Before we begin the article's meat and potatoes, as it were, I encourage you to go here for my full political blog (some sites like Political Machine don't have Fear and Loathing in America posted) for what might be some of my best stuff ever: Link Today's article comes from here: Link There was a time when elections didn't have to be decided via recount. That's changed since 2000, though, and depending which side you happen to be on, you either think our current president in the Wh...

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...

The Republicans aren't the only ones who were dealt brutal setbacks this week...the Democrats seem to have a battle from within. Is it time to replace insiders with deals with corporations and make it the 'people's party?' The DNC chairmanship is coming up and there's a huge call for removing insiders. Link I really have no problem with, and am ease with the Democratic party being run by people who deal with grass roots, more of you and me situation, however, I think three things need...

The first discusses a special operations force in Iraq being displinced for rough treatment of prisoners, some of it involving tazers, bruising and kidney pains. Link The second talks about Iraqi reporters and their abuse at the hands of US forces. In addition, these journalists were employees of Reuters, who is seeking answers from our military. Link The first is shocking due to the consideration of the gag of this hidden from us, the general argument being, of course, if yo...

The question, of course, being 'why do we have to scrounge around for armor for our trucks?' Rumsfeld to his question, did in fact answer the question, although he did have to ask to have it repeated to him. Rumsfeld's Answer: From CNN What bothers me about Rumsfeld's reply is not the fact it's not true, it doesn't answer the question in it's complete pretext. The soldier is also asking if it will get better; or why isn't it better. Now, it's true you go to war with what you've got, ...

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...

Full article below. From NY Times, where you do have to register (it is free, tho'.). If you'd rather not take my word for it, here's the link: Link 8 Soldiers Sue Over Army’s Stop-Loss Policy By MONICA DAVEY Published: December 6, 2004 Chang W. Lee/The New York Times ORRILTON, Ark., Dec. 3 - The eight soldiers come from places scattered across the country, from this small town an hour northwest of Little Rock to cities in Arizona, New Jersey and New York. In Iraq and Kuwait...

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...

Returning to Fallujah Did I miss something? Was I asleep when I was told we were fighting for Iraqi freedom? Was I visualizing something else entirely? Maybe Bush and I have different definitions of 'freedom'. Apparently his involves DNA profiling. Look, I can hear it now, so all you conservatives can save your breath: 'We're at war here, and Fallujah was a large battleground insurgent zone, it's expected that the armed forces are gonna be a little paranoid'. I expected curfews and p...

*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...

"What the hell is he talking about?" Well, quite honestly, it seems Republicans want to stop filibusters that Democrats want to use to stop nominations of judges. What is a filibuster, you may ask? There's an old rule in the Senate that pretty much says you can talk forever on the floor of the Senate as long as you are standing on the floor and speaking, and do not give the rights of the floor to anyone else. It takes a 2/3rds majority to stop it in the Senate. AP Story This sounds l...

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...