The Liberal DoomsayerThe Liberal DoomsayerMy blog deals primarily with national politics in the U.S. as well as, on occasion, local politics in Pennsylvania. From time to time, I may have something to say about sports and entertainment as well. I try to interpret information that shapes the 
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Obama Thwarts MacDonald - Spotted Owl Won't "Buy The Farm"
2009-04-01 23:04:00 (Get it, MacDonald?s Farm ?heh, and I also posted stuff here that may or may not be of interest, though the new ?Hit And Run? ad is pretty good.)This tells us that the Department of the Interior of the Obama Administration?...has told a federal court that it will not defend the Bush administration's decision to cut back protections for the northern spotted owl.The action could affect logging in western Oregon.?Interior Department lawyers said in the motion that the decision was based on an inspector general's report finding there was political interference in owl protections by a former deputy assistant interior secretary.And who exactly would that former deputy assistant interior secretary be? Why, it would be Julie MacDonald. As noted here?...MacDonald used her political power to rig countless life or death decisions for imperiled American wildlife under the Endangered Species Act. Species like the Preble's meadow jumping mouse, California red-legged frog, and the Canada lynx ar...
Tuesday Stuff
2009-04-01 05:12:00 As noted here, this is what you're paying for when you advertise on "The Orally Factor"......oh, but if we all clap real hard and maybe spread some pixie dust, then numbers will magically appear tomorrow!!!......"Still Bushed" (another miserable failure in Afghanistan/Pakistan of course, giving millions while the Taliban and al Qaeda were becoming even better "buds," with Obama a change that they notice after only two months; Dubya's EEOC violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by denying overtime to its employees and providing time off instead - oh goody; and this is a real capper - "President" Hamid Karzai of Pakistan institutes a law observing Shia doctrine that basically legalizes married rape, making divorce easier for men than for women and gives men preferential inheritance rights...heckuva job, Hamid, you sick beast)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and as a "tribute" to Karzai for that last item, I came oh so close to embedding "... More About: Stuff , Tuesday
A One-Stop Source For The Pundit "Tuesday Stupids"
2009-03-31 23:41:00 The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote an editorial today criticizing members of Philadelphia City Council for receiving (as noted here)??their lucrative pension perk known as DROP."I'm entitled to it," Council President Anna Verna said of the nearly $600,000 check she's in line to receive through the DROP program. That's on top of Verna's annual pension of about $130,000.Councilwoman Marian Tasco also argued that her DROP payment of almost $500,000 is her money. She says Council members are being unfairly maligned for taking what is owed to them.Here's where Verna, Tasco, and others on Council are not only wrong, but also extremely tone-deaf.For starters, the DROP program was intended for city employees - not elected officials. Voters are supposed to decide when to "retire" an elected official, so there's no need for them to have the pension incentive.Second, the DROP payment is supposed to come after you retire. But Councilwoman Joan Krajewski exploited a loophole that must be fixe... More About: Source , Stop , Tuesday
Sadly, No "Deficit" In Broder Crackpot History
2009-03-31 19:11:00 (And I also posted over here.)This is a couple of days old from The Dean Of Beltway Journalism, but it definitely merits a mention; David S. Broder is chiding Obama and the Democratic congress for their budget deficits, which are significant I?ll grant you, though not as big a threat to this country as the current recession (and again, Obama was handed $1.3 trillion in red ink, so what?s he going to do to try and get us out of this? Pinch pennies instead?).However, this excerpt from Broder is truly wankerific?There are plenty of people in Congress for whom the CBO report (that projected $9.3 trillion added to the debt) was no surprise, and some of them have proposed a solution that would confront this reality. Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and Judd Gregg, its ranking Republican, have offered a bill to create a bipartisan commission to examine every aspect of the budget -- taxes, defense and domestic spending, and, especially, Medicare, Medicaid and Social... More About: History , Deficit
Monday Stuff
2009-03-31 05:19:00 I don't care what your political party is; how the hell can you expect MORE concessions from the UAW? And by the way, plenty of non-rich people go to Martha's Vineyard (a tangential point, I know - and it should be noted that Rick Wagoner walked away with $20 mil)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and I thought this was a really nice tribute to film composer Maurice Jarre. More About: Stuff , Monday
Getting "Faced" With Dubya
2009-03-31 00:48:00 Even though he?s officially gone from public office (as many of us wish for him to disappear altogether and live a hermit-like existence), the legacy of Dubya continues to live on, as it does in this article in the WaPo today by Dan Froomkin (h/t Atrios).And it?s worth it to revisit the following, as Froomkin notes (registration required)?In a June 6, 2002, address, Bush called (Abu) Zubaida al Qaeda's "chief of operations" and said that "[f]rom him and from hundreds of others, we are learning more about how the terrorists plan and operate, information crucial in anticipating and preventing future attacks."At a Republican fundraiser on October 14, 2002, Bush called Zubaida "one of the top three leaders in the organization."But according to Suskind, even as Bush was publicly proclaiming Zubaida's malevolence, he was privately being briefed about doubts within the intelligence community regarding Zubaida's significance -- and mental stability. Suskind quotes the following exchange ...
