My Karma ran over your dogma.
– Unknown
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Is it really Monday already?
Recent Posts
- Day 14: Louisiana Senator Approvingly Compares Trump to Stalin
- Day 13: Elon Musk Flexes His Muscles
- Day 12: While Elon Musk Takes Over, We Podcast With Driftglass and Blue Gal
- Day 11: Harm of Fascist Regime’s Foreign Aid Freeze Comes Into View
- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
to start the week with: The Age
The article goes on to suggest that if you have the sniffles this time of year, “regular love-ins” could be the cure…more fun than Kleenex, anyway.
I suppose that the 70’s slogan “Make love, not war” was right on. I just knew we hippies had it right!
U.S. readies Darfur sanctions vote at UN
How can sanctioning 4 individuals make any sort of difference, anyway?
from the UK: Independent Online
Other evidence comes from the timing of plants’ blooming:
Nope, there’s no such thing as global warming…
South-east Michigan is turning green rapidly. Three years ago at this time, I flew to Florida and the trees were bare with the only color in the fields below being the occasional section of winter wheat until the plane crossed the Ohio River. When I drove north again the first week of May, the landscape north of Indianapolis was still dull and fairly lifeless. I’d say that we’re at least three weeks ahead this year.
Not to mention the largish swaths of spring in January. I haven’t seen that much green and rain in January since, uh, well, since, April.
US wanted to stop Hamas visit
Yes. Stop the contacts, that will surely bring peace.
“I believe it is unwise not to have contact with one side in a conflict, the way we do now. If we have demands to make we must also be able to present them in other places than in the newspapers,” Støre told NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting).
Love that comment. Do you think Bush even gets that it was a smack-down of his style of “diplomacy”?
Bush doesn’t get any of it. Nor do the rest of the neocons. They completely fail to comprehend, or refuse to accept, that there are any actual real living human beings outside of their little play group or that those other humans have rights, feelings, or any of those other things. In their world, it is self-evident that they, and they alone, have the right to have rights and it is indisputable to them that God ™(R)(c) put them here specifically to control the entire planet.
The rest of us should be very grateful that they haven’t just decided to keep a few dozen of us to do their lawns and clean their mansions and eradicate the rest.
The sad part of it is that the “American Spirit” has been so debased that while very few Statesiders would accept that on a personal level, a majority of them have no problem accepting it on a global level. Hence Bush’s numbers drop NOT when he attacks Iraq or ignores the sovereignty of other nations, but when he does so incompetently.
There’s an argument that a very significant portion of the US public doesn’t have a moral problem with US policy being “We do what we want and everyone else does what they’re told.” The problem is that the Bushies are just so freakin’ BAD at making it happen. If Bushco had planned the Iraq war properly and done it “right,” rather than trying to do it on the cheap so they could protect the tax cuts, Bush would probably still be pulling numbers in the 70’s…
And until we get THAT issue, which is a major part of the Mainstream American Worldview, sorted and fixed, it won’t matter too much who inhabits the White House as far as diplomacy and foreign relations are concerned. Bush isn’t significantly worse in that respect than most of his predecessors; he’s just a lot less willing to, shall we say, hide his light under a basket.
And the rest of the world is fed up.
LA Times link that does not seem to be behind free registration.
WASHINGTON — A Diamond Bar company headed by former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi could get fees exceeding $1 billion from the VA, much of it on contracts approved and amended while he ran the agency, records show.
Principi was president of the medical services company QTC Management Inc. before he joined President Bush’s Cabinet in 2001. He ran the VA for four years, then returned to the firm as chairman of the board.
The only thing Bush and his cronies are good at is profiteering and stealing. When it comes to screwing the pooch, they’re experts. Principi’s company issues medical exams to soldiers seeking disability claims and examines soldiers before they are discharged. The VA makes decisions on soldier’s benefits based on these exams. What a racket.
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Does this make daddy more of a level head than sonny boy or what. I still do not trust anyone with the last name of bush; however, if baker can do something to settle this whole mess, then more power to him. What do you think?
I think cleaning up the mess Georgie has made is beyond the abilities of the Bush family pooper-scooper this time…
You are probably right. I happen to agree with you, but at least someone it trying to change the course, instead of staying the course. I seriously doubt it will help anything..but had to put this out for you allto see. Thanks CG..
Well, it is a good indication that even Bushco realizes they’ve screwed the pooch this time.
does he see it if we don’t? I doubt it, seriously….
the washington post
don’t ya just love it/
Just a little funny to have with your coffee this am. I have to get ont he phone and check out my patient load today so may be here, maybe not. we will see. In any terms, ya all have a great day…hugs..
