"In My Own Way"

Blaming Others First: Warmongering and the "Pseudo-environment" of Warped American Exceptionalism - The Smirking Chimp

2006-10-14T06:40:00.000-04:00

Walter Lippmann got it right when observed the every individual inhabits a "pseudo-environment," not a real environment. Although direct, real-world experiences fill part of an individual's pseudo-environment, invariably such experiences are distorted by the subjective interpretations placed on them More problematic, however, are the ideas - often completely divorced from direct experience -

Nobel Economists: Republicans Wrong on Minimum Wage - The Smirking Chimp

2006-10-14T06:28:00.000-04:00

With the buying power of the Federal minimum wage at its lowest point in 55 years, five Nobel Prize-winning economists have been joined by 650 of their peers, in calling on the Republican-led Congress to increase the minimum wage. Describing the last increase almost 10 years ago as now "fully eroded," the economists said that they agree with a report written in 1999 by the Council of Economic

Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants | Oddly Enough | Reuters.co.uk

2006-10-13T19:15:00.000-04:00

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet (three metre) high marijuana plants.General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had

Consortiumnews.com

2006-10-13T18:03:00.000-04:00

In George W. Bush’s world, Saddam Hussein defied United Nations demands that he get rid of his weapons of mass destruction and barred U.N. inspectors; al-Qaeda’s public statements must be believed even when contradicted by its private comments; and U.S. withdrawal from Iraq is unthinkable because it would let al-Qaeda “extend the caliphate,” a mythical state that doesn’t really exist.There’s

Creeping Dictatorship by Fred Reed

2006-10-13T17:58:00.000-04:00

I miss the days of smoke-filled rooms when crooked pols chose corrupt presidential candidates who were approximately sane. Today we have a sort of presidential bus-station lottery. We choose as ruler any beer-hall putz who can shake hands and grin his way successfully through New Hampshire. This, plus the deep rot of the American political framework, is allowing the rapid conversion of the United

Why Democratic-leaning companies outperform Republican-leaning ones. By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

2006-10-13T17:55:00.000-04:00

By Daniel GrossPosted Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006, at 7:31 AM ET On the campaign trail, Democrats are loudly claiming that they can outperform Republicans in Washington when it comes to policy. Now they're making the same claim about mutual-fund investing. As Moneybox reported in May, the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a tiny mutual fund run by lobbyists, uses stock ownership to push policies

Who Said All Roads Lead to Karl?

2006-10-13T08:06:00.000-04:00

How CIA-Leak Pardons Could Clear the Decks for 2008 by Elizabeth de la Vega Who said, "All roads lead to Karl?" And by Karl, of course, I mean President Bush's key political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Actually, "all roads lead to Karl" is such a true and

You Can Thank Industrial Agriculture for E. Coli - by Abrahan Paulos

2006-10-13T07:55:00.000-04:00

The recent E. coli bacteria scare has had grocery stores, both local and nationwide, pulling spinach off their shelves and throwing it away. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the State of California have determined that the spinach implicated in the outbreak grew in California counties. The first illness associated with this outbreak occurred on August 2, although most illnesses reported

The End of the US as a Civilized Nation - by Ted Rall

2006-10-13T07:52:00.000-04:00

The End of the U.S. as a Civilized NationSEATTLE - Students of historical hysteria immediately saw 9/11 as America's version of the Reichstag Fire. Both incidents were organic acts of terrorism (contrary to popular misconception, the Nazis didn't set the 1933 fire) seized upon by power-hungry government officials to justify the crushing of political dissent and the rolling back of civil liberties

What it means to be a liberal | Chicago Tribune

2006-10-13T04:25:00.000-04:00

By Geoffrey R. Stone. Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago, is the author of "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime."Published October 10, 2006For most of the past four decades, liberals have been in retreat. Since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968, Republicans have controlled the White House 70 percent of the time and Republican presidents have made 86 percent of