Sunday Stuff
2009-03-29 22:08:00 Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, believe it or not; here is some of the reporting from 1979 (from the "And That's The Way It Is" guy)......and here's one of the songs inspired by the accident......and posting is questionable for the whole week, blah blah blah - this is a recording, I know... More About: Stuff , Sunday
Friday Stuff
2009-03-28 05:00:00 So how crazy is Michele Bachmann anyway? Do you really want to know?...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy..."Worst Persons" (yep, there's "symbolism" in a 19-page "budget" with no numbers, Gretchen - "symbolic" of an utterly incompetent opposition party, that is; Michelle Malkin thinks the proposal from Sen. Ben Cardin of providing non-profit status to newspapers is a "bailout," which automatically means it's one hell of an idea; and this is truly an historic day, boys and girls - UPS DROPS FALAFEL BOY AS A SPONSOR!!! HOORAY!!! GO BROWN!!! - more here)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and I wonder if Billo's "pipe" will be "up" if more sponsors bugger off......something to think about as we celebrate the weekend. More About: Stuff , Friday
Knocking Natasha And Lambasting 'Canuck-Care'
2009-03-27 23:31:00 I read something particularly ridiculous in the Bucks County Courier Times this morning, and I wanted to take a few minutes to respond; I should emphasize, though, that the paper was merely reprinting this story from another source.It seems that a physician named Cory Franklin wrote a column trying to explain how Canadian health care (as opposed to the wonderful, American for-profit system) was responsible for the tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson last week?Richardson died of an epidural hematoma, a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure buildup. With prompt diagnosis by CT scan, and surgery to drain the blood, most patients survive. Could Richardson have received this care? Where it happened in Canada, no. In many American resorts, yes.That?s one of the most ridiculous lies that I?ve ever read; to the great credit of The Nation?s Betsy Reed, she wrote as follows (here)?Franklin, it turns out, is eit... More About: Care
Where The Rubber Meets The Road (3/27/09)
2009-03-27 23:01:00 As reported in last Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer, here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week (more embarrassment with Pancake Joe, and our other senator needs a trip to the proverbial woodshed - and I also posted here).Tax on bonuses. The House passed, 328-93, a bill (HR 1586) levying a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid since Jan. 1 to executives of American International Group (AIG) and other firms receiving at least $5 billion in taxpayer bailouts.A yes vote was to pass the bill.Voting yes: John Adler (D., N.J.), Robert E. Andrews (D., N.J.), Robert A. Brady (D., Pa.), Michael N. Castle (R., Del.), Charles W. Dent (R., Pa.), Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), Jim Gerlach (R., Pa.), Tim Holden (D., Pa.), Frank A. LoBiondo (R., N.J.), Patrick Murphy (D., Pa.), Allyson Y. Schwartz (D., Pa.), Joe Sestak (D., Pa.), and Christopher H. Smith (R., N.J.).Voting no: Joseph R. Pitts (R., Pa.).This was the bill sponsored by Dem Gary Peters of Michi... More About: Road , Rubber , The Road
Thursday Stuff
2009-03-27 04:31:00 (Also, I was able to post over here after all.)Oh yeah, I would consider Karl a subject matter expert on this......and Bill Orally is also a subject matter expert of sorts in his own utterly sorry way (more here)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy..."Worst Persons" (Fox humanoid Megyn Kelly laments AIG death threats - no I don't condone that, but seriously, that's a surprise? - which is hilarious considering that such fare is typical for their network, with examples too numerous to name, including what I noted previously; Glenn Beck talks to a dead fish and complains about Obama and the Teleprompter, and yes, this is ALREADY old; and climate change denialist House Repug Joe Barton of (where else) Texas recites his tired litany once more)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and I tried to find a good Motown video featuring the Funk Brothers to commemorate the passing of Uriel Jones, and I thought thi... More About: Stuff , Thursday
Obama Inherits Our Muay Loco Mex Drug War
