tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61584252012-02-13T23:21:01.988-08:00The MojoWire -- liberal brawlers sound off on the news -- brought to you by Mojohaus, fine journalism, afflicting the comfortable since 1988. Catch the MojoWire live Saturday mornings at www.kuci.org at 8:25 a.m. -- or so -- Pacific Time. <br> <b>PROUDLY SERVING THE SURREALITY-BASED COMMUNITY!</b>van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.comBlogger10701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-13029526244659221132010-05-25T12:52:00.001-07:002010-05-25T12:57:15.061-07:00

This is to announce that the Mojowire has moved... we are now at the mojowire on typepad. Yeah, you may see some ads, and you might even think of clicking through them if there's something there of interest you see... but it will still be the same mojowire you have come to know and love (or perhaps fear and loathe).So come on over and join us at our new digs; and never fear, the old archive will

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-29246296706874593142010-05-24T23:55:00.000-07:002010-05-24T23:57:22.686-07:00

His Rudeness does it again:"The purpose of the Tea Party movement is individualism gone mad, which means "If you fuck off and leave us alone, government, with our god, our guns, our high fructose corn syrup, our Facebook, our shitty jobs and wages, you can go about your business." The Tea Party's "success" is just a clever exploitation of our American nihilism, a march into oblivion, or wheeled

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-74261485016188087912010-05-24T21:38:00.000-07:002010-05-24T21:45:02.361-07:00

Wireheads! Your attention please.It has come to the attention of senior management at their oar stations and the editorial monkeys that there has not been much happening on this blog of late, other than the occasional sage ramblings of one Hebisner Feniktorod, a known degenerate peacenik and social malcontent.There are going to be some fairly radical changes here within the next 30 days. I mean,

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-5490545943933870562010-04-07T10:16:00.000-07:002010-04-07T10:50:14.183-07:00

You have to just love this story:Michael Lewis, the celebrated author of "The Big Short," claims that about 40 or 50 House Republicans skipped a December hearing by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to spend three hours with him talking about the financial crisis. And the lawmakers, who are members of the House Republican book club, were stunningly uninformed about major elements of the

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-1264390049167925662009-12-30T10:24:00.000-08:002009-12-30T10:29:38.896-08:00

This is the smartest piece on Afghanistan military and political issues that I've read in recent memory. There are many memorable paragraphs, such as this one:Meanwhile, Obama's broader strategic argument must not be lost. He has grasped that the foreign policy of the president should not consist in a series of extravagant, brief, Manichaean battles, driven by exaggerated fears, grandiloquent

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-90016032865537041572009-12-22T15:51:00.000-08:002009-12-22T16:10:53.439-08:00

Mike Konzcal tells us about the new Teabagging meme: FDIC is the devil.Visiting home for the holidays, it’s amazing to me how certain groups of friends, who I mostly considered in the generic Republicans/conservatives camp, have been wading deeper into the Ron Paul territory. “Abolish the Fed” is one thing, but what surprised me the most was when I was at a Christmas party several people

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-16789905933933526122009-12-21T13:14:00.000-08:002009-12-21T14:28:48.676-08:00

Megan McCardle, yes that Megan McCardle, actually gets close to something important in a recent post about moral hazard in economic terms. I go to a lot of pro-market think tank events where one speaker or another blames the financial crisis and the current recession on moral hazard, as well as basically everything else that has gone wrong in the last sixty years. I'm afraid I don't see it. The

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-91711075673121378002009-11-29T19:00:00.000-08:002009-11-29T19:04:21.052-08:00

I've got such a long list of things that are pissing me off lately, that I can't even begin to make progress on narrowing down the field of what to rant about. If I covered everything that's currently getting up my nose, I'd be blogging full time until the end of the year. So, screw that. Instead, here, read this fresh horror. That's only the tippy top of a huge pile of steaming crap.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-8350839008721944202009-11-17T09:00:00.000-08:002009-11-17T10:00:53.698-08:00

I haven't watched the Oprah/Sarah lovefest, but I wanted to weigh in on this discussion about Sarah Palin being a 2012 Presidential candidate. I was struck by a desperate statement/plea by David Brooks on ABC news on Sunday claiming that GOP primary voters would never nominate Sarah Palin. You might try whistling louder past that graveyard David...Brooks is wrong of course. GOP voters would

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-8410613185675215632009-10-05T10:37:00.000-07:002009-10-05T10:44:58.721-07:00

Apologies to our sole non-U.S. reader for the parochial cultural reference, but something Atrios posted today needs to be memorialized here. I'm just going to reprint it in whole:Looting For ProfitBuy companies, leverage them, pay yourself a dividend, and then go bankrupt.I think we've finally found the secret phase 2 of the underpants gnomes.Phase 1: Collect UnderpantsPhase 2: Use underpants as

