May 2005 suck less

- see you all next year.

Best wishes to you and your family for a joyous new year!

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2005: The "law and order" party officially admits to new title: The "graft and corruption" party.

G.O.P. to Make Ethics Inquiries Harder to Begin

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - In the wake of back-to-back ethics slaps at the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, House Republicans are preparing to make it more difficult to initiate ethics investigations and could remove the Republican chairman who presided over the admonishments of Mr. DeLay last fall.

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Are We Stingy? Yes

resident Bush finally roused himself yesterday from his vacation in Crawford, Tex., to telephone his sympathy to the leaders of India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia, and to speak publicly about the devastation of Sunday's tsunamis in Asia. He also hurried to put as much distance as possible between himself and America's initial measly aid offer of $15 million, and he took issue with an earlier statement by the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, who had called the overall aid efforts by rich Western nations "stingy." "The person who made that statement was very misguided and ill informed," the president said.

We beg to differ. Mr. Egeland was right on target. We hope Secretary of State Colin Powell was privately embarrassed when, two days into a catastrophic disaster that hit 12 of the world's poorer countries and will cost billions of dollars to meliorate, he held a press conference to say that America, the world's richest nation, would contribute $15 million. That's less than half of what Republicans plan to spend on the Bush inaugural festivities.

The American aid figure for the current disaster is now $35 million, and we applaud Mr. Bush's turnaround. But $35 million remains a miserly drop in the bucket, and is in keeping with the pitiful amount of the United States budget that we allocate for nonmilitary foreign aid. According to a poll, most Americans believe the United States spends 24 percent of its budget on aid to poor countries; it actually spends well under a quarter of 1 percent.
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Making things worse, we often pledge more money than we actually deliver. Victims of the earthquake in Bam, Iran, a year ago are still living in tents because aid, including ours, has not materialized in the amounts pledged. And back in 2002, Mr. Bush announced his Millennium Challenge account to give African countries development assistance of up to $5 billion a year, but the account has yet to disperse a single dollar.

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Somebody's going to give you a much better election update then I am: Daily Kos :: Election Update 12/28 [UPDATED]

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From frighteningly quick natural disasters that cannot be prevented (though warning systems can be installed) to potentially much more dangerous natural disasters that are happening very very slowly that we might actually be able to prevent.

Earth's permafrost starts to squelch

In parts of Fairbanks, Alaska, houses and buildings lean at odd angles.

Some slump as if sliding downhill. Windows and doors inch closer and closer to the ground.

It is an architectural landscape that is becoming more familiar as the world's ice-rich permafrost gives way to thaw.

Water replaces ice and the ground subsides, taking the structures on top along with it.

Alaska is not the only region in a slump. The permafrost melt is accelerating throughout the world's cold regions, scientists reported at the recent Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco.

In addition to northern Alaska, the permafrost zone includes most other Arctic land, such as northern Canada and much of Siberia, as well as the higher reaches of mountainous regions such as the Alps and Tibet. All report permafrost thaw.

"It's a very, very widespread problem," said Frederick Nelson, a geographer at the University of Delaware, US.

Scientists attribute the thaw to climate warming. As the air temperature warms, so does the frozen ground beneath it.

Happy Thought:

"Will the Arctic be a carbon sink, or convert to a carbon source? It's a big unknown."

- Frederick Nelson, University of Delaware

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Death toll reaches 100,000

The death toll in the tsunami disaster soared past 100,000 today - and is set to climb higher.

A list of ways to help: Agencies Accepting Aid Dollars

For convenience Amazon has set up direct donations to American Red Cross Disaster Relief .

Thousands in Sri Lanka, India, Somalia, Sumatra, Thailand, and Indonesia are still missing; many others have lost their homes and livelihoods. Sri Lankan and Indian coastal regions were the hardest hit, with over 20,000 people killed, but Indonesia, Seychelles, Maldives, and Thailand were all affected by the tsunami waves, which reached as high as 20 feet. Aid workers and volunteers are focused on stopping the spread of disease and delivering food and drinking water to survivors. The American Red Cross reports that emergency assessment and first-aid teams were on the ground quickly and are already working with local groups to support relief efforts. Your financial donation will help provide medicine, clothing, food, and shelter for victims of the East Africa and South Asia earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Proof that Americans care even if its President does not: As of noon today donations via Amazon are already at $1.7 million.

