tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136655032011-04-21T15:11:07.985-04:00Blue in the Red Statercmnoreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665503.post-1132615799139477442005-11-21T18:07:00.000-05:002005-11-21T18:29:59.160-05:00

With every passing day, Texas Rep. Tom Delay's political future gets a little dimmer. Today, it was announced a former Delay aide, Michael Scanlon has plead guilty to conspiring to bribe public officials and is now cooperating with prosecutors in the case against Delay.Tom Delay really deserves serious jail time for fostering this culture of corruption between our nation's lawmakers and corporate

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More poor families & children will grow hungry in 2006, since Pres. Bush & the GOP-led Congress cut over $700 million from this country's food stamp program. Tax cuts for the richest Americans at the expense of our poor. Is this what compassionate conservatism is all about? Our congressional leaders can see fit to waste our taxdollars funding bridges to nowhere, but a starving child isn't

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Am I the only one tired of seeing this President and his administration use our military as props and window dressing to push his agenda? Even during the campaign the President's audiences were carefully vetted & screened beforehand. These appearances were braodcast to a national audience, but the live audience was only the Republican faithful. Even the vehicles were carefully monitored for

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.Republican political pundits really are the scum of the earth. It's appalling the things they are saying about Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan. Here is a woman who raised her young son to excel in life, and who served & died in service to his country. And they brand her a traitor!?! Rush Limbaugh denounces her daily. G. Gordon Liddy (Watergate burglar) calls her anti-semitic and a supporter of

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It was a year ago today Hurricane Charley made landfall in Charlotte County. It's not something either myself or my family will easily forget. There are a slew of celebrations marking the day. It started at 7AM with NBC's Today Show broadcast from downtown Punta Gorda. There's a gathering between 1-5PM at Gilcrist Park and a day-long benefit concert starring Grand Funk Railroad, Edgar Winter &

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Who's colorizing?

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.In a new article, Robert Novak claims he used a Who's Who book to identify former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame. The Who's Who apparently does list Mrs. Plame as the ambassador's wife, but did not list the CIA as her employer. And despite multiple attempts from the CIA spokesperson to dissuade Mr. Novak from including her intelligence affiliation in his article, Novak persisted.

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.A link in today's SludgeReport is an article about the hunt for the demon child for a new "The Omen" remake. If only Matt Sludge, Tom Delay, or Rick Santorum were a little younger! I can't think of three more creepy people on the planet.

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.I'm not an expert on building highway rest facilities, but $29.7 million seems a steep price to pay for public restrooms, a parking lots, and snack machine vending. At the center of this new controversy is GOP darling and Florida House Speaker Alan Bense. Mr. Bense was being wooed by Washington GOP'ers to challenge Florida Rep. Katherine Harris for Bill Nelson's Senate seat. On its Web site

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.Wow! It took another study to figure out insurgents are infiltrating Iraqi police ranks. Like all the police station car bombings and assassinated Iraqi military recruits the past 2 years didn't offer a clue? "Recruitment and vetting procedures are faulty," said the report from the inspectors general of both departments."Despite recent improvements, too many recruits are marginally literate;

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.Congratulations to BIG OIL for yet another windfall year of almost embarrassing profits. When you visit Smirky McSmirkalot in the Oval Office.. give him a big pat on the back.“This is the mother of all booms,” said Oppenheimer & Co. oil analyst Fadel Gheit. “They have so much profit, it’s almost an embarrassment of riches. They don’t know what to do with it.Keep Truckin!

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.Talk about foul odors.. the DamTurkey blog has discovered --A German man has canned the noxious-smelling exhaust fumes of East Germany's cult Trabant car and is doing a brisk trade selling the scent to those nostalgic for the former Communist state.What's next? Life-size secret police dolls capable of interrogating and torturing your family & friends. Those were the days!

rcmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665503.post-1121617981176161912005-07-17T12:27:00.000-04:002005-07-17T12:36:00.086-04:00

.In Rwanda, officials have found a new, efficient, and renewable source of energy. Recently, the prison system has aquired technology which converts prisoner's shit into energy.With the overwhelming amount of shit coming from the White House and RNC concerning the outing of a CIA operative, we'd be able to power this country into the 22nd century.

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.According to this CNN headline, British PM Tony Blair is shocked last week's bombers were British citizens. I've also heard and seen reports the bombers were specifically, "British muslims of Pakistani origin". Is Tony Blair so deaf & blind he didn't know radical muslim clerics in the UK were preaching hate & violent jihad to citizens in his own country? That's a real disconnect considering the

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.President Bush and his republican friends in Congress would like to see oil drilling platforms on SW Florida's gulf coast despite the concerns to our environment or the possible negative effects to Florida's tourism economy. Just look that this photo & news article of British Petroleum's huge Thunder Horse facility located in the Gulf of Mexico, after Hurricane Dennis struck.

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.It's official, folks! The White House and the President have lost credibility. The folks at ThinkProgress.org have provided a complete transcript of today's daily White House press briefing.Hooray for Media! They finally gathered the gumption to dismiss the White House rhetoric and are now seeking answers. This is going to get good!

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.Senator John Kerry is pushing for the removal of Karl Rove, aka Benedict Rove, from the White House.Fire Rove!Click the link above and keep traitors out of our government.

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.Eleven months have passed since Hurricane Charley wreaked havoc on Charlotte County. Our community has made great strides cleaning up the debris and reconstructing our lives. You can bet we are all thankful Hurricane Dennis stay well offshore. All weekend I lived on the National Weather web site monitoring the storm. I was prepared to board up the windows, pack the family, and get the hell out

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.Remember the massive manhunt for abortion clinic killer and Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph? This story offers insight on how Rudolph managed to elude the FBI manhunt through his letters to his mother.After reading this article I can't help but wonder.. who was hunting whom? I remember the FBI spin about Rudolph as an experienced outdoorsman.. yada yada yada. Now it's abundently clear

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.Once a hack.. always a hack!Bet you don't know who's solving scientific citrus canker mysteries for Florida's Agriculture Dept. when she's not fixing national elections?Yes.. Krazy Katherine Harris!!I wonder if they've tried Jesus' Juice yet?

