2/07/2004

Swing, Swang, Swung

In 2000, Michigan was a swing state that Gore eeked out by a mere 4%. Since then, the state has lost more than 300,000 jobs. Salon points out this and other things this weekend in a very interesting article. It looks like one swing state has swung to the good side, which is a little relief to all us electoral vote counters.

A little late, but I thought you should know...

Yesterday was the first International Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Day.

Questions Questions Questions

David Corn has a few reasonable questions he thinks Tim Russert should ask Bush during his interview on Sunday's Meet the Press.

Let's hope this bad ass muthafucka doesn't wuss out.


WMDs in Iraq have been found!

But Saddam wasn't the nutjob who used them.

DU [Depleted Uranium] is a highly toxic heavy metal derived from nuclear bomb and fuel waste and is classified as a “weapon of mass and indiscriminate destruction” by the United Nations. DU emerged in the seventies as America’s Cold War weapon of choice - cheap, abundant and devastatingly effective for armor-piercing bullets, cluster bomb fragments that penetrate armor and anti-personnel mines, casing for bombs, shielding on tanks, counter weights and ground penetrator missiles. On contact, DU pulverizes into aerosol-like dust that can travel 26 miles and remains radioactive for 4.5 billion years.

If DU is inhaled, it can attack the body causing cancers, chronic illness, long-term disabilities and genetic birth defects - none of which will be apparent for at least five years. In last year’s conflict, between 1,100 and 2,200 tonnes of the stuff were fired at Iraq - a figure that eclipses the 375 tonnes used in the 1991 Gulf War. But unlike that largely desert-based conflict, most of the rounds fired last spring were in heavily residential areas. Readings taken from destroyed Iraqi tanks in Basra are so high in DU that a British army survey team had to wear white, full-body radiation suits, face masks, and gloves. Meanwhile, with nothing to warn them against it, Iraqi children use the tanks to play on. A study undertaken in November by the Uranium Medical Research Committee showed that readings taken from destroyed Iraqi tanks in Basra had radiation levels 2,500 times higher than normal. After the bombing of Baghdad, witnesses living next to the airport reported that 3,000 civilians were incinerated by one morning’s attack from aerial bursts of thermobaric and fuel air bombs. The area has now been landscaped by the US forces and Iraqi contractors, preventing a thorough examination.

It's really tough deciding what should be bolded in those two paragraphs. Essentially, the whole damn thing should be in bold, and I should post the rest of the article. But that's what links are for.

Saturday is Cartoon Day!

Jesse at GC13 brings us this beauty.

Last two are, of course, by Mr. Rall.



Saturday Dog Blogging!

I can never catch Mac doing something normal. Everytime he sees the camera pointed at him, he just has to mug for it. Silly dog.

Urban Dictionary Definition of the Day

Felching!

2/06/2004

Yes, yes we can

Atrios asks a great question: Can we stop calling him a popular president now?

The polls say yes.

Fark Headline of the Day

"The Mexican crowd chanted "Osama. Osama. Osama" as U.S. soccer players left the field with a 2-0 victory"

Displaying his vocabulary

It's Craptastic! has a preview of Dubya's appearence on Meet The Press this sunday. It's pretty indepth.

Remember, don't fuck with this man:

I can't believe the shit that comes out of this fucking assholes mouth

Bush on gay marriage: "Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman. If activist judges insist on redefining marriage by court order, the only alternative will be the constitutional process. We must do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage."

Bush didn't seem too worried about "activist judges" when they placed him in office after he lost the 2000 election. As for the "sanctity of marriage," has he checked out Vegas lately? Remember, we must defend the sanctity of Britney Spears right to marry somebody for 36 hours! But if you're a gay couple who have been loyal to each other for years, no marriage for you! God, what a fucking asshole.

Making false claims to goto war? Not a problem!

Unbelievable.

Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary [UK], yesterday dismissed the most provocative and notorious claim in the government's Iraqi weapons dossier as "not a significant issue" when Britain invaded Iraq.

So let me get this straight, the British government has admitted to lying about their reasons to goto war, yet the BBC should be guilty of faulty journalism for reporting this earlier this year. Blair must be taking lessons from Bush on the weekends.

Stop eating!

