Here’s what Sandy has been waiting for since Bush v. Gore. Today the Senate, in full costume and ceremony, confirms Sammy Alito to the Supreme Court.
I think we can consider Kerry’s call for a filibuster to be the final nail in his coffin. It’s reminiscent of Gore throwing his support behind Howard Dean - the last bullet fired by a liberal too deep in the jungle to make it out alive.
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Here’s absolute proof that Bush writes his own headlines in the Washington Post!
(below is a snapshot in case they choses [sic] to correct it)
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I have two concerns with Donovan’s grievance:
"How dare they produce a system intended to ensure that life-saving medicine is denied to people who I’m not having sex with?"
My concerns, alas, are of a grammatical nature. I believe we may correct the pronoun and relocate the preposition as follows, "…with whom I am not having sex."
But, it is after midnight and I have my doubts.
I suppose I ought to have been more concerned with Donovan boinking his cousin for benefits…. not sure what that’s aboot (as they say in Canada).
Sorry, it’s after midnight and I’m off my meds.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has forced powerful and fabulously wealthy companies to stop contaminating Earth and its inhabitants with chemicals that may cause cancer.
The chemicals are in the bodies of 95% of Americans. The agreement will "virtually" eliminate these chemicals from consumer products by the year 2015, according to the Washington Post.
Now 2015 is a long way away, and all of the current executives at DuPont may be comfortably retired by then for all we know. But it’s still a commitment.
Here’s the part I don’t get:
"The science is still coming in on PFOA, but the concern is there," said Susan B. Hazen, acting assistant administrator of EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. "This is the right thing to do for our health and our environment."
Switch gears for a minute. Even if you accept the Bush administration’s argument that the science is not yet in on "global warming". Doesn’t Bush agree that there is "concern there"?
What exactly is the guideline for determining when something is "the right thing to do for our health and our environment" when the "science is still coming in"?
I don’t believe that the science isn’t in on Global Warming. I’m just pointing out the arbitrary and capricious use of the argument by Bush, Inc.
I wish the Bush administration would stop giving reasons for the things it does. Their reasoning is exactly like the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Bush v. Gore: our logic here cannot be applied to anything else because nothing else, by definition, is exactly this same thing.
That’s why you can invade Iraq for reasons that apply to ten other countries that you didn’t invade.
That’s why Americans can be wiretapped without a warrant because it takes too long to get a warrant, while in 2002,
The Bush administration rejected a 2002 Senate proposal that would have made it easier for FBI agents to obtain surveillance warrants in terrorism cases, concluding that the system was working well and that it would likely be unconstitutional to lower the legal standard.
It’s why all investigations of failures, tragedies, and scandals are either stacked up front with Republican control guaranteed (9/11 investigation), required to produce a predefined conclusion (2004 Election), or blocked by "Executive Privilege."
And it’s why the EPA acts properly when it comes to teflon and not when it comes to clean air.
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Recently, the mutual butt-scratching relationship between the U.S. and Cuban-American politicians resulted in too-dirty finger-nails for the Bush Administration.
Reversing course and granting permission only after Cuba agreed to donate proceeds to victims of Hurricane Katrina, was undoubtedly another small victory for Cuba. It is being celebrated, I’m sure, around government water-coolers the world over. The world loves it when a small country makes the U.S. look dumb.
The initial rejection of permission for Cuba to play in America was ignorant and amateurish. Everyone knows that, in America, sports trump politics. Everyone also knows that the kid that exercises the "it’s my ball" privilege makes no friends.
What everyone isn’t aware of is the outrageous, offensive, reprehensible, and disgusting spectacle that is the typical Cuban-American politician. [Full disclosure: I'm Cuban-American]
Reuters gives a shining example:
Anti-Castro exiles in Miami were disappointed the Bush administration had allowed Cuba to play in the United States.Cuban-American congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican, said Castro would use the tournament for propaganda purposes and called on Cuban players to defect.
“I hope that the Cuban players will use this opportunity to escape totalitarianism and reach freedom in the U.S.,” he said in statement.
You wish that, Lincoln… is that right? Hey, Cubans are "freedom-loving people", why not kidnap the sons of bitches and send them to Gitmo?
Why didn’t you just wish out loud that the mothers of the Cuban players not be able to see their children’s games because of bad television reception?
It wouldn’t surprise me one loaf of Cuban bread if Castro makes Elian a bat boy just to parade him around Cuban-Americans, i.e., the people that tried to forcibly separate him from his father.
Elian certainly looks happy and healthy. I bet he eats well… just like the baseball players do. It’s the rest of the people that have a hard time.
Most Americans don’t see that because their oppressive government doesn’t let them travel to Cuba at all.
Cuban-Americans have to wait three years instead of one to see their relatives in Cuba because of the Republican/Cuban-American butt-scratch machine. And even then, America doesn’t let us go there with enough money to help our families put food on the table. If you’re Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, or Russian, you can send home all the money your relatives might need. Cuban-Americans are too politically powerful to do the same.
About $240 of the $300 we’re permitted by America to send to relatives in Cuba actually gets to them. The rest goes to Western Union and Fidel. Want to guess how much of that $60 goes to Hurricane Katrina victims?
America keeps my aunt and uncle in Cuba, both in their 70’s, from visiting us in the United States.
This week, America denied the mother of my friend’s pregnant wife a visa to come help her daughter through her first childbirth. I guess they thought she was going to abandon her two other adolescent children to escape South America and "reach freedom in the U.S.".
Cuba is totalitarian. But from America’s beacon hand glows no world-wide welcome.
…except for baseball players.
We’ll take your baseball players.
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First, Donovan destroys my "effectiveness" argument in a private discussion (unfortunately, it being private, I can’t link to it yet. I’ll update this with a link if we make it public).
Then, wjs shows my carefully crafted scenario to be completely ridiculous.
Finally, BrianR smells a kill and takes his own shot.
Well… you won’t have nick to kick around anymore…. I’m admitting defeat.
Will the next person that wants to argue that the death penalty is an effective crime deterrent please jump in?
Ride ‘em up to the hangin’ tree and serve ‘em coffee, ladies! Nick is high-tailing it into the "No" camp!
And if someone ever points a gun at me and my kids I’m gonna pray….
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The Washington Post says Alito will be confirmed when the full Senate takes up…
"Alito is a no-go."
What?
"Alito is a no-go."
Who said that?
"Alito is a no-go."
Oh, shit. It’s happening.
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