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March 19, 2005

More from MSNBC.

09:00 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

AMERICAN MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 1,521
AMERICAN MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 11,344
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MINIMUM): 17,061

06:24 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

March 16, 2005

51 to 49. This was the margin of passage for raping the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge. 51 senators said, "You know. Despite our massive potential for historically groundbreaking innovations in alternative fuel technology, we're going to take a destructive, knee-jerk path towards becoming (slightly) more energy independent."

So what's next on the Republican ass-backwards-solutions agenda?

We've already heard the "save Social Security by killing it" idea and that kinda died an hilariously painful death. Before that, there was the "Healthy Forest Initiative" which effectively called for cutting down forests in order to save them. Doy!

Up next?

PROBLEM: Tsunamis and potential global warming floods.

REPUBLICAN SOLUTION: In order to prevent another catastrophic tsunami, Republicans have proposed draining all oceans. The bonus? No global warming floods.

PROBLEM: Every day, mad cow disease threatens the health and welfare of the American carnivore's appetite for steriod and hormone saturated red meat.

REPUBLICAN SOLUTION: Harvest African mountain gorilla bushmeat. The bonus? McDonalds and the Bush family get a Summertime cross-promotion: the McBush sandwich. The ad copy writes itself... "You'll go APE for the new McBush!" Or, "President Bush says: 'Put the McBush on your families!'"

Congratulations, red state Republican voters. You're awesome. And smart!

03:55 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca

March 14, 2005

Did you know that BushCo uses your tax dollars to manufacture fake news that is actually aired on TV news channels as if it were real journalism? Wanna do something about it?

Then go to www.stopfakenews.org and sign their petition to the FCC.

In case you're wondering what this is about, the NY Times broke a major story yesterday that tells us that even after last year's story of BushCo manufacturing propoganda on Medicare, the Bushies have continued to manufacture propoganda video clips and offer them to the news networks. The networks air this propoganda as if it were, in fact, news. Which it isn't. Think about this in light of Rather's recent resignation. The Medicare story wasn't nearly as big as "Memogate", even though it was similar. Someone gave false information in a TV news broadcast. The difference was, Rather was misled (by whom we still don't know), but BushCo (aka the government) purposefully misled people. And they're still doing it. A semi-respected newsman lost his job, but the government continues unabated in their campaign to de facto deceive the public. This is wrong in so many ways it requires a mathemetician to chart.

From the Times:

At the same time, records and interviews suggest widespread complicity or negligence by television stations, given industry ethics standards that discourage the broadcast of prepackaged news segments from any outside group without revealing the source.

Federal agencies are forthright with broadcasters about the origin of the news segments they distribute. The reports themselves, though, are designed to fit seamlessly into the typical local news broadcast. In most cases, the "reporters" are careful not to state in the segment that they work for the government. Their reports generally avoid overt ideological appeals. Instead, the government's news-making apparatus has produced a quiet drumbeat of broadcasts describing a vigilant and compassionate administration.

Had enough? Go sign the petition.

11:37 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By John Christian Plummer

The C student is doing worse than usual with his Social Security nonsense. He's lying and obfuscating as well as he usually does, but this time, people aren't buying it. Or, I should say, more people aren't buying it than are. Here's the latest on an ABC News/Washington Post poll:

Barely a third of the public approves of the way President Bush is dealing with Social Security and a majority says the more they hear about Bush's plan to reform the giant retirement system, the less they like it.

The same poll found that Bush's approval rating remains at the staggering low 50 percent, and that his disapproval rating is at 48.

How did this guy get reelected? Oh, yeah, I forgot: Diebold and ES&S -- I mean Ohio and Florida -- selected him. Did you know that Bob Urosevich is the President of Diebold, and his brother Ted is the Vice President of ES&S? Did you know that these two companies, essentially run by the same family, counted 80 percent of votes in the 2004 election. EIGHTY PERCENT.

Thomas Jefferson would die of shame.

Read more here on the OTHER corrupt brother act behind the bogus election results in 2000 and 2004.

11:19 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By John Christian Plummer