a multi part series: Why I wouldn't want to be a child in Florida

In my continuing series "I'd hate to be a kid in Florida" comes the
latest:


http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/29/vodka.baby.ap/index.html

I LOVE the Parlimentary system

Such immediate accountability and 6 week election cycles. Awesome


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051129/ts_nm/politics_can_dc

College Football wrap up

I don't blog much about college football although Im a huge fan. In fact, I'm a season ticket holder for the Ducks. But here's some comments:

Reggie Bush should win the Heisman. WHy? because he should have won it last year. Matt Leinhart wasn't even the best player on his team last year let alone in the country. But the DAC screwed up and gave it to Matt. NOw they screwed themselves b/c Leinhart his having an even better year this year and is more deserving than last year, but come on ...if you asked any college coach in the country who'd they LOVE to have on their team, I'd bet 90% would say Bush. Leinhart's good, even great, but Bush is magical. After you ask the coaches, ask the linebackers and cornerbacks what player they would NOT want running at them in the open field...again Bush would win that one.

Sorry Vince, next year

What's the difference between the "Fighting Irish" and the "Fighting Illini". YOu may say nothing, both are names of college sports teams that either denigrate or honor an entire people. But there is a difference, one of those names belongs to Notre Dame. So, they do what they want. They get special TV contracts, an extra 7 spots in every football poll that comes out weekly, they even get a special deal with the BCS. BUT they aren't not held to the same standard when it comes to names that honor/denigrate an entire people. Don't expect the NCAA to be forcing the priests at Notre Dame to be shedding their name anytime soon.

Finally, Please Fiesta Bowl comittee, take the Ducks...

According to Fox News

This one goes along with how George W. Bush has failed his base in almost every single way to this point (fiscally responsible, bringing integrity to the office, a humble superpower etc.): According to the Fox News Report I saw a few hours ago, the illegal Immigrant population is up 30% since 2000. 30% talk about a failure. And this is while we are supposedly protecting ourselves from terrorists and yet we now have 30% MORE illegal immigrants since Bush took over…that’s pathetic.

How the Bushies can support this guy who has delivered NOTHING (except that $300 rebate check a few years ago) on what he promised shows how far zealotry can allow people to depart from reality.

Why don't Cheney and the right wing zealots question HER patriotism?

Nice piece by John Powers

T.O.s suspension upheld, come on you were surprised...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10182233/from/RS.3/

GOP strategy: disparage true heroes then lie about saying it...pathetic

Daily there is evidence that America is really sick of the GOP attack machine

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10169562/from/RS.2/

So, in this case, calling a decorated veteran a coward and attributing those words FALSELY to someone else shows how classless and immoral many in this party really are.

if they were decorated American vets, Cheney could call them "cowards"

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/22/iraq.conference.ap/index.html

Latest Church news

No Gays Allowed

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/22/vatican.gays.ap/index.html

Pedophiles...well that might be ok
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176294,00.html

Even the vatican thinks American zealots are out of line with that "intellegent design" mythology
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176050,00.html
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms,

Will the entire GOP end up in jail?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/politics/21cnd-scanlon.html

I guess if you engage in criminal activity long enough, you'll get caught.

Draft Dodger tones down rhetoric

Must be the calling war heroes "cowards" by people who are draft dodgers isn't polling well.
Regardless, America knows that Vice President Deferment must have a lot of balls to call a decorated, wounded vet's patriotism into question and are sick of these draft dodgers names.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/cheney/index.html

A friend sent me the following article with the subject line:

Glad to see God will now be part of the FDA approval board

My hope is that the zealots keep pushing their agenda b/c they are eventually going to piss of the majority of Americans that BELIEVE in science and technology, and even though they believe in God and attend church they understand the place of religion in their lives. They understand that while God may give them strength, it was science that gave them pills to lower their cholesterol and give them boners.

And a question for Pat Robertson, where exactly in the Bible is the concept of Intelligent Design? His defense of that mythology as coming from God seems pretty heretical to me.

Freedom on the march...again

We replaced one horrible dictator with another. Good job...all for the cost of 2000 American lives and a few hundred billion dollars.

