Friday, September 30, 2005 

KANYE WEST - ROSES LYRICS: "To get there we run, we fly, we drive
Coz with my family we know where home is
So instead of sending flowers
We the roses..."

9/30/2005 10:14:00 PM | |

 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: "The Bars Aren't Open That Early": "For the weekend, a great quote here and a comment from Barry Ritholtz about blogging and writing in general."

9/30/2005 06:38:00 PM | |

Thursday, September 29, 2005 

KR Washington Bureau | 09/28/2005 | Military higher-ups get to the bottom of abuse scandals: "Capt. Ian Fishback, a West Point graduate, was a lieutenant in both Afghanistan and Iraq when he became troubled by what he was seeing: American soldiers beating Iraqi detainees until their arms and legs were broken. Death threats. Extreme forced physical exertion. Sleep deprivation. Exposure to the elements. "

9/29/2005 01:04:00 PM | |

 

TPMCafe || Raising Our Game: "DeLay doesn't really matter. What really matters is the system which he has served, and what it has done and is doing to our country."

9/29/2005 12:08:00 PM | |

 

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 25, 2005 - October 01, 2005 Archives

The shakedown racket getting busted up?

9/29/2005 12:01:00 PM | |

 

Arctic Ice Cap Shrank Sharply This Summer, Experts Say - New York Times

9/29/2005 10:02:00 AM | |

 

Fossil Fuels Set to Become Relics, Says Research Group - Yahoo! News

9/29/2005 08:15:00 AM | |

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 

The 'Second' Man - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com: "Sept. 28, 2005 - U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist described by President Bush today as the 'second-most-wanted Al Qaeda leader in Iraq' - was as significant a figure as the Bush administration is claiming."

9/28/2005 06:17:00 PM | |

 

Officer Criticizes Detainee Abuse Inquiry - New York Times: "'I'm convinced this is going in a direction that's not consistent with why we came forward,' Captain Fishback said in a telephone interview from Fort Bragg, N.C., where he is going through Army Special Forces training. 'We came forward because of the larger issue that prisoner abuse is systemic in the Army. I'm concerned this will take a new twist, and they'll try to scapegoat some of the younger soldiers. This is a leadership problem.' "

9/28/2005 03:44:00 PM | |

 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: Compelling Reading....

It is compelling reading. I will have to try and read about this more.

9/28/2005 03:40:00 PM | |

 

TIME.com: Barack Obama Steps (Carefully) Into the Spotlight -- Page 1: "'If an issue of justice or equality is at stake,' he says, 'I will speak out on it.' "

I agree with Alterman, I am totally down with this guy.

Read his book for more.

9/28/2005 03:14:00 PM | |

 

Scientists capture giant squid on camera - Science - MSNBC.com

9/28/2005 08:36:00 AM | |

Monday, September 26, 2005 

Balboa

9/26/2005 11:36:00 AM | |

 

CNN.com - Sheehan arrested in front of White House - Sep 26, 2005: "Sheehan, 48, was the first taken into custody. She stood up and was led to a police vehicle while protesters chanted, 'The whole world is watching.'"

9/26/2005 11:21:00 AM | |

Thursday, September 22, 2005 

It is a cross post today lady and gentleman! Two worlds colliding, but it needs to be said and why not say it twice:

I love my beautiful little angel… she is such a sweetheart. You know what she did for me this weekend? She bought me new socks. God, are they comfy. Nothing like a new pair of socks. It may be a little pitiful that I get so excited for socks, but I am a simple man and they are nice.

She has a beautiful smile people. I gave her $20 the other day just for the smile (I was serious). It’ll meltcha.

She smells like a fresh after rain breeze. I wish I could try to explain it more or give you an example, but, well, this is the internet and what the hell do you expect?

She makes me giggle. And I like that LOST is starting to scare her. Maybe she will actually starting needing me as much as I need her… at least on Wednesdays.

Here we are again at the first day of the rest day of my life. It is so nice to have her by my side.

9/22/2005 04:24:00 PM | |

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 

Rita Swirls Into Category 5 Storm in Gulf - Yahoo! News

Up to a Cat 5 and 350 miles across! Holy @#$%.

