tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56277302011-07-07T20:44:51.571-04:00An Age Like ThisIf you're not angry, you're not reality-based.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.comBlogger17441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132850889231330042005-11-24T11:35:00.000-05:002006-09-28T17:08:52.610-04:00Dimbulb ThursdayWhat do we have to be thankful for? Well, for being not quite as goofy as some of our fellow humans:An early Thanksgiving celebration in Eugene, Oregon, caused a big fire at a house that had just been built.A cement worker marking the holiday set up a propane fryer inside the new house's garage. Workers took turns watching the kettle.But the fryer's thermometer was broken. WorkersSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132751073035446952005-11-23T07:40:00.000-05:002005-11-23T08:04:33.116-05:00Salute!No surprise to see last night that House's apartment number is 221B...Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132665143485202422005-11-22T07:45:00.000-05:002006-02-23T21:11:39.090-05:00Bush Should Try ThisAfter frantically trying to escape reporters in China a few days ago, Dubya might want to consider this reporter-avoidance tactic:Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he won't answer questions from reporters until next year because the alignment of the planets is not in his favor. "Right now Mercury ... is in a corner perfectly aligned with my star. Mercury is no Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132320712853525932005-11-18T08:29:00.000-05:002005-11-18T11:18:59.746-05:00Illinois NazisLike the Blues Brothers, I hate Illinois Nazis. And it turns out that the real ones are just as dumb and repulsive as the cinematic ones:The second of two self-avowed Nazis was sentenced Wednesday in Lake County Circuit Court to prison for a hate crime committed against two lesbians at Illinois Beach State Park.Judge Fred Foreman sentenced Patrick L. Langballe, 29, of Lake Villa, toSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132320479673658252005-11-18T08:24:00.000-05:002005-11-18T08:27:59.676-05:00Nice Try, KurtYes, Kurt Busch is a dumb punk.The reigning NASCAR Nextel Cup champion was pulled over for driving 60 mph in a 45 mph zone, swerving to avoid a car and running a stop sign last Friday night on his way back to Phoenix International Raceway. He said he was returning from dinner with his fiancee.The police report said the deputy smelled alcohol on Busch, and the driver became Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132320211855922152005-11-18T07:50:00.000-05:002005-11-18T11:17:31.120-05:00The Unbearable Lightness of Being George BushDeficits are exploding, disasters happening, war continuing. Dubya's priority? Of course! TAX CUTS!The Senate passed a $60 billion bill early Friday that would extend expiring tax cuts and prevent roughly 14 million families from paying higher taxes through the alternative minimum tax.It drew a presidential veto threat for raising taxes on oil Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132234262758164952005-11-17T08:13:00.000-05:002005-11-17T08:31:34.616-05:00Dimbulb ThursdayIt's Dimbulb Thursday! Read and congratulate yourself for being more intelligent than some of your fellow humans. Seems as if a lot of wacky things are afoot in the Commonwealth nations this week.Deadly Dog:SHE may not look it, but a tiny fox terrier called Mitzi is one of southeast Queensland's most dangerous dogs.That is according to Logan City Council, which yesterday brushed Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132232587162763192005-11-17T07:40:00.000-05:002005-11-17T16:02:07.423-05:00The Danger ContinuesMore evidence, as if any were needed, that the modern Republican party is a danger to democracy continues to emerge. Newt Gingrich:The former Republican speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, always notable for his visions, has compared George Bush in his travails to Abraham Lincoln before Gettysburg. Gingrich, who has recently written a series of counterfactual novels depictingSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132145361145036632005-11-16T07:37:00.000-05:002005-11-16T07:49:21.166-05:00Going Around the BendKevin Drum usefully collects a number of "Dubya's losing it" stories here.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132059979839852012005-11-15T07:50:00.000-05:002005-11-15T08:06:19.936-05:00Dangerous WeatherNasty weather forecast today for much of the Missisippi valley up into Ohio. Keep an eye on the sky and the radar. Best site to check for updates is here.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1132058864027555062005-11-15T07:37:00.000-05:002006-11-24T12:04:06.683-05:00Being Left Doesn't Have to Mean Being StupidThere's been a considerable amount of discussion online in the last week over reports that US forces are using white phosphorus ordnance in Iraq, with some lefties claiming that this constitutes use of "chemical weapons." White phosphorus is not a chemical weapon; it is a common incendiary and also used to produce smokescreens. But some lefties, hostileSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131971951633867622005-11-14T07:37:00.000-05:002005-11-14T07:39:11.646-05:00PukeWe have a radio station here in Columbus that last Friday proceeded to begin playing 24 hour a day Christmas music. And the right-wingers say liberals want to "destroy Christmas." After listening to sappy holiday songs for two months, anyone with half a brain would like to, at the very least, destroy this station's play list.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131714677568149312005-11-11T08:10:00.000-05:002005-11-15T19:03:42.320-05:00Comments!As an experiment, I've decided to enable comments. Let's see some intelligent commentary...God knows most of it probably more intelligent than my posts!Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131714593788278622005-11-11T08:07:00.000-05:002005-11-11T08:09:53.790-05:00RememberToday, honor the veterans you know. Most of the men in my family have been veterans; two I'd like to mention today are my dad, a Marine Corps veteran of Korea and a retired full-time Air National Guardsman, and my uncle Ed, who served with the Marines in World War II in the Philippines.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131714186050027302005-11-11T07:35:00.000-05:002005-11-13T18:24:00.070-05:00God Plugs Ears as Robertson Rants AgainOnce again, Pat Robertson is threatening part of America with disaster. Considering Pat's track record, Dover, Pennsylvania would seem an eminently safe place to live:“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just rejected him from your city,” Robertson said on his daily television show Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131628383130780582005-11-10T08:11:00.000-05:002005-11-10T08:13:03.133-05:00Welcome to "Dimbulb Thursday"Whew, today has turned out to be "Dimbulb Thursday" in a big way. Not as cool as "Friday Catblogging," but then I don't have a cat:Clarkstown police were astounded when they opened the trunk of a car last night and found dozens of what appeared to be half-completed money copies on hand, including $10's, $5's and $1 bills."I don't think I've ever seen counterfeit $1 Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131628149626532682005-11-10T08:08:00.000-05:002005-11-10T08:09:09.630-05:00Bumper Sticker Seen"Practice Compassionate Impeachment." Sounds good to me.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131628101977255482005-11-10T08:07:00.000-05:002005-11-10T08:08:21.980-05:00Another Sign of the Coming End?Golden retriever has green puppy:The little pup has been named Wasabi. The golden retriever was one of four puppies born to a dog in California last week.His color definitely sets him apart. Veterinarians said that it's possible for a newborn's fur to be green because the placenta, which is green, sometimes rubs off at birth. Well, maybe he'll wash out.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131627951711169242005-11-10T07:34:00.000-05:002005-11-10T08:05:51.826-05:00Scavenger Hunt DismayThis is almost as funny as the cops in the police helicopter landing beside a donut shop incident that happened a few years back:A man on a scavenger hunt entered a police station hoping to get a photo of an officer eating a doughnut. What he got instead was thrown in jail. Fruitport Township police officers Bryan Rypstra and Jon Durell heard a knock at the station's back Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131541531170540492005-11-09T07:53:00.000-05:002005-11-09T08:07:13.896-05:00The Legend Lives On30 years ago tomorrow, the Oglebay Norton ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald broke up and sank in one of the worst Lake Superior November gales in memory. Probably the story would be remembered only around the Great Lakes if not for Gordon Lightfoot's song about the event. I lived near Toledo at the time, and the loss of the ship was a big shock there; it hit everyone hard, even Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131540485634951782005-11-09T07:43:00.000-05:002005-11-09T07:48:40.143-05:00What's the Matter with Kansas?They're just really, really stupid, I guess. The rest of the world stands by smiling as America systematically demolishes its once unchallenged science leadership, leaving the future to others.The 6-4 vote was a victory for "intelligent design" advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131540178489707092005-11-09T07:36:00.000-05:002005-11-09T07:42:58.506-05:00Why?Ohioans once again displayed their boundless tolerance for corruption yesterday by defeating four important measures that would have reformed elections in the state in which arguably the 2004 presidential election was stolen. Sad. Can we expect a rerun in 2008? Only statewide elections in 2006 hold the answer.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131454448385995742005-11-08T07:36:00.000-05:002005-11-12T14:26:53.160-05:00What Does Bush Believe?While a lot of people are shaking their heads at Bush's claim that the US does not torture, the more important question is this: what does Bush really believe? Was he lying knowingly? Or does he believe that we do not torture because that's what he's been told?Bush is damned on a large number of counts, but lying at the root of many of them is his sloth and incuriosity. Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131203408117947132005-11-05T10:07:00.000-05:002005-11-05T10:10:08.136-05:00Family Values Repugs Night OutDo as I say, not as I do:The investigation into a late-night barroom brawl led police to three officials of the Butler County Republican Party after one of them left his credit card behind, police say.A complaint filed with the Butler County Sheriff's Department said that central committee Chairman Quentin Nichols, of West Chester; Tim Dearwester of Hamilton, a Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131109882181699512005-11-04T07:50:00.000-05:002005-11-04T08:11:27.253-05:00Brownie's Email TrailMichael "You're doing a heckuva job!" Brown is a great little email writer, if a horrible Director of FEMA. The Smoking Gun has the emails here.