Though I was never a huge Clinton fan he has stepped up to the plate (as Bush has decided there are some really pressing brush issues back at the ranch) and is trying to lead a coherent international effort: Clinton puts onus on the wealthy

Bill Clinton yesterday called for order to be brought to the international aid effort, with wealthy countries taking responsibility for individual states ravaged by the disaster.
The former US president said that without such planning the surge in aid to crippled countries could be wasted.

His comments came as sources admitted that the British government has only gradually absorbed the scale of the disaster in Asia, but stressed that this did not signal a reluctance to provide assistance.

Mr Clinton's proposals received a warm response from EU officials and could be formally put to a UN conference planned for next month.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "It is really important that somebody take the lead in this. I think one of the problems is when everybody takes responsibility it's almost like no one's responsible."

Drawing on his own experiences, Mr Clinton said : "What happens is the emotional pull of the cause weakens as time passes. People will give money. They will send food and clothes and do whatever they are supposed to do and then life will creep back to normal."

These countries will need aid for years to recover from this. The American media will ignore the issue in weeks. Giving a donating country responsibility to individual targets of aid makes sure that the donations continue after the cameras turn away. Think of it as an international competition to do good. The world needs that.

Bush however is too busy being the most insensitive and incompetent President in history to realize the opportunities to do good that have arisen here; not only is helping out pro-life, it is pro-American and pro-world.

Aid Grows Amid Remarks About President's Absence

The Bush administration more than doubled its financial commitment yesterday to provide relief to nations suffering from the Indian Ocean tsunami, amid complaints that the vacationing President Bush (news - web sites) has been insensitive to a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.

As the death toll surpassed 50,000 with no sign of abating, the U.S. Agency for International Development added $20 million to an earlier pledge of $15 million to provide relief, and the Pentagon dispatched an aircraft carrier and other military assets to the region.
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Although U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland yesterday withdrew his earlier comment, domestic criticism of Bush continued to rise. Skeptics said the initial aid sums -- as well as Bush's decision at first to remain cloistered on his Texas ranch for the Christmas holiday rather than speak in person about the tragedy -- showed scant appreciation for the magnitude of suffering and for the rescue and rebuilding work facing such nations as Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Indonesia.

After a day of repeated inquiries from reporters about his public absence, Bush late yesterday afternoon announced plans to hold a National Security Council meeting by teleconference to discuss several issues, including the tsunami, followed by a short public statement.

Bush's deepened public involvement puts him more in line with other world figures. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder cut short his vacation and returned to work in Berlin because of the Indian Ocean crisis, which began with a gigantic underwater earthquake. In Britain, the predominant U.S. voice speaking about the disaster was not Bush but former president Bill Clinton, who in an interview with the BBC said the suffering was like something in a "horror movie," and urged a coordinated international response.

Earlier yesterday, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said the president was confident he could monitor events effectively without returning to Washington or making public statements in Crawford, where he spent part of the day clearing brush and bicycling. Explaining the about-face, a White House official said: "The president wanted to be fully briefed on our efforts. He didn't want to make a symbolic statement about 'We feel your pain.' "

Many Bush aides believe Clinton was too quick to head for the cameras to hold forth on tragedies with his trademark empathy. "Actions speak louder than words," a top Bush aide said, describing the president's view of his appropriate role.

Yes actions speak louder then words.

• Clinton has proposed an international aid program that could save perhaps thousands of lives in the coming months, Bush has been bicycling and clearing brush.
• Clinton urges nations and persons to give what they can. Bush at this point is having more spent on his crowning... um 2nd inauguration ($40 million) then in aid given to the effected nations ($35 million).

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Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash

Whoops.. didn't mean to say the truth.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

In the speech, Rumsfeld made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers.

But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania."

A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke, but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having been shot down.

It is a tragedy that that plane went down. However given the events of the day, if that plane completed its journey it would have hit the White House or more likely the Capitol. It really would make sense that the government shot it down. In fact as cold and cruel as it would have been it would have been the only proactive action taken by the Bush Administration that day. It would have been the right thing to do.

And yet the Bush administration considers Americans to be unable to handle some harsh truths, so again it lies. So now we again have to decide, is Bush lying its only competent action on that day, or is it telling the truth proving again it was too busy hiding under desks to do anything that day.

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"election" update (because it has been a while):

• Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote
  
  The prolitariet should be happy it is even allowed to vote, do ask if their vote actually counts is just too much. The prols really must learn their place.

