The GOP and a Return to Slavery in America
In yet another example of the GOP digging its own grave, Dan Rohrabacher along with a dozen or so GOP house members pushed back against the Senate immigration changes. Rohrabacher's declaration:"I say...
View Article[Nova] Global Dimming
Nova this evening aired a piece titled "Dimming Sun" which is simply remarkable. If you get the opportunity, tune in. To summarize: atmospheric scientists have observed that the amount of sunlight...
View Article[CNN] Senate to Recommend Abolishing FEMA
CNN is reporting that the Senate committee investigating Katrina has determined that FEMA is broken beyond fixing. Tomorrow they will recommend that FEMA be abolished and rebuilt fresh anew, reporting...
View ArticleMy Cat Says My Wife and I Just Don't Understand
(With apologies to BarbinMD's diary and pootie lovers everywhere.) After yesterday's household ruling that declared Kitty Bimbo's illegal household spy program unconstitutional, the reaction from the...
View ArticleGOP: Helping Those in Need
The LA Times reports: U.S. Hopes to Rival Hezbollah With Rebuilding Effort After 6 weeks of warfare between Israel and Hezbollah, much at the expense of civilians both in Lebanon and Israel, the...
View ArticleJMK and OBL: A nation seeks closure where it can find it.
Just under a week ago, the national media went berzerk of the possible capture of JonBenet Ramsey's killer. To say it was unexpected is an understatement. To say the media response was overdone, and...
View ArticleHate Speech at DKos: Some examples
The Lighthouse Keeper diaries that the RNC is claiming that DKos is rampant with hate speech. Unfortunately, I must confess that they are correct. A constant stream of hate speech can be found right...
View ArticleWhat is their 9/11?
I've largely avoided swimming in 9/11 as the media would prefer. But I did one thing - I listened to Kevin Cosgrove's 911 call from WTC 2 released in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial. Hat tip to Cunning...
View ArticleOn Torture and Jumping the Gun
There's been a lot of angst here over the Dems silence over the Bush Waterboard Bill. You don't give your party enough credit. Now is not the time to act. Now is the time to sit back and watch. The...
View ArticleAmish School Recovery Fund
Since we haven't had a diary on this in a spell and since the school was torn down today, I thought it'd be a good time to remind folks of where they can contribute to the recovery fund. This...
View ArticleArrests in OC Voter Registration Fraud
http://blogs.ocregister.com/... Prior to the Tan Nguyen scandal last week where latino Dems received a letter telling them that if they were immigrants they could be arrested for attempting to vote,...
View ArticleDear GOP,
No doubt, you will spend untold hours dissecting the last 2 years wondering where the first crack in the dike showed up - what that precise moment was. After all, this wasn't Watergate and it wasn't...
View ArticleFree Market Impeachment
Dave Winer, one of the first bloggers (coming up on 7 years) had an interesting idea yesterday:I just got off the phone with Sylvia, who passed on a great idea that just might work, to help George Bush...
View ArticleOn Communities
Following what happened at Virginia Tech today, there's a lot of attention obviously being paid to guns here. But this isn't about guns. Columbine wasn't about guns. These are stories about communtiies...
View ArticleSoCal Fires
Southern California is suffering through its regular fire outbreak. For those unfamiliar, a few times each year a particular weather condition develops which causes the winds to blow from the hot, dry...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh is Right
It pains me to write those words, but I accept evidence when it is presented to me. After 2000 and 2004, the usual right-wing pundits chastized Democrats as being coastal elites, not caring about the...
View ArticleTo those both proud and really proud...
I salute you. I salute you in your unwavering pride in your nation. You are indeed the true American heroes, standing steadfast and resolute with your nation and all that it stands for. While some...
View ArticleMoney, not Race
There's been a lot of hand wringing over Hillary's ad "True" and how Obama's appearance differs from the original debate footage. Some have suggested it is accidental. Some have suggested it's...
View ArticleWhat Clinton Learned from Bush on Iraq
It's now day 3 or so of the Ferraro fluff-up, and we've had a bit of time to vent our spleens over her comments (or defend them, as the case may be). But nobody is asking why she said them, and said...
View Article'States that Matter' and Civil Rights
It took me a while to figure out why the rule shifting by the Clinton campaign and supporters was pissing me off so badly until I talked with a friend of mine.At the outset of this election we had a...
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