the american street: �Free� Trade, Offshoring, Jobs and the Concept of "Ownership" in General

Calpundit: Conservative Lysenkoism....The Definitive Report

O.k. there are those who would like to argue that the president isn't a moron... I know, I know, I don't see it either...but if he's not a moron then I think this article proves, if there was any doubt, that he is evil and a clouder of men's minds.

TOMPAINE.com - The Dreyfuss Report

you'll want to go ahead and bookmark it...

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: February 15, 2004 - February 21, 2004 Archives: "This is the arsonist in your house telling you that stranger outside with the hose can't be trusted. "

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News

of course they're cousins...
and skull & bones...
what they don't tell you is that they are reptiles!

USA Vanguard - This is how Bush supports our troops

"An army of veterans twice the size of that involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom has lost health insurance benefits since Bush took office."

AlterNet: Alan Greenspan and the D-Word

I like Greenspan better back when he supported the gold standard.

RealityFuel -> 50 Book Challenge

I do most of my reading at work, so I'll have to e-mail myself notes and post in the evenings...
but 50 books should be no problem...never counted how many I read a year so this should be interesting...

Metro Pulse/Gamut/Our Sacred Ditty: "The 'at least' could also be understood to mean that there's not much to being an American, that freedom's some kind of a base condition, leaving much to be desired. I Googled the phrase 'at least I know,' and one of the most quoted uses of the phrase after Mr. Greenwood's came from Timothy McVeigh's mother: 'At least I know he's human,' she said. Well, that's something to start with. "

via South Knox Bubba
which I probably found offa Atrios...

anyway, wow...the whole article is great...but the McVeigh reference is just perfect...

Salon.com | Manufacturing the environment: "McKinney insisted that NAM is just trying to play the same game as the 'Sierra Club, sky-is-falling crowd.' As he explained it, 'We're all part of the same ballgame, we have the same goals -- to get our message out through the media, make our case as best we can, and convince voters to get the type of policymakers in office who will see things our way.' "

uhhh...no...
their game is about saving the planet...your game is about $$$....

Salon.com Politics

that's brilliant! maybe he IS a role model after all!

Salon.com News | U.S. uses 1800s law to target Greenpeace

my anger makes it hard for me to even express what I'm thinking...
these are the guys we trust only to use the partriot act against terrorists?
the ones going after greenpeace with the ancient anti pimp law?

the Federal Entertainment Authority Cabaret at the Axiom

I am Kid Ornery.
It's true.
I'm not much of a musical director,
but I've got a great band and they pick up the slack.
Come see the show!
it's going to be great!

Discourse.net: Bush Labor Dept. Explains to Employers How to Avoid Paying Overtime

leaving me speechless yet again...

Eschaton

I'm amazed at what is going on in the administration...
Yes, I'm still amazed...the shenanigans at the EPA should be enough to make him unelectable...
but what I really don't get is why the media continues to play ball with these folks?
Why would the NYT make the changes Atrios points out? What the hell is going on?

O.k.
I think as someone who is going to support the Democrats this time around I have to call them out when I see them doing something really wrong. Timoney is heading up security for the convention in Boston and we have to let them know that this is unacceptable. I can't give any money to people with no respect for the bill of rights. Just can't do it.

Texas housewife busted for hawking erotic toys / Sales rep for Brisbane firm sold vibrator to undercover agents: "u"

File under: Ashamed to be from Texas...
via Atrios...

slacktivist: Reagan's Bind
finally...something worth naming after Reagan...

O.k I saw one of the democratic debates this weekend and it got me to thinking...
I have a question I'd like to hear in a debate...any debate...and it's a followup question,
but I bet it could be worked in to almost every Presidential debate from here till the election.

"That's very interesting but in no way adresses the question you were asked. My followup then is if you cannont listen to and respond to a question put directly to you in a debate, when that is your only responsiblity how can the American public trust you to listen to and respond to their questions and concerns?"

I didn't bother counting but I know this question could have been asked several times just in the half or so of the last debate I saw.

Answer the damn questions people!
We aren't just asking them to hear ourselves talk!
Spew your rhetoric on your own time!

The Raitt Stuff

My main machine is down...so blogging has been and will be light for awhile...
but this was too good not to point it out...