Safe Haven | Musings on the 'New High' in the Market and Other Thoughts

2006-10-13T01:39:00.000-04:00

Hat tip to the folks at Blah3.com --pseudolus======================================================================Is the new high for real?The financial media, especially CNBC, aka Bubblevision, have been trying to stoke up excitement as the Dow Jones Industrial Average struggled to a beat its previous all-time high set back in 2000 at the height of the tech boom. But does the DJIA really have

The Washington Monthly

2006-10-12T19:07:00.000-04:00

The Washington Monthly: Little history and other info for this thread:1) Plutonium extraction (relatively easy) versus enriched uranium (pretty hard): All commercial nuclear reactors burn 3-5% U235 and output some plutonium. For a light water reactor, its about .6% by weight of the spent fuel rods or around 10kg per year (enough for 1 nuke). The NK reactors were completed and went online in 1986.

Breaking the Silence of the Night - by Ron Kovic

2006-10-12T07:19:00.000-04:00

A time comes when silence is betrayal.-- Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1967It all begins somewhere, the questioning, the doubting, the feeling that something’s not right; like that day the captain set fire to the Vietnamese woman’s hooch, or the night we shot those women and children by mistake. It’s all got to start somewhere. For them it might have been the innocent civilians killed that day

You are about to become DRM roadkill

2006-10-11T19:37:00.000-04:00

Another DRM rant brought to you by ZuneBy Charlie Demerjian: Monday 09 October 2006, 11:32MICHAEL ROBERTSON points out a really important point about DRM in his latest blog entry: you are at the mercy of the content mafia. He also coins a term for this, getting zuned.You know the history of Zune, a music player that unilaterally shafts MS's closest partners. The funny part is that no one is

HOW GEORGE BUSH GAVE KRAZY KIM THE BOMB Greg Palast

2006-10-11T19:32:00.000-04:00

[Tuesday, October 10th 2006] How did a berserker like North Korea’s Kim John Il get the bomb in the first place? Answer: He bought it from the Dr. Strangelove of Pakistan in 2001 — while all our President’s men ordered our intelligence agents to keep their eyes shut tight.On November 9, 2001, BBC Television Centre in London received a call from a phone booth just outside Washington. The call to

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You made your bed, now sleep in it, folks.

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They never were good at analogies.

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Take early retirement if you can...

2006-10-11T19:04:00.000-04:00

Wall St. IS NOT "The Economy", It's just a part of it.

Olbermann News Commentaries Target Bush - by David Bauder

2006-10-11T17:01:00.000-04:00

Keith Olbermann's tipping point came on a tarmac in Los Angeles six weeks ago. While waiting for his plane to take off he read an account of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's speech before the American Legion equating Iraq War opponents to pre-World War II appeasers.The next night, on Aug. 30, Olbermann ended his MSNBC "Countdown" show with a blistering retort, questioning both the

Virtual Companionship - by Jeremy Rifkin

2006-10-11T06:36:00.000-04:00

Over the last 20 years or so, we have preoccupied ourselves with developing ingenious new ways of communicating with each other. Our cellphones, personal computers, Blackberries, text messaging, e-mail, and the Internet connect 25 percent of the human race in a speed of light global village. At the same time that we are connecting the central nervous system of our species in a single, electronic

The Freshwater Boom is Over. Our Rivers Are Starting to Run Dry - by George Monbiot

2006-10-11T06:31:00.000-04:00

We can avert global thirst - but it means cutting carbon emissions by 60%. Sounds ridiculous? Consider the alternativeIt looks dull, almost impenetrable in places. But if its findings are verified, it could turn out to be the most important scientific report published so far this year. In this month's edition of the Journal of Hydrometeorology is a paper written by scientists at the Met Office,

"Rolling Blunder" by Fred Kaplan

2006-10-11T00:33:00.000-04:00

How the Bush administration let North Korea get nukes.On Oct. 4, 2002, officials from the U.S. State Department flew to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and confronted Kim Jong-il's foreign ministry with evidence that Kim had acquired centrifuges for processing highly enriched uranium, which could be used for building nuclear weapons. To the Americans' surprise, the North Koreans conceded.

