I've been on kind of a tear against the media lately, so I think it's worth pointing out when a media outlet does it right. KPHO in Phoenix covers SB-1070 -- otherwise known as Arizona's "papers please" law -- and finds out two very important points: Republican election-year fearmongering is wrecking the state's economy by driving away tourism and top people in Governor Brewer's office stand to benefit from from the law, which goes into effect tomorrow. Yeah, it turns out that if top politicians tell you you're going to get your head chopped off if you go to Arizona, people don't want to go to Arizona. I imagine you're as surprised by that fact as I was. And it reminded me of how conservatives echoed Mississippi Gov. Haley ...
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This is big, big, big, for multiple reasons. One solar is actually clean; nuclear power, besides radioactive wastes, has a high CO2 footprint from the massive number of cubic yards of concrete in construction, from the uranium mining, etc. Two, especially given Obama's "nuclear blank check" loan guarantees, with much of that blank check likely going to foreigners, too, solar is cheaper on the government wallet. Then why isn't it getting more boost? Because there's not a lot of deep pockets behind it, for one thing. Even wind power has more, starting with GE.
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 I remember very well when Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti was criticized worldwide for spending millions of dollars on his wedding at a time when poverty, unemployment, and hunger were running rampant in his country. That kind of a display was an obscenity, all things considered.
So is this kind of a display. While it may be true that Bubba is no longer the President, his wife is still a senior official in the Federal Government-and in America today, unemployment, poverty, and even hunger are running rampant. I did not vote for Bubba in 1996 because I thought that he was Reaganesque-he knew how to talk to the common schmuck, but he didn’t really know, or care, how the schmuck got along. Bubba’s embrace of NAFTA, and the ...
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We’ve all had it with them. They took a supermajority in the Senate, and they tied it in knots. Somehow, the election of 2008 wasn’t enough, as it was decided that 39 or 40 Rushpubliscums (with the help of their equally scummy comrades, like Ben(edict) Nelson and Blanche Lincolnocon) would control the business of the entire Senate. Does anyone remember back a few years ago, when Frist was threatening a “nucular option” because he couldn’t push Chimpy’s radical wingnut chopices theough the Senate to the Federal Bench? Compared to now, the Senate was a whirlwind of legislative activity THEN. Then, of course, it wasn’t good enough for the hypocritical Rushpubliscums, who NOW use the exact same tactics to tie up just about EVERY ...
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Damn, I knew Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) didn’t want the peasants to be able to just go to the doctor. We all knew that from what he had to say over a year ago, as we noted then. “This is almost class warfare in order for him to be able to say everyone now has health care. Listen, healthcare is a privilege,” said Wamp. The MSNBC anchor was almost taken aback by the “privilege” remark and asked Wamp to explain. “If you have cancer right now do you see it as a privilege to get some treatment?” “I was just about to say, for some people it’s a right but for everyone frankly it’s not necessarily a right,” he said. That is pretty cut and dried; Zach Wamp just flat-out does not believe that we should all have access to a doctor if ...
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 If the folks over at thirtyfiveeight, the best predictors of who wins elections, are right, Democrats could lose nine Senate seats creating a 50-50 split. If that happens, then Joe Lieberman may get the last laugh and caucus with the Republicans and marble-mouth Mitch McConnell would be majority leader: that would be a real political bomb, hence the picture with Lieberman reprising the role of Slim Pickens, Major 'King' Kong, in the classic Stanley Kubrick movie, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb. (Photo by zulch.) Here are their predictions, about less than 100 days from becoming reality? 
They have the Governor Charlie Crist winning in Florida as an Independent, but remember he is a ...
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 Barack Obama is an illegal alien, Al Franken stole the 2008 Minnesota election for US Senate from Norm Coleman with the illegal votes of felons, " death panels"... I'm constantly amazed by the endless gullibility of wingnuts. It doesn't seem to be a case of how much truth there is to a story, but of how badly they want it to be true. While "too good to be true" is a red flag for most people, the concept of "too bad to be true" is a foreign concept for far too many. I tend to avoid rightwing blogs for two reasons, the first being the best; I don't see any reason to let someone lie to me. But the second reason is that I find the open-mouthed credulousness in the comment threads as infuriating as I do depressing. I'll check out rightwing ...
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 I wrote this background post for my military blog recently. In this BoB entry, I will give a short history of the 1950 Korean war, and explain how it affects perceptions today. I will also give a detailed treatment of how North Korean Special Forces might perform. And I don't believe the North Koreans have a workable nuclear weapon, they faked the tests. In any case, they don't have a reliable way of delivering one. Recently, we have had confirmation that the South Korean corvette Cheonan was sunk on March 26th by a North Korean torpedo. This is the most serious incident perpetrated by North Korea in a long time, perhaps since the Korean war
This has intensified the debate over the presence of American ...
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