This was a pretty amusing column on Bush hate by the Hammer. I expect the usual suspects will be out there asserting that he really thinks Dean is actually insane, which will be even funnier.
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Go Vote
Make sure you go vote for the Weblog Awards.
Predictably, I am getting my ass handed to me.
For some reason, I am not even on the Playful Primates ballot. Weird.
Drunken Congressmen and the Democratic Frontrunner
More Violence In Iran
This is distressing:
Iranian Supreme Revolutionary Guard forces under the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly killed a 10-year-old boy in the country’s minority Baloch region yesterday, touching off a massive uprising against the Islamic regime countered by a deadly crackdown and imposition of martial law, according to sources on the scene.
Amid burning banks, stores and government offices, at least 30 Baloch protesters are dead and 80 injured in the southeastern city of Saravan near the Pakistani border, said Malek Meerdora, who immigrated to Canada from the city in 1993…
In an unusual display of resistance to the hard-line, cleric-led regime, a crowd set a military jeep on fire and began beating the soldiers, Meerdora said.
Later, at about 1:30 p.m., thousands of Balochs, including many from surrounding cities, began to congregate on the streets in protest.
Revolutionary Guard soldiers opened fire on the crowd, hitting up to 80 people, witnesses claimed.
The entire city and surrounding area is raised up against the Tehran government, Meerdora said, burning down symbols of the regime and attacking Iranian officials.
How can we help these people?
The Disastrous Impact of Bad Data
Move over Bellesiles and Lott, there are some new kids on the block:
Three Maryland researchers have admitted fabricating interviews with teenagers for a study on AIDS prevention that received more than $1 million in federal funds.
Lajuane Woodard, Sheila Blackwell and Khalilah Creek were employed by the University of Maryland at Baltimore’s department of pediatrics as researchers on the study, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The three admitted they made up interviews with teenagers, which they had claimed took place from May to August 2001, for the study on preventing the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The fabrication was first reported in the journal Research USA.
This is so irritating and awful on so many levels I am just going to end this post right here, as I can not adequately describe my anger.
Groan
Here is a prime example why election year politics are so damned irritating. President Bush finally rescinded the hideous steel tariffs that free-traders across the political spectrum loudly denounced. The reaction from the Democratic candidates is essentially– “About time, we are the party that is really shitty on free trade:”
The Democratic candidates vying to unseat President Bush next year quickly seized on his decision Thursday to lift tariffs on steel imports, seeing it as an issue that will give them a political edge in key steel-producing states.
Party strategists said rescinding the tariffs had jeopardized Bush’s standing in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia
Lagging Indicators
The economy is showing saigns of improvement on a number of fronts, as we have discussed before, and here is a little more evidence:
The nation’s unemployment rate slipped to 5.9 percent in November, the lowest level in eight months, but the number of new jobs added fell well short of economists’ expectations.
The Labor Department reported Friday that the rate fell for the fourth straight month, down from 6 percent in October. The last time it was lower was in March, at 5.8 percent.
U.S. companies added 57,000 new jobs in November, boosting payrolls by 328,000 during the past four months following a half-year hiring drought.
But economists had predicted that about 150,000 new jobs would be added in November, and are looking for monthly payroll gains of 200,000 to 300,000 to significantly lower the unemployment rate and sustain a labor market recovery.
Keep your fingers crossed.
*** Update ***
Max Speaks.
Bill Hobbs speaks.
Dean Esmay speaks.
Steve Verdon speaks.
The CalPundit speaks.