• Hot Off The Presses

    The Minuteman Caravan

    BBC NEWS | Americas | Drive for strict US immigrant law The Minuteman people interest me, because very often when they are quoted, the surnames of the spokespeople are Hispanic. Of course, they’re probably native born Latinos and Latinas, or at least naturalized citizens. They’re pretty successful at getting their pictures in the paper doing what they do, but not so successful with the gathering the massive crowds of people to rallies in support of their cause. The caravan will leave Los Angeles on Wednesday, where it plans to highlight unemployment in the African-American community. It says the problem is…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Hastert Redux

    Here’s an even better visual on Speaker Hastert’s cynical press conference at a BP station: arrives in a hydrogen cell-powered car, departs in same, switches cars around the corner to the typical black SUV (one of fourteen, no doubt). Thank you, Speaker Hastert, for your visible support of environmental concerns, and your unwavering loyalty of the industries that make this country great. Via Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print | Blog Archive ? Dennis Hastert, the Photo-Op Environmentalist. What About You? Technorati Tags: Gas Rebate, Rep. Denny Hastert, Hybrid Cars, Hypocrites

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Illegal, But Gratifying

    LiveJournal site Once Lost, Now Found reminds us of the prototypical image of the Bush Presidency: Just In Case You Haven’t Had Enough Yet… Yes, boys and girls, that is our fearless leader delivering, no doubt, one of the more satisfying sucker punches of his career. Little did we know, he would model his whole presidency on illegitimate retaliatory acts like this one!!! Illegal, but gratifying. Sign 750 bills into law without vetoing, but quietly file signing statements indicating you have no intention of executing them as enacted. Because you’re President Gumby, dammit. Yep, I think we’ve all had enough.…