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-67006717855907304232009-09-23T15:07:00.000-07:002009-09-23T15:22:53.262-07:00

The AP tells us that somebody in Kentucky has lynched murdered a census worker:AP source: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on bodyBy DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY (AP) – 46 minutes agoWASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-23453577668887196962009-09-18T11:33:00.000-07:002009-09-18T12:44:23.285-07:00

Blogger doesn't seem to be showing me the archives... but I'd like to note for the record, that I was sounding the alarm about Glenn Beck over four years ago, well before he was a television personality. Back when he was only a second-tier talk-radio host.Seriously, people... when it comes to spotting the potential of second-tier doomful assholes, I have mad skillz. Nevertheless, check out

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-63519008962788537552009-09-14T14:56:00.000-07:002009-09-14T15:01:18.255-07:00

Keep an eye open for the telltale signs.'Know your dopefiend. Your life may depend on it! You will not be able to see his eyes because of tea-shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape-victim. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your bath.''Know your dopefiend.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-55893307754898466852009-09-11T09:48:00.001-07:002009-09-11T09:49:15.560-07:00

It could have been so much worse for you. You could have been overheard saying, "Go fuck yourself," to Senator Leahy.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-16504096239183171542009-09-09T20:45:00.000-07:002009-09-09T21:20:46.210-07:00

Here is the line in the President's speech tonight that signals where the bodies are buried:...I will not back down on the basic principle that if Americans can’t find affordable coverage, we will provide you with a choice.What he should have said:I will not back down on the basic principle that all Americans have a right to coverage they can afford.See the difference?Here's some context in case

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-31743461293552153072009-09-09T16:25:00.000-07:002010-06-12T12:54:36.156-07:00

Well, here's my take on what's happening today before the President addresses Congress re: Health Insurance Reform.The speech to school kids was part of it.Maybe I am reaching here (I can easily see how this could be interpreted like this), but I think the Obama people went old school last week.The key to this is the utter predictability of the wingnut-o-sphere regarding nearly anything the

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-66003910884715883382009-09-08T21:42:00.000-07:002009-09-08T22:04:43.703-07:00

...with probably about d4 damage.Julia, at Sisyphus Shrugged, decided to go looking for the origins of the new wingnut meme-du-jour, i.e. that the executive branch is crawling with time-traveling Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian emperors. She noticed that the Wikipedia page is a relatively recent creation [its opening timestamp coincides with the circulation of this polemic from the wingnut

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-36880546642198750912009-09-08T10:28:00.000-07:002009-09-08T10:39:21.628-07:00

Wednesday night.We will find out whether my cynicism during last year's election was warranted, or if Change in America is really possible without another revolution. We will know, because President Obama will tell us if he can see a way to overcome the institutional failure in the U.S. Senate and deliver effective reform of our health insurance system. If that can't be done, then you can

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-44034319935056349542009-09-04T10:15:00.000-07:002009-09-04T10:30:01.465-07:00

Digby sez This Could Change Everything, and I'm having a hard time arguing otherwise:You’ve probably heard by now that next week the Supreme Court will break up its summer recess to hear argument, for the second time, in Citizens United v. FEC. You may have the sense that this doesn’t happen often and that something important is going on. If so, you’re right and then some.The case involves a film

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-37609169701055763752009-08-28T10:49:00.000-07:002009-08-28T10:58:38.066-07:00

The mighty David Neiwert monitors The Glenn Beck Program so you don't have to watch all of it just to catch the important parts. If, like me, you've been letting others keep an eye on the Hate so you can keep your sanity mostly intact for other uses, then you might want to check in here to see what you've been missing.Obama's 'SS': Glenn Beck sees scary black people[...]Ah, but here's the one

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-62085739928264509042009-08-26T00:09:00.001-07:002009-08-26T11:03:22.079-07:00

Readers interested to see whether I will be able to spit the kind of acid I did recently when Robert Novak's end-of-unlife was announced will probably be disappointed to find that the only truly damning thing I can bring myself to say about Ted Kennedy at this time is that he was a long-time, openly unrepentant U.S. Senator.I trust others on the web and elsewhere will deliver the shellacking of

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-49272887127999850352009-08-25T09:44:00.000-07:002009-08-30T08:44:21.772-07:00

We can add New Jersey to the list of states I want to see launched into the sun [Update: or, at least, I would have if I had seen this article when it was first published almost 40 years ago...]:[...]Inestimable Privilege. In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes' right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes' "high moral and

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-33011398133647706932009-08-23T17:25:00.000-07:002009-08-23T17:54:14.576-07:00

I have family in Weed, California— which is a town not far from Mt. Shasta— and I travel there by automobile from San Francisco several times per year. This story about a health care town hall meeting near Redding is not a surprise to me, but some of you might not be aware of just how deeply damaged the northern California central valley can be.House Rep from northern California says public

