NASA scientist: Bush's Bulge IS a wire
Fri Oct 29, 2004 at 12:24:28 AM PDT
Physics is grand!
And science doesn't lie. (If you're part of the reality-based community that is.)
From salon.com:
George W. Bush tried to laugh off the bulge. "I don't know what that is," he said on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, referring to the infamous protrusion beneath his jacket during the presidential debates. "I'm embarrassed to say it's a poorly tailored shirt."
Dr. Robert M. Nelson, however, was not laughing. He knew the president was not telling the truth. And Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger. He's a senior research scientist for NASA and for Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and an international authority on image analysis. Currently he's engrossed in analyzing digital photos of Saturn's moon Titan, determining its shape, whether it contains craters or canyons.
Iraqis money going straight to Halliburton, Texaco, etc.
Sat Oct 16, 2004 at 05:01:49 AM PDT
Not sure how it can help Kerry, but this is truly shocking.
Reparation in Reverse
by Naomi Klein
Next week, something will happen that will unmask the upside-down morality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. On October 21, Iraq will pay $200-million in war reparations to some of the richest countries and corporations in the world.
If that seems backwards, it's because it is. Iraqis have never been awarded reparations for any of the crimes they have suffered under Saddam, or the brutal sanctions regime that claimed the lives of at least half a million people, or the U.S.-led invasion, which United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Anan recently called "illegal." Instead, Iraqis are still being forced to pay reparations for crimes committed by their former dictator.
Faith-based policies neither conservative nor compassionate
Fri Oct 15, 2004 at 07:26:07 AM PDT
During Wednesday's presidential debate, Bush spoke of his faith-based initiatives as a resounding success. Time for a reality check.
From Amy Sullivan of The Washington Monthly:
Four years later, Bush's compassionate conservatism has turned out to be neither compassionate nor conservative. The policy of funding the work of faith-based organizations has, in the face of slashed social service budgets, devolved into a small pork-barrel program that offers token grants to the religious constituencies in Karl Rove's electoral plan for 2004 while making almost no effort to monitor their effectiveness. Meanwhile, the plan to extend tax credits for charitable giving has gone nowhere, despite the three enormous tax cut packages Bush has signed. Like any number of this administration's policies, the faith-based initiative has been so ill-considered, so utterly sacrificed to political expediency, and carried out with so little regard for the problems it was supposed to solve, that it bears only the faintest resemblance to the political philosophy it was supposed to embody. The history of the faith-based initiative tells us little about what could have been a truly innovative social policy, but speaks volumes about the cynical politics of the Bush administration.
According to Sullivan, Bush sold the program on dubious (and never challenged) success rate. Verily, efficiency was at the forefront of his mind since he allocated no money to monitor each approach success.
Time for Leave No Program Behind, perhaps?
