Archive for April, 2007

One more thing: is it just me or was it disingenuous for Bush to rush over to VT and make a speech regretting the untimely death of so many people. This is the man who has never, ever, properly eulogized any of the military people who have died in his war in Iraq. … »

The news out of Detroit confirms it: for the first time since 1931 General Motors is not the world’s largest car maker. Toyota is. The change has been inevitable for some time and was greeted without much fanfare in most parts of the country. Couple that news with the recent report… »

I didn’t write about it last week because I am sick or the American attitude towards guns. The country’s cowboy past has it hog tied and blindfolded. Yes the guy was a nutcase and was liable to go off the deep end sometime. But America’s complete inability to come to terms with… »

So what’s new about that? Well I suppose the news is that at least people are now getting their views aired. The controversy over pat Tillman’s death is an example. Here’s the New York Time’s report: Panel Hears About Falsehoods in 2 Wartime Incidents
The news is not that the Pentagon lied after… »

Here is an example of how screwed up this scandal is. I have linked to a sample available over at Talking Points Memo:The TPM DOCUMENT COLLECTION – Scrawled Notes About Motivations for Firings
So here is someone’s [Monic Goodling's?] scribbled notes about the reasons the US Attorneys were fired. Lots of jottings and what… »

Different, but the same. Now the White House wants us to believe that the missing e-mails from 2002-2004 [the dates seem to move around every time one of their spokesfolks opens his or her mouth] went missing because of a poorly managed and/or executed transition from the old Lotus Notes system to the newer… »

Ok this story keeps on giving:
According to an organization called CREW [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] the White House may have “lost” more than the e-mails they ‘fessed up to today. It turns out that during the Plamegate investigations the Special Prosecutor ran into trouble trying to get at the facts in… »