November 2004 Archives
Slate has a terrific run-down of the oral arugement from the medical mary-ju-wana case before the Supreme Court. It's from Lithwick, so you know there are some great zingers. Read to the end, it's worth it.
I've been uploading shots to Flickr like a mad man this month and I'm not even coming close to my upload quota.
Of course, using a camera with only 2.1MP helps keep size small...
Produced and Bottled by Sonora Winery, Sonora, CA in Amador County. They claim to be the home of the "Big Zin" and damn if this isn't a tasty wine.
Rating: Buy if you see it
Stop relying on the party. Good advice. Also in the post is a blank template so you can make you own and send them in. I'll be digging for some Howard Dean quotes...and no, not The Scream.
Some of us were wondering if Uncle Alan would ever find Deficit Reduction Religion again. It seems he has.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan today urged the federal government to reduce its budget deficit and encourage greater personal saving, warning that foreign investors will not finance endless growth in America's huge trade gap.
Welcome back Uncle Alan, we missed you these last 4 years. Where was the Uncle Alan that beat on Clinton to reduce the deficit all this time? Hiding from Karl? I don't know why...I hear Karl is quite friendly.
That's right. Keep it comin' GOP. Keep digging your hole. Keep people like Tom DeLay in power. Keep trying to silence dissent. Keep thinking that you're locking yourself into power and creating a one party state. Keep thinking the door wont hit your ass on your way out.
If you have a dem rep in the House, send him/her these great ideas.
Introspection. I do it a lot. I may also have a feck deficiency, although I think I can take a pill for that now.
The president can only nominate his favorite hack, it is up to the Senate to confirm.
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Akaka (D-HI), Not Voting
Alexander (R-TN), Yea Allard (R-CO), Yea Allen (R-VA), Yea Baucus (D-MT), Yea Bayh (D-IN), Yea Bennett (R-UT), Yea Biden (D-DE), Yea Bingaman (D-NM), Nay Bond (R-MO), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Yea Breaux (D-LA), Yea Brownback (R-KS), Yea Bunning (R-KY), Yea Burns (R-MT), Yea Byrd (D-WV), Nay Campbell (R-CO), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Chafee (R-RI), Yea Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Clinton (D-NY), Nay Cochran (R-MS), Yea Coleman (R-MN), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Conrad (D-ND), Nay Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Corzine (D-NJ), Nay Craig (R-ID), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Yea Daschle (D-SD), Yea Dayton (D-MN), Yea DeWine (R-OH), Yea Dodd (D-CT), Nay |
Dole (R-NC), Yea
Domenici (R-NM), Yea Dorgan (D-ND), Yea Durbin (D-IL), Nay Edwards (D-NC), Not Voting Ensign (R-NV), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Yea Feingold (D-WI), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Fitzgerald (R-IL), Yea Frist (R-TN), Yea Graham (D-FL), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea Grassley (R-IA), Yea Gregg (R-NH), Yea Hagel (R-NE), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay Hatch (R-UT), Yea Hollings (D-SC), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Jeffords (I-VT), Not Voting Johnson (D-SD), Yea Kennedy (D-MA), Nay Kerry (D-MA), Not Voting Kohl (D-WI), Yea Kyl (R-AZ), Yea Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Leahy (D-VT), Nay Levin (D-MI), Nay Lieberman (D-CT), Yea Lincoln (D-AR), Yea |
Lott (R-MS), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea McConnell (R-KY), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Miller (D-GA), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea Nickles (R-OK), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reed (D-RI), Nay Reid (D-NV), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay Santorum (R-PA), Not Voting Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Yea Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Smith (R-OR), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea Specter (R-PA), Not Voting Stabenow (D-MI), Nay Stevens (R-AK), Yea Sununu (R-NH), Yea Talent (R-MO), Yea Thomas (R-WY), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Warner (R-VA), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Nay |
28 Democrats, but not Rick "man on dog" Santorum. What in the hell is going on?
Jason and @man held a "cathartic drinking binge" last night. Then ajax posted a bit from Get Your War On to pirates which sums it all up quite well.
