Judicial Reactivism — Segregationist Policies

The wingnuts favorite mantra when discussing judicial picks, was to nominate “strict constructionist” that did not display judicial activism. So, what happens when the strict constructionists finally get on the bench? They ignore stare decisis, aka display judicial reactivism, while reinventing the construct of our laws into their own subverted picture.
How fucking circular [...]

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GA & NC Using Tainted Toothpaste in Mental Hospitals

Yeah, I haven’t exactly kept up with the tainted toothpaste issue, but this is too important to let by.  Apparently, after the FDA warned that the Chinese tainted toothpaste would most likely be found in discount stores, it was found in prisons, mental health hospitals, and juvenile detention centers among other places.
In fact, the toothpaste [...]

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Moving to Colombia

I I don’t often discuss conversations that I may inadvertently overhear, but, yesterday, I overheard an interesting statement. Now, let me stop for a moment, and remind you that for years there were progressives and liberals that hated the Bush residency, so much so, that some talked about moving out of the US. [...]

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Another Bush Administration Lackey Goes to Jail

A judge said yesterday that Seven J. Griles was not above the law.
“You are not above the law,” U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle told former deputy interior secretary J. Steven Griles as he asked for forgiveness.
Griles pleaded guilty in March to lying to the Senate about his relationship with Abramoff. In the plea agreement, [...]

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Invisible Tracks? Hardley!

Not quite.  No one has left completely invisible tracks.  In the continuing saga of the Delusional Dick, we find he tries very hard to make sure nothing comes back to him, including the wildlife.
 Law and science seemed to be on the side of the fish. Then the vice president stepped in.
First Cheney looked for a [...]

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Challenge Our Violent Culture

I used Jesse Jackson’s own title from his op-ed in today’s Chicago Sun Times, because, hell, how can one expand on that? Here’s the money quote:
The government, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, is the great teacher. Our government teaches us to believe in the efficacy of violence. Ironically, violence is demonstrably ineffective. Our military [...]

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New Bioenergy Site at ORNL

ORNL was one of three sites chosen today to be a bioenergy site.
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was selected Tuesday to host one of three U.S. Department of Energy bioenergy research centers, each receiving $125 million in funding over five years.
The lab anticipates benefiting from Oak Ridge’s supercomputing center and a proposed 5-million-a-gallon-per-year ethanol demonstration [...]

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Dick’s Delusions of Grandeur

In this morning’s WaPo, we find out that Delusional Dick manipulated Bush and Congress to get what he wanted — “deep reductions in the capital gains tax on investments.” This is a WaPo series, and today’s article focuses on domestic economy.
The president had accepted Cheney’s diagnosis that the sluggish economy needed a jolt, overruling senior [...]

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SCOTUS Rulings Make Me Want to Upchuck

Okay, I had a really shitty day today, and the SCOTUS rulings didn’t help any. It’s absolutely unbelievable the amount of havoc a couple of wingnuts will do to an entire society, as we will see.
Let’s start with “Issue ads,” which Roberts and his 4 cohorts have now substantially weakened.
The Supreme Court today substantially [...]

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Tagged — Random Facts Meme

PSoTD tagged me with the latest blog-meme going ’round. Here are the rules:
1. All right, here are the rules.
2. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
3. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
4. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post [...]

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