Dodd stands up!

Chris Dodd puts a block on the FISA legislation. Just Go here to support either with your signature or your money.

What would 24 be without Jack Bauer?

Bush's latest poll numbers of course.

President Bush's approval rating is now at 24 percent

Check it out. From Yahoo! via Daily Kos.

Holy crap, I mean just holy crap!

Romney's New National Security Adviser Said He'd Torture "In A Heartbeat"
By Greg Sargent - October 16, 2007, 1:26PM
Retired General James "Spider" Marks, who has just been named a new national security adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign, asserted in a 2005 interview that he would readily torture prisoners to save a soldier's life or stop a terror bomb, saying: "I'd stick a knife in somebody's thigh in a heartbeat."

Here is the link. This neanderthal needs to turn off "24" and watch some old movies where the bad guys did the torturing and the torture did not work.

He did not suggest putting the terrorists in cages on top of the car....
Unfortunately, I'm sure this quote will play well with the republican base.

Comeback tour

REUTERS/Fatih Saribas

After overcoming alcohol and drug problems the Brementown Musicians have scheduled a reunion tour. Tickets are expected to sell out quickly.

Haggis-eating Git

The truth comes out. Check out the back story behind the Kentish decision to add "guidance notes" when "An Inconvenient Truth" is shown in schools.

The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about global warming.

I like Scots in general, but I would be first in line to kick a certain Scottish quarrying magnate in butt given half a chance. How do you say jerkwad in Gaelic?

Just in time for NASCAR post season

AFP/Fethi Belaid

Demolition Regatta
thanks for the image, Tengrain

Fashion week continues in Rio

Reuters-Sergio Moraes

Why do Brazilians always look so much better than Americans? Is there something in the water? Besides piranhas, that is.

Pelosi: Bush 'must come to Congress' before attacking Iran

(you can tell by the way I walk, I'm a woman's man...)

Oh look Nancy, there he comes now.

Since when has the Chimperor followed any rules? If he can say the word and get his minions to load and lock, you can be sure he won't go to congress cap in hand.

What are Pelosi and the other invertebrates going to do if Chimpy does go ahead? Stomp their little feet and pout? IMPEACH the muthah.

Hip Hip Hooray!

Al Gore and the IPCC win the Nobel Peace Prize!

Wingnuts and deniers everywhere are choking on their Cheerios this morning.

I know about Big Al, but just how fat is the IPCC?

Pope displays his talents

Reuters-Tony Gentile

Cardinal Rapsinger shows his fun side as he makes "balloon" animals for the faithful.

"I call dis vun the skinny dachshund, look you can even see his ribs..." he neglected to add.

Scientists wrong about global warming!

Here's the thing, they are wrong in the wrong direction. If your eyes glaze over looking at graphs and such, the upshot is that:

The Arctic sea ice is disintegrating "100 years ahead of schedule", having dropped 22% this year below the previous minimum low, and it may completely disappear as early as the northern summer of 2013. This is far beyond the predictions of the International Panel on Climate Change and is an example of global warming impacts happening at lower temperature increases and more quickly than projected. What are the lessons from the Arctic summer of 2007?

(quote from Carbon Equity via The Oil Drum.)

What a difference even a year has made. Watch this video and listen the music. (from November 2006.)

Caption contest

REUTERS/Jason Reed

What is the purple thing Rudolph has, and what is he trying to do with it?

Secret Weapon in the War on Squirrels

This one is for all lovers of gray furry things.

GOP revises logo to include sound effects

Global Warming Wear

From the BBC

Indonesian soldiers hold giant matchsticks while modeling forest-fire themed camouflage uniforms. The colorful uniforms are scheduled to be introduced in 2010 or when Aceh is submerged, whichever is sooner.