I raise six glasses every night, just to get drunk enough to love this country like I did as a kid: without feeling like it's using me.
This morning at my Saturday coffee stop I saw an odd bumper sticker.
Media: 0 -- Bush: 4
I wasn't sure if it was an actual scorecard or a reference to 4 more years. My Saturday coffee shop is a total Jesusland shop. They are even closed on Sundays. But God damn, they sure do make a tasty cinnamon scone...
Anil has the right idea.
I will use my earnings from adsense to pay for you all to be killed.
Luckily you're all safe, my account is not that full. But it's an idea I will continue to mull over.
"Does President Bush agree with AG John Ashcroft that he is above the law?"
Of course, we already know the answer. Bush has felt above the law almost his entire life. School, war, drunk driving...all incidents where he went around the rules because of who he was. When he was a business man he went around SEC rules about stock sales and because of who he was it was swept under the rug.
If he is as much a man of faith as he says he is, or as half as much as many think he is...he will have to atone for his sins when it's all said and done. Not to us, unfortunately. But then Bush doesn't really care about history, we'll all be dead.
PLAYER: It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get
caught up in the action, if that's you taste and times being what they are.
ROSENCRANTZ: What are they?
PLAYER: Indifferent.
ROSENCRANTZ: Bad?
PLAYER: Wicked.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
So Ryan says that the last two West Wings were good or certainly better than the first two he claims. Considering that the first two were piles of cold dog poop, not even steaming dog poop, I don't doubt his judgment. But I decided to check out of The West Wing based on the two-part season opener.
So what now? I missed them. NBC is not going to re-run these two episodes any time soon. How do I watch them now? Well a person with scruples and a fully functional moral compass would diligently wait for the re-runs, either on NBC or Bravo. The worst case scenario would be to wait for Season 6 on DVD. Luckily I suffer from neither of these two afflictions, being a "secular humanist" and all.
Off to TV Torrents I went.
I'm not saying I'm downloading copyrighted TV broadcasts. I'm just sayin'...
I had a dream last night about George Bush. It's not all bad, Johnny Cash was there. In fact that is the only thing that made it a dream and not a nightmare.
Thom Hartmann frames it for us.
Why are We The People allowing private, for-profit corporations, answerable only to their officers and boards of directors, and loyal only to agendas and politicians that will enhance their profitability, to handle our votes?
From a Daily Kos Diary.
A del.icio.us jesusland tag awaits your participation.
It's where all the power is you know...
President Bush signaled yesterday that he would add personal investment accounts to the Social Security system, simplify the tax code without raising taxes and cut the budget deficit in half, all before he leaves office in 2009.
So-called "analysts" don't think he can pull it off. Don't they know he has a mandate?
Via Josh Marshall we find out that the dollar continues to sink against some other important currencies. Never fear, Bush has a mandate.
But John B. Taylor, the Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, defended the Bush administration view that the deficits pose no danger of a dollar collapse. He issued a detailed rebuttal of what he called "scare stories."
BRILLIANT!
Media Matters is trying to kill the Bush mandate with stupid facts. Don't they get it? Facts don't matter, only mandates matter. Like the one Clinton had...
Yeah! This is great! This is going to be an awesome mandate.
The Bush administration has been working for months to keep an upcoming eight-nation report from endorsing broad policies aimed at curbing global warming, according to domestic and foreign participants, despite the group's conclusion that Arctic latitudes are facing historic increases in temperature, glacial melting and abrupt weather changes.
State Department representatives have argued that the group, which has spent four years examining Arctic climate fluctuations, lacks the evidence to prepare detailed policy proposals. But several participants in the negotiations, all of whom requested anonymity for fear of derailing the Nov. 24 report, said officials from the eight nations and six indigenous tribes involved in the effort had ample science on which to draft policy.
I used the nice little app over at MyDD. I like this one because it puts those big swaths of red into perspective. I mean, sure Montana is huge, but it's only 3 votes.
A lot of you will call me insane. More will say that there is no hard data that support this prediction. Well, both groups may be right. I made this map on my gut feelings about which way states are going. We'll find out soon enough though.
They ain't gon' stop us, they can't
We're stronger now more than ever
