BIBLE CODE BASHES BUSH! (With Poll)

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 11:59 AM PDT

2006/09/01 · 11:59

The Bible Code is real. Hidden inside the Bible, waiting for discovery from its very beginning, is a complete history of the whole world. Sir Isaac Newton knew it, as did Elijah ben Solomon, the Gaon ("Genius") of Vilna. They spent their adult lives trying to break the Bible Code, but their lifelong work at cracking the code ended in futility because the Code was intended to be 'opened' only in the computer age.

Well, the computer age is upon us, and the Bible Code has been broken. What is it? What does it say? What does it tell us of America? Recent research has conclusively shown that the Bible Code contains some explosive predictions and prophecies about the current Bush Administration. It's bad, people. It's real bad. Read More

Profiles In Couric

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Wednesday August 30, 2006 · 2:00 PM PDT

2006/08/30 · 14:00

Man o man. What is going on here? CBS News used to be a venerable source of the truth. Edward R. Murrow. Walter Cronkite. Robert Trout. Dan Rather. Those were real news reporters and real news anchors. No more. These days, CBS is the American Idol of television newscasters. It tried to be progressive, hiring Katie Couric as network television's first woman solo nightly-newsanchor. But CBS wasn't progressive enough to take her seriously. And she, apparently, isn't ready to take herself seriously. She is, quite literally, afraid to be a woman of substance. Read More

The Gifts That Keep On Giving

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Sunday August 20, 2006 · 9:17 AM PDT

2006/08/20 · 09:17

I want you to go through all the pockets in your clothes closet, today. I want you to lift up the cushions on the sofa. I want you to dig under the car seats. I want you to sift through the lint at the bottom of your handbags. I want you to come up with about 5 bucks in loose change, today, and send it in to one of the 35 Democratic candidates who are running in competitive races.

The most recent (August 16th) Cook's Report lists 35 House seats that are either toss-ups (either party could win) or that are leaning Republican but are by no means assured a Republican victory. It lists another 11 seats that are leaning, but not assured, Democratic. In all, there are 46 campaigns that could really, really use some money from us.

What for you ask?
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More Magical Thinking About Race

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Tuesday July 25, 2006 · 2:07 PM PDT

2006/07/25 · 14:07

I read an interesting diary today, mrsdbrown1's Of Seating Charts, Racism, and Looking in the Mirror. The diary, a sensitive piece on preparing to teach inner-city kids, contained this nugget at its heart: "It's hard in our culture not to hold stereotypes about groups of people with whom we have little or no direct interaction." The diary generated these two responses:

"There is one point that I didn't see [mentioned - the fact that many [African American] kids feel that academic accomplishment is somehow anathema. I know teachers in the Milwaukee school system (one of the most racially segregated in the country) mention this as a significant obstacle to their students' success." And also this:"That was a huge problem among my latino students. Doing well in school was definitely not cool. I had an African American colleague who said that she believed that the students thought that doing well in school equated to selling out."

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We're So Fine, There's No Telling Where The Money Went

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Friday July 21, 2006 · 6:23 PM PDT

2006/07/21 · 18:23

Today's LA Times has an editorial that supports a tantalizing bill, S.2590, which is currently wending its way through Congress. The bill is tantalizing because it is being sponsored by notable pork-buster Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and co-sponsored by, among other strange bedfellows, Barack Obama, Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton, George Allen, and Evan Bayh. The bill is tantalizing because it provides an indispensable tool to maintaining a healthy democracy. The bill is tantalizing because it could be one of the biggest pains in the ass of all time. It's the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. If it's a godsend, and I believe on balance that it is, then truly, god is in the details. If it's a scourge and a curse, then the devil is in the details, too. Here's the 411 ... Read More

Homeland Security: Oh God ...We're All Gonna DIE!

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Wednesday July 12, 2006 · 3:21 PM PDT

2006/07/12 · 15:21

UPDATED to provide a working link to the full report (original link to full report stopped working ...but then, we're talking about DHS, right?) Back in December of 2003, President Bush released a directive -- Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection -- which was basically intended to continue a Clinton Administration policy of getting federal agencies to identify and prioritize America's critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR), in order to protect them from terrorist attacks. The task has fallen to that paragon of preparedness, the Department of Homeland Security.

