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DNC: Kicking Ass – Bush policies a disaster for mine workers Bush policies a disaster for mine workers Just one more in a long list of Bush’s free-ride given to all who have money and would like to make more by lifting all manner of safety precautions and laws against abuse of people amd environment (which supports the lives of Continue Reading

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. KOS: You guys may have heard of Bush getting laughed at a minority journalism conference when he, er, flubbed a question about Indian tribal sovereignty issues. I had seen the response in print, but I won’t link to it. You have to hear it, courtesy Continue Reading

On ronsuskind.com, under his section on the book The Price of Loyalty. Interesting collection. The Price of Loyalty: The Bush Files An Experiment in Transparency These documents are drawn from a collection of 19,000 files of Paul H. O’Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary for the first two years of the Presidency of George W. Bush. Like all Treasury Secretaries, O’Neill Continue Reading

On my previous post, and wondering where all the comments went, I’m alkready re-thinking and realizing that I’m not exactly relaying stuff and reflections that are all that original or rare; many people are pissed and concerned and motivated and mobilized to speak up. And I’m spending a great deal more time myself reading instead of writing, and I have Continue Reading

The link to what Matthews said (video included at the MSNBC site) that I just referred to in the previous post: MSNBC – Dean hopeful about Dem ticket MATTHEWS: It also has stuff in there that suggests that President Bush is involved with bin Laden. He’s running with him. He’s part of the problem. He’s part of the terrorist family. Continue Reading

Matthews, in his interview with Howard Dean, said that Michael Moore suggests in Farenheit 9/11 that Bush is in cahoots with the terrorists, and that is outright distortion. Unless I missed something, he focuses on how Bush’s relationship with the Saudi’s compromised America’s ability and willingness to truly investigate the path of the terrorists. That America went after Afganistan (which Continue Reading

Mike James: Tread lightly: Interesting links: August 2004 Archive William Saletan assesses there’s more post-Convention bounce happening for Kerry than meets the eye. Some example comparisons:

Starting with an interview with John Sayles about his upcoming film, Silver City, to be released Sept. 17, and will be another HUGE slam against the kind of politics the Bush administration represents. Richard Dreyfus, Chris Cooper, Dartl Hannah, and quite a few others. Clip here and the site for info on the movie There’s even a Website for the Continue Reading

oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Chapter 3: The Gates Come Down (PDF Link) Most of today’s politicians and business people, and virtually all powerful institutions, accumulated their status and authority in a different era. They see the news media’s traditional hierarchies reflecting their own centralized, top-down model, with distinct control points. In this model, public relations and marketing departments deal with Continue Reading

In reading We, The Media, in Chapter 3, The Gates Come Down, Gillmor chronicles how the Trent Lott quote was kept alive by the bloggers while the Mainstream Media sort of buried it. I had run across Joshua Marshall several times, his posts being widely quoted by a variety of blogs, but had never really paid much attention. How did Continue Reading

Will Ferrell – A message from White House West

via Mike James on Tread Lightly

Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – The Halliburton Stench Vice President Dick Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton, the company he ran before returning to partisan politics in 2000, gets more and more questionable as facts come out. Consider what’s happened in the past two days.

I mentioned last night how some people have said that “voting against Bush” instead of FOR your candidate is such a bad, pessimistic thing. Well, no, it’s not. When one considers that democracy is absolutely under assult by big money, neo-conservative militarism, and even “Christian theocratic fundamentalists” in our own country. Also, one can safely say that the President is Continue Reading