tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85730232011-04-22T08:38:09.018+03:00"Any idiot can handle a crisis, it's day to day living that wears you out." - ChekhovKirill Nils Seniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699371611466756422noreply@blogger.comBlogger1471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573023.post-1131662553207528832005-11-11T00:35:00.000+02:002005-11-11T00:42:33.216+02:00

I'll leave it at what little has been posted here and say good night to this not-too-often visited site. In short, I just got tired of the rage and decided I had better things in my life than anger. I'm focusing on my wife, my kid, and our collective future instead of the stupidity of the public to have elected a moron into the WH in 2000, re-elected him in 2004, and the 38% (depending on which

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Abkhazia claims it is separate from Georgia and the Russians back them. The US, and most of the rest of the world, says that Abkhazia is part of Georgia and supports their claim. Recently, Georgia named an avenue after George W. Bush. Also recently, a large oil field was found in the Black Sea off the coast of Abkhazia.Any ideas on what may happen? Anyone want to buy a house along the coast

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Since right wingers are generally spineless, I'll post a comment I left at GOP Bloggers (which they will hold until they reject it or approve it - cute, eh, that so many nutsos from the right are afraid of dissent and reason). They yap about why anyone who opposes the war must be treasonous by default. I think the writer states that it is the only logical conclusion to be reached about those

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Lack of posting lately due to a distinct lack of inspiration about much of anything.Nevertheless...In using the language of helping the poor and addressing inequality, Bush, or rather Rove, is trying to set us all up, as usual. By not necessarily looking for pain somewhere else in the budget and not considering any tax-cut repeals or tax rises, they are attempting to “prove” that government

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David Sirota nails it.

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The Hard Way: enforce international trade agreements or don't trade with countries that can't make it work. Make countries respect the rights of workers, give workers living wages, offer retirement benefits and health care. Enforce environmental and safety standards so people aren't dying, or being crippled, from preventable, hazardous conditions.The Easy Way: ensure that your own country has

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Don't say those two words. Yes, they are unconstitional but, while we are in the process of trying to nail the far right's coffin shut in the midst of the nation's awakening to the fact that they obviously can't govern, save it for the days when the adults are back in charge and all we have to worry about is some tumult over a blue dress.That was my answer 20+ years ago. It wasn't too

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Stephen Fry lays out a beauty and, being Fry, it obviously compels me to quote from the greatest British comedy ever."Sorry about the pong you fellows, trod in a Boche and can’t get rid of the whiff."And this, in turn, leads me to watch the episode on the DVD collection that ConnMan gave to me a few years back. Watching it comes the following hilariously (sadly?) apt quote from the same episode.

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Publius, last week, nails one truly well to the wall. The GOP endorsed the bullshit about which they are now so loudly complaining. Any time one party has as close to absolute rule as the GOP currently does, that party gets to set the rules of the game. The non-GOP majority, which is also unfortunately a voting minority, is simply playing by the current rules.Suck on that, you ninnies!P.S. - I

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For Neil Shakes: this is the one to which I referred earlier

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Okay, I had a nice long spiel about what Yuschenko's sacking means for the governance of Ukraine but Blogger ate it (as it often does when you try to highlight the full text of what you have just written). So, in brief: Yuschenko is an idiot to have released Tymoshenko and he is being played by Poroshenko who knows about too many of the skeletons in Yuschenko's closet. Poroshenko is a fat/

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So, the reports are that this Katrina business may cost upwards of $100 bn hit to the economy. Sounds like it's time for another tax cut and the federal revenue shortfalls can then be blamed on Katrina and whatever other failures of security these morons have up their sleeve. Whatever it is, it couldn't be the tax cuts because they are pure stimulus.Fuck 'em!!

