Link I'd like to take this moment and say that to those who are defending the Secretary of Defense on this forum or say that the response the soldier got was adqueate that if the problem was truly licked, Rumsfeld should of done his homework or said something else besides what he did. That's my final word on that matter, on to this one. A week or so ago, (some of you might remember it,) I posted something as a letter to the right leaning side of the fence that Republicans should be ...

Everyone's doing their Christmas specials on TV, I might as well blog mine. We'll have a liberal perspective of the news, a fair amount of Bush bashing around the eggnog, and enough conservatives whining about how liberal I am and how I should move to Canada to fill a DVD of Christmas goodness! You don't like it, this happy reminder exists to remind you that it's my blog and considering I used the word liberal at least four times within the five lines (counting the title) of this piece, you h...

Dear Republicans: I realize we don't agree on much if anything at all. Common ground is not what I call the difference in our politics, and my feelings on the matter is I shouldn't have to confirm to you and you shouldn't have to be thrilled and confirm to me either. So, in the spirit of Christmas, and because I know your leaders won't listen to me anyway, I offer a piece of advice: Be careful. No, that's not a threat. You see, from '92-'94, we had the majority in all the branches (exce...

jin·go·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (jngg-zm) n. Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism. -Dictionary.com So God how come every wrong's been done? With deals no Christ should allow Once the communist now the terrorist With blood as thick as yours - Flogging Molly, Screaming At The Wailing Wall Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along in the age of paranoia. -Green Day, Idiot Nation Dear Jin...

You get two for the price of one, tonight, folks. Feel lucky that I wanted to cover punditure and current events at the same time. Fact is, this reply was long in the works. There have been a number of people (I won't name names) who have made the assumption that GW won the election because we had the telemetry to say bad and nasty things about him. I'm going to take us on a trip down memory lane, and discuss Bush, and why negativity isn't always a bad thing. Is George Bush And His Supp...

*sighs* Ok, you conservatives, you win. We liberals are out to ruin civilization as we know it. So I'm going to let you have a small peek at my to do list: 1) Empower lazy bums to sit on their asses. Start by making a reasonable demand that everyone in the country should have basic necessities for life: food, roof over head, and be in reasonably good health. Then we'll move the cable TV in... 2) Sound pseudointellectual and recite statistics about IQ in blue states that really don't m...

Decided to go back to punditing versus trying the futile attempt at 'can't we all just get along?' I will open by saying that most of you have the right to say what you can about whatever you like, even if I find it inflammatory. I have the right to delete anything I deem over the top or just an attempt to piss me off. So, now we've covered the whole 'you have the right to say anything, and I have the right to react,' onto the meat and bones of this article. I find it vagely disturbing th...

I am a liberal Democrat. There's no two ways about it, and I'm as proud as any Republican to be who I am. I had made an argument on the political forums that someone had made the assumption that all liberals were brainwashed. I got a reply that pretty much that was the case considering another forum user made to seem to represent us. (I did blast him back for his wrong view point by asking him if we were supposed to talk the Republican talk show hosts for standing for the party.) This is ...

Link You know, you may not agree with me on this point, but doesn't it seem that we're trying everything, moral, degrading or not, to get these people to talk? What is wrong with us? Do we acutally sincerely believe that because these people did a bad thing to us first, we're legitimately able to toy with them, violate their religious taboos as a scare tactic so we can loosen their lips? And since it's not covered by the Geneva Conventions (which never really stopped us before now), i...

It's almost fun watching the right wing pundits take pot shots at the UN and it's current troubles; one would think that globalization would run counter entirely to their economic and social policy. And fair enough, the current system sucks, like a Hoover set on high and left running for entirely too long on shag carpet. How did it get that way, though? Isn't the UN supposed to be the watchdog of the world? Aren't we supposed to help spread the whole world as a neighborhood concept? They have...

There's a whole list of comments I could make that are painfully ironic. The article I'm gonna cite is here: Link Smart man. Witness the political self-preservation method here, folks. Thomas knows Bush is the quintessenal lame duck, there's nothing the man needs to do for reelection now and so Bush is trying to get his pet projects passed, no matter how unpouplar they may be now or later. Fact is, I'd be itchy too if I was a Republican running for office in 2006. No offense, George, ...

(Figures are from my previous article: Link .) Look. I'm willing to admit that in a year where the incumbent was so weak, the Democrats need some serious fixing or realization in paradigm. But back up the the truck here for a second...let's analyze the numbers of the last election. 51% Republican, 48% Democrat, and 1% whatever it is Nader represents again. So you've got a 51/49 pouplar vote spilt against a sitting incumbent. You could argue it happened to Clinton (I think it was something...

Come gather round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving Then you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone -Bob Dylan, Times They Are A-Changing Link Can you save the world from itself? The reason why I ask is it seems that the Bush adminstration wants to try. Or, at the very least, liberate everyone from their oppressors. The thing abou...

Link Now, maybe that story on the memo is a non-issue. I admit I'm not the be all and end all of new news or even spin doctoring. The "Gee, That's Odd," prize goes to the following statement: "We made it very clear that we do not condone torture," McClellan said. "The president would never authorize torture, and that applies to everyone." (italics added: mine.) Then why bother to even comment on extreme interrogation measure, such as torture? Why make the urging in the first place? ...