Freezing in Grand Central

Yes We Can

"Worst Building in the History of Mankind"

Pretty damn ugly. But heh, it's North Korea.

No wonder we suck at geography

"Which proves, again, that Hillary Clinton is a liar."

The New Hampshire Union Leader t-bones Hillary Clinton:

Courting voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to "campaign or participate" in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both primaries and is campaigning in Florida. Which proves, again, that Hillary Clinton is a liar.

Did the music industry take a sane pill? Or just run out of customers to sue?

Music industry embraces peer-to-peer sharing.

About fricking time.

Maybe you wanna see what technology your IM provider is using...

Detroit mayor busted by old IMs.

The sky is falling

Not the sky exactly, but an old spy satelitte.

Insert your own joke here....

Catching the lowest of the low

As a parent, I can only say this guy is a hero.

Slamming the NYT endorsement of Hillary Clinton

Best line, and that made me literally LOL:

One is reminded of McCain’s defeat in South Carolina in 2000. Clinton must sorely regret that she can’t use proxies to pointedly accuse Obama of fathering a black child — because, after all, he has two of them, and they are adorable.

Bush's favorite painting: A metaphor for his Administration

Not the actual painting. But his explanation as for why it is his favorite.

Looking for a wife who won't stray?

Plenty of them here.

HT: The Stranger

Dollar Starbucks coffees?

They don't say what the size of this "short" cup is (whatever happened to good-old-fashioned reporting?) but interesting news. As household budgets shrink so do the overpriced coffee budgets.

Thanking the Monkey

Like Bill Maher, I'm a carnivore, and I don't make any real apologies about it. But this doesn't mean that I support cruel farm practices. There is a new book out, Thanking the Monkey by Karen Dawn which helps give some balance to the argument.

Despite the strident tones in the video on that site from pro-vegans, the book offers a cornucopia of tips for those who simply want to do right by animals without taking the Full Monty of going vegan. In fact, I think that is the book's greatest strength: While it offers some compelling reasons for a change in diet to eliminate animals from it, it isn't preachy and offers a wide range of options for those of us interested in making changes.

One of the failings of the animal rights movement has been to go extremist and lose a whole range of people who might otherwise be interested in the arguments for moderation (and, in the end, large numbers of people making small changes can bring about greater things than small numbers of people getting extreme and preachy).

Full disclosure: I worked on this book early on, clearing photo and text rights. I don't get anything from book sales, though!

Administration spun hundreds of false statements pre-Iraq, per study

Their excuse now seems to be a rather pathetic "Everyone thought Iraq had WMDs."

The Vindictive Rudy: Mayor of 9/12

As someone who lived in New York and witnessed, upfront, the incredible pettiness of Rudy Giuliani, this New York Times article is a nice recap. After the courtly Dinkins, Rudy came in like a loud obnoxious frat boy eager to make up what he thought of as the weaknesses of Dinkins (which were, of course, merely his courteousness--something Rudy simply couldn't fathom.

The Government screwing of Padilla finally climaxes

So. to speak. 17 years, for, as far as I can tell, thinking about being a terrorist.

According to Judge Cooke: "There is no evidence that these defendants personally maimed, kidnapped or killed anyone in the United States or elsewhere"

Talk about hate crimes.

Bush and Black America

A perfect picture of Bush's relationship with Black America.

The Civil War in Four Minutes

Yeah, yeah, the newest viral video. But it is very cool:

Tiger victims taunted tiger

Darwin Award nominee.

The War on Facts

The Administration continues to fight the fight

TPM with some video.

Fortune cookies--originally from Japan

The lack of fortune cookies in China might be explained by a theory that they are actually from Japan.

World Anti-Doping Agency slams baseball

In the wake of MLB's appearance before Congress, the World Anti-Doping Agency slaps them around a bit. MLB, in response, takes a typical "we've got a monopoly here" approach and tells the WADA to butt out. Nice.

Mona Lisa identified

It's Lisa.

"You complete me..."

Twins separated at birth unwittingly marry each other

Good advice

Best bookshops in the world

Pretty sweet list

Iranian speedboats, and the nature of confrontation with this Administration

I've been reading quite a bit about those Iranian speedboats who "threatened" the US ships in the Strait of Hormuz. It sounds like very suspicious behavior, but really kind of nuts--gnats against the elephant kind of thing.

Of course, maybe it isn't so clear after all.