Well, Here's The Outcome: Old MacDonald's Petting
Zoo ...The Mall at Sears ...The Bean Fest ...Nix's Check Cashing Place... Good Lord! If this is the way DHS keeps tabs on critical infrastructure and makes funding decisions to protect them (and us) from terrorists, then I gotta tell you ... we're not gonna make, folks. We're all gonna die. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) just issued its report critiquing DHS's National Asset Database. A summary of the salient criticisms, after the jump. Read More

The Flag Burning Consolation Prize

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Monday June 26, 2006 · 11:57 AM PDT

2006/06/26 · 11:57

Today's Supreme Court decision in Randall v. Sorrell couldn't have come at a timelier moment. In striking down a Vermont campaign finance law that was intended to limit political corruption and the need to raise huge amounts of cash to mount campaigns Randall took the opportunity to re-affirm its 1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo.

I think it's important for all of us to realize that the Supreme Court's re-affirmation of Buckley today, ties very intimately into the current flag burning amendment debate! Maybe this needn't be a total loss after all. Jump. Read More

Stephen Colbert On N********

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Friday June 23, 2006 · 12:38 PM PDT

2006/06/23 · 12:38

Some people have gotten really upset today, with a diarist who titled his piece something like ..."Trolls: The New Niggers of DailyKos" His diary compared troll-hunters to the Ku Klux Klan, hunting niggers (trolls) down. A lot of people wanted the diary struck, and some have recommended that the diarist be banned. They're saying so, in yet another diary. Which leads us to today's word:

"Bubblegum"

Now, calm down, everybody. Just...take a deep breath. I want you to say the word "nigger" to yourself, out loud, about 100 times: niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigg erniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerni ggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger.

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Keep Telling Yourself: It's Only A Movie...It's Only A Movie...It's Only A Movie

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Thursday June 22, 2006 · 6:12 PM PDT

2006/06/22 · 18:12

Is it just my imagination? Or are the movies getting really, really scary, these days. I mean like ...too scary. Wrong Turn. Wolf Creek. House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. Saw. Chaos, fer pete's sake, which is as vicious a piece of celluloid as anybody should ever be allowed to max out their credits cards to make. Even Open Water. Add to these, remakes of The Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Hills Have Eyes.

The last time scary movies were this scary was back in the '70s. Which got me to thinking. What's going on here? Why are all of these gruesome horror flicks showing up at this particular moment in time? As in the '70s, the zeitgeist is howling boooooo, again, and scaring the shite out of us. But why?

C'mon, everybody, drive on down below the fold. Pull your friends out of the trunk, and crank the ragtop down. Clamp some speakers onto your door, and let's go get some popcorn. It's almost dark, and the movie's about to begin. Read More

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Cover Up

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Saturday June 10, 2006 · 9:00 AM PDT

2006/06/10 · 09:00

Yesterday, in a comment to an open thread, a kossan brought to our attention a fresh and dangerous example of the incompetence of the Bush Administration. And today's New York Times reports on the incident more fully:

A computer hacker stole sensitive information on 1,500 people working for the nuclear-weapons unit of the Energy Department, but neither the theft victims nor high officials were notified for nine months, administration officials acknowledged on Friday at a Congressional hearing.
The theft, at a National Nuclear Security Administration center in Albuquerque, involved names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and information on where the people worked and their security clearances.

Nine months. The theft went unreported for nine freakin' months. This comes right on the heels of the revelation that neither Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson nor the FBI were informed of the theft of computer disks containing personal information on 26.5 million veterans until two weeks after it happened. What the Bush Administration has learned since Bush took office, below the fold. Read More

April 10th deadline to help polar bears: Take Action!

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 4:27 PM PDT

2006/04/06 · 16:27

On April 10th, the Bush administration will finish taking public commentary on whether or not the federal government should protect polar bears. As a result of a lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the feds are considering whether to curb actions that harm polar bear habitat. I received the following message from the NRDC, with a link to the site where you can give your input. Please ... take action on this one, and consider signing up to receive NRDC updates on these and other important environmental take-action issues. Read More

The Hypocrisy of "Ho" v. Wade: Part 1

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Sunday March 12, 2006 · 10:20 AM PST

2006/03/12 · 10:20

Between 1973 and 2002, there have been approximately 46 million induced abortions in America, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an organization that tracks such things. Lately, I've been asking myself some questions about that: Nobody likes abortion, right? Nobody thinks abortion is a good thing. At least, that's the conventional wisdom. So why are there so many of them? Why do women have abortions, anyway? Anti-abortion advocates pretend with all their might that legal, constitutionally protected abortions protect a woman's rights. They pretend with all their might that it's about Roe v. Wade. It's not. The dirty little secret about abortion is that abortion protects men's rights. And as such, abortion, whether legal or not, is not going to go away. Read More

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