Category: Current Affairs
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What a week! Garrulous though I usually am, I am feeling a bit tongue tied. So, rather than blather aimlessly, I will link to an AP article which reports reactions to past week’s US mid-term elections from around the world. Not just Americans are feeling liberated by Bush’s thumpin’ at the ballot box. Much of…
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And it looks like the "macaca" too has been dislodged in Virginia. So I should be euphoric and laughing. At last the brake has been applied to the arrogant Bush administration’s reckless juggernaut. Rumsfeld resigned (was fired?). George Bush admitted sheepishly that the election results were a thumpin’. I have waited for six years to…
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Tomorrow is a crucial election day. My advice: "Vote early, vote Democrat and vote often" – the last, only if you are voting Democratic ! All kidding aside, please do remember to cast your ballot (if you haven’t done so already) for what you believe and against what you reject. Remember Bush-Cheney-Rove, Katrina, Jack Abramoff…
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Less than a week before the midterm elections, with everything going in their favor, the Democrats might mess things up again. It will be an amazing feat . But the bumbling Dems, with their uncanny ability to keel over before capricious lies and smears (a special talent of Republicans), might find themselves caught flat footed…
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Rush Limbaugh has a problem with Michael J. Fox’s condition. He thinks Fox is faking his illness. Fox suffers from Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder for which there is no known cure. He is endorsing political candidates who favor stem cell research, seen by some as the only possible hope for cure of Parkinson’s…
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After reading and viewing Keith Olbermann’s thought provoking commentary on President Bush’s signing of the Military Commissions Act, dealing a death blow to Habeas corpus, I was taken back to a time in the 1970’s of similar powers awarded to the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She was in deep political doo-doo, and chose…
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I had decided not to publish any thing new today and leave the anniversary post at the top of the page for the rest of the day to attract comments from readers. But my co-blogger Dean just brought to my attention a recent White House press release that changed my mind in about half a…
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Stupid? So far into the season, the New Orleans Saints are 5-1 and the Houston Texans are 1-4. Perhaps you remember that the Texans passed over Reggie Bush and Vince Young as their first draft pick and went for Mario Williams. The Saints picked Bush. (Young is the rookie Q.B. for the Tennessee Titans) Not…
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A study by scientists published in the medical journal, Lancet reports that Iraqi civilian deaths have soared past all previous estimates. The report puts the number of deaths after the US led invasion at 655,000, which is roughly 58 times higher than the unofficial claim. "We estimate that as a consequence of the coalition invasion…
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