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If I have read correctly, putting it together, while the problems in New Orleans were beginning a/o continuing:Bush is pretending to play a guitar and attending a birthday party for McCain;Dick Cheney is closing on a new home;Condi is out shopping and attending shows;The Bitch Mother is yucking it up at how the poor have got it good in "free" housing with "free" food.Sums up the Bushites quite

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For the non-Russian speakers: Chertoff's name is a derivation of Devil. The Russian word for devil, not necessarily The Devil but can also mean A Devil, is Chert (pronounced 'chort'; in children's or learners' books, it would be written чёрт with the 'ё' signifying an 'o'-like sound instead of 'e'). Chert is also used as a curse similar to the English use of the word 'Damn!' The ending 'off'

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Monotheistic orthodoxy says that there is but one, true god who created everything - including all the paradoxes apparently. Science continues to show the lack of evidence for a god. Therefore, the facts of science of must be attacked.Republican orthodoxy says that government is bad and unable to accomplish much worthwhile to people. Clinton showed that government can work and do much for the

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...but it's a damn good thing that we didn't have a Bush for president in October 1962.The Iraq War was about WMD no matter how many times the wingers try to claim there was much more to it and change the reasons for the stupidity. But, as if we didn't know it already, they lied and lied and lied.I'm sure that Bush is happy about Katrina because it pulled his raping of Social Security and his

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Unfortunately, the missionaries have taken their toll on the educational development of kids in Ukraine. I have come across plenty of youngsters who don't believe in things like evolution favoring instead the ludicrous idea of creationism or, just as ludicrous, Intelligent Design. Several things have conspired to this. The two most important are that religion is very fashionable here and the

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The right-wing nuts are screaming about Planned Parenthood getting money in the New Orleans clean-up operation. The left wing is screaming about Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing getting money for the same. Hey, folks!! Who gives a flying monkey fuck who gets the money to help out...as long as they're helping out. Of course, it is a legitimate question to ask what the hell Planned Parenthood

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I know it's a long shot to think that the rich in Texas would open their doors for some poor blacks from Louisiana but perhaps we should pay these people some taxpayer dollars to try to recruit their compassion so they'll put some people up? At least that would be more honest than trying to blackmailing them into feeling guilty about the situation...which, in any event, wouldn't work because you

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NOAA predicts that there is a 100% chance of above-normal tropical storm activity as of August. If they are right, there could be another hit or two to the US mainland but where is the big question. True, most of the storms peter out before they make landfall in the US but, when they do it, well...you've seen it. Mother Nature is wonderful in her ability to show us who's boss, no matter how

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In 1917, it became clear that the US was being drawn into the conflict in Europe. Woodrow Wilson sat down with a typewriter and began to write the speech he would give to Congress before asking them to approve of the US entering what would become known as WWI. The speech was very well received and Congress stood and applauded. After giving his speech, he remarked that it was strange that

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Great, the morality buffoons are at it again. I would love to force them all to come to Europe and watch local television for 24 hours. If they are as prudish as they like to project, and not just pandering as we all predict, they will wig out in the first few hours at what they see.If they look to make success on this decency front, a nice little distraction to the idiots in the base who can

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In The Economist, here.When do the denunciations begin of this ultra-liberal rag? What a bunch of Euro-appeaser wimps. They must be terrorists themselves if they think the GWOT can be won without a boot to the head to the dark-skinned and Big Brother in the bedroom of every 'Murican. Wait, they don't think the GWOT can be won, they think it will just fade into the background? Defeatist

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Conservatives seem to feel a lot braver now that Bush's poll numbers have dropped. They complain that Bush has expanded government to unprecedented proportions betraying conservative principles. Well, boo fucking hoo! What did these idiots expect by electing two people who have survived at the taxpayers' teat their whole lives. Cheney has been in government jobs his whole life except when he

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So, pushing 40 with a kid who's almost 2. You know what? I know it's been said in many places by many people but...We too often forget the beauty of being a kid.I spent a lot of time playing with the kid this weekend to give my wife a break and take advantage of the end of the summer weather (here in Kiev it's still warm but it is changing and the trees have already started to turn). We ran

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Since Jenna and not-Jenna are too drunk, brainless, and rich to be sacrificed in the line of fire, why not send them a couple sets of crotchless panties and get them on the USO show to "entertain" the troops? They can then merge their hobbies with their father's politics and we can better believe that W is actually willing to something for the troops.Update: These fat fuckers could use the

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Blumenthal today, in Salon (by subscription), talks about W's disdain for law and order with his preference for war preznittin'. Nothing new there but the thought just hit me: if the "son of a bitch in the White House" had actually paid attention to law and order, along with national security, as he was warned by the outgoing Clinton administration a few months earlier, he may have prevented 9/