This paragraph from an NY Times article about American diets kind of shocks me:

The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reported in the current edition of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, found that in 1971 women ate 1,542 calories on average, compared with today's 1,877, while men went from 2,450 calories a day to 2,618. Those numbers dwarf the government's recommendations of 1,600 calories a day for women and 2,200 for men.

2618 calories for men? Holy crap. I try to keep my calories to a 2000 a day limit, and this is coming from somebody who used to weight 250lbs. I'm a big boy, but by the government's statistics, not only do I not eat enough but I'm 600 calories below average. How does this compare to your diet?

Pentagon cancels internet voting

Thank god.

Wow

Musharraf pardoned Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who sold nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya, and North Korea (but not Iraq). Those are some pretty serious crimes, but Khan was regarded as a hero among Pakistani citizens, so I have to wonder if Musharraf's actions are politically motivated. But politically motivated for whom?

The prevailing view is that the US is willing to accept Khan's explanation, plus the dismantling of his global nuclear merchandising network, because it's preparing to launch an offensive against Al Qaeda and Taliban elements along the Afghan border, say US and Pakistan officials, in hopes of capturing Osama bin Laden. If Musharraf's government were to be connected to Khan's nuclear deals, the US might be forced under existing nonproliferation law to impose sanctions on Pakistan at a moment when it most needs the South Asian nation's help.

Oh. I should have figured it would benefit America. America loves to support countries whose governments violate human rights.

Vroooom

Hydrogen cars are 25 years away from becoming reality. Keep that in mind when the Bush administration tries to use his hydrogen car research funding for an environmental/emissions reducing plank in his campaign, since his administration said they want hydrogen cars available by 2020. Of course, we could be like Canada and use corn ethanol to fill up our tanks, but nobody ever listens to me.

The economy's doing great!

I can't find a link to back me up, but I heard on the radio yesterday that Rhode Island is cutting 200 state jobs to help balance the budget.

Common sense attacks!

From the "No Shit" department:

The Bush administration recently made it known that a major offensive against al Qaeda would be launched in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the spring. It was even hinted that Osama bin Laden might be caught this year.

To the average Super Bowl-watching American, it might seem strange to warn dangerous and already elusive foes that you are coming to get them.

He went aWol, but what are YOU going to do about it?

I've been reading an interview with Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson, who broke the story about Bush skipping National Guard duty in 1972 during the 2000 presidential election. You and I both know Bush went AWOL, so I'm not going to beat a dead horse and quote from it. But the problem is that most people don't know about Bush's military past. My father, for example, had no clue but is rather mad at Bush after I told him. My father is like many other Americans who don't have time to be little web trolls like those of us with no life. :) But seriously, I imagine people who read this blog get their news from many different sources: web, radio, television, and newspapers. The web alone provides a huge amount resources, be at wire services, different countries media, or blogs. When you have time to use the webm even if it's only for a couple hours, you can access a large variety of information. I have a desk job giving me a lot of time on the web, and I enjoy blogging what I read and hopefully those with less time than me can come here and be a little more informed. But we must remember that not everyone has the time or luxury to browse the web, and they still get their news from traditional sources. My parents are part of this group, and I'm sure most people can say the same thing about their parents, or friends of their parents, or your aunts and uncles and some of your older coworkers. If you have time to troll the web and read blogs, then it's your job to keep the people around you informed, tell them what the traditional media won't.

The Bush/AWOL story is gaining some traction in the mainstream media, but the way it was dismissed by Peter Jennings and Wolf Blitzer when it first broke (again) this year is absolutely appalling, just goes to show that they're not doing their jobs. The right side of the media has been even worse, all they do is point out that Bush was honorably discharged. Yes, he was, but the question here which they won't address is why Bush didn't report to duty for a year. Another question which is so bleedingly obvious that you can't even call it probing: How come Bush has been honorably discharged when he left town for a year, against orders? I've lived in Rhode Island my whole life. As any other astute resident of this state can tell you, we can smell corruption from a mile away, so let me tell you as somebody who knows.. If you have to ask that question, one with such obvious conflict, then it becomes rhetorical. Corruption exists, which means a crime exists. Bush is guilty of both if we even have to ask the question.

Screwing the newly "liberated" women of Iraq

This article is pretty unbelievable.

