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Republican code-talker says, "Osama wants you to vote G.O.P."
2008-03-11 00:00:00 When a really creepy white guy who belongs to the same political party as the Dunce-in-Chief who let America get attacked on 9/11 says, "The terrorists want you to vote for Obama," then there's only one thing that's certain: the... More About: Republican , Code , Vote , Osama , Talker
Body of War
2008-03-10 00:00:00 "Body of War" is a powerful documentary about U.S. veterans whose lives?and bodies and psyches?were irreparably changed by their service in the lie-based war in Iraq.
Another martyr dies for gun freedom
2008-03-08 00:00:00 Remember, guns don't kill people; people with guns bought from law-breaking gun dealers kill people. She died for our freedom, so will the NRA send an honor guard to her funeral? More About: Freedom , Martyr , Dies
Civil disobedience against the war on drugs
2008-03-08 00:00:00 The U.S. government has used the bogus war on drugs as an excuse to lock up millions of America's poor in for-profit prisons. The writers of the HBO show The Wire suggest a good old-fashioned American civil disobedience tactic to... More About: Drugs , War on Drugs , The War on Drugs , Civil Disobedience , Civil
Arrest warrants issued for Bush, Cheney
2008-03-07 00:00:00 OK, it's not quite at the arrest warrant stage yet, but two towns in Vermont have passed articles calling for the indictment of George Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against the Constitution. Meanwhile President Bush, speaking to Wall Street... More About: Arrest
Kitty wigs are cruelty to animals
2008-03-06 00:00:00 OK, the tension of the Dem nomination drama is killing me, so let's talk about something else, such as the strange things to which poor pets are subjected by their nutty owners. I suppose that the 20% of its proceeds... More About: Animals , Kitty , Cruelty , Wigs
You know you've lost the election when . . .
2008-03-05 00:00:00 The question was whether the North American Free Trade Agreement created jobs in the United States or killed them. It was directed to Clinton. "Well," she responded, her voice rising, "could I just point out that, in the last several... More About: Lost , Election
Conservative Charlotte Allen says, "We women are too dumb to vote"
2008-03-05 00:00:00 You're right, Charlotte , but with a qualification: conservative women like you are too dumb to vote, so on election day, stay away from the polls. Instead, you and Ann Coulter can make sandwiches for the men in your life and... More About: Women , Conservative , Dumb , Vote
How to invade and occupy an oil-rich nation
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Step 1: Overthrow the ethnic/religious minority-ruled regime and put in power the majority, which is allied with a hostile enemy nation. Step 2: Send your troops to die (i.e., ?support the troops?) in the majority-ruled government?s battle against the minority... More About: Rich , Nation , Invade
To wear the Bush crown, no real soldiers need apply
2008-03-05 00:00:00 The third in line for the English throne, Prince Harry, is returning from his tour of duty in Afghanistan (i.e., the only country we were supposed to invade after 9/11). The prince said he is proud to continue the royal... More About: Bush , Real , Soldiers , The Bush , Wear
Racist fears explain America's anti-abortion movement and European calls to
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Loyal reader Gail tipped me to a fascinating report in The Nation about the connection between the anti-abortion movement and racist white fears?in both America and Europe?about behind the demographic eight ball, i.e., about being outbred by darker-skinned folks: The... More About: European , Abortion , Calls , Racist , Anti
Bush proves old adage: the bigger the liar, the less he'll cop to
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Okay, it's not an old adage, but it should be: People will cop to little lies, but the bigger the lie, the more likely they are to stick to their story forever. George W. Bush , for instance, never for one... More About: Liar
On Fox, comedian calls network a "festival of ignorance"
2008-03-05 00:00:00 Dear Lee Camp (if you're still alive): Way to go, dude! More About: Comedian , Network , Calls , Festival , Ignorance
Get your kids used to fascist police-state tactics now!
2008-03-05 00:00:00 No, it's not a joke. It's for real?the Playmobil Security Checkpoint. "Sorry, you sweater-over-the-shoulders latte-drinking liberal, but you're on the no-fly list. Follow me to the Liberty Room for waterboar . . . I mean, democratization." More About: Kids , Tactics , Police , Police State , State
The McCain-Huckabee healthcare plan: pretend to discourage the junkfood the
2008-03-05 00:00:00 On the subject of healthcare (or the lack thereof) in the United States, Mike Huckabee has recently said that in view of the "epidemic" of obesity, diabetes, and other lifestyle diseases, what America is facing isn't a healthcare crisis but... More About: Healthcare , Plan
The war on drugs whack-a-mole: from just cocaine to cocaine and meth
2008-03-05 00:00:00 One of the many interesting points made in "How America Lost the War on Drugs " is that the so-called war on drugs is responsible for America's meth epidemic. To summarize: After the U.S. killed Pablo Escovar in 1993, [t]he remaining... More About: War on Drugs , The War on Drugs , Cocaine , Mole
Dying for our freedom to arm the insane
2008-02-18 01:38:00 Northern Illinois University killer Steven Kazmierczak received a psychological discharge from the Army in 2002. Before that he had spent an entire year in a psychiatric treatment center. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications. . . . “He never wanted to identify with being mentally ill, [the treatment center manager] said. “That was part of the problem.” Speaking of people who won’t take their meds or face up to their mental health issues, the NRA has opposed all manner of restrictions on guns and is a primary reason Kazmierczak had an easier time legally obtaining lethal firepower here in America than in any other country on earth. His history of mental illness was no impediment whatsoever, apparently. And of course, even if American put in place a nationwide “mental illness” background check system similar to the criminal background check that gun dealers are currently required to perform, the exemption for guns shows would undoubtedly rema... More About: Freedom , Insane , Dying
"No Child" isn't working because it was never meant to