2009-03-26 19:00:00 This story tells us the following (registration required)??high-powered guns used (in the murder of an elite agent in Mexico?s police force and the attack on a federal police office in which, miraculously, no one was killed) on the evening of Sept. 24 undoubtedly came from the United States, say police here, who estimate that 100 percent of drug-related killings are committed with smuggled U.S. weapons.The guns pass into Mexico through the "ant trail," the nickname for the steady stream of people who each slip two or three weapons across the border every day. The "ants" -- along with larger smuggling operations -- are feeding a rapidly expanding arms race between Mexican drug cartels.The U.S. weapons -- as many as 2,000 enter Mexico each day, according to a Mexican government study -- are crucial tools in an astoundingly barbaric war between rival cartels that has cost 4,000 lives in the past 18 months and sent law enforcement agencies in Washington and Mexico City into crisis mode.... More About: Obama , Drug , Drug War
Wednesday Stuff
2009-03-26 04:06:00 Posting is 50-50 for tomorrow, by the way, just so you know.And I don't know if "inspired" is the word, but I was certainly compelled to find this video after reading about this; I would say that those bastards at IBM who are shipping 5,000 jobs offshore should watch this, but somehow I don't think it would make a bit of difference to them......"The Few, The Proud - The Crazy" (and apparently, craving for social acceptance also? Gee, how about NOT BEING TERRORISTS, THEN??!!)...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and yes, it's true that I've either linked to or commented on these first two items already on "Worst Persons," but hey, any way I can take a shot at Bill Orally and Rupert The Pirate at the same time - aaaarrgghh, me hearties! Stow Jim Hawkins below the poop deck! - you better believe that I will...Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and you can consider this my musical response to Jake DeSa... More About: Stuff , Wednesday
Wednesday Mashup (3/25/09)
2009-03-25 21:09:00 I haven?t done this for a little while, so I thought I was due; this is just a bunch of ?quick hits? (and I also posted over here).With each passing day, I understand less and less why Senate Repug Judd ?The Dud? Gregg of New Hampshire was ever considered for the job of Obama?s commerce secretary, unless the White House thought Gregg could be snookered and New Hampshire Governor John Lynch would name a Senate Dem in his place. I say that given this story in the New York Times today, showing Gregg posing in front of a handsomely made GOP chart showing Obama?s projected budget deficits (hey, the ?party of No? has to be capable of doing something, right? And of course, as noted here, neither Gregg nor his playmate Jeff Sessions had a problem with voting against LIHEAP funding to help low-come families pay for their heating and air conditioning).Given all of this posing, I thought this great Daily Kos post gives us the proper historical context on how we now find ourselves in this state... More About: Wednesday , Mashup
Tuesday Stuff
2009-03-25 03:46:00 Gee, I guess Snarlin' Arlen doesn't want to be our senator from PA anymore based on this......and it will sure be a happy day when this asshat is put out to pasture also......and color me shocked here; maybe she knows a bit from whence she speaks?......and here's an ultra-cool homemade video for us to enjoy while we all laugh at Ed Henry. More About: Stuff , Tuesday
Cohen's Clumsy Obama-Pelosi Construct
2009-03-24 21:48:00 (Also, I posted over here on a matter closer to home; haven?t used this pic lately, I know.)It?s been a little while since I?ve checked in with some of ?the usual suspects? in the world of Beltway punditry, so I thought it was time to review the latest offering from Richard Cohen of the WaPo; if his column today is any indication, I can see that I haven?t missed much.What passes for Cohen?s argument here is that, somehow, the doings of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic congress have somehow co-opted the early days of the Obama presidency (yeah, I know ? I guess he has to pay the bills too)?The tale of two political figures was written one day last week when Pelosi went down into the well of the House and pitched the bill to heavily tax the bad people at AIG who received big bonuses. Using the tax code to exact punishment for political reasons is both bad policy and bad law -- why not put gun-shop owners and cigarette manufacturers in the 100 percent bracket? -- but it hu... More About: Clumsy
Monday Stuff
2009-03-24 04:13:00 This and this truly communicate what kind of a guttural nematode Bill Orally really is, as does this takedown by Jon Stewart...The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cBill O'Reilly's Right to Privacycomedycentral.comDaily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things w/ Demetri MartinPolitical Humor...and I think this song is apropos, in a way. More About: Stuff , Monday
A Newly Centrist Plea From A Wingnut Canadian MP
