Archive for July, 2008
A Tale of Two Newspapers
The New York Times front page:
The Washington Post front page:
H/T to no3reed at BMT
They can’t BOTH be right…
I May Have to Eat a Hat After All.
A federal judge just ruled in favor of the House: Bolten and Miers must comply with subpoenas, and Karl Rove does as well.
Now, whether the Hosue will DO anything about this is another story, but just in case perhaps it’s time I started seeing whether felt is easier to chew and digest than wool.
John Conyers Does His Trick
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Looks like John Conyers wants some attention: the longtime hero of the progressive movement, whose recent reputation has been dinged up with well-deserved charges of uselessness, is doing his trick again.
10:15 A.M. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
To consider: A resolution and report finding Karl Rove in contempt for failure to appear pursuant [...]
Ouch.
I rode my bike to go visit my friend Wendy yesterday. She lives out by City Line Avenue, so I took 48th Street to Lancaster, followed Lancaster to 57th and headed North. The weather was hotter than hell and I thought I was going to die.
However, it was the ride home that killed [...]
Abstract/Concrete
Abstract:
Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring.
Two vital forms of credit used by companies — commercial and industrial loans from banks, and short-term “commercial paper” not backed by collateral — collectively dropped almost 3 percent over [...]
Kenn Kweder, Prophet
Freedom From Sense
None of it makes any sense, that’s why so many walk away
I’m lookin’ for a freedom from sense, to get me through another day
A freedom from big brother,
Who somehow just slipped in
His flesh and blood is made of progress
But whose heart is made of tin
The freedom from all the little boxes,
That people sometimes [...]
Harry Reid Does GOP’s Bidding. Again.
Harry Reid is allowing the GOP to bring their offshore oil drilling bill to the floor, opening the door to lifting a ban passed in 1981.
That’ right: Reid is bowing to Mr. 28%. Again.
…adding that even RedState knows a dunce when they see one: “You’re holding the knife wrong, Senator Reid. Now, the sharp bit [...]
I Am Going to Try to Take a Break
…from politics, that is.
The shit is driving me crazy and not in constructive ways.
I have a lot of respect for people who can look at the total bullshit going on around them and can be totally angry, yet dispassionate about it. I wish I could be that way. I can’t, it’s just not [...]
I Am Smarter Than Patrick Murphy
A few weeks ago, I called PA Democrat Patrick Murphy to task for his support of Stainy Whore’s FISA Amendments Act, aka The Protect AT&T Act of 2008.
“When we spoke last, you mentioned that the FISA bill allows for criminal prosecution of the Bush official who enabled/ ordered this illegal program, but not [...]
-Sigh-
I miss my old life.
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