tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55249082011-09-08T06:03:53.921-07:00A plethora of distractions, pontifications, visualaids, pop cultural idiomatic expressions based around political and editorial cartoons, comix and etc.cartoonboynoreply@blogger.comBlogger4311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524908.post-1103623557749445092004-12-21T01:52:00.000-08:002004-12-21T02:05:57.750-08:00

Exactly. Corporate Security. True, those same firms will layoff people if they aren't making enough revenue, or, will layoff people to try and boost profits. But, why even have any workers whatsoever if they now have a new revenue stream to anticipate. You, The American Worker, directly giving them even more money, courtesy the Government. No. No. Don't be so brash as to interpret this as

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Incompetancy is a hallmark of the current administration. It is propped up on pedastals composed of lies and obfuscation. Given the recent rigamrole over whether Donald Rumsfeld should be kept on as the Secratary of Defense and the president's adamant support of the man, you'd think that each and ever revelation which appears showcasing the lies and incompetancy would only continue to tarnish

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Feh. Social. Security. Partial Privatization tied to the stock market. Partially Privatized Social Security does not equal Social Security. What it does equal is Corporate Secutiy. By diverting funds from a system which includes a ttust fund dedicated to saving the surplus of funds which are accumulated (think a rainy day fund) the systems's very existence would become pointless. If the

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A brief note about Bernard Kerik and his Magical Ascension Tour of Duty in Iraq and Beyond.... IN early July of 2003, roughly two months after Bernard Kerik began his job as the Coalition Provisional Authority's Interior Minister, an article appeared in the Washington Post which explained how those chosen to help rebuild Iraq were had better connections than qualifications to rebuild a nation

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The Republican Party (The Party), the current president of the United States of America and his political appointed operatives in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, and a variety of supporters of the apparatus known as the Republican Party as it is now under the whim of the current president of the United States of America think that you, voters and non-voters who are proud of living

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Before I rant about how people just do not get it when it comes to American Principles and should get it, I want to point out that when it comes down to principles, one person who is in the news these days does get it. That person is Rudolph Giuliani. Well, ok, he does not seem to completely understand principles. He talks a good talk though. Apparently, Rudolph--also known as "Rudy" and as "

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What with Republicans thinking that they own it all and that their concept of values is synonymous with what it means to be American, there is a need to keep certain things in perspective. So, first things first. This nation was established upon key principles. Those key principles do not jibe with where the Christian fundamentalists who erroneously define themselves as conservative. True, there

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So, this is the way the world ends? Not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a divided choir releasing both a gasp and a sigh? The very circulation of the air the choir creates a whirlwind of woe which the envelopes the world. One can only presume the rest of humanity both mutters and shouts: why? (For what it is worth, the world probably isn't ending anytime soon. Things would have to

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And, it is fair to say that most people don't like that fact. Kerry leads Bush in newspaper endorsements and he just got the endorsement of The Economist. That magazine endorsed Bush in 2000. =========================== The pundits like to say that America is a 50/50 nation. Sounds plausible, doesn't it? It isn't true. The thing is that there are over 170 million eligible voters in this country

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Vote. If you can vote earlier, what are you waiting for? Kick the bums out so that normal people who don't live in the White House don't get kicked out of their houses. There should only be evictions of the Powers-That-Be, not the powerless who sufferred because the economy sucks. Make a change. Make it now. Make America better. Send George Bush back to Crawford and John Kerry to a bigger better

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Maybe the polls showing Bush getting a boost in ratings post-debates is overrated, if you believe someone known as the Mystery Pollster. I'm tired, so I'll say yeah, thas it. Speak it, my brobro! And, if you look at Zogby's numbers, there hasn't been much movement at all. In fact, it is tighter than that bowtie around Tucker Carlson's neck after John Stewart twisted it in a bunch. (there is a

