What a mess, fraud and dishonor to our war dead and nothing is happening. This is an interesting article, a nice summary of what has (or hasn't transpired) in an series about the efforts to computerize location maps at Arlington. Bodies buried in the wrong spots, shady contractors, inept, perhaps corrupt, and certainly self-important civilian management. Our war dead deserve better. This, from the comment section, sums up a portion of the outrage well: Now let me understand this correctly. Bec...

 
If you aren't familiar with Son Volt then give this a listen. Jet Pilot is, for my money, one of the best protest songs of 2006, made much less subtle by these quite literal images. My first YouTube video, be gentle. (Image)

 
Nothing to add, Neil says it all.

When placed in perspective it all amounts to more rhetoric to slow the growth of green energy. (Link) --snip-- Death by…. Utility transmission and distribution lines, the backbone of our electrical power system, are responsible for 130 to 174 million bird deaths a year in the U.S.1 Many of the affected birds are those with large wingspans, including raptors and waterfowl. While attempting to land on power lines and poles, birds are sometimes electrocuted when their wings span between two...

Once Federalized, BushCo. will let a let a contract for massive fish harvesting to one heavily-friended corporation. There will beget cries of how this is being done to save the reefs, save an obscure species of fish, etc. The target fish will be fish X, but cottage industries will spring up for the other fish type caught in the net. Doubt it? This is the pretzledunce who promoted timber cutting of old growth forests so we might prevent forest fires.

I clicked on one earlier and it is everything I come to DU to find: : DVDs by mail. Each month they package a topic group of documentaries on DVD and send it out. $14.95. Pretty good set of progressive issues each month. This month is sex education is schools. They've had an I/P set of films, illegal alien set, elections, and so forth. Each month there is a petition that addresses the issues contained. Can't vouch for the content of all, but it seems like good stuff. Anyone have any experience...

Gee Ed, ya think? ED ROLLINS: The use of prostitutes and what`s occurred in Washington that I think everyone`s disgusted at, is we promised we were going to be different than the Democrats; we weren`t going to basically be beholden to K Street, we were going to be term limits and we weren`t going to be the big PACs and all the rest of it. That`s all gone by the boards, and if anything we may even be worse.

and sport a quote from Clinton in your sig line. Yet, under Bush we have had more restrictions placed on our freedoms than under any President in my nearly 50 years. All in the name of "necessity". Just saying that is an odd thing to be sporting as your siggy on this progressive site as you talk of freedom at all costs. Those more articulate on gun issues might also point out that another right wing hero signed some pretty damning legislation against rights of gun owners... {hint} (Image) "Yo...

Well, its gets off to an inauspicious start by showing its Right Wing leanings with the attack on the UN. I love we post trash like this on our leftist site :eyes: But, on to the body of work... 1: The more helpless you are, the safer you are from criminals. One isn't helpless because they don't have a gun. That would be a, yep, you guessed it, a strawman. One could know martial arts, carry a knife, fuck, one could be invisible - that's a pretty good defense and makes you less than helpless,...

economy in 2000. He had the US in recession on election day so that the circumstances would warrant their reckless budget cutting and taxbreaks for millionaires (you know, those asswipes who are supposed to invest to prop up the economy but instead stuff it in a mattress in the Cayman islands?).

his financial advisor decided to buy Diebold? Something smells. According to Blackwell's letter, he does not approve individual stock selections but has instructed his money managers to avoid all conflicts of interest. "Those instructions were not followed by the new financial manager" that took over the account last year, he said. This unidentified woman bought 178 shares of Diebold at $53.67 per share in January 2005, then sold 95 of them for a loss of $15.68 per share.

(Image) Cerberus was a vicious beast that guarded the entrance to Hades and kept the living from entering the world of the dead. According to Apollodorus, Cerberus was a strange mixture of creatures: he had three heads of wild dogs, a dragon or serpent for a tail, and heads of snakes all over his back. Hesiod, though, says that Cerberus had fifty heads and devoured raw flesh. . . . A monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound...

or, is he too sane for this Administration?

