June 03, 2008
May 12, 2008
Things younger than McCain (dot com)
April 02, 2008
Hilary is Fu%*#@g Obama
December 18, 2007
McCain's daughter blogs at McCainBlogette.com
May 24, 2007
The 2008 version of the excellent Death and Taxes budget poster is out
April 16, 2007
Water is the new oil
March 06, 2007
There was a time when our Presidents would only lose one war at a time.
Those were the days.
November 07, 2006
How the 2006 midterm elections were stolen.
November 03, 2006
Back at ya!
Encouraging audience participation from thousands of Republican loyalists at a rally, Bush said Democrats should be asked, "What's your plan?" for winning in Iraq and a host of other national security issues separating the parties.
He added, "No seriously, we could really use a plan."
Graphic novel adaptation of the 9/11 Report
George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do.
They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry — a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service — and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.Every time you hear Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney lash out against Mr. Kerry, I hope you will say to yourself, “They must think I’m stupid.” Because they surely do.
They think that they can get you to overlook all of the Bush team’s real and deadly insults to the U.S. military over the past six years by hyping and exaggerating Mr. Kerry’s mangled gibe at the president.
Friedman then goes on to point out the many ways that the Bush administration's has been far more injurious and insulting (sending them into combat without enough men, equipment, and a coherent postwar plan for political reconstruction) than anything Kerry could have said. I want to quote his whole piece mostly because it is so good, but also because it is behind the Times Select paywall and that sucks. (New York Times, get your heads out of your asses and make your best content available!)
Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century — to bring out the best in us. His "genius" is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.
November 01, 2006
Tag those Minnesota politics posts
e-democracy.org suggests new tags for any posts to blogs or bookmarking tools, flickr, YouTube, etc. about politics in Minnesota use the following tags: mnpolitics, mn06video, and mn06.
October 31, 2006
The Blue Fund
Inspired by the folks who brought you BuyBlue.org, the Blue Fund gives a simple way to invest in companies that share your progressive values...unlike some companies, and their values.
October 23, 2006
"Too bad the writ of habeaus corpus wasn't written in 1990. Because then it would be 16 years old..."
October 19, 2006
The new depths of political ads
Internet only political ads are cropping up all over the place.
October 09, 2006
Why I rarely worry about the new "hip, hardcore" evangelical movement
This follows a good piece on the Disciple Generation, a "fierce new face of American evangelism" that Salon did a little less than a month ago.
Stephen Baldwin. The dude can only name 6 of the 10 commandments and needless to say is a complete moron. Also check out this interview with him for some hilarious hypocrisy.
September 20, 2006
You gotta love Ted Turner sometimes:
It will go down in history, it is already being seen in history, as one of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody. A couple of others that come to mind were the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the German invasion of Russia
Well at least he should know what he is talking about concerning the Iran nuclear threat - though some of his statements seem counter to what he has been working towards.
How to beat a liberal? Become one.
Across America the new GOP plan appears to be: become more liberal on some issues. Even Bush is getting in on the act, reversing his position on global warming. I suppose if all of your own positions are ailing and losing traction amongst voters, this makes sense. "Hey, vote for me I am a bit more like my opponent (oh, and forget all my fuck-ups)". Or you could just vote for the people who have held these positions forever.
August 25, 2006
Snakes on a Senate
August 01, 2006
Bill Clinton is gay...
...but only when it comes to evil, crazy bitches.
July 26, 2006
Pull your heads out of your asses, people!
"Despite being widely reported in the media that the U.S. and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, surprisingly; more U.S. adults (50%) think that Iraq had such weapons when the U.S. invaded Iraq. This is an increase from 36 percent in February 2005."
I would like to see the numbers on the existence of the tooth fairy and easter bunny. Who are these fucking idiots? On a more positive note, a FOX News Poll (of all places) finds that voters strongly favor Democrats on key issues such as the economy and gas prices, and give the minority party a double-digit lead for control of Congress this fall.
July 21, 2006
Happy birthday, Paul.
