My Way News

My Way News: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a medical facility at New Orleans' international airport on Sunday. He spoke and shook hands with military and rescue officials but walked right by a dozen refugees lying on stretchers just feet away from him, most of them extremely sick or handicapped."

Booman Tribune ~ Boo!

Booman Tribune ~ Boo!: "The tear-filled eyes of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard as he was interviewed by Tim Russert on today's Meet the Press:
'... The guy who runs this building I�m in, Emergency Management, he�s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, �Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?� and he said, �Yeah, Mama, somebody�s coming to get you.� Somebody�s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody�s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody�s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody�s coming to get you on Friday� and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody�s coming to get us. Nobody�s coming to get us...'
MR. RUSSERT: Mr. President...
MR. BROUSSARD: Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody. "

My Way News

My Way News: "No one knows how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating in the ruined city, crumpled in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways."

Storm exposed disarray at the top

Storm exposed disarray at the top - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "Among the flaws they cited: Failure to take the storm seriously before it hit and trigger the government's highest level of response. Rebuffed offers of aid from the military, states and cities. An unfinished new plan meant to guide disaster response. And a slow bureaucracy that waited until late Tuesday to declare the catastrophe 'an incident of national significance,' the new federal term meant to set off the broadest possible relief effort."

Big Easy Food Looters

The Show Didn't Benefit by Censors - Los Angeles Times: "'I hate the way they portray us in the media,' West began his remarks during the hourlong program, on which he was one of several celebrities, including Hilary Swank and Leonardo DiCaprio, who spoke between musical numbers. 'If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food.'"

Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times

Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times: "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs. "

Putting Katrina on Roberts

Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs: "Katrina serves as a grim reminder of the importance of the federal government. Next week, as the senators grill Judge Roberts, I hope they'll remind him of that. The call of conservatives for handing over more power to the states is seductive. Who better to understand the needs of local communities than their local governments? However, sometimes (most times?) we need to be one nation and not 50 local communities. Disaster relief showcases this better than most. "

Pets are suffering terribly in this catastrophy

AccessNorthGa.com - North Georgia's Newsroom: "As Valerie Bennett was being evacuated from a New Orleans hospital last week, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs.

She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.

They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a tupperwear tub containing the medicines her husband -- a liver transplant recipient -- needs to survive.

She left her dogs with an anesthesiologist who was taking care of about 30 staff members' pets on the roof of the hospital, Lindy Boggs Medical Center.
The doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.
'The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said 'I can't do it,'' Lorne Bennett said.
But the anesthesiologist, a cat owner, promised to care for the other pets."

This drives me nuts.

A Colossal Failure of Leadership - Eleanor Clift

A Colossal Failure of Leadership - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com: "This has been a colossal failure of government. President Bush spent Tuesday, the day after Katrina struck, at a Medicare event in Arizona and then he made his way to a San Diego naval base for yet another anniversary tribute to the Greatest Generation. His concession to reality was adding a few words of compassion to his prepared remarks."

A peek into the heart of Lucianne Golberg's world

(from a registered contributor to Lucianne.com)

Reply 25 - Posted by: Betty Jean, 9/2/2005 7:49:16 PM

I'm just really tired of seeing these fat black young women yelling at the camera that they haven't had any food or water in 5 days, among other things. Then where in Heaven's name has all that trash come from that is strewn around every where you see a group gathered together.

I'm really just tired of NO and their news and am going to tune it out starting right now. It's not my fault they've had too many babies, no husband and live off my taxpayer money. If you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

My sympathy lies with all the other folks in other areas that have been hit just as hard."

This righty psychopuppy's prayers and dreams must be demonic stunners, wouldn't you think?

The nests of anger are linking up, as in a firestorm

from a Drudgereport headline...

"KANYE WEST ON NBC FUNDRAISER: 'GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us'..."

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

BREITBART.COM - Just The News: "At the back end of the line, people jammed against police barricades in the rain. Refugees passed out and had to be lifted hand-over-hand overhead to medics. Pets were not allowed on the bus, and when a police officer confiscated a little boy's dog, the child cried until he vomited. 'Snowball, snowball,' he cried. "

I know that people are the most important but jeeesh!, the plight of animals exists whether we like it or not. I hope that some fanatical animal rescue folk in the New Orleans area are able to keep track of Snowball's fate, along with all the other pets that are now stranded and facing a potentially tragic end.