9/21/2005 04:19:00 PM | |

 

No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame: "So the prospect of a festival of books seemed wonderful to me. I thought of the opportunity to talk about how to start up an outreach program. I thought of the chance to sell some books, sign some books and meet some of the citizens of Washington, DC. I thought that I could try to find a way, even as your guest, with respect, to speak about my deep feeling that we should not have invaded Iraq, and to declare my belief that the wish to invade another culture and another country--with the resultant loss of life and limb for our brave soldiers, and for the noncombatants in their home terrain--did not come out of our democracy but was instead a decision made 'at the top' and forced on the people by distorted language, and by untruths. I hoped to express the fear that we have begun to live in the shadows of tyranny and religious chauvinism--the opposites of the liberty, tolerance and diversity our nation aspires to. "

9/21/2005 09:05:00 AM | |

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 

Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names - Yahoo! News: "Before the 2005 hurricane season is done, you might read about Hurricane Alpha. "

9/20/2005 08:10:00 AM | |

Monday, September 19, 2005 

Leaders Who Won't Choose - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com: "For all its virtues, the private sector cannot accomplish all this. Wal-Mart and Federal Express cannot devise a national energy policy for the United States. For that and for much else, we need government. We already pay for it. Can somebody help us get our money's worth?"

9/19/2005 10:27:00 AM | |

 

Clinton launches withering attack on Bush on Iraq, Katrina, budget - Yahoo! News: "Clinton added: 'We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense.'"

Bill Clinton is that you?

9/19/2005 08:18:00 AM | |

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 

The Other America - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com: "'I hope we realize that the people of New Orleans weren't just abandoned during the hurricane,' Sen. Barack Obama said last week on the floor of the Senate. 'They were abandoned long ago - to murder and mayhem in the streets, to substandard schools, to dilapidated housing, to inadequate health care, to a pervasive sense of hopelessness.'"

Tried to post this earlier - it is a great read - but blogger was being a tempermental bitch. I love ya though blogger ;)

9/14/2005 07:14:00 PM | |

 

N.C. 'begging' residents to flee Ophelia - Weather News - MSNBC.com

Hello. Again.

9/14/2005 07:13:00 PM | |

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 

KANYE WEST - BRING ME DOWN FEATURING BRANDY LYRICS: "They'll always be haters, that's the way it is
Hata niggas mary hater bitches and have hater kids"

9/13/2005 09:29:00 AM | |

Monday, September 12, 2005 

TomPaine.com - 9/11 And The Sport of God

9/12/2005 04:46:00 PM | |

 

Hello,
I have desperately been waiting for someone to address the larger issue that Anna Quindlen does in her article, ‘Don’t Mess with Mother’. It is an issue very close to my heart and very close I think to us as a world community. I hope that this article starts a larger discussion and movement to truly address how we can be better towards our mother earth and in turn be better towards ourselves and our fellow species. I think there is strong evidence that our global community would like to do more, from the acceptance of recycling to the popularity of hybrids, and it is just about really starting a tough conversation and discussion about what we can do (at the root to my mind is limited control over population levels).

Bravo to Anna and Newsweek for writing and publishing this important piece.

9/12/2005 04:27:00 PM | |

 

Don't Mess With Mother - Newsweek Columnists - MSNBC.com: "But the failure by government, in the midst of a hurricane season forecast early on to be a monstrous one, illustrates once again the lack of a long view. The long view at the moment is not about patching levees, or building houses, or getting oil rigs back up and running, or assigning blame. It's about changing the way we all live now."

Thank god someone is addressing the long view and the issue at the very heart of Katrina and the crisis we are suffering through.

9/12/2005 04:03:00 PM | |

 

Tabloid Tried to Suppress Videotape - Los Angeles Times: "Soon after Arnold Schwarzenegger entered the 2003 recall campaign, a tabloid publisher that was recruiting him as a consultant tried to suppress a risque 1983 Playboy video starring the future governor.

The video, which had first aired years before on the Playboy Channel, shows him grabbing a scantily clad woman and making other sexually suggestive gestures."

9/12/2005 10:12:00 AM | |

Friday, September 09, 2005 

Katrina rings alarms on climate change: World Bank - Yahoo! News: "Hurricane Katrina may serve as a wake-up call on climate change for developing nations, many of which are vulnerable to devastation from global warming, the World Bank's top environmental official said on Thursday."

9/09/2005 10:33:00 AM | |

Thursday, September 08, 2005 

Former secretary of state Powell critical of US response to Katrina - Yahoo! News: "'These are people who dont have credit cards; only one in ten families at that economic level in New Orleans have a car. So it wasn't a racial thing --- but poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor,' he said."

9/08/2005 04:42:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Welcome back, NFL: "The Dr. Gregory House Award for 'Legitimate sleeper that absolutely nobody saw coming'
Because that's the thing about sleepers: Nobody should be able to predict them. Last year, the Chargers came out of nowhere. The year before, Carolina. In 2001, New England and Chicago. When you hear people throwing the word 'sleeper' around for teams like Arizona and Cincy, those are NOT real sleepers. You need to choose someone from this putrid group: Redskins, Giants, Bears, Bucs, Niners, Raiders, Titans, Browns, Bills and Dolphins. I'm telling you, one of those nine teams will make the 2005 playoffs, and everyone is going to say, 'Oh my God, how did that happen????'

Urlacher might finally make 'the leap' from 'that guy in the soup commercial' to 'that guy on the Bears.'
So here's my pick: The Chicago Bears."

Wooooo Hoooooo! Thank you SG even if this does end up being the highlight of the season.

9/08/2005 03:43:00 PM | |

 

Now even dad has tried with the Unc and got no satisfaction. My response:

I think I just threw up in my mouth reading that attachment.

And in regards to communicating on a political level with Unc: It is like going outside and hollaring as loud as you can into the wind -- it will only drain you and achieve nothing. No amount of evidence or reasoned analysis will change his parental like love of George Bush and company. He is too focused, as he wrote me before, on 'towel heads'. It is a sad state, but one so many are trapped in as they shut themselves off to the wonders and horrors and possibilities of the current world around them.

A gentleman from Stanford (a professor) was on Jon Stewart the other night and said, without a doubt scientists consider warming to be happening and generally to be related to human activity especially given the quick change and magnitude of the changes we are seeing. I am sure Dr. Bataille would tell you the same thing. It is a scientific fact as best one can be determined with our amazing world we live on.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=181#more-181

In particular, the available scientific evidence indicates that it is likely that global warming will make - and possibly already is making - those hurricanes that form more destructive than they otherwise would have been.

But the deeper question, as we are of the earth, is what does your heart tell you? There is still a connection there if one is open to it. You ask Unc that and he will breakdown and tell you he cannot think with his heart... I imagine many are like that now - a fundamental disconnect between their mind, body and spirit because it hurts to realize what we are truly doing to our Mother - and to ourselves.

9/08/2005 02:36:00 PM | |

 

Killed by Contempt - New York Times: "What caused that paralysis? President Bush certainly failed his test. After 9/11, all the country really needed from him was a speech. This time it needed action - and he didn't deliver. "

9/08/2005 01:08:00 PM | |

 

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 04, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives: "Now comes this post from Brian Williams, which suggests a general effort to bar reporters from access to many of the key points in the city.
Take a moment to note what's happening here: these are the marks of repressive government, which mixes inefficiency with authoritarianism. The crew that couldn't get key aid on the scene in time last week is coming in in force now. And one of the key missions appears to be cutting off public information about what's happening in the city."

9/08/2005 10:54:00 AM | |

 

Banner Goes Off on Radio Show-Picks Up Where kanye Left Off - www.ezboard.com: "I think Hurricane Katrina has exposed America for what it is. I think it's bigger than black and white. I think it has a lot more to do with rich and poor. We've always known that America is a racially driven country. We front like it's all good, but we know the levels of racism that are in America. I think this is more than just pulling the race card. It shows that America doesn't give a damn about people in the hood, period."