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That voter registration fraud isn't an isolated instance of suppressing the vote. Go on over to TalkingPointsMemo.com for the low down on how down low the GOP goes to deny rights. Start here and work your way down the page to view relevant posts from the past several days. It seems the GOP has a Sea-to-Sea approach to trying to rig the election and it has been going on for a while. A cynical

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It is all crap. A company called Voters Outreach of America is "suspected of tearing up Democratic voter registration forms in Las Vegas. It has set up registration drives in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and Nevada and is accused of the same things in most if not all of these states. Sproul & Associates is a Republican consulting firm run by Nathan Sproul,

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Ah! To behold the site of a monumental, top-heavy event perched upon a precipice and sitting, staring at the huge valley of opportunity before it. Well, it is not a pretty sight. Then what is is? What it is happens to be a mix of anticipation and expectation. What will the event result in? Will it jump and plumment downward or will it jump and fly? For some reason which I can not explain, I that

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If only the quadrennial debates featured snazzy pop art inspired designs. If only there was swinging, jazzy 60s hipster music to allow for the transitions between questions. If only the contestants had really big hair and mutton chops covering their jowls. If only the moderator were a game show host with oily skin and an overly large toothy smile both of which glistened or glimmered under the

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Well, I want to be a debater who doesn't come across as unpresidential, angry, petulent, dismissive, arrogant and unprepared. In other words, I don't want to be the debater who lost the first presidential debate last night. Obviously, performance matters in what was witness by over 60 million people last night. If the event last night was literally a leg of a horse race, one of those two horses

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Burkett was the source of the documents to "60 Minutes" but he won't say where he got them from, only that he lied about his source. All that is known now is: 1) Burkett gave Dan Rather/ "60 Minutes" the documents; 2) Burkett assured the producer of the original story that he was certain of the Killian memo's authenticity and this weekend he admitted to misleading CBS on that.; 3) There are

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"Bad news doesn't get better with age" That is the title of a Salon.com story from Feb. 14th of this year. Perhaps you recall it. It is an interview with a man named Bill Burkett who served in the TANG and claims that in 1997 Joe Allbaugh, Karen Hughes and Dan Barlett all played a role in requesting that records be assembled on Bush's Guard service. They also wanted to make sure that nothing

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That's this blog's request to the Media and the Press. There is so much want these days to talk about politics as if it were a game. Conventional Wisdom makers call refer to that part of that phenom as "Inside Baseball." The reason why it is referred to as that is because it is talking about the nuts and bolts of politicking, the minutia which is only interesting to self-described political

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When the Fickle Finger of Fake Fawns Foolishly to Fortify the Philosophically Fickle Few whose Foresight is Freakishly FlipFloppish despite Foresworn Fortitude for their Fear-flinging, Fearless Friend Flings Falsified Feeds while Featuring a Foppish Front. Fooey! Turns out The war ON Terra can be won. The war against terrorists on the other hand if fucked. In a not so sveldte display of

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Sources tell The Bitterball Report that President's Bush's second middle name which completely differentiates him from that of this father, George Herbert Walker Bush, has been found. Unlike most son's named after their fathers George junior isn't really a junior because of the different middle name. For years, experts have thought that the elder Bush shortchanged the younger by only giving him

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...It will drive you insane.--Leonard Cohen...circa Nineteen SumptinSumptin... Not Quite sure why that song is so important today. But it is floating out there. This is a Round Up addition to the oh-so frequently updated blog you are reading now. First off: Protesters Against Bush! It is awfully nice to see that people care enough to say the very best about the chicanery of such an

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George Will knows what I'm talking about. To Wit:: "Democracy, loosely -- very loosely -- defined as government responsive to gusts of public passions, might fail. Or it might succeed ruinously. A government that is all sail and no anchor might produce popular choices that lead through anarchy to civil war, or national fragmentation, or fragmentation forestalled by Bonapartism, Francoism or some