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has requested a protective order to prevent him from being interviewed as part of an unusual court challenge of the presidential vote.
  
  Blackwell, in a court filing, says he's not required to be interviewed by lawyers as a high-ranking public official, and accused the voters challenging the results of ``frivolous conduct'' and abusive and unnecessary requests of elections officials around the state.
  
  Citing fraud, 37 people who voted for president Nov. 2 have challenged the election results with the Ohio Supreme Court. The voters refer to irregularities including long lines, a shortage of voting machines in minority precincts and problems with computer equipment.
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  The challenge, with support from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, is based on comparison of reports of exit polling data with the official vote. Columbus lawyer Cliff Arnebeck and other lawyers on the case say they would like to see the supporting data that produced the exit poll results.
  
  The voters ``are not trying to actually contest the presidential election but are merely using this litigation to cast public doubt on the voting system of the State of Ohio without a shred of evidence supporting their theories,'' Attorney General Jim Petro, representing Blackwell, said in last week's filing with the Ohio Supreme Court.

  Right, everyone knows that having different results then exit polls means nothing and is evidence of nothing (see Ukraine).
  
  
  
• Olbermann (of course): Kerry lawyer: does the re-election warrant the public trust? and Conspiracies theorized, or conspiracies invoked? both excellent posts that are definitely worth a read.

  In announcing that the Kerry-Edwards group would join the bid in Federal District Court in Ohio to preserve all "evidence" from the election and recount there, Mr. Hoffheimer said, on behalf of the senators, that such preservation was necessary because, "Only then can the integrity of the entire electoral process and the election of Bush-Cheney warrant the public trust."
  
  This evening, after several Web columnists and bloggers joined me in questioning the bluntness of the phrase (one even wildly claiming this was a precursor to a Kerry "un-concession"), Hoffheimer changed his tone.
  
  "I would caution the media not to read more into what the Kerry-Edwards campaign has said," Mr. Hoffheimer advised us by e-mail, "than what you hear in the plain meaning of our comments. There are many conspiracy theorists opining these days. There are many allegations of fraud. But this presidential election is over. The Bush-Cheney ticket has won. The Kerry-Edwards campaign has found no conspiracy and no fraud in Ohio, though there have been many irregularities that cry out to be fixed for future elections. Senator Kerry and we in Ohio intend to fix them. When all of the problems in Ohio are added together, however bad they are, they do not add up to a victory for Kerry-Edwards. Senator Kerry's fully-informed and extremely careful assessment the day after the election and before he conceded remains accurate today, notwithstanding all the details we have since learned."

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Hey Come on guys, we gave most of our money to our rich folks via tax breaks and the rest had to go to fight an unnecessary war in Iraq... you think money grows on trees?

U.N. official slams U.S. as 'stingy' over aid

The Bush administration yesterday pledged $15 million to Asian nations hit by a tsunami that has killed more than 22,500 people, although the United Nations' humanitarian-aid chief called the donation "stingy."

"The United States, at the president's direction, will be a leading partner in one of the most significant relief, rescue and recovery challenges that the world has ever known," said White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy.

But U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being "stingy" with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised.

Honestly I think Jan Egeland is speaking out of turn. Perhaps given the scale of the event his undiplomatic statement can be somewhat excused. However, this is an opportunity to prove to the world that Americans are still the good guys. We should be so generous so responsive that their would be international condemnation of Egeland's remarks. Instead it seems its just another time for people to realize that American under Bush ain't what it used to be.

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Bush Monkey Picture Shown on Giant Billboard

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Making Votes Count: Setting Standards for Fair Elections

The Election Assistance Commission, a federal body set up after the 2000 election mess, has created a group called the Technical Guidelines Development Committee to propose federal electronic voting standards to Congress this spring. This committee includes outspoken supporters of electronic voting without paper trails, including Britain Williams, a retired Kennesaw State University professor who has worked closely with Georgia on its controversial adoption of Diebold voting machines. But disappointingly, the commission did not include any of the many respected computer scientists - such as Prof. Aviel Rubin of Johns Hopkins, Prof. David Dill of Stanford or Dr. Rebecca Mercuri - who have been warning about the unreliability of electronic voting in its current form.

