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wants to campaign on a common-sense GOP theme: AP/Yahoo
Uh, John, if you want people to fall for your “return to traditional Republican values” schtick, you might want to stop sucking up to the likes of DObson and Falwell. Just a thought.
I dunno, traditional Republican common sense isn’t much to write home about. I found this rant piece and boy does it hit home:
For those who believe there’s not a dime’s worth of difference in the two parties consider. Social Security, The G.I. Bill, Labor Laws, Environmental Laws, Civil Rights, Bank Deposit Insurance, The Rural Electrification Program, Product Labeling, Truth in Advertising, Woman’s Right to Vote and the Earned Income Tax Credit were all the work of liberals as conservative republicans howled their opposition. In contrast the republicans initiated cuts in veteran’s benefits, they eviscerated education and health care, passed endless tax cuts for the rich, slashed Head Start, and eliminated the Fairness Doctrine. Given more time, elderly Americans would have watched their Social Security checks get turned over to Wall Street investors, for a fee of course. All of these conservative “contributions” have the same thread of commonality – they were passed in the early A.M., on Saturdays, after news deadlines. Like cockroaches, conservatives like to operate in the dark. Turn on the lights and they scatter for the cracks.
Yup, all that Republican common sense is stinking up the place. McCain makes my skin crawl with his barely hidden rage and his soft spoken lies. Can you see him in a White House with unlimited power? He spooks me out.
That really does hit the nail on the head, doesn’t it?
And his so-called support for “campaign finance reform” sort of falls flat when he supports someone like Mitch McConnell, who is a defender of the
system of “legalized bribery” that McCain supposedly
detests.
McCain is a fart in a Republican windstorm… whatever way the wind is blowing, that’s where he’ll be. He’s doing some serious ass kissing, hoping to have those asses support his presidential bid.
if the son of bitch would take a moment to remember what torture is like. On second thought NAH…..he sucks forever.
aout whether that scene from Borat was scripted or not: AP/Yahoo
Sudan accepts UN’s aid in Darfur
This is outstanding news if Sudan allows the UN to follow through. It seems as if every deal in Sudan falls through almost as soon as it’s made.
With regards to the Darfur-situation, you’re right. It’s gotten worse since the ‘peace agreement’ in May.
However, the CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement) between GoS and SPLA from January 2005 is holding up – there’s lot’s of oil money to be made…
More on this:
Mixed UN-African Union force for Darfur `agreed in principle’ at high-level meeting
This just blows my mind
The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience “very low food security.”
Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans’ access to food, and it has consistently used the word “hunger” to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.
Mark Nord, the lead author of the report, said “hungry” is “not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being measured in the food security survey.” Nord, a USDA sociologist, said, “We don’t have a measure of that condition.”
The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans — 35 million people — could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times. Beginning this year, the USDA has determined “very low food security” to be a more scientifically palatable description for that group.
I have news for Mr Nord: when you don’t have enough food to eat you are HUNGRY. When you don’t have the guts to say so you are Republican.
Think Progress is reporting:
“The U.S. military called no witnesses, withheld evidence from detainees and usually reached a decision within a day as it determined that hundreds of men detained at Guantanamo Bay were `enemy combatants,’ according to a new report.”
Yay.
Woo-hoo. Hopefully just the first on many steps forward…
Hey Nag,
My bad, soooo sorry. when I posted my comment didn’t see yours.
I’m glad you posted yours… it lists lots of specifics in Dodd’s legislation. Besides, we can’t scream about that vile Military Commissions legislation often enough or loudly enough. You know what they say about great minds… they change the same channel, or something like that. 🙂
According to the AP,
This is one of the more interesting stories of the day.
Well, after all these years that we’ve been the recipients of W’s voodoo, I’d say it’s about time someone thought to return the favor.
Good to know that he doesn’t think Americans = Bush.
On second thought a title change may be in order? Nah.
because
All IS well in GOPland, Senator Lott is voted new Minority Whip! – his “dumb statement” no longer an issue (h/t: Thinkprogress)
Bed-wetting: Pentagon changes policy guidelines – reclassifies homosexuality among the conditions – “circumstance”
in his approval ratings: Herald Tribune
I’m just patiently waiting for him to hit, oh, say 28%. Do you think it will happen by Christmas, or will have to wait for the new Congress to be in session?
