to question. So Bush gave the speech, and it was the same thing as always. A friendly audience of war veterans, and so on. And the speech itself? A … Read More
Not Angry
In response to a comment on that his blog is "full of hatred and anger", Corrente not only denied the charge, but set out to compile a list of things he was not angry about, as well as things he doesn’t hate. It’s not only long, but a work-in-progress, so check out Corrente’s site for the latest revisions and updates: … Read More