Annihilation From Within As Real Time Truth Meter Looms

2006-10-11T00:23:00.000-04:00

by Arnaud De BorchgraveUPI Editor at LargeWashington (UPI) Oct 09, 2006Google's supremo stunned the British Conservative party's annual conference -- and thousands of politicians in Western democracies -- when he said the next step in cyberspace was the "truth predictor." Within five years, new software will allow voters anywhere to check in real time the probability that political statements are

The Raw Story | Group fires back Spectator claim they held Foley emails

2006-10-10T19:32:00.000-04:00

A non-profit group at the center of the Foley scandal has responded to a report in the American Spectator that it held and released the story for political gain by Democrats by issuing a summary of what they contend are media misrepresenations of the group's involvement.A number of CREW's contentions can be verified as true. Others, at this point, cannot be verified or refuted.The list, as

The Running Out Of Energy And Dropping Dead Theory Of Life Challenged

2006-10-10T19:27:00.000-04:00

The theory that animals die when they've expended their lifetime allotment of energy may be reaching the end of its own life, according to a study presented at The American Physiological Society conference, Comparative Physiology 2006. However, the longitudinal study leaves open a newer form of the theory -- that antioxidants help prolong life by limiting the damage that oxidative stress can

Whiskey Fire: Tick Tac: In the Belly of Love

2006-10-10T18:51:00.000-04:00

A game, inspired by this comment from TBogg over at Roy's. The game is called TICK VS. TAC. Here are the rules. They are simple.Below, I offer paired sets of quotes. One set comes from the mighty cartoon superhero, The Tick. The other comes from the mighty cartoon superhero Tacitus, whose humble alter ego is called Josh Trevino. Please decide which superhero is more Profounder. The winner

Think Progress » McCain Blames Clinton For North Korean Nuke Test

2006-10-10T18:13:00.000-04:00

Today at a news conference, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blamed the currentredicament with North Korea on the Clinton administration.The 1994 Agreed Framework wasn’t perfect and North Korea was not in 100% compliance. But it was the only thing that stopped North Korea from producing nuclear weapons and separating plutonium. During the Clinton administration, North Korea didn’t make any nuclear bombs.

Jon Swift: On Battlestar Galactica Heroic Cylons Battle Vicious Terrorists

2006-10-10T17:05:00.000-04:00

Some are calling the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica the best show on television so I decided to check out the season premiere to see what all the hype was about. It turns out to be even better than I had heard. The Sci Fi Channel show is a moving and haunting allegory about why we should stay the course in Iraq. The heroes are a deeply religious race, called the Cylons, who struggle to bring

Bush’s Nuclear Apocalypse - by Chris Hedges

2006-10-10T06:12:00.000-04:00

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple

The Politics of Fear - by Tom Barry

2006-10-10T06:08:00.000-04:00

The recently released staff report on Iran issued by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee and the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on global terrorism conclude that the threats to U.S. national security are grave and increasing. These reports, which bolster arguments for a more aggressive “global war on terror,” represent the latest in a long series of documents dating

The Human Race is Living Beyond Its Means - by Andrew Simms

2006-10-10T06:07:00.000-04:00

In a market economy, the only constraints on what we consume are what we may legally buy and what we can afford.The result is, as the great environmental economist Herman Daly warned, that we end up treating the planet as if it were a business in liquidation. If you were managing a business, you would be considered grossly negligent if you had no idea of your assets or cash flow. Yet this is how

Free Linda Greenhouse! Free the Press! - by Dave Lindorff

2006-10-10T06:05:00.000-04:00

A few months into my first job as a newspaper reporter, covering the politics of three small Connecticut River Valley towns for the Middletown Press, I wrote what remains one of the best things I've ever written, but I never got credit for it. It was Christmas, December 1973, and Nixon had just unleashed an armada of B-52s to carpet-bomb North Vietnam, bombing hospitals, river dikes and

