Gordon Smith started the trend , and is indeed still at it . Chris Shays, too , apparently feeling the heat from Orange to Blue challenger Jim Himes campaign. What’s afoot? The need to distance themselves as far as possible from a failed Republican brand, summed up by this recent McClatchy headline: Absence of Bush and Cheney cheers Republican delegates . Unfortunately for McCain, that distancing extends beyond just Bush and Cheney, but to him, too. In fact, Gordon Smith is so desperate to disassociate himself from the top of the ticket, he’s skipping the convention , despite the fact that his is one of the marquee Senate races for Republicans this cycle. But none of it is quite as dishonest and despicable as Dino Rossi, the Realtor turned candidate for governor in Washington state, who also happens to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Building Industry Association of Washington. Rossi went on TV the night of Obama’s acceptance speech, congratulatin...
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In a new series, which I just decided to start today called “Idiocracy Watch,” I plan to chronicle stories that expose the fact that the U.S. of A. is still a nation of stupid people who blend anti-intellectualism with racism to create ignorance and intolerance.
Today’s entry comes via Editor & Publisher , which has, since the election, been tracking stories of hate and bigotry related to our country having somehow elected a black man to the presidency. Here are some l... more
I think Holger Awakens says it all.Â
Did you get that? Only 2 percent of all muslims in America voted for John McCain - guess my vote for McCain was just justified once more! This poll is published over at C.A.I.R.’s website, which I refuse to link to here at Holger Awakens, so I will post the entire article at the bottom of this thread. But here’s a bit of the data:
The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT) today released the results of a poll indicat... more
A recent Dino Rossi ad states that the Christine Gregoire is ignoring a $3.2 billion budget shortfall. This is technically untrue because: “The state is facing a projected $3.2 billion budget hole next year, but it does not have a deficit today. The current budget, which runs to June 30, 2009, is balanced and the state has several hundred million dollars still in reserve [ Times ].” Which feels like splitting hairs, but I suppose that that’s sort of what political ads are all ... more
Candidate Dino Rossi faces new accusations today that he may have played a role in illegal campaign fundraising by the Building Industry Association of Washington.... more
It’s well known in Washington state that Republican gubenatorial candidate Dino Rossi is essentially a subsidiary of the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW). Check that--a subsidiary of the corrupt BIAW. Washington’s attorney general has filed suit against the organization, along with the tweedle dum to its dee, the Master Builders Association (MBA), last week. The two organizations have been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican... more
A feedlot owner in Eastern Washington has sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture, seeking a rewrite of regulations that require "country of origin" labeling for beef products.... more
... cattle at his 30,000-head feedlot come from Canada, with maybe a few cattle from Mexico ... lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court in Eastern Washington, Easterday Ranches Inc. contends ... costs and deter meat packers from buying Canadian-born cattle from Easterday’s feedlot. The Agriculture Department ...... more
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The west is known for its rugged individualism, for attracting those who won’t take no guff from anybody, including government. So, many western states have initiative processes, by which any regular old citizen can propose a change, and with enough co-signers, can get their change on the ballot. This system in the modern era has created paid political consultants who operate, nay thrive, in this situation, writing labrynthian initiatives and glad-handing for signatures. ... more
Ullrich Fichtner at Der Spiegel writes: Why NATO Troops Can’t Deliver Peace in Afghanistan Good days are in short supply in Afghanistan, a country at war -- or involved in several wars, to be exact. There is constant fighting on many fronts, hard and soft. The newspapers, and there are many of them in Kabul now, serve up pages of chaotic images every day. Their reports are about bombs and drinking water, holy warriors and wheat prices, NATO air attacks and schoolbooks, kidna... more
This evening’s Rescue Rangers are claude, Got A Grip, ezdidit, smokeymonkey, TruthOfAngels, and joyful, with watercarrier4diogenes scrounging around in the pockets of the Robes of Objectivity, looking for the Wand of ’Seriousness’ (tm) Glenzilla To open this evening’s Rescue, FishOutofWater provides a "strong stomachs only" example of the Bush Administration’s real impact on the Iraqi people in This is what our soldiers are dying for? (Got ... more
(Promoted from the diaries by kos) I’m sorry. I simply can’t take some of what I’m hearing on cable news as they cover the Clinton win in Puerto Rico and continue to repeat Clinton campaign talking points in her "rationale" to secure the Democratic Presidential nomination. In the past three or four hours I have heard Harold Ickes, Terry McAuliffe, and Bill Schneider (CNN political analyst) repeatedly assert that Clinton is winning the popular vote... more
So the Chicago Cubs have the best record in baseball, while the Tampa Bay Rays have the second best (while leading the American League East). The Yankees have been hovering in and just barely out of last place. Hell hasn’t frozen over just yet. The season is less than 1/3rd of the way done. But global warming doesn’t appear to be having an impact in the netherworld. This is an open thread, but one in which trash talking about yodur favorite teams is particularly encour... more
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