Archives: May, 2006

Hurricane Betting Taking Internet By Storm
Buck Banks | May. 31, 2006

Crap shoot: On Hurricane Season Eve it’s appropriate to consider the important variables, like cold-water upwelling, wind sheer, strike probablilities and El Niño, as well as life’s more esoteric unpredictables like chance, fate, karma or divine retribution, whatever you want to call it.
Some might say that Editor Jon is gambling daily that the San Andreas [...]

Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | May. 31, 2006

Islam is justice. Dictatorship is the greatest sin in the religion of Islam. Fascism and Islamism are absolutely incompatible.
— Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni (1901-1989), Iranian leader

Ho-Hum, Bush Caught in Lie about Replacing Treasury Secretary
Jon Ponder | May. 31, 2006

Remember just a few short years ago how pointing out that President Bush was a habitual, probably pathological, liar would be met with howls of derision? Now when he is caught lying hardly anyone bothers to point it out. Here’s a recent catch, via an email from Progress Report:

May 25, 2006:
“No, [Treasury Secretary John Snow] [...]

Whose Soldier? Not Yours
Trish Ponder | May. 31, 2006

Whoa. I just watched the Flash short, “NotYourSoldier” produced by The Ruckus Society. You need to stop what you’re doing and watch it too. Then email it to all your friends, especially those of enlistment age. This thing kicks Bush ass and makes a case that will not be denied. Check it out!

Move over, Osama: Violent ‘Left Behind’ Video Game Preaches Terrorism Against Jews, Catholics and Gays
Jon Ponder | May. 31, 2006

In “Left Behind: Eternal Forces,” a violent video game marketed by one of the executives at Pastor Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life business empire, Christianist children are taught that violence against non-believers is not only acceptable, it’s fun
American madrasah: It is never too early in the year to speculate about what America’s Christian Nationalists will [...]

Topics: Conservative Values, Politics

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Quote du Jour II
Jon Ponder | May. 30, 2006

Heterosexuals also discuss their sexual nature, but when they do it, it’s called talking.
– Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

Topics: Politics, Verbatim

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Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | May. 30, 2006

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time.
- E.B. White (1899-1985), American writer, editor

Topics: News, Verbatim

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Poll: Hillary’s War Stance Could Be a Problem
Buck Banks | May. 30, 2006

Running on Iraq: According to a new Zogby International telephone survey, if Sen. Hillary Clinton were to face a challenge from an anti-war candidate in the fall election, she could find herself in a real battle for re-election.
Right now she seems a lock to win the nomination for re-election to a second term in the [...]

Topics: Election Coverage, Politics

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Be the First Kid on the Block to Get the 2006 Terrorism Trends Poster
Buck Banks | May. 29, 2006

No black light needed: Take down your Hendrix poster, we’ve got something tons better — the official TKB Terrorism Trends 2005 map poster. “TKB” is short for “Terrorism Knowledge Base,” which is part of the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing terrorism on U.S. [...]

Topics: Media Watch, Politics

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CA Gov: Westly’s Negative Ads Give Momentum to Angelides But Westly Beats Schwarzenegger by 10 Points
Jon Ponder | May. 29, 2006

If the election were held today, Westly beat Schwarzenegger by 10 points, and Angelides and the governor would be tied.
The race for the Democratic nomination for California governor has tightened dramatically, according to two new polls, the Los Angeles Times poll, in which ngelides has 37 percent to Westly’s 34 percent, and the Public [...]

Topics: Politics

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