Danie Yergin - jerk

This 'energy expert' is a kneejerk conservative ass. He said on CNBC that "...I hate to say it, but we have to consider conservation."

Plus other bullshit.

Planning, response to Katrina faulted - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

Planning, response to Katrina faulted - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "'How many people are going to die, per hour, before you get 40,000 troops in there?' Madden asked yesterday. 'I think it has cost lives. . . . They can go into Iraq and do this and do that, but they can't drop some food on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, right now? It's just mind-boggling.'"

'It just seems like black people are marked' - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

'It just seems like black people are marked' - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "'To me,' said Bernadette Washington, 'it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems.'
'After this,' her husband, Brian Thomas, said, 'I want to move my family to California.'"

FOXNews.com - Politics - Hastert: Rebuilding New Orleans Under Sea Level Makes No Sense

FOXNews.com - Politics - Hastert: Rebuilding New Orleans Under Sea Level Makes No Sense: "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (search) said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.
Democratic lawmakers from Louisiana were quick to disagree Thursday and Hastert sought to clarify the comment during the day.
'It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed,' the Illinois Republican said in an interview about New Orleans Wednesday with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill."

Republican bedside manor wins hearts and minds everywhere.

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "HHS Secretary Leavitt says the government is still trying to figure out the extent of the crisis and how best to respond. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has assembled two dozen 20-member teams ready to go into the gulf area and are �negotiating deployment of one or more of these teams,'' said CDC director Julie Gerberding in a briefing Thursday."

Gee, then next week they'll begin formulating an idea which will merge into a concept, then filter down through the various specialist groups which will then begin the task of creating a work schedule that allows for steady progress until the situation is stable enough to send in some extra water for those who might not have found adequate supplies. Residents will be advised to continue to support the war in Iraq.

...or...

"“We have advance teams checking the situation and trying to help with assessment of what is needed,'' she said.

In a matter of a few weeks they will be ready to mount a plan to rebuild Iraq... err rather New Orleans.

Kuwaiti: 'The terrorist Katrina' is a soldier of Allah'

Kuwaiti: 'The terrorist Katrina' is a soldier of Allah'

"I do not think — and only Allah [really] knows — that this wind, which completely wiped out American cities in these days, is a wind of mercy and blessing. It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire."

Oh great, more religious leaders explaining their brainless theories.

Communications Networks Fail Disaster Area Residents

Communications Networks Fail Disaster Area Residents: "Reed E. Hundt, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said the scale of the damage would make it hard to repair, and he bemoaned the government's failure to develop an emergency wireless network for rescue workers.
'We always discover the same thing,' he said. 'We need a national emergency communications network and we don't have one.'"

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "Humans and chimpanzees share an almost identical genetic inheritance, scientists report today in a landmark comparison that they call an �elegant confirmation� of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Although scientists have long believed that humans and chimps are related, this comprehensive analysis of their separate genomes offers the best proof of their shared genetic past."

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt: 'And he knew that the best way to bring peace and stability to the region was by bringing freedom to Japan.' Bush had boarded his very own 'Streetcar Named Desire.' "

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised 'no net loss' of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce. "

...and...

"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."

...and...

""My administration's climate change policy will be science based," President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as "a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating, "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment," the White House simply demanded removal of the line and all similar conclusions. At the G-8 meeting in Scotland this year, Bush successfully stymied any common action on global warming. Scientists, meanwhile, have continued to accumulate impressive data on the rising temperature of the oceans, which has produced more severe hurricanes. In February 2004, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, warned in a statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking": "Successful application of science has played a large part in the policies that have made the United States of America the world's most powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous and healthy ... Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by presidents and administrations of both parties in forming and implementing policies. The administration of George W. Bush has, however, disregarded this principle ... The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease." Bush completely ignored this statement. "

How incensed do we feel now?

The Storm After the Storm - New York Times

The Storm After the Storm - New York Times: In the late nineteeth century in Pennsylvania... "Prejudices were let loose. Hungarians then were akin to today's illegal Mexican immigrants - hard-working people who took jobs no one else wanted. Newspapers carried accounts of gangs of Hungarian men cutting off dead women's fingers to steal their rings. 'Drunken Hungarians, Dancing, Singing, Cursing and Fighting Amid the Ruins' a New York Herald headline blared."

...and...

