This almost makes up for the continuing saga of septic system pain–it’s enough to put a smile on my face, anyway! Tom DeLay indicted again; money laundering charged U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, forced to step down as House Republican leader last week after he was indicted on a conspiracy charge, was indicted again Monday. The new charges, brought… Read more →
Category: Political
*Boom*
It’s always good to get your head explody out of the way early. ‘Ten Commandments’ Judge To Run For Ala. Governor GADSDEN, Ala. — Roy Moore, who became a hero to the religious right after being ousted as Alabama’s chief justice for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, announced Monday that he is running… Read more →
Upbeat and assorted.
Yes, that’s correct. Apparently there is a BaldGuyz corporation making products just for… well, “bald guys”. As time goes by I am falling more and more into their target audience. I think these boxes look pretty funny though. * * * I wouldn’t actually buy BaldGuyz products, but as an engineer I think I am duty-bound to actually buy these… Read more →
Insert your own “bringing the Hammer down” joke
It is unreasonable how much of an optimistic lift this has given me: U.S. house majority leader DeLay indicted, steps down temporarily – Wikinews U.S House of Representatives majority leader Tom DeLay was indicted today by a Travis County Texas grand jury on conspiracy charges. DeLay announced that he will step down temporarily from his leadership position. … The Wikinews… Read more →
Halliburton Gets Contract
OK, I was bored of them for a while, but I do still occasionally love the guys at The Onion: Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses’ Teeth It’s funny because… Read more →
Bush appointed dictator
Okay, so maybe that’s a bit hyperbolic, he’s not quite Sulla yet (and I doubt he will be returning his powers to the more general government at the end of his term!), but apparently the courts have decided (again) that he has the power to abrogate the Constitution more or less at his whim, and hold American citizens without habeaus… Read more →
Can I get a little more me in the monitor?
Every time I think I’m getting whack-o paranoid, the Bushies come along and double down on the unsubtle machinations. Like Thursday night’s speech, where Bush calls for ‘more power for me, and less restrictions on me’. Well, maybe not in those words, but he did actually say: “It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal… Read more →
Private security forces
So, there’s obviously a lot of Katrina stuff that I could rant about, but I feel like the blogosphere mostly has that covered. However, one thing that I find startling, more in how much no one else seems to be startled than in the thing itself, is this whole Blackwater Security thing. To quote from Wiki News (where you can… Read more →
Stagger On, Weary Titan
There was a fascinating piece in the Guardian earlier this week, which was brought to my attention by one of my Evil Genius pals. (I’m linking the title below to Common Dreams, since they sometimes keep things accessible in the long term better than the source papers): Stagger On, Weary Titan The US is reeling, like imperial Britain after the… Read more →
Speaking back to Power
You know, now that I’m a parent I think I’m supposed to be changing my attitudes about the appropriate response to Authority. Happily, that doesn’t seem to be happening, and I still seem to think that the more Authority is asserted, the more the correct response becomes mockery. (Here’s my intellectual pretension for the day: Thomas More once wrote, “The… Read more →
United States Homeland Security network monitors suspicious activity
Man, so many things to say about this item in today’s Wikinews. Instead of trying to write something clear and sensible (I’ve slept about 5 hours since Monday) I’m just going to pull quotes from the article and comment on them. “The secret network is a component of the HSIN, which is the primary conduit for DHS to share information… Read more →
A tiny bit of hope
Could this (please) be a sign that the Gangsta Administration is finally starting to break up? Or even better, that some politicians remember what the whole Bill Of Rights things was about… House Votes To Curb Patriot Act The House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting… Read more →
A few follow-ups
So, still sick, but capable of posting some follow-up links on some things I’ve talked about before. One of the topics I’ve discussed a lot is the whole “forcing creationism into schools” thing, one classic example of which was the whole evolution sticker thing. Well, you may recall that back in January the courts (correctly!) ordered the stickers removed. Apparently… Read more →
Fun Stuff To Listen To
Another link post I can make without straining myself is one that points out a couple of lovely audio bits that I enjoyed listening to today. The first, pointed out by brilliant UK author Ken MacLeod, is to the beautifully sharp comments made by British MP George Galloway to US Senators. While the 4 minute audio version is fun to… Read more →
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others…
Another type of post I can do without fear of straining my sick self is the Hump Of Hate post. Today’s target is Congressman Spencer Bachus from–surprise!–Alabama who has decided to continue the government program of censoring Bill Maher. A congressman says comedian Bill Maher’s comment that the U.S. military has already recruited all the “low-lying fruit” is possibly treasonous… Read more →
