Astonishing: 76% of Americans think oil has peaked!
Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 05:06:57 PM PDT
OK, Kossacks, take a break on primary eve to consider an issue that will dominate the rest of our miserable lives, regardless of who is elected.
Reuters reports on a a new international, 16-nation poll out by Worldpublicopionion.org found:
In the United States, the world's biggest oil consumer and among the biggest emitters of climate-warming pollution from fossil fuel use, 76 percent of respondents said oil is running out, but most believed the U.S. government mistakenly assumes there would be enough to keep oil a main source of fuel.
More after the jump...
Military cemetery "overcrowded from your dirty little war"
Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 10:27:24 AM PDT
...to paraphrase the great John Prine.
From Wapo/Reuters:
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) - A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after the burial of another casualty of the Iraq war, officials said on Thursday.
"We are full," said Alison Kohler, spokeswoman for the Fort Riley U.S. Army post, home of the 1st Infantry Division.
But not to worry. Kansas' two Republican Senators, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, are on the job to support the troops, both dead and pre-dead. They want a new military cemetery built pronto!
"We truly owe our military members a debt of gratitude and the least we can do is provide them with an honorable burial ground," the senators wrote.
The very least we can do! And if all else fails, we can fall back on good old heartland ingenuity:
Fort Riley can bury bodies on top of other bodies if family members want to share a plot, said Kohler.
'Nuff said.
Senator Feinstein slams Bush's war threats against Iran
Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 12:32:54 PM PDT
You read that right. This is not Russ Fein*GOLD*, but rather Dianne Fein*STEIN*, usually a pretty hawkish conservative Democratic Senator.
In an op-ed in yesterday's LA Times, she writes:
...the administration reportedly is intent upon relying on the failed doctrine of preemption and new Pentagon planning that stokes the prospect of military conflict. If this is true, Americans ought to be deeply concerned.
More snippets and commentary below the fold...
Is Rumsfeld cracking up?
Wed Mar 29, 2006 at 09:02:29 AM PDT
This article by Francis Harris in the U.K.'s News Telegraph is important in its own right, as it contains a revelation that the U.S. military command now admits the recent raid/massacre in Baghdad did involve a mosque, after all. (Accounts still differ as to whether those killed were insurgents or unarmed worshipers.)
But I want to draw your attention to this passage and quote by Donald Rumsfeld, below the fold:
Draft or more volunteers? How about less militarism instead?
Tue Apr 05, 2005 at 11:46:50 AM PDT
Yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle ran
this article entitled,
Support grows for beefing up U.S. forces. Some see situations where volunteers may not be enough Excerpt:
Many in Congress and in wider policy-discussion circles aren't waiting to see the results of the Pentagon's stepped-up [recruiting] efforts. Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. and Jack Reed, D-R.I., have proposed adding 30,000 soldiers to the Army. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has proposed a 30,000-person increase in the Army and 10, 000 to the Marines, and Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek, wants to add some 20,000 to the Army, 12,000 to the Marine Corps and 29,000 to the Air Force.
Has it occurred to any of these prominent Democrats, especially "last man to die for a lie" Kerry, that a better solution might be to rein in Bush's imperialist aggressions and reverse our evolution into the new Sparta?
More after the jump
Young Rethuglicans redbait instructors
Wed Mar 02, 2005 at 05:16:54 PM PDT
The Santa Rosa (CA) Press Democrat
reports as follows this morning:
Santa Rosa Junior College's oak-studded campus is aflame with controversy triggered by the anonymous posting of red stars and a reference to communist indoctrination on 10 faculty office doors.
Instructors quickly saw the action as a threat to academic freedom, but the student who claimed credit for the protest said it was about left-leaning bias in the lecture hall.
The stars, which unnerved some instructors, were accompanied by a copy of a state Education Code section prohibiting the teaching of communism with the "intent to indoctrinate" students.
"It makes me a little anxious," philosophy instructor Michael Aparicio said.
. . .
This college is in a pretty progressive area (Sonoma County voted almost 70% for Kerry).
I think it's likely, as one quoted instructor commented further down in the article, that the Campus Republicans who claimed credit for this act are being deliberately provocative to generate media attention.
More after the jump.