"Then in 1927, the great Mississippi flood rumbled down upon New Orleans. As Barry writes in his account, "Rising Tide," the disaster ripped the veil off the genteel, feudal relations between whites and blacks, and revealed the festering iniquities. Blacks were rounded up into work camps and held by armed guards. They were prevented from leaving as the waters rose. A steamer, the Capitol, played "Bye Bye Blackbird" as it sailed away. The racist violence that followed the floods helped persuade many blacks to move north.
Civic leaders intentionally flooded poor and middle-class areas to ease the water's pressure on the city, and then reneged on promises to compensate those whose homes were destroyed. That helped fuel the populist anger that led to Huey Long's success. Across the country people demanded that the federal government get involved in disaster relief, helping to set the stage for the New Deal."

Independent Online Edition > Commentators : app6

Independent Online Edition > Commentators : app6: "I don't hate George Bush or regard him as venal. He is sincere but narrow: most problematic in his presidency is his curious inability to fire those who have given him lousy advice and betrayed their stewardship."

A Lipstick President - New York Times

A Lipstick President - New York Times: "Exhaustion kicks in with any party in power for eight years, let alone one that tricked the country into war. "

Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy - New York Times

Bike-Deep in the Big Muddy - New York Times: "The former campaign manager for George McGovern's antiwar campaign in 1972 wrote: 'We've stumbled into a hornet's nest. We've weakened ourselves at home and in the world. We are less secure today than before this war began. Who now has the courage to say this?'"

Creationism on Display | theledger.com

Creationism on Display | theledger.com: "'If we lose Genesis as a legitimate scientific and historical explanation for man, then we lose the validity of Christianity. Period.'"

One can hope.

Creationism on Display | theledger.com

Creationism on Display | theledger.com: "It is important to many creationists that man and dinosaurs lived simultaneously because they believe there was no death in the world until Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. If the Genesis story is false, they say, then there would be no need for Jesus Christ to redeem the sins of the world."

Correct, there is no need.

The Blog | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ?For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind? | The Huffington Post

The Blog Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ?For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind? The Huffington Post: "As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi's Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush's iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2."

ABC News: Corps of Engineers Fires Critical Official

ABC News: Corps of Engineers Fires Critical Official: "A high-ranking Army Corps of Engineers official who publicly criticized the Pentagon's decision to award Halliburton Co. a no-bid contract for work in Iraq has been demoted, officials said Monday."

Phill Sawyer - recollections

Phill Sawyer - recollections: "And there was Mike Curb, future Lt. Governor but then the smarmy, weird, wholesome nerd-virgin whose production of the Mike Curb Congregation was the cream of unsane right wing music."

Tucker Carlson's show is a Here-It-Comes-O-Meter of the Apocalypse

If Rachel is on The Situation, my wife and I assume that reality is still allowed to breathe for at least one more day.

"Maddow seems to be what Jon Stewart and others were hoping for: someone with a sense of history before I Love the '90s doing the media-heretical - making serious points "from the left" without centrist pandering or apology. "You can't take this long-view, revolutionary-archetype approach to things," she emphasizes. "You have to save people's lives right now."

The Situation with Tucker Carlson - New York Magazine TV Review

The Situation with Tucker Carlson - New York Magazine TV Review: "she doesn�t buy the widespread idea that John McCain will be the next Republican presidential candidate. �That�s ridiculous! The Republicans basically built George W. Bush out of straw . . . They created him out of nothing so that he would owe them everything. They�re not gonna pick somebody like McCain, who has basically no friends in the Republican Party, doesn�t owe anybody anything, and is likely to make his own decisions.� "

Don't you just love it when thinking liberals get quoted?

The Situation with Tucker Carlson - New York Magazine TV Review

The Situation with Tucker Carlson - New York Magazine TV Review: "when Carlson suggested that Guant�namo Bay detainees had it pretty cushy because there was now a dentist on the premises, she scoffed fiercely, �Well, when you hold people in captivity for life, you occasionally have to extract their teeth.� "

Another reason why I've outlived my country

The fact, the tragedy, and the crime is that a lot of brave and trusting Americans have to die to end George W. Bush's disgrace.

Come on everybody, let's do the Rape !!

"The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man's dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet--it's yours. That's our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars -- that's the Biblical view."

