The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
– Samuel Johnson
– Samuel Johnson
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yet? NYT
Heckuva job, Bushie.
Update: Kaiser Health
So this is looking good, right? Well, look at how many people think it allowed exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the mother (it doesn’t):
The lies and misinformation from anti-choicers work pretty well, don’t they? Too bad they aren’t required to tell the truth in their campign ads.
that should be “…exceptions for rape or incest” not “…rape, incest, or life of the mother.” I need more coffee.
SCOTUS takes up the abortion issue this week? Kennedy is considered the swing vote.
posted over at Suburban Guerilla
Go read the rest. He mentions what will happen if and when the Dems decide to issue subpoenas…bumpy ride, anyone?
but this is hilarious. Cliff Schecter goes off and off and off on the Republican party – calling them a “Pathetic bunch of criminal pedophiles”, among other things.
I heard something very weird this morning when I wish I hadn’t been awake. According to CNN, the Saddam trials won’t stop after they execute him. The plan is to try him 8-10 more times “in absentia” after he’s dead. As far as I know, this might be another innovative first for the Bush administration’s perversion of the language. I have never heard of anyone being tried in absentia after they were dead, especially by the people who killed them. Anyone else have an example?
I heard it repeated this morning. That struck me as very odd as well. My first thought… that the Republicans will try to schedule every one of those damn trials for future elections.
BBC Worldservice 5:00-6:00 AM EST today carried an interview with President Talabani’s aide that Talabani has stated privately and in public he will not sign the warrant to execute Saddam. “He respects his signature” ..having signed on with International lawyers some years ago against the death penalty”
Imho, should trials continue post humously, there’ll be an outcry. Europe has called for Saddam’s death sentence to be commuted
there is a link. Guardian UK
Iraqi president will not sign death warrant for Saddam
Link
The shadowy RNC-connected front group the “Progressive Policy Council” is still at it, trying to discourage liberal voters from going to the polls on Tuesday. And thanks to TPM reader JA, you can see their two recent mailings here and here.
The first PPC mailer, if you remember, went out this past weekend in Pennsylvania, attacking both Senate candidates for being too conservative on key progressive issues. We had an awful time finding any information about the group, but eventually discovered that they are represented by the former Deputy General Counsel to Bush-Cheney ’04.
I know that I got one of these mailings and tossed it. I probably got them all, but admittedly I don’t read all the mailings. Scumbag republicans.
Pastor Pig’s name is actually Pastor Mark Driscoll of Seattle and apparently he’s practicing to be the most repulsive excuse for a Christian yet:
[snip]
Writing in his personal blog, Driscoll offers his fellow pastors “some practical suggestions” on how to avoid the type of temptation that consumed Pastor Haggard. And near the top of his list?
“Most pastors I know do not have satisfying, free, sexual conversations and liberties with their wives. At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this. It is not uncommon to meet pastors’ wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband’s sin, but she may not be helping him either.”
Uh-huh. Leave it to a fundamentalist Evangelical preacher to have such a profound understanding of human sexuality. Or as the inimitable sex columnist Dan Savage so aptly put it:
“I’m sure Ted Haggard is saying something along these lines to his wife right now: ‘Oh, honey… I wouldn’t have been having those meth-fueled ass-banging sessions with that gay hooker if you hadn’t have let yourself go like that!’ “
Values voters my ass… how about “bigot voters”. I remember when these people were considered lunatic fringe wackos. Make sure to thank a Republican for empowering these hateful little shitbags.
Interesting that his wife letting herself go (gag) made Pastor Ted hanker after some male prostitute action. But then again, mentioning that would blow Pastor Pig’s theory, wouldn’t it?
isn’t it piling on the guy to dis his wife like that?
Sheesh…I just saw a picture of his wife on Jesus’ General, and I think she looks fabulous. He’s pretty weird looking with the perpetual lip curl, but she is very attractive.
I feel real sorry for her, and even worse for their two young sons. But for him, I have little sympathy.
To blame the wife, that goes beyond the pale.
It had to happen:
WASHINGTON – The new chief of the FBI’s Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress.
Assistant FBI Director James Burrus called the bureau’s public corruption program “a sleeping giant that we’ve awoken,” and predicted the nation will see continued emphasis in that area “for many, many, many years to come.”
So much evidence of wrongdoing is surfacing in the nation’s capital that Burrus recently committed to adding a fourth 15- to 20-member public corruption squad to the FBI’s Washington field office.
Yup. The Congressional vice-squad will be the dirtiest duty, dealing with some of the most evil criminals in history. I just have one question: Where is the White House undercover sting?