It should surprise no one that Iran is being confrontational in this way. After all, our own Administration (from the President on down) have been confrontational with Iran for several years now. Is there any wonder that Iran is responding in this way?

This isn't a confirmation of their aggressive nature, as Bush would have us believe. This is causal. Brought about because of this Administration's almost pathological need to wave its collective dick around.

We reap what we sow. And we've been sowing fear and discord for several years now. It'll be a bitter harvest until we rotate our crops.

So, how is it where you live?

Pantless man rescued from kitchen vent after New Year's celebration

When people ask me about how it is around here, I think I'll point to this article if I don't like them.

New Hampshire voting

Maybe the polls weren't wrong...

I tell you--we use an electronic machine here, and I love them. Very easy to use. But it is all moot if they can't give you the right totals at the end of the night.

Lawyer scratches Marine's car up, gets away with it?

What a dick.

Take a sec.

A chance to help the family of a hero.

I know, I know--there are thousands of these families. But maybe just starting with one will help strengthen the connections between ourselves in these divisive times.

Post-Christmas, many of us get back into our burrows. Keep the giving going just a little longer.

Pope to Jesuits: "No, kiss the ring again. This time with feeling..."

The "Black Conclave" opens.

HT: Andrew Sullivan

How it all ends

Long, but seemingly worth the time.

It's the end of the world as we know it...

...and Brit Brit does not feel fine.

we've got wars, we've got presidential elections in the U.S., we've got all kinda of chaos and dust-ups in countries all over the world, but all of that pales in comparison to Britney Spears having another breakdown and refusing to give her kids back to her ex-hubby K-Fed, and as a result, losing any visitation rights to said kids.

i mean, shoot, she lost her kids to a guy who doesn't even have a real website at the moment. how lame is that.

and we all thought K-Fed was the loser in this twosome when they got together. how wrong we all were!

personally, i think Brit just is crying for attention. now that 16-year-old sis Jamie Lynn is knocked up, Britney has been as stale as month-old bread.

yessir, it's the end of the world as we know it. so panic if you must, run screaming through the streets as dogs and cats play nice together, but remember, through it all, at least your not likely part of the Spears clan, America's favorite white trash family.

Out with 2007...

Happy New Year from JibJab.

A reminder

Not all wars are across the ocean.

Kenya

Happy New Year. Not for Kenyans. A new year, but the same old shit in Africa.

Chuck Norris

Some are dumb, others are repetitive. But damn some are laugh out loud funny.

Did you know...

-Chuck Norris was born in a log cabin that he built with his bare hands.

-Chuck Norris puts the FUN in Funeral.

-Chuck Norris is capable of photosynthesis.

-Chuck Norris is allowed to talk about Fight Club.

-Guns don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills people.

- There is no chin under Chuck Norris' Beard. There is only another fist.

-Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

this is totally unrelated to anything...

...in fact, Fred might boot me for this. but i was given an award by a friend on her blog, (a great blog, by the way, if you want to read about a modern mother raising three children), and i told her i would brag to the hills for the award.

so here it is:



Really, i swear i'm straight.

Reason #1 Why Republican Congressmen Need to Go

They don't pay their bills, and mock those who want to.

The dichotomy of a Christian worldview

At least, a US Christian. A letter writer to Andrew Sullivan nails it.

Busting medical myths

A top ten list, including some that even doctors believe.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls

Or, Something Is Amiss at InsiderAdvantage.

Lynne Spears' parenting book delayed indefinitely...

your 16 year old is knocked up and your other daughter lost custody of her two kids because she wouldn't stop getting drunk and high....

yea, Lynne Spears, maybe you're probably not really the best person to be writing a book about parenting skills...and apparently Christian book publisher Thomas Nelson, Inc. agrees, since they apparently won't be putting out your book on parenting, oh mother of hapless Britney and pregnant Jamie Lynn...

umm, so why exactly was a Christian book publisher involved here to begin with??

New Miss Belgium doesn't know Flemish

Apparently she only knows "ad fundum."

Dad catches son smoking pot, sells his Christmas present on ebay

for $9000.

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a backfire or not. You can get some good weed for $9K.

"The Surveillance State"

Glenn Greenwald on the nature of the US spying on its own citizens.

Let's be clear, here, since many people, especially Republicans, continue to spout the Administration talking point that it is only foreigners (i.e., "potential terrorists") calling from overseas who are getting spied upon. This is a lie. Literally millions of records of Americans are being collected for no reason at al (excepting, of course, that the government is paranoid).