- from column "Oil Good; Democrats bad", 12 October, 2000

She sure is a terrific person.

from the Republican's Only Surviving Female Prick

"Conservatives believe man was created in God's image, while liberals believe they are gods. All of the behavioral tics of the liberals proceed from their godless belief that they can murder the unborn because they, the liberals, are themselves gods. They try to forcibly create 'equality' through affirmative action and wealth redistribution because they are gods. They flat-out lie, with no higher power to constrain them, because they are gods. They adore pornography and the mechanization of sex because man is just an animal, and they are gods. They revere the UN and not the U.S. because they aren't Americans -- they are gods."

If you need an extra asshole, try the bottle-blonde brainer Ann Coulter.

Ann Coulter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ann Coulter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Indeed, when asked about a comment she made suggesting the New York Times building should be blown up, Coulter took the opportunity to clarify that she meant this should be done only with the newspaper staff inside."

She's so swell.

Ann Coulter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ann Coulter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "'Here at the Spawn of Satan convention in Boston', and referred to an indefinite number of female attendees as 'corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie chick pie wagons'."

Controversy Over Plans for Changes in U.S. Parks - Yahoo! News

Controversy Over Plans for Changes in U.S. Parks - Yahoo! News: "'It's a disaster,' said Denis Galvin, who was deputy director of the Park Service from 1998 to 2002 and is an expert on the management policies.
He noted that seemingly obscure issues such as the requirement for maintaining a dark night sky and preserving quiet would no longer be emphasized.
'We know how important these things are for animals,' Galvin said. 'Birds use the night sky to navigate and animals need to hear each other. This version, as I understand it, doesn't recognize the biological values of those things and it eliminates them as visitor amenities.'"

This is awful news !!!

Controversy Over Plans for Changes in U.S. Parks - Yahoo! News

Controversy Over Plans for Changes in U.S. Parks - Yahoo! News: "Last year, he overruled the decision of the superintendent at Grand Canyon National Park to remove religious plaques on display near the South Rim. And he instructed the park to allow a book that espoused a creationist view of the canyon's formation, which runs counter to the park's own scientific-based approach and had been criticized by the park's scientific staff. "

Hoffman is a dangerous idealogue

GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over - Yahoo! News

GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over - Yahoo! News: "'In the 1970s, many people believed in price controls and the breakup of the oil companies,' he said. 'Those ideas have fallen out of favor. Back then, there were urban legends about oil-filled tankers anchored just over the horizon, waiting until shortages drove prices up. This time, there doesn't seem to be an obvious target. Any politician who tried to scapegoat SUV drivers would soon find a district office full of angry soccer moms and NASCAR dads.' "

GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over - Yahoo! News

GOP Fears Gas Price Anger May Spill Over - Yahoo! News: "The executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Steven Nadel, said many lawmakers hesitated to adopt ideas for reducing gasoline demand because they were philosophically opposed to government intervention in the market.
In addition, he said, some fear that attack ads might say, 'Senator so-and-so is trying to take away your pickup truck,' because the auto industry asserts that significantly tougher fuel-economy standards would lead to lighter, less-safe vehicles."

Unless we get busy and come up with sensible CAFE standards, we're going to continue to suck texan/saudi hind tit.

My Private Idaho - New York Times

My Private Idaho - New York Times: "'We owe them something,' he told veterans in Salt Lake City (even though his administration tried to shortchange the veterans agency by $1.5 billion). 'We will finish the task that they gave their lives for.'
What twisted logic: with no W.M.D., no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself. "

My Private Idaho - New York Times

My Private Idaho - New York Times: "But, as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on 'Meet the Press,' U.S. democracy in 1900 didn't let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, 'we'd all be thrilled,' he said. 'I mean, women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy.'"

Hey, What's That Sound? - New York Times

Hey, What's That Sound? - New York Times: "Domestic support is waning because the president remains too stubbornly ensconced in his fantasy world - it's worse than Barbie in her dream house"

Hey, What's That Sound? - New York Times

Hey, What's That Sound? - New York Times: "In his jaundiced view, the first President Bush had squandered his best re-election card: if the Persian Gulf war had still been going on, Mr. Bush could have been benefiting from that.
'We had a lot of success with that in 1972,' Mr. Nixon told us, with that famously uneasy baring of teeth that passed for a smile.
Was he actually admitting what all the paranoid liberals had been yelping about 20 years earlier - that he had prolonged the Vietnam War so he could get re-elected?"

Yes, he was.