Time to Become a "Locavore" - by Neal Peirce

2006-10-10T06:01:00.000-04:00

The first OK to buy spinach after the big E. coli scare was for crops shipped out of Colorado or Canada. Then the Food and Drug Administration cleared California spinach — except the suspect packages sent out by Natural Selection Foods.Great. But why is three-quarters of all U.S. spinach grown in California, then shipped to markets as far distant as 3,500 highway miles? And especially at this

Experts Warn of an Accidental Atomic War

2006-10-10T05:58:00.000-04:00

by Eric Rosenberg A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war, two weapons experts warned Thursday. A nuclear cloud. Sixty years after the first atomic bomb was tested in the New

Laughter is the Best Medicine for Your Heart

2006-10-09T22:41:00.000-04:00

Editor's Note: A team of University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers, led by Dr. Michael Miller, has recently shown for the first time that laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels. See news releaseLaughter is the "Best Medicine" for Your HeartContinued...to "Read More" click link belowCONTINUED:By Michelle WeinsteinUniversity of Maryland Medical System Web Site WriterCan

New D.C. Sex Scandal Looming?

2006-10-09T22:27:00.000-04:00

Feds target escort service in money launder, prostitution probeOCTOBER 9--With the capital already mired in its latest sex scandal, federal agents last week raided the home of a woman they allege has, for the past 13 years, operated a Washington, D.C. escort service that dispatched college-educated prostitutes to the homes and hotel rooms of well-heeled clients. A two-year probe by Internal

2006-10-09T21:59:00.000-04:00

SNAKE PIT.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

2006-10-09T19:55:00.000-04:00

Axis of Denial

"None Of Your Business": Chris Wallace, Best Interview Ever

2006-10-09T19:35:00.000-04:00

Wow. This officially counts as the third time that I have been blown away by the rudeness of Chris Wallace. This week Wallace sat for an interview with Deborah Solomon, the excellent NYT mag interviewer who always manages to tease out telling details from her subjects in a few short questions. Here's the telling detail she teased out of Wallace: He's a jerk. Here's proof: You became host of [

Fossilized Feces of Jesus Wreaks Havoc - World - Avant News

2006-10-09T17:41:00.000-04:00

By Ion Zwitter, Avant News EditorHoly See, August 29, 2020The recent discovery of a fossilized lump of human feces believed to have once emerged from the body of Jesus Christ, Son of God, has swept a whirlpool of excitement and controversy throughout the altars of the religious world. The sacred stool was unearthed last month by a construction worker during a hotel excavation project in the

Homo Moronus; Republican Man - By Mike Whitney

2006-10-09T17:38:00.000-04:00

Charles Darwin never knew Denny Hastert. If he had, he probably have revised his theories in “The Origin of Species” or, perhaps, scrapped the project altogether.Evolution is a hoax. We are inextricably linked to a distant ancestor whose mental acuity has not increased in 5 million-years: Homo Moronus; Republican Man.The truth is that Hastert is to “evolution”, what Bush is to “intelligent design

U.S. must follow Nuremberg code

2006-10-09T17:37:00.000-04:00

Perhaps it was by some quirk of Intelligent Design that Congress passed the law legitimizing the Bush administration's right to do whatever it chooses to detainees (short of rape and mutilation) almost 60 years to the day of the verdicts at Nuremberg.Two of the Nuremberg trial defendants, Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel and Gen. Alfred Jodl, were sentenced to death on Oct. 1, 1946, in part, for

Investigation shows FEMA spent millions on puppet shows, bingo, yoga: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

2006-10-09T14:56:00.000-04:00

Investigation shows FEMA spent millions on puppet shows, bingo, yoga: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall October 9, 2006 02:00 AM

2006-10-09T14:53:00.000-04:00

We'll need to wait a few more hours for confirmation. But initial signs suggest that the US picked up the seismic signature of the underground nuclear test the North Koreans are claiming to have carried out. We've been pretty sure for some time that the North Koreans had developed a nuclear capacity. This would not only confirm that assumption, but the decision to conduct the test will be

