You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well……… SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN! Oh, there’s MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe! Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and [...]
Archive for April, 2009
17 Apr
Déjà Vu All Over Again in Afghanistan
Tom Dispatch posted 2009-04-16 20:28:16 Tomgram: William Astore, Déjà Vu All Over Again in Afghanistan It didn’t take long. Only 11 days after Barack Obama entered the Oval Office, a Newsweek cover story proclaimed the Afghan War “Obama’s Vietnam.” And there wasn’t even a question mark. As John Barry and Evan Thomas wrote grimly in [...]
17 Apr
Role of Bush NSA Plan Under Review
Obama Administration Faces Privacy, Security Challenges in Defending Cyberspace By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 17, 2009 The Bush administration planned last year to direct the National Security Agency, which specializes in spying electronically on foreign adversaries, to take the techniques it has employed to defend military computer networks and use them [...]
17 Apr
TAXES
thinkprogress.org Getting What We Pay For: On Wednesday, April 15, conservative organizations casted “tea party” gatherings as “anti-tax rallies” that were “part of a larger grassroots movement against government spending.” Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Fox Business Network prodigiously promoted the gatherings, as essentially every right-wing organization — Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions for [...]
17 Apr
Tea Baggers Against Obama
thinkprogress.org RADICAL RIGHT While Americans across the country prepare to pay their taxes today, many right-wing activists plan to spend the day dressed in colonial tri-corner hats as they wave tea bags in the air. Conservatives are calling for these “tea party” protests, allegedly modeled on the Boston Tea Party, to oppose President Obama and [...]
16 Apr
Columbine High
THE FOLLOWING EMAIL WAS SENT TO ME BY AN OLD FRIEND. HE RECOGNIZED AT ONCE THE POWERFUL MESSAGE IT CONTAINS–AND SO I PASS IT ON TO ALL WHOP READ THESE PAGES. LEST WE NOT FORGET… JO’ Guess our national leaders didn ‘t expect this, hmm? On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a [...]
10 Apr
Economic Snapshot for April 2009
Economic Outlook SOURCE: AP/Ted S. Warren Job seekers wait in line at a career fair in Bellevue, Washington. The unemployment rate rose to 8.5 percent in March. By Christian E. Weller | April 7, 2009 The current recession is the worst the U.S. economy has seen in decades. Mounting job and wealth losses are accelerating [...]
10 Apr
Democrats for Rich Heirs?
By Michael Kinsley Friday, April 10, 2009 Members of Congress across the political spectrum have had fun the past few weeks playing umbrage leapfrog regarding the bonuses to executives at AIG and other companies. Who can express more indignation over the spectacle of greedheads taking billions in government bailout money and then carting millions of [...]
10 Apr
Krauthammer Desperately Seeking Nail
Swampland FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2009 AT 10:02 AM Posted by Joe Klein | Charles Krauthammer, the ultimate bleating-heart neoconservative, is all atwitter over Barack Obama’s foreign trip. Where most rational observers saw a significant U.S. triumph, the beginning of our reconciliation with the rest of the world after eight years of stupid bellicosity, destructive threats [...]
10 Apr
Obama Pledges New Data System for Veterans
By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 10, 2009 President Obama said yesterday that his administration will create an electronic record for veterans that will “contain their administrative and medical information from the day they first enlist to the day that they are laid to rest.” Research has shown that the handoff of [...]
10 Apr
Where Did the Worst of Bush’s Cronies Go? To Work for Corporate Media.
By Eric Alterman, The Daily Beast. Posted April 10, 2009. In a post-Bush world Karl Rove and friends have just as deadly a job, only these days you’ll find them posing for the media as pundits. When you consider the respective achievements of the folks who peopled the upper echelons of the Bush administration, I [...]