Riding the Underdog Railroad - Los Angeles Times

Riding the Underdog Railroad - Los Angeles Times: "'If you can get a picture of a dog online, there's a 90% chance you'll get a home for it. People see a certain face, and they can't resist,' "

New York City: Robertson Calls for Chavez Assassination

New York City: Robertson Calls for Chavez Assassination: "He has also said that feminism encourages women to 'kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.' "

He is scum that hasn't died yet.

HBO: Lisa Kimmel Fisher - Character Bio - Six Feet Under

HBO: Lisa Kimmel Fisher - Character Bio - Six Feet Under: "'You know what's weird about dead people? How they look so perfect... When I die , I want to be one big mess. That's what life is, messy.' "

CNN.com - Rudolph's mother: Son not a 'monster' - Aug 22, 2005

CNN.com - Rudolph's mother: Son not a 'monster' - Aug 22, 2005: "'I have to live in the moment, because ... the past is history, tomorrow is just a possibility,' she said."

Pat Rudolph is an interesting woman.

Sen. Hagel Says Iraq Looking Like Vietnam - Yahoo! News

Sen. Hagel Says Iraq Looking Like Vietnam - Yahoo! News: "Hagel said 'stay the course' is not a policy. 'By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning,' he said."

Library Missing Roberts File

Library Missing Roberts File: "A file folder containing papers from Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s work on affirmative action more than 20 years ago disappeared from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after its review by two lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department in July, according to officials at the library and the National Archives and Records Administration."

Mistakes led to tube shooting

Mistakes led to tube shooting: "Surveillance officers wrongly believed he could have been Hussain Osman, one of the prime suspects, or another terrorist suspect.
By 10am that morning, elite firearms officers were provided with what they describe as 'positive identification' and shot De Menezes eight times in the head and upper body.
The documents and photographs confirm that Jean Charles was not carrying any bags, and was wearing a denim jacket, not a bulky winter coat, as had previously been claimed.
He was behaving normally, and did not vault the barriers, even stopping to pick up a free newspaper.
He started running when we saw a tube at the platform. Police HAD agreed they would shoot a suspect if he ran. "

NoGodBlog.com - Am I imagining a commerical change?

NoGodBlog.com - Am I imagining a commerical change?: "I'm not sure what 'chicken fries' exactly are, and I'm sure as hell not going to eat them, but whatever they are, they hold enough substance in my book to start a faith.


That's the thing, fries are REAL so we wouldn't have to believe in them. It's the very fact that they have substance that gives us no premise to start a 'faith' on them."

Yeah baby !!

NoGodBlog.com - The DaVinci Code -- Danger: May make you think

NoGodBlog.com - The DaVinci Code -- Danger: May make you think: "The richest, most powerful corporate entity in the universe is the Catholic Church. A movie isn't going to hurt them. What they REALLY fear is the thought it may provoke. A little thought can topple any empire. "

NoGodBlog.com - The DaVinci Code -- Danger: May make you think

NoGodBlog.com - The DaVinci Code -- Danger: May make you think: "This is a book of fiction based on a book of fiction. If you live by a book of fiction, and someone else writes a second book of fiction, you don't get Veto authority. "

Excellent point.

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy': "Comparing the lawmakers' letter to Marxist dogma, Roberts said 'their slogan may as well be 'From each according to his ability, to each according to her gender.' ' In a separate memo to Fielding on Feb. 3, 1984, Roberts wrote, 'It is difficult to exaggerate the perniciousness of the 'comparable worth' theory. It mandates nothing less than central planning of the economy by judges.'"

This guy is a mess!

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy': "Roberts pulled no punches in his response. 'I honestly find it troubling that three Republican representatives are so quick to embrace such a radical redistributive concept' as equal pay for comparable worth, he wrote. The pay gap can be explained by seniority of male workers and the fact that women leave the workforce for extended periods, he added."

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy': "He called a federal court decision that sought to guarantee women equal pay to men 'a radical redistributive concept.' "

This guy is anethema. He must be driven away from the bench.

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy': "Later, as a deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush's administration, Roberts would co-author an administration Supreme Court brief arguing that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overturned."

Any idiots have any comments?

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'

Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy': "John G. Roberts Jr. concluded that a controversial memorial service for aborted fetuses, organized by a group of California doctors who opposed Roe v. Wade , was 'an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy.'"

