Cries of desperation: As if we needed more examples of the chaos our government has wrought in Iraq, here are some truly chilling Web postings from inside the country. I have (possibly unwisely — hello Washington goons!) been monitoring several related Web sites: Electronic Intifada, Electronic Iraq and Electronic Lebanon.
These sites provide some insight [...]

Apples don’t fall far from the tree:
One tabloid headline in Buenos Aires had the Bush twins running nude in the hallway of their hotel.
Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials “strongly suggested” President Bush’s twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues, U.S. [...]

Scary Experiments: The Bush administration’s approach to science has had an oddly alchemical aspect to it. Like those who sought to change lead into gold, Bushco’s minions have been extremely successful at transforming scientfic truth into conservative political ideology.
Federal agencies have repeatedly knuckled under to the anti-science Luddites of the Bush administration in order [...]

Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell

1978 – San Franciso Supervisor Harvey Milk, a pioneering openly gay elected official, was gunned down at City Hall. The same gunman shot and killed Mayor George Moscone. More: The Assassination of Harvey Milk.
1973 – The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States [...]

I’ve been a fan of Keith Olbermann since the early 1990s when he was a sportscaster on local news here in Los Angeles. I am the opposite of a sports fan and yet he somehow made football, baseball and the rest seem almost interesting.
This year, Mr. Olbermann did as much as anyone in the [...]

Now we know the real reason Cheney is visiting the Saudis. He’s begging for millions for Bush’s presidential library.
The Worst President Ever will spend the rest of his time in office raising $500 million to build the most expensive presidential library ever constructed:
Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry [...]

Turns Out Mitt Romney Is Just Another Massachusetts Liberal

2002 – Françoise Ducros, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s communications director, resigned after she was overheard, on 20 November at the NATO summit meeting in Prague, saying about President George W. Bush: “Quel crétin!” [On This Date]
2002 – WorldCom and the government settled a civil lawsuit over the company’s $9 billion accounting scandal. [...]

Christo-facsists:
The loyalist [Protestant anti-Catholic] murderer Michael Stone forced the suspension of the inaugural meeting of Northern Ireland’s transitional assembly yesterday, when he stormed into the entrance hall of the parliament building armed with a knife, a handgun and what police said was a “viable” bomb.
The extraordinary scenes – as security staff wrestled him to the [...]