“Mr. Vice-President, in all due respect, it is– I’m not sure 80% of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100% will get it if I’m the President.”
-Shrubya, Presidential Debate, St. Louis, MO -October 17th, 2000.
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I’m watching the cspan.org video of today’s Bolton nomination hearing. Talk about fireworks! Check it out, the action begins about six minutes into the feed. (and thanks to you all for commentary since I was at work when it happened live)
Now I have to add the Pope to my prayer list. I pray that he will read Mark Morford’s column.
Doesn’t Mark have great articles. He’s another one whose emails I subscribe to. I’d say his list hit the highlights or lowlights on the new Pope.
Bad News from Texas
The State House tacked an amendment onto a Child Protective Services reform bill that would prohibit the agency from placing foster kids with gay or bisexual foster parents and require the agency to investigate the sexual orientation of all prospective foster parents and of all existing foster parents. Although the amendment may be killed in conference – the Senates version of the bill contained no such provision – the damage to foster kids and foster parents is abysmal.
The Austin American-Statesman has the story:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/tx/legislature/stories/04/20cps.html
Booman,
In my preferences, I am now set to display EDT.
However, the clock seems to be off by 1 hr. It is now 2.08 in NY, EDT, yet the most recent comment is stamped 3.05 EDT. Is there an easy fix?
I know the code to post the pics. but how do you get a http// address for pics on your computer in order to post them. Help.
I use: http://photobucket.com/