Archive for January, 2007
Olbermann on Bush’s 96 Words
The new “96 words”
In case facts matter to anyone, the President went 0 for 4 on his State of the Union claims that he or anyone has secretly stopped terrorist attacks against the US. Put bluntly, he lied again, and again, straight to our faces, while Cheney didn’t blink an eye (literally, for the whole [...]
Read More..>>The Top Ten Movies of 2006
Mercurio D. Rivera, a talented science fiction writer and avid movie-goer, has written this excellent year-end review of the very best movies of 2006. He originally posted this on Matt Kressel’s fine blog, but we thought it’d be nice to post it here too. Personally, I most definitely need to beef up my Netflix queue. [...]
Read More..>>The Resolution
While congress is debating the best language to send a mild, polite rebuke to the President — don’t use the word ‘escalation’ because that’s micromanaging the war, don’t tell the enemy we think we can’t win, don’t isolate the President and make him any more impotent than he already is — I have a simpler [...]
Read More..>>Find Out If Your ID is Stolen… Just Enter it Here
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet
A new service promises to tell you (and then sell you a fix) if your ID is stolen. How do they know what your identity is? You enter your sensitive information on a web page and they’ll tell you if that information [...]
The Faux Wars
Media Matters - Right-wing media figures claim Clinton behind Obama/Muslim smears
Normally, it takes two sides to have a fight. But the Right Wing pundits are proving they are fully capable of throwing punches for all sides, all while ducking their own responsibility and feigning ignorance. This week, Fox News et al “reported” (video clip [...]
Hail to the Thief
TPMmuckraker January 16, 2007 02:28 PM (video and transcript at link)
El Presidente is yet again abusing the power granted to him by the Orwell-inspired PATRIOT act, this time for a new Saturday Night Massacre on a much broader scale. US Attorneys across the country are being fired with no cause and little notice, only to [...]
Row over angry, penis-removing doctor
Row over angry, penis-removing doctor | Metro.co.uk
Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital.
Romanian doctors are apparently upset that this doctor, who intentionally [...]
George Bush: Time Traveler
U.S. launches new attacks in Somalia - Yahoo! News
So the story is that in 2007, we’re attacking al Qaida forces in Somalia in response to the 1993 bombings. Not that I oppose nailing those responsible as soon as humanly possible. But why wait so long? Well, here’s a clue. In 2003, we “finally” (according to [...]
Selling the Surge
Selling the Surge - Yahoo! News
Wolfowitz, Feith, Rumsfeld, Bolton and other architects of the war in Iraq may be gone, but the neoconservatives’ stature inside the Bush Administration has hardly diminished. The same people that sold us the war, often under false pretenses, are now leading proponents of escalating the conflict by sending tens of [...]