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.Years ago, Jack Rickard's BoardWatch Magazine printed a wonderful issue featuring 'BillGatus of Borg' on the cover.At the time, BoardWatch was making light of Microsoft's spate of buying the companies successfully carving out a niche in the PC software industry. At a recent conference, Bill Gates spoke about the future of Wetware. Wetware is a new technology which represents a merging of people

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.How bizarre is it for Microsoft to be embracing elements of the Open Source community while privately donating large sums of money to lawmakers to stifle Open Source development? The one huge thing Bill Gates, Inc. must have learned during the government's anti-trust case was he needed more representation in Washington and lawmakers in his pocket.I've been using computers since 1978. I've

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.I've been conflicted over the US Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. I'm not pleased that personal property can be seized using eminent domain for future 'potential' financial gains. Opening a new Walmart on the land Mom & Pop were just evicted is just wrong. I also think the Supreme Court is not the best place to resolve local land use issues.However, I find it absolutely hilarious that a

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.This Time Magazine article reports how republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates ripped off American Indian tribes to finance their extravagant lifestyles, family members, and pet projects. Compassionate conservatives, huh? Smell the sheets and you'll a find Tom Delay and Katherine Harris in bed with the rest of these compassionate pit vipers.

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.You can only wonder if this is what Porter Goss is talking about when he calls for 'international obligation & fairplay' when dealing with 'sancturies in sovereign nations'? ROME - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents for allegedly helping deport an imam to Egypt as part of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, an Italian official familiar with the investigation said Friday. The

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.Are you feeling good about Bush's War on Terror? Read this article by Robert Windrem and you'll see why killing terrorists and their ambitions needs to be America's top priority.

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.I've been pondering this question since Bush was 'annointed' President by the Supreme Court. From the very beginning, secrecy was important to this administration. President Bush spent more time at Camp David and his ranch in Crawford than in the White House. For the first months of his term, Dick Cheney was more an 'acting president' than Bush. Was it like Bush believed he could play tardy for

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.Has anyone seen the new PSA ad from Partnership for a Drug Free America? The commercial features a very young boy singing twisted, drug-laced lyrics to the tune of the ABC's. I really hate this commercial and let me tell you why.Usually, I'd have nothing against controversial PSA ads. I think people pay attention to these ads and remember them. I think the tobacco ads make the tobacco companies

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.What can I say? According to Old Spice, I live smack between two of the sweatiest cities in the US! This year, I guess my city would be ranked #8.5, but in 2003 it was like.. #5.6?!? I guess. :) I wonder how this survey is conducted? Do teams of men wearing Old Spice products travel the nation, stinking to high heaven, braving the climates measuring their perspiration? Old Spice is some gnarly

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.Recent news report suggest young Iranians are more secular today than the student revolution of '79 which helped propel Ayatollah Khomeini to power. I was in my sophomore year of high school taking middle east studies at the time. It was fascinating how an anti-American student revolt was hijacked by hardline clerics.Today, Iranians get to exercise their own brand of 'democracy' and vote for

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.I've been meaning to write a post to address the Terri Schiavo autopsy results since last week. Immediately after the autopsy results were announced, the Schindler's attorney and their 'family spokesman' took to the airwaves and varnished over their very arguments raised in court and in the media. They now want the public to focus on how the Schindler's irwere willing to care for Terri despite

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.I always knew AOL was a crappy service for the technically-challenged, but this takes the cake. Analysis from IT security consulting firm Prolexic claims that AOL's network hosts more zombie-infected PCs than any other in the world. Infected machines can be used by remote hackers to instigate distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks.Here's the entire article.As a former BBS sysop & PC tech,

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.Now that Terri Schiavo's autopsy is public and confirms everything the experts had said during the many trials & appeals. Sen. Bill Frist would like to "move on and close this chapter". Sen. Frist claims he never diagnosed Mrs. Shiavo even though he announced his biased conclusions during an emergency Senate debate. Afterward, many of Sen. Frist's republican colleagues echoed Mr. Frist's '

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.It didn't take long for the cheers to turn into catcalls.SANTA MONICA, California (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to his alma mater turned into an exercise in perseverance when virtually his every word was accompanied by catcalls, howls and piercing whistles from the crowd.The popularity Arnold Schwarzenegger once enjoyed has turned into a full-scale assault on the new politician's

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.Political opportunist and Republican lap dog, Katherine Harris plans on running for Senator and it comes as a surprise to no one. Harris has always made it clear she'll ambitiously whore herself for George Bush since she helped him steal the 2000 election. She even brags about it in her own literature. Though, the last thing Floridians need is another Christian fundamentalist eager to cow-tow to

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.Proving once again how Bush family politics will shamelessly pander to the NRA & their neo-con conservative friends, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law a bill which will allow people to use deadly force if they 'feel' threatened with violence. Florida law previously allowed residents to defend themselves with reasonable force (even provisions for deadly force) inside their residence. Under

rcmnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665503.post-1118761777733827512005-05-28T11:01:00.000-04:002005-06-16T17:54:57.146-04:00

.Events in my home state of Florida, this United States, and in my personal life have compelled me to journal my thoughts. I'm outraged at the arrogance and ignorance displayed by our President & the Republican leadership in Congress. I believe the democracy outlined in the Constitution, the separation of Powers, and the separation of church & state are being eroded by those in power. I am

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