near the end of the first bush-kerry presidential debate, the following question was posed to both candidates: LEHRER: New question, two minutes, Senator Kerry. If you are elected president, what will you take to that office thinking is the single most serious threat to the national security to the United States? kerry responded thusly: KERRY : Nuclear proliferation. Nuclear proliferation. There's some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Un...
in a thread of another article by the very astute Sean Conners, a.k.a. SConn1 Link there's been an ongoing sidebar discussion turning on the question of what constitutes a bonafide plan. i found an article that seems germane to that conversation located here: Link rather than dump what's turned into a lotta text onto mr. conners excellent post, i'll overload my own blog. the article in question was published on 9/12/0...
how horrible is this: little physically and mentally abused two-year-old conjoined iraqi quadruplets forced by demonic mullahs to rip pelts off cute lil live bunnies every 2 seconds for 14 hours a day using only their teeth. if that ain't bad enuff, if even just one american won't publicly praise every homosexual whenever passing them in the halls, a new law will permit howard dean to double taxes of the 1000 richest americans ...
to: all supporters of our president's counter-revolutionary determination to assume to his office and himself monarchist powers against which--and from which to free us forever--this nation's founders fought and died. re: the absurd incongruity of officially abrogating all relations with terrorist state syria while simultaneously utilizing syria as a backchannel instrument with which to perpetrate our own brand of s...
talk about irony. since assuming office as 'determinator of even the most crypto anti-semiticism' and being granted the power to view into all mens' hearts and see the moral rot therein, moderateman has been unrelenting in sniffing out and denouncing as 'jew haters' anyone who dares criticize policy implemented by the civil government of israel. so it is that his most recent screed (featuring introductory actual anti-semitic quotes attributed to h...
altho i can't recall ever feeling anything but creeped out by george hw bush, his wife, barbara, always seemed to me a pleasant, down-to-earth very likeable woman. i could never imagine what she could have seen in her husband nor how much alcohol she musta had to imbibe in order to mother his children. speaking of which, i never...ever...thought badly of her for bringing them into the world. after all, that was something she's hadda live with for over half century.&...
sadly, for as long as it remains standing, iraq's infamous abu ghraib prison is gonna be an haunting reminder about how combining hubris, executive incompetence and ideology can very easily and swiftly wrest defeat from the heart of impending victory. contemplate for a moment or two this report about abu ghraib's current status compiled and distributed by the associated press. The sprawling facility on the western outskirts of Baghdad wi...
perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the dubai port world deal--so far anyway--is the president's public position. he aggressively supported something with which he then claimed to be barely familiar. if he's lying about his limited knowledge, it's pretty scary. if he's not, scary ain't nearly strong enuff. i tend to go with the former possibility. as i've tried to point out several times in the past, he may be dumb as he often seems, but not nearly as dumb as he thinks...
christina applegate and jennifer tilly are two very smart, sexy, funny women who share a very unique talent. both are able to conjure up characters who say and do such incredibly stupid things with such finesse, it is sometimes difficult not to confuse christina with kelly bundy or jennifer with damn near a sorority of goofy sounding ditzy bimbos. brilliant as they may be, they have nothin on george w. bush. i may seem gullible and naive but i've done seed da light.&nbs...
day before yesterday i began--but then abandoned--a piece about generalissimo gonzales' attempt to strongarm google with a subpeona demanding a week's worth of user search queries as well as a random list of website urls from google's database. like the tools they are, yahoo, aol and msn appear to have already caved to government demands. gonzales--who seems at times to believe his job title is attorney tsar rather than attorney general--claims the information is needed to persuade ...
no, i don't know anyone who's suffered as a consequence of this administration's decision to defy the congress and judiciary by monitoring our communications. i do know someone who's in custody and subject to being deported for a drug-related felony because the government claims she isn't a citizen. she was born on a us military base in germany to parents who were both us citizens. i also know former admiral poindexter's proposal for the tia was voted down by ...
if the question is: "does the constitution provide for the federal government to own and administer the physical real estate of which these united states are comprised?'", the answer is very clearly spelled out in the second paragraph of article vi, section 3: "The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice a...
got some GOOD NEWS for all yall american conservatives (and others) who so fervently despise racial quotas, affirmative action and them damn non-european 'dash americans' (afro-americans, african-americans, mexican-americans,etc as opposed to perfectly good ol' german-, irish-, italian-, even franco-americans). and it don't have a thing to do with geico neither. fact is, you have an ideological ally in, of all places, france. in the aftermath of last...
(this is a response of sorts to rightwinger's strange view of the world located here: Link . more specifically, it's a reply to this statement: "You always seem to have a good grasp and command of some particular facts that I do not have. Admittedly, this often frustrates me because I just don't have the time to look everything up in order to give you a really good thrashing. That's all well and good, but as for this article, I'm not seeing you addressing the actual point of the po...
right in the middle of last year's crusade to keep christmas from being 'banned', an already ban-concious public was alarmed and outraged by news of a public school in cupertino, california 'banning' the constitution. as it turned out, the school hadn't banned anything (a teacher who made the claim after being disciplined by his principal for repeatedly violating a directive entered into a settlement in which the school denied any wrongdoing). despite a flurry of furio...