The J View
A Command Perfomance (that is driving McCain a little nuts)
This week has been an infuriating and frustrating experience for every Obama supporter I know. On the one hand is a media sensation machine easily manipulated by juvenile McCain attack ads and mind-numbingly unable to call McCain on his shallow hypocrisy. On the other is an... [Read more...]
THE WORLD
AFRICOM – Ever Heard of It? At $5 a Gallon You May Want To
More research needed, but what do we know about AFRICOM? Here is a taste: Does one voter in a hundred know that the Department of Defense has quietly activated a new regional military command? [Read more...] Read More →
POLITICS
Phil Gramm Thinks You’re Imagining Having No Money
Phil Gramm, John McCain’s senior economic advisor and architect of countless diastrous economic policies, told the Washington Post today that you are imagining being unemployed and broke. Oh, and he is also being sent to Belarus. [Read more...] Read More →
ENVIRONMENT
Cheney’s Office Sought to Change Climate Testimony
From the New York Times: WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health, a former senior EPA... [Read more...]
LIFE
Should the Rest of US Care About the Fourth of July?
It is remarkable to me how little I know about America – esp. having lived here way longer than the length of the Bush Administration. It is more remarkable to my friends how little I realize that there is a public holiday approaching. Apparently 4th of July is one. Why... [Read more...]
WTF?
McCain Watch
The list of McCain gaffes has moved well beyond the “Ooops!” moniker that CNN and other news outlets always seem to give him. [Read more...] Read More →
Big Stories to Watch
McCain AWOL Since April 2008
As of July 7, McCain had missed 61.8 percent of the roll call votes in this Congress, which made him the No. 1 absentee in the Senate (number two was Tim Johnson, who has been recovering from a brain hemorrhage). Obama missed 43.5 percent of the roll call votes.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/11/reid_chastises_mccain_for_not.html
Politics
Phil Gramm Thinks You’re Imagining Having No Money
Phil Gramm, John McCain’s senior economic advisor and architect of countless diastrous economic policies, told the Washington Post today that you are imagining being unemployed and broke. Oh, and he is also being sent to Belarus. [Read more...]
Snapshots
One Dysfunctional Relationship
Mike Peters: Dayton Daily News
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The World
AFRICOM – Ever Heard of It? At $5 a Gallon You May Want To
More research needed, but what do we know about AFRICOM? Here is a taste:
Does one voter in a hundred know that the Department of Defense has quietly activated a new regional military command? [Read more...]
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