Day 141 of Bush's Silence

Today marks Day 141 of Mr. Bush's silence on the genocide, for he hasn't let the word Darfur slip past his lips publicly since Jan. 10 (even that was a passing reference with no condemnation).
Day 141 of Bush's Silence - New York Times: "Mr. Bush even killed the Senate-passed Darfur Accountability Act, which would have condemned the genocide."

William Rivers Pitt | Exploit the Rift

This very excellent article by William Rivers Pitt outlines the the widening cracks in the GOP agenda and how these rifts should be exploited.
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Exploit the Rift: "Members of the Republican Party's political action corps pride themselves on discipline and adherence to the line. Most of the time they are very good at this, which explains to a degree their ascendancy of late. All of a sudden, however, that discipline has started to crack, and the outlines of a full-fledged civil war within the ranks of the GOP are beginning to become manifestly clear. "

It's All Newsweek's Fault

It's All Newsweek's Fault - New York Times: "Just since the election, we've witnessed the unmasking of Armstrong Williams and Jeff Gannon. We've learned - thanks to Newsweek's parent publication, The Washington Post - that the Pentagon went so far as to deliberately hide the circumstances of Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death from his own family for weeks, lest the truth mar the P.R. advantages to be reaped from his memorial service. Even as Scott McClellan instructs Newsweek on just what stories it should write to atone for its sins, a professional propagandist sits as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Kenneth Tomlinson, who also runs the board supervising Voice of America and other government-run media outlets. He's been hard at work meddling in the journalism on NPR and PBS.
This steady drip of subterfuge and news manipulation increasingly tells a more compelling story than the old news that Newsweek so egregiously botched. "

Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose

TomPaine.com - Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose: "Wal-Mart is one of only two employers in Maryland that would have been affected by the law. The other, John Hopkins University, already exceeds the health benefits the law required. The Fair Share Health Care Act would have required Wal-Mart to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll on health benefits. In the course of opposing the bill, Wal-Mart claimed the bill was being pushed solely to benefit one of its competitors in the state, Giant Food. The thing that's interesting about Wal-Mart fingering Giant�which, not surprisingly, endorsed the bill� is that the company now devotes 20 percent of its payroll expenses to health care. Does Wal-Mart really want to beg comparisons with that kind of good corporate behavior?"

Dr. Hager's Family Values

Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent
The Nation | Article | Dr. Hager's Family Values | Ayelish McGarvey

Are you ready for your computer RFID microchip?

They Really Are Watching You / Ready for your own all-new, sinister ID card, courtesy of Homeland Security? Shudder: "They Really Are Watching You
Ready for your own all-new, sinister ID card, courtesy of Homeland Security? Shudder"

Fucking Outrageous!! Now the Whitehouse blames Newsweek for the United States image.

After killing thousands of Iraqis, Afghans and American service men and women over a war based on lies and fake information it is truly amazing that these criminals can now blame Newsweek for the United States image.
White House Presses Newsweek in Wake of Koran Report - New York Times: "The White House pressed Newsweek on Tuesday to go beyond a retraction and 'help repair the damage' to the image of the United States in the Muslim world after the magazine mistakenly reported that a Pentagon investigation had found that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried to flush a Koran down a toilet."

Religious Right to boycott Microsoft over support for gay rights

Telegraph | News | Religious Right to boycott Microsoft over support for gay rights: "Microsoft is being threatened with organised boycotts by the religious Right after twice reversing its policy on homosexual rights legislation in recent weeks.
Buckling under pressure from rival powerful interest groups, the software giant - which offers generous domestic partner rights for gay employees - performed an embarrassing U-turn over a bill in its home state of Washington that would outlaw discrimination against homosexuals at work."

Bad, Bad Janice Brown is Back

Brown's record shows her to be 'to the right of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.'
The Black Commentator - Cover Story: Bad, Bad Janice Brown is Back - Issue 137: "'She's cut from the same cloth as Clarence Thomas,' said Washington, DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Rep. Diane Watson (CA) went further, declaring Brown �has such an atrocious civil rights record she makes Clarence Thomas look like Thurgood Marshall.� Los Angeles Rep. Maxine Waters, who championed affirmative action in her state, bitterly recalled, �All the work that I did�was undermined by that judge.�"