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1131108533253199292005-11-04T07:43:00.000-05:002005-11-04T07:48:53.266-05:00Good RiddanceWith the power of the Bushies seeming to be on the wane, action can now start to begin removing Bushite appointees from the various posts they have been put into. A welcome butt-kicking is that of the egregious Kenneth Tomlinson from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His crusade to "balance" NPR and PBS - i.e. turn them into imitations of Faux News - is Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130953816223977542005-11-02T12:49:00.000-05:002005-11-02T12:50:16.240-05:00Norquist WatchGrover got a big ol' kick to the crotch yesterday, delivered by the citizens of the state of Colorado, who told Grover to stick TABOR (the miss-named "Taxpayer Bill of Rights," actually the "Flush the Government Down the Toilet" act) where the sun don't shine. Barf Bag Boy is not amused:Two years ago, pundits touted Owens as a possible 2008 presidential candidate. At the height of Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130937088604090942005-11-02T08:07:00.000-05:002005-11-02T08:11:28.620-05:00For Modelers OnlyLike most plastic modelers, I'm a big fan of Shep Paine. His color diorama brochures in Monogram kits were a highlight of the 70s and his books a never-ending source of inspiration. Today he's profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times:As a kid, Paine collected tiny 20mm tanks and dabbled with model railroading, and he built model tanks during his spare time while serving as an Army Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130936177507870722005-11-02T07:49:00.000-05:002005-11-02T07:56:39.186-05:00America's ShameArguably we've created our own little gulag down at Gitmo; turns out we're putting the real gulag back in business as well:The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set upSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130935753918080462005-11-02T07:41:00.000-05:002005-11-02T07:49:15.056-05:00PatheticIs the fix in in the Tom DeLay case? Does that explain Bugman's smirks and smiles? Presumably now that the judge has been ordered to recuse himself over donations to Democratic causes, blacks will be able to get white judges recused, whites will be able to get black judges recused, Democrats will get Republican judges recused and on and on using this toxic precedent. While Judge Perkins' Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130764110055438002005-10-31T08:04:00.000-05:002005-10-31T08:08:30.056-05:00Now We FightPoor Harriet Miers having crept back to her office in the White House, Bush has unveiled his loony right-wing choice for the Supreme Court, and it's pretty loony. We ought to be able to make a case against this guy merely by pointing out how insanely out of touch he is with the vast majority of Americans. It's Scalito!Alito, 55, is nicknamed "Scalito" because he reminds analysts of Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130763574110253482005-10-31T07:54:00.000-05:002005-10-31T07:59:34.180-05:00Part TwoThe second part of the Toledo Blade's four-part article on GOP funding in Ohio is up. It's a must-read.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130687987420586202005-10-30T10:53:00.000-05:002005-10-30T10:59:47.446-05:00Tom Noe the Tip of the IcebergOver the next four days the award-winning Toledo Blade, my old home-town paper, is going to rip the covers off the rest of the vile crew who "won" Ohio for the Shrub; the Repug anti-government loonies who backed Bush so they could milk the taxpayers for every possible dime while at the same time piously claiming that government should be "drowned in a bathtub." Sure,Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130525077025154692005-10-28T14:40:00.000-04:002005-10-28T14:44:37.043-04:00It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like...Fitzmas. The first present? Scooter goes down. Couldn't happen to a better guy (and what idiot in his fifties still goes by "Scooter," for Pete's sake?).Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was indicted Friday on five charges that include obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into the Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130427629329884632005-10-27T11:38:00.000-04:002005-10-27T11:40:29.333-04:00Malfeasance at NASA!The Onion strikes again:A report issued Monday by NASA's Oversight Commission indicates a cumulative 1.8 million miles unaccounted for on the Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavor shuttles. In addition, shuttle pilot James Kelly reported numerous occasions on which he found the pilot seat "adjusted for someone else." The report also revealed that radio presets on the shuttles had Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130427495757888672005-10-27T11:36:00.000-04:002005-10-27T11:38:15.773-04:00Now Comes the True NomineeHarriet "Cool!" Miers having withdrawn to go hide, I presume we'll now find out which Nazi the Bushites have had in mind all along during their little diversionary maneuver.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130338712091691282005-10-26T10:56:00.000-04:002005-10-26T10:58:32.093-04:00Scotty was RIGHT!Transparent aluminum? You bet:Engineers here are testing a new kind of transparent armor -- stronger and lighter than traditional materials -- that could stop armor-piercing weapons from penetrating vehicle windows. The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a replacement for the traditional Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1130338319883442602005-10-26T10:43:00.000-04:002005-10-26T10:51:59.900-04:00Waiting for Fitzkrieg to Break OutI'm on vacation this week, but have no doubt I'm waiting for Patrick Fitzgerald to reveal indictments as much as the rest of you. Hopefully it will become clear to all that the US is run by a cabal of power-greedy protofascists who ought to be put up against a wall, but as usual these bastards have defenders