I am repeatedly amazed that politicians (especially older ones, like McCain) don’t seem to get the fact that everything they say is now available on the Internet for instant review. That must be why they keep denying things they said against solid evidence to the contrary. For example, McCain’s repeated statements that he doesn’t know […]
In 1998 Osama bin Laden complained that Americans have stolen $36 trillion from Muslims because they purchased oil from Muslim nations at low prices. Interestingly, he said that oil should cost $144 a barrel, which is just what it costs now. So what did bin Laden have to do to get the price of oil […]
Someone is going to have an extra reason to celebrate the Fourth of July — Rush Limbaugh just signed a radio contract worth $400 million. This is what our forefathers fought for: from 23/6 We have to wonder how things would have been different if Rush had gone to prison for his illegal drug use, […]
Yesterday, McCain did a major reorganization of his campaign staff, the second such shake-up in a year. But what should be setting off warning bells is the people who are now in charge of his campaign. McCain elevated Steve Schmidt to full operational control. Schmidt is considered a pupil of Rove, and he is a […]
There are reports that McCain has been trying to distance himself from president Bush, because of Bush’s record-breaking unpopularity. But the only person less popular than Bush is his vice president, Dick Cheney. McCain hasn’t said much about Cheney recently, but if you go back to 2004, when McCain was campaigning for Bush, he called […]
Christopher Hitchens, who is unabashedly pro-war, and who has (in the past now) drawn a distinction between “extreme interrogation” techniques and “outright torture”, agreed to be waterboarded to show that it was not torture. In a turnaround that was hardly a surprise, Hitchens now says that waterboarding is definitely torture. This is despite the fact […]
Brad Reed at AlterNet has distilled the Bush presidency into its top 10 most disastrous and embarrassing events: 10: Bush Gets re-elected using the most negative campaign in history 9: Alberto Gonzales’ Congressional Testimony 8: North Korea Conducts a Nuclear Test 7: Colin Powell’s Bogus WMD Presentation at the U.N. 6: The Terri Schiavo Affair […]
Want to know why Republican congressmen and senators are dropping like flies? The Swing State Project has put together a “comprehensive compendium of Republican hubris, fuckups, and misfortunes”. They nickname it the “Year of Living Catastrophically”. It has not been a good two years for the GOP. Enjoy. http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2303
If you ever wanted clear evidence of how bad our mainstream media has become, watch this: A simple video consisting first of Gen. Wesley Clark during an interview being asked about McCain. Followed by the media going absolutely rabid.
In USA Today, conservative idiot Jonah Goldberg attacks Obama’s patriotism (again) based on something Obama said. Well, um, except that Obama was repeating something that Reagan said during his inauguration speech. I’m just happy that conservatives are willing to hold Reagan to the same patriotic standards as they hold Democrats. It is worth reading the […]
Ross Perot has started a website called Perot Charts. The purpose of the website is to “help Americans understand the serious fiscal challenges facing our nation.” If you are one of the many people who miss Ross and his charts, this site is for you:
According to Newsweek magazine, the McCains failed to pay property taxes on a condo they own in La Jolla, California for four years. Notified of this by Newsweek, the McCains paid (yesterday) for the last four years, but are still late in their payments for this year. UPDATE: The location of the condo in question […]
The McCain campaign (and much of the mainstream media) keeps trying to keep alive the myth of McCain the Maverick, but it is clearly on life support, and getting a bit crazy. In a conference call today, a McCain spokeswoman tried to compare McCain’s bipartisan cred with Obama’s, using the example of immigration reform: It’s […]
I’m not totally sure this isn’t a hoax, but there is a website out there encouraging people to vote for George W. Bush in 2008. How? By writing in his name. What about term limits? Why those pesky things are man’s law, not god’s. The God who parted the Red Sea is surely not worried about so-called […]
The Republicans just reintroduced an amendment to the US Constitution that prohibits gay marriage. This amendment has no chance of passage — the main purpose of reintroducing it is to stir up the conservative base for the upcoming elections. But the ironic (and fun) part is looking at the list of 10 original sponsors, where […]
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