Not lovin' that spin that we're in--who calls the shots?

Who calls the shots in the U.S.?  Who supplies the money for the endless stream of spin that makes the folks too dizzy to vote straight?

Come on, you know who.  Just read the following, which requires no further comment whatsoever.

Fscists, Fascists everywhere

As many have noted, the new Republican campaign to paint all dissenters as Fascists or Fascist sympathizers has a few built-in problems.

Load Sixteen Tons, And Waddaya Get?

Like we needed more proof that while Chimpy does his worst impression of a failed water-colorist, the worker in this nation still hasn't gotten a better shake....

The President's stirring and illlogical words on Iraq

All the stops are out now, folks.  The polls have been consistently bad for Republicans as we approach the November election, and the White House political consultants--all 3,000,000 of them, give or take a few--have decided on their last ditch theme and every single one of the players on the WH team is trying to ram it down the public's throat.  The President repeated the theme today in his radio address, using stirring rhetoric that, unfortunately, merely demonstrates what a large con this theme really is.

More Pants, More Fire

Thought they'd get away with it, eh? Seems that ABC is all set to air a "docudrama"....

A poverty of concern about poverty

You may have missed it, but earlier this week the government released their 2005 figures on poverty in America. Still not good. Still mostly of no concern to anyone who "counts" in the country. And the global statistics are even worse.

So here's a rundown on the stats and where they come from.

Quotes of the day

Its a bumper crop....

Pentagon report to Congress less than optimistic about Iraq

Details from the mandatory Pentagon report to Congress on the state of affairs in Iraq became public today.  "Not optimistic" is a tremendous understatement.

Iraq vs WWII, part 2

Updating the previous WTW story comparing the war in Iraq to WWII, note that come December of 2006, Iraq will have lasted as long as the period from Pearl Harbor to the final Japanese surrender.

Hey, what's a $billion among sleazy friends?

Corporate responsibility.  What a concept.  I took a college course devoted to it in the 1970s, which clearly illustrated that this was mostly a contradiction in terms.  And you know it hasn't gotten better since the election of Reagan.  So...how about $1 billion in settlements by major corporations to avoid going to court on various charges of fraud/slime/corruption?