I've said this before and I'll say it again. Conservatives simply do not give a shit when it comes to the troops beyond whether or not they can still jack off to the flag. If something endangers their flag porn, then they'll send in the troops to fix it. But heaven forbid that the troops come back injured. Because if they do, then the cost to the American taxpayer means that Conservatives will have less money to buy flag porn.

Al Gore believes the road to solving the climate crisis winds through American pop culture, from "American Idol" and "The Biggest Loser" on through "The Daily Show" and "The 700 Club."

Someone want to call the shrink?

Ted Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots.

Uh okay Ted. Whatever ya say bud.

Many "lawyers" in Bush's Department of Justice are diploma mill recipients from attending Liberty University and Bob Jones University. From the Jason Leopold story you linked, those "schools" have severe accreditation problems and our Congress should investigate and purge discredited diploma holders!
TRACS is a recognized accrediting association that also approved accreditation for Liberty University, Bob Jones University, and Patrick Henry College. American Christian College and Seminary, however, apparently didn’t meet TRACS’s rigorous standards. At the association’s April 2003 meeting officials refused to reaffirm the school’s accreditation because it failed to comply with numerous educational standards.

The Moonie link is great. All those Congress people duped by this kooky billionaire.
But the best part is where they tell about how Bill O'Rielly and Rush Limbaugh get most of their "news" from the Washington Times, Moonies Rightwing Rag.
Honestly folks, I think the Moron Factor may be much higher than we originally thought.

pissed off patricia @ 9:

According to a post at Kos, Lieberman says that liberal left wing bloggers along with Kos and MoveOn have taken over the Democratic party. Cool! Didn't even have to fire a shot and we win.

He (Lieberman) used to be on the fence sitting astride the post, but I think too much pressure had been put on him from above and now he has that post driven into his ... well, you know where I'm headed here.

Balkinization: John “Torture” Yoo issued his controversial and lawless opinion in his own name. But John Yoo did not have the legal authority to issue this opinion . . . unless either Jay Bybee and/or John Ashcroft signed off on it.

Is Congress going to investigate this?

Leslie @ 14:

Balkinization: John “Torture” Yoo issued his controversial and lawless opinion in his own name. But John Yoo did not have the legal authority to issue this opinion . . . unless either Jay Bybee and/or John Ashcroft signed off on it.

Is Congress going to investigate this?

Nope

11 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for 1 million Iraqis to march against U.S. "occupation" next week after his Mehdi Army militia battled U.S. and government troops.

Oh man here we go this ought to be interesting.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 19:

Morning grump, hows thing in the best state?

Which State? State of Mind? Union?

LOL actually things are getting very strange and it seems to be accelerating.

L.A. Confidential @ 20:

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 19:

Morning grump, hows thing in the best state?

Which State? State of Mind? Union?

LOL actually things are getting very strange and it seems to be accelerating.

State of CA, but you knew that, I can tell what your state of mind is. Yes, strage is the beauty of California, I lived there for 45 years and loved it all because of the strangeness, matter of fact, I was PART of the strangeness.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 23:

L.A. Confidential @ 21:

Let the "Taxpayer Bailout" begin.

WASHINGTON - Homebuilders and the mortgage industry are emerging as big victors in a bipartisan agreement reached by Senate leaders on legislation designed to limit the housing crisis.

Whatever happend to those lending rules that your monthly payment couldn't be more than 1/4th of you Net monthly income and you had to have at least 10% Down before you could qualify?

I seem to be missing some vowels tonight, must be the Mekong Whiskey stealing them.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 23:

L.A. Confidential @ 21:

Let the "Taxpayer Bailout" begin.

Whatever happend to those lending rules that your monthly payment couldn't be more than 1/4th of you Net monthly income and you had to have at least 10% Down before you could qualify?

The rules were changed to the Only Requirement is A Pulse.

Sign on the dotted line. . . . . . . . .

from bob at http://mccs1977.com/2008/04/02/ancient-history/

Who “surrendered” in Viet Nam? If I remember right, it was a Republican president.

Who “surrendered” in Korea? If I remember right it was a Republican president.

Who “surrendered” in Lebanon in ‘83? Could it have been another Republican president? Hmm.

When the Cole was attacked two months from the end of Clinton’s term, who didn’t follow up? Geez, ANOTHER Republican president.

Who was warned that bin Laden would be his biggest problem and did nothing? By nothing, I mean exactly nothing,
not like lobbed a missile at a chemical production plant, missing bin Laden by less than an hour, I mean not a damn thing. Son of a gun, a Republican. How on earth did they manage to convince anyone they are good on national security?

L.A. Confidential @ 21:

Let the "Taxpayer Bailout" begin.

WASHINGTON - Homebuilders and the mortgage industry are emerging as big victors in a bipartisan agreement reached by Senate leaders on legislation designed to limit the housing crisis.

dont you mean taxpayer FUNDED bailout of the assorted crooks who gouged and lied and thus need protecting from their greed and folly.

♣Bangkok Bob♠ @ 23:

L.A. Confidential @ 21:

Let the "Taxpayer Bailout" begin.

WASHINGTON - Homebuilders and the mortgage industry are emerging as big victors in a bipartisan agreement reached by Senate leaders on legislation designed to limit the housing crisis.

Whatever happend to those lending rules that your monthly payment couldn't be more than 1/4th of you Net monthly income and you had to have at least 10% Down before you could qualify?

A lot of innocent people were swindled by banks. Then, some homeowners weren't so innocent.

The Political Junkie @ 33:

I take a class on National Security Law and we just read the Bybee memo - which also featured the torture memo written by John Yoo. We read that Ashcroft wasn't willing to sign off on this, so Bybee did the dirty deed.

That memo crapped on the Constitution and literally stated that George Bush is above the LAW.

What I want to know is how Yoo got a job teaching law at U. C. Berkeley's Boalt School of Law? Standards are being relaxed all around, even at U. C. Berkeley, I guess.

To the interested layman and amateur constitutionalists all the Bushco illegalities are worrying and outrageous,
whats the morality viewpoint and opinion of people who are learning and make a living in law on Bushco?

ferrofluid @ 29:

hussein lover (aka right wing hater) @ 27:

Deniers be damned....

'No Sun link' to climate change
Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7327393.stm

You're getting exposed for the old/polluting/dirty energy psychophants that you are...

You've lost the economic debate as well....it creates jobs, creates new industry, boons to countries, cities...are well documented...

theres a slight problem methinks, the cosmic ray thing was maybe used as an indicator of the suns output in watts per M2 recieved on the earths surface or the clouds.
He was prob trying to prove that the suns output could be increasing and the only detectable earth method was using cosmic rays which are measurable vaguely accurately being less affected by the atmospshere, compared to the infrared which is filtered by the atmosphere and has feedback effects. And hoping cosmic rays were tied closely to the solar out too.
Both the pro and con argument to this could be flawed.
And its the Milankovitch cycle that would be the critical thing the three components of the distance between the sun and the earth.
IMHO we are doomed if we do and doomed if we dont, going green makes sense from an efficiency point of view anyway, and cutting down on the assorted pollutants and smogs, and making the environment a better place to live in.

ferro...no arguments from me...I certainly wasn't defending Svensmark, his Global Warming Swindle garbage has been debunked over and over and over again....

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/chris

Absolutely agree on your efficiency comments...insanity is staying on old/polluting/dirty/destructive energy...

And for good measure....Debunking the 26 myths of right wing on Global Warming
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

"Martini Revolution: President Bush: Hypocrite and miserable failure." OK. No arguments from me!!