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-39914559074401837322009-08-18T14:35:00.000-07:002009-08-18T18:42:53.409-07:00

Now that the shambling undead horror that was Robert Novak has finally been deanimated, it's time to reprint, in whole, the words of The Mighty Billmon so that we might remember him properly.Network of the Living DeadJuly 18, 2005CNN executives announced today that they will not bury the badly decomposed corpse of columnist and on-air personality Robert Novak, despite complaints from producers

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-30074586104480286932009-08-17T18:26:00.000-07:002009-08-17T22:17:40.353-07:00

I'm at my wit's end.First, they removed the end-of-life counseling provisions from the health insurance reform bill because it was important to forget that they were all in support of them until they reliably informed that our White Christian grandmothers would be eaten by space aliens at Area 51 by President Obama's death panels.Then, they shut down the flag@whitehouse.gov email alias because it

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-2440482416445500822009-07-11T22:39:00.000-07:002009-07-11T22:51:12.686-07:00

Suprise!!Via Marcy Wheeler, Radar apparently posted a story about what exactly got James Comey so cranked up about the wireless surveillance program that he was willing to defy both the Vice President and the President by rushing to John Ashcrofts hospital room and had the FBI Director order his detail not to allow him to be removed. And it's oh so special:According to a senior government

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-24493044965849020502009-06-08T14:35:00.000-07:002009-06-08T15:58:46.901-07:00

The terrorist who assassinated Dr. Tiller last weekend has now proclaimed to the Associated Press that he possesses information about other terrorist activity still in the planning stages.[...]Scott Roeder called The Associated Press from the Sedgwick County jail, where he's being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting of Dr. George Tiller one week ago."I

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-88323272145300527612009-06-03T20:15:00.001-07:002009-06-03T20:22:23.360-07:00

That's right, I'm calling a 2012 shot. Jeb will run, and he will be formidable. He is assembling his forces, even now...The cabal has spoken...mojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-52232706263834950552009-06-03T11:17:00.000-07:002009-06-03T11:26:45.627-07:00

Okay, now this is what I'm talking about. From the often very reasonable Talk To Action, we read this:As Christian Newswire just announced four hours ago [prior to the time of the Talk To Action posting —s9], "Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Lou Engle, Ron Luce and others link up this week to inspire people of faith to reclaim the Nation's spiritual foundation." The event will be broadcast over

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-83111838294694646122009-05-31T09:41:00.000-07:002009-05-31T09:48:51.004-07:00

Fuckity fuckity fuck fuckHere's my favorite bit (otherwise it's kind of a long, but really interesting read):"Petraeus’s most vigorous defense came last August from the recently retired three-star general William “Jerry” Boykin—a founding member of the Army’s Delta Force and an ordained minister—during an event held at Fort Bragg to promote his own book, Never Surrender: A Soldier’s Journey to

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-29219704033767602412009-05-28T22:02:00.000-07:002009-05-28T22:16:36.659-07:00

Would somebody please tell me what practical purpose this might serve?Homeland Security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the USBy Brett Winterford 29 May 2009 05:53AMFrom June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of international travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-79209652488462311742009-05-28T12:00:00.000-07:002009-05-28T14:26:06.259-07:00

Today, they trotted out some Ph.D. student to spin a noxious stream of neo-conservative bullshit about— get this— Internet governance. As it happens, I have some professional expertise in Internet engineering, operations and management, with a minor in Internet governance, so the Stupid in question here isn't as easily overlooked with a sigh and a "well, I'll let the experts take this article

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-46477223799187170552009-05-26T18:51:00.000-07:002009-05-27T09:53:44.081-07:00

DREAM BOOGIE, By Langston HughesGood morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and Beating out a --You thinkIt's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a --What did I say?Sure, I'm happy!Take it away!Hey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!It is a warm, bright pleasant evening here in Long

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-42000014851671051342009-05-08T13:38:00.000-07:002009-05-08T13:44:34.176-07:00

Via Digby, comes America's Tough Love Habit at Mother Jones.[...]Americans tend to valorize tough love—at times, even tough love that verges on torture—in prisons, mental hospitals, drug rehabs, and teen boot camps. We aren't squeamish about the psychological aspects of torture. We might even admire them.Thousands of troubled children, for instance, now attend tough "wilderness programs" "

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-9415107414160759192009-05-05T23:21:00.000-07:002009-05-05T23:46:26.169-07:00

Andy Xie at FT.Com explains something over which I've been puzzling for some time.Emerging economies such as China and Russia are calling for alternatives to the dollar as a reserve currency. The trigger is the Federal Reserve’s liberal policy of expanding the money supply to prop up America’s banking system and its over-indebted households. Because the magnitude of the bad assets within the

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-54596110751050785772009-05-03T20:43:00.000-07:002009-05-03T21:11:05.366-07:00

