Archive for February, 2007
Help the next “Decider” push Congress on Global Warming
On March 21st, Al Gore will hand-deliver your message to Washington when I testify at Congressional hearings on the climate crisis.
Al Gore wants to know if you can you commit to finding 10 friends to send a message to Congress demanding immediate action? For details visit:http://algore.com/cards.html
Posted: February 27th, 2007 under Ain't That America, Bushco, Edwards, President Gore, The Big World Out There.
Comments: 14
Time Has Come Today
The other day, The Mrs. came home from work grousing about how several meetings she had scheduled using Microsoft Outlook had disappeared from the master calendar because of a software update for this spring’s change in the start date for Daylight Saving Time.
Did you know there’s been a change in the start date for Daylight […]
Posted: February 27th, 2007 under Ain't That America.
Comments: 6
Mission Accomplished
The Decider has become the Enabler, according to Frank Rich. Here’s one of several money quotes:
“…Michael Scheuer, the former head of the C.I.A. bin Laden unit, told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann last week that the Taliban and Al Qaeda, having regrouped in Afghanistan and Pakistan, “are going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States” […]
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 1
And the winner is… Al Gore
He won in Y2k and they stole it. The Oscar foreshadows victory in ‘08. (Reuters)
Posted: February 25th, 2007 under Ain't That America, Edwards, Hillary, Obama, Pelosi, President Gore, Sir Rudy.
Comments: 17
Devilish Grins and Magical Thinking
Big snowstorm up here this weekend . . . although it wasn’t quite the harbinger of Ragnarok the local TV stations were predicting on Friday night, it disrupted plenty. It cancelled church services across most of southern Wisconsin today, which left the good people of this Christian state to fend for themselves without spiritual guidance. […]
Posted: February 25th, 2007 under Aargh, Ain't That America.
Comments: 8
From Player, to Presenter to President
Day one of the Al Gore campaign kicks off with a night at the Oscars. Holbrooke coming out with a strong statement on the kleptocracy formerly known as “Iraq.” Geffen lobbing some heavy artillery into the Clinton bunker on the eve of the beachhead… “they lie with such ease.” For those who see Geffen and […]
Posted: February 25th, 2007 under Ain't That America, Bushco, Edwards, Hillary, Obama, President Gore.
Comments: none
Praise or blame? What do you think?
From The Wall Street Journal* concerning Barack Obama,
The accomplishment was emblematic of the picture that emerges of the eight years Mr. Obama spent here: of a lawmaker of lofty, liberal rhetoric who nonetheless pragmatically accepted bipartisan compromises that won over foes — and sometimes left supporters dissatisfied.
My question to you is this: Putting aside the […]
Posted: February 24th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 5
Jonesing For A Fight
If you didn’t think the MSM deliriously drools at an Obama/Clinton slapfight, this past week’s hysteria over David Geffin’s anti-HRC remarks and Maureen Dowd’s moist and pantingly catty column should convince you.
George Bush’s wetdream squared infinitely, obliterating chatter about the ratings-crusher in Iraq: Hillary times Obama times Bill times Hollywood times media-predators let loose again […]
Posted: February 23rd, 2007 under Aargh, Hillary, Obama, Pigtards.
Comments: 6
Mother Jones likes Edwards
Interesting in light of polls that show John Edwards doing very well, indeed, in Iowa, now here’s Mother Jones giving him high marks for his performance in Nevada. Edwards has been courting the unions. Could he become the favorite of the economic populists?
Posted: February 23rd, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 4
Lead of the Century
Five hundred or a thousand years from now, historians will be able to get a very clear picture of what mattered most to our society—and perhaps, of why our society collapsed—from the lead sentence of the following news story, which moved on the AP wire this morning. Headline: “Battle over Smith burial has new urgency.” […]
Posted: February 21st, 2007 under Ain't That America.
Comments: 1