Jun - 25th
Bush’s EPA
Posted at 2:15 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
This is an impeachable offense in my book... that is, when the EPA becomes an accessory to the oil cartel instead of working to protect the environment.
Over the past five days, [senior E.P.A.] officials said, the White House successfully put pressure on the E.P.A. to eliminate large sections of the original analysis that supported regulation, [...]
Jun - 14th
Home Depot Waste
Posted at 5:20 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I stopped in the big box Home Depot near my house for some marking paint, and as expected, the receipt was literally larger than my purchase...
Apr - 30th
Gas Tax Ruse
Posted at 1:20 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I wanted to opine on this silly temporary repeal of the federal gas tax idea that is being sold by Hillary Clinton and John McCain. It makes little to no sense. In fact, it will end up being detrimental to our economy. It is quite the opposite of taxpayer relief.
Clinton and McCain suggest that the [...]
Apr - 22nd
Nothing To See Here
Posted at 10:53 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I thoroughly enjoy the argument made by the Justice Department defending the former EPA Administrator's liability over saying that the air was fine to breathe in-and-around lower Manhattan immediately following the events of nine-eleven, "that holding the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency liable would set a dangerous precedent in future disasters because public [...]
Apr - 3rd
Midmorning Politoon
Posted at 10:15 am | Filed Under Politoons
Toles on another Bush legacy...
Image: Washington Post
Dec - 21st
In the News
Posted at 9:46 am | Filed Under In the News
It has been too long.
- Tom Tancredo, the most racist of the GOP contenders (and that is saying something), has decided to drop-out of the race. I guess polling at 0.05% is a bit discouraging.
- The EPA administrator, which -- in the Bush White House -- has become something of an impish position, disregarded the [...]
Dec - 14th
Seeing The Light
Posted at 9:59 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Al Gore sees the light at the end of the tunnel, not just on global warming action, but for all of America, the end of the Bush presidency... "My country's been responsible for obstructing the process [on global warming]. Over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere where it is [...]
Nov - 23rd
In the News
Posted at 2:29 pm | Filed Under In the News
- An NFL franchise in Toronto would mean the end of the Buffalo Bills.
- The word on Fred Thompson before he jumped into the race was that he's lazy. Well, it's been confirmed. "[Thompson's] own aides and advisers acknowledge privately that there are days when he seems disinterested in running for president at all."
- Bush [...]
Oct - 17th
In the News… the 2008 GOP Nomination.
Posted at 4:15 pm | Filed Under In the News
- Rudy Giuliani, GOP frontrunner for president, circa 1996: "I'm not the most partisan of Republicans." Hmm, that's what I thought, but now he's claiming to be all crazy and shit.
- The ghosts of the 2000 Supreme Court decision continue to haunt... In 2002 [Al Gore] warned that if we invaded Iraq, 'the resulting chaos [...]
Sep - 20th
In the News
Posted at 10:14 am | Filed Under In the News
- A bill that would allow the children of illegal aliens that have excelled in high school to be exempt from deportation if they go to college is being considered in the Senate. This is what we are waiting for, sensible immigration policy. Alas, the right are calling it "amnesty." Amnesty is "an act [...]
Aug - 29th
In the News
Posted at 9:23 am | Filed Under In the News
- I understand John Edwards' point -- it is important to drive fuel-efficient vehicles, carpool, take public transportation -- however, how am I supposed to go camping, or skiing, up in Tahoe without my SUV?
- The long, slow death of Senator Larry Craig's political career is underway. Would it have been a lesser issue if [...]
Aug - 23rd
In the News
Posted at 9:07 am | Filed Under In the News
- John Edwards is using the Rove-Clinton sparring to his advantage, or he is at least trying to. (I'm warming up to Edwards.)
- Fred Thompson -- who is not even in the goddamn race yet -- is taking shots at Rudy Giuliani by "criticizing New York gun laws," which is a weird angle, since as [...]
Aug - 16th
In the News
Posted at 8:41 am | Filed Under In the News
- Not surprising, politicians are fearful of their eventual YouTube moment. Just don't say anything stupid, or do anything uncool.
- Banning smoking in cars with children is a good idea (actually, it is worth the death penalty, in my opinion), however, smokers' rights people are up in arms over the idea... "My premise here is [...]
Aug - 1st
In the News… $1,000,000,000,000.
Posted at 8:36 am | Filed Under In the News
- What was originally supposed to be a weekend-long invasion, with the reconstruction paid exclusively by oil revenues, "the war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over a trillion dollars."
- Impeachment is in order. "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales symbolizes everything that is wrong with the Bush administration: cronyism, incompetence and the culture of corruption."
- Because [...]
Jul - 19th
In the News
Posted at 8:02 am | Filed Under In the News
- A new poll finds that "a majority of Americans think Congress should not continue to fund the war unless a timetable for withdrawal is put in place." I participated in this poll. A little before dinner time, I received a phone call. "What are your feelings on the Iraq war?" asked the poller. "Bush [...]
Jun - 25th
In the News
Posted at 7:34 am | Filed Under In the News
- So powerful, a four-part expose won't even do. Ana Marie Cox highlights the Washington Post series and "the extraordinary and unprecedented role that Dick Cheney has played as Vice President."
- A sign of the Roberts/Alito court... "The Supreme Court sided with developers and the Bush administration Monday in a dispute with environmentalists over protecting [...]
Jun - 11th
In the News
Posted at 9:47 am | Filed Under In the News
- In a big win for environmental clean-up efforts, the Supreme Court ruled that "the federal Superfund law allows lawsuits to recover costs incurred in voluntary cleanups. The Bush administration had argued otherwise."
- The immigration bill is no more. "In general, conservatives thought the compromise was insufficiently strong on border security and too lax on [...]
Jun - 7th
In the News
Posted at 8:50 am | Filed Under In the News
- In continued efforts to get past the "ethical debate" with stem cell research, "researchers have come much closer to a major goal of regenerative medicine, the conversion of a patient’s cells into specialized tissues that might replace those lost to disease." I have a hard time believing that the far right will not come [...]
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