Month: May 2005

Monitoring Air America Radio

BoreAmerica.com monitors Air America so you don’t have to. They linked one of my posts on Al Franken’s lies, showing their good taste and discrimination. I had intended to make Al Franken’s Lies of the Day a regular feature, but it’s too boring because he tells the same lies over and over. This week it’s … Continue reading “Monitoring Air America Radio”

BoreAmerica.com monitors Air America so you don’t have to. They linked one of my posts on Al Franken’s lies, showing their good taste and discrimination.

I had intended to make Al Franken’s Lies of the Day a regular feature, but it’s too boring because he tells the same lies over and over. This week it’s been the filibuster lie every day (“the filibuster has always been used like the Democrats are using it now against judges – the Founding Fathers intended it to be used to stifle the will of the majority, blah blah blah.”)

We did finally catch Franken on a different (if not exactly new) lie today: the Administration (and Rush Limbaugh) duped the people about Saddam’s WMDs. Saddam never had WMDs but Bush/Rush made up this story to justify grabbing his oil, yada yada yada. I have just one thing to say about this: tell it to the Kurds whose gassing was one of the reasons that both the US and the UK called for Saddam’s removal throughout the 90s.

Remember the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998? Franken doesn’t.

Birth announcement

We have a new rose-colored Bubble Tip Anemone (Entamacea quadricolor). Rosie split off a clone yesterday, about a quarter of her former bulk. Mother and clone are resting peacefully side-by-side while Thatcher the evil Gold-Striped Maroon clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus) tries to figure out how to hog both of them. I think I’ll put them on … Continue reading “Birth announcement”

We have a new rose-colored Bubble Tip Anemone (Entamacea quadricolor). Rosie split off a clone yesterday, about a quarter of her former bulk. Mother and clone are resting peacefully side-by-side while Thatcher the evil Gold-Striped Maroon clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus) tries to figure out how to hog both of them. I think I’ll put them on opposite sides of the tank just to drive her nuts.

The clone is on the left side of the rock, and the old mama is on top. That’s Thatcher thugging around. Click on the pitcher for larger view.

Bitch fight

Glenn and Andrew are getting into it. Glenn’s winning, Andrew’s whining like a little girl. This has been going on for a few days now. We’re using first names as it sounds so very Hollywood.

Glenn and Andrew are getting into it. Glenn’s winning, Andrew’s whining like a little girl. This has been going on for a few days now.

We’re using first names as it sounds so very Hollywood.

Those who know him best

George Galloway’s performance art didn’t impress his local paper. The Scotsman has seen it all before: GEORGE Galloway yesterday failed in his attempt to convince a sceptical US Senate investigative committee that he had not profited from oil dealings with Iraq under the UN’s controversial oil-for-food programme. Despite a typically barnstorming performance full of bluster … Continue reading “Those who know him best”

George Galloway’s performance art didn’t impress his local paper. The Scotsman has seen it all before:

GEORGE Galloway yesterday failed in his attempt to convince a sceptical US Senate investigative committee that he had not profited from oil dealings with Iraq under the UN’s controversial oil-for-food programme.

Despite a typically barnstorming performance full of bluster and rhetorical flourishes, the former Glasgow Kelvin MP was pinned down by persistent questioning over his business relationship with Fawaz Zureikat, the chairman of the Mariam Appeal – set up to assist a four-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukaemia.

And it was a Democrat senator, Carl Levin, rather than the Republican committee chairman, Norm Coleman, who gave him the hardest time as Mr Galloway sought to turn the tables on his inquisitors, leaving him no closer to clearing his name than when he took his seat in front of the sub-committee of the Senate’s homeland security and government affairs committee in Washington.

Time and again, Mr Levin questioned him, requesting wearily that he deliver a straight answer to a straight question. But Mr Galloway could, or would not.

The criminal from Glasgow took to screaming and throwing fits about the liberation of Iraq under questioning about the profits he made from Oil-For-Food. This is old tricks for Galloway, who was expelled from the Labour Party for urging British soldiers in Iraq to mutiny.

It’s amazing that this fool (recently elected to parliament on a racist campaign) isn’t in prison.

Why liberals are depressed.

Found this childish and pathetic display on Six Meat Buffet from Huffington’s Toast. Let me be clear that I don’t endorse this sort of thing. No way. I don’t think it’s funny, either. And you shouldn’t look at it too closely. You could get ill. Click for larger image.

Found this childish and pathetic display on Six Meat Buffet from Huffington’s Toast.

Let me be clear that I don’t endorse this sort of thing. No way. I don’t think it’s funny, either. And you shouldn’t look at it too closely. You could get ill.

Click for larger image.