9/08/2005 10:22:00 AM | |

Wednesday, September 07, 2005 

New Orleans catastrophe down to privatisation

9/07/2005 05:18:00 PM | |

 

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why does the US need our money?: "This may be the richest Country, but the poor exist here. If any light can be found from this tragedy, it is that the faces of the poor are being seen. The Country we live in has been concerned about bending over for business, in return the poor are lost. Those who will recover have the resources, those who won't, need the help.
Indra Rose, Los Angeles USA"

9/07/2005 05:12:00 PM | |

 

WORLD VIEWS: The world press weighs in on Katrina and its aftermath: "'Superpower or Third World?' a headline in the Spanish daily Noticias de lava declared, in response to Bush and his highest-level emergency-relief officials' inefficiency and seeming indifference to the plight of the tens of thousands who were left homeless or injured by Katrina. "

9/07/2005 10:50:00 AM | |

 

Composition of a Comet Poses a Puzzle for Scientists - New York Times: "Although comets form at the frigid edges of the solar system, they appear somehow to contain minerals that form only in the presence of liquid water, and at much warmer temperatures, scientists are reporting today."

9/07/2005 10:46:00 AM | |

 

The 'city' of Louisiana - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com: "But now, at least, it is has stopped getting exponentially worse in Mississippi and Alabama and New Orleans and Louisiana (the state, not the city). And, having given our leaders what we know now is the week or so they need to get their act together, that period of editorial silence I mentioned, should come to an end.

No one is suggesting that mayors or governors in the afflicted areas, nor the federal government, should be able to stop hurricanes. Lord knows, no one is suggesting that we should ever prioritize levee improvement for a below-sea-level city, ahead of $454 million worth of trophy bridges for the politicians of Alaska. "

9/07/2005 08:17:00 AM | |

 

FEMA Chief Sent Help Only After Storm Hit - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON - The top U.S. disaster official waited hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he proposed to his boss sending at least 1,000 Homeland Security workers into the region to support rescuers, internal documents show.

Part of the mission, according to the documents obtained by The Associated Press, was to 'convey a positive image' about the government's response for victims."

9/07/2005 08:07:00 AM | |

Tuesday, September 06, 2005 

Legend Rice retires: 'This is a happy day' - NFL - MSNBC.com: "And the NFL may never see anyone like Rice again."

9/06/2005 09:29:00 AM | |

Sunday, September 04, 2005 

White House shifts blame for Katrina response - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

Accountability?? Nah.

9/04/2005 10:50:00 AM | |

Saturday, September 03, 2005 

'My Pet Goat'--The Sequel: "President Bush, in his weekly radio address on Saturday, said: 'In America, we do not abandon our fellow citizens in their hour of need.' But Bush, and his top aides, quite frankly, did.

I was reminded of this today, seeing pictures of Vice President Dick Cheney finally showing up at the White House after riding out the storm-of-the-century in Wyoming. Perhaps he brought back with him a couple dozen trout to throw on the grill for the White House staffers.

His absence, and the president's performance during it, can only add to the rumors that Bush is clueless without the Big Guy at his side. "

9/03/2005 03:58:00 PM | |

 

Kanye West Rips Bush During NBC Concert: "Appearing two-thirds through the program, he claimed 'George Bush doesn't care about black people' and said America is set up 'to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible.'"

Kanye, listening to your CD right now. Great music and great point. Keep it up. Fuck NBC and their bullshit statement afterwards. 'Just one man's opinion' hahahahaha! Yea right fuckers. It is 60%+ of the countries opinion.

9/03/2005 12:00:00 PM | |

Friday, September 02, 2005 

Anderson

9/02/2005 04:16:00 PM | |

 

Deion's Katrina challenge: $1,000 each - NFL - MSNBC.com: "Baltimore Ravens cornerback Deion Sanders on Friday challenged all professional athletes to donate at least $1,000 apiece through payroll deductions to benefit the besieged victims of Hurricane Katrina."

Neon for president.

