Newsblast!
Workers at a plastic plant that Bush will use as a tax payer funded photo opportunity for the 2004 campaign-- er, excuse me, speech, will not be paid for the day since Bush is speaking at the plant. Workers options are to take a vacation day, work saturday, work at another plant, or take an unpaid day off. Hopefully Bush loses some votes out of this deal.. Oh, wait, he wasn't democratically elected in the first place.

US weapons inspection teams have pulled out of Iraq because it looks more and more like Saddam did not stockpile weapons of mass destruction. So, uhm, Iraq was a threat to what? Our oil supply? And we just killed thousands of Iraqis with our bombs to find no WMDs? Should there be a war crimes trial against Bush because of this? Will we ever see one?

From the "Who gives a shit?" department, President Kennedy got busy with a 19 year old intern, or so a new biography about him claims. Dayum, I guess he liked to bang'em when they're fresh. But think about it, isn't this the way you would rather find out that a President had sex with an intern, instead of finding out through a $60 million witchhunt that we paid for, brought to us by right wing assholes for the purpose of throwing the President out of office? While we're on the topic, for all of you morons who say that Clinton dragged the nations through this and had no morals and should have resign and what should we tell our children and blah blah blah, fuck me if I'm wrong, but he at least tried to hide what he was doing. What brought it out to the public was the rabid right spending $60 million of our money an in
"investigation" to get him removed from office. It's their fault that Clinton's actions became public knowledge then instead of 40 years later. So, who lacks morals now?

In BIG news: Firemen have to use a crane to lift a 700lbs man to get him out of his apartment and to a hospital. Gee, I can't imagine why a man who weighs 700lbs would need to goto the hospital.

Alternet has a good article about race and reporting, concerning the black New York Times reporter who got canned for fabricating his stories. Of course, since this man is black, so white people have decided to turn this into a race issue. The linked articles makes a good point about this double standard, reminding us that white people never had to face prejudice due to Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe, who fabricated stories and still has a job.

The Austin-American Statesman has a local story which could have national implications. To avoid a partisan redistricting plan by Texas legislators, the Democrats in the Texas House have boycotted House sessions where redistricting is on the agenda, breaking the required quorum needed for a vote. Texas governor Rick Perry called this move "cowardly and ugly", while the Texas House Speaker resorted to how an eight year old would handle the situation - with name calling. He called the absentee Democrats "chicken Ds". (I hope this man wasn't elected on the basis of verbal creativity.) But the Democrats, in a letter to the House, point out, "We did not choose our path, Tom Delay did." Texas isn't the only state where Republicans who hold the majority are trying to redraw district maps, drawn up after the census in 2001, to give Republicans more of a majority in state legislatures. And it's all being orchestraed by that known asshole, Tom DeLay. The Republicans in Texas don't like the dirty move played by the Democrats? Well tough, I say. It's about time the Democrats started playing dirty, they still have a lot to do to catch up to those GOP jackasses in the dirty tricks game.