I have now begun a series of posts in which I respond to right-wingers on various subjects. Some of these responses will be to stupid arguments that the right-wing and conservatives like to use very often, others will be responses to tremendously stupid anomoly arguments that somebody on the other side of the internet thought […]
More than 90 percent of Iraqis (i.e. the people who are dying over there) want American forces to leave. This number has risen twenty percent in the last two years.
Ironic:
The State Department says it was surprised by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah’s statement that he would not have ordered the abduction of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to a large war.
“It was a surprising statement for somebody who launched a war to say that he regretted launching that war,” […]
So… Now we learn that the Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist M.D. who “diagnosed” Terri Shaivo via an edited video of her, and came to the exact wrong conclusion about her condition– would not be allowed to work in a hospital. He hasn’t done the work required to keep his status as a medial professional, […]
The other day, I wrote about a piece of legislation authored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator Tom Coburn which was meant to make government spending more transparent by providing a searchable internet database for government spending projects. It sounds like a really cool idea, I must say. Well, after the bill passed […]
Associated Press on the Katherine Harris campaign:
Click on Katherine Harris’ Senate campaign Web site and look for the blog.
“This section will be updated soon,” reads a message — dated May 29.
A Web site 100 days out of date is hardly the worst of it for Harris, whose political wounds, many of them self-inflicted, make her […]
Earlier today, I had to reply to some right-wing Katrina denier was trying to say that the response to the hurricane was largely a local failure and not one of the federal government. I just had to set this idiot straight. The following is what I replied.
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The New Orleans disaster was, as most Americans agree, […]
Does the President know where he is? This interview (multiformat video) last night was pretty strange. The President looked extremely uncomfortable and unable to respond to many questions. When asked about sacrifices that the American people might be making, he was only able to mumble about people paying too much in taxes, not casualties in […]
Ooooh this does look kinda bad:
Democrats have accused the Republican candidate for state auditor of conducting a poll with a racially motivated question intended to point out that her opponent is black.
The telephone poll on behalf of Republican state Rep. Mary Taylor asks a series of questions about the voting record of Democratic state Rep. […]
Oh-ho-ho. Everybody’s favorite racist Senator, George ‘let’s welcome macaca here to America‘ Allen has been linked to a racist group called the “Council of Conservative Citizens,” which evidently evolved out of some extremely racist people. The Nation has the scoop:
Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council […]
Somebody recently suggested that the United Nations has failed as a global organization because of the situation in Darfur and the fact that it hasn’t been stopped by the UN. I should really write more about Darfur on this blog. The following is what I replied.
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While I certainly agree with your belief that more should […]
“I find it absolutely amazing John that any politician who had anything to do with Katrina had nerve enough to walk into the city of New Orleans Today”
CNN’s Cafferty on Katrina. Go watch.
There really aren’t many great people on CNN (Christiane Amanpour almost is almost always good, Anderson Cooper is sometimes good as is Soledad […]
Here’s a list of all the names for President Bush’s wars. I originally wrote this post back in May, but since a new name has been coined, I have posted the following updated version. Talk about branding problems.
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1. First the President called it Crusade against Terrorism. This was quickly dropped for freaking obvious reasons.
2. Next […]
Evidently freedom of expression is a privilage rather than a something that is bestowed upon all human beings, as the US Bill of Rights so old-fashionedly stated. It doesn’t help if your skin is dark, either. Reuters writes:
An Iraqi architect on Tuesday said he was forced to change his t-shirt before boarding a flight in […]
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