I don't want to overstate the problem, but I don't want to understate it either. Truth be told, what the US government is doing right now has parallels in totalitarial societies, and has no place in democratic ones, even ones mistakingly feeling as if they are under attack.

JAG lawyers to come under the thumb of the Administration?

After trading away the independence of the Justice Department, apparently the Administration wants to silence JAG lawyers as well. Idiots.

Best headline of the week

Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation

HT: wolfer

Administration to Congress: "We'll investigate ourselves, thank you very much."

Michael "Waterboarding is torture? Huh." Mukasey tells Congress to buzz off on the torture tapes investigation. Closing the wagons, it looks like.

Mike Huckabee's surge

Temporary, IMO, and merely reflecting the understandable disatisfaction the Republicans are having with the candidates, making them cycle through them like a bunch of bad holiday sweaters one is forced to hold up against oneself in the mirror, saying "Maybe I can live with this in public."

This Huckabee parody is pretty good, IMO:

Sorry for the delay...

A college friend of mine *finally* got married, and I took some tme off, Back in the saddle!

Some nice news, from the NBA of all places

Washington Wizards and some good deeds.

I realize that these guys don't want, and never sought, the publicity for what they do. But this is warming news in any case. Nice job, fellas.

Need a new superhero?

Here are some new ones for you.

Clinton takes Obama to task for a health care plan that doesn't cover people who don't want it

At least, that's what I get from the hubub. Jay agrees with me.

If I were Clinton I wouldn't be talking so much about my weaknesses.

Monet's "Cataract Period"

Apparently, the guy was not trying a new artistic impressionism, but was going blind.

The NRO and "truthiness"

Matt seems to have the best take on Smith-gate, IMO.

What a waste. When editorial writers try to write "news" this is what happens, I think.

Some background at TPM.

Fear mongering in light of facts

"But they can start up at any time!" seems to be the new talking point on Iran's non-existant nuclear programs.

Both North Korea and Pakistan made huge strides toward nuclear arms under this administration, but the irony of Bush's statement seems lost on him.

Update: Apparently the NIE has been on the President's desk for six months. The information isn't new to him. Perhaps the military is finally taking a bit of a stand on the inside against this rogue administration?

First "America" map

Accurate, then "corrected" late with errors. I'm going to resist drawing any current political parallels.

Woman sues KMart and wins

No tax on toilet paper in Pennsylvania. The woman represented herself and won $100 plus court costs.

Has it bottomed yet? Links to foreclosures

With so many foreclosures, it might make sense for people looking for a good deal to check out the houses available directly from the banks. Here are some links:

Bank of America

PNC

Countrywide

Also LoopNet (for HSBC, and others)

Also, government homes are always interesting to look through:

HUD homes

Government sales (including USDA farms & ranches)

Update

Forgot two biggies: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

How could someone do this?

Fatal Hoax

This story, which is not "breaking news," nor very current, is now being more widely published, and I cam upon it today. I am just stunned and saddened and mad that people can do such things, and then "be okay" with them. I'm talking about the woman, Ms. Drew, who did the hoax. As a parent, it just's just so so so sad to read about a young person killing herself. As a righteous moral indignant mofo, I am mad as heck that the "hoaxer" is not doing something, anything, everything, to make some amends (can't make it right, but can try). I just cannot fathom this one.

One result of China's one-child policy...

a nation of selfish "emperors" and "empresses."

Hugo Chavez: Make me President-for-Life or I'll take your stuff

Hugo Chavez, apparently in a tizzy that his efforts to change the constitution in his country to allow him to run as long as he wants, has threatened to seize the assets of those opposing his reform policies.

Nice. A pro-active redistribution of wealth, I suppose you'd call it. His defenders continue to point out that he was democratically elected as though that excuses his bullying while in office. George W. Bush was democratically elected as well (yes, yes, I've read all about Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 and it is a lot of nothin'). The point isn't that he has some kind of mandate to do what he's doing and so we should simply stand aside. It is that what you do when you are in office is more important that simply whether you got their legally.

HT: JWF

Where Not to Go For Brain Surgery

Rhode Island hospital has its third "wrong side" brain surgery

Apparently it really is brain surgery.

catching up

In between watching to little guy, here are some things I'm reading:

Astor son looted millions, according to grandson.

Redskins player Sean Taylor dies after being shot. Sounds like the guy was turning it around, too. Very sad.

