Or, at least, fears people like me. (That image links to the source data, as well as a ton of other polling informationThe host site doesn’t let me link directly to this specific poll, so if you’re not reading this post on the day it was posted, you will need to scroll down to the section headed “USA Today/Gallup Poll.… Read more →
Category: Political
Bush’s Impeachable Offenses
It’s starting to feel like time to dump some of that “boy am I just really sick of George W. Bush, and his administstration” bile again. Let’s start with a pointer to Jodin Morey’s three-part (so far) heavily-footnoted examination of the impeachable offenses Bush has committed. The first part focuses on the question of illegal wars, in a 21-point analysis.… Read more →
The Fate Of Satire
While reading Anthony Daniels’ piece on Homage To Catalonia (and the people who uncritically love Orwell) at The New Criterion, I was struck be the power of this paragraph: Now, however, that Marxist Communism as a ruling doctrine has all but disappeared from the face of the earth (though its effects certainly live on), Orwell’s most celebrated books have lost… Read more →
Universal Health Care: Take That Harpocrats!
Well, that graph by itself should go a long way towards answering the “received wisdom” from Canada’s right wing that “health care is broken”. And, it should also go a long way in helping the US left in justifying universal health care. The graph comes from a fairly detailed article on the results of a study into our more than… Read more →
Today’s Rage Aneurisym
I’m not sure which of these two straws are going to break the camel’s back, but… Over at Kos, they’re highlighting this segment of the NYT article headed “Pressure Builds Over Plan for Troop Increase“: Mr. Bush’s National Security Adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said in an interview on “Meet the Press” on NBC that the White House has sufficient money… Read more →
How the Bush Administration Is Giving Me A Rage Aneurisym (Today)
Okay, so we already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office — at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We also know that they’re taking… Read more →
Still making sense…
I for one would pay tall dollars to watch a Rollins/Hannity debate. Read more →
Well, he is the Emporer, isn’t he?
Every time I think that there’s no way I could despise Bush and his administration more, he finds a way. “Do you believe as Commander in Chief you have the authority to put the troops in there no matter what the Congress wants to do,” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asks Bush in the short clip uploaded to the CBS… Read more →
Another happy post about torture
Let’s start with a piece in the Guardian: Last week, defence lawyers acting for José Padilla, a US citizen detained as an “enemy combatant”, released a video showing a mission fraught with deadly risk – taking him to the prison dentist. A group of masked guards in riot gear shackled his legs and hands, blindfolded him with black-out goggles and… Read more →
Another One Bites The Dust…
Quoting from the Independent Online: Augusto Pincohet 1915-2006: He took his crimes to the grave Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 until 1990, died in a high-security military hospital in the capital, Santiago, yesterday. His death from heart failure leaves a disputed legacy of brutal political repression; salvation from Marxism; and civil… Read more →
Dion, huh? Interesting.
Look, I didn’t want Ignatieff. He pissed me off. I was interested in seeing how Bob Rae would have played out. I think that would have been fun to watch either way–if he transcended his baggage in Ontario, or if it was a glorious disaster. (Certainly, as an NDP, it would have been interesting to see a former NDP Premier… Read more →
British troops beating children
I have nothing to add to what I said before. Read more →
What Will They Be Thankful For?
The biggest risk we now face is that, if the United States withdraws from Iraq, the withdrawal will trigger a regional collapse. Iran will be sucked in from the east, as Iraq succumbs to a Sunni on Shi’ite civil war that threatens Iran’s own western population. Sunni insurgents trained in Iraq will flood the region as a whole, threatening to… Read more →
Election Results: Pissing On Your Parade
If you see a crazy guy in the street punching himself in the face with both fists, how does it make you feel? What if he’s got a big nuclear bomb strapped to his chest? Now, how would you feel if after watching this for SIX YEARS, the man stopped punching himself in the face WITH ONE HAND? Yeah, that’s… Read more →
Not Eligible, But Qualified
A stunning 100%, although I admit that I don’t really know what Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi all look like, so that one was a guess. Read more →
