Get on the Bus, or Under It
You know it’s an election year when the Democrats quietly scrub gays and lesbians from the platform:
2004: “We support full inclusion of gay and lesbian families in the life of our nation and seek equal responsibilities, benefits, and protections for these families.”
2008: “We support the full inclusion of all families in the life of our [...]
Tax And Spend Conservative
Senator John McCain’s economic “plan” doesn’t pay for itself, much less reduce the massive Bush deficit. He’s selling fantasy.
“Serious Blunder”
Whaddya know? When the US condemns Russia’s invasion of Georgia, we get a charge of hypocrisy in return because of guess what invasion and conquest?
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, commenting on the Russia-Georgia conflict, has accused the United States of making a “serious blunder” in pursuing its interest in the Caucasus region.
He also said [...]
Oops
Senator John Edwards (February 12, 1999):
“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.”
Senator John Edwards (August 8, 2006):
“I was and am ashamed [...]
GOP Losing Ground in Voter Registration
It was simply not possible that the Republican Party would face no consequences for the mountain of death, failure and corruption that is the Bush Administration. Despite television’s best efforts, new voters are showing some statistical awareness of Teh Suck:
In several states, including the traditional battlegrounds of Nevada and Iowa, Democrats have surprised their [...]
And the Carbon Monoxide Is a Vitamin
China’s legendary air pollution, a by-product of their rapid industrialization and failure to regulate, has been redefined as “mist” in what must be one of the most darkly amusing whoppers of the Beijing Olympic season:
But yesterday Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC’s medical commission, said he was confident that pollution would not harm athletes or [...]
Socialism for the Rich
When banks deplete, you lose. Reuters reminds us who’s going to pay (and pay and pay) for the coming bank bailouts:
U.S. consumers, meanwhile, are “shopped out” and saving less, while the Federal Reserve’s performance in handling the crisis has been poor, [New York University Professor Nouriel] Roubini said, because it failed to see that the [...]
Stevens Indicted
Heh-heh. Hee-hee. BWAHAHAHAHHHHAHAAAAAAHHHAAAAAA! Heh-heh.
No one answered at Stevens’ Senate Office in D.C. and the answering machine recording said that the office was closed. In a call to his Anchorage campaign office, the staffer who answered responded, “What?” when asked for a comment on the indictment, followed by a long silence. The staffer would not give [...]
EPA Battens Down the Hatches
An EPA chief of staff issues gag order to employees:
“Please do not respond to questions or make any statements,” the June 16 e-mail said, advising staff to direct questioners to senior staff members cleared to answer questions from outside the agency.
Robbi Farrell, chief of staff of the EPA’s compliance assurance division, sent the e-mail to [...]
What’s the Matter With Georgia?
The doggone voting machines, that’s what, when Republican voting machine CEOs secretly apply “special” patches to software only in machines used in heavily Democratic counties, patches that don’t do what they’re said to do:
Spoonamore received the Diebold patch from a whistleblower close to the office of Cathy Cox, Georgia’s then-Secretary of State. In discussions with [...]