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This blog has a beef with The Kaus Files. This isn't such an abberation as liberal blogs go; many think that the writer, Mickey Kaus, is a hack. What gets this blog's ire riled up is that The Kaus Files comes across as less of a media check, less of a pundint check and less of a blog check as it comes across as being contrarian for the sake of taking issue with voices in the mainstream media. By

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And, no, I don't mean Hilary. Or, for that matter--to use the GOP slander of "Billary". I mean Bill. The Big Dog. The man can just easily explain complex concepts. Forget that he might be telegenic, that he is a good speaker or that he got the soul of Elvis as a farewell gift from the King. The guy is just a good teacher. Rarely do I see him on the TV or hear him on the radio and not come away

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Enh. So, it is August. Less than two weeks since Talking Heads chatted Kerry and the Democrats up and down. More than two weeks before they do the same for Bush and the Republicans. Traditionally, August is a slow news month. For politicians this means vacationing. Usually. But, with the Authors of the latest 9/11 Report saying that the Powers-That-Is need to get cracking on solutions based upon

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With bloggers getting press credentials to the two political conventions, the media is abuzz over the relevance of this keyboard pecking creatures. There are stories every where totting the importance of the New Black that is the political web logger. Out of defference--and a shade of indifference, to boot-- I was reminded that I did this last Summer: Careful With That! Free Speech Ain't Cheap

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With this Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal somehow pushed to the back burner, with the Senate Intelligence Special Committee issuing a report saying that the CIA was entirely responsible for the intelligence failures leading up to and beyond in the Iraq War, with the inner circle circling its wagons within the Executive Branch so that no lips get loose and no fingers are pointed to culpable

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It is just fantastic that the media acts as if every new event, like the surprise early handover of "Iraq's sovereignty," merits a significant changing of course for both that country, the U.S.' involvement in that country and for the political fortunes of Mushmouth-in-Chief. It makes you wonder if the handover occurred when it was originally intended to occur whether the media would have

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June is symbolically so important to cultures because of the romance angle. Not only is the month the official beginning of Summer, containing the 21st day, a Solstice, but there is that Honeymoon. The appearance of the June moon is supposedly prime for getting hitched. Obviously, many people do just that. Good for them, I say. But, I do have a question, what is the month most favored for

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It is neither the greatest month of the year nor is it the worst month. It is an in-between month usually filled with medicority, asides and mostly forgettable happenstance. This particular June brings us one step closer to being able to breath a sigh of relief as details are being released about the current administration which will hopefully wake people up to just how bad it is. While this

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A Flash game which takes some figuring out> i But it is worth it. Heck, you get to hear decent music while you try to figure it out. Though, the background for the first stage is awfully familiar.

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The fact that he is no longer around is much worse news than Reagan no longer being around. RayGun* ---even dead--is getting so much print space and airtime that he may as well still be alive. Ray Charles got love all his life and was just a very talented pianist and singer who made music many people loved. * also, the best magazine ever which was named after a president! "George"

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Out there there are groups of Republicans singing "Kumbayah." Unintentionally off key, of course. Be prepared for a Magical Misty-Eyed tour for the rest of the election year. And, now that I think of it, this also fits into Operation Enduring Freebird. Hunh. Go figure that out. update: From a Washington Post obit: "Mr. Reagan also became an accomplished doodler, dreamed of becoming a

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OK. Given the nature of this post, that is in bad taste. A couple of posts down, you'll find mention of how there is so rarely closure on events before those events are analyzed almost ad nauseum. There is a good chance arguments and political posturing takes place in discourse about whether the events are good or bad, whether some thing right or wrong happened and the inevitable debate on what

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Sure, it is a phrase most popularized by Malcom X in reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but it always bears repeating. Currently, the best application of it is in relation to the situation in which Neo-Conservative Chickenhawks find themselves. Let's review: Back in August of 1998, a bunch of Neo-Conservatives, including, not surprisingly, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle (who

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As Goofy would say: Garwsh! To pay even slight attention to politics in this country is to be woefully entertained. Personally, I rock from grimacing to guffawing at the entire spectacle. The past couple of months has proven a thesis which I've been hoping would prove itself for years: the People Currently In Charge of the U.S. Stubbornment have fucked up. To observe how the Great Fuck Up

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Listening to William DeVaughn's song "Be Thankful for What You've Got". Slow groove. Much appreciated. First time I heard the song was a great Yo La Tengo cover.

