* People whose careers hinge on destroying unions will come up with clever anti-union policies when they gain power.
* An administration that is (1) rigidly opposed to climate science, and (2) known to edit the living crap out of any science that it considers unfriendly, edited the crap out of climate-related scientific reports.
Honestly, the only news this week that raised an eyebrow was the now-famous Sullivan email explaining the drop in violence in Iraq. In the absence of political solution, separating everyone with eighteen foot concrete blast walls guarded by American checkpoints only works if we can keep a ton of armed Americans in Iraq forever. We can’t. Oh well.
Silver Owl
Hey aren’t you dead? lol
scarshapedstar
BEAUCHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMP!
TheFountainHead
That is shocking.
In other news, the sun may cause cancer.
Cindrella Ferret
Fascinating. The party of Tort Reform employs attorneys for Science “Reform.” No worries. They also have a political base that is largely filled with the Young Earth Crowd that believes the Universe was created about 1000 years after the Sumerians invented glue. What an idiot I was for paying attention in my freshman Biology class.
toolshed
Thats a pretty damning email. Since, from a numbers standpoint, we have to start pulling out troops during the presidential election next year, 2008 is going to be crazy!
If Bush was a real leader he would level with the American people and say “To end this thing right we need a draft” or he’d admit we fucked up and get them the fuck out of there. But no, hes going to watch this thing turn to REAL shit, REAL quick and watch the clock run out.
Xanthippas
Well…sounds like it’s time for some sandbox demonstrations that illustrate how giant concrete walls separating neighborhoods actually guarantees not only freedom of movement, but also democracy and fresh breath.
Chuck Butcher
Hmmm, anybody follow the Union link? Well, I had a bit to say about it, not particularly complimentary to BushCo.
r€nato
lolz!
Has anyone checked the kerning in her fonts? Her kitchen counters? Rush Limbaugh told me she was a ‘phony mother’ anyway.
Wilfred
This is what ‘quadrillage’ means. It’s more or less what the Israelis adapted from the battle for Algiers and applied in the West Bank – where do you think they got the fucking idea? Ethnic cleansing, walling off neighborhoods, leveling houses of ‘suspected insurgents’, preventive detention (the old apartheid favorite) for anyone you don’t want on the street – all these are the standard tactics of peace-loving liberal democrats when confronted with troublesome imperial subjects, brown Muslims – again.
Can’t do it forever? Well, nothing lasts forever, but how how about 50 years, do you think that’s possible?
cleek
giant concrete wall…hmm… didn’t Germany try something like that once?
jake
Except the Iraqis already objected to concrete walls.
Oh wait, no one in charge cares what they think.
Never mind.
No. Unless we have a draft which would at least provide the amusing spectacle of suddenly former fRighties flocking to anti-war protests.
gypsy howell
…which will be explained away as NOT a complete reversal on the fRightards part because it will be a Demoncrat president calling for the draft. ‘Nuf said.
skip
But who is going to assure that one side gets all the good parts, like our Israeli friends did at Wye River? Where is Dennis “Honest Broker” Ross when we need him?
jcricket
As the camera pulls back outside the house, up into the air and eventually beyond the border of the earth, while you hear the collective screams of the 101st fighting keyboarders when they realize they’re pawns on the losing side of in a global game of Risk.
jenniebee
Ah, yes, Conservative America, where the only real crimes are people with limited means working cooperatively (rich people colluding is still ok), and not waving the flag hard enough.
Take me where the sun’s over the yardarm; I need a drink.