When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
– George Bernard Shaw
– George Bernard Shaw
Remind you of anyone?
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A $20 million dollar party to celebrate that we invaded another country and occupied it, started a civil war, and killed thousands of people on a pretext? WTF?
What can we say? “State of Denial” understated.
Maybe they can celebrate at the Great Wall of Bush when it’s done. They can have the party in the middle while illegals pour across the edges. Oh, I know! They can hire artists to draw real scary pictures on the Mexican side of the wall.
Now that’s what I call Mad Money.
promotes religious extremeist views on school shootings ThinkProgress
Yup. Those nasty evolutionists and pro-choicers are promoting school shootings, dontcha know?
From TalkLeft: Cheney Secret Service Agent” is sued. Agent violated Mr. Steven Howards’ freedom of speech when he told Cheney he did not agree with his Iraq policy.
The numbers: 39% New CNN poll (H/T Prof. Cole)
42% will vote for the Republican candidate in November. 53% said that they planned to vote Democrat in November. 66% said that they disapprove of the way that Bush is handling the Iraq War.
The Gitmo detainees: You took (paid for) them, you keep them. “Britain refused US offer to return Guantanamo detainees. Although the men are accused of terrorist involvement, British officials say that there is not enough evidence to justify the level of surveillance demanded by the US and that the strict conditions stipulated are unworkable and unnecessary, according to documents obtained by The Guardian.”
Devising new ways to stay the course? US setting up `new militias
Reports of the setting up of U.S.-backed Sunni militias have brought new uncertainty to deepening chaos within Iraq.
Giving the Senate his finger: (H/T: Thinkprogress)
Bush to give Bolton 2nd recess appointment to UN post
“…British officials say that there is not enough evidence to justify the level of surveillance demanded by the US and that the strict conditions stipulated are unworkable and unnecessary…”
Acting like a totalitarian government costs money, don’t you know.
I just knew Bush would push Bolton through again. He’s like a 5yr old tyrant that can’t stand it when he doesn’t get his way.
But apparently they have to give him (Bolton) some new title if they want to pay him. Of course, when has this bunch ever followed the rules?
How about “Bush’s Bafoon”?
Ambassador at Large, maybe. That gives him great latitude to stick his moustache into everything
Love the Cheney SS agent being sued article. Too funny! I hope Howard gets a big bundle. IMHO…this is just the beginning of what they intend to do with dissenters.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to American Roger Kornberg for his work on transcription: how the instructions encoded in DNA lead to protein synthesis.
About 20 percent of Guatemala’s debt to the United States will be forgiven in exchange for forest conservation efforts in the Central American nation, officials announced yesterday. It’s the largest debt-for-nature swap carried out under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, which allows debt owed to the U.S. to be invested in environmental protection. The U.S. government will donate about $15 million toward canceling the debt, and The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International are each contributing $1 million; that money, along with interest it generates, will erase more than $20 million in debt and interest. Guatemala’s newly available funds will then be dedicated over the next 15 years to protecting threatened plants and wildlife in Guatemala’s rainforests, mangrove reserves, and mountains.
There’s a new comet, Comet Swan, in the neighborhood these days, and if you miss it you won’t get a second chance – it’s on an unusual hyperbolic orbit that will fling it into interstellar space after it passes by the sun.
The Chinese government is exploring an innovative way to assess economic growth with a new “green GDP” report, released last month. The report found that air and water pollution cost the nation $64 billion in 2004, equivalent to 3 percent of gross domestic product; it suggests that China’s true growth rate in 2004 was actually closer to 7 percent rather than the officially touted rate of more than 10 percent. And a ground-breaking study warns that the world faces paying multi-trillion pound economic costs if it does not move urgently to act on climate change.
OK, what am I missing here? As a UN session to ban bottom fishing prepared to open in New York, President Bush called for a halt to all types of destructive fishing on the high seas Tuesday, saying the United States will work to eliminate practices such as bottom trawling that devastate fish populations and the ocean floor. He directed the State and Commerce departments to promote “sustainable” fisheries and to oppose any fishing practices that destroy the long-term natural productivity of fish stocks or habitats such as seamounts, corals and sponge fields for short-term gain. He said the U.S. would work with other nations and international groups to change fishing practices and create international fishery regulatory groups if needed. Ah, here’s the catch – it’s a non-binding resolution (of course!) [Leave it to Reuters to mention that little detail the WaPo let slip. My cognitive dissonance is gone now…]
Now this is more like what I expected: Internal government documents obtained by NPR indicate that the EPA could have saved thousands of lives each year if it set a stricter standard for soot in the air we breathe. Bush mishandling of this issue causes as many deaths as a 9-11 every year. Who’s the terrorist now?