Since we've been getting into the torture issue, I recommend you go over to Laura Rozen's blog and read her latest several posts about the Harman story and how it is becoming a distinct possibility that the recent revival of that story is a battle in the larger war over who is going to get the blame for participating in the creation of the torture state. She goes into some depth on the Harman

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-73985546333130174482009-05-02T09:49:00.000-07:002009-05-02T09:54:08.964-07:00

That's what Bruce Fein implies, and I agree with him.[...]BRUCE FEIN: I would have asked him, since he's agreed that what was done was torture, and that the United States criminal code makes torture a crime. And there's no national security exception, no exception if you get useful information. And because we had impeached, in the House Judiciary Committee, a former President, called Richard

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-39060236624055153452009-04-29T10:34:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:41:40.117-07:00

{conspiracy=on}S9 dropped the other editors a quaint line the other day to perhaps join him in a debate that sprung up on a site where he had successfully captured some Hoover Institute troll decrying some new Math education pedagogy called Everyday Math, or EdM for short.Now, first, a heartfelt aplogy to S9, that by the time I got there, the conversation had gotten into the deep weeds, and sadly

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-48442230762200361962009-04-27T16:04:00.000-07:002009-04-27T16:05:31.958-07:00

Apparently, there are wingnuts who are seriously trying to convince me that torturing people produced intelligence that helped to foil the L.A. Library Tower plot.[...] The memo explains that "information obtained from KSM also led to the capture of Riduan bin Isomuddin, better known as Hambali, and the discovery of the Guraba Cell, a 17-member Jemmah Islamiyah cell tasked with executing the '

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-70370341304544474692009-04-24T10:49:00.000-07:002009-04-24T11:15:11.272-07:00

I think my head will explode at some point very soon.Since early 2003, when news first began surfacing that prisoners of war had been murdered while in the custody of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, I've been watching with growing apprehension as my suspicions about how systematic torture had been ordered and carefully directed from the most senior levels of the U.S. administration were confirmed

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-33254918344606591882009-04-14T14:14:00.000-07:002009-04-14T14:16:57.680-07:00

Are people on the right actually still in the dark about what teabagging refers to? Apparently, David Shuster at CNN is well aware, and has put together the greatest collection of double entedres of 2009. Enjoy your teabagging...

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-83572642109515781002009-01-28T08:13:00.000-08:002009-01-28T08:17:36.606-08:00

From Ta Nehsi Coates:I was always a Warcraft\Total Annihilation\Dark Reign guy. Still this is teh awesome:This course will go in-depth in the theory of how war is conducted within the confines of the game Starcraft. There will be lecture on various aspects of the game, from the viewpoint of pure theory to the more computational aspects of how exactly battles are conducted. Calculus and

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-37380502943139891442009-01-05T10:18:00.000-08:002009-01-05T10:21:58.146-08:00

The Washington Monthly has a nice piece on the Coast Guards ongoing issues with refits and equipment. But the opening line caught my eye:In August, a Coast Guard cutter called Dallas set sail from Crete for the Black Sea..If memory serves, Doc Mojo served on the Dallas in the 1980's when he was a young intergalactic operative for the Grand Illumanatus Conspiracy long may they reign over us all!

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-27186857502874433552009-01-01T10:30:00.000-08:002009-01-01T10:53:06.277-08:00

As someone with at least a passing level of experience with participation in public demonstrations of political dissent, I'm vastly amused by Eva Fairbank's new piece in The New Republic [via dday, at the mighty Digby's place]:The legend was born last August 1. Throughout the $4-per-gallon-gasoline summer, House conservatives had been pestering their Democratic overlords to scrap Congress's

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-67124151580812174402008-12-22T14:51:00.000-08:002008-12-22T14:58:14.433-08:00

One of the main reasons I was skeptical in 2002 that invading Afghanistan would turn out to be a worthwhile application of U.S. military forces is highlighted in this video from the U.K. Grauniad. It was not at all difficult to foresee that Rumsfeld's strategy of outsourcing the war effort to the Northern Alliance would result in an explosion in poppy farming and opium production, with the

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-29688134716388388572008-12-18T10:59:00.001-08:002008-12-18T11:18:45.098-08:00

...is starting to piss me off.People. Can we get a grip? I know you don't like Rick Warren. He's a bigoted homophobe and an apologist for the Torture State. Giving a guy like that another pulpit and more face time with the panopticon is dangerous business. I get that.He is, on the other hand, a leadership figure in a large religious movement. Obama is sending an important message by picking

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-9759512857352474832008-12-13T20:44:00.000-08:002008-12-13T21:32:36.643-08:00

