Bush praising Clinton.
I am not believing what I am seeing. The occasion is the unveiling of the Clinton portrait, and Bush is there and having to say nice things about Clinton. Oh, and did I mention that a monkey flew out...
View ArticleSenator Warner response to Abu Griab letter
A few weeks ago, the Senate Armed Services Committee was investigating the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, and they had called 3 Army Generals to testify before the committee. The committee in general...
View ArticlePresidential Debate Schedule.
It came as a surprise to me, but the debate schedule has long been established. Seehttp://www.debates.org/pages/news_031106.html for the press release. I am not seeing the word "tentative" anywhere...
View ArticleZogby: Virginia is now a battleground state....
I was working the phonebank at the recently-opened KE headquarters in Fairfax VA, and we were told that according to Zogby, Virginia is now a battleground...
View ArticleBrooks: How to reinvent the G.O.P.
There is a longish article coming up in the Sunday NYT in the magazine section by David Brooks. It isn't on the web yet, but I wanted to give folks a heads up about it. I will edit the diary later...
View ArticleIraq: It's about the Oil.
It seems that it is generally accepted outside of the United States that the real reason for the war in Iraq had to do with oil, and nothing to do with the war on terror. If you did a poll here on...
View ArticleBush wearing a wire (with poll)?
There have been stories in the news about how Bush might have been wearing a wire in the first debate. The theory is that folks off-camera were feeding him the answers to the questions. This could...
View ArticleATTN KE04: He can run but cannot hide.
Bush used this line last night, and now has started using it in his stump speech. Whenever he does, he gets this smug look on his face like he thinks he said something really clever. Whatever....
View ArticleMXC doing an election 2004 show.
On Spike TV. The idea is that they take some Japanese weird reality type of show, and redo the dialog in a completely different fashion. The teams tonight are the Kerry supporters and the Bush...
View ArticleI canvassed in Ginny's district today.
That wasn't part of the plan when I got out of bed at 5:30 this morning. All I knew was that I would be boarding a bus in downtown Washington DC, and would heading somewhere to canvas - probably...
View ArticleHow are you coping...
I have had many conversations since Tuesday with various people, and I have read a lot of things that people have written here. For a lot of people the emotions are still kind of raw - my feeling is...
View ArticleA culture of lies.
I have been looking for a way to encapsulate what the Republican right really means these days. A frame, if you will. Then I hit on it. "A culture of lies"... More on the flip...
View ArticlePeak Oil hits the New York Times.
[crossposted at EuroTrib]. There is a good article in the NYT this morning. In the magazine section.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/magazine/21OIL.html The author is Peter Maass, who is in the...
View ArticleGerman slapdown of Bush environment policies.
In the Friday WaPo: here My sense is that these sentiments are likely to be common in Europe. I don't know what the practical effect of these statements is likely to be other than to complicate...
View ArticleMy first anti-war protest march...
There may be some here for whom the anti-war protests yesterday were their first. In my case I was at the ellipse in Washington DC, but this march was not the first for me however. My first goes back...
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How about a car that gets 330 mpg!
What if I told you about a car that could get 330 miles/gallon, and cost less than 20K$? A two-seat three-wheel diesel-hybrid that has acceleration and handling similar to that of a Honda Insight?...
View ArticleCNN to air documentary on Peak Oil this weekend.
There is a 1-hour documentary on the subject of Peak Oil that will be airing on CNN this weekend as a part of the "CNN Presents" program. The program title is "We Were Warned", and is hosted by Frank...
View ArticleNext gen Prius to get 94mpg?
At this point we are dealing only with rumors, but here is a place to start looking:http://www.greencarcongress.com/...The UK's AutoExpress reports that Toyota's fuel economy target for the upcoming...
View ArticlePeak Oil, Global Warming & Coal.
I have been long interested in questions of sustainability and the environment, and the global warming problem is one that has concerned me for some time. The question I have had for some time though...
View Article"The Fog of War" on the History Channel at 1AM EDT.
Starting at 9PM Eastern, 8 Central. Repeat at 1AM EDT. This is the academy award winning documentary about Robert McNamara - Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, who played a central role in the Vietnam...
View ArticleColbert worth watching tonight...
I just sat through the taping of tonight's Colbert Report. If you recall, a few weeks ago, Colbert did a bit where he noted all of the interesting things that Kucinich has in his pockets, and he...
View ArticleWaxman to challenge Dingell for cmtee chair.
Power Play Emerges On House Energy PanelIn the first sign of Democratic intraparty strife since the election, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) has told colleagues that he plans to challenge the House's...
View ArticleFed Could Remake Credit Card Regulations
I think most of us are aware of the underhanded way in which credit card issuers manipulate things to screw customers through charging high fees and interest rates. A lot of this is designed to make...
View ArticleVirgil Goode to appear on VA ballot.
Goode news everyone (in my Prof Farnsworth voice)! Virgil Goode will be on the ballot in Virginia.Virgil Goode will stay on Va. ballot after Cuccinelli finishes probeFormer congressman Virgil Goode...
View ArticleGroucho Marx to deliver Republican response to SOTU.
Yeah, I know what you are all saying. He has been dead for years, but in fact Groucho planned for this speech 83 years ago, and cleverly had it recorded it on film so that it would be available for...
View ArticleNew Castle DE estimates COVID cases by analyzing wastewater.
OK, this is unique. An MIT startup has come up with a way to analyze wastewater and estimate the percentage of people in the community with COVID. Measuring the virus concentration in a liter of...
View ArticleTo boldly go where no man has gone before.
We needed a break from the usual politics last night, and NASA provided it. They launched a rocket from Wallops Island Virginia to re-supply the ISS — we watched the stream on my laptop, and about 30...
View ArticleMom in long term care gets Moderna next Wednesday.
My 98 year old mother is in a nursing home, and I got a call today that she will be getting Moderna sometime next Wednesday. Both staff and elders will be getting the vaccine. The main point of the...
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