2008-02-17 21:31:00 Of course "No Child Left Behind" isn't working; it was never meant to — unless by "work" you mean to help bring an end to public education as we know it. NCLB mandates improvements without giving schools the resources to achieve those improvements. In fact, the whole strategy behind NCLB was to generate reams of testing data that, the G.O.P. hoped, would make private religious schools look better in comparison, thereby justifying vouchers and other causes of the anti-public-school movement. Unfortunately for the right, the data didn't bear this out, but NCLB is still working against schools by forcing them to "teach to the test" and meet unrealistic goals. This anti-education law needs to be revoked as soon as regime change comes next January. Of course, the Busheviks' real propaganda is more ridiculous than anything a comedian could think up. More About: Working
Obamania explained: It's conservative fearmongering and divisiveness that h
2008-02-16 16:56:00 Dear Charles Krauthhammer: In your recent column titled "The Audacity of Selling Hope," you lambast Barrack Obama for his "astonishingly empty paper trail," toss out a quote about the "Helter-Skelter cult-ish qualities" of "Obama worshipers," and compare their candidate to bottled-water companies and other businesses that get people to pay for what they could otherwise get for free, saying that the silver-tongued freshman senator has found a way to sell hope. To get it, you need only give him your vote. Barack Obama is getting millions. This kind of sale is hardly new. Organized religion has been offering a similar commodity -- salvation -- for millennia.Funny you should mention religion. After all, crass manipulation of right-wing Christian fundamentalism is how your guy Dubya got the keys to the White House in the first place. And speaking of the worst president in history, don't you suppose that Bush's divisive, uncompromising style of... More About: Conservative
Berkeley, chock full o' nuts
2008-02-15 23:23:00 Dear City of Berkeley : Thanks a whole lot for making the reality-based community look bad! What's the matter, have you so run out of other municipal problems to solve that you have time to focus on the Marines? Crime has been wiped out, homelessness solved, the schools giving all children a top-notch education, potholes all filled in? Dear everyone else: I propose we build a wall around Berkeley, like in "Escape from New York," and then start airlifting in the Prozac. More About: Full , Nuts , Chock
Jeb Bush's booze, orgy, and softball-obsessed prison system
2008-02-15 19:30:00 It's a story too weird even for "Reno 911." In 2003, Florida's then-governor Jeb Bush put James V. Crosby in charge of the state's prison system. By 2006, Crosby had been forced to resign. He later pleaded guilty to corruption charge and today is himself a guest of the Federal prison system. Upon taking over from the disgraced Crosby, James McDonough found a system that was corrupt and out of control in the extreme. Highlights include:• Taxpayer funds to pay for booze and women; • Guards who punished other guards who threatened to report them. "Corruption had gone to an extreme," McDonough said, saying it all began at the top. "They seemed to be drunk half the time and had orgies the other half, when they weren't taking money and beating each other up." He added, "Women were treated like chattel in this department." McDonough described a bizarre prison culture among those that ran the system -- one that he says seemed obses... More About: System , Booze , Prison , Softball
The drug war draft
2008-02-15 00:00:00 What do you do when you need fresh troops for wars of conquest, but too many young people want to go to college instead? The solution, known as the drug war draft, is simple: You loosen up restrictions on people... More About: Draft , Drug , Drug War
Jesus H. Christ, enough of this "whites voting for Hillary" and "blacks vot
2008-02-15 00:00:00 Ain't it interesting how the mass media decided that it's acceptable to talk about blacks-versus-whites in the context of Hillary versus Obama. After all, the press isn't making nearly as big a deal about the Christ ofascists?I mean "religious conservatives"?who are... More About: Jesus , Voting , Blacks
The global war on global warming
2008-02-15 00:00:00 Prince Charles joins the ranks of the world's America-haters by calling the fight against global warming a "war". Doesn't he know that true Americans only declare wars that make money for the wealthy, such as the prison industry's War on... More About: Global Warming , Global
The George W. Bush Library
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Emailed to me by a reader: With 341 days left in King George 's reign, the following exhibits have already been assembled for the George W . Bush Presidential Library : The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction. The Alberto Gonzales... More About: George W Bush
Murdoch to buy Yahoo?
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Rupert Murdoch has offered to buy 20% of Yahoo to allow the broken-down, dead-man-walking company keep Bill Gates at bay and stay independent (long enough, presumably, for Yahoo's founders to flee the country and start new lives under new names).... More About: Yahoo!
Boiling alive, yes. Waterboarding, no
2008-02-14 00:00:00 When our government can rendition people to secret overseas prisons where they are subjected to such niceties as boiling alive, banning such comparatively tame practices like waterboarding is largely an empty gesture. Is it just me, or is the whole... More About: Alive , Waterboarding
Be afraid, be very afraid?of Dem superdelegates
2008-02-13 00:00:00 Donnie Fowler?son of a Democratic superdelegate?tries to reassure us that we don't have to worry about the superdelegates betraying the will of the people on convention day. After all, [h]alf of them are superdelegates precisely because of the will of...
Hillary-hatred: the charm(lessness) factor
2008-02-13 00:00:00 The possible reasons why a seemingly irrational hatred of Hillary is so widespread in this country?not just in the right-wing echo chamber but reality-based America, too?break down like this, along with the percentage attributable to each: She's a woman?75% She's... More About: Factor , Charm , Hatred
God visits hurricanes on Bush-voting Floridians
More articles from this author:2008-02-10 00:00:00 This map shows the path of post-2000-election hurricanes through Florida, with the map color coded to show the counties that voted for Bush (pink) and those that voted for Gore (blue). Some say this shows that God was punishing the... More About: Hurricanes , Voting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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