Chris Hayes writes in The Nation about how Barack Obama is supposed to be a pragmatist.In case you haven't heard, Barack Obama is a pragmatist. Everybody agrees on this. Joe Biden, accepting Obama's nod as VP at his unveiling event in Springfield, Illinois, called him a "clear-eyed pragmatist." Describing Obama's rise through Chicago politics, the New York Times stressed his "pragmatic politics,"

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-92127995984434705762008-12-10T14:06:00.000-08:002008-12-10T14:12:32.581-08:00

For those who don't know, tomorrow or the next day, President-elect Obama is expected to name Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy...Read up on Chu and his Nobel-winning low temperature atomic physics research. Here is a guy who really is one of the "Smartest-Guyz-In-The-Room®" who also has the practical political management experience of successfully running one of the two or three most politically

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-36004164178483914522008-12-06T08:08:00.000-08:002008-12-06T08:10:15.086-08:00

The one possible sign of hope is that the Army is rioting...

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-7866942562099069682008-11-30T22:16:00.001-08:002008-11-30T22:20:55.122-08:00

...but, let me say this: our next President is pretty damned smart.Why am I confident enough to say this without qualifications? Listen to the Chairleg Of Truth—It Does Not Lie! There is no more sure sign of personal intelligence than a well-developed sense of comic timing.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-23309852107588071832008-11-17T14:17:00.000-08:002008-11-17T14:37:31.581-08:00

The title above is a phrase your hear quite a bit here in Long Beach, Calinfornia where Mojo and I live. Usually from dog owning goofs while we watch their dogs run out into traffic or scrap with other dogs, all the while with their owners holding the leash they are supposed to attach to their dogs. This plaintive whine was echoing in my head when I read this article by a former right wing talk

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-70873225502677787252008-11-11T09:44:00.000-08:002008-11-11T09:47:11.163-08:00

The Mighty Atrios says that the contested Minnesota race for U.S. Senate between our hero Al Franken and the despicable Norm Coleman has entered the "lawyers, guns and money phase" and that the money goes here.I want to know where to bring the guns.

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... We now return you to your regularly scheduled Democratic Nation, already in progress.mojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-38168041388682748012008-11-04T14:31:00.000-08:002008-11-04T14:33:38.770-08:00

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-25095743887859893052008-11-03T18:22:00.000-08:002008-11-03T18:26:07.605-08:00

Who can resist the compelling case offered by Fafblog to vote for John McCain? A sample:B: Now rural Pennsylvania isn't the most exciting place in the world, but I don't know if I'd call it -MCCAIN: And I will rescue America and, and take her for my demon bride.FB: We really gotta go, John McCain.MCCAIN: We shall reign for ten thousand years.Damn you Fafblog!

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-71047430321584891582008-11-02T20:47:00.000-08:002008-11-02T20:49:57.402-08:00

Via FDL, comes the video above from Danny Elfman's political action committee. Can I just say that I've never felt better about being an admirer of Mr. Elfman? The man is a national treasure.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-33620158431402901252008-11-02T15:19:00.000-08:002008-11-02T15:21:39.759-08:00

Just something to keep in mind as we imagine all the various ways this could go wrong.

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-17231037845272772802008-10-21T16:39:00.000-07:002008-10-21T16:45:35.641-07:00

Billmon speaks you listen...He has managed to coalesce and give voice to a gnawing fear that has been growing in base of my spine for several weeks now as the conservative movement's quest for a one-party state has started to look like it's going to come up short, and in fact take one in the chones for its troubles.Here: "We don't need to hark back to the unfortunate history of a certain Central

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-53411493908165866862008-10-20T11:30:00.000-07:002008-10-20T11:54:21.951-07:00

Someone tell me... when did FactCheck.org get in the tank for the Republicans?News item in the barely readable Newsweek chortling with glee over FactCheck's latest salvo against the Obama campaign, to wit: "In a TV ad and in speeches, Obama is making bogus claims that McCain plans to cut $880 billion from Medicare spending and to reduce benefits.A TV spot says McCain's plan requires "cuts in

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-73002355506914718022008-10-18T21:54:00.000-07:002008-10-18T22:12:40.276-07:00

The LDS church has pulled out the stops in support of Proposition 8. It now looks like the initiative may actually pass, and that would be saddening, because the validity of its amendment to the state constitution will probably be challenged successfully, and then we'll have to sit through yet more rounds of right-wing whining about activist judges.It's important that pro-marriage forces really

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-52158897651785491842008-10-10T07:49:00.000-07:002008-10-10T10:08:11.830-07:00

The Washington Post continues to underwhelm.The End Of American Capitalism?By Anthony FaiolaWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 10, 2008; A01The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism.No, you idiot. That's not the death rattle of American-style capitalism you're hearing. That sound is the last dying gasp of

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-51941279112476877122008-10-08T17:51:00.000-07:002008-10-08T18:08:06.368-07:00

