Most troops want to be out of Iraq within a year
well duh!
I'm tired of the conservatives using our military to perpetuate fear mongering and staying the course. Shame on them. Shame.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Security of the ports is a red herring
Security of the ports is getting press b/c of several reasons:
- Bush and members of the cabinet were unaware of it
- a cabinet member will earn about 33 million in stock if the deal goes through
- that it represents a flip flop on the security issue: that Dems are more concerned about security than the republicans.
- Why would a foreign government want to own our port?
- And Why the heck are we selling American land to foreign governments anyway?
Consider this list of U.S. industy that shows the foreign ownership I gleaned from http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0227-20.htm:
Sound recording industries - 97%
· Commodity contracts dealing and brokerage - 79%
· Motion picture and sound recording industries - 75%
· Metal ore mining - 65%
· Motion picture and video industries - 64%
· Wineries and distilleries - 64%
· Database, directory, and other publishers - 63%
· Book publishers - 63%
· Cement, concrete, lime, and gypsum product - 62%
· Engine, turbine and power transmission equipment - 57%
· Rubber product - 53%
· Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing - 53%
· Plastics and rubber products manufacturing - 52%
· Plastics product - 51%
· Other insurance related activities - 51%
· Boiler, tank, and shipping container - 50%
· Glass and glass product - 48%
· Coal mining - 48%
· Sugar and confectionery product - 48%
· Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying - 47%
· Advertising and related services - 41%
· Pharmaceutical and medicine - 40%
· Clay, refractory, and other nonmetallic mineral products - 40%
· Securities brokerage - 38%
Could we be facing an invasion here? Considering that corporations have more power than the common voters, and considering that we do have a very kick ass military, no country would be able to succeed in a military attack against our country and win. But they could do it through the market place.
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Friday, February 17, 2006
can we sue the media?
Since the media misrepresents the facts about this awful administration, aren't they liable for the war, for the deaths? This is a nice opinion:
American press should have done its job
When I read the words "It's alarming to learn the extent to which the Bush administration seemed willing to go..." (Feb. 14 editorial opinion) I became a little nauseated. Your editorial has the tone of a 7-year-old who's just been told there is no Santa Claus. If our supposedly free and independent press had been doing its job four, five, six years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess.Cheney, Rumsfeld, Pearl, Wolfowitz, Libby; these were all names well associated with the concept that the ends justify the means. The press didn't see this coming?
Rather than investigate farfetched claims of weapons of mass destruction, publish the dissenting opinions of legitimate authorities and challenge proclamations of innocence in the face of clear evidence of torture, domestic spying and cherry-picking intelligence, the press acted as shills (sometimes paid shills) for the criminal gang running the White House.
The cost of this negligence has been horrific; 2,000 casualties, $400 billion in taxpayers' money and a homeland that is, if anything, less safe now.
If we are to be alarmed about anything, it is the absolute failure of the American press to do its job.
Bill Woods
Seattle
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Arrested Development should do a show about homosexuality
Oh, wait.....
Seriously though, any show that could turn the "Fonz" into a latent homosexual has got to be genius.
And this got me thinking about why they don't include lesbian comedy. Maybe they could say something about how "Lesbians aren't about talking" or something about the joke which asks, what does a lesbian take on the 2nd date? A U-haul.
I've dated a lesbian, who thought she was bi-sexual. Over all I'd say it felt like being stuck in syrup. Sweet but sufocating. can't....move...must....move on...can't breathe.........
And please, realize that I'm not trying to bash homosexuals. I just think that Arrested Development is missing some good material here. Let's just hope they get picked up again. Fox sucks.
We are wasting too much attention on the Cheney incident
Easy summary:
He was on a double date, he was a bit tipsy, if not drunk, and he shot a friend, who was probably closer than 30 yards. Thirty yards for a small shotgun like a 28 gauge is a long distance. I'm surprised that the pellets broke through clothes, let alone skin.
While it's clear that the administration is being run amok (with all the contradictory reports and reporting), we should be more focused on:
- Libby instructed to release classified info
- Related, Valerie Plame was indeed covert and working on Iranian intelligence. Yes, Iranian Intel. Could we use some now?
- Domestic spying investigation: Why hasn't the media called for an INDEPENDENT investigation?
- Why isn't Alberto Gonzales, the AG, charged with perjury for lying during his confirmation hearing? Remember how he claimed that a domestic wiretap question was "hypothetical?" It wasn't, he lied.
How much time are we wasting on Cheney? Hire some investigators to keep the story alive, but otherwise, I'm a bit more concerned about my country being run into the ground more than dead-eye dick. Read more...
Ohio reversal on evolution and crap parents teach their kids
A school board in Ohio has reversed it's position on Evolution. Before the Pennsylvania ruling that Intelligent design is anything but intelligent, Ohio had required an accompanying plan that taught included a critical analysis of Evolution.
For what it's worth, I like the idea of a "critical analysis" of evolution, not b/c it's a bad theory, but because it is an excellent theory--good theories withstand critical analysis. So, bring 'em on.
But the purpose of this post was inspired by a section in the article from the NY times (you may need to login):
And so I thought to myself, what examples exist of crap that parent teach their kids that have no basis in science or reality?
"It's an outrageous slap in the face to the citizens of Ohio," said John G. West, associate director of the Center for Science and Culture at the institute, referring to several polls that show public support for criticism of evolution in science classes. "The effort to try to suppress ideas that you dislike, to use the government to suppress ideas you dislike, has a failed history," Mr. West said.
- The sky is blue b/c it reflects water (I hear this one all the time....in college classes!)
- Having sex too young 'weakens the brain' (okay, I heard this one from my cousin in Africa working for the peace Corp. Apparently, this is their sex education. Wow.)
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Paul Hacket: come back
What happened to Hackett is why I don't consider myself a democrat.
You can't invite a candidate to run and then cut them loose; it's the wrong way to run a party.
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Read more...Monday, February 06, 2006
terrorist survelance?
Not so fast.
it's not to surveil terrorists, instead it's to serveil democrats and other opponents as a means to blackmail them. Interesting idea.
If there were terrorists in the U.S., why haven't they been caught? Why haven't they attacked? Katrina would have been a good time to attack inside our borders. Hmm.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
line item veto?
Are you kidding me?
This is a proposal endorsed by Clinton but found to be unconstitutional by the SCOTUS. When are the rght-wing nut jobs going to get it...Bush wants more power than the constitution grants. It's shameful, really.
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