Posts from ‘September, 2005’

Quote: “But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country . . . “

Who knows, if President Bush could make the ultimate sacrifice, settling for a three-week instead of five-week summer vacation at the ranch, and slow the pace of his photo-op travels, he might find time to settle on some appointees for these positions.

King’s power play to deny a simple honor to an ailing, elderly woman who has devoted years to public service is a disgusting example of the arrogance of power and the power now in the hands of the ignorant.

As $2.87-per-gallon unleaded regular flowed into our car’s fuel tank, we watched the numbers spin so fast we could only make out a dizzying blur.
It was much like playing a slot machine we knew would never pay off. Well, never pay us off.
Memories took us back to a time when gasoline came in two [...]

We took off Saturday on a little vacation trip, confident we could connect and post from our motel room using our trusty laptop. Been there and done that, as they say.
However, that was before we switched to DSL through a different online service. Our attempt last night to get on and post from [...]

Federal authorities are looking into the curious case of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s impeccably well-timed sale of stock last spring.
What makes this Republican presidential wannabe’s action so interesting are the particulars of the sale:

The stock was issued by the Frist family business, HCA, a big corporation that buys and runs hospitals.
Frist [...]

With a hurricane bearing down on the Texas gulf coast, home of lots of oil industry infrastructure, there’s talk of gasoline prices jumping to $4 or $5 a gallon.
Eight Democratic governors smell a rat. On Wednesday, they asked President Bush and Congress to investigate gasoline prices, to see if the industry is gouging consumers. [...]

These may not be the worst of times, but they sure tilt heavily in that direction.
We’ve got a major city in ruins, more than 1,000 dead, a region of the country and several million people hurting badly after one hurricane, and here comes another big one.
The death toll in President Bush’s Iraq quagmire [...]

Kerry’s speech crackles with truth-telling, insight, determination and decency. Those are the attributes of a really good president — something made glaringly clear these last four and a half years of getting by with so much less.

Last we heard, Bush’s “brain,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, was undergoing treatment for kidney stones. Then, the president named Rove his point man for the impending massive effort to clean and restore the hurricane- and flood-ravaged Gulf region.
So where did Rove spend his weekend? In the capital? In [...]