Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans do not trust women.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Come on, man.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Consistently wrong since 2002

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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Economists on Terrorism

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Krugman is a doozy today. I am sure every lefty site will link to it, because KRUGMAN IS FIRED UP. THE LEFT NEEDS TO BE FIRED UP! It isn’t that their ideas many times stink, it is that they are NOT FIRED UP! IF you aren’t protesting everything the GOP does, you are part of the problem! They need to PUT THEIR OUTRAGE TO USE!

At any rate, the title is ‘Dereliction of Duty, ‘ and it goes down hill from their, claiming the administration attitude towards fighting terrorism has ranged from benign neglect to willful inaction. He even breaks out a quote from a former administration official who states:

“They’re making us less secure, not more secure.”

Presumably, this administration official is to be believed, because he is non-partisan and, of course, the most important qualification is that he is attacking a Republican administration. On the other hand, Dick Morris, George Stephanopolous, Gary Aldrich, Floyd Patterson- those guys are all damned liars.

At any rate, have fun at the orgy of Bush bashing this column will create. And remember, Democrats need to get fired up!

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This is No Good

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This is rather disturbing:

The economy has been cool, and so has the spring in much of the country. Nonetheless, the United States is facing its most severe shortage of natural gas in a quarter-century.

More good news. Yippee!

With natural gas promoted as a cleaner-burning fuel than oil or coal, nearly all the electric plants built since 1998 are designed to be fired mainly by gas. So demand is up. And while drilling has increased about 25 percent in the last year, much of it has been confined to old, overworked basins that are not as productive as they once were. Supplies, therefore, have not kept up.

So expand the drilling, guys.

The United States is a large producer of natural gas, second to Russia, and 85 percent of the gas used here comes from domestic wells. But many parts of the country remain off-limits for drilling for environmental reasons.

Gaining access to these areas is a top priority of the energy industry, foreshadowing a more intense struggle between conservationists and natural gas companies. “The sorry thing is that there is gas to be found in this country but we can’t get to it,” said Mr. Allison of Anadarko, the nation’s most active natural gas driller.

Oh yeah- we aren’t allowed to drill anywhere at home. That might ruin views for some mountain bikers or backpackers. Forgot about that.

In the meantime, about the only beneficiaries of the natural gas shortage are companies that can profit from the high prices for the fuel by producing or transporting it in North America. These include huge energy companies like BP, which are considerable gas producers, and a coterie of smaller companies that made a prescient bet on strong demand for natural gas.

Environmentalists- Big Oil’s best friend. Don’t you love the irony? You do have to wonder how they are going to blame this one on Bush, though.

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How Do You Help the Environment?

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Simply by ignoring environmental extremists:

The European Union and the United States agreed today to pool research efforts into hydrogen fuel cells, despite having widely differing views on how the technology will impact on future energy policy.

While the EU views hydrogen-powered fuel cells as a means to harness renewable sources of energy like solar or wind energy, the United States is focusing on ways to extract hydrogen from fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

“This agreement lays out the framework for our two entities to collaborate on a matter important to both the U.S. and the European Union – hydrogen research,” said U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham at a meeting with his European counterparts in Brussels.

Sounds promising, doesn’t it? Hold on and listen to the shrieking:

Jeremy Rifkin, author of a book called The Hydrogen Economy and an adviser to Mr Prodi said Europe’s vision is “incomplete” without the focus on reversing the energy grid. “It’s a glaring omission from the European plan,” Mr Rifkin said, but he added that even without it Europe’s approach to hydrogen is more enlightened than the approach being pursued by the Bush Administration.

Although the United States is spending far more on research into the use of hydrogen, environmentalists including Mr Rifkin accuse it of channeling that money into producers of fossil and nuclear energy. The DoE has earmarked just over $1 billion for a ten-year plan to extract hydrogen from coal, for example.

Yawn. Even positive steps are met with resistance because it isn’t good enough. Shakespeare had it wrong- first we should kill all the activists.

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More French Perfidy

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How France and Germany work to keep the third world countries (excuse me, LDC’s) poor:

The Doha round of trade negotiations is rapidly approaching a crisis. The behavior of some European countries is proving so selfish and shortsighted that key developing countries may soon come to the conclusion that it would be better to walk away from the table than carry on with wrangling over secondary issues while progress on the crucial one of agriculture is sabotaged.

Last week France and Germany cut a side deal that appears to rule out the fundamental reform of European agriculture, without which progress at the World Trade Organization is impossible. The deal aims to stop some subsidy cuts and perpetuate the absence of links between overproduction and the level of subsidies. In return for helping French farmers, Germany will get support on nonfarm issues dear to it.

So much for President Jacques Chirac’s oft-touted concern for the poor world. Having missed an opportunity as host of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Evian to lead Europe away from its annual agricultural subsidies of $50 billion – the biggest single contributor to Third World poverty – France is now stitching up the European Union’s reform plans. In the process, the Europeans are throwing away gains in influence that they expected from the global unpopularity of U.S. policies of preemption and military intervention.

Can we stop pretending that the French are better than other nations and realize that they are ONLY concerned with their own fianancial well-being? Before you get all gung-ho into your French bashing, recognize that we are not much better:

To underscore African anger, President Blaise Compaore Burkina Faso went to the WTO in Geneva last week to plead the case of African cotton farmers. He noted that many African countries opened their markets and ended farm subsidies in response to advice and pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Now the poor but efficient farmers of Benin, Mali and Chad, as well as Burkina Faso, for whom cotton was a key crop, are being ruined by U.S. cotton subsidies.

Cotton subsidies in rich countries are 60 percent higher than the gross domestic product of Burkina Faso, and total farm subsidies six times greater than development aid. And there will be no farm subsidy reform in the United States unless there is also reform in the EU.

In short- free trade is simply a joke in the current rigged international system.

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The Radical RCRBAPP

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I can get behind this group of vandals:

Public artworks are often loathed by the public, but a sculpture in Sydney has aroused an unusual degree of antipathy. A group of self-styled art vigilantes is threatening to destroy the work unless the council dismantles it.

The group, which calls itself the Revolutionary Council for the Removal of Bad Art in Public Places, has set a three-month deadline for the offending sculpture to be whisked away. If the deadline is not met, it says, the work will be defaced or destroyed.

“We have blowtorches, angle grinders and bolt cutters, and we will use them if necessary,” said a spokesman, Dave Jarvoo.

The work, Stones Against The Sky, is made up of seven steel poles crowned by large artificial stones. Sydneysiders call the work, in a plaza in front of an apartment block in King’s Cross, the city’s red-light district, “Poo on Sticks”.

Has anyone seen Tim Blair recently?

(via Drudge)

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