Dr. Murphy has a great post over at FireDogLake about the Politics of Water. What it says, in a nutshell, is that the US is exporting one third of our water footprint as farm subsidized crops, while people pay higher prices for bottled water than for gasoline. And Chicago is going to be one of […]
The slashdotters have done a wonderful job of debunking the Nuclear Threat from the Nuclear Warhead blueprints allegedly found on a laptop computer in Switzerland and owned by so-called nuclear smugglers. They first point out that the story in both the NY Times has some inconsistencies with how things geek actually work. The slashdot article […]
The Washington Post has reported that Bush has ordered expanded Internet network monitoring to stop the stealing of US Government Data by . . . whoever. Of course, we all know where this is going. This is going to be a blanket abrogation of Internet Privacy, along with all the other Rights the Bushies […]
Well, even if Specter voted the right way for the wrong reason, I’m glad he did. The FISA bill was tabled. From Daily Kos earlier today re Specter and FISA; “Specter will vote against cloture because he’s having a hissy fit over his precious amendment not getting due consideration.” Confirmation from Specter’s office via Firedoglake […]
Congress is back from it’s (semi) recess and the FISA bill which includes a telecom immunity clause is soon to be back up for debate. Senator Chris Dodd, my hero for standing up for the Constitution and the Rule of Law right before Christmas, is once again planning to lead the debate and filibuster if […]
Now he wants “us” to invade Iran. I’m sure that will be just as successful as our invasion of Iraq, and by the time we’re done, we’ll have so little armed forces left we’ll be ripe for takeover ourselves.
The Rhetoric is the same. And Big Media should be ashamed of themselves for getting sucked through […]
The Energy Legislation that has been finally hammered out and is due to be pushed through both the Senate and the House is both a success and a failure. It’s about time that Members of Congress realized that just because higher MPG standards for cars might hurt folks in certain voting districts, that overall, for […]
As Congress is finally talking about cutting Iraq purse strings, one of the most compelling reasons to do so are the reports coming out of Iraq from the Government Accountability Office, which tell the story of small arms shipments to Iraq that were meant for Iraq security forces and, because of a lack of oversight […]
I think any of us who have, whether early on or later, realized that we have no business being in Iraq, will realize who feels they do have business being in Iraq, to the tune of billions of dollars of profit, by reading some of the Audit Reports coming out of the Special Inspector General’s […]
Through my reading of the news the last few months and the headlines that have jumped out at me, one underlying thread has emerged in my mind. The US of A is Broken. And if we don’t fix it, then the future is bleak indeed.
When did the initial Crack in the structure of US society […]
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
-Plato
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