Thought for the day
Bob Morris @ May 25th 2005 04:33 - Category: Unfiled ;
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Saul Alinsky
Archive for May 25th, 2005
If it’s too good to be true, then …
Bob Morris @ May 25th 2005 04:32 - Category: Unfiled ;
If the Dem “compromisers” think their new mission in life is to hand Bush a Social Security victory then I don’t think it’s hyperbole to suggest that the national Democratic party will be pretty much signing its obituary for the next 20 years.
A deal on the filibuster? That’s okay. But if those seven Democratic Senators turn around and make a deal on social security, expect all hell to break loose.
The supposed avoidance of meltdown in DC comes with too high a price. Looks like the Dems are ready to sell out the public on Social Security. Maybe that’s why Dubya didn’t object to the meltdown ‘compromise’, because in return, he and and Wall Street got something far more important to them than a few judgeships. That of course,is your retirement money and the consequent dismantling of the social contract that goes with it..
Polls are consistently showing that people don’t want Social Security touched, yet the Dems appear ready to work a ‘compromise’ so they won’t, y’know, appear pushy or in possession of a spinal cord.
Or maybe they, like most senators, are just a bunch of multimillionaires protecting their class interests. Maybe it’s not they don’t want to be pushy but that they basically agree, with a few exceptions on social issues, with the Bush agenda. Else, why aren’t they fighting?
The sounds of silence
Bob Morris @ May 25th 2005 04:25 - Category: Anti-war Tags: Uzbekistan;
Bush asked to explain UK war memo
Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002.
The most severe allegations were made in 2003 when the British ambassador, Craig Murray, claimed that suspects had been boiled alive while in custody in the country’s prisons.
However, human rights activists claim that their hands have been tied in dealing with the Karimov regime due to its close collaboration with Washington in the war on terror.
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Social Democrats axe Greens from coalition in Germany
Bob Morris @ May 25th 2005 04:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
In Germany, that strange and wondrous country where the Green Party holds serious and actual power as junior partner to the ruling coalition of the Social Democrats, well, that’s all about to change. The Social Democrats just got clobbered in a regional election and are now forced to call early elections. And, as they are moving to the right to stave off the conservatives, they don’t want the GP as partners. How Kerryesque of them.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said that he will not make a formal coalition commitment to his junior partner in the government, the Green Party, in the upcoming early general election.
Schroeder stressed that he did not mean an end to the coalition between his Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party, which has existed for seven years.
Uh huh …
"Who will police the police?"
Bob Morris @ May 25th 2005 04:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
The FBI on Tuesday asked the U.S. Congress for sweeping new powers to seize business or private records, ranging from medical information to book purchases, to investigate terrorism without first securing approval from a judge.
Constitution? We don’t need to honor no stinking Constitution.
What a bunch of grumps
Bob Morris @ May 25th 2005 04:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing hand-cuffs has been banned from sober Zurich’s street display of man-sized model bears, the project’s artistic director said Tuesday.
