I never know how much of what I say is true.
– Bette Midler
– Bette Midler
Kind of like the talking heads on the news, don’t you think?
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- 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
is no longer part of the holiday message for some folks: AP/Yahoo
It gets better: the homeowners association members didn’t find the wreath offensive enough to warrant removal, and guess what happened to them:
What a jerk. I guess he’s part of the, what is it now, 31% (?) who think Bush is a fine president.
The concept ‘Peace’ is divisive.
What is most disturbing about Kearns is that he has enlarged the ranks of the ‘thought police’ – easy to do when we’ve shredded the Bill of Rights.
that as people go, they are very resistant type people. My sister-in-law believes that when Pelosi takes over we need to put all this bad stuff behind us. Far far behind us. Blow jobs from interns though, to hell with that….we impeach for that. Now she says that she never REALLY thought that Clinton should have been impeached. Very resistant to reality and truth type of people.
Yeah, bipartisanship and forgetting the past suddenly becomes a priority now that the GOPers are in the minority and the outcome of their policies cannot be denied.
What a load of crap. You deserve an award (reward?) for putting up with her this weekend. As does anyone else with diehard Republican relatives.
There was an article in the Detroit Free Press (which is fairly liberal compared to the News)about young progressive Democrats being elected in Macomb County Commission and how their partisan leanings will keep them from working with the Republicans. Where was this worry about partisanship when the Republicans were running Washington and steamrolling over the Democrats??
this week: USA Today
And I’m pretty sure that Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia will agree with the administration.
There’s a link to the court briefs down in Science Headlines for those who might be interested…
From the ‘what an incredibly small man Bush is’ files:
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“Students in several Issaquah School District buses crammed their faces against the windows and waved to the President’s motorcade,” the paper said on October 30, relaying a recent story Reichert told on the campaign trail. “Bush waved back.”
But then one of the bus drivers gave Bush the finger.
Bush saw the gesture, he told Reichert about it, Reichert contacted the school, and the bus driver was canned.
Their reason: the bus driver was giving the students a bad example. OK, normal kids don’t give a rat’s ass what the bus driver does, never mind when the president is driving by waving. Unless it was a busload of Kindergarteners, they could probably teach a few gestures to the busdriver. I was once mooned from the back of a schoolbus. What kind of fratboy tattletale baby is Bush that they ratted on that driver?
You know, recently when Bush flew into my area to campaign for Sherwood (that went well), Air Force One flew directly over my house, low and slow. I ran outside, flipped a rousing double bird and screamed “FUCKERRRRR” at the top of my lungs. It felt very (very) good. I wonder if he saw me and got mad because he had no one to report me to. Seriously, he must have been flipped off hundreds of times to his face on the campaign trail… what a spoiled precocious baby he must be.
As much as it hurts, to be fair to Bush the initial news reports I read of the incident said that Bush and Reichert were riding together in a car and said that Bush saw the finger and said to Reichert “well, I guess that one isn’t a supporter.” From there, sounds like Reichert is the one who went on a personal jihad.
Not that Bush might not have pitched a fit, but the things I read about that incident didn’t make it seem like he really gave a crap.
Link
The White House has begun closing the Enviromental Protection Agency’s research libraries to the public and to its own staff, cementing Bush’s reputation as usher of a new dark age.
It never got down to actual book-burning, but the Republican choke-hold on government would clearly have taken us there. In August, under the guise of fiscal responsibility, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency began closing most of its research libraries, both to the public and to its own staff.
The EPA’s professional staff objected strongly, insisting that closing the libraries would hamstring them in their jobs. In a letter to Congress protesting the closures, public employees said, “We believe that this budget cut is just one of many Bush administration initiatives to reduce the effectiveness of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and to continue to demoralize its employees.”
I think we should recycle all of the contents of the Bush Library, every last item from Poppy and Dubya…now THAT would be ‘taking out the garbage’.
“recycle the contents of the Bush library”
that would make very rich compost, just add some red wigglers.
To its credit, ABC’s All My Children is introducing a new transgendered character. LINK But the character’s name is — ready for this?- – Zarf. That’s right, Zarf.
Couldn’t they find something that sounds more, I don’t know, extraterrestrial?
Well, they want to seem like they are really progressive with the inclusion of a transgender character, but they’d REALLY be taking a chance by making that character too, you know, real. You know those winger evangelical “christians” (I use the term loosely here) can get pretty cranky.
but it’s not even from earth. Well, that explains how it came to be transgendered. It has a different God that made it.
Stocking stuffers: early best sellers – Amazon George W. Bush out of office countdown (h/t:Huffpost)
Cartoon feature. Bush Memoirs: Iraq-If I Did it.
Brzezinski: The Baker Commission `Will Offer Some Procrastination Ideas For Dealing With The Crisis’ (h/t:Thinkprogress)
in that other war
Britain told: do peace deal with Taliban
“Lieutenant-General Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai, who led Pakistan’s hunt for Al-Qaeda until 2004 and is now governor of North West Frontier province, said: “Bring 50,000 more troops and fight for 10 to 15 years more and you won’t resolve it. The British with their history in Afghanistan should have known that better than anyone else.”