Iraqi women, who were among the most liberated in the Arab world under the country's legal system, are seeing their rights stripped away by the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), according to 44 U.S. lawmakers who are calling on President Bush to take urgent steps to address what they call a "brewing women's rights crisis."

...IGC resolution 137, approved by the 25-member IGC December 29, which replaces Iraq's 1959 personal-status laws--that could affect everything from the right to education, employment and freedom of movement, to property inheritance, divorce, and child custody--with religious laws to be administered by clerics from the country's different religious faiths, depending on the sect to which the parties in any dispute belonged.

..."In less than 15 minutes of discussions, the IGC--none of whose members were elected by Iraqis--passed Resolution 137 [Which would have to be approved by our Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) -tas], effectively abolishing women's legal rights in 'liberated' Iraq," said MADRE's associate director, Yifat Susskind. "Under the direct authority of the Bush administration, the IGC has privileged sectarianism over inclusiveness and violated core principles of democratic governance..."

Yeah, I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but WTF man? Read the whole thing, but only if you feel like being pissed off.

WMDMIA

So, what does the author of 2002 book, "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq," have to say now about WMDs? Read a few paragraphs of this Norman Solomon article and find out.

With knee-jerk professional reflexes, American journalists assumed that Iraqi officials were lying about weapons of mass destruction -- and also assumed that officials such as George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and (especially) Colin Powell were being truthful. Overall, the news media helped to create a great market for war.

An author who soared in that bullish market was Kenneth Pollack, the former CIA analyst whose 2002 book "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq" was a media-driven smash. A frequent presence on national television, Pollack eagerly promoted a book and a war at the same time. He called for a "massive invasion" of Iraq.

Now, in the current issue of the Atlantic magazine, Pollack has a long essay with a somewhat regretful tone. "What we have learned about Iraq's WMD programs since the fall of Baghdad leads me to conclude that the case for war with Iraq was considerably weaker than I believed," he writes. "I had been convinced that Iraq was only years away from having a nuclear weapon -- probably only four or five years. That estimate was clearly off, possibly by quite a bit."

In a just world, somebody whose credit is this tarnished wouldn't have a career anymore.

Uh, hello... Pleased ta meet chew...

Until this morning, I hadn't looked at my site logs for a week. Unbeknownst to me, and for no particular reason I can find, L/M traffic spiked. A lot. 5774 hits on Monday, which is small to some people, but that's never happened here.

Looking at my referrers, I can tell these hits aren't coming from the Alliance blogs. The blog I get the most hits from is still Gotham City 13, but these hits didn't come from there. Janet Jackson turned up in a lot of search strings people used to come here, but the first time I mentioned her was on Tuesday, which received considerably less hits.

Sitemeter confirms that my site visits have spiked.

So.. Where the fuck have you people come from and why aren't you posting comments? :) And I noticed the spike dropped tuesday and wednesday, so please come back. I promise I won't bite.

2/05/2004

Quite a pickle

It's nice to know the south harks back to the good ole days.

The New Slave Trade in the Southern United States
Farm workers in the fields of Eastern N.C. are working long hours for low wages, in conditions so bad that the workers themselves speak of “ending the slave trade” there. Exposure to toxic pesticides without adequate protection, housing that lacks basic sanitation, and less-than-subsistence wages are among their complaints.

While the cucumbers they pick are destined for supermarket shelves in the form of Mt. Olive pickles, that corporation refuses to take responsibility for the damage done by its profit-driven policies. In spite of the squalor of the workers’ living conditions, for over 6 years Mt. Olive has refused to recognize the FLOC union, and agree to negotiate a contract. Mt. Olive insists that it can’t be held responsible for the practices of the growers who provide their cucumbers. Conversely, FLOC maintains that only through 3-way negotiations between the workers, the growers, and the corporation (who pockets the largest portion of the selling price of each jar of pickles) can the ills that plague these farm workers be remedied.

In spite of the fact that these workers make Mt. Olive’s huge profits possible, Mt. Olive has persistently refused to provide protection from poisons, minimal sanitation, and a pay scale that approximates a living wage. As a result, FLOC has called a nationwide boycott of Mt. Olive products. The 10,000-plus workers who make up FLOC, people who face every imaginable obstacle to empowerment- lack of education and English fluency, poverty, racism, and nationalist bigotry- have decided they have no choice but to appeal to the conscience of American consumers, and ask for their principled support.