Hey, he said it. We should echo it, ala Gore and the invention of same. "Bush is so stupid he has actually said they named the internet(s) after him". :evilgrin:

this, let alone authored it. That tells me that it was never intended to go anywhere, was only put out to give him something to crow about as he tries to steal Mark Dayton's Senate seat this fall. Couple this legislation with the obvious connotation/confusion with his last name and one might think he represents the pulse of good ol' liberal Minnesota. Well, we are tending Right up here, sadly, but I don't think most will be fooled by this BushCo wannabe.

Right thru those two bones, right about where your pulse is - unless, of course you are Dick Cheney, then you won't actually find a pulse.

Spent money promoting preschool so that he could get a referendum passed that would fund preschool. hmmm. What an evil bastard. Had he pocketed for his own good they would have made him king.

K-12 was making progress in Science Ed through Grants from the National Science Foundation. Through a well thought out. long range plan they aimed to increase Science scores via funding for materials and staff development. They knew deficits couldn't be improved overnight and were giving grantees all across the states time to work up. These demonstration sites would then inform plans to bring the whole nation up to speed and those who had made the improvements would offer their skills in on-goi...

but he offered nothing of substance to refute the claims that Iraq is nothing but a boondoggle waged to engineer maximum war-profiteering. More flag-waving nonsense.

Dems approve; Rethugs don't. Big surprise. Sponsor, as reported on our local news knows that BushC0 tool Timmy Pawlenty (R-Gov) won't sign any such law but is setting the stage for when Timmy ain't there. Senate committee approves medical marijuana bill A Florida stockbroker testified before a Minnesota Senate committee, urging lawmakers to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Then he stepped outside the Capitol and lit up a joint. For 53-year-old Irvin Rosenfeld, it was perfectly le...

(Image) Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., left, looks on as singer Pat Boone, right, gestures during a news conference on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 in Washington. Santorum discussed his support for the passage of the Marriage Amendment. (Link)

County convention in two weeks. Had two resolutions that passed at the City level - restore Medicare funding and no to allowing vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Hope to see them both forwarded to state. Hope to see many others from DU chime in to this list. I hope we are ALL active and not just part of the 101 fighting keyboarders.

and I tend to agree that a criminologist might be the best bet, though, as you say, its pretty hard to find anyone who studies guns without that preconception. Kellerman is an enigma to me. Here is a man who takes research seriously, writes his findings eloquently, yet consistently lends his bias to his findings in such manner that he totally misses the elephant in the faculty lounge.

I don't believe in wars of retribution and it's clear that mission was not accomplished, either. What a country of morans.

I would love to see some lit that didn't have an agenda, but it seems to go both directions. While the article the the Tenn law Rev was decent you could flipflop anti-gun health advocacy for gun lobby and mission for each statement offered and you might have some anti-gun health advocacy literature. Hopefully things have improved in the last 12 years.

Goes together like nixon - impeachment.

He with his "they choose to be homeless" riff. :eyes: At least they didn't start this in the dead of winter.

Bumper stickers count. Driving into work to day I came up behind a van. Three bumper stickers. The Kerry sticker was recognizable even from a distance. Its the same one we still fly on our vehicles. The other was bold enough lettering that even from distance I could make out HATCH (Mike Hatch, current Minnesota Attorney General, running for Governor). The third was a mystery until we hit a stoplight and I could see that the sticker read: What Would Wellstone Do? Accompanying the statement was...

I guess the Bush gang go beyond not wanting us to see flag-draped coffins - they're even doing burial on the cheap with no embalming. :eyes: I know, the best way to help soldiers would be to bring them home alive. However, barring that, here is a website that describes one family's horror as they sought to bury their son, their anger at the system, and what they are doing to aid other soldier's families. (Link) ...Upon his return home my family was told that my brother's body would not be view...