When talking about the propensity of GOP assrags, gasbags and assorted hangers on to drape themselves in the political theater that has become the tragedy of 9/11 when they visit New York, then run off to flyover country to complain about "unAmerican" those liberal elite latte drinkin' city folk are back east, she had this to say:"I just feel like if New York was American enough for Al Qaeda, it

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-59253851113270104122008-10-03T15:07:00.000-07:002008-10-03T15:16:31.928-07:00

The fellows at FiveThirtyEight have been cruising around the battleground states, checking out the ground operations of the campaigns to get some grasp of the state of the ground game to complement their polling anaylsis, (which is excellent). Apparently, despite their stringent attempts to be fair and impartial, the McCain people decided to lock them out from visiting their field offices. They

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-18415902534898981922008-09-30T09:58:00.000-07:002008-09-30T10:19:36.735-07:00

From the execreble* Associated Press:DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The international shipping industry must take on more responsibility to protect vessels against pirate attacks and kidnappings in the dangerous waters of Somalia rather than rely on the U.S. Navy, the commander of the 5th Fleet warned on Monday.Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said the U.S.-led coalition patrolling the Gulf of Aden

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Debra Bowen says we ought to be using open source code in our voting machines. You know? It's refreshing to find out that the candidate to whom you gave the most money the last election actually managed to win... but it totally rocks when that candidate then goes out and does exactly the right thing after she gets into office.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-55109619311534156312008-09-29T13:02:00.000-07:002008-09-29T13:04:03.919-07:00

Consider this excerpt of dialogue from Animal House (1978):D-Day: Hey, quit your blubberin'. When I get through with this baby you won't even recognize it. Otter: Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You fucked up - you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it! Maybe we can help. Flounder: [crying] That's easy for you to say! What am I going to tell Fred? Otter:

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-43096579390791297782008-09-29T11:17:00.000-07:002008-09-29T11:38:50.234-07:00

Interesting news items...1. Fannie/Freddie Subpoenaed in Probe of Possible Wrongdoing2. McJackelope's Chief Wrangler Rick Davis Still Tied to Old Fannie/Freddie Lobbying FirmSo for those playing along at home, I guess since Rick Davis was Fannie/Freddie's main bag man on the Hill during the worst of the apparent excesses, and still makes his money with partner David Manafort from this, one would

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-69325382781575782772008-09-29T00:16:00.000-07:002008-09-29T00:29:00.981-07:00

Synthesizing the various takes from the econ bloggers I read, it seems to me like the bailout bill is A) gonna pass, B) not suck as bad as the original Paulsen "plan" did, C) at best, prevent another Great Depression from happening, and D) at worst, delay the real reforms needed to get the financial services sector functioning properly again, i.e. sensible regulations on the shadow banking system

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-26191533127154090962008-09-25T16:51:00.000-07:002008-09-25T17:02:09.197-07:00

You know, I no sooner get done with Sarah Palin, the would be vice-McJackelope, than I am confronted with video of Joe Biden opening his pie hole off-leash...Here is the horrrrribleness..."Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence, is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicate with people [...] this is how we can fix this," Biden said. ""

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-52911061933329457982008-09-25T14:31:00.000-07:002008-09-25T16:59:32.212-07:00

Ladies and Gentlefreeks... I think we have found the all time emeritus leader and inaugural Hall of Fame inductee for Stoopidist Things Ever Said...Here are the lyrics so you can sing along...COURIC: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia,

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-35865027240701567232008-09-21T19:53:00.001-07:002008-09-21T19:57:20.766-07:00

John Dean thinks Barton Gellman has found it.[...]During this meeting, the Post reports, Cheney turned Armey around on the war issue. Cheney did so by telling the House Majority Leader that he was giving him information that the Administration could not tell the public -- namely (according to Armey), that Iraq had the "'ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear,'

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-62162038983030771532008-09-19T09:57:00.000-07:002008-09-19T10:06:01.027-07:00

I for one welcome our new state-capitalist neo-Leninist overlords, and I'd just like to take this opportunity to state for the record, that— as a dirty fucking hippie Leftist blogger— I may prove to be useful to their plans by helping them convince the proles to continue toiling away in their underground sugar mines.Otherwise, I'm rendered utterly unspeechified by this:SEC intends to temporarily

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-24137826499173566872008-09-18T17:45:00.001-07:002008-09-18T17:52:50.857-07:00

Kevin Carey at the American Prospect pens an insightful piece on how the Dems have squandered Education as a political issue. Along the way, he offers a concise primer on the issues of American education and the sorry condition of the political argument. I strongly recommend you check it out. This stood out to me:American public education does a much better job than many of its conservative

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-68026874993175242082008-09-12T10:13:00.000-07:002008-09-12T10:31:42.353-07:00

You know, eight years ago I would have seen this story and would have thought "You-Are-Shitting-Me!"Now? It's just another day partying like it's 1799. I'll save you the click through... GOP operatives are going to compile lists of foreclosed homes in largely minority neighborhoods in one particularly swing district of Michigan -- itself a so-called "swing state" -- in order to challenge mainly

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-43133048453489670932008-09-05T14:53:00.000-07:002008-09-05T15:36:24.125-07:00

I see where Lynn Westmoreland (R-Neoconfederate States of America) now claims that he didn't know the word uppity is a racially loaded term.Okay, comrades. Short, shameful confession time.Until recently— as in earlier this year— I didn't know that "uppity" is a racially loaded term. Happily, I'm ignorant no longer, and I'm thankful that I didn't make the discovery by using it inappropriately.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-90377113356046277882008-09-05T08:38:00.000-07:002008-09-05T08:49:08.569-07:00

Over at Edge of the American West, SEK decided to peek behind the curtain of the GOP's Sarah Palin driven Triumphalism, and take a look at a critical electoral indicator, Voter registration. The numbers are not very good news for the GOP.Here are a few choice examples in a few Battleground States:Colorado: 13,352 Republicans, 66,516 Democrats, 23,437 IndependentsFlorida: 77,196 Republican,

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-88233632688283280752008-09-03T12:16:00.000-07:002008-09-03T12:25:24.678-07:00

Gov. Sarah Palin... I hereby dub thee:Caribou BarbieYou are a crank among cranks, and the only good thing we can say about you is that you are safely ensconced in the least populated state in the union where you can little harm the rest of us in the lower 48. Please stay there.mojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-23638208523640657972008-08-26T20:17:00.000-07:002008-08-26T20:20:11.280-07:00

You listen!Via Greg Sargent at Talking Point Memo, I see the McCain campaign (a.k.a. the kinder, gentler lynch mob) is ramping up the volume on its guilt-by-association campaign linking Obama to retired Weatherman Bill Ayers -- and dispensing with its false flag operation in the process.From McCain spokesperson Brian Rogers:"The fact that Barack Obama chose to launch his political career at the

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-73208605002921165552008-08-23T09:34:00.000-07:002008-08-23T09:41:27.297-07:00

Obama picks Biden as running mate. The GOP already had the commercials waiting...Please join us here at the Mojowire in welcoming our new geriatric overlord Sen Palpatine McCain.Thanks for nothing Obama...mojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-85417709713232199272008-08-21T08:54:00.000-07:002008-08-21T09:05:35.398-07:00

So the Dem Convention is rolling up on us, and it occured to me we haven't really gotten into the politics or the policy issues very much. I would like to kick off a series of posts on the election by linking to this article by David Leonhardt of the New York Times on Obama's economic policy and idelogical point of view. The article is not only insightful on Obama's economic perspective, but

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-90727738677331131212008-08-17T08:01:00.000-07:002008-08-17T08:06:07.538-07:00

Via Cab Drollery, we learn about prisoner number 650 at the infamous Salt Pit."We now know the screams came from a woman who has been held in Bagram for some years. And she is Prisoner No. 650," Ridley disclosed at a recent Press conference in Pakistan. And I strongly suspect that Prisoner No. 650 is none other than Dr Aafia Siddiqui. It is quite possible that her captors decided to end her

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-49612080700058438242008-08-13T12:55:00.000-07:002008-08-13T12:57:02.809-07:00

... is that it took the GOP shitbird machine this long to do thismojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-48660263292990164282008-08-06T12:15:00.001-07:002008-08-06T12:19:18.251-07:00

Paris Hilton has redeemed herself somewhat in my eyes with this: See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or DieGreg Sargent over at Comrade Joshua's bunker makes a good point about the pathetic nature of the GOP mockery machine this time around that allows Paris Hilton of all people to tee off on the Jackelope McCain.mojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-10632526927845294902008-08-05T08:51:00.001-07:002008-08-05T08:59:25.885-07:00

This is just beyond pricelessKnights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope The heirs of the Knights Templar have launched a legal battle in Spain to force the Pope to restore the reputation of the disgraced order which was accused of heresy and dissolved seven centuries ago. Read the rest.Maybe descendents of Roman Legionaires can sue descendents of Visigoths and Vandals for damages and

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Via Atrios... it's Billmon. That would be The Mighty Billmon to us benighted wankers on the hinterlands of Blogotopia...Don't worry, Billmon. You'll be able to quit again after the campaign is over. Maybe it'll take for good next time.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-61124911135816168602008-07-30T12:20:00.000-07:002008-07-30T12:23:00.706-07:00

The McCain campaign finally began going where we all knew the GOP would eventually go with a black candidate..Look out Red State, it's time to hide the white womens..:It's only marginally about celebrity. This is about young white girls and black men. Let racism ring...!A**holes...