2009-03-23 23:14:00 The New York Times Book Review section today brought us the following in a critique of the latest from Leslie Gelb?Few Americans know the inner world of American foreign policy ? its feuds, follies and fashions ? as well as Leslie H. Gelb. He served Lyndon B. Johnson in the Pentagon and Jimmy Carter in the State Department. He was a foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and president of the Council on Foreign Relations. ?Power Rules? builds on that lifetime of experience with power and is a witty and acerbic primer for moderate pragmatists.His chief targets are ideological dogmatism and imperialist hubris. America should be unafraid to exercise power, but it must be mindful that power?s reach usually exceeds its grasp. According to Mr. Gelb liberal Democrats should stop apologizing when they use American power, and conservative Republicans should stop believing that no problem can resist the application of American force. Both need to understand that power is wasted when ... More About: Canadian
More ?Old Gray Lady? Presidential Pundit Piffle
2009-03-23 21:28:00 (I also took issue with some commentary from Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times here.)Yesterday in the Times, Stolberg tried to compare the furor concerning the AIG bonuses with other presidential ?distractions? from here, as follows?Mr. Obama is hardly the first American president to grapple with a distraction, a diversion ? an outright red herring, some might call it ? that grew bigger than itself. Ronald Reagan had the Air Force?s $7,622 coffeepot and the Navy?s $435 claw hammer, as well as an ill-fated effort to save money by classifying ketchup as a school lunch vegetable. Bill Clinton had midnight basketball and a high-priced haircut from a Beverly Hills stylist aboard Air Force One. George W. Bush was blindsided by an executive branch decision to contract with Dubai Ports World, an Arab-owned company, to manage terminals in six American ports.You mean Stolberg didn?t mention Jimmy Carter and the ?killer rabbit?? She must be slipping.I?m not sure how it is exactly that ... More About: Presidential , Lady , Gray
Saturday Stuff
2009-03-22 04:52:00 Still pondering this "Pap Attack" about everyone's favorite right-wing radio idiot (lots of competition there)......and apparently, these guys just killed at "South By Southwest"; don't ask me what on earth is going on at the end, though. More About: Stuff , Saturday
Friday Stuff
2009-03-21 04:09:00 This is called "taking your opponent's opposition to the Obama administration's recovery plan and hanging it around his neck for maximum effect"; well done......OK, so Just Plain Folks Sarah Palin is harrumphing over Obama's "Special Olympics" gaffe on Leno (for which he apologized after the show was taped and before it aired), yet she turns away stimulus money that could be used, in part, for funding of special education???....msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and K.O. tries to bring order to all of this cha... More About: Stuff , Friday
Where The Rubber Meets The Road (3/20/09)
2009-03-20 22:20:00 As reported in last Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer, here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week (our U.S. House Rep from PA's 16th congressional district had another terrible week, and one of our senators has some 'splainin' to do, IMHO).House Public lands conservation. Voting 282-144, the House failed to reach a two-thirds majority for passing a bill (S 22) that would conserve tens of millions of acres of public land, mostly in the West.A yes vote was to pass the bill.Voting yes: John Adler (D., N.J.), Robert E. Andrews (D., N.J.), Robert A. Brady (D., Pa.), Michael N. Castle (R., Del.), Charles W. Dent (R., Pa.), Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), Jim Gerlach (R., Pa.), Tim Holden (D., Pa.), Frank A. LoBiondo (R., N.J.), Patrick Murphy (D., Pa.), Allyson Y. Schwartz (D., Pa.), Joe Sestak (D., Pa.), and Christopher H. Smith (R., N.J.).Voting no: Joseph R. Pitts (R., Pa.).You would think that, given the beauty of Lancaster County in hi... More About: Road , Rubber , The Road
Another Obama First: Getting To Know The ?SCO?
2009-03-20 20:25:00 (And also posted over here.)This tells us another way that President Obama has distanced himself from his eminently forgettable predecessor?WASHINGTON (AFP) ? The United States said Thursday that a top US diplomat will travel to Moscow for a meeting this month on Afghanistan sponsored by the Shanghai group and he could meet Iranian delegates there.Iran usually sends an observer to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional grouping set up in 1996 as an alternative to NATO that would allow Russia and China to counter US influence in Asia."Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Patrick Moon is planning to attend this Shanghai Cooperation Organization conference in Moscow on the 27th of March," State Department spokesman Robert Wood said."It's a conference about Afghanistan and its neighbors," the spokesman told the daily news media briefing in Washington.As Wikipedia confirms here, the group was indeed formed in 1996 as the ?Shanghai Five,? but after Uz...