The election commission is expected to rely heavily on standards being developed by a nonprofit association of engineers, computer scientists and other professionals with the unfortunate acronym of I.E.E.E., which develops technical standards for such things as wireless communications. But the voting machine industry plays a disconcertingly large role in this organization. The chairman of the working group preparing the standards for voting machines is a top executive of Election Systems and Software, a large and controversial voting machine maker. The head of the committee that oversees the working group has a seat on the election commission's voting machines standards committee. He is a consultant who has been hired in the past by companies in the elections field. Because of the insular nature of the engineering panel's meetings, ordinary voters - who have an important stake - have had little chance to participate. Over the objections of some members of the working group, the current draft of the election-machine standards merely makes voter-verified paper trails optional. The draft's scope is also too narrow: it fails to address many ways in which vote totals could be rigged.

Ahhh the federal government at its finest. This committee meets in a conference room across from the National Oil Tanker Safety Committee which consists of the board of Exxon and Chevron and is chaired by Captain Joseph Hazelwood himself. Down the hall is the Internet Security Committee which consists of only Microsoft Windows engineers. The floor above is taken up by The Committee for Sustainable Peace which meets regularly and consists of board members of Halliburton, Carlyle Group, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Corp, and Boeing.

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OUT OF CONTROL

Read and weep!

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The All Mighty Eruo

Isn't it reasurring that the people who told us to calm down because everything is going to be fine in Iraq are the same people who are telling us to calm down and that the weakened dollar is a good thing and doesn't mean anything. Everything is fine. Look Tourism is up! Europeans are visiting America because everything is so cheap! Look we're making America a discount mall!

All of those folks who have ARM's please refinance now... otherwise it isn't going to be pretty when your 3 or 5 or 7 year is up.

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Holiday gifts that never made it off the shelf

Bomb-in-the-box: Mecca, that when you wind it up plays an Arab belly dance! On the last note, Osama pops out and throws a mini nuke! Deluxe edition comes with a little New York that explodes when you press a secret button.

Tickle-me Giuliani: Press the button, he litigates. Every time a frivolous
lawsuit, bent on trampling citizens' rights at the taxpayers' expense. Comes
with a political agenda. Barking commands and erectible police blockades, a
must for would-be dictators ages 5 and up. He loses every case!

Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ Crucifixion: Press a button, he bleeds --
from every inch and pore of torn, ripped, and savaged flesh. Hold the button
down for as long as you like, until there's nothing left but a big, bloody
mess! Why hast thou forsaken me indeed! This Jesus doesn't stand a chance!
Comes with extra bags of blood. Pharisees not included.

The Bush Bag O' Laughs: Irritate a liberal past the point of no return --
just hide it behind an inconspicuous object at a party (an Uzi 9 mm., say) and
sit back and enjoy the show as faces explode in righteous rage when each
implausible rationale for war comes tumbling out, followed by right-wing laughter and applause. Guaranteed to upset at least half of any room.

"Flag-Draped Coffins: The Killers' Series": Collect 'em all. Each card a
"forbidden" photo of a genuine U.S. flag-draped coffin, embossed with the
soldier's name, rank, and insignia. On the flipside, humorous remarks or
testy replies from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, such as "Freedom's untidy" and "You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time." 1,500 in all, with a special Collector's Edition subscription series for each new soldier killed in battle. Comes with official Pentagon death notice (you fill in the name), machine-signed by Rumsfeld himself.

The "Banana Republican" Voting Machine: Cast a vote and see who wins -- a radical right-winger every time! Leaves no paper trail. Comes with Florida Can O' Sunshine and Squeeze-Me election monitors that light up and squeak "It don't pass the smell test!" to the sound of chirping crickets. Barricades not included (available upon request).

Rock 'em Sock 'em Roe v. Wadebots: Watch the Red states take on the Blues as
you control the levers of Judgment in the ring -- a direct hit to the belly
button and an unborn fetus splashes out! It's up to you what to do with it:
entitle it to welfare, sign it up for the army, or toss it into the trash.
Divide your family and friends and claim the moral high ground while your
side keeps slugging away. Watch out for unplanned developments! Anything can
go wrong, and probably will! Fun for ages 11-12. Parents not included.

Hoping this finds you under the tree.

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The Free Speech Zone

The office of the independent blogger

Buzzflash

Tom The Dancing Bug

VerifiedVoting.org

Get Your War On

This Modern World

Eschaton / Atrios

Daily Kos

meowpurrmeow

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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people."
- Teddy Roosevelt



"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make fitting response."
 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt



"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws must and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
- Thomas Jefferson



"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
- James Madison



"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves."
- John F. Kennedy



"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"There's nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America." - Bill Clinton.