including, weirdly, Nicholas Kristof, who ought to knowSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129896843548240842005-10-21T07:47:00.000-04:002005-10-21T08:14:05.456-04:00Screw the WorkersGeorge Will tells us that American workers are just going to have to settle for being poor again, a hundred years after Henry Ford realized he could sell more cars by lifting his employees up with a decent living wage. Not anymore. Another company joins the stampede to screw their employees:In a sweeping overhaul to combat declining profits, Dana Corp. yesterday announced it Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129895144948880422005-10-21T07:39:00.000-04:002005-10-21T07:45:44.956-04:00Trafalgar 200Today, Britain celebrates the battle of Trafalgar, the final victory of Lord Nelson and the one that really put paid to Napoleon's extra-Continental hopes. Aboard HMS Victory tonight, the Queen will offer the traditional toast to "the Immortal Memory." Lots of good links on the BBC page here.In the morning hours as the British fleet approached the combined French and Spanish fleets, Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129809664027952912005-10-20T07:46:00.000-04:002005-10-20T08:01:04.090-04:00Norquist WatchThis is kind of funny, in a way:A number of conservatives are seething over the fact that Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), was the featured speaker at a fund-raising event for a group of homosexual Republicans last weekend. One pro-family leader called Norquist's appearance "an act of utter betrayal."Norquist was the main attraction at the "Grand Ol'Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129723605472972912005-10-19T08:02:00.000-04:002005-10-19T08:06:45.473-04:00Goss Destroying CIAPorter Goss, Dubya's choice to "lead" the CIA, is busily destroying it:A year later, Goss is at loggerheads with the clandestine service he sought to embrace. At least a dozen senior officials -- several of whom were promoted under Goss -- have resigned, retired early or requested reassignment. The directorate's second-in-command walked out of Langley last month and then told Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129722540950165542005-10-19T07:44:00.000-04:002005-10-19T07:54:49.120-04:00Explosive GrowthExplosive hurricane growth in the Gulf of Mexico will undoubtedly provide rich fodder for research in the quiet months to come, but for now, it's a catastrophe in the making:...AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE PLANE REPORTED 884 MB...THE LOWEST MINIMUM PRESSURE EVER MEASURED IN A HURRICANE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN...THIS VALUE SHOULD BE USED WITH CAUTION UNTIL CALIBRATED... ...MAXIMUM Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129636780106859512005-10-18T07:52:00.000-04:002005-10-18T07:59:40.130-04:00Get a Cell Ready for CrashcartAs Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation draws to a close, more and more pointers are aimed directly at the office (bunker?) of the Vice President. Dick Cheney, traitor. We've always known it - he's always put his own personal profit well before the good of his country - but it's likely about to come out in black and white. The "daddy party" my ass - under Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129550943120441802005-10-17T08:07:00.000-04:002005-10-17T08:09:03.120-04:00Bee-a-utifulCheck it out, folks; Andromeda in simmering infrared, over at Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129550281232708062005-10-17T07:43:00.000-04:002005-10-17T07:58:01.333-04:00Digby Strikes AgainThere's been much head-scratching over the appearance of the names "Valerie Flame" and "Victoria Wilson" in Judy Miller's notebook. Conservatives, of course, have their own little spin, but Digby does some searching and finds out that several early reports of the scandal claimed that the outed agent was "Victoria Wilson." Hm.It's certainly possible that a whole bunch of people Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129549343127838302005-10-17T07:41:00.000-04:002005-10-17T07:42:23.126-04:00Anaheim Plans Huge Rally Monkey PyreOK, that's not true, but maybe they should. How 'bout those White Sox?Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129549158142722722005-10-17T07:36:00.000-04:002005-10-17T07:39:18.156-04:00Back HomeThe Shenzhou VI crew have returned after a five day flight, landing on target in Inner Mongolia. The two astronauts are well, and the flight appears to have been successful. No word just yet on when we can expect the third Chinese manned spaceflight. An invitation to join the ISS team would seem to be in order.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129291234978764482005-10-14T07:57:00.000-04:002005-10-14T08:00:34.980-04:00Norquist WatchGrover Norquist, coward:If Washington lobbyist and anti-government goon Grover Norquist knows so much about Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, he should debate its merits here in the land of crumbling highways and fading universities and colleges. Instead, Norquist says he's willing to debate Gov. Owens so long as it takes place in - can you imagine? - Washington, D.C. Norquist, Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129290785341575732005-10-14T07:36:00.000-04:002005-10-14T07:54:18.653-04:00Didn't Work the Way They Hoped it WouldYesterday's scripted love-fest between Bush and some of his praetorians just didn't go as planned, as a somewhat less-supine media let the world know that the setup was fake. I guess the message "if you're not with us, you're against us!" just doesn't have as much effect as reality sets in:The event, stage-managed for television, came across as carefully Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129203273356557202005-10-13T07:33:00.000-04:002005-10-13T07:34:33.366-04:00Bumper Sticker Seen"Where Are We Going, and Why Am I In This Handbasket?"Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129118351958263132005-10-12T07:30:00.000-04:002005-10-12T07:59:12.060-04:00Ranting and RavingCapitol Hill Blue is back with more claims that Bush is wacko. This is one of these things we kind of hope and kind of know is probably true, but there's no hard evidence, damn it.“He’s out of control,” one White House aide says privately. “There’s no other way to put it. His anger spills over in meetings. He berates anyone who brings him bad news but there's not a lot of good Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129116643047273872005-10-12T07:28:00.000-04:002005-10-12T07:30:43.056-04:00On the WayChina has launched its second spaceflight. The Shenzou VI spacecraft this time is manned by two astronauts, pilots Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng. A five day flight is planned.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129032634316572882005-10-11T08:08:00.000-04:002005-10-11T08:10:34.316-04:00The Shrines of the Grape-Juice ChristiansThere's an interesting photo essay over at Slate dealing with modern churches. What's most striking about the new temples of the fakey-do fundies is that God is not the focus. There's no religious art, not even a simple cross in sight. The center of these churches is the showman - the P.T. Barnum preacher fleecing the flock. Check it out.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1129032245139183972005-10-11T07:36:00.000-04:002005-10-11T08:04:05.216-04:00Norquist WatchGrover goes to Alaska, and Larry Persily of the Anchorage Daily News is unimpressed:Norquist was explaining to his Commonwealth North audience how important it is for Republicans to stick to the no-tax pledge. He was in town, making the rounds, shaking hands and spreading the gospel that taxes are bad, government spending is the problem, and the nation would be much better off with Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128944688543982212005-10-10T07:39:00.000-04:002005-10-10T07:44:48.546-04:00A Sad Day OutEven as the new Wallace and Gromit feature seizes a well-deserved #1 at the US box office, a tragedy has left Aardman Animations, the home of the clay inventor and his long-suffering dog, in ruins:The roof of the Aardman Animations building in Silverthorne Lane, near Temple Meads station in Bristol, collapsed after fire tore through the Victorian building early today.A spokesman for Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128944361602312942005-10-10T07:37:00.000-04:002005-10-10T07:39:21.610-04:00Bright Spot?Could there be a tiny bright spot in the terrible earthquake tragedy that has so afflicted Pakistan?Is it possible that Osama bin Laden was one of the victims?Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128686539436039032005-10-07T07:51:00.000-04:002005-10-07T08:02:19.490-04:00Drowning in incompetenceOne thing has been a hallmark of the Bush years: we've been drowning in incompetence led by a not over-bright president many of whose supporters seem to believe that it's cool that he's just as dumb as they are. Here's one of them:This idea that has developed as of late that Supreme Court Justices are or should be "super human smart guys" is just crap and frankly I think Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128685278084740712005-10-07T07:31:00.000-04:002005-10-07T07:48:05.906-04:00Not a Good Week for the ShrubAs the week draws to a close, we can reflect happily on the goings-on that must be causing the Chimp and his supporters much angst: his new Supreme Court nominee is being pretty universally derided, his pal Karl Rove is being called in by Patrick Fitzgerald for more testimony in the Plame outing, Tom DeLay's going down, and, best of all, the much-hated International Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128600909595859272005-10-06T07:58:00.000-04:002005-10-06T08:15:09.620-04:001918: It Was Bird FluAs worries about avian flu busy the medical community, scientists have, after several years of intensive research, unlocked the secret of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic that killed at least 50 million people: it was a form of bird flu.The urgency of those questions inspired scientists to embark on a several-year quest to unearth lung tissue from victims of the 1918 flu and Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128599880099256992005-10-06T07:56:00.000-04:002005-10-06T07:58:00.106-04:00Overeating = BadI wonder what Steve Irwin would say about this?The alligator has some foreign competition at the top of the Everglades food chain, and the results of the struggle are horror-movie messy.A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said.Crikey!Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128427998290546132005-10-04T08:13:00.000-04:002005-10-04T08:13:18.293-04:00Woo Hoo!Gee, what a crap time to be the Hammer. Life for the Bug Man has gotten very, very bad over the past few days. And he's the scandal who keeps on giving:A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on Monday for alleged money-laundering related to the 2002 Texas election, raising new and more serious allegations than the conspiracy charge lodged against the former House majority leader last Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128427190831328012005-10-04T07:49:00.000-04:002005-10-04T07:59:50.956-04:00HmmmmIt's curious the way the lunatic right is going wacko froth-at-the-mouth nuts over Harriet Miers. Maybe she's not a stealth candidate like I suggested yesterday. Maybe this is Bush's way of indicating that he doesn't want to live in the fundie paradise envisioned by his deluded supporters.