According to Think Progress
The Center for Constitutional Rights recently produced an ad called “Rescue the Constitution” that criticizes the Bush administration for “destroying the Constitution” through the use of tactics like renditions and torture. Fox News is refusing to air the ad,
This video Georg Bush is fun (because of its politics) but the main thing that makes it interesting is that it keeps getting yanked. By someone. Don’t ask who, don’t ask dangerous questions.
A sizable fraction of the international business community launched an effort to press for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions yesterday, on the eve of a major round of climate negotiations set to begin Monday in Bali.In an unprecedented show of solidarity, leaders from 150 global companies endorsed the idea of a legally binding framework in a statement published in the Financial Times newspaper.[source]
The idea is, of course, that these businesses recognize that this is gong to have to happen, but no one business can do it unilaterally. There are two reasons for that, which are closely linked. One, it is bad business, the other, that it is illegal.It is bad business to do something that cuts your profit and increases your price (thus decreasing business) unless there is some longer term gain to be had (through investment, for instance). It is illegal if you are a publicly held corporation in the United States to cause your stockholders to lose money with intentional business decisions. Not really illegal in that it is a felony, but in the sense that the CEO who does this can be sued, fired, and lose pay. Continue reading Bush Lets Down Big Business
The Courier Journal is a regular normal every-day newspaper out of Louisville, Kentucky. James K. Willmot is a normal every-day former science teacher at a Goshen Kentucky school. He works in a lab now in Britain, but he’s from Louisville. The following Op Ed in the Courier-Journal by James Willmot should be sobering for anyone living in the readership zone of that paper, or anyone with kids in the area:
Continue reading Mainsttream OpEd Slams Hamm and Creation Museum
Yes, you read that right. Finally, the guy has something to contribute:(you may want to watch only the first minutes or so)O’Reilly’s point is that every American has the responsibility to take it in the butt from George Bush, no matter what he says. Continue reading Good Stuff from Bill O’Reilly
As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.
The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.
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Tip o’ the hat to Pharyngula
well, he got his own name right, at least…I think he also mispronounced “people” …
Asked if he would ever nominate a Muslim for his cabinet, he replied:
“…based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration.”
In a way, I agree. When it comes to Mormons, anyway. This country is just not ready for a minority (Mormon) president.[source]
Tucker Carlson is about to be canceled, according to an unnamed NBC official as reported on Think Progress. All because he made a wise crack that annoyed an NBC executive. Not because he is a numskull or a nitwit. What a shame.Just thought you’d like to kow.
Tax the business owned by the churches.
The latest target for demonizing by right-wing talk radio is an 18-year-old Yup’ik Eskimo woman who traveled to Washington, D.C., this month to tell what global warming is doing to her remote home village of St. Michael, Alaska.Charlee Lockwood spoke of how moose have moved north, berry patches produce less fruit and the catch is declining at her family’s fish camp. “Our culture will die because everyone will have to move someplace and there will be no one to teach them,” she told a House panel.Over about 600 radio stations last week, however, talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh declared that Lockwood’s testimony made him “really want to puke. I just want to throw up.””It’s the Democrats exploiting a young child, ladies and gentlemen, for the advancement of a political issue that will grow the size of government and increase their control over everyone,” Limbaugh declared.Rush, you falsifying, pill-popping gasbag!
This is the kind of story that makes it difficult to remain culturally relativistic. it also makes it hard to look at women who are in purdah walking around in a “free” country like the US and not, in part blame them for compliance.A woman was gang raped in Saudi Arabia. Fourteen times. Seven men are now in jail, convicted of rape and serving sentences up to five years. In Saudi Arabia, I think five years is a lot for violently raping a woman.The woman who was raped, however, was sentenced to be tortured for being in the car of a “strange man.”In this case, the torture would involve 90 lashes. She appealed. The court, because of her appeal, changed the sentence from 90 lashes to 200 lashes. The courts punished the girl because she, allegedly, tried to “aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.” The victim’s lawyer was also punished.Obviously, the Saudis, their government, and their society, are totally fucked. That is my considered anthropological opinion of the matter.But don’t worry. If anything bad threatens Saudi Arabia, the United States is there to protect them with the full strength of our military.