Another Reason Why Sen. Clinton Is Wrong For America

& for the Democratic Party, for that matter. While it is true that she & her husband are separate beings, this sort of ingenuousness is at the heart of the ReThug strategy. It's this constant drumbeat to lower taxes while raising "fees", etc. Why wasn't she arguing publicly against her husband's actions in destroying 200 Hoosier jobs? So much for being independent.

The Clinton campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Sound familiar?

Just Plain Evil

As pointed out in a previous post, the neo-cons & the just plain cons (boy, I wish that were true.) are evil, & sometimes I wonder what the hell the point of their evilness is? Here we have Dick "Sick Dick" Cheney out in the field doing "research" on whales -

Another internal document shows that the officials working for the Vice President also raised spurious objections to the science. According to this document, the Vice President's staff "contends that we have no evidence (i.e., hard data) that lowering the speeds of 'large ships' will actually make a difference. NOAA rejected these objections, writing that both a statistical analysis of ship strike records and the peer-reviewed literature justified the final rule. In its response to the objections from the Vice President's staff, NOAA reported that there is "no basis to overturn our previous conclusion that imposing a speed limit on large vessels would be beneficial to whales."

Even When They Are Fired

They are proud of the work they have done. What gets me is that even with the firing, it comes way too late to be in any stretch of any imagination (except, of course, a ReThug imagination) a moment of accountability & justice. This is from Doan's resignation letter.

These accomplishments are made even more enjoyable by the fact that there were lots of people who told us they could never be done.

All I can say is WTF?

Neo-Cons & The Endless War

HTML Mencken writes a great post over at SN! While some of the characters may be new to some, it is the same old song, to steal from the post. & here is another stolen bit:

…which is about the nature of neoconservatism. Unlike traditional conservatives, the neocons aren’t stupid. But like traditional conservatives, they are evil — only much more so. As such, neocons know precisely what kind of political climate they need in order to flourish, and will go great lengths to manipulate the environment accordingly. They need a “long war,” and will ceaselessly agitate for one in times of peace, or inflame and enlarge one that’s already existing.

My emphasis.

Laugh Of The Day

Courtesy of Roy Edroso.

So maybe the real problem is mass production -- in a nobler time, we had to wait for geniuses to laboriously hand-paint our softcore porn, and it was shown in galleries where jacking off was frowned upon.

My emphasis.

More On Giant Squid

Here.

Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across - bigger than a dinner plate - making it the largest animal eye on Earth.

Albert Hofmann, R.I.P.

Far out, man.

This Was Bound To Happen

I wonder how many sports are out in their garages or backyards right now welding train tracks to the front bumpers of their cars? If they get lucky, they will wind up here.

To remedy that, Sanders created an alternative online: The Road Kill Record Book Club.

Condi, Condi, Condi

Please, tell me if I'm wrong, I thought you were the top diplomat for America? I thought you were the best of the best, even if you shopped too much for shoes. Now I find out, however, that you've been played the cuckold by an Iranian general.

This time, Suleimani slipped into the Green Zone to negotiate with Shiite politicians and to ensure that Iraq's final choice was acceptable to Tehran.

In the end, the Iraqis compromised on Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.

Stunned by the security breach, American officials demanded an explanation from their Iraqi allies.

U.S. officials "were upset, but this solved the problem at the time," Iraqi Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi told McClatchy in an interview this month at his Baghdad office. "I think they were pleased on one side, they were unpleased from the other side. Pleased that there was a solution to the standstill situation that we had at that time, but of course, I think, unpleased because he (Suleimani) was in the Green Zone."

Talk about not knowing how to do anything.

FDA

I was listening to the Diane Rehm show today as they talked about bisphenol A, a toxic substance I've blogged about before, see here & here & here & here &, finally, here. They had a guy on from the FDA who kept saying that consumers needed clarity & that the government, via the FDA, was giving them that clarity. Of course, he felt that bisphenol A was perfectly OK, & that citizens should just believe the FDA. What he forgot was that Bu$hCo's FDA could give a rat's ass about the consumer, they are only concerned with the corporations that continue to lie & cheat us. Here is the newest example of the FDA's stellar work.

A new analysis concludes that the Food and Drug Administration approved experiments with artificial blood substitutes even after studies showed that the controversial products posed a clear risk of causing heart attacks and death.

Ah, heck, what's a few death & debilitations when the health of the corporations is at stake?

Interesting

Here's an interesting story from today's LA Times. I see that the man in the story is a retired teacher & is 62 years old. It goes to show what a good retirement can do for a person. It's too bad that Americans are being bullied into later & later retirements. The point of a work life is to retire from it someday, & be healthy & relatively young when the retirement comes.

Sen. Clinton Will Do Anything

Anyhing to win. It gets harder & harder every day to believe this woman is a Democrat. She is embracing every possible evil sonofabitch in the country. Not to mention obliterating Iran. Hillary Strangelove indeed.

From coldH2O's Department Of Doh!

Guantanamo is not a good place. Man, who knew?

...the military justice system has been corrupted by politics and inappropriate influence from senior Pentagon officials.

Wow

Half a ton of Jeez Louise.

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