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128341400915989742005-10-03T08:08:00.000-04:002005-10-03T08:10:00.916-04:00Ike was RightAlso on 60 Minutes last night, Andy Rooney:I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States — our United States — is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into. We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today. Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what? Now we have the hurricanes to pay for. One way our Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128341267409619892005-10-03T07:46:00.000-04:002005-10-03T08:07:50.643-04:00ChalabiA really astonishing piece on Chalabi last night on 60 Minutes. It's incredible how this son of a bitch keeps landing on his feet. He obviously has plans to end up as dictator of Iraq, and he's willing to play all sides to do it.Chalabi then went about his comeback methodically, identifying centers of power and then either aligning himself, ingratiating himself or insinuating himself. As Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128339950442144532005-10-03T07:43:00.000-04:002005-10-03T07:46:30.603-04:00How ConvenientHow convenient indeed that Dubya would pick someone with no judicial record at all to replace Justice O'Connor. The fix pretty clearly is in; the Democrats will have problems finding grounds to oppose her, and she undoubtedly has made various promises.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128270624383646322005-10-02T12:13:00.000-04:002005-10-02T12:30:24.483-04:00State QuartersDid you know that the Romans had something like state quarters? No, me neither.One of my hobbies is cleaning Roman coins. You can buy bronze Roman coins, mostly from the Balkans, in lots fairly cheap; they come encrusted from lying in the ground for over 1500 years, mostly date from the period after Constantine, and a decent number of them clean up to be attributable and some of Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128269542742298252005-10-02T12:08:00.000-04:002005-10-02T12:12:22.743-04:00The Brits Looking Forward to the EndNeedless to say, the British must be looking forward more than most to the fall of the Bushies, since Dubya's bizarre palship with the peculiar Tony Blair has dragged British forces into the street without joy that is Iraq. One such is Will Hutton, who writes in The Observer today:American conservatism that has shaped American and British politics for 20 years Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128269313354567172005-10-02T12:05:00.000-04:002005-10-02T12:08:33.356-04:00We Were SoldiersJoe Galloway is a war reporter and the coauthor, with General Hal Moore, of We Were Soldiers Once - and Young, a classic account from the Vietnam war. Here's what Galloway thinks about our latest bright, shining lie:We've been treated to the spectacle of a Republican-controlled House and Senate abdicating their constitutional responsibility to conduct rigorous oversight of actionsSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128268540552847232005-10-02T11:45:00.000-04:002005-10-02T11:55:40.693-04:00Going DownPatrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the Valerie Plame case is drawing near its end, and the result likely will go to the very top:...a new theory about Fitzgerald's aim has emerged in recent weeks from two lawyers who have had extensive conversations with the prosecutor while representing witnesses in the case. They surmise that Fitzgerald is considering whether he can bring charges Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128082348869114352005-09-30T08:07:00.000-04:002005-09-30T09:43:20.486-04:00Saving Fuel in FormationIt's strange but true that a friend of mine at NASA actually worked on the research described in this article:Migrating birds, including geese, pelicans and gulls, have long demonstrated the art of efficient flight by positioning themselves in a "V" formation. This allows each trailing bird within in the V to coast in the wake of the bird just ahead.If birds can do it, Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128081806108992642005-09-30T07:45:00.000-04:002005-09-30T08:03:26.173-04:00Let's Get a Novelist to Testify!What with Michael Crichton testifying on global warming to a Senate committee, perhaps they could follow with Alistair Reynolds testifying about space travel. Problem being, of course, that Reynolds is a sane and sound man (a working scientist for ESA, in fact), where Crichton has for a long while been a nut. Now a global-warming denier, he's been an AIDS denier Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1128080483821129482005-09-30T07:37:00.000-04:002005-09-30T07:41:23.830-04:00SnoreI suppose we will now have to endure "My Imprisonment," a noble story of fortitude and courage, by Judy Miller, now that she is going to testify to the grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame "outing." The one good thing is that it now appears that "Scooter" Libby is going to go down alongside his pal Karl Rove. God knows prison couldn't happen to two "nicer" guys.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127994021495217412005-09-29T07:37:00.000-04:002005-09-29T07:40:21.506-04:00The Bug ManCouldn't have happened to a nicer guy, eh?Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127909264966830362005-09-28T08:06:00.000-04:002005-09-28T08:07:44.966-04:00Wiki WackiIn The Onion today:Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. "The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. "But when so-called 'contributors' began loading it down with profanity, pornography, ASCII art, and Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127908791208758772005-09-28T07:45:00.000-04:002005-09-28T07:59:51.220-04:00It's a Croissant!The usual right wing dingbats got all titterpated when they saw that the proposed Flight 93 memorial was crescent shaped. Well, a lot of things are crescent-shaped. "Freedom rolls," for one thing (croissants - sorry, couldn't resist). The smoking remains of New Orleans, the Crescent City. That little ventilation slit on the House Out Back. Islam also uses the symbol of a crescentSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127907858819778112005-09-28T07:34:00.000-04:002005-09-28T07:44:18.826-04:00BrownieAnyone think Brownie did a "heckuva job" yesterday in front of the Republican congressional investigation? No, me neither.And a big "Duh!" to the Democrats for (mostly) boycotting it.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127821636157293282005-09-27T07:38:00.000-04:002005-09-27T07:47:16.166-04:00Expert on Rescuing Horses?"You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!" has landed on his feet as - get this - a consultant to FEMA. Now isn't that a sweet deal. Imagine, you get run out on a rail at your previous job, then they hire you back. Neat!Brown told congressional investigators Monday that he is being paid as a consultant to help FEMA assess what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127736736447333032005-09-26T08:05:00.000-04:002005-09-26T08:12:18.800-04:00Search for the TruthThe family of Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals football player who volunteered for the Army after 9/11, continues to search for the truth about his death in Afghanistan. Originally claimed as a heroic death under enemy fire, it turns out Tillman died of friendly fire. It's also interesting to learn that Pat Tillman, the right winger hero, was a well-read independent thinker Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127390051198121022005-09-22T07:50:00.000-04:002005-09-22T07:54:11.200-04:00Norquist WatchMark Kleiman has been watching too:During the earlier part of the Cold War, ideology was the primary motive for selling this country out to its adversaries, and therefore loudly professed anti-Communism seemed to be a guarantee of loyalty. Later on, that changed; the predominant motivation for disloyalty became money, and Russian spies such as Robert Hanssen used conspicuous Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127389771155975902005-09-22T07:38:00.000-04:002005-09-22T07:50:11.503-04:00Another Airbus "Feature"Yeah, I have a low opinion of Airbus. Any airplane whose tail falls off under normal usage, any airplane that cheerfully flies itself into a forest during an airshow...well, I don't like them. Presumably this will turn out to be another Airbus "feature":The landing gear trouble -- the front wheels were stuck in a sideways position -- was discovered almost immediately afterSusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127304802164413102005-09-21T08:11:00.000-04:002005-09-21T08:13:22.166-04:00Spam Spam Spam Spam....At Chaos Manor, a reader has a new take on those spam letters you get from unfortunates in foreign lands:An Honest Request for Assistance from Your Most Humble Servant in the Name of God Dearest Sir or Madame, Good thing to write you. I am sure this comes as a surprise but I have prayed over my selection of your name due to its esteeming nature, and its similarity with the Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127304534270684772005-09-21T08:01:00.000-04:002005-09-21T08:08:54.273-04:00Let's Hope Law & Order Doesn't Base an Episode on ThisEuuwwwwww:Jurors hearing the case against a former judge accused of exposing himself in his Creek County courtroom will be allowed to see the sex toy at the center of the state's allegations, a judge ruled Tuesday in rejecting a defense motion. They also can hear testimony that a second "penis pump" was seen under former District Judge Donald Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127304022664221072005-09-21T07:38:00.000-04:002005-09-21T08:01:16.340-04:00This is Not GoodThe NOAA National Hurricane Center has issued a new update on Hurricane Rita:SATELLITE IMAGERY SUGGESTS THAT RITA HAS CONTINUED TO STRENGHTEN AND MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 135 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. RITA IS NOW A CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. A NOAA PLANE WILL CHECK THE INTENSITY LATER THIS MORNING. SOME ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127218845826856032005-09-20T08:18:00.000-04:002005-09-20T08:20:45.856-04:00Running Out of NamesThis year's hurricane season has been so active that scientists at NOAA are in danger of running out of names. What happens then? The Greek alphabet steps in!The Atlantic basin has seen 17 named storms since season began June 1, and only four are left on the list.What's a meteorologist to do if the names run out? Go Greek.Should the Atlantic see more than 21 named storms "Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127216292367308632005-09-20T07:34:00.000-04:002005-09-20T07:38:12.376-04:00Iraqis Get Well-Deserved Kick in AssThe British Army has been less and less impressed by the goings-on in Basra, where "liberation" has led to a takeover by various sorts of lunatic extremists. It finally boiled over yesterday into a TV-movie moment in which two British special forces types, arrested and apparently beaten by the local crazies, were freed when armored vehicles smashed down the Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127130189895531802005-09-19T07:34:00.000-04:002005-09-19T07:49:09.823-04:00How Things ChangeTwo years ago, British Army Lt. Colonel Tim Collins was a conservative hero for the stirring talk he gave his troops on the eve of the Iraq war:"We go to liberate not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country," he said. "We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect for them. "There are Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127058222700114712005-09-18T11:42:00.000-04:002005-09-18T11:43:42.700-04:00RoveIt's kind of surprising to me that Bush putting Karl Rove in charge of disaster reconstruction hasn't attracted more notice. Here's someone less qualified than "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie" who is now is charge of what is undoubtedly going to become a $200 billion slush fund. Houston, we have a real problem here.