Stewart dispels rumor of White House run on Yahoo! News

2006-10-09T13:35:00.000-04:00

Those people wearing "Stewart/Colbert '08" T-shirts can stop hoping — Comedy Central's fake news stars have no intention of making a run for the White House.Jon Stewart said the T-shirts promoting him and Stephen Colbert "are a real sign of how sad people are" with the state of affairs in the country."Nothing says 'I am ashamed of you my government' more than 'Stewart/Colbert '08,' Stewart told

Famous Writer Sees the Light - by Ed Kociela

2006-10-09T06:31:00.000-04:00

Hopefully, it was just advancing age that put Bob Woodward, an icon of investigative journalism, on the shelf for so long.Hopefully, the guy who, with partner Carl Bernstein, unraveled the corruption and deceit that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon wasn't blinded by the light of easy access and cozying up with the Bush administration to an extent that it clouded his objectivity.Continued

The Problem With the Mark Foley Problem - by John Nichols

2006-10-09T06:28:00.000-04:00

Unfortunately, it appears those of us who have argued that the current ruckus on Capitol Hill is not a Mark Foley Scandal but a Republican Congressional Leadership Scandal may be losing the debate.A week after Foley's political career imploded -- after details of his emails and instant messages to teenage congressional pages began to surface -- the fascination with the former congressman seems

That Fish You Caught Was in Pain

2006-10-09T06:25:00.000-04:00

Research challenges the myth among anglers that fish can't feel pain from barbed hooks.by Victoria Braithwaite Every year, sportsmen around the world drag millions of fish to shore on barbed hooks. It's something people have always done, and with little enough conscience. Fish are … well, fish. They're not dogs, who yelp when you accidentally step on their feet. Fish don't cry out or look sad or

Scandal Rises, Outrage Doesn't - by Marie Cocco

2006-10-09T06:21:00.000-04:00

Oh, how I wish I could get all worked up about the Mark Foley/Internet sex predator/Republican leadership cover-up scandal. Sadly, I cannot.The exposure of the former Florida congressman's penchant for electronically stalking teenage boys who served as House pages, and the congressional leadership's transparent failure to investigate, doesn't move the needle on my moral outrage meter. It got

The Reality-Based Community: Eviscerating responsibility

2006-10-09T00:22:00.000-04:00

As it seems to be unfolding, the Republican response to the very awkward Foley/page situation is following a familiar script, perfected as I recall by Ronald Reagan, that should be clearly parsed, the better to deplore its cowardice and real evil:(1) Search up the hierarchy of command until you reach the level at which the affair in question is a small enough part of someone's overall duties that

Angry Bear - On That Record Dow

2006-10-09T00:14:00.000-04:00

Brooke Masters writes:Even the Dow's record is not quite as impressive as it seems. If inflation is taken into account, the Dow has to rise another 2,150 points before it will set an all-time high.It does seem that certain rightwingers are high-fiving over the fact that the Dow has reached 85% of its January 2000 level in real terms.read the rest:Angry Bear

The Anonymous Liberal: Can Someone Please Make This Ad?

2006-10-09T00:05:00.000-04:00

The Anonymous Liberal: Can Someone Please Make This Ad?

The Liberal Avenger » Penobscot Narrows Bridge

2006-10-08T21:43:00.000-04:00

A very nice post from a sympathetic blogger. Check it out. --pseudolus======================================================================The Liberal Avenger » Blog Archive » Penobscot Narrows Bridge

George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Aleister Crowley

2006-10-08T20:37:00.000-04:00

As the "Perfesser" would say; "Interesting, if true." --pseudolus======================================================================Few people understand that one of the most notorious individuals in British history may have contributed to the lineage of our current president. Aleister Crowley, a.k.a., "The Great Beast 666" -- the infamous practitioner of "sex magick" whose motto was "Do What

