The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Jung
– Carl Jung
Recent Posts
- Day Five: The Fascist Regime Came for the Inspectors General
- Day Four: Fascist Regime Comes for the Transgendered and Native Americans
- Day Three: Fascist Regime Assaulted Health Information and Agencies
- Day Two: Fascist Regime Shuts Down Spanish Language White House Website
- Day One: Fascist Regime Gets Laken Riley Act
Jesus Camp to close: Seattle Times
That’s good news, but I’m sure they’ll just start another one with some follower of Pastor Ted.
Awwww. Not only that, but Dobson dropped out of Haggard’s team of spiritual counselors. Guess he didn’t want to take part in those group hugs. Like the blind leading the deaf.
Well, those parents who would have sent their kids to Jesus camp can always find a white supremicist group with a few tents. Maybe they can color pictures of skinheads on a killing spree for God. The wacko right wing loony “Christians” are again relegated to the group W bench, where they always belonged. Hallelujia!
The wacko right wing loony “Christians” are again relegated to the group W bench, where they always belonged. Halleluia!
I expect a few more revelations will be coming out, and then the flocks will scatter into the wilderness for 12 years or so, allowing the return of the Bush 41 branch of the Republicans to power in the party. This is why I believe Booman’s obit for the McCain or Giuliani candidacies is premature.
Or as Rush Limbaugh put it, with shock in his voice, when he announced Rummy was gone just before W’s press conference: “This is very bad news. People, it’s going to get a lot worse for us before it gets better.” (Or words close to that effect – I just had to go over to snack on the schadenfreude.)
“…the flocks will scatter into the wilderness for 12 years or so…”
Kind of like locusts on steroids?
came across this item posted by Andrew Sullivan: linking to article in which the Reverend Louis Sheldon, founder and chairman of the ‘Traditional Values Coalition’ (Christian Right Movement), was interviewed.
They knew Haggard was Gay!
[Reverend] “Sheldon disclosed that he and “a lot” of others knew about Haggard’s homosexuality “for a while … but we weren’t sure just how to deal with it.”
and of course, this is the candidate that our local Planned Parenthood affiliate got behind and canvassed, phone banked, and did whatever else we could to get her elected (to a seat held by an anti-choice Republican for the past 30 years).
Now, it is the seat that will determine who controls the state house, and there is only a margin of 19 votes, with absentee and provisional ballots not yet counted.Link
Will Gates bring change? Ray McGovern thinks not. The Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal is replaced by The Cheney-Gates cabal.
There are known unknowns. But what we do know is that in due time all will be revealed.
War crimes suit to be filed against Rumsfeld in Germany. Amy Goodman has the interview.
Nina Totenberg reports on the new SCOTUS hearing on partial birth abortion. Congressional findings underpinning the act are not supported by facts.
New York doctor given go-ahead for world’s first womb transplant.
I saw that interview and almost did a diary on it. Gates is bad news at best. Was it Mel Goodman who gave the primer on Iran-Contra? It was an excellent overview and I hope against hope all that dirty laundry comes out in the hearings.
I hope so too. I want to see Rush Holt asking the hard questions. Rush knows what this man and his background are like, and he’s not afraid to turn over a few rocks and see what scuttles out.
Imho, people haven’t accepted the fact that President Cheney is the man that drives policies, that he has to be pressured to relinquish his power grip on the levers of government. Until he departs NOTHING will change. I can’t see Baker-Gates over-ruling him.
Just days before the election Cheney is reported to have said “our basic strategy is right…what the public thinks (wants) matters not.”
But you forget Cheney is only a tool of the people behind the scenes with the money!
A battered tool that will soon be facing several congressional investigations into the pre-war intelligence, his closed energy policy meetings with the oil industry, etc.
He’s soon to retire “due to ill health” which will “unfortunately prevent him from testifying” due to his “presumed heart attack.”
That’s my meme and I’m sticking to it. You heard it here first.
Give me one good reason they won’t want a fresh face in that slot to try and repair damage to the Republican brand name before 2008?
