Media in Trouble: All the news thats UNfit to print!

HGSI Lupus...BUY

2009-07-21T00:13:00.006-04:00

this is another dendreon...except its years away from becoming the next Dendreon....better still..this is the next Celgene....when it was a paltry $3.69 (based on Price/Market cap)the results announced today are for a Lupus drug....on the high dose drug 57% of patients improved their symptoms and life.vs. 43% placebo patients....the placebo reading should probably tell you more about Lupus and

The Internet is For Porn!*

2007-09-29T00:47:00.000-04:00

*This line is from the Broadway musical called Avenue Q.*First, I know. It has been over 1 year. I don't care what you think. You are back and it is partly because I chose a fairly popular search term as my title. OK get it out.......You OK now?Good let me get on with it....I can't believe people are trying to regulate the Internet. There are the Senators that think its a network of tubes or

Lamont Roundup

2006-08-10T22:53:00.000-04:00

Look folks, I was prepared for another one of Stoller's pep talks.I brewed beer and helped run Blue Jersey waiting for someone to say, "hey this is Jersey not CT."When I heard Lieberman's speach I was pretty confused and nervous. I thought, dammit, we are not out of the woods yet. And we AREN'T. People, if you think that this story will die, think again. Think of how everybody in DC loves Joe.

FDA Shortchanged?

2006-07-21T09:19:00.000-04:00

In the middle of this Lebanon-Israeli shitstorm, a wee story broke on NPR that barely got any attention.David Graham is at it again blowing whistles about the FDA's borderline malfeasance when it comes to approving drugs and keeping them on the market despite data that points to these drugs being unsafe. Yes, this time it is Aventis who pushed through an antibiotic called Ketek. They got approval

What's Missing?

2006-07-18T10:23:00.000-04:00

From this NYTpuff piece on Sen. Lindsay Graham?Just the fact that before his righteous fight for upholding the rights of the Gitmo detainees, and his attempt to legislate the Hamdan decision, he tried to subvert said decision.

Nina Tottenberg hearts Lindsay Graham

2006-07-12T14:33:00.000-04:00

It is the only explanation as to why Senator Graham was the only Senator chosen for every soundbite in this story about the Haynes hearings.Which is odd given the sort-of cloud over Sen. Graham's legal ethics.

Economic good news?

2006-07-11T12:29:00.000-04:00

The headlines are all sunny about the projected $100 billion decline in the Deficit. Swallowing Bush's line that it is due to the tax cuts, and regurgitating it to their open-beaked readers. Luckily, DeLong allows the more discerning open beaked readers (such as myself) a more tasty morsel.In this feast of economic mealworms and such(ok stop with the bird metaphors), he gives us plenty of reasons

Syd Barret Dies

2006-07-11T10:48:00.000-04:00

Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett dies, and the AP can't get basic facts straight before going to press.Same article:Barrett co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 with David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright, and wrote many of the band’s early songs.So the AP later gets it right, again same article:However, Barrett suffered from mental instability, exacerbated by his use of LSD. His behavior grew

Inskeeping With the Times

2006-07-11T09:12:00.000-04:00

This morning Steve Inskeep of NPR's Morning Edition talked to Sen. Patrick Leahy about this wee problem of the administration being found guilty of holding folks against domestic AND international laws by the SCOTUS. You see the SCOTUS let the White House know that there is this little thing called Habeas Corpus that is sort of a basic Human Right. Anyway let's take a look at some of the choice

Waste, Fraud, and Media Slant

2006-06-27T09:42:00.000-04:00

Today's front page of the New York Times boasts this headline: 'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid. It is accompanied by an arial picture of a bunch of trailers, the token of the "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" that accompanied the Aid to Katrina stricken areas. Right in the caption of the picture is this quote:Scams, schemes and bureaucratic bungles after Hurricane Katrina have cost

The Return Of Voodoo Economics

2006-05-15T09:26:00.000-04:00

Finally, a nice clear and concise shooting down of supply side economics. Thank you Sebastian Mallaby.

4-20

2006-04-20T11:02:00.001-04:00

Happy 4-20.The most wonderful day of the year!

4-20

2006-04-20T11:02:00.000-04:00

Happy 4-20.The most wonderful day of the year!

Military Subordination to Civilian Control

2006-04-18T10:44:00.000-04:00

Is it just me, that finds it completely Ironic, that retired Generals are speaking against the civilian leadership (or lack thereof) about a war that was conceived by the civilian leadership?The fear that military folks get upset about the civilians they take orders from is valid during peacetime. It is a valid consern for the fairly obvious Strangelovian reasons. However, in today's world. The

Tear Down The Wall!

2006-04-07T09:33:00.000-04:00

Hey Krauthammer, great idea! Its a hiuge jobs program this wall of yours. It would be a great subsidization of and an enormous economic boon to the South! Tax dollars would flow freely to the contractors that will be building this wall of yours.One problem.WHO DO YOU THINK WILL BE ACTUALLY BUILDING THIS WALL?

Hey Rubes!

2006-04-05T13:48:00.000-04:00

Josh points us to the WaPo article that tells us that Tom Delay basically hung around to get MO money for his Legal fees:An additional impetus for putting off the resignation until now was suggested by John Feehery, a former aide to DeLay and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). "He needed to raise money for the defense fund. That was the bottom line," Feehery said. "He wanted to make sure

Big Gain for Rich Seen in Tax Cuts for Investments - New York Times

2006-04-05T08:49:00.000-04:00

A.K.A. - George Bush's America.

"Divided Democrats"

2006-03-31T09:09:00.000-05:00

So the Washington Post takes this Immigration bill which passed the Judiciary Committee with all Democrats voting AYE, and puts this picture up:NICE! HUH?So I click through the caption and this is what I find.Of all the Democrats that are supposedly divided on this issue. You know, cuz every time I turn on the radio they keep saying it is the Republicans that are divided. You know cuz the bill

Where is your race card now?

2006-03-29T09:37:00.000-05:00

A while back Sen. Orin Hatch (R-UT) was quick to pull the race card on Democrats threatening to vote against Sam Alito:[They] think they own the Italian-American vote all up and down the East Coast. They don’t, but they think they do. If they become offensive against somebody with the qualifications of Sam Alito, Judge Alito, then I think it’s going to be held against them. They’re going to have

"Let's try enforcing the law"

2006-03-27T09:47:00.000-05:00

So saideth Tom Tancredo on This Week. Go watch the video.Yes! Indeed Tom Tancredo! Ye are the keeper of the Rule of Law! Here is exactly what he said:We don't need another law on the books, no law is necessary if we actually enforce the ones we have on the books today. ...It is Amnesty... You can't do that without our permission. When you reward one person ... for doing it illegaly, then it is a

Cartoons!

2006-03-24T15:15:00.000-05:00

In lieu of Democrats recent wave of going back to their tried and true ways of loosing the base by running from Russ Feingold's Censure, and netroots candidates, etc. etc. We now know that Democrats need no help from Republicans or their media operatives to paint them as loosers or (insert congruent adjectives here). I think Ward Sutton puts it nicely in this cartoon:

Write Bill Keller a Letter

2006-03-23T14:30:00.000-05:00

Click here to do it. Why?This just landed in my inbox:For two years, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has courageously traveled where few other reporters have gone to describe the brutal genocide in Darfur.Through Kristof's reporting - and that of others at the Times - we have read of the tremendous suffering that has befallen the innocent people of Darfur - at the hands of their very

Shorter National Association of Realtors

2006-03-23T12:59:00.000-05:00

Global Warming is Good for us!

Find the Constuctionist

2006-03-23T10:06:00.000-05:00

ZAAAAAAAAAAAP!!! The blog is now back to life.Sorry for the absence, but get used to it. The more I read other blogs hitting national issues, the less I feel like writing on those issues myself. Mainly because everytime I get an idea, someone else gets the same idea and posts it before I do. Anyway, enough chatter, check out this NYTimes article about the latest opinion from the SCOTUS. You know

Roman A' Clef

2006-03-03T11:49:00.000-05:00

Once in a while, we get a great example of just how stupid the right is and how misguided their tirades are against us on the left. Exhibit 1,863Charles Krauthammer's "Oscars for Osama." Krauthammer decides that once again by choosing to honor such violent terrorist boosting films as Paradise Now, Munich, and Syriana, Hollywood and the liberalism it represents is hurting America by emboldening

Rule of Law

2006-03-01T11:25:00.000-05:00

OK, so despite their most valiant efforts, Republican Senators can't seem to find a way to make the illegal wiretaps, legal.I don't understand. When did this country start legalizing things in a retroactive manner? When did things illegal become legal simply because it came to light that someone like the President was breaking the law? What happened to Rule of Law?You legislate things that

When Politics Defeats Science

2006-03-01T10:06:00.000-05:00

heh Indeed.Read the whole thing and make sure you read the italicized part about who the author is or rather was.I work for a Pharmaceutical company and it baffles the crapskies out of me why they would risk their integrity of being the bastion of science/reality based decisions in our regulatory system. This cowtowing about Plan B is really political pandering to the religious right and allowing

Some would call this...

2006-02-24T09:50:00.000-05:00

an oligarchy, others just call it George Bush's America.

Liberal Media: AP-ABC News Edition

2006-02-21T14:18:00.000-05:00

Goddammit! They did it again. This time the culprit is the AP/ABC news.Look folks, Bob Menendez (my Senator and ex Rep.) and Hillary Clinton were the ones who made this story about our Ports being controlled by a terrorist supporting government an issue. They were the first ones out in front, and the first ones to say anything about it, and the first ones to draft/introduce legislation to stop it

Your Liberal Media: NPR Edition

2006-02-20T08:57:00.000-05:00

So I am barely waking up this morning and I hear a blathering Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborn Boggs a.k.a. Cokie Roberts talking about how the Katrina Report was all Republicans as is the opposition to the UAE owning the port system.First off, in fairness, the Republican committee that issued a report on Wednesday is totally Republican. However, when asked on ABC's This Week, Rep. Gene

Your Democratic Party Part 2

2006-02-17T10:45:00.000-05:00

Mother Jones has an update on the Paul Hackett broo haha. Kossacks have been mulling this over with arguments ranging from "Fuck the DSCC" to Hackett threw his own sabots into the campaign.Personally, I don't buy any argument that Hackett did this to himself. If he saw Brown's bankroll and pissed himself, why would he take a dump on the party and say "they" did it to him?Makes no sense. This guy

Democracy!

2006-02-16T10:15:00.000-05:00

Headline: A Deal Is Reached to Name a Victor in Haiti's Election: The agreement is a result of negotiations by Mr. Préval, government officials, foreign diplomats and international observers, including the Organization of American States.A high-ranking official from the Organization of American States, who insisted on anonymity because of the fragile nature of the agreement, said on Wednesday

The LIberal Media

2006-02-16T09:21:00.000-05:00

Mr. Daou shows us the demonstrable proof.

Note to Self...

2006-02-15T08:51:00.000-05:00

Don't ever try to mess with Media Matters. They will simply chew you up and spit you out.

Peppered Update

2006-02-14T16:04:00.000-05:00

Boy being peppered by a shotgun must be a bigger deal than Cheney and the gullible media have made it out to be thus far, just in:Hunter Shot by Cheney Suffers Mild Heart AttackThe 78-year-old lawyer who was accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday suffered a mild heart attack today after bird shot migrated to his heart, doctors in South Texas said, and he underwent a

Where are the Quail Hunting Experts?

2006-02-14T13:19:00.000-05:00

Shouldn't there be a parade of hunting experts, NRA folks, along with the quail hunting champion of the world on each and every cable news program by now?All we have is Scottie Doo, and the campaign contributors that were involved in covering this whole thing up in the first place answering our intrepid media's flawed questions.I remember all sorts of tracking experts flaunted about during

Sunday Talk Leans Right

2006-02-14T10:04:00.000-05:00

I don't know how many times this needs to be proven before the whole "liberal media" theory dies, but here it is once more. The Media is NOT liberal.

Hullabaloo

2006-02-14T09:34:00.000-05:00

A.K.A. digby. Go read the whole f'in thing.

I read the news today Oh Boy..

2006-02-14T09:19:00.000-05:00

First off, it turns out Democracy really isn't top dog in this or Israel's administration. What I don't understand about these things is that in Iraq, we are trying to get the Sunni's (a.k.a. insurgents/terrorists) involved in the democratic/political process. Why is this not acceptable in Palestine?So much for that "oil addiction". Turns out, the tax breaks Republicans give to oil companies

Your Democratic Party

2006-02-14T09:18:00.000-05:00

Wankers the whole lot of them. This is why I feel I have to either stay home or vote green. This is simply bullshit. Democrats it seems would rather have the President spy on us so that the Republicans won't call them "weak on national defense" than prop up a genuine tough guy who came pretty close to taking down a Republican in a Republican district.I say stop donating to Democrats. Really, just

Gulag

2006-02-08T11:25:00.000-05:00

All that talk about Gulag not being an applicable term to Gitmo seems to be consistently discredited.If you still are averse to the term Gulag, then perhaps think of this. In Paksitan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the United States, and perhaps in all other middle eastern countries. You better be good to your neighbor, otherwise he can report you to the secret American police, and you get an all expense

It's been a while

2006-02-08T10:35:00.000-05:00

I know, and for that I am sorry. Work has been a bit outta control.Also, I have been in a cinical funk about politics in general so despite being angered by the President's empty SOTU address, and despite being angry at Democrats yukkin' it up before during and after the speech as if they weren't in the room with the anti-christ himself, I can't seem to give a rat's ass enough to write about

Bizzaro World

2006-01-27T13:40:00.000-05:00

Think Progress points out that Matt Lauer and Katie Couric work very hard to make a lie become the truth. It amazes me.Howard Dean says "Not one dime of money from Jack Abramoff went to a Democrat." Which is factually, and yes Matt Lauer, technically, true. Its simply true. Like truthiness only truer.They allow republicans to lie without recourse. Yet if a Democrat tells the truth, alarms ring,

Spy news

2006-01-24T17:33:00.000-05:00

Uh. Why didn't some intrepid reporter dig this up?After you are done trying to figure that one out. Write a letter or something to the news outlets who are constantly scratching their heads about how more and more people get their news from the internets.It would be a simple letter...You could start by asking, why do I get my news from the internets?Because, apparently, only intrepid bloggers can

Carnival of New Jersey Bloggers XXXVI

2006-01-23T08:30:00.000-05:00

Sharon's got it this week

Medicare Part D: Not So-Conventional Wisdom

2006-01-21T23:34:00.000-05:00

So it shouldn't be news to anyone's eyes 'round here, but we have our 341st failure of Republican leadership, Medicare Part D a.k.a. "How to make Health Care Costs Skyrocket and blame it on the Democrats <- (Warning Possible Lieberman attack point).Republicans whip some Democrats to vote for a plan to benefit only the Health Care Industry at the cost of usurping our Senrior citizens, the "

The Internets

2006-01-20T12:23:00.000-05:00

OK quick one. Basically, the Washington Post started a general blog (besides the others that are already on wapo.com). This one allowed commenting. They hosted their ombudswoman Doborah Howell who said basically that Democrats got Abramoff money. not Indian Tribe money possibly related to Abramoff. No she said and asserted quite a few times, that Dems got Abramoff money. So people started

OYE-vay

2006-01-19T15:55:00.000-05:00

Operation Yellow Elephant's workload just increased

Some Things Considered

2006-01-19T10:50:00.000-05:00

This cute NPR interview with David Dreier (the closet gay chariman of the house rules committee) seems to be missing something.OH... I know, balance. Notice there is no Democrat to counter David Dreier as he successfully paints Democrats as out of "creative new ideas." etc. etc. It's also nice to hear Melissa Block be so nice and polite as she lets Dreier spew forth his talking points. Not to

Right to Death

2006-01-18T09:56:00.000-05:00

The SCOTUS decision to let people take charge of their own lives is yet one more spike in the derigible called Republican Conservatarianism. Whenever pat Robertson's bitch boy Jay Sekulow gets on the case you have to wonder what is going on and more importantly, what will happen.First off, the decision. Basically, SCOTUS took the position that the AG cannot claim the controlled substances act

God Strikes Down Hundreds Chanting His Name

2006-01-16T10:57:00.000-05:00

I meant to blog on this before, but Blanton's and Ashton's has a great rundown on the yearly hajj related deaths.Now, almost all the stampede deaths occur at pretty much the same moment every year. The part where devout muslims start throwing rocks at a big black rock which is supposed to signify Satan. The action is obviously one that would put any rock thrower among the highest of devoutees in

The I Word

2006-01-16T10:47:00.000-05:00

A Majority of Americans support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping, a Minority of News outlets are reporting it as "news."Discuss.

How lies become truths

2006-01-16T10:44:00.000-05:00

As a Republican PR person, you pick up the phone. Call a friend at The Washington Post (it helps if they are someone who is charged primarily with the task of keeping the paper honest). Your WaPo ombudsman friend prints the lie in the Washington Post. You are now free to put that reference in an email to all supporters asking for more money to combat evil Democrats.In order to find the real

Connections to Terrorists

2006-01-13T15:15:00.000-05:00

December 19th, Press Conference of the President: "So, consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution, I authorized the interception of international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations."Today RAW Story:The National Security Agency has been spying on a Baltimore anti-war group, according to documents released during litigation, going so far as

Alito hearts Bork

2006-01-13T13:14:00.000-05:00

I realized I have been mostly silent re Scalito. But I really think its all useless. He was caught lying lots about his 8 year membership to the racist, sexist Concerned Alumni of Princeton club for white men. He was also non-forward and rather unasnwerative (if that is a word). The Dems weren't comming across seriously and the media painted them as badgers. Plus I thought it rather odd that

Ohio Paper Publishes Freeper Post

2006-01-09T16:02:00.000-05:00

Awful.In the letters to the editor section of The Times Reporter (Dover-New Philadelphia, Ohio), a list of "Democrats who have taken money from Jack Abramoff, according to Federal Elections Commission records."At the end of the article, it says this:EDITOR'S NOTE: A complete listing of Abramoff's contributions is available at www.fec.gov.So I did just that, I went to the FEC.gov website, clicked

Top 10...

2006-01-09T12:37:00.000-05:00

news stories of 2005

Lemmings

2006-01-05T16:09:00.000-05:00

Apparently Scott Shields wanted to place the blame of the Sago mining accident on the relaxation of mining safety regulations. Under all the media noise about the misinformation doled out about who died and who didn't you may get a whisper about the 208 violations that the Sago mine's wrist was slapped with. Scott rightfully pointed out the fact that the board responsible for oversight had been

600!!

2006-01-05T16:08:00.000-05:00

Was gonna write something else, but I just realized, that last post was number 600!!!WOW thats a lot of writting in just over a year.

Spygate, the Plot Thickens

2006-01-05T13:11:00.000-05:00

Told ya you would get some output from me today!I hope many of you brought up Bush's spying on Americans without using the legal avenues afforded him in the old FISA law. A law, by the way, that was implemented after Nixon thought he had the power to spy on Americans.So, as I have mentioned before, should the focus of the spying have been solely terrorist folks, the mechanisms are already in

Uncle Floyd's Amtrak Show

2006-01-05T12:55:00.000-05:00

Floyd Hall is one of the lucky 17 recess appointments the President Bush made yesterday. (via Kos)Uncle Floyd's $300,000 in soft money contributions to the Bush Campaign have landed him a 5 year job on the AMTRAK reform board. Many will remember Uncle Floyd from his days as CEO of the KMart that went Bankrupt. In fairness, Uncle Floyd is Montclair State's favorite uncle, and he generally has

Sorry for the lax posting, I have been Drinkin'

2006-01-05T12:31:00.000-05:00

Sorry this space has been dead recently, but the holiday season leaves little time for screwin' around the internets in search of media mischief. Besides, if my blog is the only blog you read, then your missing out; make it a point to read Atrios daily so that you can keep as informed as me. Also, I have been posting quite often on New Jersey issues over at BlueJersey.net and it has landed me a

Happy New Year!

2006-01-02T09:59:00.000-05:00

Nothing like starting 2006 with my first nomination for a blogger award EVER!!!Bluejersey is hosting the Screaming Carrot Awards for best NJ blogger.So please once your Auld Lang signs off, head on over there and vote for me!!

Carnival of NJ Bloggers - #32 - Christmas Edition

2005-12-23T10:22:00.000-05:00

Bill O'Reilly has won yet another year's battle in the War on Christmas! Despite the godless-liberal-secular-humanist's best efforts to take the Christ out of Christmas, they have failed. And the Proof is in the millions of 2006 calendars distributed worldwide! Let's hope the same bloody war will not have to be waged to achieve the same on 2007's Calendars!Speaking of wars. A special salute to

The NYC Strike and Why Lefties Should Support It

2005-12-21T16:07:00.000-05:00

Dear god, what a barrage of anti-labor commentary I have had to deflect since I seem to be the only person in the Universe (besides Scott Schields) seemingly supporting the TWU and its use of Strike force to achieve their goals.My opinions on this have been pretty much summed up in my comments on this post, but I think more airing out is necessary.First off, I am truly amazed that I have had to

Maverick

2005-12-21T13:08:00.000-05:00

John McCain joins Dick Cheney and 50 Bastards in voting to starve poor children.

Letter to the Times Ombudsman

2005-12-20T10:38:00.000-05:00

Mr. Calame,I implore you to launch an investigation as to why such a bombshell about the NSA spying scandal has escaped publishing for approximately one year. This story is of such significance that it has caused congressmen to actually say the word impeachment out loud and on television.More importantly, this bombshell should it have been reported when the Times first learned about it, could

Shorter Kristoff

2005-12-19T09:50:00.000-05:00

In choosing to fight a fake war on Christmas instead of using the bully pulpit to Bill O'Reilly is the same as the bastards enabling the Darfur genocide. He even prays for Bill: Let us all pray for Bill O'Reilly. Let us pray that Mr. O'Reilly will understand that the Christmas spirit isn't about hectoring people to say "Merry Christmas," rather than "Happy Holidays," but about helping the

Cognitive Dissonance

2005-12-18T15:36:00.000-05:00

So it seems that Condi is making the rounds distributing new talking points about the President's policy on warrantless wiretaps of Americans.One TP that caught my attention and made me go HMMM. Was all this talk about needing to do wire taps to keep us safe from terrorists living within the US.Fair point, but there was already a mechanism in place for that. FISA grants the President this

Gwen Ifill: Pundit or Journamalist

2005-12-18T15:10:00.000-05:00

Today on Meet the Press, Gwen Ifill shared the round triangular table with none other than Wall Street Journal's own wankerific John Harwood.Regular readers know I have been critical of Gwen in the past. However, today I will refrain from her commentary and focus instead on Meet the Press' editors/producers or whoever it is that is in charge of attributing guests to their place of work.For today

Congress Saw the Same Intel as the President

2005-12-16T16:20:00.000-05:00

ahem..NOT!

Harrison's Gold Coast

2005-12-16T13:29:00.000-05:00

Harrison NJ, a nice blue collar old fashioned town residing on the banks of the toxic glorious Passaic river, will soon be home to another New York Pro-sports team the Metrostars. A huge swath of the southeastern part of Harrison, once riddled with booming factories which have been abandoned since the 1930's, will be transformed into a "gold coast" Gratuitous digression: As a resident, I laugh

Bend Over Grey Lady

2005-12-16T10:48:00.000-05:00

Steve Inskeep says the New York Times knew about this a year ago, and that the article was held up because of National Security concerns:"The White House asked The New York Times not to publish this article, arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny. After meeting with senior administration officials to hear their

We the People...

2005-12-16T10:22:00.000-05:00

WaPo:Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies at George Washington University, said the secret order may amount to the president authorizing criminal activity."It is, I believe, the first time a president has authorized government agencies to violate a specific criminal prohibition and eavesdrop on Americans."The US. ConstitutionAmmendment IV:The right of the people to be

Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Torture

2005-12-16T10:15:00.000-05:00

My fiance' is studying to be a pinko commie public interest selfless lawyer. Wouldn't you know that one of the first things they gave her for free was a little blue copy of the Constitution. I never really read the damned thing and its so damned short I got through it in like an hour (and I am a slow reader). Luckily for me, the news is abuzz these days with a ton of Constitutional issues.So

HR 550 Stop muckraking and start signature gathering!

2005-12-15T14:35:00.000-05:00

First off, if you haven't yet, sign the petition at Rush Holt's Page. Second off, let me take yet another opportunity to lambaste the left wingosphere for doing a shitty job in getting together on an issue that all of us should be united on. I realize that for the most part the Rightwing-o-sphere is a top to bottom zombie message machine and the left is very much more like a herd of cats,

They write letters...

2005-12-13T11:01:00.000-05:00

My buddy Nel read a recent piece over at page 2 and got a little riled up. Here is his email to me explaining the situation: Hey guys,I know I had too much time on my hands this afternoon, but I was excited to see the tag line for this article on ESPN.com - "Michael Davies was there for us in '02 and he's back for the world's ultimate trophy chase -- no, not Heidi Klum: the World Cup" The article

Shooting Blanks

2005-12-09T12:42:00.000-05:00

I am pretty surprised that the US now has its very own Charles de Menezes, and the leftosphere is pretty silent over it.Now I understand that in the heat of the moment a Marshall instinctively shoots first and asks questions later. Despite the evidence that the word "bomb was not spoken." Coupled with the fact that Alpizar's wife was saying he was bipolar and not taking his meds. However, it

Final thought on Sparling

2005-12-08T14:05:00.000-05:00

One final thought while I await a response from FOX News *holding breath*. I find it crazily odd, that the right wingers are careless to send the soldiers like Joshua Sparling into the place that gave him his injuries. Yet on the other hand, they get all sortsa pissed off over a nasty gram.Cognitive Dissonance indeed.

BREAKING BIG: Senator Menendez

2005-12-07T14:05:00.000-05:00

CNN is calling it:New Jersey Gov.-elect Jon Corzine will name Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, as his successor in the U.S. Senate, multiple New Jersey Democratic sources told CNN Wednesday.Menendez will serve the remaining year of Corzine's Senate term in 2006 while launching his own campaign for a full six-year term, the sources said.Menendez was chosen over a handful of

Joshua Sparling Hate Mail - Green Day?

2005-12-07T11:44:00.000-05:00

Oh boy did my sitemeter go nutsoid with this post. Amazing what a trackback that starts out "Check the jingosphere..." can do for a blog and what lovely comments I got too.Anyway, the intriguing part of this story was that somehow Brian Kilmeade in his Fox & Friends blog entry, hinted that Green Day was somehow associated with the story. No context except for a mention of Green Day in passing.

The Big Tent Party

2005-12-05T15:29:00.000-05:00

You may or may not remember Bob Novak getting upset over this, but Hester Jr. points out an interesting factoid regarding how the Republican Party treats their own members: U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-Hamilton, banished as House Veterans' Affairs Committee chairman during a House Republican inquisition a year ago, isn't deterred. Smith wants to become chairman of the House International Relations

Hey Rubes?!

2005-12-05T14:50:00.000-05:00

You would think that after being on yesterday's Meet the Press this story about the 9/11 commission passing out "Fs" to all those in charge of making homeland security policy (i.e. the ruling Republican party), would be all over the internets.A brief look at Memeorandum demonstrates that it is not exactly a hot topic in the blogosphere right now. Not to mention, Rice's European tongue lashings

Faith Based Blogference

2005-12-05T13:14:00.000-05:00

I don't care much for religion. If it weren't for the argument that lack of evidence for the existence of God, doesn't necessarily mean that God doesn't exhist, I would be atheist. As such, I am an agnostic atheist, leaning more to the atheist side of the fence, than to the agnostic side. That being said, I don't like how the crazy christians that seem to get all the press in this country are

RNC Calendar

2005-12-05T12:37:00.000-05:00

i don't know if this is common practice for the party sitting in office. I have only been on political email lists for a few years. However, I would love to find out if the DNC put out a Clinton version of this calendar at the height of say the Lewinsky scandal. For only $25 you too can have 12 fullfilling pictures of President Bush in his best form. Here are some of my favorites:Happy New

Economic Oligarchy

2005-12-05T09:12:00.000-05:00

Since Bush decided to make a Rose Garden appearance to tout the great-but-not-so-great jobs numbers, the economy became a sorta hot topic. I know it came up on This Week where Robert Reich made and appearance, and now the king of all Economists and my dream Fed Head, Paul Krugman puts the discussion where it belongs. Since I don't care much for copywright law, and care even less for the NYTimes

2005-12-02T13:45:00.000-05:00

Obligatory warning: This is Yet Another Diary About Corzine's Senate Pick (YADACSP).Bob Andrews picks up a few endorsements today from the Philly Inquirer, and Courier Post. Both eerily saying similar things, and both, eerily full of that stinky stuff that Ocean County Freeholders are also reeking of these days.First off, the Courier Post endorsed Doug Forrester, so why should Gov. Elect Corzine

AIDS and Needle Exchange

2005-12-01T14:49:00.000-05:00

Happy World AIDS Day everybody. Every minute of every day 5 people die from AIDS/HIV. There is no cure but there are rather expensive drugs for treating the disease. As a result, prevention continues to be the preferred method of combating the disease.Where do NJ AIDS statistics stand?:In NJ nearly half of all new HIV cases in the state are related to injection drug use, nearly twice the national

Where were the Anti-Stadium Folk on this one?

2005-12-01T14:08:00.000-05:00

Hillary and Goldman Sachs broke ground on a new HQ building. The tragedy is that they got about $1.5 billion in aide to do it. WHich is simply Bullshit. You mean you now have to URGE financial corporations to build their headquarters in the financial capital of the world? CROOKS. Thanks Hillary, for providing republicans with another piss-off-your-own-base photo-op.

Bushism of the week

2005-12-01T13:25:00.000-05:00

From the Bushysburg address:Some critics continue to assert that we have no plan in Iraq except to, “stay the course.” If by “stay the course,” they mean we will not allow the terrorists to break our will, they are right. If by “stay the course,” they mean we will not permit al Qaeda to turn Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban - a safe haven for terrorism and a launching pad for

Numbers of Iraqi Troops

2005-12-01T12:52:00.000-05:00

NPR had perhaps one of the finest more decent analyses of the Bullshit Speech (part 1 of 3) which has been plastered all over the fuckin' airwaves since it aired. The Weekly Standard's Reuel Marc Gerecht, and The New Yorker's George Packer faced off with Robert Segel playing the part of moderator. Ok faceoff is not a good description for these NPR segments that are supposed to parrot similar

Republicans blocking voting rights

2005-11-30T14:54:00.000-05:00

Below is a post I borrowed from Blanton and Ashton's. Basically, Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) has a bill that is cosponsored by 159 congressman, and the Repugnicans don't think it worthy of floor action. HR 550 guarantees voter verified paper trails on all voting machines, and also implements mandatory random audits of every election in every county etc... Basically the bill covers all the

Moment of Zen

2005-11-29T13:05:00.000-05:00

Can someone tell me wehter or not 2 incarnations of anyone can exhist at the same time? What if both incarnations seem to be that of the great Buddha himself?Authorities in Nepal urged religious groups and scientists on Sunday to help solve the mystery of a meditating teenaged boy who some believe is an incarnation of Buddha. At least 100,000 devotees from Nepal and neighbouring India have

USA Today Pushes for Nia Gill

2005-11-29T12:55:00.000-05:00

Like it or not, race and gender tends to be a player in who Gov. Elect Corzine picks to fill his Senate seat. That doesn't mean Corzine is racist or sexist, it just means that its the reality of the situation. It is shameful to think that someone will be appointed to any political position to pander to some gender or racial segment of the voting population. However, it is equally shameful that

What’s wrong with cutting and running?

2005-11-23T12:26:00.000-05:00

The best argument I have seen for cutting and running is right here by former National Security Agency Head Lt. Gen. William Odom. He points to the 9 arguments people make for staying in Iraq, and then basically debunks them all. With the simple arguement that they are already happening: 1) We would leave behind a civil war. CHECK 2) We would lose credibility on the world stage.CHECK 3) It

History Revisionisming

2005-11-21T15:19:00.000-05:00

As Josh notes, there is a ton of stories comming out today that should have came out two years ago. First the hypocrisy from the White House. You have POTUS and VPOTUS both claiming Democrats and liberals are going batshit crazy and revising history because they have no right to because they were for the war, and now they are against it, and that they had all the same information he had and

Lying Liars

2005-11-20T12:39:00.000-05:00

Rumsfeld on This Week:"I never advocated invasion"Richard Clarke:After the president returned to the White House on Sept. 11, he and his top advisers, including Clarke, began holding meetings about how to respond and retaliate. As Clarke writes in his book, he expected the administration to focus its military response on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. He says he was surprised that the talk quickly

Washington Compost

2005-11-18T16:55:00.000-05:00

There I said it. I took that headline from Ollie North. The bastard that armed our enemies in order to get Americans back from our Iranian enemies. Somehow, those Americans Ollie North worked so hard to get back have no parralell's to the Americans now dying in Iraq. I digress. Luckily for us, someone leaked this neato discussion board that WaPo was having on the inside. From FishBowlDC we

Why are we in Iraq?

2005-11-18T15:09:00.000-05:00

There is lots of groundhog day type of stuff happening around the blogpsphere ever since Bush has said Democrats are trying to revise history. The left is just constantly regurgitating the truths about the Robb-Silberman Report (whose scope did not include use of intelligence by administration officials), and all other things that would be put in Michael Moore land by anyone worshipping the

Nice Polite Republicans call Bush on a Lie

2005-11-17T20:28:00.000-05:00

In this almost excellent segment, Jackie Northam discusses the current shit that has been shoveled by the President and Veep.Basically, they had the soundbite of Bushie telling us that "they saw the same intelligence I did... and came to the same conclusion..."Michelle Norris then asked Jackie if Congress had seen the same intelligence as the president.Jackie said rather simply: "No!"The segment