I feel like silly Americans thought that if they could just put some Democrats in power things would quickly turn around but there is no quick turn around here. It’s going to be painful, and painful always seems much longer in duration. I really think Bush may have destroyed the foundations of the Republican party for a generation but we are going to have to go through the motions as day by day it is shredded in front of us.
not enough weapons
Israel developing anti-militant “bionic hornet”
“JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
The flying robot, nicknamed the “bionic hornet”, would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers, the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said”
Senator Specter chaired a Senate Judiciary hearing yesterday which can be seen in the C-SPAN archives. The subject was oversight of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where Bush’s political appointees have caused severe changes. Voting rights and anti-discrimination cases have suffered. Questions abound of politically-charged decisions. Many demoralized career attorneys have quit.
At the beginning, Democrats such as Leahy (who will become committee chairman in January) and Feingold made opening statements promising reform. Part way through the hearing, though, they all disappeared. Sen. Specter quizzed the second panel by himself. He asked several times on the whereabouts of Sen. Feingold, who had often requested this hearing.
I’m not crazy about Specter. However, abandoning the hearing without even a faked-up excuse made the issue of political interference in the Civil Rights Division look unimportant to Democrats, as if they wanted to use the hearing simply to make politically correct statements.
The Washington Post reports on internacine warfare in DeLay’s former office. His staffers claim Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, the write-in candidate facing Nick Lampson on 7 Nov who will sit in the Texas 22 seat for the duration of the lame duck session, is unprofessional. I guess her dreams of stealing the Texas 22 seat in two years are slowly sinking.
Ack!! I read your comment as “I guess her dreams of stealing the Texas seat in 22 years are slowly sinking.” Ha… that’s how long it takes Republicans to realize they’re loosers, or run out of money. 😉
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present for most of the universe’s history. Dark energy is a mysterious repulsive force that causes the universe to expand at an increasing rate. Investigators used Hubble to find that dark energy was already boosting the expansion rate of the universe as long as nine billion years ago. This picture of dark energy is consistent with Albert Einstein’s prediction of nearly a century ago that a repulsive form of gravity emanates from empty space.
Countering the widespread view of evolution as a process played out over the course of eons, evolutionary biologists have shown that sometimes natural selection can turn on a dime — within months — as a population’s needs change. In a study of island lizards exposed to a new predator, the scientists found that natural selection dramatically changed direction over a very short time, within a single generation, favoring first longer and then shorter hind legs as lizards on tiny islands in the Bahamas adapted to the presence of newly introduced predators by first trying to outrun them (favoring longer legs), then taking to the trees for safety (where short legs are a benefit). The results predicted by evolutionary theory were found, even over such a short time span.
While the UN talks on global warming in Kenya ended with agreement to dates for future post-Kyoto negotiations, and some concessions to developing nations, there was a recognition that a large gap remains between the emissions cuts which science suggests are necessary, and the level of political commitment to making those cuts.
Forest fires in northern countries may cause regional cooling and not warming, as was previously thought. Researchers say their new findings could mean that on a global scale, forest fires will not affect climate change one way or the other. One of the biggest reasons for the cooling effect is that while dark spruce trees absorb the warmth of the Sun, the snow on the ground of a burnt-over forest reflects it back. After the forest fire had removed the trees, only snow was left on the ground. Eventually, new grasses, shrubs and trees grow back. But researchers found that the first trees to replace the burnt conifers were aspen, birch and other deciduous trees. Their large, light-green leaves reflected more of the Sun’s energy than their pine-needled predecessors, further contributing to the cooling trend. And the new trees were deciduous not evergreen, meaning they lost their leaves in the winter exposing the reflective snow. It took 80 years for the spruce forest to regrow to its original state, during which time it removed CO2 from the air to fuel plant growth.
A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain, known as glioma, has shown promising results in preliminary data.
Some of the world’s most spectacular migratory animals – particularly turtles, whose ratios of males to females is changing – will be severely affected by climate change, according to a new UN report. By definition, migrating species must depend on several different ecosystems. Birds may fly from one continent to another, perhaps stopping at feeding grounds on the way. Whales and turtles cover vast tracts of ocean. And damage to the environment over just a part of their route can threaten their survival.
Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising concerns about the Greenland ice sheet. A new “State of the Arctic” analysis, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and including research from researchers from the United States, Canada France, Germany, Poland, Norway, Sweden and Russia, reports an increase in northward movement of warmer water through the Bering Strait in 2001-2004. This may have contributed to a continuing reduction of sea ice.
I was wondering where you were…I missed you science news!
The glioma vaccine looks interesting.