Hah. The White House will decree that the FBI is to fix the facts around the intelligence, and only focus on finding the corrupt Democrats so that Fox is able to continue it’s ‘fair and balanced’ reporting.
Monday Climate Change Edition
NASA has funded research into another “sunshade” proposal to combat global warming if its effects start to cascade faster than we can develop alternative power supplies. The plan would launch a constellation of trillions of small free-flying spacecraft, each the weight of a large butterfly, a million miles above Earth into an orbit aligned with the sun, called the L-1 orbit. The spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud with a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer. About 10 percent of the sunlight passing through the 60,000-mile length of the cloud, pointing lengthwise between the Earth and the sun, would be diverted away from our planet. The effect would be to uniformly reduce sunlight by about 2 percent over the entire planet, enough to balance the heating of a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere.
The United Nations will host a conference on climate change in Nairobi, Kenya, starting today to discuss ways to improve the climate amid British warnings of a worldwide disaster should governments fail to cooperate on global warming.
Global concentrations of carbon dioxide in 2005 reached the highest levels ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (the UN’s weather agency) said Friday. “To really make CO2 level off we will need more drastic measures than are in the (1997) Kyoto Protocol today,” senior WMO scientist Geir Braathen told reporters.
A team of researchers in Britain and the US has come up with a revolutionary new aircraft design that could make a dramatic contribution to curbing climate change. The plane is both radically quieter and is 35% more fuel-efficient than the best current designs.
One of Britain’s top climate scientists tells the BBC that the language of chaos and catastrophe regarding climate change has got out of hand, as the debate in Europe between climate change scientists and climate skeptics has now shifted to being between climate change scientists and climate alarmists. Meanwhile, New Scientist reports that climate change skeptics have by no means admitted defeat and plan to savage the latest report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due in February 2007.
US demand for clean energy is growing fast. In fact, wind energy developers are ordering so many windmills, they’re running into a supply problem. And the solar market is booming as new technologies offer alternatives to silicon, as silicon supplies remain tight.
US demand for clean energy is growing fast.
That is despite the fact that the Bush government is considering changing laws so that anyone who lowers their energy use will be arrested. Just kidding! The same way that Ford found itself way behind the public on the hybrid cars, alternative energy systems are becoming the hot thing.
My brother is number 2 in a company in Philly that deals in HVAC and environment control for large industry. The second Pa offers its’ citizens some sort of rebates or financial help for alternative energy systems, they’ll be getting into the installation of wind/solar systems for home owners. (I told him I want mine to be the model home and I’d better get a good deal or else.) As always, the people are way ahead of the government.
Link
Maybe he’ll be giving up the blogging gig.
Only if megachurches without, you know, God, are involved. 🙂
Labor unions and missiles – it makes my liberal head hurt.
but lessons not learned
The war in Iraq is over Army recruiters claim.
Bush family may need this new ranch
Weeks ago I thought it was tinfoil: Bush family bought 100,000 acres in Paraguay. Apparently not so tin foil…found it in
The Lie That Blew Up the World as a former official, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, under Reagan ask: Is Bush Next?
Link
Previously Unreleased 200-Page Report Said to Document Some 180 Security Flaws and Recommendations Made to Diebold and the State
Still Unclear as to Who Made Changes, Additions, Redactions to Publicly Released 40-Page Version of Report…
On Friday night, we broke Rebecca Abrahams’s exclusive story concerning the long-sought yet never-released complete “Risk Assessment Report” of Diebold’s electronic voting systems as commissioned by the state of Maryland from the Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in 2003.[snip]
The original, never-before-released SAIC report was nearly 200 pages in all, and details a number of extraordinary security vulnerabilities found in Diebold’s AccuVote-TS (touch-screen) voting systems as deployed by the state of Maryland initially in 2002. The version of the SAIC report that was eventually released to the public, after extreme redaction, was a mere 38 pages long.[snip]
SAIC’s Maryland Diebold Report, September 2, 2003
(Complete, never released, unredacted version, 197 pages including suggested edits and changes as made by unknown party.)
– Section 1 [PDF, appx 3mb]
– Section 2 [PDF, appx 8mb]
– Section 3 [PDF, appx 8mb]
– Section 4 [PDF, appx 6mb]
– Section 5 [PDF, appx 2mb]
SAIC’s Maryland Diebold Report, as Publicly Released September 2, 2003
(Edited and redacted down to 40 pages)
– Redacted Version [PDF, appx 700k]
Election reform is the only way to guarantee that Republicans will stop stealing them. National reform. Begin at the bottom and go right to the top of the process, honestly look at ALL vulnerabilities, close all loopholes and institute laws making it impossible for ANYONE to ever steal another election. An honest election process would probably put an end to the Rovian dream of one party rule.