U.S. Rules Allow the Sale of Products Others Ban: Chemical-laden goods outlawed in Europe and Japan are permitted in the American market

2006-10-08T20:29:00.000-04:00

By Marla Cone, Times Staff WriterOAKLAND — Destined for American kitchens, planks of birch and poplar plywood are stacked to the ceiling of a cavernous port warehouse. The wood, which arrived in California via a cargo ship, carries two labels: One proclaims "Made in China," while the other warns that it contains formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical.Because formaldehyde wafts off the glues in

The TRIX human-powered carving trike

2006-10-08T20:27:00.000-04:00

View all images for this article(6 total)(link to this article)April 22, 2006 The first prize at the 10thInternational Bicycle Design Competition in Tapei is a rip-snorter. Abrief look through our powered three-wheeler portfolio shows we lovetrikes and the carving concept of steering in particular. The TRIX usesrack and pinion steering to offer a

New Triple-Driver Earphones – that’s right, three speakers inside each ear

2006-10-08T20:21:00.000-04:00

View all images for this article(1 total) (link to this article) October 5, 2006 Given the rate at which digital audio and video players are being sold, it’s reasonable to expect that within a decade, personal entertainment devices will be ubiquitous, and they will all have a headphone jack and every human being above the poverty line will carry

Churchbot Rulz!!!

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see full size here.

James Randi's Swift - October 6, 2006

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James Randi's Swift - October 6, 2006

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King Canute's got nothing on King George the 0th.

2006-10-08T14:53:00.000-04:00

Rally round the fridge.

The Real Difference Between "Foley and Studds" in 9 Statements (Plus 3 About "Ethics" And 2 About Clinton) - The Smirking Chimp

2006-10-08T14:51:00.000-04:00

Robert Schlesinger's a fine writer, but his piece here on Foley and Studds didn't clearly state the difference between the two cases. It left the impression - at least to me - they were somehow equivalent. (As most people know by now, the GOP has been desperately trying to restore its image by bringing up the Studds case -- see Schlesinger's piece for more background.)The real difference can be

2006-10-08T14:48:00.000-04:00

Ya gotta sell the sizzle!

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The party of personal responsibility..........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

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R.I.P. ...not!

Those poor, poor, victimized dears - The Smirking Chimp

2006-10-08T14:46:00.000-04:00

No group loves disparaging the psychobabble of group-victimization more than your average Republican pols - and oh, my, are they ever average in so many ways. But let any cloud descend on them, expose any of their malfeasances, attack their party in any way, and presto! -- tear glands swell, voices choke and par excellence cries of victimization flood the airwaves.The party's decades-long lecture

2006-10-08T14:39:00.000-04:00

An American Master.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

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Spineless!.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

A Subtle Kind of Fascism - The Smirking Chimp

2006-10-08T14:36:00.000-04:00

The word fascism is used a lot, often pejoratively. The image that immediately comes to mind is Mussolini in a steel helmet, hands on hips, head tipped back, jaw thrust out. It is an image that influenced other fascists. Young Hitler was a great admirer.It is always helpful for any discussion to define the subject carefully, a seemingly obvious principle often ignored. What exactly is fascism?

Bigotry and Hypocrisy Implode: The Truth About Why Republicans Are Panicked! - The Smirking Chimp

2006-10-08T14:31:00.000-04:00

Republicans are in a state of panic not merely because of the immorality of the Foley case, and the obvious truth that Republican leaders put protecting their power ahead of protecting the pages, which are devastating themselves.The even deeper fear is that will happen to Republicans when their Christian conservative base finds out the truth about the real power struggle within high Republican

2006-10-08T14:28:00.001-04:00

Right Wingnut exposed!.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

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Yep, famous last words...

