You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded.
To the question, “Why me?” the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, “Why not?”
Atheist: Natural Morals, Real Meaning, Credible Truth

27 February, 2005

MSNBC - Razzies tap Berry, 'Catwoman' as year's worst

MSNBC - Razzies tap Berry, 'Catwoman' as year's worst

Ha ha ha! This busted me up! Very funny. A clip from it:
"President Bush won the worst-actor award for his appearance in news and archival footage of Michael Moore’s satiric documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was voted worst supporting-actor for “Fahrenheit 9/11,” while Britney Spears’ fleeting cameo in the documentary brought her the worst supporting-actress award.

Razzies founder John Wilson said the prizes were not meant to mock Moore’s film, only the statements Bush and the others make while “putting their highly paid, highly skilled feet in their mouths repeatedly and sucking on them.”"

26 February, 2005

Seven Deadly Absurdities

Seven Deadly Absurdities

I had never liked No Child Left Behind act of Bush's and this site helped me consolidate my thoughts on the subject. I am sure there are others. This punishing schools for not performing seemed like a bad idea. Most schools and parents aren't willing to let schools slide as a whole and this act doesn't help at all. It is funny also how a Republican president who is so into minimalist government can want such an intrusive act into local government. It is more evidence of the incompetence of this administration, it sees a problem and thrashes out at it without thought or reasoning. That is what I see in almost every action it takes. Conspiracy people think Bush has darker, selfish motives that drives it... I don't think he is smart enough to have his own thoughts and can't direct the smart folks around him to keep things in control.

Impeach Bush!

17 February, 2005

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

Why does this matter?
"This is the Conservative Republican Bush White House we're talking about. It's looking increasingly like they made a decision to allow a hooker to ask the President of the United States questions. They made a decision to give a man with an alias and no journalistic experience access to the West Wing of the White House on a "daily basis." They reportedly made a decision to give him - one of only six - access to documents, or information in those documents, that exposed a clandestine CIA operative. Say what you will about Monika Lewinsky - a tasteless episode, "inappropriate," whatever. Monika wasn't a gay prostitute running around the West Wing. What kind of leadership would let prostitutes roam the halls of the West Wing? What kind of war-time leadership can't find the same information that took bloggers only days to find?"

13 February, 2005

How America Can Afford to Grow Older: A Vision for the Future

How America Can Afford to Grow Older: A Vision for the Future

AARP's Bill Novelli made a lot of sense in this speech on health care costs and social security. I was channel surfing and ran into him on CSPAN. Excellent speech.

Liberal Patriots

Liberal Patriots

I agree with this guy, where is the outrage about the FAA memos? I am! Condi was told about Al Qaeda, as these memos show by Clark. Did she lie? Clinton got impeached for lying about sex in the Oval Office, I think Bush should get impeached for lying about what he knew, what he told us about Iraq, his incompetence with Al Qaeda and Iraq and the rest of his foreign policies, if you want to call them that. Then there are his domestic policies. Different blog.

09 February, 2005

meat-eating leftist

meat-eating leftist

I like this site! I need to figure the ATOM thing or RSS and add it to my web page or this blog. Try the Freeway Blogger link. Some pretty funny freeway signs.

07 February, 2005

More anti-Bush ranting...

So, he wants us to borrow trillions and spend billions in interest to change Social Security into an investment instead of insurance. Does this make any kind of sense? If your investment happens to do better than basic Social Security, you win a little, but you don't "own" it. They still massively control how it is paid out. If it doesn't do so well. Oh well. Your "Social Security" benefit is reduce proportionally to how much you risked in investments. So how about spending the billion or so to make it solvent without the risk or making some investment brokers really really happy. We know how much we can trust those guys to maximize our returns. Where do the billions come from? Well, maybe a little increase in SS taxes now will mean a lot later. Oh, not a TAX INCREASE! God forbid!
I can't believe anyone is falling for this scheme. But then Bush got re-elected. That still boggles my mind.

06 February, 2005

Social Security: There Is No Crisis -

Social Security: There Is No Crisis -

This site is pretty clear on what is fake about the SS "crisis".

"The president is proposing to spend about 4.5 trillion dollars over 20 years to:

Change Social Security in a way which pays the average beneficiary less than is both promised under current law and payable under current projections for the next 75 years.

The cost of this is greater than the cost of fully funding the current program, such that under current projections benefits would not have to be cut at all relative to current law but instead would be fully payable."