Thursday Stuff
2009-03-20 03:34:00 I had a feeling we were headed towards "Special Comment" territory, and we're there now (if any member of the Obama Administration is unprepared to do what K.O. is talking about here, they should quit or be fired)....msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy...and David Shuster joins in on the fun; let's see what kind of hijinks that zany Repug congressional "leadership" is up to......yes, time to rock harder......and I tried to watch this movie one night after I came home from work, but I was either too tired or too dr... More About: Stuff , Thursday
?Fostering? The End Of The (Maybe) Baby ?Boomlet??
2009-03-19 20:35:00 Note: This post is going to zig-zag a bit, but for a good reason (and I also posted here on a timely matter also related to a birth of a child).You probably don?t remember this post, which tried to refute the claim from conservatives that they were ?begattin?,? you might say, faster than liberals (kind of a silly notion, but such is what passes for ?informed discourse? on occasion).Well, I don?t think anyone is going to be encouraging such activity again any time soon, given this story, which tells us that unwed birth rates in this country have reached an all-time high (though, as the story tells us, the economic slump will probably bring an end to the ?boomlet,? if comparisons to the Great Depression hold up here also)?The statistics are based on a review of most 2007 birth certificates by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers also showed:? Nearly 72 percent of the births to black women were out of wedlock. Mo... More About: Baby
Wednesday Stuff
2009-03-19 04:53:00 Hey, Evan Bayh, I've got a name for your group - how about calling it, "The Usual Gang Of Idiots" (apologies to the late Mr. Gaines and his cohorts - and by the way, Mr. Casey, Jr., if you sign onto this, expect to be hounded frequently by yours truly)......and this is just awful - my deepest sympathies to the Neeson/Richardson/Redgrave family and friends..msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy More About: Stuff , Wednesday
AIG Outrage And A Silly Repug (S)Mack-Down
2009-03-18 22:26:00 (Sorry, people ? this is the best I can do without Photoshop.)This story from HuffPo brings us the following from U.S. House Repug Connie Mack The Fourth of Florida?"I've had serious concerns about Secretary Geithner from the moment he was nominated. In the months since, he has shown us time and again why he was the wrong choice for this critical post."This week's news on the AIG bonus scandal is but the latest fiasco under his watch and he has lost the confidence of the American people."Quite simply, the Timothy Geithner experience has been a disaster. The Treasury Department is in disarray. Taxpayer dollars are being wasted. America's economy hangs in the balance. America needs and deserves a Treasury Secretary who can truly lead us forward."Timothy Geithner should either resign or be fired for the good of the country, and President Obama should nominate a new Treasury Secretary with the experience and leadership skills America deserves."Far be it for me to defend Treasury Secr... More About: Silly
Tuesday Stuff
2009-03-18 04:13:00 Another questionable posting day tomorrow, by the way...Since the lapdog media coverage of Dubya has continued after his exit on 1/20/09, including their fluffery over his speech in Calgary today (the AP story today by Rob Gillies carried the headline, "Bush Won't Criticize Obama After His Departure," implying that there's something to criticize Obama for, and also implying that Dubya should do so also since his lunatic former veep did as well), this is being presented as a counterbalance (the "reality point of view" once more - this was good also)....msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;}... More About: Stuff , Tuesday
Class Warfare 101 With Andrew Ross Sorkin
2009-03-17 23:04:00 The guy who brought us this piece of fiction about an autoworker at GM making $70 an hour told us here in the New York Times today that we should let those criminals at AIG receive bonuses from TARP funds (some of whom have left) with impunity, because?If government officials were to break the contracts, they would be ?breaking a bond,? (compensation consultant Pearl) Meyer says. ?They are raising a whole new question about the trust and commitment organizations have to their employees.? (The auto industry unions are facing a similar issue ? but the big difference is that there is a negotiation; no one is unilaterally tearing up contracts.)But what about the commitment to taxpayers? Here is the second, perhaps more sobering thought: A.I.G. built this bomb, and it may be the only outfit that really knows how to defuse it.A.I.G. employees concocted complex derivatives that then wormed their way through the global financial system. If they leave ? the buzz on Wall Street is that some h... More About: Class Warfare , Class , Andrew , Ross , Warfare
Benny?s Bungle Over A Condom Conundrum
More articles from this author:2009-03-17 19:17:00 I promise I don?t enjoy posting over this stuff, but I feel like I have to (and I also posted over here).This story tells us the following?Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.?"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."The pope said that a responsible and moral attitude toward sex would help fight the disease.Oh God (not trying to be funny) ? is this stuff ever going to stop with this man?Yes, I?m extremely aware of Church doctrine on this issue, but to align himself with the propaganda that condom use actually encourages AIDS by promoting ?a false sense of security? is a willful ignorance that almost defies description.And get a load of this explanation?Describing the curren... More About: Condom , Benny 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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