"I saw signs of physical abuse by brutal beating -- one or two cases were
paralyzed, and some cases of skin peeled off various parts of the body," the
official, Hussein Kamal, told CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/15/iraq.main/index.html


"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

Do you think more lying is going to help these numbers?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/14/bush.poll/index.html

"We have a proud record of accomplishment and a positive agenda for the future,"
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Wednesday. "We look forward to continuing to talk about it. I mean, you can get caught up in polls; we
don't. Polls are snapshots in time."

They don't get caught up in polls? That's a lie, otherwise the WH wouldn't be trying to change eveyone's mind about how the adminstration lied about Iraq and sending everyone back to ethics class. A vicious cycle that lying. Lying about how you don't care if people call you a liar just makes more people think you're a liar.

Why does Bush hate veterans?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/12/dems.radio.ap/index.html


I guess maybe if he took his own "military service" seriously he would take seriously the great Americans that served their country honorably.

Jesse turns his sights elsewhere, now that all racial and economic injustice has been fixed

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/nfl/11/13/owens.jackson.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Thanks Jesse, for protecting the interests of one of the highest paid athletes in America from the evil, evil NFL that made him a multi-millionaire. I didn't know that racial and economic injustice had been solved so that you could now devote your time to helping out millionaire assholes.

(I love TO on the field, but you don't try to start fights in the media with your QB, especially the one that has thrown you 20 TDs in a year and a half, even worse to start a fight with a guy you really don't have problem with...McNabb's didn't negotiate your deal with the Eagles YOU DID. Don't worry TO, you can ruin another franchise next year)

As for Jesse, shut up. Defending spoiled multimillionaires is beneath you, or least it used to be.

Bush Lies

Bush is going to challenge the critics of the war and those who say he misled America about the intelligence, but he's going to say he got BAD intelligence (like incompetence in his departments is some sort of excuse). I hope he keeps going on in it b/c more and more evidence of his lies will come out.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/10/iraq.intel/index.html

Spies at the White House

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9978481/

Another campaign?

This time to repair is image as a liar:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/08/Bush.retaliates/index.html

That Social Security road show turned out so well they decided to give it another shot.

George Bush: has done more damage to the GOP than Dems have in 35 years

George Couldn't deliver the Virginia Gov mansion and he didn't help in NJ:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9972632/


Arnie was never competent to be governor, he's done nothing that Gray Davis wouldn't have done (he borrowed more money), hasn't accomplished anything, it's too bad Californian's took this long to realize their error:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20051109/cm_huffpost/010373;_ylt=A86.I1gpXXJDj7AApCr9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

Proving America still accepts science of religous hokum:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9973228/


Bush's coattails extend across the Atlantic:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/09/security.britain.law/index.html

Rice to meet with Iranian spy...

Why is the Sec of State meeting with an Iranian spy and liar in Washington? This man should be in prison, not dining with the administration.

Shameful

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/07/chalabi.us.reut/index.html

God helping to sort out the hypocrites?

When the House voted in early September for a $1.4 billion relief bill for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Rep. John Hostettler (Ind.) was one of 11 Republicans to oppose it.

Yesterday, the congressman, who is facing a tight race next year, and several other Indiana members asked President Bush for money to help victims of another natural disaster -- the tornado that ripped through many areas in his 8th District [...]

More Bush incompetence/lies/disinformation/etc proven

And more Bush errors on Iraq:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1106intelligence06.html

WASHINGTON - In February 2002, the Defense Intelligence Agency questioned the
reliability of an al-Qaida operative whose claims became the basis of Bush
administration claims that terrorists had been trained in chemical and
biological weapons in Iraq, according declassified material released by Sen.
Carl Levin, D-Mich.

I wonder, considering the incompetence of this administration, how they even FOUND Iraq.

Arnie more like Bush every day

Right down the the private audience for those who give him money:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-arnold06.html

A Schwarzenegger aide told the ''Bulworth'' star he was not on the guest list
and did not have the appropriate wristband to get inside.
''You have to have a wristband to listen to the governor?'' Bening asked. ''He represents all of us, right?

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Shameful and Unamerican

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/06/congress.detainees.ap/index.html

Of course, you can always justify torture by “protecting national interests and security”. It’s how Stalin justified the gulags and every two bit despot justifies torture, they are always “enemies of the state” and the torturer is just trying to protect their country. I NEVER thought I’d hear Americans doing the same rationalization. But this is the era of Bush, an era of amorality, pathological secrecy, lying and lack of ethics…torture is just the logical next step.

You’re either for torture or against it. It’s either wrong or it’s not.

Makes me sick.