TIME.com: The Secret Letter From Iraq

2006-10-08T13:39:00.000-04:00

A Marine's letter home, with its frank description of life in "Dante's inferno," has been circulating through generals' in-boxes. We publish it here with the author's approvalPosted Friday, Oct. 06, 2006Written last month, this straightforward account of life in Iraq by a Marine officer was initially sent just to a small group of family and friends. His honest but wry narration and unusually

9/11 widows blast Bush Administration over Rice, Tenet meeting

2006-10-08T12:51:00.000-04:00

Filed by Larisa AlexandrovnaIn an October 5th response to recent news of yet another pre-September 11th warning that was ignored by senior Bush administration officials, four widows who lost their husbands during the terrorist attcks have issued a statement about what they see as the failure of White House officials to act upon warnings that Al Qaeda was planning a strike on the United

Movie News- Major Chains Refuse to Play Bush Death Film - AOL News

2006-10-08T12:44:00.000-04:00

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 6) - Newmarket Films set itself an unusual challenge when it decided to release the controversial faux investigative documentary "Death of a President" just six weeks after acquiring the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Channel 4, HO, AFP / Getty ImagesRead the story

Assimilated Press: Speaker Hastert Claims He Was Molested By Bill Clinton

2006-10-08T11:43:00.000-04:00

Washington, D.C. - In a very strange development, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is now saying that several years ago he was molested by then President Bill Clinton and that post traumatic stress disorder from that event is the reason he reacted so slowly in dealing with the Mark Foley scandal. Hastert further stated that he believes that the entire Republican leadership as well as

TomPaine.com - Rice's Lost Credibility - John Prados

2006-10-08T10:49:00.000-04:00

John Prados is a senior fellow with the National Security Archive in Washington. His new book is Safe For Democracy (Ivan R. Dee Publisher).“Mushroom Cloud” Condi is at it again. In Sept. 2002, when then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice shilled for the Bush war policy by retailing the fantasy that the warning on Iraqi nuclear weapons might well be a mushroom cloud over America, her

Condi Rice vs. Bob Woodward: Let the Battle Begin - By Greg Mitchell

2006-10-08T10:42:00.000-04:00

Condi Rice vs. Bob Woodward: Let the Battle BeginWhy are we only learning now about meeting, two months before 9/11, in which Condoleezza Rice was warned, in no uncertain terms, that a terrorist attack on the U.S. was near at hand? Now she disputes the account in the Woodward book. If it's accurate, will she resign?October 01, 2006) -- While it was overlooked at first in the torrent of

EvolutionBlog : Out of Body Experiences

2006-10-08T06:33:00.000-04:00

October 6, 2006 5:50 PM, by Jason RosenhouseFrom Tuesday's New York Times: They are eerie sensations, more common than one might think: A man describes feeling a shadowy figure standing behind him, then turning around to find no one there. A woman feels herself leaving her body and floating in space, looking down on her corporeal self. Such experiences are often attributed by those who have

A Brutal Way with Wages - by Paul Krugman

2006-10-07T18:38:00.000-04:00

Should we be cheering over the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has finally set a new record? No. The Dow is doing well largely because American employers are waging a successful war against wages.Economic growth since early 2000, when the Dow reached its previous peak, hasn't been exceptional. But after-tax corporate profits have more than doubled, because workers' productivity is up,

Death by Instant Message - by Maureen Dowd

2006-10-07T18:37:00.000-04:00

So now we have our first IM scandal.We knew it was coming, all this personal information zinging back and forth across cyberspace at the speed of write, all this constantly streaming technology being inexorably adapted to the needs of desire.IM-ing is like whispering, perfect for furtive, racy exchanges — or slimy, perverted ones. It’s as if your id had a typewriter. In a world where everything

Same Song, Different Scandal - by Robert Kuttner

2006-10-07T18:21:00.000-04:00

Throughout the Bush era, voters have not always connected the dots. The Foley scandal now enveloping the House Republican leadership offers a belated opportunity for voters to make some connections. Yes, the scandal is about the disgrace of a congressman sending disgusting messages to teenage pages, and the failure of leaders to act on escalating warnings. But it is so much more.Mark Foley was