Is IQ a determinant to income? Perhaps we're just obsessed with numbers.

The Year of the Ugly NFL QB

Maybe it is me, but aren't the NFL QBs a lot uglier than they used to be?

Derek Anderson, Cleveland:



Jeff Garcia, TB (never a good looking guy, but there you go):



Lost twins Joey Harrington, Atlanta & JP Losman, Buffalo:





Even the scrubs aren't much better. Here's Charlie Whitehurst, San Diego. Looks like he's very sad. Maybe because he carries around a clipboard for hundreds of thousands of dollars a year:



PSST! Jamie! *There's something on your head!*



Duuude! Kyle Orton!



Brian St. Pierre (Pittsburgh) looks like he's about to break into song. "The hills are alive! With the sound of music!"



"You vill vall down when I throw the ball against you! Vall down!"



On the other hand, Vinny looks pretty good at 63. I'm hoping he plays two more years to collect full Social Security benefits:

Military requires return of signing bonuses by wounded vets?

A bureaucracy gone mad? A little more information here, including the fact that a Congressman has put in a bill to prevent the military from requesting a return of bonuses paid, or from withholding bonuses promised but not paid because a soldier's active duty wounds prevented their committment from being fulfilled.

Update Looks like the Army is coming to its senses. No word on what happened, but at least they are moving to fix the problem.

Too much information?

New Jersey squirrels now OK to eat. This article contained this lovely paragraph:

"A blender that was used to process the tissues into usable samples was defective and was identified as the source of the lead contamination...

Eeeeach!

Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians

You know you wanna look...

Just one of several reasons I don't vote Libertarian...

Their passion is there, but their logic isn't, Part IX: Eliminating the IRS.

Torturing the innocent

Like the death penalty, torture should be avoided, if for no other reason, than the innocent are often snared in the "rush for justice." The case of Mahar Arar is no exception. I've been following this for a long time, and if there is one thing I hope we hang around Bush's neck as his "legacy" (of many honorees) this case is the one.

Whale makes it 1000 miles upriver

Ladies, please avoid the "Won't ask for directions" line...

All that damn time...

Here's kind of a cool interactive map, with commuting time & population shifts. The Day/Night population maps are cool, though I wish there were more cities represented.

Constitution suspended---just a little bit at a time...

Want to challenge your parking ticket in Boston or DC? It'll cost you a $275 non-refundable fee.

Screw that whole "right to trial" thingy.

Unintelligent design

I caught most of the NOVA program last night about the Dover, PA court case on the forced teaching of Intelligent Design in the public school. An excellent program, which goes to lengths to make sure that ID proponents have their say, although it is pretty clear that the arguments don't exactly get very far. I might have more to say on this later, but the attempts by ID backers to hide from the religious component of their theory is seriously undermined by their own actions in calling people "un-Christian" for believing in evolution.

Frankly, I've never felt that learning more about God's creation is a bad thing, even if it takes us in unexpected directions. God is bigger than anything, including the Bible.

BTW, Greg Arnig Jr. with a nice blog piece on the parallels between ID and the conservative movement in general.

Tancredo: Crazy like...a crazy guy

Rep Tancredo has long been a fear mongerer, because, apparently, "someone has to say it." His latest ad is also what I'd call a "strawman" argument. A fictionalized terror attack that only he can stop, it seems.

He forgets that Americans realize, after electing Cheney twice, that this kind of thing only grows worse, not better, when you elect a fear mongerer.

Obama gaining in Iowa?

I know this is a very long speech that Obama made in Iowa, but on this Veteran's Day it is important, I think, so critically examine who might be the next Commander-in-Chief.

Obama delivers a great, great speech, IMO. I'm tired of the canned and the shrill, the divisive and the cheerleading. Like a tough education, Obama's best speeches are ambitious affairs which halt the dumbing down of political speeches in its tracks. They tell us we can do better by showing us a better speech. Take a listen--the speech is near the bottom of this Andrew Sullivan page.

FEMA, and fake news

Apparently FEMA doesn't have enough on their hands, trying to recover from the Katrina disaster. So they put out a fake press briefing in which the audience was FEMA staffers, asking questions just like real reporters.

In their defense, the staffers were asking questions in order to "salvage" the event. [For what purpose, exactly? There was no one else there].

Keeping the US free of tourism dollars...

Great work, Homeland Security!

Are you a gamer?