Not to worry KP.
Cheney will face his Pinochet moment.
Here’s a piece about Chicago’s referendums in the recent election. This is the one that caught my eye:
Assault weapons and .50 caliber sniper rifles are bread and butter issues of the NRA. The people know that it is ludicrous to allow citizens to posses these firearms. They know that the reasons there aren’t bans on those weapons now is because the gun lobby is ruthless and lacks basic common sense.
The point is that states are beginning to buck the feds on everything from global warming greenhouse gasses, to stem cell research to gun control. The Federal system has been dysfunctional in the face of amoral money wielding lobbies, but the people aren’t afraid of big oil or the NRA and have more basic horse sense than all of Washington. There’s a lesson there but will no doubt be willfully ignored by Congress.
How do they expect us to go dove hunting without our assault rifles, LOL?
continues to tell it like it is: LINK
The press can shove it. They’ve been relying on partisan rancor to increase their ratings for years, and now that the Dems are the majority, they want everyone to play nicey-nice? Pfft.
Car-in-the-shop-for-$700-of-work-that’s-why-I’m-late-posting Edition
Doctors say they are ready to try a uterus transplant in humans upon request.
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine recommends doctors try using “the Google” to help diagnose difficult cases that defy diagnosis. [I kid you not!!]
A hurricane 2/3 as big as Earth is churning at Saturn’s south pole, and incredible video of it rotating is at the link. Scientists are at a loss to explain how it formed (it is summer there).
Presumptive Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has already listed funding for stem cell research as one of the top priorities of the new House. “Bringing this issue up in the first 100 hours of Congress indicates the importance it had on the electorate,” Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, told United Press International.
Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft’s Nov. 7, 1996, launch. The orbiter is the oldest of five NASA spacecraft currently active at the red planet. Its original mission was to examine Mars for a full Martian year, roughly two Earth years. Once that period elapsed, considering the string of discoveries, NASA extended the mission repeatedly, most recently on Oct. 1 of this year. The orbiter has operated longer than any other spacecraft ever sent to Mars. It has returned more information about Mars than all earlier missions combined and has succeeded far enough beyond its original mission to see two later NASA orbiters arrive: Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. [Say what you will about NASA, their unmanned probes consistently do yeoman work – my car should be so well made!]
This is one of those stories that makes you go “D’oh! Why didn’t I think of that before:” Microbes may compete with large animal scavengers by producing repugnant chemicals that deter higher species from consuming valuable food resources — such as decaying meat, seeds and fruit, a new study suggests.
New from the Department of Cool: A look at your post-automobile world?
Let’s face it, most of the time you don’t need a car*, you just need mobility to and from work or the store (unless you’re in a city blessed with good mass transit)…
Scheduled for launch in June 2007: the Brudeli 625L, a vehicle that fills the gap between motorcycles and small cars and off-road four wheelers. (No, I didn’t realize there was a gap there to be filled either – must have been too busy worrying about the elections) The vehicle has two motorcycle tires up front, each slanted in parallel 45-degree angles to the ground when the bike is stopped, and one rear wheel. (It looks much cooler than it sounds) The construction allows the rider to lean into corners (as if on a motorcycle) at high speed with substantially more traction than on a motorcycle – at least at the front where it counts – a rear wheel slide is controllable – a front wheel slide usually means crashing.
Or if you’re only tooling around town or campus, you might want the “Rider,” a 28-pound minimalist trike. It works via an electric motor that is located in the front wheel, and runs from a 24 volt battery which is placed in the spear of the front forks. The battery can be pulled out for it charging. Fully charged, the battery, it can run for 4 hours and get to a max speed of 15 km/h.
*Did I mention my $700 repair bill, LOL?
Want to know what Aljazeera reports the world’s reaction to the election is?
I found this really interesting article including:
There is much more in the article, a good read.
That’s a great article. We need to start redeeming ourselves in the eyes of the world.
U.S. group again seeks charges against Rumsfeld Breaking news: