Category: USA news
this too shall pass
I’m counting down the final minutes here on an era that I’m certain will go down as a dark stain on America’s history. I’d start a list, but I don’t have that kind of free time. Would I count just the massive failures, or just the gross incompetencies, or just the blatant treasons, or just [...]
so they loaded up the truck and they moved back to Wasilla, yeehaw
I would just love to have known what thoughts were going through Senator John McCain’s mind at the moment pictured here on election night. He had just finished what I considered to be a graceful concession speech, albeit a speech interrupted by ugly and inappropriate outbursts from his gathered supporters. After the speech, and at [...]
nutty business
From an excellent, fair and balanced article in The Guardian about ACORN, the latest distraction from Fox “News” and their ilk:
Here are the facts. Acorn verifies the legitimacy of every registration its canvassers collect. If they can’t authenticate the registration, or it’s incomplete or questionable in other ways, they flag that form as problematic (“fraudulent”, [...]
USSA
Take a look at just two little points of the proposed $700 billion (minimum) federal bailout of the mortgage asset mess in this country:
Sec. 8. (Review) — Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law [...]
connections
See if you can spot the connections. This morning, Alberto Gonzales resigned. Finally. Don’t let the door hit you in ass on the way out, Fredo. I hope to see you and Turd Blossom in front of congressional hearings soon to answer for your misdeeds.
But the Attorney General resigning couldn’t even hold the headlines for [...]
Bush’s brain
I’ve thought all along the leak exposing Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative fit into the modus operandi of Karl Rove. Newsweek is now reporting that Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper’s subpoenaed notes and e-mails identify Rove as a source. The notes and e-mails were turned over to federal investigators last week after the [...]