DeWine Fakes WTC Towers Burning

7:07 pm EST July 19th, 2006 | Politics | 19 Comments

Nice. Like everything else from the right, another fake.

The controversial video of the burning World Trade Center towers in a television campaign ad for Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine is doctored, U.S. News has learned. The television spot, which has been lambasted by critics as a political exploitation of the Sept. 11, attacks Democrat challenger Rep. Sherrod Brown for being weak on national security.

On the air in major Ohio markets since last Friday, the ad shows the towers, with the south building billowing smoke, which gradually drifts upward. In the video, the north tower, which was struck first on September 11, is undamaged.

“This particular image is impossible,” says W. Gene Corley, a stuctural engineer who led FEMA’s building performance study on the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. Corley reviewed the ad atwww.brownvotes.com for U.S. News. “The north tower was hit first [so] the south tower could not be burning without the North Tower burning.” Corley also says, “the smoke is all wrong.” The day of the attacks, the plumes of ash were drifting to the southeast. “The smoke on 9/11 was never in a halo like that,” Corley says.

For The Love Of God, Georgia

7:07 pm EST July 19th, 2006 | Politics | 36 Comments

Don’t send Cynthia McKinney back to Washington. My cousin lives in McKinney’s district. Embarrased is too soft a word to describe the sentiment.

C’Mon, Dummy, Try It Again

4:07 pm EST July 19th, 2006 | Politics | 23 Comments

Shorter Bill Kristol: “You know that cluster**** we call Iraq? Let’s do it again because my legacy is being Dan Quayle’s do-boy and I deserve more!”

Bush Signs The Death Warrant

3:07 pm EST July 19th, 2006 | Politics | 22 Comments

The pathetic excuse for a president uses his constitutional powers to do the bidding of the extremist “religious” right and issues a veto of the stem cell bill, consigning many Americans to pain and death. But hey, the conservative mullahs wanted it done, so whaddya gonna do?

U.S. President George W. Bush used his first veto on Wednesday to block legislation to expand embryonic stem-cell research, putting him at odds with top scientists and most Americans, including some in his own Republican Party.

“It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect so I vetoed it,” Bush said.

The U.S. Senate approved the legislation on Tuesday. The legislation, which had also been passed by the House of Representatives, now returns to the House chamber but it does not appear to have the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the veto. It was Bush’s first veto since taking office more than five years ago.

T-Shirt Of (The Next Two) Years?

3:07 am EST July 19th, 2006 | Politics | 17 Comments

Oh, man.

The Republican Culture Of Ignorance And Death

6:07 pm EST July 18th, 2006 | Politics | 44 Comments

Through bipartisan majorities in both the House and the Senate, funding for life-saving stem cell research has been approved. The president, a slave to the regressive religious right, is going to kill it.

The Senate today approved legislation that would expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a measure President Bush has vowed to veto as soon as it reaches his desk.

The veto, expected tomorrow, would be the first of Bush’s 5 1/2-year presidency.

There are two uses for these cells:

1. Throw them away down the drain
2. Use them to save possibly hundreds of thousands of human lives

The president and the con movement has chosen the latter, simply to boost their own inflated egos.

We must have a government that respects the will of the people and infuses scientist with the funds they need to save human lives.

Claire McCaskill supports stem cell research. Jim Talent does not.

Ben Cardin supports stem cell research, as does Kweisi Mfume. Michael Steele refuses to reveal his position.

Nick Lampson supports stem cell research. His opponents do not.

Jon Tester supports stem cell research. Conrad Burns supports a party that does not.

The Democratic Party supports the progressive life-saving process of stem cell research. The Republican party would prefer for those afflicted with maladies that could be cured by stem cell research to suffer and die.

Just A Creepy Guy

11:07 pm EST July 17th, 2006 | Politics | 97 Comments

To a silver spoon elitist frat boy like Bush, everyone’s just around for his amusement. Even the leader of Germany.

Dick Cheney’s Powers Of Prediction

7:07 pm EST July 17th, 2006 | Politics | 4 Comments

Dick Cheney, August 2002

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true. Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region. When the gravest of threats are eliminated, the freedom-loving peoples of the region will have a chance to promote the values that can bring lasting peace. As for the reaction of the Arab “street,” the Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami predicts that after liberation, the streets in Basra and Baghdad are “sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.” Extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of Jihad. Moderates throughout the region would take heart. And our ability to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process would be enhanced, just as it was following the liberation of Kuwait in 1991.

July 17, 2006

A volley of Hezbollah rockets rained across northern Israel late Monday, wounding at least five Israelis and shattering the windows of a hospital in Safed, the Israel Defense Forces said.

In Lebanon, meanwhile, the Lebanese Army confirmed that a military base near Beirut had been attacked.

Somebody get Cheney’s stock picks, so you can pick all their competitors.

The James Dobson Pathology

6:07 pm EST July 17th, 2006 | Politics | 4 Comments

Woah.

Dobson writes, he learned at an early age to stay out of striking distance when he back-talked to his mother. One day he made the mistake of mouthing off when she was only four feet away and heard a 16-pound girdle whistling through the air. The intended blow caught me across the chest, followed by a multitude of straps and buckles wrapping themselves around my midsection. The girdle incident did not dampen his defiance, however. One evening, after Dobson s mother forbid him from going to a dance, the recalcitrant teenager told her that he was going anyway; she picked up the telephone and called her husband. I need you, she said.

What happened in the next few days shocked me down to my toes, writes Dobson. His father canceled the next four years worth of speaking engagements, put the Oklahoma house up for sale, and took a pastor s job in San Benito, Texas, a small town near the Mexican border. Dobson had two years of high school left, and when he started classes he found himself the target of a couple of bullies. Rather than turn the other cheek, Dobson wheeled around and threw his schoolbooks in the face of one annoying youth. By the time he could see me again I was on top of him, Dobson writes. Dobson also tried a little bullying himself, targeting a boy whom he sized up as a sissy. But the boy gave him such a thrashing that Dobson concluded bullying wasn t for him.

Fast forward a few years and Dobson hates the gays. Coincidence?