Not many links for you today. Gotta head out early and get some work done on my car. New radiator. Seems the one that was put in after my accident last year has developed a leak.
Have a couple good NYT op-ed peices about our being misled into war, one about the tax cut screweing the poor, Halliburton gettign fat and rich off no-bid contracts, Paul Wolfowitz admits WMD was just an excuse for Iraq war and a new Radiohead album (only sortapolitical I suppose. ) Everyone have a swell weeeknd!
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Have a BUNCH of links today, a few real juicy ones too. We’ll look at lies about the tax cuts, Iran, lies about Iraq, and a shining example of what Democrats on the national stage should be doing. So let’s get to it.
First up, I think ALL of the Democrats on the national stage - in congress, running for President, anything - shoudl take a look at what the Democrats did in Texas and realize that to be a real opposition party you actually have to fight back and not kiss Bush’s ass all the time.
When 51 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives left for Oklahoma earlier this month to derail a Republican redistricting plan, they did something that - for Democrats these days - seems radical: They stood up for themselves and for the democratic process.
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Wow. That title was really pretentious huh? 
More linkage straight from me to you. Thanks to Len, Blah3, Bartcop and a couple others I’m forgetting.
First off, a member of a White House Council for something or other (arts I think) appointed by Bush is making a “Bush on 9/11″ movie [or better put, propaganda film]. Sounds like it’s pretty much being written by the White House. Since I can’t stomach it, go check out Blah3’s coverage. Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl would be so proud of Karl Rove.
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Something TOTALLY non-political. I am geek, hear me roar.
I bought Enter The Matrix for my Playstation2 yesterday and spent all ngiht playing it. It’s a pretty cool game. I bought the strategy guide too, because it makes “Hacking The Matrix” much much much easier (once you figure out how to decode that part of the guide).
The game is a shooter, camera is a third person kind of view. My BIGGEST complaint about the game is the AWFUL running motion of the character. The arms and legs move straight back and forth really rigidly and it looks quite silly but once you get past that it’s pretty good.
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I took today off. I could have used the day last Thursday and went to Carb Day with people from work, but I decided not to and use it now so I’d have a 4 day weekend. I was going to be productive today, but I just woke up an hour ago. heh. Hoo-ray for sleeping in late. Hope you all had a good weekend.
Anyway, got some things to do but wanted to leave some links for all my loyal readers. Found a bunch of good ones over at Bartcop among a couple other sites. So here goes.
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(Note: Much of this writing was prompted by an email from my grandmother after she found and read my site. I’ll try my best to address any concerns she had expressed in that email)
It’s Memorial Day. A day we should express our thanks and admiration to the men and women who have died to protect our country. I’ll do my best to write what I’m feeling.
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Heyyy everyone. You know what time it is. It’s time for Friday Political Links! hoo-ray. Let’s see, the economy is still in shambles, everyone is still confused about what actually happened to Jessica Lynch, Robert Byrd is still my hero in the Senate, Bill O’Reilly is still a liar and so much more. Let’s get on with the links…
First off, was looking through my stats yesterday and it turns out I had a visitor from the Defense Information Systems Agency, a part of the Department of Defense. I wonder if I’m a part of the Total Information Awareness database.. ooops.. make that Terrorist Information Awareness database. See, just changing the name makes it SO MUCH BETTER.
Let’s take a look at the Bush Economy. Atrios has a great excerpt from a story in a Dallas Newspaper. I’ll link to Atrios though since you have to sign up to read the article ont eh newspaper’s site. Turns out that a bunch of ex-upper middle class folks are turning to charity in the downturn to subsidize their country club dues and $4,000 a month mortgages, among other things. Wonder how many of those people voted for W?
There’s a wonderful article in The American Prospect about Bush’s economy and alot of the similarities to Herbert Hoover leading up to the Great Depression.
We seem to be in a slow 1929 right now: Wages decline slightly (by 1.5 percent over the past year for workers at the median income level), workweeks grow shorter (to 34 hours, the lowest level since the government started measuring workweeks in 1964), health-insurance premiums and co-payments grow more costly, and factories don’t run at full speed. (In fact, they’re running at the lowest level of capacity since 1983.) Growth creeps along (rising at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the first three months of 2003) but productivity grows faster (at nearly 2.5 percent). America can increase its output by 2.5 percent, therefore, without hiring more workers. To hire more workers, growth has to outpace productivity. It’s not.
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“Naturally the common people don’t want war. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is to tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Look in the comments for the answer.
If you look down the left side you’ll see the Iraq Body Count. As of writing this the Iraq Body Count, a minimum and maximum estimate of the number of civilian Iraqi casualties caused by the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of the country stands at between 4849 and 6457 civillian deaths. Is that what America is about?
Even IF the lie that Iraq was involved in 9/11 (which there has been NO proof and intelligence experts the world over have said is highly unlikely), we’ve now killed anywhere from 1800 to 3400 more civilians than were killed on 9/11, and that doesnt’ count the civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Is that what America is about?
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How come
this doesn’t surprise me one bit?
One day before Democrats ended their boycott of the Texas House last week, the Texas Department of Public Safety ordered the destruction of all records and photos gathered in the search for them, documents obtained Tuesday show.
*sigh*