It would have been Paul Wellstone's 62nd birthday today. i respected Paul's energy and vision, and still miss him - especially considering who is in his Senate seat now.
"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives" - Paul Wellstone (more quotes)
July 10, 2006
Japan Considers Strike Against N. Korea
July 07, 2006
A winning strategy for war?
Move forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, from a war without end (or even a picture of what victory looks like) to another ongoing war against the actual people who attacked us.
Dick Cheney does believe in the negative affects of deficits, and is investing accordingly.
But all you people should keep buying shit and keep the country afloat, you hear.
"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday." - your senator
Here's the full audio of his statements to Congress.
Senator Stevens (R-Alaska) might need this to explain the internets to him.
One thing that, perhaps, is getting overlooked in all this, is brought into focus in Steven's words: "It's there for the consumer." The internet is not "there for the consumer" it is there for everyone - or at least it should be. It doesn't need to function as another way to buy shit for it to have value. It's value is in the way in can quickly and easily share information across communities, borders, and cultures; in how it can bring our world together and keep people informed and educated.
June 22, 2006
This cuts to close. It hurts!
I wish I could classify this as humor, but there is nothing funny about this comic strip. It is all too true...and sad.
June 13, 2006
Strap on Vets for Truth out Coulter
June 06, 2006
Exposing the Leftist agenda in Country Music
Johnny Cash, Man in Black. “I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.” Is there any more of a left-wing sentiment than caring for your fellow man?
June 05, 2006
What Hillary Clinton can learn from Al Gore
"Clinton's problem is that everything she does to staunch her perceived ideology problem compounds her perceived character problem. What she says about the issues may be popular, but what the issues say about her is that she's a shameless self-reinventor."
(May require membership - I can never remember these days.)
Thoughts from John Zogby
"70% of voters believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, adding, 'I have never seen a number like that since I’ve been polling.'"
"68% of voters believe the war in Iraq wasn’t worth the loss of American lives. He added, 'Americans want their wars to be won, they want it won quickly and their troops home and out of harms way.'"
But he cautioned: “The Democrats have no program on any issue, they have nothing to say that matters to anyone in the United States today." (I suspect that this idea is actually part of a narrative that the right has been perpetuating. It is suprising that Zogby would't be immune to such things)
And last he thinks that former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani (schmuck) and U.S. Sen. John McCain (poser), "are the only national Republicans who can transcend their party’s growing unpopularity". I wish there were some Democrats that did this.
June 02, 2006
Government wants site visit and email data kept for future investigation and prosecution
The FBI and Justice Department is "interested in records that would allow them to identify which individuals visited certain Web sites and possibly conducted searches using certain terms. It also wants the Internet companies to retain records about whom their users exchange e-mail with..."
I cannot believe what has happened to our country in the last 8 years. Forget for a moment what you have been taught since you were very young - that the U.S. is a great bastion of freedom and democracy and think about what our country does both in the world and here at home: preemptive war on unfounded grounds, torture and illegal detention, murder (and cover-up) of civilians (oh my god there is another report of this!), spying and wiretapping the phones of it citizens, removing protections to whistle-blowers, fixing elections, and now asking that all user data online be retained for future "use". Aren't these the things that those other countries that we despise do? What way of life are we now protecting and promoting if not one that is free from such things?
May 31, 2006
The Daily show on plagerism
The Paris Hilton and West Wing bits alone make it worthwhile to watch this segment. And you might as weell fire this one up too, Samantha Bee on preparedness.
May 17, 2006
Scary Idea: NSA wiretaps not about terrorism but rather elections?
A professional data-miner weighs in on how our phone records may really be used.
May 10, 2006
Not Your Soldier
Anti-recruiting website for today's youth combats the Army's (and other branches) despicable tactics to draft the poor into service.
May 01, 2006
Steven Colbert rips Bush a new one
Funniest damn thing I have seen in a while! NSFR (Not Safe For Republicans) This is Steven Colbert ripping a very displeased looking President Bush at a White House correspondents dinner. How the hell did he get invited? Did Bush think Colbert was another O'Reilly because of the Colbert Report? Looks like another intelligence breakdown. Full version here may stay up longer. For those who prefer to read.
