Archive for May, 2007
In Ashcroft’s Darkened Hospital Room…
May 17th, 2007Like they’ve never soared before! Via: NPR: One senator called it some of the most dramatic testimony he’s heard in 25 years as a legislator. Comey was the only witness at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where for the first time, he publicly told the story of a dramatic confrontation at a hospital bedside between […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with BlueHost
May 17th, 2007Thanks to the reader who decided to host robnmeg.com with BlueHost. Cryptogon receives $65!
The Poverty Business
May 17th, 2007This reads like another evil-corporations-fleecing-ignorant-poor-people article, and it is, but it’s a huge mistake to think that the poor mindset only affects poor people. I know people who make a quarter of a million dollars per year who live week to week and are always struggling for more. I also know people who have declared […]
How Safe Is The Food Supply?
May 17th, 2007This article should be called, “How Well Prepared Are You for Collapse?” Via: Business Week: That powder keg hasn’t exploded–yet. But every month there are a surprising number of near misses. Europe just had a scare from harmful bacteria in vitamin A from China that nearly got into infant formula. And in the past few […]
Enemy Collaborator Democrats Keep War Going
May 17th, 2007Duh. Democrats = Republicans in Jackass Costumes Via: AP / Myway: Anti-war Democrats in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war on Wednesday, a lopsided bipartisan vote that masked growing impatience within both political parties over President Bush’s handling of the four-year conflict.
Arizona Trying to Stop Sales of T-Shirts with Names of Dead Soldiers
May 16th, 2007Would you like some freedom fries with that? Via: Arizona Daily Star: State lawmakers voted Monday to approve a law blocking the sale of anti-war T-shirts with the names of dead soldiers on them — a measure one media lawyer says is “unconstitutional about three or four different ways.” The Senate agreed to make it […]
Commander’s Veto Sank Threatening Gulf Buildup
May 16th, 2007Brzezinski’s testimony indicates to me that the expansion of the conflict into Iran might not be allowed to happen. Don’t ask me how it will be stopped, but he is the mouthpiece of the people who run this show, not in appearance, but in fact. —Zbigniew Brzezinski Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee The war […]
National ID: Biometrics Pinned to Social Security Cards
May 15th, 2007Via: Wired: The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID. The leading immigration proposal with traction in Congress would force employers to accept only […]
Massachusetts Electricity Infrastructure Facing Possible Collapse this Summer
May 15th, 2007Via: Boston Herald: With temperatures already surging into the 80s and a scorching summer on tap, many Massachusetts communities could face a spike in blackouts – and possibly even explosions – from thousands of potentially dangerous overloaded electrical transformers. Documents obtained by the Herald show more than 12,000 transformers from Attleboro to Ayer are operating […]
Spin
May 15th, 2007My favorite part is when that Larry King creature is talking to Slick, fifteen minutes in: “He would — uh — serve you — you know what I mean?” Woh. Not before bedtime kiddies. Not before bedtime. Via: Google Video: Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes […]
