This guy is just scarry scarry scarry...even conservative republicans in the justice department thought he went way too far...wifey and I watched this for about 20 minutes of this at the point of the infamous visit to Ashcroft's hospital bed...we just had to turn it off since it's just too scarry to watch what actually happened in this country...
Labels: blog, Cheney, crime, crooksandliars.com, dubya, Frontline, media, PBS, press, RNC, Spending, USA
I was listenening to our new
XM radio in the car on the way home last night, and they have a great new channel on
XM130 - POTUS08.
Everything about the presidential election, which is cool in general.
They had a segment that segued with a discussion of Hillary talking about some sort of relief for college students since the rate of college tuition hikes was 2-3x that of inflation over the past...some time, I missed the interval. ANYWAY, they had two people on to discuss the rediculous college price hikes...the first guy was Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University and fronting for some group called
The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (they
blog here) He stated that the relief should go directly to students...in the manner of slashing subsidies to post-secondary schools, giving it all to the students and then have the colleges compete to pick up these students...it sounded a little fishy but I did give it enough thought to write down his name while in the restaraunt parking lot picking up chinese food for dinner...then the second guest was Pedro de la Torr, who identifed himself as being with a group called
CampusProgress, affiliated with the
Center for American Progress. CfAP is a well-known pregressive group, but they indentified it so I sort of knew what was coming. But I googled Vedder's name just now,
and this is what I found. He belongs to well-known right-wing thinktanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the National Taxpayers Union. And, he supports pro-tobacco propaganda. Interesting. But, the whole point is the website that had it:
sourcewatch.org.
Labels: 2008 Elections, blog, colleges, Democrats, education, macroeconomics, media, RNC, sourcewatch.org
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Like your grandmother used to use - vinegar, water, baking soda, to go along with the newer formulated cleaners that use citrus (probably
d-limonene) as their basis.
Labels: chemicals, climate change, economy, effluvia, engineering, environment, fluid properties, global warming, Masachusetts, media, RBE
They are completely delusional. Completely. Interesting to see just how rediculous the sub-prime lending truly was. Of course, there were some people that
were worried about this macro- issue over the past few years that
saw this whole ball of wax coming down the pipe...
Labels: 2008 Elections, blog, Boston, dailykos.com, economy, macroeconomics, Masachusetts, poverty, RBE, real estate, The Big Picture, wages
And he says this with a straight face - even if he believes that this illegal warrantless domestic spying is perfectly legal he thinks they need to get immunity? Huh?
Labels: Cheney, CIA, crime, dubya, FBI, Homeland Security, media, USA
Scarry stuff...
Labels: Cheney, CIA, computer, dubya, engineering, FBI, Homeland Security, media, Patriot Act, peace, USA, WaPo
I AM an engineer, afterall...
Labels: engineering, fluid properties
Huge move forward in the peace process if true...
Labels: Arab, Christian, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish, Muslim, Palestime, peace, religion
Could not resist...
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