New York Post Online Edition: news

New York Post Online Edition: news: "Even with the renewed relations, Jaclyn � who Hutchison said has mental-health problems � is forbidden from contacting her dad at the palatial Westchester County home he shares with his political-powerhouse wife. "

...oh this'll be fun.

New York Post Online Edition: news

New York Post Online Edition: news: "Jessica Hutchison, Albert Pirro's former mistress, detailed in an explosive interview with The Post how he once spent years denying he was the father of their daughter � then suddenly began behaving more like a dad to her earlier this year, sending the 22-year-old money on a monthly basis. "

The guy's a real bag.

Farrakhan: Mexican President Was Right

Farrakhan: Mexican President Was Right: "'Why are you so foolishly sensitive when somebody is telling you the truth?'"

Liberals Are So Intolerant! / The Right loves to sling this smug accusation at critics from the Left. Mark Morford has a reply

Liberals Are So Intolerant! / The Right loves to sling this smug accusation at critics from the Left. Mark Morford has a reply: "This, to me, is the America worth fighting for. These are the laws I support. Don't believe in abortion? Don't understand gay people? Sexuality make you rashy? Think Harry Potter teaches kids evil and witchcraft? Don't marry a sexy gay witch abortionist. But don't you dare, based on your limited understanding of God and life, make laws declaring that I can't. "

Works for me 24/7

FINDING MY RELIGION / Julia Sweeney talks about how she became an atheist

FINDING MY RELIGION / Julia Sweeney talks about how she became an atheist: "I think most of my friends were shocked that I actually thought about religion that much. I had several people come up and say, 'I didn't know you were so religious!' I think they were more surprised by how religious I was before I wasn't religious than they were by the fact that I wasn't religious."

Redistricting Back on Ballot - Los Angeles Times

Redistricting Back on Ballot - Los Angeles Times: "Because Lockyer had not attempted to prove that, the measure should remain on the ballot, the justices said."

Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books - New York Times

Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books - New York Times: "Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine."

This is only one aspect of the awful catastrophy of current copyright protection. It is an example of what is about to happen for civilisation - the owning of culture by business interests. This is a revealed evil that Jefferson tried to stop from occurring but was unable to do so. He rightly understood the downside of copyright protection. He understood that if knowledge became a commodity it would begin a lasting corruption, and an eventual dissappearance. But we don't have Jefferson; we have instead Sonny Bono, whose right-wing friends adored him for the notoriety he could muster in an effort to extend copyright protection for such a length of time that would enrich the some, and ruin the many - shoving valuable out-of-print human knowledge under cover and away from the minds of citizens, simply because there would be no profit in making it available; therefore no reason to expend money to make it available in any form. The extension sought by Bono and the Republican profiteers became the law.

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right: "What is really happening here, are southern extremist using religion as a means to prepare for a second secession from the United States. Southerners have never legally or culturally joined the US and do not wish to do so. "

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right: "The rest of the civilised world looks on with amazement and pity. It kind of dovetails into the theory that the US is not a stable country and may split along religious and/or political lines in the next century. "

Ummm. Quite a sobering comment.

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right: "give me that old-time creationism, with its 6,000-year-old Earth and big flood. "

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right: "'After two days of hearings, the committees voted to approve this over-the-counter sale by 23 to 4. I was asked to write a minority opinion that was sent to the commissioner of the FDA. For only the second time in five decades, the FDA did not abide by its advisory committee opinion, and the measure was rejected. Now the opinion I wrote was not from an evangelical Christian perspective. ... But I argued it from a scientific perspective, and God took that information, and He used it through this minority report to influence the decision.' "

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right: "conservative Christian writer Samuel Blumenfeld has suggested, according to Thogmartin, that whole-language-style methodology 'was initiated as a deliberate attempt by socialists to lower the literacy rates in America. An illiterate society would be more dependent on the 'Big Brother' socialist government, making a socialist takeover much easier.'"

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right

AlterNet: Weird Science on the Religious Right: 'God said it. I believe it. That settles it.'

Terrific article on reich-wing bogus science. Bumper sticker for sure.

NoGodBlog.com - Myths of the religious right

NoGodBlog.com - Myths of the religious right: "Yes, the Republicans are more ideologically uniform. The always contain most of the 40% of the population that are believers. A politican can lie, kill, cheat, steal, and rape...and it will still be okay with these folks as long as he believes in their God."

Good mind at work.

