From our lovely new press secretary (via Think Progress):
“George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.”
– Tony Snow [11/11/05]
– Tony Snow [11/11/05]
Gee Tony, ya think?
From our lovely new press secretary (via Think Progress):
Gee Tony, ya think?
News about Rummy and the generals: WashPo
So, does this mean the Repugs are getting worried and wanting to dump some of their liabilities overboard? Apparently not:
Wow. Fruitcakes like Sessions and Frist think he’s doing a great job. Is this like the video diagnosing of Terri Schiavo’s condition?
Wow, what happened to the BushCo cheerleading squad? Seems they are getting a dose of reality: AP/Yahoo
Yep, any number of activities. I guess the list was getting pretty long for an online article.
I am so going to love it if the Dems take the house and let John Conyers loose on BushCo’s sorry behinds…
see this map of Bush’s unpopularity yesterday?
Makes me think of this Molly Ivins’ column about chicken-killing dogs. You know, the one where she says this:
Yep.
Seen this yet?
Vermont lawmakers push for Bush impeachment
April 26, 2006
By Darren M. Allen Vermont Press Bureau
MONTPELIER — More than a dozen lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for President Bush’s impeachment, making the Vermont Legislature the second in the nation to consider such a move. [ed. note: California actually came in second]
Introduced by Rep. David Zuckerman, P-Burlington, and signed by 12 other Democrats, Progressives and the body’s lone independent, the resolution requests that Congress “initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush” under an obscure set of rules that allows state legislatures to directly seek such an action.
So, that makes IL, CA and VT now? Three down, 43 to go, according to the map up there…
OH How sweet it is!!!!!!!!!!! I love pictures like this….yea!!!!! Just makes one wonder how he had so many votes back in 04 and all that political capital to spend…what a crock of feces bush is…..
Black Farmers: Seven Years Too Long to Wait for Justice
For seven years, two administrations have denied justice to black farmers who were refused federal loans and subsidies and who lost their land unjustly because they could not get loans similar to those white farmers received.
The black farmers won a historic settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1999, under which USDA agreed to pay $50,000 and cancel the debts of each farmer who established his or her case of discrimination.
However, the large majority of the farmers–81,000 out of 94,000 in the lawsuit–have gotten zilch from the Bush administration, which is always trumpeting its support of the family farm and small business.
Sweeney and the Rev. Jesse Jackson will join the farmers as they take their demand for justice April 26 to USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C., in a rally sponsored by the National Black Farmers Association and the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association. via aflcio
BASKERVILLE, VA /TILLERY, NC – Leaders of the nation’s largest Black farmers organizations will mark a decade since the inception of the grassroots movement for justice in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) farm system across the nation at a rally outside the USDA headquarters (facing the National Mall) in Washington, DC at 10:30 am on Wednesday, April 26. The famous mules Struggle and 40 Acres will be in Washington for event. The farm organization leaders and hundreds of members and supporters will then meet with Congressional supporters on Capitol Hill.
Speakers will include John W. Boyd, Jr., president and founder of the National Black Farmers Association; John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO; Reverend Jesse Jackson of the Rainbow Push Coalition; Leroy W. Warren, Jr., Chairman of the NAACP Federal Sector Task Force; and Gary Grant, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association; and others. via blackfarmers
King’s Retreat May Not Save Crown
It is good to see someone get rid of their king’s power..wished we had some of that kind of power here, to get rid of our king…
This just came up:
Soldiers shoot six dead in Nepal
Bushmen Survive Millennia — But Perhaps Not Modernity
Check it out: A close-up photo of one of the fragments of crumbling Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, which will pass by Earth in a few weeks. No danger, though – it will pass at 25 times the moon’s distance.
This looks better all the time: The prototype of a revolutionary new type of vehicle only one meter wide specially designed for cities has been developed by a team of European scientists.
I feel a rant du jour coming on: Ottawa will soon announce new “made in Canada” measures that closely resemble US efforts [sic] to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, Canada’s environment [sic] minister said Tuesday.