"I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."
April 28, 2006
The Economist: Marijuana is medically useful, whether politicians like it or not
April 26, 2006
Thomas Frank savages new Joe Klein book
Thomas Frank, author of the somewhat controversial What's the Matter With Kansas summarizes Klein's new book, Politics Lost : How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid by cutting to the thesis of the work: Liberalism sucks, authenticity rocks. Klein supports this view by using the following themes throughout the book:
- The courageousness of centrism
- The mystical greatness of Bill Clinton
- When Democrats lose elections, it’s nearly always the fault of boring old liberalism
Frank posits that Klein really believes the following to be true:
"It’s only when Democrats are most like Republicans on the economic issues—when they offer voters the least amount of choice—that they’re being most radical, most funky, most true to themselves."
April 11, 2006
Welcome to the club, Iran
F-ing great. I am glad I am at the upper end of the "draft age" - oh yeah and I am neither poor nor black. Whew!
March 29, 2006
Hey ladies need some help with all those tough decisions?
Are you a woman who needs help making your own decisions? Call South Dakota senator Bill Napoli and ask him what to do: 605-348-7373 work or 605-341-2370 home.
March 27, 2006
The hammer really is a tool
March 21, 2006
2020 Olympics in Minnesota?
The idea is being pushed, more - I think, as a way to get some action on numerous infrastructure and stadium project in Minnesota than anything else, but it is still interesting to consider. I suspect hosting the Olympics here would be a nightmare for the residents of the Twin Cities, however.
March 17, 2006
Liberal slant to the Minneapolis Star Tribune a myth
May people in the Twin Cities think that the Minneapolis Star Tribune is a newspaper with a liberal political axe to grind. This rather unscientific study shows otherwise.
March 13, 2006
See how much oil is on your elected officials hands
February 16, 2006
Debunking (parts of) the new pro-war ads
February 13, 2006
American Jesus can kick your Jesus' ass!
He used to bring people together and give them hope. He wouldn't have his people get in your face and tell you to fight gay rights or you'll burn in hell. That's not what he was about. That's not the Jesus who made folks such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson rich and famous. He was a different guy from the 21st-century: American Jesus Christ.
January 31, 2006
CostOfWar.com
Along the same lines as my post some time back on the cost of the war in Iraq, this site lets you compare the cost of, say funding school programs (31,473,652 children could attend a year of Head Start), providing public housing (2,139,600 additional housing units), or feeding the world's hunger (fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 9 years) with the obviously more important and Christian act of invading another country, deposing their leader, and occupying it with no real idea of what the hell to do. Also See: The National Priorities site has a ton of calculators etc showing how spending of all sorts could be put to better use globally, nationally, and even locally (down to the city). What are your priorities?
How long until Bush invokes 9/11 tonight?
The over/under is 90 seconds. I think he may just hold off a bit longer than that but who knows.
January 26, 2006
Sometimes The Onion may go too far
January 25, 2006
Study finds partisan politicians not using their brains
How much money was spent figuring that shocker out, I wonder?
'None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged,' Westen said. 'Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones.'
January 23, 2006
Why is Bush so awesome
It really is a question for the ages.
Mashup of Nixon's fairwell speech and Public Enemy: Fairwell to the Powers that Be (mp3)
December 22, 2005
Good, funny stuff.
Good stuff for a Thursday before a long weekend, I am going to have to include this site on my upcoming post about the flourishing Minnesota blogging scene.
December 21, 2005
A companion site for a previous post
Whoever this Nicholas Wind guy is, (he lives in Madison, Wisconsin and some say he works at The Nation) he needs to write more. His rants are hysterical (see fuckChristmas.org as well).
December 01, 2005
The failures and misdeeds of Bush
Rantish review of the failures and outright misdeeds made by Bush and company. It is quite long but it really needs to be due to the wealth of failures and misdeeds.