Here’s why I wonder if Republicans think the rest of us are stupid: They line up to howl about issues that they think will get them attention, then quietly slink off and do exactly as they please. Case in point: the Republican Congressional leadership are all loudly calling for lower gas prices, energy efficiency, and anything that makes them look like they’re doing something about the problem. So they held a press conference recently at a BP gas station in Washington DC, and Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-IL) showed up in a hydrogen fueled car. Very nice, very…
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Oh, it was only matter of time, but still it’s sweet as candy on the tongue to type the words “Rush Limbaugh Arrested.” I about had convulsions just now when we were watching the tail end of Numb3rs, and a news teaser came up with the news that Rush Limbaugh had been arrested (oops, I did it again). Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In On Fraud Charge In Rx Drug Probe MIAMI, April 28 — Talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh surrendered to authorities Friday on a charge of committing fraud to obtain prescription drugs, concluding an investigation that for more than…
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If you only knew how many fogless shower mirrors we’ve bought over the years, and Chad Everett reminds us of the perfectly simple solution that was… staring my husband David in the face the whole time. That’s right. Spit. I know, it isn’t pretty. It works. When I was learning how to scuba dive, the instructor told us not to buy the de-fogging stuff for our masks because a: it didn’t work very well and b: it cost money. Instead, we should just spit in the mask, then spread it around and rinse. What do you know? It worked. I…
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Unlike ***Dave, we had a ton of young visitors today for Take Your Progeny To Work Day. They started out being taken around on a tour to meet all the team leaders, and then they were in various activities all day. Toward the latter part of the afternoon, however, the rot set in. Their minders had other duties and tasks that needed attention, and eventually most of the boys ended up in the break rooms watching cartoons, while most of the girls wandered back and forth between whereever the activity room was and their mothers’ desks. Can’t help but wonder…
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Oh, happy, happy, joy joy! I am just busting with glee over the spoilers in the link below to the SciFi channel site. It concerns: season 2, which is airing in Britain but won’t air here for a long time, and major characters. I will only say, DO NOT CLICK on the link unless you want to be spoiled about next season, and in particular about one specific episode next season. I’m not even going to hint. Sci Fi Wire — The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel I will just say, though, that I’m a long-time fan, and……
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Salt Lake Tribune – Salt Lake Tribune Home Page The prominent conservative Protestant figures included leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination, as well as the president of conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and a handful of Episcopal bishops. That would be the dissident conservative Episcopal bishops who want to either force the Episcopal church much farther to the right, or completely destroy it, or loot the property (but more likely all of the above). Yeah, they’re not the mainstream. But they are lending a spurious appearance of it to this collection of extremists. And of course, it’s…
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Illinois General Assembly has Impeachment Resolution introduced | ImpeachPAC State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) introduces HJR0125 in the Illinois General Assembly, utilizing the Sec. 603 procedure and calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush! WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature; and WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without…
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Oh, I might just have to have this. Amazon.com: Law and Order: 20th Anniversary Edition: Music: The Crazy 8’s Because the Crazy 8’s were my favorite, favorite, dripping wet with sweat favorite dance/party band in college and after. I was first introduced to their infectious brand of funky saxy ska at a show in… Springfield, OR at a place that was called “Edison’s Bar and Grill.” It was a funky place with books and boyhood memoriabilia that was nailed or glued or screwed down so bar patrons couldn’t swipe it, but it had a big stage and a big dance…
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‘RESPECTFUL’ W. HEARS A HU, while Cheney kept watch from the rear. Safety note: never disturb a sleeping veep. He may awaken suddenly, guns blazing. That’s Rummy over there on the right, looking like he’s pretending not to notice.
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Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored�|�Reuters.com CBS said the CIA’s intelligence source was former Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and that former CIA Director George Tenet delivered the information personally to US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top White House officials in September 2002. They rebuffed the CIA three days later. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy,” the former CIA agent told CBS. US allegations that Saddam had WMD and posed a threat to international security was a main justification…