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I love that as a title. In fact, it is so diggable that I refuse to try and confirm whether or not is used by someone else until I work on a story which I am wrapping around the title. Oh yeah. Not that it is a huge deal but the lack of posting on this site is hopefully neglible. It really doesn't seem like many people would read this blog anyhow. As for people possibly routinely checking it,

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Kraft CEO Roger Deromedi has been hospitalized. The deal is that his condition as of April Fools Day is totally unknown. Again: Why this is important, I don't know. What might be important....hell, is important... is knowing what the hell is important to your immediate futures. Either keep on top of the news or talk with someone who is on top of the news. And, by "news" I don't mean FOX's

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"...the Pixies managed to force beauty, noise, craft, and the anarchic impulse through the narrowest of apertures..."

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Oh, those Golden Grahams! Some funny political cartoons comix comics which tickle the bones or which will piss off conservatives and right-wing wackos. The links to all three comics: Shutting up a Cynical Bastard "Security Worst" "Safety Worst"--musings on how keeping America Safe is a Liberal's Job (bonus: a tip of the hat to an uber-liberal while slapping him silly--- all on one page! How

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Salon wonders if Stern's mission could take some votes away from Bushy in November. I reckon, it could be some of the NASCAR vote that slips away, certainly some of the male vote. But, will Stern be effective? Who knows. Read the article anyhow.

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As horrible as this story is it seems like there is something more to it than neligence based upon vanity. Murder of unborn children?

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U.S. officials are worried that Iraqi police--not just impostors in Iraqi uniforms--may have been behind the killings of two coalition staffers and their translator, the top American general in Iraq said Thursday. more: Six Iraqi policemen have been arrested in connection with the killings Tuesday of two American coalition employees and their translator, Agence France-Presse said, citing

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If you don't, read here. If you do, then this enjoy this predicament. President Bush's leading candidate to become U.S. manufacturing czar, Nebraska executive Tony Raimondo, withdrew his name from consideration on Thursday after Democrats accused him of outsourcing jobs to China. More, here on MSNBC's site. “On the same day the Bush administration announced it was ready to name the head of

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Tis the season to throw mud.

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At a morning stop in Illinois, [Sen. John] Kerry criticized Bush's economic record and renewed his promise to repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and boost tax relief for the middle class. He told a worker in Chicago, in an exchange picked up by television microphones, that his Republican critics "are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen." One of his Republican critics,Bush

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Back in 2000, Ralph Nader ran a bunch of ads critiquing the corporate interests behind the Bush and Gore campaigns. To make his point, he used the style and some of ideas behind MasterCard's "Priceless" ad campaign -- specifically calling out the dollar amounts that corporate interests paid to candidates to secure their positions on the issues To refresh memories, MasterCard sued. Now Nader gets

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Bonuses totaling more than $10 million were paid out to five Kraft Foods Inc. executives at the end of 2003, even as the giant food maker made plans to lay off thousands of workers. In its annual proxy statement released on Friday, Kraft said the biggest payout, a $3.7-million bonus, was made to chief executive Roger Deromedi. Former co-CEO Betsy Holden got $3.5 million, sweetening her

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From the "American Prospect": Rove and other White House officials described to the FBI what sources characterized as an aggressive campaign to discredit Wilson through the leaking and disseminating of derogatory information regarding him and his wife to the press, utilizing proxies such as conservative interest groups and the Republican National Committee to achieve those ends, and distributing

