Warp With Batteries? Close Enough!

Wow. And I mean WOW. Ultra-wow! This is not even funny, as it is absolute proof of what we progressives have known for too long now....

America, the giant power that...can't

America, the superpower.  America the would-be empire.  America where the concepts of "public" and "social" are dirty concepts uttered only by commies, pinkos, and their socialist sympathizers.  America, the preeminent military and nuclear power, the giant power that, unfortunately, can't.

Money Off-Shore?

Check out this from the news.........

The Six Saga: Guess What I Got For My Birthday?

I haven't made a diary entry in a long time, and since some have been asking, thought I'd park it all here....

Cooked books, concealed reports, phony PR; gov't is like private business

For most of my lifetime, there has been a segment of the population that wanted to know "why can't the U.S. government be run like a private business?"  Well my super-capitalist friends, good news!!!!! It damn well is.

Anatomy Of A Disaster

As I recuperate from surgery, it's given me some time to collect some thoughts on many things, among them, well, to understand where I'm going with this, you have to take a short course in flying an airplane...

The new permanent detention facility at Guantanamo

It's a rather odd story, part military news, part media blackout, part public relations event; publicly announced a month ago, yet reported in foreign press sources as new news, and basically ignored by the American media:

The U.S. is building a new, permanent detention camp at Guantanamo, at the very time that the international community calls for closing the Gitmo detention facilities altogether, and despite President Bush's recently announced desire to, maybe, sort of, do just that.

Rove to Ohio Repubs: "it's time to bring it back and do it again in 2006"

When Karl Rove tells $100-a-plate Ohio repubs that "it's time to ...do it again in 2006," I get real worried. Of course the Ohio polls look grim for Repubs, but we know that polls don't mean much in an era when electronic voting machine security resembles firm Swiss cheese.

How's that for a scary thought, huh?

Trade higher (but inadequate) minimum wage for estate tax reduction?

That group of pandering wealth-o-philes known as the Republicans in the House of Representatives has outdone itself this time.

Ohio voter: "this country needs something other than Republicans right now"

A Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch poll on the coming election is more grim news for our cast of Republican radicals.