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Well.
Bush threw out the first ball of the season, and the crowd boohed him loudly. I wonder when the last time was that he was exposed to the public, rather than shielded by his handlers?
A little market correction?
Well, it’s not exactly a market correction, since Bush has decided to bail out the greedy and irresponsible bankers who have scored the most profit on this disaster. In fact, it’s not anything like a market correction at all.
Even during the height of the Savings and Loan debacle, no one would have ever proposed that people who can’t afford to make mortgage payments in the first place should be given mortgages that it will be impossible for them to pay off when payments balloon. “Subprime mortgages” as we know them never existed before. They were illegal to create and market.
So who made them possible? What regulatory agency agreed that this was a good idea? It is what the whole house of cards is built on, right? Well, at best. I would like to hear Alan Greenspan address this one.
Voting rights, anybody?
Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision, because they felt it hindered their ability to vote. For background, Prairie View A&M is one of Texas’ historically Black universities. It has a very different demographic feel than the rest of the county. There has been a long history of dispute over what the students feel is disenfranchisement. There was a lot of outrage in 2006, when students felt they were unfairly denied the right to vote when their registrations somehow did not get processed.
Students decided to hold a march to the courthouse today.
I think that Scrape TV may be some kind of humor website, or it might be a news website with a serious sense of humor. In any case, they have finally asked the obvious question that so many Americans have not dared to voice, perhaps for fear of becoming targets of surveillance and ending up on a no-fly list.
There’s even a quote on the Bush “legacy”, which I’ve always said would be very different from how he’s envisioning it. Bush thinks history will recall him as the greatest president this country has ever had, rather than the corrupt quasi-dictator who has parceled out the country’s wealth piecemeal to his cronies and sold his integrity to the highest bidder. He couldn’t sell his soul, as he has none, although that would seem to make it hard to shave in the morning when you can’t see your reflection in the mirror…
““It will be interesting to see what his legacy will be,” continued Watson. “Will he have a library? Will it have colouring books? I just hope he remembers to leave office.”
So what didn’t the President know, and when didn’t he know it?
December 7, 2007 — During the White House press briefing today, reporters bore into White House Press Secretary Dana Perino over when President Bush was first informed about the CIA’s destruction of videotapes in 2005 that featured agency officials using harsh interrogation tactics. Perino said that Bush had “no recollection of being made aware of the tapes or their destruction before yesterday”.
PERINO: I spoke to the President, and so I will have to defer on the others. But I spoke to the President this morning about this. He has no recollection of being made aware of the tapes or their destruction before yesterday. He was briefed by General Hayden yesterday morning.If what Perino says is true, it means that members of Congress were more informed of the CIA’s activities than the president himself. In his letter to agency employees yesterday, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden stated that “leaders of Congressional oversight committees were fully briefed on the matter.”
You know, I personally do not think they’re focusing on the correct meaning of the sentence. While it’s true that “no recollection of being made aware of the tapes or their destruction before yesterday” could, of course mean that he hadn’t been told. However, nobody in the administration seems to be in the slightest bit concerned that a conspiracy existed to keep this information from the President, and indeed to prevent him from doing his job. Not to mention that heads have surely not rolled.
But it could also mean that they told him but he forgot. Didn’t bother filing it. Nothing sinks in anymore. Not enough healthy brain cells to go around anymore.
Argh…
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Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can’t be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention.
They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig’s denials, including his famous statement, “I am not gay, I never have been gay.” Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure.
Hmm… Didn’t I do a piece on taking personal responsibility for your actions just a few days ago? Now here’s a guy who’s bound and determined to take the Republican party down with him, or so it seems.
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Right about the time it turns out that the Center for Constitutional Rights hopes to ‘flood the Oval Office’ with 25,000 copies of the Constitution (more information on how you can take part in or help sponsor this exercise here), it is revealed that someone in the government cared enough to make a training pamphlet declaring that people who quote the constitution to support themselves should be considered potential terrorists. Video clip
Participate in a research project!
I was browsing through some phone sex newsgroups, placing ads, and I noticed a little advertisement about a research project studying users of adult services.I don’t use these services, I’m just a provider. But my curiosity was piqued. I sent an email to the person who placed the advertisement, and promptly received back a response, which said that yes, they still need hundreds more participants.
It seemed fitting to place this on the front page here, where many visitors land. If you’re one of the people the researcher is looking for, take the survey. Or else. (Just kidding…)
Dear All,
I am a Doctoral Psychology student from a University in Melbourne, Australia researching the psychological characteristics of people who engage in Cybersex activities such as using Adult Chat lines, surfing for porn, erotic e-mailing, web-cam etc. For example, do they experience greater loneliness, sexual anxiety, depression etc if they engage in these activities for longer periods of time?
I am currently looking for anonymous participants to complete my questionnaire. At the end of the questionnaire there are a number of support services that you may contact if you suspect that your Cybersex activities are becoming a problem. The link for the questionnaire is provided below.
Kind regards
Marcus
A new study by Pew Research confirms what many have always believed: Fox News makes you dumb
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