Laser-Beam Focus
originally posted at www.whatsthequestion.org It's over. The election, that is. So now that we've gotten that 2-year trip into political nastiness, it's time to turn attention back to items that have...
View ArticleLaser Beam Focus - A Follow-Up
originally posted at www.whatsthequestion.org OK, I posted my original of this a few days ago. So I thought I'd keep a running tab of where things have gone. I listed what I thought were pressing...
View ArticleThe Hot Topics That Fell Off The Radar
originally posted at WhatsTheQuestion.org It has now been nearly two weeks since the election. As you'll recall, there were a number of hot issues in the weeks immediately prior to the election. I've...
View ArticleChina Vs. Taiwan = US Troops: China Testing AWACS
originally posted on www.WhatsTheQuestion.org Click headline to view complete article (registration required) - China Now Test-Flying Homemade AWACS This should make a few people nervous. China is...
View ArticleIntelligence About WMD - the 2004 Version
Click headline for complete story - MSNBC - Powell says Iran pursuing nuclear bomb Colin Powell is talking about intelligence again. Danger Will Robinson. He was on his way to Chile for an Asia-Pacific...
View ArticleTopics We Used To Care About
elevated/edited from the diaries by DemFromCT. While other issues such as voting reform and unfinished 2004 election topics remain important, they are getting covered. These are some that are not....
View ArticleTopics We Used to Care About - E+28
[ED: Added info on Bush's speech this morning] Well, here we are at 4 weeks since the election day. My last post on this (also posted on www.whatsthequestion.org) generated a large number of responses,...
View ArticleTopics We Used To Care About E+35
It is now 5 weeks since the presidential elections. The list below reflects topics that were hot topics during the election campaign. By "hot" I mean that the respective candidates and their campaigns...
View ArticleWe can't pay for armor, but we'll legislate space tourists
While soldiers are scrounging for parts and looking for ways to pay for gas to get home, and while our legislators tottered back and forth to pass an intelligence reform bill that only starts to...
View ArticleTopics We Used To Care About - E+47
Since the election, I have been trying to keep track of a number of issues that were "big news" during the campaigns, but have since diminished in prominence. These were issues that were touted by...
View ArticleBush Wishes Right-Wing Fundies Happy Holidays
On the way to getting my car serviced this morning, I caught the end of Pres. Bush's speech. Given the uproar being raised by fundamentalists about merchants using Happy Holidays instead of Merry...
View ArticleWork Ethic: Where'd It Go?
I lost my job on Nov. 19th. I have been interviewing and job hunting ever since. While there are some possibilities on the horizon, and I have some ideas on my own, I am still forced to collect my...
View ArticleWill This Finally Be The End Of Rumsfeld?
In a briefing at the Pentagon, Gen. Richard Myers confirmed that yesterday's explosion at Mosul was caused by a suicide bomber. During the briefing, Rumsfeld looked nervous, sounded weak, and deflected...
View ArticleTopics We Should Still Care About - E+56d
It's now been 8 weeks since the election. While others have been posting updates on the process in Ohio, as well as various opinions on who should next lead the DNC, there are still numerous...
View ArticleMy Tsunami/Inauguration LTE
After hearing the "pledge" of monies to be targeted for aid in the tsunami affected region, and the comparison to what is being spent for inauguration festivities, I put together the following letter...
View ArticleThe Backdoor Draft expands
Remember when we were asked to buy the line that there was no backdoor draft? That we had all the military we needed? That there were no recruitment problems? Guess they've forgotten about all that....
View ArticleRove's New Position - One Guy's Thoughts
OK, forgive me if this has been diaried, but I did a search and couldn't find anything (which surprised the heck out of me). Update [2005-2-9 0:6:30 by lsoderman]: Apparently, I just couldn't *find*...
View ArticleDavid Kay on CNN - Iran The Next Iraq?
David Kay is making the case that the rhetoric coming from the Bush administration is a direct parallel between Iraq and Iran."You have the Secretary of Defense talking about the problems of a nuclear...
View ArticleHIV - A Possible Treatment For Cancer
From the darkness that HIV once implied comes a ray of hope for cancer sufferers. According to an article on the BBC site a research team at UCLA has found that "impotent" HIV cells can be used to...
View ArticleIs the Republican Talking Points Machine Breaking Down?
I was driving home today and had Hardball on the satellite radio (Man I love XM), and Matthews had as his guest Sen. John McCain. At one point, they had gotten on the topic of Putin and Russia, with...
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