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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Neo-conservatives and the Bush Administration like to paint the 1994 Agreed Framework deal on North Korea's nuclear program as a failure of Bill Clinton's foreign policy efforts. They point out that North Korea continued to manufacture plutonium after agreeing not to, and that their breach of the agreement amounts to Bill ...
Posted in BIO, Bill Clinton, Bush, World News | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Can I get a "No Shit Sherlock" from the group?
A recent AP-Yahoo poll shows that consumers don't have a rosy outlook for their financial futures any time soon. Because of high gas prices.
From cancelled vacations to finding new jobs, people are struggling to cope with the high price of fuel. ...
Posted in BIO, Iran, Middle East, Politics, Poll Results | 10 Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Boy oh boy, George W. Bush must be doing the happy dance in the Oval Office this morning as newspapers and media outlets are all chanting the same verse: personal incomes in May rose to the highest levels in 33 years!
What? I thought we were in some kind of recession. ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, Economics, Politics, Taxes | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Some things are repeated so often that they become accepted as truth, despite the fact that there is little reality attached to them. In politics, one of these "truths" is that Democrats will always raise taxes and Republicans will always try to reduce taxes. But how true is this really? ...
Posted in BIO, Bush, John McCain, Obama, Politics, Taxes, candidates | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
On paper, public transportation is a fantastic idea. You can move more people with less vehicles. You can move more people with less energy. You can keep less vehicles on the road, causing a decrease in emissions and pollution. And you can offer low cost transit to people who can't ...
Posted in BIO, Environment, General, Life, Taxes | No Comments »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Despite the ravings of American televangelists, most religious Americans dispute the idea that the only way to eternal life after death is through Jesus. This will be news to the Pat Robertson's of the airwaves...
According to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, fully 70% ...
Posted in BIO, Life, Politics, Religion | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
We don't do a lot of "open threads" here at BIO, but sometimes it's nice to just open the gates and see where things go. As I browsed through this mornings various news sources, several topics drew my eye, so I thought I'd toss them out here for discussion. Pick ...
Posted in BIO, General, Health, Iran, Iraq, Life, Middle East, Religion, Right Wing Nut, Science | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Conservatives have a mantra- the market is king. They feel that any government regulation of business activity is too much, and further, that if a consumer is too "stupid" to understand all the fine print legalese then too bad, so sad. To make money is the ultimate goal, regardless of ...
Posted in BIO, Economics, George W. Bush, Politics, capitalism, greed | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
(photo from msnbc.com/Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Tim Russert, of NBC News and Meet The Press, collapsed today while recording voice-overs for his Sunday program Meet The Press. Russert was 58 years old. Early reports said that Russert's death was due to a heart attack, but that information has been withdrawn and the ...
Posted in BIO, Politics, media | 10 Comments »
Pelosi As Chamberlain
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Nancy Pelosi, as Speaker of the House of Representatives has consistently buried any attempts to hold the Bush Administration responsible for their criminal actions. Mary Lyon over at The Huffington Post says it as well as anyone:
Nancy Pelosi is the Neville Chamberlain of this day, in this country. She and ...
Posted in BIO, Democrat, George W. Bush, Impeachment, Politics | 27 Comments »