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "After examining the satellite data, collected since 1979 by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellites, Carl Mears and Frank Wentz of Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa, Calif., found that the satellites had drifted in orbit, throwing off the timing of temperature measures. Essentially, the satellites were increasingly reporting nighttime temperatures as daytime ones, leading to a false cooling trend. The team also found a math error in the calculations.
�Our hats are off to (them). They found a real source of error,� says atmospheric scientist John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, whose team produced the lower temperature estimates.
When examining the balloon data, Yale University researchers found that heating from tropical sunlight "

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. – Santayana

...substitute GOAL for AIM and it reads a tad better.

Film Threat - Reviews

Film Threat - Reviews: American Airlines making "First Through the Towers" their new slogan in order to capitalize on 9-11

gladwell dot com - the ketchup conundrum

gladwell dot com - the ketchup conundrum: "Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. But that makes it easy to forget that sometimes happiness can be found in having what we've always had and everyone else is having."

Yes.

gladwell dot com - the ketchup conundrum

gladwell dot com - the ketchup conundrum: "ketchup may well be 'the only true culinary expression of the melting pot, and . . . its special and unprecedented ability to provide something for everyone makes it the Esperanto of cuisine.' "

Why No Tea and Sympathy? - New York Times

Why No Tea and Sympathy? - New York Times: "But his humanitarianism will remain inhumane as long as he fails to understand that the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute. "

Talking Wounded

Talking Wounded: "One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined.
'I don't want anything to do with him,' he explains. 'My belief is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason -- just his ego and his reputation. If we really wanted to, we could pull out of Iraq. Maybe not completely but enough that we wouldn't be losing people -- at least not at this rate. So I think he himself is responsible for quite a few American deaths.'"

Variety.com - Eisner gets the last laugh

Variety.com - Eisner gets the last laugh: "Total agreement within an organization is often a far greater threat than diversity of opinion"

Good point.

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "Teaching evolution is really about the determined drive by activists to eliminate any reference to an intelligent power in the universe. That said, could it be that the reason they can't find the missing link is that human evolution didn't happen at all?
Utah State Sen. D. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, is active on the evolution-education issue."

TIME.com: Can You Believe in God and Evolution? -- Aug. 15, 2005 -- Page 2

TIME.com: Can You Believe in God and Evolution? -- Aug. 15, 2005 -- Page 2: "Many people who accept evolution still feel that a belief in God is necessary to give life meaning and to justify morality. But that is exactly backward. In practice, religion has given us stonings, inquisitions and 9/11."

TIME.com: Can You Believe in God and Evolution? -- Aug. 15, 2005 -- Page 1

TIME.com: Can You Believe in God and Evolution? -- Aug. 15, 2005 -- Page 1: "To adapt a Yiddish expression about God: If an intelligent designer lived on Earth, people would break his windows."

Mick eats Bush, Cheney still Dick

You call yourself a Christian
I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot
Well, I think you are full of shit!
How come you're so wrong
my sweet neo-con.

Rolling Stones: "My Sweet Neo Con"

Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President - New York Times

Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President - New York Times: "In Ms. Sheehan's telling, though, Mr. Bush did not know her son's name when she and her family met with him in June 2004 at Fort Lewis. Mr. Bush, she said, acted as if he were at a party and behaved disrespectfully toward her by referring to her as 'Mom' throughout the meeting.
By Ms. Sheehan's account, Mr. Bush said to her that he could not imagine losing a loved one like an aunt or uncle or cousin. Ms. Sheehan said she broke in and told Mr. Bush that Casey was her son, and that she thought he could imagine what it would be like since he has two daughters and that he should think about what it would be like sending them off to war.
'I said, 'Trust me, you don't want to go there',' Ms. Sheehan said, recounting her exchange with the president. 'He said, 'You're right, I don't.' I said, 'Well, thanks for putting me there.' ' "

Privacy Views: Roberts Argued Hard for Others - New York Times

Privacy Views: Roberts Argued Hard for Others - New York Times: "'Robert Bork was blocked in large part because he said in his writings that there was no constitutional right to privacy,' said Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at Duke.
Judge Roberts could face serious trouble, liberal and conservative law professors agreed, if he were to embrace similar views at his confirmation hearings in the Senate next month."

"We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled," the brief said. "The court's conclusions in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion and that government has no compelling interest in protecting prenatal human life throughout pregnancy find no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution."

InformationWeek > Browsers > Firefox Users Sound Off: Fix Those Bugs! > June 8, 2005

InformationWeek > Browsers > Firefox Users Sound Off: Fix Those Bugs! > June 8, 2005: "'If there's a way to install just the patch or update, then it's well hidden in the instructions. Not a big deal for those of us with broadband connections, but I feel sympathy for those forced to use dial-up.' He added, 'It's very easy for the rabid supporters of Firefox to say, 'Well, if you're having problems, just do such-and-so. That'll take care of it.' My only response is that I use a browser to surf the World Wide Web, not to provide another use of my time. If the darned thing doesn't work properly 'out of the box,' then I'll not use it. Case closed.'"

Firefox groupies, like some MAC heads, are such weenies. You can't talk to them about actual issues unless you first kiss the golden spot in just the right way. They're today's "He-man Woman Haters Club".

ABC News: Candidate Exits Race After Racist Writings

ABC News: Candidate Exits Race After Racist Writings: "In a June 1 posting, Hanks called blacks 'rabid beasts.'
County elections director Michael Dickerson said Hanks formally withdrew from the race Friday morning. He had filed papers seeking the Republican nomination for an at-large council seat.
In January, amid a debate over whether a Confederate battle flag would be allowed to fly over a public cemetery, Hanks scaled a flagpole and reattached the flag. The city later removed both the flag and the pole."

One of the classier Repugnicans.

ABC News: Misprint Swamps Woman With Medicaid Calls

ABC News: Misprint Swamps Woman With Medicaid Calls: "At the urging of Gov. Matt Blunt, the GOP-led Legislature this year eliminated Medicaid health care coverage for about 90,000 of Missouri's 1 million Medicaid recipients. It cut services such as dental care, eyeglasses and crutches for an additional 339,000 adults remaining on Medicaid, and imposed new co-payments ranging from 50 cents to $10. "

Positive outlook for baby of brain-dead woman - Children's Health - MSNBC.com

Positive outlook for baby of brain-dead woman - Children's Health - MSNBC.com: "�Her passing is a testament to the truth that human life is a gift from God and that children are always to be fought for, even if life requires — as it did of Susan — the last full measure of devotion.”

There's Always a Way

There's Always a Way: "Sen. Michael D. Crapo narrates what amounts to a sales pitch for them to pay $2,500 each to party with him later this month in beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho.
'We shoot all day. We fish all day. We ride horses all day. And then we finish the day with the best barbecue in the West,' the Idaho Republican boasts. 'Frankly, I think this is the best event in the country.'"

Another Republican gets his wings.

Drug Makers Set Voluntary Curbs on TV, Other Ads - Yahoo! News

Drug Makers Set Voluntary Curbs on TV, Other Ads - Yahoo! News: "'Drug advertisements fuel America's skyrocketing prescription drug costs,' Frist, a heart surgeon by training, said in a speech last month. 'They influence consumer behavior. And they influence physician behavior. They cause more people to take prescription drugs. They create an artificial demand.'"

Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate

Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate: "Bush's comments were 'irresponsible,' said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He said the president, by suggesting that students hear two viewpoints, 'doesn't understand that one is a religious viewpoint and one is a scientific viewpoint.' "

Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate

Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate: "President Bush invigorated proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution in public schools with remarks saying that schoolchildren should be taught about 'intelligent design,' a view of creation that challenges established scientific thinking and promotes the idea that an unseen force is behind the development of humanity.
Although he said that curriculum decisions should be made by school districts rather than the federal government, Bush told Texas newspaper reporters in a group interview at the White House on Monday that he believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution as competing theories."

Now we're getting into the "Slippery Slope Downhill Racer" with Mr. Ditherhead.

OrlandoSentinel.com: Volusia County News

OrlandoSentinel.com: Volusia County News: "Cline emptied the ashes from a cross-shaped pendant worn by Burnham, suspecting it contained cocaine.

'This is probably the most mean-spirited violation of a person's civil rights that I have seen in many years,' said Winter Park lawyer Howard Marks, one of Burnham's attorneys. 'That conduct is not acceptable -- it's not warranted.'"

How repulsive is that ??

Massachusetts Governor Tries to Accentuate the Conservative - New York Times

Massachusetts Governor Tries to Accentuate the Conservative - New York Times: "Mr. Romney wrote: 'I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's.'"

This guy is a lying ass.