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"A Plastic Turkee in Every Pot" "...Halliburton has a multi-billion dollar contract to feed and house the troops in Iraq. But there are problems. A food subcontractor that runs 10 percent of the dining facilities in Iraq claims it hasn't been paid by Halliburton for months, and is threatening to stop serving hot meals. The company, Event Source, serves 100,000 meals a day in Iraq under a

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After his last show at Austin's South By SouthWest Festival, Nixon will hang up his gitbox and push aside his mike. Mojo. Wow. Mouseover his page to read his accomplishments. Those accomplishments don't really come close to explaining it all, by any means. His music --which certainly remains post-retirement-- is charged with social-consciousness and a lot of wink-wink. The man has lived an

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I've said before and an editorial says it again: Republicans can and likely are split because of what this Administration is doing. The editorial is from a Vermont newspaper focusing on Republican voters who crossed over in the GOP primary. Dissatisfaction is the keyword. Which coincides with this Robert Novak column: Republican malaise (sic) From Novak: The disaffection is such that over

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In June 2003, Bill Moyers said that "Karl Rove has modeled the Bush presidency on that of William Mckinley (1897-1901) and modeled himself on Mark Hanna, the man who virtually manufactured McKinley. Mark Hanna saw to it that Washington was ruled by business, railroads, and public utility corporations." --a commentary by one of Bush's former professors from Harvard Business School. Included is an

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"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than—I say more Muslims—a lot of Muslims have died—I don't know the exact count—at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill."

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Getcher scoops right here. snip: "...there are increasing signs a perfect storm of scandals is brewing, one that could end up making a real difference in what is bound to be a down-to-the-wire election this fall." /snip

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Gawrsh!

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The magazine Tom Paine has the 411.

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That ugly multi-noggined beast continues to rear its heads, exhaling bile, billowing soot and flinging mud-like clumps in the arena of the public eye. John F. Kerry is in one corner and George W. Bush is in another corner. One only hopes that the referree whispers into the ears of the potential voters and intones that Bush can't constitutionally run for re-election because he has already

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Creative Commons, the newfangled way of choosing how a creative person can assign rights to works recently announced the winners of a contest. Essentially, contestants created videos to explain how the multi-tiered options work in a Creative Commons license. Out of due respect to the organization's bandwidth costs*, anyone should download the files instead of playing them in your browser.

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"More than 40 percent of Walt Disney Co.'s ...shareholders withheld their support for reelecting Chief Executive Michael Eisner to the company's board on Wednesday, casting doubt on his future role at the entertainment conglomerate. Two former Disney directors, Stanley Gold and Roy Disney, who first touched off the investor insurgency, called the no-confidence vote "unprecedented in American

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"Scattered technical problems were reported in the early hours as voters in 10 states, including California, New York and Ohio, went to the Super Tuesday polls to choose a Democratic presidential nominee and decide primary contests for congressional and state races" [UPDATED, Wednesday, March 3: Following up on the yesterday's trial by fire use of electronic voting machines, this story says that

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In brief: "Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley says the paper's views do not represent the vast majority of the school's 14,000 students and 100,000 alumni, not to mention its administration, faculty, staff, and board of regents. He says the Waco-based school is outraged over the editorial -- but the students will not necessarily be fired from the newspaper" This post is in reference to this.

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Both from the NY Times: First, Paul Krugman: "The traditional definition of chutzpah says it's when you murder your parents, then plead for clemency because you're an orphan. Alan Greenspan has chutzpah. Last week Mr. Greenspan warned of the dangers posed by budget deficits. But even though the main cause of deficits is plunging revenue — the federal government's tax take is now at its lowest

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This is surprising because the University is considered a conservative school, and not too far off of the Baptist Streets. Good for them. Preach it!

