I've been formulating my response to a comment to my previous post. I'm trying to make it a reasoned one and believe me it's hard dealing with someone quite this misinformed. It is taking time.

It's Friday:

Chris Floyd
Green Acres

Month after month, year after year, we've watched with fascinated horror as George W. Bush revives the ancient tools of tyranny. Aggressive war, torture, secret prisons, arbitrary detention, death squads, mass surveillance, contempt for law, elitist corruption, deification of the leader, co-option of religion to serve state power, rule by executive fiat: It's like watching a ghastly pantomime of imperial Rome or some feudal state, rigged up in modern dress.

Paul Krugman
The British Evasion

Pardon my Britishism, but Britain's 20-year experience with privatization is a cautionary tale Americans should know about.

Fascism, you say?
Extra-Tight Security at Bush's Inaugural

Other instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.

"They want you to just look straight ahead," said Danielle Adam, co-director of the Mid American Pompon All Star Team from Michigan, which also performed in the 2001 inaugural parade.

You can't make up shit like this.

Woman loses insurance coverage for her politics

elen Johnston is an 80-year-old retired pediatrician who hardly considers herself much of a risk for being sued.

That's not how her insurance company sees it, however.

Johnston is losing extra coverage she bought years ago while she still practiced medicine - not because she's a retired doctor, but because she is active in Francestown politics.

It wasn't before we got there
Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground

Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists, according to a report released yesterday by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank.

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 9:04 AM