I'm not at all, but I can't help but be impressed with this collection, now for sale.

Reagan vs. Bush

A reader at Andrew Sullivan hits one out of the park.

It's always a little weird to me...

...when fictional television shows incorporate real life incidents into their shows. I suppose if it's something completely planet-altering like 9/11, that's one thing.

But this past week, Criminal Minds, one of my favorite shows on TV, ended up investigating a series of murders that took place in Montana, in militia country. Of course militia members and government agents don't mix well, so it made for an interesting dichotomy when they had to work together to stop the killer.

During the climactic scene of the show, Special Agent David Rossi - the newest character on the show, and played by Joe Mantegna - admitted to one of the militia men that he was involved in Ruby Ridge *and* Waco. Now, while Waco was one of those things that caused a seismic shift, I'm not so sure Ruby Ridge was.

To those who know about it, it was definitely a turning point in how a lot of people felt about our government. But, if you took a poll, I'm pretty sure that most people you ask, aren't going to know what Ruby Ridge is.

So, it just struck me as odd that a show would incorporate one of its central characters into an event that probably isn't a blip on the radar for most people. Definitely a cool plot device as far as I'm concerned, but still, odd.

Farm bill follies

I've long taken the annual Farm Bill to task, for, among many other things, not doing a damn thing except spend my money. Really--it doesn't actually accomplish much of anything except spend gobs of money. And attract poorly-conceived projects which, if proposed by someone in New Jersey, would surely invite FBI investigation as a money-laundering scheme.

Ridiculous UK laws

Ridiculous UK laws.

This has an "urban legend" feel to it, but there you go.

The nuts and bolts of America's reputational decline

Andrew Sullivan has been on a bit of a kick lately, about how legal visitors to this country are being put through the ringer because, essentially, they are trying to come into (or leave) the country while being, well, foreign. His latest post combines the newly legitimized border control rudeness with a sprinkling of moral superiority and a dash of tsking.

Since the Right, particularly the Christian Right, are unable to stigmatize the divorced or the "bastards" (since they are divorced and often bringing up children out-of-wedlock themselves), I guess when faced with gay foreigners it is hard to hold back.

I know, of course, that the border control workers aren't all Christianists. But in a bureaucracy, tone is set high up. And this one starts at the top.

Animator vs. Animation

Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART

Let's take a trip...back in time

Welcome back. To 1977.

The FBI and the use of informants

I've been hearing, over the last few years, how the FBI are not only using nastier and nastier informants, but their programactually gets in the way of both themselves and other law enforcement groups pursuing criminal investigations.

I understand the use of snitches. But it appears that the use has gotten far too widespread making us very lazy in doing the hard work of solving crimes.

"Have you fed Fred?"

I'm liking this one.

Happy Friday to you.

Finally US & North Korea Get Together

To kick some Somolian pirate ass!

Boy with matches started fire

Hate to be this kid. Or this kid's dad. When I was about 6 my sister was playing with matches and lit a matress on fire. I still remember them dragging the soaked and scorched matress down the stairs and outside, 37 years later.

China's growth problem

What is going to hold China back from the "next step" is not going to be money, cheap labor, or even innovation. It'll be infrastructure, and the vast costs associated with building and maintaining it. We're seeing the costs now, as birth defects are soaring amid increased pollution. Quite simply, the country is a dirty mess, and cleaning it up (and keeping it clean) is a huge problem.

When your birth defects rise 40% in 6 years, you've got a problem, particularly when they already have a one-child policy.

Most terrifying inspirational 80's songs

I was not only a child of the 80's, but I was a DJ during the period as well (club, remote, radio). This list had me laughing out loud.

That's the (wrong) Ticket

Fearing Fear (Krugman)

I dunno who reads what I write, but I like to write and hope someone's reading. I also like to read and I like what Paul Krugman writes. He writes better than he talks though, cos I saw him on Real Time with Bill Maher a few weeks back and the much less informed and more hyperbolic (and annoying) Tucker Carlson talked circles around the flabbergasted brilliance of Mr. Krugman. He just doesn't talk fast enough.

Lest I digress.

What he writes here is what is real though, and I could not agree more. I hate how our Repulican administration and next crop of Presidential candidates continues to try to scare us into giving them (more and more) power. George needs more power to protect us, Rudy wants power and we'd be safest with him; Mitt wants the power and by god, he'll give it to us. Even on the Democrat side, I see Hillary broaching the fear of Iran issue to make her more electable to the general electorate. Ugh.

