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RWR's Morning in America is Now Blackout in America. We Should Have Kept Carter. Richard Cohen (WP Columnist) Explains

07-08-08

GOP Looks To Redistrict Itself Back Into Power

07-08-08

Huffington Post: Companies Begin Quest For Oil And Gas Off Florida Coast

07-08-08

About Dancing Matt

07-08-08

The Times Did a Report on Matt Harding (the dancing guy whose video I had up for a while. I even learned more than I did from the interview (available on You Tube)

McCain and the RNC Scamming of the Public Financing System is Beginning

07-08-08

Just a couple of weeks ago the Republicans cried foul when Barack Obama refused to go along with the broken public financing system in which a candidate had allies spend overwhelming amounts of money while he collected taxpayer dollars in a supposedly pristine environment. Now we see the dirty donors that will overwhelmingly enhance McCains virginal public funds.

Paul Krugman: Behind the Bush Bust

07-08-08

Plenty of blame to go around for lousy economy of the new millennial period, but Republicans share most of it.

Tell Congress That A Change Is Needed: Employers use federal law to deny benefits

07-06-08

Heck tell your friends, lovers, and relatives too. Help them to contact their federal representatives and Senators. The last thing we need is to let the problems exposed in this report continue.

Bob Herbert: Cause For Alarm

07-05-08

Excerpt: We can build spectacular new stadiums for football and baseball teams (the Yanks, the Mets, the Giants and the Jets are all getting ready to move into staggeringly expensive new homes) but we can’t rebuild New Orleans or reconstruct the World Trade Center site destroyed almost seven years ago. This year’s presidential election is the perfect opportunity to place the truth before the American public in the form of a realistic examination of the state of the nation, and an honest consideration of creative ideas for moving forward. Instead, we’re getting hour after hour and day after day of trivia: Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s patriotic? Who’s not?

Paul Krugman: Rove’s Third Term

07-05-08

Excerpts:... the Clark affair did reveal something important — not about General Clark, but about Mr. McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove. ...the McCain campaign went beyond condemning General Clark’s remarks; it went out of its way to distort them.

CJR: How the press let the White House craft the narrative about [Iranian] nukes

07-03-08

CJR: “Attacking” McCain’s Military Record. What Wesley Clark really said and how the press missed it.

07-02-08

Proof, that in mainstream reports the press tends to run to the safe right wing side. And it doesn't hurt to make such a big deal of something that it begins to have scandal qualities. The press loves scandals because they boost their ratings. The Rs know this and play the fourth estate like a fiddle.

Earth's Cries Recorded in Space

07-01-08

Produced by phenomenon that creates auroras. Could be heard by anyone out there. Earth also hums.

Willian Pfaff: The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves

07-01-08

A very erudite treatise on why we should not continue in Afghanistan and Iraq, and points to what may happen if we stay.

Truth Dig hosting Steven Colbert's "Make John McCain Exciting" Contest Results

06-30-08

Yeah, I could have ripped off the video (it has a share option) with just a hat tip, but I have the sexy "African animals being mellow video up and Truth Dig is a good low bandwidth site.

McCain Aide Created 'Enron Loophole'

06-29-08

OBAMA CALLS FOR CLOSING 'ENRON LOOPHOLE'

06-29-08

Time: Is Dobson's Obama Hit Backfiring?

06-28-08

Time: The Floods: A Man-Made Disaster?

06-28-08

Washington Post: Guns for Safety? Dream On, Scalia.

06-28-08

Chi Tri: Dobson uses mushy logic to play politics with faith

06-27-08

James Dobson attacked Barack Obama for not ascribing to Dobson's view of Christianity. Don Wycliff uses logic to explain why Dobson is a "doo doo head". (Words within quotes are my own.) BTW, Dobson, we know you take your contributors' money and pay someone to google for your name, so Google This. My view is that Barack Obama's wonderfully caring, inclusive theology actually matches more people's view of Christ's desire for his church than the hate and bigotry filled view as practiced and pushed onto people by Dobson and other right wing church types.

