By AL GORE Nashville WE, the human species, have arrived at a moment of decision. It is unprecedented and even laughable for us to imagine that we could actually make a conscious choice as a species, but that is nevertheless the challenge that is before us. Our home, Earth, is in danger. What is at [...]
Archive | June, 2007
Transition Terrorism
Transition Terrorism updated VIDEO: Scotland Yard weighs in. One car explodes at an airport in Glasgow*, with two guys arrested, and everyone cries the sky is falling. The Queen is in Scotland today for the inauguration of Scotland’s third Parliament, the first to be under Nationalist minority control. This is what can happen when there [...]
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Conservatives Roll Back the Clock on Civil Rights Enforcement
Conservatives Roll Back the Clock on Civil Rights Enforcement Expert guest post by Michael K. Fauntroy There goes The Court. A recent Supreme Court ruling which upheld the unreasonable and unrealistic application of time limits on those who believe they are the victim of pay discrimination is another in a growing list of occurrences which [...]
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Apple Pie and Abba for Everyone
Got the video above via email, so I’d thought I’d share it. Read the reviews about Fred below, which rl reminded me about, while listening. They’re a perfect compliment to one another. When Fred Thompson made his debut on the presidential stage here this week, he left some Republicans thinking he needs more work before [...]
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From Brown to Plessy
From Brown to Plessy guest post by Mash Yesterday the United States Supreme Court dealt a severe blow to the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. In a 5-4 decision Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the following in an opinion joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito (Justice Kennedy cast the [...]
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Dear House Democrats
Dear House Democrats bumped Conservatives fear that forcing stations to make equal time for liberal talk radio would slash profits and pressure radio executives to scale back on conservative programming to avoid escalating costs and interference from government regulators. Opponents of the Fairness Doctrine argue that radio stations would suffer financially if forced to air [...]
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More than Speeches
It’s all over but the redeployment. Petraeus won’t talk about his September testimony, and he won’t talk about the details of the inevitable U.S. withdrawal. But it is clear that he and his aides are preparing for the endgame. In Baqubah, General Odierno had told the Iraqis, “It’s up to you to make sure [al-Qaeda] [...]
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HOPE
What Christy said. Get that mammogram. Get that prostate exam. Go to the gym. Get that heart pumping. It’s a matter of the quality of your life. Do it for your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your family or do it for yourself. Just do it.
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More on Murdoch
Background. Moyers deserves more eyeballs. If Rupert Murdoch were the Angel Gabriel, you still wouldn’t want him owning the sun, the moon, and the stars. That’s too much prime real estate for even the pure in heart. But Rupert Murdoch is no saint; he is to propriety what the Marquis de Sade was to chastity. [...]
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Gore Watch
For lack of a better title. File it under things that mean nothing or everything. You choose. ENVIRONMENT Al Gore visit postponed Former US vice president Al Gore will not be able to make it to Taiwan this September to address the issue of global warming, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Tien Chiu-chin said yesterday. Tien, [...]
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The Al Qaeda Card
Things are slipping away. He doesn’t have any clout. So what can he do? Give a speech at the Naval War College to try to scare the crap out of everyone. After all, if he doesn’t have terror he’s got nothing. Cue desperation. Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush [...]
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Just Another Day
Just Another Day updated A world full of pussies. “For Gordon Brown it is a rude awakening to the realities you take on as prime minister,” CNN’s European Political Editor Robin Oakley said. Manhunt for London bomb suspect This is what police do. It’s called their job. Do I have to say yet again that [...]
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The (Smiley-Luntz) Democratic Forum
The (Smiley-Luntz) Democratic Forum updated The Democratic forum begins at 6:00 p.m. pacific on PBS, also streaming on the web. It’s the Rudy Giuliani fan club hour, complete with analysis from Rudy’s favorite Yankee fan, Fred Luntz. Nice job, Tavis. After all, Rudy was so fair with minorities as mayor of New York, right? So [...]
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Coulter on Defense
Coulter on Defense updated This is beautiful. After making an utter fool out of herself this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” (as Benny posted in Hot Topics), Coulter completes the act by releasing the most defensive, poor me, whining admission of utter victimhood that we could have hoped to see from her in print. Never [...]
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House Hunting with Dick
Republicans seem always eager to use true victims as the butt of their jokes. “I offer a simple amendment that bars the executive branch from being used to fund an office that does not exist in the executive branch, the Office of the Vice President,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, [...]
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TM Must Reads
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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