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Dressing Up Space Defense in Dominatrix Clothing

Setting aside and ignoring the blather of Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, we are becoming a sadomasochistic nation when it comes to our foreign affairs. There is no other explanation. Who but a sadist would lead the likes of Pervez Musharraf down the garden path of armaments and praise, to so suddenly get moralistic and yank out the rug we stood him on?

New York Times Editorial on Kids’ Health and Tobacco—Wrong Again

Few things are as disingenuous as trying to sound warm and fuzzy while supporting the status-quo, which is cold and prickly. But the NYTimes has accomplished it yet again. Writing editorially yesterday, BIG TOBACCO DEFEATS SICK KIDS

MAD or NUTS Take Your Pick, It Might be IRRITATE

The opener is pretty much all you need to know in trading off the ‘fair and balanced’ position of this article co-authored by Israelist Louis Rene Beres and his warmongering buddy, Major General Paul (surgical and fast) Vallely, U.S. Army (retarded).

Put On the Cuffs, I’m Guilty as Charged

If you thought, as I did, that some pretty scary legislation was created in the past seven years of this administration, you might want to pay attention.

750,000 Americans Take 50% Drop in Social Security

Don’t worry about losing your Social Security benefits in 2040 or 2050. Three quarters of a million American citizens are already losing theirs.

Congress Drops White House Demands Along With Its Pants

In the dance this administration orchestrated over the still-warm corpse of American values, ‘abhorrent’ has come to mean ‘offensive to the mind, but allowable.’ Most of us were flim-flammed by the wording, victims of adminispeak; in common context, the synonyms are repulsive, detestable, obscene and repugnant.

Free Speech Becoming Too Expensive

First it was going to be term limits, everybody’s silver bullet for political corruption. Then it was lobbyist legislation. Next, the big buzz-word was campaign-finance legislation.

Smithsonian--‘Nations Attic'--Leaking Badly

Not to worry—the Congress will not let this happen. Those who stand up every day in the halls of the House and Senate, shaking a righteous finger in the defense of our most precious freedoms, will ride like the cavalry to the rescue. It is, after all, a miniscule number, an amount required to fund less than a week of war.

Automated Targeting, Cruise-Control for What Hitler Had to Do By Hand

I’m mad as hell. I’ve written in as moderate and civilized a manner as is possible (for me) for seven years now about this evil band of co-conspirators we call an administration. No matter, the gloves are off. I am like Howard Beale, the newscaster in the 1976 film Network. Grab some dialogue;

Investors Buoyed by the Big Mac

The stock market rallied because two companies (one a failed automaker and the other a fat-food purveyor in the midst of an obesity crisis) had upbeat news. Well, we live in a society where the beat beats the content, where it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, so why not?