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-74335021267271972702008-07-30T08:53:00.001-07:002008-12-11T21:03:55.830-08:00

So now they have started shooting."Gunfire erupted Sunday during the children's performance at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, which authorities said Jim D. Adkisson intentionally targeted because of its congregation's liberal policies. A four-page letter found in Adkisson's SUV indicated he picked the church because, the police chief said, 'he hated the liberal movement.'"Of

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-17971737052450584132008-07-29T19:28:00.000-07:002008-07-29T19:42:34.383-07:00

Consider this from the CarpetBagger Report:[...]Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s chief economic adviser, told Slate, “[McCain] has certainly I’m sure said things in town halls that don’t jibe perfectly with his written plan. But that doesn’t mean it’s official.”Got that? If we want to better understand John McCain’s economic policies, we should overlook what John McCain says about his economic

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-22133454494773643292008-07-25T20:49:00.000-07:002008-07-25T20:51:06.737-07:00

I hear the unmistakable sound of rats fucking.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-612263633426519612008-07-24T15:10:00.000-07:002008-07-24T15:15:13.065-07:00

Oh Canada, which is where this story gets the proper headline, as opposed to here in the United States, where the extensibility of the feature enhancements make for streamlining the core competencies of news organizations more extensive and competently, featureful...By Randall MikkelsenWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress should explicitly declare a state of armed conflict with al Qaeda to make clear

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-47706480953245127052008-07-24T14:44:00.001-07:002008-07-24T14:51:57.188-07:00

For those of you unfamiliar with it, Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert is a brilliant book about the history of water policy in the West, particularly California. Micheal O'Hare at The Reality Based Community points out however, that the state of water issues in Ca has changed since 1986 when the book was published, and that water policy geeks would be well advised to get a little current on how

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-10405132325398352722008-07-20T18:10:00.000-07:002008-07-20T18:21:45.163-07:00

Over at the Lake, Dr. Murphy serves up a round of medical horror that makes me clutch my head like a stunned monkey.For at least two years, the Nashville PD have been recklessly endangering citizens by using emergency medical personnel to forcibly inject Versed -- a powerful prescription medication with side effects including agitation and confusion -- into agitated, confused people. This

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-43358534903560746962008-07-08T14:25:00.001-07:002008-07-08T14:25:57.208-07:00

It does not lie!

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-89967965742471969372008-07-08T09:30:00.000-07:002008-07-08T09:35:53.896-07:00

Remind me again why I should feel hopeful that Democrats are interested in restoring the rule of law.I have firm confirmation that Nancy Pelosi is urging the Judiciary committee NOT to go forward with contempt against Rove.Congressman John Conyers and the Judiciary staff are battling for it but this has become an infight among dems.Time to burn up the phone lines.Click though and raise hell.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-39036318717936575792008-07-07T10:46:00.000-07:002008-07-07T11:13:47.081-07:00

Kagro X at DailyKos explains the problem.The executive branch shall construe the requirements on the Inspectors General in section 301(b) as advisory in nature, so that the provisions are consistent with the President's constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and to supervise the unitary executive branch."What then?" she says.I'll tell you what happens then... everyone in Congress who

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-74659186356583868102008-07-06T21:38:00.000-07:002008-07-06T21:41:55.656-07:00

It occurs to me that, if the GOP wants to attack Obama on his most perceived strength, i.e. his rhetorical ability, then the appropriate response is to go after McCain likewise, i.e. to attack him on his most perceived strength, i.e. basically to call out McCain as a coward and a fraud. (He is, you know. He is.)Will Democrats do this? Somehow, I very much doubt it.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-12211180799906050562008-06-22T09:59:00.000-07:002008-06-22T10:07:15.837-07:00

Atrios explains why the "do you want a liberal Democrat in the White House to have these powers?" question may not produce the desired effect when you pose it to wingnut freakbots...RegretAs I've written before, Democrats will regret embracing the expansion of executive power because a President Obama will find his administration undone by an "abuse of power" scandal. All of those powers which

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What exactly is Lindsey Graham suggesting here?:Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) vowed Thursday to do everything in his power to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying that, “if necessary,” he would push for a constitutional amendment to modify the decision. Is he actually saying what I think he is saying? That he wants to amend Article II, Section 9 of the

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Okay... it's been a while since we've pulled the breach plug out of the ol' mojowire canon. And I don't think we would be doing it without a good gorrham reason!HR 4279, the Ministry of Truth Authorization Act of 2008 Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 is a hideous piece of legislative sophistry that essentially makes that burned copy of the latest

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via SadlyNo, I read about this adhoc group of "advisors"Now a fixture at Department of Homeland Security science and technology conferences, SIGMA is a loosely affiliated group of science fiction writers who are offering pro bono advice to anyone in government who want their thoughts on how to protect the nation.Don't raise your hopes, its not Ken McCloud or Neil Gaiman. It these frakking jokers

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