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I was thinking today about a professor of Soviet Affairs and a lecture he gave to us in 1986. It reminded me of this interview at Buzzflash from last year. He spent over 20 years in Army intelligence and told us that both the DIA and the CIA had enough evidence that the Soviet Union, as early as the early 70s, could not survive in its current form. Andropov apparently realized this and saw the

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There is a school of quantum mechanics that says that every time we think a thought it creates a new universe moving forward from that moment. Something about our brain activity being part of the physical universe and all matter being composed of waves. Hey, sue me, I’m no physicist and my last physics class was about 20 years ago. I just wish that my mind could function in multiple realities so

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Does it seem to anyone else that Pakistan is taking the bombing in London much more seriously than 9/11 or Spain? Okay, three of the 7/7 suspects are/were Pakistanis and there is arguably a much larger Pakistani population in Britain than in the US but given the seeming jubilation on 9/11 of many in Pakistan, the continued support for Al Qaeda among many of the country's people and tribes, and

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Can someone please tell me what is so god-damned difficult to understand here?Article [IX.]The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.In other words, I think, there are certain rights listed in this document by name but this list is by no means exhaustive. Given the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights, how

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There's some Greek philosophy backing this up somewhere but I had Greek philosophy so long ago I can't remember what it is.It's all very easy - and I know I am going to piss off an untold number of Democrats, not to mention the... If you need some religion to lay out morality then you are incredibly weak because you're not being moral, which takes a backbone and thoughtfulness, you're just

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If they aren't already planning his death somehow, I bet Dick/Weed are on their knees praying the most heartfelt prayer they have ever committed that Rove is charged with treason. Then, the law and order twits can probably streamline the sentence so he is quite summarily shot. He knows too much about them and has a way of getting back at people since he has been pissed off at the world for so

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And, yes, I am referring to Bush's Brain but, since it seems to me that they almost all use the one cranial resource to march in lockstep to whatever their overlords command, I do mean a GOP lobotomy.See here, here, here, and here...for starters. Or, just read the latter two and make Digby and RH regular stops on your daily political web stroll.

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Oh, it's been teetering for quite some time but...The top two titles over there currently push old talking points supposedly refuting the opposition to W's big fucking mistake in Mesopotamia. News for you, folks over there, you're being fed more than a few lines. The amazing thing is that these people are either too thickheaded to understand the truth or are simply so disingenuous, as most

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Kant over at Daily Kos has an interesting post on the possible deep shit into which this White House has stepped. Fortunately, though, with the pliant media the GOP enjoys, the blood has yet to be smelt in the water and it will be portrayed as he said/she said. The right wing idiots will complain about the leftist press anyway, even though they have been wrong about this, and their leaders know

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When are people going to stop getting their panties in a bunch over others taking theirs off. The boy is 16 years old which means his friends are in the same age range. You think they've never seen a naked or semi-naked woman before? There never was an episode where the Beav was told about the evils of pornography so it must not have existed in the 'heaven' of the 50s, right? Bullshit, go sit in

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His agent was leading him around, no matter Stevie's protests. We've long known that he is an emotional person and that he loves the club in which he has played since the age of 8 years. I think his agent was whispering into his ears that there were bigger and better fortunes to be found elsewhere and that he wasn't wanted at LFC. Gerrard is simply too trusting a/o too naive, he's a

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If you aren't afraid of the right wing, you're not paying attention. They did it in the 50s, 60s and 70s. They're back!

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As I have noted here before, some say it so much better than I can in my rants.In Which I Take A Wingnut Apartby DarkSyde[Subscribe]Sun Jun 19th, 2005 at 06:18:40 EETCrossposted at UTIThe Video of Conyers' hearing with Joseph Wilson, John Boniface, Ray McGovern, and Cindy Sheehan is out at Cspan.Below is my response to a war apologist who doesn't want an Inquiry or a hearing or any other

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Nothing can hurt me today.

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Was it a victory? No. It follows the right-wing path nicely, thank you.The judges that bulk of Bush's nominees are right-wing radicals who seem to have no use for true jurisprudence. Of course, there are judges from the other spectrum but how many have been nominated or how many have been confirmed. This is Bush's style and few seem to have learned how to deal with it. He does not make sense, has

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I understand Manjoo's sentiment in this article but one point is missing. It is always easier to destroy than to build something and if there is in one thing we know the Republicans are very skilled it is destroying stuff. The Democrats can keep coming in to clean up GOP messes but that makes it that much more difficult to actually accomplish anything constructive if you're too actively engaged

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Yeah, I just don't understand them and suppose I never will: mule fucking, raping a sleeping wife, mistress strangling, cheating on one's wife (too many to count).This is the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, the Religious Right.And they think atheists are going to doom the world?

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For most of my cognizance I have been overwhelmignly unimpressed (really, really underwhelmed?) by fireworks. Bread and circus and all that. Well, until you see the excitement in your baby, 18 months old in a few days, you can remain that way. Today is the 60th anniversary of VE day and the fireworks set off thunderous booms all over the city for a short period this evening. It started slow

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Proof that some people are just too damned dumb to be allowed out of the house. Today's WSJ poll shows that 72% of the responders think Robert Rubin was the best Treasury Secretary in the US over the past 10 years. Well, duh! Here's the stupid part: 16% think the honor should go to Snow. If it's not stupidity, it's a good joke.

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Putin is a dictator who uses the old canard that Russia is too big for western-style democracy to mask his Soviet-style authoritarian tendencies. In all parts of the former Soviet Union, one regulaly hears the refrain that Russia needs a strong hand to rule it. Of course, what most of us would call democracy has never been tried there and the kleptocracy that defines Russia, from its horrid

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Here's a thought: like FDIC, why don't we end the retirement provisions of SS and allow people to invest in the stock market but the government provides backup insurance, in case the market goes sour when they retire, which will provide for fully-indexed coverage in retirement based on current payouts and benefits? In other words, the people get to invest, the markets get to absorb the

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Considered impolitic because he didn't have the Kennebunkport-style elitism bred into him and he actually spoke the truth, Kennan was a master of the muddy middle and a champion of nuance, nonetheless. He wasn't a politician trying to take both sides of an issue, thus his nuance was fact-based, he was a true intellectual who understood that extremism based on black-and-whitisms was more

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So, the GOP wants to kill opportunity and take any steam out of the economy as driven by the little guy. Why can I say that? Look at the bankruptcy bill working its way to Bush's desk. The right wing loves to scream about how much better the US economy is for continuous growth and opportunity compared to other advanced economies. I happen to agree with that sentiment. I don't think it's a

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So, Greenspan calls for a consumption tax. The occasionally independent Chairman of the Federal Reserve has been collaborating with the White House again. The logic? Enter Rove:The White House has recently begun to signal its enthusiasm for such a mix of reforms. Following Mr Bush's off-the-cuff statement of admiration for Slovakia's flat tax on his visit to Bratislava last week, Karl Rove, his

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America is going to have serious partisan problems for a long, long time.Either the right wing is going to have to produce absolutely concrete evidence that liberals, i.e., in general, not a few extreme examples, are anti-American and want to soak the rich and give to the poor. We liberals already have our ducks lined up and they are visible for all who are willing to listen to the truth. Our

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I don't remember where I saw this quote related to Bush but it is quite appropriate.The latest? Yeah, we were right all along about Condi and we didn't need more proof of her lying ways but the latest about the Clarke memo in the context of Condi saying there was no info in the administrative handover from Clinton regarding Al Qaeda is just more to add to the dossier.Want more? Let's see. The

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Somehow or another, the Bush administration expects us to believe that it is concerned with human rights in China. The EU wants to lift the arms embargo on China in exchange for China signing on to arms sales limitations. Condi Rice says that this will "send the wrong signal about human rights." Now, in case the Bush administration has not noticed, it has no credibility to talk about China and

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Junior had a little go at the keyboard and now I find that the 'r' doesn't always appear when I wish it to. So, if you see that this letter is missing, it's not because I am trying to sound like Kerry in his early days, it's because the key isn't fully attached. I'll see if I can fix it.

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So, now, it turns out that the people over at Polipundit are sending emails to one another about me. Not that I am so important they need to talk about me but it is just a general note to not respond to my comments lest I hijack a thread. Hijack? I always thought I was taking part in a conversation, whether or not one agrees with me, but they apparently are more concerned with echoing their

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I have been (pa)trolling over at Polipundit the last few weeks and recently got engaged with someone that the wingnuts there hailed as their saviour and someone who would put me in my place. Needless to say he wasn't much to speak of and couldn't respond to my comments, instead spouting off his line of thinking repeatedly, when not descending into the usual rhetoric found there about how, as an

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Number 46??!! Holy cow, we're getting up there!

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Pat Roberts explains the real GOP worry about the situation in Iraq. Despite Wolfowitz' idiotic statement that there isn't a history of ethnic strife in Iraq, and I thought he was supposed to be smart, there have always been very serious problems between the ethnicities/religions in what we know of as Iraq. They have always been worried about this, I am sure, but this is the first time one of

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So, the religious right is getting restless? And, apparently, they are still so deranged they think they can have their way with the GOP which is so obviously just using them and has been ever since they took them into their bigoted fold around 1988. Ain't gonna' happen. Hey, religious right! Go back and read the bible for a little while and think about what Jesus says. When you return, if

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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01182005.html Paul Craig Roberts gets it. What the hell is wrong with the rest of the conservatives?

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So, Kerry and Boxer voted against Rice in committee. Why did the other Democrats vote for? I can think of only two reasons: 1) they knew their protest votes wouldn't change things...which makes it all the safer to vote your protest, by the way, if you're so inclined towards principle; or, 2) they figure Bush needs to get laid in order to calm his insecurity-activated testosterone wars and Rice is

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Johnathan Freedland has an interesting editorial today in The Guardian titled "Who is Bush take two?" He makes an observation I had neither thought of nor heard before: "He speaks with fervour of his mission to democratise the Middle East - believing it to be a goal equal to Reagan's vision of a free eastern Europe..." So, that's where we're going with this? Early on, I was a fan of Reagan (

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If you are still stupid enough to believe the myth of a liberal media conspiracy, you don't deserve to vote, you don't deserve to hold any position with any authority, you don't deserve anything because you are too moronic to make decisions. If you are simply so dishonest as to flack this bullshit, you deserve to be treated the same way the prisoners at Abu Ghraib were treated. Thanks to Rising

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Lifted fully from The Carpetbagger: Thankfully, Paige will be on his way back to Texas in a few weeks, but it's hard to see how his tenure could have much worse. Paige called the nation's largest group of school teachers a "terrorist organization."The record Paige compiled in Texas, which is why he became education secretary in the first place, was exposed as a fraud.A St. Louis high school

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I like to think that the yahoos who voted for Bush deserve all the injustice, poverty, grinding greed, religious persecution, and loss of freedom they get for being so willfully stupid. However, W won by such a slim margin, there are too many others in danger as well. Sara Paretsky has a good commentary: Grannie, this is what we're doing now: We imprisoned an artist in upstate New York for an

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They forgot another one of the myths being promoted not just by the right wing but put up on NHS sites: abortion increase breast cancer. As noted in another post today, education is the enemy of the right wing. Abstinence education doesn't work. Comprehensive sex education does. Want to cut down on abortions? We all do, except for the leaders of the right wing because they will then lose a potent

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Looks like Morientes will be a Liverpool player. Finally, another one who knows how to score at the Kop (when Cisse and Morientes line up together it should a sight) and who isn't a one-trick pony (ahem, Owen is not missed).

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Al Kennedy at the Guardian lays it out nicely: education is the enemy of Blair and Bush. Keep 'em stupid and they won't know any better about what they're trying to do to us. No government with any sense - and many politicians have had excellent educations - wants a populace that's confident, articulate and mentally alert. They are fundamentally opposed to education, education and education. Our

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Atrios has a good take down of the right's idiocy that there is a liberal bias in the media. It's a small start but a good one. Go read The Hunting of the President, or What Liberal Media, or Blinded by the Right, if you are so inclined and get a lot more. I particularly like the right wing screaming about liberal bias based on a survey of political leanings by reporters as if they can't be

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a Robin Hood tale in here somewhere? Quayle was robbed? I would love to have seen him spelling out the list of those things taken.

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I went out for a walk with my little boy yesterday up to and around Rodina Mat. While I am happy with the progress being made in Ukraine to a normalized free market economy, howevered stuttered at times, it was distressing to see the big billboard along the road which winds around this park dedicated to memorializing the victory in WWII. It wasn't the billboard itself that is the problem but

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If he actually could argue from a logicl standpoint as regards economics then we might be able to listen to his arguments without spewing soda, very painfully I might add, through our nose. Larry Kudlow argues that the tax cuts are creating jobs and all the naysayers were wrong while praising Mankiw. If Kudlow would actually refer back to Econ 101, he might remember that economists, including

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If I actually have any readers, and those readers are wondering... My wife and I were actively taking part in the protests here in Kiev. It was fun but perhaps not as dramatic as seen on TV. It did get a bit worrisome at a couple of points when the reports were swirling about that the Ukrainian forces were on the outskirts of Kiev ready to move on us and when there were very credible reports of

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They lied, or were seriously incompetent, in their analysis of the job situation and the tax effort for recovery. They lied, or were seriously incompetent, in their analysis of the job needing to be done in Afghanistan. They lied, or were seriously incompetent, in their analysis of the danger of Iraq and the need to go in there. They lied, or were seriously incompetent, in their analysis of

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Election action after the original re-run, vacation, and sciatica have combined to keep me away for awhile. I should be up and running soon, though, when it becomes clear I am able to sit for longer than 5 minutes.

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On Sunday, Ukraine will have its run-off vote for president between Yanukovych and Yuschenko. Yanukovych is the twice imprisoned (for violent crime in his youth) Prime Minister who is aligned with the current President, Kuchma, and is supported by Russia. He is probably also quietly supported by Bush because he has pledged to keep the Ukrainian contingent in Iraq. He is a terribly corrupt

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Начинается... The white men in the Senate are trying to decide for all women what they can do with their bodies and, as usual, the GOP doesn't have the balls to face it head on, instead choosing to bury it in other legislation. I remember all too well when the roomful of people signing the rollback almost two years ago was nothing but men. Why was it all men? Because they don't understand a

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Утром кот Принёс на лапах Первый снег! Первый снег! Он имеет Вкус и запах - Первый снег! Первый снег! Он кружится, Лёгкий, новый, У ребят Над головой, Он успел Платок пуховый Расстелить На мостовой, Он белеет Вдоль забора, Прикорнул На фонаре, - Значит, скоро, Очень скоро Полетят салазки С горок, Значит, можно будет Снова Строить крепость Во дворе! - Я. Аким

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From the OED: fascism - an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. Enough said? As I have noted in this blog before, we aren't talking about Nazis when we call the GOP fascists, we are referring to their chosen political system. Fascism is of course most closely associated with the Nazis but that's not what we are talking about. As OED notes in a

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Conservatives can't quite get their little minds around the idea that a vast majority of Jews in America continue to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats while the conservatives seem to be the loudest, proudest supporters of any policy Israel deems necessary for its survival. It's simple when you think about it but thinking is not the strong suit of most conservatives. Jews in America, after

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Maybe if they stopped thinking about it so much, it wouldn't be such a problem. John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number. There are plans to extend the interstate from Indianapolis through

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Was the election stolen again? I don't know and I really don't care. Even if Kerry won both the electoral vote and the popular vote, if we could recount all the votes, the margin would probably be so slim that we would continue the raging debates that the idiot GOP started in 1964 with Goldwater (and I used to be GOP! Somewhere along the line I grew up) and then ramped up with a new passion in

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In the words of George Carlin, "I tried. I really, really tried." I don't believe in god and am not sure whether I ever did, but I sure as hell tried and went along with the way my father tried to teach me. I went along with the Presbyterian churches, the evangelical churches, the Catholic churches, the non-denominational chapels on the military bases, and the Assembly of God church during high

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So, we have the questionable cabinet appointments (most notably Alberto 'Abu Ghraib' Gonzales), we have Federalist Society nitwits lining up for court posts, and now we'll have empty slots at the CIA. The cabinet posts are temporary. The court appointments and possibly CIA jobs are longer term, as in potential lifelong career choices. As people who actually believe that America should be for

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I've noticed a new trend recently over at the conservative sites I sometimes visit and where I drop a comment or two. They pretend to ignore me but in their comments they write to each other about sending an email. Apparently, they have decided they don't want to face the truth of what I say or lose on a logical basis so they read the blog in question and then exchange ideas by email. I have

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Commander? No, child. So much for that special relationship, eh? Paving the way for the future, possibly, Howard refused to call Bush and congratulate his victory. Why? Because the White House has refused to speak to Howard for pissing them off when he criticized Blair's use of intelligence prior to the Iraq stupidity. Since Bush is so overwhelmingly unpopular in the UK (where more people

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With all the talk of how to move the Democratic Party forward there seems to be a lot of talk about using the Republican Party method of how to go about it. I agree with building the foundations and think tanks to push ideas ahead but all this talk seems to be about how to boost the Democratic Party forward instead of America. This makes me a bit itchy. I am not a party man and never have been

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The Rev. James Forbes, on Morning Sedition at Air America Radio, had a few good points today. Progressives need to stop trying to appeal to the mind and try to appeal more to the heart. That doesn't mean we need start spouting lies and sounding simple about being compassionate like the Republicans monopolize. Let them have their monopoly. We need to do a better job of simplifying our message

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Eric Boehlert points out today in Salon that the press is deciding once again to not do its job as an objective observer and is falling into line behind the Bush spin offering nice, collective fellatio to this faux-bravado regime (a cowboy who's terrified of the equine, I don't think so). Way to go liberal media...what a crock of shit the right wing has pushed onto the people. With a dead-even

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Yesterday, I noted a Guardian piece on the Bush administration's desire to cast off the old treaty regarding space-based weapons systems (as opposed to ground- or air-based with which we have experimented for 30 years or more). This would allow the US to take out other countries' spy satellites if needed. Now, how many countries actually have spy satellites? My quick research suggests about 5

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I've had the window open for several days but only now got around to reading the piece from Philip Pullman in The Guardian on the sedition called reading. As many of you know, I have a background in literature, prior to my MBA studies. Add to that my intense interest in politics and distaste for the intrusion of religion into politics as anathema to American democracy and you'll understand my

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In their infinite wisdom, the current war planners think we need to prepare for war in space. The Guardian today highlights the prospects. Now, doesn't this go back to how failed the thinking is in the current administration that they are interested in this stupidity? As many have pointed out before, the people planning in this administration cannot get past the idea that nation states are

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I heard a lot about how much an asset W's wife was on the campaign trail. I wonder which one they were talking about: Laura, who once commented that she doesn't get involved in W's work, or Condi, who should have been manning the NSA when she decided to out politicking instead. The Carpetbagger today has an interesting find about what Condi was up to 4 days after the release of the latest OBL

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From the eminently conservative VDare: November 05, 2004 An Election That Will Live In Infamy By Paul Craig Roberts On November 2 Americans blew their only chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the world. The entire world is stunned by the Bush administration’s abandonment of a half century of US diplomacy in favor of misguided, unilateralist, "preemptive" naked aggression on totally

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I wonder if McCain's soul knows a good jig to keep the guy in the picture company. See, in 2000, Rove's push polling, people were asked if they would vote for McCain if they knew he was a traitor to the US. Of course, this was a reference to McCain's signing a letter after being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton denouncing the US actions in Vietnam. This was a ridiculous charge as torture rarely

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As I expected, the right wingers are as bad at winning as they are losing which proves they are still losers. They cannot get over their addiction to whining about the media, about liberal elitists, and about the people in the arts. In other words, they don't like intellectuals because intellectuals understand the nuance in the real world. The right wingers either are, or want everyone to

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Last week I posted about the GOP's abuse of Americans by claiming some are "real" and some are the latte-sipping, Volvo driving, etc., etc., people from unreal America. From today's Salon, by Janet Sullivan: By the time I had gone to bed, the chorus of pundits had fixed on a single tune, as they always do, and remarkably quickly, too. (Do they watch one another's feeds in the green room?) They

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While we're busy wringing our hands, they're busy with their shredders provided to them by the liberal media. Let's not forget we still have: c. 370 tons of missing dangerous explosives, a Majority Whip being brought up on charges, a damning CIA report about the administration, unanswered responsibilities recommended by the 9/11 commission, FBI investigations into Halliburton's abuse of taxpayer

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Okay, I feel more myself today and slept a normal night's sleep for the first time in a month or so. Today, I am the person most people know me as. I am angry and cynical which is a good thing. This is my natural milieu and it feels like home. Ahhhh... The optimism felt over the past six months was strange, I believe, for me and most of those around me. Not to worry, I have returned and am ready

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