Bush was keeping his life in balance when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Tuesday. He had some partying on his schedule that could not be interrupted by a hurricane. Rather than me rant about it here, I’ll direct you to Bob Harris’s blog where he has a post comparing Bush to [...]
Archive for August, 2005
How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
Allen Raymond
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Have you seen the American Express ads promoting Andy Roddick in this year’s U.S. Open? You can see the ads here, but basically they’re about how Andy’s fun self takes his American Express card and goes out on the town to party hard while Andy’s serious tennis self stays in the hotel and rests [...]
Robert Scheer wrote a column about the Iraqi Draft Constitution and those in power who are writing it. Here’s an excerpt:
“The U.S. now has to recognize that [it] overthrew Saddam Hussein to replace him with a pro-Iranian state,” said regional expert Peter W. Galbraith, the former U.S. ambassador to Croatia and an advisor to [...]
Mr. War President speaks ad nauseum about the War on Terror being waged in Iraq and how we are there to fight the “terrorists” so we don’t have to fight them at home. But who are we fighting and why? Are they all terrorists? Sean Gonsalvez has some answers in his Tuesday [...]
Like our own nation’s founders over two centuries ago, the Iraqis are grappling with difficult issues, such as the role of the federal government. What is important is that Iraqis are now addressing these issues through debate and discussion — not at the barrel of a gun.
That’s a direct quote from President Bush’s Saturday Radio [...]
Update on the most “gagged” person in United States history.
Published by August 26th, 2005 in Iraq, Middle East, Miscellaneous and Politics. 0 CommentsIn case you don’t know, the most “gagged” person is none other than Sibel Edmonds, a linguist hired and fired shortly after 9/11. Some background here and here.
After her testimony before congress in 2002, the unusual step was taken, 2 years later in 2004, to retroactively classify her testimony.
Here are two letters [...]
I’m gobsmacked. I don’t even know what to say about this. I’ll let the facts speak for themselves in this NY Times article.
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Curiosity got the best of me today, so I went surfing around the right-wing web sites to see if I could find any outright condemnation of Robertson’s remarks. Granted, I don’t spend a lot of time on the wingnut sites, but I am familiar with a few of them.
I started at the web site [...]
Please read this excellent column by Paul Krugman in the Friday New York Times. Excerpt:
For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this:
American families: “We’re not doing very well.”
Washington officials: “You’re wrong - you’re doing great. Here, look at these statistics!”
(big snip… read [...]
I checked Bernard Goldberg’s list of the 100 People Who are Screwing Up America, and did not find Pat Robertson on the list. Maybe he’ll make the paperback version. If he does, which one of these evil America haters will he bump off the list?
Jimmy Carter
Paul Krugman
Al Gore
Bill Moyers
Al Franken
Harry Belafonte
Barbra Streisand
My money [...]