“It is no longer an insurgency but a war of Pashtun resistance exactly on the model of the first Anglo-Afghan war.” [in 1839-42]
“And today, heads of the alliance’s 26 nations are unlikely to agree to send reinforcements,’ as violence soars”
Nato urged to plan Afghanistan exit strategy
Back from Thanksgiving with a virtual cornucopia of science headlines…
NASA has run into a problem in selecting a landing site for the upcoming Phoenix Mars Lander. New photos indicate that the most interesting landing site in terms of the search for life is too dangerous to land at – a boulder covered field. The search for a site both safe and interesting continues.
Scientists have determined that levels of atmospheric methane – an influential greenhouse gas – have stayed nearly flat for the past seven years, which follows a rise that spanned at least two decades. This finding indicates that methane may no longer be as large a global warming threat as previously thought, and it provides evidence that methane levels can be controlled. Scientists also found that pulses of increased methane were paralleled by increases of ethane, a gas known to be emitted during fires. This is further indication that methane is formed during biomass burning, and that large-scale fires can be a big source of atmospheric methane. Researchers believe one reason for the slowdown in methane concentration growth may be leak-preventing repairs made to oil and gas lines and storage facilities, which can release methane into the atmosphere. Other reasons may include a slower growth or decrease in methane emissions from coal mining, rice paddies and natural gas production.
The Supreme Court this week will begin hearing perhaps the most significant environmental case ever to reach its marbled halls — a dispute that could shape the future of U.S. policy on global warming. [But don’t be surprised if this court rejects the case and punts the issue back to the Congress. – K.P.] You can read the briefs in the case, Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. (Docket No. 05-1120) here.
It’s not a quick fix for global warming, but the slow accumulation of carbon into soils of northern forests over time may be a more important factor in the global carbon budget than previously realized, requiring changes in long-term models of the effects of global warming.
The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than eliminate species: it fundamentally changed the basic ecology of the world’s oceans. Ecologically simple marine communities dominated by sedentary organisms were largely displaced by complex communities of mobile animals. Furthermore, this apparently abrupt shift set a new pattern that has continued ever since.
The international community must help Ivory Coast clean up sites contaminated this year by illegal toxic waste dumping that killed 10 people, the United Nations said Friday. Ahead of a global hazardous waste conference here next week, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) said it was unfair for one of the world’s most impoverished nations to pay the 30-million-dollar (20-million-euro) cost. [Perhaps I’ve gotten cynical in a dark time, but somehow it seems like it’s going to take more than a plaintive cry of “unfair” to get the action the UN seeks… Such as when a problem also hits home, like in the following story – K.P.]
Air and water pollution are global issues, but in poverty-stricken Southwest China they’re causing a health crisis. Lack of access to safe drinking water and high levels of air pollution and mercury contamination from excessive coal-burning are causing chronic illness and death, especially in the rural areas of China. A possible link between mercury content in fish consumed in the United States and Chinese coal-burning is also being examined. The United States Agency for International Development is sponsoring the China Environmental Health Project, which began in October.
And in another UN meeting, to be held in Kenya this week, Western donations of old computers, mobile phones and televisions that could be toxic “hand-me-downs” posing a hazard to the environment of poor countries will be discussed. 20 to 50 million metric tons of electronic wastes are generated and shipped to poor nations annually. More on the conference here.
At a regional international conference,cuts in Atlantic and Mediterranean tuna catch quotas are agreed to, but conservation groups say they are weak.
Canadian scientists say stem cell transplant recipients may face a greater long-term risk of developing cancer. Research to fully define the effect and the risk will be needed before such procedures are adopted clinically.
Clouds in the arctic that should be made of ice have been found to include an unexpected amount of super-cooled water, contributing to the rapid warming of the arctic (such clouds hold heat better). Scientists are intensively studying this surprising finding.
No surprise here: Palm oil prices are expected to rise further by early next year as stockpiles decline due to robust global demand ignited by the rapidly expanding biofuel industry, a leading analyst said on Friday.
Thanks KP. Welcome back.
that should be interesting – the SC decision. Breath normally ’til then.
expect rising grain prices, followed by chicken and meat prices, due to biofuel demand, production shortfall from the drought. We’ll soon have to choose between eating and driving.
That should have been a diary. Excellent work, and frightening!
Global warming…Bah!
Just ask Dr. Science…er…Dr. Evil, that is…Rolling Stone did:
Better living through science
The Grey Lady and reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon
lose bid to have case heard by Supreme Court
N.Y. Times Loses Bid to Shield Records From U.S.– Bloomberg
“The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block federal prosecutors from reviewing the phone records of two New York Times reporters who allegedly tipped off the targets of a probe into terrorist fundraising.
[t]he New York Times Co.’s bid for an emergency order in the case, which stems from a 2001 investigation into two Islamic charities. Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, is using a grand jury to investigate who in the government leaked information to the Times about planned raids on the charities’ offices. [..]
(emphasis added)