But what can it do for grass stains?
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The real face of the gay hate movement
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WASHINGTON, April 23 — About 50 prominent religious leaders, including seven Roman Catholic cardinals and about a half-dozen archbishops, have signed a petition in support of a constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage.
Organizers of the petition said it was in part an effort to revive the groundswell of opposition to same-sex marriage that helped bring many conservative voters to the polls in some pivotal states in 2004. The signers include many influential evangelical Protestants, a few rabbis and an official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
But both the organizers and gay rights groups said what was striking about the petition was the direct involvement by high-ranking Roman Catholic officials, including 16 bishops.Although the church has long opposed same-sex unions, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops had previously endorsed the idea of a constitutional amendment banning such unions, it was evangelical Protestants who generally led the charge when the amendment was debated in 2004.
This reminds me of a bumper sticker that I’ve seen around these parts: “Jesus loves you… everyone else thinks you’re an asshole”.
But both the organizers and gay rights groups said what was striking about the petition was the direct involvement by high-ranking Roman Catholic officials, including 16 bishops.
This makes me incredibly sad.
Couldn’t they be issuing a statement (again) about the sin of using nuclear weapons?
Unfortunately, it’s sad but not surprising, considering the involvement of similarly high-ranking Catholic officials in covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests.
Sadly, I don’t find this surprising considering the Catholic League’s choice of leadership, Bill Donohue.
He is every bit as hateful and spiritually corrupt as Robertson or Falwell. Some choice Donohue quotes:
These quotes (and many more) are from major cable “news” shows!
You have to wonder where all this hate comes from. Jealousy? Fear? Childhood Sexual Abuse?
BTW, what’s a secular jew?
A Jew who identifies with his/her Jewish heritage, but doesn’t keep the religious aspects, except perhaps in a peripheral fashion (e.g. celebrating Chanukah and Purim).
He’s trying to make these people seem doubly bad — Jewish and godless. What a putz.
So that makes a sizable number of Americans secular christians, I suppose.
Editorial alert – for some reason I’m feeling snarky today (OK, snarkier than usual), and it shows in some of the stories below:
Dark matter has had a major effect on the formation and evolution of galaxies, and bright active galaxies appear to have been born only within dark matter clumps of certain sizes in the young universe, Cornell researchers report.
Did you enjoy group projects in school, or solo efforts? Psychologists report finding that groups of three, four, or five perform better on complex problem solving than the best of an equivalent number of individuals.
China’s third manned space flight will take place in September 2008 immediately after the Beijing Olympic Games, with astronauts attempting a space walk, state press reported Sunday. “The launch of the Shenzhou VII has been set for after the Beijing Olympics in September 2008 and will carry three astronauts,” said Song Zhengyu, a leading official at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.
Maybe now that Al Gore’s gone Hollywood it’s inevitable, but I’ve decided to enjoy the moment – “green” is the new black! Vanity Fair magazine has published their first-ever “green issue”. Does this mean I’m finally cool at age 46? Here’s a sampling of the (now, and for a limited time only, fashionable) green goodness.
It turns out Alexander the Great didn’t found the Egyptian city of Alexandria after all – he just rebranded it. Archaeologists now believe this part of the Nile has been settled for at least 4500 years, pre-dating Alexander’s arrival by a good two millennia.
Hey, remember bird flu? Ducks and other wild birds are carrying the feared H5N1 virus, but there is no need to cull or otherwise target them as part of efforts to control the virus, experts said on Thursday. [Dick Cheney will be sooooo disappointed.] Poultry are more important carriers of the virus, and H5N1 avian influenza has probably been circulating, unseen and steadily, for years in Southeast Asian flocks, the experts in the Netherlands and Sweden said. And pigeons are unlikely to be a bird flu threat [I can see the memos now: Oh too bad – we could have gotten some really potent fear going there!]
It seems sometimes that Americans and Canadians can’t agree on anything: Canadian researchers report that it’s cheaper to compensate ranchers for lost livestock than to hunt wolves, and recommend non-lethal controls, such as alarms: “We’re not saying don’t use lethal control. But put the emphasis on other things.” Ed Bangs of the US Fish and Wildlife Service says that killing problem wolves can be effective and should continue to be used with other measures. [Read: politically effective?]
From one of my favorite alternative journalists, Jeremy Scahill, who has written a quite a bit on privatizing the military, & was the first to report taht Blackwater contractors were working in New Orleans: