Major GOP Donor Charged with Terrorism Financing
As if there was any remaining doubt that the GOP is the party that has recklessly compromised America's safety over the past 30 years in many ways ranging from training and funding al Qaeda in...
View ArticleRudy: I Support Racism
(cross-posted at The Albany Project)(This has already diaried been very well here, but it hasn't gotten enough sunlight)I guess this should come as no surprise to those who remember the days of Amadou...
View ArticleNYT: Turkey to Invade Iraq!!!
As if we needed any more evidence how the war in Iraq is fucking up the entire regionTurkey's army chief said Thursday the military had launched several ''large scale'' offensives against rebels in the...
View Articleculture of life.
Have you ever read something that has made you wanna just tear your hair out and hurl explitaves at your computer screen?I just did.In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in SouthFor decades, Mississippi...
View ArticleThe F****** Deal with Iraq Money: Shift all Funds to the State Dept.
Sometimes the answer to a problem is so obvious that no one sees it.It's like not seeing the forest through the trees.Well it's time for the Democratic leadership to put their money where their mouth is.
View ArticleRudy: Bus Drivers are "Idiots," "Morons"- Video
(Cross-posted at The Albany Project)A friend of mine whose father, Larry Hanley, is the President of the Amalgamated Transit Union on Staten Island alerted me to this gem of a video from 2001 where he...
View ArticleJohn Edwards for Attorney General
I did not support Edwards in the presidential primary, but I have always had great respect him as a person and a politician. Now that he is dropping out, I want to make it clear to whoever wins the...
View ArticleHow Obama Desperately Tried to Save Israel in 2002
We have seen Presiden't Bush's despicable smear calling Obama an appeaser because of his desire to talk with Iran.Although commentators from both the left and right are already calling Bush out on his...
View Article"Why is Chelsea Clinton so Ugly?" Ask John McCain.
(Cross-posted at the Albany Project) For all you Hillary supporters thinking about voting for McCain this November, all I have to tell you is don't believe the hype.While John McCain will pretend he...
View ArticleBREAKING: Bush has Appeased North Korea!!!
In Bush and McCain's world, talking to enemies of the US is "appeasement;" most of us have seen this video, of course:So now comes the announcement that the US hasreached a deal with North Korea for it...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Latest Alaska Independence Party FREAKJOB
AIP Alaska house candidate Daniel Dinardo says the US and Russia are both running Alaska and presents his anti-Soviet plan:Link here.Sorry for the short diary, but does this video really even need that...
View ArticleThe Obama Effect in Action! Hezbollah Defeated in Democratic Election UPDATE x4
(This has been diaried already over here but I don't think this received enough attention.)(X-posted at The Albany Project)With idiot conservatives questioning the point of making a stirring, beautiful...
View ArticleAP Apparently Unaware of "Screamers"
Surprise! The AP fails to see forest among the trees againLawmakers across the country are encountering growing public doubts about President Barack Obama's push to remake the system for providing...
View ArticleHere's an Idea: an Inaccuracy Tax on the Ratings Agencies
With today's news that Scott Brown is going to throw himself into machine and derail the Financial Reform Bill because it, gasp, has a tax on Banks, it seems the conference negotiators are going to...
View ArticleHow Republicans Govern: Christie Kills Biggest Mass Transit Project in the USA
For every voter who is thinking that the GOP deserves their vote because the economy still has a ways to go to recovery, they just need to look at what Republicans do when they are in power. And Chris...
View ArticleA Slight Improvement Over the Worst-Case Scenario. Huzzah!
(x-posted at ACT NOW)So, the tax/infrastructure deal in New York State. Some good, a lot bad - it all depends on how you define the baseline.
View ArticleLaying Into Corrupt Officials, Both Republican and Dems
(x-posted at ACT NOW)I'm glad I got to tell the hacks on LATFOR how pathetic they are at the Brooklyn LATFOR hearing on Wednesday. Here's to free speech. Here are a few examples of the absurdly...
View ArticleThe Amazing Story of Dr. Richard Carmona and my Late Grandfather
You may all be familiar with Richard Carmona - he is a Vietnam Veteran, former US Surgeon General who then became highly critical of the Bush Administration over its political interference with...
View ArticleGov Andrew Cuomo, R-NY, Betrays Us Again, Long Island Edition
(X-Posted at my group's blog, ACT NOW)For a long time I've given Andrew Cuomo the benefit of the doubt. After the Spitzer/Paterson disaster I felt greedy criticizing an ostensibly Democratic Governor...
View ArticleThis Year's Most Important Battleground? Nassau County. Yes, that Correct,...
(x-posted at Act Now)Of course your first reaction to this will be Nassau County?? Wtf is this guy smoking?But it's true. Look at the other races:Normally the markee of races of the nation during the...
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