More info: floc.com

Drink to this

Hmmm.. There are widespread layoffs in the US and Anheuser's profits are up 9%. I wonder if there's a connection.

Suing those who deserve it

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange have filed a lawsuit in US court for damages against the companies which produced Agent Orange.

And now for something completely different

Quick! Where's Nepal?!

At the end of a two-week visit to Nepal, an Amnesty International delegation urged the government to take urgent measures to prevent the country sliding towards a human rights catastrophe.

The delegates conducted on-site investigations in Dhanusha, Sarlahi, Kavre and Nuwakot districts where they investigated reports of extra-judicial executions, arbitrary arrests and "disappearances" by the security forces and reports of human rights abuses by the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN (Maoist)).

With everything happening in the world, it slipped my mind that a civil war was still going on in Nepal. Stupid me, I guess...

The GOP's Jackass

The Village Voice has a revealing article about who's running Al Sharpton's campaign: GOP operatives.

Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.

[snip]

Recruited in 2000 by his friend James Baker, the former secretary of state, to spearhead the GOP street forces in Miami, Stone is apparently confident that he can use the Democrat-bashing preacher to damage the party's eventual nominee, just as Sharpton himself bragged he did in the New York mayoral campaign of 2001.

[snip]

The Washington Post recently reported that the Bush campaign was planning a special advertising campaign targeting black voters, seeking as much as a quarter of the vote, and any Sharpton-connected outrage against the party could either lower black turnout in several key close states, or move votes to Bush.

Jesus. Is there anyway to kick a candidate out of the primaries if they turn out to be a mole?

Maybe the pressure finally got to him

Bush agrees to give the 9/11 panel a time extension to get their report released in August.

Ahhh, there's nothing like 17 year old Hooters

I can't make this up.

GUYTON, Ga. - A high school senior's choice for a work-study job was a little too racy in the eyes of her superintendent.

Laura Williams, 17, took a job about a month ago as a hostess at a Hooters restaurant, the national chain known for its scantily clad waitresses.

So the school is against it, but what does her father think?

But Larry Williams said he does not mind his daughter working at the restaurant..."I went to Hooters for an hour, and six families came in for supper during that time," he said. "This is a chain restaurant with high standards."

Oh yes, high standards indeed. High shorts for the staff, too.

Blair Lied

Believe what you want about Lord Hutton's report and the BBC, it should still be known that, "UK intelligence learned just before war that Iraq had not assembled chemical weapons." Blair sent British troops to war knowing, without a doubt, that his 45 minute claim was false. Sounds like a lie to me.

Give it up

Rumsfeld tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that more time is needed in the search for WMDs. Next on the Bush agenda: locating the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, finding out who really knows the Muffin Man, and going to war with Denmark if they don't reveal the location of Santa Claus.

2/04/2004

Bow to your yellow/red, floppy-footed deity!

This picture makes me smile.

Gee, didn't they think of this 20 years ago?

The Grammy Awards TV show will have a time delay to avoid any chance of a Janet Jackson-style flash. Well golly fucking geez, that would have saved a lot of trouble. Meanwhile, the reaction from America is still in, "Look! Look! It's a tit!," mode.

Layoffs? [update]

Since I always post articles that report workers getting laid off, I'll aim for balance here and mention that I haven't seen a article reporting layoffs in about a week. Of course, I have been busy with school, too...

Update: Well, this is something I hate to be corrected on since I don't like seeing people get laid off, but Jesse from GC13 posted this link to the comments: Corporations Lay Off 117,556 in January. Ouch.

Big flippin' deal

It's time to downplay Kerry's wins a bit. There's no doubt that he had a great night, but winning North Dakota with a grand total of 5316 votes isn't something to right home about. Ditto for outplacing all the other candidates in Delaware with 16,729 votes. Big woop. Take out these two measly states and Kerry got 2 big wins (211,737 votes in Missouri, 90,790 in Arizona), 1 moderate one (40,347), second place in South Carolina (84,872), and a decent third place showing in Oklahoma (81,012). Which is great for him, but to exclaim that he won 5 states makes it seem like a bigger accomplishment. ND and DE just don't count as big wins.