Of course we don't want Iran to be nuclear, but of course they are not going to create nuclear weapons and use them or sell them; it's suicide and they are not run by suicide bombers. But, that is what we are being led to believe. Might as well be in control of our fates rather than waiting for our fate to be controlled by the "Islamofascists." I think Podhoretz is more of a a fascist than our alleged "enemies."

I talk to my friends about who they are going to vote for. Some say Rudy because he is fiscally responsible and would not actually bomb anyone. Some say Rudy cos they are comfy with him as being the last semi-successful mayor of NYC. Some say Rudy cos they could never vote for Hillary, even though they cannot articulate why not. Some say Rudy cos he's a better candidate than Mitt or McCain or Huckabee.

I fear...I fear Rudy (and the other Repubs...).

IPhones

Apple limits iPhone sales by requiring debit or credit cards

I'm no lawyer (as many of you know), but it seems to me that this move is against the law. The Legal Tender Act requires that US currency be acceptable for all debts (public & private). I don't believe that Apple can actually do this.

Another man of peace gunned down...

Well, i guess this is one helluva a somber subject to make my posting debut...

Just over a week ago, as I began a week's long vacation, Reggae superstar Lucky Dube was gunned down in an apparent car-jacking in his home country of South Africa. I didn't learn about it until a few days later as I was purposely avoiding the newspaper and the internet during the first few days i was on the West Coast.

And since returning home a couple of days ago, this is the first time i've had a moment to put pen to paper, so to speak, and express my thoughts.

Dube was one of those good guys. In a lot of ways, his death reminds of the death of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay, who's murder ironically came just about 5 years prior to that of Dube's. When JMJ was killed, writer Mark Anthony Neal (link above) wrote the following: "Within the context of hip-hop music and culture the killing of Jam Master Jay is comparable to someone walking up to Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin and shooting them in the head. It is cultural treason."

And i'm not sure it's any different with Dube.

Like Jay, Dube was a man of peace. Run-DMC never preached violence and was, despite a harder edge, rap with a conscience. Lucky Dube went the same route. While his music was often angry as he expressed his protests to Apartheid in that system of oppression's final decade, his music was about freedom - both physical and spiritual.

His first record - "Rastas Never Die" - was banned by the South African government, so, unbeknownst to his label, he went right back into the studio and recorded the follow up - "Think About the Children" - which became a monster hit and led to probably his best known record "Slave", which sold over a half-million copies. The names of subsequent records indicated just how deeply Dube felt about the conditions in South Africa - "Captured Live", "Prisoner", "House of Exile", and "Victims" were all released prior to the end of Apartheid. It wasn't until Apartheid was finally ended did Dube's albums take on an optimistic tone - "Together as One", "Trinity", and "Serious Reggae" all followed.

Much like his own musical hero, the late Peter Tosh, Dube's violent death was shocking and flew in the face of everything he preached for and sang about. In another ironic twist, Dube was murdered on the day before what would have been Tosh's 53rd birthday.

The world lost another great music legend when Dube was killed. But, more importantly, the world lost another man of peace, a man who wielded some of the most powerful weapons available - those weapons being the combined forces of music, and the voice of the common man.

Closer to Bombing Iran

Another Step Towards War with Iran?
My sentiments get to a point where I just wish the Dems would start impeachment hearings...someone has to stop this aggressor style of leadership. While I still believe that Cheney and Bush still believe they are doing what they believe is best for the country, I also believe they do not have any idea how stupid their beliefs are when turned into action. Everything they do backfires. I wish they would finally say something like: "You know, everything we do backfires, instead of just saying 'we'll be seen as correct in 20 years,' let's try something different and just do the opposite of what we're thinking." Like a what I do when I am in a rut in making my weekly football pix. I also have this sinking feeling that Hillary aint gonna be too much different, policy-wise, so she's now down to my #3 choice of the big 3 Dem candidates, behind Barack and Edwards. I think she will get the nom though, and I am starting to get dismayed...better than Rudy though, who would seemingly be running ahead of Bush and Cheney to push the nuke button like my kids do when they are racing to push an elevator button. Aaaaaaaaaah!

The long arm of the government

Once again, our Republican Administration acts like the worst nightmare of what they picture Democrats doing if they were in power

The Identity Project seems to be a worthwhile project, trying to protect the rights of citizens to move about the country without the need for government-mandated permission.