As global change accelerates, quantifying the role of forests in the carbon cycle becomes ever more urgent. Modelers seek simple predictors of forest biomass and carbon flux. Over the last decade, the theory of metabolic ecology generated testable explanations, derived from physical and biochemical principles, for a wide range of ecological patterns. Unfortunately, the theory still needs work…
Astronomers have found 45 previously unknown bodies of rock and ice orbiting beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. They range from about 50 to 500 kilometres wide. The announcement is probably a record for the most new solar system objects reported simultaneously, increasing the number of distant objects with well defined orbits by nearly 10%. But its real importance will be in measuring the distribution of distant objects well enough to test theories of how the outer solar system evolved. About 1100 small objects have been spotted in the outer solar system since the discovery of the first Kuiper Belt Object in 1992.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the route of a new oil pipeline will be altered to avoid Lake Baikal, an area of unique biodiversity and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The pipeline will link the Siberian oil fields and the Pacific coast.
The findings of a forensic anthropologist examining the bones of Kennewick man, a 9,300-year-old skeleton found 10 years ago along the Columbia River at Kennewick, WA, may revolutionize our understanding of human history in North America. He reports Kennewick man did not look like a Native American. In fact, Kennewick’s facial features are most similar to those of a Japanese group called the Ainu, who have a different physical makeup and cultural background from the ethnic Japanese. Some Ainu’s facial features appear European. Their eyes may lack the Asian almond-shaped appearance, and their hair may be light and curly in color. However, this does not mean that Kennewick man necessarily was European in origin. His features more closely resemble those of the natives of the Pacific Rim than those of Native Americans.
“It’s the wild west of evolution and ecology,” says Joel Brown, an ecologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Evolution is operating with a vengeance in the urban environment as animals struggle to adapt to novel conditions and cope with “evolutionary illusions”. An animal is said to be in an evolutionary illusion or trap when it does something it has evolved to do, but at the wrong time or in the wrong place. The concept may help explain why so many squirrels get squashed on city streets, says Brown. For millions of years, squirrels have evolved to cross open spaces as quickly as possible, without wasting time watching for predators that they would not be able to escape anyway. “Ordinarily, that was a very sensible thing to do,” he says. “But as an urban squirrel crossing four lanes of traffic, that’s a bad idea.”
Selenium does not protect against cardiovascular disease, despite its documented antioxidant and chemopreventive properties, analysis of a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial found.
Scientists working along the south-west coast of Britain have discovered widespread evidence of chemicals disrupting the sexual development of sensitive marine organisms. The researchers report the first cases in which hormone-disrupting pollutants are believed to be responsible for a gender-bending effect on marine invertebrates living in British estuaries. The finding has caused alarm because the affected species are crucial for the health of the ecosytem, in some cases forming the staple diet of many larger animals. Researchers at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth examined clams in estuaries from Southampton to the Severn and found that males at 17 of 23 sites suffered a condition called “intersex”, where their testes contain both sperm and eggs. In some cases the male sexual organs contained thousands of eggs and up to 60% of clams were affected.
I can tell you that what with our enviroment and its changing, our storms have gotten more frequent and deadly around our area.
Seems like the security there is somewhat like ours here…;o(
oh dear me
More bad news for Monsanto. From the Organic Consumers site:
Link
daily pot of gold
Takes all the fun out of Saturday Night in Boston…
I find Juan Cole very interesting today Just take a peek, if you will.
going down over Abu Ghraib. Way too late though in the day for this to rally the troops who all got and understood the message long ago in Iraq that they are on their own and nobody is accountable for what they are told/ordered or not told/ordered to do! It’s just a matter of whether anybody can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that anybody really did anything to anybody over there.
Karl Rove in front of Plame grand jury today. More at Think Progress.
Come on Fitz!
Peace
Rove may need a change of boxer shorts or briefs. More in detail here at MSNBC.
Can’t be good, a 5th appearance.
What are these guys doing in such senior levels, running things? All are so, so ‘forgetful.’
Well Fitz, think you may have for us a pre-election gift? Make it soon. I’m keeping champagne chilled.
also of interest is this article surmising why Rove may have been relieved of all policy issues, what some are calling his ‘demotion.’
More like future crisis management, just in case Rove’s slapped with an indictment.
(h/t: firedoglake)
I just love tales of Rove squirming for the grand jury…
My champagne bottles remained chilled to be shared with members in the lounge. No drinking on the front pages allowed. Perhaps Booman will permit an exemption should Fitz throw Rove a handcuff.
But I’ve a nervous rattle, that no matter how many indicts Fitz throws our way, this November elections will be stolen.