Joementum never got off the ground and now it's no longer a threat. Dean mine as well be down in the trenches with Kucinich and Sharpton, it doesn't look like his campaign will ever take flight again. The most effect Dean will have on the campaign is if he drops out, then Edwards becomes the anti-Kerry vote who's also looking quite electable, winning South Carolina with 126,320 votes. Clark eeked out a win in Oklahoma, but we mine as well call him and Edwards co-Okie winners. Clark only mustered 20,189 votes in South Carolina, and Edwards finished ahead of him in Missouri and Delaware. In some respects, it looks like the Edwards and Clark campaigns are dead even, but my gut tells me that it's advantage Edwards. Take that for what it's worth.

Of course, most of the advantage right now goes to Kerry. Donations are sure to be rolling into his campaign now, One wonders if Edwards or Clark can gather up enough steam to really challenge him. That's upto Dean. I wonder, given the media's negative treatment of him, what would happen if Dean dropped out and endorsed Edwards or Clark, would the media spin it as positive or negative to their campaign?

Blog or studying, blog or studying... Grrr

I'd love to pay attention to the blog right now, but unfortunately my attention has to be focused on a sheet of paper with 50-60 boring words and definitions that I have to memorize by class tonight. I suppose I'll get really sick of it soon and focus on the blog, but I at least have to try to study. Wah.

2/03/2004

Hot Three Way Action

MSNBC has the state-by-state election results on their front page. Here are the results for Dean where he placed 4th or higher:

Delaware: 10%
Missouri: 8%
Arizona: 14%
New Mexico: 22%
North Dakota: 12%

Dean didn't even manage 6% of the vote in South Carolina or Oklahoma. Hell, Joementum beat him in Oklahoma.

Yes folks, I hate to say it, but stick a fork in him - Dean's done. This is a Kerry/Edwards/Clark race now.

thankfuckingod

Joementum? Jo'mama!

Boo!

Tim Russert is just fucking scary. He looks like an evil muppet.. Or an evil something. Definitely evil, though.

It's good to know that our government is concerned with important investigations

I took the FCC less than 24 hours to announce an investigation into Janet Jackson's tittie. Meanwhile, it takes months for the government to launch an investigation into 9/11, and Bush only started mentioning an investigation into illtelligence failures concerning Iraq and WMDs this week, after thousands of Iraqis have died with 500+ US troops. This sets quite the precedent. Maybe a few female troops in Iraq should flash the cameras next time Foxnews is around, that intelligence investigation would get launched in no time!

You have to wonder what's on their minds...

Especially when a National Reviewer staffer says this in a post titled, "ARE THESE THE WORST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EVER?"

John Kerry is Bob Dole without the glitz. John Edwards is a litigating Ken doll with a Marxist message. Howard Dean is a...well, Howard Dean.

Errrr.. First off, Bob Dole had glitz? Secondly, where the fuck has Edwards ever preached the gospel of Marx? (I know, I know, Republicans think that we're all a bunch of pinkos.) And I guess if Howard Dean raises his voice, then by golly, he must be nuts! It's ironic that these weirdos make fun of the way Dean talks; look at who they support. Mr. Misunderestimated.

Cato to Bush: Your budget stinks

So what are some members of the right thinking about Bush's budget? Here's some interesting commentary straight from the Cato Institute:

Writing in today's Wall Street Journal, Cato's Chris Edwards warned that "The White House believes that big spending is good politics. But it is short-term politics, and it will backfire." Edwards suggests that one way of reducing spending is to create new budget procedures designed to eliminate failing programs.

Of course, any debate I or somebody with similar political beliefs had with the Cato Institution on how to define a "failing program" would be quite the debate, that's not the point. It seems like more and more elements of the right are questioning Bush administration policies. Bush is having trouble gathering his base.

Good. He should keep this up until November.

"Conflict of Interest" just isn't the right phrase...

Get a load of this:

Public Citizen is calling for an investigation of Billy Tauzin, the Republican Congressman from Louisiana, who had a key role in writing the Medicare prescription drug law -- and now that he's done with that, got a big thank-you in the form of a sweet offer to lobby in Washington for the pharmaceutical industry. The compensation package, rumored to be somewhere from $1 million to $2.5 million a year, would be "likely the largest compensation package on record for anyone at a trade association," Public Citizen says. Tauzin hasn't said yet whether he'll accept it; he seems to have been given pause by the drumbeat of indignation that's risen at the idea.

