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.�"

The Republican Party Loyalty Oath, Courtesy of Kim Jong Il of North Korea

Buzzflash hit the nail on the head with this editorial. When will the people of this country wake up to what's going on. Will it be in November 2006?
The Republican Party Loyalty Oath, Courtesy of Kim Jong Il of North Korea: "Here is what BuzzFlash believes Republicans at the highest levels must swear to:
All Republican Party members have to:
1. Dedicate ourselves to struggle to arouse the whole society in pursuing the theocracy implemented by the great President chosen by God, George W. Bush.
2. To offer our highest loyalty to the anointed President, George W. Bush.
3. To make absolute the authority of the wartime leader, George W. Bush.
4. To believe in the Biblical one-party state thought of the great President, George W. Bush, and to maintain the uniformity of the messages of the President.
Each Republican Party member must also observe the following principles:
5. A Party member only recognizes the authority of President George W. Bush and the Republican Congress -- and Judicial appointees handpicked to carry out the orders of the great President.
6. A Party member accepts unconditionally the teachings of the President and regards them as a yardstick for making all decisions.
7. When making reports, discussing a topic, giving a lecture, or quoting from documents, one has to refer to the President's message of the day and Biblical worldview and never speak or write about something inconsistent with the President's views."

My Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder 

A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time: "Once upon a time you might have wondered what Senator Frist is doing lighting matches in this tinderbox. As he never ceases to remind us, he is a doctor - an M.D., not some mere Ph.D. like Dr. Dobson - with an admirable history of combating AIDS in Africa. But this guy signed his pact with the devil even before he decided to grandstand in the Schiavo case by besmirching the diagnoses of neurologists who, unlike him, had actually examined the patient. "

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign

Yahoo! News - New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign: "WASHINGTON (AFP) - German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican theologian who was elected Pope Benedict XVI, intervened in the 2004 US election campaign ordering bishops to deny communion to abortion rights supporters including presidential candidate John Kerry. "

Who's selling Social INsecurity?

Who's sellin Social INsecurity

Beetles get politically prominent names

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP: Beetles get politically prominent names: "Slime-mold beetles are named for the fungilike molds on which they feed. The entomologists collected and borrowed thousands of specimens of slime-mold beetles in order to study their evolution and classification. In so doing, they found more than five dozen new species never before described."

Huge Tax Savings-For those who need it least--at the expense of those who need it most

nuvo.net / Huge Tax Savings: "Corporate taxes now account for about 7.5 percent of overall federal tax receipts, down from a high of 40 percent during World War II. Despite one of the highest ostensible corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, American companies are in fact among the least taxed.
From 2001 to 2003, more than half of all Fortune 500 companies obtained approximately $200 billion in tax savings, nearly double the amount of the previous three years. In addition, more than 25 percent of the 500 corporations paid no taxes at all during the period, despite having profits of nearly $45 billion."

Let them eat bombs

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Let them eat bombs: "A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.
This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blair, honestly believe that children thrive best when we drop bombs on them from a great height, destroy their cities and blow up hospitals, schools and power stations. "

It's All About Assholes

The opinion written by Kennedy in Lawrence and Garner v. Texas striking down anti-sodomy laws is still bugging these mother fuckers.
Conservative leaders meeting in Washington yesterday for a discussion of "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" decided that Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, should be impeached, or worse.
And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty

DLC Misleadership

Patrick C. Doherty, senior editor at TomPaine.com, returns to examine America's strategic dilemma after taking March off from writing to enjoy his honeymoon. His column, Quo Vadis, focuses on America's big picture: where we are, where we're going and how to get there.
TomPaine.com - DLC Misleadership: "The first piece of staggering news popped out of the United Nations' Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The report states the problem plainly: the world has over-consumed two-thirds of the world's natural resources"