The Mumpsimus has links to several charities that are helping Grenada. 90% of all the homes in Grenada were damaged to one extent or another. The Island was just flattened. Help out if you can.
Archive for September 14th, 2004
Help Grenada
Posted in Culture on September 14, 2004 | 2 Comments »
9/11 Widows Endorse Kerry
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Many of the widows who got the 9/11 commisison off the gorund and forced Bush and Rice to testify are now coming out in support of Kerry BREITWEISER: I think my own personal experience in the last three years, where I’d hoped that President Bush — someone that I voted for, that my husband voted [...]
US News: Records Show Bush Failed to Meet Guard Obligations
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2004 | 6 Comments »
Bumping, as this seems to have gotten lost in all of the Killian nonsense This is very similar to the Boston Globe story of a couple of days ago, but it has some more details. The executive version: Most of the documents, which have been reviewed by U.S. News, and former military and Defense Department [...]
Weirdness on Killian Memos
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2004 | 9 Comments »
Josh Marshall links to a story that says this: The former secretary for the Texas Air National Guard colonel who supposedly authored memos critical of President Bushs Guard service said Tuesday that the documents are fake, but that they reflect real documents that once existed. Weird. First, what makes her certain? Second, what happened to [...]
Morrison: Taking Down DeLay
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Charles Kuffner has this great overview of the race to oust corrupt and generally thuggish Tom DeLay. he also has a very good interview with Delay’s challenger, Richard Morrison. This, oh blog triumphalists, is what actual journalism looks like.
Bush HarboringTerrorists?
Posted in Terrorism on September 14, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Apparently, Cuban terrorists fall on the “with us” side of Bush’s “with us or against us” world: In his inauguration speech on Sept. 1, Panama’s new president, Martin Torrijos, condemned outgoing President Mireya Moscoso’s pardoning of four Cuban exile terrorists, imprisoned in Panama on charges of plotting the assassination of President Fidel Castro. “For me,” [...]
Update on N. Korean Explosion
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2004 | 2 Comments »
First, the good news: it almost certainly wasn’t a planned or accidental nuclear explosion. Now, the bad news: no one seems to know what @#*?& IS going on here EOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Monday that a explosion near its border with China several days ago was the planned demolition of a mountain [...]
Did Bush Bribe Barnes?
Posted in Politics on September 14, 2004 | Comments Off
Pandagon has a link to a Greg Palast — he of the Florida felon fraud fame — article alleging that Bush bought off Barnes before his gubernatorial race: Barnes, as he now admits, pulled strings to get a young George W. Bush into the Guard. Barnes, a former Lt. Governor of Texas, was [...]
Roe v Wade Challenge Denied
Posted in Culture, Health, Legal Issues, Politics, Religion on September 14, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Norma McCorvey, who was the original “Jane Roe” in the groundbreaking Roe v Wade case, famously became a conservative Christian and changed her mind about abortion rights about 10 years ago. She has since become a figurehead in anti-choice campaigns, and in the past few years has agreed to serve as plaintiff in an attempt [...]
Make Love, Not Republicans
Posted in Culture, Politics, Religion on September 14, 2004 | 5 Comments »
Phillip Longman, genetic doomsayer of note, has a clever-pants Op-Ed in the Washington Post noting the familiar reduction in birthrate that accompanies social and cultural progress. (There is a marked difference in birthrates between industrialized and developing countries, with more-developed countries having fewer children per woman; in fact the birthrate in most European countries has [...]
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