Yesterday I was listening to Democracy Now with my 81 year old friend, a long-time progressive activist. She about blew a gasket when she heard Jim Wallis explain why Obama came out so strongly in favor of expanding Bush's faith-based initiatives and also discussed his support for efforts to reduce abortions.
Quick, pop over to the New York Times home page and check out the very cool graphical depiction of how the primary votes went state by state based on the criteria listed after the jump:
Buried in the September 5 issue of the Federal Register, was a notice that this Thursday, September 20, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) will hold public hearings on their ¨Secure Flight Plan.¨
Come with me into a nightmare world where American citizens will have to obtain permission from the government before they can travel by air in the U.S.
Let me stipulate that I love the Daily Show, it's host, Jon Stewart and most of the cast.
Let me qualify that statement with a much needed "mostly."
Please counterbalance the following opinion with the fact that I don't own a TV and that my Daily Show experience is [highly?] filtered by the limitation of Comedy Central's Motherload feature.
ADM is at it again. First they ruin our health by getting food processors to put corn syrup and/or high fructose corn syrup in almost every food stuff imaginable
Then they get salmon fish farmers to use corn as feed (last time I checked, no wild salmon has yet jumped out of a river or ocean to hunt down a juicy ear of corn
And now they get those of us searching for alternatives to fossil fuels to think that corn-based ethanol is just the bees knees.
In the April 15 issue of Haaretz.com, Gideon Levy writes about Nasarin, a nine year old child whose face got in the way of a rubber bullet.
This is a little story about a little girl, orphaned and poor, who peered out from the door of her home into the street, at a time when the Israel Defense Forces came to capture wanted men and the children were throwing stones at the soldiers.
A letter from Charles Louis Kincannon, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, says that my residence has been chosen at random to participate in a mid-decade census survey called the "American Community Survey."
I am generally happy to further the cause of research by answering even the most personal questions -- provided it is totally anonymous. This survey is anything but. At the top is printed my address with apartment number. The first item, first page asks for your full name and telephone number. The survey goes on to ask your age, date of birth, state of birth, race, ancestory or ethnic origin, name and address of your employer, what time you leave for work, the nature of your work, all sources and amounts of income and details about your home.
Today the United States Congress will raise the national debt limit by several hundred billion dollars -- to $9 trillion.
Big numbers can be hard to grasp, making it difficult to comprehend the magnitude of difference between a trillion and a billion. Yes, it's a matter of zeros but after a few zeros they become like imaginary numbers.
I've created a little table that may help you wrap your mind around big numbers.
What will it take to get the American people wake up and realize that their president ranks as one of the most terrible "leaders" since Nero? Leaving aside for a moment all of the other times he fiddled away -- at the truth, at our trust, at treason -- this time he really did fiddle while Rome burned New Orleans drowned.
My government chooses to remove 300,000 of "the least of these" (as their Christ would put it) from the rolls of food stamp recipients, rather than risk having to roll back tax cuts for its very richest citizens (the very same ones their Christ said could get into Heaven as easily as a camel through the eye of a needle).
Is it just me (my tin foil hat IS in the shop being tuned up) or what? It seems just a bit too convenient that a top leader in Lebanon is murdered and someone close to the leadership in Syria is so promptly fingered for the act.
How convenient that it occurred just when Condi Rice was lying testifying to the U. S. Senate about the situation in the Mid East.
Please, someone, disabuse me of my doubts about the authenticity of the situation.
Thanks.
As reported by Media Matters, Neal Boortz stated in his October 14 radio show that "we should save the rich people first."
If we are faced with disaster in this country -- let me ask you this, OK? You just be logical. Get all of the emotion out of this. Get all of the emotion out of this. But if we are faced with a disaster in this country, which group do we want to save? The rich or the poor? Now, if you have time, save as many people as you can. But if you have to set some priorities, where do you go? The rich or the poor?
George Galloway met Christopher Hitchens at Barnard College, with Amy Goodman standing as moderator. If you watched and/or listened, who won? Defend your answer.
Hitchens has jumped the shark. The booze has finally caught up with him as evidenced by his claiming that any objection to the war in Iraq is a racist abandonment of her people, especially her women. He scolded the audience for their negative responses by reminding them that their mother's are watching them on C-SPAN.
From Marketplace (September 6), this bit of tape catches Barbara [Rhymes with Witch] Bush opining that the evacuees who are now living in the Astrodome are so so much better off than they were beforebecause, you know, they were underprivileged to begin with and now look at how wonderful their lives are. The people of Texas have been so wonderful that now -- "scary thought" -- they want to stay in Texas. Listen especially for the little giggle; it will sound frightfully familiar:
It is very important to counter the hateful bile spewed by that Devil spawn, Pat Robertson. If the FCC can go after Janet Jackson faster than it took to zip up her blouse, there is no excuse for them to allow Robertson to besmerch the public airways with his sick rhetoric (at least one hopes its rhetoric and not some "coded message" [c.f. C. Rice] to a whacko right brigade that its time to strike [now removing tin foil hat]).
