Bits of News

David Miliband to quit and challenge to British PM Gordon Brown?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:58:23 +0100

David Miliband has sparked fresh speculation that he is about to leave his job as Foreign Secretary to challenge Gordon Brown after suddenly cancelling a four-day foreign trip, and holding what was interpreted as a 'farewell' meeting with his staff.

Black History: The Second Klan

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:36:55 +0100

The second Klan rose in response to urbanization and industrialization, massive immigration from eastern and southern Europe, the Great Migration of African Americans to the North, and the migration of African Americans and whites from rural areas to Southern cities.

Why Fox News canceled my interview about Netroots & the Troops - KO-worthy

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:20:06 +0100

At 3:44pm Eastern, Fox News Channel employee (I am guessing a segment producer) Eldad Yaron called me to arrange an interview for me to talk about BooksForSoldiers.com, our fundraising problems and how I am using the netroots to solve the problem.

Deadly explosions hit Istanbul

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:00:27 +0100

At least 13 people have been killed in two explosions in Istanbul, which the governor of the Turkish city has described as terror attacks.

NY Times: How Obama Became Acting President

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:46:36 +0100

“We have one president at a time,” Mr. Obama is careful to say. True, but the sitting president, a lame duck despised by voters and shunned by his own party’s candidates, now has all the gravitas of Mr. Cellophane in “Chicago.” The opening for a successor arrived prematurely, and the vacuum had been waiting to be filled.

Iran announces nuclear expansion

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:29 +0100

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Iran now possesses 6,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium - nearly twice the number of only a few months ago.

The dollar and the Prisoner's dilemma

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:05:28 +0100

As a reserve currency, all other currencies are derivatives of the dollar (in the same way that all currencies were derivatives of gold and silver a century ago). Therefore when America's debt burden becomes too onerous it effects everyone else. The simple fact of the matter is that our national debt can never, and will never, be paid back.

Black History: The First Klan

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:38:53 +0100

The original Ku Klux Klan was created in the aftermath of the American Civil War by six educated, middle-class Confederate veterans on December 24, 1865. from Pulaski, Tennessee. They made up the name by combining the Greek “kyklos” with “clan” It was one among a number of secret, oath-bound organizations.

Senior ministers urged: tell Gordon it's time to go

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:42:17 +0100

Nationalists overturn 13,500 majority in heartland. Cabinet members talk of 'orderly resignation.

McCain and his Doc Brown DeLorean

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:33:37 +0100

I hate to keep on McCain and his intellectual gaffes, but the latest about the surge and the Awakening, brings up another thought. Even if McCain tells us he will pick good advisers, but if he can’t keep his facts straight and if he can’t use a computer, how in the world is he going to whip up the brainpower to pick knowledgeable advisers?

Oil Prices Below $127 as Storm Concern Fades

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:35:16 +0100

Oil fell as much as $5 a barrel to a six-week low on Tuesday as a tropical storm moving over the Gulf of Mexico was expected to miss most major oil and gas installations.

Brit Soldiers Paid To Attend Gay Pride Events - Breeders Outraged!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:46 +0100

From The Telegraph:

The True Story Of Jesse Helms That No One Believes

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:44 +0100

What I am getting ready to tell you is a true story about my run-in with then Senator Jesse Helms.

Why Fox News canceled my interview about Netroots & the Troops - KO-worthy

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:42 +0100

Note To McCain: Viagra is not a weapons system

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:39 +0100

That thing… that thing right there, by your foot. It is my jaw…

Another Bush Knife In The Back

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:36 +0100

Bush has broken his promise to the G8 Summit and has now rejected the regulation of greenhouse gases.

Economic Flashbacks

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:34 +0100

Phil Gramm must be high:

What you are missing at Netroots Nation in Second Life

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:32 +0100

Netroots Nation in Second Life is in full swing today:

Hey Phil Gramm, are the troops whinning too?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:30 +0100

The recent bank failures, suck-ass economy, rising gas prices are all a figment of your imagination. That is what the Bush Administration wants you to think as they keep pounding the podium for off-shore drilling - sucking the last of the Earth’s marrow out while they are still in office.

Note to McCain: Obama can read

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:28 +0100

You can read, I can read and I am pretty sure Obama can read. We can read all about the Iraq war, we can see it in video form.

An Open Blog Post To John McCain

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:26 +0100

For someone who wants to lead one of the largest economies on the planet in the 21st century, you sure don’t seem to understand the issues important to America.

31 Days to Total Financial Hell - Gas Up Now!

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:32:07 +0100

A friend of mine manages a multi-million dollar fund and sometimes I think he is afraid to admit the truth to himself. Days like today wring him out like a dishrag. We have previously discussed what happens when days like today happen. What happens when you get two in a row? Three? Five? After five days, other feedback loops might kick in because that is a 2000 point loss in 5 days, other fears and factors are put in the mix which all put downward pressure on the market.

When will Neo-Cons ever take a marketing class?

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:32:05 +0100

The Neo-cons have been on the “scary black man” meme for some time now and show no signs of letting up. Fox News’ anchor, E.D. Hill, started yapping about Michelle and Barack Obama’s dap and called it a “terrorist fist jab.”

Pledging for Dark Lord Cheney

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:32:03 +0100

McCain has been chanting about how he is not McSame, not running for Bush’s third term, and he is not a GOP sycophant. No one in the reality-based community believes a word of all of this. What do we have as proof you might wonder? Well, here is some straight talk from Mr. Maverick himself:

Does Agent Orange Work On Mice?

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:32:01 +0100

John McCain alerted us that he is computer illiterate. That is fine, there is no law stating one must know how to use a computer, my Grandmother can’t use a computer - she never really cared to learn.

RIP Tim Russert - Memorial Political Cartoon

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:31:59 +0100

Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,”� died Friday after being stricken at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

Straight Men Will Love Gay Marriage

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:31:56 +0100

When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom presides over the city’s first legal same-sex wedding Monday, there will be some very carefully arranged political stagecraft involved.

Czeching out of Euro 2008

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:26:36 +0100

So Czechoslovakia met Turkey tonight- the winners would go through the losers would go out and it was heart ache for the Eastern Europeans- what happened?

Mongol

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:41:57 +0100

Our reviewer went to see the disaster that was Mongol- that Genghis Khan, if he'd only had a better childhood he might have contented himself with burning cakes instead of cities...

For Memorial Day, have you helped a soldier?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:58:19 +0100

Until the Bush administration approves of the new VA benefits package there are ways you can help the troops.