A star must live in a relatively tranquil cosmic neighborhood to foster planet formation, say astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. A team of scientists from the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, Tucson, came to this conclusion after watching intense ultraviolet light and powerful winds from O-type stars rip away the potential planet-forming disks, or protoplanetary disks, around stars like our sun.
Canadian auto industry leaders yelp as measures to cut greenhouse gases are presented to them by the government.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer and a consortium of energy and technology companies Monday announced Montana will be home to one of the nation’s first coal-to-liquids energy plants, and the carbon dioxide will be sequestered by underground injection, to enhance recovery in nearby oilfields. Environmental groups had mixed reactions to the proposal; I haven’t spotted a reaction to this yet among Schweitzer fans over at Big Orange.
I love the Kornberg Nobel prize story. Two winners in one family? What do you think dinner table conversations were like in that house? 🙂
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Eight U.S.-allied Arab countries are banding together to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her trip here, in hopes of reviving the deadlocked Arab-Israeli peace process and making headway on other regional issues.
During their meeting Tuesday with Rice, the ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt and Jordan are expected coordinate efforts to buttress the stature of the moderate Palestinian leader and stem Iran’s growing influence.
The trip comes as Arab countries have in recent weeks halted dealings with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. They want it to join a unity government that supports a 2002 Arab League plan that would offer peace to Israel in exchange for land and they’ve even started funneling aid through Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Arab diplomats say.
The goal of the secretary of state’s tour is to push ahead the U.S. democratization agenda and discuss threats to stability in the region such as Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, Rice’s spokesman has said. But the Arab ministers’ priority — officials and media reports in the region say — is relaunching peace talks.
Good luck. Peace between Israel and Palestine doesn’t fit with Bush’s Middle East vision of never ending war and conflict as a means to never ending power and money for neocons.
Not to be overlooked: Simply stunning. Takes your breath.
Lauren Rozen points us to Bob Novak who has revealed that Congressman Tom Reynolds encouraged Foley to run even after he knew about the inappropriate e-mails.
That’s the same Tom Reynolds who used children as a prop for his press conference yesterday; the same press conference called to discuss explicit sex messages.
And when all the spin has fizzled, let’s change Foley’s party affliation. Look at this.
Fox News has ‘former Congressman Foley’ a Democrat..
O’lielly.
I’m saying, It’s all about politics.
That is disgusting.
A snippet from the statement released by Kirk Fordham:
Kindof looks like they are trying to shake the blame off of their elected oficials (Hastert, Reynolds, etc.) and onto their staffers?
Hat tip to the TPM Muckraker
I love to watch GOP rats scurry.
So you can be an informed voter in the CT Senate race:
Info on Ned Lamont:
Ned Lamont – Official Campaign Website
Ned Lamont – Ned Lamont, the Political Entrepreneur
Ned Lamont – “Democrats Back Lamont; Lieberman Files Independent Run” (F0x)
Ned Lamont – Unofficial Ned Lamont Resource
Ned Lamont – Unofficial Lamont Blog
Ned Lamont – “The Democrats Mean Business” (WSJ)
Ned Lamont – “Ned Lamont vs. Joe Lieberman” (The Nation)
Ned Lamont – “Lieberman Loses Debate With Challenger Ned Lamont”
Ned Lamont – “Lamont: Lieberman Sounded Like Cheney”
Ned Lamont – “Lamont Fires Up Naples” (New Haven Independent)
Info on Joe Lieberman:
Joe Lieberman – “Seasonal Memory Lapses” by Paul Bass (Hartford Courant)
Joe Lieberman – “Truth About Joe”
Joe Lieberman – “Lieberman Wins Republican Friends, Democratic Enemies…” (WaPo)
Joe Lieberman – “Joe Lieberman is a Big Oil Republican” (LamontBlog)
Joe Lieberman – “Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney” (ABC)
Joe Lieberman – “Joe Lieberman Doesn’t Care About Handicapped People” (Wonkette)
Joe Lieberman – “Joe Lieberman is Running With a Bad Crowd” (Firedoglake)
Joe Lieberman – “116 Reasons Not to Vote for Joe Lieberman”
Joe Lieberman – “How Joe Lieberman Tried to Kill Rock ‘N Roll” (Huffington Post)
Info on Alan who?
Nevermind… heh