Howard Dean hates America According To Billy So Does Superman and Hollywood....more
Is This A Different Reality That I Dont Know About? What Is Wrong With This Guy?
We've got a plan to succeed, a plan for victory, a plan that will enable a new ally in the war on terror to govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself" . . George W. Bush, June 28, 2006
At least 80 Dead in Civil War Bloodbath
Government Forced to Depend on Local Gunmen .....Monday, July 10, 2006...more
What's The Plan George?
Egypt papers stop the press in protest
Egypt's independent and opposition newspapers refrained from publishing on Sunday in protest at a draft law that journalists say will restrict press freedom.....more
David Brooks--Just Another Joe Lieberman Fan
David Brooks had a laughable column in Sunday's New York Times. "What's happening to Lieberman can only be described as a liberal inquisition," Brooks proclaims. What Brooks characterizes as an "inquisition" -- an effort, as he puts it, "to expel Joe Lieberman from modern liberalism".....more
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction......Blaise Pascal
Joe Redner begins campaign for Hillsborough Commissioner with a bang Mitch E. Perry One might consider liberal leaning residents of Hillsborough County to be excited about this fall's election, with a chance to alter the heavily Republican leaning slant of the current board.
Samm Simpson Democrat U.S. Congressional District 10
The bleeding has to stop. Let’s set new priorities. Let’s transform our energy policy from fossil fuels to renewable sources, promote Pinellas County as the solar capital of the U.S.A., provide health insurance for all Americans, rebuild public education, retool our manufacturing, create living wage jobs and provide affordable housing and security to our seniors and the most vulnerable.
In the great galaxy of insults directed at George W Bush, joking that you are ashamed to come from the same state as him seems almost polite. Yet when Natalie Maines from country rock trio the Dixie Chicks said just that before the invasion of Iraq, all manner of redneck hell broke loose around her and the band.....more
After 7 Week's On Billboard's Country ChartsAnd Still #1, Imagine That?
More Immigrant Bashing on the Way Molly Ivins There’s a bunch of people named Gomez and Ramirez
House Republicans, who know a good socially divisive issue when they see one, are perfectly happy to blame illegal workers for everything. Trade policy, repealing taxes for the rich, corruption in Congress—it’s all done by illegal workers....more
Veronica Mars, Class Warrior
With an artfulness and pathos that no other show has quite pulled off, “Veronica Mars” expresses the deep ambivalence that the working and middle classes feel about the rise of a monstrously flush ruling class in our midst....more
Fox News hosts go off-message in hyping N. Korea missile tests
Attempts to try to describe" North Korea's recent missile tests "in breathless World War III terms....more
This Kind Of Talk Scares The Hell Out Of Me. What Is Wrong With That Little Man? Does He Have Short Man Disease? Your People Are Starving, Dude
Saturday, July 8, 2006
50,000 Dead, But Who's Counting? Juliana Lara Resende
After famously telling reporters that they "don't do body counts", Pentagon officials now say that they have in fact been keeping a record of civilian casualties in Iraq for one year. And while that number remains classified, independent estimates suggest that at least 50,000 people have died in the country since the 2003 invasion.....more
Guatemala comes to terms with its past
Guatemala, which suffered from a long civil war in which 200,000 people were killed, appears to be finally coming to terms with its turbulent past.....more
It's OK
How any chance of an oil deal died With no unified counterproposal to offer, the Florida delegation ended up able to do little to stand in the way of gulf drilling....more
Watada, the War and the Law
The Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq was "manifestly illegal" because it "violates our democratic system of checks and balances. It usurps international treaties and conventions that by virtue of the Constitution become American law.....more
Friday, July 7, 2006
Downtowns on the Verge Podcast The condo boom is in full effect in downtown Tampa and St. Petersburg, sparking different fears in each setting.....more
Poll: Do you think the Democrats will win back control of Congress this fall?...click here
Japan troops begin Iraq pullout Japan's troop dispatch, a symbol of Tokyo's willingness to put "boots on the ground" for its close ally, the United States, has won praise from Washington.....more
Kuwait’s shifting tides Raymond Barrett
The arrival of women on Kuwait’s political stage is matched in significance by the quiet rise of Islamists, says Raymond Barrett.....more
This isn’t Fox News sir.
About The Debate Spazeboy My Left Nutmeg In A MSNBC Poll As Of July 7, 6pm Who won the Connecticut Senate debate? * 24529 responses Joe Lieberman 24% Ned Lamont 68% It was a draw 7.8%
You Da Man, Ned
"Woman With Adam’s Apple Denounces Anal Sex And Fisting."
This afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center on Chicago’s south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, "OK, you’ve had your 15 minutes, it’s time to go.".....more