Our now-deposed House whip, Mr. Tom DeLay has always made much of his Christianity and specifically of his concern for kids who are neglected, abused, destitute. In fact, his official web site front page has a link titled "All About the Kids" which takes you to a separate page detailing DeLay's love for and activities on behalf of "kids."
So if this concern for children is sincere, he must vote in their interests, right? Consistently. Must strenuously resist legislation that would hurt not just children, but specifically hurt the ones most at risk. Right?
Let's take a look at Mr. DeLay's public persona, and his position on the recently passed House budget reconciliation bill.
This gets boring after a while, but the Mouth of the Lout has struck again. A Michigan television station is reportingthat a statement O'Reilly made on his radio show, again pushing the idea that there is some secular "war on Christmas" appears to have not a speck of truth to it.
Boy howdy, does poor old Diebold ever get a break? More after the usual...
So not only has the Army changed advertising firms for its annual quarter of a billion dollar ad budget, but the Air Force suddenly felt the need to update its mission statement.
Both the timing and the content of the new mission statement trouble me.
Sims Red? Sims Blue? Which do you vote for? More after the break...
I've still got some steam venting from me over the last piece I just did...
Rarely can people imagine how they will look to people in the future. In fact, rare are the people who can imagine that there is even the possibility that the future might view them as anything other than heroic and noble and, most of all, RIGHT.
But lets face it, when we look back at the past, what we mostly see is a series of immense delusions, deceptions and screw-ups, all committed by people blithely unaware at the time that they were anything short of perfect.
So here's an attempt to imagine how the future will view us during "now"--the early part of the 21st century. My Top Ten possible titles of 22nd century texts examining the early part of the 21st century:
A few threads back, yours truly did a pretty mean bit about how neocons are basically worse than parrots, "echoing" the comments and ideas of others, without using their own brains....
In this 21st century, can there really be any doubt that everything--tangible objects, intangible ideas, and anything else that can "exist" in some sense--is a potential product to be shaped, framed, formatted, positioned, and, ultimately, sold to the consumer.
Remember the stories of Army recruiting be down? Really down? Well in 2005 that doesn't mean your national military policies are wrong. Nope. Means you need a new ad agency.
From Army Times:
December 09, 2005
Army to switch ad agencies, By Michelle Tan
Times staff writer
Oh puhleeze. Ann Coulter, the reigning...well, whatever...was about to set loose yet another rightist/fascist/American Taliban tirade and...