Past Comes Back to Haunt Us in Form of Kissinger - by Helen Thomas

2006-10-07T18:19:00.000-04:00

WASHINGTON - Say it isn't so. Hawkish Henry Kissinger is advising President Bush about Iraq war strategy? This is déjà vu all over again.The former secretary of state -- who served in that job from 1973 to 1979 and previously from 1969 as national security affairs adviser -- inspires too many bad memories of the Vietnam War.I remember when Kissinger came into the White House press room in 1972

A Biocontrol Agent Which Doesn't Trigger Antibiotic Resistance

2006-10-07T18:07:00.000-04:00

A failed experiment turned out to be anything but for bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz. As he was puzzling out why what should have been a routine procedure wouldn't work, he made a discovery that led to the creation of a new biological tool for destroying bacterial pathogens - one that doesn't appear to trigger antibiotic resistance. The discovery also led to the startup of a promising new

£80billion ($150B) per square metre | Metro.co.uk

2006-10-07T18:03:00.000-04:00

Thursday, October 5, 2006As house prices continue to soar, buying a property for £20,000 ($38k) might seem like a bargain.But, although this home sounds cheap, it is actually Britain's most expensive property based on size – costing the equivalent of £80billion per square metre. That's because the four-room property is only as big as a full stop. Made by artist Willard Wigan, who specialises in

» FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders - RINF Alternative News

2006-10-07T16:47:00.000-04:00

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation

2006-10-07T04:26:00.000-04:00

Legalize it! ...Don't criticize it! (with apologies to Bob Marley).........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

2006-10-07T04:24:00.001-04:00

The End of the Republican Revolution.

2006-10-07T04:24:00.000-04:00

Any Day Now...

2006-10-07T04:23:00.000-04:00

Elephant Refuge.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

2006-10-07T04:22:00.000-04:00

Gratification delayed is gratification denied.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

2006-10-07T04:21:00.000-04:00

Bad Reporter for 10-5-06.........click on picture to "embiggen" view.

2006-10-07T04:20:00.000-04:00

In the beginning............click on picture to "embiggen" view.

Think Progress » Conservatives Propagate False Talking Point Defending Hastert’s Handling Of Foley Scandal

2006-10-06T22:02:00.000-04:00

Think Progress » Conservatives Propagate False Talking Point Defending Hastert’s Handling Of Foley Scandal

No Bush Left Behind

2006-10-06T16:57:00.000-04:00

The President's brother Neil is making hay from school reformAcross the country, some teachers complain that President George W. Bush's makeover of public education promotes "teaching to the test." The President's younger brother Neil takes a different tack: He's selling to the test. The No Child Left Behind Act compels schools to prove students' mastery of certain facts by means of standardized

Truth Serum: It's easier than tortureThe Five Stages of (GOP) Death

2006-10-06T16:50:00.000-04:00

Check this one out...Truth Serum: It's easier than torture

CNN.com - Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer's - Oct 5, 2006

2006-10-06T15:45:00.000-04:00

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) -- Good news for aging hippies: Smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer's disease.New research shows that the active ingredient in marijuana may prevent the progression of the disease by preserving levels of an important neurotransmitter that allows the brain to function.Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California found that marijuana's active ingredient, delta-9

Intelligent, Emotional, Ingenious: the Amazing Truth about Whales and Dolphins

2006-10-06T06:23:00.000-04:00

by Michael McCarthy Jumping through watery hoops? Forget it. They can solve problems and use tools. They exhibit joy and grief. They live in complex societies. Bottlenose dolphins. (Photo/Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures)

Bush Talked Dirty to the Country. Investigate Bush - by Bill C. Davis

2006-10-06T06:20:00.000-04:00

They're investigating Hastert and Foley and Reynolds and Fordham - they're investigating rumors. They get to say and print taboo exchanges as if they are bits of news and evidence. Anchor men and women have to work on their delivery of porno dialogue and then cut to commercial. Sex sells.But the pornography of dead and maimed young men dying in an unnecessary and criminal war gets relegated to