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Ego!Shmego! Where 'e stops, No body knows Where 'e goes, No body knows Why 'e runs, No body knows The best guess is that 'e wishes to avoid the mess by allowing his noggin to swell so 'e can ascend from what 'e thinks is hell to fly higher than deathtrap cars and seek new opportunities fighting for safety on mars

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">"The Post's Dana Milbank says Bush had intended sidestep such culture war battles but couldn't afford to do so after his base had "grown restless over the budget deficit, government spending and his plan to liberalize immigration." " [emp. mine] Link to Washington Post article cited: Here. Earth to anyone: Bush's conservative base is divided into the fiscal conservative, the business

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Once this is done, people in Alabama can get all righteously indignant While, I understand that Christians rely on the Bible to get their beliefs and that the Bible says God smote the "Soddomites", isn't marriage a religious institution before it is a secular institution? Common Law notwithstanding, prior to the founding of our great Republic, marriage was not reliant upon the state's blessing,

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It is just a nice welcome to a purposeful organization/awareness editorial See what Open Secrets.org is all about If I'm on top of it, I'll put up links other watchdog groups, for reference's sake.

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A Language by Women, for Women: Scholars Try to Save Unique Chinese Script "PUMEI VILLAGE, China -- Nowadays, it would be called empowering women. But back then, centuries ago, it was just a way for the sworn sisters of this rugged and tradition-laden Chinese countryside to share their hopes, their joys and their many sorrows. Only men learned to read and write Chinese, and bound feet and

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Not the entire animated pieces, these are just clips. They had some darn fine ways of teaching kids back in those days. Power to the artists! (though, I've heard that while the Children's Television Workshop gave the artists some freedom in how they did their thing, they didn't pay all that well; and, no royalties.)

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Great collection of envelopes featuring cartoons by Samuel Boylston, a G.I. who did the illustrations for his buddies.

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From the Dept. of Goddammit, nothing is fair!: But there is little doubt that Woodward got details of documents that are central to the commission’s investigation—and more than a little sensitive for the Bush White House. One intelligence document that Woodward described in a May, 2002 Washington Post story , although not in his book, is the Aug. 6, 2001 PDB given to Bush while on vacation at his

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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra just might suck, as a bad movie goes. Too bad. I had high hopes.

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Will he Get In or Stay Out?

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Senior administration officials said Friday night that Ms. Rice had relied on information provided by intelligence agencies when she assured Senator Levin, in a letter on March 6, 2003, that "United Nations inspectors have been briefed on every high or medium priority weapons of mass destruction, missile and U.A.V.-related site the U.S. intelligence community has identified." In fact, from the

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Editorial

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In what could be termed his concession speech Dean reiterates that ordinary people have the power to affect change and not just by voting for a person who says something like that. ...This is the real message of this campaign... The biggest lie that people like me tell people like you at election time is that if you vote for me, I'll solve your problems. The truth is, the power is in your hands,

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Reprinted in its entirety, from the Washington Post: Belated Disclosure Tuesday, February 17, 2004; Page A18 NOW THAT IT doesn't much matter anymore, we learn, finally, the financiers behind a group called Americans for Jobs, Healthcare and Progressive Values. The group surfaced in December, about a month before the start of the Democratic primaries, with $500,000 worth of hard-hitting

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I know it is wrong to not listen to this Kerry interview before I comment on it but it is late, I am tired. From what I've read he said he would consider support the constitutional amendment ratifying (?) marriage as being between a man and a woman. So wrong on so many different levels. One, he voted against the Defense of marriage Act in '96. Saying something to the effect that it just seemed

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Here or here It was taken by the official White House photographer. teehee. unretouched.snickle. I swear it looks like Russert is laughing at him. (thanks to Tom Tomorrow for making me chuckle)

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You can see the results in the race for the delegates Currently, Kerry is leading with Dean, who is in second, roughly 100 delegates behind. You can also see money raised and money spent. So far Bush has outspent all of the Dems (who need a cool abbreviated name like GOP) by a couple of million. Second in spending, again, is Dean. From what I can tell it is routinely updated.

