What have we learned from the republican convention?...that the same people who had previously attacked Obama as lacking in experience, now strongly defend someone with none...Alaska has a population of less than 700,000, about equivalent to Boston. Boston's Mayor Menino has been in that office for more than a decade...would anyone seriously ( Read more... )

Let's see, Clinton gets impeached due to sex (OK, lying about it) & now within 24 hours of the Spitzer revelation, NY republicans are threatening impeachment if he doesn't resign. There seems to be a theme here....get caught in a sexual situation, it rises to the level of impeachment (especially if you're a Democrat). However, lie about the reasons ( Read more... )

We remain at war & with the cheerleader in charge wanting to expand armed conflict before he slithers off in shame. He blusters that we need to protect corporations (the telecommninication companies)& their shareholders by making legal retroactively what was illegal. All this while continuing to attack those who disagree as supporting terrorism ( Read more... )

How dare this president claim that those who criticize his actions are somehow less than patriotic especially when much of the criticism comes from those who actually wore the uniform and have endured enemy fire. This is a presidency so disconnected from reality that it believes that dissent, so endorsed in our founding documents, is somehow an ( Read more... )

As we wait on Ernesto to decide which way he's headed & on this anniversary of Katrina, I'm reminded that bush was frozen by his true nature (incompetence) much like when the US was attacked on 9/11. Then it required his chief of staff to whisper in his ear after many minutes that perhaps they should leave in order to address the issue at hand. ( Read more... )

Or was he? Perhaps Wittington was actually a terrorist & Cheney knew it because the NSA had been listening in on his calls. Has Wittington had calls from outside the US from someone with a Muslim sounding name ( Read more... )

First the bush admin. awarded no bid contracts to clean up Louisiana, Mississippi & Alabama to his corporate buddies, he then suspended the Davis Bacon Act (federal law requiring employers to pay the prevailing wage in the region when federal funds are used). How did his corporate buddies respond to this largess?...by bringing in truckloads of ( Read more... )

So, the news of the day is that scientists have discovered a vaccine that will prevent cervical cancer. Great news, eh? Apparently not to the absolutists who believe that abstinence is the only view that can be held by human beings. So, rather than protecting our daughters, they feel that if young women engage in pre marital sex (Oh, the horror!) ( Read more... )

The original Godfather film was on a couple of times this week & I just had to watch for about the 25th time. Everytime I watch it I see something new in Brando's performance. It seems that when he put his mind to it, he was capable of just amazing acting. Al Pacino was also pretty good. Of course that's before he became a caricature ( Read more... )

What do you suppose bush is praying for this day? That no one notices that in all his professed concern, he couldn't get on the phone with his oil company buddies & ask where their donations are for those dispossed by Katrina? Is he praying that no one notices that he suspended a federal law (Davis Bacon) so that the no bid contracts he awarded ( Read more... )