2007 June | buzz twang

bush and cheney play twister with the constitution

June 29, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

While President Bush “…asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors…” at the same time Vice-President Cheney is apparently “backing away from the claim” that his office isn’t part of the Executive Branch and is in essence a “fourth branch of government” even [...]

The Extremely Tired And Overemphasized Notion Of Liberal Media Bias, And That MSNBC.com Story About Same

June 24, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Go read the entire thing. Good catch. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Deep Denial Monkey Brain

June 22, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

How much denial can an ideological conservative minded victim stand? Ponder the following quote from John Hawkins of Right Wing News, as he laments the plight of his beloved GOP and the abysmal approval poll numbers of the currently Democratically controlled Congress: Yet, despite all these woes, the voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on [...]

slippery people

June 22, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Talking Heads. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Great speech by Digby

June 21, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Not only is Digby a great writer, she can speak the speak… There is just nothing left to say after that. Lock. Stock. Barrel. From The Campaign for America’s Future / Take Back America. (c/o Main Street USA via Cursor) buzz-twang : news and views : blog

The US government is a rudderless ship

June 20, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

File under ‘obvious” but worth noting… Over at Liberal Oasis, Bill Scher takes notice of the recent approval polls for President Bush and Congress ,which are abysmally low, as strong indicators of the complete lack of leadership in the US government. Seems NYC Michael Bloomberg agrees. It’s been a long time coming. Now that the [...]

used cars at used car prices

June 19, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Charles Gibson shits where he eats, but sometimes you gotta clear the room: [D]on’t disparage the mainstream media. The editor of your hometown newspaper or the producers of network newscasts don’t have 30 or 40 years of experience for nothing. When you see a news organization get fixated on non-stop coverage of Paris Hilton, or [...]

Can Wikipedia find the truth?

June 16, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Soren Kierkegaard wrote that truth can not be found in a crowd. (The actual quote was “untruth is the crowd” as I recall.) An interesting article at Cosmos asks the question and looks at the community info site. A commenter below the article notes that perhaps requiring editor to a Wiki to use their real [...]

city of cemeteries

June 16, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Via Avedon from Atrios come some pertinent words that everyone should read: People can not understand how great armed forces, like the U.S.army and marines, can not help restoring electricity, water not even cell phones so people can cooperate with the authorities at least. Please don’t let the people remember your country in this way; [...]

Why New Orleans still suffers…

June 16, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

You think these two items are connected? The Times Picayune reports that FEMA may have actually authorized insurance companies to overbill: The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have told the insurance industry that it was OK to load up damages on the taxpayer-funded flood program while shorting people on their wind damage payments. In the [...]

Tony Soprano got whacked…

June 14, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Everyone has been weighing in on the Soproano’s. My take on the Soprano’s finale: Tony got whacked by the guy who walked into the bathroom. It was a bit of an homage to the Michael Corleone scene in The first Godfather movie. David Chase is a filmmaker, and as he said, everything is there if [...]