Newsweek: ‘He Should Never Have Gone to Iraq’

06-25-08

Tragic story: Soldier with cognitive problems is sent to do one of the toughest military jobs with predictable results as military becomes desperate for cannon fodder.

Candorville Bites the Hand that Feeds it

06-25-08

I've always suspected that Darrin Bell was a little too nice to mainstream while he tends to lamblast bloggers in general. Well, he went after bloggers again -- and shows his true sensibilities apparently, but saves a good swift kick for mainstream news. And gets it right. Links to Comic from Sunday June 15, 2008. Link will be available for c. 30 days from that date. Get some good reading glasses. It's bit hard to read. Try bringing up the comic alone (right click Firefox and chose "View Image" or save image, picture to disk and bring up with viewer that will enlarge it). Then of course, immediately delete image to comply with copyright laws, right? I will too -- right after doomsday.

8 Reasons You Should Not Expect an Inheritance

06-23-08

McCain 'C-Word' Moment Becomes Fodder For Satirists

06-22-08

Should Congress Be Able to Approve A VP Selection?

06-20-08

After taking office, the president would nominate a VP, subject to Congressional approval according to one idea. It would preclude a VP vetter selecting himself as happened in 2000 and other mistakes like Dan Quayle, and Spiro Agnew. But in this case I think the news media are looking for ways to blame someone other than their own pandering tendencies, for the problems in our elections.

Paul Krugman: Driller Instinct

06-20-08

Editorial: The Big Pander to Big Oil

06-20-08

Excerpt: The Energy Information Administration says that even if both coasts were opened, prices would not begin to drop until 2030. The only real beneficiaries will be the oil companies that are trying to lock up every last acre of public land before their friends in power — Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney — exit the political stage.

Dallas Morning News: John McCain's curious energy tech policy

06-20-08

Is John McCain's pro-nuclear power stance just a campaign gimic?

Salt Lake Tribune -- Editorial: Strike Three for the Bush Administration. Why the Supreme Court Was Correct on Detainee Rights.

06-16-08

It's about what we stand for, Stupid!

FactCheck.org (via Newsweek): Soft on Iran? McCain misrepresents Obama's stand on naming Revolutionary Guard as terrorists.

06-16-08

Assign your own level of Pinocchio noses using the information available at link.

Susan Faludi: Think the Gender War Is Over? Think Again

06-16-08

Excerpt: The architects of American culture papered over this shaming history [of failures to protect families during the Indian Wars] by concocting what would become our prevailing national security fantasy — personified by the ever-vigilant white frontiersman who, by triumphing over the rapacious “savage” and rescuing the American maiden from his clutches, redeemed American manhood.

Frank Rich: Angry Clinton Women ♥ McCain?

06-16-08

Excerpt: You’d never guess that Mr. McCain is a fierce foe of abortion rights or that he voted to terminate the federal family-planning program that provides breast-cancer screenings. You’d never know that his new campaign blogger, recruited from The Weekly Standard, had shown his genuine affection for Mrs. Clinton earlier this year by portraying her as a liar and whiner and by piling on with a locker-room jeer after she’d been called a monster. “Tell us something we don’t know,” he wrote.

Barbeque Alert for Congress: Please Remember to Baste Petraeus Until Well Done.

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posted 04-03-08

David Corn has collected questions for General David Petraeus's visit to Congress next week from "dozen national security experts". I wonder if he'll see any kind of examination like these folks would give him as indicated in Grilling Petraeus.

On the Mojo Blog today he offered more questions this time from two generals in More Questions for Petraeus.

Will we see tough questioning like this when the top general in Iraq comes to town?

Many apologies for slow posting.

Internet connection still bad, requiring a visit to a library (or Mickey Ds) for WIFI or (gasp) dial up. And I'm so busy with work, I find it hard to get the time for to use any of those methods to get the complete story.

I've been reading a lot of newsprint and trying hard to make sure I get the podcasts of "Democracy Now" every few days or so -- I really have to try harder to get it everyday -- (and, 'Real Time' when available). Then picking up as much as I can from Pacifica radio, almost rounds out that which comes out of NPR these days.

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