9/02/2005 02:50:00 PM | |

 

California drivers worried about gouging at the pump / Cost per gallon has jumped 8 cents on average since storm: "'We know that none of our oil and none of our gas comes from the South, so there's no clear explanation for the run-up,' said Michael Shames, executive director of the Utility Consumers' Action Network in San Diego, who called on the California Energy Commission for an investigation.
Many stations in San Diego, he said, had increased prices 15 cents to 25 cents in the past five days.
A separate watchdog group released a report Thursday arguing that oil companies have systematically gouged California for years, a situation that Katrina could worsen. "

9/02/2005 02:23:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Reborn on the Bayou: "Like everyone else, I'm going to pray for these people, send money to the Red Cross, never stop hoping that things turn around. Selfishly, I'm going to keep thinking about the New Orleans that doesn't exist anymore, the city that challenged me in every respect, the city where the Patriots won their first Super Bowl. I loved that place."

In a cruel, interesting twist of life I never got to see New Orleans. A place I have been excited to visit all my adult life got pulled away from me at the last minute. I was at the airport at 6am with ticket in hand and hotel suite waiting at the Hilton when a freakish snow storm (it was mid April) descended on Denver and ended all hope of getting to New Orleans. So back to my house I went to try and patch things up with Angel.

This was 4 months ago. I hope to one day see that historic city still, though I do have my doubts just like the Sports Guy. Mother Nature has taken a few things into her own hands now...

9/02/2005 02:15:00 PM | |

 

Bush tours stricken states; says relief falls short - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com: "'It's as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the worst kind of weapon you can imagine,' the president said."

Ah yes, Mother Nature is like that when she has been abused eh?

9/02/2005 11:00:00 AM | |

 

Crosswalk.com - God ''Unhappy'' With Hurricane Response, Congressman Says: "Press reports on Friday said President Bush would not touch the ground in New Orleans but would survey the damage from the air, something that his many critics may use against him in the days ahead."

And they should.

9/02/2005 10:28:00 AM | |

 

Officials: Saudis gave warning of London attack - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com

How many of these terrorist attacks are we going to know about yet say nothing until afterwards?

How many natural disasters are we going to know were inevitable yet we did nothing to stop them?

HOW MANY?

9/02/2005 09:57:00 AM | |

Thursday, September 01, 2005 

Bush warns looters, urges Americans conserve gas - Yahoo! News: "Asked in an interview on ABC's 'Good Morning America' if U.S. oil companies should forfeit profits during the crisis, Bush said instead American corporations should contribute cash to hurricane relief funds.

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, seized on that comment. He said that while Bush was 'asking ordinary Americans to do more, he ought to show some real leadership, and call on his friends in Big Oil to join in the sacrifice and stop gouging American families at the gas pump.'"

9/01/2005 04:17:00 PM | |

 

Daily Kos: Jack Cafferty on CNN

9/01/2005 03:43:00 PM | |

 

Cries for help spread across New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com: "'This is a national disgrace,' said Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans' emergency operations. 'FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control,' Ebbert said. 'We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.'"

9/01/2005 02:50:00 PM | |

 

Thank you for your post TCR. I couldn't agree more especially with the point you hit on, specifically that Bush doensn't seem to want to be President anymore.

I see this too.

I see it not only in his face, but Schwarzenegger's face and others. I can't help but think back to the designer/scientist in iRobot who was trapped by his own creation.

To me these gentlemen probably were once very principled and had very good ideas but slowly the machine that is behind them (the machine that created them in this case) takes more and more of that personal integrity and humanity away from them so that they have to change from saying that CO2 is problem to not even recognizing a problem. They give more and more of themselves and their beliefs until it isn't even George Bush anymore. Just ghostly puppets.

Perhaps the face of the machine is best epitomized by Cheney, but even he does not have full control as evidenced by the gay issue he, in his own way, spoke against.

Power and money and established political/corporate machines are taking away not only individual men's souls, but starting to chip away at our nation's soul. Let us change this.

9/01/2005 02:46:00 PM | |

 

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Apes 'extinct in a generation': "Some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation, a new assessment concludes. "

9/01/2005 11:18:00 AM | |

 

Bush gives new reason for Iraq war - The Boston Globe: "President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists."

Interesting times..... and an interesting day.

9/01/2005 09:36:00 AM | |

 

Waiting for a Leader - New York Times: "George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed."

9/01/2005 08:21:00 AM | |

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