Under the guise of preserving the security of the state, secret agencies monitor its citizens’ telephone communications without reference to a court or any meaningful legislative oversight; massive amounts of information are gathered and analysed from banks, libraries and other institutions used by the country’s citizens; enemies of the state are held in secret [...]
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Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Calvin Trillin
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Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8
Bob Dylan
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman
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Everything is bigger in Texas. Especially the idiots!
Published by September 13th, 2006 in Miscellaneous. 0 CommentsKarma does in fact have a strange way of working itself out.
This example comes in the form of last weekend’s Quadrangle Festival in Texarkana Texas where dying pigeons fell from the sky, dampening the mood at the festival.
According to news reports, the pigeons were poisoned by the downtown branch of Capital One in an attempt [...]
There is a familiar litany of reasons for the growing opposition in this country to our involvement in Iraq. The fact that it is not going well is certainly a key one, along with the terrible human cost. The war is a financial drain and, even more critically, a burden on our armed [...]
On Monday The New York Times reported this:
The median hourly wage for American workers has declined 2 percent since 2003, after factoring in inflation. The drop has been especially notable, economists say, because productivity - the amount that an average worker produces in an hour and the basic wellspring of a nation’s living standards - [...]
UFO Sighting
Published by August 29th, 2006 in Miscellaneous, Technology, Travel and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsLast Sunday night (August 27, 2006) at approximately 11pm I experienced my first UFO sighting.
My girlfriend and I were driving back to Seattle from Portland and somewhere outside of Federal Way (around mile marker 149) we saw something falling from the sky leaving a long brilliant green trail behind it that light up the sky [...]
Shortly after winning the 2004 presidential election, George W Bush boasted that he had saved political capital and that he intended to spend it. And in talking of the growing mess in Iraq, and the culpability of his administration, he said this: “We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections”, his [...]
My cousin emailed this photo to me along with some information about the author. He is a registered Republican and retired military. He had to get a county permit for the sign and does not get any local press. The only people that seem to get upset are some of the neighbors, so he decided to [...]
How to Lose Friends and Influence at the U.N.
Published by July 24th, 2006 in Middle East and Politics. 0 CommentsRepublican Senator George Voinovich was the sole GOP member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to balk at President Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. His opposition, along with that of every Democratic member of the committee was based on well founded fears that Bolton’s [...]
Even for those of us who have always believed that the Bush administration’s foreign policies were simplistic, naïve, misguided and ultimately doomed to failure, the present foreign policy shambles is shocking to behold. The litany is depressing.
The hole we have dug for ourselves in Iraq just gets deeper as the chaos there continues unabated. Not [...]
U.S. Supreme Court to the Rescue - For Now
Published by July 4th, 2006 in Politics and al Qaeda. 0 CommentsJust when many of us were beginning to wonder if our constitutional system of divided government, with its inherent checks and balances, was a long cherished myth which had been effectively demolished by the power-hungry Bush Administration, the United States Supreme Court, on Thursday, reminded us that it is alive and well - at least [...]
