Who knows what the heck is going on with Senate Republicans these days? Last week I popped off in anger at them for their cowardice, and was taken to task for doing so, by several Republicans who felt I was “weakening” the GOP Senate, “Do you want to see Pat Leahy in charge? Ted Kennedy?” was the gist of what I got. My response is: seems to me they are in charge, already. Now, I see that some on the... Read more
Jimmie takes a look at the dishonesty of John Edwards. Pretty stunning in terms of how bald it is. Read more
Almost too much to look at. H/T Larwyn. Read more
I can’t believe he had the nerve to write this: The bad faith of Bush’s current argument is staggering. He wants to say that the “more than a hundred Democrats in the House and Senate” who “voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power” thereby gave up their right to question his use of intelligence forever after. But he does not want to acknowledge that he forced the war vote to take place under circumstances that guaranteed the minimum amount... Read more
You MUST go see Jeanette’s new Thanksgiving-themed design – it’s really very pleasing to the eye! And while you’re there, take a look at Ed’s exquisite playhouses. Sigh. If only I had little ones, still. Then again, there are always the grandchildren. Someday. Read more
Egad! What a tag-team! Kobayashi Maru takes on former President Jimmy Carter’s three-phased plan to promote his book and wallops him over and over again in the solar plexus, After he left office, I thought it terribly rude of the Iranians to insult this lovable, earnest man from Georgia by waiting to release the hostages until just after he’d gone. It didn’t occur to me that the Iranians released the hostages they’d held for over a year because they knew... Read more
Julie at Happy Catholic finds the best stuff, sometimes. I like Therese’s story at Exultet quite a lot! Being in undergraduate biology studies, I and my fellow science- and engineering-major friends all took biochemistry, genetics and physics classes together. We spent hours in the cafeteria, smoking and slamming coffee, easily solving all the world’s problems, and had excitedly created a view of God that was based on Energy. We decided that since “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed,” and... Read more
What would we do without Young Ian and his tireless taping? Thanks to him we all get to see Sen. Rockefeller tell Chris Wallace that he went off to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan – all on his own! – to “warn” them that George W. Bush, 4 months after 9/11, had already decided to attack Iraq. A decision which Rockefeller – after his trip – endorsed with lots of “Saddam’s got WMD” rhetoric. Watch the tape: SEN. ROCKEFELLER: No.... Read more
I should not have, I guess, but still it pains me to read here how Russert, on Meet the Press, essentially Dowdified a remark, completely skewering its meaning, in setting up a question to Ken Mehlman (H/T Lucianne.com: MR. RUSSERT: “On solid intelligence.” And then 15 months later, the secretary of state came on this program and said this. (Videotape, May 16, 2004): SEC’Y POWELL: But it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong, and in some cases,... Read more
My computer keeps getting hung up and needing rebooting, so I may just say “pfffft” to it and go take a little nappy-poo, since my hemoglobin is also being totally disobedient. Some days bed is the place to stay. Unless I think of something interesting, that I just HAVE to share with y’all. :-) Like this piece by Christopher Hitchens which spells out just what you have to make yourself believe in order to believe “Bush lied about WMD.” Or... Read more
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