POTUS SOTU Redux Photo op messages on TV, that's what this has come down to, because the president didn't say anything on which he can deliver. We don't have the cash. Cindy Sheehan got arrested for wearing a t-shirt with the Iraq death total emblazoned on it. Democrats should thank our lucky stars. It wouldn't [...]
Archive | January, 2006
SOTU Response: Send the FIGHTING DEMS
SOTU Response: Send the FIGHTING DEMS UPDATE: Cindy Sheehan will be in the gallery tonight. …Keith Olbermann just reported that Sheehan has been arrested… stay tuned… Brian Williams has confirmed that Cindy Sheehan has been arrested and taken away by Capitol police. … more on Cindy's arrest. Fighting Dem David Ashe The excerpts of the [...]
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AT&T Gets What It Deserves
AT&T Gets What It Deserves Domestic spying is illegal. No one is above the law. In the largest "fishing expedition" ever devised, the NSA uses powerful computers to "data-mine" the contents of these Internet and telephone communications for suspicious names, numbers, and words, and to analyze traffic data indicating who is calling and emailing whom [...]
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Jack Bauer is a Democrat
When we last found our hero, Jack Bauer was saving an incompetent president from his own top aide. An aide who was exploiting his power to support terrorist aims to which the Clueless President was blissfully unaware, which just so happens to be his constant state of being. Clueless President was just too busy barking [...]
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Alito, Harry Reid, the Democrats and a Guy Named Ted
Alito, Harry Reid, the Democrats and a Guy Named Ted All but one of the Senate’s majority Republicans voted for his confirmation, while all but four of the Democrats voted against Alito.That is the smallest number of senators in the party opposing a president to support a Supreme Court justice in modern history. Chief Justice [...]
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Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King died peacefully, with MLK undoubtedly looking on and waiting to take her into his arms. She lived long enough to see the MLK Dream on the Mall become a reality. Martin Luther King will have his memorial, and now they will watch it unfold together. God bless you, Mrs. [...]
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SOTU: Mr. President, What About Iraq?
SOTU: Mr. President, What About Iraq? 54% Disapprove of Bush 39% Approve Single Goal to Achieve This Year Bring Troops Home 35% Health Care 20% Economy/Jobs 17% Simplify Medicare RX 11% Cut Deficit 8% Cut Taxes 7% MSNBC/Wall Street Journal Poll Good morning, Mr. President, now you know how Nixon felt. He's the only modern [...]
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Bush Illegal Wiretapping Claims a Hero
Bush Illegal Wiretapping Claims a Hero … These Justice Department lawyers, backed by their intrepid boss Comey, had stood up to the hard-liners, centered in the office of the vice president, who wanted to give the president virtually unlimited powers in the war on terror. Demanding that the White House stop using what they saw [...]
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NARAL Isn’t Doing Democrats Any Favors
NARAL Isn't Doing Democrats Any Favors I know I'm not talking to the masses, with most disagreeing with me, but let me say it again anyway. The reason Judge Samuel Alito should not be confirmed is his view on the “unitary executive,” that the presidency is actually a king. The NSA illegal spying issue is [...]
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Condi the Incompetent, Circa 2006
“I've asked why nobody saw it coming,” Ms. Rice said, speaking of her own staff. “It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse.” – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Oh, my God, George, Hamas won! Wha? It's deja vu all over again. “I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these [...]
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Bushies Planting Stories on Alito?
Bushies Planting Stories on Alito? UPDATE II: Senator Robert Menendez is now speaking. He's starting off sounding like a no… continuing on… Menendez is making the case Democrats should have from the beginning: the “unitary executive” theory is dangerous to our democracy. Mendendez, from New Jersey, like Alito, has some speaking chops. He says it's [...]
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Bush Illegal Spying Gets a Hearing
Bush Illegal Spying Gets a Hearing The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on "Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority" at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, February 6, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. in a Senate Office Building Room to be announced. Committee on the Judiciary Guess who's coming to the hearing? [...]
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Every Battle Won Before It’s Fought
Every Battle Won Before It's Fought UPDATE: Lincoln Chafee announces he will vote against Judge Alito, the only Republican so far to do so. “One time, one chance, one vote to get it right.” – Senator Ted Kennedy C. Boyden Gray is a master planner. He started thinking about the court this time last year. [...]
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The Filibuster Fantasy
The Filibuster Fantasy The minute Martha-Ann Alito cried we lost. I said so at the time and it doesn't matter why she cried. That many Democrats couldn't understand her feelings only made matters worse. On George W. Bush Day, SOTU Tuesday, we'll have to see where Mrs. Samuel Alito sits, but rest assured, she'll be [...]
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50,000 Soldiers Forced Into Extended Duty
50,000 Soldiers Forced Into Extended Duty The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called “stop-loss,” but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat. Reuters If this isn't a crisis, please give me the correct definition. If this doesn't prove our [...]
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TM Must Reads
IN AN amazing interview with the Guardian on Sunday titled, appropriately, “Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus,” the movie star does the biggest public service message for HPV and sexually transmitted diseases that’s been done in a generation. The Internet exploded with shock at what was taken as a revelation. It’s like thinking giving head to a man infected with HIV won’t leave its mark, too, though that’s more commonly talked about.
Ms Garraway, 46, is fronting a campaign to encourage young women to think about fertility and giving birth much younger than “her generation”. As part of the campaign, Ms Garraway spent a day being transformed into a heavily pregnant 70 year-old by Adrian Rigby, a prosthetic make-up artist, to “shock and provoke debate about how old is too old to have a baby”. [UK Telegraph] LOOKING at relationships, I find it telling that casual writers on the subject give marriage advice that hinges on bringing back the feminine mystique years and suggesting marrying younger would solve the problems that only better and smarter choices can conquer.
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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