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1127058080373630802005-09-18T11:40:00.000-04:002005-09-18T11:41:20.383-04:00Light BloggingPower outages, taking the signficant other to work...things like that cut into your blogging time.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126736676419804112005-09-14T18:23:00.000-04:002005-09-14T18:24:36.426-04:00Permission SlipCheck this out; Dubya writes a note to Condi (via)Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126699545964120342005-09-14T07:54:00.000-04:002005-09-14T08:05:45.973-04:00Norquist WatchWoo hoo! Grover living in a dream world:Grover Norquist, a conservative activist who advises the White House and congressional Republicans, said he expects the president to assure Americans that the government will complete the job without pork-barrel spending."This is a speech to reassure the country it is going to be OK. But we're not going to waste money and we will not be Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126698662501984962005-09-14T07:37:00.000-04:002005-09-14T07:51:26.870-04:00Truscott Would KnowAuthor Lucian K. Truscott IV writes to Mark Kleiman about the makeup of the military officer corps. Houston, we have a very, very dangerous problem:A little known study of the political opinions of senior military leaders was done by Duke University a few years ago. The study -- of Colonels and above, up to and including 4 star Generals -- revealed that in this time of the Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126613190016356222005-09-13T08:03:00.000-04:002005-09-13T08:06:30.016-04:00From Brownie to Duct TapeNow that Michael Brown is going to have to get a real job - something he seems to have never had - a new man is taking charge at FEMA. We've met him before. He's Duct Tape Man!In another gesture symbolizing the continued confusion of the federal response, the man President Bush immediately named to succeed “Brownie,” proves to have been the same FEMA official who, Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126613026641507212005-09-13T07:59:00.000-04:002005-09-13T08:03:46.643-04:00Idiots. Just Idiots.Daniel Kurzman collects a passel of inane comments about the hurricane from politicians and reporters here. One sample:"I understand there are 10,000 people dead. It's terrible. It's tragic. But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years and years, these things happen." --GOP strategist Jack Burkman, on MSNBC's "Connected," Sept. 7, 2005 Yup, shit happens.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126612705556326052005-09-13T07:40:00.000-04:002005-09-13T07:58:25.563-04:00Is It Just Me, Or......is John Roberts deeply weird? Not to mention his Stepford Wife and Stepford Children?Hm.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126539259557919662005-09-12T11:00:00.000-04:002005-09-12T11:34:19.650-04:00EnoughThere continues to be a large amount of conspiracy theory nonsense on line about the destruction of the World Trade Center towers. Yet another diary at Kos covers the so-called "controlled demolition" of the buildings. Let me take a little of this on:Do steel frame buildings just collapse neatly down into their own footprint, and, at free-fall speed due to a fire? or heat? When in all Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126536783480251552005-09-12T10:44:00.000-04:002005-09-12T10:53:03.506-04:00Too Little, Too LateEvan Thomas in Newsweek writes a damning account of how our whining, petulant Dear Leader failed to react to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The problem is, Bush's work "habits" have been common knowledge to the press for years - in fact since Dubya was a video-game playing, exercising, 9-5 with a two-hour lunch governor of Texas. To write an expose now is just too damned Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126472206744596722005-09-11T16:55:00.000-04:002005-09-11T16:56:46.756-04:009/11Greater love hath no man than this....Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126267483462432352005-09-09T07:59:00.000-04:002005-09-09T08:04:43.463-04:00Norquist WatchAt last, a comment from Grover on the hurricane disaster, and of course hell no, it's not Grover's problem:Grover Norquist, one of Washington's most important conservative activists and a close Rove ally, blamed the chaos on "looting in a Democratic city run by a Democratic mayor and a Democratic governor." Of course!Others see Grover's plan hard at work:The government’s “strange Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627730.post-1126266996042375352005-09-09T07:39:00.000-04:002005-09-09T07:56:36.050-04:00Not PrettyTourists who were in New Orleans are starting to talk, and it's not a pretty picture. CathiefromCanada has done a fine job collecting several accounts at Daily Kos, including this one: "Anyone who knows that area, if you had a bus, it would take you no more than 20 minutes to drive in with a bus and get these people out," Buder said. "They sat there for four or five days with no food, Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15314038481765438183noreply@blogger.com0