Yahoo! News - $132K of Grant to Combat Goth Returned

If the city government of Blue Springs Missourri can't help us fight the terror of Goth culture,
then who can?

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how did Jon Stewart become our spokesperson?
all I can say is I'm glad he's out there...

Cold Turkey -- In These Times

Vonnegut...so right on you'll double up in pain or with laughter...or some frightening combination of both...

CNN.com - Chalabi blames Baathists for raid - May 20, 2004: "When asked about that issue Thursday, Chalabi said he still believes Iraq had WMDs that are 'hidden.'
'They must be found. They constitute a danger to the Iraqi people,' he said. 'We will look for them after sovereignty.'"

how does that jibe with this?

"As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We're ready to fall on our swords if he wants."
(First link I found offa google search for "Chalabi what was said before does not matter")

the rate stories change these days it really makes my head spin...

M

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Editorials: "The girl's mother, also a teacher, was ordered by the principal to destroy the child's poetry. The mother refused and may lose her job."

This is completely insane. Let's teach kids to express themselves and then punish them for expressing themselves...
good thinking...

just go look...a>

via the howling curmudgeons

this is a test...
this is only a test...
test test test...
whoohooo!

TH Online

BUSH AFRAID TO FACE WWII VETERAN!

that should be the headline...

Eschaton

see, at first, I was all for the draft...thinking it would leave me here alone with all the young women...

but this just ruins everything...

not only are all the young women going to be drafted,

but I might be too...

good thing I'm so unhealthy...

way too unhealthy to die in a war...

US News Article | Reuters.com

How can Bush, Rice, etc continue to claim they were focussed on terrorism before 9/11?

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

YES! YES! YES! we must take the battle to them...
Delay should be priority #2...right under the presidency...
gotta let folks know we've had enough Republican thuggery!

Off the Kuff: There's your tort "reform": "And the reason you were wrong is because the case for tort 'reform' is a myth. Instead of getting tough on the small minority of doctors who are responsible for a disproportionate amount of med-mal cases, instead of working to make the free market of doctors more efficient, Republicans pushed for a new artificial hindrance on that free market, and are shocked to find that it has had an unintended (albeit not unforeseeable) consequence. Best of all, to compensate for that unintended consequence, they're talking about enacting price controls. The irony is just killing me."


How is it that so many conservatives don't even understand what they claim they believe in. Tort reform is just classic class war. Protecting Goliath from David.

Whiskey Bar: Son of the Huston Plan

I am normally a rather articulate person. The reason this blog doesn't reflect that is, well, look what can I say about things like this that won't get me locked up (at best) eventually? These are dark and scary times my friends... Dark and scary.

Claim vs. Fact: Condoleezza Rice's Opening Statement - Center for American Progress

Condiliar.

Jesus' General

just in case you need another reason NOT to shop at wal-mart...

Jesus' General

"Obedience is listening attentively,
Obedience will take instructions joyfully,
Obedience heeds wishes of authorities,
Obedience will follow orders instantly.
For when I am busy at my work or play,
And someone calls my name, I'll answer right away!
I'll be ready with a smile to go the extra mile
As soon as I can say "Yes, sir!" "Yes ma'am!"
Hup, two, three!"

oh man...
this is some scary scary scary scary scary stuff...
(not exactly enlightened criticism on my part,
but as so often happens these days I find myself
lacking the words to describe the state I'm in...
AAARRGGHHH!)

The New Republic Online: Iraq'd
Today has been a day full of laughing out loud at sad things for me...but this one...this one had me rolling on the floor...

via calpundit...who's now over at www.washingtonmonthly.com

Yahoo! News - Purported Al Qaeda Letter Calls Truce in Spain: "The statement said it supported President Bush (news - web sites) in his reelection campaign, and would prefer him to win in November rather than the Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), as it was not possible to find a leader 'more foolish than you (Bush), who deals with matters by force rather than with wisdom.' "

SEE! Bush has foreign support too!

Calpundit: More Employment News

ok...this makes the even weak job gains weaker...
check it out...
turns out Bush really is a big government Republican.

This Modern World: "Now of course, the free traders in the audience are already composing lengthy emails about the inevitability of change and the invisible hand of the free market and so on--but here's the problem: the invisible hand only functions efficiently when labor and capital are equally mobile. Unfortunately, here in the real world, pretty much any job can be outsourced, but human beings are still stuck living where they live, in Buffalo, New York, or Little Rock, Arkansas, or wherever they may be. They're not going to move to Bangalore to keep their jobs. And since the cost of living is considerably higher, even in Little Rock, Arkansas, than it is in Bangalore, they simply can't compete, and the invisible hand is transformed into an invisible fist which pummels one side at the behest of the other--not exactly what Adam Smith had in mind. And decades and decades of progress for working people in this country are simply wiped out, as we devolve further and further into a winner-take-all, screw-the-rest society. "

This is the argument we ALL need to be making right now!