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redneckgaijin) wrote2008-02-01 05:58 pm
redneckgaijin) wrote2008-02-01 05:58 pm
LYAN: Cull Day Returns
A bunch of one-paragraph mentions of news stories...
... half recent, half REALLY REALLY REALLY OLD.
In order:
* Hillary Clinton used robo-calls to slam John Edwards in South Carolina before she praised him to the nines when he quit.
* According to the Federal Elections Commission, two people constitute a PAC: if you split hotel expenses at a political convention, for instance, you're committing an election crime unless you file and report.
* Bush lied. We know.
* Dubya's much-touted economic record is better than his dad's... and worse than every other. President since JFK. (Yes, worse than Carter, too.)
* The day after advocating federal investment in clean coal tech, Bush kills a huge clean-coal project... because it was going to be built in Illinois, not Texas as he and his cronies wanted.
* May 2007: the FBI and CIA create terrorists where none existed, out of people who have trouble getting through doors and around corners.
* May 2007: the Pentagon has no contingency plan for withdrawal from Iraq. According to Hillary in last night's debate, they still don't.
* May 2007: We have socialized medicine: it's called Medicaid, and between a quarter and a third of your state's budget goes to fund it. Result: inflated medical costs for everyone, including those actually trying to get Medicaid to pay up.
* May 2007: New Texas law: students can now demand that schools provide them bible study- er, "religious studies" classes.
* May 2007: Domain cyber-squatters get rich. The richest of the lot, Kevin Ham, wants to use cyber-squatting to conquer the whole Internet.
I've got a lot more, if I want to take the time to go through all the bookmarks I set aside when I badly misjudged my time available for blogging. (I'm currently in a bit of a lull, life-wise; things will pick up quite soon...)
... half recent, half REALLY REALLY REALLY OLD.
In order:
* Hillary Clinton used robo-calls to slam John Edwards in South Carolina before she praised him to the nines when he quit.
* According to the Federal Elections Commission, two people constitute a PAC: if you split hotel expenses at a political convention, for instance, you're committing an election crime unless you file and report.
* Bush lied. We know.
* Dubya's much-touted economic record is better than his dad's... and worse than every other. President since JFK. (Yes, worse than Carter, too.)
* The day after advocating federal investment in clean coal tech, Bush kills a huge clean-coal project... because it was going to be built in Illinois, not Texas as he and his cronies wanted.
* May 2007: the FBI and CIA create terrorists where none existed, out of people who have trouble getting through doors and around corners.
* May 2007: the Pentagon has no contingency plan for withdrawal from Iraq. According to Hillary in last night's debate, they still don't.
* May 2007: We have socialized medicine: it's called Medicaid, and between a quarter and a third of your state's budget goes to fund it. Result: inflated medical costs for everyone, including those actually trying to get Medicaid to pay up.
* May 2007: New Texas law: students can now demand that schools provide them bible study- er, "religious studies" classes.
* May 2007: Domain cyber-squatters get rich. The richest of the lot, Kevin Ham, wants to use cyber-squatting to conquer the whole Internet.
I've got a lot more, if I want to take the time to go through all the bookmarks I set aside when I badly misjudged my time available for blogging. (I'm currently in a bit of a lull, life-wise; things will pick up quite soon...)