Sunday, May 29, 2005

thats why the repugs win

AMDOM STUFF
* theres a group trying to impeach blinky. www.afterdowningstreet.org
rawstory has the details. (i really wish we didnt call this thing 'downing street'. thats why the repugs win.)

* "Today, a judge ruled that the treasurer of DeLay’s political action committee must return $200,000 in illegally collected corporate campaign contributions." LINK

*dbrooks: "Millions of evangelicals are embarrassed by the people held up by the news media as their spokesmen." LINK

* g sends some new poll results through: "According to a new poll just completed by the Democracy Corps with the Campaign for America's Future, the American people feel overwhelmingly that in the Washington of Bush, Frist and DeLay, the right wing that is in control is out of control." from www.ourfuture.org
like ive previously said, the dems have to hijack the word 'obstructionist' from the repugs. say it loud. say it proud. and we can use the bolton delay as proof that the dems did the right thing fighting for the filibuster.


* " The Ohio Attorney General’s office announced today that the state will immediately pursue civil and criminal measures against Maumee coin dealer Tom Noe after his legal counsel informed the state that a substantial amount of assets from his Capital Coin Funds are missing.
Mr. Noe’s legal counsel advised the state that $10 million to $12 million of the state’s assets held by Capital Coin are unaccounted for." LINK
ohio stinks.

* krugman gets roach-ey: "That's why it's so ominous to see signs that America's housing market, like the stock market at the end of the last decade, is approaching the final, feverish stages of a speculative bubble." LINK

* jerome has an awesome post called "Being Pro-life and Democrat" LINK
he reckons we should simply call ourselves pro-life. cos we are.

* theres a judge telling parents that its illegal to teach their kids about wiccanism. heres the problem - if you extrapolate current trajectories, how long till parents arent allowed to teach evolution?

* " A federal judge has told the government it will have to release additional pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison" LINK

* "In light of the emergence of the Downing Street Memo, Members of Congress should introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the House Judiciary Committee to launch a formal investigation into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach George W. Bush, President of the United States." LINK

* "The former national finance director for
Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign was acquitted Friday of lying to the government about a lavish 2000 Hollywood fundraising gala.
David Rosen was charged with two counts of making false statements" LINK

* "Federal and state authorities are pursuing criminal and civil charges against Tom Noe for allegedly misappropriating $10 million to $12 million from the state’s rare-coin investment." LINK

* "Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA say there is "prima facie" evidence against Rumsfeld for war crimes and torture. And Amnesty International USA says there is also "prima facie" evidence against Bush for war crimes and torture." LINK

* conyers has a letter for the inappropriatesniggerrer. you can sign it here

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