Mayor Villaraigosa

Marc Cooper is all excited about the new mayor of LA: The landslide election of a Spanish-speaking liberal Latino to preside over America’s second largest city carries huge political symbolism especially at a time when the national immigration debate is simmering. There’s just a couple of problems with this. For one, Antonio Villaraigosa doesn’t speak … Continue reading “Mayor Villaraigosa”

Marc Cooper is all excited about the new mayor of LA:

The landslide election of a Spanish-speaking liberal Latino to preside over America’s second largest city carries huge political symbolism especially at a time when the national immigration debate is simmering.

There’s just a couple of problems with this. For one, Antonio Villaraigosa doesn’t speak Spanish. He can say a few words, but George W. Bush’s Spanish is way better than his, so Cooper should be overfuckingjoyed that we have our first Spanish-speaking president.

Second, Villaraigosa is so clueless he has to be somebody’s puppet. As Assembly speaker he once had to ask John Burton in a committee hearing how to contact the Governor to discuss a bill. He left Sacramento knowing no more than before he arrived.

LA is essentially a non-governable entity, but under Antonio’s rule it will become even less governed than before. It’s a sad day for LA.

Free Roger Simon

I’ve re-linked Roger Simon and would like to encourage others to urge him to slam the door on Huffy-Puffy. He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas, and that sort of thing. Huffy-Puffy has basically become Jim Lampley’s blog and the others are just visitors, guest-bloggers, and vassals. Lampley is so deranged he’s … Continue reading “Free Roger Simon”

I’ve re-linked Roger Simon and would like to encourage others to urge him to slam the door on Huffy-Puffy. He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas, and that sort of thing.

Huffy-Puffy has basically become Jim Lampley’s blog and the others are just visitors, guest-bloggers, and vassals. Lampley is so deranged he’s downright amusing. I’ve seen a lot of his sportscasting and while he was always a little bit off I had no idea he was such a basket case until Huffy-Puffy. Here’s an example of Lampley in full conspiratorial meltdown:

Sure there are still disquieting signs in a country where real democracy lies momentarily dormant. Dormant due to right-wing ownership of the national political machinery and the widespread election fraud that has engendered. Dormant due to the capitulation of mainstream media in the face of neoconservative intimidation tactics (see Bill Moyer’s post today about the corruption of editorial independence at PBS). Dormant due to the inherently greater diversity, fragmentation and iconoclasm of liberal as opposed to reactionary thought. Yes, it’s harder for us to get our act together because we’re way less willing to pervert the system for our own ends. But once we’re back on top, we’ll stay there longer, because our still-innocent willingness to really trust democracy will show.

So the left really values diversity of thought and democracy? Really? Is that the lesson of the diversity-sensitive, democracy-affirming mass filibuster of qualified judges?

I didn’t think so.

Al Franken’s Tuesday lies

Franken covered two subjects while I was listening this morning, and lied about both of them. According to Franken, the Newsweek story about US soldiers flushing the entire Koran down a Gitmo toilet was absolutely true. It was previously “reported” other places, and Newsweek only retracted it because of pressure from Bush. An on-line poll … Continue reading “Al Franken’s Tuesday lies”

Franken covered two subjects while I was listening this morning, and lied about both of them. According to Franken, the Newsweek story about US soldiers flushing the entire Koran down a Gitmo toilet was absolutely true. It was previously “reported” other places, and Newsweek only retracted it because of pressure from Bush. An on-line poll at Air America shows 88% of their people agreeing with this spin. Even Eric Alterman says the real story is how thinly-sourced the news is these days, but Al is having none of that.

Al’s working hard on his campaign for Norm Coleman’s seat in the US Senate. He played a long piece of George Galloway’s testimony before the Senate oil-for-food investigative committee on the situation in Iraq today, which in Galloway’s words is a “disaster”. Galloway, as you recall, is the British MP who was caught red-handed taking bribes from Saddam to prop up his government, expelled from the Labour Party, and elected to the Parliament by running a racist campaign against black Jewish woman Oona King in a district with a large Islamic fundamentalist registration.

Galloway’s most flagrant lie is that the British and American troops have stolen $8.8 billion from the Iraqi people since liberation, a claim that Franken endorsed.

Franken claimed that Galloway’s ravings were directed against Coleman, presumably on the basis of his being the committee chair. The FEC should look into Air America’s contributions to the Franken campaign at some point. I don’t know if jail time is in order, but this whole campaigning-by-talk-show deal stinks.

Eugene Volokh is full of crap

I’ve always thought Eugene Volokh was weird. I saw him on a teevee show once where he did a lot of twitching and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he’s got some sort of electronic device implanted in his skull that simulates human thought. He’s posting on Huffy Puffy now along with Diane Keaton … Continue reading “Eugene Volokh is full of crap”

I’ve always thought Eugene Volokh was weird. I saw him on a teevee show once where he did a lot of twitching and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he’s got some sort of electronic device implanted in his skull that simulates human thought. He’s posting on Huffy Puffy now along with Diane Keaton and crazy Jim Lampley so off to the bone pile with him.

These Hollywood people have no perspective.