Saturday, February 12, 2005

Friday, February 11, 2005


Mississippi is struggling to afford Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health insurance for the poor, because rising medical costs and swelling enrollments have made it so expensive. Last year, Barbour came up with a crude, if effective, solution: Cut from the rolls 50,000 people who live at or near the poverty line.

You begin your piece with something President Bush said recently -- that "torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture."


City And Times Argue In Court Over Firefighters' 9/11 Accounts

Wall Street Journal's Fund, FOX's Asman echoed Hume's Social Security distortion of FDR

novelist TC Boyle explains why he finds the man so exciting

Outrageous!, Darn PM: 9/11: Debunking The Myths

There is no trust.

Thursday, February 10, 2005


No one should be surprised a celebrity would hold a runway show at fashion week, a venue typically reserved for top designers, said Simon Doonan, creative director at top New York fashion retailer Barney's.
BRAIN SURGERY?
"We've only ourselves to blame because we've given celebrities these deranged feelings of omnipotence," he said. "She'll be doing brain surgery next."
And it's one more nail in the coffin of what Fashion Week in New York once was, he added.
"Every fashion show is like some gigantic mind-blowing movie premiere. The original sense that it's a trade show has evaporated completely," Doonan said.
My comment: I didn't realize it was that small a leap from fashion design to brain surgery!  Posted by Hello

Wednesday, February 09, 2005


Short discussion about CNN exec. talking about American Military targeting journalists

Maybe of Interest, former Microsoft Executive: How to Manage Smart People

I usually try to stay away from personal attacks, especially on spouses/relatives of politicians, but here's an interesting post: Laura ran a stop sign and struck a Corvair sedan driven by her alleged boyfriend and killed him

Sex hormones plunge in downtrodden females (monkeys)

The commentator, Courtney D. Smith, helped "artificially inflate" GenesisIntermedia Inc.'s stock after the company went public in 1999, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a civil lawsuit filed Monday

Daniel Hopsicker says these companies are intwined with 911

'she's like the big dyke at the melissa etheridge concert that's screaming 'sh!' while everyone's having a good time singing along with 'i'm the only 1.'

Amazing

Tarpley on WTC Collapse

Corey Feldman goes public with "sickening" Jackson realization

Absolutely Wonderful Restaurant in Baltimore!

To Prejean, death penalty system is guilty as sin



Ananova:


Zoo tempts gay penguins to go straight


Lab monkeys 'scream with fear' in tests


Brian Williams: Republicans' "go-to network anchor"?

Limbaugh, Hannity distorted Dems' 1999 remarks to falsely claim they supported private accounts

Google Maps

Man, Bush Gets All The Tough Questions

Another Disappointing Mass Media Bit

Monday, February 07, 2005


Darger; Vivian Girls

Henry Darger's illustrations, Washington Post (requires registration)

Do US Troops Target Journalists in Iraq?

9-11: Holes in the Radar

An internal CIA report, naming individuals who may have been responsible for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, has been kept secret


The Ethics of War: Is the US Military Guilty of War Crimes in Iraq?

The launching of the US imperial legions into Iraq does however have a strategic dimension.

Older people get the big picture

eHarmony and Focus on the Family

Plame Leak Timeline II... the case is made (Gannon)

Pumpkinhead -- Still a Moron


"why are you here"

Pic from Flickr

Related Video from WingTv (02/04/2004) (slow real media)


Colonel Donn de Grand Pre (ret), in his book, "The Viper's Venom" concludes that the 911 terror attacks were done by remote control technology. Grand Pre was the top US arms dealer to the Middle East under the Ford and Carter administrations. What he saw caused him to leave government service and begin investigating the forces he saw warping our nation's destiny.
 Posted by Hello

The Emperor's New Hump
The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election
 Posted by Hello