I don’t agree with this legislation: President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs. The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs. Bush signed it …
Archives for April 2005
Blogads
Lots of blogad space available. Not sure why I can’t seem to sell very many of them- I see tons of ads on sites with far less traffic, and they are prominently displayed. Are my prices out of line? ** Update ** I lowered the price.
Offensive and Stupid, but Not Criminal
This should be the end of this story: At issue is a skit that aired on Randi Rhodes show April 25. As previously reported, the skit about the ongoing debate over Social Security featured a character, purportedly from the American Association of Armed Retired People, saying , “A spoiled child is telling us our Social …
Al Gore
In the comments to this post below discussing Bob Dole’s politiely (albeit one-sided) view of the judicial nominee impasse, a commenter wrote that Boib Dole is a “hatchet-man.” I wonder what that makes Al Gore, who has made careless and an inflammatory rhetoric an art-form: In a speech Wednesday to members of the MoveOn.org Political …
I Don’t Get It, Either
If all these things are so good for America, so good for the Democratic party, and easily passed, why not just bring forward this magical agenda? What are you guys waiting for?
WMD
So there are/were no WMD. I was wrong. The UN was wrong. Every Democratic President, Vice-President, and Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidtate (those who won the nomination- Kucinich doesn;t count- although in retrospect he was right) for the last 16 years was wrong. Regardless, I still think the war in Iraq was the right thing to …
The Right Response
It seems to me that Bob Dole is taking exactly the right tone regarding the so-called nuclear option: I have publicly urged caution in this matter. Amending the Senate rules over the objection of a substantial minority should be the option of last resort. I still hold out hope that the two Senate leaders will …