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The economy added 117,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate went down to 5.6 percent. This is an improvement over December in which 1,000 news jobs were revised upward to 16,000 new December jobs. During that month, the unemployment rate was 5.7 percent. It all sounds like the economy is rolling, rolling, rolling, right? Well, no and no. Keep in mind that each month, immigration brings

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Pentagon dumps internet voting system for American's overseas

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Always has a nice summary of weekly events on his site. I know everyone loves the Onion but I rather read Joe Bob's sarcasm.

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"I hear George W. Bush's hand-picked whitewashing of the Iraq intel failures will be co-chaired by Laurence Silberman. Described simply as a retired federal judge by most news reports, Silberman was until recently one of the three judges of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, which oversees sensitive domestic surveillance issues and approves of wiretaps of suspected

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For those who have spent way too much money on plumbing, or just too much time on the toilet, get a return on your investment

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Frances Gehling of Londonderry, N.H., said she answered the phone last Friday evening and a John Kerry supporter was on the line. When Gehling said she is a Dean supporter, the caller spent 10 minutes trying to convince her to support the senator from Massachusetts, culminating in a question Gehling found troubling

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Make a parody of the song: "Pass the Dutchie" by substituting the lyrics with something making fun of Condoleeza Rice? ... Con-do-leeza on the right hand side....

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A reference for those interested

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I just stumbled across a page dedicated (with mucho links) to the YellowCakeGate/ Plame Affair/ WilsonGate/ Spy Outing situation For the sake of reference. Hopefully, one of those fabled perfect storms will occur soon with many reports and many indictments and many spotlights on the wrongdoers.

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"Dean's boisterous countdown of the upcoming primaries as we all heard it on TV was isolated, when in fact he was shouting over the roaring crowd. And what about the scream as we all heard it? In the room, the so-called scream couldn't really be heard at all. Again, he was yelling along with the crowd. Neal Gabler, Senior Fellow, Lear Center USA: "When you're talking about visuals, context is

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You may have a bad logic board (that is a mother board to you PCers)... Apple finally has a program set up to deal with this. This of course is better than Apple just ignoring people who are experiencing this problem. Score yet another point, you people who make noise.

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As mentioned before, the campaign is what interests me most about Dean. The candidate (how much longer can that be said?) articulates part of the campaign and I've been of the opinion that this Dean campaign will become 2004's MoveOn.org. The guts of the organization will likely, hopefully, stay together and grow its membership and certainly its involvement with politics. After all, what better

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The guy has dominated the headlines for weeks now. And, his only competitor for headlines (besides corduroy pillow cases) is just a lot of bad news for the Bush sAdministration. Speaking of BS..... WMD, my ass! Chances are the best evidence inspectors will find in Iraq is a warehouse full of cases of canned soda pop and cases of pop rocks. (chemical weapons, you know).

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Oh I'm sorry I should have posted this back in October of 2002....oh. wait. No. I was wrong.This is RECENT news. I thought...waitasec...that war with Iraq..."Mission Accomplished"...the campaign trail...crotch stuffing a flight suit...? Oooooh my aching head!When did the world go so wrong?

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NASA director "Defend[s] President Bush's goal of sending a manned mission to Mars in the face of skyrocketing budget deficits, the nation's space agency director told a skeptical Senate panel Wednesday that there are some things only humans can do." Like fist fight aliens. Robots get way too caught up keeping their balance to properly fist fight aliens.

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Exxon has to cough up some money over that Valdez oil spill Wow. That occurred yeeears ago.

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in line for a new job: (and it isn't the job as the head of the Motion Pictures Academy now headed by that Jack Valenti guy. Rumors swirled for months on that. Anyhow, read the Washington Post editorial if you'd like:) "IS IT ILLEGAL? No. Is it unethical? By the standards of Congress, probably not. Nevertheless, rumors -- and his office insists that they are still only rumors -- that the

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