Damn. Does it get anymore black and white?

Republicans against Bush

John Nichols points out that Bush, our supposedly popular president who is running against no one for the Republican nomination, only received 78% of NH's Republican primary vote. The Bush administration has a history of their distaste in pesky things like democracy getting in the way of his image, so I wonder if they have any say in some states cancelling their Republican primaries:

Considering President Bush's less-than-stellar showing in New Hampshire, it should come as little surprise that Republicans in some states have decided to cancel their primaries. In South Carolina, for instance, the state Republican Party's executive committee decided not to hold their state's tradition first-in- the-south primary. They simply endorsed Bush for reelection and agreed to select delegates at district and state Republican Party conventions where, presumably, the president will not have to run the risk of embarrassment at the hands of independent thinking voters.

Makes you wonder about what will happen to the elections in November is it looks like Bush is losing.

Let's form a committee to solve a problem!

I have a question for our fearless leader and his proposed investigation into US intelligence: You (and that "closet liberal" John McCain) want the results of the WND investigation held over until after the election. McCain has also called from the 9/11 panel report to be after the election rather then before, whereas you would rather the report didn't exist at all. Why are you so afraid? I mean, if you're so fucking innocent, then what's the problem with the results of these investigations breaking in late October or early November? What are you worried about? What are you trying to hide? Maybe you're up for a compromise, so how does this sound: the results of the investigation come out after the election, and if you have been reelected and they are quite negative towards you and your administration, you and you whole administration resigns. You will first have your vice president resign and appoint the democrat who lost as your new veep, then you resign and he becomes president and fires the rest of your cabinet. I say that's fair.

2/02/2004

Fark Headline of the Day

"One in every ten Brits is uncompeta... wait, I mean incomputan... no, encomp... one in every ten Brits can't do their job properly"

Wow, that's it? They need to come to the promised land of U-S-A! We'll show them incomp.. Incompat.. Incontinen.. Ah, fuck it.

Commercial break!

I have that the lot of the crop of this years Super Bowl commericials were yawners. Things would have been much more interesting if CBS didn't censor MoveOn by telling them that advocacy ads can't be run during the game, then running a bunch of cheesy anti-drug ads. An ad for drugs, though, was the most amusing of the night. It, of course, was an ad for an erectile dysfunction pill (what other legal drugs are there to be advertised during the Super Bowl?), and near the end it said, "If you sustain an erection for more than 4 hours, seek medical attention immediately!" The whole room bust out laughing. :)

This is just sad

Dear God,

Please kill me.

Love,
tas

So, how does Bush plan to increase military spending, goto Mars and the moon, and balance the budget?

By gutting social programs, of course! Fuck the poor! Look, $8.4 billion to build 5 more nuclear subs! Man, I feel safer already.

Pakistani scientist sold nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya, Iran...

But not Iraq. Interesting.

It's about damn time

Democratic Party chairman labels Bush as AWOL:

"I look forward to that debate when John Kerry, a war hero with a chest full of medals, is standing next to George Bush, a man who was AWOL in the Alabama National Guard," Mr. McAuliffe said in an interview on the ABC News program "This Week." "George Bush never served in our military in our country. He didn't show up when he should have showed up. And there's John Kerry on the stage with a chest full of medals that he earned by saving the lives of American soldiers. So, as John Kerry says, `Bring it on!' "

Busy night

There may not be too many links.

2/01/2004

Choo choo, propaganda express heading your way!

You know, when you see a headline that says, "President presses for fiscal restraint," you know it's going tobe a bad day. Talk about framing the issue. The executive and legislative branches are controlled by Republicans, but, shockola, spending is out of control! Yet the headline makes it seem like the blame should lay elsewhere.

Things that make you go hmmmmm...

Some international flights from England and France to America have been grounded, 24 hours before the Super Bowl. That, of course, being the biggest sporting event of the year and any red-blooded al-Qa'ida cell would sinfully cream their robes to bomb it. I hope Brady doesn't throw a bomb tonight.

Experience it

Salon has a good article on Edwards, "The John Edwards Experience." If you're going through the motions of still trying to decide which Democrat to support,you should give it a read.