$4,000,000,000.00
That’s the amount that has literally disappeared in Iraq. The Congressional Research Service (which handles a lot of the statistics and numbers used by Congress) can’t even make heads nor tails of what happened to this huge chunk of our tax money. What little details are available can be found here.
Neil Young’s album can be heard streaming here. MP3s might start floating around the blogosphere pretty soon, and I’ll link when possible. I’ve listened to all 10 tracks now, and they’re all pretty good, but Track #7 “Let’s Impeach the President” is really great. I can only wonder how much airtime on traditional radio it’ll […]
House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., center, gets out of a Hydrogen Alternative Fueled automobile, left, as he prepares to board his SUV, which uses gasoline, after holding a new conference at a local gas station in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2006 to discuss the recent rise in gas prices. Hastert and other members of […]
Associated Press reports:
Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government’s role in atrocities in the Darfur region.
“The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end,” Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional […]
Florida– Limbaugh arrested, over prescription forgery, so he could get his drugs. I just heard about this on tv news, it’s breaking right now. Limbaugh is of course, is a highly conservative talk radio mogul, who has made his money off of bashing liberals. He was revealed to be a prescription drug junkie some years […]
Robin Williams was on The Daily Show the other day, wearing a t-shirt that says “I’M THE DECIDER.” People laughed when he came out, and he spent all of his time bashing Republicans, instead of promoting his new film, RV. Pretty cool of him to do, and damn is the man funny when he talks […]
Fri-day!
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[Previous Friday Sunflower Blogging]
Knight Ridder on the new Senate report on Katrina:
In a scorching account of government failure, a bipartisan Senate committee on Thursday blamed the botched response to Hurricane Katrina on a failure of leadership that stretched from the White House to the mayor’s office in New Orleans.
Although the report’s call for disbanding the Federal Emergency […]
Print industry trade magazine Editor and Publisher writes:
Ever since she earned a widely-expected Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for her Washington Post exclusive on CIA “secret prisons” in Europe, Dana Priest has been attacked by conservative commentators for supposedly turning classified information into a vehicle for undermining the war on terror. Bill Bennett, among […]
Top Presidential aide and top Republican political strategist Karl Rove may be indicted within 2-3 weeks, the New York Times is reporting. This is consistent with other, separate rumors that Rove might be indicted within a month’s time, maybe a bit sooner. We’re looking at a least multiple counts of perjury, and, I wouldn’t be […]
The Post reports today on its front page:
Exxon Mobil Corp. reported $8.4 billion in first-quarter profit yesterday, as members of Congress outraged over high gasoline prices hastened to propose measures that would boost taxes on oil firms, open new areas to drilling and provide rebates to taxpayers but would not necessarily alter prices at the […]
There are rumors that all televisions in the White Hosue are tuned to Fox, and that it’s the only channel allowed on Air Force One. This, only days after former Fox anchor Tony Snow accepted the job of White House Press Secretary.
Song: We Didn’t Start The Fire
Artist: Billy Joel (Wikipedia)
Genre: Rock
Speed: Medium
Lyrics: Lyrics Freak
Notes: 50th Daily MP3! I feel like I should do something special for this one. This song’s about the last 50 years of the 20th century, more or less, so I guess it’s fitting. Sort of. 1949-89, anyway. The lyrics are cleverly put […]
Another lawsuit against the Bush Administration. I wrote about an earlier one here. Eleven Congressmen are banding together to file a lawsuit in federal court against the Bush Administration over a flagrant violation of the Constitution. BradBlog explains:
“As most school children can attest,” Stark says, “a bill is just a bill on Capitol Hill until […]
Ten states are suing the Bush Administration’s Environmental “Protection” Agency over global warming, Associated Press reports:
Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants.
[…]
The states, joined by environmental groups, sued the
Environmental Protection Agency over its decision not to regulate […]
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